Monday, April 28, 1976
University Dally Kansan
associated press digest
Vietnamese go to the polls
BANGKOK, Thailand—Millions of North and South Vietnamese voted yesterday in the first major step toward the reunification of Vietnam, divided in 1954 and 1975.
Top leaders from the Lao Dao Communist party and from Saigon and Hanoi governments cast their ballots for a 492-member National Assembly shortly after the polls opened at 7 a.m., according to Saigon and Hanoi broadcasts monitored here.
The officials reportedly were followed by rows of citizens marching to vote.
Authorities reported almost a 100 per cent turnout.
The assembly will include farmers, workers, intellectuals, representatives of religious groups and most of the existing leadership. Real power, however, is
Socialists trail in Portugal
LISBON, Portugal - A conservative rural backlash against leftist leadership in Lisbon and conception of Socialist party support were apparent today in early returns to power.
The Socialists needed almost a landslide in urban centers uncounted after yesterday's vote to back their claim to be the nation's leading political force.
With the backing of the Roman Catholic church in the north, the conservative Social Democratic Center (CDS) was emerging as the leading vote-getter in that region with dramatic gains over its performance in constituent assembly elections a year ago.
Wherever the CDS was not leading in the countryside from Lisbon to the northern border, the Centrist Popular Democratic party (PPD) was ahead.
*Loss of Social support was even evident in the late debate around Opidal-*
*Preliminary projections were for a Communist vote of between 11 and 14 per*
*week.*
Early returns showed that none of the parties competing for the 283 seats in parliament would hold a commanding position.
Death blamed on KGB
MOSCOW-Eighteen Soviet citizens signed a bitter statement yesterday accusing the KGB security police of moral responsibility for the death of Jewish women in Ukraine.
Davidivich, a retired 54-year-old army colonel, died Saturday morning in Minsk after suffering his sixth heart attack.
"The murder was carried out without beattings, without needles under his nails, without punishment cells where the prisoner must remain standing or obey instructions."
Reagan gains support
Ronald Reagan's challenge to President Ford for the GOP presidential nomination was bolstered during the weekend as the process of selecting delegates to the Republican and Democratic national conventions advanced in six states and the Virginia Islands.
Reagan fared well in Oklahoma, South Carolina and Missouri.
On. The Democratic front, an informal primary in Arizona and congressional district conventions in Arizona showed support for Rep. Morris Urdall and Sen. John McCain.
Uncommitted delgates were chosen in Alaska and the Virgin Islands.
At county GOP caucuses in Missouri, Reagan supporters unofficially returns gave Reagan 229 of 234 delegates chosen to attend congressional district elections.
Ms. editor artful poet
An audience of about 50 people listened to Walker read from her poetry and her new novel, "Meridian," Friday afternoon in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
The reaction to Alice Walker, a contributed character, angled toward the complaint "classy"
Walker began her reading with poetry from what she called "my African period." While a senior at Sarah Lawrence College, she went to Uganda to learn more about her people.
"It was a paradise when I was there. It has since become an abstation," she said.
The poetry she wrote while in Africa,
in the basilic town of Boneville*, is written in
the basilic form of Poetry.
Walker said, "Africa fits the haiku style because it is so visual."
Walker also read from her poetry book, "Revolutionary Petunias," which was nominated for a National Book Award in 1973.
Walker's poems follow her ideas on life.
"The ultimate trap to become
a free spirit" becomes your lesson.
Walker explained that both the main character of her new novel and the title, "Meridian," referred to the dictionary meaning off the word, "the highest apparent point reached by a celestial body in its course."
it," she said before reading her poem,
"Be Nobod's Darling."
"To me, we reached that in the '60s," she said.
Walker said she thought that the deaths of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X in the '0s were inevitable and that they exemplified the problems that the leader of a group to be Christ-like.
"When people have to die for you to believe in them, then there's something wrong with the culture," she said. There's a lot of violence and killings; they should stop giving short of death."
Walker said her writing, which she considers art, was her way of un-creating a sense.
"Once you understand people, then you can get futuristic with them. Art moves in a spiritual and emotional way that can change people," she said.
Davis said that the film was interracial and intertribal and that it dealt with the relationships between black and white Americans on the African continent.
The couple said the initial fund-raising for the film came from Delta Sigma Theta, a fraternity.
"The film belongs to Delta Sigma Theta," Dee said.
Davis said that this funding was a new and unique branch of financing for films, and that it was tough for an independent producer like Delta Sigma Theta to make a film.
At a press conference preceding the ceremony, she called the film a "romantic engagement" and asked if it was the first of her engagements.
tribes and recited poetry from writers
and scholars, Nikki Giovanni
and Gwaiyathe Brooks.
After the press conference, the couple
talked to a photographer with African folk
tales and modern poet.
Davis and Dice also read a folk tale, "The Peace-like Mongoose," written by James Thurber, a white author whom Davis called "an honorary colored man."
In a question-and-answer session after the program, Davis said current movies that exploit black people should be censored but films that depict the lives of films that exploited or exaggerated life.
They read folk tales from various African
African movie previewed
The program was part of the Office of Minority Affairs Cultural Enrichment
Ossie Davis and Ruby Dey entertained a crowd of about 150 people Friday night in Hoe Auditorium as part of the promotion tour for their latest film, "Countdown at
The last part of the series, at 7:30 p.m.
tomorrow in 306 Blake, will be the showing
of "A Raisin in the Sun," starring Deen and Sidney Potter.
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Burrito eater gets $100 in win
Fifteen contestants representing various campus and local organizations were given 30 minutes to eat as many burritos as possible.
Chilling winds and rain Saturday didn't damp the spires of about 150 spectators at the second Annual Burrito Eating Contest sponsored by Taco Tico, 2340 Iowa.
Dale Brecheisen, Osage City freshman representing Hashinger Hall, won first place by eating nine and a third burrito. Brecheisen received a $100 check for his
Brecheisen said afterward, "It's not capacity, it's keeping it down."
He said he was donating the $100 to help he Hall or to the hall's scholarship fund.
Tyrone Colen, Kansas City, Mo., freshman representing EWLorth Walls, placed second and won for consuming eight-and-a-half burritos. Sonny Fender, 1832 representing March of Dimes, Fender won $5 for eating eight burritos.
The youngest contestant was 18-year-old Rachel Burgett, Eudora, representing the Lawyers.
Rules for the contest stated that the contestant finish without losing his burritos. Two of the contestants, however, weren't able to do so.
Fumes . . .
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down the street, and Linda Maggiora, who had just purchased a lot nearby and had driven in to look at it, heard the screams and came to help.
KNUPP SAID, Regina Dressler and Carlson went into the tank to try to get the two men out. Regina Dressler then passed, knuff, said so, Carlson shifted to Regina and lifted her over the six-foot wall and held the arms of Linda Carlson and Monica.
As Bob Carlson came out of the tank, Maggiora jumped in her car, Knup said, and drove around the neighborhood knocking on doors for more help.
This is where Knapp said he got involved. He said he talked to Maggiore, then told his wife to call the authorities and went with him to Pete Peterson, to the Dean house.
"The paint was wet we so kind of slid him up the side," he said. "We weren't too gentle. I think we cracked his head on the concrete ceiling as he went up."
Knupp aid he and Bob Carlson got back in the tank and lifted Wainner Dresser out.
The sheriff's patrol and the ambulance arrived then, Knupp said, and they used respirators to help the victims breathe and pouled Nightingale out.
"I'm sorry it happened and I'm really glad there were people around to help," she said.
"Bob Carlson did a yeoman's job," Dean said, but Carlson had spent so much time in the tank that he, too, was affected by the fumes.
APPLICATIONS Now Being Accepted for SUNFLOWER HOSTESSES
The University of Kansas Athletic Corporation is now accepting applications from students interested in assisting with the recruitment of prospective student-athletes for the Football Department. Membership requirements state that you must be a regularly enrolled KU student in good standing during the 1976-77 season.
For further information and applications contact the assistant athletic director's office, Room 211, Allen Field House annex. Application deadline is 5 p.m.,
KU-Y ADVOCATE SERIES PRESENTS
Jayhawk Room,
Kansas Union
World Hunger:
What is the
real issue . . .
Tuesday, April 27
7:30 p.m.
An evening of dialogue with Roy Laird, KU
His opinion: "American food aid to the developing countries may well have been a prime factor contributing to world hunger." Partially funded by Student Senate
Professor of Political Science.
Audience Will Be Invited To Participate In Discussion
SUA Films Presents 's A DOLL'S HOUSE
Henrik Ibsen's A DOLL'S HOUSE
Starring: Claire Bloom & Sir Ralph Richardson
"Not only a first-rate production, but also theater of amazing ferocity. Claire Bloom in as classic an interpretation as is possible within the limits of film."
—Vincent Canby, New York Times
Sunday, April 25 7:00 p.m. Woodruff Aud. 75c
Closely Watched Trains
Czechoslovakia,1976 Monday, April 26 Union Ballroom 75°
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