Friday, April 14, 1978
University Daily Kansan
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India wants facts on nuclear pack
NEW DELHI, India (AP)—The Indian government demanded yesterday that the United States explain reports that a secret CIA maintenance team abandoned a nuclear device on a Himalayan peak 13 years ago. Officials are concerned that the radioactive material could contaminate the Ganges River, a vital waterway.
U. S. Ambassador Robert F. Gohen was summoned to the Foreign Ministry and was told that the reports had caused great concern.
The foreign minister, A.B. Vajapayee, said that if the incident was true, it was bound to damage U.S.-Indian relations, which
recently have been improving. Legislators planned to discuss the issue today in
Tom Reston, a State Department spokesman, said the department was checking into the report. A Foreign Ministry spokesman said Göheen promised to
The story was published in Outside, a publication of Rolling Stone.
provide further information as soon as it became available.
It said a CIA group in 1965 tried to plant a nuclear-powered device atop 24,540-foot Nanda Devi, one of India's highest mountains, to monitor atomic test explosions.
Bad weather stopped the climbers 2,000 feet short of the summit and the nuclear
powerpack was left in some rocks and buried in an avalanche by the time the climbers returned the following year, the magazine said.
It said the abandoned device contained plutonium 238, which remains dangerously radioactive for as much as 500 years. Once its outer cover corroded, the magazine exposed the material could contaminate the Ganges watershed with cancer-causing poisons.
Europe questions Carter's actions
PARIS (AP)—President Jimmy Carter's decision to delay production of the neutron bomb has intensified criticism of his foreign policies in the West European press and among government officials. Europeans have complained about his grasp of foreign affairs.
This questioning of Washington's actions seems to be getting louder as Carter's first
year honeymoon fades into the past and major European allies feel disappointed on critical issues.
"The time for realities has now arrived, and it is a difficult period," a French official, who asked not to be identified, said. "People are talking about inconsistencies and vagueness, and at the same time absence of pragmatism."
CARTER ANNOUNCED last week that he was deferring a decision on whether to produce the neutron bomb pending evidence of new Soviet restraint in the weapons race. The delay was interpreted by many Europeans—both proponents and opponents of the weapon—as an inability to make a decision.
The magazine Der Spiegel reported that West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt said the United States had "stopped" a nuclear attack.
who tries to stamp his private morals on world politics but in reality is incapable of fulfilling his role as leader of the West."
"The unilateral renunciation by an apparently uncertain president can only encourage the opponent to insist on his positions and demand further concessions from the United States," the conservative news paper Neue Zacher Zeitung said.
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Century II - Wichita - April 23
1.00 pm to midnight open 12:30 pm
JOE WILLIAMS — The All-Time Great Jazz Vocalist
BUDDY.RICH AND LOUIS BELLSON
CLARK TERRY
A Battle Royal Between Two Fabulous Drummers and Their Big Bands
CLARK TERBY
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9 Gifted Musicians Combine To Give A Unique Musical Experience
Dan Haerle with Annie Lawrence
The Houston High School All-Stars
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PREVIEW CONCERT
Saturday, April 22 - 8:30 - 11:30 pm
Three hours of great laziness with Louis Bellison Combo, Dan Harel Trio with
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Prof to honor black poet
The first Langston Hughes visiting professor, Arthur Drayton, will present a Langston Hughes lecture tonight in honor of the 100th anniversary of his life and historian who lived in Lawrence as a boy.
The lecture, titled "Langton Hughes: Art and Literature of Necessity," will be given at 8 tonight in 2008 Dyce Hall. Drayton said she is not only interested as a necessary aspect of the black struggle.
Drayton is a senior lecturer in English and dean of the faculty of arts and general education at Kingston University in Kingston, Jamaica. He was to KU last fall as a Fulbright visiting professor.
ference in Africa, but their acquaintance did not last long. Hughes died in 1967.
Before his death he had published 15 books of verse and had collected and edited material for several collections of black writing. His books of history include "Flight for Freedom: The Story of the NAACP" and two autobiographies.
Drayton met Hughes in 1962 at a con-
KU set up the Langston Hughes visiting professorship in August with the approval of the Hughes estate. The program is funded by the state for one semester each year. Hughes, a graduate student in Arts and Sciences, said KU might be able to find funds to sponsor the other semester.
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THE LAWRENCE COALITION FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE invites you
WORKSHOP
"Economic Rights or Duties in the Community"
with Kenneth E. Boulding
4-6 pm
Sunday, April 16, 1978
Lawrence Arts center, Ninth and Vermont
AND
LECTURE
"The Economics of Human Rights"
presented by
Kenneth E. Boulding
Distinguished Professor of Economics
University of Colorado at Boulder
8pm
Monday, April 17, 1978
Forum Room of the Kansas Union, Level Four
followed by refreshments
Partially funded by Student Senate
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