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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, October 6, 1967
Thieu threatens Saigon students
From the wires of United Press International
SAIGON—President-elect Nguyen Van Thieu clamped down hard today on anti-government demonstrations. He warned that in the future, demonstrators would lose civil rights and draft-age protestors would be sent to the front lines of the war.
Thieu flexed his muscles as the government moved ahead with plans for today's kickoff of the official campaign for the nation's 137-member house of representatives.
At the same time, there were signs that the currently ebbing anti-government protest led by militant Buddhist chief Thich Tri Quang may be headed for a compromise.
The government warnings against future Buddhist-led demonstrations were issued in Da Nang and Hue, scene of disorders in 1966 gering on civil war, as well as in Saigon.
One factor apparently prompting the get-tough decree was leaflets apparently issued by followers of Tri Quang in his former Hue stronghold urging a general strike by shopkeepers and bus, taxi and cycle drivers.
Violators were warned they would be taken before military courts for sentencing, a much harsher measure than civil courts. Draft-age violators were warned that they would be promptly put in the army regardless of their draft status and sent to fight me Viet Cong.
This was apparently aimed at students who are deferred from the draft while studying.
Jakarta, Peking may break
JAKARTA—Angry Indonesian students who sacked the Communist Chinese Embassy warned the government in an ultimatum today to break off relations with Red China within 96 hours or they will oust Chinese diplomats themselves.
A government spokesman said the students' demand was "quite reasonable" but such action was a matter to be considered by foreign ministry officials and parliament.
More than 400 anti-Communist students gathered in front of the foreign ministry shouting their demands. It was the latest development in the steadily worsening relations between Peking and Indonesia.
The trouble stems from a Communist-backed coup in 1965 that tried to overthrow the government and put in power a regime subservient to Peking.
Right-wing army officers foiled the plot and in the days that followed, thousands of Communists and suspected Communist sympathizers were massacred in many areas of the country. A number of high-ranking officers were arrested and many have gone before firing squads.
Even as the students demonstrated today, the official government news agency Antara reported one of the 1965 coup leaders died before a firing squad singing the Communist "Internationalale" at the top of his lungs. The leader was Lt. Col. Untung, former head of the presidential palace guards.
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Sen. Percy will let 'Sense' rest
WASHINGTON —(UPI)— Sen. Charles H. Percy, the freshman from Illinois who hit the Senate floor running, said today he is content to let his latest project rest.
The 48-year-old Republican presidential dark horse picked up support from what finally amounted to 21 other senators Thursday for his get-more-help-from Asians resolution on the Vietnam war.
The "Sense of the Senate" resolution would urge President Johnson to "move with greater determination" to obtain more war assistance from the non-Communist countries of Asia.
The resolution drew an acid reaction from Percy's senior colleague from Illinois, Senate GOP leader Everett M. Dirksen. He told newsmen the document was "full of mischief." Too many senators, he growled, are trying to run the Vietnam war.
By the close of Senate business Thursday, Percy's list of cosponsors had been reduced by four—several of whom said their listing was a clerical mistake.
"I wanted to see whether I was alone or not on the question of getting more assistance from Asian countries," he said.
"I'm content to let it rest at this stage. I think the expression by these senators who co-sponsored the resolution will be helpful to the administration and strengthen the President's hand in trying to get more help."
Shriver sees flaws in draft
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — A book outlining a 31-point draft reform program has been written by five Republican congressmen, including Rep. Garner Shriver of Kansas.
Shriver noted in a publication announcement Thursday that Congress recently extended the draft law but failed to correct many of its inequities.
for a needed national dialogue on the draft," Shriver said. "It spells out a 31-point program of reform, including a specific program of new draft calls that can be reduced to zero."
Many of the reforms suggested, Shriver said, require no Congressional action and could be effected by the Defense Department.
Cass, Michelle mix with bobbies
LONDON—(UPI)—Cass Elliot, 24, the 210-pound singer with the American pop group "The Mama's and the Papa's," had a date in magistrate's court today to answer charges she stole two blankets and two keys from a Kensington hotel.
She was arrested Thursday in a dockside scuffle just as she and
the other members of the group arrived at Southampton aboard the liner France.
During the scuffle, the other "Mamma," Michelle Gilliam, punched a policewomen. Cass is charged with stealing the blankets and the keys, valued at $29.40, from the Embassy House Hotel last February.
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