Thursday, September 21, 1967
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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U.S. losses soar toward 100,000
SAIGON—American casualties in the Vietnam war edged closer to the 100,000 mark last week. U.S. military spokesmen announced today. As of last Saturday, 13,365 American servicemen had been killed, 83,443 wounded, and 749 listed as missing in the war—a total of 97,557.
From the wires of United Press International
North Vietnamese guns continued for the third straight day an almost unprecedented barrage on U.S. Marine fortresses just below the Demilitarized Zone. Ten Marines have been killed and 179 wounded since Tuesday as North Vietnamese artillery and mortars used monsoon rains as a cover. More than 500 U.S. troops have been killed or wounded in the DMZ this month.
UN cease fire on Suez
JERUSALEM — Israeli and Egyptian forces fought an artillery, tank, and small arms battle across the Suez Canal at El Qantara today. Each side claimed the other started the shooting.
The Israeli communique said U.N. truce observers called for a cease-fire about an hour after the exchange began but Egyptian
troops fired another barrage and the fighting continued.
On Wednesday, Israeli artillery twice opened fire on Egyptian boats carrying soldiers in the canal, sinking three of the craft. Israel charged the Egyptians broke the cease-fire agreements by sailing in the waterway.
NEW MUSEUM DIRECTOR
Phillip S. Humphrey, the new director of the KU Museum of Natural History, stands outside the building which draws many thousands of visitors each year. A noted ornithologist from the Smithsonian Institution, Humphrey fore-
sees significant additions to the Museum's Latin American scientific collections and greater activity in "living zoology." Humphrey also is chairman of the KU zoology department.
Louisiana public schools hit 2 get awards
BATON ROUGE, La.—Gubernatorial candidate John R. Rarick says he will attempt to scrap the state's public education system if elected and replace it with an independent system to get around court-ordered desegregation. Rarick believes the private system is necessary to keep up the fight against desegregation.
"Until we are able to change this," he said, "we must devise some way to help our people exist."
Many of the earliest discoveries of oil and gas wells in Texas were accidental, resulting from drilling for water.
James M. Eller, Leavenworth senior, and Glenn J. Taliaferro, El Dorado senior, electrical and petroleum engineering majors, have been awarded Texaco scholarships for the 1967-68 school year. Both rank in the top 5 per cent of their class.
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