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Tuesday, May 9, 1972
University Daily Kansan
News Briefs By The Associated Press
U.S. Builds Thai Strength
BANGKOK—The U.S. Air Force has built up its forces in Thailand in the last few weeks under a mantle of secrecy that has covered air operations here since 1962. The withdrawal program, which saw U.S. troop strength drop by 15,800 between 1948 and 2003, informed sources about 2,000 airmen have arrived secretly in Thailand in the last month to handle a new buildup of combat aircraft. Another 3,000 men are due in the near future. Newmen are not allowed to visit overseas, Plains and Gls have strict instructions not to talk to them.
Storms Sweep Chile
SANTIAGO, Chile—Antarctic storms sweeping over most of Chile for the third consecutive day have left perhaps 20,000 persons homeless—7,000 of them in Santiago alone. President Salvador Alfeneled declare the southern province of Linares—the hardest hit of all—a "catastrophic zone" and called an emergency cabin meeting to plan response. The governor ordered blocked and there was a shortage of food and drinking water. The record rain and snowfalls killed one person and injured dozens more.
Primary Battles Continue
Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey faces Sen. George McGovern in Nebraska's presidential primary, and confronts Gov. George C. Wallace in West Virginia today in another leg of the marathon race for the Democratic nomination for the White House. Humphrey and McGovern both campaigned in Omaha Monday for a contest that looked like a tussup on election eve. Humphrey is favored to win in West Virginia. In both states, the presidential nominee defeated candidates will be chosen separately and simultaneously. West Virginia is electing delegates to cast 35 nominating votes; in Nebraska, 22 of 24 are to be elected.
KU Grad Says Antiwar Action Helps
By JOE ZANATTA
Kansan Staff Writer
"We don't want to do things that turn people off." John said.
"Education is in a fairly good manner can bring good results."
"We don't know if we did any good or not but we had to do something to show our discontent," Nancy Jorn, 1911, KU.edu. "We were very disappointed." Monday concerning this semester's antwar activities.
Joen worked during the Lawrence peace, education and development session. She also this type of educational activity was one of the most successful actions she had seen.
"THEE WAS not a very big impact nationally," Stave Hollies, Lawrence senior and one of the 2016 finalists, said in a peace march and rally, said.
"There was a positive resurgence of the new left," Hollis said, "it looks like it won't be a just one shot."
Hollis said that demonstrations nationwide during last week's war in Vietnam were not as large as demonstrations after the war in Vietnam.
Hollis said there was a minimum of 100 to 200 students who would return to campus next year and committed to the antwar cause.
MIKE BRADLEY, Wichita
People's Party Backs Spock; Blasts Nixon Policies, Racism
By STEVE RIEL
Kansas Staff Writer
The motto of the People's Party, which nominated Dr. Benjamin Spock stand-in candidate for president at its November conference in Dallas is "John Peace, Justice and Liberation."
At the Dallas convention, the newly formed People's Party addressed issues covering issues from foreign policy to sexism. The official document is entitled "People's Party for Form - Dallas." November 17, 1971.
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In foreign policy, the platform recommended that the United States respect self-determination of all peoples of the world. In response to this demand, the U.S. should immediate and unilateral withdrawal from Southeast Asia.
THE FOREIGN policy plank further demanded that the United States withdraw from all military involvement in giving unilateral military aid
The U.S. space program was alleged by the Party to be a diatron of domestic priorities and by its use of "false pride" by the document, The People's Party convention committee. The party program be discontinued and be
replaced by a limited international program for space research, the benefits of which are shared with other nations.
Sexism, according to the pattern, is evidenced in the United States. Women have the lowest jobs and are barred from ownership in certain industries.
The convention recommended that an equal rights amendment be passed and that a statement be made that women be repeated. Specifically, the convention demanded that statutes enacted to lessen physical hardships on women be repealed or applied universally.
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The convention also recognized individual freedom of expression for homosexuals.
The plank on racism adopted by the convention stated that the "light against racism is essential" and that "racism is a political and economic equality."
The document said the racial struggle in the United States was a class struggle because non-white generally of the working class.
Recommendations in this area included equal opportunity in all
areas for non-whites, immediate relief areas, and a democratic representation of non-whites and community leaders. The police, social and educational resources.
The labor plank of the People's Party rejected President Nixon's "war wage controls, and called for all means, including a general strike, to change those policies. The People's Party unionization but was not in accord with what was alleged to be undemocratic labor leadership
graduate student, who orked on several projects throughout the semester, said this semester's measure in long term effects.
"It's really difficult to gauge the short term accomplishments," Bradley said Monday.
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"Massive action next fall will depend on what happens over the summer in Southeast Asia," Bradley said.
Bradley said educational actions would become more prominent in antiwar activity.
"THERE ARE a lot of things the American people don't know about the war." Bradley said. "We don't have any consciousness of other people."
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She said that a lot of awareness to the war has been created by a group of people who had circulated through the community during the past few years.
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Rob Davidson, Salma Rothschild and the Peace Committee of the International Peace Committee said that this semester's activities were intentionally non-violent.
"WE WANT to set up all dif- ferent kinds of things that people could offer," Davidson said. "A violent commitment doesn't get enforced."
Jean Stolz, a Lawrence
resident on the Peace Committee, said Sunday that there was a certain amount of apathy towards the antwar movement.
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"We've got to get people thinking," Stonebeck said.
of things and not always a big mass demonstration," Davidson said.
I. J. Stonebuck Lawrence resident who participated in last week's peace rally and march, died while moving down died when Nixon
Davidson said the antiwar movement in Lawrence over the past decade has heavily on Lawrence residents rather than University of Kansas
"There has to be an effort by people to do little everyday kinds
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