German Newsman Snatched by Reds
BERLIN—(UPI)—A West German newspaper said today one of its reporters was shot and kidnapped by Communist police on the East-West German border.
THE NEWSPAPER Dortmund Westfaelische Rundschau said its chief reporter, Kurt Lichtenstein, was shot in the stomach and dragged across the border near the town of Gifhorn.
The incident was reported shortly after 10 Communist policemen crossed into West Berlin early today while searching for a defector. West Berlin police chased the East Germans back across the border
Kennedy Speaks Firmly on Berlin
CHAPEL HILL, N. C. — (UPI) President Kennedy, sounding a Berlin crisis keynote of both firmness and flexibility, said today the United States does not "intend to let the free world be blown to pieces."
In a speech at the University of North Carolina, the President told the American people they could be assured of being "neither Red nor dead," if the country faces its risks "undeterred by fanatics at home or abroad."
IN THE NUCLEAR AGE, he said, it would be a dangerous illusion to think that American problems could be encompassed in a single slogan such as "total victory."
Now for the first time in history, he added, two powers have the capacity to destroy each other. And while seeking peace, he said, this country does not intend to let the free world be blown apart.
Kennedy's off-the-cuff speech to an audience of 35,000 in the university stadium was in effect a follow-up to his sombre press conference statement yesterday that "we happen to live in the most dangerous time in the history of the human race."
TODAY, HE SAID, it is time for the American people to face the issues of the world "as they are, not as we would like them to be."
The occasion for the speech was a convocation where Kennedy received his first honorary degree since becoming chief executive.
Kennedy told his audience that the United States today has problems "we never dreamed of 20 years ago." He added, however, that the nation was not going to be swayed from its course.
without gunfire.
The West German newspaper said its reporter was visiting a border point to gather news and was talking to East German farm laborers when an East German policeman shot him from a distance of 70 yards. The newspaper said another East German policeman then crossed the road into West German territory, grabbed the fallen reporter and dragged him into East Germany.
THE BERLIN border incident occurred early this morning.
West Berlin officials said four Red guards had' defected during the night.
Last night West German youths hurled stones and drove off a Communist firebate trying to douse a flaming cross put up at the spot where two East Germans died trying to swim to freedom
The Communist boat chugged to within a few yards of the embankment and turned a powerful stream of water on the cross, set up by West Berlin youths.
THE YOUNG WEST Perliners guarding the cross showered the fireboat with stones and it finally veered off into the middle of the river.
A sign by the cross says: "Here two men were hunted to death by Communist concentration camp guards."
Last Friday two East Germans dived into the stream and tried to swim the 150 yards to West Berlin. Communist police set out after them in a patrol boat. They shot one and he sank. The other swam a few more yards and then sank, apparently from panic or a heart attack.
West Berlin youths set up a round-the-clock volunteer watch at the cross.
Weather
Hot weather will return to Kansas tomorrow, with temperatures generally near 80. It will be humid tonight, with the low in the 60's.
Daily hansan
59th Year, No.20
Thursday, October 12, 1961
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Miss McMillen included People-to-People as one of the groups whose stand the ASC should endorse. The People-to-People representative who went to the Chancellor to ask him to stop listing renters who discriminate, David Barrier, Wichita sophomore, said yesterday he agreed with Chancellor Wescoe's stand to keep the housing list as it is.
The students who talked to the Chancellor Monday represented the Civil Rights Council, People-to-People, the International Club, the KU-Y, the Wesley Foundation and the Westminster Center.
Wescoe Not Given Support On Housing Stand by ASC
A motion supporting Chancellor Wescoe's "moral suasion" stand on housing was defeated 11-10 by the All Student Council last night.
RICHARD HARPER, Prairie Village senior, quickly brought up this point. "Are we to endorse two positions?" he asked.
An earlier resolution to endorse the stand of the six groups who asked the Chancellor to stop the University from listing renters who discriminate was tabled until next meeting. Oct. 25.
Carol McMillen, Coldwater senior, made the resolution to endorse the groups who opposed the Chancellor's stand. The resolution asked for the dropping of names of private renters who discriminate on the basis of race, color, or national origin from the University housing list
Miss McMillen replied that People-to-People had not taken this stand when her resolution against
"Moral suasion has not successfully resolved the problem of housing discrimination in the past," her motion stated.
After heated discussion over Miss McMillen's resolution, a substitute motion to support the Chancellor's stand was introduced by John Erickson, Clay Center senior. More debate followed, and the motion was defeated. Attention then turned to Miss McMillen's resolution to support the students who want the Chancellor to stop listing renters who discriminate.
the listing was made. She then agreed to strike this group from her motion.
Verne Gauby, Grand Island, Neb., third year law student, asked Miss McMillen "How many spaces would be dropped from the University housing list if renters who discriminate were eliminated?"
"You'd never deprive the student of any spaces, only the renters who discriminate from free advertising. These discriminators have no right to be listed on the University housing list," she replied.
"How many renters are discriminating?" Gauby asked.
"I don't know, but you can cheek this easily," replied Miss McMillen
"THEN THIS GROUP sponsoring the resolution has never made a study of how many renters are discriminating." Gauby emphasized again.
Arthur Miller, Pittsburg junior,
(not an ASC member) defended
Miss McMillen's position. "We know of, one for sure," he said.
Jay Deane, Kansas City junior, spoke against the resolution to step listing renters who discriminate:
"We'd just make it more difficult for students to find apartments," he said. "I don't think we'd be solving the problem, if it exists."
Then Erickson stood up and carefully phrased his substitute motion:
"I move the ASC accept the stand by the Chancellor of the University concerning the problem of off campus housing," he said.
"If the people know they will be dropped from the housing list, they will know the University does not condone discrimination. I urge a stand to get rid of having these houses on the list."
"I WOULD URGE defeat of this motion." Miss McMillen said. "By accepting this motion, you will be backing the Chancellor's position on this. I think the Chancellor's stand is wrong.
Another ASC member broke in, arguing that the University stand does not condone discrimination.
"THE CHANSELLER'S policy is such that it does not condone discrimination," Miss McMillen said. "But I would like to see some positive action taken."
Erickson, the sponsor of the substitute motion to back Chancellor Wescoe, carried on with the counter argument to Miss McMillen's motion:
"I think the University has had enough experience in housing to know what they are doing," he said.
Michael Thomas, Kansas City, Mo., junior, took issue with this point. "Then we should accept everything the University does," he said.
He continued:
"I think the University is condoning discrimination by helping people who discriminate get renters. I urge defeat of the substitute motion."
Palmer asked for a vote on the substitute motion to back the Chancellor's stand to keep listing the Lawrence renters who discriminate.
"Could we have a roll call vote on this?" Miss McMillen broke in.
AN INTERRUPTION forestalled a decision on her request. Max Eberhart, Great Bend senior, and president of the student body, asked to swair in three new ASC members before the vote was taken to avoid "irregularities."
The three were sworn in.
The ASC then took a voice vote on the resolution to back the Chancellor. The vote was about evenly split.
Miss McMillen: "I call for a roll call vote."
ter request was granted. The mo-
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Bulletin
MOSCOW — (UPI) — Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev is ready to meet Western leaders to settle the "present difficult situation," the official Soviet Tass news agency said today.
Tass said Khrushchev stated his willingness to attend such a meeting in a letter to Kaoru Yasui, chairman of the Japanese council against nuclear weapons.
Conservatives Organize KU Chapter of YAF
By Jerry Musil
The basis for a KU chapter of the Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) was established last night in the Kansas Union.
Charles McIlwaine. Wichita senior and a national director of YAF, explained YAF and conservatism to about 30 students. Members were signed after the meeting.
The meeting climaxed planning which began last spring for the organization of a chapter.
YAF is a national conservative organization for college students and young people which claims 30,000 members on more than 125 campuses.
"YAF AND CONSERVATISM are synonymous." McIlwaine said. "The YAF was founded in Sharon, Conn., in 1960. The Sharon Statement sets down a positive plan for YAF and states our goals and principles."
He said the goals of YAF can be found in the past and future activities of the organization
THE COMMITTEES IN OPERATION NOW. McLwaine said, are a student committee for Congressional autonomy, which supports HUAC; a Committee for a Free Cuba, and one supporting the Committee of One Million, which wants Red China kept out of the UN.
"In the past, YAF went to Washington, D.C. and out-picketed the pickets for abolition of the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Last March, we filled Manhattan Center for an awards rally citing outstanding Americans," he said.
ON THE LINE—Students sign up for new YAF chapter.
"The future is up to us. There will be a continuation of the fight for HUAC and Red China," he said.
Citing the opposition the Young Americans for Freedom will face, he continued, "We will be bucking a well-organized, well-financed liberal machine which has a big hold on the campuses."
"Being a conservative isn't in vogue today," he added. "We'll be bucking trouble."
CAUTIONING THE AUDIENCE on one point, McIlwaine said YAF is not now, never has been, or never will be, an arm of the John Birch Society. He added that the KU chapter will not be affiliated with the Society.
In a short question-answer session which followed McIlwaine's talk, students asked:
What is the Committee for a Free Cuba?
The Committee for a Free Cuba is a revolutionary council of students in Cuba whose goal is the overthrow of Castro, McIlwaine said.
ANOTHER STUDENT ASKED how many college chapters of YAF there were in the U?
McIlwaine said there were 180 college conservative clubs in the U.S. He added that some could not affiliate because of school rules prohibiting affiliation with a national organization.
Asked whether dues paid all the expenses or if the YAF was backed by an adult organization, McIlwaine said that the mailed material each member receives is much more than his $1 a year membership dues. He said the organization is
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