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82nd Year, No.132
The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
Friday, April 28, 1972
Kansas Staff Photo by KIT NETZER
'No One Has a Monopoly on the Desire for Peace'
Dole Sees Bombing As Prelude to Peace
... Sen. Robert Dole speaks to crowd of about 1300 in Ballroom.
By JIM KENDELL
Kansan Staff Writer
A tense crowd filled the Ballroom 25 minutes before Dole began the speech, which was sponsored by the Vickers Lecture series.
Dole began the speech 10 minutes late,
bronxing a scheduled news conference
Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan., was interrupted repeatedly by antiwar protesters as he spoke Thursday night at the Kansas Union.
The 1,300-plus crowd jammed the ballroom to hear Dole defend President Nixon's war strategy and Nixon's policies for better relations with China and Russia.
pressing a scheduled news conference.
Before Dole's speech John House,
Raytown, Mo., senior and chairman of the
Student Executive Committee, read an antwar resolution passed April 20 by a special session of the Student Senate.
The resolution condemned U.S. involvement in Indochina, called for an immediate end to the conflict, and called for the immediate and total withdrawal of U.S. commitment in any case to the commitment in any
THE CROWN CHEERED the resolution for a minute and a half.
When the Republican national chairman was introduced about 300 protesters with the names of war dead pinned to their hats and up and turned their backs on the senator.
Clenched fists waved in the air, but supporters of the President were also in the crowd. One young woman held a sign that read "Re-elect the President."
Dole said there were many issues he could talk about—the economy, the
Gays Present Requests to Balfour
By RANDY SCHUYLER Kansan Staff Writer
A group of ten members of the Lawrence Group on Liberation Front (GLF') and of the gue band presented a statement and list of requests to William M. Balfour, a technician of the Lawrence Group.
The paper, issued in connection with Wednesday night's robbery of a GLF cash card at a dance, stated that the robbery was carried out by a man accused of oppression suffered by Gay People on this campus" and that they had been treated and taunted by their peers, finally robbed, and that one person who was injured could claim his legal rights because he was gay.
SPOKEMESEN FOR THE GLF placed the blame for the robbery on the University administration for denying its (the GLF) ability to conduct its energies and resources in fighting court battles. They asserted that their own chief purpose was to deal with people and "provide them with the information for an understanding of gay people."
The robbery occurred in the Kansas Union about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday.
According to spokesmen for the front, they were continually harassed by people in the
Union and, at one time, a group of 12 to 15
attention, but soon left.
According to officials at Traffic and Security, the robbery took place when a small group of males sued a cash box containing about $75 from a table and fed. One member of the GLF suffered a facial cut when he attempted to stop them.
FRANK BURGE, director of the Kansas Union, said Wednesday night after the incident that he thought adequate security measures were needed in circumstances but to prevent future
incidents of this type, additional security would probably be necessary. He said that in a building as large as the Union The building has to have a certain amount of "mutual security."
According to GLF spokesman, Burge canceled the rent for the room when he
THE GROUP presented a list of seven suggestions to Balfour.
Thev were:
1) A request for an immediate dialogue with the chancellor about gay problems.
2) That the administration pass a
Apollo 16 Lands Safely
ABOARD USS TICONDEROGA (AP) – Apollo 16's astronauts splashed safely into the South Pacific Thursday, completing a 1.2-mile-mile mission to the mountains of the moon. The Apollo commander is outstanding. The condition of the crew is outstanding.
The men, John W. Young, Charles M. Duke Jr. and Thomas K. Mattingly II, returned to their home planet with 245 rockets that flew over highlands that were formed billions of years ago.
South Vietnamese Halt Quang Tri Offensive
SAIGON (AP)—A tank battle erupted Thursday on the approaches to Quang Tri on the border with China, seize that northernmost provincial capital. Allied officers claimed victory in the armored battle and said the South forces were holding their own elsewhere.
Associated Press correspondent Lynn C. Newland reported from Quang Tri, after a flight over the battlefield, that a North Vietnamese ambush knocked out trucks and disrupted traffic on Highway 1 three hours earlier. That was the closest enemy, report reported.
years before man walked the earth.
The savagery of the fighting in the enemy's new offensive was reflected in casualty figures for last week. The South Vietnamese reported 1,149 soldiers killed and 3,376 wounded, the heaviest of the war. The Americans said 10 Americans were killed, 8 were missing and 78 wounded, the heaviest losses in six months.
The spacecraft flipped upside-down, a common occurrence with Apollo landings, but the astronauts quickly uprighted it by a 20-degree angle and pointed at point at the top of the cone-shaped craft.
A U.S. officer at Quang Tri said 10 enemy tanks were destroyed in the armored engagement five to six miles north of Quang Tri.
14 on the northern front, U.S. fighterbombers attacked enemy targets in North Vietnam, hoping to blunt the North Vietnamese attack.
With bad weather holding air strikes to
The command ship Casper splashed
down precisely on tune at 2:44 p.m. EST
on the clock.
While no major new fighting was reported in the central highlands, there was no lessening of enemy pressure and attacks were feared there by the weekend.
Swimmers leaped from hovering helicopters and stabilized the bobbing spacecraft with a sea anchor and flotation collar.
The An Khe Pass on Highway 19, the vital link between supply bases on the coast of Morocco and Algeria, was officially declared open. Associated Press special correspondent Peter Arnett said tanks were the first to use the equipment heading west toward the fighting front.
The U.S. Navy also joined the battle.
The Gulf of Tokkin is still an energy line.
At An Loch, the provincial capital 60 miles north of Saigon, 2,260 shores rained down in a 24-hour period ending early Thursday. Saigon headquarters said.
It was the heaviest bombardment in any 24-hour period at An Loc since the North Vietnamese struck along the invasion toward Saigon early in the offensive.
President Nixon later called the astronauts from Key Biscayre, Fla., to congratulate him and give Duke and Mattingly military promotions.
Duke, an Air Force lieutenant colonel,
became a colonel, and Mattingly, a navy
lieutenant commander, became a
commander. Young is a Navy captain and
congressional approval is required for the next rank of admiral.
“Their skill, their courage and their enthusiasm have written another proud chapter in the stirring story of mankind's struggle against the mysteries of the unknown.” Nixon said.
"You did a great job and the entire nation is proud of you." Nixon told the 1968 Democratic nominee.
Earlier, in a written statement, Nixon praised the astronauts for a 'job well done.'
directive not only to themselves but to the rest of the academic community and read as main books on Gay Liberation as they provide. GLF would provide a bibliography, GLF would provide a bibliography,
3) That an investigation be made of the problems encountered by gay people living in such areas.
Dr. George Loew, deputy administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, said Apollo 16 succeeded desite a series of problems.
So close was the landing to this recovery ship that sailors on its decks and television screens used to monitor its clutch deploy, followed seconds later by the main parachutes, which streamed out partially collapsed as planned, before blooming into huge, taut mushrooms of color.
4) That a gay studies program be initiated.
"One week ago, he said, we all had serious doubts whether Apollo 18 would be able to fly."
Television coverage was relayed by satellite.
5) That the University hire a full-time
gay man and a gay woman to deal with
their needs.
6) That the University conduct an investigation into hiring and firing practices to see if gay people are being discriminated against.
7) That members of the administration speak out against the oppression of gays on the campus whenever the opportunity presented itself.
FOLLOWING THE reading of the statement, there was a discussion between the authors on the issue.
The spokesmen said that because they weren't recognized, they had to pay rent for the building.
Bailour replied that he would check into the rights of recognized groups, as opposed to unrecognized groups, to see that everyone got fair treatment.
A member of the Women's Coalition said that this had not been the first incident of unfair treatment. She said that about a week ago there had been harassment of an all-women dance in the Union and that they were being subjected to complaints and thrown pennies onto the floor.
BALFOUR SAID people should be able to meet in the Union without harassment, but he didn't agree that recognition was the problem.
The GLF spokesmen said that because they were denied recognition, they lacked adequate facilities to inform people about their purposes.
Bafour suggested that their problems would probably have to be taken up with other people.
environment and the political system—but that he realized the crowd was interested in it.
The GLF spokesmen said they desired a series of meetings, similar to the Lawrence Police Community Dlaogue, to explain gav problems to the chancellor.
Balfour said that no directive could be made on point 2 of the statement, but that he and his own staff would take note of it. Balfour then gave his opinions concerning the other suggestions.
HE AGREED to set up a committee comprised of the dean of men's and dean of women's offices, the IFC, the Panhellenic council, Bailour's own office, the GLF, and the gay caucus of the Women's Coalition to look into housing.
He made no comment on point 4 or 5 of the statement. On the question of discriminatory employment practices, he suggested talking to the chancellor. On the last point, Balfour said he himself would speak in favor of the GLF.
Dole said he supported President Kennedy's conduct of the war, the Gulf of Tokun Resolution, President Johnson's visit to the U.S. and President Nixon's conduct of the war.
He said, "Perhaps this stance was wrong."
He said he would leave history to judge, adding that the demonstrators had every reason to believe they were there.
DOLE SAID most KU seniors were in the fifth grade when the war began. When the Tet offensive came in 1968, they were seniors in high school.
Most of that time, Dole said, Nixon was a private citizen and had nothing to do with the conduct of the war. He said Nixon had reduced the number of troops in Vietnam
to 69.000 and cut casualties to fewer than 10 a week.
Dole said, "No one has a monopoly on the desire for peace."
Hecklers retorted that the government had a monopoly on the media.
... monoply on the media.
Dole said, "We don't have a monopoly on
Dale said, "We don't have a monopoly, the media, believe me. I wish we did." He said of what would happen if U.S. bombing and aid were withdrawn from Vietnam.
WHEN NIXON CAME into office, he
had to leave Snow now were fragile
and those with Peking came from
Russian troops at that time had invaded
Czechoslovakia and the North Koreans
He said changes in relations between the superpowers represented a challenge to achieving 'achievement.'
See DOLE, Page 10
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By KEVIN SHAFER
Kansan Staff Writer
By KEVIN SHAFER
Kennon Staff Writer
People began gathering outside the locked door of the Union Ballroom as early as 6:00 p.m. Dole's speech was scheduled for 7:30 p.m.
Crowd Opposes War, Disrupts Dole's Speech
More than half of the 1,300 people who attended the Vickers Lecture given by Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan., Thursday were invited to debate their opposition to the war in Vietnam.
The evening began early for many who attended the lecture. In front of the Kansas University building, students bearing the slogan that said, "Dole speaks tonight; get your face painted, free!" Several protesters had half their faces painted with tempera paint to give their opposition to the law.
Members of the Haiphong Project Coordinating Committee began organizing volunteers at 6 p.m. for the planned demonstration during Dole's speech at the same time members of the Collegiate Republicans began gathering.
THE DOORS were opened at about 6:45 p.m., 45 minutes before Dole was scheduled to speak. By then more than two hundred people had gathered outside the door and the opening of the doors brought a rush to secure seats on the first two rows.
People who were definitely against the
men who were definitely against the
Dole were migrated throughout the crowd.
The 45 minutes before the senator's appearance were occupied in various times, between pro and antiwar group members. Signs bearing the names of Kansas men killed in the Vietnam war were frantically being made and pinned to the floor.
PLEAS WERE made to all potential demonstrators to keep the demonstration peaceful and to allow the senator to deliver out to those who wished to bear them.
At last the senator appeared, appealed to the conservatives conservatively dressed in coats and ties.
Dole opened by saying, "It's obvious that I'm here tonight." . . . and the beckles began. As soon as the lauger subsided Dole attempted to regain an air of comfort.
WHEN DOLE began his formal lecture, about 300 protesters who had on their backs the name of the president had been in the war stood up and turned their backs to the senator.
Banners of all sorts were displayed in the audience. One banner bore the lyrics of
See CROWD DISRUPTS, Page 9
Kansan Staff Photo by ED LALLO
Some Came Supporting the Administration . With varying opinions and emotions, an audience awaits answers .