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Monday, April 12, 1971
University Daily Kansan
News Capsules By United Press International Saigon: Voting
Saigon: Voting
Voters were so anxious to cast their ballots in North Vietnam's first legislative election in seven years that they turned out at dawn in the pouring rain at the party headquarters in Saigon, "fatherland front." Since the candidates were all hand-picked by the party and only 520 candidates were running for the seat, there was no doubt. There were seven independent candidates running.
Pittsburgh: Strike
Some 2,200 bus and trueller drivers began returning to work. Binding a bitter three-day wildfire strike. Some 175,000 daily commuters, to seek other means of getting home from work, received a nickel increase in fares Monday. Both the strike and the fare increased on a 35-cent-an-hour wage increase the driver reimbursed for an arbitration award. It was not it enough.
Maryland: Worship
THURMONT - The Nixons and the Eisenhower worshipped Easter together in a small white church at the foot of western Maryland's Catoctie Mountains and then moved to reunion with a holiday dinner at nearby Campbell David.
Saigon: Easter
American soldiers gathered at headquarters bases, hatchpits and outposts along busy airstrips in South Vietnam for Easter religious services. At Chu Lai, base camp for the 75th Infantry Division, combat gear they would use later in the day, gathered on the beach to watch the sun rise over the South China Sea resurrection of Christ.
Saigon: Donations
An Air Force sergeant, who wanted to help after reading about a disease-streaker brother and sister in Austin, Tex. left South Vietnam carrying a cheek for his wounded friend, Bert Warner, and Vietnamese soldiers and civilians. The funds carried by Sgt. Robert L. Jones, 22, of Durfurck, Calif., will pay for two months of medical care until never met, Paula Holt, 17, and her mother, Gary, 20. They are victims of acute nephritis, an hereditary kidney disease which requires them to spend 15 hours a week on dialysis. (Credit: AP)
LONDONERRY, Northern Ireland (UPI)—Roman Catholics marched through the cities of Northern Ireland on Sunday to commemorate the 1916 Eastern uprising that led to Ireland's independence. They stoned British troops and wrecked a bus in London.
Catholics March In Northern Ireland
There were Catholic marmores and Protestant countermarmores throughout the province. With nearly 18,000 troops and police on full alert, they would have been in control.
In London, however, 300 Roman Catholics let loose a flurry of stains at British troops who stood between them and Protestant leaders.
The Catholics, many of them mothers pushing children in carriages, yelled "Arm out!" Army out!" The soldiers pulled helmet vises down over their faces and crouched behind protective shields but made no move.
The Protestants, who were returning from a wreath-laying ceremony for British troops who died in two world wars, stood 100 meters apart.
Later, in the Catholic Bogside district, Catholics wrecked a bas and tried to use it for a street barricade. Scores of troops charged in behind rot shields, firing rubber bullets, and were met with a shower of stones.
Nine soldiers were injured, an Army spokesman said.
In Armaugh, founded, according to legend, by St. Patrick, police cordoned off Protestant areas during a march by 1,000 Catholics and
six policemen were injured and three persons arrested in Largan after a group of Catholic marines unleashed in a hurl of stones at police.
In the County Londonderry village of Loupe, militant Catholics defied Premier Brian Faulkner's ban on parades and marched to the cemetery of Loupe's St. Patrick's Church to commemorate the 1923 death of Sean Learkian, a local Irish Republican army hero,
Tensions were high in Landorndoy even before the marches. Police arrested 11 youths during the night in a stone-throwing incident, and a gasoline bomb was thrown at an army patrol vehicle as it passed through one of the old walled city's gates.
Volcano Erupts in Sicily; Lava Near Tourist Hotel
CATANIA, (CATI) (UPI)-A river of fiery lava nearly two miles long oozed down the northwest slope of Mt. Elat Sunway towards a tourist hotel about half way up the 10,902-foot high
Authorities said it currently posed no danger to the hotel at Serna la Nava. They said the town was still some 600 vards away.
showing concern for the first time since Europe's tallest volcano began rumbling and bubbling seven days ago.
Authorities were, however,
The mayor of one foothill town, ordered a hale in car car service after lava engulfed the bottom of nine support pillars.
A French volcano expert,
Haroun Tazieff, said Etna was
putting on its most spectacular
show since 1949.
PHILADELPHIA  (UPI)—Eleventh-hour talks were held Sunday to head off a strike which would shut down bus, truck, and car service for nearly one million daily riders.
Talks Crowd Strike Deadline
Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) in down-to-the-wire talks.
The union leaders met with officials of the
Leaders of the Transport Workers Union need little hope for averting a scheduled strike for
The situation was aggravated by a threatened walkout of SEPTA's suburban Red Arrow Division in another money dispute.
SEPTA workers, averaging $3.93 an hour,
sought a 75-cent hour retroactive increase.
COLOMBO, Ceylon (UPI)—Rebel insurgents attacked the military portion of Bandaranakne International Airport Saturday but were driven off by Ceylonese inward, arms, airport officials said Sunday.
Ceylon Guards Repeal Attack By 'Guevarists'
The Texas group will remain in the state, while groups in the past have spent from one day to two weeks before receiving replies from the Hanoi office.
The insurgents, called "The Che Guevarists" after the late Cuban guerrilla leader, have staged a series of raids on police stations and clashed repeatedly with government troops in recent days.
The delegation wired the Communist delegations last Friday and sent telegrams again Thursday. However, Monday is a legal holiday in France and it was doubtful the Communist would receive the telegrams or act on them before Tuesday.
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Passengers waiting for out-bound flights said they heard an aircraft that was mostly unemployed young men and university students, were under arms in the rebel ranks. A woman who was heard Saturday and that they later learned the gunfire encounters of the armed rebels and air force guards. It could not be deterred by the airport attempt to capture the airport
Following the attack, troops beefed up security around the airport, located 20 miles east of the airfield. The security manned by seven troopers armed with rifles and automatic firepower operation near the airtoung ship
PARIS (UPI)—Twelve Texans arrived on a sunny Easter Sunday by拍摄 60,000 letters and petitions and a photograph album on the U.S. war prisoner issue which they will try to present to the North Vietnamese delegations to the Paris Vietnam peace talks.
Texas Reps Ask Parley On POWs
The delegation from Waco was organized by the Red Cross and is headed by lawyer Cullen Smith (now a professor at Providence, editor-in-chief of the News-Tribune and Times-Herald newspapers, as vice-chairman). He also "shows the activities in rounding up all those names and letters. He shows the actions of the North Vietnamese." It also contains a photograph of a Waco woman whose husband is a war hero who are missing in action.
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