New Talks Set For Cease Fire
NDOLA, Northern Rhodesia—(UPI)—Katanga President Moise Tshombe and a United Nations delegation from Leopoldville arrived today for another attempt to negotiate a cease fire in the Congo's embattled Katanga Province.
Their return for talks just a day after UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold's death in a plane crash on his last peace mission underlined the urgency with which both sides regarded the necessity of ending the fighting.
The UN delegation from Leopoldville, capital of the Congo's central government, was led by political expert Mahmoud Khiari. It was Khiari who negotiated successfully with Tshombe before fighting broke out last Wednesday in an effort to get the Katanga leader to fly to Leopoldville for peace talks at that time.
TSHOMBE'S PLANE TOUCHED DOWN FROM THE Katangese town of Kipushi at 7:35 a.m. With him were his Foreign Minister, Evariste Kimbe, and Finance Minister Jean-Baptiste Kibwe.
Rumors, and nothing more, had it that Sture Linner, the Swedish chief of the UN's Congo operations, was coming too. There were no immediate indications he was in Khiani's party.
Tshombe's party landed in a light plane from Kipushi, near Elisabethville. Also aboard was Neil Ritchie, first secretary of the British High Commission in the Rhodesian Federation.
A SPOKESMAN FOR KHIARI SAID THE UN diplomat had arrived here to "go ahead immediately" with cease fire plans.
The peace effort went on not far from the place where the 56-year-old Hammarskjold's body lay in a plain coffin in Ndola hospital prior to being shipped back to Sweden for a probable state funeral.
Khiari's plane, a DC6 similar to the one in which Hammarskjold and 12 others died in a shattering crash into a line of trees seven miles from Ndola airport, flew in under escort of three Royal Rhodesian Air Force planes.
DESPITE THE FACT THE LONE SURVIVOR of the 14 persons on Hammarskjold's plane, Sgt. Harold Julien, a UN security guard from the United States, said he heard "explosions" before the crash, this possibility was discounted here. So was the rumor that the plane may have been shot down.
Shortly before Khiari arrived, a formal North Rhodesian government statement said:
"There is no reason whatsoever to suspect that the crash of Hammarskjold's aircraft can be attributed to hostile action either from the ground or from the air."
THE STATEMENT WAS ISSUED AS a multi-nation investigation of the tragedy began, in apparent answer to reports here that a UN spokesman had stated sabotage could not be ruled out as a cause of the crash.
cause of the crash.
Sgt. Julien, meanwhile, was reported holding his own in Ndola hospital, where he is being treated for severe burns, leg fractures and other injuries.
Hammarskjold Briefs
By United Press International
NEW YORK—The 99 flags of countries belonging to the United Nations, usually a colorful border to the UN Plaza, were taken down yesterday in tribute to Secretary General Dag Hammarskiold.
yesterday in thirease to the United Nations was lowered to half-staff. Mayor Robert F. Wagner ordered flags on public buildings at half-staff for three days as a mark of the city's mourning.
--the books in preparation for another semester of concentrated study. As many before them, they will make the library their second home.
UNITED NATIONS—Informed diplomatic sources said today the General Assembly will name Mongi Slim of Tunisia to take over the duties of Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold.
Slim was slated to be elected president of the assembly when it convenes its 16th regular annual session this afternoon.
--the books in preparation for another semester of concentrated study. As many before them, they will make the library their second home.
NDOLA—Harold Julien, the sole survivor of the crash that killed Hammarskjold and 12 other persons, including a woman UN secretary, said the Secretary General had given his pilot an order to change course just as the plane was about to land at Ndola yesterday. Julien did not know why the order was given. The plane crashed seven miles away, apparently while making another landing approach.
WASHINGTON—President Kennedy decided after Hammarskjold's death to make a speech at the General Assembly this week or next to try to head off Russian designs on weakening the UN structure.
--the books in preparation for another semester of concentrated study. As many before them, they will make the library their second home.
--the books in preparation for another semester of concentrated study. As many before them, they will make the library their second home.
NEW YORK—Secretary of State Dean Rusk hopes to muster overwhelming pressure among the small nations for the early selection of a successor to Dag Hammarskjold as Secretary General of the United Nations.
Rusk's aides said he believes this is probably the only effective way to thwart any Soviet effort to abolish the post and turn UN executive powers over to a three-man committee hamstrung by communist veto power.
HERE WE GO AGAIN—Susan Tillotson, Topeka sophomore, Pam Maupin, Waterville junior, and Ken Snyder, St. Joseph, Mo., senior, hit
Daily hansan
59th Year, No. 3
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Tuesday, Sept. 19, 1961
Liberal Faction Remains in Control At 14th Annual USNSA Conaress
By Scott Payne
Ultra-conservative elements at the 14th annual United States National Student Association Congress fought tooth and nail for the first time in an ill-fated attempt to gain control of USNSA.
More than 1,000 students representing 388 colleges and universities met from August 20-30 at the University of Wisconsin to deliberate on issues affecting "Students in their role as students" as stated in the USNSA constitution.
Officially nonpartisan, USNSA officers are almost unanimously liberal in their views as is USNSA in many of its policies.
The KU delegation, numbering four delegates and two alternates, voted for liberal policy throughout the convention.
Carol McMillen, Coldwater senior;
Charles Menghin, Pittsburg senior;
Judith Jamison, Ottawa junior; and
Art Miller, Pittsburg junior, were
delegates. Scott Payne, Bethel junior, and Scott Stanley, Bethel law student, no longer enrolled at KU, were alternates.
IN A SERIES of moves designed to split the liberal control of the congress, it was soon apparent that the highly organized ultra-conservative group trying to gain control of the congress was too small to be anything more than a nuisance to the liberal controlling faction.
At best, the right-wingers managed to swing only 75 votes among the 500 voting delegates, failing even to command the vote of the loosely organized so-called "conservative-moderate" element which was reported to have comprised more than a quarter of the total delegation.
In a statement to the press, conservative leader Howard Philips, Harvard graduate student, said there was "absolutely no chance to capture a majority in the congress" be-
Swelled by a near-record number of new students, enrollment at KU has reached an all-time high near 10,600.
3,530 New Students Bring Peak Enrollment
James K. Hitt, registrar and director of admissions, says the increased enrollment poses problems for the University.
for the company. "We're full," said Mr. Hitt. "Our dorms are full, our classrooms are full, our parking lots are full. This is probably the last comfortable year we'll have. Beginning next year we're going to have to resort to all sorts of devices to 'shoehorn' the people in, because it takes time to construct new buildings, even when you have the money."
Mr. Hitt said that in addition to the traffic plan proposed yesterday by Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe, larger and earlier classes may be necessary to cope with increased future enrollment.
Classes began yesterday with 10.- 479 students enrolled, a gain of 633 over the comparable 1980 figure and
already beyond the final 1960 enrollment of 10,036. About 200 late enrollees are expected to add to the total, producing a final enrollment of nearly 10,700. There are 9,755 enrolled on the Lawrence campus, surpassing the 1960 record of 9,325. Enrollment at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City increased by 56 to a total of 724.
THE MAIN reason for the increase is the near-record number of 3,530 new students entering the University. Including about 2,100 freshmen, the new student total is just five short of the record mark of 3,535, set in 1946 when World War II veterans filled the campus.
The increase is primarily due to two factors. Mr. Hitt said,
- More children were born during the war years and have now reached college age.
- Children of veterans are more likely to attend college.
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cause of what he termed "extremely tight left-wing control."
THE RIGHT-WING cause received a further setback when William F. Buckley, conservative editor and speaker, referred to certain Congolese leaders as little better than "semisavage."
Foreign students attending the congress registered a formal protest saying that they were "confounded and shocked" by what they called Mr. Buckly's "unabashed manifestation of the worst colonialist and racist mentality."
Protests from the left wing came from Timothy Jenkins, a Negro graduate of Howard University, who said that Mr. Buckly had displayed "the base and debased colonial repressive slave-owning kind of mentality that can only exist in a hard fascist type of regime."
The National Executive Council of USNSA refused a conservative bid for censure of Jenkins on the grounds that his views had been expressed as an individual, not as an officer of USNSA.
CONTROVERSIAL issues confronting the USNSA in general plenary sessions included condemnation of the House Committee on Un-American Activities and a request for abolition of the committee; condemnation of the Cuban government on the grounds that it is inhibiting academic freedom and denying university autonomy; defeat of a reform bill for direct election of NSA campus committee members; a bill deploring the parental attitudes reportedly taken by many educational institutions in relation to students.
Weather
The villain that plagued KU students last week during registration is back again. So break out the raincoats again, because Lawrence is going to receive more rain.
The weather bureau forecasts increasing cloudiness for today, with scattered showers tonight. The rain will continue tomorrow. The high today will be in the upper 70's. The low tonight will be in the upper 50's and the high to-morrow will be in the 70's.