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LAWRENCE. KANSAS
60th Year. No. 40
Indian-Chinese Fight Resumes
NEW DELHI—(UPI)—Heavy fighting has broken out between Indian troops and the invading Communist Chinese on two sectors of the Northeastern front, it was announced officially today.
The report of the new fighting came shortly after Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru told a cheering parliament India has accepted the challenge of the Red invasion "with all its consequences." He said India would not negotiate with Peiping until its forces were driven or pulled out of the high mountain border regions.
IN THE EASTERN PORTION near the Burma border, continuous fighting was reported, with at least 15 Chinese killed or wounded in one clash.
A defense ministry spokesman said that in one engagement near the town of Jang "Some Chinese were killed."
Thursday, Nov. 8, 1962
The new clashes marked the first serious outbreak of fighting in the undeclared border war since Oct.28 when the Chinese took Damchok and the Jara La Pass in the northwestern portion of the front.
The spokesman said snipier fire still was being exchanged near the administrative center of Walong in the extreme eastern NEFA area when the last report was received last night.
HE SAID ALL THE fighting occurred yesterday and Tuesday. In the vicinity of Walong, he reported five separate outbreaks of fighting.
In one, he said the "Chinese attacked one of our positions in the outskirts of Walong in the early hours of yesterday morning. Our troops successfully repulsed the attack."
In the second, he said "Chinese aggressors attacked another of our positions in the vicinity of Walong. Our troops repulsed the attack, although some sniping was still going on when the last reports came in."
"IN ANOTHER INCIDENT in the same area the Chinese had established themselves on the flank of our positions," the spokesman said. "Our troops went into the attack and cleared this position, throwing back the Chinese aggressors. In this action, the Chinese suffered a number of casualties."
The spokesman later stated the Reds suffered 15 killed or wounded at this point.
Again, the spokesman said, "One long range Indian patrol went behind the Chinese positions in the vicinity of Walong and embarrassed them for several hours during the night of November 6."
"Another patrol in the Walong area encountered some Chinese and after an exchange of fire the Chinese aggressors withdrew."
THE FIVE SEPARATE actions in the vicinity of Walong indicated the Communist Chinese were particularly sensitive about this spot. They appear to be stepping up their activities in this region which forms the gateway to the lush Assam Plains and the Digboi oil fields.
According to former British officials who know the area, Walong is located about 16 miles south of the disputed McMahon border line and is a much better entry point into Assam and the northern heart of India than through Towang on the western side of the NEFA.
Weather
Generally fair this afternoon, tonight and tomorrow. Colder southeast and extreme east this afternoon but warmer tomorrow. Lows tonight 25 to 30 and high tomorrow in the 60s.
ASC Committee Schedules Work On Civil Rights
The Human Rights Council (HRC) of the All Student Council (ASC) has adopted a six-step plan calling for HRC cooperation with the Lawrence Human Relations Commission.
Frank Thompson, Iola junior and HRC chairman, said that a meeting had been held with the Lawrence HRC. A five-member committee of HRC members from both groups plans to talk to Lawrence tavern owners who have reportedly refused service to Negroes.
THOMPSON MADE this report outlining HRC activities for the year at an ASC meeting Tuesday.
A second step provides for a survey of every student organization to determine whether participation within certain organizations includes members of minority groups. In addition, the HRC plans to discuss solutions to rectify discriminatory practices with student organization presidents.
ASC MEMBERS Rab Malik, Pakistan graduate student, and John Young, Salina graduate student, supported a similar action in a two-point resolution presented to the ASC.
Malik, who has conferred several times with Thompson, said in a telephone interview:
"You do not see members of minority groups participating in KU organizations. Minority members do not express their opinions in public. But I have talked privately with several of these persons who are dissatisfied with conditions."
A third step deals with the possibility of several debates on discrimination.
THOMPSON SAID the HRC is considering a debate on fraternity and sorority discrimination. Possible participants will be representatives of the HRC, Civil Rights Council, and Interfraternity Council.
Thompson said he had talked with several fraternity presidents on action taken toward the elimination of discriminatory clauses in their constitutions.
A second debate is being planned
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Less Votes Cast In New Poll Plan
Fewer students voted in this year's campus primary under a new multi-poll system than previously when the polls were located only in Strong Hall.
IN THE FRESHMAN class president race, one candidate was eliminated leaving three contestants for next week's election. In other freshman office races, two candidates will move into the coming general election.
Despite the low turnout, John Stuckey, Pittsburg junior and ASC elections chairman, said he anticipates a near record vote in the general elections next Tuesday and Wednesday.
Students cast 1140 ballots this year as compared with 1189 for 1961-62 primaries.
Balloting was heaviest in Strong Hall with 694 votes. Students cast 291 votes in Murphy Hall and 155 in the Kansas Union.
In the ASC race, the University
All 20 of Vox Populi party's primary candidates will run in the general election.
Party will run 15 candidates next week. Two candidates were dropped in this week's election.
Stuckey reported that there were five write-in candidates—three for freshman class president, one for Small men's residence halls and one for the married students district.
In the primary, UP pulled more votes than Vox. UP cast 493 ballots compared to 468 for Vox. A total of 442 freshmen voted.
See page 9 for election results break down.
One write-in candidate, Sandra Donley, Lawrence junior, will be the only UP candidate for the married student district. She received one vote. Originally, UP did not run a candidate for that district.
In the Professional fraternity and cooperative district, Vox candidate, Danny Johnson, New York, N.Y., junior, received one vote. His UP opponent, Art Ogilvie, Kansas City, Mo., senior, received no votes.
THE VOX CANDIDATE for the married district, James A. Riley, Lawrence senior, received three votes.
Bob Stewart, UP Greek co-chairman and Bartlesville sophomore, said, however, that Ogilvie will run in the general election.
Both UP and Vox will have candidates in the general election from all 10 University voting districts. The districts are fraternities, Sororites, large men's dormitories, large women's dormitories, small men's dormitories, small women's dormitories, freshman women's dormitories, professional fraternities, co-operatives, unmarried and unorganized students, and married students.
Eleanor Roosevelt Dies in New York
NEW YORK—(UPI)—Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, America's most famous First Lady, is dead.
Mrs. Roosevelt, 78, widow of the nation's 32nd president, sucumbed at 5:15 last night in her Manhattan townhouse from complications resulting from a two and one-half year fight against anemia.
Many Memories Of Mrs. Roosevelt
When Franklin D. Roosevelt died at Warm Springs, Ga., the then Vice-President Harry S. Truman, visited Mrs. Roosevelt at the White House.
"Is there anything I can do for you?" The nation's 33rd President asked.
"Is there anything I can do for you?" she replied. "For you are the one in trouble now."
Truman has said he would never forget the remark.
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Mrs. Roosevelt won the admiration of one of her bitterest adversaries, the late Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky.
She had engaged in a bitter debate with the Russian when she was a delegate to the United Nations, ending it by saying:
"I hope the day will come when you and I are on the same side of a dispute, for I admire your fighting qualities."
"And I yours," Vishinsky replied.
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U. S. Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz recalled today how he and an aide set out to "prompt" Mrs. Roosevelt for a television appearance and wound up drinking coffee when she had all the answers.
Wirtz said he went to Mrs. Roosevelt's apartment in 1956 during the presidential campaign of Adlai E. Stevenson and former President Dwight D. Eisenhower. He and the aide were to prepare her for questions she might be asked in a forthcoming television news show.
"We pretended she was on the program and gave her a question," Wirtz recalled. "Her answer was so completely right that we could add nothing.
"We fired another question at her and again her answer had wonderful perception—with things in it we didn't know. Finally, after the fourth question, we all leaned back and laughed. We couldn't help her. We just sat and drank coffee."
Members of the family later announced funeral services will be conducted Saturday at the St. James Episcopal church in Hyde Park, N. Y., longtime home of Mrs. Roosevelt and the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Interment will be in the rose garden at Hyde Park. The family said she would be buried next to her husband "in accordance with their joint wishes." Mr. Roosevelt died April 12, 1945.
Mrs. Roosevelt was hospitalized Sept. 26 for treatment of a persistent lung infection and anemia. Four weeks later, on Oct. 18, her doctors allowed her to treat Columbia- Presbyterian medical center here for treatment at home.
MRS. ROOSEVELT'S daughter Mrs. Anna Halstead of Birmingham, Mich., and two sons, John and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., were at her bedside when she died. Doctors had been summoned earlier because of indications of heart failure.
Physicians said last night they knew then Mrs. Roosevelt was dying and wanted to make her last days as comfortable as possible.
The family said a memorial service would be conducted "within the next two weeks" at the cathedral of St. John Divine here.
IN THEIR STATEMENT, they said it was discovered two and one-half years ago that Mrs. Roosevelt "was suffering from a complicated type of anemia."
She received a checkup in September, 1961, and underwent further treatment last July. Mrs. Roosevelt then went to Hyde Park, 60 miles north of New York City on the Hudson River, for a brief vacation and it was felt her condition was improving.
But she was forced to enter the hospital when she began running a slight fever. On Oct. 25, doctors in residence at Mrs. Roosevelt's home diagnosed a non-contagious form of tuberculosis.
Right up until her final illness, she never slowed her pace. She usually made about 50 speeches a year, with the proceeds going to charity.
BUT MRS. ROOSEVELT was interested in more than public achievements.
"I treasure the love of my children, the respect of my children and I would never want my children or my grandchildren to feel that I had failed them," she said at a dinner in honor of her 70th birthday.
Dag Hammarskjold, the late secretary general of the U.N., praised her work with the world organization and said she deserved thanks for "being herself."
"Millions of people all over the world think of Mrs. Roosevelt as being their friend," he said.
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Bitter Nixon Quits Assails California Press
LOS ANGELES — (UPI) Shriveled balloons, stale cigarettes and discarded campaign posters today was all that remained of Richard M. Nixon's bid to lead the Republican Party from the California governor's chair.
The former vice president was taking a "long holiday" from politics. He ended a career which led the Whittier, Calif., "poor boy" to within percentage points of being President of the United States.
Nixon made it clear that he was stepping down both as state and national leader of his party.
"I look for the Republican Party to be revitalized in California under new leadership, not mine," he said. He predicted new national leadership would come from Republican
And he ended it with a speech unprecedented in American politics.
governors elected Tuesday in New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Ohio.
Perhaps it was something the strong-jawed, dark-haired Republican had always wanted to say but couldn't.
"Just think how much you're going to be missing . . . You won't have Nixon to kick around any more." Nixon chided the press. "I think that it is time that our great newspapers have at least the same objective, the same fullness of coverage that television has."
With repeated protests during the press conference that he was not bitter, Nixon jammed his hands in his pockets and reared back with
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