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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Oct. 31, 1962
De Gaulle Reaffirms HisLeadership of France
PARIS — (UPI) — President Charles de Gaulle today declared that he regards last Sunday's referendum as "positive" endorsement by the people and that he has no intention of resiming.
The statement quashed any lingering hopes by De Gaulle's political opponents that he might step down because less than half of the electorate supported him in the vote.
It was De Gaulle's first public comment on the referendum in which he staked his post and prestige by warning in effect: "Vote for me or I quit."
THE REFERENDUM was on a constitutional amendment to provide for the election of De Gaulle's successors by direct popular vote instead of a limited college of about 50,000 "notables."
De Gaulle won 62 per cent of the votes cast but less than 50 per cent of the entire electorate because of the unusually high number of non-voters.
The fact that more than 6 million of the 27 million registered voters did not cast ballots was seized upon by De Gaulle's political opponents as a sign of his waning popularity.
Political Debates ScheduledTonight
Campus Young Republicans and Young Democrats are emphasizing state and national politics this week.
The two clubs have scheduled a panel discussion at 7:30 tonight in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union.
Panelists will be Pete Ay尔顿, Ellsworth senior and chairman of the Young Democrats; Paul E. Titus, assistant professor of political science and Young Democrat sponsor; Reuben McCornack, Abilene junior and Young Republican chairman, and Earl A. Nehring, assistant political science professor and Young Republican sponsor.
A regular meeting of the Young Republicans will follow the discussion.
According to Ayward the Young Democrats are sponsoring a pre-election party beginning at 2 p.m. Friday at the Purple Pig.
DE GAULLE'S comments on the referendum were summarized in a government communique published at the end of a three-hour cabinet meeting.
It was also announced that De Gaulle will make another radiotelevision broadcast to the nation on Nov. 7. De Gaulle is expected to appeal for continued support in the Nov. 18 and 25 parliamentary elections which will mark the second round of his showdown with rebellious parliamentary parties.
The communique said: "The President of the Republic emphasized the great significance of the positive reply given by the nation to the question he put to it."
It noted that the "object of the national referendum was achieved" since the nation approved De Gaulle's plan to change the constitution.
THE COMMUNIQUE also made these points;
- Despite the opposition of all the old-time political parties, a large majority of the electorate votes "yes." De Gaulle described this as "turning resolutely towards the political renovation of the nation, which is a necessary condition for the progress and prestige of France."
- It is vital that this majority should continue to support De Gaulle in the future.
The question De Gaulle left unanswered, and the one most Frenchmen were asking, was whether he plans to step down from his self-assigned political pedestal into the political arena. Thus far he has refused to do so, preferring to maintain himself in a position over and above politics.
KU Chamber Music Features Quartet
The Vegh Quartet will open the connoisseur programs of the KU Chamber Music Series at 8 p.m. Friday in Swarthout Recital Hall.
The members of the quartet are; Sandor Vegh, first violin; Sandor Zoldy, second violin; Georges Janzer, viola, and Paul Szabo, cello. The quartet was founded in 1940 by the same men.
Tickets are available at the Murphy Hall Box Office, Union Ticket Center and the Bell Music Co.
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NASHVILLE — (UPI) A former trucking company official testified in James Hofa's $1 million conspiracy trial today he was mistaken in some of his testimony to the Senate Rackets committee about the case.
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BEVERIDGE was questioned about contradictions in his testimony before the McClellan committee and his testimony yesterday in the labor leader's trial here.
Bertram Beveridge, former vice-president of Commercial Carriers Corporation of Detroit, admitted he told the McCellan committee that the late teamsters vice-president Owen Brennan never contacted him about setting up Test Fleet Inc. in Tennessee.
He said yesterday that he helped set up Test Fleet, which the government contends was a dummy corporation established to pay off Hoffa, at the request of Brennan following a strike at Commercial's automobile hauling terminal in Flint, Mich.
Changes Tale In Hoffa Trial
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The government contends that Hoffa and Brennan got $1,008,057 from commercial carriers to ward off labor troubles. The payments allegedly were made through lease of trucks from Test Fleet to Commercial.
Students must register their bicycles tonight and Thursday night at several stations set up in dormitory areas, according to campus police chief Joe Skillman.
Bicycle Registration Starts at Dormitories
Residents of Carruth-O'Leary and Joseph R. Pearson will register at JRP, and residents of Corbin and Gertrude Sellards Pearson will register at Corbin from 8-10 p.m. Registration for Hashinger, Templin and Lewis residents will be at Lewis from 9-10 p.m.
Students must give the make and serial number of their bicycles. The registration and licensing fee is 25 cents.
U.S. Makes Nuclear Bomb Test in Pacific
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — The United States conducted its 34th nuclear test in the current test series in the Pacific today, the Atomic Energy Commission announced.
THE AEC said a megaton range bomb, with a yield of a million or more tons of TNT, was dropped from a plane in the vicinity of Johnston Island.
The test, carried out about 10 am. local time, was another in the test series being conducted under Operation Dominic by joint task force 8.
Robbery 'A Bit Like Sacrilege'
ISLE OF ALDERNEY — Jeweler C. H. Bichard, victim of the first major robbery to strike this English Channel island in many years:
"It's a very serious matter. It may be commonplace in London, but a crime like this in Alderney is a bit sacrilege. I believe someone once broke my grandfather's window, but that was only to get locked up; he did not fancy joining the army.
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COLLEGIATE YOUNG REPUBLICANS
Organizational Meeting 7:00 KANSAS UNION TONIGHT
7:30—Debate Between Young Republicans and Young Democrats