THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
80th Year, No.58
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Wednesday, Dec. 10, 1969
UDK News Roundup
Civilians escape VC raids
By United Press International
SAIGON—Sixty-four Vietnamese peasants have turned themselves in en masse to U.S. troops north of Saigon in seeking an escape from Viet Cong harassment and terror, military spokesman said today.
The announcement coincided with a South Vietnamese government report that 111 civilians were killed, 202 wounded and 68 kidnapped last week in Viet Cong and North Vietnamese terror attacks and shellings.
House votes aid bill
WASHINGTON — President Nixon's emasculated $1.6 billion foreign aid appropriation has cleared the House. Passage required two secret documents, a private phone call and some last minute vote switches.
By the time the smoke cleared from the House floor Tuesday, members had passed to the Senate a bill carrying more than $1 billion less than Nixon had sought for overseas assistance during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1970.
Even though the Appropriations Committee had cut deeply into the request, the House approved it only by the narrowest of margins—200 to 195.
Bill to provide housing
WASHINGTON—Congress is ready to order cities to build a new housing unit for every one torn down in urban renewal projects.
A House-Senate conference committee Tuesday wrote the provision into the compromise $4.5 billion housing authorization bill. It would require one house or apartment unit to be constructed for each low income home torn down in slum clearance projects.
--blood spattered the sidewalk in front of Saks Fifth Avenue.
Shultz critical of faculty for voting on ROTC credit
Sen. Reynolds Shultz
State Senator Reynolds Shultz, R-Lawrence, criticized the faculty of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Tuesday because of its decision to vote on a motion which would not allow credit for military science courses not integrated into academic departments by September 1971.
The motion came from a report of the faculty's Educational Policies Committee, which added it to a list of changes and additions in the College curriculum.
Last spring the Kansas Legislature requested that a study be made of the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) program by the Legislative Council. The Federal, State and Local Affairs Committee, headed by Shultz, and a subcommittee appointed by the
Board of Regents conducted the Council study.
The legislature also requested that neither the Regents nor the University permit any changes in the ROTC program until the 1970 legislative session had been advised of the committee's findings.
"How many times does a state agency go against a resolution adopted by both the legislature and the Legislative Council?" Shultz said in an interview with the University Daily Kansan.
"It is apparent that the resolution adopted by the Legislative Council working with the committee from the Board of Regents is in direct conflict with the motion" passed by the Educational Policies Committee to be voted on by the faculty." he said.
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Protest ends in battle
NEW YORK (UPI)—Antiwar protesters demonstrating against President Nixon fought a bloody battle with police Tuesday night along fashionable Park and Fifth Avenues.
Recordings of Christmas carols, including Silent Night, blared forth from gaily decorated stores, mingling with sirens as van loads of police moved in on the demonstrators.
Club swinging police struck many protesters on the head and
Police reported 48 arrests and three policemen injured. A lawyer for a pacifist group said at least half of those arrested had serious head injuries.
Bellevue Hospital reported treating one policeman and 14 demonstrators for injuries, none serious.
The disturbances began about 6 p.m. when several thousand demonstrators gathered at the Waldorf Astoria where Nixon was
attending a dinner. They ended about 10 p.m. when the last of splinter groups who ran along Fifth Avenue, some breaking windows as they went, were dispersed.
President Nixon neither heard nor saw the demonstrators, who were kept behind barricades at the hotel.
Mayor John V. Lindsay issued a statement late Tuesday night saying most of the trouble was caused by a small group which (continued to page 20)
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Photo by Mike Frederick
Prints displayed in Union
More than 200 prints furnished by the Ferdinand Roten Art Gallery of Baltimore are on display in the Kansas Union South Lounge until Dec. 18. The prints are original lithographs, etchings and woodcuts of varying origin.
Charles "Pete" Conrad, Richard F. Gordon and Alan L. Bean will walk out of their spacious isolation suite in the $15 million Lunar Receiving Laboratory at 2 p.m. CST today, ending a quarantine that started last month on the moon, an agency spokesman said.
Quarantine ends early for Apollo moon pilots
The quarantine was designed to make sure the three moon pilots were free from any extraterrestrial germs that might infect the earth and harm mankind. None were found, just as no lunar germs were found following Apollo 11.
SPACE CENTER, Houston (UPI)—The Space Agency said Tuesday it will release the Apollo 12 astronauts from moon bug quarantine 18 hours early because they are in good health.
"Final biochemical and immunological examinations were initiated Tuesday morning," the spokesman said. "A review of these examinations will be conducted today. All medical findings to this time indicate the release will be on schedule today."
The spokesman said members of a special inter-agency government quarantine committee "concur on this release plan and will be polled again by telephone today." The committee, and not the Space Agency, decides when the astronauts get out.
In Washington, meanwhile, Space Agency officials made a final series of checks before deciding when the third lunar landing mission, Apollo 13, will fly and where on the moon it will land.
The decision, which a spokesman said had been expected Tuesday, was postponed to at least today. The spokesman said there were no problems, but that officials wanted to be sure before giving a go-ahead for the flight.
The Space Agency tentatively has selected March 12 as the launch date and Fra Mauro, a formation of eraters in the foothills of the lunar highlands, as the target.
Officials retreat
Most of the KU academic administrators are leaving today for a retreat at an undisclosed location.
Raymond Nichols, University executive secretary, said the Chancellor and most academic deans will take a bus to the location and hold private discussions on University academic problems until Thursday.