THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
80th Year, No. 51
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Monday, Nov. 24, 1969
Photo by Mike Frederick
Anquish, emotion of the day
KU pom pon girl Mary Ish, Rockford, Ill., junior grimaced as another Tiger play netted six points for the Orange Bowl-bound Missourians. Grimaces were frequent among Jayhawk fans Saturday when MU trounced KU 68-21 in the season's last conference game.
Yankee Clipper nears S. Pacific splashdown
SPACE CENTER, Houston (UPI)—The Apollo 12 astronauts rode their Yankee Clipper Sunday night toward splash-down and radioced to earthlings below that they felt so calm on the moon they slept a dreamless sleep.
"I was having a ball," Charles "Pete" Conrad said in a televised news conference on the last leg of the voyage that should bring them back to earth at 2:58 p.m. today in the South Pacific near Pago Pago.
The weather in the landing area was clearing after winds up to 35 miles an hour during the final pickup rehearsal.
Conrad and his buddies, Alan L. Bean and Richard F. Gordon, were in high spirits as they fielded 13 questions from newsmen at the NASA mission control center.
At one point during the 37-minute telecast, a bright red notebook with the pages hanging loose floated in front of the camera, and Conrad snatched it back.
Conrad and Bean agreed that neither of them had any dreams as they slept. But Conrad said he slept only about four hours because his suit was about an inch too short. Bean said the noise of pump motors in the Intrepid lander kept waking him up.
Gordon was asked how it felt to be alone in moon orbit for about 40 hours while the other two astronauts were exploring below.
"I thought about this beforehand," Gordon said, "what it would really be like to be completely alone on the back of the moon, out of contact with any human being. But, surprisingly enough, the activities were such that I was too busy to dwell on that during my waking hours, and I was so tired at night that I could hardly wait to go to bed."
Yankee Clipper passed the midway point home Sunday afternoon and picked up speed swiftly under the pull of earth's gravity.
One of the first questions was whether they would want to undergo launch again in similar weather conditions which led to a flash of electricity shooting up the rocket and capsule as they took off from Cape Kennedy.
"Id go again," said Conrad.
"We made it this time, why can't we do it again?" Bean said.
Another newsman asked if the astronauts did not feel a scientist expert in geology should go to the moon.
"Certainly," Conrad said. "I'll tell you one thing, however, it took every bit of knowledge I had getting that baby Intrepid down."
Conrad and Bean were asked how they felt when they first emerged onto the moon's surface—whether they were on an "oxygen high."
"I was very happy but I wasn't on an (Continued to page 8)
UDK News Roundup By United Press International
Treaty may be ratified
MOSCOW—The presidium of the Supreme Soviet is expected Monday to ratify the treaty banning the spread of nuclear weapons in a move interpreted here as an expression by the Soviets of their willingness to call off the arms race.
If the presidium gives its expected approval, the final step for Moscow, it is considered probable that President Nixon would sign the treaty, completing U.S. action on the measure. The U.S. Senate already has ratified the treaty.
War opposition mounts
LONDON—Leftwing Labor party members of parliament mustered forces today for a campaign aimed at pressuring the government to renounce the U.S. presence in Vietnam.
War may flare in Congo
KINSHASA—A Brazzaville radio station Sunday announced a state of general alert throughout Congo Brazzaville and said the country has closed its frontiers with Congo Kinshasa.
The radio announcement came a few hours after President Joseph Mobutu of Congo Kinshasa said his country could invade Congo Brazzaville in no more than two hours.
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Agnew blasts protests
NEW YORK (UPI) — Vice President Spiro T. Agnew declared Sunday that demonstrations, even when nonviolent, "cannot be condoned" if they interfered with the rights of others.
Agnew made the statement in a guest editorial, written at the invitation of Life magazine, to explain his reasons for speaking out in recent weeks against war protesters and the news media.
The vice president said he was not acting to accommodate the White House but because "like the great silent majority, I had had enough.
"I had endured the didactic inadequacies of the garrulous in silence, hoping for the best but witnessing the worst for many months. And because I·am an elected official, I felt I owed it to those I serve to speak the truth." Agnew said in the editorial.
Agnew warned, "Frightening forces have been set in motion as the public has become conditioned to precipitate action rather than quiet discussion.
"The announced decision of the more extreme antiwar groups to continue and to intensify their disruptive activities proves this," he said.
Agnew called the Vietnam
moratorium "not only negative in content but brutally counterproductive" because it encouraged the North Vietnamese and undermined the President's policies.
"The game of 'ridicule the vice presidency,' played so enthusiastically over the years, is wearing thin on the people of our country," he said. "They know that vice presidents are people not cartoon characters."
The vice president said the response of the country to his views "has been both extensive and gratifying," and that it affirmed the importance of his office.
Agnew criticized
KU party leaders air views
By SUZANNE ATKINS Kansas Staff Writer
"Spiro Agnew is a household word now!" said Young Democrat president Mike Dickeson, Atchison senior," and I believe him when he threatens the press."
The Agnew tirades against print and broadcast news media are part of a "preconceived plan to polarize the nation" on dissent, Dickeson continued, and Agnew is just the "catalyst."
Comparing Vice-President Agnew to former "red scare" Senator Joseph McCarthy, Dickeson
said Agnew, too, knows "if you give a blue-collar worker something he thinks he should fear, he will fear it."
"Agnew is the political arm of the Nixon administration," Dickeson said. "Usually vice-presidents are given domestic duties. This time Nixon is doing them himself."
Concern over the presentation of the news "is a problem that has always existed with the free press," Dickeson said. He recalled President Nixon's words to a press Nixon thought had been unfair
to him during his unsuccessful campaign for the Presidency in 1960 and maintained that both Nixon and Agnew are deeply concerned with press coverage.
Dickeson said he firmly believed that if Agnew had his way there would be a "tough sedition law against news media in the form of federal censorship" and he said he expects such a law to be an issue in the future.
"The man is not too astute," Dickeson said. "If the news media print what he says, I think they have been pretty fair with him."
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