Photo by John Brown
Kansas representatives at the Washington moratorium displayed banner
Students jam D.C., ask for end of war
By VICKI PHILLIPS Kansan Staff Writer
WASHINGTON—Two-hundred and fifty thousand Americans, including approximately 100 KU students, marched in Washington, D.C. Saturday to ask the nation's leaders to end the war in Vietnam.
Events that dominated the weekend demonstrations included the March Against Death, a continuous 40-hour single-file procession from Arlington National Cemetery to the Capitol building and a massive march past the White House to the Washington Monument.
Beginning 6 p.m. Thursday, each of the 46,000 protesters in the March Against Death deposited the name of a U.S. serviceman killed in Vietnam into coffins on the west side of the Capitol.
Billed as the biggest Capitol demonstration in history, the mass march Saturday, which began at the Capitol building and traveled along Constitution Avenue to the Washington Monument, united protesters from across the nation.
Efforts made by the New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam (New Mobe) to keep the Washington demonstrations nonviolent included the recruitment of 2,000 marshals.
A confrontation Friday night at DuPont Circle between
80th Year, No.46
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Monday, Nov. 17, 1969
Inside...
More moratoriums
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KU—Sooner or later
Sports, page 8
Chalmers on the BSU
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Mental health clinic
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All about impudent snobs
Editorials, page 4
Accompanied by his wife and 24 government officials, Sato's special Japan Air Lines plane took off for Washington at 10:04 a.m. The prime minister will hold three days of talks with President Nixon concerning return of Okinawa to Japanese control.
Apollo 12 running A-OK
Showdown vote to come
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WASHINGTON—The Senate reaches a showdown vote on the nomination of Judge Clement F. Haynsworth to the Supreme Court this week and votes to install a lottery system in the draft.
By United Press International Talks may last 5 years
Okinawa's fate topic
TOKYO—Prime Minister Eisaku Sato left for Washington today, the efforts of student radicals to forcibly halt his trip frustrated by 15,000 policemen ringing Tokyo International Airport.
HELSINKI—After nearly two and a half years of preparation, the United States and the Soviet Union got together for the first time today to discuss how to curb the nuclear arms race.
The historic discussions, called by both sides the most important negotiations they have ever undertaken, could last as long as five years, accoring to diplomats here.
They begin at 5:30 a.m. EST
J. P. Kennedy weakened
HYANNIS PORT, Mass.—Joseph P. Kennedy, ailing patriarch of one of the most politically influential families in the nation's history, was in weakened condition today after suffering a heart attack. Family members gathered at his home.
Kennedy was stricken Saturday.
SPACE CENTER, Houston (UPI)—The night owl Apollo 12 astronauts neared the grasp of moon's gravity early Monday on a course so true they probably will not have to correct it before going into lunar orbit.
After a final checkout of their moon landing vehicle, Charles "Pete" Conrad, 39, Alan L. Bean, 37, and Richard F. Gordon, 40, were due for eight hours of sleep starting at 6:22 a.m. CST Monday. just one half hour before their spacecraft fell into the influence of lunar gravity.
Flight director Gerald D. Griffin said Apollo 12 was precisely
on course and scheduled to land on the moon Wednesday morning. So true was its path, he said, that a third mid-course correction originally scheduled for 11:47 p.m. CST Sunday was cancelled.
He added it "appears that a fourth possible maneuver is not going to be performed." That course adjustment, if necessary, had been set for late Monday, just five hours before the astronauts rocket themselves into moon orbit.
Griffin said the astronauts were running a little over predicted use of fuel for Apollo's steering rockets, but it should cause no problems.
The astronauts' time table was virtually empty Sunday and Monday morning so they would be rested for their busy time at the moon.
On awakening, the astronauts reported they had rested well with Conrad and Bean sleeping for eight hours and Gordon for nine.
It was the last "coasting" day for the astronauts before they whip into lunar orbit to begin preparations for their dangerous moon exploration mission.
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Only the Saturn V's brilliant tail flame was visible through a driving rain at launch