Vietnam cited by Angie Brooks
UN President says responsibilty For Problems belongs to nations
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Angie Brooks, president of the United Nations General Assembly, said Sunday that responsibility for settling problems in the Middle East and Vietnam lies with the nations involved, not the United Nations.
Miss Brooks said settlement of the Vietnam conflict has never been placed on the U.N.'s formal agenda and therefore cannot be discussed.
However, she paid tribute to behind-the-scenes efforts by U.N. Secretary General U Thant who has tried to negotiate on the war
"The United Nations cannot be blamed for not ending the war nor is it at fault in the Middle East situation," Miss Brooks said. "The responsibility rests with those parties involved."
Miss Brooks, a lawyer, represents Liberia at the United Nations. She is the first African woman to serve as U.N. General Assembly president.
Miss Brooks sees the world body as "man's only hope."
"Perhaps we haven't done the best, but I think the United Nations has done a good job," she
Penalties for pot labeled too harsh
"In my carefully considerate opinion, nobody at any age should be allowed to probably smoke anything," Knowles said.
said in an interview, "and now we must combine our efforts to achieve the goals we set out for."
BOSTON (UPI)—Dr. John H. Knowles, executive director of Massachusetts General Hospital, said Sunday he does not believe in smoking of any kind, but the penalties for smoking marijuana should be reduced.
Back in Liberia, Miss Brooks leads an entirely different life from the sophistication of New York's international community. Life is on a farm some 60 miles from Monravia, where she takes care of the children of her laborers when they are ill or in need, and bit by bit has become foster mother to them. She adopted three girls in 1962 while in Ruanda.
Knowles said he took exception to recent remarks by anthropologist Margaret Mead that children at age 16 should be allowed to smoke marijuana.
Miss Brooks was reluctant to talk of many issues before the U.N., of whether Red China should be admitted to the U.N., and the like. She explained that hers was an overall role as president, not one of expressing personal views.
The president reflected about when she first came to the United States to study.
Knowles, in a radio interview, said, however, "I do agree with her and others that the penalties under the law for smoking marijuana propounded by Attorney General John N. Mitchell's office are much too harsh."
Providing for these children's education she called "a rewarding experience."
Her own two children from a marriage which ended in divorce are Richard, 22, an engineer, and Wynston, 21, a pilot.
On her arrival from Liberia, a country of less than two million persons, she recalled that Baltimore was "an overwhelming metropolis. I thought, 'Where do all these people live?'" Miss Brooks was only 17.
Asked to define herself, she said, "I am a humanitarian."
She went on to receive a bachelor of arts degree from Shaw University, Raleigh, N.C., a master of science degree in political science from the University of Wisconsin and a doctor of laws
from Howard University. All the while, she supported herself with menial jobs, including scrubbing floors.
Hijackers returned to U.S. face piracy, kidnap charges
Nov. 3
1969 KANSAN 11
PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (UPI) Six Americans who hijacked planes to Cuba returned to the United States Sunday to face charges of air piracy and kidnapping rather than remain under the Communist regime of Fidel Castro.
The six men, one of them bringing his four-year-old daughter with him, arrived in Montreal late Saturday night as passengers on a Cuban freighter
Royal Canadian Mounted Police handcuffed them and drove them to the border at Champlain, N.Y., and handed them over to FBI agents who brought them here for arraignment.
Four of the suspects waived even an arraignment and were taken directly to cells.
Two men indicated they would seek help from attorneys, although none were present at the arraignment. The six were held on a total of $750,000 bail.
The men were expected to be returned to the areas in which the hijackings took place. U.S. Attorney James Sullivan said, however, formal orders would have to be obtained along with
enough escorts and he did not believe the men could be moved before Tuesday or Wednesday.
The daughter of one of the hijackers, Mrs. Jean McDaniel of Baltimore, said she doubted the State Department had advance warning of their return because it had forwarded one of her father's letters last week and said the two could correspond.
Her father, Raymond L. Anthony, an unemployed car salesman, was reported to have been drunk when he hijacked a Miami-bound plane last June wearing Bermuda shorts and sandals.
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