With flag held high, peaceful and solemn moratorium marchers paraded Wednesday down Memorial Drive.
Photo by Ron Bishop
UDK News Roundup
By United Press International
Soyuz 6 makes soft landing
MOSCOW—Russia's Soyuz 6 spacecraft returned safely to earth today with its two woman crew, Tass announced. During the ship's final hours in space it conducted what the Soviets called a "unique" experiment in molecular "cold welding."
The five-day flight of the Soyuz 6 ended with the craft making a "soft landing" in the Karaganda area of Soviet Central Asia, the agency said.
The two other Soyuz craft, 7 and 8, remained in orbit.
Czechs ask for asylum
VIENNA—Nearly 100 Czechoslovakas, including a former diplomat, have asked for political asylum in Austria since a decree banned private travel to the West a week ago. Interior Ministry officials said today.
Senator calls for bombs
SAN DIEGO — American bombing of North Vietnam should be resumed Nov. 1 if progress is not made at the Paris peace talks, Sen. Barry Goldwater said Wednesday night.
"I think the time has come that we must tell Hanoi that they either fish or cut bait," the 1964 Republican candidate for president said at a fund-raising dinner for Sen. George Murphy, R-Calif.
Fake dollar debated
WASHINGTON — Western lawmakers stood accused today of seizing a dollar memorializing Dwight D. Eisenhower as a vehicle to drive up the silver price at the expense of the consumers.
Involved students give day for peace
Reams of literature concerning the Vietnam war were distributed from tables placed around the campus.
The national war moratorium, heralded for weeks as the largest peaceful demonstration ever to take place in the United States, brought more than 2,500 Kansas University students and faculty, Lawrence townpeople and guests to the Hill Wednesday for anti-war demonstrations and speeches.
Moratorium observers were asked to sign two petitions—one to President Nixon urging an immediate end to the Vietnam war, and the other denouncing two Kansas congressmen, Rep. Larry Winn, R-Leawood, and Rep. Keith Sebelius, R-Norton, who signed a letter to Nixon calling for an
immediate escalation of the war.
More than 150 students gathered in front of Strong Hall to participate in a silent vigil.
The students stood quietly in lines behind white crosses which had been stuck in the ground in memory of those killed in the war.
One student displayed a sign which read, "Rockchalk, Jaydove, stop war, try love." Another held a sign stating, "Save lives, not face."
Across the street from the vigil, at the proposed site of Wescoe Hall, a microphone was left open for anyone who wanted to speak.
Among those who did speak was Robert Swan, 1968 Democratic peace candidate for Congress from Topeka.
In an address to about 350 people, Swan challenged American involvement in Vietnam and the "myths" that have sustained the conflict.
"Two presidents and a silent Congress committed us to Vietnam," Swan said. "Never has a foreign policy been so haphazard and so confused; never have we so deceived ourselves."
The crowd murmured when Swan charged President Nixon with saying: "To allow government policy to be made in the streets would destroy democratic processes."
Swan said he doubted that those present were trying to destroy the ideals of democracy as Nixon implied, and called the moratorium "the greatest outpouring of democracy in recent years."
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Nation unites in protest
United Press International
Hundreds of thousands of Americans poured out their unhappiness over the Vietnam war Wednesday in "moratorium day" protests. Millions of others sat out the nationwide round of demonstrations.
Crowds of anti-war demonstrators built in size in some cities—notably Boston, Washington and New York—late in the day. The protests continued into the night. A candelight parade caused massive traffic tieups in Manhattan.
Demonstrators thronged into centers of the nation's big cities and onto college campuses for massive rallies. In hundreds of cities and villages and in a multitude of ways, they voiced their desire for an end to the war.
The Vietnam Moratorium Committee in Washington, which organized the "M-Day" activities, reported it was receiving reports of "tremendous responses" from around the country.
Demonstrators by the thousands, from college campuses to
the steps of the Capitol to the gates of the White House, appealed to a silent President Nixon Wednesday to end the Vietnam war without delay.
The long day of marches, rallies and speeches was marred by one incident, a scuffle at the White House, in a capital that was the focal point of one of the largest anti-war protests in the United States in this century.
A long day of protests against the Vietnam war ended in the
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