If you love your Uncle Sam,
Bring them home, bring them
home.
Support our boys in Vietnam. Bring them home, bring them home.
80th Year, No.23
—Pete Seeger
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas Wednesday, Oct. 15, 1969
Today marked for peace
M-Day is on. And as those in black armbands listen to poets, professors and politicians they will wonder what it will mean to the world.
The day for peace began at 9 a.m. with a keynote address by Wesley Foundation director Don Baldwin at Wesco Hole, and the silent vigilants began to congregate across the boulevard in front of Strong Hall.
"Rap" tables have been open since early this morning when the first 7:30er straggled to his first class. Discussions of the war have occupied several open classes.
Wescoe Hole has been the hub of the morning's activities, with speeches by Robert Swan, 1968 unsuccessful Congressional candidate, professors and students, a war memorial service, and folksinging.
Photo by Randy Leffingwell
There will be a poetry reading at 2 p.m. at the Kansas Union, and the Chi Omega sorority will conduct a 2:45 p.m. open house—informal discussion on the political effectiveness of the Moratorium, with David Owens, instructor in English, moderating.
Salaries returned
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A group of faculty members this morning told acting Provost Francis H. Heller, far left, they would return their pay for Oct. 15, honoring the Moratorium.
Shultz won't release names
Sen. Reynolds Shultz
By CAROLYN BOWERS Kansan Staff Writer
TOPEKA—The names of 21 students granted to Sen. Reynolds Shultz, R-Lawrence, by subpoena will not be released to the public.
The decision came Tuesday in Topeka after two hours of discussion by the Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee, headed by Shultz. The committee voted 3-2 to withhold the names.
Six committee members, including Shultz, were present, the least number required to take official action. The chairman's vote was not needed as the decision was not a tie.
Under the decision, Shultz will release the names to the Kansas Bureau of Investigation only in the event of further campus disorder.
Shultz obtained the names from William Balfour, KU dean of student affairs, Sept. 15. Shultz said
he was the only committee member who has seen the list.
The University granted 21 students private disciplinary hearings following the May 9 disruption of the ROTC review and promised their names would remain confidential.
The Senate committee also requested, by Tuesday's decision, the Board of Regents give it a report of disciplinary measures against students, non-students and faculty by the start of the 1970 legislature.
The committee spent the morning listening to a tape recorded speech involving campus disorder and the community.
Actual committee discussion was held after the noon recess. Before this, Shultz, who has urged the release of the names, indicated he thought he had the support of his committee members after talking to some of them.
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Escalation claim refuted
By TED ILIFF
Kansan Staff Writer
U. S. Rep. Larry Winn Jr. R-Kansas said Tuesday night he does not favor escalation of the Vietnam war.
"I signed the letter to express my support for his actions concerning the war. The uprise of the letter was to show him the other side of the story; there are other alternatives to immediate surrender," Winn said in a telephone conversation with The Daily Kansan.
Commenting on a letter to President Nixon he signed Oct. 6, Winn said the letter mentioned escalation only as an alternative method for dealing with the war.
Winn added the letter was intended to show Hanoi the United States is not ready to back down and to "give our negotiators in Paris a pat on the back."
Part of the letter asked the President to "take drastic steps now, either to force the North Vietnamese to negotiate in good faith, or to bring about an American victory." Bombing of North Vietnam and infiltration of South Vietnamese forces into the North were suggested.
"The representatives signing the letter (23 have signed) feel the President should continue to try to de-escalate the war. But if he decided he had to go the other way. We want to indicate he would have support in the House." Winn said.
Winn said such steps could be considered by Nixon if he felt the North Vietnamese were not responding to attempts for settlement. Winn asserted Hanoi has not indicated any desire for serious negotiation.
"We've done everything to indicate we were sincere in our de
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Rep. Larry Winn Jr.
UDK News Roundup
By United Press International
Trial will not close
CHICAGO—The Chicago riot conspiracy trial was scheduled as usual today but seven of the eight defendants implied they might not attend.
"I have no authority to close this court," Hoffman told defense attorneys William Kuntler and Leonard Weinglass. "I have received no order from the President or the chief judge of the district to close court."
U. S. District Court Judge Julius J. Hoffman Tuesday refused to recess the trial to allow the defendants to participate in the national Vietnam moratorium today.
Speculation about linkup
MOSCOW—Russia's seven orbiting cosmonauts began their day today with breakfast, morning exercises and a medical checkup, the Tass news agency said.
There was speculation that the spacemen today would guide their Soyuz spaceships to a formation needed for the construction of long-term space laboratories. Space sources said two of them performed docking maneuvers Tuesday.
It was not clear whether they actually accomplished a linkup.
US to lose 2 bases
WASHINGTON—The State Department has confirmed that U.S. military bases at Trabzon and Samsum, Turkey, will be turned over to Turkey no later than next June 30. Department spokesmen said the bases were communications complexes where several hundred men were employed.
The bases were established in accordance with the North Atlantic Treaty.