UDK News Roundup
By United Press International
B52s bomb despite order
SAIGON—Eight flights of B52s bombed along the Cambodian border Sunday night and today despite reports President Nixon had ordered a cutback in their raids in response to the lull in Communist attacks.
Official sources said Sunday the President ordered a 10 per cent reduction in Stratofort strikes.
Protest plans solidify
WASHINGTON—Plans for Wednesday's nation-wide moratorium to protest the Vietnam War solidified today, but so did growing opposition to the demonstration.
President Nixon already has said that "under no circumstances will I be affected whatever by demonstrations against the war."
Mayor John V. Lindsay of New York, running in a tough re-election campaign, said Sunday he was proclaiming Wednesday a day of observance as part of the moratorium. He said flags would be flown at half-staff and church bells would toll at noon in the nation's largest city.
Soviets orbit seven
MOSCOW—The Soviet Union put another manned spacecraft into earth orbit today to join two Soyuz vehicles already there in the attempt to build a permanent space station.
Soyuz 8, with two experienced cosmonauts aboard roared aloft at 1:29 p.m. Moscow time and gave the Soviets another space first—a total of seven astronauts in orbit at once in three vehicles.
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
80th Year, No. 21
Monday, Oct. 13, 1969
Bar stands by Haynsworth
NEW YORK (UPI) The American Bar Association's federal judiciary committee voted Sunday to stand by its original report supporting Judge Clement Haynsworth for the Supreme Court but the vote was not unanimous.
Walsh would not disclose how many members voted against the report Sunday, nor would he elaborate on what issues were discussed.
Committee Chairman Lawrence E. Walsh said a "substantial majority" voted for the report after an "intense" debate. The original report submitted to the Senate Sept. 19 had the unanimous support of the 12-man committee.
He said he could recall only one other case in which the committee had not been unanimous in its support of a Supreme Court nominee but he did not disclose who the earlier judge was.
After a six-hour meeting, the committee, which is composed of representatives who practice in all federal court districts, released copies of a letter to Sen. James O. Eastland, D-Miss., chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
"The committee met today and carefully reviewed the matters which have come to its attention since its original report on Judge Haynsworth . . ." the letter said. "It was concluded by a substantial majority that such matters do not warrant a change in the report."
"In the first place my obligation is to the bar association and in the second place I would not be doing Nixon any favor to mislead him." Walsh said.
Walsh, a Manhattan attorney who was named by President Nixon as a special deputy to the Paris peace talks, said he voted with the majority but denied his vote was influenced by his position with Nixon.
He said the opposition to Haynsworth developed in the committee after the original report was filed but he would not specify what issues were raised. He said the committee asked him not to elaborate.
The original report listed Haynsworth as "highly acceptable from the point of view of professional qualifications." Walsh, asked if that included ethics, said
"yes, in so far as it reflects on professional qualifications."
Earlier in the day Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield said the committee's reevaluation could have a "significant effect" on the Senate vote on Haynsworth.
The Montana Democrat said an adverse report from the bar association would not be helpful to Judge Haynsworth. If it is affirmative it will be helpful."
Mansfield himself will not decide how he will vote until the record on President Nixon's nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court is complete.
According to a UPI poll, 40 senators would vote against Haynsworth and 35 would support his nomination. There are 25 senators uncommitted or unwilling to say how they will vote.
Mansfield said he would call up the nomination for a vote at the "first appropriate moment." However, he said, Eastland will not have the nomination ready before the end of next week.
Debate is expected to run for an extended period and it may be November before the issue is decided.
City recuperates after costly riots
CHICAGO (UPI) Chicago nursed its bruises from four days of radical demonstrations Sunday and wondered who would pay the bills.
the demonstrations—variously in support of eight persons on trial in connection with 1968 Democratic Convention violence; against the Vietnam war; as mourning for slain revolutionary Che Guevara—left at least 50 persons injured, more than 250 arrested and scores of plate glass windows smashed.
Stores and offices along streets in the Loop and near North Side bore raw lumber facades Sunday as badges of violent outbreaks Wednesday night and Saturday
afternoon by the Revolutionary Youth Movement I Weatherman faction of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).
The total cost of the four days remained unestimated Sunday but the damage to cars, homes, apartment buildings, hotels, stores and offices should keep glaziers prosperous for months to come.
The cost to Illinois taxpayers of the three-day call-up of 2,500 National Guardsmen may exceed a quarter of a million dollars. All Chicago police had leaves and days off canceled during the four days and there may be pressure from their bargaining groups for overtime pay.
The only death directly or indirectly connected with the four days of demonstrations occurred Saturday night when a National Guard truck en route to a motor pool collided with a car, killing the auto's driver and injuring five other persons, including three Guardsmen.
Assistant Corporation Counsel Richard Elrod was the most seriously injured of the demonstration casualties. Elrod, 35, also a state legislator and a rising young star in Illinois Democratic politics, suffered a broken neck in an encounter with a demonstrator at Clark and Madison Streets Saturday and remained paralyzed from the neck down Sunday.
Photo by Greg Sorber
Political quarterbacks confer
Gov. Robert Docking discussed the fine points of the game Saturday with Walter J. Hickel, Secretary of the Interior.
Kansas colleges prepare for Oct.15
Special to the Kansan
As Oct. 15 approaches, students at colleges and universities across the state of Kansas are preparing for participation in the nation-wide moratorium protesting the war in Vietnam.
There will be teach-ins and peace marches; classes will be boycotted; bells will toll; and Kansas merchants and citizens will be urged to suspend business for the day to indicate their support for an end to the war.
Final plans for observance at KU were approved Thursday. During the day, tables will be stationed around campus to distribute literature and give students a chance to
sign petitions urging an end to the war.
Open discussions on the war will take place in Lindley Hall, Malott Hall, and the Kansas Union. A silent peace vigil will be held at 9:30 a.m. in front of Strong Hill.
An afternoon symposium on the war is being planned by students and faculty at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City. It will be broadcast by closed-circuit television to Bailey Hall on the KU campus.
The Law Students Civil Rights Research Council will sponsor a "teach-in" at 2:45 p.m. in Hoch auditorium.
Students will distribute black arm
bands and literature from tables on campus. The arm bands are to be worn in memory of the men killed in Vietnam. Students are also planning to picket the administration building.
Students and faculty members at Kansas State University are planning a peace march through downtown Manhattan. Merchants and citizens are being urged to participate. The marchers will pass out leaflets and engage Manhattan citizens, in personal conversations concerning the war. Merchants are being asked to suspend at least part of their work day.
John Chalmers, vice-president of
academic affairs, said classes at K- State would not be suspended.
"We want participation to be up to the individual consciences of the students and faculty," he said. "Classes will not be dismissed, but any professor wishing to dismiss his class individually may do so. We suggest, however, they consult with their students first."
A resolution passed by the Student Senate at Washburn University, Topeka, supported the moratorium but stated support was for the Oct. 15 date only. Students are trying to persuade the administration to schedule a convocation, in which
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