A group of hooded students bagged onlookers' curiosity Monday on Jayhawk Boulevard
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UDK News Roundup
By United Press International
MIG 17 to be returned
HOMESTEAD AFB, Fla.-A pilot and technicians from Cuba may return a Soviet built MIG 17 to the Communist island today if weather clears over Cuba.
The swept-wing jet fighter was flown to Homestead Air Force Base Sunday by a defecting Cuban pilot who evaded both his own air force and the U.S. defense network until 13 minutes before landing.
Gun legislation rewritten
WASHINGTON—The sponsor of a bill exempting most ammunition sales from the provisions of last year's Gun Control Act has bowed to the opposition of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, and agreed to alter his proposal substantially.
As rewritten, the legislation will retain the law's requirement that a seller of ammunition record the name, age and address of the buyer of .22 caliber ammunition.
--men of Brazil's 3rd army in the southern states of Parana, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul. The military chiefs called Medici to Rio de Janeiro from his headquarters in Port Alegre and he flew to the meeting in the Naval Ministry in Rio.
80th Year, No.17
Tuesday, Oct. 7, 1969
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Brazil selects president
RIO DE JANEIRO (UPI) Brazil's military-backed government may call congress, closed 11 months, back into session to ratify the selection of Gen. Emilio Garrastazu Medici as the nation's new president, political observers said today.
A group of seven military leaders chose Medici Monday night to succeed President Arthur da Costa e Silva, who suffered a cerebral hemorrhage Aug. 29.
Air force Minister Marcio de Mello e Souza said it had not been decided when Medici would take office but it could not be before Nov. 15, Brazilian National Day.
Medici, 63, commands 46,000
Costa e Silva approved the military's choice of Medici as his successor, members c' the incumbent president's family said. They are friends, and political observers said Medici was likely to carry on Costa e Silva's policies.
Medici will be the third military president of Brazil, Latin America's largest and most populous nation, since the revolution of
April, 1964 that overthrew the last civilian president, Jao "Jango" Goulart.
A three-member military junta has governed Brazil since Costa e Silva was striken. It dismissed the constitutional successor, civilian Vice President Pedro Aleixo on the ground that a state of siege imposed in December required the maintenance of military control.
Medici will be Brazil's 27th president since the country became a republic 80 years ago.
Political observers said Congress may be reconvened to ratify the military leaders choice of Medici.
ROTC controversy nothing new to KU
By DOUGLAS SCHEFFNER
Kansan Staff Writer
Credit for ROTC is still controversial. After one meeting of the University Council this year, the decision for removal of ROTC from the campus, removal of credit or retention of ROTC with full credit still is undecided.
This controversy is not new; it has been in existence from the first days of ROTC at KU. In 1918, by a 4 to 3 margin, the University Senate failed to pass a resolution to create an ROTC unit. They feared it would lead to mandatory military training at KU.
ROTC was finally established on this campus in 1920. The next active disapproval shown by some against ROTC took place December 7, 1931 when KU sent 20 delegates to a Kansas State Disarmament Conference held at Washburn College in Topeka.
The conference sent a resolution to the governor and the chairman of the State Board of Regents declaring opposition to military training in educational
institutions and the hope for its abolition at KU.
In 1934, the debate continued in letters to the editor of the University Daily Kansan. Some said ROTC was "foolish," some resigned from the Corps. Others claimed it belonged only in certain military schools, not in state institutions, while others compared ROTC to Hitler's Brown Shirts.
These letters continued until the end of 1935. There was no further controversy until 1965 when the Student Peace Union (SPU) held a 24-hour vigil outside the Military Science Building in opposition to the war in Vietnam. This was the first KU demonstration against that war. Demonstrators hoped members of ROTC would "drop out" from their Corps.
During the same year, SPU president Charles Hook cut his wrist with a razor and smeared blood upon notices posted on a bulletin board in the Military Science Building. Hook said, "Perhaps if some of these ROTC members who are being taught
The most recent demonstrations occurred last spring when both the ROTC Inspector General Review and the Chancellor's Review were disrupted.
how to think, act, fight and die have to walk past someone's blood it will make them stop training for militarism."
The first review, and annual evaluation and parade, was conducted for Col. Ralph Wright, professor of military science at Kansas State University acting as representative of the Department of the Army. Wright complemented the cadets for their bearing during the demonstration. The demonstrators, said Wright "interfered, but they didn't disrunt the review."
The Chancellor's Review was cancelled due to the threat of violence. Demonstrators who broke through gates and remained illegally upon the parade field said they would be "defensively violent" if arrests were made. Forty-one students were suspended from KU after they refused to leave.
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Review disrupted
Student demonstrators harassed ROTC cadets at the Inspector-general's annual ROTC review last spring. This was one of the major anti-ROTC demonstrations at KU last year.