THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
80th Year, No.16
The University of KansasLawrence, Kansas
Monday, Oct. 6, 1969
UDK News Roundup
By United Press International
High court opens term
WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court opened its 1969-70 term today, presided over for the first time by Warren E. Burger, missing a justice, and facing decisions likely to broaden laws affecting juveniles and welfare recipients.
Today's session was largely ceremonial, including oath-taking for 75 to 100 lawyers admitted to practice before the high court. The justices will return to the bench Oct. 13 for their first decisions of the term.
New YORK—Jacqueline Onassis, irked when news photographers tried to snap her picture at the sexually explicit Swedish film "I Am Curious Yellow," stomped out of the theater Sunday and flipped a lensman over her thigh to the ground in a neat judo maneuver.
Jackie practices judo
The photographer landed on his knees but managed to snap a picture of her walking away.
Widow gets $6,473
SAIGON—The widow of the man the U.S. Army once said was murdered by eight Green Berets will get $6,473 as full compensation of her husband, U.S. Embassy officials said Sunday.
Mrs. Phan Kim Lien Chuyen said it was her understanding the payment represented the U.S. Army's portion of the compensation and she expects more money from the embassy.
Rent strike endorsed
ST. LOUIS, Mo.—The National Tenants Organization (NTO) Sunday vowed to take over all habitable vacant dwellings in cities where public housing is inadequate.
The group also called for a nationwide rent strike, and made 16 other resolutions on the final day of a four-day convention.
Jesse Gray, NTO president, said, "There's too much vacant housing that's not for the poor. We'll move into vacancies if they're on Fifth Avenue or Park Avenue."
New obstacles to face Nixon's court nominee
WASHINGTON (UPI)—Sen. Birch Bayh (D-Ind.) plans to present this week a list of particulars he hopes will cast enough doubt on Judge Clement F. Haynsworth, jr. that the Senate will vote down Haynsworth's Supreme Court nomination.
As the court began its fall term with one empty seat, Bayh and his aides across the street in the Capitol examined in detail the voluminous records Haynsworth delivered to the Senate Judiciary Committee last week. Bayh claimed he has already uncovered enough evidence of "impropriety" to warrant more inquiry.
The Indiana lawmaker said he would make his complete case against the South Carolina jurist known in advance of a committee meeting on the nomination Wednesday. He added he now would work to "actively prevent" confirmation.
The White House, meanwhile, stepped up its campaign to get
Haynsworth's nomination confirmed, even if by a narrow margin.
President Nixon authorized release of a letter praising Haynsworth and expressing complete confidence in the presiding judge of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. The letter was addressed to GOP Senate Leader Hugh Scott, who is publicly uncommitted on the nomination. It was released, however, by Sen. Roman L. Hruska (R-Neb.) senior Republican on the Judiciary Committee.
Hruska had earlier told a news conference both Scott and GOP Whip Robert P. Griffin of Michigan would "join the fight to confirm Haynsworth."
A UPI poll released during the weekend showed a nip and tuck vote shaping up on the nomination, on the basis of those senators willing to take a yes-no stand. Thirty-one said they had already made up their mind to vote for the
nomination; 29 said they would vote against. Of those opposed, 21 were Democrats and eight were Republicans. Of those who said they would vote to confirm, 17 were Republicans and 14 were Democrats.
The critical balance was held by those 40 senators who contended they were still undecided and would wait until the Judiciary Committee hearing record on the nomination was printed and they had a chance to read it.
BULLETIN
Students who have not applied for football tickets or picked them up will have the final chance to do so today and Tuesday, October 7, said Monte Johnson, assistant athletic director.
Students may pick up their tickets between 8 a.m. and noon and 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. in Allen Field House.
Cuban MIG fighter lands in Florida
HOMESTEAD AFB, Fla.—A MIG 17 jet fighter with a hammer and sickle stamped on its gunsight and a Cuban flag emblazoned on its tail was under heavy guard today while authorities questioned the man who flew it from Cuba.
The Soviet-built jet landed Sunday after it loomed on a radar scope 90 miles east of Key West.
The pilot, an unidentified Cuban, promptly asked for asylum and got it.
"Any plane that comes in with his wheels down is allowed to land," said one Air Force veteran on the Homestead runway. "If he comes in with his landing gear up he will be shot down."
The President, who had spent
the weekend vacationing at his Key Biscayne retreat about 40 miles away, was informed of the incident Sunday afternoon. But he did not let it interfere with a boating excursion with his old friend, C. B. "Bebe" Rebozo.
The pilot was quickly hustled away by military authorities for questioning.
Almost five hours after the jet landed at 12:25 p.m., with a cannon and two machine guns slung under its belly, the Air Force issued a statement.
The statement did not say whether interceptors were scrambled aloft when the foreign aircraft was detected on the air defense radar.
"The MIG took no hostile action
and proceeded directly to a landing at Homestead," the Air Force said. "The Cuban pilot requested asylum and it has been granted."
The Czechoslovakia Embassy in Washington, which handles affairs for the Castro regime in this country, was asked to inform the Cuban government the MIG would be made available for return to the Communist island.
Otherwise, Air Force officials were tight-lipped about the unusual landing. Col. Wiltz P. Segura, commander of the 4531st Tactical Fighting Wing stationed at Homestead, was on hand when newsmen were given a look at the MIG. He would answer no questions, refusing even to give his own first name.
Drug crackdown stopping traffic
By HOWARD PANKRATZ
Kansan Staff Writer
Operation Intercept, the biggest crackdown on drugs in United States history, is causing repercussions from Mexico to Topeka.
The operation, launched as the result of a report to President Nixon on the effects of marijuana, has sealed the border so tightly between Mexico and the United States that not only has drug traffic been stopped, but so has virtually all traffic.
Navy patrol boats have blocked access to the Texas coastline. Air Force pursuit planes have been used along the border and already have forced down at least two planes. Customs inspectors have been placed at 27 U.S. airports and 31 border crossings to search everyone crossing the border.
The objective of Operation Intercept, as explained by Deputy Attorney General Richard Kleindienst, is to "make marijuana become so scarce that the price per lid is driven beyond what most, especially teenagers, are able to afford."
Kleindienst said marijuana users would not turn to hard drugs because marijuana is non-addictive and would not cause with-drawal symptoms.
"Rather than switch to psilocybin, mescaline or LSD, they will abandon the drug habit," he said.
There are an estimated 150,000 Mexican workers who work in the United States, and the crackdown has made commuting almost impossible.
Mexicans who go to school in the
United States or have American doctors have been seriously inconvenienced. The average wait for persons crossing the border during the day is three hours, although six-hour delays are not uncommon.
Some Mexican businessmen are not compaining. Most Mexicans who live along the border buy in the United States because prices on the American side are cheaper and the products are of better quality.
The Mexican storeowners have started a "Buy in Mexico" campaign, stressing that they have better and cheaper goods and that buying in Mexico from Mexican nationals would not involve a time-consuming trip to the United States and an irritating search.
However, this is the only bright spot in a dismal picture for the Mexicans. Tourist trade in the border cities of Mexico has dropped as much as 80%.
In protest of the crackdown, Mexican businessmen, union leaders and newspapers are calling for a boycott of American goods. One diplomatic protest has already been lodged by the Mexican government. The protest concerned an incident involving the Mexican Consul-General in El Paso, Roberto Urrea, who was stopped at the border and "violently searched" by U.S. customs officials. Mexican Foreign Minister Antonio Flores has flown to Washington to discuss the matter.
The closing of the border has made Kansas one of the primary sources of marijuana in the United States.
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Gov. Robert Docking cited a Kan-