THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, Sept. 30, 1969
80th Year, No.12
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Protesters take Wisconsin capital
MADISON, Wis. (UPI)—Gov. Warren P. Knowles Monday night ordered units of the Wisconsin National Guard to the state capitol where welfare demonstrators had taken over the Assembly chambers.
The governor ordered the 300 guardsmen to the capital after the demonstrators, led by a militant Roman Catholic priest, took over the legislative hall and vowed to stay "all night and all year if necessary."
The demonstrators, their ranks boosted by students from the University of Wisconsin, broke down a door, moved in and took over just before the legislature was scheduled to meet in special session to consider a $33.1 million supplementary budget.
"We have captured the capitol building," the demonstration leader, the Rev. James E. Groppi, said. "We don't intend to leave."
Knowles ordered three units and portions of two others to report to the capitol by 9 p.m. to supplement a force of 150 riot-equipped police already at the scene.
Knowles had called for the special session to pass on a budget which would add welfare aids and urban aids to the state's regular budget which was passed several weeks ago.
Some 300 to 400 demonstrators were in the legislative chambers.
About 40 persons, led by the Rev. Groppi, Milwaukee civil rights activist, had staged a week-
long, 90-mile march from Milwaukee here to dramatize their demands for a restoration of welfare cuts made in the original budget.
The protesters rallied at the University of Wisconsin shortly after noon Monday and then moved to the capital, their ranks swelling to as many as 2,000 at times.
The legislature was to gather in the assembly chambers at 2:30 p.m. to hear Knowles deliver his request. At about 2 p.m., 10 demonstrators shouldered down the door to the chambers and the people filed in, filling almost every available space. The legislators had not yet entered the chambers and the doors were
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Photo by Lew Ketcham
Major production
Campus police apparently discussed what to do about a large hole that developed in the pavement behind Flint Hall. The cave-in created a cavern six feet deep and 12 feet wide below the surface.
UDK News Roundup
By United Press International
Testimony found faulty
NEW YORK—Supreme Court nominee, Judge Clement F. Haynsworth Jr., contrary to recent testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, was involved in six real estate transactions with the Carolina Vend-A-Matic Co. between 1958 and 1964, the New York Daily News said today in a copyright story.
Civil rights demanded
BELFAST, Northern Ireland—Northern Ireland's parliament reopened today facing Premier James Chichester-Clark's demand for passage of civil rights measures for Roman Catholics. Protestants threatened mass demonstrations against the proposals.
Senate checks clubs
WASHINGTON—Military investigators were called before a Senate subcommittee today to tell about a band of Army sergeants who allegedly pocketed hundreds of thousands of dollars from U.S. service clubs on three continents.
A seven-month investigation of kickbacks, slot machine "skimming" and other alleged shenanigans has been underway.
Stokes vies for post
CLEVELAND—Carl B. Stokes, first elected Negro mayor of a major American city, today was favored to win renomination over an opponent who waged an aggressive but disorganized campaign based on law and order.
Berets released
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Army Monday dropped all charges against six Green Beret officers accused of murdering a Vietnamese counter-spy, explaining that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had refused to let its agents testify at their trial.
Army Secretary Stanley R. Resor ordered the action on grounds that the six Special Forces officers accused of killing alleged double agent Thai Khac Chuyen could not get a fair trial without CIA testimony.
It was learned that the CIA refused not only to let its personnel testify in open court, but in sessions closed for security reasons as well.
There was no explanation why
the CIA took such a strong position, but it was assumed that CIA officials simply did not want its agents and operations in Vietnam discussed in a room full of people, including civilian defense attorneys for the Berets.
When Armed Services Committee chairman L. Mendel Rivers announced Resor's action on the floor of the House of Representatives, members broke into applause. About a dozen congressmen then spoke in praise of Resor's decision. None criticized it.
The six men, including the former Green Beret commander in Vietnam, Cal. Robert B. Rheault, could have been sent to prison for life if they had been convicted at their court martials.
Two other Green Berets, both
enlisted men, against whom charges had been held in abeyance, were also freed by Resor's order.
The secretary said all the men would be reassigned outside Vietnam.
Controversial from the start, the decision to prosecute the men had been appealed all the way to President Nixon by irate congressmen.
At the White House, Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler said as far as he knew President Nixon had nothing to do with Resor's decision. "This is a matter that has remained in the jurisdiction to which it appropriately belongs," Ziegler said.
Resor did tell Defense Secre-
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Leaders view moratorium
By VICKI PHILLIPS and SUZANNE ATKINS Kansan Staff Writers
On at least two subjects—students here observing a war moratorium October 15 and State Sen. Reynolds Shultz' recent actions there is very little disagreement among campus student leaders.
Most of them view the proposed October 15 national moratorium in protest to the war in Vietnam as a constructive method for students here to make their feelings about the war known.
As for Sen, Shultz and his plan to make public the names of 21 students who were disciplined by the University Disciplinary Board (UDB) last spring for their part in the disruption of the Chancellor's ROTC Review May 9, student leaders had little to say in support of the senator.
Student Body President David
S. Awbrey, Hutchinson senior, said he did not think Shultz' actions were politically motivated.
"Shultz had a wrong perception of what students are today and what the University is today," Awbrey said, "He is very concerned about youth, but he is dedicated to 1947 principles and a sincere belief in his own ideology."
Frank Zilm, student body vicepresident and St. Louis senior, said the UDB actions concerning the ROTC review was an internal affair and no outside interference was necessary.
Rick von Ende, Abilene, Tex.,
"Instead of giving Shultz further publicity to advance his political career," he said, "the Student Senate will ignore him and support the legislators who have recognized the inconsistency of his actions."
graduate student, said while there was no question of the right of a legislator to be concerned with the affairs of a state university, he disagreed with the "nitpicking" involvement on the part of specific legislators, referring to Shultz.
"If a legislator is concerned about the type of activity men engage in, then he should be concerned with attempting to alleviate the conditions that cause men to do violence to fellow men," Von Ende said.
Mark Edwards, Emporia senior and candidate for student body president last spring, said he thought Shultz was concerned for the greater majority of students.
"The voter sentiment is upset with Senator Shultz because they felt the University and student government handled themselves in a responsible fashion," he said.
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