U.S. cuts Mexican marijuana flow
SAN DIEGO (UPI) — The United States clamped a massive land, sea and air surveillance on 2,500 miles of the U.S.-Mexican border Sunday in a dramatic move to cut off the flow of marijuana and dangerous drugs.
Federal agents revealed that the pilot of a light plane carrying about 1,000 pounds of marijuana had been caught and arrested after he flew over the border and was followed by a government plane when he landed at Bakersfield, Calif.
In a split second move in which "Operation Intercept" was not sprung until all agents were at their posts, the government launched intensified inspection of vehicles and persons crossing the border at 31 land points and at 27 airports at which international flights are authorized to land.
CYD's project protests action of Sen. Shultz
KU's Collegiate Young Democrats are planning this year to organize Lawrence Negro voters, and to "protest the actions of State Sen. Reynolds Shultz."
Mike Dickeson, Atchison senior, and president of the club said not only would the members of two Negro districts be registered to vote, but the political structure of the precincts would be organized, as well. He said if the project is well supported, then CYD may organize other precincts.
CYD will meet for the first time this year at 8 p.m. Tuesday in the Kansas Union Receptionists' Room.
The purpose of the meeting is to find candidates for CYD offices. Persons wanting to run can "declare" themselves as candidates Dickson said.
"All offices are up for grabs," he said, "but candidates must declare themselves at this meeting"
He added that new members are eligible for election, and any one wanting to join should attend the meeting.
Another project for the year is what Dickeson called a "protest against the actions of Senator Shultz" campaign. Sen. Reynolds Shultz, R-Lawrence, is chairman of the Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee which used subpoena powers to force the release of the names of 21 students disciplined for the disruption of the Chancellor's ROTC review May 9.
Dickeson said the students had already received their punishment and Shultz was trying to punish them again.
He said he understood that Shultz planned to re-introduce his bill to punish students who participate in campus demonstrations that disrupt the normal procedure of a university. CYD members will go before the Legislature to reiterate testimony from university officials and administrators that the bill was unconstitutional, he said.
If the bill passed, he said they plan to file a test case against is in court.
Dickeson is also planning a political issues seminar with the political science department. He said the professors participating in the seminar would be able to offer the student a professional opinion on issues.
"We hear SDS saying that college is not oriented to the world," he said, "the best we can do is present the issues that are facing us here as students."
CYD plans to conduct a "letters to the editor" campain through the local newspapers as well as the members' hometown newspapers. Dickeson said any national, state, and local issue would be attacked and "if we don't get in one paper, we'll get in another."
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The operation, utilizing radar, search planes, Coast Guard and Navy ships and a sharply augmented force of inspectors at crossing points covered the border of Mexico where it adjoins the states of California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.
"Operation Intercept" was
placed into effect at 4:30 p.m. but some units already had been activated earlier and the aerial smuggling was detected Friday night.
The federal announcement said the program would be continued for an "indefinite period."
It said the Mexican government
had been kept fully informed of the operation.
this country," the announcement said.
"More than 80 per cent of the marijuana smoked in the United States, about 20 per cent of the heroin used and an undetermined volume of illegal amphetamines and barbiturates are smuggled into the U.S. from Mexico."
"The objective of the program is to reduce the volume of narcotics, marijuana and dangerous drugs which are smuggled into the United States from Mexico, thus cutting down the supply available to addicts and users in