Adding insult to injury
As if the first day of classes wasn't bad enough, students also had to face a downpour Monday morning on their way to class. The rain drenched new clothes and books and made the difficult task of going to class practically unbearable. Busses were jammed, traffic jams formed, feet got wet, and the opening day at KU was a sloppy, miserable washout.
Army to move Irish barriers
BELFAST (UPI)—The government of Northern Ireland Monday night warned Roman Catholics that the British army would tear down their street barricades if they refused to remove them voluntarily.
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backing of British Home Secretary James Callaghan.
In a strongly worded statement issued after a cabinet meeting, the government flatly rejected a six-point Catholic demand made earlier in the day as a condition for their dismantling of the 160 street barricades.
The government said Premier James Chichester-Clark had been in touch with Callaghan who had
indicated his support for the attitude of the Northern Ireland government in the matter.
A gasoline bomb was thrown at a Catholic school in East Belfast in the first Protestant reaction to Catholic's six-point plan for knocking down the barricades.
Only slight damage was caused and British troops quickly sealed off the area.
KC high school shut by board
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UPI) The Kansas City school board voted late Monday to dismiss classes at racially troubled East High School today to avoid further campus violence.
The decision was made at a board meeting attended by some students who claimed more trouble would occur if classes were held.
School was let out early Monday because of campus disruptions earlier in the day when fist-fights between black and white students broke out inside the school building. No one was seriously injured.
Police said there were no disruptions on the racially tense campus when classes let out at
12:30 p.m. Monday. Some students boarded buses while those who walked home were aided by police officers.
East High principal L. Clayton Dickson was struck twice during the fights Monday but was not injured.
Police said about seven adults and several juveniles were arrested.
The disturbance followed a similar outbreak Friday involving about 300 students. Several fistfights occurred then but no serious injuries were reported.
Enrollment at East is about 1,900 with approximately 400 black students.
More loans to be available for U.S. college students
WASHINGTON (UPI) — An emergency bill to make loans available to about 200,000 financially desperate college students won a lopsided victory in the House Monday. The 322 to 60 vote was a defeat for backers of campus antiviolating laws.
The measure authorizes the government to increase the current 7 per cent interest ceiling on the guaranteed student loan program by as much as 3 per cent. The added interest is designed to make the student loan program attractive to bankers who have said they need at least 9.5 per cent interest to break even on the loan program.
The government currently guarantees the loans and pays the 7 per cent interest for students
whose families earn less than $15,000 a year. It pays the interest as long as the student is in college.
The Nixon administration, which backed the bill, called it "emergency legislation" since many colleges begin classes this week. But the Office of Education reported that many banks already have made loan commitments to students on the basis of administration assurances that Congress would approve some type of bill
The House bill is retroactive to July 1. A Senate-passed measure, which includes a provision that banks could not limit loans to students whose families are customers, would cover commitments from Aug. 15. The two versions will probably be reconciled in a joint conference committee.