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Thursday, Oct. 1, 1970
University Daily Kansan
Nixon Wins Warm Yugoslav Reception
BELGRADE (UPI)—President Nixon flew into Yugoslavia Wednesday to a friendly but restrained welcome from 200,000 persons who lined a 15-mile motorcade route applauding and shouting, "Neex-on, Neex-on."
The first American President to visit this Communist nation, Nixon was mobbed twice when he stepped from his car and waded into the crowd. He shook hands and shouted in Serbo-Croatian "Hvala Leppo" (thank you very much). Afterward, Nixon, beaming, called the welcome "magnificent" and "very heart-warming."
The President arrived from Naples, Italy, where he presided earlier in the day over a high-level review of the post-Nasser outlook in the Middle East and warned of the "very great danger" that could result from the uncertain changeover in Egyptian leadership.
The subject was expected to dominate Nixon's formal talks with Yugoslav President Tito, a close friend of Nasser and other Arab leaders, who now emerges as the undisputed leader of the nonaligned nations.
Tito, a stocky, bespectacled man with wavy gray hair, still vigorous at 78, chose to pass up Nasser's funeral in Cairo on Thursday so the Nixon visit, long sought by Yugoslavia, could go ahead.
He and Nixon greeted each other warmly at Belgrade's Surcin airport and then rode, standing in an open car, into this capital of one million people.
Yugoslav security officials estimated 200,000 persons lined the motorcade route and jammed downtown streets in Belgrade, a drab city of low, gray buildings that was virtually demolished in World War II and rebuilt afterward.
While the crowds were large and friendly, U.S. officials who accompanied Nixon to Romania one year ago said the Belgrade welcome was quiet by contrast.
However, at one square in downtown Belgrade, cheering crowds brought the motorcade to a halt. Nixon, smiling and waving in obvious enjoyment, climbed out onto the top of a parked car and took a baby thrust by a woman into his arms. Then he handed the baby back and greeted the crowd with both hands clasped above his head.
Yugoslav and American flags fluttered from lamp posts and schoolchildren waved small paper flags of the two countries.
After a brief stop at the hilltop palace where he will reside during his two days in Yugoslavia, the President drove out of Belgrade again to 1,700-foot
Senate Leader Says War End Now in Sight
WASHINGTON (UPI)—Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott said today that the last of American combat troops in Vietnam would be leaving by next summer as part of an accelerated withdrawal program he predicted President Nixon would announce soon.
Scott said Tuesday night, during a re-election campaign speech at Harrisburg, Pa., that an end to the Vietnam War was in sight.
During a brief session with reporters at the Capitol today, he said that by mid-1971 "we'll see the last of the combat troops" leaving Vietnam, although he said U.S. air strikes probably would continue "as long as we have support troops to be protected there."
"We're moving back toward having only advisers in Vietnam, and then, eventually, I hope we get the heck out of there entirely," Scott said.
Mt. Avala, 10 miles east of the city, overlooking the farm plains of Serbia, to place a wreath at the tomb of Yugoslavia's unknown soldier.
Three members of the Kansas Board of Regents will end their terms this winter, Max Bickford, executive officer of the board, said Wednesday.
Three Regents to End Terms
Ending their terms on December 31 will be Regents A. H. Cromb, Mission Hills, L. D.
Morgan, Goodland, and T. J.
Griffith, Manhattan.
Bickford said that no replacements had been announced by Gov. Robert Docking, who was to appoint the regents. The Governor has the option of appointing a new regent or
reappointing a regent whose term is expiring.
Kansas regents are appointed for a term of four years, Bickford said. The only qualifications for appointing new board members are of a political nature.