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Tuesday, Sept. 29.1970
University Daily Kansan
News Capsules
By United Press International
Rome: Freed Hostages
President Nixon interrupted an official visit to Italy Monday to personally greet the 26 Americans en route home after three weeks of captivity in Jordan. Nixon told them a combination of U.S. power and restraint possibly saved their lives. Six other Americans were still being held hostage by Arab guerrillas in Jordan. In Washington late Monday, the State Department demanded their immediate release.
Los Angeles: Brush Fire
The largest brush fire in California history raged through mountain canyons near the Mexican border, driving thousands of persons from their homes as the flames advanced. More than 50,000 persons were evacuated from small communities in San Diego County in the face of the 200,000 acre Laguna fire, which erupted in the Cleveland National Forest Saturday when a falling tree severed a power line. At least 250 structures were devoured by the flames.
In the San Gabriel Mountains to the north, a U.S. Forest Service helicopter crashed late Monday, killing the five persons aboard. The helicopter was being used in fighting another huge brush fire. The death toll of the fires since Friday is eight.
Capital: Rally Goes On
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Rev. Carl McIntire says his March for Victory rally will go on as scheduled in Washington Saturday in spite of the withdrawal of his star speaker, South Vietnamese Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky. McIntire, a fundamentalist Presbyterian preacher, made a fast trip to Paris during the weekend to try to get Ky to change his mind about calling off his trip, but he was not able to see Ky and said it was clear the Saigon leader had "capitulated" to pressure from the Nixon administration.
Boston: Gilday Caught
A heavily armed ex-convict suspected of being part of a gang of "revolutionaries" wanted in the slaying of a policeman during a $26,000 bank holdup was arrested at gunpoint. Elusive William M. Gilday, 41, was captured after he tried to drive around a rotary and was blocked by a police motorcycle. Gilday's arrest was the second in 24 hours in connection with the holdup and slaying of Boston patrolman Walter Schroeder. Stanley Bond, another suspect, was apprehended Sunday in Grand Junction, Colo.
London: Hendrix
A coroner's inquest ruled there was insufficient evidence to determine the exact cause of American rock star Jimi Hendrix's death. The coroner recorded an "open verdict" as to the cause of the death in London on Sept. 18. A pathologist said that Hendrix apparently died when he choked on his own throat fluids "due to a barbiturate intoxication," and that there was no evidence Hendrix was a drug Addict.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Consumer advocate Ralph Nader says nontobacco additives in cigars and cigarettes may be toxic. "It is known that under certain conditions and inhalation, these additives are toxic," Nader said in asking the Federal Trade Commission for an investigation. The additives, including asbestos, glass fibers and rock wood, are put in cigars and cigarettes to reduce the health hazards of conventional tobacco.
Capital: Ralph Nader
Arms Sale to Israel Extended
WASHINGTON (UPI)—A military aid proposal for Israel, already one of the most generous arms transfer measures ever written by Congress, was extended Monday to include ground weapons as well as aircraft.
Senate and House negotiators, in a report on the $19.9 billion military procurement bill, said the measure would cover "ground weapons, such as missiles, tanks, howitzers, armored personnel carriers, ordnance, etc. as well as aircraft."
The provision, written by Sen. Henry M. Jackson, D-Wash., authorizes President Nixon to transfer aircraft to Israel and "equipment appropriate to . . . protect such aircraft" that he believes necessary to counter "past, present or future" Soviet military aid to the Arab states.
The conferees said it was their intention that the language should not be narrowly interpreted by the executive branch so that only those ground weapons used by near airfields could be acquired by Israel.
The measure thus permits the President to sell to Israel any quantity of any non-nuclear weapon on the most favorable possible credit terms without any ceiling costs. Nuclear weapons would be excluded because of the terms of the nonproliferation treaty, which the United States has signed.
The only limitation imposed in the bill itself is a Sept. 30, 1972 expiration date added by the conferees to provide the "customary periodic spending authorization surveillance by Congress."
The procurement measure has already passed both Houses in differing forms and Routine final action on the compromise could come later this week.
Members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee had objected to the arms transfer provision when the Senate approved it last month, contending it was an end-run around the committee's jurisdiction over military aid and arms sales to foreign governments.
Chairman J. William Fulbright,
Docking Leads In Voter Poll
HUTCHINSON (UPI)—Final tabulation of a poll conducted at the Kansas State Fair today gave Gov. Robert B. Docking the edge over his Republican opponent, Kent Frizell, 1,442 to 1,230.
The voting machine poll was conducted during the nine-day run of the fair which ended Sunday.
Total attendance was estimated at 576,000 compared to last year's 698,000. Bad weather during the nine-day run of the fair was blamed for the reduction in attendance.
D-Ark., charged that the provision ran counter to the trend in Congress during recent years to place tighter and tighter restrictions on overseas military sales and to play a greater role in overseeing foreign policy.
Fulbright and others who have argued for limits on U.S. intervention overseas contend that arms transfers frequently lead to other forms of U.S. involvement, first with technicians to train foreigners.
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