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81st Year. No. 21 The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas Tuesday, September 29, 1970
Clerk's Son Becomes Arab Hero
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Kansan Staff Photo by MIKE RADENCICH
Winter?
The lacy silhouette of a leafless tree looms over the Kansas prairie near Lawrence. Although Autumn has just begun, the dead tree
reminds passers-by that winter is fast approaching. Already the green leaves of trees are turning to fall hues and soon will be dropping from tree branches. Kansas trees will appear as this one does, but unlike it, will once again begin turning to green with spring's arrival.
'Who Set Policies in Egypt?'— Crucial Question in Mideast
By FRANK SLOVER Kansan Staff Writer
Was Egypt's recent position in the Middle East due to Nasser's personal prestige or Egyptian power?
This is the major question raised as a result of Gamel Abdel Nasser's death yesterday, according to Robert D. Tom-
asek, professor in the political science department.
Tomasek maintains that realistic predictions are impossible due to the confused situation in the Mideast.
He said that if Nasser's prestige was responsible for Egypt's position and policies in the Arab world, then new leaders would have the option of breaking with his mode of rule.
If, however, the power came from the Egyptian people, the new leader or leaders will be bound to a certain extent by that force.
Tomasek said he believed that the new leaders would probably go along with the cease-fire to try to recover the territory lost in the 1967 six-day war. Nasser agreed to the
See EGYPTIAN page 12
Arab World In Mourning For Nasser
CAIRO (UPI)—President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt, the unifying leader of a divided Arab world and the greatest figure in its modern history, died of a heart attack Monday at the age of 52. His death raised the specter of chaos in an area already deep in crisis.
The newspaper said the action was taken to meet "any emergency." It did not elaborate, but the implication was that Egypt feared that Israel may try to exploit the vacuum created by Nasser's death to launch a military operation against Egypt.
Egypt called a state of "maximum alert" along the Suez Canal cease-fire line with Israel shortly after Nasser's death, the semi-official Cairo newspaper Al Ahram said Tuesday.
Nasser was stricken at Cairo airport while saying farewell to the ruler of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, one of the Arab leaders who had attended the summit conference Nasser called to end the civil war in Jordan.
The body was moved to the Republican Palace and placed in state there prior to a funeral on Thursday.
Nasser's death plunged the Arab world into mourning. Persons wept here and in Arab capitals throughout the Middle East including Amman, Jordan, where peace-keepers were trying to implement the Cairo agreement between the Palestinian guerrillas and King Hussein reached under Nasser's leadership Sunday.
In Cairo, Egyptians were at first dazed and incredulous at the news. Then, they broke
into tears and wept without shame.
"No! No!" screamed one driver as he beat his head with both hands. "It is not possible!"
Women screamed from balconies. Crowds converged on the palace.
There was weeping, too, in Beirut, Lebanon, where portraits of Nasser's smiling face look down from many walls. The tall, bulky and graying Nasser was the idol of the Arab masses. Shopkeepers in Beirut slammed down their iron gates and closed in mourning when news of the death was received.
Radio Cairo, after announcing Nasser's death, suspended regular programs and broadcast readings from the Koran. Nasser, a devout Moslem, obeyed its rules of abstinence from alcohol, although he was a heavy smoker.
"The United Arab Republic, the Arab nation and the whole of humanity have lost one of their most precious, most courageous and most sincere men," Vice-President Sadat said.
President Nixon, in a statement issued from the U.S. aircraft carrier Saratoga in the Mediterranean, called for calm in the Middle East a few hours after Nasser's death was announced.
"The tragic loss requires that all nations and particularly those in the Middle East calm passions, reach for mutual understanding and build lasting peace," Nixon said.
The President announced he was canceling 6th Fleet air and sea maneuvers in respect for Nasser.
Dowdell 'Symbol of Black Struggle'
By BLAKE HIBBARD Kansan Staff Writer
Rick "Tiger" Dowdell is now a symbol of the Lawrence black community's struggle for self-determination, a member of the Rick Dowdell Liberation School said Monday.
The member of the Rick Dowdell Liberation School, Jake Mumford, who asked to be called "Yaw Adee," said the black people were trying to respect their own heroes.
Dowdell, a former KU student, was killed during July disturbances in Lawrence.
DOWDELL'S symbolism can be found in the newly established Dowdell School, which is now holding classes at the East Lawrence Community Center at 10th and Delaware Streets.
Adee said the school was
providing education for black children of the community who were not able to attend the public schools for some reason.
"There is no free education any more," Adee said, "and if you don't have money, you don't get an education."
He said the school was giving children a functional education they can use to become economically self-reliant.
"THE BLACK MAN in America is economically dependent on white society," Adee said, "This is what we are trying to change."
Adee said the proportion of black students in the social sciences was high compared to the number of black students in sciences dealing with technology.
"This fact has been used to support the idea that blacks
are inferior and can't make it in the harder disciplines," he said.
Adee said a new organization in Lawrence, the Lawrence Concerned Branch of Black Parents, was helping with the Dowdell School, and had collected about $10,000.
"This is the time for those so-called 'responsible white citizens' to help us," he said. "My point of emphasis is that they are not being responsible."
ADEE SAID the school needed money and texts to help teach the children to relate to their black culture and to use their self-determinism to become self-reliant on the economic system of society.
Adee said the school did not want white teachers because it was a form of neo-colonialism and took away the ability of
the black people to teach themselves.
Adee is also involved in the Rick "Tiger" Dowdell Memorial Benefit Soul Food Dinner. The dinner is 4-6 p.m. Sunday at the United Campus Christian Fellowship building at 12th Street and Oread Avenue. He said the purpose of the benefit dinner was to raise funds to help pay funeral expenses.
DOWDELL'S DEATH was the object of recent controversy when State Sen. Reynolds Shultz, R-Lawrence, Republican candidate for lieutenant governor, made a statement about Dowdell.
See DOWDELL Page 12
Adee refused to comment about Shultz's statement, saying he recognized that Shultz
Rick Dowdell
... black symbol