University Daily Kansan
Monday, Sept. 28, 1970
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Ebert, Balfour Frustrated By National Conference
A conservative, small college majority representation at the President-to-President conference Sept. 25-27 in Washington, D.C. kept the discussion from any large campus issues, according to Bill Ebert, Topeka senior and student body president.
Ebert and William Balfour, vice chancellor for student affairs represented the University of Kansas at the conference.
One group of students circulated a petition, signed by both Ebert and Balfour, to end the lecture format which was characteristic of this year's conference. The petition asked conference leaders to sit down with students and administrators and talk to them about the issues, instead of advancing more "administration line."
After it was circulated, however, the petition was lost or disregarded. Ebert said.
Balfour said, "Solutions were not the object of the conference. It was more a
vehicle through which everyone could make their own decisions."
Ebert said, "I heard very little that helped me make those decisions that I had not already read in official government policy statements."
A panel discussion, held Saturday morning on campus problems began to deal with issues, Ebert said. "But before any real interchange could begin, the time allotment ended and nothing was solved."
One point that was raised in this conference was the whether of the university should take stands on political or social issues.
"The panel decided that the university should remain neutral on all such issues, but that individuals should be encouraged to speak out as citizens." said Balfour.
Balfour cited U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell as a leading speaker, but said he never approached campus problems. Generally he spoke on the Justice Department and the administration's responsibility to uphold laws, not change them, Balfour said.
"This stand was still vague," he said, "because the panel could not set up outlines for the university's sphere of authority."
Ebert said he saw the conference as calculated to support the governmental line, at least in general structure.
"There was little discussion, and even less was accomplished." Ebert said.
He said Dr. Curtis Tarr, director of the Selective Service system, was a man depressed by his job.
"He seemed to be burdened by drafting men to fight in Vietnam," Ebert said, "because he doesn't have a military mentality. That's great, but he doesn't believe in what he's doing."
Neither President Nixon nor Vice-President Agnew made appearances during the conference.
Police Close Ranch; Fear Rock Festival
MUSKOGEE, Okla. (UPI)—Sheriff's officers sealed off a 400-acre ranch near Muskogee early Sunday after 30 young people and a band assembled at the site.
The "Peace Ranch," owned and operated by Jack Hill, who moved to the area from Denver three months ago, is only a few miles from the location of a planned weekend rock festival which was banned by court order.
Hill said the "private party" on his property was not connected with the ill-fated Candy Mountain rock festival, but that he had invited some friends—
about 150 young people and some bands—to his ranch when he learned the festival had been halted.
Officers manning roadblocks set up by Muskogee County Sheriff Bill Vinzant around Peace Ranch told newsmen they were investigating a cattle theft.
Sheriff's deputies stopped all vehicles attempting to reach the ranch, including a busload of musicians from Philadelphia who had come to Oklahoma for the Candy Mountain festival.
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NICOSIA, Cyprus (UPI)— Thirty-two Americans held hostage by Palestinian airline hijackers for 21 days flew to freedom Sunday and told how they were nearly blown to bits by artillery bombardments in Jordan's civil war.
All were bedraggled, dirty and red-eyed but glad to be alive. The group included many Jews and at least four women.
The six other Americans involved in the drama were reported to have been released in Jordan. Sixteen hostages—eight Britons, six Swiss and two West Germans—haved flown to freedom in London Saturday.
Release of the 54 prisoners ended a saga that began three weeks ago Sunday when guerrillas of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) hijacked three jetliners and forced two of them to land at a remote airstrip in Jordan.
The third was hijacked to Cairo where it was blown up after passengers and crew were permitted to get off.
The two hijacked to Jordan—a Trans World Airlines Boeing 707 and a Swissair DC8—were joined three days later by a British Overseas Airways Corp. VC10 which was hijacked by other PFLP guerrillas. The TWA, Swissair and BOAC jets were also blown up Sept. 12 after passengers and crew were led away.
The hijackings were part of a PFLP plot to force the release of commandos imprisoned in Israel, Britain, West Germany and Switzerland. It appeared Sunday that the ransom demands would not be met, at least for the time being.
Most of the more than 400 persons who had been held in the hijackings were allowed to leave Jordan as civil war engulfed the Arab kingdom. But 54 were held until last Friday when Jordanian troops liberated the group of 16.
Jeff Newton, a student from the Bronx, N.Y., said he was flying to New York after a vacation in Israel when the TWA plane was hijacked.
The 32 Americans freed Sunday arrived at Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus, aboard an International Red Cross plane.
later we would be released because we had the backing of the whole world and the big powers."
'I was a little frightened, but I was confident that sooner or later.'
Newton said he and others were imprisoned by the guerrillas outside Amman.
"The fighting was very heavy and during the last few days our area was heavily bombarded," Newton said.
Sara Malka of North Bergen, N.J., was one of several women hostages.
"Our only wish now is that the other six hostages should be freed as soon as possible," Miss Malka said. She spoke before the news of the release of the six reached Cyprus.
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