Gray
Cloudy and colder with occasional rain this afternoon. High today in the 70's. Precipitation probabilities 60 per cent today.
81st Year, No. 19 The University of KansasLawrence, Kansas Friday, September 25, 1970
Syracuse Game Still On
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Big and Little
The size of a cycle seems not so important
as the convenience of short-distance travel for many KU students who have adopted two-wheeled vehicles for trips to and around campus. Even a mini-cycle saves wear and tear on shoe leather.
False Alarm Disrupts Classes At Wichita East High School
WICHITA (UPI)—A false fire alarm set off Thursday in Kansas' largest high school, Wichita East, was followed by the latest confrontation between students in the city's racially-tense school system and police.
At least 12 students, all but one of them Negro, were arrested at three schools.
Rally Is Set Over Strife In Mideast
A rally to oppose American intervention in the Jordanian war was scheduled for 1:30 this afternoon in front of Strong Hall.
The decision to hold the rally was made in a meeting held last night in the Kansas Union by people concerned with the Mideast crisis.
It was planned to hand out fliers explaining the position and to provide a microphone for speakers. The speeches were to be restricted to American students only, who were to confine their comments to a discussion of American intervention.
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Four other resolutions were rejected in favor of the anti-intervention rally theme. Motions to make the rally in opposition to any international intervention, to condemn the Palestinian hijackings and call for an immediate release of the
Thursday's trouble broke out shortly after classes began at Wichita East when a fire alarm was touched off, apparently by a student, in the school's art building annex.
Dr. Vernon Kirby, East principal, said about 75 blacks —23 per cent of East's 2,561 enrollment is Negro—wandered through the halls after the fire drill. He said school administrators talked most of them into returning to class, but several left the building.
A group of about 20 blacks who converged at a nearby hamburger stand pelted police with rocks when officers attempted to disperse the crowd. There were no reports of serious injury.
Doors to East were locked to outsiders throughout the day until classes were dismissed in the afternoon. About 15 policemen patrolled the school grounds when classes ended for the day.
Six Negro students, all boys, were arrested outside the school and charged variously with throwing rocks, loitering and disorderly conduct.
"The students got away beautifully," Kirby said. "The police made sure everybody left orderly and didn't return.
Police Thursday also arrested three Negro youths at Allison Junior High School. They were charged with loitering and creating a disturbance.
"We've had a real fine year so far, but trouble in other schools in the city is beginning to carry over at East," he said.
Three students, including one white youth, were arrested at South High School. Two were charged with loitering;
the third with carrying a concealed weapon, brass knuckles.
Bob Anderson, principal of Wichita Heights High School, which closed early Wednesday after a series of racial disturbances between about 200 students and police, reported a relatively calm day Thursday.
"It was a real good day," Anderson said. "About 50 per
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Rebels Seek 1-Day Truce In Civil War
By United Press International
The governing body of the Palestinian guerrillas Thursday called for a 24-hour cease-fire in the Jordaniian Civil War, the semi-official Cairo newspaper Al Ahram reported. The United States and Britain began evacuating their nationals and other civilians from Jordan under mortar fire.
Al Ahram said in its Friday morning edition that the Palestinian Central Committee, the highest ranking Palestinian body, asked Arab heads of state currently meeting in Cairo to visit Jordan during the proposed truce and hold consultations with guerrilla chief Yasser Arafat.
The newspaper said the committee called for the cease-fire after meeting for several hours Thursday in emergency session in Damascus, Syria. The meeting was attended by 15 delegates representing all major Palestinian organizations, the newspaper said.
The United States chartered a Lebanese Middle East Airlines jet liner for a civilian airlift to avoid Soviet and Arab charges of "military intervention" in the fighting in which thousands of Arab civilians, soldiers and guerrillas have been reported killed and wounded and thousands more threatened by famine and disease.
In Cairo, the Middle East News Agency reported that the Premier of Jordan's military government, Brig. Mohammed
Daoud, had resigned and was missing from his hotel in the Egyptian capital, where he had gone for an Arab summit meeting on the Jordanian crisis.
The Egyptian agency said a copy of a letter to King Hussein announcing Daoud's resignation was found in the premier's room at the Nile-Hilton.
The chartered Convair 990 arrived in Beirut with about 65 Americans and other refugees. A State Department spokesman in Washington said a Voice of America broadcast repeatedly advising Americans in Amman to report to the Hotel Inter-Continental for the flight out was stopped during the night for security reasons, and that many Americans may not have heard the radio advisories.
Robert J. McCloskey, the spokesman, said the VOA broadcast would be continued and another plane is standing by in Beirut to fly to Amman, probably on Friday. There are about 400 Americans in Jordan.
Most of the passengers aboard the U.S.-chartered plane were women and children. Airline sources said they included 12 U.S. Embassy staff members and between 15 and 20 other Americans, nine Indians, seven Chinese, six Britons, three Lebanese as well as other nationalities.
Maj. Richard Alt, of Fort Wayne, Ind., an embassy at-
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U.S. Evacuation Alert Eased
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The United States relaxed its Middle East evacuation alert Thursday, encouraged for the moment by word of King Hussein's battlefield successes and withdrawal of the Syrian tank force from Jordan.
The aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy with 100 planes joined two other U.S. 6th Fleet carriers in the Mediterranean, however, and officials made clear that a state of military readiness would be maintained until the crisis is resolved.
Administration officials credited the heavy losses inflicted by Hussein's forces and Syrian fear of Israeli intervention for the pullback of the invading force from northern Jordan. The Soviet role, if any, was discounted.
President Nixon, who was visibly fatigued earlier in the week, took the afternoon off for a round of golf.
The Defense Department
announced that U.S. military hospital units at Lakenheath, England, and Kitzengen, Germany, remained on 24-hour alert but were permitted to unload planes on standby for possible evacuation duty in Jordan.
Twenty giant C130 transport planes at those two bases, plus others reassigned to Incerlik, Turkey, early in the fighting were freed for normal operations, such as flight training. All were subject to 24-hour notice to reload and move toward Jordan.
The carrier Kennedy will remain in the Mediterranean with the Independence and the Saratoga until further notice, the Pentagon said. The Kennedy was accompanied by the destroyers Belknap and Leahy.
The alert status of the 82nd Airborne Division at Ft. Bragg, N.C., and paratroopers
in Germanv was unchanged.
in Germany was dischanged. U.S. officials played down the Russians' possible role in exerting influence on the Damascus government to pull back armored columns from Jordan. If any Kremlin Pressure were exerted, they said, it had only a marginal effect.
Much more convincing, they said, was evidence that Israel had massed a substantial force on the border facing the flatland where Syrian tanks made their deepest penetration in the area of Iridid. The Israelis apparently were moving to protect their border south of the occupied Golan Heights.
High American officials said Moscow's report that it was in contact with Syria early in the week went no further to state or imply any effort to underscore the United States' appeal for a Syrian withdrawal.