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81st Year, No. 18 The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas Thursday, Sept. 24, 1970
A Mideast Diary
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Kansan Staff Photo by GREG SORBER
Col. William Albott Talks with Gov. Docking
... before session with college leaders on campus security
concentration of the forces of the 6th American Fleet in the eastern Mediterranean as well as other war preparations by the United States in the area, the Soviet government called the attention of the government of the USA through the embassy of the USSR in Washington to the need for all states to display caution in their steps in connection with the present complicated situation in the Middle East, and also to the fact that any interference from the outside into the event in Jordan would further complicate the situation in the Middle East and the international situation as a whole."
Docking to Bolster Security on Campus
Soviet Union Warns Against Intervention
"In view of the increasing
By BOB LITRAS Kansan Staff Writer
In an official statement issued Wednesday night, the foreign ministry said:
The warning by the Soviet foreign ministry followed Soviet President Nikolai V. Podgorny's voiced "concern and anxiety" over what he called the threat of direct interference by the U.S. 6th Fleet in the Middle East.
Chancellor talking with a Regent ... Chalmers agreed more precautions were needed
MOSCOW (UPI)—The Soviet Union said Wednesday night its embassy in Washington delivered a warning to the United States against military intervention in the Jordanian crisis.
TOPEKA — Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. met Wednesday night with Gov. Robert B. Docking and the presidents of the five other state colleges and universities in a special meeting of the Kansas Board of Regents at the governor's mansion.
Kansan Staff Photo by GREG SORBER
Chalmers said in a press conference afterwards that although added security personnel for the University of Kansas would be beneficial, the relative calm during the first three weeks of classes indicated to him that a good attitude prevailed at the University.
Docking called the special meeting to discuss security and protection of students in state-supported institutions, according to a statement issued by the governor's press secretary
The meeting came in the wake of several disturbances on the KU campus, one of which involved the governor's son, William Docking.
Docking told reporters after the closed-door meeting that his son was in the Kansas Union on his way home from the KU-Texas Tech football game Saturday when he and a fraternity brother were accosted by "7 or 8 black young people."
"One of them hit Bill in the stomach and said 'Give me a quarter,'" Docking said. Docking said his son replied that he had no quarter and then was struck several times with an object resembling a cane.
The fraternity brother, who remained unidentified, was also struck by the blacks when he attempted to assist Docking, the governor said. The assailants fled before help arrived and no identification was made public.
Rout of Syrians Claimed
Neither Docking nor his companion was hospitalized.
"There is an investigation
The guerrillas' Damascus
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By United Press International
In Washington, meanwhile, the State Department announced that the United States would send a chartered airliner to Amman Thursday to evacuate Americans. The operation will be protected by Jordanian rather than U.S. troops.
Jordan said Wednesday that it had driven invading Syrian tanks back across the border in "disorder and confusion," but guerrillas said the fighting was far from over and the Soviet Union warned the United States not to intervene militarily in the civil war.
THE INTERNATIONAL Red Cross in Geneva Wednesday night appealed to the two warring parties for a 24-hour cease-fire beginning at noon (CDT) Friday to permit casualties to be picked up for medical treatment.
King Hussein of Jordan announced a peace agreement with the Palestinian guerrillas, but it was promptly repudiated
by the guerrilla leader, Yasser Arafat. Syrian President Nourdedin Atassi said in Damascas that he had urged a firm stand for the support of the guerrillas "against the massacre which is being carried out by Hussein—the assassin of Jordan."
THE SOVIET warning to the United States was delivered by the Russian embassy in Washington shortly after Soviet President Nikolai V. Podgorny voiced "concern and anxiety" over what he called the threat of direct interference by the U.S. 6th Fleet, which is now cruising in the Mediterranean.
In view of the Jordanian situation, the Soviets told the United States for the need of all countries "to display caution," adding that any interference would further complicate the Jordan situation and the international situation as a whole.
White House spokesmen in Washington said the situation in Jordan was still "very serious." The State Department said a Middle East Airlines plane would leave Beirut early Thursday for Amman to evacuate the Americans.
now under way be university authorities," said the governor.
He added that the incident was not the cause of the special meeting at Cedar Crest, but that the "desire to protect our students" was the main concern.
In his statement, the governor said that he had ordered a review of campus security programs for all of the Kansas colleges and universities because of the large number of complaints that he had received from students about incidents and threats of violence.
"The mail I have received in my office confirms the incidents cited by these students," Docking said. "Many persons
have written to me to relate incidents of assault and threats of violence on the campuses and in the dormitories. These persons have asked for our help."
Steps to be taken include additional training for campus security personnel, updated communications, increased security forces on campuses and hiring of students to perform routine traffic duties so that security officers will be available for increased patrol duty.
"If we could afford to do it, it would be desirable to have personnel immediately," Chalmers said.
Docking said that the added
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Jordan Crisis Spurs Statement, Meeting
Four persons concerned about possible U.S. intervention in Jordan's civil war have called a meeting tonight to discuss the Mideast crisis.
"We cannot tolerate the exportation of death to serve economic or political expedition," the four said in a statement released Wednesday evening.
The statement is signed by Loren Impson, Eudora sophomore, of the KU Coordinating Committee; Walker Henrix, a non-student; of the Lawrence Liberation Front; Lynn Anderson, Lincoln, Nebr.; senior, of the Student Mobilization Committee; and Bill Ebert, Topeka senior and student body president.
The statement said the meeting was scheduled at 7:30 p.m. in the Kansas Union Big Eight Room. The meeting's purpose, according to the statement, was
to "Discuss the crisis and plan tactics."
"As civil war rages in Jordan, the United States and its forces have found a new Gulf of Tonkin—the Mediterranean Sea. And the forces which put U.S. troops in areas where they are not welcome, for reasons which are immoral, and with results that are non-existent seem to be at work again.
"The location, the conditions, the names and faces may be different, but the mentality is the same. From Santo Domingo, to Saigon, to Phom Penh, and perhaps to Amman—we are told that we must "protect Americans" while we provoke their captors, and "promote stability" as we seek to ram U.S. influence down the throats of 'threatened' nations. Who is really doing the threatening?
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