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Wednesday, Sept. 23, 1970
University Daily Kansan
News Capsules
By United Press International
Capital: FBI on Campus
WASHINGTON, D.C.-President Nixon will ask Congress for legislation to permit the FBI to investigate campus arson and bombings if local authorities object, it was announced Tuesday. Presidential Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler told newsmen that Nixon had decided to ask for the legislation without consulting with his Commission on Campus Unrest. The proposal would permit federal intervention on any campus which receives any form of federal subsidy—virtually every college campus in the country—following any arson or bombing.
New York: Power Shortage
An acute electric power shortage caused by a final summer heat wave and generator breakdowns forced voltage cuts from the Canadian border to the Carolinas and west to Ohio. Limited blackouts were imposed on at least six states and the nation's capital. A 25-minute blackout was imposed on parts of New York City's smallest borough, Staten Island, and a section of suburban Westchester County, N.Y. Some 5,000 homes in Washington, D.C. and suburban Maryland were blacked out.
Capital: Popular Vote
WASHINGTON, D.C.-Sen. Birch Bayh, D-Ind., said "it is now or never" for Senate action on a proposed constitutional amendment to let Americans elect their presidents by direct popular vote. Bayh is attempting to break through a slowdown by opponents who are attempting to prevent a vote before adjournment. One of the foes, Sen. Peter Dominick, R-Colo., predicted the stall would succeed. "This is the most radical change ever proposed in our constitutional system," Dominick said. "I don't think it's going to go anywhere this session."
New York: Banks
Commercial banks across the country fell into line behind major New York banks which cut their prime interest rates a half-point to $7\frac{1}{2}$ per cent Monday. The rate cuts—widely expected for some time and seen generally as a sign of easing inflationary pressures—were followed by banks in San Francisco, Chicago, Detroit and Pittsburgh. Smaller banks, some of which had cut their rates as far back as Aug. 27, also joined in the move.
New York: Balloon
Rescue planes moved out across the North Atlantic at dawn in a search for two men and a woman in a balloon that was reported sinking. The crew aboard the Europe-bound balloon was Malcolm Brighton, 32, a British aeronautical engineer, Rodney Anderson, 32, a commodities broker and his wife, actress Pamela Brown, 28. The trio hoped to be the first people to cross the Atlantic in a non-powered balloon. There has been no radio contact with the balloon since the crew reported Monday night it was 600 feet above water and sinking.
Malaysia: Prime Minister
KUALA LUMPUR—Malaysian Prime Minister Tengku Abdul Rahman resigned after 13 years in office and with him went the nation's staunchly pro-western policy. Rahman's former deputy prime minister, Tun Abdul Razak, was sworn in as the nation's new leader and immediately announced Malaysia would be "nonaligned." Departing sharply from Rahman's rigid anticommunism, Razak said the nation "must believe and follow a policy of cooperation and friendship with all countries, whatever their political systems."
Capital: Greece
WASHINGTON, D.C.—President Nixon has decided to resume shipment to Greece of heavy military equipment which has been withheld since a military junta seized power in April, 1967, the State Department announced. The suspension of heavy arms shipments—planes, tanks, helicopters and other equipment—was ordered in an attempt to pressure the Greek military junta to restore parliamentary democracy. State Department officials said they believed the pressure had been effective on the whole.
Mississippi: Antibusing
BILOXI—Two Deep South governors softened their antibusing stands in a strategic attempt to get their views adopted as resolutions of the Southern Governors Conference. Gov. John Bell Williams of Mississippi said he had drafted a "mild" resolution that would simply put the conference on record endorsing the antibusing provision of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Federal courts have thus far ignored this provision calling for massive shifts of pupils to balance the racial composition of schools across the South.
New Mexico: Minuteman
ALBUQUERQUE—Minuteman leader Robert B. DePugh, opening his defense here, told a federal jury he was a victim of "deliberate conspiracy by certain government agencies." Acting as his own defense attorney, DePugh is on trial for nine counts of unlawful possession of unregistered firearms. FBI agents seized more than 100 rifles, land mines, hand grenades, dynamite charges and other explosives during a raid on a house believed to be a headquarters for the right-wing organization.
Airline Guards Now Number 200
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UPI)—The hijacking of airplanes has created the "most critical moment" in the history of civilian aviation, Federal Aviation Administrator John H. Shaffer said Tuesday in reporting that more than 200 armed guards are riding U.S. airliners.
Shaffer said 800 military guards will be added within two weeks. He described the guards as "mature, stable, reasonable people, not about to accelerate risk aboard airplanes." He indicated they were a temporary measure pending development and installation of sophisticated devices to stop would-be hijackers from "ever boarding in the first place."
Shaffer said 800 military guards will be added within two weeks.
Shaffer was here to present the Federal Aviation Administration's Extraordinary Service Award to the four-man crew of a Trans World Airlines jet which overpowered a hijacker at Dulles International Airport June 4 after the gunman demanded $100 million.
The crew disarmed the hijacker at Dulles after the jetliner was hijacked from Phoenix, Ariz., to Elmira, N.Y.
He said processing of guards provided by the military has begun and that "within two weeks we will have all 800 processed."
"We are now approaching the number and kind on all flights believed to be susceptible to hijackings," he said. "By Nov. 1 we should be in great shape."
During the award ceremony he stressed that when guards are
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aboard flights "the captain is fully aware of who the guard is and the captain is responsible for the aircraft. The captain is in full and complete charge," he said.
Shaffer said, "This is the most critical moment in all of civilian aviation history," adding that the current wave of hijackings must be stopped or the traveling public will lose confidence in civilian aviation." He added that "we never anticipated it (hijackings)
would take this form," apparently referring to the blowing up of three hijacked planes in Jordan and the holding of hostages.
In meeting with newsmen he said the media "shouldn't probe for too much detail" when reporting on anti-hijacking devices. In fact, he said, how these devices operate and where they are used should be regarded as a "classified military program." He emphasized he was not advocating censorship.
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