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Kimball Calls for New Society
81st Year, No. 17 The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas Wednesday, Sept. 23, 1970
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Flood Relief
Kansan Photo by ROBBIE ROBINSON
souri Tuesday. A group of youths in Smithville, Mo. pitched in to help place stacks of sandbags around buildings to protect them from possible flooding from the Little Platte River.
Heavy rains caused flooding conditions in some parts of eastern Kansas and western Mis-
Syracuse U. To Reinstate Eight Players
By JOE BULLARD
Kansan Sports Editor
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Syracuse University officials have accepted a recommendation by SU football coach Ben Schwartzwalder that eight black athletes previously suspended from the Syracuse football team be reinstated this morning as team members.
The announcement came Tuesday from the office of SU Chancellor John Corbally and is the latest development in a series of racial problems involving the Syracuse Athletic Department and black athletes.
Schwartzwalder made his recommendation following a vote by football squad members to take the eight players back on the team.
Jordanian Troops Confront Syrians; Intervention by Israelis Possible
By United Press International Thousands of Jordanian troops poured into northwest Jordan Tuesday for what could be a showdown battle with Syrian-supported Palestinian guerrillas, Israeli military sources said. The same sources raised the first hints of Israeli military intervention in the increasingly bloody war.
As thousands of American troops remain on alert for a possible move into Jordan to save stranded Americans, the Israel sources said Israeli units may move into Jordan if King Hussein is overthrown to take over strategic mountain positions overlooking Israeli frontier settlements.
Yasser Arafat, leader of Al Fatah guerrillas fighting in Jordan, said 20.000 Palestinians had been killed or wounded in the six-day civil war and charged that the landing of U.S. troops in Jordan could be only hours away.
Part of the crisis moved Tuesday into the diplomatic arena as the White House announced that King Hussein had asked the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain and
The Israeli sources said the thrust would probably be aimed at the Gilead mountain range. This would give the Israelis a shot at Arab guerrillas who have harassed and shelled Israeli villages along the border since the June, 1967, war.
France to put presure on Syria to get its tanks out of northern Jordan.
There was no firm word on whether Hussein had also asked for American military assistance, and Washington
dispatches said only that the United States would protect Americans in Jordan. President Nixon was reported to have told Senate minority leader Hugh Scott that the White House is "prepared to
preserve the interests of the United States in the current Middle East crisis."
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The State Department said Nixon was emphasizing diplomatic rather than military force. (ORGANIZATION)
Shultz Statement Repudiated
By BOB VELSIR Kansan Staff Writer
The comment by State Sen. Reynolds Shultz that "Lawrence didn't lose a thing when that boy was killed" has caused considerable political comment this week.
Clyde Reed, Republican editor of the Parsons Sun said Shultz should quit the ticket. In an editorial printed Monday entitled "Road to Disaster," Reed said, "Shultz, a narrow winner in the primary, should zip his lip for the duration of the campaign. Better yet, he should withdraw from the ticket lest he become too big a load of coal for the GOP before November. He most likely will do neither."
Republicans contacted by the Kansan have been quick to point out that Shultz was speaking for himself and not the party.
Bill Falstad, Republican state chairman, said, "Sen. Shultz was speaking for himself as any candidate has the right to do at any time. He wasn't speaking for me or the Republican party. My personal feeling is that when a human life is lost it certainly is a tragedy and a loss to the family as well as the city even though circumstances might have made the act necessary."
A spokesman for the KU College Republican Club said their organization would have no comment on Shultz. The State Chairman of the College Republicans, Pat Hill of Topeka, said, "his statement does not represent the College Republicans. We are concerned with human life and we hope Sen. Shultz is also. Hill added that he hoped Shultz would make a clarification of his statement before much longer.
Kansas Democrats were generally reserved in their comments. There was no comment from Governor Docking's office Tuesday. The only comment Democratic
State Chairman Norbert Dreiling would offer was, "A statement like that is beneath contempt. Dowdell was a human being and a statement like Shultz's doesn't deserve any sort of response, political or otherwise."
The incumbent Lt. Governor, James DeCoursey, was far more vocal however. "If Senator Shultz's statement was reported accurately, as seems to be the case, every other Republican candidate should join in repudiating his candidacy. At this critical time we must have responsible, rational men leading our government. It is inconceivable to me that the Kansas Republican party could continue to support a man as its nominee for Lt. Governor who displays that lack of commitment for human life."
"Sen. Shultz's apparent insensitivity to the loss of human life in his own community is a betrayal of the party of Lincoln," DeCoursey added.
The statement came from university officials only hours after Lee Alexander, Syracuse mayor, announced he was considering seeking an injunction to halt the Kansas-Syracuse football game Saturday in order to prevent demonstrators from disrupting the game.
Schwartzwalder told the players Tuesday night if they didn't react favorably to some sort of arrangement of taking the suspended players back that there was a chance Saturday's game with Kansas might be cancelled.
Schwartzwalder said, "We'll take the suspended players back to play the game."
Samuel Hemingway, editor of the Daily Orange, the Syracuse student newspaper, said rumors had been circulated on the SU campus during the week that demonstrations would be held during the football game unless the blacks were reinstated on the team.
Hemingway said the reinstatement of the blacks would ease tensions on the Syracuse campus so, that halting the football game would probably not be necessary.
The statement from the chancellor's office said:
"Coach Ben Schwartzwalder tonight recommended to chancellor John Corbally the reinstation of eight suspended black athletes after a squad vote to take the players back. Chancellor Corbally announced he was accepting the recommendations of Schwartzwalder."
The black athletes were suspended from the SU football team when they failed to appear at spring practice, charging Schwartzwaler and his coaching staff with racial discrimination.
Schwartzwaler refused to invite the blacks to play this year, at which time the eight players filed suit with the Syracuse-Onandaga County Human Rights Commission.
The commission, working with the university, arrived at a solution which the blacks declined. They refused to sign a statement saying they absolved the university of any responsibility in the matter.
Corbally then broke off negotiations and suspended the players for the rest of the year.
Last weekend the blacks presented Corbally with another petition and the chancellor responded by establishing a commission to study the discrimination charges filed by the blacks against the coaching staff.