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Friday, Sept. 18, 1970
University Daily Kansan
News Capsules
By United Press International
Los Angeles: Chicanos
The second major disturbance within three weeks in the nation's largest Mexican-American community resulted Thursday in 68 arrests and injuries to 88 persons. Militant Chicanos said that a primary reason for the latest outbreak of violence was the lack of a site for a rally following a peaceful parade celebrating Mexico's independence day. One sheriff's deputy and two civilians helping authorities were wounded by sniper fire during the night. Tear gas was used to break up a crowd estimated at 1,000.
Detroit: UAW Strike
Touring United Auto Workers leaders Thursday worked for a speed-up of negotiations on local issues at 126 strikebound General Motors Corp. plants in the United States and Canada. Top level meeting with local GM leaders were begun by four two-man UAW teams. They will continue until Monday, on a coast-to-coast basis. Earl Bramblett, GM vice president in charge of personnel, said the time would be "well spent."
Capital: Candy Bars
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The manufacturer of Oh Henry candy bars moved Thursday to take its products off the market following disclosure by the Food and Drug Administration that about one million bars might be contaminated with salmonella. Salmonella is a bacterial germ which causes stomach upsets and diarrhea. The product recalled by Williamson Candy Co., Chicago, a division of Warner-Lambert Pharmaceutical Co., include four brands of candy bars—Oh Henry, Choc-O-Nuts, Salted Nut Roll and Nut Clusters.
New Mexico: Airliner
ALBUQUERQUE—FBI agents Thursday arrested an Albuquerque man on charges of threatening to blow up an airliner under a $20,000 ransom demand. The telephone threat was made Wednesday night involving a Continental Airlines jet en route to Phoenix, Ariz. Continental refused to pay the ransom. Ray Adams, 29, was arrested at his home after FBI agents traced telephone calls placed to Continental's Denver ticket office.
Ohio: Teacher Strike
TOLEDO—Lucas County Judge George Kiroff told the city's 2,500 striking public school teachers Thursday to return to work or be fired under Ohio's Ferguson Act. Kirkoff agreed to invoke the act, which prohibits strikes by public employees with a penalty of immediate dismissal, but said he would delay signing the order to give the teachers an opportunity to return to classrooms. The teachers struck after the school board rejected their demand for a $7,200 annual minimum and $15,000 top salary.
Capital: Death Penalty
WASHINGTON, D.C.-Rep. William C. Cramer, R-Fla., sponsor of the antiriot act under which the "Chicago Seven" were indicted, introduced a bill Thursday that would provide the death penalty for killing a policeman. Cramer said he considered the recent upsurge in attacks on policemen across the nation to be part of a revolutionary movement. "We must put these revolutionaries out of business," he said. His new bill also calls for a 10-year prison sentence or $10,000 fine for assaulting an officer even if the assault does not result in injury.
Chicago: Nixon
President Nixon accepted an impromptu invitation to hobnob with some hardhats Thursday. The President had just emerged from a conference with executives of the Chicago Daily News and the Chicago Sun-Times when a man in the crowd said, "Hey, Mr. President, how about coming across the street and talking to some hardhats?" Nixon pushed aside a wooden sawhorse, strolled to the construction site of a new skyscraper and spent five minutes shaking hands and chatting with the workers there.
Florida: Desegregation
TALLLAHASSEE—The Leon County school board hired nine agents Thursday to track down parents "lying and cheating" about where they live in order to defy total desegregation. They will work from a list of names which Superintendent Freeman Ashmore said included those suspected of living at one address but claiming another on their children's school assignment cards. "We've got to run a police state when we've got literally hundreds of people here who are trying to evade the law," said a school board member.
Chicago: First Lady
The nation's First Lady Thursday urged American women to accept the challenge of volunteer work and predicted that in the mini-midi battle of skirt lengths, "women are going to wear what they like." Pat Nixon said one of here chief activities as she accompanies her husband on a European trip later this month will be the promotion of more volunteer work by women. Mrs Nixon wore what she called a "below-the-knee" aqua dress and declined to define it as a midi length. "I don' know if it's a longuette," she said, "It's sort of compromise. All my new things are in this length."
United States To Propose Hijack Policy
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The United States will today propose an international air boycott of any country that harbors airline hijackers or detains hijacked planes, their passengers or crew members, the State Department announced.
Transportation Secretary John A. Volpe will lead a U.S. delegation at a special meeting of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) in Montreal to press for a world treaty aimed at assuring swift extradition and trial of hijackers
The organization's 119 member nations will be asked to suspend air service to any country that refuses to extradite or prosecute hijackers or detains hijacked planes and travelers.
The United States will ask the ICAO legal committee to draft an international treaty covering such situations when it meets in London Sept. 29.
The delegation to Montreal, which also includes John H. Shaffer, administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, was named by President Nixon, who last week put armed government guards on U.S. airliners as a deterrent to hijacking.
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