No Surprise
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Fog with occasional drizzle this morning becoming partly cloudy and warmer by this afternoon. Clear to partly cloudy tonight and Saturday. High today 78 to 85. Low tonight low to mid 60s.
81st Year, No. 14 The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas Friday, September 18, 1970
Bogus Checks
See page 7
Kansan Photo by MIKE SHURTZ
THE OLD STATUE of the Jayhawk that is so familiar to students "hanging around" the Union has been moved again. Now the mythical bird roosts behind the Union along Baumgartner Drive. Yet he is proud, even in his secluded hideaway that is shaded from the afternoon sun. Hopefully, he will not be forgotten by those who do his bidding.
Jordanians Bombard Amman; Guerrillas Deny Loss to Army
BULLETIN
Marshal Habes Al-Majali, the Jordanian commander in chief, ordered a temporary cease-fire today in the civil war to permit any guerrillas who so desired to desert to his army. The move came after Beirut reports said Palestine commandes from Syria and Lebanon were streaming into Jordan to aid the guerrillas.
Majali, in a communique broadcast by Amman radio, said the cease-fire was put into effect at 5 a.m. It followed a renewal of heavy fighting in the capital city of Amman and half a dozen cities to the north.
Guerrillas Said Responsible For Hijack Hostages' Safety
CHICAGO (UPI)—President Nixon, in a warning that carried a threat of possible retaliation, said Thursday that Palestinian guerrillas would be held responsible for the safety of hijack hostages they are holding.
The President authorized the statement after conferring by telephone with Dr. Henry A. Kissinger, his national security adviser, to gain a report on the fighting in Jordan and Lebanon. He also talked by telephone with Secretary of State William P. Rogers, the white House said.
While Nixon was meeting with Chicago newspaper executives in the windup of a two-day Midwest tour, White House Press Secretary Ronald A. Ziegler issued a statement that "the President wants it clearly understood that the
holding of American citizens as hostages is to be abhorred. and also that those who hold American citizens as hostages will be held responsible for their safety."
By United Press International
Nixon backed up the statement in his own words a few hours later when he attended a "Citizenship Day" reception for 140 persons due to take the oath as naturalized citizens
See Guerrillas page 16
Jordanian army troops, backed by heavy artillery and armored units, fought their way into Amman Thursday and claimed to have crushed the Arab guerrilla movement there. The guerrillas denied the army had won and said they would "fight to the bitter end."
Fires burned in the city from the bombardment and a number of homes and buildings lay in ruins. The United States said it was "perpared to evacuate" Americans from Jordan if necessary.
Palestinian guerrillas claimed Thursday night to have "liberated" Northern Jordan from army rule and set up their own government headed by Mahmoud Roussan, former Jordanian ambassador to Washington. The statement was issued over the guerrilla radio, the Voice of Palestine, and monitored in Jerusalem.
In a late night statement issued in Amman, the guerrillas claimed they were in full control of the city, but that army troops surrounded the capital. News reporters on the scene, however, sent dispatches to the outside world through diplomatic channels saying that Jordanian troops and armor blasted their way into Amman after 13 hours of fighting.
By late afternoon Thursday, the Western reporters said guerrilla troops and army units were locked in what appeared to be the final showdown battle for the city. The army's heavy guns fixed around Amman
pumped salvo after salvo into the city.
The exact number of casualties were not known, but guerrilla officials said Palestinians were mowed down by the score.
In Jordan, guerrilla leaders appealed to Iraq to intervene in the fighting. Iraq has 12,000 to 15,000 troops in Jordan and both Iraq and Syria have sided with the guerrillas in their opposition to Jordan's King Hussein and the military government installed Wednesday.
The military government clamped an indefinite curfew on Amman and said anyone caught on the streets would be shot.
Guerrilla spokesmen said the Jordanian army is expected "to attempt to surge into Amman during the night or in the morning." They denounced Amman radio broadcasts claiming the army had crushed the guerrillas in Amman as lies.
Western diplomatic sources in Beirut said they had received reports that the American embassy in Amman had been hit twice at roof-top level, probably with mortars. They said, however, that there were no casualties and no assessment of damage.
Some of Thursday's toughest battles centered around the Wahdat refugee camp, Amman's biggest, which holds about 31,000 Palestinians, guerrilla sources said.
It was there that some of the Western hostages from three planes hijacked to Jordan were believed to be heed. Their fate could not be determined.
Senator Denounces Coverage of Nixon
WASHINGTON (UPI)—Senate Republican leader Hugh Scott angrily criticized television news commentators Thursday for building "calculated bias" into their broadcasts, particularly in coverage of President Nixon.
Scott, fuming, interrupted a Senate rehash of Nixon's appearance at Kansas State University Wednesday to accuse NBC of a "deliberate attempt to be biased" in evaluating the President's speech.
He said that "the NBC commentator," whom he did not name, implied that Nixon had chosen to appear at Kansas State because it was a "friendly university." This, Scott said,
gave "an implication that he would not dare speak anywhere else" for fear of dissident demonstrations.
"I am simply fed up with this kind of broadcast reporting," Scott snapped. "The press did not do it. The newspapers did not do it. They reported the speech perfectly fairly and perfectly objectively. Even the newspapers that had been criticized by people of my party reported it objectively and fairly.
"It is time the networks pulled up their socks and realized how many people in this country they are making angry by these assertions of calculated bias."
Kansan Staff Photo by GREG SORBER
On The Air
President Nixon was mirrored in a cameraman's monitor as he gave his address to 15,000
students in Kansas State's Ahearn Field House Wednesday. A senator has criticized press coverage of the nationally televised Landon lecture.