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Thursday, Sept. 17, 1970
University Daily Kansan
News Capsules
By United Press International
Detroit: UAW Strike
United Auto Workers President Leonard Woodcook took a turn on the picket line Wednesday and then began a cross-country swing to consult with union locals about the $800 million-a-week strike against General Motors. Nearly 350,000 UAW workers were off the job at 138 plants in the United States and Canada. Employees are losing $12 million a day in wages and the company is losing $90 million a day in sales, said Earl R. Bramblett, GM vice president and chief company negotiator. GM suppliers are losing $40 million a day and the tax loss to all levels of government was estimated at $20 million a day in the United States and Canada, he said.
Capital: Rail Strike
WASHINGTON, D.C.-A federal judge dropped contempt proceedings Wednesday against four unions which briefly struck three major railroads despite his no-strike order issued 11 minutes before a midnight Monday walk-out deadline. U.S. District Judge Howard F. Corcoran vacated his order for the unions to show cause why they should not be held in contempt, and possibly fined, after an attorney for the railroads assured the judge all the strikers had returned to their jobs and service was restored on the Southern Pacific, Chesapeake & Ohio and Baltimore and Ohio lines.
Illinois: Teacher Strike
EAST ST. LOUIS—The opening of schools for the East St. Louis school district's 22,000 students was called off Wednesday after only a handful of teachers appeared for classes. The Board of Education attempted to begin classes—originally scheduled to begin Sept. 1—even though no contract agreement had been reached with teachers. When nearly all of the district's 1,000 teachers stayed away in the morning, school officials cancelled plans for the afternoon opening. No new opening date was set.
Capital: Popular Vote
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Senate head counts Wednesday indicated that efforts to prevent a Southern-led filibuster against one-man, one-vote elections for the presidency will fail—probably killing for the time being the move for electoral change. Opponents to the direct vote provision say the change would give excessive electoral powers to a few populous states.
Mississippi: Student Loan
JACKSON—Mississippi's new student loan program to assist pupils attending private schools was declared unconstitutional Wednesday in a federal court ruling. A three-judge federal panel ruled that a statute approved during the 1969 special session of the legislature providing for $200-a-yar loans to children enrolled in non-public second schools, including parochial schools, is unconstitutional and ordered the state "restrained, enjoined and prohibited" from enforcing the law.
Uruguay: Kidnaping
MONTEVIDEO—Police hinted Wednesday they have a new lead to the whereabouts of Claude L. Fry, 65, of Fort Collins, Colo., and Brazilian Consul Aloysio Dias Gomide, 41, kidnapped by leftist Tupamaro terrorists six weeks ago and held hostage since. Informed sources said one of three terrorists captured in a bombing attack on a communications firm last Monday night admitted taking part in the kidnaping of the two foreigners.
London: Heath
Rank and file delegates of the governing Conservative party Wednesday overwhelmingly backed Prime Minister Edward Heath's plans to take Britain into the Common Market, keep British forces east of Suez and resume arms sales to South Africa. But they served notice in resolutions submitted for debate at the party's annual convention at Blackpool that they want Heath's government to act quickly on the party's election pledges to curb inflation and wildcat strikes, trim labor union powers and slash taxes.
Capital: Enlistees
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Pentagon disclosed Wednesday that nearly one-fifth of the voluntary enlistments from the Selective Service lottery pool this year have been men with numbers virtually exempting them from the draft. Assistant Defense Secretary Roger T. Kelley told a news conference that 18 per cent of these enlistments during the first six months of the year were from the "bottom third" of the draft vulnerability list—men with numbers above 240. The total enlistments during the period were 90,000.
Buenos Aires: Bombings
A wave of indiscriminate terrorist bombings swept Buenos Aires Wednesday as supporters of ousted dictator Juan D. Peron called for "war" in observance of the 15th anniversary of his overthrow. Principal targets of the Peronists were the homes of military leaders and government buildings. By official count, 14 small bombs exploded, for the most part scorching doorways and rattling windows. Peron, overthrown in 1955, ruled Argentina with an iron hand for nine years. Now 75, he lives in exile in Madrid, Spain.
Hussein Gives Rein To Army
AMMAN (UPI)—King Hussein placed his government in the hands of the army Wednesday, and Palestinian guerrillas called for an urgent meeting of the 14-nation Arab League to discuss the "criminal and serious conspiracy" created by the new regime.
In another development, 11 Palestinian guerrilla groups united under the military command of Yasser Arafat in an effort to stop the fighting between the army and the comandos, which is threatening to spark a civil war.
Arafat, chief of both the Palestinian Central Committee and Al Fatah, the major commando unit, accused Hussein of trying to crush the Palestinian movement and make peace with Israel. Yet Arafat issued an order to all guerrillas in Jordan forbidding them to fire on army troops except in self defense.
MEANWHILE Premier Golda Meir dampened hopes that her country would exchange Arab prisoners for the release of 54 Western hostages held by Palestinian guerrillas.
Speaking upon arrival in New York to address the 25th United Nations General Assembly, Mrs. Meir said in regard to the Arab prisoners: "They must serve their terms. I am sorry."
Arab guerrillas holding the 54 hostages from three hijacked airliners somewhere in the Jordanian capital of Amman have demanded the release of an unspecified number of Arabs imprisoned in Israel and seven of their fellow commandos jailed in Europe for the freedom of the hostages.
Mrs. Meir's comments came amid reports from Bern, Switzerland that Israel was softening its stand against releasing prisoners.
HUSSEIN'S ACTION placed the army under Marshal Habes Al-Majali, long considered by Palestinian guerrillas to be a major enemy, Majali, as commander-in-chief, immediately appointed military governors for all of Jordan's districts.
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Jordan has been under martial law since the 1967 Middle East War.
"We cannot say where Mrs. Meir will stay for reasons of security," explained Gabriel Padon, a member of the consulate staff. When told of the Waldorf's disclosure, he exclaimed, "I can't believe it!"
While the Israeli consulate was refusing Wednesday to divulge to newsmen the name of the New York hotel at which Mrs. Meir would stay, the Waldorf-Astoria issued a press release announcing "Golda Meir arrives at the Waldorf-Astoria today."
Mrs. Meir will stay overnight in the Waldorf's presidential suite and fly to Washington Thursday.
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