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Wednesday, Sept. 16, 1970
University Daily Kansan
News Capsules
By United Press International
Detroit: UAW Strike
The assembly lines of General Motors Corp., the nation's No.1 auto maker, were shut down today by a midnight strike of 343,610 United Auto Workers in 16 states and Canada. First effects were almost immediate as automotive suppliers began laying off workers. UAW President Leonard Woodcock said GM gave the union "no other choice" but to strike after 60 days of negotiations failed to produce a new three-year contract.
Mideast: Egyptian Criticism
CAIRO—Egypt said Tuesday night the United States had failed to carry out its Middle East peace initiative and called for resumption of Big Four talks in an effort to settle the crisis. "It became clear that the United States had failed to carry out its role as a just mediator and returned to her traditional policy of supporting Israeli aggression," Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad told a news conference in Cairo. He said it was now necessary to return to the French initiative and activate the four power talks to work for the implementation of the Security Council's 1967 Middle East resolution. The Big Four powers are the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain and France.
Capital: Filibuster Break
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Senate Democratic leader Mike Mansfield invoked a rarely used parliamentary device Tuesday to break a Southern-led filibuster against a constitutional amendment applying the one-man-one-vote principle to presidential elections. Mansfield filed a petition for cloution—which must carry by a two-thirds majority—to bring the amendment itself to a vote. Under the Senate rules, the vote on the cloture petition will occur automatically one hour after the Senate convenes on Thursday.
Capital: Airline Guards
WASHINGTON, D.C.-U.S. airline passengers will pay the $28 million bill for security guards on commercial flights to guard against hijackings. The Transportation Department asked Congress Tuesday to increase the excise tax on domestic airline tickets from 8 per cent to $1/2 per cent. The head tax on overseas flights would jump from $3 to $5. The added taxes would raise an estimated $28 million to the airport-airways trust fund, the same amount President Nixon said would be needed to defray the cost of 2,500 security guards.
Kansas: Rock Festivals
WICHITA—Gov. Robert B. Docking said today he would not allow any future gatherings such as the recent rock music festival near Weir to be used "to sell and use illegal drugs." Docking said in a speech to a law enforcement association that he was serving notice on the organizers and promoters of the festivals that the laws of the state would be enforced. "The people of this state cannot, and will not tolerate this kind of subversive illegal drug traffic," he said.
Vatican City: Armed Forces
Pope Paul VI announced today he is disbanding all Vatican armed forces except the Swiss Guards to emphasize the religious nature of his mission. The Pope announced his decision in a letter to his secretary of state, Cardinal Jean Villot. He said he was dissolving the papal gendarmerie, noble guard and Palatine guard "so that all things surrounding the successor of Peter may clearly manifest the religious character of his mission."
Capital: Anti-busing
Several more House members added their names to an anti-busing plea addressed to the Supreme Court Tuesday, bringing to 54 the number of members of Congress formally urging that school busing to achieve racial balance be declared unconstitutional. The list, still growing, includes a scattering of House members from outside the South, including three each from California and Indiana, and one Senator, Republican Strom Thurmond of South Carolina.
Capital: Rail Strike
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Striking rail workers acceded to a court injunction Tuesday and returned to work on three major lines, restoring service for thousands of commuters in Washington, San Francisco and other cities. One Southern Pacific passenger train halted in mid-run by the midnight walkout Monday resumed its trip to San Francisco hours later with only 35 of its original 111 passengers, the others having switched to buses.
London: Loch Ness
A team of American scientists and explorers said Tuesday it would use a special infrared camera in a new bid to photograph the Loch Ness monster. The team, led by Jack Ullrich, a consultant to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., begins a two-week hunt for "Nessie" Thursday at Loch Ness in Scotland. "The Loch Ness monster is no longer a myth but a reality supported by substantial evidence," Ullrich said.
NEW ORLEANS (UPI) — Two hundred police flushed 15 Black Panthers from their sandbagged headquarters today with gunfire and tear gas. No one was injured during the "tremendous exchange of fire."
Police End 'Night of Terror'
Police Superintendent Clarence Giarrusso ordered the officers into the black neighborhood to end a night he called "a reign of terror" by the Black Panthers
Police and blacks exchanged gunfire for 15 minutes. The Panthers were flushed from the concrete block house by tear gas.
The crack of automatic rifles was heard with the boom of shot-guns. Police helicopters circled above the gun battle. Police used "Big Bertha," an armor-plated truck, to storm the headquarters
"Most of the fire came from the house," Giarrusso said. But one policeman, in a bulletproof vest, said he fired at least 100 rounds from his rifle.
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"It was a tremendous exchange of fire," Giarrusso said.
He said the 15 Black Pantnets would be accused of a variety of charges, including attempted murder.
Police said rifles, shotguns and pistols were found on the second floor of the brown-painted Panther building, located at 3542 Piety Street, 35 blocks south of downtown New Orleans.
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