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Tuesday, Sept. 15, 1970
University Daily Kansan
News Capsules
By United Press International
Detroit: UAW Strike
The United Auto Workers struck General Motors Corp., the world's largest manufacturing company, at midnight Monday after negotiators failed to agree on a new three-year contract. The strike followed 60 days of inconclusive bargaining that left both sides far apart on basic issues of money, early retirement and cost-of-living allowances. Economists feared a lengthy strike would damage the uneasy national economy.
Capital: Popular Vote
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Both sides expressed readiness Monday for an early Senate vote—possibly later this week—on a constitutional amendment providing for direct, popular election of presidents. Debate on the historic amendment, already approved in the House, was in its second week in the Senate. As approved by the House, the amendment would abolish the Electoral College and substitute direct election of the president and vice president on a one-man-one-vote basis.
Secretary General U Thant said Monday night that aircraft hijackers should be brought before an international tribunal without immunity or amnesty. Speaking at the 25th U.N. anniversary dinner of the U.N. Association of the United States, Thant said, "It is high time that we go to the root of this phenomenon and treat its causes with novel remedies and not with old-time recipes to which it is largely immune."
United Nations: Hijackers
Louisiana: Integration
BOGALUSA—Police broke up a brawl between 600 Negro and white students with tear gas Monday at a high school here, and officials closed all public schools indefinitely after the brawl. Police Chief Thomas J. Mixon said the fight was a "combination of provocation between both races." Four policemen and several black and white students were injured. Bogalusa's schools were integrated last year.
Mideast: Abba Eban
Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban said today the chances of peace in the Middle East were receding day by day because of continued Egyptian violations of the cease-fire and Arab guerrilla air piracy. Eban defended the mass arrests of suspected Arab guerrillas and sympathizers in Israeli-occupied territory over the weekend. He denied they were being held as hostages and denounced the "gangsters and murderers" holding hijacked airline passengers in Jordan.
New York: Cassius Clay
A federal judge ruled Monday that the New York State Athletic Commission had been "arbitrary and unreasonable" in its decision to deny a boxing license to Cassius Clay. The next step for Clay is to file another application for a license with the New York Commission, though the commission can appeal Judge Walter Mansfield's decision. Clay has signed to meet Jerry Quarry in Atlanta Oct. 26.
Nevada: Agnew
LAS VEGAS—Vice President Spiro T. Agnew assailed entertainers, parents, broadcasters and the press Monday for helping to foster a spreading drug culture in the United States. Because adults have not listened carefully or looked closely at the music, movies and underground publications of the youth culture, Agnew said, "blatant drug-culture propaganda" has pervaded the nation. Speaking at a $110-a-plate dinner for Nevada Republican political candidates, Agnew said that "all the while that this brainwashing has been going on, most of us have regarded it as good, clean noisy fun."
Primaries Held Today In 6 States
By United Press International
Former Vice-President Hubert H. Humphrey, bidding for another term as senator from Minnesota, and Democratic Sen. Joseph D. Tydings, battling for renomination in Maryland, were expected to overcome stiff opposition today in two of the key primary elections being held by six states.
Humphrey, who gave up his seat in the Senate in 1964 to become vice president, is running for the seat held by Democrat Eugene J. McCarthy, who is retiring. His opponent is Earl Craig Jr., a 31-year-old black peace candidate who has the support of many voters who supported McCarthy's 1968 presidential campaign.
Other states holding primaries today are Massachusetts, R h o d e Island and Washington, and Oklahoma has a runoff for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination.
Tydings, trying for a second term in the Senate, has gotten unexpected opposition from conservative George P. Mahoney, a 68-year-old construction firm owner who has failed eight times to win a senate or gubernatorial race in Maryland. Mahoney has benefitted from a strong campaign against Tydings by the nation's gun lobby, which was angered by legislation he sponsored to control and license ownership of guns.
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Cambodians Withdraw
By KATE WEBB
PHNOM PENH (UPI) — A 4,000-man Cambodian task force withdrew from the village of Tang Kauk under Communist fire Monday in a battle that marked its first major contact with the enemy. The Cambodian commander said it was a strategic maneuver, not a retreat.
The commander of the Cambodian force, Brig. Gen. Neak Sam, reported 13 of his men killed
and 87 wounded in a nine-hour mortar and artillery duel with North Vietnamese and Viet Cong units holding Tang Kauk.
TANG KAUK, 52 miles north of Phnom Penh, is a major objective in what was described as "the mission of the long march" by the 4,000-man Cambodian force trying to clear Communist forces from Highway 6. It cuts through the center of Cambodia.
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