University Daily Kansan
Monday, Sept. 14, 1970
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Jury Rig
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Any port in a storm, but protection on the way to the port requires a little more thought. Peter
Dart, associate professor of radio, television and film, found a bumbershoot handy during the weekend's wet weather. A combination of sprinkles, drizzles and mist put many umbrellas to similar—though more orthodox—use.
Cambodians Enter Tang Kauk
By KATE WEBB
PHNOM PENH (UPI)—A 4,000man Cambodian task force carrying out Cambodia's largest military operation of the war fought its way into the southern portion of Tang Kauk Sunday in daylong battle against Viet Cong troops.
The Communists continued to hold the center of the city, 52 miles north of Phnom Penh, at nightfall. A Cambodian officer said some of them were in a pagoda that was spared from bombardment because it was sacred ground.
American C119 Shadow gunships provided machine gun support for the Cambodian attack.
IN SAIGON, military sources said heavy fighting had broken out around the besieged South Vietnamese fbase O'Reilly, 390 miles north of Saigon.
The sources said North Vietnamese gunners shelled the firebase with at least 150 rounds of 82mm and 120mm mortar fire Saturday and continued the bombardment at a slower rate Sunday.
A battalion of South Vietnamese brought in by helicopter clashed with a battalion-sized unit of North Vietnamese south of O'Reilly and reported killing 10 of the Communists, the sources said. They said the government unit suffered light losses.
O'Reilly has been under siege since July 1, and some sources say the government may abandon it.
THE BATTLE at Tang Kauk was the first heavy engagement for the Cambodian task force that set out six days earlier from Skoun, 17 miles to the south, to drive through the heart of Viet Cong bases and bivouac areas.
Brig. Gen. Neak Sam, commanding the operation, said five Cambodians were killed in the fighting and at least 25 wounded. Military officers said seven dead Viet Cong were found and many other dead and wounded were carried off.
The Cambodians were pinned
The Student Senate expressed "dissatisfaction with the decision denying recognition to the Lawrence Gay Liberation Front as a legitimate student organization," in a resolution passed Wednesday night.
That resolution, authored by Bill Ebert, Topeka senior and student body president, co-signed by five other senate officers, passed last Wednesday night, voicing open opposition of thought to the chancellor's denial of recognition.
Senate Resolution Gives Support to Gay Front
The initial Cambodian assault was stopped just inside the city limits, but, following strong aircraft bombardments, the Cambodians drove to within 700 yards of the city center.
Bradt Named New SenEx Chairman
The new chairman of the University Senate Executive Council (SenEx) is Russell N. Bradt, vice-chairman of the Math Department. Bradt replaces Charles H. Oldfather, associate dean of the Law School.
down in an open rice paddy by heavy Viet Cong fire as they tried to enter the city.
THE VIET CONG were in well-prepared positions with overhead cover.
"Each of the three standing committees at the University have begun meetings this fall," Bradt said.
Bradt said Friday he expected very little new business in the first meeting of the University Council Sept. 17.
The three standing committees are the Academic Procedures and Policies Committee, the Organization and Administration Committee and the Planning and Resources Committee.
For the first time, Cambodia used its own helicopters on loan from the United States, to evacuate casualties.
"I HAVE DISCUSSED the resolution with the chancellor," said Ebert. "There is no animosity, just a difference in thought."
Dave Stout, Rolla senior and co-ordinator of the Front, was pleased with the recognition.
STOUT WAS speaking of a planned written statement to be presented to the Kansas Board of Regents at their next meeting, Sept. 18. This letter will outline the legal aspects concerning the Front's recognition, he said.
"That will be one more point in our favor in our appeal to the regents," said Stout.
"After the chancellor's statement, I felt the Student Senate would withhold action on our recognition," said Stout, "This resolution came as a shock, as did the chancellor's statement."
THE RESOLUTION supported the Gay Liberation Front for two reasons. First, according to the resolution, the Senate finds itself recognizing and funding other organizations which, either directly or indirectly, relate to the "sexual proclivities of students, i.e., the sexuality center of the KU Commission on the Status of Women."
Ebert explained the second reason for support of the Front as a preservation of principles.
The task force was without artillery support when it began the assault, but late in the day the Cambodians brought 122mm Russian-made howitzers to the front.
"That organization has a right to be recognized, as do all other legitimate organizations," he said. There is no basis for discrimination."
Hijackers Release All but 57 Hostages
NEW YORK (UPI)—Two more groups of weary passengers, who were among those hijacked and held hostage by Arab guerrillas, arrived in New York Sunday and were reunited with family and friends, ending their week-long ordeal.
Mrs. Elsa Newman, 76, of New York praised the International Red Cross and the Swiss in general.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, whose members hijacked the three commercial airliners last week, said Sunday it was holding 39 hostages and had released all others aboard the planes. Israel Sunday, warned Palestinian Arab leaders in Jordan that it would take stern measures against guerrilla prisoners unless hijacked air hostages were freed.
Officials of the airlines involved in last week's guerrilla hijackings said, however, that 57 persons had not arrived. Trans World Airlines said 36 passengers and five crewmen from its hijacked plane were still not accounted for. Swissair said five passengers and three crewmen had not yet arrived, as did officials for British Overseas Airways Corp.
ARAB SOURCES said the warning was conveyed to the leaders of the Front in Amman Friday by emissaries selected for
"They looked after us with medicine and food and welcomed us in Zurich like nothing you ever saw," she said.
THE SEVEN were from the hijacked TWA jet and the nine were aboard the Swissair DC-8 that was hijacked.
Nine of Sunday's released passengers were aboard Swissair flight 100 and seven others on a TWA flight arrived at Kennedy International Airport.
the mission by the Israeli occupation authorities. No further details were revealed.
A SPOKESMAN for the Front in Amman, Abu Maher, shrugged off reports of mass arrests of Arabs in the Israeli-occupied territories. "We do not care what the Israelis do, because this is a different situation. It does not affect the hostages," he said.
Disclosure of the warning came as military sources reported that 450 Arabs were rounded up in weekend raids in the occupied west bank of Jordan and the Gaza Strip. The sources refused to comment on reports that the arrests were carried out to exert pressure on the Front to release the hostages.
The Israeli cabinet met for five hours during the day to discuss the plight of the Israeli an other hostages being held by the Front to back demands for the release of seven Arab guerrillas held in Europe and a number of others in Israeli captivity.
The Soviet Union, in their first comment on the Arab guerrilla hijackings last week, blamed Israel and the United States Sunday for creating the tensions that led to the seizure and destruction of four Western jetliners.
A commentary published by the official Soviet Communist newspaper Pravda said Israel and some Western capitals were using the hijackings as a pretext to wreck the Middle East peace talks
"The increasingly tougher stand of Tel Aviv is a result of the fact that official Washington, which first declined to recognize Israeli fabrications of seas-fire violations against Egypt, changed its line and sided with it—pouring oil on the flames of Middle East tensions," Pravda said.