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Wednesday, Sept. 9, 1970
University Daily Kansan
News Capsules
By United Press International
Mideast: Cease-fire
Arab guerrillas, charging the Jordanian army with killing 20 of their members shortly after a cease-fire went into effect, announced Tuesday night they had broken the pact because of Jordan's failure to implement it. A statement by the Central Committee of Palestinian Organizations, the ruling body of the guerrillas, said that, "Before the ink of the agreement was dry, the agent authorities—the 405th Armored Brigade—shelled commando bases in Ibid." Therefore, the committee said, "the joint government-commando agreement must be considered as cancelled."
Washington: Draft
Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird has ordered the Armed Forces to draw manpower from the National Guard and the Reserves in any future rapid military buildup, instead of depending on increased draft calls. The Defense Department said Tuesday that the order was issued Aug. 21. It represents a major U.S. policy change. About 982,000 men are members of Guard and Reserve outfits. Laird also called for modern combat equipment, as well as improved training, to be provided for those units.
Washington: Rail Strike
Under government prodding, negotiators for the nation's railroads and four unions resumed contract talks Tuesday just 24 hours away from a threatened strike that could shut down the country's entire rail system. Four unions, representing 600,000 railroad employees, are seeking wage increases comparable to the 46 per cent pay boost the Teamsters won this year in a 39-month contract with the trucking industry. If the negotiators are unsuccessful, the only recourse still available to the government would be for President Nixon to appoint an emergency fact-finding board to delay a walkout for another 60 days.
Detroit: Corvair vs. Nader
General Motors said Tuesday that Ralph Nader used GM tests in which Corvairs were deliberately turnd over to back his claim that the car was unsafe. GM President Edward M. Cole said reports cited by Nader came from tests run by GM engineers testing the handling characteristics of the car. Those Corvairs, "specially equipped with experimental parts, were intentionally overturned by experienced test drivers using violent maneuvers designed to overturn them," Cole said.
Topeka: Rock Festival
Attorney General Kent Frizzell said Tuesday his office didn't intervene with alleged violations of the drug law at the rock music festival near Pittsburg because no request was received from local officials. Sedgwick County Sheriff Vern Miller, Democratic attorney general candidate, had attacked Frizzell for inaction during the three-day festival.
Boston: Cardinal Cushing
Pope Paul VI accepted Tuesday the resignation of Cardinal Richard J. Cushing, the Archbishop of Boston. Bishop Humberto S. Medeiros of Brownsville, Tex., was named to succeed Cushing, who gave as reasons for retirement his age and "uncertain health." A longtime friend of the Kennedy family, Cushing presided at John F. Kennedy's wedding to Jaqueline Bouvier in 1953, delivered a prayer at Kennedy's inauguration as President in 1961, and helped bury him after his assassination in 1963.
Washington: Electoral College
Sen. Birch Bayh, D-Ind., opening what could be a month-long debate on abolition of the Electoral College, said Tuesday the U.S. system of presidential elections "is inherently inconsistent with the most fundamental concept of a democratic society." Bayh is chief Senate sponsor of the proposed Constitutional amendment, already approved by the House, that would provide direct, popular election of Presidents and Vice Presidents. To finish the reform process, at least two-thirds of the Senate, 67 members if all are present and voting, and three-fourths of the states, at least 38, must also approve the change.
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Carswell Defeated In Florida Primary
MIAMI (UPI)—Veteran Congressman William Cramer crushed G. Harrold Carswell Tuesday night in the Florida Republican primary for the U.S. Senate, which rejected Carswell's Supreme Court nomination six months ago.
Cramer, a 16-year veteran of Congress and a staunch opponent of "cop-killers, bombers and burners," won the three-man primary without a runoff.
With 39 per cent of the vote in, Cramer had 82,434 votes-62 per cent-to 45,842 for former Federal Judge Carswell and 4,121 for political unknown George Balmer.
Docking Agrees To TV Debates
TOPEKA (UPI) — Democratic Gov. Robert B. Docking and his Republican challenger, Attorney General Kent Frizzell, will appear in face-to-face broadcast debates at least five times before the Nov. 3 general election.
Docking's office announced Tuesday debate offers from WIBW-TV, Topeka; KTSB-TV, Topeka; KMBC-TV, Kansas City; KAKE-TV, Wichita, and KTOP Radio, Topeka, had been accepted. Frizzell had previously accepted the offers.
No times have been scheduled yet for the debates.
A small town political unknown, Dale Bumpers, defeated former six-term Gov. Orval E. Faubus for the Democratic Gubernatorial nomination.
With 2,384 of 2,742 precincts reporting, Bumpers had 220,348 votes to Faubus' 161,715.
Bumpers won the primary runoff against Faubus, whom he accused of injecting "racism" into the campaign.
Bumpers will face Republican Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller in the November general election.
Faubus campaigned against Bumpers, a 45-year-old attorney from Charleston, in western Arkansas, on what the former Governor said was his stronger opposition to busing of school children to achieve racial balance.
Bumpers said he also was opposed to busing of school children.
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