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81st Year, No. 7 The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas Wednesday, Sept. 9, 1970
Peace At Pittsburg See page 7
Kansan Photo by JIM HOFFMAN
Congressional Candidate
THE NIXON BUDGET is "shamefully unbalanced in the sense of nation priorities," said Lt. Governor James DeCoursey at a meeting of the KU Young Democrats Tuesday night, DeCoursey also took pokes at his opponent for the congressional seat from the Third District, Republican Larry Winn, saying Winn's record was "at best mediocre." In the question-and-answer period after his address, DeCoursey fielded questions on topics ranging from ecology to U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. (See Story, page 12)
Arab Guerrillas Increase Ransom On Passengers
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BEIRUT (UPI)—Hijackers identified as Arab guerrillas today seized a British BOAC airliner with 113 persons aboard and said they had ordered it to fly to Dawson's Field outside Amman where 184 hijack victims were being held aboard two other planes.
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By United Press International
International Red Cross officials said Tuesday that Arab guerrillas were now demanding that Israel release 3,000 Arab prisoners it holds as an additional condition for freeing about 300 hijacked airliner
passengers and crewmen held hostage in Jordan.
The stepped-up ransom demand was reported even as the United States, Britain, West Germany, Switzerland and Israel consulted a possible package deal with Arab guerrillas that would gain release of the hostages before guerrillas might carry out a threat to blow up two hijacked jets with many passengers still aboard.
A THREE-MAN mediation mission of the International Red Cross flew into the Jordanian capital of Amman with food and medical supplies for 300 or more passengers and crew of TWA and Swissair jetliners hijacked by guerrillas Sunday to a desert airstrip in Jordan.
KU Group Joins Picketing To Support Women's Strike
Red Cross officials said members of the special team were also ready to start mediation talks with Palestinian guerrillas as soon as instructions are received from the governments concerned.
A group of University of Kansas students will join picket lines at the C. M. Moore Plastics Co. in Overland Park today in support of women strikers there, whose representatives appealed for student assistance here Tuesday night.
Representatives of the strikers appeared at the initial meeting of the Workers' Support Committee held last night in the Kansas Union, and asked for student help in ending what they termed the "abusive actions and inhuman working conditions" allegedly perpetrated and encouraged by C. M. Moore, owner of the company.
Swiss Government sources said the Swiss, U.S., West German and British governments had agreed on a unified stance for obtaining the release of the hostages.
the strikers' appeal for help presented students with "a chance to address the concrete, important issues of low wages, poverty, chauvinism, and racism, and a chance for students to build support in outside communities."
According to the four women present, the abuse and mistreatment is directed toward the plant's predominantly female workers.
of companies handling Moore's products, picketing, distributing leaflets to students to gain support and filing health and civil suits.
"Moore actually told one of the women in the plant that women ought to be treated as horses. He said you've got to have the reins in hand at all times," said June Saylors, one of the women on strike.
Dorothy Fletcher, another representative for the strikers, said that in January Moore cut out all breaks for employees. Only after a group of the women voted to become members of AFL-CIO Local No. 605 were they given two breaks a day, said Mrs. Fletcher.
IN WASHINGTON the State Department said it had named the International Red Cross to act as a channel of communications with the airplane hijack-
Plans of action and tactics were also discussed at the meeting. Some of the possibilities considered were distributing leaflets to employees
Bill Black, Kansas City, Mo. junior and unofficial spokesman for the meeting, said that
Senate To Consider Resolutions
By BOB DICKSON
Kansan Staff Writer
Two major resolutions will be brought before the Student Senate tonight concerning the Athletic Corporation Board and the Board of Regents.
Last spring Goldberg was dropped from the track squad at the request of the 20-member corporation board on charges that he failed to keep his room clean, was disrespectful to Templin Hall staff, and missed practices. According to Zilm, Goldberg's personal beliefs were a major reason for his dismissal.
The first, co-signed by Frank Zilm, St. Louis senior, Brad Smoot, Sterling junior, and George Laughead, Dodge City senior, was sparked, in part, by an incident last fall involving Sam Goldberg, a black track squad member.
The action of the corporation board was not in line with the Student Rights Code, said Zillm. The resolution questions the board's alleged belief that, although it is subsidized by student fees, it remains a entity apart from the University.
There are two other provisions in the resolution. One demands a financial accounting of the student activity funds allocated to the board in the last five years, as well as proposed budgeting for the 1971-72 school year. If this audited report is not submitted, according to the resolution, no further student activity fees will be provided.
Section 1.4 of the Big Eight Regulations states that all athletic associations shall fall under institutional control. This would include, according to the resolution, the control of the Student Rights Code.
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The final part of the resolution requests a reapportionment of the corporation board, allowing greater student representation. At present, three of the twenty board members are students.
The second resolution, sponsored solely by Zilm, deals with
the right of the Board of Regents to dictate behavior of students and faculty members at state universities.
This resolution, asks for a judgment by the state attorney general, ex officio spokesman for legal rights at state institutions, said Zilm.
Two parts of the Board of Regents edict are in question. One section deals with Regents' authority to dismiss students for disciplinary reasons without the benefit of a fair hearing. Second, the controversial Section 8 of the Regents code, concerning profanity and offensive behavior, is questioned.
Both resolutions are expected to pass, according to Zillm.
Other business at the Senate meeting tonight will be the official filling of vacancies in the Senate. One seat is expected to be filled by Sharon Baucom, Kansas City, Mo., junior.
Results from an election to fill a Senate vacancy in the School of Architecture, held yesterday, will also be announced.
ers. A spokesman reported "an air of urgency and concern within the United States Government over the matter."
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which hijacked three New York-bound airliners Sunday and tried to seize a fourth, have threatened to blow up the TWA Boeing 707 and Swissair DC8 unless the nations involved comply with their ransom demands by 9 p.m. Wednesday.
The 184 hostages still aboard the two planes after a group of 116 women and children were taken to an Amman hotel were allowed for the first time Tuesday to get out of the planes and walk about—under guard—in the desert.
During their brief outing, crew members reported guerrillas had boarded the TWA plane Monday night and took away a group of six Americans and Israelis, including an American soldier and a chemistry teacher from New York City, Gerald Berkowitz.
IN ADDITION TO the American and Swiss airliners hijacked to Jordan, the guerrilla group in coordinated action also seized a Pan American Jumbo 747 jetliner and landed it eventually at Cairo where guerrillas blew up the aircraft just after the passengers and crew scurried to safety. A fourth hijack was frustrated by crew members and passengers of an El Al plane with the hijacker killed and a girl guerrilla captured before the plane landed safely in London.
In a first ultimatum, the guerrillas threatened to blow up the two planes they still hold with passengers aboard unless West Germany and Switzerland freed six Arab commandos held following previous attacks on airliners, and Britain released the girl hijacker captured Sunday.
BUT SOURCES at Red Cross Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, said Tuesday the organization was most concerned at present by a guerrilla demand that Israel free all of its Arab prisoners, an estimated 3,000 persons, as part of a ransom deal.
The officials said Israel has indicated it wants no part of an exchange on such a basis.
In London, British Prime Minister Edward Heath met with top government ministers and it was disclosed afterward that Britain had agreed to join the United States, West Germany and Switzerland in a united approach to seek the release of the hostages held in Jordan.
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