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Friday, Sept. 4, 1970
University Daily Kansan
News Capsules
By United Press International
New York: West Point
U. S. District Court Judge Marvin E. Frankel Thursday rejected the appeal of West Point Cadet Cary E. Donham to be discharged from the military academy on grounds of conscientious objection to war. Donham was the first cadet in the history of the academy to seek discharge on such grounds. Frankel said Donham's statement that it took him two years as a cadet to fully realize that men were killed in wars was "an incredible assertion of naivete."
Washington: Rock Festival
WASHOUGAL—Thousands of young persons waited in ankle-deep mud to see if efforts to kill the Sky River rock festival by cutting off its supplies would succeed. Clark County officials distributed copies of a temporary injunction against the festival to organizations and communities supplying the event, restraining them from doing further business. An estimated 12,000 youths huddled around sputtering campfires, under tents and makeshift shelters after a heavy rain short circuited the electrical system, forcing a halt in the blaring rock music.
Philadelphia: Black Panthers
Gov. Raymond P. Shafer Thursday ordered the National Guard and state police to be "prepared for any eventuality" during the weekend when this tense city hosts a Black Panther national convention. His order came after three days of violence in which one police officer was shot to death and six others wounded. The Panthers' three-day "People's Revolutionary Constitutional Convention" had been scheduled well in advance of an outbreak of gunplay in which the shootings occurred.
Washington: Draft
The name and classification of every Selective Service registrant has been duplicated in state offices as a safeguard against destruction of files by arson, bombing and burglary of local draft boards, it was disclosed Thursday. The information that every state now has a "duplicate central locater" was made public in a Selective Service report on the rash of attacks—271 this year—on draft board records across the country, a spokesman at draft headquarters said.
Uruguay: Kidnapping
MONTEVIDEO—An American agricultural expert and a Brazilian diplomat kidnaped by leftist Tupamaro terrorists several weeks ago will be released unharmed, it was reported Thursday. Enrique Zabala Cuadrado of Spanish television said he tape-recorded an interview with an unidentified Tupamaro leader who pledged the safe return of Claude L. Fly, U.S. soils expert, and Brazilian Consul Aloysio Dias Gomide, but said he did not know when the pair would be released.
California: Diaz
CORONADO—President Nixon ushered Mexican President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz to a warm welcome Thursday and pledged to help all Mexican-Americans share equally in the progress of the nation. In an unprecedented second meeting between the two heads of state within two weeks, a beaming Nixon welcomed the outgoing Mexican leader in ceremonies at North Naval Air Station. About 100 demonstrators were waiting in front of the Hotel del Coronado when the presidential motorcade pulled up. The youths chanted "Peace Now," "Chicano Power" and "Viva Che," but the presidents did not acknowledge the demonstration.
Kansas: Syphilis
Kansas has the fifth highest rate of syphilis increase in the nation, the chief of the venereal disease section of the State Health Department reported today. Figures released by Richard G. Lockhart showed incidence of the most dangerous of venereal diseases rose in Kansas 137.1 per cent from fiscal year 1969 to 1970. The rate of gonorrhea cases has risen 50 per cent in the past two years as new drug-resistant strains of the disease spread. Lockhart said new programs to meet the new threat were imperative.
Detroit: UAW
Leonard Woodcock, president of United Auto Workers, took personal command Thursday of contract negotiations at twin strike targets General Motors and Chrysler with the deadline for settlement 12 days away. Only Ford was exempted among the big three auto makers. The UAW has a $120 million strike fund. It would last less than five weeks if the union struck both General Motors and Chrysler. Woodcock said if the money ran out, "an old-fashioned strike" without funds would continue.
Missouri: Students
CALIFORNIA—Students are not a special class of citizens above the law and they will be prosecuted when they break the law, Attorney General John C. Danforth said Thursday. The Republican senatorial hopeful said burning buildings, throwing bombs and killing people in the process of protesting political issues was reprehensible and wud not be allowed. Danforth said the only violence on campus he would permit while attorney general was "on the football field."
North Vietnam Rebuffs Move For Prompt Peace Agreement
PARIS (UPI) — The United States offered to negotiate a prompt peace agreement in Vietnam Thursday, safeguarding the "legitimate concerns of all sides. But the Communists immediately rebuffed the move.
U. S. peace negotiator David K. E. Bruce failed in his bid to start meaningful negotiations at his first meeting with Hanoi's Minister of State, Xuan Thuy. The North Vietnamese delegate said true negotiations will start only when Washington agrees to pull all troops out of Vietnam and dump the Saigon regime.
Bruce that North Vietnam considered the U.S. troop pullout and formation of a new coalition government in Saigon as the only conditions that could get the talks off the ground.
Thuy, fresh from three months of consultations in Hanoi, told
Bruce, 72, sent to Paris four weeks ago to try to break the 19-month deadlock in the talks, told newsmen after the five-hour session the Communists had "nothing new to say" and repeated merely "the same line of propaganda."
Thuy told newsmen upon leaving the conference room the only agreement was to hold another meeting next Thursday.
"We seek the earliest possible
negotiated settlement which takes account of the legitimate concerns of both sides," Bruce told the Communists. "Both sides thus need to examine each other's position realistically."
"Let us avoid propaganda and harsh language," Bruce said. "Let us set aside preconditions to serious discussions. Let us set aside demands for one-sided action."
action.
The meeting, however, promptly broke into a long exchange of charges of atrocities by the Allied and Communist sides and mutual accusations that each side's unyielding attitude was responsible for the failure of the Paris conference to produce results.
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