Tuesday. Oct. 4, 1960 University Daily Kansan
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News Briefs
By United Press International
WASHINGTON - President Eisenhower urged a group of teenage scholarship winners today to develop and maintain an interest in politics. And, he said, if he had his way, they would be allowed to vote at age 18.
The President met at the White House with five young winners of four-year college scholarships awarded by AMVETS, an organization of veterans of World War II and Korea.
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NEW YORK President Tito of Yugoslavia expressed belief today that the cold war tension would ease. He sailed for home from what he called a disappointing session of the United Nations General Assembly.
Tito, first of the big so-called neutralists to leave New York, said through an interpreter he believed "there will not come a further intensification of tension between the United States and the Soviet Union."
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LEOPOLDVILLE — Patrice Lumumba, the fast-talking beer salesman who became the first premier of the Congo, appeared today to have lost his magic hold over Parliament.
A wholesale defection by 29 of the 44 senators and deputies from Lumumba's own eastern province left the deposed premier with far less than the slim majority that put him into power.
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PARIS — The French National Assembly returned from a three-month recess today in a mood to seize some power back from President Charles De Gaulle, already beset by new rightwing violence over Algeria and criticism of his attitude toward the United Nations.
De Gaulle has come under fire for his refusal to attend the U.N. General Assembly in New York which has again inscribed the Algerian problem on its agenda. He belittled the assembly as a propaganda show.
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WASHINGTON — High American officials believe that Premier Fidel Castro is trying to force the United States to break diplomatic relations with Cuba.
These officials think Castro and his advisers want the U.S. embassy shut down and American nationals evacuated so Washington will not have on-the-spot observers to report Cuba's increasing drift toward communism.
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Federal narcotics agents arrested the four men at gunpoint on a crowded Manhattan street yesterday and confiscated pure heroin worth $20 million on the illicit market.
NEW YORK — A Guatemalan diplomat and three other men were held in a record million dollars bail today in the smash-up of an international narcotics smuggling ring that "defies the imagination in its magnitude."
U. S. Attorney S. Hazard Gillespie said the heroin seizure was the largest single narcotics haul ever made in this country.
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GUATEMALA CITY - Guatemalan fighter planes strafed a Cuban schooner suspected of trying to run guns into Guatemala and drove it away from the Caribbean coast, the government announced today.
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BERLIN — East German Communist Party chief Walter Ulbrich denounced West Germany's trade embargo against the Soviet satellite today, but gave no indication of what the Reds might do about it.
In a speech to the East German parliament, Ulbricht repeated the Communist claim to control over traffic between West Germany and Berlin.
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BOSTON — The Christian Science Monitor today announced it supports Republican Vice President Richard M. Nixon for the presidency.
GIRLS, HAVE YOUR DATE
Hillcrest Bowl
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Student Teachers Face Trials and Tribulations
Education students once again have the opportunity to undergo the trials and tribulations that occur in the classroom.
The student teaching program is now in its 14th year of off campus participation. Before that a small high school with voluntary enrollment was maintained on campus for the benefit of the education students,
KARL D. EDWARDS, associate professor of education, is the director the program which now involves about 20 schools within 60 miles of Lawrence.
Schools are selected for participation in the program if they offer an adequate curriculum in the student's field of emphasis.
When a student is sent to a school for his student teaching he observes the regular teacher for several days and gradually takes over responsibility of the class.
The grade for those eight weeks is determined by the, supervisor from the University and a report from the cooperating teacher.
Although students aren't often assigned to the Lawrence school system, there are several in the Lawrence schools this smester.
MRS. LINDA LUTHER, Kirkwood, Mo., senior, is taking her
"The chance to use all of the things I have read in textbooks makes this the most valuable experience in my four years of college," Mrs. Luther said. "I have learned more from this direct experience with the children than I ever thought was possible."
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