Thursday, November 14, 1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Grand jury indicts three
NEW YORK (UPI)—A Brooklyn grand jury backed up conspiracy charges brought by police against three Yemeni immigrants by indicting them Wednesday on four counts each in connection with a plot to assassinate President-elect Richard M. Nixon.
The jury acted after hearing two days of testimony from witnesses presented by the Kings County district attorney's office. The star witness was a fourth Yemeni, as yet unidentified, who tipped police to the alleged plot last Friday.
Those indicted were Ahmed Namer, 43, and his two sons—Hussein, 20, and Abdo, 18. They face maximum prison sentences of 24 years each if convicted of conspiring to murder, criminal
Education instructor illustrates textbook during leave in India
An art textbook for junior and senior high school students, illustrated with pictures of Indian animal sculpture, may be the outcome of a 10-month leave for Mrs. Marguerite Baumgartel, a KU assistant professor of education.
While in India, Mrs. Baumgartel said she studied traditional and modern Indian sculpture and made slides of sculpture in museums, temples and shrines.
Mrs. Baumgartel, who applied and received a Fulbright travel grant, made her second trip to India last year with her husband. Howard Baumgartel, a KU psychology professor, went as a Fulbright lecturer.
When not traveling and viewing Indian sculpture, Mrs. Baumgartel sculpted. She said she completed six pieces in Indian teak wood during her stay. The sculptures, she said, were displayed at the United States embassy in New Delhi.
solicitation, and two counts of possessing dangerous weapons.
The Nammers were arrested in a police raid on a $57-a-month Brooklyn tenement apartment last Saturday. Two guns, ammunition, switch blade knives and correspondence with individuals in the Arab world were confiscated in the raid.
Federal authorities were investigating the possibility that the alleged plot was related in some way to the assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy last June in Los Angeles and that one of the Namers had made a trip to California this year. Sirhan B. Sirhan, accused in the Kennedy slaying, is a Jordanian who is said to have resented Kennedy's espousal of the Israeli cause.
Authorities speculated that Namen, a nationalized U.S. citizen from Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula, might also have resented Nixon's campaign pledge to make Israel technologically and militarily superior to her Arab neighbors.
The Namers are reported to have offered the mystery informer "a large sum" to join the plot. Authorities are especially interested in how three men who work as shipping clerks could have obtained such a large sum.
Education costs marked up again
An average student is paying a total of $1,160 this year to be educated at the state college or university in his home town,the survey says.
The college price tag has been marked up again, according to the 1968-69 annual survey of student charges of the National Association of State Colleges and Land-Grant Colleges (NASCLGC) and the Association of State Colleges and Universities (ASCU).
Tutition, fees, room and board are rising so rapidly and so often, today's public college student is paying about 23 per cent more for his education than his classmates did in 1963.
Four-fifths of the nation's state colleges and universities have increased their fees. The survey showed a 2.9 per cent increase in in-state tuition and a 9.4 increase in out of state tuition.
Room and board rates have leveled off this year following major increases last year. At NASCLGC institutions, the room rates rose 3.1 per cent for men and 4.1 per cent for women.
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