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Tuesday, November 12, 1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Soviet pressure felt by Czech news media
PRAGUE (UPI)—The Czechoslovak government Monday expelled seven Western newsmen and banned a magazine in what Communist sources described as a massive drive against the nation's press resulting from intense Soviet pressure.
The sources said the campaign to bring news media in line included appointment of conservatives to run the free-wheeling radio and television apparatus and a total blackout on any kind of "political journalism."
The Communist party Central Committee, meeting this week, was expected to pass a strongly-worded resolution detailing "anti-socialist elements" in the press, radio and television.
Czechoslovak leaders were reported apprehensive over the possibility of huge anti-Soviet demonstrations before the scheduled end of the Central Committee meeting on Saturday.
The party sources said the program to end limited press freedom remaining since the Aug. 20-21 invasion was worked out at a meeting of the party presidium last Thursday.
The sources described that meeting as being demoralized and pessimistic, and said there were sharp words and severe disagreement among the 21 members.
Among actions reported to have been either ordered at the Central Committee meeting or resulting indirectly from it were:
$\textcircled{1}$ Appointment of Miroslauk Karny and Jan Fojtik to head Czechoslovakia television. Both were newspapermen under the regime of Antonin Novotny, the Stalinist hardliner who was deposed as party chief by liberal forces last January.
A decision to ban "indefinitely" the party ideological journal Politika. The office of press and information is also considering a suspension of the new literary weekly Listy which published for the first time only last week.
- A decision to begin a "thorough investigation" of the ideological character and personnel backgrounds of news media.
- Orders that news media may not indulge in "political journalism." The sources said this ban even included referring to "before Aug. 21" and "after Aug. 21" in alluding to developments before and after the Soviet move into the nation.
- Orders to emphasize the positive achievements of the Soviet bloc.
UNITED NATIONS (UPI) The annual outpouring of bitter words over a seat for Red China began yesterday with the customary drawing of sides that indicated the usual solution: Nationalist China in and Peking out.
Red China up for UN seat-again
Backed by the United States, Nationalist China and its supporters threw a procedural barrier in the way of Communist Chinese representation. Russia, which always votes for Red China as a matter of course, did not get involved in the early debate.
Three proposals were put forward in the General Assembly.
The United States and a dozen
Reds continuing attacks in spite of US bomb halt
SAIGON (UPI)—Communist troops pounded four more South Vietnamese towns with mortar or recoilless rifle fire yesterday. The explosions killed at least seven persons and wounded 40 others, U.S. spokesmen said.
American spokesmen said 65 mortar and recoilless rifle rounds were fired at the Central Highlands town of An Khe and at Camp Radcliff, an American airborne base camp at its edge, killing three Vietnamese civilians
The U.S. Command in Saigon had no official comment on the shellings. They were viewed, however, with particular interest, because one of the implied conditions of the bombing halt was that the Communists would end their attacks on cities and towns. Another reported condition was that the North Vietnamese cease military activity in the Demilitarized Zone.
The shellings on the four towns brought to 30 the number of civilian population centers attacked since the Nov.1 bombing halt. The attacks have killed 14 persons and wounded 114, South Vietnamese sources said.
and wounding 26, the spokes men said.
Three other civilians were killed and eight wounded in a Red mortar attack on An Tuc 397 miles northeast of the capital. Twenty-four mortar rounds were lobbed into the provincial capital of Hau Nghia 21 miles northwest of Saigon, resulting in "light damage and casualties."
Monday morning, South Vietnamese sources said, Communist troops shelled the provincial capital of Gia Nghia, 105 miles northeast of Saigon, killing one child and wounding six other persons.
Pozdro receives ASCAP grant
For the third consecutive year, John Pozdro, professor of music theory, has received a grant from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) for outstanding work in musical composition.
Pozdroz's grant is one of 592,
totalling $336,650 which
ASCAP awarded composers of
symphonic and concert works.
other friends of Nationalist China proposed that any change in Chinese representation be treated as an "important question" requiring a two-thirds majority-84 votes if all countries participate.
Albania, Cambodia, Guinea, and 13 other states proposed the General Assembly recognize the Peking government as the rightful representative of China and
"But I can't help but feel that with all the time, money and effort expended on these and other projects, the sum of the potential of the scope of the senior class shouldn't be channeled toward something or somebody a little more meaningful and significant than beer and clever bumper stickers," Hill said.
Hill said he has appointed a special committee, called the Save-the-World committee, with chairman Les Watson, Sliver Lake senior, to hear specific ideas.
"People who have ideas, with specific allotments in mind in
"In fact," Hill said, "I would like to think that we have gone beyond the expected so far, what with things like a record number of kgs of beer at our parties, our 'Senior Power' bumper stickers and Orange-Bowl bottoms.
"The traditional objectives of the senior classes have always been to furnish regalia, parties and activities for themselves," said John Hill, Prairie Village senior and class president. "Which is as it should be. This is what seniors pay their $12 for, and it's their class and their year."
terms of time and money,
should submit their suggested
program to Les Watson in complete
detail," Hill said. "It's not
going to help very much just for
someone to say, 'Hey, why don't
you do something for black students,
underprivileged children in
Lawrence, Biafra, special
scholarships, the plight of the
American Indian, or something like this. What we need is specifically outlined programs on some social issues like this, or anything else, not just general areas of concern. We know these. We need some specific ways to help."
Specific suggestions should be sent to Les Watson, chairman, Save-the-World committee, 1647 Mississippi St., Lawrence. He can be contacted at VI3-2250.
Hill said that even though the new committee has been given the tongue-in-cheek name of the Save-the-World committee, it will seriously be evaluating sincere, well-planned suggestions.
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"The point is simply this," Hill said. "With roughly $15,000 to spend, not to mention the hundreds of man-hours devoted to the activities anyway, it would be pretty shallow of us not to at least consider some other, more significant goals than just automatically buying beer and funny hats for ourselves."
"John and I have talked about this at great length," said Les Watson, "and we feel this is one way in which the role of the University can be broadened to include help in social issues."
A new committee will be formed by the Class of 1969 to hear suggestions and ideas from anybody on specific ways in which the senior class could contribute some of their efforts toward a social problem or worth while cause.
The senior class would like to hear them.
Any ideas on how to save the world?
Seniors looking for ideas
PLUS FAMILY WAY
'Save - the - world'
Technicolor
From Warner Bros-Seven Arts
ANTHONY ROBERTELL NILLER
AMERICAN BRITISH
THOMAS HAWKEN AND MARC MESSON
Open 6:30
expel the delegates of Chiang Kai-shek's government in Taipei.
Italy, Belgium, Chile, Iceland and Luxembourg proposed a study committee to report next year on "an equitable and practical solution" to the 19-year-old question.
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