Monday, November 11, 1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Protesters may mar
Lt. Gen. Lewis W. Walt, assistant commandant of the Marine Corps, will appear in three ceremonies marking Veterans' Day here today.
Walt, who just arrived from Vietnam where he was commander of the I Corp (northern) area, will participate in a parade through downtown Lawrence at 2 p.m. He will then speak to ROTC cadets in the University Theater at 4:30 and at a banquet honoring Vietnam veterans at 6:30 in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
The parade and banquet are sponsored by the local Alford-
Military units from several area bases and a KU ROTC unit will also participate in the parade.
Clarke post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW).
Members of People's Voice and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) will protest Walt's visit and the Vietnam war in a day-long "Festival of Life."
They met last night at the Wesley Foundation to make final plans for the demonstration. Voice plans to be present wherever Walt is.
The protesters will carry signs, but will act in a non-violent manner. Voice spokesmen said.
cern for their safety during the protests. The VFW members, police, or townspeople might assault them, they said.
Voice members expressed con-
Richard Gibson, commander of the VFW post, said that although the protesters are not invited and not wanted, he expected no trouble and had told his members not to start any.
Robert Richardson, chief of police, said there should be no violence. The protesters would have a police escort, he said, but must wait until the VFW parade is over.
Voice plans to march "as soon after the VFW as the police will let us."
Richardson said officers would hold them back until their escort was ready.
Frank Burge, director of the Union, said he did not expect any trouble so long as the protesters "behave as adults."
PRAGUE (UPI)-Hundreds of frightened pro-Moscow Czechoslovaks ran a gauntlet of flailing umbrellas and curses yesterday when they left a meeting sponsored by the Soviet-Czechoslovak Friendship Society. Prague police stood by and watched.
Czechs assault USSR 'friends'
About 2,500 hardline conservatives attended an early morning breakfast meeting with Soviet occupation soldiers, including at least one general, at which Czechoslovak Communist party Secretary Alexander Dubcek and his reformists were denounced and Moscow praised.
Most of the audience slipped out through side entrances to the meeting hall but about 400 walked through the main door where an angry crowd of Czechoslovakus was waiting.
KU's enrollment has reached record proportions this fall, William L. Kelly, registrar, said.
Enrollment breaks record
After the first week of enrollment 16,540 had registered, but the figure dwindled to 16,482 after the fee payment period had finished Kelly said.
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