Saturday is BIG BLUE day
79th Year, No.34
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Friday, November 1, 1968
U.S. halts bombing
UDK News Roundup BY United Press International
Thieu hints opposition
SAIGON—The South Vietnam government today said the United States acted alone in stopping the bombing of North Vietnam. The statement hinted at opposition toward the halt.
President Nguyen Van Thieu announced he would make a nationally broadcast speech to parliament Saturday. Thieu was expected to make public South Vietnam's position on the halt.
Political solution sought
PARIS—U.S. Ambassador W. Averell Harriman said today he will demand a political solution to the Vietnam War that will let the South Vietnamese people determine their own future.
Firing the opening shot of the new diplomatic war with Hanoi, Harriman said the United States wants a solution worked out in future peace talks that will be in accord with the wishes of South Vietnam.
Chinese president out
HONG KONG-The Chinese Communist Party's ruling Central Committee today announced President Liu Shaochi will be ousted, Peking radio said. It indicated a major victory for party leader Mao Tse-tung in his cultural revolution power struggle.
The official radio said the Red Chinese congress will be convened to carry out the committee's order to dismiss the man who challenged Mao's leadership.
SAIGON (UPI)—The war over North Vietnam halted today. The war in South Vietnam continued and Communist guerrilla rockets hit Saigon and Hue on the nation's independence day.
In line with President Johnson's bombing halt order to press a drive toward peace, U.S. pilots canceled raids against North Vietnam. American 7th Fleet ships in Tonkin Gulf and Army heavy artillery on South Vietnam's northern border broke off their barrages.
WASHINGTON (UPI)—President Johnson Thursday night announced a complete halt in bombing of North Vietnam which began at 7 a.m. CST today and a broadening of the Paris peace talks to include the South Vietnamese and the Viet Cong.
In a nationwide broadcast just five days before the presidential election, Johnson said the United States had made it clear to Hanoi that productive talks could now begin next Wednesday but could continue only if South Vietnamese cities are not shelled and the Demilitarized Zone is respected.
The president's long-awaited announcement of a break-through in
M. Mumford charged with brother's shooting
Charged with a shooting which took place near the Gaslight Tavern Wednesday night, Marvin Mumford, 20, of Lawrence, is free on $5,000 bond.
Mumford was arraigned before county court yesterday on charges of assault with intent to kill or maime. He allegedly used a .410-guage shotgun in the incident.
The shooting occurred evidently as the result of an argument between Mumford and his brother Dale.
the tavern. A large crowd from the tavern later yelled jeers and profanities as police officers arrived at the scene.
The victim of the shooting was admitted to Lawrence Memorial Hospital in fair condition. A spokesman for the hospital said yesterday the man's condition had improved somewhat since Wednesday night.
Dale Mumford attempted to leave the argument but was shot in the leg as he reached the steps of
Judge Wayne Alphin set Marvin Mumford's preliminary hearing date for Nov. 13.
But he said the time had come to test North Vietnam's good faith with a bombing halt and "to try to ascertain if an early peace is possible."
the Paris discussions was accompanied by a warning that there was no agreement on a ceasefire and—as Johnson put it "there may well be very hard fighting ahead."
He said he had acted on "unanimous military and diplomatic advice and judgment" of his advisors, including Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, the U.S. Commander in Vietnam. The military, he said, had assured him of his oft-stated condition that a bombing halt would not result in increased American casualties.
"We could be misled," Johnson said, "and we are prepared for such a contingency. We pray to God it does not occur."
"What we now expect what we have a right to expect—are prompt, productive, serious and intensive negotiations in an atmosphere that is conducive to progress," he said. See related stories pages 7 and 16.
Weather
Partly cloudy today tonight and Saturday. Cooler with northwest winds 10 to 20 miles per hour today and tonight. High today near 70. Low tonight low 30s. Precipitation probabilities—5 per cent today 5 per cent tonight. 5 per cent Saturday.
Stephenson has orange door
Orange seems to be the color this year
Late Wednesday night, several coeds from Douthart painted Stephenson's door orange and then left a trail of paint leading to Battenfeld, another men's scholarship hall.
scholarship hall. Donald K. Alderson, dean of men, and J. J. Wilson, director of housing, discovered the real painters and asked the Douthart women to wash the paint off the door.
Yesterday, as the coeds tried diligently to wash off the paint, the Stephenson men aided them by throwing buckets of water, water balloons and various other similar missiles. In the process, the coeds helped "clean up" a UDK photographer by hosing some water in his direction.
Mrs. Harrison claims all facts not reported
Mrs. Harrison's husband, director of Ballard Community Center, was arraigned Tuesday in the Sedgwick County Court of Common Pleas, Wichita. Harrison was charged with seven counts of kidnapping, assault and conspiracy relating to an October 17 melee in a Wichita motel.
Mrs. Leonard Harrison, now free on $1,200 bond after her arrest Tuesday on assault charges, told a Kansan reporter last night that several facts surrounding her arrest have not been covered by the press.
Harrison and eight others allegedly assaulted and threatened two members of the Wichita Model Cities Program if they did not comply with their request to hire a man of their choosing for a responsible position.
The press has reported that when two police officers arrived at the Harrison home in Lawrence Tuesday with search warrants, Mrs. Harrison assaulted them.
"There were six of them (officers) that I counted," said Mrs. Harrison. She said she was reading at the time the police arrived and she let them in.
The graduate student then asked if the officers needed her to stay in the house while they searched it. She said they told her she wasn't needed.
She said the officers were in her home approximately 30 minutes when she asked them if they had come to arrest her. Their reply, Mrs. Harrison said, was they had come only to search the house.
When Mrs. Harrison left the house, she said the officers pursued her shouting, "Catch her. She's getting away." During a struggle outside the Harrison home, Mrs. Harrison said she was hit over the head with a flashlight.
"I just don't understand any of it at all," Mrs. Harrison said, adding that she is having difficulty securing an attorney to represent her case.
Mrs. Harrison is scheduled to appear in Douglas County Court Thursday at 10 a.m.
Harrison Lawrence Police Chief Robert Richardson said his office was not involved and the officers at Mrs. Harrison's home were from the Wichita police department and the Douglas County Sheriff's office.