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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, October 17, 1968
Nixon revives era at Union Station
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-The old Union Station hadn't seen such a crowd since Nov. 1, 1914, the day it opened. But Richard Nixon hit town yesterday and the station's golden days were revived-if only temporarily.
The now usually desolate station -reduced by the ever-quickening death of railroad passenger service -was jammed by a police-estimated crowd of 15,000 persons.
The station was so jammed, the 50-odd detractors and their anti-Nixon placards couldn't even shove their way into the main waiting room, where Nixon partisans wildly cheered the presidential nominee.
Jammed up to and through the station's east entrance, the walls of which still bear the bullet scars from the Union Station massacre.
Jammed, just like the always teeming Municipal Auditorium, where Nixon spoke earlier—but got a different reception.
There, the blue-jacketed youths applauded only politically—as one youth said, a reception "... just like any guest speaker would (have received). "We've seen so many politicians before," he said, "it seemed like the same old stuff."
While other youths said they were impressed, a Nixon partisan admitted, "It was the kind of speech you'd expect a politician to make to a bunch of farm kids."
It was only between speeches that Nixon had cause for dissatisfaction with his reception. Negro youths jeered pro-Humphrey, anti-Nixon slogans as the Republican's car stopped at
Former Czech deputy seeks political asylum
BERN, Switzerland (UPI)—The Swiss Ministry of Justice and police today announced the arrival of former Deputy Prime Minister Ota Sik of Czechoslovakia. Government sources said he asked for political asylum.
The Czechoslovak Embassy denied the asylum report as "pure fabrication." A statement issued by the embassy said Sik came to Switzerland for a "purely private stay."
Sik was one of six top leaders in the regime of Alexander Dubcek whose liberal reforms brought Soviet invasion troops into Czechoslovakia Aug. 20-21.
The invasion caught Sik vacationing in Yugoslavia.
He was outspoken in his opposition to the invasion Russian officials demanded that the Czechs fire him. He lost his post without reentering the country.
"Nixon fades out on civil rights," they said. Their signs asserted "Nixon plus Spiro equals zero." "See Dick Run, Run Dick, Run." "Even Custer Took a Stand."
the station entrance.
But the youths were overwhelmed by the 15,000.
Fifteen thousand cheered—the same number that turned out for the Station's grand opening.
SALINA, Kan. (UPI)—David Eisenhower, grandson of the former president, and his fiance, Julie Nixon, daughter of the Republican presidential nominee Tuesday visited the area in Kansas where "the Eisenhower clan began."
David, Julie conceal wedding plans
They declined to reveal their wedding plans. When asked the date, David, 20, replied "It is a secret."
They said they have not yet decided on the place for the ceremony.
Harriman seeks united Vietnam; asks Hanoi to 'cooperate with us'
"Every time Marshal Dillon pulls out his gun to kill the bad guy, it has, in effect, the NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) seal of approval," Tannenbaum said.
Tannenbaum also said that deleting blood and gore may prompt people to imagine even worse violence, make them "More involved, more committed," thus "defeating the very purpose" of editing.
Prof. Leonard Berkowitz of the University of Wisconsin told the President's Study Commission on Violence that although he deplored television and movie violence he was "not particularly upset" by Bonnie and Clyde, the bloody story of two gangsters.
He said the film showed how horrible violence really was. Professor Percy Tannenbaum of the University of Pennsylvania agreed.
WASHINGTON-A critic of television violence told a government commission yesterday that movies as bloody as "Bonnie and Clyde" aren't as bad as ones which glamorize gore and show the hero using his gun.
PARIS (UPI)—W. Averell Hariman asked Hanoi yesterday to "cooperate with us" and spoke of a united Vietnam once the war ends. Diplomatic developments in Paris and Saigon hinted a complete U.S. bombing pause over North Vietnam was imminent.
"As you know, I never comment on rumors," the chief U.S. negotiator told newsmen asking
TV violence not as bad as it 1st seemed
Earlier yesterday a broadcast network executive asked whether studies linking television violence with delinquency might not simply mean that delinquents like violent programs.
about reports a breakthrough was possible in the Vietnam war talks with Hanoi's Xuan Thuy.
In the Majestic Hotel meeting room, Harriman for the first time in weeks avoided the military issues and concentrated instead on the economic recovery of both Vietnams once the war ends.
In Saigon, six separate South Vietnamese government officials said a bombing pause would begin soon. U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker huddled with President Nguyen Van Thieu. Neither government would confirm the reports.
Harriman went into the 26th meeting with Thuy saying he was "going to call again on the North Vietnamese to cooperate with us in making progress toward peace." He cited the "tragic loss of people" involved in continuing the war.
"If peace comes to Vietnam, both North and South Vietnam could establish economic, cultural and family ties," Harriman said. "Steps could be taken towards building mutual understanding and trust."
Coupled with the early morning meeting between Thieu and Bunker in Saigon were other diplomatic reports from Paris and Hanoi that pointed to a new development in the talks designed to bring peace to Vietnam.
In Paris, Asian diplomats said Le Duc Tho, Hanoi's chief negotiator here, left for home Tuesday to try to get permission for a more flexible, conciliatory policy on the talks here. The stopped en route in Moscow where the Soviets were said to be interested in peace moves.
Weightlessness
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (UPI) — In satellite experiments conducted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration the greatest effects of weightlessness have been seen in young and actively-growing cells and tissues.
A friend, Fred Grandy, will be best man, David said. Tricia Nixon, Julie's older sister, will be maid of honor.
He said the reason for the secrecy was that he had missed a sports program due to television coverage of the marriage of Luci Johnson.
"I don't want anyone to miss the New York Ranger" hockey games or a Yankee baseball game." he said.
Since his remark covered the full range of sports seasons it offered no clue to the probable date of the wedding.
Speaking to a crowd of about 400 young persons from the steps of the Eisenhower Museum in Abilene, the general's boyhood home, David said he "was glad to be back to the place where the Eisenhower clan began."
His listeners carried pro-Nixon placards, and one held a sign reading, "David in 1984."
The couple's visit to Abilene was part of "Salute to Eisenhower Week." Eisenhower was 78 Monday.
David told questioners in Salina, where the couple stopped earlier, that the former general from time to time tells his grandson to get a haircut. David's hair is longer than that of a soldier, but neither is it hippie length.
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"Usually when I talk to my grandfather he tells me to get my hair cut," David said, "but two weeks ago when I saw him he told me to do all I can for Nixon."
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