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University Daily Kansan
Page 0101_2 from reel: L 745 (1968-09-13 to 1969-01-10)
https://digital.lib.ku.edu/ku-udk/193502

Title: Fortas Recalled
Summary: President Johnson withdraws Abe Fortas' nomination for chief justice after Senate filibuster, calling the refusal "historically and constitutionally tragic."
Category: national news
Subjects: supreme court; judicial nominations; political controversy
Named Entities: Fortas, Abe [justice nominee]; Johnson, Lyndon B. [president]
Confidence: 0.9

Title: Mexico Erupts in Waves of Violence
Summary: Mexican army confronts student protesters in Mexico City, resulting in violent clashes that killed at least nine people and endangered the 1968 Olympic Games.
Category: national news
Subjects: student protests; political unrest; mexico; violence
Named Entities: Mexico City [location]
Confidence: 0.85

Title: LeMay Picked
Summary: Gen. Curtis LeMay, retired Air Force chief of staff and Vietnam advocate, is named as George Wallace's vice presidential running mate on the American Independent Party ticket.
Category: national news
Subjects: political campaigns; third party politics; vietnam war
Named Entities: LeMay, Curtis E. [vice presidential candidate]; Wallace, George C. [presidential candidate]
Confidence: 0.85

Title: Junta Seizes Peru
Summary: A military junta overthrows the Peruvian government in a predawn coup, seizing President Fernando Belaunder Terry and surrounding the presidential palace with tanks.
Category: national news
Subjects: military coups; peru; political instability
Named Entities: Peru [country]; Belaunder Terry, Fernando [overthrown president]
Confidence: 0.85

Title: Rusk States U.S. Policy
Summary: U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk calls on the Soviet Union to remove troops from Czechoslovakia and states the U.S. will stop bombing North Vietnam when confident it will lead to peace.
Category: national news
Subjects: foreign policy; vietnam war; cold war
Named Entities: Rusk, Dean [secretary of state]
Confidence: 0.85

Title: AAUP Hears KU Faculty Is 'Cowardly'
Summary: The American Association of University Professors hears criticism that KU faculty have been 'cowardly, racist and fascist' for lack of action regarding campus issues.
Category: campus news
Subjects: faculty criticism; academic freedom; university governance
Named Entities: KU [University of Kansas]
Confidence: 0.8

Title: Protestors Question Law
Summary: Vietnam War protest leaders challenge a new federal anti-riot law as unconstitutional, arguing it suppresses legal dissent and provides excessive penalties.
Category: national news
Subjects: civil rights; anti-war protests; legal challenges
Confidence: 0.8

Title: Photo: KU Students at Potter Lake
Summary: KU students at Potter Lake, with one retrieving glasses from the lake bottom after they were lost during a lake outing.
Category: photos/graphics
Confidence: 0.9

Title: Weather
Summary: Variable cloudiness and cool temperatures forecasted, with chance of scattered sprinkles and local frost tonight.
Category: informational content
Confidence: 0.9

Title: UDK News Roundup
Summary: Collection of international news briefs from United Press International covering various global events.
Category: other
Confidence: 0.8

Title: [advertisements]
Category: advertisements
Confidence: 0.9

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