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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, September 19,1968
News Roundup (Continued from page 1) Guidance system cause of blowup
Cape Kennedy (UPI)—Space agency investigators Wednesday blamed a faulty guidance system for the flaming blowup eight miles above the Atlantic of a $5 million Delta rocket carrying a $6 million commercial communications satellite toward orbit.
The failure Wednesday night was a severe financial blow-$11 million-for the Comsat Corp., made up of United States shareholders and 61 partner nations.
The communications firm had counted on the satellite to relay color television reports on the Olympic Games from Mexico City to Europe next month. But, a "jack-of-all-trades" satellite owned by the government now is expected to provide that coverage.
Nam Bo offensive scheduled by Reds
Saigon (UPI)—Allied intelligence sources said today the Communist high command has scheduled a third offensive against Saigon for next Monday, a Communist "resistance" celebration day.
U. S. intelligence officials said they give the expected Communist offensive only a 50 per cent chance of materializing.
Captured Communist documents quoted by the sources said the guerrillas first would send 600 saboteurs into the heart of Saigon in teams of three to blow up military installations and launch a wave of terrorist attacks.
At the same time U.S. spokesmen announced that allied troops bracing for a long-anticipated nationwide offensive have seized 90 tons of Communist arms over the past week—enough to equip 1,800 troops for as long as one year.
The documents also detailed plans for about 1,500 troops to strike military outposts on the edge of the capital in advance of an all-out thrust against the city by elements of three Red divisions in the grounding area.
Monthly, the target date listed in the documents, is celebrated by the Communists as "Nam Bo Romance Day" in commemoration of the date the Viet Minh guerrillas opened their war against French in 1946.
Specimen said most of the weapons seized in the past week were found in jungles about 60 miles north of Saigon. The hauls included 850,000 rounds, small arms ammunition and 5,496 rocket launches. There were also 15 tons of rice for Colin'sist troops.
By Rea Wilson
Kansan Feature Editor
Speech pulls potpourri mob
Kansas City-In the middle of the Kansas City stock yards, 10,000 persons were herded into the exhibition hall to hear George Wallace, third party presidential candidate, bray Tuesday night.
Many spectators at the Wallace rally in thy American Royal exhibition hall appeared to be white, middle class, middle aged, blue-collar workers.
Some spectators, most of whom were wearing Wallace buttons and Wallace straw hats, said they supported Wallace because "he speaks the truth."
Others said they were for Wallace because "he is for the American way and the Constitution."
and the Constitution. Wallace supporters demonstrated their feelings for the former governor of Alabama during his speech by raising their arms in the air and shouting
Often Wallace supporters got carried away with their enthusiasm.
Wallace "not racist"
Kansas City—George Wallace, American Independent Party Presidential candidate denied here yesterday that segregation is an issue in his campaign.
"I have never made a statement about anybody because of what they were," he said at an airport news conference.
"I am not concerned with blacks or just black militants," Wallace said. "There are probably more white militants than black militants. I am concerned with law and order."
Most people of all races support law and order, he said. This has been a primary Wallace campaign issue.
ATTENTION VOTERS
To vote in the November general election, KU students must register with the Lawrence city clerk by Oct. 15.
There are two voting requirements besides the 21-year-old age restriction:
One 17-year-old Jewish youth said he was almost "pounded" by one Wallace supporter for not contributing to the Wallace fund.
- Residency in Lawrence for 30 days.
- Residency in Kansas for six months.
City Clerk Vera Mercer adds that students must declare themselves a resident of Lawrence by signing an oath.
A woman who was participating in the anti-Wallace demonstrations at the rally left the exhibition hall because "Wallace supporters were throwing garbage at me."
The City Hall is located at 11th and Massachusetts.
Few Wallace supporters were of minority groups. Most Negroes at the rally were there to look or to participate in anti-Wallace demonstrations.
"We decided to leave early so we
After this incident about 40 students from the Kansas City Art Institute walked out in the middle of Wallace's speech.
could get some police protection," said a member of this group.
One Negro youth was led from the hall by police for exposing his pocket knife. He was instructed to go home and not to re-enter the hall.
Other anti-Wallace demonstrators were escorted out by police.
When Wallace arrived at the airport yesterday morning, a woman, who called herself Lucky Lou, crashed security lines to present Wallace with a bouquet of sunflowers.
"I was the only person there from Kansas. No one else from Kansas would admit they were for Wallace," she said. "But, you should have seen the people from Missouri when I held up them sunflowers."
Lucky Lou was also at the fund raising dinner before the rally and at the rally,cheering and standing for her candidate.
"I couldn't afford to buy him any fancy flowers, so I picked sunflowers from my back yard."
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