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LAWRENCE, KANSAS
58th Year, No. 82
Tuesday, Feb. 14, 1961
Violence Follows Lumumba's Death
By United Press International
Violence erupted around the world today in reaction to the death of former Congolese Premier Patrice Lumumba.
In Moscow, hundreds of Afro-Asian and Soviet students battled with police in separate demonstrations when they tried to storm the Belgian Embassy.
In New Delhi, African students burst into the Belgian Embassy while officials were out to lunch. They wrecked office furniture, overturned files and smashed a picture of King Baudeouin of the Belgians.
THE STUDENTS, carrying banners reading "Down with Yankee imperialism" moved on the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi. Three carloads of police raced to head them off. But security guards locked the embassy doors while an American official spoke with 10 of the students inside. They left peacefully.
In Lahore, Pakistan, 20 placard-carrying, slogan-shouting African students demonstrated in front of the U.S. Consulate General there to protest Lumumba's death. They handed over to Consul General Andrew Corry a memorandum addressed to President John F. Kennedy.
"We strongly condemn the United States Government for the part it is playing in engineering United Nations activities in the Congo which ended in the barbaric murder" of Lumumba, the memorandum said.
"Discrimination as practiced in the United States will not be allowed in Africa." it added.
In Cairo, police threw heavy cordons around the U.S. and Belgian embassies to ward off possible demonstrations. A budding march on the buildings by members of the African association was dispersed by police.
IN BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, police threw strong guards around all foreign embassies—especially those of Belgium and India. The Belgian embassy was blockaded by police who cleared all approach roads and blocked them with trucks. A mass protest meeting was scheduled in Belgrade today.
In London, the foreign office announced a British embassy official in Leopoldville had flown to Lumumbist-held Stanley-ville to look after the safety of British Nationals.
The official said Britain deplored the death of Lumumba and his associates and the "further complication it introduces into an already complicated situation."
In Havana, Cuban Foreign Minister Raul Roa said he formally filed a protest against the Lumumba killing with the U.N. Secretary Dag Hammarskjold.
The message sent to the president of the security council contained a bitter denunciation of the "Belgian colonialists and their NATO allies."
Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba cabled Hammarskjold in New York that he was "profoundly shocked by the news."
It is quite probable that the story of the flight of Lumumba and his fellow prisoners covers in reality an odious crime perpetrated by the Katanga authorities in order to rid themselves of their political adversaries," he said.
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Lawing Will Seek VP Post
Jim Lawing, Okmulgee, Okla. graduate student and secretary of the KU Young Democrats, said today that he is wundrawing as a candidate for president and running for vice-president.
Campus Young Democrats have settled their intraparty feud.
George Bennett. Lawrence senior, is seeking the presidential post
LAWING SAID:
"The group that was opposed to me approached George Bennett, and asked him to represent them in this race."
He said that his group would work with Bennett and that this would end the argument within the Young Democrats over presidential candidates.
Lawing had announced his candidacy Feb. 9, during a special meeting of the Young Democrats in which he criticized the present organization of the group.
"BEING CONCERNED with the solidarity and future of the Kansas
Lawing introduced the resolution calling for the election of new officers at the special meeting on Feb. 9. The elections will be held Thursday.
University Young Democrats, I have decided to withdraw from the race for the office of president of that organization and defer to Mr. George Bennett my personal support and best wishes that he be elected president," Lawing said in a press release today.
Bennett is chairman of a committee that was chosen to draw up a new constitution for the Young Democrats.
Lawing announced he would run for one of the vice presidential posts.
Stirton to Speak
University lecture will be delivered at 7:30 p.m. today in Room 303 Bailey Hall. R. A. Stirton, paleontologist from the University of California at Berkeley, will speak on "Into the Heart of Australia"
FEBRUARY AND—February brings ground hog's day, Lincoln's and Washington's birthday, and Valentine's Day. The latter usually goes by unnoticed, but with the premature spring weather here there were evidences of celebration today.
Castro Hoping for Relaxed US Policy
By Henry Raymont United Press International
(Editor's Note: Following is Cuban Premier Fidel Castro's first interview with an American news man since the Kennedy Administration took office.)
HAVANA — Premier Fidel Castro in a relaxed, friendly mood hinted today that he still hoped President Kennedy would reverse what he described as "aggressive policies" of the Eisenhower administration toward Cuba.
Castro spoke respectfully of Kennedy, U. S. ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson, and under-secretary of State Chester Bowles.
THE CUBAN leader indicated that he feels Kennedy himself would favor a "relaxation" in U. S. foreign policy, but that he is "not allowed" to follow through on the wish because of what Castro termed political pressures at home.
"Why if they had the courage to defy vested interests by enacting important innovations in foreign policy, such as inviting the Soviet Union to participate in an economic aid program for under-developed nations, have they not had the courage to change toward Cuba?" Castro asked.
CASTRO SAID he did not intend again to revert to personal attacks on U. S. leaders which have characterized previous speeches. But he emphatically and repeatedly insisted that the eventual re-establishment of peaceful relations between Havana and Washington must be conditioned on cessation of what he described as U. S. air drops of arms to the foes of his regime within Cuba.
The premier alleged that such air drops had been organized by the "Pentagon" and "Central Intelligence Agency." He said he was convinced they were part of what he
described as a systematic campaign to overthrow his regime.
"PLANES FROM all directions are flying over Cuba virtually daily dropping enormous quantities of weapons in the Escambray mountain area" Castro declared. He claimed, however, that government forces were capturing "at least 80 per cent of such arms.
Castro also claimed he had knowledge of alleged U.S. plans to parachute two American "experts" into the embattled region, presumably to improve the organization of the arms deliveries as well as to lay out plans for construction of an air strip in the region.
Castro said he had "documentary evidence" of such a plan.
Hammarskjold Is Once Again Russian Target
MOSCOW — (UPI)— The Soviet Union said today it no longer will recognize Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold "as an official of the United Nations."
The decision was disclosed in a statement issued here. The Soviets also demanded Hammarskjold's removal, an end to the UN operation in the Congo in a month, recognition of the "legitimate government" of the Congo headed by Antoine Gizenga, condemnation of Belgium and the arrest of Katanga Province President Moise Tshombe and Congolese army strongman Maj. Gen. Joseph Mobutu for the slaying of former Premier Patrice Lumumba.
The statement added that this would give the Congo people time "to settle their domestic affairs themselves."
THE RUSSIANS demanded in the statement that the "so-called United Nations operation in the Congo be completed and all foreign troops withdrawn from the country in a month."
The Kremlin began its attack on Hammarskjold last September when Khrushchev demanded his removal in a speech to the General Assembly.
KHRUSHCHIEV proposed that the secretary generalship be abolished and that Hammarskjoeld be replaced by a three-man "presidium," but his proposal won support only from the Iron Curtain countries.
Hammarskjold replied to Khrushev's demand with a dramatic statement to the assembly that "I shall remain in my post." The Soviet attack was similar to one launched against Trygve Lie, Hammarskjold's predecessor in 1950 when he opposed seating Communist China.
Russia refused to recognize Lie as secretary general for two years. Lie's term was extended upon its expiration in 1951 but he finally resigned in 1952.
Temperatures will be a little warmer today and tonight. The high will be between 60 and 65. The low tonight is expected to be about 30. Tomorrow it will be generally fair.
Weather
County Attorney Considers Legal Moves Against Harbor
County Attorney Wesley M. Norwood said today that he has received a verbal complaint from Marion S. Barry, Memphis, Tenn., graduate student, that the Harbor tavern refused to serve him.
Mr. Norwood said that he plans to
Spring Fee Payment Starts Tomorrow
Payment of spring fees begins tomorrow at the Business Office in Strong Hall.
The schedule is as follows Wednesday, A-N; Thursday, O-S; Friday, T-Z. All students unable to pay fees on the above days may pay Saturday.
Beginning Monday a $2 per day penalty goes into effect for late payment. If a student has not paid his fees by Thursday, Feb. 23, his enrollment will be canceled.
The county attorney said, "If I allowed him to sign a complaint against the tavern management, the case would go into court. It is my job now to decide if taverns fall under the public accommodations law. If so, refusal of service by a tavern is a misdemeanor."
make a decision today or tomorrow on whether he should allow Barry to sign a complaint.
If the case should go to court, the county attorney would represent Barry, he said.
MR. NORWOOD said that when Gov. John Anderson was attorney general he wrote an opinion that taverns were not covered by the public accommodations law.
"This would be classified as a crime against the State of Kansas, and as County Attorney it would be my job to represent him," Mr. Norwood said.