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Monday, November 5.1973
University Daily Kansan
'Frog' Celebrates Guru's Greatness
By LARRY FISH
Kansas Staff Reporter
KANSAS CITY, MO—There he was, a genuine India皂 man in sandals and robe, marching down Broadway in Kansas City carrying a banner which said, "Know Thy
He was part of a parade Saturday organized by the Divine Light Mission, made up of followers of the 15-year-old Guru Mahara) J from India. The guru, who has been a spiritual leader of his Third World Peace Trust, claims five to eight million followers worldwide.
The parade was to mark the arrival in Kansas City of a 12-bus caravan of the guru's disciples, or priests, who have come from Boston through Philadelphia, Washington, D.C. and St. Louis, picking up more premiers along the way. They numbered 600 by the time they reached Kansas City. Their destination is Houston.
In Houston next week, the guru will mount a platform in the Astrodome to reveal his plan for world peace. The previews say this season will be the millennium, a thousand years of peace.
IT WILL BE, in the words of the guru
himself, "the most holy and significant event in human history."
Obviously that calls for a parade a little out of the ordinary. Saturday's procession is all about people.
Milling around in front of the Hotel Ambassador before the parade were, in addition to the matrabat with the banner, premium dresses as Popeye and Olive Oyle, Superman, Santa Claus, George Washington, a pink pussycake and a frog.
"It's just for fun," the frog said, referring to both the parade and his own papier-mâché sculpture.
"I somebody looks down and sees a frog bawling around in the street, maybe he'll just go out."
The frog said that in reality he was a student from Itaeca, N.Y., who was on leave from Cornell. He said he had been painting houses and doing other odd jobs for months to earn the money for this pilgrimage.
THE FROG-premie said that the gurk had shown him the Knowledge, and that this knowledge had transformed his life and had learned with the part of God living inside of him.
"Life isn't so heavy," the frog said.
"People take it all too seriously. I could get squished by a car any time."
With that, the frog squatted and crooked realistically for the edification of some small children. The 15-piece marching band was built into a wall, with the marching In." and the parade was under way.
The procession, which was made up of about 700 people, stretched for two blocks and had a police escort. It was followed by the premiers' buses, temporarily painted in such un-Greyhound colors as purple, orange, red and blue.
As the parade moved down Broadway toward the Plaza district, other premises distributed literature to passers-by. An old woman waiting for a bus near Broadway and Westport Road received a balloon and a copy of the Divine Times, the gurts newspaper, as the parade moved past singing "God Bless America."
SHE SMILE benignly at first, but then she sobered.
"It must be some kind of march against the President," she said softly.
Saturday shopping scarcely looked up from their wordly business of buying and selling, but the idea of it still remains.
Plaza on the way to Volker Park, several blocks to the east.
Upon arrival at the park, the premiers and a few others listened to music and heard satsang, or spiritual discourses. It was during this time that the program that evening at the Music Hall.
The 2,600-seat Music Hall was about three-quarter filled as the evening program began with a few songs performed by individual premies.
AFTER A BRIEF satsang by the malatma from the parade and excerpts from a documentary film about the guru, in 2013, introduced the act most had been waiting for.
"And now, by the grace of Guru Maharaji, i'he shows the Blue Aquarium," he said. Blue Aquarium is a 35-piece band with six vocalists under the directorship of no less than ten years of experience. Like the guru's magazines and films, the band was very slick and business-like.
They were also quite good, although their reach occasionally exceeded the grasp, such as when they played selections from "Sgt. Pepper." They were best when playing cuts from their soon-to-be released album. "The Lord of the Universe."
Speaker Decries South Viet Prisons
Cuts from that album will soon be making the top 40 all across the country, the emcee puts it on hold.
Kansas Staff Reporter
By MICHELE LONSDORFER
The plight of political prisoners in South Vietnam was discussed by Jean-Pierre Debris, a prisoner there from 1797 to 1792, in a speech Friday in the Kansas Union.
Debaits taught French in Saigon from 1968 to 1970, and, he said, gradually came to appreciate the language.
PROPOSALS FOR IMPROVEMENT OF INSTRUCTION AWARDS from the Office of Instruction Resources are due in the office by Nov. 12. The office has announced that the work will as well as assistant professors through professors, are eligible to receive the awards.
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING interviews: Tomorrow-Kansas Gas & Electric Co., Wichita; Norton & Schmidt, Kansas City, Ms.; Collis Radio Company, Caterpillar Tractor Co., Peoria, Ill.; Fisher Controls Co., Marshallhaworth, Iowa; NASA-Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va.; Thursday-Federal, Highway Adm. Agency; Texas A&M University-Aviation Administration, Des Plaines, Ill.; Daniel International Corp., Greenville, S.C.
After the two-hour performance, the premies brushed their way through a group of Jesus freaks outside, who were passing out handballs which warned that the guru was Anti-Christ. Which perhaps indicates that the premies aren't the only ones who take the 15-year-old kid from India seriously.
show his disapproval, he spread a National Liberation Front flag in front of the Parliamentan in Saigon in 1970, and was beaten and thrown in jail by police.
THE BAROQUE ENSEMBLE, U.S.S.R., will present a concert at 8 night in Swarthout Recital Hall. Tickets are $2.50, and KU ID cards will not be honored.
In the prison of Chi Hoa, Debris said, he witnessed torture of other prisoners. The prisoners, Debris said, represented a cross-section of the population, and weren't necessarily Communist sympathizers. He said they had included men and women of all religions, occupations and classes, and also children.
Debris said that of 9,000 prisoners in Chi Hao prison, 250 had been children who had been imprisoned because nobody could care for them after their parents had been arrested.
On the island of Con Son there are still 15,000 prisoners, Debris said, who should have been released within three months after the signing of the Paris peace agreement. He said that the total number of political prisoners in South Vietnam was 250,000.
Debris said that physical and psychological torture had been common in the Chi Ho "center of re-education." He said that when any official delegation had worked on his case, the torture had been replaced by a screen which had transformed it into a movie room.
The director of the prison purchased his position, Debris said, and to pay for his expenses, he allowed alcohol and marijuana traffic.
There is an American adviser in each prison who helps organize repression when the prisoners shout for food or supplies, he said.
Debris said that since 1967, the U.S. government had supervised prison construction in South Vietnam and had contracted with American corporations to build the jails. In 1971, 384 more "Tiger Cages" were built, he said.
People interested in helping the prisoners could write letters to prison officials and wear a bracelet bearing the name of a prisoner, Debris said. He urged people to
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Israel and Arab Nations Threaten Renewed War
Israel and Egypt warned simultaneously yesterday that the Middle East war could explode anew over the Egyptian demand to end the pull back to the Oct. 22 ceasefire lines.
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KUWAIT (AP) — Oil ministers from 10 Arab states decided early today to cut production 25 per cent to increase pressure on the oil supply with withdrawal from occupied Arab lands.
The warnings came as the Tel Aviv military command said Israeli and Egyptian soldiers had blazed at one another with small arms fire for about a month, while the central sector of the Suez Canal and near the Tafiq at the waterway's southern end.
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The ministers, who met for seven hours yesterday, said the 25-percent reduction would be based on September production figures.
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Moshe Dayan, Israeli defense minister, said Egypt was concentrating its forces and could "definitely be expected to renew operations" in satisfaction with the Oct. 24 truce lines.
Egypt warned meanwhile that it might resume the war unless Israel withdrew to the Oct. 22 lines as required by the U.N. truce resolution.
"We have to realize the war is not yet over. Davan declared in an interview on the far right."
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And in Damascus, the Syrian radio said Arabs would accept nothing less than complete Israel withdraw from the Arab lands in 1967 and during last month's war.
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Thereafter, a 5 per cent cut will be imposed in December based on November figures.
Monday Nov. 5
10 Arab States To Reduce Oil
Efforts to enforce the cease-fire and to get negotiations started have stalled so far because of Israel's insistence on getting a prisoner exchange before moving back and Egypt's equally adamant insistence that the pullback must come before anything else.
The talk of possible renewed fighting came amid intense diplomatic activity in several capitals and was perhaps aimed at instigating militias trying to arrange a peace settlement.
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