New peace group forms to fight state militarism
Professors and students, Catholics, Jews and Protestants, housewives, ministers and a former Manhattan mayor met Saturday in the Wesley Foundation Center. Their common goal was peace.
By BETSY WRIGHT
About 35 men and women from Emporia, Manhattan and Lawrence spent five hours discussing what could be done in Kansas to encourage more thought toward peace.
THE REV. TOM REHORN, Methodist minister, said, "The meeting grew out of a sense of frustration. We were looking for some kind of comprehensive plan to bring people opposed to war together on a statewide basis.
"The idea of the meeting," Rehorn said, "was to form a plan to attack militarism in the state and to study the whole question of war and peace. The Student Peace Unions were sitting at their tables passing out literature, the Viet Nam committees were picketing for peace, but nobody was paying any attention."
Before the day was over, the group had formed some basic plans with which to begin their assault.
PRIMARY TO THE GROUP'S organization will be a central "clearing house" called the Kansas Peace Forum. The central committee, based in Lawrence, will serve as a center for correspondence and will direct interested persons to committee activities.
"We are trying to develop a constituency of peace groups, people involved in dialogue, debates and discussions on the question of peace," Rehorn said.
The Lawrence group will work with the American Friends Service Committee in sponsoring a statewide workshop in the near future. The workshop will concern itself with "community action and foreign affairs" and will sponsor a speakers' bureau. The bureau will be a center for training people to speak effectively on the goals of the peace movement.
REHORN SAD that the group had discussed various political methods, such as lobbying and running a candidate for governor.
"We recognize, however, that it will take a long time to gather any political strength," Rehorn said. "What we need right now is to get people talking."
1962 crisis is debated
CHICAGO —(UPI)— Cuban Premier Fidel Castro claims that the United States made more agreements with the Soviet Union and Cuba than were disclosed after the 1962 Cuban missile crisis.
On Oct. 27, 1962, President Kennedy pledged that the U.S. would not invade Cuba if the missiles were pulled out.
In a Playboy magazine interview published today, Castro told author Lee Lockwood "I can say to you that even more agreements exist besides, about which not a word has ever been said . . . one day, perhaps, it will be known that the United States made some other concessions in relation to the October crisis besides those that were made public."
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WASHINGTON - (UPI) - The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is examining new car warranties in an apparent effort to see just how much they offer the consumer.
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