Ky cools cabinet; prepares for trip
SAIGON — (UPI) — Premier Nguyen Cao Ky said today he would let one of his dissident cabinet ministers run the country while he is in Manila attending next week's Asian conference.
But while he was soothing the seven ministers who resigned yesterday, a politically powerful student group threatened new trouble with a charge he is solely responsible for the nation's political crisis.
KY TOLD newsmen he would turn over the reins of office to Deputy Premier Nguyen Luu
Vien, the minister of social welfare who resigned.
His announcement confirmed reports he had managed to put the cabinet crisis on ice until at least after the Manila meeting.
Police watch Negro gangs
OAKLAND, Calif. — (UPI) — Police shotgun patrols today clamped a lid on a tense Negro neighborhood where teen-agers smashed windows, hurled fire bombs and assaulted passersby for the second consecutive night.
WORLD NEWS
Aussies greet LBJ with cheers and jeers
CANBERRA, Australia—(UPI)
—President Johnson arrived in Australia to the tumultuous cheers of thousands and the jeers of some anti-U.S. demonstrators today with an appeal to North Viet Nam to stop shooting and
join a peaceful "war for human dignity."
Police estimated 30,000 people lined the motorcade route from the airport to the city proper with another 10,000 at or near the airport.
Scientific report connects smoking and heart disease
NEW YORK—(UPI)—Scientists today reported finding physical evidence linking cigarette smoking with heart disease.
The tangible signs were found in the heart arteries of 645 men. The arteries containing the heaviest fatty deposits belonged to heavy smokers; those with the lightest deposits were nonsmokers.
DR. JACK P. STRONG of Louisiana State University Medical School in New Orleans described the evidence today at the annual meeting of the council on arteriosclerosis of the American Heart Association.
A heavy smoker was considered
Daily Kansan Thursday, October 20, 1966
to be one who smoked more than 25 cigarettes daily, a light smoker, one who smoked fewer than 25. Stong reported the differences between smokers and non-smokers were most marked in the younger ages.
Food prices slide
DENVER—(UPI)—Shaken by a four-day housewives' boycott having repercussions nationally, the owner of a second Denver supermarket chain ordered all food prices slashed today.
Lloyd J. King, general manager of King Soopers Supermarkets, said the action was the opening salvo in what could be a yearlong war on food prices. The boycott has sparked "the worst price war ever experienced in the Denver retail food business."
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CITY OFFICIALS held closed-door meetings to determine whether to re-open Castlemont High School where gangs of truant youths yesterday beat up five teachers. A police spokesman said that if opened, officers would be stationed in the halls and recreation area.
College Life
Everyone Is Invited
"The Crisis of Unbelief" Karl Dennison, Speaker
presents
Tau Kappa Epsilon House
1911 Stewart
October 20, 1966
9:00 p.m.
Refreshments & Entertainment
The incident at the predominantly Negro school was blamed by school officials on a student boycott called by an ad hoc committee to protest alleged de facto segregation.
Nobel Prize given to Jewish writers
STOCKHOLM — (UPI) — Samuel Joseph Agon and Nelly Sachs, whose works portray the epic struggles of the Jewish people, were jointly awarded the 1963 Nobel Prize for literature today.
Sponsored By Campus Crusade For Christ, Int'l.
Agnon, 78, who lives modestly in a suburb of Jerusalem, is considered Israel's foremost author. Miss Sachs, 75, who has lived in Sweden since fleeing her native Germany in 1940, has been a strong candidate for many years.
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Reading His Poetry
Coffee will be served.
Thursday, Oct. 20
4:30 p.m. Music Room
Kansas Union