U.S. Jets Prepare For Viet Strikes
By United Press International
The commander of the U.S. 7th Fleet said today American war planes are poised to bomb North Viet Nam on a once-a-day basis. The Communist capital of Hanoi was reported bracing for air raids.
A traveler just back from a trip to Hanoi said today children have been taken out of the city. He said workers were digging a city-wide network of bomb shelters and slit trenches. Some citizens were digging foxholes in the yards of their homes.
In Saigon police broke up a news conference called by the Cao Dai religious sect to announce still another plan to make peace with the Viet Cong. It was the fourth attempt in less than a month in Saigon to organize a peace movement.
MEANWHILE seventeen hundred persons demonstrated today in favor of the Communist Viet Cong Tuesday in Binh Minh Province 300 miles north of Saigon. Government troops broke it up by shooting and killing one agitator and arresting 100.
The Binh Minh demonstration occurred in the village of Phu My 25 miles northwest of the provincial capital of Qui Nhon. It was here a military spokesman said B57 jet bomber strikes had broken the back of a Viet Cong offensive.
U. S. ADMINISTRATION officials believe that the continuing U.S. and South Vietnamese air raids have destroyed about 10 per cent of the weapons and ammunition potential of Communist North Viet Nam.
But, though the destruction visited on the Reds appears quite substantial, U.S. officials feel they are using only a small part of the power available to them. They regard the stepped-up American effort in Viet Nam as an extremely limited and controlled application of pressure on the Hanoi government.
The objective of this U.S. power, as well as its application, is being carefully restricted. There is no effort to destroy North Viet Nam or even to overthrow its Communist government. The United States simply wants to force Hanoi to stop its "aggression" in the South.
SOME WASHINGTON policy-makers believe that a word from Hanoi would stop about 75 per cent of the guerrilla activity against the South Vietnamese government almost immediately.
This aspect of American policy became clear Tuesday when it was learned that the United States will send additional helicopter companies to South Viet Nam and that the Navy has already begun active patrolling of the Vietnamese coast.
The additional companies, containing about 25 helicopters each, will be added to U.S. forces already operating approximately 400 'copters in South Viet Nam.
THE FLEET COMMANDER, Vice Adm. Paul R. Blackburn, briefed newsmen on the air strike policy at a news conference aboard the aircraft carrier Ranger in the South China Sea.
"Some of my more eager friends say we ought to hit twice a day," Blackburn said. "But I'm an old man, so I'd say once a day."
The anti-Communist war in South Viet Nam centered today in the Mekong River Delta.
ONE U.S. NAVY officer-adviser was killed and two American enlisted men wounded Tuesday night in a land and river battle with the Viet Cong 70 miles southwest of Saigon.
A U.S. military spokesman said the clash broke out near the village of Hoa Hong along a Mekong tributary when a battalion of Vietnamese rangers and a fleet of river boats tried to pin down a company of Communist guerrillas.
PRIOR TO WASHINGTON'S decision to begin active patrolling, the U.S. Navy had been helping the South Vietnamese Navy in its efforts to stop coastal traffic in weapons and ammunition.
THE CAO DAI is a 40-year-old religious sect which claims three million members but probably has one million. It has a history of armed rebellion against previous Vietnamese governments but at present it supplies many anti-Communist fighting men to the army.
EARLIER peace plans got a chill reception from the government. One plan launched by Saigon professional men called for an immediate cease-fire. Three of its leaders have been condemned to exile in North Viet Nam as soon as the government decides how to send them there.
Its peace plan calls for withdrawal of all Communists from South Viet Nam, imposition of a U.S. military cordon to prevent infiltration until peace is restored and eventual withdrawal of American troops. Officials said the sponsor of the plan had been arrested.
In Australia the Sydney Mirror quoted former South Vietnamese Premier Nguyen Xuan Oanh as saying three Vietnamese intellectuals who organized a previous peace campaign had been pushed out of a plane without parachutes over North Viet Nam last Monday.
No major action was reported today on the military front but the commander of the U.S. 7th Fleet told newsmen American planes were poised to bomb the north on a once-a-day basis. The Communist capital of Hanoi was reported bracing for air raids.
Daily Hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
62nd Year, No. 101
ASC Approves Bill Banning Discrimination in Advertising
Wednesday, March 17, 1965
The amendment gives the University Human Relations Committee (UHRC) the power to consider and judge complaints concerning discrimination in advertising.
MIKE MINER, Lawrence senior and ASC chairman, began the meeting by announcing that the Chancellor had signed ASC Bill No. 7 on human rights. Miner also read a letter from the Chancellor urging the council to pass the then proposed amendment to Bill No. 7.
By Rosalie Jenkins and Jim Sullinger
It would also require all student publications to carry a statement in their format that all goods, accommodations and services advertised are offered without regard to race, creed, or national origin.
The All Student Council (ASC) passed an amendment to Human Rights Bill No. 7 last night to prohibit discriminatory advertising in any student publication.
The Council voted in favor of the amendment in a 15 to 9 roll call vote with 6 members abstaining. Ten Council members were not present for the vote.
The Civil Rights Council (CRC) had incorporated a similar provision in their seven demands presented to the Chancellor during last week's demonstrations.
The Council then invoked the special parliamentary procedure of going into a committee of the
THE AMENDMENT TO Bill No. 7 on human rights called for all student publications not to accept commercial advertising for employment, accommodations, goods or services unless it is offered to all students regardless of color, creed or national origin.
The University Daily Kansas and all student publications would also be prohibited from accepting advertising which included any phrase suggesting racial discrimination.
The weather bureau has issued a cold wave warning for tonight. Skies are predicted to be partly cloudy with low temperatures of 15 to 20 degrees. Tomorrow should be partly cloudy and continued cold. Winds will be northerly tonight from 25 to 30 miles per hour.
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whole to allow discussion with Kansan Board members.
Stating a need for a freer exchange, Bob Stewart, Vancouver, B.C., senior and student body president, requested a closed meeting. However, a motion to keep it open was passed instead.
Before actual questioning began, Roy Miller, Topeka senior and ASC representative, (UP, Journalism) read a statement of policy which the Kenson Board, governing body of the UDK, passed yesterday afternoon.
THE STATEMENT SAID the Board feels it should have been consulted by the ASC in their proposed amendment.
"We feel that we have been passed over," Miller said. "If the ASC passes the legislation, it will do so hastily and it will be legislation that has not been discussed fully."
Miller also read a letter from John Pepper, Lenexa junior and former UDK advertising manager, who wrote that he felt an obligation to secure equal rights for every man and also an obligation to the publishing field.
"Such legislation would set a dangerous precedent," Pepper's letter said. He said that the legislation would put control of the paper in the hands of the politicians instead of in the hands of the journalists.
PEPPER ADDED THAT he couldn't support the amendment because the decision on the paper's advertising policy is being decided by a group of students and not by the Kansas Board, journalists, or even a court of law.
After Pepper's letter was presented. Stewart asked for the floor to clarify some points.
"The UDK is empowered to run its own business with the rule that it shall not infringe upon the policy of the ASC. . . . The ASC doesn't dictate how they run their business. This amendment is a statement of our policy," Stewart said.
"THIS PAPER IS the official organ of the University of Kansas and, thus, of its students . . . anything in that paper must be offered to all students in the University. The ASC must make the policy for all the students in the University." Stewart said.
Don Black, Hugoton senior and managing editor of the Kansan, then answered questions from the council.
"We feel the Kansan Board and the All Student Council should take more time in considering this amendment. This is the first time we have actually seen you except for your leaders," Black said.
He noted that the Kansan, while being an organ of the University is also an organ of the journalism school and is supposed to follow certain ethics.
BLACK ALSO explained that if an advertiser who is refused the use of the UDK pages decides to sue on the grounds of unfair business practices, the student who handled the ad will be the one sued. He stated that the Kansan is an organ of the University, the University is under the state, and a state cannot be sued. The student is the one open to a lawsuit.
After Black's statements, Miner read a letter from Charles H. Oldfather, law professor, on the legality of suits in alleged advertising discrimination by a paper against its customers.
Miner said that Oldfather gave his opinion at the request of the UHRC and ASC.
Oldfather wrote that the courts have ruled in such cases that a paper is free to decide its own advertising policy and is not oen to suit.
THE ASC THEN dissolved the committee of the whole on a motion from the floor.
Jonn Suhler, Cross River, N.Y. senior and Kansan Board chairman, presented an explanation of the Kansan Board policy and then answered questions.
"The entire problem, as it has been stated and restated, is that we have not been approached to discuss the ramifications of this amendment except in talking to the UHRC and to the student body president. . . I don't feel that this is sufficient inquiry." Suhler said.
Suhler asked that the ASC meet with the Kansan Board "to discuss in detail what we feel are the obligations of a journalist." He said that Chancellor Wescoe had expressed "his opinion to me that the Kansan Board and the ASC get together."
SUHLER WAS ASKED if the Kansen Board would draft the provisions into its own policies if the ASC bill was not passed. Suhler said that he could not guarantee such policies but that the
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THE NEW REGULATIONS—Nancy Holland, Lee's Summit, Mo., senior and advertising manager, explains to her staff the provisions of the
new All Student Council measure preventing discrimination in the Kansan's advertising.