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WASHINGTON—(UPI)—One of Communist China's leading musicians has "escaped" from that country, sought asylum in the United States, and is now in New York City with his wife and two children, the State Department said today.
Asked how Europeans feel about U.S. involvement in Vietnam, he said.
NEW YORK-(UPI)-Vice-President Hubert H. Humphrey, in his first interview since his return from a two-week European trip, said today most European government leaders support the U.S. position in Vietnam. But he admitted there was "apprehension" among many young people.
"There is apprehension among many of the young people in particular but most of the government officials support our position."
The defector was identified as Ma Szu-tsung, director of the Central Conservatory of Music in Peking.
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PUNTA DEL ESTE, Uruguay—(UPI)—President Johnson and 18 other American presidents opened their unprecedented summit meeting informally today under new and severe security conditions.
Police and national guardsmen sealed off the San Rafael Hotel entrances and allowed no one but the presidents and their aides to enter. The initial session started at 8:06 a.m. CST.
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Johnson and the other presidents, in perhaps the most important talks ever to take place between the United States and its neighbors, had as their principal goal formation of a common market extending from the Straits of Magellan to the Rio Grande.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
77th Year, No.112
Wednesday, April 12, 1967
Harlem is faithful, re-elects 'Reverend'
NEW YORK — (UPI) — Baby,
they kept the faith.
By a smashing 88 per cent of the vote, the people of Harlem have tossed the controversial Adam Clayton Powell case right back into the lap of Congress. And today it was Rep.-elect Adam Clayton Powell, D-N.Y., once again.
Effortlessly and overwhelmingly, Fowell was elected Tuesday to the House seat he has held for the past 22 years. The special election was called after the House voted
last March to exclude Powell for the remainder of the 90th Congress.
THE TURNOUT was light but the mandate of the voters to the Congress was unmistakable. In some of the clearest language known to politicians—raw votes—the people of Harlem said they Powell seated.
Unofficial final returns gave Powell 27,900 votes, compared to a meager combined total of 4,518 for his opposition. Mrs. Lucille Picket Williams, a comely 50-year-old Republican grandmother got 4,091 votes, and the Rev. Erwin F. Yearling, a Baptist minister running as a Conservative, got 427 votes.
was speculation that the Democ- cratic leadership might try to drum up support for his readmission within the next week.
It was also considered possible that Powell himself would pass up the opportunity of asking the House to seat him, choosing instead to concentrate his efforts for readmission on the courts.
A federal judge in Washington has thrown out Powell's case, arguing that because of the principle of separation of powers the judiciary has no power to direct the internal actions of the legislative branch of government. Powell's attorneys have appealed and it is likely the Supreme Court eventually will rule on the issue.
Cigarette bill shelved
Campus sales must wait
Powell appeared in New York not once during the low-keyed campaign. From his Bimini hideaway, he had made "keep the faith, baby!" his campaign slogan.
Dn ALLAN NORTHCUTT
TOPEKA — A bill concerning KU is being held until next year's legislative session and several others are being given high priority in today's session.
The Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee has decided to hold until the next session the House-approved bill allowing cigarette sales on state campuses.
The House passed and returned to the Senate the state college and university budget bill with sleight amendments yesterday. The amendments, which did not alter KU's $10.25 million appropriations share, will be considered by the Senate before Thursday's expected adjournment, according to Sen. Glee Smith (R-Larned and Senate president pro tem).
YESTERDAY, THE HOUSE also passed the Senate-passed bill granting KU about $1.5 million for 1968 and 1969 building projects.
Sen. Smith said the Senate would consider several bills today
Yearbook distributed next week
Distribution dates for the second issue of the 1937 Jayhawker have been set for Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, April 18, 19, and 20.
Jayhawker editor Blake Biles, Hutchinson junior, attributed delays to "problems with people and the press." It was originally planned to have the second issue out before spring vacation, he said.
Biles predicted that the third issue will be ready for distribution "sometime after the first of May."
"We finished the third issue over spring break and are now working on the last one," Eiles said.
that have already been approved by the House.
"This one will be almost one and three-quarters as big as any other issue," he said, "and will contain from 160 to 180 pages."
Among them are: a bill allowing Kansas to contribute to a fund which backs student loans made through private lending institutions, a bill requiring all motorcycle riders to wear helmets, a bill reducing the minimum age limit for buying cigarettes from 21 to 13, and a bill granting free tuition and fees to Kansans over 65 who enter state colleges and universities.
SEN. SMITH SAID the bill lowering the cigarette buying age will "surely pass before the session enda." Supporters of the bill say the present law forbidding cigarette sales to those under 21 is practically impossible to enforce.
Senate committees recently killed two bills, one of which would have presented state universities from raising students' tuition within four years after initial enrollment.
Another bill killed would have raised the minimum age for buying beer from 18 to 21. It was the second such measure killed by committee in this session.
GOV. ROBERT DOCKING signed two bills into law last week. The first is designed to facilitate
expansion of state universities by allowing the Board of Regents to acquire land by eminent domain.
The second appropriates about $29,000 for janitorial and operating expenses for the new botany laboratory and new Fraser Hall until the fiscal 1968 budget becomes effective June 1. The funds weren't included in KU's present operating budget because the facilities hadn't been completed when the original appropriations bill was drafted.
"TD LIKE TO SEE this killed before we adjourn. We should be increasing our support to the KU Medical Center in Kansas City before building another," Smith said.
Sen. Smith also said the Senate Ways and Means Committee will "probably kill" a Senate Concurrent Resolution directing the Board of Regents to conduct a feasibility study of establishing a medical school in central Kansas.
Because of the important bills left for consideration, Legislators have been working without their $35-per-day expense allowance which ended Friday. By increasing House and Senate sessions by about four hours daily this week, the Legislators expect to adjourn tomorrow, Smith said.
In Washington, a spot check of House members indicated no pronounced shift in sentiment on the Powell question. However, there
Mrs. King to give Freedom Concert
Mrs. Martin Luther King will conduct the first "Freedom Concert" at KU at 7:30 tonight in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
The two hour concert will consist of a narrative of the freedom movement, songs and poetry.
SHE WILL NARRATE the development of the non-violent sitins in Montgomery, the march to Washington and many other facets of the civil rights movement.
Mrs. King is coming to KU at the request of Mrs. Anima Bose, India graduate student who saw
her perform and began to corre-sond with her.
The KU-Y, Council of Churches, Student Union Activities, Inter Residence Council, and the University contributed to pay Mrs. King's expenses and sponsor the concert.
The SUA press conference featuring Mrs. Martin Luther King will be held at 10:30 p.m. tonight in McCollum Hall following the public reception. It was originally scheduled for 3:30 p.m. in the Kansas Union Forum Room. The rescheduled became necessary when Mrs. King missed an early flight out of Atlanta, Ga.
ASC bill asks COSA change
An All Student Council (ASC) resolution requiring at least four of the six student members of COSA (Council on Student Affairs) be ASC members was passed last night.
Kyle Craig, Joplin, Mo., sophomore and spokesman for a subcommittee of the Committee on Committees, said that ASC members are needed on COSA to "delete some of the secrecy that surrounds COSA's actions."
"By having at least four ASC members on COSA," Craig said, "The ASC can then discuss certain issues in its meetings, acquaint itself with these problems, and bring them out in the open."
THE ASC ALSO abolished the Student Opinion Poll, the ASC Facts and Statistics Committee, the Student Communications Board, and the ASC Public Relations Department.
The Facts and Statistics Committee was termed "non-functioning" by Craig.
Members of the Committee on Committees, Craig said, feel that the KU Public Relations Department "has all the facts and statistics we need."
WEATHER
The U.S. Weather Bureau predicts mostly cloudy skies with intermittent showers and thunderstorms tonight. The low tonight is expected to be around 50 degrees, with partly cloudy skies and cooler temperatures forecast for tomorrow. Precipitation probabilities 60 per cent tonight and 10 per cent tomorrow.
The Committee on Committees first considered recommending abolition of the Student Communications Board shortly after Bob Jacoby, chairman of the Board, called the Board a "joke" during committee investigations earlier this semester.
TOM EDGAR. Bartlesville,Okla., senior (engineering),said he was pleased with the ASC's elimination of these committees.
"The elimination of these committees is an important step in lessening the bureaucracy in the present ASC." Edgar said, "and too many committees are used for political payoffs and for padding college records. To my knowledge, there have been at least five committees that have not functioned during the past year."
German theater traced
By SOLVEIG EGGERZ
Contemporary German drama was the subject of German guest speaker, Fritz Andre Kropp's lecture last night.
Kropp traced the history of German theatre starting from 1891, the year of Gerhardt Hauptman's realism of play portraying the working class, "The Weavers," to the present.
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