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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, March 13, 1968
DC-8 hijacked over Florida; second one in three weeks
MIAMI — (UPI)— Two pistolwaving men, speaking only Spanish and holding a terrified prisoner, hijacked a National Airlines jetliner carrying 58 persons Tuesday and forced it to take them to Havana.
Holding guns on a stewardess, they burst into the cockpit of the San Francisco-to-Miami DC8 and barked "Havana, Havana," at pilot, Clarence Delk.
The DC8, second U.S. jetline to be hijacked over Florida within three weeks, returned to Miami 7½ hours after touching down at Havana. Most of the passengers said they were treated well, but six U.S. servicemen aboard—most of them Vietnam veterans—were taken into a separate room and "harrassed" by Cuban officials.
Passengers agreed that three men were involved, but said one
was obviously a prisoner of the other two. He told several passengers he had been kidnapped by the men in Mexico and forced to board the plane with them at Tampa.
CIB endorses pass-fail
The three men were tentatively identified as Esus Armentero, Ramon Donate and G. Iarrana.
The College Intermediary Board (CIB) has written a letter to George R. Waggoner, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, advocating a plan for a limited pass-fail grading system for juniors and seniors.
David McClain, St. Joseph, Mo., senior and chairman of CIB, said the board is suggesting the institution of a limited pass-fail system because of the extended amount of time necessary to consider the complete pass-fail system the CIB proposed last week for the University.
McClain said this system is now used at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Indiana and Kansas State University.
The proposed limited pass-fail grading system would allow juniors and seniors to take one course outside of their major on a pass-fail basis, McClain said.
If this proposal is passed, McClain said, it could be used to
test the merit of the complete pass-fail grading system which CIB proposed earlier.
Three men who signed those names to the passenger list boarded in Tampa and did not return from Havana, and were named as the hijackers in an anonymous call to a Miami radio station.
The earlier proposal called for a grading system which would give only a passing or failing grade for all undergraduate courses in the University. Freshmen and sophomores would also receive a letter grade for use in counseling.
Horowitz to chair
Floyd R. Horowitz, associate professor of English at KU, has been appointed chairman of the American Council of Learned Societies' committee concerned with computer-oriented research, training, and education in the humanities and social sciences.
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