Wednesday, March 13, 1968
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Korea warns that Pueblo crew unsafe
TOKYO — (UPI) — North Korea said Wednesday that if the United States had "the slightest concern about the destiny" of the crew of the captured U.S. intelligence ship, Pueblo, it should apologize and promise not "to repeat similar criminal acts."
A statement in the Pyongyang newspaper, Rondong Shinmoon, warned that if the United States failed to apologize, "we will have no alternative but to take different measures toward the crew.
"The crew of the armed spy ship Pueblo must be treated by the law of the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea as if they were criminals caught redhanded while perpetrating grave criminal acts against our country," it said.
The statement was signed "an observer," a usual "nom de plume" for a high government or Communist party official.
North Koreans boarded the Pueblo on Jan. 23 and forced it and its crew of 83 men into Wonsan harbor. One of the U.S. Navy crew was killed.
Clergy apologize to state Negroes
PRAIRIE VILLAGE—(UPI— Johnson County Clergymen Tuesday released a statement apologizing to the Negroes of the state for the Kansas Legislature's failure to pass a fair-housing act.
The statement was signed by 57 clergym. It read in part: "We the undersigned clergy of Johnson County wish to express our apologies to Negro Kansans because of the recent failure of our state legislature to enact a just and comprehensive fair housing law.
"Again the opportunity was ripe for Kansas to take the lead in telling Negro citizens that we would take action to help in the area of housing. . .."
A meeting at the Holy Rosary school auditorium was led by the Rev. Robert Meneilly, pastor of the Village United Presbyterian Church, Rabbi William Silverman of Temple B'nai Jehudah and the Rev. Edward Simmons of the Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church.
GI deserter is returned to officials in Germany
FRANKFURT, Germany — (UPI)—The first American GI to desert the U.S. armed forces to seek asylum in Sweden, Pvt. Ras Jones of Pontiac, Mich., changed his mind and returned Tuesday to surrender to U.S. Army officials in Germany because "I want to go back to live in the United States."
A spokesman at Frankfurt Army headquarters said two other AWOL soldiers had turned themselves in "broke and hungry" to the U.S. embassy at Stockholm after only 24 hours in Sweden and were returned to Germany Monday.
The spokesman identified them as Pvt. Robert M. Bessley, 19,
Casey, Ill., and Pyt, Michael A. Prewett, 20, Dell Cty, Okla.
The French government announced that three more American soldiers deserted their bases in Germany and have been granted residence permits to live in France.
Jones, 21, flew into Frankfurt from Stockholm and was met by U.S. Army officers and military police at the airport. He told a news conference that "I was free in Sweden. I had a wonderful life there. But it would have been the biggest mistake of my life if I had stayed.
Jones, a Negro, said he deserted to Sweden in January, 1967, to protest racial discrimination in
the United States and the Vietnam War.
"I am still against the Vietnam War," he said, adding that he wanted to continue his protest against U.S. involvement from his own homeland, instead of Sweden.
Twenty GL's have been granted asylum in Sweden on "humanitarian," not political, grounds. Several others are awaiting decisions from the Swedish Aliens Commission.
The three U.S. armed forces members granted residence permits in France were identified as Glen M. Coller, 22, Monongahela, Pa.; Jesus Michael Crossman, 18, Banks, Ore., and Joe O'Neill, 19, St. Paul, Minn.
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