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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, March 1, 1968
LBJ misled nation on Tonkin
WASHINGTON — (UPI)—A top secret Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff study concludes that the Johnson administration misled Congress about the 1964 Tonkin Gulf incidents that led to the bombing of North Vietnam, it was learned today.
Essential parts of the study, which has been a closely guarded secret up to now, were made public by Sen. Wayne L. Mose, D-Ore., in a senate speech Thursday. Morse did not identify them as such in his address, but reliable sources said his remarks were taken nearly verbatim from the staff study.
Teachers' walk-outs continue
By United Press International
Teacher strikes kept thousands of students out of school again today in Florida, Pennsylvania, Missouri and California.
In San Francisco 1,500 teachers ignored personal pleas of Mayor Joseph Alioto and stayed away from classes.
In Florida the statewide strike of 22,000 teachers entered its 10th day.
Gov. Claude Kirk has failed to get Florida teachers back to their desks.
One strike was ended Thursday—in Albuquerque, N.M., where 2,500 of the city's 2,900 teachers walked out.
Gov. David Vargo agreed to appoint a nine-man panel to find more revenue for the state education program.
Strikes continued today in Pittsburgh, Pa., and in the St. Louis suburb of Wellston. In Oklahoma City, the Oklahoma Education Association Thursday called for a one-way statewide "professional holiday" by its 27.-000 teachers next Wednesday to try to convince the legislature to push through a school bill and tax package.
Episcopal bishop before church court
By United Press International
The Episcopal Church is preparing to bring one of its bishops to trial before a church court for the first time since 1924.
Defendant in the unusual proceeding is the Rt. Rev. Joseph S. Minnis, 64, bishop of the diocese of Colorado.
He is charged with personal misconduct in violation of his ordination vows. No details of the allegations have been made public, but authoritative sources said no question of heresy or malfaessance is involved.
The trial will be behind closed doors in Denver, before the church's nine-member court for the trial of a bishop.
The trial date has not been announced, but under canon law the court must convene between April 20 and Aug. 20. The defendant may call and cross-examine witnesses and be represented by counsel, and all testimony must be given under oath.
If found guilty, Bishop Minnis may appeal to a court of review. If the latter affirms the verdict, it will determine the sentence. The alternatives are admonition, suspension, or deposition from the office of bishop.
The study formed the basis for a searching review by the full committee that has led several members to express doubts that the Aug. 4, 1964, attack on the destroyers Maddox and Turner Joy ever occurred. Members have also questioned whether the United States might not have provoked the incidents or at least overreacted to the whole affair.
The staff study, which is based on a review of secret documents, including U.S. Navy messages and logs during the period, concludes that:
—Maddox and Turner Joy were not on "routine" patrol as described to Congress in 1964 but were assigned to an electronic spying mission. They were authorized to stimulate the radar and other electronic systems of Red China and North Vietnam.
—Maddox was attacked by North Vietnam on the afternoon of Aug. 2, 1964, but North Vietnam had every reason to believe that the U.S. destroyer was an enemy ship. The North Vietnamese may have thought the Maddox was associated with a South Vietnamese bambardment expedition against two North Vietnamese Islands.
—After the Aug. 4 incident the United States decided to bomb North Vietnam despite messages from the commander of the Mad-dox-Turner Joy task force that he had doubts an attack had taken place.
The staff study notes that the Maddox's appearance along the
Recitals cancelled
David Holloway, instructor of voice, will not present a Sunday afternoon recital so he may attend regional tryouts for the Metropolitan Opera.
The University Woodwind Quintet Monday evening recital has been cancelled because the group's bassoonist, Austin Ledwith, associate professor of music theory, has an injured arm.
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North Vietnamese coastline on Aug. 2 was only the third time that a U.S. ship had been spotted in that area since 1962. The Maddox was coming from the same direction that South Vietnamese boats had come from 40 hours before when they attacked the North Vietnamese islands of Hon Me and Hon Nieu.
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"The Maddox could have led the North Vietnamese to believe that it was part of the South Vietnamese operation, or in any event, was a provocative mission," Morse told the senate.
Last chance for '67 tags
Cars without 1968 license plates will be stopped and ticketed by police, beginning midnight Friday the Kansas Highway Patrol said
A second 50-cent penalty will be charged for persons purchasing new tags after the Friday deadline. The first 50-cent penalty went into effect Feb.16.
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Self-assessment personal property forms will be due March 2. If they are not returned before March 2, a penalty amounting to a 10 per cent increase in assessment will be imposed. After March 19 the increase will be 20 per cent; after April 3, 30 per cent and 50 per cent after April 18.
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