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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, March 1, 1968
Havana radio accuses US of violating sea freedom
PORTSMOUTH, Va.—(UPI)—Cuba accused the United States of violating "the principle of freedom of the seas" by trying to save three would-be defectors who were rammed and fired on by a Cuban ship during an escape attempt.
"The foreign ministry expresses its most energetic protest against this new aggression of Yankee imperialism in giving protection to a pirate action which violates the principle of freedom of the seas and international laws," a Havana radio report said.
A few hours after the Coast Guard said it had given up an attempt to aid a burning Liberian ship because it was inside Cuban waters.
The Norwegian cruise ship M-S Sunward lowered lifeboats but several Cuban ships already were beside the freighter taking on survivors and the Sunward's help was not needed. The freighter was identified as the Azar.
The Havana protest claimed the
three defectors had been picked up alive and were being returned to Cuba as "traitors," but persons who witnessed the ramming Tuesday said the three could not have survived.
Viet war may cost more
WASHINGTON — (UPI)— The House voted Thursday to extend present excise taxes on new cars and telephone calls and its chief tax writer said the costs of a stepped up Vietnam War might force adoption of some kind of income tax increase.
The defectors, according to the captain of the Cuban ship—July 26—took command of the vessel at gunpoint and forced him to send a message saying that several persons aboard wanted asylum in the United States.
Acting swiftly on voice vote, the House approved extensions until Jan. 1, 1970, of the 10 per cent telephone and 7 per cent
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Kids should want books
Literature taught to elementary school children should be useful at the time and not merely "a reservoir for future use in high school," said Dr. Eldonna L. Evert, associate professor of elementary education at the University of Illinois.
"The children should discover, by themselves, the beauty of literature," Dr. Everts said. "The teacher can tell them a fact, drill it into them, and test them, but it won't really do them any good until they want the knowledge themselves."
Dr. Evertts, also executive secretary of the National Council of Teachers of English, spoke Thursday at a lecture sponsored by the KU School of Education at the Kansas Union Forum Room.
"Children find delight in language, but to progress, they must be introduced to the universality of language arts early," Dr. Evertis said.
auto excise levies which would drop automatically to 1 and 2 percent respectively April 1 without congressional action.
The House also approved a speedup of corporate tax payments that would force more corporations with tax bills under $100,000 a year to pay their taxes quarterly as larger firms do now.
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The administration figured this, along with the extended excise taxes, would bring in an estimated $5.3 billion in additional revenue over the life of higher excise levies.
During brief debate on the legislation, Rep. Wilbur Mills, D-Ak., chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, told the House "there are factors which might arise to force Congress" to pass higher taxes. He specifically mentioned "substantial acceleration" of the Vietnam War or "substantial inflationary pressure."
A Coast Guard cutter, the Point Brown, was sent to pick up the defectors but after the lifeboat was lowered onto the sea the Cuban ship turned and rammed them, opened fire, and then passed over the wreckage two additional times.
Rep. Rivers calls for A-weapons or pullout
But Mills said he would continue to insist on sharp cutbacks in domestic spending, even if those developments came to pass, before he would support President Johnson's proposed 10 per cent income tax surcharge.
The three would-be defectors were identified by Havana radio as the Cuban ship's first officer, the chief machinist and the third machinist.
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—Rep. L. Mendel Rivers, D-S.C., said Thursday the United States should either authorize the use of tactical weapons at Khe Sanh or pull its troops out.
Rivers, chairman of the House Armed Service Committee, said he has felt uneasy about the deployment at Khe Sanh since the Allies decided to make a stand there.
"It's unmoral, unwarlike, un-Christian and un-everything else not to permit 5,000 men to use tactical nuclear weapons and advance and destroy the forces around them." Rivers said in an interview.
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Honors for The Gang include an appearance on the "Campus Talent" TV variety show last year and being featured entertainment last August at the National American Legion Convention in Boston.
"Our band claims to be the only one in the Midwest which has consumed a case of champagne during a half hour while performing," Gray said, referring to their convention performance.
The band is currently preparing to play with the "Talent Unlimited" troupe, which will perform March 22-24 at Fort Riley and during spring break at Fort Polk, La.
The Gang often performs at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., and Fort Leavenworth, in addition to numerous county fairs in Missouri.
After the show at Fort Park during spring break, The Gang plans to play dixieland jazz in New Orleans and record.
Gray said the band owes much of its success to Skipper Williams, Lawrence resident, who has supported and backed the band this year.
"Williams heard us play this fall at a private party and was really snowed at our dixieland jazz and immediately decided to back us." he said.
Gray has big plans for his band, whose style covers dixieland jazz, soul music, rock'n roll and formal dance music.
This summer The Gang has booked engagements in Lawrence, New Orleans, Seattle, Wash., and Tahiti.
The Gaslight Gang members hope to stay together after graduation and play jazz full-time in New Orleans on Bourbon Street.
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