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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, February 16, 1968
Wire Briefs
LBJ gets report on Korean visit
WASHINGTON—(UPI)-Cyrus R. Vance has reported to President Johnson on his mission to South Korea for consultations on the peril posed by increased Communist violations of the 15-year-old truce.
In talking with newsmen, Vance acknowledged that some South Korean officials still believe the United States should agree to automatic and instant retaliation against any North Korean Communist attacks.
Tugboat and Jap ship collide
HOUSTON—(UPI)—A tugboat pushing two barges of shell plowed into the side of a Japanese freighter in the Houston ship channel Thursday. One man was reported missing and another was injured and receiving hospital treatment. The collision took place near the San Jacinto battleground where Texas won its independence from Mexico in 1836. Missing was Rick Miller, 32, of Kemah, Tex.
Sailors sentenced for marriage
GREENOCK, Scotland—(UPI)Two U.S. sailors today awaited summary court martial action for marrying Scottish girls without getting the permission of the Navy. Three sailors were sentenced Thursday for the same offense. The Navy said the men were punished not for getting married but for disobeying regulations that call for counseling sessions, paper processing and getting permission from a superior officer.
Riot closes Madrid college
MADRID—(UPI)—Riot police closed the University of Madrid's College of Economics and Political Science Thursday because of new clashes with militant students. The new closing came only hours after it reopened following a month-long shuttering as punishment for student strikes and clashes in December About 1,500 students clashed with police Thursday and 10 were arrested.
Negro protests rock South
DURHAM, N.C.—(UPI)—More than 2,500 Negro youths, apparently organized by a "black student movement," demonstrated in nine southern cities Thursday night to protest the deaths of three Negroes at Orangeburg, S.C., last week. The Durham protest erupted into a melee that injured four persons.
Police in this tobacco city arrested three Negroes, including social worker Howard Fuller, who was charged with assaulting an officer. Three of the injured in the shoving, brick throwing and window-smashing fracas were policemen.
Police Sgt. G. E. Lee said Fuller struck him in the face while trying to prevent the arrest of a student. Fuller contended police "threw me on a car and roughed me up a bit." He was released under $300 bond.
Protest coordinated
The demonstration was part of a coordinated protest by militant students in at least nine cities in North and South Carolina and Virginia. Many of the demonstrators in the cities carried black coffins to symbolize the deaths of three youths at Orangeburg a week ago Thursday night when police fired at firebomb-throwing and sniping Negro students at South Carolina State College.
A reliable student source at Chapel Hill, N.C., told United Press International the protest's were planned and coordinated by an organization called "The Black Student Movement." The source said the demonstrations were planned in Durham. Leaders of the group were circulating a paper which claimed that "four black students have been killed
and over 50 wounded by state troopers and National Guardsmen in South Carolina."
Repeated checks in Orangeburg have failed to turn up a fourth fatality.
The demonstrations were quiet and well-disciplined in Raleigh, Charlotte, Winston-Salem, Greensboro and Chapel Hill, N.C.; Denmark and Spartanburg, S.C., and Petersburg, Va. Only at Durham did violence erupt and Fuller insisted it wasn't planned there.
"I think what touched off the trouble was when they (the firemen) turned those high-powered hoses on the people," Fuller said.
Fire hoses brought
Durham police said about 300 students gathered at a small park at "Five Points" at the center of
the business district. They said the students heaped pine straw around a tree in a box planter and set it afire. Firemen doused it with a small hose.
Then the students threw burlap bags on one of their symbolic coffins, set it afire and joined hands around it to hold back the firemen. Assistant Police Chief William Julian ordered the firemen to turn a high-pressure hose on the fire.
Lee said "The demonstrators were hitting officers and shoving firemen to keep the fire from being put out. A large hose was brought to bear on this crowd and they began breaking up. As they ran from the water, they threw rocks and wood from the fire at the officers and firemen.
Nixon a 'me-too' man
(UPI)—Michigan Gov. George Romney's New Hampshire campaign strategy was shaping up today as an effort to pin an LBJ brand on rival GOP presidential candidate Richard Nixon's Vietnam stance.
Thursday Romney criticized the former vice president for what he said was Nixon's failure to propose alternatives to President Johnson's policy.
"Sadly, he evades suggesting what to do about our present dilemma in Vietnam," Romney told a Bedford news conference. "He only offers more of the same. It is truly ironic that Mr. Nixon has become a me-too candidate on Vietnam."
Romney renewed in speeches
across the state his own proposal to attack the Vietnam problem by working toward the gradual "neutralization" of all southeast Asia.
Nixon, sticking to the theme that aggression must not be allowed to succeed in Vietnam, told a Boston audience it was "vitally important that we not compromise on the principle of resisting aggression abroad because any aggression now runs the risk of escalating into global destruction."
Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy, campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination on an antiwar platform, stumped in Keene, N.H., for votes in the March 12 balloting.
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