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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, February 7, 1968
Cong try, shoot Saigon 'traitor'
SAIGON—(UPI)—A Viet Cong kangaroo court set up in a Chinatown street today tried, convicted and executed by gunshot a neighborhood official, residents said.
His crime: "Being a traitor to the people." The condemned man was Phuong Truong, a sort of mayor of the block.
The Viet Cong "peoples court" had been set up near the Vien Hoa Dao pagoda in an alley just three blocks from the headquarters of the allies. Police confirmed several civilians had been killed in the area and one of them was a Phuong Truong.
The judge, jury and executioner then faded away in the flaming streets of Cholon - Saigon's Chinatown—where U.S. officials said the last intact Viet Cong battalion in the capital was pursued by Vietnamese rangers.
The rangers caught up with the guerrillas twice today. Two Viet Cong died in a hail of bullets west of the race track in Cholon. Later, south of the track, more guerrillas engaged the Vietnamese rangers and that battle was still raging.
A squad of Viet Cong, 12 to 15 men, slipped into a Cholon neighborhood and set an entire block on fire. In another section of Cholon a rice warehouse was set afire.
Viet Cong reportedly surrounded a power station in the suburbs west of Cholon. Reports said the station was holding out but food and fuel were running low.
Senators worry about beer veto
TOPEKA — (UPI) — Kansas senators were occupied Tuesday with the authority of township boards to veto beer licenses.
Six minor bills were passed and 12 bills were introduced.
The senate defeated a bill to remove the township right of veto on beer licenses by a 13-12 vote. However, 15 senators were absent or did not vote, leaving the possibility of reconsideration of the measure.
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St. Jo cops wound two
ST. JOSEPH, Mo.—(UPI)—Police shot and wounded two bandits who had forced nine employees to lie on a floor at a supermarket holdup Tuesday night. A third person was in custody.
The third person's name was not disclosed.
Two Leavenworth, Kan., men identified as Arthur A. Hunter, 23, and Willie Floyd Harris, 20, were in satisfactory condition at Sisters Hospital where both underwent surgery.
Viet Cong attack, win Beret camp
Police recovered more than $3,-000 taken from the safe and cash registers of a Beaty Drive-in food market in mid-town St. Joseph.
SAIGON —(UPI) — The first Communist tank attack of the war today overran a U.S. Army Special Forces camp near the North Vietnam border but pilots said the Green Berets were fighting on for survival in underground bunkers
U. S. spokesmen said at least nine Soviet-built T34 tanks rumbled in from nearby Laos during the night and crashed through the Lang Vei camp's barbed wire defenses, with 800 North Vietnamese running alongside shooting flame-throwers.
The handful of Berets, their 300 to 400 mountain tribesmen "strikers" and 2,700 Laotian refugees, including 2,100 women and children, were hit by mortar and artillery. U.S. spokesmen said the Berets knocked out at least five of the 30-ton T34s and one of the burned out vehicles came to rest atop the camp's underground command post.
Seventeen hours after the tank invasion, allied officials declared the camp overrun. But at Dan Nang, UPI correspondent Robert Kaylor said U.S. aerial observers reported Americans still inside the flattened camp and still fighting.
60 fellowships awarded
Lang Vei is almost six miles southwest of Khe Sanh, the U.S. Marine border fortress surrounded by up to 20.000 North Vietnamese poised to launch what American intelligence predicts will be the largest Communist offensive of the war. Lang Vei got a taste of it today.
Fifteen fellowships have been awarded for the 1968-69 academic year and 45 fellowships for the summer of 1968 under Title VI of the National Defense Education Act.
These grants will be awarded for graduate study of foreign languages and area studies. The deadline for the academic year program is Feb. 15, and April 1 for the summer Russian and Polish program in Lawrence.
Information and applications for the academic-year program are available in the Graduate School Office or from the appropriate areas studies office. Information on the summer program may be secured from the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures.
Committee will give awards
Four $1,000 awards for distinguished teaching will be offered this year. An anonymous committee (five faculty members and two students appointed by the Chancellor) will select the recipients of the H. Bernard Fink Award and three Standard Oil Foundation awards.
The Standard Oil Foundation awards recognize outstanding teaching regardless of rank or type of teaching.
Criteria for the Fink award are the recipient must be primarily associated with undergraduate instruction, and he must have served at least three years at the Lawrence campus.
Dean Heller will accept nominations until Feb. 20.
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February 7— UMBERTO D (DeSica-Ireland-1951)
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT (Hitchcock—U.S.A.—1940)
February 21---- VARIETY LIGHTS (Fellini—Italy—1950)
AN EVENING WITH CHARLIE CHAPLIN (Chaplin—U.S.A.—1914-17)
March 6-
AN EVENING WITH W. C. FIELDS
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*March 13
WILD STRAWBERRIES
(Bergman-Sweden—1957)
*March 20—
A TASTE OF HONEY
(Richardson—England—1962)
April 3—
MISS JULIE
(Sjoberg—Sweden—1950)
*April 17—
NOTHING BUT A MAN
(Roemer—U.S.A.—1963)
April 24—
EXPERIMENTAL FILMS
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May 1—
BEFORE THE REVOLUTION
(Bertolucci—Italy—1964)
*May 8—
THE 400 BLOWS
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