U.S. Negotiates For SEATO Aid
WASHINGTON—(UPI)The United States has asked its allies in Southeast Asia and the Far Pacific to join in sending troops to Thailand to help bolster that country against the Communist threat in neighboring Laos, it was disclosed today.
State Department press officer Lincoln White said the U.S. "would certainly welcome" any action by other members of the Southeast Asia Military Alliance (SEATO) to back up the U.S. move.
AMERICAN OFFICIALS said Australia, New Zealand, Britain Pakistan and the Philippines had been asked to consider sending small military units to join U.S. forces being flown into an area of Thailand near Laos.
White noted that the SEATO council met today in Bangkok. He said it took up the question of what its members might do to join the United States in bolstering its stand against the Communist infiltration of Laos.
Most of the representatives here of the countries involved were said to have responded favorably to the request. But U.S. officials declined to give their reaction on a country-by-country basis.
THE U.S. REQUEST for token allied forces was put before the ambassadors and other representatives of the five countries yesterday by W. Averell Harriman, assistant secretary of state for Far Eastern affairs.
U.S. Planes Enter Thailand
BANGKOK, Thailand—(UPI)United States fighter and transport planes landed in Thailand today as the vanguard of an American military buildup to bolster this country's defense against Communism.
Headed for Bangkok harbor was a force of 1,800 combatready U.S. Marines, scheduled to be landed within hours and to be swiftly deployed to tactically important points near the border with Communist-threatened Laos.
Harriman gave the diplomats the reasons for President Kennedy's decision to send U.S. forces into Thailand, which borders Laos, and asked that the allies consider sending some of their own troops.
Allied acceptance of the U.S. proposal would have the effect of giving the operation a regional character and removing some of the element of unilateral American intervention. Thailand invited the U.S. forces but also was understood to be willing to receive small elements from other member nations of SEATO.
SO FAR AS COULD BE learned, the only member of the pact not asked for token forces was France. General Charles de Gaulle's government has consistently refused to endorse all military action in the area in which Paris has now lost virtually all its influence.
Pakistan and the Philippines on previous occasions have been willing to send troops into the Indochinese peninsula. Last year both countries informally offered to send forces to aid South Viet Nam but it was decided this was not necessary.
Officials acknowledged they were not quite so sure how the Philippines might react now, in view of bitterness in Manila over the action of the U.S. House of Representatives in rejecting a bill to pay the island republic $73 million in old war damage claims.
Daily Hansan
MEANTIME, HOPE FOR a diplomatic settlement in Laos was spurred by Russia's renewed pledge to support a cease fire and work for creation of an independent neutral government in the violence-torn Southeast Asia nation.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Wednesday, May 16, 1962
59th Year, No. 140
HRC Calls for Voluntary Greek Clause Removal
The Human Rights Committee made its formal report to the All Student Council last night calling for voluntary removal of discriminatory clauses in the constitutions of two fraternities by the Fall of 1984 when a second review will be made to consider possible action.
The report was given by Brian Grace, Lawrence sophomore and HRC chairman.
The two fraternities are Sigma Nu and Alpha Tau Omega.
Grace's report varied little from the text of the committee report (see page 12). But he did explain the reasoning for suggesting a waiting period of two and one-half years before the HRC should definitely act.
"BY THE FALL of 1964 there will have been a complete changeover of the student body and two national
PASSING THE GAVEL-Dean Salter, Garden City junior (right), who was chosen chairman of the new All Student Council last night, received the gavel from outgoing chairman Jerry Palmer, El Dorado senior.
China 'Ominous' As Thais Braced
United Press International
The United States started landing battle reinforcements in friendly Thailand today and ominous rumblings came from Communist China.
A dozen F100 supersonic jets of the 13th Tactical Fighter Squadron and Hercules Transports from the Philippines and Okinawa were landed at Bangkok and Taikhl, 100 miles north of the Thai capital.
Opinions Differ on WU
Faculty members differed in opinion yesterday on the proposed acceptance of Wichita University into the State education system.
Some thought Governor John Anderson's proposal which he made in favor of the acceptance yesterday at the faculty Forum would result in a decrease in the quality of instructors at KU.
OTHERS THOUGHT that the Governor's speech brought out good points in the proposal that they had not thought of before.
The Governor told over 50 faculty members that he thinks the State can support another university if it can be controlled without qualifications and under the direction of the Board of Regents which will set policy for the new institution.
THE U.S. EMBASSY in Bangkok said they would land "within 24 to 36 hours" and be moved to areas near — but not on — the Laotian border. A thousand U.S. Army troops previously had been reported sent to the border area but the Embassy said today they still were near Korat, about 150 miles northeast of Bangkok.
"This is a great problem for the State legislature," he said. "If the government decides to go ahead and raise the taxes then they get a negative reaction from the people. But if they don't go ahead they get a negative reaction too."
A strictly undergraduate university would cost less money than would a university with both graduate and an undergraduate program. A four-year undergraduate program at the University of Wichita with no facilities for a graduate program would therefore cost the state less and take less funds from state allocations to education.
ANDERSON HINTED that the possibility of Wichita University becoming a state institution would be lessened if Wichita people insist that the University have both a graduate and undergraduate program.
PAUL E. WILSON, associate professor of law, defended the Governor's position on Wichita University.
He said the Wichita school was in the middle of the largest population center in the State and it would be less expensive to take over the university now than to try to expand facilities at other state colleges.
"I thought he made a very deliberate and reasonable sort of statement." Prof. Wilson said. "I was also interested in the confidence he apparently had that the legislature would decide to reapportion the State in the next legislature."
Tom Moore, executive secretary of the KU-Y, said he understood that state funds are limited and any more expenses would mean more taxes.
Three faculty members declined comment on the matter until they had further investigated the matter.
Seymour Menton, associate professor of Romance languages, disagreed with the advisability of bringing Wichita University into the state system. He said, "The Governor's statements were logical. The only problem is that to keep up another University in Kansas will require more taxation which the legislature might be unwilling to give."
Governor Anderson, in his speech, also said the question of specific taxes should not enter into the question of whether or not Wichita University should be accepted into the state system.
Governor Anderson said the Supreme Court will not have to force the Senate to reapportion the State. He said the legislature knows there is a need for reapportionment.
He said he was certain the legislature would order the reapportionment in the next session.
Accompanying the Navarro was the carrier Valley Forge which will land helicopters to support the land troops. The United States shortly will have 5,000 men in Thailand.
THE DECISION to send the American forces was triggered by an advance of pro-Communist rebels which swept the Royal Army out of Northwestern Laos and into Northeastern Thailand last week.
American officials in Washington said contacts with the Russians had raised hopes slightly for a peaceful settlement in Laos, Southeast Asia's chief flashpoint.
But Peiping propaganda outlets denounced the American military move in the area and said Communist China "cannot remain indifferent."
conventions of fraternities on the KU campus which still have discriminatory clauses," Grace explained.
"The committee feels the results of the questionnaire we distributed and the report expresses student opinion on this matter." Grace added.
PEIPING RADIO, quoting the People's Daily Newspaper, said the U.S. military action "obviously (is aimed) at extending the Laotian civil war and making the peaceful settlement of the Laotian question impossible."
The paper appeared to be laying the groundwork for possible Red Chinese intervention by charging that Nationalist Chinese forces were collaborating with the Royal Laotian government.
THE COUNCIL tabled a motion to accept all of the HRC report with the exception of the section about waiting two and one-half years for further action.
Grace was asked about the comments in yesterday's Kansan by John Grumm, associate professor of political science, and Ray Cuzzort, associate professor of sociology, who criticized the HRC questionnaire.
Grace said the two faculty members were "latently hostile" in their comment that the committee had thought about the questions and that the questionnaire had been "hastily thrown together."
"I THINK THE gentlemen are prejudiced against us." Grace continued. "I think their intent was to attack us and not the questionnaire."
Asked what the committee would suggest if the idea of moral suasion did not solve any discrimination problems, Grace replied that the withdrawal of social recognition of any non-complying groups by the University would be a punishment.
Grace and Don Warner, Topeka junior and Civil Rights Council chairman, engaged in a heated discussion for a few minutes until the verbal debate concerning the HRC-CRC relationship was stopped by Jerry Palmer. El Dorado senior and chairman of the council.
THEE MAJOR pieces of legislation were passed as the council cleared up all business in its last meeting of the school year.
The three legislative actions taken were the passage of items dealing with the reserved seating plan, a proposed student life insurance program, and a change in the ASC publications bill.
Two resolutions introduced by Greg Turner, Seattle, Wash., sophomore, formalized the recent action by the Athletic Seating Board in relation to the reserved seating plan for next year.
THE RESOLUTIONS passed, with one dissension, and thus the changes in the original plan which were in-
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Election Suit Cites Georgia
MACON, Ga. — (UPI) — The U.S. Justice Department filed suit in federal court here today asking that Bibb County, Ga., officials be restrained from using segregated voting machines and from counting white and Negro votes separately.
Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy said in Washington that the suit was the first ever brought by the federal government challenging segregation in the actual physical conduct of elections.
The complaint said Bibb County officials and the county's Democratic Party Executive Committee were planning to require Negroes to vote in separate polling places on voting machines designated for Negroes only.
They also planned to tabulate and publish separate white and Negro votes totals, the suit said.
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Partly cloudy, warm and windy today through Thursday. Highs today and Thursday 80s. Lows tonight upper 60s.