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59th Year, No. 112
Army Overthrows Syrian Government
DAMASCUS, Syria—(UPI)—The Syrian Army overthrew the government and seized power today in a bloodless coup aimed at eliminating "corrupt" and "reactionary" politicians.
An army communique said the military would continue the principles of last fall's revolution which split Syria from Egypt and broke up the United Arab Republic.
The army takeover toppled the short-lived government of moderate rightist President Nazim Ekudi, who resigned along with $ ^{+ + }$
Weather
Fair and warm this afternoon. Windy eastern Kansas with southerly winds 25 to 35 miles per hour. Increasing cloudiness tonight and turning colder by morning. Scattered light showers likely extreme western Kansas late tonight. Thursday partly cloudy to cloudy and colder with scattered showers likely extreme eastern Kansas. Low tonight near 30 northwest to 50 southeast. High Thursday 40s northwest to 50s southeast.
KU Election Debates Set
The two student body presidential hopefuls plan to follow the footsteps of Nixon and Kennedy and hold a "Great Debate."
Dickson, who originally suggested the idea to Kepner, said. "This is the only way for the voters to be fully informed on the candidates. This will insure that the race will not be a personality contest and voters will be able to decide on a criterion other than personal contact."
Jerry Dickson, Newton junior,
running for Vox Populi and Gerald
(Kep) Kepner, Wichita junior, University Party's candidate, plan to discuss campaign issues in Templein,
Joseph R. Pearson, Lewis, Corbin,
and Gertrude Sellards Pearson sometime after Spring vacation.
"These will not be as much debates as they will be speeches to present ideas and get people in the dorms interested." Keppner said.
Dickson added that the audience will be given a chance to question the candidates on such things as personal ideas, background, and political philosophies of student government. He said they also will be able to compare the platforms of the contending parties through this questioning.
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cabinet of Premier Said Ghazzi and the 172 members of parliament who were elected last Dec. 1.
A series of communiques was broadcast over Damascus Radio outlining details of the takeover and promising eventual return to civil government.
"PENDING THE formation of a transitional cabinet, the army will shoulder the legislative and executive functions in Syria," one broadcast said.
Leaders of the coup assured the United States they do not intend to change Syria's neutral foreign policy, according to Washington officials.
THE COUP apparently stemmed at least partly from resentment over the elected Syrian government's policy on reversing nationalization of economic enterprises instituted when Syria was part of the United Arab Republic.
Leaders of the coup also asked for continued "friendly relations" with the United States.
BUENOS AIRES — (UPI)—The armed forces at noon EST today (11 a.m., Lawrence time) ordered the withdrawal of the palace guard from President Arturo Frondizi's Casa Rosada government house. The heads of the army, navy and air force called on the President and demanded his immediate resignation. His downfall appeared inevitable.
Military Demands Frondizi Resignation
U.N. Pakistani Ambassador Will Speak at Mock Session
John Ise, professor emeritus of economics, advocated today that the starving millions of Communist China should be fed with the surplus food from the "bread basket of America."
Kansans Urge Wheat for China
The Model U.N. Steering Committee announced yesterday that the speaker at the opening mock General Assembly session will be Pakistani ambassador to the United Nations. Muhammad Zafrulla Khan.
Prof. Ise is one of a group of Kansans who met yesterday afternoon to discuss their campaign to support the sending of surplus food to the people of Communist China.
THE GROUP, including Will Menninger, psychiatrist; the head of the Roman Catholic seminary in St. Mary's, Kan., and the Methodist bishop of Kansas, plans to address an open letter to President Kennedy endorsing the action.
KHAN LED THE Indian delegation to the 1939 League of Nations Assembly.
They also plan to distribute 4,000 petitions to obtain the names of 100,000 persons in Kansas who are willing to express support for the
The ambassador, who is active in the diplomatic corps and in international law, was elected a member of the International Court of Justice in 1954 and served until February 1961. He was vice-president of the World Court from 1958 to 1961.
He became foreign minister of Pakistan in December 1947 and led
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the Pakistan delegation in the U.N. General Assemblies from 1947 to 1551, and in the U.N. Security Council on the India-Pakistan disputes. 1948-51.
The ambassador is the author of several books, "Indian Case," "The Criminal Law Journal of India," "Fifteen Years' Digest," and "Reprints of Punjab Criminal Rulings, Vol. IV."
THE OPENING session of the Model U.N. will be at 9:20, Friday morning, April 13 in Hoch Auditorium.
Khan will arrive in Lawrence the night before, and remain until Saturday. He will attend the KU International Club meeting Friday night.
Students Form Peace Union
By Terry Murphy
A small, portable file sat in a corner of a room of the Kansas Union. Letters written in indelible ink spelled out "Student Peace Union Organizer's Kit, Fluorescent-framed letters read "End the missile race—Let mankind live."
This was the scene at the organizational meeting of the KU chapter of the Student Peace Union last night.
SEVENTEEN OF the 23 persons attending the meeting agreed to form the first chapter in Kansas of a national organization that has the stated purpose of studying the alternatives to war.
Larry Laudan, Lawrence senior and temporary chairman of the local SPU, explained that members of the local chapter would be committed by SPU membership only to the stands and policies determined by themselves.
Laudan read the national statement of purpose:
"THE STUDENT PEACE Union is an organization of young people who believe that war can no longer be successfully used to settle international disputes and that neither human freedom nor the human race itself can endure in a world committed to militarism.
"Without committing any member to a precise statement of policy, the SPU draws together young people for a study of alternatives to war and engages in education and action to end the present arms race."
Laudan emphasized to those attending the organizational meeting that they should not expect the Student Peace Union to work miracles in such ways as changing or even greatly influencing national or international policy on such questions as armament and nuclear testing.
"OUR PURPOSE is to provoke thought on these subjects," Laudan said. "We want other people to understand our viewpoints if not share them."
Laudan and Peter Allen, a SPU national field secretary, emphasized the need for the group to study the issues which SPU expresses interest in. Allen said:
"The real constructive thing that we can and should do is form small elements, that are in contact with the community, to take a public stand on these issues.
"WE SHOULD TRY to make these issues and the possible alternatives a part of the everyday life of as many people as possible."
The stated goal of the SPU is to take action in the form of educating and informing the public of the possible alternatives on certain issues.
Laird Wilcox, Topeka resident and regional SPU coordinator for Kansas, reported he has made contact with interested persons who may form future SPU chapters at four other colleges in Kansas.
Wilcox said the organization may establish chapters at Bethel College, Newton; Friends University, Wichita; the University of Kansas City; and Washburn University, Topeka.
ONE OF THE ISSUES Allen said would be of interest at KU is whether military training is a legitimate function of an educational institution.
Allen said that the national organization is trying to establish contact with students in the Soviet Union to talk with them on issues of world peace.
"WE PLAN to circulate a letter of petition to college campuses to gain signatures calling on the Kremlin bureaucracy to permit SPU members to go to Russia to discuss these ideas," he said.
Laudan and Allen urged the members to read as much as possible on the issue of the United States decision to resume nuclear testing before the next meeting, April 10.
"Kennedy's decision to resume nuclear testing and the coming of Armed Forces Day will bring these issues to the public's attention and will afford us an opportunity to express our views on these thoughts," Laudan said.
LAUDAN URGED the members to study the issues of nuclear testing and militarism and be prepared to discuss them with the idea of taking a stand.
He said members, at the next meeting, should decide whether or not they would demonstrate in protest of the tests.
"Our aim is not to alienate any element," Laudan said, "Instead, we should try to provoke thought as to the alternatives available to the proposed course of action presently being pursued."
Harris Receives Roberts Award
An internationally known authority in the philosophy of science will hold the first Roy A. Roberts Distinguished Professorship at KU.
Errol E. Harris will come to KU as professor of philosophy in September. He is now at Connecticut College, New London, Conn.
THE DISTINGUISHED Professorship was established in 1958 by a $200,000 gift to the Endowment Association from Roy A. Roberts, president of the Kansas City Star. Income from the endowment is to provide two professorships in the fields of the humanities, and science and mathematics. The endowment income is added to the regular state salary.
Prof. Harris was educated in his home country, South Africa, and at Oxford University. He received the M.A. degree from Rhodes University in 1929, the B. Litt, from Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1933, and the D. Litt, from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg in 1951.
HE HAS WRITTEN a number of books and articles for scholarly journals. His books include "South African Survey" (1947), "The Survival of Political Man" (1950), "Nature, Mind and Modern Science" (1954), and "Revelation Through Reason" (1958).
He is now working on a twovolume study of the philosophy of science. The first volume will be on the scientific foundations of a metaphysics of nature and the second volume on scientific method and the epistemology of science.
Prof. Harris wrote "Revelation Through Reason" on the basis of research for his Dwight H. Terry Lectures at Yale University in 1956-57.
He has held scholarships and fellowships at Rhodes University and Oxford. He also has held positions with the British Colonial Service, the South African Informational Services, the South African Institute of Race Relations, the University of Witwatersrand and Edinburgh University.
AWS Elects Senators
Associated Women Students (AWS) polling booths will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. today. All KU women, including seniors, are eligible to vote in the AWS Senate elections.
Voters must present student identification cards to booth officials.