Fortas says no bribe
UDK News Roundup
By United Press International
Arab leaders talk
CAIRO — Jordan's King Hussein today met with Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser to discuss the coordination of efforts against the Israelis. The Egyptian defense budget for the coming year was reported to be the highest ever.
Israeli military spokesmen said their aircraft hit an Arab guerrilla base yesterday between Elath and the Dead Sea near the Jordanian-Israeli border and reported that all planes involved in the raid returned safely.
Call for leftist unity
PARIS — Feuding leftists today called for party unity in next month's presidential election to seek a successor to Charles de Gaulle or face sure defeat and a possible first-ballot victory for Georges Pompidou.
"The only force that can beat Georges Pompidou is a rallying of all leftist forces," said Francois Mitterrand, a leading leftist who almost beat De Gaulle for the presidency in 1965.
Illness strikes 12 on jet
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A woman tourist died and 12 other Americans were stricken with food poisoning yesterday while aboard a trans-Pacific jet returning from a "Cherry Blossom Tour" of the Orient.
The Northwest Orient flight from Tokyo was scheduled to land in Seattle.
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'Life' says he took $20,000
WASHINGTON (UPI)
Fortas issued a highly unusual statement in response to a claim by Life Magazine that he accepted, then later returned, a check for $20,000 from the Wolfson Family foundation in 1966. Wolfson is now serving a one-year federal prison sentence for stock manipulation after the Supreme Court refused to hear his appeal with Fortas abstaining.
Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas acknowledged yesterday he was offered a fee by a family foundation involving imprisoned financier Louis Wolfson but declared he returned it without rendering services of any kind.
The Supreme Court justice made no specific mention of the $20,000 check but he said that since joining the Court, "I have not accepted any fee or emolument from Mr. Wolfson or the Wolfson Family Foundation or any related person or group."
The Life Magazine article said nearly a year elapsed between the time the $20,000 Wolfson
Foundation check was drawn from a Jacksonville, Fla., bank and the date a check to that amount was returned.
Justice Department aware
The Justice Department said it "is aware of the contents of the article . . . and currently has the matter under consideration." There was no official amplification of this.
Fortas said that before joining
the Court he had discussed with Wolfson the work of the Foundation in developing harmonious racial and religious relations "an area in which I have had a continuous interest apart from my official judicial or legal functions."
The statement then recounted this sequel: "In 1966, in the hope that I would find the time and could undertake, consistent with my court obligations, research functions, studies and writings connected with the work of the foundations, the Wolson family foundation tendered a fee to me.
"Concluding that I could not undertake the assignment, I returned the fee with my thanks. At no time did I have any reason to believe, nor do I now believe, that the tender of the fee was motivated by or involved any hope or expectation that it would induce me to intervene or make representations on Mr. Wolfson's behalf."
Disqualified himself
Fortas declined to meet personally with newsmen and a court spokesman said no comment outside the statement would be forthcoming. The associate justice whose promotion to be chief justice was blocked by the Senate last year came to his chambers in the Supreme Court Building to write out the statement.
"In accordance with general judicial practice, I disqualify myself in cases which come to my attention concerning former clients or associates," he concluded.
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79th Year, No.124
Lawrence, Kansas
Monday, May 5, 1969
N.J. project finished
By RICHARD LOUV
Kansan Staff Writer
A blonde college girl swung a black child in a slow arc and the child laughed. The child's tired father sat on the edge of a rejuvenated porch and smiled. It had been a long two days, but his house had a new face, and that, of course, was a good thing.
What is important about any social project like the New Jersey Street Project, is not so much the material end, but the reaction from people of a neighborhood. And the reaction to the college students that have spent the last five weekends painting and building on New Jersey Street was a good reaction. The people of that street think of
the students not as do-gooders, but as saints.
Residents helped
Like the man who had a new porch, most of the residents worked alongside the students. Some were not able to help.
"This one old woman watched Frank Zilm dig a driveway for her," one of the workers remembered, "and she was out there after Frank left till 5:30. She couldn't believe she had a driveway. She just stood there looking at it."
"I couldn't believe I dug it," Zilm said, wiping his face, forgetting that he had paint on his hand.
An old man and his wife were sitting on lawn chairs across the street. They sat in front of a stainless concrete box-house, built
for economy, and watched the students work.
The old man looked up and laughed. "Never seen anything like it. We're having fun just watching it," he said. His wife smiled and pointed across the street. "Yes ...," she said, and then dropped her hand back in her lap and remained silent.
Born out of an "advocacy planning" class; Architecture 98, The New Jersey Street project developed in cooperation with the Ballard Center in Lawrence.
Advocacy planning
"Advocacy planning is when you ask the residents what they need and want, then you attack the problems from that angle," Zilm said.
Leonard Harrison, Ballard (Continued to page 7)
Madison riots erupt again
The latest outbreak of rioting followed eight hours of police attempts to clear streets where defiant young people tried again to hold an illegal street dance.
MADISON, Wis. (UPI) — Rock throwing youths clashed for the second night yesterday along the edge of the University of Wisconsin campus with riot-helded police, who responded with clouds of tear gas.
During the daylight hours yesterday there was jeering and 40 arrests but no serious clashes. But at sundown, a group of youths overturned a car and police unleashed tear gas to clear the area around it.
The defiant youths responded with showers of bricks and rocks. Police replied with more tear gas barrages, sending the street dancers fleeing and gasing a number of passing motorists.
Aldermen arrested yesterday
Among those arrested yesterday were two Madison alderman, including the only Negro on the City Council. The white alderman also was arrested Saturday night.
Saturday's violence began when police attempted to quiet a block party staged without a permit. It spread through an eight-block area adjoining the campus and continued for four hours.
During Saturday night's confrontation, there were at least
25 arrests. At least 29 persons, including 10 policemen, were treated at hospitals for injuries. Three newsmen were hit by rocks.
Police declined to estimate the number of university students among ths=700.
Charged against those arrested ranged from disorderly conduct and use of obscene language to resisting arrest. One person, James F. Richardson, 22, Perth Amboy, N.J., was charged with battery to an officer, a felony. Among those arrested was Paul Soglin, a university law student and Madison alderman.
Police asked quiet
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Student involvement
A KU student helps repair a porch during the New Jersey Street clean-up project. The project, jointly sponsored by the School of Architecture and Urban Design and the Ballard Community Center, ended yesterday.