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Legal remedies are urged
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The executive director of the Missouri Commission on Human Rights yesterday urged college students to use legal remedies to fight discrimination, rather than take the law into their own hands.
Life or death for Sirhan?
LOS ANGELES — Sirhan B. Sirhan was found guilty of the maximum verdict of first degree murder for the assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy yesterday and now his jury will decide on a sentence of life or death.
After a recess for the weekend, the seven-man, five-woman panel on Monday will begin the penalty phase of the trial in which they decide on a sentence of death in the gas chamber or life imprisonment, with the possibility of parole after seven years.
Israelis, Arabs clash
MIDEAST — Israel and Egypt exchanged artillery fire across the Suez Canal for the 10th consecutive day yesterday, and Israelis clashed with Jordanians across the Jordan River on the eastern front.
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U.S. charges aggression
Simultaneously, the North Korean News Agency was broadcasting an editorial from the nation's Communist party newspaper accusing the United States of "provoking another war of aggression in Korea." The Rodong Shimmoon editorial said North Korea acted in "self defense" in attacking the American plane.
In Washington today, President Nixon goes before the American people to tell them what he is going to do about the U.S. Navy reconnaissance plane that North Korea shot down.
An armada of search planes and ships combed the Sea of Japan for more debris and additional bodies of crewmen from the plane. Two bodies were recovered from the water yesterday-one an officer, the other an enlisted man.
Nixon was to break his personal silence on the first major international crisis of his
administration at a nationally televised news conference at 11:30 a.m. EST—three days and 12 hours after the EC121 was shot down over the Sea of Japan with a loss of 31 American lives.
Nixon was certain to be questioned about the unexpectedly mild tone of the U.S. statement read to the North Koreans at Pamunjon last
Visiting prof reflects upon social obligation
A professor from Yale Law School in a KU lecture last night, denounced the idea that law was "the result of a set of rules enacted by states and federal legislators."
Ronald Dworkin, from the philosophy department of Yale Law School, told a group of approximately 50 people in the Kansas Union Jayhawk Room this idea was part of a philosophy called positivism. As an alternative to positivism, Dworkin said that "the claims to human rights rest upon moral convention."
Dworkin's theory, which he called social obligation, hypothesizes that the judicial force should be independent of the majority's will, yet sensitive to public view.
Reds move in troops to still angry Czechs
not the development but the disintegration of Socialist society."
PRAGUE (UPI) - Armed police and soldiers moved into Wenceslas Square today to enforce the ouster of Alexander Dubcek as Communist party secretary. His leadership brought Czechoslovakia reforms that permitted freedoms unprecedented under Stalinist communism.
tell the nation Dubecek had been replaced as Communist party first secretary by Gustav Husak, a conservative regarded as acceptable to the Soviet Union. Svoboda said Dubecek had resigned.
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Husak appeared on television next. He was long-faced and almost apologetic, his wispy hair neatly combed above his customary wire-rimmed spectacles. He promised the nation would not fall back into the repressive Stalinist, control.
The Communist central committee issued a proclamation that said the change was made because "opposition currents appeared which tried to achieve
President Ludvik Svoboda went on television last night to
The police and troops chased 200 youths from the vast square in Prague's center, where they tried to protect Dubcek's replacement. The demonstrators hooted and jeered police.
night, Washington time. And he was likely to be asked to speculate on the latest twist in the incident—North Korea's failure to mention the shooting they had boasted about earlier in the week and, in fact, their baffling question, "What is this large plane you talk about?"
In addition, news reports said the Communist leadership, cracking down at Moscow's behest, had detained thousands of persons in an attempt "to find out criminal and antisocial elements." It cancelled civilian flights out of the country.
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Chalmers requested that
EMPORIA — Provost James R. Surface will become the third acting chancellor in KU history, the Kansas Board of Regents decided yesterday.
Meeting at Kansas State Teachers College, the Regents approved a request mailed to them by KU Chancellor-elect Laurence Chalmers, now vice president for academic affairs at Florida State University in Tallahassee.
Surface serve as acting chancellor during July and August.
Interim chancellor named
Surface, a KU faculty member since 1957, is former dean of the KU Business School. He became vice chancellor and dean of faculties at KU in 1962. In 1965, to officially designate his position as second in authority to Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe, Surface's title was changed from vice-chancellor to provost.
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