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B-52's hit Red positions
SAIGON - Six flights of U.S. B52 bombers replied today to the Communists' latest shelling of Saigon, dropping 500 tons of explosives on guerrilla hideouts astride approaches to the capital.
Military spokesmen announcing the bomber raids said five Communist rockets slammed into the northern sector of Saigon before midnight Tuesday and wounded nine South Vietnamese.
The five-rocket attack coincided with one of the heaviest battles near Saigon in a week. U.S. 8th Infantry Division troops set a trap 18 miles southwest of the city that killed 47 guerrillas. There were no U.S. losses, according to the report.
Nixon, Bunker confer
WASHINGTON President Nixon conferred yesterday with his National Security Council and then with ambassador Ellsworth Bunker, who is expected to return soon to his post in Saigon after consultations here on the Vietnam War.
The meeting of the Council, which includes the President's leading military, diplomatic and intelligence advisers, lasted for two hours. The White House refused to say what was discussed. Nixon's session with Bunker, who did not attend the earlier meeting, lasted 32 minutes.
Army denies motion
FORD ORD, Calif. An Army court-martial Tuesday denied a motion by the defense to move back to San Francisco the mutiny trial of 14 soldiers who participated in a sitdown demonstration at the Presidio stockade.
The 14 GI defendants were among 27 Army prisoners charged with mutiny following the sitdown demonstration last October. The demonstrators said they were protesting stockade conditions and the fatal shooting by a guard of a fellow inmate who allegedly tried to escape.
French relations improve
WASHINGTON — Relations between France and the United States have "clearly improved in recent months," according to French Foreign Minister Michel Debre. Debre, in Washington for the 20th anniversary meeting of NATO, described Franco-American relations as "excellent," and credited President Nixon with the improvement.
Wescoe cites KU successes
Wescoe did not speak at length about Watkins Memorial Hospital which will receive the proceeds from the banquet, but Farouk Saad, Sudan senior and coordinator of the banquet, spoke after Wescoe and emphasized the importance of health in education and meaningful communication between persons.
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Saad thanked those who contributed to the benefit by purchasing nearly $1200 in tickets. He pointed out the need for an effective health service and the subsequent need for sufficient funds to maintain student health, education and inter-personal communication.
The nearly 200 persons in
attendance watched the program, performed by cultural exchange students, between the speeches of Wescoe and Saad.
The students presented a Hawaiian dance, Spanish and Latin folk songs and an Arabian dance, under the direction of Zuhair Duhaiby, Saudi Arabia graduate student and master of ceremonies
Judge reprimands attorneys for conduct in Harrison trial
WICHITA — Court proceedings took a different turn yesterday when the attorneys rather than witnesses were reminded of proper courtroom conduct.
Sedgwick County District Court
Judge Robert T. Stephan scoled the prosecution and defense attorneys in the extortion and robbery trial of nine black men and admonished them to be on time for trial each day. He warned them that if they
New grievance committee hears grad student pleas
Students and faculty of the Graduate School who have complaints or grievances now have the opportunity to submit them to the recently-formed Graduate School Grievance Committee.
Richard Cole, associate professor of philosophy and a member of the committee, said the group was originally formed as a "graduate students grievances committee," but was expanded to include complaints by faculty as well.
Cole said the committee, which has met once, "has fifty-fifty representation by students and faculty. Its activities will be of a judicial sort; the committee has not wanted to define its function too narrowly."
Committee
(Continued from page 1) campus campaign would draw the number of students necessary for its purposes, planned a demonstration march May 3 in Kansas City. Persons volunteered to get parade permits, to organize transportation facilities, to make contacts with other campuses concerned with the welfare of the 27 and to organize poster parties.
At the next meeting, 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Wesley Foundation, the various subcommittees are to report their progress and attempt to unite in a cohesive working body.
were late, they would be fined $25 for contempt of court.
Before the jury was brought into the courtroom, Judge Stephan told County Attorney Keith Sanborn and defense attorneys Chester Lewis and Charles Scott to be "inside the confines of the court on time. That means 10 in the morning and two in the afternoon."
Leonard Harrison, director of the Lawrence Ballard Center, is one of the men accused of beating and threatening two Wichita Model Cities employees Oct. 17 in an attempt to have a brother of one of the defendants hired into the program.
They are also accused of forcing Andrew Guiterrez, Kansas City community service official, to give them more than $600 in personal checks as wages for attending meetings.
The trial, which is in its second week, is expected to last from three to six weeks.
The members are: John Suggs, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., graduate student, and Richard Cole, associate professor of philosophy, representing the humanities and fine arts; Janice Mendenhall, Wichita graduate student, and Richard Rundquist, professor of education, representing the social sciences, education, business and journalism; Ross Hall, Wichita graduate student, and Stata Norton, professor of pharmacology, representing the biological sciences and pharmacy.
The next meeting will be in about three weeks.
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Students or faculty of the Graduate School having grievances should submit them in writing to one of the members or to William Albrecht, Graduate School dean and chairman of the committee.
The Jayhawker Advisory Board Solicits Applications for the positions of Editor and Business Manager 1969-70 Jayhawker
Positions are salaried.
For information, contact
Tom Yoe, Advisor
32 Strong Hall
UN 4-3251
Letters of application and reference must be submitted to:
Raymond Nichols, Chrm
Advisory Board,
223 Strong Hall
By April 16, 1969