BSU elects squad
Black pom-pon squad named
Members of the all-black pom-pon squad are from left, back row, Linda Hutchinson, Kansas City freshman; Rosalind Gulley, Lompoc, Calif., freshman; Marge Ish, Rockford, Ill., sophomore; Veda Munda, Kansas City junior; Esther Jackson, Kansas City, Mo., freshman; Annie Dennis, Wichita freshman and Gloria Douglas, Montclair, N.J., junior. From left, front row, Rachelle Roberts, Sarasota, Fla., sohpomore, and Shelley McAffe, Wichita freshman.
Bv SARAH DALE
and JOE CHILDS Kansan Staff Writers
Selection of an all-black pom-pon squad was announced last night by the Black Student Union (BSU).
BSU creation of a separate squad of cheerleaders is an alternative to a request presented in a closed meeting Monday to William M. Balfour, dean of student affairs. The BSU proposed that the all-white squad of eight girls selected Thursday be expanded to include two black pom-pon girls and one alternate.
He planned a meeting at 3:30 p.m. today with BSU President Clarence Reynolds, Kansas City freshman, the girls involved, members of the athletic department, the alumni office and other school administrators to consider adding black girls to the pom-pon squad.
Balfour was given a 24-hour deadline to reply to BSU's request. Balfour said in this amount of time he was unable to organize a reply.
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"The University forced us into this position," Reynolds said. BSU was disappointed by the final decision Thursday night. "We felt we were victims of the democratic process because we're outnumbered."
"Balfour suggested that we have three blacks on the floor to lead the black section in song while the band played and the pom-pon squad cheered."
As a result of the meeting Reynolds addressed a gathering of 60 to 70 blacks in the Strong Hall Rotunda yesterday.
"We are tired of being pushed around,"
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Thieu wants NLF talks
SAIGON - South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu yesterday offered to hold private talks with the Communist National Liberation Front (NLF) to help speed an end to the Vietnamese war. At the same time, he reiterated that he could "never accept" a coalition government or a "Communist party as such" in South Vietnam.
Soviet ruler accuses Mao
MOSCOW A member of the Soviet Communist party's ruling politburo has accused Chinese Communist party chairman Mao Tse-tung of stabbing the Soviet Union in the back while it was deeply involved in the Berlin crisis, it was learned yesterday. He also delivered "a terrible warning" to all aggressors who violate the Soviet borders.
Senate focus on racing
TOPEKA — A resolution calling for a study of pari-mutual wagering in Kansas was introduced yesterday in the Kansas Senate.
Introduced yesterday in the If the resolution passes, the State and Local Affairs Committee would be directed to study pari-mutuel waging and report to the 1970 session with either legislation or proposals.
Surtax extension asked
WASHINGTON - President Nixon will ask Congress today to extend the 10 per cent income tax surcharge for a year to maintain the fight against inflation and to better the Johnson Administration's promise of a budget surplus, Senate Republican leader Everett M. Dirksen and House GOP leader Gerald R. Ford said after a two-hour White House meeting with the President, his chief economic advisers and other GOP congressional leaders.
--government from both the right and left. Yesterday the president was finally forced to give up.
LOS ANGELES — Cross examination of Bernard Diamond, a key defense witness in the murder trial of Sirhan B. Sirhan was postponed yesterday to give the prosecution time to marshal its attack upon his testimony.
Defense postponed
Diamond, a psychiatrist, a lawyer and a professor of criminology at the University of California at Berkeley, testified Sirhan killed Sen. Robert F. Kennedy while in a self-induced hypnotic trance.
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79th Year, No.103 The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas Wednesday, March 26, 1969
Pakistan president replaced by army
KARACHI (UPI) - Gen. Yahya Khan, a no-nonsense professional soldier and the new ruler of Pakistan, told the nation today he "will not tolerate agitation" in his efforts to bring the divided country back from the brink of civil war.
"I have had enough laxity and chaos and will see that they are not repeated in any form or manner," Yahya said in a broadcast over Pakistan radio. "Let every member of the administration take serious note of my warning. I will not tolerate any agitation."
Reports from West Pakistan indicated the population was heeding the new leader's call for calm.
Yahya, 52, the tough army commander in chief, assumed power yesterday after President Mohammad Ayub Khan resigned because of continued riots against his regime. He imposed martial law and declared death to persons caught rioting, looting or burning.
Violent antigovernment demonstrations have wracked Pakistan, the world's fifth largest nation, in recent months and brought it to the brink of civil war. In an effort to restore peace, Ayub Khan announced Feb. 21 he would not seek re-election early next year.
But the demonstrations continued along with violent opposition to the Ayub Khan
Ayub Khan announced the end
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Ike's condition is critical
WASHINGTON (UPI) Doctors said yesterday former President Dwight D. Eisenhower's heart congestion is "severe" and his
condition "critical," but they declined to predict if the 78-year-old general would survive.
Eisenhower
In a late afternoon medical bulletin, Walter Reed Army Medical Center reported that "although General Eisenhower has shown no deterioration in the last 24 hours, his condition continues to be critical."
It said he had "rested somewhat more comfortably today despite persistent evidence of congestive heart failure."
heart tangle.
An earlier medical bulletin said Eisenhower's heart beat was "within normal limits." Doctors said later this meant between 60 and 100 pulsations per minute.
and 100 pusions placed Doctors also disclosed that Eisenhower had suffered congestive
heart failure (failure of the heart to adequately pump blood through the body) "not on two, but on several occasions during the past several years." They did not elaborate and no dates were given.
When asked by UPI reporters if Eisenhower's latest trouble with heart congestion was mild, moderate or severe, doctors characterized it in a single word-"severe."
Medical authorities say a person suffering from severe heart congestion normally can be expected to respond to therapy in a day or two. Eisenhower's doctors reported Monday his congestion had worsened despite "vigorous therapy."