UDK News Roundup
By United Press International
U.S., Peru talks stop
LIMA, Peru (UPI) — Top-level talks aimed at resolving political differences between Peru and the United States were postponed yesterday for a least 72 hours pending a review of Peru's seizure of the multimillion dollar American-owned International Petroleum Co. (IPC).
John N. Irwin II, a special emissary from President Nixon, spent four hours and 40 minutes with Peruvian officials yesterday.
Jordanian premier out
AMMAN - King Hussein of Jordan is replacing his cabinet to get a premier more agreeable to a political settlement of the Middle East crisis, political sources said yesterday.
The sources said Premier Bahjat Talhouni was being replaced by Foreign Minister Abdel Moneim Rifai.
The cabinet change came as the king prepared for an April 8 visit to Washington, his first since the inauguration of President Nixon.
Trudeau visits Nixon
WASHINGTON - President Nixon and Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau talked privately yesterday about various world problems including some Canadian opposition to Nixon's decision to deploy an antiballistic missile system.
RFK murder reenacted
LOS ANGELES — Sirhan B. Sirhan fired an imaginary gun "over and over again" and shouted "You son of a bitch" when he reenacted the shooting of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy under hypnosis, a psychiatrist testified yesterday.
Soviet cellist missing
NEW YORK - Police are looking for a 37-year-old cellist with the Moscow State Symphony missing since Friday who may have decided to seek political asylum in the United States.
Belief that the musician might have defected was heightened by the fact that his wife died recently in the Soviet Union.
Apollo 10 to orbit moon
SPACE CENTER, Houston - The National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) yesterday decided it definitely will fly one more Apollo mission in moon orbit this May before trying a landing on the hostile lunar surface in July.
--dinner before he returned to New York.
Senate appropriation bill provides $37 million to KU
TOPEKA (UPI) — The first major appropriation bill for fiscal year 1970 was introduced yesterday in the Kansas Senate by the Ways and Means Committee.
The senate passed and sent to the house 14 bills and one resolution and tentatively approved 12 bills and one resolution.
The appropriation bill allocates monies for schools in the state's higher education system and for the Board of Regents.
A second bill from the Ways and Means Committee provides for supplemental appropriations for the schools and the Board for 1969.
The University of Kansas Medical Center would receive $8,723,273 from the state general fund and would be able to generate an additional $476,666 from fees charged patients at the hospital.
The University of Kansas would be appropriated $21,992,855 from the state general fund and would be limited to $6,436,212 in fees.
Kansas State University is allocated $21,667,981 from the general fund and $3,882,183 in fees. Wichita State University would receive $9,449,612 from the general fund and $2,398,196 from fees.
Most of the supplemental appropriations for 1969 were for additional salaries and some research activities. The University of Kansas would receive $82,952, Wichita State University $67,439; Kansas State University, $71,803.
A new version of the 104 per cent capital outlay levy limit for school districts in another bill given tentative approval would replace the old capital outlay fund bill which expires this year.
Sen. Harold Herd, D-Coldwater, the senate minority leader, said the main change in the new bill is the elimination of some powers of the local school boards.
A professional practices act was tentatively approved. It would establish a Professional Teaching Standards Advisory Board and a Professional Teaching Standards Commission.
79th Year, No.102 The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas Tuesday, March 25, 1969
Cronkite speaks candidly; covers riots, youth, war
By MICHAEL NAGEL Kansan Staff Writer
He drew laughter and a standing ovation from a capacity crowd of about 4,000 persons at Hoch Auditorium for his remarks on "Broadcast News and Half-Free Speech."
Poised, yet outspoken during his William Allen White Memorial lecture, Walter Cronkite also won praise and respect during the rest of his visit yesterday at the University of Kansas.
Cronkite, the 52-year-old managing editor of the CBS evening news program, also attended a news conference, a luncheon and a
Beginning his KU visit with a morning news conference at the Kansas Union, Cronkite spoke on topics from campus conspiracies to the electoral college with a candid flavor which was to become characteristic of his visit.
Speaking on the possibility of the nation-wide campus riots being a
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conspiracy, Cronkite said, "The surface evidence shows some coordination, but it can't be interpreted as a conspiracy. I doubt it very much."
Turning from campus riots to
riots during the Democratic convention, the CBS newscaster said, "I certainly agree with the Walker Report, that the incident before the hotel was a police riot."
Cronite criticized Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley saying if he was capable of ending the telephone strike prior to the convention he was capable avoiding the confrontation between the police and youth.
Cronite also had bitter commentaries about the Democratic convention. He condemned the "repressive air" which encompassed the convention as "a sin and crime against the
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Good times never last, do they?
Photo by Carol Sue Stevenson
The Corbin Hall sun deck was one of many locations where coeds last week got starts on their summer tans...
Photo by Mike Walker
but yesterday they struggled with the miseries on campus.