UDK News Roundup
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Sirhan incapable
LOS ANGELES — Witnesses for the defense in the trial of Sirhan B. Sirhan has testified the 25-year-old Arab immigrant is mentally incapable of premeditating and carrying out a murder.
The witness corroborating that-testimony was not summoned by the defense, but was a court appointed psychiatrist being paid by the County of Los Angeles.
WASHINGTON — President Nixon and Harry S. Truman put aside past bitterness today as the Chief Executive arranged a sentimental get-together with the former president at the Truman home in Independence, Mo.
Nixon sees Truman
Nixon and Truman, who conducted a sharply worded feud for years, met during a Nixon-stopover in Missouri en route to a Southern California weekend.
Escapees recaptured
KANSAS CITY - All four men who escaped from the Wyandotte County Jail in a spectacular break Tuesday were back in custody today, following the capture of Steve Roberts, 19.
Roberts offered no resistance when officers found him hiding in the attic of a relative's house Thursday night.
Three claim Anguilla
THE VALLEY, Anguilla — Three men claimed today to be the sole legal ruler of Anguilla. Two of them are at opposite ends of this 15-mile long isolated Caribbean island. The third announced his power from 90 miles away.
The 6,000 residents of the once forgotten and neglected island, meanwhile, entered their third day of passive resistance against a force of 400 to 800 British troops.
Sixteen indictments set as result of Chicago riots
WASHINGTON (UPI) A federal grand jury Thursday indicted eight Chicago policemen and eight demonstrators on criminal charges stemming from the police-demonstrator clashes during the Democratic Convention last August.
Atty. Gen. John N. Mitchell announced the indictments after an eight month investigation. The eight civilians are the first persons ever indicted under the antiriot provisions of the 1968 Civil Rights Act.
Several of the civil defendants were accused, as part of the conspiracy, of establishing "movement centers" to be used for the planning and organizing of the demonstrators during the convention and of selecting "marshals" trained in Karate, Japanese snake dancing, and counter-kicks to knee and groin.
The grand jury charged the eight civilian demonstrators with conspiring to;
- Travel in interstate commerce and use the facilities of the interstate commerce with the intent to incite, organize, promote, encourage, participate and carry on a riot."
- "Teach and demonstrate to other persons the use ... of incenidary devices ... which may obstruct, delay and adversely affect commerce . . ."
the movement of articles and commodities in commerce . . ."
- "Commit acts, to obstruct, impede and interfere with firemen and law enforcement officers ... and adversely affect commerce and
16 KANSAN Mar.21 1969
Miss Enid Roth, formerly a news director for NBC, was charged with two counts of willfully endearing to use an electronic device to intercept oral communications. She allegedly had microphones concealed in two rooms at the Sheraton Blackstone Hotel where the Democratic platform
committee held closed meetings Aug. 25 and 26.
That was only the third suit brought under antisurveillance provisions of the 1968 omnibus crime control act. Miss Roth, who lives in New York, is liable for a maximum of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine on each of the two counts against her if she is convicted.
Photo by Ron Bishop
KU riflemen
Donald Brewer, Bellingham, Wash., senior, left, and Harald Freybe, Ft. Myers, Fla., senior, right, are two KU Naval ROTC members who will participate in the Big Eight NROTC Rifle and Pistol meet today and tomorrow. The KU team will compete against NROTC teams from the other units in the Big Eight. KU rifle and pistol teams have won seven of eight pistol matches this season.