The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
79th Year, No. 97
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Tuesday, March 18, 1969
KANSAN
Inside...
Pauline Kael pans everthing See pages 7,10
Moomau enjoys KU beat See page 9
Nice weather, isn't it?
See page 5
UDK World News See page 8
Campus politics split again; Edwards, von Ende to run
The game of political musical chairs continued late last night and early this morning as another new ticket appeared on the campus scene and standard-bearers of the Independent Student Party (ISP) disavowed affiliations with the Action Coalition (ACT) and former running mates.
A new slate of candidates for the top student body offices emerged from an all-night meeting of the as yet un-named political group.
The names of Mark Edwards, Emporia junior, and Rick von Ende, Abilene, Tex., graduate student, were announced this morning by the group's campaign manager, Gary Duncan, Winfield junior.
Duncan said the present selections offered for student body leadership are not very popular with a large portion of students and that Edwards and von Ende are the "best men for the job."
Last night David Awbrey, Hutchinson junior, also a student body presidential candidate, announced he had cancelled all political activity with ACT.
The cancellation, Awbrey said,
includes a disassociation from running
mate Marilyn Bowman and student
senate candidate Collene Collins,
Quanah, Tex., junior. Awbrey is
running on the ISP ticket.
Miss Collins also issued a disavowal of activities with ACT, saying she was now a free candidate independent of party support.
Duncan said of the new political group: "We're in it and we're not getting out of it. We don't have a party name yet but we're backing Mark and Rick because we think they're the best."
Presently there is no platform offered by the group other than short statements from the candidates. Duncan indicated that a written platform would probably be released before the end of this week.
Both Edwards and von Ende said their purpose would be to make sure there is larger student participation in the policy of the University. "We are going to generate student interest and open the University up so everyone can participate," von Ende said.
Edwards emphasized the new Senate Code and how the organization's appeal to a larger majority of students
would aid them in implementing the code. He also said the living group leaders supporting them are strong and responsible people and will "stick to the end."
Edwards is a history and political science major and a living group officer. He also is an officer in the Collegiate Young Republican Club and is helping to coordinate political activity for Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) 48-Grass Roots Politics.
Von Ende is a political science major and has been chairman of the
All-Student Council since April of 68. He was also on the Chancellor Search Committee which interviewed candidates for chancellor during the fall semester.
Clif Conrad, Bismarck, N.D., senior and student body president, endorsed the candidates at the group's final candidate selection meeting.
"We are fortunate to find two very capable men for these positions," Conrad said. "They have constructive and progressive ideas and I am backing them 100 per cent."
Demonstration possible Inn case aired
By RICK PENDERGRASS Kansan Staff Writer
The group which staged a sit-in demonstration at the Holiday Inn Sunday met last night at the Wesley Foundation to decide further action.
Bill Simons, 701 Illinois, spokesman for the group that calls itself Concerned White Citizens of Lawrence, said if its demands are not met, it would demonstrate again next weekend.
Simons and other representatives from the group were to meet at 10 a.m. today with officials from Inn Operations, Inc., at the offices of the
Kansas Commission on Civil Rights to hear the care.
He said the demonstration at the Holiday Inn Sunday was an action brought about by the alleged action of Gary Anderson, manager of the Holiday Inn, in firing one of his Negro employs.
Members of the group, including KU students, faculty members, and Lawrence residents occupied all the seats in the Holiday Inn restaurant from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. Sunday.
The demonstrators left the restaurant after Anderson closed it for the day, and police officers said the demonstrators would be arrested for
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Communist demands deadlock peace talks
PARIS (UPI) — A spokesman for the American delegation said yesterday Communist demands for an "immediate unilateral surrender" by the United States have deadlocked the Vietnam peace talks.
The U.S. spokesman indicated the talks will remain stalemated until North Vietnam and the Viet Cong are persuaded they cannot win the war.
"Progress in the negotiations has been excruciatingly slow, and we believe unnecessarily slow," the spokesman said in denying there had been no progress since the four-way conference opened in January.
He said the United States has been "looking for a demonstration here in Paris of a willingness on the part of the (Continued to page 2)
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UDK News Roundup
By United Press International
Planes lost in Laos
SAIGON - American air armadas pounding Communist supply routes in Laos in hundreds of raids daily have lost at least 100 planes to ground fire since the bombing of North Vietnam was stopped Nov. 1, U.S. sources said yesterday.
The sources said the U.S. air raids in Laos, mostly along the "Ho Chi Minh" supply trail winding into South Vietnam, have been about as intense as they were against North Vietnam.
Two airliners hijacked
The airliner landed without incident in Havana at 7:29 p.m. CST. It was the 13th hijacking of a U.S. commercial plane this year and the first since March 5.
Earlier yesterday, two young men ordered a Peruvian Faucett Airlines jet to Cuba--but let its 71 other passengers get off during a refueling stop in Ecuador.
ATLANTA - A Delta Air Lines jetliner carrying 64 persons on a multi-stop flight from Dallas to Charleston, S.C., was hijacked and ordered to Cuba last night—the second hijacking of the day.
Reds reinforce border
MOSCOW — Both the Soviet Union and Communist China committed 3,000-man regiments to the latest fighting over a border island, various reports disclosed yesterday. It was also revealed that a Soviet army colonel and at least one other officer have been killed in the fighting.
JERUSALEM — The new Israeli premier, Mrs. Golda Meir, yesterday warned the Arab world "we shall again be victorious" if a new Middle East war breaks out. She also told Knesset (parliament) Israel would not give up any Arab territory captured in the 1967 war until peace is achieved.
Mrs. Meir is confident
Mrs. Meir was confirmed by the Knesset as Israel's fourth premier by a vote of 84-12. Former Premier David Ben-Gurion abstained.
Jury hears Sirhan tapes
LOS ANGELES - Sirhan B. Sirhan talked with Los Angeles police officers about philosophy, ranching, motorcycling, dogs and dozens of other subjects in the hours while Sen. Robert F. Kennedy lay dying in a hospital about a mile away.
Tape recordings of Sirhan's conversations with police officers were played for the jury as the 11th week of the murder trial got under way yesterday.
Sirhan never once mentioned Kennedy's name.
Israel bombs Jordan
AMMAN — Israeli jet fighter-bombers yesterday bombed and strafed border areas of Jordan near the Sea of Galilee where Israeli and Jordanian troops fought a 4-minute artillery and mortar battle Sunday night. Diplomatic sources in Beirut reported Iraqi MIG jets have been moved into Syria.
Battle added, however, that Ray's guilty plea last week did not fully satisfy him that there was no conspiracy in the slaying.
Arab guerrillas reported eight Israeli jets downed Sunday, but Israel denied it. Jordan said it was the third Israeli raid in three days.
Gambling bill in Senate
"If I had been his defense attorney, I would have done the same thing in order to avoid death in the electric chair for my client," the judge said in an interview.
Ray's plea was 'wise'
MEMPHIS — Criminal court Judge W. Preston Battle said yesterday defense attorney Percy Foreman was wise in urging James Earl Ray to plead guilty to the murder of Martin Luther King Jr.
TOPEKA - A bill which would permit pari-mutuel gambling on horse and dog racing in Kansas received tentative approval yesterday in the Kansas Senate.
The bill would permit all counties in the state to vote on the question in the 1970 general election. If the bill passed, that county could hold three racing seasons of not more than 80 days each in one year.
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