UDK News Roundup
By United Press International
Israeli bombs kill three
TEL AVIV - Israeli jets attacked three Jordanian border areas today with rockets, napalm and machinegun-fire, military spokesmen in Amman reported.
There was no immediate comment from Israeli officials on the Jordanian report.
The Jordanians said four attacking Israeli jets caused no casualties but damaged crops in the strikes near the Sea of Galilee.
Earlier in Amman, Jordanian spokesmen said Israeli air and artillery attacks destroyed automobiles and trucks over the weekend. Arab guerrillas said they shot down eight Israeli planes over the weekend—a report not confirmed elsewhere.
Meetings begin in Peru
LIMA, Peru — President Nixon's personal envoy, John N. Irwin, will meet today with the military president of Peru, Army Gen. Juan Velasco Alvarado, to begin formal discussions about the expropriation of an American-owned oil company and other problems straining relations between the two countries.
Police announced special security measures would be in force today to protect Irwin from anti-American demonstrators, who have been active in the capital since Irwin arrived last Thursday.
Chinese withdraw aid
LONDON Communist China has withdrawn many of its military specialists and technologists from North Vietnam, diplomatic reports said yesterday.
The withdrawal was believed intended as a warning gesture both against Hanoi's peace strategy and its flirtation with Russia.
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Chalmers visit to KU concluded yesterday
Chancellor-elect E. Laurence Chalmers yesterday ended his four-day visit to KU.
When not answering questions from newsmen, students and faculty, Chalmers was attending one of the many luncheons or dinners given in his honor.
Chalmers' visit began Thursday morning with a press conference. He then had lunch with the student-faculty committee which was partially responsible for his selection as chancellor.
Dan Stepp, a member of the selection committee and Prairie Village sophomore, said of Chalmers, "I noticed a change since his first interview. He had 100 per cent more confidence; in fact his mannerisms were almost brash. It made me stop and think, and the more I thought, the more it made me respect him. He impressed upon me, through his actions, that he wouldn't sit back on his hands.
"Chalmers comes across real well
in informal situations. He seems anxious to get things done. He wants to meet students and be exposed to their areas of concern."
Thursday afternoon, Chalmers met with Francis Heller, dean of faculties, and with the faculty members of the Senate Council.
Friday morning, Chalmers met with Raymond Nichols, vice-chancellor for finance. Nichols said he and Chalmers "talked in generalities about financial operations of the University, and where we hope to get future financial support for the University."
Nichols said of Chalmers, "I think we can look forward to continued progress of the University under Chalmers. He is very interested in the welfare of the students."
After the meeting with Nichols, Chalmers visited with Kansas Gov. Robert B. Docking and Kansas
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Chalmers
79th Year, No. 96 The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas Monday, March 17, 1969
Group pickets Inn
UCM demonstrators picket the Holiday Inn
By RICK PENDERGRASS
Kansan Staff Writer
The restaurant of the Holiday Inn in Lawrence was occupied and later pickedet yesterday by about 130 KU students, faculty and Lawrence residents.
The group, representing the University Christian Movement Institutional Racism course, occupied all the tables inside and pickedet the building in protest of what they claim is "racist management."
One of the protest's organizers said the Holiday Inn "will not operate" unless their demands are met, and the demonstration may be repeated next Sunday.
The sit-in, which began at 10 a.m., was broken up by Lawrence police shortly before 1:30 p.m., when they threatened the
demonstrators with arrest on criminal trespassing charges.
The group met across the highway for another hour, then left, saying they would be back if the "racist" policy continued.
Response to firing
Bill Simons, 701 Ill., a leader of the demonstration, said the protest was a response to the alleged action of Gary Anderson, manager of the Holiday Inn, in firing Mrs. Della Hamilton, an employee for $10 \frac{1}{2}$ years.
The Holiday Inn management said Mrs. Hamilton was not fired, and that she quit because she objected to changes in the work schedules.
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St. Pat festivities: fantasy and fact
By KEN PETERSON
Kansan Staff Writer
Today is St. Patrick's Day, and those of you who celebrate the occasion by drinking green beer and Dublin dew, be wary of snakes and other despicable characters.
St. Patrick, Archbishop and Apostle of Ireland, arrived in 433, commissioned by the Pope to preach the doctrine of the Trinity and spread the message of the Roman Catholic Church.
Using the shamrock as an illustration, St. Patrick explained that the three leaves on the shamrock represented the Trinity, with the stem of the leaves representing the unity of the three in one.
Before conversion was completed, however, it is said that St. Patrick felt compelled to rid Ireland of its snake population.
Employing the "psychedelic" method, the saint bought a drum, raising such a noise that all the snakes drove themselves into the sea. That is, all but one snake who protested the movement.
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DUBLIN (UPI) - A nuclear fission plant for County Mao ... centrally heated cottages in County Kerry ... jumbo jets in Dublin.
This is the face of the booming new Ireland greeting its self-exiled children streaming back from the United States and Europe to join in celebrating the great national feast day of St. Patrick today.
Certainly cities and towns put out more flags and green bunting. Pickers reaped a huge harvest of shamrock which Irishmen will "wet" in traditional style in tens of thousands of homes and pubs across the island.
But it is a dramatically changed Ireland the immigrants are coming home to.
Shillealaghs and clay pipes are relegated to the souvenir shops. Donnybrooks are just a memory, and if there are any leprechauns around they'd be found in the factories helping the export drive.
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