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Winter blanketed the KU campus once again this weekend while a record blizzard struck western Kansas
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79th Year, No. 91
The University of KansasLawrence, Kansas
Monday, March 10, 1969
Arab chief buried
Rv United Press International
By United Press International Egypt gave its armed forces chief of staff a hero's funeral today. Israel claimed one of its tank gunners killed him with a direct hit during a three-hour, 25-minute battle Sunday across the Suez Canal.
Lt. Gen. Abdel Moneim Riad, 50, died near Ismailia, on the edge of the canal's west bank, while inspecting front lines and directing return fire against the Israelis. Nearby, Egyptian oil refineries still blazed from attacks Saturday and yesterday.
Israeli officials said in Jerusalem that in addition to killing Riad, "it was possible" the tank gunner may have also hit several other senior officers who were believed accompanying him. Egypt said only Riad was hit.
In a report from Cairo, the Soviet news agency Tass said that Cairo newspapers were reporting today that Sunday's artillery battle was "the biggest battle from the time of the June War of 1967."
Israeli sources said at least three Israeli soldiers were killed in yesterday's fighting and 14 others
wounded in the duel along a 75-mile stretch of the canal.
A communique issued in Jerusalem said tanks and artillery were leveled to fire across the 150-yard wide canal, smashing at least nine huge fuel storage tanks containing 27,000 tons of fuel at the Nasar refineries, south of Suez.
Yesterday's battle followed a five-hour barrage Saturday across the canal where, according to Israeli officials, a fuel tanker and four oil storage tanks were still ablaze.
In Beirut the Palestinian guerrillas, Al-Fatah, today claimed (Continued to page 12)
Williams blasts society
By RICHARD LOUV
Kansan Staff Writer
Three hundred people, mostly white, got to their feet and emulated Hosea William's raised, clenched fist, chanting after him, "I may be black ... but I'm somebody. I may be poor! But I'm somebody. Soul power! Black power!"
Williams
"I'm not interested in integrated neighborhoods, I'm interested in good, decent neighborhoods, and to do that the black people must first be like the Jews and Italians. We must segregate ourselves." Williams said.
Appearing last night at the Kansas Union in the last of a series of speeches in the University Christian Movement Institutional Racism Course, Williams, a long time associate of Dr. Martin Luther King, called integration a sham, college education useless, and President Nixon a sophisticated George Wallace.
Black pride
Williams told the audience that the black man's soul had been whitewashed, and his culture taken away.
"It took me a long time to be proud that I'm black. All my life I wanted to be white, until I learned to be a man," Williams said, pounding the podium, his voice strained with emotion.
He told how he had once been proud to be one of the only black research chemists.
"Because of an executive order from President Kennedy, they had to place me in a more prestigious position. You know what they did? They eliminated the job."
Only a token
"They used me all that time as a token, just as they're using the 300 black students at the University of Kansas," Williams said.
He said college does not educate people, it only teaches them to buy a big house, a big car, expensive clothes, and go into debt for the rest of their lives to the white power structure, just like the power structure wants them to.
"As I stood on the balcony watching Martin Luther King die, I asked myself two questions. Is the country worth saving, and if so, how can it be saved. Is Rap Brown right? Must America be burned to the ground?"
Williams called the country "rotten to the core," having been founded on an economic system which depends on free labor, having eliminated 27 million Indians, and resulting in an economic system
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By United Press International
UDK News Roundup
Ray may change plea
MEMPHIS, Tenn. James Earl Ray, apparently having last minute reservations, reportedly was urged by his attorney to plead guilty today on his 41st birthday to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
A deal between the state and Ray's chief defense counsel, Percy Foreman, reportedly was proposed to Ray. In return for his own life, Ray would plead guilty and receive a 99 year prison sentence.
China increases patrols
TOKYO — Communist China has bolstered its regular patrols with troops and peasants along its border with the Soviet Union to repel any further Russian intrusions, Peking's official reported yesterday.
The agency's news broadcast, monitored in Tokyo, said Chinese forces had been on combat alert along the border since the March 2 clash between Chinese and Soviet border patrols in which a number from both sides were killed.
Astronauts sleep well
SPACE CENTER, Houston - Three "vibrant" astronauts rested after sleeping so soundly they missed their first wake-up call and spent a leisurely seventh day aboard Apollo 9 yesterday, taking pictures like tourists and practicing moonflight navigation.
James A. McDivitt, David R. Scott and Russell L. "Rusty" Schweickart showed this relaxed and happy outlook in their easy banter with ground controllers.
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