UDK News Roundup
By United Press International
Nixon on TV tonight
WASHINGTON President Nixon has scheduled an unusual hour-long news conference for 8 p.m. tonight before microphones and television cameras. Questioning is to be limited to international affairs—including the U.S. response to the Communist offensive in Vietnam and the conclusions Nixon drew from his meetings with allied leaders in Europe.
Viet Reds accuse Nixon
PARIS — North Vietnamese and Viet Cong spokesmen said yesterday President Nixon had indicated on his European tour that "he hopes to solve the Vietnamese problem by force."
North Vietnamese Minister of State Xuan Thuy and Viet Cong leader Tran Buu Kiem both said, in the first official Vietnamese Communist reaction to Nixon's tour, that the American President had adopted a tougher war policy than former President Lyndon B. Johnson.
Kiesinger flown in
BERLIN — The United States today defied Soviet warnings and flew West German Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger to West Berlin for his country's presidential election Wednesday.
In Moscow, the Russians warned that their troops and planes are "on the alert" around the isolated city because of West Germany's "dangerous and arrogant" determination to hold the election in West Berlin.
Prohibition called for
TOPEKA — A resolution calling for total prohibition of liquor in the state was introduced yesterday in the Kansas Senate.
The resolution would amend the constitution if passed by the voters in the next election.
Another resolution calling for a referendum to permit liquor by the drink has been passed out of senate committee and is scheduled for debate on the floor of the senate this week.
--scheduled to land two Americans on the moon this summer.
'No expulsion'-Bickford
Max L. Bickford, executive officer of the Kansas Board of Regents, said yesterday the resolution on campus disturbances, passed Friday by the Kansas Senate, contained no provision for the expulsion of any student or faculty member failing to obey the lawful order of a police officer during a demonstration. It did, Bickford said, call for the "separation from the university" of persons who cause, organized or participate in activities obstructing the educational process.
KU looking for Negro to fill unique position
By VIKI HYSTEN
Kansan Staff Writer
A new, unique position—to be filled by a black man or woman—will be added to the University's administration this fall, said Aldon Bell, secretary to KU's Urban Action Council and dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
The position, for which the council is now considering about 40 candidates, will entail duties designed to coordinate KU involvement in urban action programs, Bell said.
Bell said that the responsibilities of the new position besides directing off-campus projects, would involve such things as recruiting black students, assisting and counseling disadvantaged students, and coordinating remedial programs.
Bell said the council believed the most important thing to consider in choosing a candidate was his experience in urban action. Second in importance, he said, was that the person be black, and third in importance to the council, he said, was that he have good academic credentials in case he is asked to teach University courses.
The council, headed by Charles Kahn, dean of architecture, is composed of one representative from each University school, four representatives from four administrative offices, and six students representing two student organizations.
The position, a spokesman for the council said, has not been given a title but will be official and effective July 1.
79th Year, No. 87 The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas Tuesday, March 4, 1969
Apollo links with 'Spider'
SPACE CENTER, Houston (UPI)
— The Apollo 9 astronauts linked up in space yesterday with the spidery lunar landing module to start a 10-day test of the machines needed to land men on the moon.
Within three hours after their 10 a.m. CST launch from Cape Kennedy, the spacemen docked their Apollo with its lunar lander for the first space test of the strange-looking craft that is
They finished their first-day activities at 4 p.m.' CST by firing the main engine of Apollo 9 for five seconds to raise the orbit of the still-linked spaceships. Activities ended early so they could get a good night's sleep.
The cone-shaped command module, nicknamed "Gumdrop," is scheduled to return to earth with
Sirhan, under oath says he shot RFK
Sirhan took the stand shortly after the afternoon recess and displayed some signs of nervousness while waiting to be called.
Cooper read to Sirhan from one of the notebooks found in his home, in which he had written May 18,1968:
In the high point of his murder trial to date the 24-year-old defendant calmly took the oath "to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth" with his right hand clasped in a fist in the air.
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LOS ANGELES (UPI) — Sirhan B. Sirhan admitted under oath from the witness stand yesterday that he shot Sen. Robert F. Kennedy last June 5.
nuts aboard at 6:47 a.m. CST Thursday of next week after 150 orbits around the Earth.
The fragile lunar module, dubbed "Spider," which moon explorers will use as a sort of space dinghy in commuting between their mother ship and the lunar surface, will be left to burn up when it re-enters Earth's atmosphere.
The first five days of the mission are crammed with lunar module engine tests and systems checkouts plus burns of the service modules' engine. During the sixth through the tenth days, the astronauts will busy themselves with landmark tracking exercises, further spacecraft systems checks and photography.
The most spectacular aspects of the flight will start tomorrow during the third work day when Air Force Col. James A. McDivitt, 39, and civilian scientist Russell Schweickart, 33, slide through the docking tunnel between their two spacecraft to get to the controls of the lunar lander and power it up.
The third astronaut, Air Force Col. David R. Scott, 36, will remain to pilot the command module.
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Thief, gas bomb hit Union
Two cameras, valued at nearly $420, were stolen Sunday night from a glass, locked jeweler's display case in the Kansas Union lobby. Bill Seymour, instructor of journalism, said the cameras were prizes in the 1969 KU Photography Contest.
Cameras stolen from locked case
The first prize camera, valued at $269.50, was a Nikkormat FTN. The second prize camera, valued at $149.50, was a Pentax H1A. Both cameras were donated for the contest.
The theft qualifies as grand larceny under Kansas criminal law and may involve a prison sentence for the thief.
The two stolen cameras and two other cameras valued at $220 and designated as third and fourth prizes, have been on display in the Union since Feb. 1. Seymour said the contest judges were going to remove all four cameras Sunday night and give them to the winners, but they were delayed while setting up the contest display.
"The cameras had been safe for 30
Photo by Bill Seymour
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The scene of the crime
Traffic and Security Lt. John Tomas watches as Lawrence police detective Jim Haller dusts the jeweler's display in the Kansas Union lobby for fingerprints of the thief who stole two cameras from it yesterday.
Frank Burge, Union director, said that an eye-irritating gas was reported in great quantity in the Hawks Nest and Trail Room areas of the Union.
Tear gas in Nest drives students out
The Kansas Union was tear-gassed yesterday.
The gas was discovered at 4 p.m., a time when the area is especially crowded, Burge said.
"More than 50 students were seen leaving the elevators, stairways and Hawks Nest area. They were 'weeping' and rubbing their eyes," Burge said.
Paul Gilles, professor of chemistry, and custodians were called. Gilles made a personal inspection, and the area was evacuated until decontamination was completed 40 minutes later. Burge said.
Weather
The U.S. Weather Bureau predicts partly cloudy to cloudy with light northeast wind today and cold tonight and Wednesday.