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79th Year, No.81
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Monday, February 24, 1969
Nixon hints at summit
BRUSSELS (UPI) — President Nixon said today he would hold a summit meeting with Russian leaders "in due course" but not until he hammered out a united program on world issues with the Western Allies.
Appearing tanned and relaxed, the President journeyed to the edge of Brussels to address the NATO Council of Ministers at the headquarters built for them in Belgium after France ordered the organization to move out.
Scattered heckling and shouts of "Nixon, go home" greeted him Sunday when he arrived. There were no serious outbursts, but neither were there large crowds of cheering people. The trip was deliberately designed to discourage public turnouts.
When he left his hotel this
morning to ride to NATO headquarters, about 100 persons, in the lobby applauded loudly and Nixon waved and smiled.
Held meetings
He held meetings until almost midnight Sunday with Belgian officials to discuss NATO and East-West problems in general. He was sticking close to his program of a "working tour, long on conferences and short on ceremonies. Meetings went on from the time of his arrival until the lights were turned late in his suite in the Brussels Hilton Hotel.
The White House said the President was "watching very carefully and closely" the new offensive by North Vietnamese and Viet Cong in South Vietnam, especially as it might affect the Paris peace talks.
His address to the NATO council stressed what Nixon said beforehand was the purpose of his visit to Belgium, Britain, Bonn, Berlin, Rome, Paris and, finally, the Vatican.
"I have come for work, not for ceremony," he said. "To inquire, not to insist; to consult, not to convince; to listen and learn, and to begin what I hope to be a continuing interchange of ideas and insights."
Enter negotiations
"In due course and with proper preparation, we shall enter into negotiations with the Soviet Union on a wide range of issues, some of which will directly affect our European allies."
"We will do so on the basis of full consultation and cooperation
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Bombing probe continues
By MIKE NAGEL
Kansan Staff Writer
No significant progress has been made in the investigation of the firebombing which occurred in the Military Science Building Friday, said vice-Chancellor Keith Lawton last night.
The investigation of the firebombing, considered by some to be a symbolic anti-military protest, is being conducted by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, the state fire marshall, the Douglas County Sheriff's office and Lawrence and campus police.
A preliminary report of the bombing in which one of the four molotov cocktails caused minor damages to the office of Marine Col. John P. Lanigan, head of Navy ROTC, will be released by the KBI soon, one official said.
The firebombing is regarded as arson, said deputy state fire marshal Lloyd Davies.
Provost James R. Surface indicated increased security precautions had been taken after the bombing incident.
Bomb scares have occurred at KU before in the spring and fall of 1965 and February 11 of this year, but none have ever resulted in an actual bombing.
Friday's firebombing of the military science building has been interpreted by some as an anti-military protest. If so, the bombing has brought leftist military distaste to a new peak shading anti-ROTC protests of recent years at KU.
In December of 1967, Hamilton Salsich, former assistant instructor of English, began a recent ROTC
protest at KU by claiming it had no business on campus.
Leftist sentiments subsided when ROTC chiefs of staff refused to debate the issue and the college-military issue did not re-occur until spring of last year.
In March, KU students and faculty members, headed by Salsich, confronted Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe when a sit-in occurred in his office.
The sit-in, protesting "the University's increased complicity with the military establishment," issued demands that KU ban all military recruiters from campus and that ROTC be abolished.
The demands of the protesters were denied by the administration which claimed the role of a truly free university required the (Continued to page 19)
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UDK News Roundup
By United Press International
Hijack suspects removed
CHICAGO -- Four young men, two of them wearing badges of the Black Panther party, were removed from a San Francisco bound airliner at O'Hare International Airport yesterday because the crew feared a mid-air hijack attempt.
One of the four was found to be carrying a .22 caliber revolver.
Doctors operate on Ike
WASHINGTON - Former President Dwight Eisenhower is making a steady recovery from major surgery to relieve an intestinal blockage, doctors said today.
The executive officer of Walter Reed Army Hospital said at mid-morning the 78-year-old general "is resting as comfortably as can be expected."
Gunners hit capitals
SAIGON — Communist gunners bombarded two more provincial capitals and 10 allied installations last night and early today in the third day of an apparently slackening nationwide offensive. Saigon took a second round of rockets last night but none early today.
Missouri campus unrest
COLUMBIA, Mo. - Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) have called for a "general strike" today at the University of Missouri in protest of the banning of an underground newspaper. There were reports that the protest might include a mass march.
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Memorial march across campus
BSU commemorates Malcolm X
Blacks march down Jayhawk Boulevard in commemoration of Malcolm X
Clarence Reynolds, Kansas City freshman and president of BSU, told the group before the march. "This is a ceremony to honor Malcolm X. This won't be the last thing you see the BSU do."
Carrying a black flag bearing a picture of black activist Malcolm X, 100 members of the Black Student Union (BSU) marched Friday from the Kansas Union to Strong Hall.
When the group reached Strong Hall, they listened to Adrian Clark, Kansas City senior and past president of BSU.
The march and memorial service which followed commemorated the assassination of Malcolm X, Feb. 21. 1965.
"The thing that turned us on about Malcolm X was that he told the truth," Clark said.
"Like most blacks he was surrounded by poverty and disenfranchisement," he said. "He got out on the streets and began to get hip.
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