Students up in arms
By United Press International
Students on four American college campuses demonstrated and battled police and National Guardsmen yesterday over Negro rights and student power.
Tear gas was used by National Guardsmen at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and by riot police at Duke University in Durham, N.C.
At the University of
California at Berkeley about 150 club-wielding policemen made repeated sweeps through chanting, screaming militants.
Police arrested at least three dozen dissidents in a series of minor scuffles and broke up picket lines trying to block the main campus thoroughfare.
About 1,000 students tossed books and firecrackers and taunted officers with chants,
catcalls and obscenities. Student lines reformed as quickly as police marched through them.
More than 75 Negro and Puerto Rican students took over an administration building at City College of New York (CCNY).
The students took over the CCNY building to enforce demands for recognition of the needs of minority groups.
They left voluntarily about four hours later. Police were on the scene but there were no incidents.
Wisconsin Gov. Warren P.
Knowles, who sent 900
Guardsmen onto the Madison
campus early yesterday, called
an additional 1,200 militiamen
to duty at midafternoon in a
determined effort to keep the
university open for classes.
Student strikers, an estimated 400 strong, were bested and scattered in a series of scuffles with bayonet-packing guardsmen and police wielding nightsticks.
Guardsmen laid two tear gas grenades along the curb a few hours later when strikers made hit-and-run rushes to stop cars on University Avenue, the highway and main campus
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79th Year, No. 75
Friday, February 14, 1969
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Dissent series speaker hits extremist tactics
By GLORIA VOBEJDA
Kansan Staff Writer
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The future of this country does not belong to the flag-burners or the flag-wavers, Allard K. Lowenstein, keynote speaker at the first Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Symposium on Dissent said last night.
Speaking to a crowd of 1,000 persons in Pearson Hall at the University of Missouri, Kansas City (UMKC), Lowenstein reiterated, "Those who shout down speakers are themselves guilty of violence." He questioned acts that go beyond freedom of speech.
He said that neither the left nor the right should be denied the right to speak. But, several times he denounced the methods of those who seek change with destruction and hate.
Lowenstein started the "Dump-Johnson" campaign in March, 1968, and organized the Democrats for an Open Convention in Chicago last summer.
He did not feel despair at the disappointments and what he called and "barnacle-ridden" democratic process in this country.
"It is not wishy-washy to decide that you will decide what you want," he said.
In response to a question about McCarthy's present stance, Lowenstein said he thought it was not in his place to explain Sen. McCarthy.
It is not useful to criticize Sen. McCarthy because he had made considerable contribution to the cause of democracy, Lowenstein said.
Praying to St. Valentine
A KU coed longingly gazes at the Valentine paraphenalia displayed in a window of the Kansas Union Bookstore.
Lowenstein is a board member on Martin Luther King's organization, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, because he agreed with the organization's purpose, he explained.
When asked about the effectiveness of reform, Lowenstein replied that it was an "immoral question."
He said that very often ineffectual efforts are made to change the democratic process. He will still support the things he believes in, whether or not his support gets results, he said.
Speaking of the black Americans' current struggle for rights and justice, Lowenstein said, "Just because blacks have been denied rights and justice, it doesn't mean that they are always right. We shouldn't feel so guilty that we have to endorse these tactics which they employ which are destructive."
In reference to the Democratic convention in Chicago last summer, he said that the "middle" of America must move to correct American injustices, for soon there will no longer be a "middle."
The liberal moderates of yesteryear "must move forward to correct injustices because the racial and generational gap is widening," he said.
"A gap remains between rhetoric and reality," he declared. "If we delay responses, we do so at our own peril.
"I don't know if we'll make it, but if we don't. it will be our undoing," he said.
In summary, he instructed this "middle" to "isolate the fringes, because the future of this country does not belong to burners or haters, or those who have given up, or those who would disrupt free speech."
Weather
Travelers warning. Freezing rain, occasional mixed light snow or sleet this afternoon, becoming rain or snow late this afternoon. Snow tonight.
UDK News Roundup By United Press International
Diplomatic break possible
OTTAWA The Nationalist Chinese government may be preparing to break off diplomatic relations with Canada.
A source close to the Chinese embassy said yesterday that although instructions had not yet been received from the government in Formosa, "it is possible the embassy will be closed."
Talks still stymied
PARIS - The United States and South Vietnam yesterday called on the Communists in the Vietnam peace conference to agree to a scaling down of the fighting. But the Communist side insisted on discussing politics first, and the meeting ended with no progress toward a settlement of the war.
The only agreement to emerge from the meeting, fourth session of the expanded peace negotiations, was that the four sides would meet again Thursday. The deadlock, which developed at the first conference session Jan. 25, appeared more rigid than ever.
Suez crisis is serious
EGYPT — It was announced yesterday steps toward opening up the Suez Canal, a perennial flashpoint between Jews and Arabs in the Middle East. Reports from United Nations truce teams told of new shooting across the waterway and described the situation as "serious."
Mohammed el Zayat, chief spokesman for the Egyptian government, said in Cairo that Egypt has given the go ahead for a new survey of the southern half of the canal in a move to free 15 ships of eight nations which have been trapped there since the war in June 1967.
Gls get Tet warning
SAIGON - The U.S. military command warned American servicemen yesterday to stay off the streets of Saigon "until further notice" because of the possibility of Communist terrorism during the approaching Tet holiday season.
Tet, the lunar new year, officially begins Monday and lasts until Wednesday. The Communists, who have proposed Tet cease-fires this year, used the truces last year to mount their biggest offensive of the war—a costly attack that carried them into dozens of cities and towns.
Four hurt in bombing
MONTREAL - A bomb exploded on the trading floor of the Montreal and Canadian stock exchanges yesterday 45 minutes before the exchanges were to close for the day.
At least four persons were injured in the blast. There were no immediate reports of any deaths.
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