Senators oppose missile
WASHINGTON (UPI)—A group of senators served notice yesterday they would fight if President Nixon proceeds with deployment of the "thin" Antiballistic Missile (ABM)
Europe will see revision of play during KU tour
A changed version of "Kaleidoscope of the American Dream," seen by KU students in October, will be presented behind the Iron Curtain. The troupe will leave March 16 or April 2 and return in June.
Performed by the University Theatre, the presentation is sent on a State Department-sponsored tour of eastern Europe every year.
Frederic M. Litto, acting assistant professor of speech and drama and director of the show, said the major reasons for change stem from problems in transporting such a cumbersome set and "too strong" subject matter.
The scene to be cut is taken from "America Hurrah" by Jean-Claude van Itallie. Litto said the decision to cut this scene was made "in consultation with others." He would not reveal what requested the change, but said the administration was behind him.
This year, however, the composite of scenes from six plays will be reduced to five, said Litto.
Countries scheduled on the tour include Yugoslavia, Romania, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary.
KU prof to produce series of TV shows
A KU political science professor will produce and moderate a series of television shows dealing with U.S. foreign policy.
Clifford Ketzel, professor of political science, will produce and moderate eight successive shows beginning at 9 p.m. Monday onKTWU (Channel 11) in Topeka.
Ketzel said the people who appear on the show will include faculty from several Kansas schools.
Topics to be discussed are:
"Czechoslovakia, Russia and Eastern Europe;" "Canada under Trudeau;" "Africa, Asia and the Development Decade;" "Southeast Asia;" "Western Europe and the United States;" "Cuba—the Castro Decade;" "Middle East Tinderbox;" and "Dissent, Democracy and Foreign Policy."
KU faculty scheduled to appear on the show include: Charles Gati, visiting associate professor of political science; Roger Kanet, assistant professor of political science; Duncan McDougall, professor of economics; Felix Moos, professor of anthropology, and Peter Feuerle, German graduate student.
--system, which they criticized as wasteful, ineffective and a spur to the arms race.
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The senators vowed to try to block a request by the Johnson administration for $700 million in appropriations in the 1969-70 fiscal year for further deployment of the limited system at 16 sites around the country. Nixon may amend the request.
The new attack on the system, designed primarily to defend against a Chinese Communist nuclear assault, apparently was prompted by Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird's suggestion last week that it should be deployed as a bargaining point in any disarmament talks with Soviet Union.
Referring to the ABM, Laird said if the talks are held, "I do not want to be in a position where we go into those talks ... with one hand tied behind our back. I think it is most important, as we go into those talks, to have defensive as well as offensive missile systems up for
discussion, and debate and negotiations."
Sen. John Sherman Cooper, R-Ky., a leader of Senate ABM foes, said in a prepared speech that the limited Sentinel system might be only the start for a more expensive antimissile complex. The pentagon estimates the sentinel system will cost $5 billion to $6 billion.
If one side—the Russians or the Americans—deploys an ABM system, he said, the other will do so "and will develop concurrently more effective and powerful offensive nuclear weapons."
Sen. George McGovern, D-S.D., said he had been told the Sentinel has virtually no value against a Soviet attack because of the relative ease by which it can be overpowered or thwarted by decays.
"If bargaining power is what we are looking for," he said, "I suggest that all we prove by deployment is that we're willing to waste $5 billion or $10 billion or more on a useless system."
LONDON (UPI)-Astronaut Frank Borman, commander of the Apollo 8 moonship, ended a day of accolades yesterday with a 70-minute audience with Queen Elizabeth II. U.S. Ambassador David Bruck said it was a "smashing success."
Astronaut's London visit called 'smashing success'
Borman, on a goodwill tour of Europe for the Nixon administration, was saluted by bear-skin-hatted Coldstream Guards and cheered by crowds of school children when he arrived with his wife and two sons at Buckingham Palace.
The Bormans chatted with the queen, her husband, Prince Philip, and two of their children, Princess Anee, 18, and Prince Edward, 4.
The astronaut presented the little prince with a model of the Apollo 8 and its rocket, and for the queen and Prince Philip he had an autographed framed color photograph of the moon's landscape taken from the spaceship.
A spokesman for Borman said the queen expressed her admiration for his historic moonflight and asked him to pass on her compliments to his crewmembers, James A. Lovell Jr. and William A. Anders.
Earlier 150 cheering fans greeted the astronaut when he arrived at Prime Minister Harold Wilson's residence. Borman, who has been a rousing success since his arrival in London Sunday night, had to squeeze a path through the wildly clapping crowd in front of 10 Downing Street, Wilson's official home.
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