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Feb 4.1969
UDK News Roundup By United Press International
Capture not expected
CORONADO, Calif.-The U.S. Navy let the intelligence ship Pueblo get into a spot in which neither Air Force planes nor any other aid could have prevented her capture, a court of inquiry was told yesterday.
Rear Adm. George L. Cassell, chief of staff for operations for the Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor at the time, said the risk of North Korean attack on the Pueblo was considered so "minimal" that when she was surrounded it was too late to help.
OEO may be discontinued
WASHINGTON-Two key members of President Nixon's new Urban Affairs Council have indicated that the government's chief antipoverty agency will be allowed to fade out of existence this year.
Although Secretary Robert H. Finch of Health, Education and Welfare declined to say Sunday that the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) will not be extended before it expires June 30, he said some successful antipoverty programs "will be transferred" to other agencies.
Cardinal may end exile
BUDAPEST, Hungary-Austrian Franz Cardinal Doenig arrived from Vienna yesterday and promptly met with Joszef Cardinal Mindszenty in the U.S. Embassy, reportedly to urge the Hungarian prelate to end his 12 years of self-exile and leave for Vatican City.
Mindszenty sought refuge in the embassy during the 1956 Hungarian freedom revolt to avoid arrest and has not left his sanctuary in the embassy since he walked in on Nov. 4, 1956.
Sex banned from ads
WASHINGTON—The federal government yesterday officially banished sex from the classified ads. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) printed in the federal register new guidelines barring sex discrimination in job advertising.
Under the guidelines, the placement of job advertisements under separate male and female column headings is against the law unless sex is a bonafide occupational qualification for the job.
Nixon to visit Europe
WASHINGTON (UPI)—President Nixon is planning a springtime visit to the capitals of America's allies in Europe and may be ready to resume diplomatic relations with Egypt.
Presidential Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler said yesterday that the "working trip" probably would be undertaken within 60 days. He said Nixon hoped to be back in Washington by the start of the meeting of the NATO Council of
Foreign Ministers here on April 10.
Nixon was understood to be drafting a cordial letter to Egyptian President Gamel Abdul Nasser which could pave the way for resumption of diplomatic relations between this country and Egypt. They were broken by Egypt during the Mideastern six-day war of June, 1967 when Nasser accused the United States of aiding Israel.
Nasser sent a friendly note of congratulations to Nixon upon his
Iraq, Jordan claim attack by Israeli warplanes Mon.
Iraq and Jordan said waves of Israeli warplanes attacked Arab troops three times yesterday in northern Jordan. Both reported their anti-aircraft gunners downed two of the divebombers.
In Israeli-occupied Gaza, a hand grendade exploded in Falastin Square, killing two boys and wounding eight persons, moments after Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan had completed a 90-minute tour of the city.
Israeli officials in Jerusalem admitted one of the three air raids, a two-plane napalm strike against Jordan troops battling Israeli soldiers across the Jordan River.
But Israel denied the two major raids in which Iraqi and Jordanian gunners claimed downing a total of four jet divebombers. The Arabs said no one was hurt in the strikes.
The Arab claims on those two raids, Israel said, are "another of those lighthearted, wishful-thinking war scare bubbles they throw into the air and which stand in midair until we are asked to puncture them."
Officials in Gaza, scene of five days of anti-Israeli riots by Arab schoolgirls, said the hand grenade exploded five minutes after Dayan had completed his tour. He was not near the explosion.
Dayan's visit was seen as an
attempt to soothe tensions among the Arab population in Gaza. Before he arrived, Israeli troops chased 60 girl demonstrators back into their high school.
The commander of Israeli forces in Gaza, Brig. Gen. Mordechai Gur, suspended the sentences of three young Arab women convicted of working for a guerrilla organization. Their trials had triggered the schoolgirl riots.
In Cairo, the semiofficial newspaper Al Ahram said Egypt and the Soviet Union had agreed the Middle East situation "has reached—through the continuation of Israeli aggression—an extremely serious point and might explode at any minute."
The statement followed top secret meetings between President Gamal Abdel Nasser and Alexander N. Shelepin, a top Sojet envoy to the Middle East.
Weather
The U.S. Weather Bureau predicts clear skies and warming temperatures. High today in the 40s, low tonight in the high 20s, high tomorrow near 50 degrees. Little chance of precipitation.
inauguration—a possible hint of his willingness to reopen Egypt's embassy here and welcome a U.S. ambassador in Cairo.
Ziegler said Nixon would comment on the possibility of restoring relations at the "proper time." He said the President would hold his second news conference since moving into the White House at 11 a.m. EST Thursday.
Although Ziegler did not give a tentative itinerary for Nixon's first trip abroad as President, authoritative sources said the chief executive hoped to visit Paris, Rome, London and Bonn. They said he had no plans yet for a visit to the Soviet Union or a meeting elsewhere with Russia's leaders.
Ziegler declined to give White House confirmation to an authoritative report that Nixon has decided to accept in principle a French proposal for "Big Four" talks on the Middle East.
He said the proposal would be "a matter of priority" at Tuesday's meeting of the National Security Council.
Firearm ban proposed
A resolution urging the banning firearms from the campus police force will be considered by the All-Student Council at 7:15 p.m. tonight in the Kansas Union Centennial Room.
E. P. Moomau, campus police chief, and R. Keith Lawton, vice-chancellor of operations, will speak to the Council concerning the resolution.
Even if the resolution were enacted, the campus police could continue to carry firearms, said Rick von Ende, Abilene, Tex., graduate student and ASC chairman. The ASC has no authority to cause them not to carry the weapons, von Ende said. A resolution only expresses the intent of the ASC.
In other business the ASC will make plans for the elections to ratify the Senate Code. The elections are scheduled for Feb. 19 and 20.
A new semester - and KU students face another Mount Oread snow job
Kansan photo by Halina Pawl