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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, May 20, 1964
Bomb Found in Oslo Intended for Nikita
OSLO, Norway — (UPI) — Police today sought an unidentified man who placed a home-made bomb outside the residence where Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev will stay during his scheduled official visit to Norway late this month.
Authorities issued an appeal to the public for clues to the identity and whereabouts of the man who scaled a wall around Bygdoey Konsgaard, one of King Olav's summer residences near Oslo, early yesterday morning.
A watchman discovered the man placing a four-pound explosive charge near the residence. The suspect fled into the darkness, accompanied by a dog. The charge had been set for detonation.
"WE BELIEVE this bomb scare was the attempt of an insane person to perform an act of wanton destruction." Lars Labs Beau Lund, head
of the Oslo police crime section, said last night.
Lund brushed off questions about a possible plot by extremists to force Khrushchev to call off his visit to Norway.
The Foreign Ministry, apparently taking a serious view of the incident, summoned Soviet Ambassador Nikolai M. Lunkov to inform him of the bombing attempt. Lunkov had inspected the Royal Estate only last week with a delegation of top Soviet security officials to make sure arrangements for Khrushchev's visit were satisfactory.
Khrushchev canceled a visit to Scandinavia in 1959 because of an anti-Soviet campaign allegedly launched by the press in Norway, Sweden and Denmark.
THERE WERE some signs of public opposition in Norway to the Soviet Premier's visit scheduled June 29-July 4 but political observers said it was highly unlikely he would call off his Scandinavian tour.
Library to Open Johnson Room
able by up to one year in jail or a fine or $1,000.
"THE LEGAL status of this type of publication is not clear but the forged issue was a malicious defamation." Dyson said.
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The new reading room for special collections of Watson Library will be publically opened Thursday evening.
FERGUSON is out of town this week, but KBI Director Logan Samford confirmed that his office would not investigate.
"Unless more information is discovered I would not say this case is criminal libel," Samford said in a telephone interview.
"We asked the Kansas Bureau of Investigation in Topeka to investigate for us but they finally said they had declined to prosecute." Dyson said. "It is my understanding that Attorney General William Ferguson felt it paralleled the New York Times case of criticism of public officials.
Dyson said the case is not forgery or anything else except possibly a federal mail fraud.
"I cannot see how this would carry over into a private case."
"I see it as my responsibility as a book seller to make all views available, although this doesn't mean I necessarily approve or disapprove of the reading matter I carry." Fowler said. "I feel that only by intelligent investigation can we understand and combat it if this is our wish."
He suggested the next step would be to discuss the case with the county attorney. Wilcox said last night he did not know whether this would be worthwhile since the case eventually would go back to the KBI.
Fowler said most of the Soviet and Peking books usually are purchased by students who renounce or disapprove these views as class assignments.
The room will be named in honor of William Savage Johnson, who during his life gave many valuable books to the library's collection, according to William Forth, associate director of Watson Library.
Forged Issue of Kansas Free Press—
Long said last night the article attributed to him does not express his views on the relation between Christianity and communism.
"IT IS NOT my purpose to convert anyone to anything by making these available when they are also available elsewhere in the United
John Fowler, owner of the Abington Book Shop, also said the advertisement in the forged issue, which listed only Marxist-Lenin titles, was not representative of his views.
States." he said.
Prof. Johnson was a professor of English at KU.
"Following Prof. Johnson's death, his widow, Mrs. Claudia Pendleton Johnson, has continued to buy books for the library in his memory," Dr. Forth said.
"I DO NOT THINK a good Christian should become a communist or that a good communist should join the Christian church unless their individual purposes are to subvert the other organization." Long said.
Fowler said he had noticed a drop-off in business in the last month but did not know if it could be attributed to the advertisement listing Communist texts in the forged issue.
"MRS. JOHNSON has furnished the reading room." he continued.
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Participating in the program will be Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe; Thomas R. Buckman, director of Watson Library; Charlton Hinman, University distinguished professor of English; and Mrs. Natalie Calderwood, associate professor of English.
Prof. Hinman will speak on "The First Quarto of Shakespeare's Richard II," and Mrs. Calderwood will discuss "William Savage Johnson—a Portrait." Dr. Forth said.
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