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African Apartheid Faces Showdown
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — The United States is approaching some hard decisions on South Africa which Assistant Secretary of State G. Mennen Williams suggests could have hard consequences.
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U. S. official development plans for Southwest Africa will provoke a showdown within two months on apartheid.
They are considering a high-level appeal to South Africa not to "export" apartheid to the neighboring territory which it administers under a 1920 League of Nations mandate.
THE UNITED STATES contends the court eventually will rule that South Africa has violated the League mandate. But its most immediate fear is that the court will issue an injunction against the new development plans, therefore forcing early this year an international confrontation that the United States has been anticipating would come sometime in 1965.
The United States has been giving careful consideration to sanctions and other contingencies that would arise in a showdown on apartheid. Now U.S. officials see a new urgency in evolving an effective policy toward South Africa.
U. S. officials contend South Africa should not press its plans for the territory while the Southwest Africa case being brought by Ethiopia and Liberia is before the International Court of Justice.
The United States would be involved because it would be called upon to help carry out the court ruling. Application of sanctions would be one means to do this.
This, officials suggest, was what Williams had in mind when he told a group of college editors on Feb. 3 that "a lot of hard decisions" lie ahead for the United States.
"TM NOT AT all sure if we had to take the decisions tomorrow that the American public is ready," he said.
A student had asked if the United States was strengthening its position toward South Africa.
"We haven't come to the end of the road yet," Williams answered. He said there could be some hard consequences but that they might be necessary "to cut our losses in the long run."
Williams had departed from the text of his prepared address to express fear that in South Africa there could be "the kind of racial conflict that could throw the whole continent askew." He also spoke of the possibility of "a very serious earthshaking problem in the future."
THIS IS STANDARD approach on South Africa which Williams takes in his public announcements. But it was in answering questions of the students that Williams gave an insight into the actual conduct of U.S. relations with South Africa.
Williams said the United States was "now trying to talk to South Africa and point out that it is quite likely that the Court of International Justice will rule against them and they ought to be adjusting themselves to this.
One youth wanted to know what the U.S. position would be if the World Court decides Southwest Africa "can no longer be ruled by South Africa."
"We're moving in the direction of getting an accommodation from South Africa. We haven't been very successful."
CATHY BERGSTROM Pi Beta Phi Jumpers are very much with us again for spring —
Guest appearances include college exhibitions, the Spectacle of Music, Milwaukee, Wise, Disneyland, California, and Drums on Parade, Madison, Wise.
The Argonne Rebels, "Kansas Official Drum and Bugle Corps," from Great Bend, will present the half-time entertainment for the KU-OU basketball game at 7:30 p.m. Saturday.
Gov. John Anderson designated the 50-member unit as the "Kansas Official Drum and Bugle Corps" last August. The unit is ranked sixth in the nation.
Members of the group are boys and girls from 7th grade through age 21. Drum major is Danny Anderson.
Kansas Bugle Corps To Perform at Game
Included in Saturday night's performance will be the Fanfare Theme from the Apartment, Never on Sunday, Start of Something Big, and Big Country.
Police Chief George Scholer today in an effort to get to the bottom of the outburst which resulted in hours of hopelessly snarled traffic and damage to homes and automobiles. Eight students were arrested.
The Rebels were organized in 1947 and since entering national competitions in 1955, have won five state championships and have travelled in 28 states.
"IT'S A TERRIBLE thing." Coco-zielo said. "They put her (Marjorie) in a cell with a prostitute and the prostitute even propositioned her. Is that any way to treat an innocent, young girl?"
In Paterson, John Cocoziello, father of the jailed girl, threatened a law suit against the State of Ohio.
Miss Cocozello was released from jail after friends posted a $20 fine and charges subsequent were dismissed.
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Thursday, Feb. 13, 1964
Students Demonstrate For Jaywalking Friend
THE UNRULY CROWD formed after it became known on campus yesterday that Marjorie Coocizello, a sophomore at Paterson, N. J., was locked in a cell for an hour and a half Monday for not paying the jaywalking fine. The campus newspaper played the story under a bold page one headline and the university president charged the publication was partly responsible for the demonstration.
Mayor S. E. Sensenbrenner called meetings with student leaders and
City and university officials hastily called meetings this morning to determine what stirred up the students to stage the hours-long demonstration which erupted on campus and then moved four miles to this city's downtown area and back to campus.
COLUMBUS, Ohio —(UPI)—Five thousand Ohio State University students demonstrated for hours last night and early today, blocking streets and damaging property, after learning a 19-year-old coed had been jailed for failing to pay a $5 ticket for jaywalking.
The demonstration began on the campus and then some 500 of the students marched four miles down heavily traveled High Street to the Central police station where they milled about for two hours. Marching with them was Miss Cocoziello, but while the other students jaw-walked back and forth in the streets, she remained on the sidewalk.