THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
80th Year, No.7
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Tuesday, June 30, 1970
Nixon prepares broadcast
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (UPI)
—President Nixon spent a busy weekend conferring with aides on the "white paper" he will issue Tuesday defending his decision to send U.S. troops into Cambodia as necessary to orderly American withdrawal from Vietnam.
The President and Mrs. Nixon arose before dawn Sunday and he accompanied her to the nearby El Toro Marine Air Station to see her off a mercy mission to earthquake ravaged Peru.
Nixon then returned to the Western White House to work on the public statement which will coincide with the deadline for the U.S. pullback from Cambodia.
Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler said the President talked several times with Dr. Henry A. Kissinger, his chief foreign policy adviser and one of the architects of the Cambodian policy.
Ziegler said Nixon spent most of the morning in the office of the Western White House and then moved to his adjacent blufftop residence overlooking the Pacific, taking with him files of background papers to study.
Nixon will follow up on Tuesday report on Cambodia with an hour long review of all aspects of his foreign policy Wednesday evening in an interview on nationwide television.
Friday, thirty-eight news executives heard confidential assessments from the President and his Defense and State Department advisers on the administration's controversial Southeast Asian policies.
Nixon personally welcomed the group to the Western White House and then turned them over to three experts for more than three hours of background briefings. The President was seeking support for his decision to send U.S. troops into Cambodia and for his overall policy of gradually disengaging from South Vietnam.
The President will further amplify his Southeast Asian policies and discuss U.S. involvement in other areas of the world in the unprecedented hour-long foreign policy interview with three network correspondents in a live television program from San Clemente Wednesday evening.
Mrs. Richard M. Nixon, flying to Peru with the "heartfelt" prayers and offerings of the American people, changed her trip schedule so she could visit earthquake victims in the most devastated areas.
Her brown eyes filled with excitement as she spoke of her plans for the three day visit. Mrs.
Nixon told reporters in an airborne news conference: "I feel deeply about these things. That's the kind of person I am.
After she had expressed her concern for the thousands of stricken Peruvians the President said he thought "it was a great idea" for her to make the journey, Mrs. Nixon said.
"I told my husband how proud I am of the American people. They raised $2.5 million and they really showed compassion and affection for the Peruvian people."
"I think you should go," he told her.
The First Lady said she was carrying with her the 'heartfelt
"We always found the South American people very warm and friendly," she said. "There are just a few organizers who always cause trouble."
prayers and affection of a free people."
"I really intend to meet with people," she said with emotion. "I don't intend to sightsee."
Where have all the tadpoles gone?
A peaceful moment by the water's edge is an increasing rarity. If you have the time for a moment's peace, the water is often too polluted for a proper setting. But sometimes the circumstances are just right.
Legislating heavy before holiday
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Senate is expected this week to enact into law—over President Nixon's veto—legislation providing $2.7 billion in loans and grants for hospital construction.
The House last week provided the two thirds vote needed to override Nixon's veto of the bill
and if the Senate, as expected goes along, it will be the first time since the Eisenhower administration that a President's veto was rejected by Congress.
In other actions this week before Congress quits for a short July 4th holiday:
Whew!
Riding a motorcycle can be pretty sticky business, especially when the weather is as sticky as it has been. This cyclist takes time for a brisk rubdown.
would run the mails, the most sweeping postal reorganization in the 187-year history of the service.
- The Senate will culminate seven weeks of debate triggered by the U.S. incursion into Cambodia with a vote Tuesday on the amendment by Sens. John Sherman Cooper (R-Ky.) and Frank Church (D-Idaho) to deny funds for future large scale American operations in Cambodia. It is expected to be adopted but a vital vote on a proposal to water it down by allowing U.S. military support for South Vietnamese or Thai forces operating in Cambodia will come first.
- The House meantime is almost certain to pass a $3.2 billion anticrime measure, authorizing more money under the 1968 Safe Streets Act and continuing for another three years the program of federal aid to local law enforcement agencies.
- With action vital before July 1, the Senate may either pass the House bill raising the ceiling on the national debt to $380 billion or adopt a temporary one month resolution postponing the problem for the time being. If nothing were done the government would be prevented from borrowing any money after July 1, making it unable to meet its payroll in July.
- The Senate will also try to complete action on a bill establishing the U.S. postal service, a nongovernment agency, which
Fracas dampens festival celebrated in pasture
IOLA, Wis. (UPI)—Twenty-six persons were arrested Sunday following the shootings of three persons during a fracas which developed between rock festival spectators and members of a motorcycle gang.
The incident was still under investigation and details were sketchy, but it apparently put an end to the fun for thousands of young people who had been on hand for the festival which began Friday. Total attendance for the weekend was estimated at 60,000 but many had left by Sunday afternoon.
The Portage county sheriff's department said it had 19 men and seven women in custody in connection with the shootings.
Names of the gunshot victims were not immediately released. One Chicago area man was in good condition at a Stevens Point Hospital with wounds to the chest and neck, a second Chicago area man was in fair condition at the hospital with leg wounds,
and a third man, from Madison, was in satisfactory condition with arm wounds.
The Madison man was transferred from Stevens Point to the Veterans Hospital in Madison.
Authorities said the motorcycle gang members came from Milwaukee or Chicago and had apparently been harassing spectators through the night.
When some of the festival spectators retaliated by damaging some of the motorcycles, a fight erupted in which the shootings occurred, authorities said.
They were investigating how many shots were fired, and it was not immediately disclosed what kind of weapons were used.
The festival was scheduled to run until late Sunday night on a 200 acre farm near here along the Waupaca Portage county line.
But authorities said the disturbance apparently soured many of the young people, who began leaving in large numbers.