Governor reports Agnew blast
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Vice-President Spiro T. Agnew was reported Monday to have asserted heatedly that "anti-intellectuals" had taken over the nation's universities and that "we have to re-establish authority on the campuses."
Agnew's outburst was related to newsmen by Gov. David Cargo of New Mexico, a Republican who left a White House conference between President Nixon and state governors early to catch a plane.
Cargo reported that a "fery and controversial exchange" took place between Agnew and Gov. Frank Licht of Rhode Island, a Democrat, on the subject of violent and student unrest which followed Nixon's decision to commit U.S. troops to Cambodia.
According to Cargo the Vice-President took exception to Licht's observation that there was
insufficient communication with students. Licht said it was a "tremendous problem . . . being able to separate out the violence" from meaningful discussion," Cargo said.
territorial governors attended the session around a rectangular table in the White House state dining room.
The Vice-President stated that we have to reestablish authority on the campuses, Cargo said. Agnew stressed "control of what he described as the anti-intellectual forces," he added.
Agnew heatedly replied that "anti-intellectuals were in control of the campuses and until they are removed there would be no way to carry on a dialogue with students or the faculty." Cargo said.
Nixon called the conference last week to discuss the U.S. thrust into Cambodia and the violence it touched off on streets and campuses throughout the country. Forty-six of the nation's state and
Gov. Albert P. Brewer also departed after about three hours. He said only that he had to attend a rally in his home state of Alabama. Cargo told newsmen that others among the governors "were not in agreement" with Agnew's views which he said the Vice-President expressed "quite forcefully." He did not identify the dissenters.
Reporters asked whether the question of Agnew's "rhetoric" came up in the debate. "No, but I think it was hanging on the fringes," he said.
Agnew's repeated criticism of student demonstrators has rankled many in the university community administrators as well as students.
Cargo said the governors got what he thought was an "extremely lucid" explanation of the military and diplomatic aspects of the Cambodian operation from Nixon, Secretary of State William
P. Rogers and Gen. John Vogt, a high aide to the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Cargo said he thought Nixon and his aides had been "most persuasive." He added: "If they're successful in Cambodia they have scored and scored big."
Tobacco use falls, IRS says
WASHINGTON (UPI)—Americans smoked less but drank more last year, according to the Internal Revenue Service.
The service reports that the number of taxed cigarettes was 523.2 billion—a decline of 2.4 billion from the 1968 figure.
bottling of distilled spirits set a record of 300.5 million gallons last year—up 5.6 per cent from 1968.
But the service says domestic
Beer taxes were paid on 11.9 million barrels—about 4 per cent more than the previous year, while wine taxes were paid on 200.3 million gallons—an increase of about 6 per cent.
MU demonstrators defy emergency order
COLUMBIA, Mo. (UPI) Twenty to 30 University of Missouri students, defying an emergency university regulation not to congregate, were hauled off to a police station Monday during a peaceful anti-war demonstration in front of Jesse Hall, the school's administration building. Police later released the students after taking their names.
Chancellor John W. Schwada issued a stringent emergency regulation early Monday closing the campus to all visitors and guests except those on official business. The regulation read in part, "All persons on or in the campus . . . who shall congregate in groups of three or more shall disperse" upon order "of any university official or law enforcement officer."
Schwada said persons who fail to do so would be subject to "immediate temporary suspension from the University, discharge
from employment, removal from campus and possible arrest."
Estimates ranged from 1,500 to 2,000 the number of students participating in the peace rally in front of Jesse Hall. University and city police and state troopers formed ranks and marched to one side of the building. There they detained 20 to 30 students and Bill Wickersham, a university professor who is leader of the Peace Coalition, sponsor of the anti-war movement on the MU campus.
The students and Wickersham were placed in buses and taken to the Columbia police station. The demonstration on the university campus continued peacefully.
The emergency regulation issued by Schwada also banned possession on campus of firearms, knives, weapons or "devices or components of incendiary nature."
Former head of voice dept. retires after 35 years
Joseph F. Wilkins, professor of voice and head of the voice department in the School of Fine Arts from 1935 to 1965, will retire this spring.
Wilkins received a degree in mechanical engineering from Cornell University in 1924, but
soon gave up that field for music.
soon gave up that need for music.
In 1927 he sang leading operatic tenor roles in Italy for impresarios Caminada and Tagliavani.
During his 35 years at KU, Wilkins published six books, five in cooperation with his wife, Marie, who was a lead soprano with the Metropolitan Opera Company in the 1940's.
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