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The Field House was the scene Thursday of a rally in which students expressed their opinions as to what action should be taken to gain support for strike demands. Propositions ranged from a decision-making convocation to closing down the University. About 300 people attended the rally.
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WASHINGTON (UPI) -Young people swarmed through the Capitol, meeting with congressmen sympathetic to their demand for an end to the war in Indochina. But while the congressmen counseled patience, the young talked of impeachment.
Sen. Walter F. Mondale, D-Minn., a dedicated dove and cosponsor of a resolution to cut off funding for American troops in Cambodia, suggested "thoughtful letters" addressed to President Nixon and members of Congress. Fef of the 16 students in his office seemed impressed.
"Would you support an operation to close the University of Minnesota . . .?" a law student interjected. "Counter-p r o d u c tive," Mondale advised.
Meetings like that occurred all over the Capitol and its five office buildings Thursday and today. Declaring themselves willing to give "the system" one last chance, students seemed puzzled that no one, not even the doves, shared their notion that the war should—and could—be ended at once by legislative fiat.
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When Sen. Birch Bay, D-Ind., another cosponsor of the antiwar resolution, talked in terms of a long effort like the ones which killed two Supreme Court nominations, he was interrupted.
"George McGovern (Democratic senator from South Dakota) told us Nixon violated the Constitution by going into Cambodia. The Constitution is the law of the land and they are lawbreakers. Why not impeach him?"
The student drew loud applause. Bayh's course seemed as inadequate to the students as
their proposal must have seemed radical to him.
Some students sported buttons.
"Priorities!" said one. "Tame GM," proclaimed another in reference to the stockholder's revolt against General Motors.
While the youths met and milled on Capitol sidewalks Thursday, the Senate met, too. It voted an $81 million increase in federal subsidies for construction of merchant marine ships and a $17 million increase for new Coast Guard ships and equipment, then quit for a three-day weekend.
Disorders speech topic for Muskie
Sen. Edmund Muskie's (D-Maine) 8 p.m. speech at Hoch Auditorium will center on his disapproval of the administration's reactions to student disorders. Muskie will suggest other ways the administration could deal with student problems.
"We've been working on the speech for three days," Michael Casey, special assistant to Muskie, said today, "because this is a major speech on the issue of student unrest such as the problems that KU and other universities have been struggling with in the past year or two."
Muskie will also emphasize his general opposition to the Nixon administration's policies and suggest what he considers to be more agreeable solutions.
Committee establishes rumor phone
by JIM CZUPOR Kansan Staff Writer
A committee concerned with the identification of issues and alternatives to problems which have plagued the University of Kansas in recent weeks has regrouped and call themselves Students Mobilized for Peace.
Rae Sedgwick, Bonner Springs graduate student and spokesman for the group this morning said, "We saw the possibility of students and Lawrence citizens combining together to assess trouble areas."
The committee has established a rumor control number to check rumors concerned with immediate activities on campus and reported policy issues taken either by individuals or groups. The number: UN 4-3506, Miss Sedgwick said would be staffed 24 hours a day as long as there was a need.
She said, "I hope that community residents as well as students use this number."
Postal reform dispute mired in politics
Community action and interest groups comprised of students and community are being organized to identify issues and to generate concrete alternatives and plans for action.
Miss Sedgwick said that 60 students have committed themselves to the committee while several members of the Lawrence community, including faculty members had opened their homes for interest groups.
An agreement negotiated with seven postal unions and announced with great fanfare April 16 is firmly stuck in a Senate committee. The committee chairman, Sen. Gale W. McGee, D-Wyo., and Postmaster General Winton M. Blount are blaming each other for the delay.
WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Nixon's postal negotiators may have stopped a strike but they certainly didn't take politics out of the post office.
If Nixon and Blount want postal reform ,McGee has told them repeatedly, they must swallow his version, which does not include the nine-member board of commissioners upon which the administration's reforms are based.
It's the same kind of impasse
As before, the issue is whether postal reform should be tied to an 8 per cent pay raise agreed upon in negotiations.
that stalled a postal pay raise last year and brought on the nation's first mailmen's strike.
Senate Post Office Committee will approve the 8 per cent pay raise and accompanying provisions for future collective bargaining, leaving the reform proposals mired.
Postal rate increases proposed by Nixon also are partially disputed by McGee, and could be left behind with the reform plans
If McGee's threat were carried through by Congress, it would confront Nixon with legislation embodying all the costs of the postal agreement and none of the offsetting income.
Otherwise, says McGee, his
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