Midwest target of renewed unrest
By DAN OSBORNE
Kansan Staff Writer
While KU was the target of demonstrations during the past two days as a result of the Kent State incident May 4 and President Nixon's Cambodian offensive, other Midwest universities experienced similar events.
At Kansas State University, there was a noon rally Wednesday including about 3,000 students, said Pete Goering, associate editor of the K-State Collegeian.
Goering said the rally featured folk music and five speakers, including K-State president James A. McCain.
Following the rally, Goering said, about 1,500 students staged a "march of death" in memory of the four students killed May 4 at Kent State University. A mock casket was burned in front of the ROTC building as part of the march.
"A lot of people cut classes
Wednesday but there was no official strike," Goering said.
A rally involving about 1500 students was held Wednesday afternoon at the University of Missouri—Columbia which included the burning of President Nixon in effigy.
Mike Meyers, political editor of the Maneater, MU student newspaper, said that a "non student government strike is scheduled for Friday."
At another rally Wednesday evening at MU a molotov cocktail was thrown at the Naval ROTC building but caused little damage.
Except for the firebombing Wednesday evening, both rallies were reported to have been peaceful.
At Wichita State University, classes were dismissed Wednesday morning at 11:30 a.m. and about 500 students attended a rally featuring speeches, folk
singing and memorial services for the Kent State victims. WSU officials reported that activities Wednesday afternoon consisted of picketing, leaflet distribution and a teach-in.
Another rally is scheduled for Thursday and will include a speech on Cambodia by U.S. Representative Gerald Ford.
Friday's activities will include more picketing and a march from the ROTC building to the National Guard Armory.
At the University of Oklahoma, about 500 demonstrators interfered with a ROTC review May 5 by running through the ranks of marching cadets, a representative from the OU student newspaper said. One student was arrested for carrying a National Liberation Front flag. Following his arrest the student was taken to a waiting police car. About 250 demonstrators surrounded the car and skimmed with 25 cam-
SAIGON (UPI) — The South Vietnamese high command announced Thursday that 6,000 government infantrymen, rangers and armored units are returning to South Vietnam in the first withdrawal of Allied forces involved in the current Cambodian offensive.
Viet forces leave Cambodia
The units were ordered pulled out of the southern portion of the Parrot's Beak area about 40 miles west of Saigon. Military sources said the withdrawal had been largely completed.
"The troops have successfully completed their mission, which was to destroy Communist base camps and supply depots," an announcement of the South Vietnamese general staff said.
By the move, Allied troops involved in operations in Cambodia were cut to less than 45,000 milli-
tary sources said. It followed the start of three new drives into the neighboring country Wednesday.
Near the demilitarized zone Wednesday, U.S. forces suffered their highest losses in a single action in 20 months—29 killed and 31 wounded.
The rocket attack on the northern city of Hue came as an armada of U.S. Navy patrol boats moved upriver into Cambodia to join fresh Allied troops who crossed the border on three new fronts Wednesday in the war's biggest offensive.
Military spokesmen said one of the six-foot long Russian-made rockets exploded in a military hospital in Hue killing 11 Vietnamese and wounding 17. Two others impacted in a residential area, killing one civilian and wounding four. It was the first
shelling attack on the nation's third largest city since Feb. 13.
pus policemen. Three of the demonstrators were reported to have sustained minor injuries.
Military observers viewed the Hue attack and Wednesday's North Vietnamese attack on the American unit near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) as a Communist retaliation against Allied drives on Communist base areas inside Cambodia.
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NEW YORK (UPI)—How many more items does the average supermarket have now than in 1928? According to a study by the Tyler Refrigeration Division of Clark Equipment Company, stores carried 867 items compared to 7,350 in 1967 and a predicted 10,000 in 1970.
In another incident Wednesday at OU, about 100 students staged a sit-down strike in the administration building from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The strike was reported as peaceful and the demonstrators left quietly at 5 p.m.
University of Oklahoma offi
cials also report that the OU Student Senate is voting May 7 on a possible student strike scheduled for Monday.
The Oklahoma State campus was described Wednesday night by a school representative as "peaceful." The only protest activity at OSU will be a nonviolent demonstration May 7 in honor of the Kent State four.
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Women in Politics' subject of new exhibit
WASHINGTON (UPI) — There is nothing new about the women's liberation movement.
To hear the Smithsonian Institute in Washington tell it, the American feminist mobilization dates before Abigail Adams. The Smithsonian opened an exhibit this week titled "Women in Politics" that traces the still unfulfilled struggle for women's rights.
The display, which lasts until July, also commemorates 1970 as the 50th anniversary of women's suffrage. The items in the show range from needlework to woman's place is in the home, as well as copies of "The Revolution," a radical periodical on the women's movement begun in 1968.
Much of the show is devoted to portraits and memorabilia of the women who led the fight, many of whom wound up in jail.
A feminist in the colonial era, Mrs. John Adams, wrote to her husband while he was serving in the Continental Congress, that "in the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make, I desire you would remember the ladies and be more
Extradition order upheld for suspect
AUSTIN, Tex. (UPI) — The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Wednesday upheld extradition orders sending Charles Denton Watson to California to be tried in the Sharon Tate case.
Watson's lawyers had argued that Watson could not get a fair trial in Los Angeles.
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generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power in the hands of the husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation."
And while some may tell women today, "you've come a long way baby," the females hardly think so. On Capitol Hill this week, women leaders are pushing for the "equal rights for women" amendment which has been introduced in every session of Congress for the last 46 years.
The opposition had always contended women would lose special privileges and benefits guaranteed under the law if the amendment is adopted.
Pre-dating Mrs. Chisholm and the women's lib are the Smithsonian profiles on two women who aspired to the presidency, Victoria Woodhull and Belva A. Lockwood, the first female to practice before the Supreme Court.
But feminist leaders — among others, Rep. Shirley Chisholm (D-N.Y.)—say women are ready to sacrifice these so-called benefits for equality. Men and women need "fair play, protection and job security" equally, she says.
The exhibit concludes that "after more than a century of agitation the situation of the American woman remains ambiguous. She has made great strides in achieving an education, obtaining job opportunities and receiving reasonable treatment under the law. She has not attained equality, for her gains have not kept pace with those of men."
The final section of the show is subtitled "An Unfulfilled Dream."
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