THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
80th Year, No.125
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Thursday, April 30, 1970
New Senate sworn in, Awbrey leaves office
Photo by Ron Bishop
The quiet transfer of power . . .
The new student body president was sworn in Wednesday night in the Senate meeting. (From left) David Awbrey, Hutchinson senior turns from the ceremony to congratulate Bill Ebert, Topeka junior and new student body president.
Before swearing in student body president Bill Ebert, Topeka junior, Awbrey held the traditional elections for three holdover Senate members chosen from the old Senate to continue in the new and later addressed the new Senate as past outgoing presidents have done.
David Awbrey, Hutchinson senior, as out-going student body president, told the incoming senate Wednesday night that they must be committed to the problem of the blacks in Lawrence and at the University of Kansas.
Those chosen to continue from the old Senate were: Lyle Fischer, Dodge City junior; Rick von Ende, Abilene, Texas, graduate student and Peter George, Tuck-ahoe, New York law student.
"I Bill Ebert swear to uphold the University of Kansas . . ." began Ebert repeating after Awbrey. Then as new president of the student body, Ebert swore in Gregg Thomas, vice-president and Topeka sophomore, and then swore in the whole student senate.
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American forces supply aid in raid on Cambodia
SAIGON (UPI)—A force of 6,500 South Vietnamese soldiers drove into neighboring Cambodia under U.S. aerial and artillery cover Wednesday and destroyed a Communist outpost in one of the biggest military operations of the war.
Allied military spokesmen, who described the attack, said 332 Communists were killed in the raid opposite South Vietnam's Tay Ninh province 35 miles west of Saigon. They said U.S. Air Force planes, flying tactical strikes, accounted for about 300 of the dead.
Spokesmen for Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, U.S. military commander in South Vietnam, said American forces provided support for the Cambodian raid "in the form of helicopters, artillery and tactical air strikes." A separate statement said the United States also provided logistical and medical support for the raiding party, and military sources said some Americans accompanied the South Vietnamese forces across the frontier.
The Allied military spokesmen gave no indication how far the attack penetrated into Cambodia, but
they said it was one of the largest mounted in the war.
Other military sources reported a second attack across the border into Cambodia Wednesday, describing it as a thrust south of the main line of attack about 52 miles west of Saigon. Both attacks were in the vicinity of the "Parrot's Beak" section of Cambodia that juts into South Vietnam and, according to Allied sources here, provides sanctuary for about 15,000 Vietnamese Communist troops.
Fighting was light and scattered in South Vietnam Wednesday, spokesmen said. Communists shelled eight targets in the country overnight Wednesday, causing casualties or damage in three of them.
The sources said an additional 113 Communists were killed in the thrust to the south, raising to 445 the number of Communists reported slain in the two operations.
The announcement of the raids into Cambodia came shortly after the U.S. Defense Department in Washington said the United States would provide advisers and other support to assist South Vietnamese military operations inside Cambodia.
UDK News Roundup
By United Press International
Free press acquitted
ELDORADO—The Butler County District Court Tuesday ruled that trespassing charges cannot be extended to include the sale of newspapers in acquitting six members of an underground publication from Wichita.
The charges stemmed from six members of the Wichita River Tribe Free Press who refused to leave the grounds of the Butler County Community Junior College last fall while selling issues of their publication.
Judge impresses Senate
WASHINGTON — The Senate Judiciary Committee is ready to recommend overwhelmingly, perhaps unanimously, confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Harry A. Blackmun.
Ten members of the 17-member committee already have pledged to endorse Blackmun, and Sen. James O. Eastland, D-Miss., the chairman, said he knew of no opposition that would postpone immediate action in the committee.
Pre-flight damage charged
DENVER — An Oxygen tank that was aboard the trouble-marred Apollo 13 Lunar mission was dropped and damaged at Cape Kennedy, a Denver newspaper reported today.
The Rocky Mountain News said it had learned from a source in Boulder, Colo., that the tank had been rejected twice by inspectors and was dropped after a third inspection in which the spherical-shaped container was accepted.
Six students shot
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Six students were shot Wednesday night in confrontations with police on the Ohio State University campus.
About 300 city police officers patrolled the troubled campus and more than 1,200 National Guardsmen stood by, ready to assist them, following a day of disturbances and protests that left more than 20 persons injured and 35 arrested.
Judge said Kennedy was 'negligent'
BOSTON (UPI)—A judge, casting doubt on Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's testimony, believes the senator intentionally drove Mary Jo Kopechne down a dirt road leading to a secluded beach probably in a negligent — even reckless — manner that contributed to her death, according to secret inquest documents made public Wednesday.
District Judge James A. Boyle of Edgartown said he did not believe Kennedy and the young blonde secretary were driving back to the ferry to
Judge Boyle, who presided over the inquest into Miss Kopechne's death, noted "inconsistencies and contradictions" in the testimony of Kennedy and 26 other witnesses.
Edgartown—as Kennedy said they were—when their car hurtled off a bridge on Chapaquiddick Island after a party last summer.
Judge Boyle's 12-page inquest report and the 763 pages of testimony given at the inquest were released by Suffolk Superior Court. The documents had been under legal
wraps since the four-day inquest ended Jan. 8.
Kennedy, in his testimony at the inquest, and in two previous public statements on the accident, said he and Miss Kopechne, 28, were headed back to Edgartown from Chapaquiddick Island when he took a wrong turn and went off a bridge.
From Washington, the surviving son of the Kennedy clan said he rejected Boyle's findings and found them "not justified."
Judge Boyle said: "I infer
a reasonable and probable explanation of the totality of the . . . fact is that Kennedy and Kopechne did not intend to return to Edgartown at that time; that Kennedy did not intend to drive to the ferry slip and his turn onto Dike Road was intentional."
Boyle's report reviewed the entire 763 pages of testimony
Dike Road leads to Dike Bridge, a wooden, unrailed span across a tidal pond and leading to a secluded beach on the east side of Chappaquiddick Island.
and 33 exhibits from the inquest and said he found "there are inconsistencies and contradictions in the testimony, which a comparison of individual testimony will show."
Boyle's finding was that "there is probable cause to believe that Edward M. Kennedy operated his motor vehicle negligently . . . and that such operation appears to have contributed to the death of Mary Jo Kopechne."
Kennedy and Miss Kopechne had been attending a cookout reunion the night of July 18 at
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