National moratorium group disbands
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Vietnam Moratorium Committee, the peace group that brought a national focus to antiwar sentiments, has disbanded as a national organization.
"We felt we were becoming peace bureaucrats," Sam Brown, leader of the moratorium, told UPI Sunday. "The moratorium
was conceived as a strategy and a tactic and it had its day and we feel the time has come for something new."
The strategy was organizing local protests against the Vietnam War rather than holding one central mass protest.
The moratorium sponsored the nationwide antiwar activity of last October 15. Although it has
sponsored similar activities since, the latest on April 15, it has not been able to obtain the success of its initial protest.
Brown emphasizes, however, that only the national office was closing. Local chapters may decide to carry on the moratorium's activities. "Most it appears are going to stay open," he said.
He denied that the decision to disband Saturday was the result of any disillusionment with the peace movement.
One moratorium leader did say
that there was some discouragement within the organization. "We spent last November putting together the largest protest in Washington history and found the President making a big protest of watching television.
"What is discouraging, is that we can do all this that is certainly significant and find it doesn't mean anything, but the leaders are insensitive. It means new tools, new approaches need to be found," the spokesman said.
"Obviously we didn't accomplish the largest goal, to end the war, but we did stimulate new activity and brought new people into the peace movement," he said.
"We had lost sight of our initial vision. We came together to generate new activity and not simply to be a new peace group."
Brown said his colleagues felt that, "institutions too frequently outlive their usefulness," and that the national moratorium had out-lived its ability to serve the antiwar movement.
Chancellor lauds Earth observance
The following statement concerning Earth Week was released today by Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr.:
"I hope that every student, staff member and faculty member will find an opportunity to participate in the environmental teach-in that is occurring on over a thousand campuses across the country on April 22. The ecological crisis we face is extremely complex and cannot be solved without considering the entire fabric of our lives. It is to the credit of our students and faculty that they are turning their attention to ecology with zeal.
"On our own campus planned events will span nine days, April 20-28, and a variety of experiences: lectures, open classes, games, excursions and workshops. It is significant that the University of Kansas is able to conduct an impressive educational program on the environment almost wholly from its own talents.
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President and Mrs. Nixon, but
having you in here in Texas beats
it all. We're tremendously proud
of you and we're happy to have
you back home with us."
The astronauts then were told by Doctor O. Thomas Paine, NASA administrator that the President had "reiterated his strong, firm support, not only for the American space program, but particularly for the manned space flight program. There will be those, the president said, who will seize upon this accident as an opportunity for a slowdown. But, he said, "We're not that kind of people."
"Jack, Fred and I are very proud and glad to be back here in Texas tonight," replied Lovell," because there were times when we really didn't think we'd make it back here. If it wasn't for the people on the ground, we wouldn't be here tonight. And I appreciate it very much."
Sweigert said, "Of the welcome homes we've had this one means the most."
Haise was the last to address the crowd at Ellington. "I guess our role was pretty much like anybody in a survival situation," he said, "We just had to do our best with what we had in hand."
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"The City of Lawrence has notable resources for environmental study. We anticipate that the community workshop scheduled for April 26 will bring the University and the other institutions of the city together in a continuing program of environmental education and improvements.
"I am convinced that the current concern about ecology, demonstrated in the nationwide teach-in, is not a fad; but the beginning of a new national consciousness. It will complement rather than replace our concerns about poverty and prejudice. I encourage all faculty, staff and students to take fullest possible advantage of this week's activities. I hope that many classes can be moved to the teach-in or rescheduled conveniently, and that the issues raised by Earth Week will become a part of our daily concern for a better future."
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Lujan said many ROTC students have difficulty fulfilling both ROTC and College requirements, he said.
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The team teaching plan, Lujan said, could go into effect with either a Yes or No vote from faculty members. He explained that because the plan has the approval of the ROTC department, the faculty vote could not actually keep it from being implemented by Sept. 1971 as planned.
The next step is to negotiate details with KU administrators, Lujan said. The administration must then formalize contracts with College instructors who would team teach ROTC courses and negotiate with the U.S. Defense Department.
Lujan said that if the Defense Department rejects the team teaching plan, KU would no longer maintain an ROTC program.
"I would prefer ROTC not to be on campus." Lujan said, "but I take the position that we should make it available to those who want it, but on a sound academic setup."
The beginning and the end of World War 111 are coming, April 28-May 1.
EARTH WEEK
Gas turbine slows pollution
"When I hear the iron horse make the hills echo with his snort like thunder, shaking the earth with his feet, and breathing fire and smoke from his nostrils, it seems as if the earth had got a race now worthy to inhabit it. If all were as it seems, and men made the elements their servants for noble ends."
H. D. Thoreau
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- LONDON (UPI)—Robert Noel Penny, who may be biased, believes the long-heralded era of gas turbine power for trains, trucks and motor cars is about to open, bringing with it an antidote for one of the causes of air pollution.
Penny is the leader of the Leyland-Rover gas turbine team which has been working for 25 years in one form or another towards the goal of cleaner, cheaper, quieter and yet more powerful transport which the principle promises.
If he is right—and transportation circles have been deeply interested since the first gas turbine powered automobile was demonstrated almost exactly 20 years ago—a search of three centuries is almost over.
Some 300 years ago an anonymous Chinese actually showed a working model of a gas turbine engine in Peking. In 1791 the first gas turbine patents were granted in Britain. But from then until our own era technical difficulties defeated all the experimenters.
"The automotive gas turbine is about to start on its production career," Penny reported in Science Journal.
"This is not wishful thinking on the part of one with an axe to grind but a sober statement of fact. At last we know how to make small gas turbines that are
eminently suitable for use on road and rail."
First, he said, the engines would be used in trucks and trains and then improved technology would reduce them to a size practical for automobiles.
piston to turbine cannot be made overnight; it will be a very long and sometimes painful process. But it is about to start."
"These will be engines far superior in every way to those in use today. They will be much simpler, be easier and cheaper to make and need fewer raw materials. They will be smaller and lighter for a given power. They will burn cheaper and more varied fuels, and burn less fuel for a given power. They will be sealed at the factory and thereafter need practically no maintenance for hundreds of thousands of kilometers.
Penny said a number of other firms such as Boeing, General Motors, Chrysler, Fiat and Ford, also started work on the turbine car after a Rover touched 150 miles an hour in 1952.
"Most important of all, they will be quiet and their clean exhaust will dramatically reduce atmospheric pollution and make our cities once again fit to live in. Nevertheless, the switch from
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