Rain dampens Relays despite track
(See related pictures on pages 8 and 9)
80th Year, No.117
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Monday, April 20, 1970
Hearty welcome greets astronauts
SPACE CENTER HOUSTON (UPI) — Apollo 13 astronauts returned Sunday night to their loved ones in a cheery welcome home celebration of music, flags and firecrackers.
James A. Lovell and Fred W. Haise and their wives, and John L. Sweigart and his parents flew to Houston aboard a Presidential backup plane as the nation honored them with a day of prayer and thanksgiving for their safe return.
A crowd of 1,500 pressed around the astronauts after they landed at nearby Ellington Air Force Base at 9:57 p.m. (EST).
Streets were lined with torch carrying neighbors at the homes of Lovell and Haise, where parties were held for the astronauts who survived a moon flight explosion 205,000 miles from earth Monday night.
"Wheew, what a mission. Welcome home," said a banner waved at the astronauts at the airbase. Another read, "welcome home, Jim, Fred and John."
The children of Lovell and Haise were in the crowd as was Lovell's aged mother, Blanche Lovell, who is confined to a wheelchair.
Space agency administrators also were on hand including Thomas K. Mattingly, who lost his spot on the
flight after exposure to German measles. His place was taken by Sweigert.
Sweigert's two married sisters, Mrs. Virginia Spinelli, of Fort Collins, Colo., and Mrs. Betty Beerube of Lake Charles, La., also were at the airport.
"Jim, Jack and Fred, welcome home," said Robert Girruth, director of the manned spacecraft center, as Americas' newest space heroes emerged from the plane.
"We watched your landing on earth in the Pacific with considerable interest," he stated, "and we watched you in Hawaii when you were greeted by the (Continued to page 16)
UDK News Roundup
By United Press International U.S.charged with invasion
MIAMI—Radio Havana says the remnants of a band of U.S.-equipped "hirelings" are being hunted in the mountains after an unsuccessful weekend invasion of Cuba.
Quoting Cuban Premier Fidel Castro, the communique Sunday said two of the invaders were killed and three others captured after clashes Friday and Saturday with Cuban army and militia troops.
Castro did not say Friday's invaders were Americans, but he maintained they were equipped with American-made weapons and had come from U.S. shores.
Students disrupt trial
SAIGON-A military court turned over the sedition trial of 21 students to the South Vietnamese Supreme Court today as defense attorneys and several hundred demonstrators had demanded.
Fifteen of the youths, all medical and law students, are charged with treason for alleged pro-Communist activities earlier this year. Six are charged with activities harmful to the national interest.
Laos involvement revealed
WASHINGTON—Newly released congressional testimony Sunday revealed new aspects of U.S. involvement in Laos; the American ambassador there has been directing a secret military operation, and a clandestine U.S. group in Thailand has been training and equipping Laotian troops.
The embassy-headquartered operation in Vientiane, called "project 404," involves part of the 2,000-man U.S. mission in Laos. The ambassador supervises more than 100 military attaches, some of whom fly with the Royal Laotian Air Force and directs its pilots to targets. In addition, the ambassador personally* reviews air strikes in Laos by U.S. planes sent in from Thailand and Vietnam.
Cattle drive threatened
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.—Great Western Land and Cattle Co. officials today said they had "no doubts" of resolving a threat by the historically peace-loving Navajo tribe to bar a modern day cattle drive from Indian lands.
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KU faculty vote to be taken on team teaching of ROTC
By DAN OSBORNE Kansan Staff Writer
By September 1, 1971, ROTC at the University of Kansas might be team taught by ROTC instructors and instructors from the College of Liberal Arts.
By April 21, nearly 500 KU faculty members will have returned ballots specifying a Yes or No vote in response to an ROTC team teaching proposal formulated by
Herman Lujan, associate professor of political science, and the Temporary ROTC Committee.
Lujan said the plan is designed to eliminate the overlap between ROTC courses and courses taught in the College of Liberal Arts.
For example, ROTC students taking a course in military history are subjected to similar material in College history courses, Lujan said.
But under the team teaching plan the ROTC course could be integrated into a history course taught in the College.
The courses which could not be integrated, such as Naval Ship Systems, would require team teaching Lujan explained. This means the course would be taught by an ROTC instructor and an instructor from the College who is teaching a related course.
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Photo by Marilyn McMullen
Unsettling beauty . . .
The light areas in this photo, taken at 4:30 a.m. Sunday, show the steam and other gasses emitted from the Cooperative Farmers Chemical Association plant southeast of Lawrence. The Co-op plant, said Jack Noon, director of Kansas City air pollution control, insufficiently controls the formulation of toxic nitric acid, which results from the oxidation of nitrogen released by the plant and the water vapor of the air. (See related Earth Day story on page 146.)