Blackmun wins endorsement
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Supreme Court nominee Harry A. Blackmun won a cautious and tentative endorsement Wednesday from Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., who was instrumental in defeating President Nixon's first two choices for the long-vacant ninth seat.
But a small black cloud appeared on the horizon. Publicly and privately, a number of senators conceded that a Republican-backed effort in the
House to initiate impeachment proceedings against Justice William O. Douglas would "complicate" Senate consideration of Blackmun.
Sen. Richard S. Schweiker, a freshman Republican from Pennsylvania, told a news conference the two events could affect each other. "There could be some interaction," he said.
Schweiker said action against Douglas "could be" non-political but, "the climate is inductive to
the opposite attitude." He withheld judgment on the Blackmun nomination.
House Republican leader Gerald R. Ford has called for creation of a committee to consider formal impeachment proceedings against Douglas, whose outspoken views on revolution and his relationship with a foundation drawing funds from a Las Vegas gambling casino have kept him in controversy.
Shultz denies offer of funds from Hunt
Sen. Reynolds Shultz, R-Lawrence, has denied that Texas billionaire H. L. Hunt offered him $100,000 to fund his campaign for governor.
Shultz said the first he heard of the rumor was when he was contacted by the press to comment on it. "I have never had any contact with H. L. Hunt." Shultz said.
Hunt is known as a supporter, financially and otherwise, of right-wing political campaigns and movements throughout the country. The source of the rumor regarding Shultz as his beneficiary is unknown.
Shultz was expected to announce his gubernatorial candidacy April 15, but has since said he will announce his decision next week.
Shultz has said that $100,000 would be needed to finance his primary race, but he said Tuesday, "I still don't have the kind of money I need to make the race. I'm not sure I would accept $100,-000 from one man anyway. There might be strings attached, and it might be that I wouldn't want to accept such an offer."
Moratorium activities urge income tax protest
Thousands of antiwar demonstrators protesting the use of tax dollars to finance the war in Vietnam rallied and marched in cities from coast to coast Wednesday on the deadline day for filing income tax returns.
The protests were noisy but peaceful, smacking of spring outings, in most cities. But student radicals threw bottles and paint-filled balloons at police on the University of California campus in Berkeley and police twice used tear gas to scatter the militants.
Five demonstrators were arrested at the Cleveland, Ohio Convention Center-four for disorderly conduct and one 16-year-old girl for desecration of the American flag—when a crowd of 500 demonstrated against the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. for aiding the war effort.
Speakers at "April Moratorium" rallies exhorted protesters to stage income tax rebellions and advised them not to pay federal telephone taxes.
Demonstrators staged symbolic "Boston Tea Parties" on the bank of the East River in New York City and on a bridge across the
Des Moines River in Des Moines, Iowa. The Iowa protesters tossed tea into the water. The New Yorkers dumped tax forms.
Actress Jane Fonda climbed aboard a flatbed truck in front of the federal building in Denver, Colo., and shouted to 400 cheering protesters to resist the draft and "stop giving your bodies for cannon fodder."
In Washington, about 400 demonstrators gathered outside the locked Internal Revenue Service headquarters, beneath an engraved inscription that said "Taxes are what we pay for a civilized society."
Exile leader from Cuba claims troops not loyal
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Apr.16
1970
MIAMI (UPI) — Exile leader Jose De La Torriente, who said he is trying to organize a new invasion of Cuba, stated Wednesday that not more than 5,000 of Fidel Castro's troops will remain loyal. He said he would "guess" that the Cuban premier "should be out" by the end of the year.
De La Torriente, a 66-year-old retired Cuban executive and now a U.S. citizen, said recruiting of a new Cuban exile army will begin soon but he declined to say exactly when.
Kennedy withheld a full endorsement of the 61-year-old U.S. appeals court judge from Rochester, Minn., known as a moderate on civil rights and a conservative on criminal law and described by the White House as a "strict constructionist."
FROM BERTRAND RUSSELL'S LAST MESSAGE:
"What Israel is doing today can not be condoned, and to invoke the horrors of the past to justify terrors of the present is gross hypocrisy." (Reuters)
"We have learned from our experience with other nominees to reserve our final judgment," Kennedy said.
The O. A. S.
Y. S. A
Y. S.A.
Present: A Panel Discussion on the Palestinian Liberation Movement
Speakers: Kim Allen—Y. S. A.
Dr. Fawaz Uloby-O.A.S.
Dr. Favaz Ulaby - O. A.S.
Place: McCollum Hall (Dining Room)
Time: Thursday, April 16, 1970 at 7:00 p.m.
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