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Old and young enjoy 'Pleasure Fair'
The young were very young, and the old were not so old, but all seemed to enjoy the music and the weather Wednesday at the 'Pleasure Fair.' The 'Fair' was held as part of the protest.
Impeachment possible
WASHINGTON (UPI) — After four months of study, some House Republicans are near a decision whether to bring impeachment charges against Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas. The decision could come next Monday.
House GOP Leader Gerald R. Ford launched a staff study on the possible impeachment in November, and he is reported very close to determining whether to proceed. Reps. Louis C. Wyman, R-N.H., and William L. Scott, R-Va., are working along the same lines, reportedly looking for leadership.
At least one Democrat, Rep.
John R. Rarken, D-La., is also
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Earlier in the day John Wright, associate professor of Human Development and Family Life, opened his 12:30 class in Hoch Auditorium to anyone interested in discussing the strike. At this meeting, Walker Hendrix, Overland Park junior and one of the strike coordinators, and several other students expressed their views about the strike.
Student strike coordinators had asked that there be no violence during Wednesday's daytime activities, and the events were peaceful. There was no physical action taken to hold people out of classes, no nude swimmers in Potter Lake and no excessive amount of drugs circulating at the "pleasure fair" as had been feared by strike opponents.
Wednesday's strike day was however, clouded by three firebombings which occurred late Tuesday night and early Wednesday despite heavy police patrolling.
University officials said that despite picket-bearing students who appeared at the entrances of most of the campus buildings in an effort to persuade students to boycott classes, class attendance appeared relatively normal.
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threatening an impeachment effort.
Opposition to Douglas has centered around his liberal views and court opinions. Recent publication of Douglas' controversial book, "Points of Rebellion," has further angered some House members.
One particular passage of that book which has bothered some congressmen reads "violence may be the only effective response in dealing with the so-called establishment."
Two other points which would probably be called into any impeachment proceedings are Douglas' former involvement with a charitable foundation which had ties with Las Vegas gambling interests, and his judicial views on obscenity.
Douglas survived an impeachment effort in 1953, initiated by former Rep. W. M. "Don" Wheeler, D-Ga., who was irked because Douglas granted a temporary stay of execution to atom spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. The impeachment resolution at that time died in committee.
NEW ORLEANS (UPI)—Louisiana Stream Control Commission executive secretary Robert Lafleur says the first of three mud samplings shows "no substantial" amount of oil in Louisiana coastal oyster beds.
Senate rejects Carswell
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Little oil found in costal beds
Lafleur, in Washington Wednesday and today to discuss the Chevron Oil Co. fire and oil spill off the Louisiana coast, made the statement to WDSU in New Orleans before he departed.
Thirteen Republicans deserted Nixon to join 38 Democrats in opposing the nomination. Twenty-eight Republicans and 17 Democrats—all from southern or border states—voted for Carswell. Four senators were absent, two of them ailing and two overseas, but had they voted, they would have canceled each other out.
Laffleur said the first of the three mud samplings he referred to was taken after the Chevron platform caught fire Feb. 10, but before the blaze was put out and oil began spilling March 10.
James B. Pearson and Bob Dole of Kansas voted in favor of the Florida jurist.
Laffleur refused to speculate whether the second sampling, taken during the oil spill, or the third sampling, taken after the wells were capped, would prove the 20,000-barrel oil spill did not harm oysters.
Dole, two hours before the vote, predicted the exact outcome, saying the Carswell nomination would either be defeated, 51-45, or confirmed, 49-48.
Dole sharply criticized Carswell's opponents and said their real purpose was to embarrass President Nixon. If Carswell is defeated, Dole said in his prevote Senate speech, Nixon should leave the Supreme Court seat vacant and "take this issue to the people in the November congressional elections and then appoint a justice.
Some Republicans who helped defeat Nixon's first choice of Judge Clement F. Haynsworth Jr. for the Abe Fortas court vacancy last November, including Senate GOP leader Hugh Scott and his assistant, Robert P. Griffin of Michigan, went along with Carswell this time.
Scattered applause — rarely heard in the Senate chamber—greeted Mrs. Smith's vote, which was considered undecided to the last. Loud applause and whistles, and some booing as well, erupted in the galleries when Vice-President Spiro T. Agnew was handed the tally and said;
"On this vote the ayes are 45 and the nays are 51. The nomination is not agreed to."
the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Carswell, a former U.S. attorney and a U.S. district judge from 1953 to 1969, had been elevated with Senate confirmation last year without a dissenting vote to
He was regarded as a "strict constructionist" of the type Nixon wanted without any of the financial indiscretions which opponents used to block Haynsworth.
But Carswell's 1948 speech
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government with the "kinds of dilemmas that it can't deal with."
Present action, Hoffman said will be the Yippie mobilization behind Timothy Leary and Bobby Seale, both who will soon be tried for murder. The fight is against political repression in this country, he said.
Yippies are beginning also to collect money to support a "nationwide abortion network," he said, and in this way men can support the women's liberation movement. Other activities of the Yippies will be the releasing of a soundtrack album of the Chicago conspiracy trial with the "original cast."
Speaking of the Chicago trial, he said, he thought the members would have to serve time for the contempt charges. "They lost too much blood in the trial not to extract some from us," he said.
During the Field House speech, members of the Black Student Union (BSU) questioned Hoffman's support for the Black Panther Party leader, Seale. Hoffman replied he wasn't at KU on a "guilt trip." With this comment he put on his jacket and said he wanted to get to Dallas, his next stop.
pledging eternal loyalty to the concept of white supremacy, his role in turning the public golf course in his home town of Tallahassee, Fla., over to a private group to avoid the need to integrate it, and his record as a judge whose opinions were reversed more often than is usual—summed up as "the mediocrity issue"—combined to defeat him.
A little more than an hour before the long-awaited vote, Nixon agreed with his lieutenants in the Senate when he told White House visitors that the situation was "tight, very tight."
In the House of Representatives, talk revived even before the Senate vote of impeaching Justice William O. Douglas, attacked for his former links with a foundation which listed a Las Vegas gambling casino among its sources of income.
Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va. advanced the impeachment possibility if Carswell were rejected.