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Sunbathing grows in popularity
As the weather remains warm, many KU students begin work on their summer suntans. Members of the Alpha Phi sorority catch the sun from the roof of their house.
Servicemen release sought
LAFAYETTE, La. (UPI)—Bud Mahurin of Los Angeles, president of the American Fighter Pilots Association, said Wednesday night his group is working through a former French government official to obtain the release of pilots and other servicemen captured by the North Vietnamese.
Mahurin, vice president of space marketing for North American Rockwell, which makes Apollo space crafts, spoke to a new fighter pilots chapter here enroute to Cape Kennedy for the moon launch.
He said his group, through the Free French Fighter Pilots Association, had communication with an ex-foreign minister of France who was a personal friend of Ho Chi Minh.
The Frenchman, whom Mahurin did not name, was a member of the Indo China high command and attended Ho's funeral as France's representative, he said.
Mahurin said his group hoped to achieve what Dallas billionaire H. Ross Perot set out to do in obtaining release and fair treatment of American prisoners. He said the communists, not understanding how Perot could be representing only himself and not the
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U. S. government, did not trust the Texan. He said he hoped a group action would overcome such suspicion.
"Together, we hope we can push this thing through," Mahurin said. "We hope this will complement T. Ross Perot's efforts."
Mahurin said his group hoped to impress upon the Nort Vietnamese that release of prisoners would be the first step to any peaceful negotiation for ending the war.
USSR, West Germany nearing settlement
FRANKFURT, GERMANY (UPI) - Cautious but determined, skeptical but unconcealably excited, West Germany under Chancellor Willy Brandt is edging toward settling its differences with the Soviet bloc
Those differences and a new Soviet attitude toward them came to light this month in four parallel sets of preliminary East-West talks—in East Germany, Russia, Poland and Berlin.
After more than 30 hours of German-Soviet talks in Moscow, 15 hours of German-Polish talks in Warsaw, an unprecedented East-West German summit in Erfurt, and the opening of Berlin talks in Berlin, the demands appear to boil down to these:
The Soviets want West Germany to recognize Communist East Germany practically as a foreign country. They also want West Germany to cede to Poland German land placed under Polish administration after World War II, pending a Four-Power peace treaty with Germany which the Russians have relentlessly blocked.
The United States, Britain and France want Russia to guarantee the lifelines of West Berlin, which sits 110 miles inside East German territory. Bonn wants Moscow to renounce claims as a World War II victor to be able to intervene militarily in Germany.
By calling the Four-Power Berlin talks this week after an 11-year hiatus and without making advance demands, the Soviets have indicated some receptiveness to Western demands.
Settlement seems a long way off. But already some West German political commentators are predicting when it comes, it will take the shape of Locarno. This was the 1925 treaty guaranteeing Germany's Western borders with France and Belgium. Signing it cost Germany its claim to the rich coal mining region of Alsace-Lorraine and two counties in Belgium. It also led to troop withdrawals from German territory. In so doing, Lucarno ushered in a short period of
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Today the Soviet bloc is demanding that West Germany give assurance on its Eastern borders—something which the original Locarno failed to do adequately.
Brandt has indicated a readiness to do this. But as he told East German Premier Willie Stoph at the Erfurt summit March 19, Germany and Berlin are still the responsibility of the Four Powers and final settlements of borders must have their approval.
Brandt appeared thus to rebuff a possible Russian desire to sign a separate peace treaty with Germany, enabling both to skirt the Western Allies.
German leaders are aware the original Locarno treaty arrangements collapsed because Britain refused to back France in guaranteeing borders in the East. Given America's commitment to protect Western Europe over the past 25 years, they hope Washington will act differently.
Brandt has informed the American, French and British leaders of the talks to date and said futher steps toward the East will be decided only after his April trip to Washington.
NEW YORK (UPI)—Thirteen Black Panthers listened in near total silence Wednesday while defense attorneys questioned police witnesses about firearms, "pipe bombs," and gun powder seized when the Panthers were arrested just over a year ago.
Panthers' testimony continues
The hearings resumed Tuesday after a six-week recess called by Supreme Court Justice John Murtagh in response to repeated outbursts in the courtroom by defendants and spectators.
Testimony Wednesday was devoted to the third in a series of 13 defense motions to suppress evidence. When the hearings are completed, the Panthers' trial on conspiracy charges will begin. They are accused of plotting to bomb department stores, policee stations and commuter trains.
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