Cambodian chief of state ousted
BANGKOK, Thailand (UPI)—Rightwing opponents brusquely deposed Cambodia's neutralist chief of state Prince Nordom Sihanouk Wednesday while he was away in Moscow. Sihanouk warned the move could result in war with North Vietnam and vowed to return, even if it meant his arrest.
The official Phnom Penh Radio announced the Cambodian National Assembly had ousted Sihanouk, 47, blaming him for the "political crisis" created by the presence of at least 40,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops on Cambodian soil.
Air travel and communications with the Cambodian capital had
Nine University of Kansas graduate students spend their time flying across the country to such places as South Bronx, N.Y. and a Hopi Indian reservation in Arizona. They are giving on the spot help to 12 elementary school districts involved in Head Start's Follow Through program.
Students aid schools in Head Start program
The program was set up two years ago when 30 agencies were invited by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare to submit proposals on how to eliminate the problems and reinforce the gains made by Head Start children when they enter elementary school.
Twenty proposals for follow through work were made to representatives of 100 school districts in the nation. These representatives then selected the program for their district that they thought most effective. Twelve communities now have KU's proposal made by the staff from the KU
New York Senate pass abortion law
Albany, N.Y. (UPI)—The state senate voted Wednesday 31-26 to give New York State the most liberal abortion law in the nation.
The vote came after an emotional five-hour debate during which critics of the bill charged it would "legalize murder."
The measure repealing abortion restrictions now goes to the Assembly which narrowly defeated a less liberal proposal last year. Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller has indicated he would sign repeal legislation.
Kansas ranks fourteenth in size among the states of the Union. It is approximately one third the size of Texas.
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Some of the students' work can be done on campus, such as critiquing the techniques used by the teachers in the video films, but much must be done personally. They spend time in their areas training teachers and teacher's aids, setting up materials used by the teachers, training parents to teach for several weeks each term, and working out problems that arise as they come up, either in school, or between the program and the community.
"The children are all taught as individuals," said Sallie Rule, La Junta, Colo., graduate student and adviser to a Philadelphia, Pa., district. "Each is allowed to progress at his own rate. This means that no two children ever move together and requires a great deal more attention and training on the part of the teacher."
Wednesday's takeover came only two days after Viet Cong and North Vietnamese negotiators ignored a Cambodian government demand that their troops leave the country and demanded, instead, that Cambodia pay them reparations for damages done to their embassies by anti-Communist Cambodian mobs that sacked the premises during three days of riotous demonstrations.
In Washington the White House had no immediate comment on the situation in Cambodia. "We're watching the situation very closely and have no comment on it," White House Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler said.
Observers said the Nixon administration presumably was adopting an extremely cautious attitude because of the possibility that Sihanouk might still return to power and because of the generally delicate nature of Cambodian politics.
"Parents are used as teachers because this gets them involved, but also they are authority figures who help to reinforce good learning habits early that will always remain with the children," she said.
This reinforcement of head start is stressed through the third grade so that children sustain the benefits gained in the program. The entire national program is being studied by the Stanford Research Institute to determine how well the program works for the children and which one seems to work best of all those tried.
The key figure behind the takeover was believed to be Gen. Lon Nol, Cambodian premier and armed forces commander, who has led the recent drive to get Hanoi and the Viet Cong to withdraw their troops from Cambodia
been cut off shortly before the announcement. A correspondent for the Japanese Kyodo news agency reported that tanks and troops were moved in Wednesday morning, apparently before the ouster, to guard important government buildings in Phnom Penh.
the general's apparent attempt to seize power.
The broadcast said Sihanouk was replaced provisionally by Cheng Heng, 50, a millionaire lawyer and national assembly speaker who had been acting as chief of state since the Cambodian leader went abroad.
Lon Nol had previously tried to shift the government to the right in 1967 while Sihanouk was abroad in France. But the prince quickly returned and effected a government shakeup that foiled
Ecology Action campaign to advertise public hearing
Ecology Action, a University of Kansas organization fighting pollution, over population and ignorance, is conducting a leaflet campaign Saturday in Kansas City and Northeast Johnson County to inform the public of a public hearing scheduled Tuesday concerning the fixing of ambient air quality standards for Leavenworth, Johnson and Wyandotte Counties.
Mark Shapiro, Prairie Village senior and one of the club organizers, said they have already enlisted the support of the University of Missouri at Kansas City, Kansas City Kansas Junior College, and the Shawnee Mission High Schools. He said they were seeking more KU support.
The Kansas Air Quality Conservation Commission will hold a public hearing at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Kansas City Hall Auditorium, 805 North 6th. Opportunity to be heard will be afforded to all interested parties.
Written request for appearances will not be accepted later than Sunday and should be sent to H. G. Saiger, Executive Secretary, Kansas Air Quality Conservation Commission, State Office Building, Topeka, Kansas 66112.
Information concerning the regulation and hearing may be obtained by contacting the Executive Secretary at (913) 296-3896.
Shapiro said the area papers had not given the hearing sufficient coverage and very few know about the hearing. All persons interested in participating should contact the Ecology Action office at 843-7151 or Mark Shapiro at 842-5596.
News of the ouster reached Sihanouk as he was ending a four-day visit to Moscow during which he was reported to have urged the Soviets to use their influence in obtaining the withdrawal of North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces from his kingdom.
Before flying to Peking Wednesday, Sihanouk said he had been told by Premier Alexei N. Kosygin that "war will be inevitable between Cambodia and Vietnam, if the extreme rightists continue to attack our allies."
Enrollment for spring increases
Official spring semester enrollment at KU is 18,064, an increase of 6.5 per cent over last spring's enrollment, William L Kelly, registrar, said Monday.
There are 16,638 students on the Lawrence campus, up 995 over a year ago, and 1,426, at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City, a gain of 105.
There was a decline of only 4.9 per cent, or 937 students., from the fall of 19,001. A drop of 6 or 7 per cent is normal.
The new students total for the spring semester was 775,92 more than a year ago. Among them were 141 new freshmen, 154 new graduate students, and 479 transfers from junior and senior colleges.
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