Hawks defeat K-State
Story on pages 8 and 9
Photo by Ron Bishop
A dejected Wildcat
"Willie the Wildat" swallows his purple pride as the Jayhawks edged conference champion K-State, 82-79, Saturday night in Allen Field House.
80th Year, No.94
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas Monday, March 9,1970
Brown trial opens
BEL AIR, Md. (UPI) — With William M. Kunstler as his attorney, black militant H. Rap Brown goes on trial on state riot charges Monday before a judge determined that "there won't be any Chicago here."
Brown, 26, was accused of inciting a riot in Cambridge, Md., in July 24, 1967 when he delivered a speech urging blacks to "burn America down" if "whites don't come around." Two square blocks of Cambridge were burned following the speech.
The Cambridge riot was one of the incidents that lead to passage by Congress of the 1968 law
prohibiting the crossing of state lines to incite riot. The law was invoked for the first time against the "Chicago Seven" who also were defended by Kunstler.
"This will be a serious, hardworking trial," Harford County Circuit Court Judge Harry E. Dyer said in interview. He said he considered both Kunstler and prosecutor William B. Yaes II "able and competent."
"All I'm interested in is making sure Mr. Brown gets a fair trial— according to the present system of administering justice," Dyer said.
Controversy arose even before the start of the trial, however.
when venue was moved 85 miles from Cambridge on Maryland's eastern shore to this rural community 24 miles from Baltimore.
The prosecution asked for the change of venue because of racial tensions in Cambridge, scene of racial disturbances in 1963 and 1964. Kunstler said the trial was moved because Dorchester county (Cambridge) is 33 per cent black while Harford county is only 8.6 per cent black.
The trial replaced the refusal of the management of Bel Air's only movie theater to admit "long haired" youths as the biggest issue in this town of about 7,500.
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Nader to speak
at KU ... page 12
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Committee discussions
ROTC ... page 3
This week at KU ... page 5
--of the candidates running an "anti campaign" against everything that had been done.
ISP meeting outlines goals
An Independent Student Party (ISP) meeting Sunday night at the Wesley Foundation clarified what ISP stands for; incorporated student power.
R. L. "Puf" Bailey, Atchison senior, said ISP's idea of incorporated student power would be designed to use human and academic resources on issues of human rights and population.
The subdivisions, he said were (1) ISP would work politically to get things done; (2) communication and education to distribute information about human rights and population; (3) Student Power Inc., "a labor pool" in which students would commit two hours a month to service in the community; (4) human rights committees on tutorial programs for blacks and Indians and voting rights for 18-year-olds; (5) population.
"We hope to keep working beyond the election," Bailey said. "We want to get other people involved, get them together under Incorporated Student Power."
Peter George, Tuckahoe, N.Y. law student and ISP presidential candidate, said earlier in the meeting he was bothered by one
"This week I am going to be the recipient of incredible slanders," he said. "To combat this mudslinging, I have to go out and do some campaigning."
Kansan reporter excluded from student political meeting
A University Daily Kansan reporter was excluded from a meeting Sunday night conducted by David Miller, independent candidate for student body president, and Dan Beck, candidate for student body vice-president.
Miller, Eudora junior, said he
did not want the meeting spread all over the Kansan because it was a secret meeting about their campaign. He said if results of the meeting were exposed they could be a detriment to the final week of the campaign.
Senators object to Laos report
WASHINGTON (UPI)—Chairman J. William Fulbright of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said Sunday he objected to President Nixon's report on Laos because it lacked "any indication of a change in policy."
Senate Democratic leader Mike Mansfield also criticized the Friday report for not going far enough. He said he would stand by earlier statements that in Laos "we are in over our heads."
Mansfield also said the involvement in Laos is following the same pattern of U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
Both senators, however,
"My principal objection is the lack of any indication of a change in policy," Fulbright, D-Ark., said. "While he gave some additional facts . . . what I hoped would occur as a result of this is a new approach, a re-evaluation of the Vietnamization policy as such."
thought the President's statement was beneficial as far as it went.
He said he was concerned primarily with "the basic policy of Vietnamization, the prolongation of the war in Vietnam and Laos indefinitely."
Mansfield, D-Mont., said of the
Nixon report: "I think it is a frank report as far as it goes but it does not go back far enough because I think the start of our involvement in Laos occurred during the time of the Eisenhower administration."
Mansfield was interviewed on the television show, Face the Nation—CBS. Fulbright was interviewed on Meet the Press—NBC.
Both senators said they would like to see the United States withdraw completely from Southeast Asia. Mansfield said he would like to see a withdrawal "lock, stock and barrel, including bases."
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Nixon drafts new aid plan
WASHINGTON—President Nixon plans to propose a new foreign aid plan based on a report which recommends scrapping traditional foreign assistance programs and establishing a multibillion dollar lending fund for developing nations.
U.S. violates treaty
Several western sources said the disclosures may prove diplomatically embarrassing because they constitute an admission the United States is violating the 1962 Geneva Accords designed to bring peace to Laos.
VIENTIANE, Laos—President Nixon's disclosure of American military involvement in Laos raises a number of diplomatic risks for the United States, western diplomatic sources said Sunday.
Indian 'attack' thwarted
SEATTLE—The Army arrested 72 persons, including actress Jane Fonda, when a band of nearly 100 Indians tried to take over Fort Lawton Sunday for a native cultural center.
The group also included Grace Thorpe, daughter of the famous Indian athlete, Jim Thorpe.
Oil threatens marine life
KODIAK, Alaska—Federal pollution officials went up in light planes Sunday to get a look at 1,000 miles of oil soaked beaches on the eastern edge of the Kodiak Island chain.
Ray Norris, member of the Federal Water Pollution Control Authority, said an estimated 10,000 sea birds have been killed by the oil spill and are piling up on the sand and rocks where they are being eaten by scavenger animals and birds.
Attempted killing probed
NICOSIA, Cyprus—The Cyprus government said today 11 persons were arrested during the night as suspects in the attempted assassination Sunday of Archbishop Makarios, the president of this island nation.
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