Panel discusses 'liberation'
A series of discussions on women's liberation, sponsored by the KU-Y and the Associated Women Students, started in McCollum Hall last night.
The panelists for the discussion were Betsy Gwynn, staff member of the National Student YWCA, Mr. and Mrs. Mark Alter of the Women's Liberation Movement and Roxanne Dunbar of the Southern Female Rights Union.
Miss Gwynn said the Women's Liberation Movement was not to be confused with the National Organization of Women (NOW). She said NOW was a reformist organization, while the Women's Liberation Movement was a revolutionary, leftist radical movement.
Miss Gwynn said the movement was fighting for racial, economic and social equality as well as sexual equality for women.
Miss Dunbar accused society of having indoctrinated people with a false picture of women. She blamed this partly on the mass media, which constantly made jokes about liberated women. She said the first division of labor was a sexual division, and that ever since, women had been thought of as weak creatures incapable of defending themselves.
Miss Gwynn said that television pictured women as creatures
seeking a husband and getting excited about floor wax. The general concept of a woman, she said, is that of a "baby-machine," with no abilities to develop mind and body.
Buses mobbed
It was the worst—and virtually the only—violence in the South since Dixie began complying in January with federal court orders calling for total and almost immediate school desegregation.
In other racial developments:
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"if the tear gas had not worked as effectively as it did."
- J. Stanley Pottinger was named to succeed Leon E. Panetta as chief of federal civil rights enforcement and attorneys who worked under Panetta began to protest his ouster.
If a woman showed that she could use her head, she was regarded by men as an exception, said Miss Gwynn. She said the general comment was, "you sure don't think like a girl."
McNair alerted National Guard units at the nearby towns of Florence, Kingstree, Lake City and Marion to stand by. But Seal said, "It is a federal matter. The state is not enforcing the federal court order" to integrate the school. "The state is merely trying to preserve life and property."
"The way will be kept open for children to go to school in Darlington County," he said. But Lamar High was closed after the meele and officials wouldn't say when it would open.
Paul Rilling, in charge of Southern enforcement, and Peter
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Gall, information director for the Washington civil rights office, quit. Rilling called President Nixon's school desegregation policy "one of vacillation and non-leadership."
- Gov. Lester Maddox of Georgia, denounced federal District Judge W. A. Bootle and his desegregation orders and said if his statement brought him into contempt of Bootle's court "it will be only because the actions of the court were contemptible."
In addition to the black children hurt, several troopers and members of the mob received slight injuries. Many suffered for hours from the effects of tear gas fumes.
Unlike Maddox, South Carolina Gov. McNair has urged compliance with the federal desegregation orders while making it clear he didn't like them. McNair said Tuesday's violence in Lamar "defied all human reason and understanding."
"We have not had any other options than being decorative and weak," she said, and added that liberated women did not exist, because they were not given opportunities to develop by society.
Lamar High had only a few blacks among its students before Feb. 16. Five - hundred Negroes then entered the school on an order by U.S. Circuit Judge Clement F. Haynsworth, the South Carolinian whose nomination to the Supreme Court was rejected by the Senate.
Alter said that men were raised to believe that they were cool, rational and intelligent, and that John Wayne had been up to him as the ideal of masculinity. "Men are made to believe they are unable to do such things as change diapers, as if women had some special bone in their arms making them especially fit to change diapers," he said.
Miss Gwynn said women graduates and PhD's were proportionately lower now than in the '30's, and that more women were now in service jobs than was the case in the '50's. "Women are doing the same jobs as men with a lower rate of payment, and there are very few jobs available to women that are not exploitative," she said.
"Don't give your talents to the system as it is now," said Miss Dunbar, but added that dropping out was not the solution because the system would still go on.
Miss Dunbar said that there would always be psychological and physical differences between people, and that these differences must be compensated. She said the caste systems that still live with us must be eliminated.
The threat of overpopulation as being one of the world's major problems is the result of brainwashing by the government, Miss Dunbar said. She said the government was in favor of birth control among other races than the white, "because the government thinks there are too many brown and black people. The problem does not concern your
little, lily-white baby."
People are led to believe that the main problem of the world is
that of overpopulation, while in fact it is that of starvation, she said.
Johnson condition 'stable'; heart attack fears unfounded
"There has not been a heart attack in the ordinary sense," said Lt. Col. Robert L. North, 40-year-old chief heart specialist at Brooke General Hospital. "Basically, it's a problem of diminished supply of blood to the heart in relation to the man."
SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (UPI)—Lyndon B. Johnson's cardiologist Tuesday diagnosed the former President's allment as angina pectoris—a pain in the chest caused by a reduced flow of blood to the heart.
Johnson's condition in a 4 p.m. CST medical bulletin was listed as "stable."
"Our main concern in our treatment is to try and prevent a heart attack," North said.
"These current pains do no permanent damage to the heart. We don't have a bleak outlook."
Johnson, 61, suffered extra heartbeats and "transient pain" in his chest and left arm during the day.
Doctors explained that in a heart attack blood is completely cut off to a portion of the heart. In Johnson's case, the flow is reduced by hardening of the arteries.
The 36th U.S. President, 12 pounds overweight at 217, took an oral pain killer similar to aspirin for the chest discomfort, quinidine sulphate to smooth his irregular heartbeat, warsarin to thin his blood and nitroglycerin to dilate his blood vessels.
"I cannot predict in all honesty what the duration of his stay in the hospital will be." North said. "I would say at least several days.
"He's in an excellent mood—good spirits," added North, one of five heart specialists in attendance.
Luci Nugent, 21, the younger Johnson daughter, brought the former President's grandson, Patrick Lyndon, 3, for a hospital visit Tuesday.
The former President's wife, Lady Bird, his companion of 35 years, was with Johnson in his seventh floor suite.
The 4 p.m. medical bulletin said: "President Johnson's condition is stable. His doctors report he has been more comfortable during the day, although he is still experiencing discomfort in the chest."