General denies investigation request
Meningitis outbreak 'should not spread'
FT. LEONARD WOOD, Mo. (UPI)—The severe outbreak of spinal meningitis and pneumonia at this huge central Missouri Army base should not spread to nearby communities, the commander of the post hospital said Tuesday.
"We're taking every practical step to stop the spread of the disease," said Col. Ellsworth L. Miller. "It is highly unlikely it will spread."
Thirty-seven cases of meningitis have been reported on this Army post since October; 25 since Jan. 1. Four soldiers have died; three since the first of the year.
Miller said a quarantine of the base was considered "but it is not a practical way of controlling the disease. Surveillance is the only practical method."
Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton, D-Mo., demanded earlier Tuesday an investigation into charges that Army recruits at Ft. Leonard Wood are driven so hard they
are susceptible to the disease.
Maj. Gen. William T. Bradley, commanding general of the base, said he had no formal request for an investigation.
"I've had no communication with Sen. Eagleton," Bradley said. "I don't think an investigation is needed but we have no objection to it." He said trainees at the base are living in a very healthy environment.
Bradley said recruits are in better physical condition after training and he welcomed parents to visit the base.
Col. Thomas U. Greer, commander of the 2nd Basic Combat Training Brigade, in which all three deaths were reported this year, said there was no panic among his 5,144 troops. The morale, he said, was extremely high.
Greer said the greatest problem was getting trainees to go on sick call, because once they report sick, their training is recycled.
"Supervision is so tight I'm beginning to worry about the hours being put in by my cadre," Greer said.
Although the number of meningitis cases reported this year exceeds those during the same period of previous years, it was not totally unexpected, Miller said. The reason, he explained, is because the admissions for upper
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During the six-year period ending last year, 181 cases of meningitis have been reported on the post.
respiratory infections so far this year more than double and triple the number of admissions during the same period previously.
Students denounce address by Kennedy
DUBLIN (UPI)—About 500 left wing demonstrators, denouncing Sen. Edward M. Kennedy as an "imperialist," banged on his car Tuesday night and demanded he get out of Ireland shortly after he told them that street agitation had lost its effectiveness.
It was the first time in Irish history that students came out en masse to raise their voices against a member of the Kennedy clan.
As Kennedy and his wife, Joan, emerged from Trinity College Hall where he addressed the college historical society, the students swarmed around his car, pounded the hood, kicked the tires and yelled "Get out of Ireland, Ted!"
Police, batons raised, scuffled
with the throng. A force of counter demonstrators yelling "We love Ted, leave him alone!" attacked the left wingers and fought briefly with them.
In about five minutes, police cleared a path for Kennedy's car. "That's all right—you are entitled to your own opinions," Kennedy yelled as his dented small black car drove away.
Minutes before, Kennedy had told an audience at the college that "street demonstrations have become mechanical and have lost their effectiveness."
At one point during the speech a scuffle broke out in the back of the hall when a left wing student began shouting Mao Tse Tung slogans.
Some of the students arrested by police were armed with hand grenades and pistols.
One demonstrator was treated for gunshot wounds in the hib.
The number of those arrested and the number wounded were not immediately known. Philippine General Hospital reported treating seven persons for tear gas poisoning and one from a gunshot wound.
It was the third march on the U.S. Embassy in 13 days.
Tracer bullets streaked through the skies over downtown Manila and the explosions of the bottles—called Molotov cocktails—broke store and business windows.
Filipino troops defend US embassy in attack
MANILA (UPI) — Filipino troops standing up in their jeeps and firing automatic weapons tonight turned back a march on the U.S. Embassy by a mob of 2,000 student demonstrators who hurled explosive-filled bottles. Some students fired back.
Two UPI news photographers and a Filipino newsfilm cameraman were injured.
The students were part of a crowd of 12,000 students and striking bus drivers, who gathered in the heart of the city in an anti-government demonstration after snakedancing through slum districts and crowded Chinatown.
It was impossible to determine if the police and government troopers were firing into the air or in earnest.
Before the march on the embassy student leaders ran up the
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The group of 2,000 then set off for the embassy where on Feb. 19 demonstrators to dore down steel gates at the embassy office building, shattered more than 100 windows and wrecked furniture.
The police gunfire tonight was the first since Jan. 30 when six persons were killed before the presidential Malacanang Palace.
"This means win," leaders shouted.
EMPORIA (UPI) — Members of the Student Senate of Kansas State College at Emporia voted Monday night to reject a resolution to raise fees $5 a semester for the next 20 years to help pay for a new physical education building.
Bids $600,000 over the estimated $2.5 million cost of the new facility have been received. Officials estimated that rejection of the resolution would delay the project at least a year.
Emporia students reject fee raise
Roy Loewen, president of the Student Senate, said there was no question about the need for a new facility because of the "poor condition" of the present building.
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