'Seven' attorneys draw crowd at rally
LOS ANGELES (UPI) — The defense attorneys and one of the defendants at the "Chicago Seven" trial drew a crowd of about 5,000 persons Sunday to a protest rally in suburban Sepulveda but police reinforcements held in reserve were troubled mainly by a traffic jam.
William Kunstler, the lawyer whose appearance at the University of California at Santa Barbara last week preceded burning of a bank and other mob violence, flew here from Chicago to speak at the demonstration along with Tom Hayden, one of the five convicted of crossing state lines to incite riot.
Hayden was released on $25,000 appeal bond yesterday.
KU students in Costa Rica
Five KU students are in San Jose, Costa Rica, as part of KU's three junior year abroad programs.
The students left Feb. 20 and will return in December. The office of International Programs in cooperation with the University of Colorado sponsored the program. Participating students take four to five courses each semester there, totalling nearly 15 hours of work.
Those participating in the year in Costa Rica are Susan Armstrong, Flint, Mich.; Deborah Briant, Prairie Village; Tim Fagan, Galena; Justin Hunt, Conway Springs; and Valle Portuguez, Prairie Village.
The other KU Junior Year Abroad Programs are at the universities in Bonn, Germany and Bordeaux, France. Summer Institutes in Rome and Copenhagen offer liberal arts courses not requiring proficiency in the foreign language. The Summer Language Institutes in Barcelona, Spain; Eutin and Holzkirchen, Germany; Guadalajara, Mexico; Leningrad, Russia; and Paris, France are designed to gain proficiency in the language of the respective countries.
Patriotic general to get promotion, raise
WASHINGTON (UPI)—A barely noticed move is under way in Congress to award an extra star and a $200-a-month raise to the general who urged National Guardsmen last November to protest against antiwar demonstrations.
The effort to promote Air Force Maj. Gen. Winston P. Wilson to lieutenant general is not directly related to Wilson's Nov. 3 suggestion that guardsmen match moratorium activities in the middle of the month by driving with their headlights on and flying their flags and shining their porch lights at home.
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Kunstler told newsmen when he arrived at the airport that he felt the attention given to the burning of a Bank of America branch "a picayunish matter" compared to the bombing in the Vietnam war.
Los Angeles Police Chief Edward M. Davis had sought in vain a court injunction to prevent Kunstler's appearance. Authorities at San Fernando Valley State College and UCLA withdrew invitations for his appearance but an organization at UCLA known as CASE (Committee for Awareness and Social Education) made arrangements for him to speak on the grounds of the Unitarian Church.
Rainfall during the morning subsided and the nearby San Diego Freeway and surface streets were jammed with automobiles on the approaches to the church. There were 30 "monitor teams"to keep order, each consisting of a lawyer and a minister. There were seven doctors at a "first aid station."
The speeches by Kunstler, Hayden and lawyer Leonard Weinglass were cheered by the crowd of young people who departed quietly after the rally. Kunstler exhorted the crowd to "keep your cool today and keep it tomorrow" but to remember "we are past protest, we are now in the period of resistance."
Dublin ready for Kennedy
DUBLIN (UPI)—Irishmen deluged newspapers and radio stations with calls for Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's itinerary Sunday as the nation prepared a favorite-son welcome for the Massachusetts senator.
His first move will be an Irish army helicopter ride to New Ross, five miles from the Kennedy ancestral home at Dunganstown.
Kennedy and his wife Joan were scheduled to arrive by plane Monday for a two-day visit to the land of the Kennedy forebears.
New Ross and Dunganstown were abuzz with activity and excitement and jammed with newsmen. Local residents ridiculed a newspaper report that the government would ignore Kennedy's visit and officials were busy organizing red-carpet treatment during his stay.
"It would be a government in exile if it didn't," said one New Ross man.
Kennedy was scheduled to spend a couple of hours in New Ross as a guest of the minister of lands, Sean Flanagan, where he will meet his cousins and tour the memorial park to the late John F. Kennedy.
On Tuesday night, Kennedy will be the main speaker at Trinity College's Historical Society. The occasion is the bicentenary lecture on Edmund Burke, an Irish parliamentarian who championed the cause of the American colonies during the War of Independence.
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