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VOLUME 78, NUMBER 103
THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA, ATHENS, GEORGIA 30601
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1972
•From United Press International wires-
U.S., S. Viets
resume talks
WASHINGTON - The United States and South
Vietnam agreed to return to the peace table in Paris in
hopes Hanoi will enter into talks concerning its offensive
across the demilitarized zone, the White House announced
Tuesday.
Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler said that in resuming
Paris talks suspended by President Nixon March 24, “It is
the United States’ view that the first item of business in
these talks must be the discussion of measures which will
put an end to the flagrant North Vietnamese invasion of
South Vietnam which was luanched earlier this month.
Nixon to address the nation
WASHINGTON President Nixon will address the
nation at 10 p.m. EST today on his assessment of the new
offensive in Vietnam and its effect on future U. S. troop
withdrawals.
Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler said Nixon will report
on he “situtation in Vietnam” and his decisions on future
troop levels after consultations with South Vietnam’s
President Nguyen Van Thicu and other top level diplomatic
and military advisers.
Viets open 26-day-old offensive
SAIGON North Vietnamese armored infantry units
moved rapidly down Highway 14 in South Vietnam’s
Central Highlands Tuesday, scattering government troops
and refugees before them as they drove toward the
provincial capital of Kontum. Ten Americans were killed
and eight were missing.
At the same time, other Communist troops opened a
new phase of the 26-day-old offensive with a series of
attacks on government positions along coastal Highway I
about 80 miles to the cast of Kontum.
Greek Olympics
Photo hv STEVE JACKSON
Ben Hur would roll over on his laurel crown. Chariot
races are part of the glory that was Rome and they’ve
gone downhill all the way to the intramural field
where the Greek Olympics convened yesterday
afternoon and sometime athletes rendered token
recognition to the ancient spirit of the game. Pi
Kappa Alpha won the chariot race, hotly pursued by
Chi Psi. Sigma Phi Epsilon overhauled Chi Psi in the
tug-of-war, shown above. An event surviving from the
original Olympic games, the discus throw was won by
Pi Kappa Alpha, with Alpha Tau Omega’s plate falling
just short. Sigma Chi led the field in the mile relay.
Under the modern-day influence of Detroit, the
chariots were also judged for good looks. Sigma
Alpha Epsilon rolled out the most glamorous
prototype. Fiji’s model ranked second in the selection
by five Panhellcnic Council judges.
HHH wins in Penn.,
cGovern in Mass.
Carter urges multicounty plan
ATLANTA - Gov. Jimmy Carter went to Washmgton
today to testify before a Senate subcommittee on a bill to
create regional development commissions over the entire
country.
Carter will appear before the Senate Public Works
Committee’s subcommittee on economic development.
A Carter aide said the governor would propose an
amendment which would require multicounty planning
rather than planning on a single-county basis.
Mild
Fair anti cool tonight
with ntilrl days through
Thursday. High today in
, the middle fill s. Low
expected in the 40’s.
Thursday's outlook: high
. expected in the upper
. 60’s with the low in the
40’s.
WEATHER
By UPI
Hubert II. Humphrey won
Pennsylvania's Democratic
presidential primary and George S
McGovern edged to the lead in
Massachusetts Tuesday, threatening
to hand Edmund S. Muskic twin
defeats in the industrial East.
In Pennsylvania, Humphrey
picked up the votes of both
Philadelphia black wards and the
“ethnics’’of the northeastern
anthracite areas to edge out Muskic
with five per cent of the vote
counted. McGovern, Muskie and
George C. Wallace, who hardly
campaigned there, were bunched
closely together behind the former
vice president.
With returns coming in slower
from Massachusetts, Muskie’s early
lead vanished and McGovern pushed
ahead. Humphrey trailed far behind
them.
PRESIDENT NIXON had no
organized opposition in
Pennsylvania’s Republican race for
delegates and surged to a one-sided
lead in the Massachusetts vote against
conservative Rep. John M. Ashbrook
Politicians
to speak
Five of the ten candidates seeking
the U.S. Senate post now held by
Senator David Gambrell will be
speaking Thursday at a political
forum sponsored by the
Interfraternity Council.
The five leading contenders for
the post incumbent Sen. Gambrell,
State Rep. Sam A. Nunn Jr. of Perry,
State Treasurer Bill Burson, former
Gov. Ernest Vandiver and Fifth
District Rep. Fletcher Thompson of
East Point, the onl> Republican
contender will speak at the Fine
Arts Auditonum at 3 p.m. Thursday.
Former Gov. Carl Sanders
reportedly said he would attend if he
announced his intentions to run for
the post this week, but the IFC has
had no word from him so far.
The five candidates have never
appeared together before. Only the
leading candidates were invited.
Each candidate will speak for
eight minutes, followed by a
question and answer period and
moderated by Dr. George Parthemos,
formerly vice president for
instruction and now a political
science professor.
The current Senate race is the
first completely open one since
1938. Nine of the Senate candidates
are Democrats, and qualifying for
their primary will begin May 17.
of Ohio and liberal Rep. Paul
McCloskcy of California. McCloskey
withdrew from the race after he was
soundly beaten by Nixon in the
nation's first primary in New
Hampshire.
Humphrey’s victory in
Pennsylvania was his first in a major
contested primary in his long career
in politics. He said before the voting
that he had to win the big blue-collar
state if he was to remain a serious
candidate for a November rematch
against President Nixon.
MCGOVERN SHOWED
surprising strength in Pennsylvania,
trailing Muskie by only one per cent.
Wallace, who shunned both states,
was picking up nearly one vote in
five in Pennsylvania and one out of
every 10 cast in Massachusetts.
An hour after the polls closed,
this was the lineup of the candidates
and their vote percentage:
Pennsylvania - Humphrey the
winner with 31 per cent, McGovern
24; Muskie 23; Wallace 19.
Massachusetts McGovern 40 per
cent; Muskie 31; Wallace 11;
Humphrey nine.
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy,
D-Mass., whose niece campaigned
with McGovern Monday in
Pennsylvania and said most members
of her family supported him, won a
few write-in votes in his home state.
He has said he is not a candidate for
the presidency and would refuse a
draft.
From the standpoint of the
popular vote, McGovern had moved
from underdog to favorite in
Massachusetts in just 10 weeks, and
Humphrey’s intensive campaigning
promised to land him on top in the
Keystone State.
Methodists brand
war 'intolerable'
ATLANTA (UPI) Delegates to
the United Methodist Church’s
general conference branded U. S.
Radio staff
to convene
on Monday
An important organizational
meeting concerning recruitment for
the University’s new FM radio
station will be held Monday, May I,
at 6 p.m. in the North
Psychology-Journalism Auditorium.
All persons interested in
positions on the station staff should
attend the meeting.
Sean McCleneghan. director ot
student communications, will
outline procedures University
students will have to undertake to
be considered for salaried and
non-salaried jobs with the station.
“The guidelines and job
descriptions ol each position will be
distributed to the gathering and
specific information will be given
for job interviewing,” McCleneghan
said.
Professional radio personnel
from Texas, California and
throughout Georgia, as well
Board of Student Communications
personnel committee members, will
interview candidates Thursday, May
11, at 1 p.m.
involvement in Southeast Asia
Tuesday as a ‘‘crime against
humanity” and an ‘‘intolerable
monstrosity.”
The blunt indictment came in a
majority report approved by the
delegation at the end of about two
hours of debate and after a more
softly-worded minority report was
deleated S34-40S I ho maioiily
report carried on a show of hands.
The resolution called for
withdrawal of all American troops
and a cutoff of funds for the war by
Congress no later than Dec. 31,
1972, and it urged immediate steps
to free prisoners of war.
THE METHODISTS also asked
the U.S. to cease all efforts to
control the results of a political
settlement, leaving such negotiations
to the Vietnamese.
The Rev. Richard Tholin, a
seminary professor from Napierville.
IU., and author of the majority
report, told the delegates it was
“time we speak out with firmness
and directness for our own
responsibility for the war in
Southeast Asia.”
Another speaking tor the report,
Rev. Robert Young of Durham. N.C.,
whose amendment put the pullout
date into the resolution, called the
Vietnam conflict “dehumanizing,
demoralizing and debilitating” and a
war that goes “on and on and on.”
“It might mean we will not win
with honor but withdraw with
dignity,” he said. “We might have to
repent to beg forgiveness of God
and the Vietnamese people. We
might have to say we were wrong.”
Court denies
new hearing
By JIMMY JOHNSON
Assistant news/feature editor
A petition to reconsider the
decision to nullify the April 5
Student Senate elections for the
Colleges of Arts and Sciences and
Education was denied by the Judicial
Council Monday night.
The request, made by W. Stephen
Letzsch, treasurer of Coalition ’72,
would have postponed the special
senate election which will be held
today.
Letzsch contended that new
hearings should be held, since
Coalition was not lepresented at the
first hearing and since "we feel that
there are in reality only three proper
decisions in this case: I. No new
elections, 2. New elections for all
positions, 3. New election for the
Executive offices and for senate for
the College of Arts and Science and
College of Education.”
IN REPLY TO Let/
complaint concerning Coalition’s
lack of participation in the case, the
council stated that the case “did not
involve political parties.”
The petition said one of the three
decisions should be passed by the
council because “irregularities which
Rising
junior
would cause a new election for
senators” in the two colleges ‘‘would
also affect the executive office races,
as the vote count in these races was
very close.”
It was also stated in the request
that “several people will testify” to
the fact that many persons’ activity
cards had been invalidated before the
election, that persons in line to vote
at 4:30 p.m. (the time polls were to
be closed) were not allowed to vote
and that the wrong ballots were
used at some time by an Arts and
Sciences polling station.
THE JUDICIAL Council had
previously ruled, in its decision to
nullify the senate election for Arts
and Sciences and Education, that the
charges concerning the invalidated
ID’s were “without merit,
groundless, or inconsequential to the
fairness and outcome” of the SGA
election.
The effect caused by the allegedly
invalidated ID’s, the council said,
could not be determined except by
“surmise, speculation, conjecture,
guess. The court must work with
facts.”
Concerning the use of incorrect
ballots and the closing of polling
places to persons standing in line to
vote at 4:30 p.m., the court said that
although senatorial elections in the
two colleges could have been
affected, the outcome of the
executive election could not have
been altered.
Rising
junior
results
Scores 4um rising junior tests
administered winter and spring
quarters are available now. Students
who took the test may learn how
they scored at their academic
dean’s offices.
LETZSCH SAID, “Carl Write was
telling people who to vote for at the
polls at Russell Hall.” “No members
of the F.volution or Coalition parties
were allowed in the computer room
while the ballots were being
processed (counted), however,
members of Action Union were
allowed in.”
Photo by RICK DUNN
TWO Of BOYD S GRANDCHILDREN UNVEIL MEMORIAL MONOLITH
Assisted by Vice President for Research Robert C. Anderson
Research center
gets name, plaque
The Graduate Studies Research
('enter was dedicated to the late
(ieorge Hugh Boyd, dean of the
University’s graduate school from
1943 to 1959, in a ceremony at the
building yesterday afternoon.
University President Fred C.
Davison officiated at the ceremony
which included unveiling a seven foot
granite marker bearing a relief
sculpture of Boyd’s head and an
inscription.
Testimonials to Boyd’s
contributions to the University came
from zoology professor Barclay
McGhee. Art department head Lamar
Dodd, and Dr. William Boyd, the late
dean’s brother from Augusta.
The inscription on the marker
said, “This building is dedicated to
(ieorge Hugh Boyd of the University
of Georgia from 1926 to 1959. His
inspiring leadership and highest
standards in scholarly pursuits helped
forge a bridge towarJ excellence in
the emergent University.”