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THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA, ATHENS, GEORGIA 20601
THURSDAY. MAY II. 1972
■ From United Press International wires-
NATIONAL NEWS
U.S. halts flow
of war cargo
WASHINGTON - Defense
Secretary Melvin R. Laird
strongly indicated Wednesday
that in addition to mining
and blockading harbors, the
United States will halt any
ships or planes from
attempting to unload supplies
in North Vietnam.
His disclosure of the
military steps planned to
carry out President Nixon’s
orders to halt the flow of war
cargo to North Vietnam came
at a televised news conference
at the Pentagon during which
Laird also reported no major
ship movements in or out of
Haiphong harbor since it was
mined Monday night, U.S. time.
But he said one Soviet freighter scheduled to arrive at
Haiphong “did not choose to go in” but was remaining at
sea. Laird offered no explanation.
Murder-kidnap case nears end
SAN JOSE, Calif. Nearing the end of its long
murder-kidnap case against Angela Davis, the prosecution
Wednesday started introducing testimony on her
whereabouts after the Aug. 7, 1970, Marin County
Courthouse shooting until her arrest three months later.
Wednesday’s testimony concerning Ms. Davis'
movements was presented by written statements from four
witnesses and live testimony form two others.
Viets crucify Frence priests
PLLIKU, Vietnam Two
French priests who remained
with their congregation in an
area overrun by the
Communists were reported
crucified by North
Vietnamese troops, the senior
U.S. adviser in the Central
Highlands said Wednesday.
The adviser, Jean Paul
Vann, told newsmen the two
priests were murdered lust
week in Kon Horing, a
highlands village, four miles
south of Tan Canh.
“They were crucified,” Vann said, his agents reported
to hir:>. He had no other details.
WORLD NEWS
Thieu declares martial law
SAIGON President Nguyen Van Thieu declared
martial law in South Vietnam Wednesday during a day of
escalated war in which U.S. fighter planes shot down seven
Communists MIGs in air battles over North Vietnam and 32
Americans died in a helicopter crash near Saigon.
The MIG kills equalled the Vietnam War record for the
number of aircraft shot down in a single day. They were
scored by fighter pilots protecting U.S. warplanes bombing
the North Vietnamese capital of Hanoi and the major port
of Haiphong.
Demos., Socialists may unite
ROME. Stunning neo-P'ascist election gains may
compel Christian Democrats and Socialists to join forces
again after calling one another names during the general
election campaign, political sources said Wednesday.
Numerically, such a coalition is easily feasible. The
center-left parties control a safe 371 seats in the 630-man
chanber, five more than they did in the outgoing
Parliament. But if Christian Democrats, Socialists. Social
Democrats and Republicans revive the coalition, it will be
clearly a marriage of convenience.
I Peace negotiator visits Moscow
PARIS North Vietnam’s chief peace negotiator Xuan
Thuy flew to Moscow Thursday before continuing on to
Hanoi for consultations on President Nixon’s blockade of
Communist supply routes.
Lc Due Tho. Hanoi’s key man for secret contacts with
presidential adviser Henry Kissinger, remained in France for
possible meetings with U.S. diplomats. Communist officials
said.
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Prickly products
Photo by JON IIAM
Students passing by Memorial Plaza yesterday had the
opportunity to inspect and buy such varied wares as
pottery, photographs, wood sculpture, pipes for
smoking other than tobacco and even cacti. These
crafts were the products of students and they
were given the opportunity to display them at the
Mephistopholcs Market, the campus answer to Paris’
Flea Market.
Nation's youth
protest war
By UNITKD PRESS INTERNATIONAL
Throngs of angry antiwar
protesters demonstrated - some
violently, many peacefully - in
dozens of cities across the nation
Wednesday. Hundreds of high school
students carried the protests to
Capitol Hill.
College youths and other persons
unhappy over the U.S. air bombings
and harbor mining in North Vietnam
fought, pitched battles with police,
surged through streets on rampages
of vandalism, took over buildings and
blocked highways.
More than 900 persons have been
arrested by police since President
Nixon announced the mining of
Haiphong and other harbors Monday
night. Dozens of demonstrators and
police have been injured.
The protests were the angriest and
most widespread since May, 1970,
when four Kent State University
students were killed by National
Guardsmen.
Some 500 black youths from a
Washington high school chanted
against the war on the steps of the
Capitol. In an action without recent
precedent. Speaker Carl Albert
ordered the public excluded from the
House galleries for security reasons.
Albert told the House that police
had information that further
disturbances were planned A House
session Tuesday was disrupted three
times by outbursts of protesters.
Princeton University students
scuffled with police and tried to
block entrances to the Institute for
Defense Analyses, a
government-supported research
center. More than 60 were arrested.
Rubin to
be here
Jeny Rubin, one of the Chicago
Seven indicted for conspiracy in
connection with the nots dunng the
1968 Democratic Convention, will
speak in Phi Kappa Hall Wednesday.
May 17, at 8 p.m., according to
David John, president of the Phi
Kappa Society.
It was previously announced
that Rubin would speak tonight, but
the appearance was rescheduled.
John said
Eighty students at Ohio
University in Athens were arrested
when, singing “God Bless America”
and “Give Peace a Chance,” they
refused to end a sit-in at the campus
ROTC building
About 50 persons were arrested at
Burlington, Vt., after they blocked
entrances to the Federal Building
Some 125 demonstrators using
an automobile, garden hose and a
“human chain” blocked traffic in
two lanes of Chicago’s Lake Shore
Drive for about 90 minutes during
the morning rush hour.
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By MARK NIC KELSON
Associate news editor
ATLANTA Voter registration
of college students came to the
official attention of the Board of
Regents yesterday at the second
session of their May meeting.
A lawsuit against the Regents for
“continuing to operate Fort Valley
State College as a racially identifiable
institution” led to the discussion of
students' right to vot»* in their college
communities.
Also the Regents authorized the
University to accept a grant from a
state commission for funds for the
Northeast Georgia police Academy,
to form a vocational teacher
education center, and to study the
state court system.
THE LAWSUIT against the
Regents was filed April 19 by Fort
Valley Chief Registrar Wilbur K.
Avera, who alleged that participation
in a recent election by students at
the predominantly black college had
“substantially disenfranchised . . .
white minority electors” in the town.
Regents Executive Secretary
Henry Neal briefed the board on the
lawsuit, filed against the individual
members of the board, and said the
suit was “a rather novel approach to
a problem in Fort Valley.” We said
there are precedents for such action,
but not on the same basis.
The case is now in the hands of
the state attorney general's office.
Neal advised the Regents they would
probably not have to appear in court,
and speculated that the case was
likely to be dismissed after a
summary hearing.
In the suit, the registrar called for
control of registration in the college
by the Regents, so as to make the
ratio of races uniform throughout
the University System.
THE REGENTS discussed the
trend of students registering to vote
in their college communities after
Neal’s briefing. They took no action,
but several Regents said something
sould eventually have to be done.
Regent Roy V. Harris said, “If all
those students over at Athens
registered, they could take over the
city overnight."
Chairman W. Lee Burge said that
increased control of local
government by the colleges
“wouldn’t make that much
difference to us there would be
more effect on the community than
the college."
In other action, a $2,900 grant,
available to the University from the
Bureau of State Planning and
Community Affairs for police
training, was approved by the board.
The University may now apply for
the grant, which Public Safety
Director Edward T. Kassinger said
would be used for tuition to the
Northeast Georgia Police Academy
or any specialized courses that may
be held at the Georgia ( enter for
Continuing Education or in Atlanta.
THE BOARD authorized an
agreement between the University and
the State Board for Vocational
Education to develop a year-long
project called “Implementing a
Career and Vocational Teacher
Education Center.” Federal funds
will cover over half the cost of the
project.
The Regents sanctioned a
proposal by the Governor’s
Commission on Judicial Processes
and the University’s Institute of
Government for the institute to
conduct a detailed study of the state
court system. The commission will
fund all costs other than faculty
time.
Anti-war
march set
for today
An anti-war march sponsored by
the Vietnam Veterans Against the
War and the Student Mobilization
Committee is planned today,
beginning at I p.m. at Memorial Hall,
according to Chuck Searcy,
coordinator of V.V.A.W.
The march will terminate at the
Clarke County Court House where a
brief rally is planned, Searcy said. A
parade permit has been granted by
the city.
“IT IS A response to numerous
telephone calls from people in the
community and on campus as to what
could be done to show opposition to
(President Richard) Nixon’s
policies,” he stated.
The President announced a
blockade of North Vietnamese
harbors Monday night
After the rally, leaders will
circulate in the downtown area
talking to people and handing out
leaflets, according to Searcy.
Also, he said, the Georgia Voter
Pledge, a petition for the
endorsement of Presidential
candidates pledging to end the war if
elected, will be available.
STATING THAT getting into the
community is the important thing
about the protest, Searcy said, "We
recognize that this march will not
stop the mining of the harbors or end
the war next week, but it will
provide an outlet for opposition.”
The marchers will leave Memorial,
walk across North campus to the
arch, take a right on Broad Street to
Thomas Street and travel to Clayton
Street. From Clayton they will turn
onto Lumpkin Street and come
down Washington Street to the court
house for the rally, Searcy said.
The rally is expected to last about
30 minutes, he said.
FOR FOUR WEEKS
Fourth police academy underway
By JON HAM
Associate news editor
The Northeast Georgia Police
Academy, now underway at the
Lucy Cobb Center for its fourth
session, is receiving support from
University personnel in the roles of
organizers, instructors, students and
guinea nigs.
After a talk by Coach Earl Fales
of the Physical Education
Department at yesterday’s session on
the subject of drunk drivers, two
applicants volunteered to submit to
an experiment to test the accuracy of
the intoximeter.
LT MARK WALLACE and Bob
Wheeler, both campus police officers,
agreed to act as guinea pigs and
consume a six-pack of beer and a
pint of liquor and be tested after they
finished the spirits.
Major Dean said a man who drinks
a six-pack of beer alone will usually
have .09 per cent alcohol in his
Mood. The legal limit is .10. he said.
The results of the test were
analyzed by Corporal James N.
Biggers of the Georgia State Patrol,
in expert in the use ol the
intoximeter.
The four-week academy is
designed to emphasize the role of a
police officer in the community,
according to a brochure issued by
William T. Dean, director of the
Academy and commander of the
ca mpus police.
MAJOR DF AN WAS instrumental
in creating the academy in the spring
of 1971. “The basic program is no
panacea to an agency’s training
needs. This program should be
complimented with an adequate field
training program and a continuing
in-service program to study unique
needs of each jurisdiction,” Dean
says in the brochure
The academy is divided into four
one-week divisions, each putting
emphasis on a differnet aspect of law
enforcement.
The first week teaches basic police
skills such as search and seizure
methods, minority group problems
and physical fitness. Community
relations and a basic background in
criminal law gel emphasis dunng the
first week also
BASIC INVESTIGATIVE
techniques and practical field
exercises to apply these techniques
make up the second week. The basic
techniques studied include use of
skid mark evidence, drinking dnvers
and the use of the intoximeter.
First aid and firearm training are
the subjects for the third week.
Applicants are also instructed as to
the moral and legal responsibilities of
the application of force.
The final week deals with a further
study of criminal investigation and
police procedures. Applicants arc-
given field exercises to apply what
they have learned in the final week.
The state requires that such a
course offer a minimum of I 14 hours
of instruction, but the Northeast
(•eorgia Police Academy offers 157
hours to its applicants.
Photo by JON HAM
COACH EARL FALES LECTURES ON DRUNK DRIVERS AT ACADEMY
Two students submitted to a test afterward to test an intoximeter