Tunis Ou 5 Frend From Foj TUNIS, Feb. 20 (/P> sian police tonight e: five French consuls froi posts in this country. Three of the consuls arrived to night in Tunis under the escort of Tunisian police, but were re leased when they reached the city. Two others, from Gafsa andj Gabes in the deep south, were I spending the night at Sfax and! were expected at the French Em bassy here in the morning. Tension spread as French sol diers surrounded • a village on - the Lib van border. Destruction of a French military truck by a land mine, the seizure of Tunisians by French troops and the closing of the French consul ates cast new shadows over con ciliation efforts of the United | States and Britain. i Georges Geara, the French con-i sul at Medjez el Bab, was the first to be removed forcibly from his consulate and brought to Tunis by police. President Habib Bourguiba ordered the consulates closed 10 days ago but the French refused. The consuls of ‘Kef and Souk el Arba were brought here after having been told to leave their posts within 24 hours. The remote village of Remada,j where earlier French troops had held prisoner the deputy governor,! one Tunisian national guardsman and a villager, was the scene of! added friction. The Tunisian ministry of infor mation flew in reporters who found French troops posted 20 feet apart in a circle around the town of about 700 persons, next to the French base. Tunisia charged Franch, troops, had broken out of the barricaded base and kidnaped the trio. A Foreign Ministry note to the French called the incident ag gression. Tunisia also complain ed to the. UN about it. The French said the three had’ been held overnight only for ques-| tioning about the blowing up of! the French military truck by a! mine planted on the base. Twoj French soldiers were wounded in ! the blast. ' ■ - j The three prisoners were re leased orj direct orders of the French commander in Tunisia. The deputy governor, C. Ahmed Deheche, tcid reporters, “It was impossible for anyone in our town to have placed the mine- The French guard the air strip all the time and don’t let civilians or animals cross it.” Col. Maurice Mollot, comman der' at the base, said only one end of the strip was guarded and the mine had been placed at another end. Day of Prayer Being Observed In 144 Nations Prayers by Australian aborigine' women will be included in the! 72nd annual "World Day of Prayer Service today. State College observances will be conducted in -the Grace Luth eran Church from 4 to 5 p.m. An interdenominational service on the theme, “The Bread of Life,” will be given by town women. The Lutheran Woman’s Choir will sing. Each year the women of a dif ferent nation write the service to be used throughout the world on the first Friday of Lent,-World Day of Prayer. Australian women wrote and distributed the service to the 144 nations participating in the observance. Queen Salote of the Tonga Is lands, west of the International Date Line, begins the services for this year by leading her subjects in prayer. St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, is' the scene of the 'day’s last reli gious observance. The offering, at the various church es will be allocated for in terdenominational mission work through the sponsoring national bodies. VOL'. 58. No. 90 Cabinet Blasts Rotation, -Tuni pelled Voids Vote Code Change All-University Cabinet last night voted down a week-old j Elections Code revision designed to prevent party-hopping, j The code revision, presented by Elections Committee, Chairman Peter Fishbum, would have provided that regis-j tration in a political party would be binding for a semester land that one registration, instead [of the present two registrations, | would have established voting J membership in a party. I Fishburn said the proposed ! change was designed “to make political parties concrete,” and “to prevent movements of groups! within parties.” I When asked if there was a spe-j cifie instance behind the attempt-1 ed change, Fishburn Said the code change .stemmed from “the Uni versity Party meetings.” Fishburn referred to recent attempts by groups associated with Lion Parly to take control of the newly-formed University Party- After the code change was de feated, University Party clique, chairman John D’Angelo said he! felt the decision of Cabinet “will! be felt at the first registration meeting of Lion Party where the motives of this group will be come quite obvious.” i Roll-Call Void [ To End Rotation * Mcmbfr, Ofrtf# Rhode*. AIM' V*P . < Smith. WSC.A . Levin. MI - . . T«t ! * Hoover, Phy* Ed Y«o j Moran, HEc ... Yeo Stroap, Enr Ye# Beatty. A* Yao McDonald. Chem-Phya - Yta 1 * Y onnf, Ed. _ Ye* B. Hollander. Bo»Ad , - Yea Nuwk, LA Y»l Thomson. Preahman Cbtt ___ Yea T. Hollander. Sr. Clua ,_ T .V* PN T f n • a • Ot*. Soph. Cla** Ye* Oi 5 Starts Reorganization / K'wiffiir.™zzir. Colds Hit Victims of Fire Members of Delta Theta Sigma fraternity completed ~Ai»t*in * their process of regrouping after Wednesday mornings dis- M'lrieh. wra Ak«nt astrous fire which ravaged their house. j Mimnaw ,ul *' 1 *~ J President James Compton said, u. „„ ... _ . , - yesterday nearly two-thirds oTbung Sowl ness of ava > lable the members were suffering f rorn ill the°doorsComo ' said he fe,t little > if any - new colds as a result of their ordeal safd Com P-| material could be turned up. in the 10 degree weather. The; The members ate yesterday’s.,, members are now living in Pol-jlunch at Alpha Zeta but began!^"^ lock 3 Ratine the snnner meal as a bers - that a political Struggle At a meeting held Wednesday‘.group, downtown or in the a * erni *jt s night, the fraternity decided tojzel Union Building dining investigate all possibilities of try--, A definite estimate on the per- 1^, 1 f* 1 !, ing to eat in a group and took'sonal loss of clothing and other! dewndenu demanded h a rifation initial steps to clean-up some of i belongings will not be completed‘?vltcni “ emanrletl a. rotation the house furnishings. luntil late today. A board of direc-, y vt ’ on tWI . fcas w mr ,- t The members returned to the, tors meeting of the fraternity wiU. f * ( house, which suffered damages in be held tonight. ’ Si , the excess of $30,000 yesterday., Alpha Phi Omega national; foods to other storage places.!day 'night and early yesterday' Some of the perishable foods andiover radio station WMAJ. A large ,v. ?,•_]. «. a . y ® other goods were moved Wednes-iquantity of clothing was donated, However Lorraine Jablonskv l ay the livestock Pavilion on.and nearly all ont could be used.' L " nides p ’ r^fdentf sa “d she be! 3ft or tbo tiro J f£i n Hunt ’ chairman °£ the orive,jjeved independents would never, lmmediately after the fire said. or at s {j o , never, attempt jto effect a take-over of govern- BI u e-W hiteßocksCampusPo rty; ■ "¥<3% ■& <r University AwaitsCharterVote iff?” < L one ' today by the Senate Committee .better student government in the! '’** I*llll I ICI C on Student Affairs. (past than any other group. I have' The Nittany Lion is still miss i A spokesman for the subcom-|been given assurances by Campus,ing from campus, mittee on organizational controljparty leaders that adequate steps! But rumors have reached hi* said his group will present the;will be taken this spring to seejwoodland friends that he has ar recommendation - this week. ithat elected candidates carry out rived at the re- 4 The Blue and White party sub-! the promises of their platforms.'mote mo u n tain jr mitted a request for a charter "I worked in Campus Party tavern for which 1 shortly before the University lasi semester and. although I he set out two party. was somewhat disillusioned by 'days ago. Bounds’ statement said: the irresponsibility of the two i But the Lion’s "After conferring with most class presidents they pul into 'absence has of our party members, we have office, I have no desire to per- (brought a slight decided that the best thing we form an abortive debacle of semblance of can.do to promote better stu- the type that University Party -warm weather dent government is to dissolve is trying to perpetrate on the ’to the campus, the Blue and White party and old Lion party. , ',and this is ex give our wholehearted support “With Blue and White party'pected to con to the candidates and platform members registered in Campusltinue today. of Campus party. party, we will put forth a united. Although the low last n» dxt was “This decision was made bear- effort for another great victory (about 10 degrees, the tern- erature ing in mind the fact that Campus this spring—this time for a truly will'edge just above fret ing to party has done more to promote Setter student government,” iday. Skies are forecast as fain. Joseph Boehret, All-University, secretary-treasurer, said he did not favor “imposing more regu lations” on political parties, and said the proposed change would be “denying a person the right to run” by preventrnffhim from changing parties during the se mester. William O’Neill, former Lion Party clique chairman who-spoke from the floor, said there should be no analogy between national and campus politics, and that “a person in disagreement with a platform should be able to leave i the party.” He said no person! should be bound to a party. ! Thomas Hollander, senior class i president, came out against the proposed code change, saying he liked fhe "do or die politics." "We should keep this political maneuvering," he added. Boehret charged the Elections! Committee with "getting way out; of bounds.” He said he understood! the purpose of the attempt at a| code change was "to shore -up! the University party difficulty”, but said he thought it was “a de nial of rights.” End of Book Refunds Scheduled for Today Today is the last day that stu dents may pick up their money !for books sold through the Used Book Agency. j Money will be refunded until i 4 p.m. in the Hetzel Union card room. Books which have not been (sold will be returned to their ; owners. ' Prospects for the most com plicated spring political cam paign in the University’s history faded somewhat yes terday when one of the two new parties—Blue and White —dropped out of the race to support Campus Party. In a statement yesterday, Ver non Bounds, Blue and White party, clique chairman, said the party members made the move because it is “the best thing we can do to promote better student government” Meanwhile, a charier for lhe other new party—University— is expected to he considered iail STATE COLLEGE. PA.. FRIDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 21 —Dolly Collegian photo by Ron MilWr POSSESSIONS SALVAGED—John Janetka. sophomore in animal husbandry from Export, loads some of his belongings into a car to transfer' them from his fraternity, Delta Theta-Sigma, which was gutted by fire Wednesday morning. FOR A B 'ER PENN STATE The controversial independent-fraternity rotation system was thrown out last night by All-University Cabinet by a 17 to 3 vote, with 2 abstentions. Some Cabinet members attempted a postponement of the issue on the grounds that insufficient information had been presented. A motion to that effect was booed, hissed at and called jdown by an audience ot interest ed students. Most opposition to dropping the system can be summarized in the contentions of Stephen Hig gins, representing the Interfra ■ ternity Council as an alternate. "In the beginnings of student government." he began, "there . were no rules." 1 As problems arose, he continued, , rules were established to cope with them. "There must have been some thing somewhere." he said, which prompted the rotation system. Therefore, he proposed at least a postponement of a vote until these reasons could be discovered. However, Peter Fishburn, Elec tions Committee chairman, in an- (Enllwjiatt FIVE CEFiTS V«l« r«t Y«*
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