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OL. 68, No. 74
, from the associated press i •
[0:
Ni News Roundup:
from the State
Nation &World
The World
U.S. Jets Attempt To Free Khe Sanh Base
DA NANG, Vietnam History's most concentrated
aerial bombing campaign is underway around the U.S.
Marine base at Khe Sanh in an effort to break the Com
munist siege ring, a qualified U.S. Air Force source said
yesterday.
Although large numbers of North Vietnamese troops
and supply and ammunition dumps have been presum
ably destroyed, Communist pressure on the base 14 miles
south of the demilitarized zone builds steadily.
Some Marine officers believe that without the mighty
bombing campaign, Khe Sanh already would be unten
able. Only 5,000 Marines face • a force of perhaps 20,000
North Vietnamese regulars.
In the past month, Air Force, Navy and Marine
fighter-bombers have flown more than 7,000 sorties
against the Communist positions around Khe Sanh. More
than 85 852 missions of up to nine planes each have
rained bombs into the surrounding mountains.
Meanwhile, U.S. Marine jets poured rockets, napalm
and tear gas yesterday against North Vietnamese troops
holed up in Hue's walled Citadel in another phase of the
American' air campaign.
Unarmed Navy Plane Shot Down By Chinese
WASHINGTON Red Chinese MIG aircraft attacked
two unarmed American planes which strayed near Com
munist Hainan Island Tuesday night. One was .shot down,
the other fled to Da Nang, South Vietnam.
The Pentagon, announcing this yesterday, said the
two U.S. Navy propeller-driven Al Skyraiders inad
vertently strayed into Hainan's airspace because of
navigational difficulties.
Peking Radio, in a broadcast monitored in Tokyo
charged .the United States with carrying out "war pro
vocations."
"Navy pilots of the People's Liberation Army imme
diately dealt a heavy blow and shot down one of them
and damaged the other," Peking said.
At the Pentagon, Asst. Secretary of Defense Phil G.
Goulding said he did not know whether the second
plane which escaped had been damaged or whether its
pilot was injured.
• Golding said this pilot "reports he last saw the other
plane in a vertical dive and smoking."
The Pentagon's chief spokesman made a point of
saying two or three times he would not discuss the fate
of the lost man. Some took this as a suggestion that
search-and-rescue operations might be under way off
Hainan's coast.
The Nation
Bethlehem Steel To Acquire Mining Company
WILMINGTON, Del. Bethlehem Steel Co. will
acquire Cerro Corp., a mining firm, in a stock transfer
valued at $285 million under plans approved by share
holders of both companies yesterday.
' Bethlehem 'stockholders, meeting here, approved a
change in their charter authorizing a new issue of 20
million shares of a new class of stock and the exchange
of 7.1 million of the new share for Cerro stock.
Cerro shareholders met in New York
. ,
For each share of Cerro, stockholders will receive
one share of Bethlehem's new $2.80 series A convertible
preferred stock.
The new stock, paying $2.80 in dividends a year,
may be converted any time to 1.33 shares of Bethlehem
common. Bethlehem common closed yesterday at 30.
At yesterday's meeting Edmund F. Martin, Bethle
hem's chairman and chief executive officer, said the
Internal Revenue Service already has approved the tax
aspects of the proposed purchase.
He said the Justice Department is now studying
the proposed acquisition.
Johnson Asks $2 Billion for Riot Prevention
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. President Johnson, in a move
to meet the threat of rioting in the nation's cities, will
ask Congress for $2 billion to clear slums and build low
income housing, an informed AFL-CIO labor source said
yesterday.
"It's going to be a terrific housing message," said one
source. Johnson will probably send the housing message
to Congress next week, or by the end of the month at the
latest, he added.
Johnson will ask Congress for $1 billion to expand
the now largely experimental model cities program into
large-scale rebuilding of big city slums, the source said.
The President will propose another $1 billion to im
mediately expand construction of low-income units from
about 50,000 a year now to 250,000.
The presidents of 18 AFL-CIO building trades unions
Tuesday pledged their help in solving labor problems
stemming from the proposed federal housing program. They
also promised to work actively with civil rights groups
to recruit Negro youths into their 8.500 union locals across
the nation.
This was a sharp turnabout for the building trades,
which for years have been the target of racial discrim
ination complaints.
The State
Con Con Restricts Tax Concessions
HARRISBURG The Constitutional Convention, in a
surprise move, voted last night to revamp a proposal that
would have permitted special tax breaks for private in
dustrial and commercial development projects.
Delegates approved, 123-4, an amended version of the
plan restricting tax concessions to industrial development
projects sponsored by nonprofit corporations.
The convention had approved Herman Buck's original
proposal on Monday, over the objections of several dele
gates that it would benefit private speculators.
In other developments, the convention rejected 15
proposed amendments to a lengthy proposal of the Local
Government Committee.
Earlier, delegates had approved an amendment re
quiring the establishment of the appointive office of pub
lic defender in all Pennsylvania counties.
The proposal, introduced by House Minority Whip
K. Leroy Irvis (D-Allegheny) an ex-officio delegate, was
adopted on a 75-60 vote. The adoption followed rejection
of a proposed amendment that would have made public
defenders elected, constitutional officers.
The local government proposal was the sixth of seven
committee packages the convention had to consider be
fore it completes its work of revising four key sections of
the state's 94-year-old charter.
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THUS PROCLAIMS a happy little red and white button being promoted by Students
for State to help stamp out campus apathy. The Collegian wonders what the button will
do for campus promiscuity! See story on page 8.
Greek College Bowl
Continues Tonight
By MARGE COHEN'
Collegian Staff Writer
The third round of prelim
inary competition for the Greek
Week College Bowl will begin
at 6:45 tonight in 215 Hetzel
Union Building.
Teams participating in to
night's eliminations will be
Delta Theta Sigma and Tau
Epsilon Phi vs. Kappa Kappa
Gamma and Phi Sigma Sigma,
and Delta Ga.nma and Alpha
Sigma Alpha vs. Phi Gamma
Delta and Phi Sigma Kappa.
Also, Tau Kappa Epsilon and
Acacia will face Alpha Xi Delta
and Phi Mu, and Kappa Delta
and Delta Delta Delta will go
against Triangle ='and Sigma
Alpha Mu,
College Bowl Co-Chairmen
Julie Conover and Lew Hirsch
expressed their satisfaction
with the matches held for the
last two nights. They said that
the competitions "went very
smoothly."
These preliminary elimina
tions will produce the teams for
the semi-finals to be held next
Monday. The 4-member teams,
consisting of representatives
Professor Accuses Greeks
Of 'De Facto Discrimination'
By BARBARA BLOM
Collegian Staff Writer
A University professor of
sociology last night accused
Penn State's Greek system of
"operating in blatant contra
diction of the goals of the Uni
versity, such as better citizen
ship and brotherhood."
John W. Haas, speaking at
the Jawbone Coffee House, 415
E. Foster Ave., id that fra
ternities and sororities take
part in what Le called "de'facto
discrimination."
Haas charged the Adminis
tration and the Greeks with
"hiding their heads in the
sand" and refusing to face the
issue. He said that while fra
ternities and sororities "serve
a useful function, especially in
the setting of this University,
they establish arbitrary criteria
for membership which just
shouldn't be, especially in an
academic environment. These
criteria band 'likes' 'together in
a way that tends to encourage
the continuation of stereotypic
The controversial Constitution Investigation Commit
tee Act of 1968 will be ready for a vote at the Undergrad
uate Student Government meeting tonight.
The purpose of this act is to establish a congressional
committee to investigate the current constitution of USG.
The committee would examine the structure, function and
powers of the executive, legislative and judicial branches
of USG and would recommend any necessary changes.
The committee, composed of six area congressmen and
six ex-officio officers, would be headed by USG Vice Pres
ident Jon Fox. Recommendations and suggestions by the
committee would be presented at next week's congres
sional meeting.
The proposal, submitted by Terry Klasky, Harvey
Reeder and Dave Vinikoor, has been praised by President
Jeff Long as "long overdue." Several USG members, in
cluding the bill's sponsors and Long, expressed the hope
that this bill will result in the elimination of several
ex-officio officers and their replacement by area repre
sentatives.
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'Revision Necessity*
Reeder indicated that the committee would seek the
help of faculty members, student leaders and administra
tion officials in making recommendations to USG. He added
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA,, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 15, 1968
'l'm a Penn State Lover!'
from two sororities and two
fraternitieS, are competing in
30-minute matches, facing ques
tions ranging from science to
liberal arts to trivia.
Questions for the matches
NC Still Looking
For Replacement
A replacement for Godfrey
Cambridge for Sunday's
"Greek Week—'oB" Concert
is yet to be found.
Interfraternity Council Con
cert Chairman Fred Kirsch
ner said last night that he is
still *aiting for replies from
six comedians who we r e
asked to fill the vacancy left
by Cambridge::
Cambridge cancelled his ap
pearance through an "act of
God" clause in his contract
with the IFC and the Pan
hellenic Council, sponsors of
the concert. He is being hos
pitalized in Mt. Sinai Hospi
tal in New York, City for
nneumonia.
The Young Rascals, billed
with Cambridge for the conk
cert will appear even if an
other comedian cannot be
signed, Kirschner said.
Hass at the Jawbone
thinking.
"Sociologists have found that
one tends .o attribute general
ized characteristics to those in
groups outside one's own,"
Haas stated. "Prejudice, there
fore, is an outgrowth of the fra
ternity system.
"In light of the radical
changes taking place "ight now
in our society, the fraternity
system as it "..s organized here
is anachronistic."
He said that while the prob
lems resulting from racial seg
regation are being tackled in
the country, the University is
the last place where the issue
should be ignored.
Haas challenged fraternities
and sororities to change their
"discriminatory practices." He
then appealed to the Adminis
tration to exert "further pres
sure than it has to date."
According to Melvyn S.
Klein, assistant to the dean of
men, there is no "de jure" dis
crimination in Penn State's sys
tem.
USG To Vote on Revision Act
By DENNIS STIMELING
Collegian Staff Writer
—Collegian Photo by Mike Urban
were compiled by the General
Electric College Bowl of na
tional televis'• n. The trivia,
however, is the innovation of
the Greek Week College Bowl
Committee. Judging of the
answers is being done by pro
fessors from various depart
ments of the -university.
The finals for the College
Bowl will be held Friday, Feb.
23rd, when ,plaques will be
awarded to the winning team
and to the first and second
runners-up.
Winners of the competition
held Tuesday night were Kappa
Delta and Delta Delta Delta,
Triangle and Sigma Alpha Mu,
Phi Delta • Theta and Signia
Chi, Acacia and Ta'! Kappa
Epsilon, Alpha Xi Delta and
Phi Mu defeating . Alpha Phi
Delta and Alpha Kappa Lamb
da, and Delta Zeta and Zeta
Tau Alph• defeating Theta
Delta Chi and TI eta Psi.
The winning teams from last
night's matches were Lambda
Chi Alpha and Sigma Phi;
Kappa Sigma and Chi Lambda
Phi; Zeta Beta Tau and Phi
Sigma Delta.
Vietnam Peace Distant,
Thant Says After Talks
Klein pointed out that the
Faculty Senate on Jan. 9, 1962,
approved the following policy
regarding the removal of re
strictive membership clauses
from the charters of fraterni
ties, sororities, and other social
organizations:
"After June 30, 1965, any
social organization which has
restrictive clauses still unre
moved shall be required to be
come inactive until the restric
tive qualificeions for mem
bership are eliminated."
In response to a equest from
the Office of Student Affairs,
the national offices for all fra
ternities here sent a statement
that they do not discriminate
on the basis of race, religion,
or national origin
Klein indicated that while
discrimination is not part of
the fraternity system at Penn
State, at least as regards fra
ternity constitutions, the so
cial nature of a fraternity tends
to encourage the "perpetuation
of a particular self-image
among its members."
that "constitutional revision is a necessity to change the
current outdated structure of USG."
In other action, USG will discuss a bill which would
provide financial aid to students who are charged with
civil crimes and cannot pay the bail for their release.
The bill leaves establishment of guidelines for the pro
gram to the Legal Awareness Committee. Jon Fox, one of
the bill's co-authors, said that if the bill is passed "funds
will be allocated from the USG treasury for students in
volved in civil cases where bail has been set and the stu
dent is unable to pay. Too long USG has ignored this type
of case. Hopefully they will now take action."
Long commented, "This bill will test the sentiment of
the Congress on this idea. It is a very good idea."
The third major bill up for consideration at tonight's
meeting calls for a resolution proposing a change in Penn
sylvania's voting age.
The bill's co-sponsors, Long and Faith Tanney, Associa
tion of Women Students president, called 'upon USG to
recommend to Governor Shafer and other state leaders
that the voting age be lowered to 18 from the present 21.
The bill cites several reasons for supporting such a
resolution. It is claimed that 64% of the American people
feel the voting age should be lowered to 18. In four states
the legal age is under 21, raising a question of voter
equality in the remaining 46 states.
Korea Demands
U.S. Withdraw• l
PANMUNJOM,-Korea (AP) North Korea
told the Americans yesterday that there will
be war unless "you take your bloody hands off
Korea and withdraw from South Korea."
Maj. Gen. Pak Chung Kook of North Korea
was replying to a U.S. charge at an Armistice
Commission meeting that the Communists had
sent commandos into Seoul to try to murder
President Chung Hee Park Jan. 21 and had
committed 73 other serious violations of the
truce in the past 44 days.
"The decision whether there is peace or
hostility depends upon the whim of an ap
parently irresponsible North Korea," declared
Rear Adm. John V. Smith, senior U.N. Arm
istice Commission representative.
"Your side can have peace merely by uni
laterally stopping acts of aggression. You must
stop dispatching armed murderers into the Re
public of Korea."
Glaring at Smith, Pak replied: "We don't
want war, but we are not afraid of it."
He said North Korea would match build
up for build-up and blow for blow and if it
came to that "all-out war with all-out war."
This. was an open meeting of the commis
sion. The subject of the intelligence ship Pueblo,
seized by the North Koreans Jan. 23, came up
only incidentally. Tlie Pueblo has been dis
cussed at secret meetings between the United
States ,and North Korea.
No Go for San Antonio Formula
Hanoi Rejected
For Settlement,
WASHINGTON (AP) Sec
retary of State De: z. Rusk said
yesterday that Communist
North Vietnam has thus far re
jected President Johnson's San
Antonio formula for a peaceful
settlement of the 11'?.tnam war.
In a statement Rusk said that
"I must report th-4' all explora
tions to date have resulted in
a rejection." _
The United States, Rusk con
tinued, is "not interested in
propaganda gestures whose
purpose is to mislead and con
fuse; we will be interested in
a serious move toward peace
when Hanoi comes to the con
clusion that it is ready to move
in that direction."
"Hanoi knows how to get in
touch with us," the statement
noted.
Robert J. McCloskey, press
officer for the State Depart-
PARIS (P) U.N. Secretary-General
U Thant conferred yesterday with a North
Vietnamese diplomat and came away con
vinced that peace in Vietnam is as far away
as ever, informed sources reported.
After a '75-minute meeting with Mai
Van 80, head of the North Vietnamese dele
gation in Paris, Thant was said to believe
the positions of North Vietnam and the
United States were too far apart to hope for
any early peace conference.
Later, Thant saw President Charles
de Gaulle, a critic of U.S. policy in Vietnam.
Both agreed that negotiations on Vietnam
"are not for tomorrow," the sources said.
Politics Too Complex
Thant was said to feel the political situ
ation in Vietnam was too complex to be
settled by negotiations with the United
States, even with a South Vietnamese rep
resentative at the American side. Bo re
portedly insisted on the importance of the
National Liberation Front, the political arm
of the Viet Cong, whose role in eventual
negotiations has been challenged by the
Saigon government.
It was also emphasized during Thant's
talks that Red Chinese influence in Hanoi,
the North Vietnamese capital, was discour
aging whatever sentiment there was in North
Vietnam for negotiation, the sources said.
Thant was to have returned to New
York from London Tuesday night after a
peace mission that also took him to India
Pak brought up the Pueblo, saying the
United States was taking advantage of the
incident to make "full preparations for war."
Cyrus R. Vance, the envoy sent by Presi
dent Johnson to try to smooth over relations
with South Korea, put to a strain by the secret
negotiations at Panmunjom, again postponed
his departure for Washington.
The South Koreans have complained that
the United States was paying too much atten
tion to the Pueblo incident and not. enough to
North Korea's threats to South Korea's se
curity. They also do not like the secret talks,
from which South Korea has been excluded.
Vance was to have left Seoul Tuesday after
two days of talks with Park, Premier Chung
Ilkwen and other officials. Now he has ex
tended his stay until Thursday at least, indi
cating he has been unable so far to placate
the government.
Informed Korean sources said South Korea
wanted the United States to warn North Korea
it would join South Korea in retaliation against
any Communist provocative acts. But they re
ported Vance replied that U.S. retaliation must
depend on the nature of the acts.
The sources said the government was also
unsuccessful in having some units of the
560,000-man,South Korean army released from
U.S. operational control. Such control has been
maintained although the armistice halted fight
ing in the Korean War in 1953.
ment, read the Secretary's
statement to reporters.
Asked whether the statement
was drafted with Rusk knowing
what was in the most recent
peace feelers through U.N. Sec
retary General Thant and
Italian foreign minister Amin
tore Fanfani, McCloskey re
plied'that the statemert "takes
-into .account eyeryt' *ng we
know." -
Rusk's statement said it was
issued in reply to questions on
"the connection between the
possibility of negotiations for a
peaceful settlement in Vietnam
and the military operations now
in progress."
The San Antonio formula to
which Rusk referred was con
tained in a speech Johnson
made in the Texas city Sept. 29,
1967.
That speech set out that the
and the Soviet Union. He suddenly canceled
his flight and came to Paris after spending
the night in London.
Nguyen Van Sao, a North Vietnamese
newsman, told other reporters in London
that at Thant's request he helped to set
up the session with Bo in Paris.
Sao said the meeting primarily was to
permit Thant to receive answers to ques
tions he submitted to the North Vietnamese
regime last week through North Vietnam's
consul general in New Delhi. These ques
tions were said to relate to Hanoi's terms for
a peace conference.
After his talk with Thant, Bo quickly
contacted his government, sources said.
In London, British authorities said they
were disenchanted with Thant's views dis
closed in talks he held Tuesday with Prime
Minister Harold Wilson and Foreign Sec
retary George Brown. They reported Wilson
and Brown disagreed with Thant's approach.
Thant is taking the view that if the
bombing of North Vietnam halts he is satis
fied that peace talks will follow within three
or four weeks.
Wilson and Brown backed the formula
President Johnson set up in a speech in
San Antonio—an offer for a bombing halt
if Hanoi would agree to prompt talks and
would refrain from building up its military
power in South Vietnam. North Vietnam has
dismissed the proposal.
Many men between 18 and 21 are currently serving in
the armed forces. The bill asserts that if a man is old
enough to fight and die for his country, he is old enough
to help select the leaders of that country.
'May Happen Soon'
Long called this "an extremely important issue. It
(lowering the voting age) is going to happen in this state
very soon. It may even happen in the United States Con
gress."
If adopted, the resolution will be sent to President
Johnson, Shafer, Senators Scott and Clark, all Pennsyl
vania representatives in Congress, and all state legislators.
In addition, letters would be sent to all colleges and uni
versities in the state urging them to adopt a similar
resolution.
Other legislation for tonight includes a bill extending
the terms of USG officers to the ninth week of spring term
rather than the current expiration date of the fifth week.
Another bill would establish the mechanism to enable USG
to send delegates to various conferences and seminars
deemed helpful to the student body or student government.
On other matters, Long announced that Ellena Cletti
will be • installed tonight as the new congressman from
North Halls. Also, James K. Kefford will be named as
head of a committe to lead USG's fight against the pro
posed $lOO taltion hike.
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Says Rusk
United States "is willing to stop
all aerial and naval bombord
meat of North Vietnam when
this will lead promptly to pro
ductive discussions."
It continued: "We of course
assume that while discussions
proceed Nort Vietnam would
not take advantage -of the
bombing cessation or limita
tion."
Officials said the Rusk state
ment yesterday constituted the
report of the administration up
to the moment—in fulfillment
of assurances President John
son gave that there would be a
report on the outcome of ex
plorations of Hanoi's position.
Rusk said that "at no time
has Hanoi indicated publicly or
privately that it will refrain
from taking military advan
tage of any cessation of the
bombing of North Vietnam."
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