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VOL. 69, No. 18
g- from the associated press
| News Roundup: i
1 From the State, |
I Nation & World l
The World
U. S. Troops Capture Enemy Weapons
SAIGON In a battle that swept through rice paddies
and thick hedgerows, U.S. troops tried to trap 300 enemy
troops on the northwest invasion corridor to Saigon yester
day but most escaped. The Americans, however, captured
another big weapons cache.
The battle broke out Thursday when 400 U.S. 25th
Division infantrymen came under heavy fire from enemy
troops dug in among the hedgerow’s near Trang Bang, 27
miles northwest of Saigon.
About 600 U.S. reinforcements were flown in and at
tempted to throw a cordon around the enemy as fighter
bombers, helicopter gunships and artillery hammered the
hedgerows.
Fighting flared through the night but when U.S. in
fantrymen drove forward at dawn they met only small rear
guard action. A sweep of the field turned up 26 enemy
bodies. U.S. casualties were 6 killed and 16 wounded,
★ ★ ★
Three Russian Intellectuals Exiled
MOSCOW Three Soviet intellectuals were sentenced
yesterday to relatively light terms in exile from Moscow
and two others were sent to labor camps for staging a
public protest in Red Square against the invasion of Czech
oslovakia.
After three days of testimony laced with denuncia
tions of the invasion, the five were convicted of disturbing
public order and slandering the Soviet Union. They had
been arrested after demonstrating for about three minutes
Aug. 25.
The organizers—Pavel Litvinov, grandson of Stalin’s
foreign minister, and Mrs. Larisa Daniel, wife of an im
prisoned writer—were banished from Moscow for five and
four years respectively. Konstantin' Babitsky, a specialist
in the history of the Russian language, was exiled for three
years.
Their companions. Vladimir Dremlyuga and Vadim
Delone, were sentenced to labor camps for three years and
two years and 10 months respectively.
The Nation
90th Congress Ready for Adjournment
WASHINGTON The 90th Congress, which displayed
traits of courage, defiance and fickleness as it wrote some
footnotes to history, was poised for adjournment yester
day.
The members have three weeks for campaigning be
fore the Nov. 5 elections in which all 435 House seats and
34 of the 100 Senate seats will be filled.
The session which started last Jan. 15 and was inter
rupted by several recesses was marked by some rare hap
penings.
There was a lock-in of House members and a sit-out
of senators in the closing days, defeat of a major presi
dential nomination, a tax increase in an election year, an
about-face on mandated spending cuts when they hit close
to home, and enactment of some historic legislation.
During the' 10-months session,; two public figures,
—iDiv-Martin Luther King Jr., and Sen.-Robert F. Kennedy,-
- -were assassinated; an incumbent President decided not to
seek re-election, violence erupted in the capital and in
other major cities, casualty lists continued to flow in from
Vietnam, and two national political conventions were held.
★ ★ ' ★
LBJ May Cal! Senate Back into Session
WASHINGTON President Johnson said yesterday
he may call the Senate back into special session to ratify
the nuclear nonproliferation treaty rather than wait until
the new session i:. January, as Senate leaders plan.
The President said delays could force the United States
into a dire dilemma if new nuclear powers come into being
before the Senate acts.
Johnson taped for radio and television use his new
appeal shortly before Senate Majority Leader Mike Mans
field, D-Mont., told the Senate the pact to halt the spread
of nuclear weapons would not be brought up in the session
now ending.
★ ★ ★
Cuban Exiles Jailed for Terrorist Plot
MIAMI, Fla. Nine Cuban exiles were jailed here
yesterday on federal charges of plotting terror attacks on
ships and planes of Spain, Mexico and Great Britain as
part of a nationwide anti-Castro vendetta by the group
calling itself Cuban Power.
The man indicted as the leader. Dr. Orlando Bosch,
seemed triumphant after his arrest by FBI agents. While
being taken to jail under sso.ooo'bond, Bosch raised his
handcuffed arms and made “V" with fingers of each hand
as he shouted: ‘'Victory for Cuban liberation.”
Bosch and two of the nine were charged in the Sept. 16
cannonading of a Polish freighter in Miami. The attack
became an international incident.
The indictment also identified Bosch as the mysterious
“Ernesto,” the voice of Cuban Power who announced at
tacks sometimes before they occurred.
The State
Violence Closes Philadelphia Schools
PHILADELPHIA The troubled area surrounding
Bok Technical High School in South Philadelphia was
quiet Thursday after Bok and nearby South Philadelphia
High School were ordered closed until Monday. But vio
lence broke out in other city schools.
A white pupil, was reported stabbed Thursday after
noon at Dobbins High School. The 2,300 pupils, at Dobbins
of which 60 per cent are Negro—had been held m class
an extra hour, while some 200 Negro pupils who had
marched there from Edison High School stood around out-
Busloads of policemen were called in to help the pupils
get home. Just before the pupils came out, a man identified
as Freedom George Brower addressed the Edison pupils
and tried to get them to go home.
• “This is not the time,” he said. “We 11 get them on their
own grounds.” . _ , , T - i
Earlier, white pupils from Overbrook High School
were attacked by Negroes.
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Musmanno Hospitalized After Stroke
PITTSBURGH State Supreme Court Justice Michael
A. Musmanno, who rose from Pennsylvania’s steel mills and
coal fields to presiding judge at the Nuremberg War Crimes
trial, was hospitalized in critical condition yesterday after
suffering a stroke. , , ' ' ’ TT ,
The 71-year-old jurist was rushed to Mercy Hospital
after a guard discovered him laying unconscious in a pair
of blue pajamas at his downtown apartment.
The guard was sent to the apartment after Musmanno
failed to appear,at a 9 a.m. conference of Supreme Court
justices.
Former Student Held
On Drug Possession
The third reported local narcotics raid in the last two
weeks, was made Thursday night when Robert G. Kar
pawich was arrested on possession of narcotics and drugs.
Karpawich was listed last year as a junior majoring in
pre-law. It was not immediately known if he is still enrolled
at the University.
The State College'Police Criminal Unit found 25 cap
sules and about a pound of marijuana in Karpawich’s
apartment. He is being held in Centre County Jail in lieu of
$5OO bond.
'Two weeks ago a graduate student was arrested on a
charge of possession and sale of a hallucinogenic. Tuesday
three undergraduate students living in Bluebell apartments
were arrested on charges of possession and use of mari
juana. 1 '
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4 Pages
Walker town action committees will present
progress reports at the Free Speech Movement
(FSM) forum at 2 p.m. Sunday.
The action groups were set up last week to
investigate the recruitment of black students,
downtown housing rents, the establishment of a
free press, the University’s ties with the
military and the creation of a University-owned
bookstore.
The White ’ Liberation Front, a group of
white students concerned with racial relations,
is investigating the racial situation on campus.
The organization, headed by Steve
Haimowitz, circulated a petition this week urg
ing the administration to admit additional black
students and to gear more courses around “the
racial crisis in this society”.
Haimowitz said the group is also trying “to
expose white students to the facts of white
racism which created the racial crisis and to
the alternatives to the resolution of this crisis.”
A proposal was made last week that the
White Liberation Front work together with the
Douglas Association, but Haimowitz said he
doesn’t seek the black student group’s support.
‘‘lt’s a white problem,” Haimowitz said.
“The black person does not have to defend him
self to a white person. The white people have
Disorder at PSU?
YAF Will Sue
The University has been threatened with a
legal suit if student disorders ocoUr on campus.
In a telegram sent to University President
Eric ■ A. Walker yesterday, the Young
Americans for Freedom wrote, “By accepting
our tuition, this University has entered into a
contract with us.”
The telegram went on to say, ‘ If the ac
tions of a belligerent minority deny us our
rights by interrupting classes, we will bring
suit if necessary to have the University live up
to its contractural obligations. We will not pas
sively accept a situation simuar to that which
occurred at Columbia. We urge your support."
YAF member Don Ernsberger, who was
appointed chairman of YAF’s Student Commit
tee for a Responsible University, said that a
petition is being drafted on student issues aired
at the Free Speech Movement (FSM) forums.
"We are going to try to get reforms, but we
will not tolerate obstructivism to get them,”
Ernsberger said.
Issues to be examined by the new YAF
committee include housing, admissions policy,
Reserve Officers Training Corps on campus, a
University-owned bookstore and the nature of
education'at the University. FSM set up com
mittees to investigate these issues, but YAF
plans to adopt its own stand.
The committee will also prepare a state
ment of purpose, a definition of student rights,
a definition of the University and goals for the
University community.
- Commenting on the telegram sent to
Walker; Doug Cooper, YAF chairman; said,
"Students whose • education would be inter
rupted have, by right of the contract they sign
ed, the legal sanction to compel the University
to live up to its contractural obligations by not
allowing, the educational process to be inter
rupted.”
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA., SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 12, 1968
Apollo 7 Lift-off Successful
3 Men To
11 Days
SPACE CENTER, HOU
STON (/P) The room, full
of chatter moments before,
was hushed as the voice of
Mission Control counted: “Six
. . . five . . . four . . . we have
ignition.”
★ ★ ★
CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. (AP
The three Apollo T astronauts
rode the world’s largest manned
spaceship into orbit on a perfect
flight yesterday, said they were
“having a ball” and succeeded in a
docking maneuver vital to a man
to-the-moon flight.
Although no actual link-up oc
curred, Navy Capt. Walter M.
Schirra Jr., Air Force Maj. Donn
F. Eisele and civilian astronaut
Walter Cunningham steered Apollo
7 to within 4 or 5 feet of a target
circle painted on top of the second
stage of their Saturn IB booster
rocket.
“It's absolutely beautiful here,”
Schirra said as he steered Apollo 7
toward the target. “We have a lot
of loose chaff up here. It seems to
be between 3 o’clock and 6o*clock
and 9 o’clock and 12 o’clock.
Another Flight Possible
Cunningham interrupted with a
screamed “Look out,” apparently
referring to some chaii getting
near the spacecraft. He referred to
small b*ts of treebymg manor out
side the ship, possibly debris result
ing from the separation.
If the planned 11-day flight conti
nues successfully, it could clear the
way for sending another Apollo
crew on a moon orbit flight in
December and put the United
States firmly on the path to landing
men on the moon next year.
The simulated docking maneuver
occurred shortly after 2 p.m. EDT
after the astronauts separated
Apollo 7 from the second stage, cal
led the S4B, to which they had been
attached for two orbits of the globe
after their 11:03 a.m. EDT blastoff
from Cape Kennedy.
Fires. Small Jets
Commander Schirra fired .small
Action Groups To Report
At Sunday's FSM Forum
By MARC KLEIN
Collegian Staff Writer
■A White Problem’
Spend
Space
jets to scoot Apollo 7 about 50 feet
ahead, then turned around to face
the 58-foot-long S4B. He gingerly
pulsed his thrusters to jockey his
ship to within’4 or S feet of the
target as both vehicles raced along
at 17.500 miles an hour more than
150 miles above the earth.
On an actual moon mission the
Apollo craft will separate from the
S4B. turn around as Apollo 7 did
yesterday, and dock with the Lunar
Module stowed atop the stage. The
Module is the vehicle which two as
tronauts will ride to the surface of
the moon.
Before the separation from the
stage, the astronauts were flying a
massive spaceship which measured
113 feet, 3 inches long and weighed
69.034 pounds. After separation, the
Apollo 7 ship was reduced to 33,589
pounds and a height of 33 feet, 4 in
ches, still four times heavier than
any previous U.S. manned space
vehicle and about two tons heavier
than Russia’s largest.
Enters Different Orbit
After conducting the simulated
docking. Schirra gave his jets a
short burst of power to place Apollo
in a slightly different orbit calcu
lated to move the astronauts out
about 83 miles in front of the S4B
by today.
Then the pilots will conduct a
series of maneuvers intended to
bring about a rendezvous of the two
vehicles about 5 p.m. EDT todav.
★ ★ ★
Powerful Failure
In a sudden, scary contract to the
near perfect performance of Apollo
7, a power failure struck the con
trol center at ■ Houston. Tex. It
threw some control consoles into
darkness for one to two minutes at
about 12:20 p.m., but the vital com
puters were not affected.
This Apollo flight was delayed for
more than years bv the fire
that claimed the lives of three as
tronauts. There was a poignant
reminder of that tragedy at the
Sehirra home. The widow of Virgil
I- Grissom, who was to have corn
; manded Apollo. 7,,j&es neact-io the-t-
the responsibility to alter the situation.”
Haimowitz said his group will use FSM to
disseminate information.
Vincent Franklin, head of the committee on
downtown housing, was planning a rent strike
to protest the alleged poor housing conditions
and high rent in apartments owned by Univer
sity professor Shiou-Chuan Sun.
Grievances against Sun, however, were set
tled Wednesday when he agreed to meet with
students and to settle their demands.
Housing Investigation
Franklin plans to continue to investigate
the downtown housing situation. He urges all
students who have any grievances concerning
housing to submit them to him.
Max Homer, a member of th The Educa
tion Committee in the State House of Represen
atives, has shown interest in the housing sit
uation here, Franklin said.
In a reply to a letter sent him by a resident
from Sun’s apartments, Homer said that he
would make a personal investigation of the si
tuation if Franklin’s committee finds evidence
of landlord neglect.
Homer, from the Pittsburgh area, is co
chairman of a House committee investigating
private housing at state colleges and universi
ties.
• A free press is being started by Judy
Rubin. Miss Rubm calls her IValkertown com
mittee a “group effort with no single leader.”
To Be Published Wednesday
The paper, called the Catalyst, will be
published for the first time Wednesday. Miss
Rubin said that speakers from FSM along with
anyone else interested will be invited to submit
material.
The paper, she said, will contain stories
concerning FSM plus interviews with various
people on £ampus.
Danny .Gallo, head of the committee study
•ing the University's ties with the military, said
that his group is researching Reserve Officer
Training Corps activites and on-campus
military operations and projects.
“We should have the facts before accusing
the University of complicity with the military,”
Gallo said.
The committee working for the establish
ment of a University-owned bookstore plans to
wait until November when the University
Senate will discuss the issue. Adam Sokolow,
committee head, said that h c feels the Senate
will.support the bookstore.
“I don’t think we can do anything without
faculty support,” Sokolow said.
Bookstore Strategy
The Student Union discussed the bookstore
at a meeting Thursday night. Richard Hardy,
chairman of the Union, is also planning
strategy to establish a bookstore here.
Sokolow said he will work with Hardy. He
added, “I’m by no means the leader of the
movement, just an interested student.”
Walkertown, which started out a protest
agaihst the housing shorage, grfew into an open
forum where students were invited to air any
grievances. The forum has been held on Old
Main lawn, but in case of cold weather it is
scheduled to move to the -Hetzel Union Building
ballroom this week.
Schirras. She was up early yester
day, going about her normal tasks.
Schirra told the trackers at Car
narvon. Australia that t h e
spaceship came through the blast
off unscathed.
“The windows appear to be al
most crystal clear,” Schirra said.
“This is good news for us all. We
have very good visibility out of all
five windows, and the center hatch
window is a dream for monitoring
boost.”
Families Watch Flight
With the thousands watching the
flight from the Atlantic shoreline
near Cape Kennedy was Cun
ningham's wife. Lo Ella, and their
two children, Brian.B, and Kimber
ly, 5. They were aboard a boat in a
river near the launch site. The
Schirra and Eisele families watch
ed the shot on television at their
homes near the Manned Spacecraft
Center in Houston.
Schirra’s reports came quick and
—AP Wirephoto
APOLLO 7 astronauts discussing plans Module Pilot Donn F. Eisele, Lunar Modulo
for their 11-day flight which began late Pilot. R. Walter Cunningham and Com
yesterday-morning. Pictured ura . Command mandcr'Walter M. Schirra'JrT”"' "
University Adds Parking Spaces
The University announced parking for students. The lot
3‘esterday that 270 additional wifi be designated Student
spaces for student parking Lot 52, with space for 118
will be -assigned effective cars.
Monday morning. In addition, a 52-space area
The east section of the pre- in Lot Blue B, just south of
sent Blue D parking area. Student Lot 80 near the in
immediately north of the tersection of Curtin and
Women’s Athletic Field bet- Bigler Roads, is being assign-
Shortlidge and Bigler ed for student commuter
Roads, will provide 24-hour parking only.
By DAVID NESTOR
Collegian Staff Writer
The results of the Undergra
duate Student Government
elections are now official, and
with the exception of Pollock A
all new congressmen will be
ready to take their posts at the
USG meeting next Thursday
night.
In addition to the results an
nounced Thursday night, John
Beisinger was named the win
ner in Pollock B with 112 write
in votes. There was no an
nounced candidate in this area.
All of the candidates ran as
write-ins, with Beisinger
receiving the most votes.
A dispute has arisen in Pol
lock A concerning announced
candidate A 1 Rubenfield and a
write-in, Steve Greenberg.
The dispute centered around
the lack of a polling place con
venient to Greenberg and that
he lost many votes because of
this.
Because of this alleged in
convenience to Greenberg, the
elections commission announc
ed late Thursday . night
that there would be a revote in
the Pollock A area.
Ask USG To Seat Both
Later the two candidates an
nounced that neither would run
in a revote. They said they
wanted USG to seat both of
them, with one-half vote each.
“We talked it over and
decided that we agree on al-
Three University students were involved in an automobile
accident last night near McClellan's Esso Station on E. Col
leSeone 6 student, not immediately identified was rushed to
Centre County Hospital with what witnesses described as head
lacerations. , _ T • c. .-.u
The drivers of the other two cars. Bruce Light (ith
general arts and sciences-Lebanon) and Lee Richter (4th
scienes-Jersey Shore) were not injured.
The accident evidently occurred when the driver of the
first car, traveling west, attempted to pass the other two cars
at the point where College Ave. narrows from four to two
lane, Ihe first car reportedly hit Light’s car, forced Richter’s,
car over the curb and then crossed College Ave. into the ser
vice station lot, knocking over a gasoline pump.
According to witnesses, the driver was forced through the
windshield. Police, fire and emergency squads arrived at the
scene in time to prevent the damaged gasoline pump from ex
ploding.
LAUNCH: After only a 3-
minute delay, a Saturn IB
rocket used a first stage thrust
of 1.6 million pounds to blast
the Apollo 7 spacecraft into or
bit. lifting otf at 11:03 a.m.
Eastern Daylight Time at Cape
Kennedy, Fla.
ASTRONAUTS: Navy
Capt. Walter M. Schirra Jr.,
45; Air Force Maj. Donn F.
Eisele. 38, and civilian Walter
Cunningham, 36. reported no
sure. He clicked off his observa
tions as the spaceship built up its
five mile per second speed. “It’s a
little bumpy on second stage.” he
said. As the excape tower atop the
spaceship was jettisoned, he re
ported, “All beautiful. That tower
USG Results
Now Official
Student Injured
In 3-Car Accident
Flight Statistics
problems _and said they were j
“having a'ball.*' 5
FLIGHT DURATION: 10 I
days, 20 hours, 9 minutes. 'i
PURPOSE: Test all systems >
ot qualify Apollo spacecraft for
later flights to the moon.
ORBITAL PATH: Initial
orbit of 140 by 183 miles was
very near the target of 142 by
176 miles.
ESTIMATED MISSION 1
COST: $145 million. 1
really blew.”
Doctors at consoles in the control
center noted that Schirra's heart
rate rose to 92 beats a minute dur
ing the powered flight, up from his
normal rate of about 75 beats ft
minute.
WHISKY
- - . v '■
most every point. We feel that
we - could both represent our
area better than any other con
gressman, and we feel that we
should both be seated,’’
Rubenfield said.
“If there is another election
USG will just have to find new
candidates,” Greenberg added.
Both candidates had praise
for each other. “It was a very
clean campaign. When I found
out that Steve was running
against me, I went to see him
and explained some of the USG
elections procedures,” Ruben
field said.
Candidates Worked Together
Greenberg said that rather
than working against each
other, they worked together.
“We went around to the
various houses in the area and
asked the house presidents if
they would call a house me
eting so that we could talk to
the men. We wanted them to
know for whom they were vot
ing, and I must say that we
didn't get much cooperation,”
Greenberg said.
Both candidates said they
felt that together they could
more than adequately repre
sent their constituants.
Steve Geron, USG elections
commissioner, said that the
elections commission could
not make a ruling on the split
vote. He said that this kind of
decision is not within the com
mission* s jurisdiction. The
commission will recommend a
revote to congress, he said.
Vietnam Revisited
-See Page 2
SEVBM CENTS
Petition
On Race
Circulating
By JOHN BRONSON
Collegian Staff Writer
A petition voicing student
concern over the racial im
balance at the University, went
into circulation yesterday.
Steve Haimowitz, organizer
of the White Liberation Front,
an organization designed to
focus attention on the racial si
tuation here, authored the peti
tion.
It states; “We the undersign
ed, in full support of the facul
ty, petition to racially balance
the University, and as respon
sible students, demand that
The Pennsylvania State
University, specifically its Ad
ministration and faculty,
emerge from the shadow of in
difference and inaction and
make a concerted effort
toward resolving the racial
crisis in its own domain.
“The University should first
take steps to insure that the
student body is representative
of the state’s population, and
second, change its orientation
to insure that each student
receives an honest exposure to
the facts of the racism which
has created the critical si
tuation and the current al
ternatives for its resolution.
“Failure to clo so by the
University means a forsaking
of its obligations to the state of
Pennsylvania, the student body
and the goals to which it
avows.”
Haimowitz said that “the
petition asks the student “for
more than his signature. It
asks him to admit a commi
ment beyond what most stu
dents consider the thing to do.”
This petition complements
another petition which is al
ready circulating within the
faculty. The faculty petition is
directed to the University Sen
ate “to introduce changes in
admissions standards in order
to admit to all University de
gree programs many more stu
dents from minority group and
poverty backgrounds.’*
Although the student petition
began within the White Liber
ation Front, it is not limited to
that organization. Members of
the Free Speech Movement
and other students who want to
commit themselves, are help
ing to circulate it. Their goal
is to reach 15,000 signatures by
the end of Fall Term.
’ Judy Gould, a student mem
ber of the President’s Commis
sion for the Culturally Disad
vantaged, said,
“The petition isn’t designed
with any specific program in
mind. Its purpose is to provide
students with a vehicle to
disprove the charge of their
apathy. It’s their chance to
prove the apathy-seers wrong,
and to show that they are con
cerned and want to be com
mitted.”
Copies of the petition are
available in S-211 Human
Development Building. Miss
Gould said.