Mostly cloudy today with showers, most likely during . morning, high near 74. Partly cloudy and cooler tonight and tomorrow. Low tonight near 50, high tomorrow near 68. Fair and mild Monday. The chance of rain is 80% today and 20% tonight and tomorrow. Vol. 70, No. 113 FlvinCl Nut! IT'S been LEGS and sun-reflectors all week for many * & II students as hot weather brings on the chance for an early gets grounded? tan. Where was spring? Senators seek meeting with President Nixon WASHINGTON (AP) Reacting in frustration against U.S. attacks into Cambodia, angry senators yesterday demanded a meeting with President Nixon, introduced a censure resolution against him and talked of eventually cut ting off Vietnam war funds. For the first time since debate over joining the League of Nations 51 years ago. the Senate's Foreign Relations Com mittee formally requested a face-to-face confrontation with the President. There was no immediate response. Chairman J. W. Fulbright. D-Ark., and other senators questioned the legal and constitutional power of the President—even as commander in chief—to send troops into a neutral nation. Victory Hallucination Sen. Stephen M. Young, D-Ohio. attacking the ‘'hallucination of victory in Vietnam,” introduced a resolution which—if passed—would censure the President and express the view of the Senate that he had no legal or constitutional power to act in Cambodia. Even some of those senators defending Nixon's action Said they believe the public would react negatively and that no one could foresee all the implications and consequences of the move. Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott agreed with Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield that politics should be kept out of the debate on Cambodia. On the Losing Side "Lord knows I want to,” he said, "because I’m on the los ing side of this in public opinion as of now.” Sens. Frank Church, D-Idaho. and John Sherman Cooper, R-Ky., said they will offer legislation to bar introduction of U.S. combat troops into Cambodia and to prohibit the delivery of arms or the use of U.S. advisers in that nation. But it was unclear when the measures would be introduc ed or how much support they would muster. Five Drafts Considered Sources said that at least five different drafts of the amendment are currently under consideration, and that the matter will probably be discussed by the Foreign Relations Committee next week. That committee did act yesterday to report formally to the Senate the measure repealing the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin resolution, used by the Johnson administration to justify dispatch of U.S. ground troops to Vietnam. Last year Church and Cooper were successful in legislation barring the use of U.S. combat troops in Laos or Thailand. Too Much Blood "Too much blood has been lost, too much patience has gone unrewarded while the war continues to poison our whole society,” Church told the Senate. “Whether by negotiated compromise or by a phased, or derly but complete withdrawal, it is time to put an end to it." Church said. “If the executive branch will not take the initiative, then the Congress and the people must.” Fulbright said the last formal request of the committee he heads for a meeting with the chief executive was with Presi dent Woodrow Wilson. Meeting Not Unreasonable "That was in 1919." said Sen. George D. Aiken, of Ver mont, the committee's senior Republican, "And we felt a meeting with the president every 50 years was not unreasonable.” "The committee simply felt that this matter was of such grave importance we ought to seek a meeting with the Presi dent to discharge our own constitutional responsibilities,” Fulbright said. ■ Fulbright said telegrams received by the committee yesterday morning ran 15 to one against Nixon’s actions and produced the greatest volume of wires received in'so short a time in memory. The White House said phone calls it received strongly supported Nixon. Contrary to Spirit Fulbright said the President’s move was contrary to the spirit of the national commitments resolution passed last year and emphasized: "I don’t know of any legal authority for the President to take this action, not even as commander in chief does he have the. right to engage in undeclared war in a neutral country." "Apparently Cambodia is regarded not as a foreign coun try but as a no man’s land-free for all,” Aiken said. “Too many people have presented the Cambodian situation as a ’golden opportunity’ to save American lives and shorten the war,” Mansfield said in a Senate speech. “The step-up into Cambodia can do just the opposite. May Lengthen Couflict "It may well lengthen the conflict, widen it into an In dochinese war, increase U.S. costs by billions and increase U.S. casualties which now number almost 50.000 dead....” "There is nothing in past experience in Indochina to sug gest that casualties can be reduced by enlarging the area of military operations.” Throughout the day of debate, Nixon supporters were not silent: . “The strident cooing of the antiwar doves that this is Woodside Panel to try 39 student cases Jim Hardy, a member of the Legal Defense Commit tee, said last night he received a letter from th Adminis tration naming 39 students whose cases will be heard May 7, 8 and 9 by the Woodside Panel. The panel was appointed by University President Eric A. Walker to investigate campus disruptions which oc curred before April 23. Hardy would not release the names of the 39 students, but he said they included those charged with malicious mischief, those charged with violating the injunction' and those charged with violations of University rules. Hardy said the Legal Defense' Committee, an organiza tion formed to assist the arrested students in their defense, will hold a closed meeting at 9 a.m. Tuesday to discuss legal prodecdure for. the students scheduled to appear be fore the panel. . Members of the three.-member panel are Eobert E. Woodside, former Pennsylvania Supreme .Court justice; Genevieve Blatt, former secretary of Internal Affairs and a practicing attorney in Harrisburg, and William T. Cole man Jr., a Philadelphia attorney. Walker was-authorized to create the new disciplinary procedure by the Board of Trustees in a strongly worded statement by the board condemning disruptive activities.. Woodside said’ the accused students will be furnished with the charges the University is bringing against them. He said they will be informed of the process by which they will be tried. Woodside said information .about-judicial procedures will be released' after final plans have been formulated. Styp Batly (EoUfljt 4 Pages broadening of the war is pure bosh,” Sen. Edward J. Gurney, R-Fla., said. "A nation at war must talke all actions necessary to defeat the enemy." "This military action is necessary to consolidate and com plete the almost total destruction of the enemy’s capability that has already taken place in most of southern Vietnam,” Sen. Milton R. Young, R-N.D., said. “To do less than the President has done would be to destroy the credibility of the United States as the leader of the free world," Sen. John G. Tower, R-Texas, said. SmTrfS “ nvlc, “ n ll “ “* taking np position. s.v.rel blo“k, frra tte N,S Haven ill bring the war to an end sooner. Green where demonstrators rallied in support of the Sen. Howard M. Kennedy, D-Mass., said in a Boston ■ Black Panthers s Pf c „ h ‘ h ®i, N “ on has ‘' rall ? n f pre y f ° sa ™ illusions that Lt Theodore Dempsey of the National Guard infor u.poVroa!lnotilrrnpr<ivu.no"-iira'lCton:^ln A th la i,'' r °? a f mation office said four battalions—about 2,400 men— we are in error. Men will die, and we will reap the harvest of were dep i oye d at 4 p.m.-scheduled starting time of the this error with dissent and turmoil. main Panther rally. He said they were there at the request m rmS n ... , of city officials to engage in traffic direction, protection . , President George Meany: As other presidents 0 j jif e an d property and generally aid “in adequate egress before him have done, he acted with courage and conviction. and access to the central part of the city,” where the Green Former Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey: We now j s i oca t e d face the unhappy prospect of an expansion of the war in .. *_. . , , _ Southeast Asia and the rise in tension, protest and violence at , S e "L ? ave *i, ollc . e James Ahern estimated home. This is a sad day for America.” shortly before the rally began there were about 10,000 Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-S.C.: “There is too much senti- Persons” on the Green opposite Yale University buildings, ment against President Nixon's action in the press and other The rally on the Green was the focus of the first Alerted National Guard news media. These comments undercut our commander in day of a two-day series of events in support of jailed Gov. John N. Dempsey had alerted the entire 6,000 chief...” Black Panthers here and in other cities. man state National Guard, and asked Atty. Gen. John N. Sen. Edmund S. Muskie, D-Maine: “...Incredible...The City and state police and federal troops stood by in Mitchell to have federal troops stand by. Four thousand risks far outweigh any military value there might be.!’ case of violence and the entire, state. National Guard had troops were flown, to bases in Massachusetts and Rhode -. • - - '• *• - •• - . Island. y . S H 0 . ■ & & Demonstration leaders and city authorities called for ErfifrV into Cambodia tOUCheS Off 3 one of the Chicago defendants, said H m ■■ ■ ™ B wX* v '■ra ■ a a t a news conference the bringing of troops into the area u M m ‘ _ _ was a trap, but he added, “We’re not going to walk into men IVI IC H M Mayor Bartholomew F. Guida said, “Our aim is to do ■ B ■ %VII I IlvUw wil I VWw everything we can to provide a climate for peaceful ■ assembly.” .. _ , ... . ~ Another Chicago defendant, Jerry Rubin, said, “We section m Schenectady when an esti- came here to destroy one concept: the Conspiracy seven, mated 500 students sat in the street, -we’re the Conspiracy eight.” He referred to the fact that The sit-down followed demonstrations Seale had been on trial- in Chicago with the other seven, on the campus of Union College, at a hut his case was separated and he was sentenced to jail General Motors-Co. plant and at draft j or contempt after courtroom outbursts, headquarters. - Rubin also said, “The pigs (police) attacked the Black Sent Telegram Panther office in Baltimore and that’s an attack on all Villanova University students of us.” in Pennsylvania sent Nixon a telegram Yale University officially has had nothing to do with of protest and prepared referendum organizing the rally events. Many Yale students are par forms for distribution to colleges ticipating,, however, and there has been a moratorium on throughout the nation. classes, approved by the school, since April 21 in support A student strike was scheduled for of the Panthers and other community related demands. Tuesday at Temple University in Phila delphia. An Army tank being moved 9 Be for some unexplained reason was in- Uiwam ■ 3IHHAnIS volved in a minor traffic accident near fivULU'll 30V J the campus, and students taking part f " in an anti-Cambodian war rally swarmed over it. Police cleared them f * ■<££*£ AH OlltCOltlfi A “Southeast Asia Moratorium” lw»l ■ VII VHIIiVIIIV table was set up at the University of Arizona, displaying signs that read “Stop the War in Cambodia.” About 500 students and faculty members from Binghamton University protested in front of the federal build in that upstate New York city, calling American action in Cambodia an “illegal invasion.” A march on the county courthouse at Appleton, Wis., was staged by an estimated 500 students from junior high, high school and Lawrence University, who walked out of their classrooms . At Marist college in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., an administration building was occupied by about 100 students pro testing what they called “President Nixon’s absurdity' in Cambodia.” By The Associated Press The entry of American troops into Cambodia touched off a new rash of violence on the nation’s college cam puses yesterday. The National Guard was ordered into College Park, Md. to quell a dis turbance at the University of Mary land in the wake of a rampage by 1,500 students who sacked an armory building where Air Force ROTC classes were conducted. And, in Washington, representa tives of the Student Mobilization Com mittee to End- the War in Vietnam called for mass demonstrations to pro test the Cambodian development. Fire bombs were hurled at Oregon State and Hobart College, and students blocked traffic with street sit-downs in Cincinnati and Schenectady, N.Y. Princeton students joined the fac ulty in cutting classes at their New Jersey campus and sought to organize a nationwide college protest strike. Schirra's Son Hurt Walter Schirra 111, .the 18-year-old son of the astronaut, was injured early in the day during a demonstration that drew 4,000 persons to Stanford Univer sity and ended in violence. Schirra was described as a mem ber of a conservative campus group, and was said to have been roughed-up while trying to halt window smashing and the burning of a wrecked car. Po lice with tear gas quelled the dis turbance. In Washington, President Nixon talked informally with Pentagon em attempt to destroy Communist sanctuaries 8,000 troops in CAMBODIA (AP) About 8,000 U.S. troops moving in the wake of a massive air-artillery barrage, drove into Cambodia yesterday in a bid to destroy the elusive sanctuaries of the Communist command for South Vietnam. Advance units thrust more than 20 miles inside Cam bodian territory as field com manders reported light ground resistance in the area known as the Fishhook, 70 miles northwest of Saigon. The operation, called Total Victory, was ordered by President Nix on. But helicopter pilots ran into heavy antiaircraft fire as they shuttled in elements of the U.S. Ist Air Cavalry Division. Main target of the American troops, supported by an elite force of 2,000 South Viet namese, is the top command post for all Communist military and political activities in South Vietnam. Troops combed the scrub jungles of Cambodia north of Vietnam’s War Zone C, where the enemy constructed thick walled concrete bunkers linked by a maze of tunnels. In Area Sometimes But the top enemy command post, known as the Central Of fice for South Vietnam, or Published by Students of The Pennsylvania State University University Park, Pa., Saturday Morning, May 2, 1970 Destroy Credibility ployes after a briefing on the Southeast Asia situation. Referring to American troops there, he said: "You finally think of those kids out there. I say kids, I’ve seen them. They’re the greatest. "You know, you see these bums, you know, blowing up the campuses. Listen, the boys on the college cam puses today are the luckiest people in the world—going to the greatest uni versities—and here they are burning up the books. I mean, storming around about this issue, I mean you name it, get rid of the war, there’ll be another one.” A firebomb was thrown through the window of the ROTC armory at Oregon State. It blackened walls but did little damage. Telephoned threats of firebombings at the University of Illinois campus did not materialize, but one such bomb was thrown at a store in downtown Champaign. A 19-year-old student at Hobart College was ari'ested on arson charges after three firebombs were tossed into Air Force ROTC offices on the Geneva, N.Y., campus. The office was heavily damaged, and 100 students were evacu ated from dormitories on the upper floors of the three-story building. A number of demonstrators from the University of Cincinnati were ar rested after they staged a two-hour sit-down at a busy intersection in the city, following a three-mile march from their campus. More than 1,000 by standers cheered the police action. Traffic was halted at a piain inter- COSVN, only is sometimes in the area. Since it was formed in the early 1960's COSVN has been a mobile and dispersed headquarters. The last known Communist command head quarters was four miles inside Cambodia. But , intelligence sources said the enemy com mand had withdrawn northward two days before the operation launched. While attention focused on the first major American ground operation in Cambodia since the Vietnam war began, a South Vietnamese task force with American advisers pushed 30 miles into Cambodia along Highway 1 further south. It linked up with Cambodian troops defending the beleaguered provincial capital of Svay Rieng. It is one of four task forces that launched an offensive into. Cambodia , Wednesday with American advisers and support from U.S. bombers, helicopters gunships and artillery. More than 25,000' American and South Vietnamese troops and hundreds of tanks, ar mored personnel carriers, planes and helicopters are sweeping along a 200-mile stretch of eastern Cambodia. - In the Fish Hook area operation, 20 U.S. helicopters 11 demands talks continue at Ogontz By BARBI STINE Collegian Staff Writer Negotiations between members of the black community and the Admin istration concerning the 11 demands presented by the Black Student League of the Ogontz Campus continued there Thursday _ Discussion revolved primarily around the "legality” of the establish ment of a black cultural center, accord ing to Vince Benson, spokesman and political coordinator for the Black Stu dent Union. Benson noted the reluctance of Ogontz Director Charles J. Smith to take action on the proposal, explaining that Smith claimed the "legality” of the center had yet to be officially es tablished. But, according to Benson, the con cept of a black cultural center had been outlined in a commission’s report on the University issued by President Eric A. Walker in February. “Walker sent out letters to members of the com mission recommending that these items, three pertaining to the black community, be implemented,” Benson said. Report Never Presented Smith replied that the report had never been presented formally to the Board of Trustees. However, Benson National Guard moves Troops seize streets Firebomb Thrown WASHINGTON (AP) President Nixon, declaring “I know I did what I believe was right,” said yesterday the test ot his controversial Cambodian decision will hinge on whether “it comes out right.” Nixon made these remarks informally to a group of Pent agon workers after going to the Command Room there for a briefing on the attacks he or dered-against Communist headquarters based inside Cambodia. Military men told the chief executive that U.S. casualties had been very light in the initial phases of the operation which he announced to a nationwide radio television audience Thursday night. Advancing American and South Vietnamese troops had only a few minor contacts with the enemy in the first hours, he was told. ih e ev flew k in American tmoDS 5 haVe formed 3 b,ocking was right” Mx^id^’and Lnd y f”e wrre shot down pUots forCe ' mAeonle 7 conceded u reported. Constructs Bases the people are concerned is iruioa that it comes out all right. If it Bv mrfdfal? tife T j?. e American-led force im- comes out right, that is what By nightfall the U.S Com- mediately began constructing really matters.” e and te vief 4 rnn? l lmed' sem !'P ermanent bases 1 ° r The President signed a pro nnJ frtiUorf Jtruffc stagln S assaults, indicating a clamation designating tomor -1saulr5 au lr ? nd a . rt ‘ Uer y, st c r ‘ k . e ,s long stay in Cambodia. White row a national day of prayer mri n i?nn«f oUth House sources suggested allied for all American prisoners and V HeadSulrtSs d sMd P 1 0 8 K°° PS W °u W stay six weeks t 0 servicemen missing in action Headquarters said i«8 two months. . in Southeast Asia, persons were detained, though it was not clear whether these A _ • ■ ■ • g-a s,«r r " “ B ~“ Anti-Lambodia flyer Total U.S. casualties for the / first day were put at six . . f 5 « ■ -asu.„u,.a.„.urges student support vise on the enemy command’s ... * * operation area on Cambodian soil roughly 75 miles northwest of Saigon. Three South Vietnamese air borne battalions, moved in by helicopters, are driving on the suspected Communist com mand from the north while two large allied armored columns ' are moving up from the south. Between them, an advance force of perhaps 3,000 American helicopter-borne troops are sweeping through COSVN’s recently vacated headquarters zone. To the east, elements of a South Viet-, namese armored cavalry regi- Cambodia said he didn’t feel that ‘‘the president, as an agent of the Board, would issue and recommend a report the trustees were not generally in favor of.” Following this discussion. Smith left the room to contact the president for confirmation but Walker could not be reached. Benson said he regarded the entire situation as a ‘‘stalling tactic” adding that it was tactics such as this which precipitated the demonstrations at Ogontz last month. Called for Honesty Representatives of the black com munity then called for a general at mosphere of honesty to begin if nego tiations were to continue "in good faith.” It was finally decided that Smith should try to arrange a meeting with the trustees, black representatives, Smith and the Ogontz faculty senators, so that each of the 11 demands could be considered. Smith said he was in favor of the cultural center and would do all he could to see that the meeting took place. Discussion channeled into other demands, among them one which deals with “the naming of the two new buiidings on campus as the Dr. Martin Luther King and the Minister Malcolm X buildings.” In answer to this, Smith into New Haven A flyer urging war protestors to send public opinion telegrams to President Nixon was circulated at Thursday’s Vietnam forum in the Hetzel Union Building. The flyer said “a storm of telegrams,” originating at the Berkeley campus of the University of California, would be sent to the President "to let him know that people are disgusted with United States policy.” Students were urged to listen to Nixon's radio and television broadcast Thursday night, in which he ordered U. S. troops into Cambodia. The “concerned person" who signed the flyer urged stu dents to “send a telegram to Richard M. Nixon and tell him that there are other people to talk to besides the 'Silent Ma jority.’ Don’t let Nixon ignore us anymore!” Also included was the procedure for sending a public opinion telegram, the charge (SI for 15 message words) and the Western Union phone number, 238-6731. The suggested for mat said “No more war....No involvement in Cam bodia.... Bring the troops home now." explained any action taken towards changing the names would depend on opinion survey made of the student and faculty "population at Ogontz. However. Benson said he recalled a similar situation which occurred at University Park previously and noted “no survey was needed then.” Regarding the demand which calls for the"support of the Ogontz Campus m the demand that Bobby Seale and all other black political prisoners be set free, individual faculty members agreed to discuss it during their classes and to try to influence others to do the same Black representatives also sug gested that Oceania Library make materials pertinent to the subject available to students. Benson also said University Attor ney Delbert McQuaide, who was desig nated at the last meeting to contact the BSL concerning the creation of a non-profit organization to receive funds for the cultural center, has, as yet, taken no action. Attending the negotiations were Smith, three members of the Ogontz Faculty Senate, representatives from the BSL at Ogontz and Delaware Campuses, Dean Kenneth Roy, black administrator at Ogontz, and repre sentatives of the BSU at University Park. been alerted. A guard source said about 5,000 Guardsmen were in the city. Organizers of the rally—representing several student and nonstudent groups—had predicted 35,000 demonstra tors would join the May Day protest. Yesterday, however, one spokesman said he expected 15,000 demonstrators yesterday and several thousand more for rallies today. The main theme of the rally events was to protest the trial here of eight Black Panthers, including National Chairman Bobby Seale, on murder and kidnaping charges in connection with the death of another Panther last May. Speakers at a morning news conference—attended by all seven defendants in the Chicago riot conspiracy trial— said, however, they also were protesting police arrests Thursday in Baltimore of 10 Panthers and their sympa thizers in connection with the slaying there of a reputed Panther. One for Nixon —see page 2 Seven Cents Calls for Seale Amnesty The President, at least out wardly, seemed untroubled about his politically risky decision to send American troops into Cambodia. A few hours after his trip to the Pentagon, he and members of his family and a Florida neighbor, C. G. Bcbe Rcbozo. took a luncheon cruise on the Potomac. Then they were lifted by helicopter to the President's Camp David retreat in Maryland’s Catoctin mountains. But perhaps the pressures Nixon has faced in recent days were evident when he blurted out to his Pentagon audience some comments contrasting U.S. fighting men in Southeast Asia and “these bums, you know, blowing up the campus,” An assessment of the pro gress of operations in Cam bodia was presented to Nixon by Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird in the Pan tagon's National Military Com mand Center. Nixon was told the military movements were “on schedule” and proceeding “exceedingly well.” Vietnamese Killed, Wounded. At last report, he was told. American troops moving into the Fish Hook area of Cam bodia had killed 194 North Vietnamese and had taken 110 prisoners. Six Americans were reported wounded. American troops outnumber South Vietnamese allies by a ratio of about 2-to-l in the Fish Hook region, a White House of ficial said. Ronald L. Ziegler, White House press secretary, said telephone calls and telegrams received by Nixon were overwhelmingly in support of the Cambodian assault. The volume of communications, he reported, was substantially greater than after the Novem ber speech in which Nixon ap pealed for support from “the silent majority.” He described the response as overwhelm ingly favorable. There was no immediate comment on Foreign Relations Committee request for a meet ing with Nixon to discuss the implications of his decision to send U.S. troops into Cam bodia.
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