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.
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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.
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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.