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World News
Campus dissenters *punished’
Federal aid cut;
misconduct sighted
WASHINGTON — Thirty-five,
students at nine California
universities and colleges lost
their federal financial aid during
the last school year because of
misconduct, the Office of
Education has reported.
Nationwide, 84 colleges and
universities cut off federal aid for
434 students for that reason. The
report did not reveal the number
of cases in which the misconduct
included participation in campus
disorders.
No aid terminations were
reported for students at the
University of California at
Berkeley or the University of
California at Santa Barbara,
scenes of some of California’s
most extensive campus disor
ders.
Two colleges accounted for 28
of the 35 aid terminations in
California. Fifteen students lost
federal financial aid at Laney
College at Oakland, Calif., and 13
at San Fernando Valley State
College at Northridge, Calif.
The report disclosed that no
less than 40 students, two of them
in California, lost aid because
they participated in disorders
which seriously disrupted the
campus. The reasons for action
against the other 394 students
were lumped under the catch-all
phrase of any “misconduct”
bearing adversely on their fitness
to receive financial aid.
Federal law requires colleges
and universities to cut off federal
aid to students convicted in
court—or judged guilty through
college administrative
procedures—of participating in
disorders that seriously disrupt
the campus. But aid also may be
taken away for other reasons.
Rep. Edith Green (D-Ore.),
Chairman of the House Sub
committee on Higher Education,
interpreted the report to mean
that the law is being disregarded
by some of the nation’s 2,600
institutions of higher learning.
Leary in Algiers
ALGIERS AP—Algeria has granted political asylum to Dr.
Timothy Leary, the prophet of LSD who escaped from prison in San
Luis Obispo, Calif., on Sept. 12, the official Algerian news agency said
Tuesday night.
Algerie Presse Service said Leary had arrived in Algeria
“recently,” with his wife, Rosemary.
He intends to work with the Algiers office of the Black Panther
party, opened recently by the Panthers’ information minister,
Eldridge Cleaver, it was understood.
In New York, a spokesman for the Youth International Party—
Yippies—said Leary would hold a news conference Thursday in
Algiers.
Grass convictions
At San Luis Obispo , Leary was serving a term for marijuana
possession at a minimum security prison, a fenced-in cluster of dor
mitories and workshops in hills near the ocean about 200 miles north of
Los Angeles.
The 50-year-old former Harvard University lecturer was under
sentence of six-and-one-half months to 10 years on the marijuana
possession conviction. He also faced a 10-year prison sentence in
Texas on conviction of smuggling marijuana into the United States
from Mexico. Officials at the prison said he had been transferred there
because it was not believed he would attempt to escape. The un
derground revolutionary organization, the Weathermen, claimed to
have aided in his getaway.
The Yippies released a letter from Leary saying: “1 offer living
gratitude to my sisters and brothers in the Weatherman underground
who designed and executed my liberation.”
The Yippies also read from the fugitive Bernardine Dohrn, a
Weatherman leader on the FBI's most wanted list, a letter of self
congratulation for helping Leary escape from the California jail.
“In most cases the institutions
with the greatest disturbances
did the least in terminating
federal assistance,” she said.
“This is an almost incredible
report for colleges and univer
sities demanding more and more
federal aid.”
Specifically, she criticized
Harvard, the University of
Wisconsin and the University, of
Michigan for reporting no action
to terminate student aid. She said
the three were among the
campuses where “student
rampages were the subject of
front page reporting during the
past year.”
Criminal convictions
According to the report, two
California students were
deprived of federal aid because of
criminal convictions for par
ticipating in violent campus
disruptions. One of the students
was enrolled at California State
Polytechnic College at Pomona,
Calif., and the other at San
Fernando Valley State College.
Aid terminations for
“misconduct” included 15 at
Laney College, 12 at San Fer
nando Valley State College, and
one each at California State
college, Long Beach; Claremont
Graduate School, Claremont,
Calif.; Golden West College,
Huntington Beach, Calif.; Lassen
Community College District,
Susanville, Calif.; Pitzer College,
Claremont; and the University of
California at Los Angeles.
Los Angeles Times-Washington
Post News Service
He’s over 130
and wants
another wife
TEHRAN AP —Alish
Abasspour, an Iranian farmer,
claims to be 136 years old and
wants to marry for the 14th time
because he thinks 13 is an
unlucky number, the newspaper
Ettelaat reported.
A man can marry more than
one wife under Iranian law if his
other wives agree. Abasspour
said the only two still in residence
gave him the go-ahead.
I News Roundup
from AP reports
CHICAGO—Vice President Spiro T. Agnew said today
New York Mayor John V. Lindsay’s endorsement of his
state’s Democratic candidate for governor, Arthur Goldberg,
S was predictable. Agnew noted that Lindsay, an enrolled
Republican who was re-elected last year as an independent,
had supported Democrats previously. The vice president
S indicated that he expects Lindsay one day will end up in the
S Democratic party as some politicians have predicted.
•;! FT. HOOD, Tex.—The government abruptly cut short its
:i assault case Tuesday against S. Sgt. David Mitchell after
three prosecution witnesses appeared at his court-martial
and none was able to say whether the defendant shot a single
$ Vietnamese civilian at My Lai. The defense tentatively was
scheduled to open its presentation Wednesday providing it
S; could collect its witnesses on short notice. Defense attorney
S Ossie Brown told newsmen: “I think everybody was caught
by surprise.”
CHICAGO—Vice President Spiro T. Agnew said Tuesday
that it would be “interesting” to have news commentators
appear voluntarily on a panel show and be quizzed by elected
public officials about the broadcasters’ opinions on subjects
in the news. “The people who are watching that tube have a
right to know what your opinions are if you happen to be a
S man who is telling the news every night,” Agnew told two
television interviewers in Chicago as he wound up a two-day
campaign visit to Illinois.
WASHINGTON—The space agency said Tuesday two
tiny fragments of the moon, brought back by the Apollo 12
mission last November, are missing in the mail system
somewhere. The National Aeronautics and Speace Ad
ministration said it has asked the Post Office department to
look into the delay in delivery of two shipments mailed from
Nassau Bay near Houston, Tex., last Sept. 28.
SANTA CRUZ, Calif.—Mystery surrounds the deaths of
an eye surgeon, his wife, two sons and a secretary whose
bodies were found Monday night in a swimming pool at a
luxurious hilltop mansion, which was destroyed by fire. All
were bound, hooded, shot in the back of the head and thrown
into the pool. Sheriff’s Lt. Kenneth Pittenger said as his men
searched the property and surroundings for clues: “We have
no weapon, no suspect, no motive.”
Egypt plans to
open Suez Canal
BOSTON AP—Cairo has sent to Washington a plan that includes
reopening the Suez Canal to ships of all nations and enlarging it to
accommodate supertankers, the Christian Science Monitor said in its
Wednesday editions.
The plan, being re-examined by Egyptian and foreign
businessmen, is described as a possible way “to break the worsening
Soviet-U.S. deadlock” in the Middle East, the newspaper reported in a
story filed from Beirut by staff correspondent John Cooley.
The plan “has been secretly sent from Cairo to Washington in time
for the Nixon-Gromyko meeting,” the newspaper said. President
Nixon meets with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko in
Washington on Thursday, although subjects they will discuss have not
been specified.
Laporte funeral held; Trudeau well guarded
MONTREAL AP—Labor Minister Pierre Laporte,
kidnaped and slain in a terrorist campaign for Quebec
independence, was buried Tuesday after perhaps the
most closely guarded funeral in Canadian history.
Police searched Notre Dame church with German
shepherd dogs trained to sniff out dynamite. The sewers
were scoured for bombs or hidden agents of French
Canadian separatists who killed Laporte and still held as
hostage James Cross, British trade commissioner in
Montreal.
After the simple 40-minute rites, Laporte was buried
on a hillside cemetery as a police helicopter patroled
overhead.
The presence of Trudeau and other dignitaries
prompted the elaborate security measures at the
church.
As more than 1,000 guests began to arrive an hour
before the 4 p.m. funeral, troops with rifles and machine
guns took up positions facing a crowd on the barricaded
sidewalks of the square.
Paratroopers flown here from Edmonton, Alta.,
trained guns on the square from the rooftops of buildings
that surround it.
But there were no incidents.
343 arrested
A spokesman for Quebec's provincial police
reported 343 persons under arrest in the four-day
roundup in the province of suspected members of the
separatist Quebec Liberation Front, which kidnaped and
shot Laporte and abducted Cross. Thirty-eight other
persons were picked up and released. Of those detained,
186 are from Montreal.
Police have staged 1.628 raids under the War
Measures Act that Trudeau invoked last Friday to deal
with the crisis. Security forces may search without
warrant and hold suspects up to a week without a
charge.
Police and military officials worked around the
clock to provide the security screen for Trudeau and the
100 or so members of Parliament who came to Montreal
from Ottawa for the funeral.
Police actions protested
The situation returned to normal on most Quebec
campuses following widespread protests against the
application of the War Measures Act.
About 800 students from the University of Montreal
faculties of letters and social sciences voted over
whelmingly Monday to return to classes, despite
speeches from the more militant students urging them
their two-day boycott. No incidents were reported.
Before leaving Ottawa, Trudeau told the House of
Commons he would consider a request to outline police
procedures followed under the war-time act in the
search for members of the front.