September 27, 1970
THE DAILY TAR HEEL
Page Four
Commission
Calls
For 'Nati
onal
Cease -Fire
WASHINGTON-President Nixon's Commission
on Campus Unrest pleaded Saturday for a
"national cease-fire" among students, police and
politicians and urged Nixon himself to lead the
way.
In what it termed the most important of a long
list of recommendations to stop violence and
disruption the commission said:
"Only the President has the platform and
prestige to urge all Americans, at once, to step
back from the battlehnes into which they are
forming. Only the President, by example and
instruction, can effectively calm the rhetoric of
both public officials and protestors whose words
in the past have too often helped further divide
the country, rather than unite it."
The commission denounced violence in any
quarter and proposed that anyone who uses
violence be charged and punished as criminals, but
said dissent and disagreement short of violence
absolutely had to be protected.
Former Gov. William Scranton of Pennsylvania,
the commission chairman, presented the report
without public ceremony to the President just 15
weeks after Nixon called for recommendations to
avoid further disturbances of the type that
disrupted U. S. campuses after the United States'
Cambodian incursion April 30.
After seeing Nixon, Scr2nton was asked about
the President's moral and politicaJ leadership in
healing the divisions described in the commission's
report.
"Since the episodes of last spring, there has not
been the kind of leadership needed to bring about
the kind of reconciliation that we're talking
about," Scranton replied.
He said he did not think the president or his
administration shared the commission's deep belief
in the need for urgent action to repair these
divisions, which he said are "far more compelling
and are growing far faster than most Americans
realize."
The commission said the Indochina War, racism
and the colleges themselves were responsible for
student unrest.
In its charge to Nixon, the panel said:
"Nothing is more important than an end to the
war in Indochina. Disaffected student see the war
as a symbol of moral crisis in the nation which, in
their eyes, deprives even law of its legitimacy..."
Nixon made no public statement about the
report, which ran 359 typewritten pages, but was
quoted by aides as telling Scranton not to worry if
the document was controversial.
"I don't want a bunch of intellectual eunuchs
around here."
The commission said there was a "crisis of
violence" and another of "understanding."
"Students who bonb and burn are criminals.
Police and National Guardsmen who needlessly
shoot or assault students are criminals.
"All who applaud these criminal acts share in
their evil. We must declare a national cease-fire.
"A nation driven to use the weapons of war
upon its youth is a nation on the edge of chaos," it
said. "A nation that has lost the allegiance of part
of its youth is a nation that has lost part of its
future."
The 10-member panel made clear it had no
sympathy for "a small minority of politically
extreme students and faculty members and a small
group of dedicated agitators who are bent on
destruction of the university through violence in
order to gain their own political ends."
"Perpetrators of violence must be identified,
removed from the university as swiftly as possible
and prosecuted vigorously by the appropriate
agencies of law enforcement," it said.
Speaking to the President, the report urged him
not only to end the Indochina War but to "renew
the national commitment to full social justice and
to be aware of increasing charges of repression."
"We recommend to him that he tak steps to see
to it that the words and deeds of government do
not encourage belief in these charges." the
commission said.
"We recommend that the President seek to
convince public officials and protestors alike that
divisive and insulting rhetoric is dangerous. In the
current political campaign and throughout the
years ahead, the President should insist that no
one play irresponsible politics with the issue of
'campus unrest. "
The commission also proposed:
-Nixon should call "a series of national
meetings designed to foster understanding among
those who are now divided."
The government should offer "greatly
increased financial aid . for black colleges and
universities" and formerly all-white schools should
step up minority student recruitment.
-The government should enact "strict
controls of the sale, transfer and possession cf
explosive materials" to meet the increasing threats
of arson and bombing.
-Police and guardsmen should carry rifles and
shotguns on campuses only when there is sniping
or armed resistance. Guardsmen need more and
better training to cope with civil disorders as well
as special non-lethal weapons and protective
equipment.
Universities should make clear to students
what kind of conduct will not be permitted, and
should waste no time calling police when violence
erupts. Faculty members who lead or take part in
"disruptive conduct" should be fired.
-Universities must reform their operations,
from course requirements to rule-making, but
nothing should be done to hamper free speech and
the exchange of ideas on campus.
-Students must 'protect the right of all
speakers to be heard" even when they disagree,
and realize that 'language that offends will seldom
persuade." And students "should not expect their
own views, even if held with great moral intensity,
automatically and immediately to determine
national policy."
On the shooting of students at Kent State
University and Jackson State College last May, the
commission scheduled separate reports for release
next week. But in reviewing the Ohio incident, it
mentioned student rock throwing, but said
nothing of officials' early claims that gunfire was
directed at guardsmen.
In the Mississippi case, where the commission
said repression of black students was
"shamelessly" practiced, it said there was brick
and bottle throwing and harassment of police and
firemen but no shooting before officers "fired a
barrage into a girls' dormitory."
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Jordan Truce Holds
Palestinian guerrillas announced
Saturday they would free all the
remaining 38 hostages, all Americans,
from three hijacked jetliners and turn
them over to the Red Cross to ensure
their safety.
A statement issued by the Popular
Front for the Liberation of Palestine
(PFLP), the Marxist guerrilla group that
hijacked the planes Sept. 6 and 9, said the
hostages would be released through the
Egyptian Embassy in Amman.
"The Red Cross, in turn , will take
onto itself to make sure the governments
concerned carry out their promises in the
terms of the guerrilla demands," the front
statement said.
An Egyptian Embassy spokesman said
all of the hostages were in good condition
Hmssein Forms Civilian Government
King Hussein appointed a civilian
government to restore peace to
war-scarred Jordan Saturday and named
Ahmed Toukan, a 72-year-old Palestinian,
to head it as prime minister. He ordered
Toukan to take a tough line against the
Palestinian guerrillas.
There was no immediate reaction to
the new administration in Jordan but
Yasser Arafat and the other guerrilla
chieftains had demanded the dismissal of
the military regime which Hussein
installed 1 1 days ago in a move that
started the bloody civil war.
The cease-fire which Hussein and
Arafat, commander-in-chief of guerrilla
forces, agreed upon Friday seemed to be
holding up Saturday although sporadic
bursts from machine guns were heard in
the capital.
The U.S. Defense Department,
reacting to the easing crisis, Saturday
canceled an order that had put 17,000
American paratroopers on alert for
possible duty in Jordan to evacuate U.S.
citizens.
In Cairo, the Egyptian Defense
Ministry announced that King Hussein
was expected to arrive in the Egyptian
capital Sunday for talks there with Arab
leaders.
Sixteen hijack hostages liberated by
the Jordanian army headed home via
London but the guerrillas of the Popular
Front for the Liberation of Palestine held
38 others all of them Americans.
Hussein was villified throughout the
militant Arab world for his hardline
against the guerrillas who seek to drive
Israeli forces from what had been
Palestine and restore it to Arab control.
President Gamal Abdel Nasser of
Egypt said Hussein's army had carried out
a "horrifying massacre" of Palestinians.
Maj. Gen. Jaafar el-Numeiry, premier of
Sunda, said Hussein was waging a war of
genocide against Palestinians.
Radio Amman broadcast the text of a
royal decree which named Toukan, a west
bank politician born in the city of
Nablus, to head a 13-man government
and implement a four-point peace plan.
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WASHINGTON With tension over the
Mideast crisis relaxing, the Defense
Department Saturday rescinded an order
that had kept 17,000 U.S. paratroopers
on an alert status since last weekend.
The alert had applied to the
15,000-man 82nd Airborne Division at
Ft. Bragg, N.C., and two 1,000-man
paratroop battalions of the 8th Infantry
Division at Mainz, Germany.
The department said "based on the
current situation, instructions have gone
out to reduce the readiness posture."
The announcement added:
"These units will be prepared to
respond quickly, if needed, for any
evacuation of U.S. citizens from Jordan,
but if has been determined that a reduced
readiness time for the units and their
associated airlift is appropriate."
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The "associated airlift', for the
'paratroopers in Germany consisted of
CI 30 turbo-prop transports based in
England. The airlift for Ft. Bragg is made
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Force Base, N.C.
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paratroopers in Europe would be used
first if it became necessary to evacuate
the nearly 400 Americans who were still
in Jordan when fighting raged between
the Jordanian army and the Palestinian
guerrillas earlier in the week.
The Pentagon announcement did not
mention the 3rd Brigade of the 1st
Infantry Division, also in West Germany
and also placed on alert. However the
3,500-man brigade had been expected to
move by ship if needed, and its alert
status was considered less urgent.
The department previously had
reduced the alert status of airborne
hospital units in England and Germany,
permitting them to unload planes and
thus increasing by at least a day the time
it would take them to reach the Mideast.
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Political sources said Toukan was known
as a "curt man" who is one of Hussein's
most faithful supporters.
The plan demands that guerrillas leave
Jordanian cities for the frontline with
Israel and subject themselves to the laws
of Jordan while the army is permitted
freedom of movement anywhere in the
country.
Political sources said there was no
reference in Amman developments
Saturday to the status of Field Marshal
Habes al-Majali, commander-in-chief of
the Jordanian armed forces and the
nation's military governors who were
appointed when the military regime took
over on Sept. 15.
Assuming these appointments still
stand, this could indicate Hussein's
determination not to fully divest himself
of his military backing.
The Toukan cabinet replaced one
headed by Brig. Mohamed Daoud. He
resigned by leaving a letter in a Cairo
hotel room early Friday saying he wanted
to quit to open the way for the
establishment of a civilian government of
national unity.
Meanwhile, thousands of Jordanians
were reported dying of hunger and
unattended wounds, and United States
and International Red Cross officials
pressed ahead with a massive relief
program.
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and would be released within the next 48
hours.
The announcement came as 16 other
former hijack hostages, whose release
Friday was claimed an accomplishment of
Jordanian government forces, flew to
London to tell of their ordeal.
The Popular Front statement said the
guerrillas had released the 16 hostages
Friday but that government troops
attacked a hospital where the 16 were
supposed to be handed over to the Red
Cross.
"Now it has become apparent that this
way of handing over of hostages to the
Red Cross is unsafe, and exposes their
lives to danger, we have decided to hand
over the hostages to the Egyptian
Embassy which would supervise their
handing over to the Red Cross," the front
statement said.
Jordanian army sources said Friday
the 16 hostages freed on that day had
been rescued by Jordanian army units
searching the Wahdat guerrilla camp.
Army sources said 15 of the hostages
were found abanconed by their guerrilla
captors in the camp. A 16th was found
later. The group included eight Britons,
six Swiss and two West Germans.
The Popular Front statement said its
agents were trying to hand over the 16
hostages to the Red Cross at Ashrafayeh
Hospital Friday when army units
attacked and arrested a guerrilla official
and a Red Cross representative.
Earlier Friday, the guerrilla radio had
reported an army attack on the same
hospital in which it said soldiers machine
gunned and attacked with axes wounded
civil war victims. But it did not mention
at the time the release of any hostages.
The 16 freed hostages flew to
London's Heathrow Airport.
The hostages had been passengers or
crewmen aboard three jetliners which
extremists of the Popular Front for the
Liberation of Palestine hijacked to Jordan
earlier this month to back demands for
the release of comrades held in European
prisons.
The 16 hostages involved in the flight
Ssojiuoo were liberated by Jordanian
army troops Friday. They were found in
a refugee -camp near Amman where their
guerrilla captors had left them in a locked
house without" food or water.
The 38 Americans unaccounted for
were reported by the guerrillas to have
been moved late this week from the
Amman area to the "liberated zone of
north Jordan" that area of the kingdom
where the guerrillas claim control.
some reports said the U.S. hostages,
including at least four women, may have
been moved to Syria -one of the most
militantly anti-American nations of the
Arab world.
Sellers Not Guilty
Of Eiot Conspiracy
ORANGEBURG, S.C.-Circuit Judge
John Grimball Saturday issued a directed
verdict of innocent on two of three
counts in the indictment against
Cleveland L. Sellers Jr., charged in a 1968
racial clash at Orangeburg in which three
black students were shot to death by
South Carolina highway patrolmen.
Crimball ruled the state had not
proven its charges of conspiracy to riot
and inciting to riot, but he said the single
charge of riot would go to the jury.
Defense attorneys had moved for a
directed verdict of innocent on all three
counts after the state ended its case
Saturday afternoon following the
testimony of 1 1 witnesses.
Grimball said the riot charge against
the 28-year-old former official of the
Student Non-Violent Coordinating
Committee would be limited only to his
activities on the night of Feb. 19, two
nights before the fatal shooting near the
South Carolina State College campus.
Testimony for the defense is scheduled
to begin Monday.
Sellers faces a maximum sentence of
one year in jail and a $250 fine if
convicted on the remaining riot charge.
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