The BG News January 22, 1973

Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 1-22-1973 The BG News January 22, 1973 Bowling Green State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news Recommended Citation Bowling Green State University, "The BG News January 22, 1973" (1973). BG News (Student Newspaper). 2799. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/2799 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications at ScholarWorks@BGSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in BG News (Student Newspaper) by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@BGSU. An Independent Bowling Gr««n Ohio Student Tuetday, January 22, 1973 Voice THe BG news Volume 56 Numb.t 56 Former President Johnson dies SAN ANTONIO. Tex i API - Former helicopter arrived at the airport at 5 Johnson was the nation's only living dent, held office during the stormiest former president rarely appeared in I'e sponsored massive aid to educa- President Lyndon B Johnson died yes- p.m. former president Hairy S Truman domestic times since the Civil War I'e public his first two years out of office tion Vet college unrest and attacks terday. I'e was pronounced dead at 5 43 p.m. died Dec 26 at the age'of 88 after a declined to run for a second full term and even less frequently permuted broke out as never before in the na- Tom Johnson, a long-time LBJ aide EST at San Antonio International Air- lengthy illness. Pis avowed reason for failing to seek interviews tion s history and press spokesman, said Johnson port by a Johnson City physician identi- Tom Johnson issued this statement the office in 1968 was that he wished to - was rushed to Brooke Army Medical fied as Dr David J Abbott from the hospital devote full time for the remainder of HE BROKE HIS silence partially in THE WAR in Vietnam was escalated Center yesterday afternoon and was Cause of death was not immediately his term, without the distractions of 1970 and spoke at a scries of fund during Johnson s administration but he dead on arrival. announced "The former president was stricken campaigning, to ending the Vietnam raisers for Democratic candidates later got the North Vietnamese to the Johnson. 64. had a history ol heart A spokesman for the family said the at the LBJ Ranch and was flown to war One of his lew ventures back into the peace table and sent leaders through- trouble former president was found lying on Brooke General I'ospital in San An- limelight came in May 1971 when with out the world into a ' peace offensive." Johnson's airplane was at San his back on the floor of his bedroom, by tonio where he was pronounced dead on But when he announced March 31. the help of President Nixon, he dedi- In contrast to the sophistication of Antonio International Airport when a two Secret Service agents assigned to arrival by Col. George McGranahan 1968 that he would not run for the cated the new Lyndon B Johnson the Kennedy administration. Johnson's sudden call (or ambulances was put him "Ms. Johnson was notified and flew office again, he appeared drawn and Presidential Library in a spectacular regime was classed by many as un- out MS. JOHNSON, accompanied by a to San Antonio where she is now Fun- tired gala lasting several days polished and folksy The president s I'e was flown to the hospital by mili- squad of Secret Service agents, arrived eral arrangements are incomplete " Some felt he was fed up with civil I'e agreed to tape a series of tele- Texas mannerisms were the target of tary helicopter ambulance from the at the hospital shortly after her hus- strife sweeping the nation partly over vision interviews with CBS reviewing many jibes, as was his drawling airport several miles away The band JOHNSON, the nation's 36th presi- domestic issues and partly because of Ins yean in office delivery of speeches. the war. and that he simply wanted In these, he divulged that it was his I'e is credited with developing the out Secretary ol Slate Dean Rusk who had tirst civil rights act in 80 years with the Supreme court rules 7-2 advocated the cessation ol bomhmg in 1957 measure when he was in Congress JOHNSON SAID his wife was parti North Vietnam. And the 1964 civil rights bill he pushed culaiiy pleased that he decided to shun through when he was president was the another presidential race Johnson was responsible lor more most sweeping ever enacted legislation to help blacks than any Johnson's list of accomplishments Medical abortions ok'd Johnson flew from the White I'ouse president Since Abraham Lincoln Yet spanned almost all of society-educa- to retirement on his ranch when his administration was marred by tion, housing, medicine, antidis- Richard Nixon became President The black noting crimination, wages and pensions. WASHINGTON 1AP1 - The Supreme a pregnancy except "for the purpose of Georgia's medical facilities and unduly Court yesterday granted American saving the life of the mother." Thirty restricted the rights of pregnant women the right to have medical abor- other states have similar laws. All pre- women tions during the first six months of sumably will become invalid. Similar laws in 13 other states will pregnancy become invalid as a result. The state may interfere with this AT THE SAME time, the court dis- Justice Parry A. Blackmun spoke for "right of privacy'' only in approxi- approved. 7 to 2. key provisions of a the majority in rulings that took more mately the last three months, when the Georgia law that allowed medical than two years to reach Pis opinions, unborn child is developed enough to abortions only to residents of the state running 72 pages, were supported with live outside the mother, the court held and said two additional doctors must medical, religious and philosophical as 7 to 2 concur with the woman's physician well as legal references The ruling struck down a Texas law The court said this unconstitutionally Justices Byron R White and William that made it a crime for a doctor to end kept citizens of other states from using H. Rehnquist dissented White said. "The court apparently values the con- venience of the pregnant mother more than the continued existence and Court to hear case development of the life or potential life which she carries " But Blackmun. for the majority, said the state could cause a pregnant woman considerable harm by not on out-of-state fees allowing her to have an abortion. The constitutionality of charging out- there won't be too much we can do. so For single, pregnant women, he said, of-state fees to non-Ohio residents right now we are awaiting the outcome there are "the additional difficulties attending Ohio universities is hinging of the case." he said. and continuing stigma of unwed on an upcoming Supreme Court case. motherhood." Benson Wolman. director of the Ohio The present residency requirements On the other hand. Blackmun said, chapter of the American Civil Liberties define a non-resident student as one the mortality rate for women having Union iACLU l. said yesterday a recent who "at the time of enrollment enters abortions in the early stages of preg- decision by a three-judge federal court the state of Ohio from another state lor nancy apparently are as low or lower in Connecticut declaring that state's the primary purpose of enrolling in an than the rate for normal childbirth out-of-state fees are unconstitutional is Ohio institution of higher education and Therefore, Blackmun said, while a being appealed to the U.S. Supreme shall be so considered during the pregnant woman does not have "an Court. period of continuous enrollment as a absolute constitutional right to an abor- Wolman said the Supreme Court has full-time student in an Ohio institution tion on her demand," the state cannot ffl agreed to hear the case The board of of higher education interfere with the judgment of the •"•owsonajfo by Sloven L HanMti directors of the ACLU have voted to woman and her doctor in the first three file a Friend of Court Brief with the "MOREOVER, the student shall be months. •Marchers Protestors gathered Saturday in Washington, D. C. for on anti-inaugural high court concerning the case. considered to be an Ohio resident if the In the second three-month period, all march. Additional covorogo, both itoriot ond pkturot, may bo found on | "We are going to put an Ohio input in student has resided in the state of Ohio the state may do. he said, is to regulate five through 12. this case in behalf of all the students for 12 consecutive months or more, abortion procedures in ways that are congregate affected in Ohio and we're going to ask immediately preceding enrollment in a reasonably related to maternal the court to uphold the decision made state university and if the student pre- health " by the Connecticut federal court.' he sents satisfactory evidence that he or said she is financially independent " This University has 1.208 out-of-state "IF THE Connecticut case is re- students who pay $381 in non-resident versed by the Supreme Court, then fees every quarter. Conferences oppose fee hikes The Higher Education Conference operate on activities to guarantee an cent increase in state subsidies and stu- income of $15.000-a-year--would be Committee 1PECC1 Saturday agreed increase in higher education appropria- dent fees, the governor said he wanted affected beginning in the 1973-74 school "in principle" to oppose rising fees at tions," Miller said the cost of inflation to be borne equally year Ohio universities by both taxpayers and students In a similar move, the Ohio Confed- PECC is a loosely-organized con- "If that is his rationale, he's wrong.

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