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THE WORLD TODAY ‘Catonsville Nine’: Guilty BALTIMORE (UPI) A federal court jury found nine Roman Catholic pacifists, who were accused o f destroying draft records, guilty on all three counts late yesterday after only one hour and 25 minutes of deliberation. The defendants, on hearing the verdict, began to sing, “ We shall overcome," the civil rights anthem. One man among the spectators shouted, “ Lidics and gentlemen of the jury, you have just found Jesus Christ guilty.” The two women and seven men, including two priests, could each be sentenced to a maximum o f 18 years in jail and fined up to $22,000 each on the convictions of disrupting the operations of a draft board, destroying federal property and interfering with Kathleen Casey Ann Jimieson Linda Sue Compton selective service personnel in the performance o f their duties. The “ Catonsville Nine” entered the small Selective Service headquarters in the Baltimore suburb o f Catonsville May 17, scooped two drawers full o f records and burned them outside in a parking lot. Two of the nine, the Rev. Philip Berrigan, 45, a Joscphite priest, and Thomas Lewis, 28, an artist, already arc serving six year terms for pouring blood on Baltimore city draft records Oct. 27. Weather May Stall Apollo Launch CAPE KHNNHDY (UPI) The countdown for Apollo 7, the three man, 11 day test of America’s moonship, entered its critical last hours “ like a charm” yesterday with weather remaining the only question mark for today’s launch. Dr. Wchrncr Von Braun, head of Saturn rocket development, \ said astronauts Walter Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walter Cunningham were “ in a highly confident frame o f mind, eager to go.” Shahla Kaussari Judy Coffey Liz Culwell ’ “ I have never attended a preparation for a space vehicle that has gone as smoothly as has this Apollo 7,” said Von Braun. One of these charming young ladies will be crowned Notre Dame’s 1968 Homecoming The nation’s first manned venture into space in nearly two Queen. This year’s winner will also reign as ND’s NCAA Football Queen representative; years was scheduled to roar aloft atop a 22 story Saturn IB and will participate in a nationwide contest offering scholarship and trip prizes. Voting rocket at 10 a.m. CDT. will be Sunday night in the dining halls. The weather, heretofore expected to be good for the launching, may turn out to be a snag for the start o f the 4 million mile earth orbital test for later flights to the moon. “The weather is a little bit of a question mark,” said Von Braun. Heavy rain was falling on the spaceport as he spoke to newsmen. “ The predictions arc good at the moment but there will be some shower activity in the morning. Should the shower situation THE indicate that winds prior to launch may increase beyond the magic 18 knots figure, it may be necessary for the crew to leave the spacecraft.” LBJ Praises Humphrey-Muskie Ticket WASHINGTON (UPI) President Johnson, in his first outright OBSERVERServing the Notre Dame and Saint Mary's College Community political speech of the campaign, attacked Republican nominee Vol. Ill, No. 21 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1968 Richard M. Nixon yesterday as a presidential candidate who would pull the country “ into another cycle of Republican reaction and inaction.” In a nationally broadcast speech in behalf of Vice President SLC Election Rules Set Hubert H. Humphrey, Johnson also assailed third party candidate George C. Wallace as “ a false prophet o f fear.” More than thirty prospective emerging from the meeting was George Koszis, Eugene candidates met last night in the less than the fifty some Hammond, Jim Fullin, Gregg Johnson highly praised the Democratic ticket o f Humphrey Student Center Ampithcatre to estimated would be in the race. Scott, Stephen Goebel, Barney and Sen. Edmund S. Muskic, nominee for vice president. He said hear rules explained in the A full list o f candidates in the Gallagher, Tom Taylor, Robert they were among the ablest and most active leaders ever to serve election which will fill six race includes John Dyer, David Vadnal, Anthony Scolaro, the nation. student slots on the University Roos, Ron Mastriana, John Richard Richie, Paul He said the GOP candidates for president, vice president and Student Life Council. Due to a K irb y , Gordon Hunt, Greg Buchbinder, James Bodary, Tom congress had promised to dismantle what had been built under rule requiring resignation from Adolf, Chris Wolfe, Tom Duffy, Krouk, James Albanese, Damien Democratic administrations. student government or student Carl Rak, Eric Sandeen, Armand Czarneck, Pat Kealy, Thomas “ They’ve proposed nothing more or less than to pull it back union offices upon election, no Gelinas, Peter Kelly, Greg Gore, Payne, and Pat Dowd. into another cycle of Republican reaction and inaction,” Johnson C abinet m em bers or hall said. “ And in doing so, they really promise to pull America presidents attended the meeting apart.” as ca ndidates and only oneHunter Calls He led into his comments about Wallace by saying there were Acting independently of the Senator Birch Bayh, and student senator has announced harsh political voices trying to divide the American people. officers of the Notre Dame Lieutenant Governor Rock need his candidacy. “ The man who stood at the school house door, defying the Young Democrats, Breen-Phillips the help o f Notre Dame law, is now pretending to be the apostle of order,” the President Fisher Senator Robert Arnot, Senator Richard Hunter said last students. I also feel the student said in a reference to Wallace’s attempt to prevent integration at Chairman o f the Senate Student night that he would himself call picture for Humphrey is the University o f Alabama. Life Council Elections a meeting o f “ interested young improving especially since his He said lie doubted that many Americans would be swayed Committee, laid down the rules Democrats” for next Wednesday recent speech on the war. “ by empty rhetoric and violent appeals to motion.” adopted by the Senate in a n ig h t. Hunter outlined the Overall, though, we must act LeMay Will Visit Vietnam meeting Monday night. Petitions purposes as organizational with now or forfeit our right to exist fo r Council candidates will primary emphasis on getting as an effective campus PEORIA, ILL. (UPI) George C. Wallace announced yesterday require 250 signatures, with no vo lu n te e r groups going for organization.” more than 50 coming from a he is sending his running mate, retired Gen. Curtis LeMay, to individual state candidates. While sometimes mentioning candidate’s own hall. A rule for Vietnam on a fact finding mission next week. Hunter, who also serves as Humphrey in an optomistic the SLC election also specifies The third party presidential candidate said LeMay will solicit chairm an o f N o tre Dame tone, Hunter emphasized other the views of American servicemen, consult with military leaders that a full address be given with Students for Humphrey, has candidates besides his own. and report back to Wallace, who, in turn, will “ report to the every signature as well as full been at loggerheads with the Regarding South Bend’s names of all who sign. American people.” officers of the Notre Dame Democratic Congressman John As to the election itself, He blew kisses to his hecklers in Peoria while supporters tried YD’s. The club, in turn, has yet Brademas, Hunter stated “ We A rn o t said th a t campaign to drown out the taunts with cries of “ We want Wallace.” to meet or establish committees must coalesce behind the expenditures would be limited “ If you keep that up,” Wallace told his tormentors at one on individual candidates. HunterBrademas e ffo rt. Brademas to fifty dollars and that copies point, “ you won’t get promoted to the second grade.” The crowd summed up his feelings saying stood with McCarthy and the of every piece o f literature plus cheered. “ Something has got to be done! minority Vietnam plank in receipts would be required “ There arc the free speech folks,” Wallace said o f the hecklers. We can still be effective even Chicago and we, regardless of within 24 hours of distribution. “They know a lot of four letter words, but there’s two they don’t th ou gh the hour is late. our personal predilections, must The list of candidates know work and soap.” Congressman John Brademas, stand with him now.” PAGE 2 THE OBSERVER FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1968 Bizot Attacks Calling for a mobilization of the features of the New Politics “ the hard core disgruntled,” Party, technicalities and vaguely Assistant Professor of English worded statutes which are ever Richard Bizot pictured the t h e servants of the present American political establishment,” and “ some signs parties as “ essentially of a purge.” undemocratic” and offered his New Politics Party as a refuge As ample justification for his for the disenfranchised dissenter. party’s proposed “symbolic Bizot, chairmen of the party in protest” write-in candidacy of Indiana’s third district, spoke Dick Gregory and Mark Lane, last night to an estimated sixty Bizot pointed to the two major people in the library auditorium, candidates. Their nomination he Gee Dad, it’s a hologram! as part of the Student Union called a “thwarting of the Academic Commission’s democratic principle,” and their “ University Lecture Series.” platforms “ cop outs.” To 3-D Photography Experiments “Old politics” , according to demonstrate the inadaquacy of Bizot, are outmoded because of voting for Humphrey on a their basis in “ uncritical “ lesser of two evils” basis, he Using a helium-neon laser on traveling in phase.