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M o n d a y Windy . Inside today... MICHIGAN The Arts, p. 4 . and colder with chance Football at Northwestern, p. 6 of sprinkles. High near 50. To Administrators Schedules, p. 11 STATE night, colder with snow flur Open House Policy, p. 12 UNIVERSITY NEWS ries possible. East Lansing, Michigan Vol. 59 Number 70 October 31, 1966 10c Seize Terrorist A rm s In Three N.Y. R aids NEW YORK \S\ - Police seized 15 men Island and in upstate New York. He said "Lots more equipment is coming in by automatic weapons and equipment early and tons of bombs, guns, rockets and bul they brought in this area’s “biggest haul the truckload," said Hentel. Sunday on a w arrant obtained in Queens lets Sunday in pre-dawn raids that smash of weapons and death-dealing material.” He said Investigators discovered that County. ed a "Mlnutemen" terrorist plot, Dlst. "We were concerned with a great loss Mlnutemen had timed traffic lights in the Hentel said the officers seized, among Atty. Nat H. Hentel of Queens announced. of life,” Hentel told a news conference. Manhattan neighborhood of The Worker, other things, two incendiary hand gre He said the Mlnutemen had been under Hentel said the plot involved sending twice-weekly Communist party news nades: three pipe bombs; fivehandpistols; squads of heavily armed men, disguised surveillance since January, including cov paper, "for the purpose of taking some more than a million rounds of ammunition; as hunters, to blow up three privately erage of meeting by hidden police photo destructive action this year.” two bazookas, hundreds of test tubes of operated camps In New York, Connecticut units. The Worker office was damaged by a picric acid, used for bomb detonating de and New Jersey. The plan was to be Hentel said the Investigation had linked black powder bomb last month. Nobody vices; two mortars; three Molotov cock carried out Sunday, a few days after the the Mlnutemen to the distribution of a w as hurt. tails; 11 30-caliber machine guns; more opening of the hunting season, Hentel said. leaflet headed "Kill the White Devils" in Hentel said other arrests were made than 150 rifles; an unspecified number of He would not reveal the identity of the Roosevelt, Long Island, and the Laurel ton in other parts of' the state, but would not target camps. But he said the Mlnutemen area of Queens during July and August. specify. rocket launchers; at least 10 cans of organization Is dedicated to destroying "The literature was so written to make State police in Weschester County, just black powder and at least six weapons "Communist, left-wing and liberal” In it look like it was printed by Negro north of New York City, said they had which are combinations of brass knuckles stallations. racists,” Hentel said. It had so aroused arrested a man and seized an arsenal of and trench knives. Robert Bolivar Depugh, national leader residents that there was talk of forming Bobby Kennedy In Michigan of the Mlnutemen, was mentioned by vigilante groups to protect themselves Hentel. Depugh could not be reached for from Negroes, the district attorney said. comment; a phone call to his home at Charges of trying to incite a riot, based REGRETS DECISION New York Senator Robert Kennedy acknowledges the applause from Norborne, Mo., brought the response that on the hate literature, may be lodged an estimated 5,000 people at the University of Detroit after being he was away until next week. against some of those arrested, Hentel introduced by Democratic senate hopeful G. Mennen Williams. Sen, Hentel said the raids by 110 state, said. He said all those arrested are white. Kennedy was in Michigan to lend his image to local Democratic can county and city officers were staged Mongeon quits MHA didates. UPI Telephoto simultaneously in New York City, on Long Arm loads of arm s Hentel said the Minutemen’s New York John Mongeon, president of Men’s Hall of Bailey Hall, Roger Williams, president leader lived in Queens, where the group’s A ssn. (MHA) and m em ber of ASMSU’s of West McDonel Hall, PeteSorum,.former activities were centered, but field ma Student Board, resigned from his top post president of Abbot Hall, and Pat Terry, FOR NEXT TERM neuvers were held in Suffolk County, on at Thursday night’s former president of Snyder Hall. the far end of Long Island, and near MHA meeting. The new president will be elected at Ellenville, N.Y., in the Catskill Mountain Mongeon spoke of T hursday’s MHA m eeting. resort area. the time com n ’tment Mongeon felt that the time for his resig Opportunities for funds The prosecutor said Mlnutemen had of the MHApresiden- nation and the election of a new president tried to infiltrate the Army’s 11th Special cy, his academics was now, since the Big Ten Residence Forces at Miller Field on Staten Island, and his position as a Hall Conference is next weekend. He also tering freshmen, but is also applicable to Bu STEVE GATES to participate in the guerrilla training resident assistant. felt that the new president needed time to students already at MSU. State News Staff W riter and to steal training literature. “ In all fairness to become adequately aware of his responsi Primary criterion for this scholarship F i r s t of t w o p o r ts While Hentel talked, agents streamed my obligations, this bilities before winter term. The predicament of the less than pros Is an extreme financial need. There Is is the only course of no grade minimum and Michigan residence into his office lugging armloads of guns, Dave Davis, Mongeon’s executive as perous MSU student is fortunately not of boxes of ammunition and radio equipment. action I have,” he appalling proportions. is preferred, although not required. said. John Mongeon sistant, also resigned. Davis felt his to $1000: long term - varying amounts, personal obligations were to Mongeon, who In fact, the student who does not have Another posslblity is a scholarship Mongeon said that he had been dreading usually require at least a 2.00 grade appointed him. Therefore, although Mon- enough money to continue at MSU next sponsored by the State of Michigan. How announcing his decision and he did so with term has numerous possibilities for point average: both types—Michigan res geon’s resignation was a surprise to him, ever, to be eligible for this, the student deep regrets. This was Mongeon’s second getting immediate additional funds in al idents often given preference, some have Davis also offered his resignation, must be a Michigan resident and have LBJ warns year as president of MHA. special qualifications which student must Mongeon and Davis were both com most any quantity. taken the state’s scholarship test while The men’s hall presidents accepted the Three basic possibilities are scholar meet; in greatest supply at beginning ot mended for their service to MHA. Their in high school. resignation and opened nominations for ships, loans, and jobs, and perhaps com fall term, but some available throughout Red Chinese: the new president. resignations will take effect as soon as binations of all three. y ear. In addition to these two funds, there are Nominated were Pete Cannon,president persons are chosen to fill their positions. In general, the availability of these —Jobs: open to anyone, regardless of also several scholarships available from can be summarized as follows; degree of need; shortest supply In winter other sources, including some with no —Scholarships: available any time term; more available for men than for restrictions to whom they must be 'no blackmail’ particularly at the beginning of fall, but women at present time. aw arded. must be applied for at least one month More specifically, the student may KUALA LUMPUR, M alaysia (iP)— Pre s i While many students are eligible for Editors quiz candidates in advance: most are for Michigan res qualify for one of several types of dent Johnson sped through a 21-hour visit scholarships, there is necessarily a large idents with financial need, above average scholarships. to Malaysia Sunday, with violent demon portion of the needy students who must reco rd s at MSU. One possible source of scholarships strations, staged mainly by Chinese, mar utilize the sources to be discussed —Loans; short term underclassmen, is the federal Educational Opportunity ring the government’s strong backing of tomorrow—loans and jobs. in pre-election series up co $40U, upperclassm en, up to $700 Grant fund, which Is primarily for en U.S. policy in Viet Nam. One demon strator was shot to death, two were Board of Trustees candidates from MSU the first of a series of three programs wounded and 40 arrested. on WMSB-TV, channel 10. Johnson used the Malaysian visit to and Wayne State University faced three university newspaper editors Sunday in The next program in the series will be 'PROFESSIONAL INTEGRITY’ warn Red China, in the wake of Peking's at 7 p.m. Tuesday, not at 7:30 as previ new atomic missile test, that nuclear- ously announced. mighty America will not permit Commu nist Chinese nuclear blackmail of her Art burglar steals The candidates on Sunday night's pro Asian neighbors. gram were Nathan M, Conyers, Demo Tenured faculty asked to sign $500,000 painting crat, and incumbent Frank Merriman, “The leaders of China must realize that Republican, for MSU,and Leslie R.Schim- any nuclear capability they can develop CHICAGO M — A burglar with an ap ier, Republican, and Norman O.