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An Independent ••wing OtMfl, OhK> Wodneedoy, May 10, 1973 Student Velum. 56 Numb.. 111 Voice me BG news U.S. renews strikes in Vietnam SAIGON (AP)-US aircraft and warships tory lost in the enemv offensive thai began Informants said U.S. planes were launching mined the entrance to Haiphong and at least five ABOUT THREE-fourths of North Vietnam's struck in North and South Vietnam with the March 30 700 to 800 strikes a day over wide areas of Indo- other ports and that the initial phases of the war materials are said to be provided by the heaviest force in years yesterday after mining HUNDRED6 OF U.S. warplanes and a naval china, including North and South Vietnam, Laos operation had been successfully accomplished Soviet Union, including tanks and artillery which ports in North Vietnam task force struck anew at North Vietnam after and Cambodia, with the bulk of the strikes in without any American planes being lost. arc being heavily employed against the South A Hanoi broadcast said two IS destroyers the mining aimed at strangling its supply life- South Vietnam The Navy in Washington issued a formal warn- Vietnamese Most of the equipmenl arrives by were set afire by coastal artillery while they lines Despite the awesomeness of the massed ing to all shipping that the mine fields at the sea shelled the port of Haiphong There was no A similar campaign was under way in South American firepower, there was no immediate entrances of seven North Vietnamese ports In a related development, Communist China confirmation of this from the U.S. Command in Vietnam U.S warplanes. destroyers and South indication that either the mining ol North Viet- would be activated at 7 p.m local time tomor- claimed that two ol ill merchant ships at anchor Saigon Vietnamese artillery guns unleashed thousands namese ports and continued bombardment of row It said vessels sailing those waters after in North Vietnamese waters were "brazenly and President Nguyen Van Thieu went on national ol bombs and shells across a wide swath of highways, rail lines and bridges would succeed that "must do so at their own risk " repeatedly attacked ' by U.S. planes and war- radio and television to voice appreciation for North Vietnamese-held territory on both sides of in stopping the 24-day enemy offensive in the At last report, there were 36 ships in Haiphong ships last weekend President Nixon's decision to try to cut off North Highway 1 above the threatened city of Hue in an South or in reversing the gains Hanoi has made harbor, about triple the number before the North Vietnam's war supplies He predicted South 18-hour saturation bombardment from the land, THE U.S. Command said Navy planes from Vietnamese offensive was launched Nearly half Vietnamese forces soon would win back terri- air and sea three 7th Fleet carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin of the ships are Russian. See related stories, p>(r> 1 and S. ■gaHggagai Protestors propose University blockade By Terry Cochran and vassing dormitories and informing world situation in or out of their Patty Bailey local radio stations classes." He added that the University would After a sit-in at the Administration EARLIER in the afternoon, a group also hold daily noon convocations on Bldg yesterday afternoon, a group of of about 40 students occupying the 10th campus, in which "the administration about 30 students vowed to organize a floor of the Administration Bldg were will aid physically and materially in blockade this morning of all vehicular read a telegram sent by University acquiring speakers opposed to war " entrances to the University President Hollis A. Moore Jr to Presi- Taliaferro made the announcements A speaker in the group said the block- dent Nixon after meeting in a conference room on ade would be analagous to the current The body of the telegram, printed on the 10th floor with Richard Edwards, blockade of North Vietnam by Ameri- this page, urged the President to con- executive assistant to the President, can mines and ships, as outlined by sider "the impact" of the Vietnamese and Dr. George Herman, vice provost President Nixon Monday night conflict on most of America's con- The spokesman said, in effect, we cerned university communities A PUBLIC meeting held earlier will be turning this University into a C'raig Taliaferro. student body vice yesterdav afternoon to discuss Presi- North Vietnam, we will be forcing peo- president, announced also that the dent Nixon's escalation of the war. its ple to think administration had proclaimed a "two- international effect and the possibility Student organizers were to drum up week moratorium on campus-in which ol a voluntary two-day suspension ol support for the cause last night by can- professors may discuss" the current classes centered on alternative methods of campus protest against the war Boris Matthews, associate professor of German and Russian, said that sym- bolic action has not gotten through to the people it is supposed to allect. " What can we stop by stopping the University'''' he asked it's a sym- Public A public meeting was held yesterday in the Grand Ballroom, Union, to discuss bolic act that will be interpreted by President Nixon's escalation of th. war, international effects it might have and people outside the University as a meeting a possible voluntary two-day suspension of classes. bunch ol hoodlums who don't know how- lucky they are to be getting an extra break ' CRAIG TALIAFERRO urged the crowd of approximately 1.000 students to "make Bowling Green the first place Nixon's mining decision to close for a rational reason and that is to end the war in Vietnam right here and right now." A student wearing a football jersey asked. "If you can raise the con- evokes student criticism sciousness of Bowling Green one iota, what are two days of classes? "I AND THE rest of the By Jim Carey "NIXON IS only bringing a stay away from Vietnam when we administrators have a hunch that Stall Reporter possibility of World War III." said John ourselves are not welcomed there I President Nixon doesn't much care Punessen. freshman I Ed.). can't see why we have to play God all whether we have classes next week or "Nixon's blockade is alienating a lot Punessen said people will realize that the time." not." Dr. George Herman, vice pro- of people, especially young people. Nixon's plan for peace is non-existent, "Nixon's action is atrocious." said vost, said. He explained that he was Even the silent majority is going to and that war is taking precedence. Carol Sloman, graduate student The representing the University, since both become not so silent." According to Shelia Mackay. senior American people have been betrayed in President Moore and Dr. Coffman were Judy Krietemeyer. junior (A&S l. like lA&S), the possibility that Nixon a manner that misleads and dupes unable to attend the meeting. many University students, yesterday ordered the blockade as a reflection of them of what is really going on." The administration is not in support questioned President Nixon's recent his self-esteem is a valid argument She said it was ludicrous to think of and not in favor of suspending classes, decision to mine major port entrances Ms. Mackay said it is very plausible the blockade as "honor," as President according to Dr. Herman. and rail passages in North Vietnam to that President Nixon acted out of fear Nixon relerred to it in his speech" "My feeling is that if students want cut off supply routes. of being called the first president to Monday night In addition she said that to strike classes, then let's hold classes lead the U.S. into a military defeat his action was a threat to the major so they can strike." he said "MY FIRST reaction was I was She added, i don't think there will world power struggle. Richard Edwards, executive assistant to Presid.nt An ad hoc committee on faculty scared," said Don Copeland. junior be an all-out win or defeat in Vietnam, Tensions could be increased so action against the war has called for an (A&Si "We're not only playing with a Moore, roads the telegram Dr. Moore drafted to even if the people are for it and the plan someone does push that button." she open faculty meeting today to draft a country we shouldn't be playing with said President Nixon yesterday A group of about 40 works." telegram to President Nixon protesting (North Vietnami but also with China NANCY EDLER. sophomore (Ed.), Ms. Sloman said she saw the move as students stoged a sit-in in the Administration Bldg. escalation of the Indochina war. The and Russia " was not in lavor ol the President's "intensifying the orientation of a earlier in the afternoon.