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Albuquerque Journal from Albuquerque, New Mexico • Page 1

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The Weather ALBUQUFRQUE: Occasional cloudiness. High 78. Urns 40 Valley, 46 Sunport. Details or B. Good Morning Women Tie World Over rn Clamoring For Equal Ilightt But Some Wives Won Them Years Aeo Of Their Good Lefts.

90th Year Volume S6i Number SD Saturday Morning, May 9, 1970 4S Pages in Four Sections Price 10c I mm Enter GimardlsmeE for Peaces Nkon Cam Mia Ac Action Brings 122 Arrests, Reduction Jhmi Next Week Injuries to 1 1 By nil'CK ANTHONY and TOMAS MARTINEZ Bayonet-wielding National Guardsmen, State Police and city police moved onto the University of New Mexico campus Friday evening and cleared the Student Union (SUB) of student demonstrators who had occupied the structure since Wednesday. Eleven persons, including four news reporters, were injured in separate incidents outside the SUB Related Photos, Stories A-i AaTa WASHINGTON (LTIj-J "resident Nixon said Friday night that his decision to use U.S. troops inside Cambodia will help achieve the goals of the- many demonstrators protecting his action to miiti'e casualties and end the war. lie tok! a late night news conference that the Cambodian operation actually is working so veil that the first unit of American w.ll he withdrawn the within an hour after the initial confrontation inside the building. Most suffered stab wounds.

City police said 122 persons, mostly colIeqe-aHi youths, were arrested in the initial sweep through the SUB the center of social activities on the campus. STATE AND CITY jwlice moved onto the is in the heart of the state's largest city after Dist. Judge Paul F. Larra.olo had signed a temporary restraining order calling for the eviction of the youths from the building. When the order was signed, tate and city police began plans for a (i p.m.

move into the campus, with guardsmen slated to fellow. At precisely 6 p.m., the order! of next week. The great majority ft ill be out by mid J.ir and the total operation will end by July l. he said. Speaking to a nationwide broadcast audience after a we A Uiy 1 1 s.3i:iM.

TV I came for the officers, along with' buses to handle the arrested! National Guardsmen Face University Youths Following Clearing Action on Campus U. Regents youths, to enter the area around i (Journal Ptwta By Ry Cur) the SUB. A long row of police cars en-j of campus violence, Nnm said he as not surprised at Use in tensity of the protests his decision had aroused. But he, Mid it wuld not affrct is policies in Indochina, I made this decision," lie: Mid solemnly and with obvious! emotion. "I believe it will work out.

If it doesn't then I'm to blame." 'THOvK WHO tered the campus on Yale 1 122 Arrested by Police U.S. Troops from Central. While the officers iNot Told Of Guard ringed the area, State Police) Chief Martin Vigil, Maj. Hoover Wimberly and Campus Security; Riot Police Patrol Streets in Bombay BOMBAY Riot police patrolled the streeLs of Bombay Friday night in an effort to head-off Moslem-Hindu rioting Chief Jack Cairns entered the SUB ballroom and called for the ukv imiw.kt Find Huge Arms Cache Occupation of UNM Union Ends When Bayonets Flash peace, thev want to reduce students to depart. aiM J0N- PETTV casualties arxl tOi they want aid.

AFTER A confrontation, the University of Now Mexico shorten the war that officials has taken beSan to leave Regents said Friday night they i lives in other cit.es of Maharas-I hM i. i the peace sign as strii1 for i uon said of WITH lS FOKCKS IN thing I what they the protestor nr. they and State and City Police batons; visors. They were equipped state. idenarted Thev kptp herri(d "lw" uudla W0UK1 1 und-Kawi CAMBODIA.

ITI. Arriencan 1 vst.ui.l hope Joornal Stale Editor thev umicVarnl bat I ant Friday afternoon. gas masks and goggles, and The most peaceful part of theSseveral in cach carried a Hardest hit was the bues and takpn to County. lh wrvinS of a restraining or- 'derto evict students from the city of Bluwandi where 22; a I'NM Union dir. The occupation of the me iommuni'4 ca- N(N POINTED out he.

I mversitv ot Mexico btu-i I shirt-front of "instant lull persons have been reported cut trie scattered ciasnes mat. innentw! a Vietnam war dent Union Buildinsr bv dissk ent' f' ...7 handcuffs handcuffs" polyetheylene- precipitated the injuries oc-; But State Police Chief Martin i rn mil nn 1 1 iuib mm in Iiod HrnSil f- i killed and 500 injured by arrows, acid-filled bulbs al gas bombs. students came to an abrupt end 1 L. .1 IHlliniltMl oo in scattered Hashes camel Continued on AS1 Tb base -ked awav in the under National Guard bayonets sir.re ten hp "I have f'in WM i later, between National working 13 to at hours a day to jungW of Cambodia's Fishhook bnng these men borne region, covers two square miles Collegiate and has some 2o structures "Hie use of V. troops in Cambodia will shorten the war, ranging from mess halls to Guardsmen and those who remained outside the building.

It was the New Mexico N'a-! tional Guard's baptism of fire as riot control force, and for most of the strikers, it was trie first 'time they had ever looked down the barrels of bayoneted rifles. reduce casualties, and allow him 'military training school above! to withdraw the mm troops (ground. Below are a labyrinth of! ProtpctQ from Vsetnam that he has prom-if lUlVulu ised to in the next year. KixonituI5M'ls store PcMs told reporters in a tense and a5, ammunition, food. ajrebeoMvc capital.

'and fuel. Spreading "You're like a hungry dog in In effect. Nixon pleaded with t)ie stutlents and critics of Continued on 4 Minutes before the police arrived, a summer rain squall dotted the mall with spots of moisture. But the cooling rain an a re full of hones," said Brig. -By The Uxm iaied Press kn Rotcrt Slwwmaker of-' Collegiate protests.

some peaceful, some violent fiiiiium, it i vis i nitun multiplied Friday on the eve of stopped long before the tension a scheduled mass demonstration started. which one to pick up first." Journal Index SIIOKM KF.R. commander of in Washington against American! A QB i i tew 1 1 it A involvement in Cambodia and; The Pli( fame, on tlv nf Kfnt o.ni,, campus a long blue line about the U.S. drive into Cambodia, visited the city by helciopter stu.ionU Rllt of, 6 p.m.. entering campus on Yale counter-action cropped up on the' Av- from the direction of Cen-streets of New York and; Around New Mrxit -o B-i2 Cljstfird C-ll-D-19 rooiword Pmile D-ll Ldilorlals A4 Financial C-H, 9 Movie C-.

observe the collection and inventory of the captured war material. By nightfall Friday, the U.S. elsewhere. ontJ visihe were Albu I National Strike Headquarters! mcvr- lot in formixi ranks, then moved out Obiiuarir IMI Political Briefs 18 Political Profiles B-3, st Air Cavalry division troopsjWaUhamj Mpd of the run across Zimmerman had counted 3fi71 individual' thp natm'nv rM riitteire Bnfi' field toward the SUB. People's Column A-7 weapons, 384 crewserved universities on strike or closed.

i Vigil said he obtained per-'mission from Gov. David Cargo to use the guard about 9 a.m., and had notified UNM President 1 Heady about 5: 15 p.m. 55 minutes before the Guard's arrival that the guard had been ordered into action. An apparent, breakdown in communications between the police and the university administration was revealed in separate press conferences held by the two Friday night. Tne regents and Heady saul the first knowledge they had of the troops was when they arriv ed on campus Heady said ''We understood that we would have an opportunity to communiate ith Chief Vigil when he came on campus, and before the police moved in." But, he said, when lie got a message Vigil was on campus, police had already moved into the union.

Vigil said he "suggested to Dr. (in his final phone call) Nxduse of the situation he -'ould discuss it. (the Guard) as soon as possible." He said ho had an agreement with Dr. Heidv that Hendy would go out. to P'o union and talk to the students and try to persuade the to come out He said when he arrived on campus, he sent some people to Heady office to tell him "to go on over there." Heady said he went to the union and "had time to make, one quick statement then the police began moving in." lie said: "We went urgently over there in hopes that we could make a statement More the police actually arrived," Col.

Vigil at a later press conference justified his request for calling in the National Guard bv saying that "The use of the National Guard in my opinion, in my judgment was a necessary movement. "While primary Interest wh for the protection of the students involved. I requested the governor to call the National Guard Continued on A-2 Groups of about a dozen officers each formed lines at each tons of and 617 Thousands of students footlstulfs The crew -served; marched peacefully in of tne MMng. They Religion VII Sports TV og, Previews Alt Today' Calendar B4 WraUier Table It Woman's World B-t, 2 stood facing outward, armed and Sacramento, Calif. weapons included Soviet made Continued on -9 with the long riot control batons, and wearing helmets with Continued on A 4 D.

C. Inundated-and Surprised Young War Protesters Gather I I dian adventure, engaging adults in quiet dialogue on the sidewalk. At the capital. Lively but not boistrously, they gather in the hallways enroute to the office of a Senator or Congressman or pour into auditoriums in which some well known member is speaking because his office just isn't big enough to hold all of those ho have come to see him. By PAUL It.

WIF.CK Of the Journal's Wsshlnitton Bureau WASHINGTON They're everywhere in Washington this week. Bright, well-dressed students, the hulk of them with haircuts adults would consider reasonable. They're downtown on the street comers, politely passing out mimeographed sheets that explain the "student strike" against the country's Cambo Numerically, Washington probably hasn't seen anything like it. And the Nixon administration has moved on many fronts to conciliate the young war protesters, taking steps to allow them to hold their massive demonstration in a park adjoining the White House grounds. At the same lime the administration strove to carry through an unprecedented opening up of the government to its critics for discussion of the issues of war and campus unrest which have exploded over the past week.

The most conciliatory gesture was an order to the Justice Department to seek a waiver of a requirement for 15 days' notice for a permit to hold the demonstration on the Ellipse. It is a large park bounded by 15th and 17th Streets, Constitution Avenue Continued on A State rli( Ofl'uTn KAeort Stmleitt From Student I nion lildu. Youths Submit Quietly as One Gives Peace Symfiol I.

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