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LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
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May 5, 1971
Medals for Hruska. . . Law
student-Vietnam veteran Leroy
Schuster adds his bronze star to a
coffin containing medals and names
of Indochina war dead which will
be shipped to Nebraska's senior
senator in Washington.
by CAROL GOETSCHIUS
Staff Writer
Students, state senators,
housewives, business
executives, farmers and police
officers flooded the north steps
and terraces of the State
Capitol Wednesday afternoon
to join in an almost unanimous
denouncement of the
Indochina War.
A panel of four state
senators braced the beating
sun-and later a fleeting threat
of rain to hear testimony
during the "People's Hearing"
on State Sen. John DeCamp's
Resolution 32.
KILLED LAST MONTH
without a hearing by the
Legislature, the resolution calls
for the withdrawal of all
United States military
personnel from Vietnam by
April 1,1972.
Sen. Terry Carpenter served
as chairman of the panel,
composed of Sens. DeCamp of
Neligh, Ernie Chambers of
Omaha and P. J. Morgan of
Omaha.
It was Chambers, the only
black state senator, who of all
the speakers drew the most
applause.
He criticized the Legislature
for showing "basic comtempt
for the people of Nebraska." by
killing the resolution.
Chambers warned the crowd
to look for "a repeat of the
slaughter of the resolution" if
the public doesn't continue to
show its support. "You'll be
- quiet," he said, "and they'll
(senators) never hear from you
again."
WHILE LEROY SHUSTER,
chairman of the Nebraska
Veterans for Peace, blasted the
government for its lack of
concern for American lives
being lost in Vietnam, veterans
from the crowd placed their
medals in a casket.
Shuster, a law student,
threw in his bronze star and
others medals. He talked of the
destruction of villages in
Vietnam, the zero value placed
on a Vietnamese life and
corrupt Vietnam elections.
"It's simpler to let us die
than to take decisive action to
stop the war," he said. It's too
late for those who have died,
he continued, but ''we have to
be concerned with those being
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"Number one in football, number
nothing in everything else". . . State
Sen. Ernie Chambers got the biggest
hand of the day when he spoke at
the war hearings on the Capitol
steps Wednesday.
Death and folk music. . . black hooded Veterans, Reservists, and Students for Peace
listen to guitars in Memorial services Wednesday.
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"But I don't have any bombs" . . . Ron Kurtenbach was
detained by Lincoln police Wednesday morning.
