[News Script: Rice President Resigns/Congressman Dowdy] Page: 1 of 2
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Dr. Frank '. Vandiver has resigned as acting President of Rice
University - but the trustees apparently have not rejected or accepted
the resignation.
Vandervers resignation was offered Thursday shortly before the
board refused to permit Ch cago Seven member Abbie Hoffman to speak on the
campus.
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Congressman John Do-dTs of Athlens ;as scheduled for arraignment
in U.S. District court in iaryland today on charges of conspiracy,
perjury and illegal transport of bride money. There was at least one
call for his resignation - from a newspaper in Dowdys East Texas district.
Attorneys for the Government say that a home improvement
salesman Myrvin C. Clark has admitted passing a briefcase containing
$25,000 to the Athens congressman "to influence Dowdy in the performance
of his duty."
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Abortions in Mexico City have been arranged for 32 Dallas
women in the last week. The count was tabulated by a Houston woman
who, under the name of Pers. Lindsey Peterson, operates the Pregnancy
counseling service in Houston.
The counselor said the response has been tremendous - saying
she is getting six to seven calls a I&&! day from Dallas. She
said the telephone rang every 15 minutes following a newspaper report
about the free referral aid in aborting unwanted pregnancies.
She said several Dallas women said they were referred to her
by their physicians.
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Rice President Resigns/Congressman Dowdy], script, April 10, 1970, 12:00 p.m.; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1326999/m1/1/: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.