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... ..... .- - "Mr. Flynir and other officcrs said they did n o t know why lhe Panthcrs opencd.fire.. The three Panthcrs werc taken to Cook County hospital, police said. The wounded'policcmen w e r e taken to hospitals. . . 'I Whcn thc shooting was reported, po1ic.e ordararl 'hcavy aquip- incnl' and tear gas pcnt b tlrc scene. As acrowd of scvetal hundrcd persons gathcrcd, smoke billo-d from a h u i l c l i n ~ and fircmcn answcrcd thc call. The fire was put out and the neighborhood was uncasily quiet." The United Klans of America,'Inc. Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, lhe largest Klan organization in the United States, has instituted asscss- mcnts 'for a dcfensc fund. The ptrrpasc of tlic fund, according tu Klair . sources, would guarantee cvcry Klansman or Klanslady lcgal dcfcnse counsel in the cvcnt hc or she falls victim to t%arassmcnt" typo a r r c s t s . r- . I . Last month a mail ballot was conducted among the nicmbcrs of UCLA's academic Scnatc. Thc Senate, which consists of Univcrsity faculty m e m b e r s , conaidcrcd scveral o f thc niost pressing problems facing tlic Anrcrican campiis today and the rcsults. which inclndad thc largest nnmber of votcs (895) i n tho history of the. Senate. indicated to sonic obscrvcrli that thc UCLA faculty is experiencing a political .awal;cning. - One topic of thc poll, r? purcly local one, dealt with academic pro- niotions and 'appointments and the Scnqt?, as would Iw cspcctcd votcd overwhelmingly that such matters should be liaiidlcd autonomously by each institution involved ratlicr than by the, presently in forcc, consoli- clatcd State Universities system. OI: much more general application, howcvcr, the Scnatc also nclrlrcsscd tlic topics of ROTC and classificd militaiy rcscarch. topits arc closcly k l a t c d to the Vietnam War and have bccn nauseatingly constant targets of SDS and othcr'left extremists for'thc past tcn months. Bath , . . . . I n conH i d c : r i nE tlic res til ts . of t l i c Ac adciii i c Sc: t i a tc Phl I , se: VI* r d vat-inl)Ic*s sliotiltl l ) c kept in iiiinrl. First, tlrc UCLA c;iiii,pis is cc)nsirlc*rc*rl pt-oiml)ly tlib*nrost cnnsc rvatiirc I arp? enroll nrcnt state sc.!iool iii c.11 i T o rnia anrl wit11 the cxccpticm r,f . ~ I I & Univcrsity or Soiitticrir 'CaLilornia is possibly - . tlic niost conscrvative big 'school, piiljIic or private, in ~ h c statc? With . t h i s conscr.vativism, how&ar, one inconsistent fact that concerns wcst coast: collcgc administrators is the case with which largw nurdx?rs of - , . - 1 L.' e E*-- .r- - . . -. -