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Show Suspends 2 Student Editors for LBJ Spoof cle continued, "graduated from his humble origins of torturing half-caste Indians CI reckon, honey child, the only good Injun is a dead one.') to the American presidency, where he killed John F. Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald, Rack Ruby and thirteen other people whose names have been withheld on request. "Johnson, an easy-going ex-school ex-school teacher whose hobby is bombing defenseless people, culminated cul-minated a remarkable five years when on Dec. 25 he told Jack Ruby to suddenly die of cancer." BALTIMORE, MD. (CPS) -Two editors of the Johns Hopkins' Hop-kins' University "Newsletter" were suspended from school May after running a bitter spool of President Johnson in the paper, Carl Swanson, dean of Undergraduate Under-graduate Affairs, said that the two editors, Melvin Schuster and Henry Korn, were suspended shortly after University President Presi-dent Milton Eisenhower saw a copy of the article. Eisenhower Furious Eisenhower was reported furious furi-ous when he saw the article. Asked how he could reconcile freedom of the press with the decision de-cision to Suspend ' the students, the President said, "Don't ask a stupid question like that. That newspaper is subsidized by the University. It's paid for by us. It's a house organ." Asked if he thought the article reflected badly on the University Univer-sity administration, Eisenhower said, "No comment, There's a hearing tomorrow. I wouldn't want to prejudice a case." Case to Student Government Following a meeting between the two editors with Eisenhower and University Dean William Schaffer on Monday, the administrators admin-istrators decided to send the case to the student government. SG has the power to remove the editors from their positions on the paper. The article, appearing on page five, listed President Johnson on a "Man of the Year" ballot along with Charles Whitman, the Texas slayer; Richard Speck, the accused ac-cused Chicago mass murderer; and the Cincinnati Strangler, who was listed on : the ballot with a question mark. Top Mass Murderers The article said "last year's top mass murderer was a Texas plowboy who has come a long way in the American crime business." busi-ness." "Lyndon Baines Johnson of Johnson City, Texas," the arti- |