Fearing violent disruption of his speech by pro-Arab students, an Israeli diplomat and the Kansas University Jewish group sponsoring his talk decided not to hold the talk on the local campus. The would-be speaker was Ehud Gol, consul from the Israeli consulate in Chicago. He went to the home of a local citizen for a visit with interested parties instead of speaking at the Satellite Union, where pro-Arab picketers had been in action.

Police here were trying to catch up with a so-called French Mustard heir, who had scored thousands of dollars in a flim-flam scheme involving a number of local merchants. He had made off with at least $11,000 in furniture and electronic equipment. He scammed merchants by telling them he was a French company heir who had inherited great wealth and planned to go into business here. A garden tractor he had garnered in his visit was recovered but it had proved more difficult to retrieve lost cash for local people.