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Tuesday, June 29, 1976
University Daily Kansan
News Digest
Drill instructor acquitted
SAN DIEGO--Marine S. Gat. Brandon Bronson, a drill instructor accused of involuntary manslaughter and other charges in the training-related death of a marine diver in 2014.
A general court-martial trial board of five officers and three emplaced men found Bromson not guilty on charges of disobeying orders, dereliction of duty, injurious conduct.
Bronson, who earned eight medals in Vietnam, could have been sentenced to five years in prison if convicted
Branson, 30, had sold command when Pvt. Lynn McClure was forced to fight six other corps in succession Dec. 6, 1975.
Mai, John Frewell, chief prosecutor in the case for the Marine Corps, said in final arguments that Boston had violated an order to conduct close-drill fights.
Mercenaries sentenced
LUANDA, Angola—An American and three British soldiers of fortune were sentenced yesterday to die before a firing squad for their part in the Angolan civil war. One of the Britons had admitted ordering the massacre of 14 other British mercenaries who refused to fight.
Two Americans and seven British citizens were sentenced to prison terms ranging from 10 to 30 years by a people's revolutionary court that called the 13
Daniel Gearhardt, a 34-year-old Vietnam veteran who left his wife and children in Kensington, Md., to come to Angola, appeared to wilt when the verdict was announced.
Prison terms were given to Gustavo Grillo of Jersey City, N.J., 30 years, and 21-year-old Gary Acker of Sacramento, Calif., 16 years.
Abortion funds escape ban
WASHINGTON—A ban on the use of federal funds to pay for abortions was deleted yesterday by the Senate from a $56-billion appropriation bill.
funds for the Departments of Labor and Health, Education and Welfare. Supporters of the ban on use of federal funds for abortions argued that public
money was better kept in a backpack, Parkwood, R-Oren, who moved to delete the ban, said the provision "simply denies the right to obtain an abortion to poor men."
After several heated exchanges, the ban was deleted on a roll call vote of 57 to 28. The Senate spent a little more than four hours on the appropriations bill, then voted 34 to 21.
Doctors debate flu shots
WASHINGTON - Two polio vaccine experts, Dr. Albert Sabin and Dr. Jonas E. Salk, disagreed yesterday on the planned nationwide immunization program.
Dr. Sabin, testifying before a House Commerce subcommittee, said that the vaccine should be given now to persons more inclined to catch swine flu or have severe effects from it. The rest of the vaccine should be stockpiled for more imminent dangers of an epidemic, he said.
However, Dr. Salk, who supports the federal immunization plan, said that the vaccine would "do better in people's arms than in the refrigerator."
Producers of the swine flu vaccine also asked the subcommittee to pass proposed legislation that would provide federal indemnification against claims for injury because insurance firms are refusing to extend coverage to the immunization program.
Critic reviews his job
Fine's lecture on producers and the press was part of the University of Kansas museum.
A drama critic must be a creature of knowledge and compassion, Marshall Fine, drama critic for the Lawrence Journal, which will lecture at a lecture in Swarthout Recital Hall.
"It takesugs and nerve to be critic," he said, plus "belief in your own abilities."
"It's easier to write a negative review than positive one! It is easier to tell why you dislike it."
Writing a review is more an emotional than an intellectual process, he said. Emotion motions the review, and the critic's state of mind often influences it.
"I always try to look for something redeeming in a show," he said.
When he is reviewing a show, Fine said,
he asks himself, "Does the director understand the script? Does he recognize that it's a turkey or a gem?"
He sees his job as a consumer service that he publics the get the best value for its materials.
"I have to constantly think of my audience. This is a college town but it's also Kansas, and I could offend some people," he said.
Fine said that KU theater productions, which he often reviews, had a two-fold function: to teach students and to provide entertainment.
"It's a hard balance to strike and I think the University Theater is close to it," he said.
Fine said he thought the theater tradition seemed to be dying out.
"The theater isn't as graphical as television. TV is always there. It's an effort to get up and go out to the theater. It's too easy to stay home," he said.
Senate freezes income tax rate
Should the cuts not be renewed, it would mean a $10-a-year tax increase for a 5% tax rate.
Here are the provisions that would be extended through August:
- A taxpayer is allowed a tax credit—which is subtracted directly from taxes owed—of $35 for himself and each dependent. Or, he may accept a credit of 2 per cent of the first $9,000 of taxable income up to a maximum of $180.
— A taxpayer who does not itemize deductions is allowed a minimum standard deduction of $1,700 or $2,100 for joint returns. The maximum standard deduction is $2,400 for single returns and $2,800 for joint returns.
— A special "work bonus" is allowed poor, working families with children. To reward them, the law allows them to subtract up to $400 from their tax bill. This credit is 10 percent of the first $4,000 of earned income. It is paid before ending at the $8,000 income level.
The new regulations, ordered by the Ford administration February 19, were to go into effect June 1. However, on May 28, a judge granted a temporary restraining order against the regulations until their validity could be decided.
cial word concerning the new regulations but that she expected to know by September 2014.
Clampdown
--curriculum and instruction at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, will speak on "Strengthening the Educational Program in a Period of Decline."
From page one
Declining school enrollment, school closings and national demographic trends were the main topics covered in yesterday's session of the Kansas City Teachers Association. Kansas City, Kan., according to Dale P. Scannell, dean of the University of Kansas School of Education, who attended the conference.
Virginia Trotter, assistant secretary for education in the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, told educators at the Holiday Inn Towers that staffing and facilities and school financing were major contributors to declining enrollment and school closings.
The conference is sponsored by the School of Education, the Kansas State Department of Education and the Region VII office of the U.S. Office of Education in Kansas City.
Scannell said that Trotter told the audience the federal government wanted to assist schools facing declining enrollments, not interfere with them. Pending federal legislation would provide funds for improving old facilities to accommodate other students, but the state would purchase or leasing of public school facilities for use by the private sector.
Educators view problems
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Dr. Katherine Eisenbarger, Hunter College, New York, said that national population trends increased the difficulty of planning educational needs. Scannell said.
Eisenbauer detailed a population decrease in the Northeast triangle of the United States between Chicago and Wash- ington, where population increase in the South and Southwest.
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Scannell said sessions featuring case studies and policy development in rural suburban and metropolitan school districts were also held.
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Bob Brandenberry, superintendent of Duncan, Oka., public schools, spoke on the importance of a superintendent of Kirkwood, Mo., public schools, and Dwight Davis, superintendent of Des Moines, Iowa, public schools, spoke on metropolitan school districts, Scannell
Today's schedule will center on personnel, facilities and budget management.
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Carroll R. Swain, assistant superintendent for personnel at Lincoln, Neb., publishes articles in the journal superintendent of Omaha, Neb., public schools, will discuss problems involving
Alvin E. Morris, superintendent of Wichita public schools, will discuss the options for schools in Texas.
Nolan Estes, general superintendent of the Dallas, Tex. independent school district.
On Campus
Tonight: There will be a faculty recital at 7:30 in Swarthout Recital Hall.
SUA Theater Festional film "Hello Dolly"
starring Barra Streisand and Walter Matthau will be shown at 7:30 in Woodruff Auditorium.
Directed by Gene Kelly, With Barbara Streisand, Walter Matthau
7:30 p.m. 75'
A 1944 film, generally acknowledged to be the best of the haunted house thrillers. Ruth Hussey, Ronald Crisp.
7:30 p.m.
Summer Films
FRI., JULY 2
TUES., JUNE 29
Hello Dolly
A fiction film about imminent urban guerrilla warfare in the United States. Directed by Robert Kramer. "Of all the films we've seen recently having to do with urban guerrilla warfare, the only one to make any sense is ICE . . ." The New York Times—Vincent Canby.
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1976 Summer Theater Festival
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