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Tuesday, April 27, 1976
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Security force set
Now that Congress has approved $2.6 million for security for the Republican National Convention in Kansas City, Mo. this August, it's up to the combined metropolitan police forces to plan carefully and thoroughly to maintain order in the face of unfamiliar stresses and problems. They will need the cooperation of everyone to get the job done.
THE 1,213 KANSAS City, Mo., policemen will be joined by policemen from other metropolitan departments and by 300 Missouri State Highway patrolmen. Kansas policemen cannot cross the state line to help with security in Missouri, but they will be busy enough protecting convention-goers who stay in Kansas and the areas in Kansas near Kemper Arena.
Security has been planned carefully. For instance, special behavioral training for policemen will begin soon. Officers will attend a 40-hour workshop in their off-duty hours to learn how to deal with the special stresses and provocations of protesters and demonstrators.
DURING THE convention, there will be seven police command posts—one at Kemper Arena and six others in the city. Equipment for sophisticated communications and detection will be purchased or leased. About 100 additional policemen will be hired for the Kansas City, Mo., force.
The police plan is to make arrests whenever "non-negotiable" violations, as Police Chief Joseph McNamara calls them, occur. These are violations such as destroying property, blocking streets and harassing delegates.
THE COST OF all this police protection, not including secret service costs, fire protection or the cost of Coast Guard patrols on the Missouri River, will be more than $9,000 a day for the nine days (Aug. 11-19) the Platform Committee and the convention are in session.
The goal of the police in all this is to guard, equally, the rights of the community, the demonstrators, the press, the politicians and the convention guests.
Other conventions in recent years, notably the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago, have had problems in doing that. There, riots developed and police were physically pitted against demonstrators.
FOUR YEARS later, in Miami Beach, great care was taken to prevent violence, and the efforts were largely successful.
THE MOST controversial protesters planning to come to Kansas City are members of the Youth International Party, which has joined with some other protest groups to form the Kansas City Convention Coalition.
The coalition is negotiating with the city for camping space and sanitary and transportation facilities for non-delegates. Their goal is to plan sufficiently to prevent violence. The Clippies pummel one of their members, Clyde, one of their members has said, but that is not this group's goal in Kansas City.
IT IS THE Constitutional right of all who wish to come to be there. Kansas City has invited the Republicans and it can't very well tell interested Americans that they can't participate in their own election process.
The rights to assemble and to protest are fundamental. Patience will be needed to deal with bizarre behavior designed solely to attract attention. Those witnesses after all, are asking only these coverage and mass attention for their ideas.
THE CONVENTION guests, it is hoped, will choose to be nonviolent, but it would be well to remember, in any case, that a group has never been neat, silent or easy.
Fortunately for us, the mood of the country has changed since 1968 and 1972. Dissatisfied people are less inclined to choose violence as the best way to get what they want. In this easier atmosphere, community preparedness and involvement can go a long way toward ensuring that the noisy, messy process of democracy has a clear forum in Kansas City this summer.
By Diane Wilson Guest Writer
The big winner in today's Democratic primary in Pennsylvania courts very hard, and even on the ballot. That man is, of course, the extraordinarily well-educated candidate, Hubert Humphrey.
WHILE PRESIDENT Ford
Pennsylvania primary perilous
as the only "real" liberal and the support jackson is getting from the state political machine and organized labor have very nearly canceled other out. That's where good old Hubert
The pressure on Udall and Jackson, however, is nearly as intense. For both of them, every primary could be the last. All it would take is one really bad showing and that would be that. They, therefore, are campaigning just as hard as Carter
On the Primary Trail
CARTER ALREADY was under pressure to show his vote-getting power in industrial states such as Pennsylvania and to show he deserved his front-runner label. Since the release of the new press remark, this pressure has become even more intense.
Carter's so-called lead, which has never been very wide, has been jeopardized by his already infamous "ethnic purity" remark. This "bad choice of words" has been pounced upon by liberal liberals, who have been waiting for a such chance.
If Pennsylvania ends up in a dead heat (a very real
THE RESULT of all this intense pressure and campaling is a very light race. The runner's position, Udall's position
None of them really had much choice in the matter.
and Ronald Reagan have been verbally attacking each other in expectation of their May 1 Texas showdown, the three main announced Democratic candidates have been putting everything they have into preparation. Jimmy Carter and Morris Udall have all spent large amounts of money and time there.
By Jim Bates Contributing Writer
possibility), Humphrey will be in fine shape. The Carter boon will have subsided, and Udall will have lost the ability to unable to take up the slack.
latest political scenario, that is when Humphrey will enter the race in an attempt to unite the party. He will offer himself as the candidate who can gain the support of both liberals and machine politicians. Jackson will step aside, and, presto, he will return to his rightful place as gatherer of the labor vote.
Although this scenario probably sounds good to Hubert Humphrey, it obviously isn't Jim Carter's idea of a好梦.
CARTER CAN'T afford to finish third in Pennsylvania. He can barely afford to finish second. He needs to keep up a semblance of momentum so he can do better. Does he enter the race, he can face him on even or better than ever terms.
In the strange world of the
primary trull, Carter is less concerned about how many of Pennsylvania's 134 delegate he wins and more concerned about how he compared with Udall and Jackson.
ESPECIALLY JACKSON.
For inside the three-man battle,
Carter and Jackson are also
two of the two main reasons
There are two main reasons for
this. One is that both of them
have, rightly or wrongly, been
labeled as conservatives. The
other was a militant against
anticampaign trials.
Jackson is playing old politics. He has the support of his machine and the smaller but more effective machine of Philadelphia Mayor Frank Sinatra, who supports it to pull him through.
Carter, on the other hand, is following more in the footsteps
of George McGovenn. His Pennsylvania campaign is being run by fresh blood. Most of his workers have never worked in a political campaign and Carter is counting on them.
SO TODAY IS the Pennsylvania primary. The Republicans will go to the polls. The substantial but comparatively meaningless victory. The Democrats will also go to the polls. Most of them will vote for Gov. Mittenwald, although a few stragglers will vote for Gov. Milton Shannon, who dropped out a couple of months ago but is after all, a Pennsylvania boy.
And all of them, regardless of their intentions, may end up in the long run to have voted for Hubert Humphrey.
Intramurals offer top challenge
Intramurals at the University of Kansas are many things to many people. For some, they provide the thrill of victory; for others, they cause the agony of defeat. The chances are slim that KU intramurals will ever provide one of the great moments in sports we hear every year. They doubtedly given many participants memories they won't soon forget, even if they try.
After four years of participation, I think I've had more
not, the challenge involves coping with the system and not losing your cool.
IF NOTHING else, the intramural program presents each of the participants with a challenge. That challenge can come in many forms, but it generally originates with the shortages of time and space the program faces. More often than
one of these games can be very hazardous to your health. The fields overlap, so that outwatches you play in front of you. In other words
By John Johnston Contributing Writer
than my share of challenges. The softball season, which is now in progress, is always interesting. Playing outfield in
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words, you're closer to their infield than they are, but you have your back to it. Whenever you hear that glorious sound of bat meeting ball, you have to wonder whether the ball will soon meet your head. And when its your turn to chase down a ball, you have to other game's outfielders. It's a real challenge.
ANOTHER REAL challenge for me came in coed volleyball. First, I managed a team that was forfeit-prove. During our game, we played games by forfeit and won the other two by forfeit. We never played in an official game. Instead, we usually played practice games short-banded or long-tennis, the team that had won by forfeit.
It was probably just as well that we didn't play official games. The rules were so simple, the strict that it was impossible to hit the ball more than three or four times without a violation. Because of this sexual discrimination, we were handcuffed by sexist rules. For
example, the ball couldn't be hit by two consecutive males on one team. It was a real challenge.
TIME LIMITATIONS play have with intramural contests. The softball games are limited to five innings or some more than an hour. If the game is tied at the end of five, whoever is leading after four innings is the winner. Basketball is even worse. After playing an abrupt stop, the clock does not stop until the final two minutes, if the game is tied you go into sudden death overtime. What can you say about sudden death in either calling it insane? Oh, yeah it's a challenge.
These physical limitations on the intramural games are all challenges, but the greatest challenge is knowing your temper—and the primary source of this challenge is officiating. Now, it's always easy to criticize the officials, so they have, but I don't intend to consider the judgment calls they have to make. Let's just say consistency is not their specialty; they sometimes try your pervers.
AS A FRESHIMAN, my first contact with intramural referees came in football. In our first game the quarterback ran the ball and then跑 run. In the next game the official penalized us when our quarterback ran, told us the quarterback could carry the ball. And then died it between the time he received it from center and the
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time he crossed the scrimgime line. Well, in the next game we tried that, and after being penalized, we were told that the quarterback could never carry the ball.
**THEN THERE** was the guy who wouldn't let us into the gym last year for a basketball game until we used magic markers to put numbers on our shirts. I had seen him and his shirts that was illegal and so I had to turn the shirt inside out and put another number on it. Even that could have been justified—maybe—but in the next gym there was an intramural game being played between the traditional Shirts and Skins. Skins had no numbers at all.
Last year our softball team ran into trouble with an ampire. We were on the field. Our opponents had a man on second. We stopped him and our shortstop stabbed. The man on second was caught leaning toward third, so the shortstop tagged second for the double play. Or so we thought. It seems like he might have to tag the man for a double play. Now anyone who has ever played baseball knew he was wrong, but, in the true spirit of officiating, he didn't want to be tagged by the minutes and quite a few threats before he saw it our way.
And then this year we almost had to forfeit because we didn't have the money. We had plenty of substitutes to do the job, but it seems that the players get sweaty and amused so a nonplayer is essential.
IT'S AT TIMES such as those that you begin to wonder whether intramurals are really worth the trouble. For all the effort involved in getting a team together, you use a particular season. The leagues are divided into so many divisions that the playoffs drag on forever. Intramurals are supposed to be geared toward participation. Why couldn't there be more competition, a bigger season and fewer teams in the play-offs?
A major portion of the student body is involved in intramurals. There's no reason why the memories those students have shouldn't be good ones. It wouldn't take much.
Oily orb hypothesis begets sticky crisis
THE PART THAT Hughes
WASHINGTON-II -I was either Howard Hughes or the Albanians. Hughes used to be in charge of making him a suspect, and the Albanians are blamed for nothing, which is suspicious too.
of full professors of classical archaeology and Medieval Latin literature. Just as the editorials were telling us the energy crisis was over forever, it was noted that earthquakes were occurring with somewhat greater frequency, and the
By Nicholas von Hoffman (C) King Features
may have played in the matter has gone to the grave with him or is locked up in the CIA, which is much the same. What's this about? In 1978 the Albanians wrecked the international oil market when they sold a billion barrels of high-grade, sweet crude. The price dropped from $12 at a barrel first Communist country to join OPEC. The Shah of Iran still had reason to hope the cartel would keep prices high enough to keep his secret police in check. The nipples of people brought in for interrogation.
But when Switzerland, Bangladesh and Rhode Island brought in guskers, the Shah's minister of finance informed him that he would henceforth have to rely on the knot and the rack to bring political stability and to order ungrateful subordinates into the hands of executives of the major oil companies, whose stockholders were in rage and despair at this unlocked-for abundance.
THE GEOLOGISTS were none too happy either. Until it was discovered there is oil under the ground everywhere, they were important political leaders and even folks who simply drive to work and heat their homes listened to everything the geologists had to say and gave them all the research money they wanted. Overnight, their profession was getting cramped in 1980 full professors of geology were demoted to the nav-scale
geologists' pay was increased only moderately because no city like New York or Moscow had been disturbed.
THEN AT THE 1982 International Geological Conference held under U.N. auspices at Calcutta, Nobel Prize-winning geophysicist Olio Di oliva读本 his now famous book, even heads of state could understand it. Di Oliva contended that the center of the earth is not made of hot rocks but crude oil. The Olly Orb Hypothesis, as it came to be called, states that our planet is a huge drop of oil on the surface of a hard, dusted mud and water, which of course appear to us as our mountains, oceans and plains. Hence, according to Oliva's calculations, subsequently verified by scientists everywhere, we have enough data our present rate of usage, to last for a million trillion years.
That's the good news. The bad news is that as we withdraw the oil and burn it off the planet's skin, the earth on which we walk shrinks, shifts, compacts and quakes.
THE OILY ORB Hypothesis touched off a furious controversy. The president made one of his toughest, most compelling arguments, calling the whole idea of foreign "ism" and Di Oliva an impractical ideologue. He pointed out that if you had accepted this kind of doctrine, it would be tantamount to surrendering our
sovereignty because all oil pumping would have to be determined by international pressure; apparently there was great applause from Congress, particularly from Texas and Rhode Island, the two major oil companies, on went on for almost 10 minutes and would have continued longer except for the tremor in the wake of an explosion except for knocking the polis off the Washington Monument.
THE PRESIDENT in an act of courage that would have been fulsomely praised in the next day's newspapers had the presses not been cracked by the quake, drove immediately to the television cameramen following him. Picking up one of the stones which had fallen from the monument's crest, he was photographed saying that we would not be intimidated by this barbarous act and that we owed it, not only to ourOURS, but also to our NATO allies, to contribute to pump oil.
NATO responded by giving us 24 hours to pack up our tanks, planes and troops and get out. In Stockholm all the other members of NATO and the Warsaw pact gathered to sign the world's first mutual no-pump agreement.
THE PRESIDENT said it was a dark day for Western Civ and appointed a high-level committee to study the situation and develop plans. The announcement that oil could continue to be pumped with a high margin of safety. They pointed out that the chances were good that California would be highly populated areas except Los Angeles and Boston.
The committee explained that if a quake hit a city it would provide the present unemployees with housing. On the other hand, to stop pumping would cost jobs. The president agreed and told the people that you can kill yourself if you eat too much ceterail."
The next day the English sent an atomic ultimatum. The President blamed it on Castro.