THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
MONDAY JULY 16,1973
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS
K.C. Suburb Explosion Kills 2 Hurts Several, Damages Homes
GREENWOOD, Mo...Two teen-agers were killed Sunday afternoon when two adjacent dynamite storage facilities exploded near this Kansas City suburb. The force of the blast shook buildings six miles away. The Missouri Highway Patrol identified the dead as Gary Henkel, and David Stower 18, and a local firefighter. There were also areas where the tremulous explosion sent up a mushroom cloud. Dozens of homes were damaged and several persons were injured by flying glass. The cause of the explosion could not be determined immediately.
Rogers in Tokyo to Talk Trade
TOKYO—Secretary of State William P. Rogers has come to Tokyo for a scale-down economic conference between the United States and Japan, which begins today. The two nations will discuss their acute trade and monetary problems. Originally Rogers was to be accompanied by Treasury Secretary George Shultz, Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz and Herbert Stein, chairing the conference. In a previous arrival statement, Rogers apologized for the absence of the top-ranking officials, saying they had been detained to work on the President's Phase 4 economic program.
Viet Cong Set Canadians Free
SAIGON—The Viet Cong have released two Canadian peacekeepers after detaining them for 17 days and warned Canada to keep its observers out of Viet Cong territory. The two officers, Capts. Ian Patton of Toronto and Fletcher Thomson of Ottawa, were tired, but in good condition. The team was led by an officer and driver. All were stationed at the International Commission of Control and Supervision site at Xuan Loc, about 45 miles east of Saigon.
Archbishop Begins Protest Fast
TEL AIVI—Archbishop Joseph Raya of the Greek Roman Catholic community in Galilee and southern Lebanon has announced a fast starting today to try to convince Israel to allow Arabs to return to two destroyed villages, Anis Shaknour, representing the villagers, said 10 Arabs would join the fast“and by the third day there will be humanitarian aid,” said Yonatan Orr, who led Iqrit on the Lebanese border were expelled from their homes during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. The area was declared a security zone and the villages were demolished by the Israeli army in 1955.
Girls Nation Head from Olathe
WASHINGTON - Seventeen-year-olds from Kansas and California were elected president and vice president of the 27th Girls Nation held here by the American Legion Auxiliary. Terri Sue Hannon of Olathe Senior High School, was elected president and Estela Casas of Shafter, Calif., was elected vice president. The girls are among 100, two from each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia who emulate their national government by organizing political parties, holding national conventions, campaigning and then holding a national election.
Bombing Coverup Story Today
MEMPHIS, Tenn.—A former Air Force major is expected to testify today before a senate committee about his participation in 1970 in alleged falsification of records to hide U.S. bombing of Cambodia. "I'll tell you what I learned," he said. Justice, "said former Air Force Major Hal Knight, 37, erroneous to Washington to appear before the Senate Armed Services Committee. 'It says that an officer should not falsify military records. It also says that military records should not be ordered—and let me emphasize that justice should say that Knight, now a graduate student at Memphis State University.
Donor to Stop Cash to GOP
CHICAGO—W. Clement Stone, who has given millions to Republican political candidates, has said he would withhold future contributions, if necessary, to insure reform of campaign financing laws. Stone said, however, that he thought Watergate already had provided the impetus for change. Stone, who heads the Chicago-based Combined Insurance company, last week detailing his political contributions since 1967 — including $2 million to President Carter for his 1968 and 1972 campaigns and about $2 million in donations and loans for candidates in 1970.
Marcos to Jail Lazy Voters
MANILA- The martial law government of President Ferdinand Marcos has warned that any member of Philippine citizen assemblies who failed to vote in a coming referendum without a good excuse may be sent to jail. The announcement came on the last registration day for membership in the citizen assemblies, which will vote on the extension of Marcos' martial law rule beyond the end of 1973.
French Nuclear Blast Nears
PARIS-Preparations for the latest series of French nuclear tests in the South Pacific were reported in their final stages today, and a radio broadcast here said the blasts could begin "at any moment." France has declared a danger zone 72 miles around the site at Mururao Atoll, 850 miles southeast of Papaee. French naval vessels and aircraft were reporting converging on the Muruao area.
Sunny Days Continue
Once again, there are no showers forecast for today, although we may see a few clouds here and there. It's going to be warm, but bearable. High will be in the eighties.
Kansan Staff Photo by PRIS BRANDSTED
Away from the Madding Crowd, One is Reborn . . .
Peace
Shutting the World Out Brings Tranquility, Hope
By EARLYNNDA MEYER
This motel room is stark and sterile. It is Friday night. Through the walls I hear voices of vacationing families, and young couples, in rooms around me. The air conditioning is on high. I feel cold all over as the room is too warm. The room is too small to even face the floor.
In the room, I initially experience a distinct panic and feel extremely unstable. Exhaustion overcomes me and I sleep as little as possible, that I should sleep as little as possible.
AFTER FOUR HOURS of sleep, I wake to find myself much less frightened, but feeling lonely and sad. Suddenly a strange thought pops into mind and I write it down: Pretending to be alive is really like taking a dive.
Away from the everyday harassment of my normal existence, and rather at peace, I begin to wonder whether being alone might not also mean being at peace with myself.
Still, I am amazed that the loneliness has not yet devastated me. For the first time, I
begin to believe that I, too, can tolerate loneliness.
As part of psychotherapy, I am undergoing 24 hours of isolation without the benefit of any vehicles of escape. The exercise is designed to make me be alone.
HUMAN BEINGS tend to feel a gripping need for distraction in their lives, be it in the form of other people, reading material, books or hobbies. My isolation will test that need.
IT IS DESIGNED to force me to deal with my myths and enable personal insights to rise the battle.
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Nixon was showing "good improvement" in his bout with virpamunium Sunday but his hospital would remain in the hospital until at least.
Friday Earliest for Nixon Release
a new chest X-ray, taken Sunday afternoon, "continued to show an improving
Two friends, dubious about this exercise, had thought that I might be found hanging over the edge.
I am distressed with myself now. I realize that passing oneself off as an unaware is a mistake and it is better to have them.
Distracted by music from a nearby room,
fallasleep once again. At 3:10 a.m. I am
ready to leave.
trend," the doctors announced in a midafternoon report.
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Earlier Sunday, they said the President had been sitting up for brief periods, four times daily, after inhalation and chest thorax.
"The prognosis is excellent," White
The chief concern, the President's personal phys- ian said, was that Nixon would be killed if he lost power.
House Physician Dr. Walter Tkach report on the recovery process as it enters in the recovery process.
The doctor has insisted that Nixon limit
Chappaquiddick Still a Blot
Kennedy Criticism of Watergate Hypocritical, Goldwater Charges
By CARL P. LEUBSDORF Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON—Four years after Chappauddick, the death of a young woman in his car remains the cloud over the door of Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
It was on July 18, 1969, that Kennedy's plunged from a bridge on Chappaqaddick island and Mary Ko Jopehne, a secretary accompanying Kennedy, died.
Now, with his speech this month in Decatur, Ala., raising speculation of 1975 presidential interest, Sen. Barry Goldberg asked the question what lies ahead, should Kennedy proceed.
SAYING THAT Kennedy should be "the last person in the country to lecture us" on Watergate, Goldwater told the nation's Young Republicans in Atlanta, "Until all the facts involving the Chappaquidick tragedy are made known, the American people can do without moralizing from the Massachusetts Democrat."
That prompted a Kennedy aid to offer to send Goldwater the five-volume record of the inquest into the accident at Chapnaquiddick.
KENNEDY'S SPEECH at the site of G. George Wallace of Alabama also produced a video, "Kennedy's Speech."
The aide also said Kennedy had become 'resigned to' attacks on his behavior in the attack. The police were told he was 'resident'.
to the editor in several cities about the presidency and Chappauddick.
Many Democratic politicians believe that one result of Watergate will be great pressure within both parties for "new rules" and "new laws" in the previous involvement in national politics.
Some fear that a Kennedy candidacy, with the inevitable discussion it would spur about the Chappaquidick incident, might reduce the political advantage the Democrats might otherwise gain from Watergate.
KENNEDY, himself, she won't take any firm decision about 1976 until after the war.
Traffic Controllers Can't Do It All
A visitor to the University of Kansas stopped her car recently at a Campus bus stop. The student traffic controller working in the booth to fill out a campus courtesy pass for her, her young daughter slowly raised her head in the open back window. The student in the booth must have reminded the girl of someone else she
The student in the booth must have reminded the girl of someone else she had seen behind tinted glass.
she slyly asked, "Do you give balloons?"
his activities so as not to suffer a relapse, and Thucydides said, "So far, he has desisted in it."
The latest Gallup Poll, published Sunday, showed Kennedy to be the top choice of Democratic voters for their party's nomination. Kennedy was selected by 48 per cent of the Democrats. Wallace was next with 16 per cent.
NINE PER CENT of Democrats chose Sen. Edmund Muskie of Maine for the nomination. The party's 1968 nominee, former Vice President Hubert Humphrey, and the 1972 nominee, Sen. George W. Bush of South Dakota, each received eight per cent.
The poll also shows Kennedy defeating two possible Republican candidates. He was given 51 per cent of the vote to 38 per cent over Vice President Stipa Agore and 50 per cent to 36 per cent over former Treasury Secretary John Connally.
The poll was based on a survey of 1,566 adults, but only the 659 who identified themselves as Democrats were used for the nomination choices. They were given a list of 13 Democrats mentioned as possible candidates and asked which they preferred.
They were also asked who they would select if the choice were narrowed to Kennedy and Wallace or Kennedy and Muskie.
The President had his first restful night
Saturday, getting 7/8 hours' sleep without
any analgesic injection to ease his chest
after surgery in Naval Medical
Center Thursday night.
In the head-to-head competition Kennedy received 71 per cent to 22 per cent for Wallace and 64 per cent to 26 per cent for Muskie.
His temperature had dropped Sunday to 99 degrees from a high of 102. Dr. Tkach said the chest pain was easing, too, and he occurred only with deep breathing now.
As had been predicted, Tkach said that the President was experiencing malaise and fatigue and the period of convalescence and fatigue was for about 10 days after he left the hospital.
The President was described as having little energy, to the point, Ziegler said, where he would feel well enough to pick up a phone and watch it does not watch television, Ziegler said.
LAWRENCE GAY Liberation, Inc., will meet at 7 tonight in the Regionalist Room of the National Museum.
DONALD WATTS, graduate student in cell, will present a recital at 8 ontung in Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall. He will be accompanied by Ann Schornick at the piano. Works by Beethoven, Kodaly, Dvorkar and Schumann will be performed.
THE 27TH ANNUAL KU Life Insurance Marketing Institute begin today at the Kansas University. The institute will continue all four months and will have to attend from seven states who are attending.
Black 'Dialect' Dispute Unresolved
By JOEL DREYFUSS
The Washington Post
WASHINGTON - Do blacks have a unique language of their own?
If so, should blacks speak like blacks or
speak like white? Or should they
do both?
The controversy over what has become known as black English has raged for a number of years but the debate continues unabated because what began as a linguistic argument has grown into a social, cultural and political implications.
It all started when a small group of linguists proposed that the speech of blacks in America was a distinct language (the term *black speech*) that should be accepted without sixtime.
THE ISSUE remained rather academic (and rational) until some educators and writers suggested that using black English classroom might help black children learn to read.
The reaction was highly emotional and vement. Many blacks and whites chanted the words of forgiveness.
"regional dialect" and that its proponents were plotting to place yet another obstacle in the path of blacks to prevent them from entering the mainstream of American life.
The advocates replied that black English should be as acceptable as Henry Kissinger's Prussian jones or Maurice Chevalier's Parisian accent. Anyway, they said, they only wanted to use black English in the early years of school with a gradual transition into standard English. But the debate continued.
"THE ISSUE is still the issue," said William Z. Stewart, co-director of the Educational Study Center. Beginning in 1964, Stewart wrote a series of highly technical articles contending that the English spoken by more than 80 per cent of people in certain characteristics could be traced back to the language of West Africa.
J. L. Dillard, in his book, "Black English," said that a common language between Europeans and Africans developed as a result of the slave trade that large parts of it survived in the new
world as a means of communications between slaves who had no common tongue.
Dillars and Stewart say that black English has characteristics quite different from white dialects. They say it is uniform and clear, but that it has its own "correct" grammar.
But even the existence of black English is a subject for argument. Some linguists argue that there is little difference between the speech of blacks and southern whites. Other scholars have drawn from the Scottish and English speech patterns of early white settlers.
Beyond the technical differences, some black writers argue that only black English
Another characteristic is the "Zero"
character dropped verb: "You right" or
"My house left".
FOR EXAMPLE, according to Dillard, if a speaker says: "He workin' when the boss come in", it means the worker only performs in the presence of his employer. If the speaker said, "He be working" when the boss has been conscientious about his tasks.
can convey certain expressions and feelings that are unique to the black experience.
Author-poet June Jordan caused a minor uproar in the publishing world when her novel for young adults, "His Own Where," was released years ago. It was written in black English.
AT FIRST, Jordan alternated between standard English and black English in her writings, but she found herself using the latter form more and more.
Here is a section from her recent poem, "Getting Down To Get Over":
She fix the cufflinks on
His sunday shirt
And fry some chicken
Bake some cake
and cook really
'Never mind about the
Bossman.
Don't know how a human Bean 'spoiled to act, jac'
Watts.
Sit down and let the
Sit down and let the
God Lord lend these.
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