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Tuesday, July 3, 1973
University Daily Kansan
U.S. Bombing Gains in Strength
By MIKE SHANAHAN
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP)—The Defense Department disclosed Monday that while the White House was negotiating a compromise with Congress over bombing Cambodia last week, the United States was sharply increasing the number of fighter-bombers sent against targets in that country.
Pentagon spokesman William Beecher said the number of sorties flown by F4 and A7 tactical aircraft increased daily by as much as one per cent, beginning in the middle of 2015.
Until then, fighter-bomber sorties had
been running about 150 each day. Now, they are running" in the 2006, " Beecher said, and "their kids are running."
B52 heavy bumper runs remain at about the same level as before, about 40 sorties daily. A sortie, or strike, is one mission by one plane.
On Friday, the Congress voted a compromise Aug. 15 close-off date for American bombing and other military activity in Indochina. After that, President Nixon must seek new congressional authority to continue the bombing.
Cambodia and military thrusts by Communist-led Cambian rebels seeking to overturn the government in Phnom Penh, Beecher said.
The new level of attacks by tactical, as opposed to strategic, aircraft, was used in the latter half of World War II.
On Sunday, for example, government troops received heavy American air support while trying to clear a seven-mile wide strip of about 40 miles northwest of the capital.
Beecher said there was no change in bombing policy; instead, American military officials are responding to changing conditions on the ground.
American planes have been bombing in Cambodia with varying intensity since the first Indochina cease-fire went into effect Jan. 27.
Official Urges Phase 3 Backing
WASHINGTON (AP)—A government consumer specialist said Monday consumers didn't believe the Nixon administration could restrain inflation and predicted failure for the price control on large consumer goods could be made to support it.
"I am inclined to believe that unless some impressive overstories are made to enlist the support of the average citizen, the program would not have a good counseler to the Cost of Laying Council.
Ryan spoke at a hearing called by the council's Food Advisory Committee into food price problems and how they should be handled in the government's proposed new
Phase 4 controls program.
She said most consumers thought that price controls were desirable and workable and that the government should be committed to making them basic causes of inflation were eliminated.
She also said she personally would prefer some food shortages to continuing rising food prices, but said consumer groups were divided on whether there should be some form of government rationing for goods in short supply.
She urged the Food Advisory Committee and the council "not to overlook" the lack of public confidence in the anti-inflation program.
"Consumer confidence in the program or in the government's commitment to resolve the problem of inflation is at a very low ebb and may be engendering an undesirable level of cynicism in the body politic," she said.
Food industry representatives testified at the hearing and most called for a quick end to the current price freeze, warning that it was causing shortages and distortions in the economy and would result in even higher prices for food in the long run.
The 60-day general price freeze was imposed by the President on June 13 and is scheduled to be succeeded by a new Phase 4 control program.
By TOM LAMBERT
The Los Angeles Times
LONDON — One balmy day recently, Viola Ireland put on one of her nicest frocks, slid into her little car and set out from her home near Basingstoke to meet some friends in the southwest. Part of her ride lay along M3, which Britain's divided superhawlways.
After moving carefully away from her home, Ireland, traveling along at 15 m.p.h., swung onto the 70 m.p.h. M-3—on the wrong side.
In the next few hours, Ireland, a 78-year-old parson's widow, committed a series of the most improbably traffic offenses ever recorded in this country. Some policemen who witnessed her infractions still are shaken. Britain has taken her to its heart.
ONCOMING MOTORISTS screeched wildly around her as she bore down on them. A policeman hastily flagged her down.
Responding, she made a U-turn on the highway, but only part way, and wound up parked sideways across M-3. She sat there unperturbed amid the hongkri traffic that came under the policeman escorted her to the shoulder of the highway for a brief lecture.
When the lecture was over, Ireland laid up in the same direction as the traffic proceeding along her side of M-3. But she was in the wrong direction for Winchester.
Disguised Blessing
O SHE EDGED diagonally across M-3 and headed toward its Winchester-bound
By ROBERT SHOGAN
The Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON—The Watergate scandal and politics like a V.D. outbreak, in brief.
Until Police Catch Up She Makes Her Own Traffic Laws
More than ever, politicians in both parties are under suspicion. Those who hold office are the most worried. They're taking fervently about reform and some are already taking tentative steps toward the high road.
— in the Senate, Lloyd Benton, of Texas,
chairman of the 1974 Democratic Senate
Campaign Committee, is urging a $3,000
individual contributions to any
candidate.
In the House, a hastily organized Republican task force on campaign practices has tentatively recommended a single fund for each candidate and control of presidential campaign financing by the pompier's political party.
Watergate Scandal Pushes Politicians Toward New Openness and Reforms
—Democratic National Chairman Robert Strauss will ask his party's executive committee to review his membership in a Dallas law firm many of whose clients do business in Washington. Though he had previously decided to keep both his law firm and the firm in the state, second thoughts because of the "super-heated atmosphere" created by Waterate.
All of this may be only the beginning of what many foresee as a wave of political reform. Polster Pat Cadcatt thinks "Public Law" sets the ground rules of American politics."
Political consultant Donovan McClure predicts the 1974 elections will be the "cleanest ever," replete with financial disclosure and free not only from "dirty tricks" but also from relatively innocent pranks and buffery.
"The country is in a state I've never seen before," he said. "Americans are traditionally a very optimistic people. But now their outlook is very foreboding."
Even office holders who made their reputations as reformers, such as Demo
Some doubt that the impact of Watergate will be that enduring. But nearly everyone agrees, for the time being at least, that the political climate has changed dramatically.
Public skepticism of institutions and leaders, which mounted steadily during the 1960s, some pollsters say, has increased sharply in the wake of Watergate.
cratic Gov. Dan Walker of Illinois, are feeling the pressure.
"Watergate is the sturm that broke the camel's back," says Caddell of Cambridge Survey Research, whose polls helped guide Governor to the 1972 Democratic nomination.
Says Walker: "Anyone who thinks Watergate doesn't make the average person more suspicious of incumbents will be in trouble."
For some incumbents it is already too late to worry. Political observers believe Watergate contributed to the recent defeats of Mayor Sam Yorty of Los Angeles and Republican Gov. William Cahill of New Jersey.
Yorly's use of racially oriented literature in his campaign against Tom Bradley offended some white voters who had not objected to similar tactics in the past.
just teapot tempeests will take on more importance now."
Though both Anderson and the aide denied that anything like a bribe had been offered, the incident created a stir in the state. It raised hopes of Republicans that Anderson, hitherto regarded as almost unbeatable, might be vulnerable in 1974.
Cahill was damaged by indictments against two close associates, growing out of their financing activities in his 1969 campaign.
Though there was no direct connection with Watergate, a Cahill campaign strategist says: "The two scandals reinforced each other in people's minds because both were related to the broad issue of integrity in government."
More trouble seems to be brewing out in the Hustings, Says Robert Keefe, executive director of the Democratic National Committee: "Things that would have been
When the top aide to Minnesota Democratic Gov. Wendell Anderson engaged in aggressive lobbying on behalf of a suspect accused him of attempted "bribery."
In Michigan, Republican Gov. William Milliken has been embarrassed by the recent disclosure that a former top aide rewarded a Detroit politician for his support in the 1970 campaign with the appointment of a friend to a job on the Governor's staff.
Milliken promptly dismissed the woman, admitted error and won some praise for his
cander. But Democrats have called the episode a "Mini-Watergate" and believe it could cause problems for Milliken if, as expected, he seeks reelection in 1974.
"People toes around the word 'Watergate'
it is: Waterloo," grumbles a
milkman.
Indications are that Watwater is having an inhibiting influence on Capitol Hill. "Nobody there wants to go near anything that even hints at infighting peddling," says Edward Mahe, director of political action for the Republican National Committee.
Mahie cites his recent visit to an unidentified Congressman to seek aid in expediting a constituent's request for a boost in his veteran's disability pension.
"The thing had gotten lost over at the Veterans Administration, and all I wanted him to do was to get the V.A. to find it," said Mahe. But, Mahe recalls, the lawmaker drew back in alarm and told him: "Oh God, no. I couldn't do anything like that now."
The public reaction against the criminal conduct associated with the Watergate affair may still traditional political tactics have been used, now seem outside the bounds of propriety.
"Papering the House at fund-raising dinners, phony letters to the editor and things like that are going to go by the boards now," says Don McChure, consultant to R. Sargent Shriver and Boston Mayor Kevin White.
"These people involved in Watergate have given all kinds of political activity a bad name," says Dick Tuck, a veteran political prankster, who considers the first commandment of politics to be: "Thou Shalt Not Bore."
Tuck's most celebrated stunt was to smuggle a young woman "spy" aboard the Goldwater campaign train in the 1964 election. Her main assignment, so far as anyone knows, was handing out copies of a book on espionage as newspaper needing the Republican nominee.
That sort of inquiry is out, at least for the time being, Tuck says sadly. "I may give up this business and take up tennis," he says, has made an honest utest out of that.
Lewis Hall Repairs To End Next Week
Damage to Lewis Hall, caused by the wind storm June 16, will probably be repaired by next week, dorsitory system director J. L. Wilson said Monday.
Wilson said repairing the damage to his car cost $12,684.74 and would be covered by a $250 fee with the U.S. Fire Insurance Co., the same company the Kansas Union was insured when it was damaged by fire in 1970. He says insurance covers all the University residence halls.
By PRISCILLA KAUFMAN
About a fourth of the Lewis Hall roof was damaged in the storm, Wilson said. He said that the roof, which is concrete, was built with waterproofing and sheet rock to make it wettierth.
Kansan Staff Writer
Wilson said that insurance agencies realized the risk involved in insuring workers' health.
During the storm the top three layers of the built-up roof were torn off an area approximated by 40 by 60 feet. It is now being援 by Vincent Roofing Co. of Toecka.
Wilson estimated that $250 worth of damage, mainly to windows, was done to residence halls other than Lewis. Repairs were made by the housing maintenance staff.
He said that the three-year policy covering residence halls would expire this year. Next year bids will be taken for a new policy.
Ousahld said that repairs to the campus costed about $6,000. This money covers labor and maintenance costs for replacing windows, doors and skylights, removing about 90 trees and cleaning up the campus, and doing more work than done to Allen Field House and Moore Hall.
Although the residence halls and the Kansas Union are insured, the academic buildings are built by bonds and must be repaired with state funds, Lee Ousdahl, assistant director of the physical plant, said Monday.
the size and cost of the buildings.
At a Board of Regents meeting last Thursday former Chancellor Raymond Nichols estimated damage of $1,83 to Allen Field House and $485 to Moore Hall. He requested authorization to proceed immediately with repairs.
Wilson said that insurance premiums have gone up $50 per cent in the last three years.
The regents approved a motion by Topeka regent Henry Bubb for a regents request to the State Finance Council to provide funding for repairs.
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lanes on the other side of the highway divider. She caused one driver, wheeling frantically to avoid her, to swerve at high speed into a ditch.
As she moved to the Winchester-bound side and drifted across it to the outside lane for slower drivers, she nearly collided with a car that was swinging out widely to avoid hitting her.
But she made it safely to Winchester, met her friends, went to a hotel, and, as she put on her coat, walked into the kitchen.
GETTING BACK into her car, she started for house on M-5—on the wrong side of the road.
Her earlier performances were repeated.
Observation drivers screened and a swerved
downward.
Within a few minutes, she was spotted by the same policeman—now incredulous—who had flagged her down earlier for the same thing. Following and honking furiously, he chased her through oncoming drivers.
Ireland ignored the police car and continued sat at 15 m.p.h. along the wrong side of the road.
THE POLICE CAR edged up ongasse her, one policeman reached out and banged on her car roof and shouted at her to stop. She plowed steadfastly along.
Finally, one of the policemen jumped from the patrol car, sprinted alongside Ireland's car, wrenched the door on the passenger side, lurched into the car, reached over and jerked the key out of the ignition lock.
The court was not impressed. Ireland was fined 40 dollars ($104), ruled off the roads for one year and ordered to take a driving permit, to regain her suspended driver's license.
She was charged with two counts of dangerous driving, making a U-turn on M-3 Bypass.
Planned Trips to K.C. Fail to Interest Students
IRELAND PLEADED guilty to the charges but did not appear at her hearing, during which her attorney explained, "She finds the motorway most confusin."
Lack of interest led to the cancellation of previously planned bus trips sponsored by the department of health, physical education and recreation, and may lead to trips to Kansas City's Starlight Theatre and to Worlds of Fun Saturday.
state of Kansas.
Only three people signed up for the Starlight Theatre trip for a staging of Doc Severinson. There must be at least 25 to make the trip possible, said Lawrence Heeb, associate professor in physical education and recreation consultant for the
The trip to Worlds of Fun is attracting as much 'inattention' as the trips to the Starlight Theatre, said Heeb. To make the trip, possible there must be at least 25 signed up by Friday. The package price for adults is $10.50 and $9.50 for children.
in the past, there were five or six bus trips during the summer, said Heeb. He said he though the lack of interest in the Starlight Theatre trip could be because individual performers have taken the place of musical productions.
Fire Chief Fritz Sanders had discussed the possibility of arson at the scene of the fire because of the speed with which the flames spread.
Inquiry Finds No Proof of Arson
With three other investigations into Lawrence fires pending, no real evidence or suspects have yet been found in the Oread fire to suggest arson, Clemons said.
Investigation into the June 21 fire that destroyed a building at 1259 Burn, owned by the Endowment Association, continues with "no real development," Fire Inspector Otis Clemons of the Lawrence Fire Department said Monday.
"The building itself was no real loss"
Clemens said, "but if someone else
didn't care, it would be fine."
A decision to discontinue or get into the investigation full force will be made sometime within the next five days, upon taking up the evidence accumulated, he said.
Three other association-owned buildings were razed on schedule, the day following the event.
The land, earmarked for future campus expansion, was scheduled to be cleared the day of the fire, according to the Endowment document. The contractor had been unable to get to it.
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