THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
THURSDAY JUNE 28,1973
KANSAN
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS
China Explodes Hydrogen Bomb To Break 'Nuclear Monopoly'
**UKYO—China said it successfully conducted a "necessary and restricted" hydrogen bomb test in the atmosphere Wednesday for reasons of defense and to break a "nuclear monopoly" by the "superpowers." The announcement, by Radio Peking, said the test was in the western part of the mainland. The broadcast was the first time such an experiment had been made on a device. Monitors in other parts of the world reported earlier that they had detected an atmospheric blast, originating in China, which packed an explosive yield in the range of two to three megatons.
Senate Boosts Social Security
WASHINGTON - A bill raising Social security payments 5.6 per cent in January and boosting welfare benefits for the ageed, blind and disabled has been approved by the Senate. The provisions were tied to a debt limit extension bill, which must be acted on by midnight Saturday if the government is to be able to meet its financial obligations. The Senate also approved federal funds for bombing in Cambodia similar to the one vetoed by President Nixon earlier in the day. The legislation was sent to conference with the House, set tentatively for today.
French to Follow Own Policy
PARIS—President Georges Pompidou of France has said his government will continue its lone-wolf nuclear policies no matter what the Soviet Union and the United States decided in last week's Washington summit. The statement came a few hours after Soviet President Mikhail Khorovich spent the last two days in Paris reassuring Pompidou that he and Israel did not made any secret deals concerning France and Europe.
Philippine Ship Sinks; 20 Die
MANILA, Philippines—a ship sank with 20 lives lost, and frogmen were trying today to determine whether as many as 50 others might be trapped alive in the vessel. The ship struck what was believed to be a coral reef and sank early Wednesday about 12 miles south of Cebu, the second 'sacred' largest city, 350 miles south of Manila. The bodies of at least 40 of the 400 passengers on the inter-d岛 vessel were recovered.
Court Drops 3 Berrigan Charges
PHILADELPHIA—A federal appeals court today threw out three of four prison letter smuggling convictions against antiwar activist Philip Berrigan, one of the Harrisonburg Seven once charged with plotting to kidnap presidential adviser Henry A. Kissinger. The 4rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals also threw out all three similar concurring cases on the same ground and married the priest. The court upheld the fourth conviction against Berrigan, Berrigan, 49, currently on on parole from a six-year term in federal prison for destroying draft board records in Maryland.
Embargo Placed on Soybeans
WASHINGTON—The Nixon administration imposed an immediate embargo on the export of soybeans and cottonseed and their products Wednesday in an effort to increase the supply of feed grains and bring down the cost of food. The decision is important because soybeans and their products are used as animal feed. The rationing of exports of these items will remain in effect after this year's harvest.
Tongue Arouses General's Ire
SANTIAGO, Chile—A woman motorist stuck out her tongue at Chile's army chief Wednesday and he fired at her car, witnesses reported. The incident set off a near riot and Chile's leftist government decreed a state of emergency in Santiago province. The 58-year-old Army Chief, Gen. Carlos Prats, offered his resignation to President Salvador Allende after the incident, but it was rejected. The president said the zone of emergency in Santiago province was "a necessary measure to confront the excesses of fascism."
Indian Sentenced for BIA Theft
PORTLAND, Ore., -Michael Ball, 19, has been sentenced to serve three years probation. He earlier pleaded guilty to concealing documents taken last November from the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington, D.C. The papers were discovered in Kansas City in a car that was later after a six-day Indian occupation of the BIA headquarters. He had was indicted on two counts by a federal grand jury in Topeka, Kan.
Faulkner Loses Election Ally
BELFAST—Northern Ireland's violence-marred election campaign reached an angry climax with former Prime Minister Brian Faulkner fighting for his political life. Faulkner was deserted at the last moment by leaders of the Orange Order, the powerful Protestant group that had been his strongest ally. The one million voters in the troubled province go to the polls today under massive security, to choose a 78-seat provincial assembly to supplant the one that Britain dissolved last year.
It's Warming Up Again
Lawrence weather will continue to be warm and fairly sunny, and daytime temperatures are expected to hit the low 90s. It won't be much cooler tonight, and the warm spell should carry over till Friday. The weekend promises to be pleasant.
Fire Hits Next to Campus
By CONNIE DeARMOND
Kensan Staff Writer
A two alarm fire, which Fire Chief Fritz Sanders has termed probable arson, broke out shortly before 8 o'clock last night in an apartment building near the Grill at 1231 Lousiana. Officer Tom
See related pictures on page 5.
The fire blazed through and above the three-story structure and firemen fought it from three sides. Five fire trucks, four ambulances, were on the scene, fighting the flames.
Decker, who was the first Lawrence policeman to see the fire, reported it at
A CROWD of more than 400 people watched the firemen fight the blaze. Traffic access was blocked from Louisiana, 15th and Oread, and 12th street.
Firemen climbed onto the roof of the Oread Bar and Grill as the flames threatened the bar.
At 9:30 the roof fell in, sending several firemen on the south side of the building running. Although some boards came crashing to the ground, no one was hurt. An ambulance was on the scene throughout the fire to take care of any casualties.
When the wind shifted, smoke covered the people watching were smelled by the fire.
burning however, and firemen continued to fight the blaze.
THE BACK OF the building was still
Then the north wall of the building fell in and firemen again had to run for safety.
"If the wind had been blowing, it would have been a different story," he said.
Congress was locked, for the first time since 1933, and army tanks and soldiers were stationed around the building in the center of the city.
Sanders said that when he arrived, flames were coming out of every window. He stated that the fire "had to have some help—things just don't burn that fast."
SANDERS STUDIED the fire from the roof of the Ml. Oread Bar and Grill. The left wall of the building was still standing, and under his instructions, firemen forced it to fall in. Sanders said that this would keep the wall from falling on the bar.
WASHINGTON (AP)—The White House Wednesday cast John W. Dean III as the principal author of the political and constitutional crisis of the Watergate scandal. But Dean testified there was no way he could have prevented the defeat without help from high in the administration.
Schools were ordered closed until July 20 to avoid disturbances. Censorship that had been imposed last year was strengthened as news media were prohibited from making an report that "directly or indirectly ... dictatorial goals to the executive power."
The Communist-controlled National Workers Convention called a general strike. Two Cabinet members resigned in protest.
Kansan Photo by CARLOS LISSON
Reaction to the decree was swift, but in general the nation seemed calm.
Sanders said that he thought the state would be called in, since the property is
Leaping Flames Engulf An Empty Building As Firemen Fight The Blaze
MONTEVIDE, Uruguay (AP)—Acting under intense military pressure, President Juan M. Bordazare and the two key Cabinet members abolished the Congress Wednesday. That ended 40 years of conformal government in this littile republic.
Dean Rebuts Counter-Charges
The announcement dissolving Congress said the decision had been taken because constitutional rule was falling apart and of subversion that threatened the nation.
Military chiefs have been the power behind the scenes for several months and the decree dissolving Congress pushed Uruguay and its 2.8 million people closer to the kind of military rule that exists in Brazil, Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador.
In its first counter-attack to accusations by Dean, the White House submitted a statement that said: "We are very disappointed."
In place of Congress, President Borda-
berry's government has now established
a Council of State to oversee the president's
activities and do the work of the Congress.
Uruguay Chief Kills Congress, Gets Top Spot
mittee, which a senator characterized as "a substitute for cross-examination of Mr. Dean by the President of the United States."
The statement was put to Dean by Sean. Daniel K. Inouye, a Democrat from Hawaii, and the discharged White House lawyer Larry Burke, who was convicted of the form of accusations; part questions.
"DEAN'S ACTIVITY in the cover-up also made him, perhaps unwittingly, the principal author of the political and constitutional crisis Watergate now epitomizes," said the statement, prepared by special counsel J. Fred Buzhardt.
"It would have been embarrassing to President if the true facts had become known shortly after June 17 (the day of the Watergate break-in) but it is the kind of embarrassment that an immensely popular President could easily have weathered.
"The political problem has been magnified a thousandfold because the truth is coming to light to belatedly, because of the torture that was put on party to the cover-up, and above all, because the White House was led to say things about Watergate that since have been found to have been untrue. These consequences were John Dean's doing."
LARUE WAIVED his right to a grand jury indictment and pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to obstruct justice, which in 2014 resulted in five years in prison and a fine of $10,000.
DEAN REPLLIED: "Well, senator, I think my testimony answers in great detail my dealings with Mr. H. R. Halderman, Mr. K. B. Kearney, and Mr. Robert based on what I know, and knowing the position I held on the White House staff, there is no conceivable way I could have done and conceived and implemented the plan that they're trying to suggest that I
The White House material Inouye put to Dean was submitted in keeping with committee rules, which permit the submission of such questions.
Dean testified earlier he gave President Nixon no specifics about the Watergate cover-up last Sept. 15 but felt the President knew because of the issue issue
As Dean continued his non-stop testimony to the Senate Watergate committee for the third day, a former Nixon reelection official gave the unfolding story a surprise turn by pleading guilty to conspiring to obstruct justice.
Frederick C. LRae, a close associate of former Atty J. Gin John N. Mitchie, appellate judge of the Court of Appeals.
SGT, BUD MONROE, in charge of the investigation, is questioning several people involved in the case.
recommended against the Watergate
in the cover-up "at least by
acquisition".
Although seven men were indicted and convicted for the break-in and wrestapping of Democratic headquarters, LaRue was the first to be charged in the effort to hide the truth about Watergate from federal prosecutors.
Dean, the presidential lawyer who was discharged April 30, was questioned in detail by Republican Sen. Edward J. Gurney of Florida about a meeting with
owned by the Endowment Association. He also said that the Fire Marshal might also
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The building, recently sold to the Endowment Association, was formerly the Mercantile, owned by Harry Kroeger. It was due to be torn down next week, according to Sanders. But destruction of the building had already been carried out by the city in a month, rocks and rocks at it in the past two weeks, breaking the windows in the building.
Several people, who were inside the Mt. Oread Bar and Grill when the fire began, said that it suddenly felt hot and when they were back there, it already engulfed the abandoned building.
The bar opened up after the fire and was filled with thirsty customers.
Mark Creamer, manager of the bar, said that there were from twenty-five to thirty-five people in the bar when the fire started. He said that someone came in and yelled that there was a fire and about 20 people ran out
At 10 o'clock Sanders said that the fire was out and that there was no more danger. However, the area was still filled with smoke.
Cutoff Vetoed; Senate Vows To Try Again
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Nixon vetored legislation Wednesday to halt U.S. bombing in Cambodia, and the House immediately sustained the veto.
An attempt by antiwar congressmen to override the President's decision fell 35 votes short of the two-thirds required, with 241 voting to override and 173 against.
But in the Senate, the chief sponsor of an amendment burglar funds for U.S. bombing in Cambodia said he would try to attach it to a measure increasing Social Security
In vetoring the full $3.4 billion supplemental appropriations bill, Nikon said the bombing halt amendment would "cripple or destroy" a negotiated settlement there and threaten peace throughout Southeast Asia.
Acting with unusual speed—the bill reached Nixon's desk only Tuesday night—the President said in San Clemente that he only "responsible course open to me."
The provision the President objected to was an amendment that would halt U.S. military activity in or over Laos as well as in Cambodia.
Nixon, in a message to the House, said a halt to U.S. air operations "would virtually remove Communist incentive to negotiate and would thus seriously undercut ongoing diplomatic efforts to achieve a ceasefire in Cambodia."
The vetoed measure contained money to finance the federal operation during the balance of the 1973 fiscal year, which ends Saturday.
Congress currently is considering a separate measure to fund federal agencies temporarily until appropriations for the lockkeeping year can be voted and signed.
Another effort to cut off bombing funds
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"HERE COMES MR. JORDON," starring Claudie Raina and Edward Everett Horton, will be shown at 7 tonight in the supernatural chief dispatcher of death: Horton, who plays his subordinate, dispatches a young boy fifty years ahead of his time. The young man's body has been found in a small new one. That's when the problem begins.
"SHAKESPEARE'S Women" will be presented at 8 tonight in the Experimental Theatre in Murphy Hall. Performances will be presented Friday and Saturday and will be held on Sunday through 7. Tickets for performances are available at the box office in Murphy Hall.
A MEETING about the art of pairing, how people make contact to get to know each other, will be held at 7:30 tonight in the Parlor A of the Union. Pairing was inspired by Bach and Deutsch, authors of "Intimate Enemy."
"SECRET BEYOND THE DOOR," the story of a woman who fears that her husband is a demented, psychotic murderer, will be shown at 7 p.m. Friday in Woodraff. The answers to her fears lie beyond a locked secret door. Joan Bennett and Michael Redgrave star.
MARGARET ARNOLD, assistant professor of English, will discuss "Women in Renaissance Literature" at 3 p.m. Sunday in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
"ROMEO AND JULIET" will be shown at 7 Sunday night in Woodrauf Auditorium. The film, photographed by Renato Castellani in its actual location, Verona, Italy, won the grand prize at the Venice Film Festival. "Romio and Juliet" stars Laurence Harvey, Susan Shenton, Flora Robson and Sebastian Sabent.