THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
MONDAY JUNE 25,1973
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE,KANSAS
28 Found Stacked in Stairwell After Fire in New Orleans Bar
NEW ORLEANS—a Flash fire raced through a second story bar in the French Quarter Sunday night, killing 28 persons in what the coroner called "a mass of death." Coroner Carl Rabin said he counted 28 bodies stacked near a stairwell and that there may be more. The cause of the fire was unknown, but witnesses said an angry bar patron had set a fire in the washroom.
Fire Supt. William McCrossan said the fire "could be one of the worst fires in the city's history in terms of people killed."
Rebels Blow Up Ammo Dump
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia—Communist-led sappers blew up a government ammunition dump just 6 miles from the capital in a predawn attack this morning, blowing up several tons of bombs, artillery shells and napalm. The explosions, lasting an hour, were touched off by a bomb, a bomb, a bomb. In a terrorist attack Saturday night 7 people were killed and 24 injured when a grenade was tossed outside a crowded cafe.
Astronauts Meet Soviet Leader
SAN CLEMENTE—The Skyla robot astronauts dofted their blue medical masks for a face-to-face meeting Sunday with President Richard Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, after being flown to San Clemente directly from the recovery ship. As the astronauts chatted with Brezhnev and the President, Charles "Pete" Conrad told Brezhnev that the Soviet Union had looked so beautiful from space that he would be delighted to visit it. Brezhnev promptly invited the three astronauts to the Soviet Union, and they accepted.
Arabs Sav Israel Plans Attack
BEIRUT-Represents in the Arab press continue to appear stating that Israel has massed 100,000 troops for an attack into Lebanon. The pro-Palestinian newspaper said that the force was massed along the Lebanese and Syrian borders and that the Israelis were planning to move their army to the Gaza Strip within the area. Other newspapers reported that the troop concentrations were larger than those preceding the 1967 war and included 500 tanks.
Jail Segregation Ruled Illegal
The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that racial segregation in the Waylandette City jail in Kansas City, Kan., is not justified by claims that integration will cause violence. The court circuit reversed a decision from the U.S. District Court for Kansas allowing segregation in the jail. The federal government challenged the ruling because judicial practice was illegal discrimination. Jail officials admitted routinely enlisting black prisoners to an eastern section of the facility and whites to a western portion, the circuit court ruling said.
Research Links Pill to Disease
BOSTON—Women who use oral contraceptives are twice as likely to develop gallbladder disease as are those who do not, according to Boston researchers. In a major study on the effects of oral contraceptives, the researchers said the association between the contraceptives and gallbladder diseases was unexpected. "In view of its statistical significance, chance is an unlikely explanation," said investigators of the Boston Collaborative Surveillance Program of the Boston University Medical Center.
Pope Gets Decennial Greetings
VATICAN CITY-Pope Paul VI received hundreds of messages from all over the world on the 10th anniversary of his election to the Throne of Peter. The Pope chose the day to reaffirm the cornerstones his nominate and spell out once more his firm stand on faith and mission, be issued by the Pope's office reaffirmed chastity and poverty for bishops and stressed the Pope's concern about defections from the Church.
Demos Attempt Benefit Increase
WASHINGTON—Democratic congressional leaders are planning to push through a 5.5 per cent Social Security increase this week as Congress faces a jam-packed schedule. The House votes today on a bill to cut off all U.S. funds for military activity in Cambodia and Lesos, saying the Social Security hike, which would take effect next January, say it is essential to offset the rapid pace of inflation in the past year.
The Heat's on Today
It promises to be a mild scorcher today, with rather high temperatures even if we don't have a blistering sun. Even an expected 20 m.p.h. southwesterly wind isn't going to cool things further. The temperature is expected to reach as high as the 90s. The night should be mild and Tuesday will be cooler.
Brezhnev Flies Off Today
Talks End on Happy Note
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP)—Soviet leader Leonid I. Breznev told the American people Sunday that his summit talks with President Nixon "really put Soviet-American relations on a new track" that could lead to world peace.
"Mankind has outgrown the rigid Cold War armor which it was once forced to wear," Briznez said in a radio-telевision program. "It wants to breathe and peacefully."
The Soviet leader, looking past the "poisoned relations" of the Cold War and back to World War II, said, "We jointly wont today our joint efforts must help mankind to a durable peace. The possibility of a new war must be eliminated."
BREZHNEY'S WEEK at the summit with Nixon ended Sunday when the President bade him farewell at El Toro Marine Corps Air Station.
Nixon and Breznev spent more than 40 hours in talks during the week—first at the White House, then at Camp David and finally at the President's villa here. During their agreements were signed—three by the leader themselves and six by lower level officials.
Both leaders singled out a compact they signed Friday as the most important. The document is intended to reduce the risks of nuclear war by regulating U.S.-Soviet relations and relations the two super powers have with other countries.
"When the two strongest nations of the world agree not to use force or threats of force in their relations with each other . . . and in their relations with other nations, they have given profound hope to those throughout the world who want peace." Nixon said.
NIXON, IN HIS farewell remarks, said it
*was 'truly a landmark agreement'*
    *for the future.*
Breznev, at times clutching the microphone before him, told Nixon, "I am leaving the United States with very good feelings" and with the conviction that the agreements would be welcomed throughout the world.
HE VOICED solemn gratitude "to all Americans who support what we have done and should be doing."
American people broadcast Sunday evening.
A spectator looks at jewelry on display in the Union Gallery during the Jewelry and Silversmithing Exhibit showing
Kansan Photo by A.B. SOLSKY
Viewing the Silversmith's Art
Soviet relations. He said he trusted "that the peaceful policies pursued by the President and by the U.S. government under him will be supported by the people."
Before leaving California Brezhnet naped a 50-minute television address to the
He then went on to the presidential retreat at Camp David, Md., for an overnight stay behind the border.
ALONG THE WAY Brezhnev will stop in
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Watergate committee braced Sunday for its longest week yet, with explosive and riotous reports from John Dean III and John Mitchell.
work by Robert Willis and Lewis
worked by Lawrence graduate students
Watergate Investigators Anticipate Long Week of Dean vs. Mitchell
Dean, the ousted White House counsel who has vowed he wouldn't be a scapegoat in the wirettapping affair, is scheduled to witness chair 9 a.m. Lawrence time today.
Mitchell, former attorney general, will be moved to the committee's ever-changing schedule.
several times after the break-in that he knew about the cover-up. Dean has said in news interviews that he had documents to back up his testimony.
The New York Times said Sunday that Dean would testify that this past March the Senate approved a bill to impose
cussed an office of offer clementy for E. Howard Hunt, one of the Watergate con-
THE PORTIONS OF Dean's testimony made public so far implicate Mitchell in early discussions of wiretapping and in the subsequent cover-up.
Paris for three days of talks with French President Georges Pompidou.
ABANDONING ITS leisurely Tuesday Thursday schedule, the panel now tentatively plans to hold five straight days of meetings in its break over the Fourth of July holiday.
With all three major television networks providing live coverage, Dean is expected to repeat in public the accusations against Mr. Bush over his handling of the issue was made in private to Senate investigators.
Dean also may give new details that even Senate panel members have not heard yet. Dean broke off his private interviews with those who were asking him to be told about an embarrassing admission Dean made. Dean admitted borrowing campaign money to finance his honeymoon, and was immediately called an "embellishment" Republican Leader Hugh Scott (R-Pa.).
THERE WERE SCANT weekend developments in the scandal. A new Gallpoll Poll showed President Nixon's popularity had not budged from its record lace reached last week, when it fell short of the June of week 10, 44 per cent approved of the way Nixon was handling his job, and 45 per cent disapproved. At Nixon's peak of popularity last January, 68 per cent approved.
The trial ended a seven-month drama that produced the first convictions of Israeli settlers in occupied Palestine.
In his speech, broadcast to the Soviet Union and other countries as well as the United States, Brehzey saluteed Nixon for helping turn the corner toward detente and satisfied with the way the talks went and with the results already achieved."
According to official summaries of his earlier private testimony, Dean has said he met with the president at two meetings in Mitchell's office last year and that he told presidential chief of staff H. R. Halderman what was going on. Dean said he was not directly involved and that the President indicated to him
HAIFA, Israel (AP)—A Haifa court sentenced the Jewish son of a Communist parliamentarian to 10 years imprisonment Sunday for aiding the Arab-Israil woo rin.
Herbert G. Klein, the President's outgoing communications director, predicted that Nixon would hold a news conference soon. But he said Nixon would decline to answer some questions about his administration and keep from preducing their legal rights.
Some of the members also were convicted of plotting to blow up military installations.
The court president said Sunday, "I hurt us to hear these things, but we find compensation in the fact that such statements may be made without fear of punishment."
Livinhe, 27, shouted at the three-man court when judgment was passed Wednesday that Israel's "will pay for the crimes they have committed under the laws they have made."
Rami Livelm, son of parliament member Avraham Leavenbraum of the Rakah Communist party, and another Jew, Mali Lehrmann, were convicted of having contact agent of the Al Fatgha guerrilla organization and concealing a security offense.
Five Arabs received sentences ranging from six months to six years.
Lehrham was sentenced to seven years in prison.
All together, six Jews and 27 Arabs have been convicted in four trials as members of the spy and sabotage ring working for Syria with the aim of generating a violent revolution to overthrow the Israeli government.
Israel police broke the network last December.
Among its leaders was a 25-year-old former paratrooper who fought in the 1987 battle for Jerusalem. He was raised on a kibbutz or collective farm.
Another was a 28-year-old Jewish mathematics teacher who studied in the
KLEIN SPOKE SUNDAY on NBC's "Meet the Press."
Both openly admitted going to Syria, meeting with Arab intelligence agents and
The Jewish defendants reflected youthful malcontents who criticize the government for what they call intrinsigence on the Middle East conflict.
Some Stores Expected Freeze
Consumers
By CONNIE PARISH
Kansan Staff Writer
Did large corporations have prior knowledge of President Nixon's recent priority?
Some observers seem to think so. Even before the freeze was announced, Kansas State University's Consumer Affairs Office in Huntsville and Manhattan and Junction City of hiking prices 10 to 20 per cent in anticipation of a price freeze. The office said major stores stayed open late the night of June 8, for the raise price. The stores denied the charges.
Pat Weiss, director of the Lawrence Consumer Protection Association, said she had been alerted by persons from K-State to look-out for such activities in Lawrence.
ON JUNE 13, President Nixon did order an immediate freeze on retail prices for a maximum of 60 days. The price lid forbids consumers from buying the effect during the period from June 1 to 8.
She said she didn't think the price freeze was a big surprise to corporations. Most corporations have expected it, she said, especially after John Connally's return to the White House as an adviser. She called it "corporate speculation."
Weiss said she had noted substantial increases in Lawrence store prices prior to the freeze in the last part of May and the beginning of September by several store employees.
Are Left Out In the Cold
Gene Peck, assistant manager of Duckwalls, said he had been working in Lawrence for only three weeks so he really didn't know if corporations had prior
LAWRENCE DEPARTMENT store executives appeared to agree, at least in part, though they denied that their stores have any prior knowledge of the freeze.
knowledge of the freeze. But it is the job of big business to anticipate such things, be
Chuck Lloyd, co-manager of T.G.&Y,
said that anyone who reads the paper
probably realized that some controls were forthcoming.
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Farmers Slaughter Hens To Battle Freeze Costs
By CRAIG AMMERMAN Associated Press Writer
Many meat-and egg-producing farmers across the country are cutting production in the face of a 60-day price freeze, which they are forcing to operate in the red.
In east Texas, some farmers have already killed hundreds of thousands of chickens. Industry spokesmen in the South and West say the latest economic controls of the Nixon administration have created a food crisis that has sent four cents on exogeny they produce.
While many producers of broiler chickens were reported to be significantly cutting production, other farmers were reported to be selling animals normally used for
Spokesmen throughout the food-producing industry say the problem is the same: retail prices are frozen and unable to be sold. The government's agricultural products, which are not frozen,
Some industry spokesmen predicted $1-a-dozen prices for eggs in the foreseeable future and shortages of meat if the situation is not reversed.
THE COST OF Living Council said Saturday it had begun an investigation into whether the 60-day price freeze was causing food shortages. The action came two days before a committee report said "drastic shortages" of foods were threatened by the price freeze.
breeding because they claimed they could not afford to feed them.
ROBERT J. WILLIAMS, director of the Illinois Department of Agriculture, said farmers appeared to be selling hogs and chickens that had been raised for breeding as a method of cutting herd sizes.
In Texas, officials said the number of gats set for catching was down 14 per cent.
In Atlanta, a spokesman for Unified Egg Producers aid the slaughter of hens that were used to produce boilers is up "significantly." He said 823,000 of the hens were slaughtered two weeks ago, an increase of 185,000 over the previous week.
SPOKESMEN FOR EGG producers and for the Los Angeles Grain Exchange said farmers were losing four cents for every dozen eggs sold. They also estimated losses of six cents per pound on broiler chickens to feed millets of $ for every ton of feed sold.
The squeeze cited by spokesman in almost every case is the skyrocketing cost of grain and the current inability to pass those inundations to the public because of the retail price freeze.
Bruce Hettle, assistant manager of the Poultrymen's Cooperative Association in Riverside, California his industry "will be cared for before the end of period expires if no action was taken.