THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
WEDNESDAY JUNE 6,1973
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS
news capsules the associated press
Senate Asks President For Fuel Priority Plan
WASHINGTON—The Senate passed a bill Tuesday requiring the Nixon administration to draw up a nationwide fuel distribution plan in order to establish priorities on the use of fuel and to insure that no part of the country suffers more than another. The legislation would do away with President Nixon's voluntary approach to fuel distribution. Attached to the bill was a non-binding resolution urging states to lower fuel taxes by up to 53 million (or $60 billion) was the greater reduction), to conserve fuel. One intent of the bill is to see that gas station owners and independent refineries get the same crack at petroleum products as the major companies through a rationing of the shortages.
Pompidou Cancels Appearances
PARIS—Fears that the health of President Georges Pompidou may be failing have been confirmed by an announcement from Elysee Palace cancelling all ceremonial appearances scheduled for the anniversary. Press reports hints that Pompidou's aliment may be serious.
The French constitution, which gives the President sweeping powers, does not provide for the naming of a permanent successor. In the event of Pompidou's incapacitation, Senate President Alain Poher would take over until new elections could be held.
Moslem Merchants Strike
JERUSALEM--Just two days before the birthday of Prophet Mohammed, the Moslem merchants of Jerusalem went on strike Tuesday to mark the sixth anniversary of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. Women placed wreaths on a monument to an unknown Jordanian soldier and the day passed without any incidents. The strike was over as troops patrolled the streets of Jerusalem and troops patrolled the street near all major clashes. In other areas life remained normal with Arab laborers commuting from the gaza Strip to Israel.
There will be northwesterly winds ranging from 5 to 15 miles an hour, and temperatures may drop to the mid-30s during the night, which will be mild and partly cloudy.
The weather today will be mostly warm and sunny with temperatures rising as high as the mid 80s.
Rogers Asks for Aid Approval
WASHINGTON—Secretary of State William P. Rogers urged Congress Tuesday to approve the administration's $2.9 billion foreign economic and military aid program. He said this would improve the lot of the underdeveloped nations and ensure the continued armed forces. "If we want to be one of the first objectives, he said it was essential for nations in the area to be provided with arms for their self defense and internal security.
The United States is currently reported to be negotiating the sale of 24 Phantom jets to Saudi Arabia and another 16 to Kuwait. Rogers said for approval of the sale of military items to Latin America, and said the sale would request for $80.6 million in military aid for Cambodia be approved.
Both the House and the Senate passed bills earlier to prevent the administration from using funds to finance the bombing of Cambodia.
Fighting Continues in Viet Nam
SAIGON—Heavy fighting was going on Tuesday in the Mekong Delta 40 miles south of Saigon even as Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho of North Vietnam prepared in Paris to resume their discussions to firm up the Vietnam ceasefire. The Saigon government rushed reinforcements to the area and field reports said fighting was continuing.
Dollar Sets Record Low Mark
LONDON-The dollar sank even lower Tuesday than it has in previous weeks, setting record lows in Europe as the price of gold continued its climb. Although dealers have been blaming the Watergate scandals for damaging confidence in the dollar, some of the criticism now is directed against the floating system itself, which was designed to prevent such monetary crises.
U. S. Treasury Secretary George P. Schulz said in Washington he was puzzled by the dollar's poor performance abroad. Wealthy individuals, corporations and Arab oil interests no longer want to hold dollars. It now remains to be seen how far the dollar will be allowed to weaken before governments step in with emergency measures that could affect the floating system.
Klein Leaves White House Post
WASHINGTON-Herbert G. Klein resigned Tuesday as White House director of communications, saying that pressure had been building up for him to return to private enterprise. His resignation was accepted by President Nixon "with deepest personal regret."
Italian Journalists Protest
ROME—In Italy, a nationwide "widow of silence" was observed Tuesday by journalists protesting "an assault on the freedom of the press." Printers and television personnel struck in sympathy, bringing into attention a total news blackout. The journalists appeared to be specific about the date and nature of these publications including II Messaggio, Romes most prestigious daily, to a publisher known for his rightist views in a leftist land.
Sunny, Warm and Breezy
KU's foreign students; how do they think and what do they want? Zahid Iqbal, the Kansan's associate editor, last month interviewed members of KU's alien minority to discover the answers to these questions. Here, in a two-part series, is what he found.
KU's Alien Minority
First of a Series
foreigner," is nervous—and perhaps afraid—as she listens to my reasons for interviewing her.
By ZAIDH IQBAL
Associate Boise State
The girl flicker "incurtable
Foreign Students Striving To Accept Small Unhappinesses
As I continue, she glances at the others in the busy newsroom-American students, most of them at work, a few of them just talking or laughing.
She turns back to me. We have at least one thing in common. For in the confusion of all those faces, the pounding of typewriters and the staccato chatter of the telegrapher.
one thing is obvious—we are both aliens here
I smile encouragingly at her and pop my first question, trying to make it sound very casual.
"TELL ME, how do you like it here?" "Oh, pretty good. It nice."
Her voice trails off uncertaintly as I peer rather closely at her. I don't think I can be sure, but she's looking up at me.
See KU's ALIENS, Page Five
Mitchell Linked To 'Gemstone' File
WASHINGTON (AP)—Robert A. Reisner, an aide in the nixe re-election campaign, testified Tuesday that two weeks before the Watergate break-in he put papers under "Gentleman" political espionage file into an embassy prepared for a meeting with John N. Mitchell.
Reisner told the Senate Watergate committee he was handed the documents a week or two before the break in his boss, Robert Dole, deputy to Mitchell, former attorney general.
The next witness scheduled, when the hearings resume at 9 a.m. (Lawrence time) today, is Hugh W. Sloan Jr., the Nixon campaign treasurer who quit after the campaign contributions wound up in the bank account of one of the Watergate burglaries.
THE COMMITTEE'S schedule of witnesses was thrown into confusion by legal questions centering on whether Maurice H. Hillman was a potential residential counsel John Dean would testify.
were providing the opportunity for him to see any documents relating to the cam
But in another area—logs detailing conversations between President Nixon and Dean—the committee will be luckier. Deputy Press Secretary G. L. Warren, reversing his stand, said a review was being made to find out whether the logs would be
made available on some basis other than subpoena.
Reisner told the senators that a copy on each paper that went through him to Mitchell was copied and that duplicates went to H. R. Haldeman, Nixon's chief of staff.
The materials in "Gismeteen"—a code word for political espionage reports—were brought up for the first time in the Senate hearings Tuesday, first by Sally J. Harmony, secretary to convicted Watergate conspirator G. Gordon Lidvy.
"WE WERE working for the presidents who was the candidate," he said, "so we
MITCHELL MAGRUDER
Harmony had given the committee a stenographer's view of typing memoranda—some on the Gemstone stationery—for the "Dial" series of Ruby One, "Ruby Two," and "Crystal."
She said she also typed wretap transcripts, but was "not aware they were wretap conversations at the time I was typing them."
REISNER introduced another code word into the Watergate lexicon: "sedan chair."
He said a person known as "Sedan Chair" had been paid $1,000 a month for six to nine months from a cash fund maintained by the campaign director of the campaign committee's scheduling.
"That individual was receiving information, it seemed, from the Hubert H. Hubert Foundation."
REESNER had given the committee a day-to-day diary he kept while working for McGraw-Hill.
He said he had no knowledge before June 17 that there were plans for the break-in. And Reisner said he also didn't know of any plan to disrupt the Democratic campaign.
d administrator wearing a See MITCHELL, Back Page
Kansan Photo by HANK YOUNG
KU Students, Yet Alone
More Watergate Stories Unfold
John D. Ehrlichman, in a deposition taken last month and released Tuesday, said Job S. Magruder, the committee official in charge of the death of the threat April 14.
WASHINGTON (AP)—A former presidential adviser has testified that Watergate conspirator G. Gordon Liddy was the deputy director of President Nikon's research division.
According to Eriklrichan's testimony, the threat was made around mid-March 1972, when Liddy was allegedly trying to get intelligence gathering and wiretapping.
At another point Ehrlichman said Magruder told him that the alleged death threat made him fearful because Liddy "had been known to carry a gun, that he considered him to be a rather unstable character . . ."
Ehrichman's testimony included an allegation by Magruder that John N. Mitchell approved the wretapping of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate office building. Ehrlichman said Mitchell refused to discuss the matter with him and he said he had been present for the third man, Frederick C. LaRue, who was said to have been present when Mitchell approved the plan.
Mitchell was the director of the Committee for the Re-election of the President; Magruder was deputy director and LaRue was a Mitchell aide.
According to Ehrlichman, Nickson said it was evident that the man who had been responsible for the previous White House attack on Mr. Bush was involved in the scandal "up to his eyebrows."
ERLICHMAN, who was Nixon's chief adviser on domestic affairs, said he talked to Magruder in connection with instructions he had given to conduct an investigation of the Waterate affair.
Dean, the White House counsel, was fired April 30, and Ehrlichman resigns his post.
Meanwhile Tuesday, a White House
A CARILLON recital by Albert Gerken, university carillonneur, will be presented tonight at 8 o'clock at the Memorial Campanile.
spokesman said there would be a review of whether logs detailing conversations between Nixon and Dean would be made available to Watergate prosecutors. Deputy press secretary Gerald L. Warren had said the logs would not be made available.
THE LOGS became important after it was reported that Dean was prepared to testify that he had met with Nixon 35 to 40 times to discuss aspects of the coverup. The White House has said repeatedly that the President knew nothing of the coverup.
Meantime, a former aide in the Nixon reelection campaign told the Senate Watergate committee that he put documents labeled "Gernestone"-the code word for political esponge papers—into a bag for use at a meeting with Mitchell.
Robert Reisner, at one time an aide to
Maggreuer, the material
stories. *STORIES, Back Page*
Trolley Car Tracks Stir Nostalgia
By MARION PIKE
Kansan Writer
At Seventh and Kentucky, truenet tracks over a century old have stirred the imagination of several Lawrence residents. Can these old tracks, still preserved under a few inches of smooth asphalt, solve transportation problems for Lawrence today?
A horsedrawn street railway system operated in Lawrence in 1871. Later, a team of small mules pulled the cars through the business district on Massachusetts St. They ran south to the Mascion Temple and north across the river to the Union Pacific Depot. During the '80's the rails extended south on Tennessee to 17th St.
In the fall of 1999, electric power cars began carrying passengers in downtown Lawrence. On April 9, 1910, the first streetcar rides rope up Mt. Ourea.
AT THE HEIGHT of streetcar prosperity, there were three service routes. Three cars ran at 20-minute intervals on the main line and two on the Massachusetts streets. They ran north to Seventh Street east to the Santa Fe station, south on New Jersey to 131st St, and east on 13th to Haskell Ave. They ran north on Haskell nearly to 131st St, and they ran main line east on 13th to Prairie Ave.
The KU run started at 8th and Massachusetts streets, ran west to Mississippi SK., then south to McCook Field. The single track from McCook Field to the single track is 6 miles.
See TROLLEY, Page Four
Kansan Photo by RAYNA LANCASTER
Trollcy Rails at 8th and Tennessee Streets Reveal a Presence of the Past