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Tuesday, April 24, 1973
University Daily Kansan
KANSAN
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Funding Cutbacks
Wednesday night the University of Kansas was treated to an unmatched performance of what amounted to "theater of the absurd." Those who attended the Student Senate meeting witnessed the senate sink to its lowest level to date. The senate was marked by from justification to angry student groups and by some very reactionary rhetoric from student senators who attempted to defend the indefensible.
It appeared that at any moment the entire meeting would degenerate into mob rule. Some senators were active participants in this trend and we did not believe members of the Coalition of Concerned Student Organizations.
Members of the coalition came to the meeting to recommend an alternative budget to that proposed by the Finance and Auditing Committee, which had ruthlessly and capriciously slashed their budgets. The mercilessness with which chairman Rick McKernan and other members of the Finance and Auditing Committee would be reduced and other groups is reminiscent of the technique used by the secretary of health, education and welfare, Caspar Weinberger (affectionately called "Cap the Knife" by friends in the Nixon administration).
The cause of these drastic cutbacks in a drastically reduced senate budget. There was a loss of about $100,000 in income this semester when the student activity fee dropped from $14 a semester for each full-time student to $12 when the senate failed to renew a $2 surcharge. This came at a time when senate budgets needed and deserved to be financed, and when inflation was pushing up the cost of operations for all groups.
Many senators and office holders, from the student body president to the chairman of finance and auditing, justify the cut by saying "most of these senators were elected on a platform of cutting the activity fee." In nearly the same breath, these people acknowledge that many of the groups deserved funds from the government anywhere near the activity fee. What these people failed to do was to give sound reasons for allowing the fee to drop. The logic offered for not reinstating the $14 fee was: "If these people raise the fee to $14 again, they will be liars."
Curtis L. Sykes
The Coalition of Concerned Student Organizations had vowed that its members, who in all probability outnumber the students who elected the current Student Senate, will have those additional choices. The coalition has also vowed that an organization which represents a small percentage of the student body will not arbitrarily limit those choices in order to fulfill campaign promises made to an extremely small minority of the student body. For my part this is as it should be.
WILLIAM DEAN III, White House counsel:
Kansas City, Kan., Senior
The Watergate Cast
I argue that failure to reinstate the fee is, to put it mildly, foolish.
I don't pretend to know what amounts these groups need or deserve. However, I know that these groups and some others whose budgets were cut back or eliminated, deserve more than can be provided by a budget that has been reduced by $100,000 a semester. The point is that students at this university deserve more than a few choices about how they spend their leisure time on this campus.
It is hard to distinguish the players from the investigators without a phone call, but give you one. (Even then you might experience some difficulty.)
It appears that the captain has given the order "Every man for scrambling over each other try to get off the Disney and Mafia ship.
JOHN MITCHELL, former attorney general;
First of all, these senators should know better than anyone that the student election, to which they refer for justification of such shortsighted action, was not a mandate from the students of this university to do anything. Only 2.538 people voted in the election at all (a 34 per cent decrease from a year ago). The percentage of the student body that voted for the winners was necessarily even lower than this.
Says Magruder went over his head to get approval for the bugging. JEB STUART MAGRUDER, a re-election committee aide:
Says Mitchell and Dean approved the bugging.
Says that Haldeman and Ehrlichman that are trying to make him a scapegoat and that Haldeman tried to cover up the scandal.
H. R. HALDEMAN, White House Chief of Staff:
Is being investigated for both paying the burglar and receiving transcripts of the bugging. He has been a lawyer who refuses to comment.
JOHN EHRLICHMAN, Nixon's chief domestic affairs adviser;
A few of the groups that finance and auditing thinks are not deserving of funds from this year's budget are: Bloodmobile, Curriculum, and Instruction Survey, Emporium, Council for Exceptional Children, Friends of the Farmworker, Haymaker, Legal Self-Defense, Operation Escort, People-to-People, Supportive Educational Services and University Weekly Exhibitor. Arab Students Organization, Chinese Students Association, India Club and Iranian Student Association had their allocation requests cut substantially.
Thus, if the student election proved anything, it was that the students weren't much interested in student elections. The election certainly cannot be construed as a go ahead from the student body for the kind of financial chaos that the Student Senate is busy creating.
Has gone with Halldeman to hire the lawyer. He also is not commen-
RICHARD KLEINDIENST, attornev general;
Recently quit as chief of the
Justice Department's investigation. Said that he did not know who approved the bugging, but that it was probably a friend of his.
MARTHA MICCHELL, outspoken
MARTHA the former attorney general;
Says she is not worried for herself, but is worried for the country. She also has pointed out that she wears white sandals.
HERBERT W. KALMBACH,
Nixon's Lawyer;
Accused of financing the activities of Donald Segretti.
DONALD SEGRETTI, a California Lawyer.
JAMES W. McCORD, convicted
Watergate burglar;
Is suing the Nixon campaign for $1.5 million alleging that he was led to believe by the highest officials in the campaign, including Maurice Stans, that his actions would be legal.
MAURICE STANS, former commerce secretary:
Generally accused by everyone of everything.
Nike's Nikson, Xl.
GORDON LIDDY, one of the men convicted in the break-in:
Allegedly kept the money used to find bugging in his White House safe.
Is reported to be grooming for a second television appearance.
—Eric Kramer
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LOS GLEES (AP) - Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Armstrong offered to prove their innocence, have concluded a defense case twice as long as the government's presentation and including three times as many witnesses.
In two months of telling their story to jurors at the Pentagon papers trial, the defendants sought to answer, point by point, the government's evidence on charges of espionage, conspiracy and insider trading. In the legal points to advocate issues they see as crucial to the trial
By LINDA DEUTSCH
The defense devoted the bulk of its case to challenging the prosecution's interpretation of its country.
Although the government, in its four-week case, concentrated heavily on specific acts by the defendants in copying the top secret study of the Vietnam War, the defense added evidence to challenge the nation's military system, to reinforce the meaning of espionage laws and to defend the public's right to know the policies of its country
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leaving the Department of Defense and who stored the papers at Rand for their own use. We send letters from these men giving Elsberg permission to use the papers in connection with a Rand
The defense devoted the bulk of its case to challenging the prosecution's interpretation of espionage law. The government says that the Pentagon study concerned U. S. national defense interests and that any unauthorized use of classified information would be regarded of the user's intent, would constitute espionage.
Rand is a government contractor, but the judge reminded jurors that a corporation's rules are not law.
debated at length, with the two sides addressing the point from very different angles. The government cited security rules of the Rand Corp, where Elsaberg worked and gained access to the top secret documents. The document collapsed. Elsberg did not dismiss him; copy the documents or take them outside the Rand building.
Thus, they say Ellsberg was authorized to have the documents and could not have stolen them. Russo is charged with receiving the volumes, but his attorneys believe the never actually had possession—that he merely performed a critical duty in copying them.
The defense in turn raised the issue of who really controlled the specific volumes that Elsberg used. Attorneys presented excerpts from documents that the volumes were never entered into Rand's security system.
The government has begun calling rebelled witnesses, and we have not yet found any opportunity for its own rebellation. As of this week, principals were unwilling to guess when the four-hour trial may take on the jury.
Rather, they said, the volumes were controlled by three "private parties"-officials who were
Ellsberg Trial: Issues in Review
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The Prime of Martin Bormann
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To answer those points, the defense called former White House advisers to help papers the paper would have been useless to an
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Associate Editor
Battleground
Politics at Festival
Carol Dirks
Chuck Goodsell
To the Editor:
The evening that intended to represent the arts and cultures of the nations was perverted and became a political battleground. In some instances, like those of Afghanistan, Iran and Arab nations seized the opportunity afforded by a big and varied audience given their geographical location. They disliked the situations they described.
This cultural evening was not the place for political declarations. I will agree to take part in any political argument or don't agree with the propaganda that was given out that evening.
Nicholas von Hoffman
As a foreign student in his first semester at this campus, I went to see the evening performance of *Panic Room* on April 19 in Woodford Auditorium.
Raphael Goldman
Tel Aviv Graduate Student
WASHINGTON- For the third or fourth time, an organ of the West German government has declared Martin Bormann, Deputy Fuehrer of the Third Reich, a savage and heavily dead. This time they met it, because they have identified the gentleman's skull.
Elsberg and Russo took the stand and testified emotionally about their actions. Both men wept at recalling their experiences in Vietnam. And they recalled the intent does matter in connection with espionage. In previous cases of espionage-a charge usually brought in wartime - it has been necessary to prove a defendant's intent to harm the national country or to aid a foreign power.
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enemy country in 1969 when they were copied. The witnesses said the papers covered events long in time and irrelevant to the present.
Ellsberg, 42, says he copied the documents for the welfare of his country, claiming he hoped to give the study to Congress and congressmen to end the war. His attorneys are expected to ask
"The charge of conspiracy has been presented in less complex fashion. The government and the theology have posed a basic question of whether Ellsworth former researcher on government projects, actually told Russo, 36, and others present at the conference, were copying. The government says Ellsworth agreed with Russo to "deprive the government of its legal function of controlling the documentation" of classified documents."
Prosecutors tried to show that Russo knew what he was copying. The defense contends that Russo barely knew what information the papers and that others involved in the copying didn't know either.
The question of theft was
jurors not to convict a man for trying to give papers to Congress
Herr Bormann was last seen nave tipping into of Adolf Hitler's barricade through a Russian artillery barrage on the night of May 12, 1945. Until the discovery of his physical evidence of his death, thus giving
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But now that he is really, really, really dead and all warrants for his arrest have been quashed, it doubtless will be a challenge to convince the forward to claim that he is Martin Bormann, free after 28 years of hiding to reveal himself to the public. At A74, this Bormann book features the lives of Anastasia, the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas II. She was the
Raphael Goldman
rise to an unending series of reports that he was alive and doing everything from being a slave to Italy to a gauloan in Argentina.
The new Bormann will surface at a New York press conference called by his literary agent and the author of *The Grave*. McGraw-Hill, Bermann will say he did survive that night and subsequently made his way to a refuge camp where he lived for two months as the survivor of the Treblinka death factory. Then, he will explain, he migrated to Israel where he worked on a kibbutz "because I was in one of the world they'd look for me."
I would like to congratulate all
those who participated in the International Festival. It was really interesting to know about the history and in different parts of the world.
"Not at all, not at all. We've come a long way since then, you have a Supreme Court justice who was once against the blacks, but you pardoned him and put him on the highest chain of command were armed by Vietnam who confessed committing war crimes and you've pardoned them. Punishment has given way to rehabilitation. The war criminal has a very low rate of arrest and robbers repeat their crimes when let out of jail; war criminals seldom do."
This answer will please the questioners because it will indicate a change of heart, but to make sure, Bormann will be asked if he has renounced that Nazi swall about superior and inferior races. "No, I don't zing you. We jumped on the Jews
However, being a KU student, I was surprised and shocked by the rude behavior of Hillel Unz, professor of electrical engineering, at the International Club Fair. Especially when a large number of people from different universities entered in an unfair afraid of the kind of impression these people will take with them about the faculty at KU.
Mike Tierney Overland Park Junior
To which one of his interlocutors will say, "Then ... you're saying you deserve the death sentence that was passed on you in absentia at Nuremberg?"
Silent Spring?
because we had insufficient data. At that time, you'll recall, only the Americans knew about cost benefit analysis." he will say
last pretender to occupy public attention.
Sure, the senate finance committee has made a few errors—I think so—in funding student organizations, but the senate is populated by human beings—a species noted for an ability to bear Barring this kind of pain. The senate's action and hope that in the ensuing days of spring there will be peace.
A few Jewish organizations will issue statements saying that the new Bormann has compounded the crime of genocide with modern public relations, but they will be ignored when Bormann
Well, it's spring again on campus. The war is over for the most part; campus elections were uneventful as were national elections last fall. It was looking as if KU would experience the first quiet spring in a long time. But it wasn't a vast number of small organizations serving some vague purpose to the average
With that he will fly off to vacation in Palm Springs, where it will be rumored that he is a guest of Frank Sinatra. The singer will refuse to confirm or deny the story, but will answer with confidence. He are so hard on the guy. Look, I used to be a Kennedy Democrat."
A paperback book publisher will announce it's paying a million dollars for the reprint rights as a talent hunt gets under way to find the player to play the lead in "Young Bormann."
Back East, Ron Ziegler will deny that Bormann has been meeting secretly with Henry Kissinger and President Nixon to review the Cambodian situation. Mr. Kissinger has been bired by the Pentagon as a consultant, a decision which will be defended by Elliot Richardson, who will explain that, "Whatever he did in the distant past, he's a good small-dealer," and had more practical, down-to-earth counterinsurgency experience."
student have banded together to protest the recent senate finance committee decision to cut their funding.
Little pink leaflets are being handed out urging "Joe student" to stand behind those organizations whose support the students have been writing of time writing this letter, the relays are in progress and are running smoothly. But I suppose they soon will be interrupted by the attacker, the Haymaker, the International Law Society, the Arab Student Association, the fencing team, the German club, KU College of Arts, the band together in the interest of the glorious revolution.
says, "I was never so much a Nazi's I was an anti-Communist, although I do think that it is permissible to sell grain to the Russians under certain circumstances."
Bormann will clear his throat and reply, "Some songs ya, and some songs, nein. After all my years in the kibutz, I conclude that Hitler was wrong about anti-Semitism."
Jim Cambron
Lawrence Senior
At the same time, a major television network and an automobile manufacturer, with a strong voice in the Bob Hope-Martin Gernolf Gold Classic. "Lee Elder," the nation's only big-time black professional, will then be quoted as saying, "We don't need you to play, they don't let me play in." Such upityNESS will prompt Billy Graham to remark, "Well, one thing you have to say for Hitler is that he was the German family together."
Next will come Washington, where he will be scheduled for a speech at the National Press Club and an appearance on "Face the Nation," during which CBS correspondent George Herman will observe that Bormann may be the first man in history to seek after the title of war criminal. He should be asked in serious as the guest is asked, "If you could do it over again, would you change anything."
The press will react with complete disbelief until Bormann's agent brings in an elderly woman, possibly a wife or a mother, the aged pseudo-facist and tell the world in fearful German that he is indeed her dear Martin of earlier and happier days. This chain of convincing evidence will prove that he will be accepted as the genuine article by the always skeptical, ever-probbed media. The conference will close with the announcement that Bormann is being paid a quarter of a million dollars in compensation of his autochromy.
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