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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
83rd Year, No. 112
City Manager Avoids Local Election Politics
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Friday, March 16, 1973
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Kansan Staff Photo by CHRIS CANNELLA
Mert Buckley, Wichita Senior, Elected President of Student Senate
. Buckley, who ran unopposed, received 2,271 votes. There were 190 write-in votes.
Hanoi to Free 32 More
CLARK AIR BASE, Philippines (AP)—The United States flew another mission to Hanoi on Friday to pick up 32 more aircraft from South Korea. The flight 101 returned POWs awarded, flights home.
A C130 Hercules transport carrying a 20-mantle advance party lifted on Hanoi's Gai Lan Airport to clear the way for a C141 StarLifter flying hospital that was due in October. The plane is Lawrence time. It will pick up the 32 prisoners released by the Viet Cong.
The C141 was expected back at Clark, the initial processing station for returning POWs, at about 3:15 p.m. to 1:15 a.m. today Lawrence time.
At the 270-bed base hospital, two Vietnam war pilots freed by China on Thursday and 108 other FOWs released by North Vietnam are being treated in a medical and administrative clearances.
The two pilots freed by China were the last American captives that country held. They crossed the border into Hong Kong, then were flown to Clark.
The men, Air Force Mason, Philip Smith, 38, and LL Cmdr. Robert Flynn, 35, of the Navy, were labeled "detainees" rather than "prisoners of war" by American officials because there were no hostilities between the United States and China.
But the two men, shot down over China while on Vietnam missions, immediately went into the same system with the POWs and the enemy's chemical checks and administrative processing.
Smith had a surprise reunion with a brother, Jim, now living in Hong Kong, who was born in the United States.
The number of prisoners here will be swollen to 142 today when 27 more American servicemen, including a Green Beret major who has been a POW longer than any American in history, and five other Americans in Hanoi and brought to Clark. All were conceived by the Viet Cong in South Vietnam between 1944 and 1969.
By Saturday, the total here is expected to begin falling as prisoners follow POWs freed in the last 4½ weeks, and fly home to the United States.
Leading the 32 prisoners of the Viet Cong who fly into Clark today in the third and next to last phase of the POW releases are two American students who has been a POW for longer than any other American, and Philip Manhard, the senior U.S. diplomat captured in the
Thompson, of Ft. Bragg, N.C., was an adviser and was captured when his
reconnaissance plane crashed just below the DMZ on March 26, 1964.
Manhard, of McLean, Va., senior
province attorney for the
former Senator Joe
Jones, 1986 during the Tet offe-
nance.
China assured U.S. presidential adviser Henry Kissinger in talks in Pekin earlier this year that Smith and Flynn would be sent to Beijing two months of the Vietnam POW releases.
Computer Schedule Delays Voting Tally
The lack of computer time available
lucky night may delayed the election
of election day.
Ballots were processed and entered into the computer before midnight Thursday, but the first completed results were not available until 4 a.m. today.
Sterling Hall, Sublette sophomore and elections committee chairman, said the delay was the result of the time-sharing operations of the computer.
Under this concept, the computer processes the first program which is ready. Before the election return program was entered into the computer, another program is run in the delay of the election return program until the first program was completed.
The total voter turnout for the elections on Wednesday and Thursday was 2,536. This was 34 per cent below the last year's total of 3,835.
Casey Cochran, Hutchinson junior and organizer of the Independent Student Association (ISA), said last night that irregularities in the hours of operations of the polls could have been damaging to ISA. He said ISA provided transportation to a polling station where many failed to open on time, many of the persons they took to the polls did not vote.
Hall said that his committee had received numerous complaints of voting irregularities. The majority of the complaints resulted from incorrectly printed ballots and irregular polling hours. He said that each complaint would be handled by the person filing the complaints would be advised of the investigation results.
many problems had been encountered throughout the two days of voting.
Leroy McDermott, Lawrence graduate student and member of last year's senate, said that a complete investigation of the elections should be conducted. He said too.
McDernott suggested that the senate look into the possibility of renting voting machines for the next election. He said he thought that a neighboring city would be willing to rent voting machines for the price the senate paid for the use of the computer.
The cost of processing the ballots on
the computer was estimated to be $2,000.
These results were available by the kansas deadline of 9 a.m. Winners are martyrs from the city.
**Pharman* - Tom Wiggins (no total); Craig H. Walker (2); Chris Terry (1); Michael O'Reilly (1); Wesley Walker- Pete Evans (41); Jude Joan Lum (13); Paul D. Smith (1); Robert K. Sturgeon (2).
Gene Arts—Bath Hamma (541); Steve Murray (323);
Sonia Linnace (541); Steve Murray (323); Kathryn Harty
Ruthless Maximus (1928) (84); Glover (1927) (Jacobson 113)
Bruce Dennis (1927
Oliver~Jen Beusner (120); Steven Matterter (71);
Pat Sagleit (56); Linda Masinga (10); Joe Guehrer (48);
Steven Bawne (48); Elizabeth Hogan (48); Bob Jawtsy (48);
Dylan Burchard (48); David Dixon (48);
Arden Schaffer (5); Ted Weeks (12); Djordan (1).
Law—Joe Speelman (40); Jim Posey (35); Hal Walker (22).
Junior president McCadden-Ford (161); John Whitney (188); Andy McHillester (188); Charlie Hoodes (188); Mark Howell (188); John Holmes; Mary Lolley (188); Randall S. Andrew (12); Lawrence Blank (7); Kent Eilei (13); Doyle Huffman (14); Ronald E. Bell (13).
*Architecture-tree* (Dink Stiegeler 20); *Clark David* (11); *Chase Fisher* (7); *Stephen Hopepour* (14); *Wilson Simpson*
Sphagnum tectorarum - Tricla Bork (4531); Susan Hornberg (4532); Alicia Fiorra (4533); Sheld Enderton (4534); Denise Goodrick (4535)
Eingringer—Joob Abdel-Bahri (36); Mary Jane Kusen (35); Rodney M. Almej (34); Lewis W. Lieman (31); Timothy D. Ewing (27)
monsieur treacher (74) - Martineau (74) - Kabby Murray (74)
Jacques (74) - Bartruckt (74) - Kabby Murray (74)
Junior secretary—Heeky Podrobardsa (1841); Linda Lockey (139), Sunan Caskin (181), Beverly Sigler (60), and Kathryn Haller (52). Marion Haller (147), Lewis Greyberry (189), Mark Schwartz (83), Pearl College (198), Snow Brown (83), Ed Ralf (94):
Nixon Warns Reds On Tank Infiltrations
Nard College—Todd Hunter (74); Terry Goodger (69);
Near College—Jack (51); Hal Urbank (86)
WASHINGTON (AP)—President Nixon issued Thursday a warning to the North Vietnamese not to "lightly dared" U.S. expressions of concern over reports of their infiltration of heavy equipment, including the Ho Chi Minh trail since the cease-fire.
In a news conference, Nixon said such violations could have "rather serious consequences", although he said he hoped that would not be the case.
"Based on my actions over the past four years," Nikon said, "the North Vietnamese have been trying to prevent us from gaining control."
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Buckley Team Polls 90% of Votes
The presidential ticket of Mert Buckley, Wichita junior, and Nancy Archer, Anaroma, Iowa, junior, ran unopposed and captured 90 per cent of the votes in the lowest electoral turnout since the Student Senate was formed.
Only 2,538 votes were cast during the election Wednesday and Thursday. This total constitutes about 14.4 per cent of the student body at the University of Kansas.
The Buckley-Archer team received 2,271 votes compared with 190 compiled by other sites.
pressions of concern" about cease-fire violations.
Despite the disappointing number of
The President launched his third news conference of the year with an announcement that veteran ambassador David Bruce would be chief of a liaison office in Peking, launching the first official Chinese mission to the Communist China in over 20 years.
"Given the complications and the difficulty in setting up and maintaining the regular polling hours, I am fairly happy with the number of votes," Buckley said.
voters, representing 34 per cent reduction from last year's turnout. Buckley said he
Buckley also said the fact that there was only one president team contributed to his decision.
"Considering everything, the election has turned out better than I thought it would," she said.
Although the United States still has not resumed diplomatic relations, Nixon's choice of the 75-year-old former ambassador, who has been in retirement, provided a high level of representation that had not been expected.
Buckley admitted that there was not
much interest in the student senate at present. However, he quickly asserted that his campaign to inform the students about the importance and utility of the senate encouraged many students to vote who wouldn't have otherwise.
Archer, the new student body vice president, said that students should not think the winners would not be responsible for it because they were the only candidates.
"We will strive to improve the senate and bring it back to where it should be," she said.
Senate Endorses Medical Center Expansion
TOPEKA (AP)—The Kansas Senate gave tentative approval Thursday to a bill appropriating $44 million for the construction of a basic sciences building and a massive clinical center at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
The bill was opposed by only one senator, Sen Paul Hess, R-Wichita, in floor debate.
Hess told the Senate he would oppose the bill because it did not confront the realities of keeping doctors in the state—which is one of the greatest medical projects of the Medical Center expansion project!
He said pumping of millions of dollars into the construction of new buildings did not answer the inadequacy of the state's doctors' training, he said. "The indictment of the doctors in Kansas."
Hess said the state should concentrate, instead, on improving the quality of its residency and intern training programs because the programs were important factors that determined where a doctor would finally decide to practice medicine.
"Until we provide incentives to do this, they'll (the doctors) still stream to other parts of the country," he said. "We're kidding ourselves until we do this."
Bruce, who served under four presidents and has been an ambassador to West Germany, Britain and France, and headed the US Embassy in Paris from 1907/10/11 until 2004/10/18, will be head of a 36-month office.
He said "no new equipment is allowed under the agreement" which "steps up the capacity of the North Vietnamese or the Viet Cong to wade war in the South."
The amendment was adopted without debate or dissension.
In his key comment on the latest reports of cease-fire violations in Vietnam, Nixon said he was more concerned over the reported infiltration of heavy equipment exceeding the amounts agreed upon in the treaty than over the infiltration of new troops.
The total expenditure of revenue sharing funds for the project would be about $28 million.
One amendment was offered to the bill by Sen. Ross Doyen, R-Concordia, and chairman of the Senate Ways and Means Committee, which would replace state taxes that have to have beenearmarked for the project with federal revenue sharing funds.
Doyen said the move was not political,but
He said that he thought the cease-fire violations would be reduced over a period of time, but that the United States had expressed its concern to the North Vietnamese and "other interested parties" about the equipment infiltration.
approval to nine measures Thursday and killed one measure.
The measure, passed 102-16, would authorize the issuance of up to $3.1 million in grants to the New England building and the parking lots, all in the same block. The state already owns a 12-story building and one parking lot in that block of downtown
The bill, which was introduced by the Committee on Claims and Accounts, was proposed because the state does about $2.2 million in business yearly with the telephone company, according to the committee's chairman.
In addition to authorizing the purchase of the Topeka office building, the House passed 120-9 a bill appropriating $65.64 million from the state general fund and a total spending authority of $265.18 million welfare functions of state government.
was practical. Gov. Robert Docking has recommended, however, that the state's revenue sharing be used to fund his "circuit breaker" property tax relief proposal), and the medical center expansion paid for from general fund money.
In Washington, the Pentagon reported Thursday that several of the thousands of mines planted in North Vietnamese waters have been dug by a result of self-destructive mechanisms. Maj. Gen. Daniel James Jr., a Pentagon spokesman, said none of the ships with Communist flags that had been moving into harbor in recent days were damaged.
One measure given preliminary approval by the Senate would call for a legislative study of the optimum level of telephone service for state agencies.
In the House, representatives gave final approval to a measure authorizing the purchase of an office building and three parking areas in downtown Tooeila.
In other action, the Senate gave tentative
U.S. and Germany Ponder Reform as Dollar Wavers
The Chinese will name soon the chief of the liaison office, which will be set up in Washougat.
This meeting was one topic in the talks between Shultz and Brandt and German officials.
BONN (AP)—The dollar tumbled again Thursday while Treasury Secretary George Shultz conferred here with Chancellor Willy Muller on matters of cooperation on ways to end the monetary crisis.
But uncertainty seemed to develop on what the outcome would be of a major meeting of nonCommunitary trading nations in Paris on Friday.
The dollar had been showing some signs of strengthening over the past few days and some Europeans had expressed hope that the dollar crisis might be ending.
Shultz flew with top Washington aides to
The bill covers social welfare and employment security programs, the state Soldiers Home and Annex, the Children's Receiving Home, Coordinating Council for the Blind, Coordinating Council for handicapped Children, the Crippled Children's Commission and some state pensions.
But speculation ross that Shultz will announce on Friday in Paris at least limited Washington moves to help a Common Market monetary package take effect—in return for West Europe promises of a trade break for U.S. exporters.
The House also tentatively approved a bill to allow the city of Topeka to contract with an existing privately-owned bus system for bus service during the period before establishment and operation of a city-owned metropolitan transit system, provided that the city system is approved by Topeka voters next month.
Brief West German communiques said only that long-term reform of the western monetary system was among the trade and currency topics discussed.
Paris aboard a special U.S. Air Force jetliner after the most important U.S. German meeting since Secretary of State William Rogers was here last spring.
Total secrecy was imposed on the outcome of Shultz's talks.
Kansan Staff Photo by CHRIS CANNELLA
Pat Neustrom, Evan Olson and Kathy Allen Awaiting Election Returns Other computer programs delay election results