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Wednesday, March 14, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Agent Discusses Captivity
NEW BRITAIN, Conn. (AP)—FREED CIA agent John Downey said Tuesday he was subjected to intensive questioning by his former employers, "about every bit of information I had."
Downey, 42, returned here Monday night; after more than 20 years' imprisonment to be with his critically ill mother. He discussed some aspects of his captivity at a news condence but refused to reveal details of the mission that led to his capture.
When asked if he revealed any “secrets” during interrogation by the Chinese, Downey said I “would say I revealed about 10 million documents” during the first nine months in prison
He said he didn't think he would like to discuss the type of information revealed to the two men.
Downey brushed off the suggestion that any information he had given might have lasted importance, calling it "such ancient history."
Speaking in a quiet, reserved manner, Downey said that during the first 10 months after his plane was shot down over Manitoba in 1962, he was kept continually in leg irons.
News Briefs By the Associated Press Wounded Knee
WOUNDED KNEE, S.D.-An assistant attorney general resumed negotiations Tuesday with leaders of the Indians holding Wounded Knee and announced later there would be no attempt by federal authorities to retake the village while talks continued. Asst. U.S. Atty. Garlington Wood said in a statement after the two-hour meeting in which he acknowledged his friendly and businesslike." Wood said he expected to meet again Wednesday with the Indians, who have held this village for two weeks. He gave no indication that progress on specific issues had been made in resolving the two-week stand-off.
Senator Stennis
WASHINGTON - Two brothers and an 18-year-old companion were held in lieu of bond Tuesday in connection with the robbery-shooting of Sen. John Stennish, D-Miss. The three men will have a preliminary hearing on March 23. After carefully examined evidence, the magistrate Jean Dwyer set bond at $250 for John S. Marshall, 21; $50,00 for Tyrone Marshall, 18, and $10,000 for Derick Holloway, 18, all of Northeast Washington.
Murder Trial
ERIE, Pa.-Paul Kellogg, convicted in the Joseph "Jock" Yablonski murders, testified Tuesday that another defendant told him the United Mine Workers insurgent was ordered killed by United Mine Workers President W.A. "Tony Boyle, Boyle, since deposed as head of the union, retreated that he had been dealt with by the union of Yablonski and his wife and daughters, Gilly said he was told the killings had to take place because "it was preferred for the welfare of the union that Tony Boyle would stay in control."
Vietnam
WASHINGTON - North Vietnam troops and materiel have infiltrated South Vietnam in apparent violation of the Paris cease-fire agreement, government intelligence sources said Tuesday. Administration spokesman refused public comment when asked about reports that the United Nations equipment into the South, but other officials acknowledged privately there is evidence of such infiltration.
The Chinese subjected him to intensive questioning and threatened his well-being.
The slightly balding Downey was released to the backside of his mother, Mary Downey. She was married Wednesday. She remained in critical, but improved condition, and visited twice with her husband.
Flanked by his brother, William, and sister, Joan Walsh, Downey was composed and joked occasionally. Asked about any possible value gained from his time spent in Green Basket Prison, he replied: "I would recommend it for character building."
tasket that he would remain with the CIA, he said: "At present, I would say not." As for his early return home, he told reporters: "It was being here. And physically I feel great."
He and his mother are housed under strict security in three adjoining rooms on the hospital's fourth floor. Downey described the room as a light, blue, but full of peep and in great spirit.
Downey was admitted to New Britain
General Hospital for examinations and
debt resolution.
Downey, who joined the CIA after he graduated from Yale University in June 1951, said he never lost hope but felt some encouragement and discouragement during his imprisonment.
But he said the bitterness disappeared when he was told he would be released. By then, he said, "I just felt pretty unbitter." He attributed his hopefulness in part to a
His typical day, he said, began at 6 a.m. and included required listening to political broadcasts and participation in ideological study periods.
He was permitted to leave his white-washed cell for between 30 minutes and four hours of exercise in a 30-by-90 foot courtyard. Prisoners also were taken on camp to farms, factories and the Great Wall, beheaded and their captors gave him enough to eat.
Downey said the agreement for President Nixon to visit mainland China "caught me so much by surprise that I nearly fell off my chair." That visit, last year, and an earlier trip by U.S. Pong Pong players broke the ice that had prevented his release until then, he said.
Dressed in a fashionable blue suit with
dress lapels, he described his 20 years in
the business as "a true gentleman."
belief that the Chinese will "sock it to you with a hot sentence," then let you off.
The political grilling gave him a more sophisticated view of America, but didn't change his general political outlook, he said.
Downey said he hoped the United States and Communist China could become good friends. He described the Chinese as hard-working, active and high-spirited and said: "I feel sympathy for them in some respects."
His repies during the 45-minute news conference included such up-to-date phrases as "male chauvinist" and "put you on."
Former . . .
has been active in the senate and many of the related political campaigns since 1969, said that part of the problem was a general student disenchantment with student government, which had depleted the ranks and wanted to work actively in campus politics.
"WE'RE REACHING a point where we don't have workers anymore," Duncan says. "We're at a stage where people don't think anybody can help them."
Nichols also suggested that student disenchantment with campus government was a factor.
DiZergea also speculated that the national political atmosphere and the state of activism on other campuses, might have had an effect on KU. He said that at the time the ISP was strong here, the board members of the party were also active members of the Democratic Society, and that interest in such national political groups was strong.
Some observers have speculated that many students considered the student body president's position to be virtually the leader of members of the campus Greek system.
"By that time it had become an ego trip," he said.
DizZerega said that as far back as 1971, students were looking at the senate as simply something to do and not as a serious responsibility.
Duncan, however, said he discounted that time on the basis of past election behavior.
Duncan said that Ebert's big victory over George in 1970 had started rumors that there was a strong Greek movement to control the elections, but that those ideas were being suppressed independently, defeated Brad Smoot, a strong fraternity-member candidate, in 1971.
"I DON'T KNOW that it is a Greek thing," I said. "I don't think that anyone wants that position."
Duncan said he thought that the winning candidate had always been the one who managed to be the most active in the job search, so he was chosen to be involved in individuals, not living-group ties.
Von Ende suggested that the prime reason for student disinterest in the senate might be the fact that students now hold at least 20 per cent representation on all
policy-making boards of the University.
VON ENDE SAID that when the senate was formed, students did not hold such representation on the administrative boards within the University, and so student views were necessarily expressed in the senate.
"Many of the things that might have been discussed in the student senate are now being handled in other places," Von Ende said.
The possibilities of a return to prominence for the second in an uncertain, difficult situation.
Von Ende said he thought that as long as students had high levels of representation in specialized areas of the University, they would continue to air their views through those channels rather than through the senate.
Dizerga, on the other hand, said that this year was almost certainly a low point for the senate and that it would return to prominence.
"It won't be this bad again," he said. Whether that is true may depend in a large part on the response shown at the polls today and tomorrow.
PARIS (AP) — The Viet Cong accused the Saigon government Tuesday of continuous and flagrant violations of the Vietnam cease-fire and said these would have to stop before there could be any political settlement.
"There can be no reconciliation or national concord as long as the Saigon administration floats the terms of the Jan. 27 agreement by military encroachment on liberated territory, violation of democratic rights in areas under the control of prisoners," Yv Van Sau, spokesman of the Viet Cong delegation told a news conference.
Cease-fire Pact Said Violated
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP)—A second package of food labeling rules intended to prevent consumer deception and promote good nutritional practices was issued Tuesday by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
When the rules become fully effective in
107, emergency shelters will be closed.
The amount of orange juice in diluted averages, which now range from 5 to 16%
FDA Issues Food Label Rules
- Whether frozen heat-to-serve dinners meet a federal minimum and maximum of
That many noncarbonated beverages do not contain, as they imply, fruit or juice.
That ingredients such as meats are not included in new, convenient "main dish"
—The percentage of sea food, shrimp, crab meat, Greenland turbot or bonito in cocktail sauce. Federal officials said that now such cocktails might contain 10 to 40 per cent of the characterizing ingredient but the officers had no way of knowing how much.
FDA general counsel Peter Hutt told a news conference that nutritional quality guidelines might prove to be more important than labeling rules announced two months ago. Those nutritional labeling rules will tell consumers what vitamins, minerals, protein and calories are in food, but the new rules offer an attempt to regulate nutritional quality.
In addition to the frozen dinner guidelines, the FDA said, others are planned for breakfast cereals, breakfast drinks, main dishes and formulated meal replacements such as soybeans instead of meat.
Although many of the labeling rules are voluntary, Hutt said, competitive pressures will force most food companies to adopt them. The FDA contends that the labeling laws are not being followed ever knew before about the food they buy and will result in relabeling of most foods.
The FDA modified one of its January
Most of the regulations apply to food labels ordered after Dec. 31, 2015, for use on foods not labeled until Dec. 31, 2015.
regulations and said nutritional labeling would be mandatory when a food's cholesterol content was listed. A similar document for original documents is the original document for labeling of fatty acids.
The FDA said the long lead time was necessary to allow industry to acquire more nutritional data and to avoid increasing even more the relabeling cost.
Nutritional label will be voluntary for the most part, except when a food's label or other information is not available.
when a nutrient has been added.
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