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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
83rd Year, No. 109
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Tuesday, March 13. 1973
Voter Guide Compiled For Student Elections See Story Pages 8 and 9
Nixon Says Staff to Balk At Testifying
WASHINGTON (AP)—Interpreting White House executive privilege guidelines, President Nixon said Monday that past and present members of his personal staff would turn down requests to appear formally before congressional committees.
But Nixon pledged he would provide all necessary and relevant information through informal contacts between his aides and congressional committees in ways that preserved intact constitutional separation of the branches of government.
Nixon's two-page written statement on his use of the traditional doctrine of executive privilege was released *es* Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee sought ways to subpoena White House counsel John Dean to testify about the Watergate investigation.
Kansan Photo by JAMES COOK
According to testimony at the committee's confirmation hearings on L. Patrick Gray's nomination to be FBI director, Dean sat in on FBI interviews of White house aides questioned about various matters concerning planning of Democratic National Headquarters.
AIM Leader Looks Toward Sound of Gunfire
Conflict depleted in this picture taken several days ago was renewed Monday
Nixon said at his last news conference that he would not allow Dean to testify before the Senate panel. His promise to provide information through informal contacts appeared to indicate that he might have to avoid a showdown with Congress on the issue.
Ronald L. Ziegler, White House press secretary, said that the presidential statement on executive privilege was not a new policy but a restitution of policy that had been unwarranted and unpressible administrations. He was unable to cite specific precedents.
Viet Cong, North Plan to Release 140 More Prisoners This Week
SAIGON (AP) — The Viet Cong announced they would release 32 more prisoners of war to the United States on Friday at Hanoi and Saigon, where the U.S. representatives in Saigon Tuesday.
The North Vietnamese plan to free 108 Americans in Hanoi on Wednesday. Their names were delivered Monday and were received the next night after the families were informed.
A Viet Cong spokesman said the list of prisoners to be released Friday contained the names of 25 military personnel and civilians, including a spokesman for the U.S. delegation to the Joint Military Commission said it was informed the Viet Cong would turn over 32 U.S. military personnel and civilians of countries allied with the United States.
The list was radioed to the Defense Department in Washington so that the familier of the POWs could be informed as soon as possible.
The Viet Cong had indicated previously that its transfer would be made on Thursday.
But Lt. Gen. Tran Van Tra, the senior Viet Cong representative in Saigon, said in a letter to the U.S. delegation it was being postponed because the North Vietnamese
government would be busy welcoming state guests at the Gia Lai airport on Thursday.
The captives of North Vietnam will be turned over to U.S. authorities at Glaam Air and flown to Clark Air Base in the Philippines for the jibbitish welcome that previous groups of returning prisoners have enjoyed, and a medical examination.
They are among a reported 286 American prisoners still held by the Communist side. Their release, pegged to U.S. troop with the help of the central cent of the release of American prisoners.
The Communists so far have released 299 American prisoners, on Feb. 12, Feb. 18, March 5. When the Vietnamese agreement was signed in Paris Jan. 27, the Communist lists of 585 American prisoners held in North and South Vietnam and Laos.
The United States said it saw no trouble ahead in completing repatriation by the deadline. But it temporarily suspended withdrawal of the fewer than 7,000 US soldiers and Ukrain as insurance that the prisoner release will keep pace with the withdrawal.
Roadblocks Ordered At Wounded Knee
WOUNDED KNEES, S.D. (AP)—Federal agents blockaded Wounded Knee again Monday and vowed to cut off a pipeline of methane and food to rutilant Indians hold on there.
Officials said the roadblocks were ordered because the Indians had used free access to bring in weapons and ammunition.
Russell Means, a leader of the American Indian Movement (AIM), said moments before armored personnel carriers moved to roadblock positions, "We'll do the same thing we did about the last one—prepare to die."
The action came a day after the wounding of an FBI agent who was shot in the arm during a gun battle. Officials said the agent's condition was stable.
Wayne Colburn, head of 120 U.S. marshals who are teamed with FBI agents and Bureau of Indian Affairs officers encircling the area to combat kidnapping more strategic blockade than the last one." Federal agents surrounded Wounded Knee from Feb. 28, the day after the Indian attack on Knee.
"We have observed changes in the type and number of weapons there," Colbarn said, "and changes in the people—meaning they are importing people."
He said about 150 persons, some of them white, have joined the estimated 300 Indians in their fight against the insurgency.
Colburn was asked if the new blockade meant the government would try to starve a country to be so weak that being able to get a newspaper, not being able to watch television, not having soap for the laundry . . . anything to bring this to a logical conclusion. I'm sure as hell planning to do it.
Colburn was asked whether the government had ruled out a forced entry into the village. "That always has to be an option," he said.
Spokesmen for the Justice and Interior departments in Pine Ridge, a dozen miles southwest of Wounded Knee, said they had no contact with negotiators for the Indians since Saturday, when talks deteriorated.
A Justice Department official said the number of arrests since the takeover began and climbed to about $8 Monday. Most are members of the Justice Department officers in the performance of their duties.
Charles Abelard, associate deputy attorney general, said the Indian declaration Sunday that Wounded Knee was now a "sovereign nation" might lead authorities
to consider seditionary conspiracy charges against leaders of the takeover.
No shooting incidents were reported Monday, the 13th day of the confrontation between the government and the militant Indians at the historic village.
Dennis Banks, an AIM leader, said the occupation would go far towards ending "misunderstanding and mistreatment of all Indians. We had no alternative in showing our frustrations in dealing with the government."
A federal grand jury was convened Monday in Sioux Falls to investigate the takeover of the trading post by the Indians Feb. 27.
Ralph Erickson, special assistant to the U.S. attorney general, said in Washington that law enforcement authorities were again restricting vehicular traffic to and from Wounded Knee by maintaining roadblocks leading to the area.
"This action was taken because the Indians holding Wounded Knee used their time of free access to fortify their positions with more weapons and ammunition. The Natives knew that they restricted access to Wounded Knee as long as necessary to restore order." Erickson said.
At Pine Ridge, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), said one the blockades
reinstalled was that an AIM leader has publicly avowed to shoot on sight any federal officials attempting to enter the Wounded Knee.
The BIA statement also said AIM armed guards had increased their strength at all entrances to the besieged area and in open spaces. In a separate meeting, the Knee. The bureau said a meeting planned Monday between AIM leaders and federal officials was called off because of the AIM leaders' publicly avowed statement to shoot at police officers entering the aided area of Wounded Knee.
The meeting was to clarify the cease-fire guidelines agreed to Saturday. Blockades, maintained two miles from Wounded Knee and one mile down by the Justice Department Saturday.
At that time, Erickson said more than 60 persons had been arrested and the government had gained several of its objectives, but the arrests were held hostage at the time of the takeover.
Meanwhile, AIM forces maintained tight security on roads near Wounded Knee.
The Indians at Wounded Knee have declared themselves an independent nation. Their security force maintained a barricade of two burned autos and sand bags just outside the historic town, closely checking incoming traffic.
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Reporter Describes Wounded Knee Siege
Editor's Note: James Cook, Greensboro, N.C., senior, spent 10 days in Wounded Knee, S.D., taking pictures and interviewing militant Indians occupying the town. Here is an account of his adventures, which started March 2. Pictures are on page
Somewhere outside, to the west, lay the Black Hills of Dakota.
By JAMES COOK
Kansan Writer
WOUNDED KNEE, S.D.—I was convinced that the driver was insane; there was no doubt in my mind. For more than two hours his driving—usually faster than 100 m.p.h.—had forced me to slide lower and toward the floorboard until I could just see a straw-colored band of color passing by outside the window.
Abundant Rainfall Plagues County
We were about 15 miles from Chanqi Oppe Wakpala, the creek called Wounded Knee, where the big Man, Red Cloud, Big Foot, and many others were buried. Gall were buried, the place where their tribe, the Ogila Sioux, had been relocated after their forced removal a century ago in the late 1800s.
By DANGEORGE
Kansan Staff Writer
It hasn't quite been forty days and forty nights, but as far as many people in Douglas County are concerned, the last week of rainfall, which has slowed construction, destroyed roads and flooded fields, has been more than sufficient.
The recent precipitation, which has totaled 4.2 inches in the past 12 days in Lawrence, has combined with a previous overabundance in December and January
to make this the worst winter in several years for local residents.
Already, 8.27 inches of rain have fallen since the beginning of the year, almost four inches above the normal average. The farmers have planted some ground that has hampered the progress on numerous area building sites and stopped farmers from starting spring planting, not to mention local streets that have become flat-lined with more and more chuckholes.
We were in no rush to get to Wounded knee, but each complaint caused the driver to stop.
"It's a good day to die," he said. "You're going to die up here anyway, so when, how, where you are?"
Quick Tally Expected In Campus Election
By using the University of Kansas computer system, complete results of the spring student elections should be available by midnight Thursday, according to Sterling Hall, Sublette sophomore and Senate Elects Committee chairman.
When we arrived in Rosebud, a crossroad, but still the major city in Rosebud Indian Reservation, I went to the only operable telephone and inquired about flight service in Rapid City for 24-hour service to Lawrence. I didn't think it was a good day to
After considerable controversy over the cost of using the computer to count the votes for the fall election, it was decided by the Student Senate that those ballots should be counted by hand. The senate determined that the funds would be better utilized for computer time during the spring election which has a larger voter turnout.
This will be the second time the computer has been used to tell the votes in a spring election. The same voting procedure was used last spring.
Ballots from students voting at one of the three polling places, Strong Hall, the Kansas Union and the second floor of Summerfield Hall, will be tabulated by using the computer after the polls close at 5 p.m. Thursday. The polls will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday and will open again at 8 a.m. Thursday.
Hours before, at the Lincoln, Neb., headquarters, the American Indian MIM (AIM), to avoid the FB as they returned two AIM organizers to AIM headquarters after having warned them that they would be taken at them<sup>1</sup> if they left for Wounded Knee.
The election will be posted outside the Computation Center as soon as the are
available.
Rosebud was completely saturated by FBI agents, and Wounded Knee was surrounded by agents and U.S. marshals. The NRA was also a key resisting instead on rife-fiting cowbys and an Indian squad of Trial Council President Richard Wilson, whose alleged mismanagement of tribal affairs and the bureaucracy that precipitated the seizure, AMI leaders say.
Hall said that the election return program had been verified by the Computation Center personnel and that no problems had been encountered during the verification. The ballots have been received from the county and are presently being coded by the center.
The use of the computer for the elections Wednesday and Thursday will cost the senate approximately $2,000. The exact amount will depend on how much overtime by Computation Center personnel is required to complete the program.
No difficulties with the computerized returns are expected. The elections committee is, however, still seeking poll workers for both Wednesday and Thursday. There are still approximately 40 work hours at the polls that are not filled. Hall said.
AND THERE SEEMS to be no silver lining to this overcast subject, at least not in the near future. Weather forecasts call for only a 20 per cent probability of rain today but say that more moisture before the weekend is likely.
At the end of each day, the completed ballots will be taken to the Computation Center for processing. Those ballots that have been bent or marked in ink will be rejected by the computer. The rejected ballots and their totals added to the computer totals.
Low pressure fronts, which have been periodically sweeping across Kansas from the west, are expected to continue, bringing an intermittent showers and thunderstorms.
Persons interested in working at one of the polls should contact Hall. Each worker will be assigned to one of the polls for one hour on either Wednesday or Thursday.
The reservation itself, although 85 miles from Wounded Knee, was the center of the most activity. Here, caravans of Indians of all tribes and ages arrived, rested, sighted and trained for preparing arrangements and dynamite and made preparations for entering Wounded Knee.
no drying weather by the first of April, then we could be in trouble.
the cattle to reach their selling weight and costs their owners added expenses in upkeep and grain. And when the owners add cost, they sell prices, meat costs rise accordingly.
"Wet weather more than the cold weather has bothered us," Kohl said. "The main thing is getting the exterior of the building closed in. Then we can get sheetrock, the electricians and other people in contact with the weather and won't bother us as much."
John Kohl, a representative of the Constant Construction Co., Lawrence, said plans to finish roofing in the new Student Health Center at Kansas University had been delayed at least one week and probably would be pushed back another.
"BY THIS TIME most of them (farmers) are normally in the fields preparing for the planting of crops," said Eben Farley, executive director of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service. "But with this weather they can't get out to the field until it rains, and ground by now, but I've heard of very few gats being planted this spring."
But agricultural labor is not the only victim of the recent deluge. Local con-
trol groups have raised alarm about
IF THERE was such a delay, said Farley, it would probably result in lower yields for the farmers. And although this would not be as bad, it certainly, it could create a rise in local prices.
Plagued by an unusually heavy amount of rain since last July, area farmers were forced to postpone much of their fall work until spring because of the weather. Now the rain has caused them to delay it even further and caused the scheduled start of spring planting.
"The next two weeks are critical," Farley said. "If it would stop now and the sun would come out, the days are long enough now that it could dry quickly. But if there's
"If it continues to rain," he said, "a farmer might just decide it's too late to plant, say, corn, and then get ready to plant green sorghum. If enough did that, it could create a corn shortage here and have an effect on local sales prices."
Obviously, that bode no good for anyone who makes his living outdoors, but unnaturally it is difficult to do so.
Farley agreed that this area of the country was luckier than others in that many of its crops were planted in late March or early April. Because of this, he said, the planting situation is not serious vet.
Continued precipitation could also result in higher beef prices, Farley added. Because cattle, unless housed on a concrete or other hard surface floor, are forced to wallow around in mud while they feed and are using more energy than usual. This results in a loss of weight for all the cattle and a curtailing of milk output in the cows.
BECAUSE OF THIS, it takes longer for
Surveillance planes patrolled the rugged
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Clinton's Work Swamps Doctors
JOHN P. DONICA
Kansan Staff Writer
Several Lawrence physicians at a meeting of the Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health Board Monday night expressed concern because their work loads had increased since Dr. Dale Health as director of the Douglas County Health Department.
"We are now in a crisis situation," said Dr. Wayne Hird of 329 Missouri St. "I was at the hospital 12 hours today. I didn't even get home." He has have just got so much money in the day."
"The medical services here (at the public health offices) have all but stopped for the present time," said Dr. Raymond A. Schweizer, chairman of the board.
"We've got to have a doctor and they are in short supply now. We must have a doctor"
ACCORDING TO SCHWEGLER, the base of possible replacements in He.
"Hire him back. Right now we've got a dame mess on our bands," he said.
Hird was the first to suggest the possibility of attempting to rehire Clinton.
said the board possibly would look to the universities of Oklahoma and Minnesota and the University of Missouri at Kansas City for candidates.
CLINTON, WHO was not present at the meeting, said later that such an idea was
When asked about the possibility of such a solution to the problem, Schwegler said he did not know whether Clinton would continue in office and could believe that he certainly would ask him.
Schweiger said there also was a purpose of hiring two people to replace Clinton. One would serve an administrative role and the other would handle the medical responsibilities.
"I'm always willing to talk," he said, "but I don't anticipate returning to the departor.
ment. I'm as busy as I can be now (in private practice)."
Schweiger had commented at the meeting that he thought Clinton could "do quite well, if she were to do something."
"Salary was never the point in my resination." Clinton said.
Other suggestions that were considered were the possibility of hiring a local physician on an intern basis until a permanent physician could be found, dividing the work load of the health department and doctors or hiring Clinton on an intern basis.
All the physicians present who expressed an opinion were highly complimentary of the work Clinton had done during his 11 years as director of public health.
"Clinton was the hardest working man in that position in 50 years, and that's a lot of people," said Dr. Richard O. Nelson of 2425 Orchard Lane.
"WHERE ARE ALL those people who
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