THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
CLOUDY
83rd Year, No.102
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Primary Nears In Commission Education Races
Friday, March 2, 1973
See Stories Pages 6 and 7
Palestinians Strike, Take Prisoners
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP)–Pakistanian guerrillas stormed a diplomatic reception Thursday night in Khartoum, Sudan, seized the U.S. ambassador and colleagues as hostages, then demanded the release of Sirhan Sirhan in California and other prisoners elsewhere.
The British Foreign Office said its ambassador reported that the Black September guerrillas shot their way into the reception, and the West German government said a Belgian diplomat was wounded.
An Associated Press dispatch from Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, said the guerrillas demanded that Sirhan be released within 24 hours. Sirhan is the Jordanian immigrant to the United States who was killed in assassinating Sen. Robert F. Kennedy.
The guerrillas also sought freedom for the leaders of an urban guerrilla group in West Germany and Arab prisoners held in war crimes and arrested all Palestinian women held by Israel.
Sudan is an Arab country, south of Egypt on the Nile.
The AP dispatch from Khartoum said those held captive included U.S. Ambassador Cloe Noel Jr., the American charge d'affaires, the Jordanian charge, the Belgian charge and the Saudi Arabian ambassador, his wife and children.
The dispatch said the raid was at the Saudia Arabian Embassy during a tea party for the U.S. charge d'affaires, Curtis Moore. He was due to leave Khartoum March 5.
Witnesses heard six shots, the dispatch said.
Britain's ambassador to Sudan, Raymond Etherington-Smith, reported to the Foreign Ministry in London that the terrorists, after shooting their way in, held inside the embassy. He said Sudanese police had surrounded the building.
Sources did not indicate whether the commando's strike was some sort of reprisal for farce's downing that week of an air attack. The death toll in that tragedy exceeded 100.
Concentration
The music library in Murphy Hall gives
their 8,900 records. The library also has
an annual record collection.
number of books, biographies and musical scores that the students can use. Dixie Blood, Lawrence graduate student and Gwen Adams, Osage City junior, are oblivious to everything else while listening to the records. See story page 10.
Agreement Nearer On POW Release
SAIGON (AP) - U.S. and Communist delegations are meeting today to work out final arrangements for the weekend release of hostages by the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong.
The refusal of the Communists to free the men earlier in the week had set off the first real crisis in the Vietnam cease-fire agreements.
Coming out of POW camps with the Americans will be two West German and two Filipinos captured during the war. Communists said. The Philippines and Thailand had troops in South Vietnam at once. The Germans were here as part of
Rogers is attending the international conference on Vietnam in Paris.
The U.S. delegation said that while it had been assured that 138 Americans would be freed in this latest group, it had not been authorized at night of full details of release procedures.
In Paris, North Vietnamese foreign minister, Nguyen Duy Trinh, told secretary of State William H. Rogers that the war in Iraq was repaired by 7 a.m. Lawrence time Saturday.
A U.S. spokesman said North Vietnam had given the United States a list of 100 Americans and two Thais who would be released in the North, but the American
delegation still was awaiting the names of 30 U.S. prisoners captured by the Viet Cong
A Communist spokesman in Salign said the Filipinos and West Germans were among those on the Viet Cong list of POWs to be freed. The Thais *was* on Hanoi's list.
During the release of the first group of 143 Americans in North and South Vietnam on Feb. 12, those held in the South were turned over to American authorities at Communist headquarters at Loc Ninh, near the Cambodian border 75 miles north of Saigon.
In Washington, the Defense Department said the resumption of minesweeping operations at Haihong was contingent on the release by the Communist delegation of a specific timetable for the freeing of the 138 mines that had been set up. Come of their list to the U.S. delegation
Bui Tim, the chief spokesman for the North Vietnamese delegation to the four-party Joint Military Commission, said the American prisoners held by the North would be released at Hanoi's Glaim Airport and flown in U.S. planes to Clark Air Base in the Philippines headquarters of the military force of all American, prisoners in Indonesia.
The United States had temporarily halted
Taylor to Split Hall Library Fund
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trop withdrawals while 11,300 servicemen remained in South Vietnam and had suspended the sweeping of mines from North Vietnamese waterways after the Communiti side failed to release the prisoners Tuesday.
Kansan Staff Writer
The release of the additional 138 prisoners will bring the total of Americans repatriated to 299, or more 50 per cent. It will leave 288 American prisoners still in armistice camps, scheduled to be released in the final two groups later this month.
Library representatives from five residence halls administered by the dean of women's office voted Thursday to divide $150,000 into a library fund equally among the halls.
The release of American POWs this weekend will bring the rate of repatriation to 12 per week. In addition, withdrawals from Vietnam. The Vietnam peace agreement signed in Paris on Jan. 27 stipulated that prisoners would be released immediately. It also stated that both would be completed by March 28.
The representatives also voted to establish separate accounts for the funds in the KU business office for each of the five counties, where the department heads the dean of women are Gertrude Sellars
The 30 Americans scheduled for release in Vietnam included 26 servicemen and four civilians.
Pearson (GSP), Corbin, Hashinger, Lewis and Oliver.
Emily Taylor, dean of women, said she would return about $1,000 she took from the account of those residence halls to establish a library and Career Planning Library in her office.
Taylor said she would return the $1,000 to the residence hall library fund by next week.
Efforts to Bail Out Sinking Dollar Fail
The situation grew so acute that leading European money markets, as well as Tokyo's, decided to close Friday to bar all trading.
The United States had 23,500 troops in Vietnam at the time the peace agreement was signed. Spokesman said 12,200 troops have been withdrawn since then, more than 50 per cent of the force at the time of the truce.
BONN (AP)—The dollar went into a tailspin Tillson on European money markets which were left unconvinced by President Nixon's 10 per cent devaluation 17
There was talk of joint action by the Common Market countries. The British and German leaders, Edward Heath and Willy Sassoon, visited the central bank council held an 11-hour meeting.
On Thursday the European governments purchased a record $3.5 billion to little aid.
West Germany's central bank bought up an unprecedented $2.65 billion in an attempt to keep the dollar from falling and to keep its own mark from rising in value.
All major European currencies, however, rose in value against the dollar, including the British pound, one of the weakest. The euro above $2.50 for the first time since June.
Taylor had asked each library representative to meet with each hall council this week to decide what to do with the students of women's residence hall library fund.
Nixon ordered the 10 per cent devaluation last month in what his administration described as a move to make American goods less expensive to foreigners. But to Americans it meant the price of foreign goods went up.
The devaluation came after a rush to trade dollars for West German marks and Japanese yen, regarded as the world's strongest currencies.
The money for the library fund comes from an account administered by the Office of the Dean of Women. The account collects $30,000 in annual machine funds from the five residence halls.
West Germany and Japan, major traders with the United States, want to keep their currencies from rising too far above the dollar for fear of losing lucrative sales and also to keep inflation from grabbing hold of their economies.
Only Hashinger opposed the proposal to divide the money equally among the five boroughs. He supported Burch, Summit, N.J., freshman, said Hashinger was not in favor of dividing the money.
Burch, however, did agree later to the plan to divide the money equally.
Taylor said that each hall would receive by $2,000 from the women's residence hall account and that she would place the money in each hall's account by next week.
GSP and Corbin, organized as one hall,
to pool their shares of the money to
deal with the debt.
The representatives of Oliver, GSP-Corbin and Hashinger were in favor of establishing separate accounts for the halls, but the Lewis representative, Mary Hadlock, Santa junior, said she would have to let Levi H vote on the proposal early next week.
Haddican said that the Lewis vending
In Washington, a list of American prisoners of war to be freed by the Communists over the weekend in Vietnam was released.
Senate Passes Death Penalty
The bill approved Thursday is an attempt to reinstate the death penalty, which was struck down last year by the U.S. Supreme court as unconstitutional as applied by the states.
The bill passed 24 to 15. On the final roll call vote, 19 Republicans and five Democrats gave the measure three votes more than were needed for Senate passage. Seven Republicans and eight Democrats opposed the bill.
punishment succeed by only one vote in passing provisions to make the death penalty mandatory for premeditated murder in the course of committing a felony.
Approval of the bill came after a parliament heated debate on whether it needed which issue of capital
TOPEKA (AP)—A bill that would impose a mandatory death penalty in Kansas for all first-degree murder convictions passed the day after Thursday and was sent to the House.
A different system is maintained by the four residence halls administered by the dean of men's office. The halls are housed by Joseph R. Pearson, McColum and Templin.
Each hall has a separate account in the business office, and five per cent of the vending machine reimbursed is automatically recorded in each account in Carrhut O'Leary Hall.
The Pentagon began releasing the names Thursday afternoon following the notification of relatives. The Pentagon provided the man's name, rank, service and hometown. Other information came from files, POW families and other sources.
Most legislators say they think that making the death sentence mandatory, with no discretion for juries to recommend lesser punishment, in all first-degree murder convictions will satisfy the requirements of the court.
The hometown provided by the government is the man's hometown of record. In some cases this differs from the current hometown, parents, or from his current duty station.
Only 18 organizations have summoned requests for Student Senate funding for the upcoming fiscal year. The deadline for submitting requests to the Senate treasurer is 5 p.m. today. Late requests will not be considered, according to Roger Martin, Lawrence third-year law student and senate treasurer.
At next week's meeting, the dean of women's residence hall library representatives will have the option to make their own decisions about transfer to the system used by the dean of men.
Sen. Frank Gaines, D-Augusta, was the only senator to speak on the bill Thursday. He called for defeat of the proposal to give power or legislative study of capital punishment.
Hubbard, Cap. Edward L., Air Force, Shawnee Mission; Johnson, Maarl Harold E., Air Force, Blakesburg, Iowa and Overland Park; Stutz, Cater, Leroy W., Air Force, Effingham; Mastin, Capt. Ronald L., Air Force, Delmont, Wis., and Merriam.
"No consideration has even been given of the method of inflicting the punishment," Gaines said. "There are a variety of means for carrying out a death sentence, including gas, the firing squad, electricity and the old method of a rope as is used in Kansas."
Gaines also argued that if jururies were left no discretion on sentences for first-degree murder, they would refuse to convict a person because they must prevent sending a person to death.
Fund Requests Due by 5 p.m.
Gaines said a better method of execution than hanting could be used in the state to
The representatives could establish another system of handling the relates,
prevent cases of those put to death remaining, as long as 19 minutes long being killed.
"There was nothing wrong with a pooled fund for the women's residence library fund," Taylor said. "And there's nothing wrong with having separate accounts for the halls now. There's just a different kind of philosophy now."
The House in other action Thursday, defeated a motion to kill a bill that would liberalize the state's private club law. The motion was defeated 59 to 14 on a roll call vote. But the ultimate fate of the bill remained in doubt.
machine rebele was considerably less than that of other halls because of the coffeehouse established at Lewis earlier this year.
She said students often bought a snack at the coffeehouse instead of using a vending machine.
"Juries will compromise by bringing in second-degree murder convictions and under the law of this state, a murder case back on the street in two years," Games said.
Biss, Maj. Robert I., Air Force, Banger,
Maine, prison since 1966, Carpenter L,
LCDr. Allan R., Navy, Springyale, Maine,
shot down over Haiphong harbor in 1866,
Woodrow Wilson, Hauppauge, Huntsville,
Hauppauge, Al., shot down April 24, 1970,
Darl, Lt. Col. David H., Air Force, Canton,
Pa, shot down Feb. 18, 1967; Fuller, Capt.
Robert Byron, Navy, Jacksonville, Fla.
, shot down April 24, 1967;
Daney E., Navy, Norman, Okla., shot down
Dec. 16, 1985; Gray, Capt. David Fletcher
J., Air Force, St. Petersburg, Fla., shot
down Jan. 23, 1967; McCusion, Maj.
Michael T. Air Force, Montgomery, Ala.,
shot down Apr. 18, 1967; Loren H., Air Force, Cobles, N.D.
Taylor suggested that the Lewis Hall Council try to use Pearson Trust Fund to supplement the hall's vending machine rebate.
The bill would remove virtually any distinction between Class A and Class B private clubs. Both classes could operate as public clubs, but that now are restricted to Class A clubs.
The library representatives will meet
thursday to decide how vending machine
will be operated.
Several House members supported the motion to kill the bill, saying that there were more important matters to consider, and that the liberalized bill would move the state toward 'open saloon', activities now banned by the state Constitution.
Taylor said that the plan to establish separate accounts for the halls, which the library representatives adopted, was made by the College of University Residence Halls (AURH).
Taylor said she would accept contributions from any women's group to make up the deficit in the career library created by the $1,000 refund.
Under the former system, the five-percent vending machine收据 from the five halls was placed in a community account administered by Taylor.
Lymp Madras, St. Louis freshman and GSP-Corbin library representative, said that the woman's residence library fund, the women at GSP and Corbin would contribute to the career library. The Commission on Education has identified the career library, according to Taylor.
See AGREEMENT Page 10
11 Freed, Stay in Wounded Knee
WOUNDED KNEE, S.D. (AP)—Two the 12 persons held hostage for two days by members of the American Indian Movement were freed Thursday night after the militant Indians negotiated for more hours with South Dakota a two seminars.
The freed hostages said they would stay in Wounded Knee because it was their home, Sens. George McGovern and James Abourezk told a news conference.
M克政府 and Abourezk said they would continue to negotiate with AIM leaders, who had asked to talk to the senators about Indian civil rights and treaties.
"They are going to construct a tepee in a field where the negotiations will be continued."
"We went down to Wounded Knee to the Clive Guldersee home and talked to all 11 hostages," Abourekz said. "Although they are free to go, they don't want to leave because they consider Wounded Knee their home."
Guildersalvee and his wife Agnes, the operators of the trading post, were among them.
"All 11 indicated they are free," said McGovern. "We offered to take them with us, but under the circumstances they preferred to stay there."
MGovern and Aboureusk said that the hostages had been released but were escorted about the village by Indians and that some of the houses were occupied by
"Weve some weapons, but they are not very much in evidence." McGovenn said.
He said the Indians wanted a full-scale Senate hearing Friday at nearby Wounded Knee.
The two senators said they did not speak about amnesty for the Indians.
"I said it was inappropriate," McGovern said. "I told them we could not get all the members of the Indian Affairs Committee who we wanted all Indians to be able to testify."
"It is not in our province to deal with law enforcement," McGovern said. "We came here to try and avoid a hostile confrontation."
The Indians have said they wanted an
immediate Senate investigation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Department of Interior for their handling of the Oglala Sioux Nation. They also asked for an investigation of what they said were violations of 371 Indian treaties.
The two senators met with AIM leaders in a pasture, halfway between a roadblock set up by authorities and one man headed by Indians outside Wounded Knee. The Indians had asked to talk to the senators about Indian civil rights and treaty rights.
City, County Reps Outline Ambulance Sharing Plan
Representatives of the Lawrence City Commission and the Douglas County Commission tentatively agreed Thursday to transfer ambulance service in Douglas County.
The commissioners appeared to be satisfied with the terms of the agreement.
County Commissioner Arthur Heck agreed.
The agreement calls for city-county cooperation in purchasing ambulances. The county will assume complete responsibility for the remainder of the operation.
The new service will replace Citizens Ambulance Service, which owner Larry Marcum has announced will discontinue operation March 25.
"The county is the logical unit for an ambulance service to operate in," City officials say. "The fact that an ambulance service cannot operate efficiently in a small area like Lawrence."
"The service needs to have a broader base than just Lawrence," he said. "A partnership might seem to be the logical thing, but partnerships are complicated, both in bookkeeping and in determining responsibilities."
"We can still scratch each other's back when it comes to buying equipment," County Commissioner Walter Cragan said, "and problems will go to one source—the county."
Chuck Belote, Douglas County civil defense director, presented rate charts showing proposed fee schedules for residents of various parts of the county. A draft of an emuching resolution for consideration by the representatives.
Specific details of the plan were not available for publication; however, the county reportedly is negotiating with someone to manage the new service.