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Friday, February 23, 1973
University Daily Kansan
School Bill Fails
TOPEKA (AP)—Tempers of Democrats flipped Tuesday when the GOP dominated House Education Committee sent Democratic Gov. Robert Docking's recommended stool finance bill out of the committee with "no recommendation."
The action had the effect of leaving the bill entirely in the hands of the House Assessment and Taxation Committee. The measure had been referred to both commissoirs.
Rep. John Carlin, D-Smolan, said there had been no hearing, no discussion and no opportunity to present amendments to the bill.
Carlin said he was concerned that the Republican action would hurt any chance of winning in this election.
the Republicans that they would need Democratic help to get a school finance law
Democrats had sought unsuccessfully to get the Republicans to defer any action on legislation.
Consideration of the governor's school finance bill was not listed among the items due for consideration Thursday, according to published notices of the meeting.
But Rep. Harold Dyck, R-Hesson, waited until other business had been completed and announced, "I'm going to recommend that we move our recommendation to the House floor."
The bill had been referred separately to the Assessment and Taxation Committee, and passed.
U.S.S.R. May Become Most Favored Nation
WASHINGTON - The package of trade legislation President Nixon will send to Congress is expected to contain a provision allowing the military to move nobilly (MNF) status in tariff matters.
Extension of this status is part of the agreement initiated by the United States and the U.S.S.R. on trade and lend-lease matters.
Prosecution In Ellsberg Case Rests
LOS ANGELES (AP)—The government conditionally rested its case against Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo Thursday, but said it would present last-minute testimony next Tuesday about fingerprints flown here from Saipan.
U.S. District Court Judge Matt Byrne
lessed the unusual move to reserve last
lesson.
He told the jurors, "Other than the reservation just stated, the government has
The government called only 10 witnesses in four weeks of testimony. The government was to prove espionage, conspiracy and theft charges against Ellsberg and Russo in connection with a leak of the data from their study, known as the Pentagon Papers.
Their witnesses included high-ranking generals who claimed the Pentagon study could have aided an enemy if released publicly.
However, throughout the entire case the prosecutor never sought to show that either defendant had intended any harm to the witness when they copied the Pentaudi study.
The judge indicated in pretrial remarks the question of "intent" was an important factor.
The government has disagreed with this, saying it need not show such intentions. The government's case is considered a unique circumstance and should specifically state the "intent" requirement.
A country with most favored nation status is automatically entitled to all the trade rights that it has in other countries and other country. The practical effect is that imports from these countries into the United States enjoy the lower tariff rates negotiated over the years under the multilateral treaties.
The MFN concept goes back to a policy, established in 1922, to treat all countries alike in trade matters. Later it was written into the Reciprocal Trade Act.
The act provided, however, that MFN was not to go to countries under Communist domination. Exceptions were made to grant MFN to Uzgoslavia and later to Poland.
Discretionary authority the President had at one time to extend MFN to selected Communist countries in the national interest has been revoked, so a change in the status of the U.S.S.R. would require congressional action.
Various bills have been introduced to extend MEN to Romania, but no action has been taken.
There is no intermediate status between countries that enjoy MFN and those that do not. The tariff schedules carry two tables of figures, one applying to MFN countries and the other, higher one to those without this status.
Almost all countries with which the United States deals now enjoy MFN rates.
Those excluded, as a result of successive changes in the law, modified by presidential actions, are the Communist countries of Europe, other than Yugoslavia and Poland; the Communist countries of Aska; and Cuba.
Rep. Roger Robertson, D-Hutchinson, objected strongly.
Education Committee action would get the measure to the floor of the house.
"You come at 5:10 p.m. without notice and to try in to get us to dispense of this,"
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He had made a motion to defer action until Monday.
Earlier Thursday, major action in the Kansas Legislature came on the house side of the rotunda as the lower chamber killed Gov. Robert Docking's "circuit breaker" to allow the Senate a bill to enable state takeover of the entire Kansas welfare system.
The House also gave preliminary approval to a bill designed to pump more than $10 million additional state aid to the state's community junior colleges.
The House action on the circuit-breaker plan came on a motion by Rep. Richard Schultz, D-N.C., in the House.
In a preliminary move, Louis aimed for a two-thirds majority needed to force the House Assessment and Taxation Committee to approve legislation to the House Ways and Means Committee.
The circuit-breaker plan would make families with total incomes of less than $20,000 eligible for refunds on property taxes paid the state range from $50 to
The circuit-breaker plan had been killed in the assessment and taxation committee
Even though the circuit-breaker plan was killed in the House, it is still alive because a similar bill is currently under consideration for State Assessment and Taxation Committee.
Laos Strife Unchanged By Cease-Fire
VIENTIANA, Laos (AP)—War-torn laos officially entered a declared cease-fire Thursday, but reliable sources reported what appeared to be a general offensive spearheaded by about 65,000 North Vietnamese troops.
The North Vietnamese shellied towns and government positions in northern and southern Laos, the sources said, and moved their bases to the areas they allied, the Patao Lao guerrilla forces.
Two government towns fell to the enemy and another, Khonh Sedone in the south, was threatened. Government troops were retreating in several areas.
In Vientiane, Premier Souvanna Phouma charged Friday that the Pathet Lao and North Vietnamese had committed 29 major violations of the cease-fire.
He said he would ask for renewed U.S. air cover if the violations continued. U.S. air strikes ended at midday Thursday when the truce officially took effect.
"We have been tricked," Prince Souravna said at a news conference. "We knew of the possibility of this happening, had faith in the good will of the other side."
By terms of Wednesday's accord, the Vientiane regime and the Pattet Lac will form a new coalition government made up of equal numbers from each faction plus the northeast. Prince Souvanna Phoma, a declared neutralist, is expected to remain as premier.
Nixon Informs Congress Of 1973 Tax Reform Plan
WASHINGTON — President Nixon told Congress Thursday that he would submit a tax reform bill this year, ending doubt about who he was planning a new tax proposal.
In his State of the Union message on the economy, Nixon dealt with the subject in only one sentence: "I shall recommend a new tax code to Congress on those we achieved in 1969 and 1971.
His administration has been studying tax reform legislation intensively in recent months but, up to now, it never been able to determine would offer its own recommendations.
Rockefeller, Ex-Governor Of Arkansas, Dies at 60
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP)—Wintrop Rockefeller, former Arkansas governor and one of six children of multimillionaire John D. Rockefeller Jr., died Thursday of cancer at Desert Hospital, a family spokesman said. He was 60.
Rockefeller was admitted to the hospital a week ago with a chest ailment. Doctors said that the cancer may have been related to a previous infection that was removed from his back last year.
In 1966, after one unsuccessful race for governor, Rockefeller became the first
After leaving the governorship,
after having served primarily to
extensive internets in Asia, he
Republican elected governor of Arkansas since Reconstruction,
In both 1989 and 1971, Congress approved reform legislation that cut taxes substantially. Now, the focus in Congress is on closing so-called loopholes in the tax code.
Survivors include his only son, Winthrop Paul Rockefeller.
In 1972, a cyst removed from Rockefeller's back proved to be malignant. He entered a New York hospital on Sept. 24 for exploratory surgery. On Oct. 23, thin and wan, he returned to Arkansas to begin chemotherapy treatment.
Nixon also said he would send bills to provide property tax relief for the elderly, to provide an income tax credit for tuition paid to private elementary and secondary schools and to give him more power to change tariffs.
Vern Issues Subpoena For Magazine Sales
Bill Ward, assistant attorney general in the consumer protection division of Kansas Atty, Gen. Vern Miller's office, said Thursday that Public Circulation Service, Inc., had been issued a subpoena requesting that representatives of the magazine sales corporation give extensive information about its operations and its personnel.
Ward said that several weeks' time would pass before Kansas would receive a reply to the subpoena, and that in past years PUBLis, PUBLIC, and VOLUNTARY were very cooperative to out-of-state requests.
He said bills would be submitted to improve the nation's private pension system, the unemployment compensation law, minimum wage laws and "the manner in which we deal with our transportation system."
The subpoena is the result of a complaint filed with the Attorney General's Office by the Justice Department.
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In each instance Nixon held back details. But he was expansive on a key recommendation holding back growth of the federal budget. He urged adoption of an annual spending ceiling by Congress $285 million in fiscal 1974 and $288 million in fiscal 1975.
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