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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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83rd Year, No.92
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Friday, February 16, 1973
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Kansan Staff Photo by CHRIS CANNELLA
Gov. Robert Docking Fears Higher Education Jeopardized by Republican Legislature
Added AVR Thursday night at the U.S. House
Reconstruction Aid Sought
WASHINGTON (N. J.) Secretary of State William P. Rogers asked Thursday for congressional approval of postwar aid to North Vietnam and for healing of the wounds at home caused by the long Southeast Asian conflict.
Rogers predicted that reluctant legislators would in the end be persuaded to make an administration sought "small investment" in postwar reconstruction help to all of Indochina. He said this was needed for a lasting peace.
At a news conference Rogers made an emotional defense of administration policies of refusing amnesty to draft immigrants in 2013, and rekindled reconciliation with the former enemy.
"As far as the administration is concerned, we want very much to get on with the business of peace and reconstruction here."
"I think it is time that all of us took a little pride in our country."
With voice quavering and eyes moistening, he continued, "And I can't think of anything that gets us off to a better start than to watch these returning POWs. If that doesn't make America proud, then I don't know what will."
Rogers' 50-minute meeting with reporters preceded his departure late next week for the Vietnam peace guarantee conference which oows in Paris Feb. 26.
He remained optimistic about the chances of the peace accord despite repeated allegations of cease-fire violations. He characterized current outbreaks of fighting in parts of South Vietnam as expected "local snugabbles".
"We are confident the cease-fire will be carried out and will be effective in South Africa."
He also said he expected and hoped that a
cease-fire agreement would be reached in neighboring Laos by the end of next week. In wider-ranging remarks Rogers made these other points:
The U.S.-Cuba antithacking agreement he signed Thursday morning means "there will be no safe haven for hijackers either in Cuba or the United States."
However, the accord does not signal a change in overall U.S. policy toward the Communist Castro regime. On the possibility of Washington-Havaan reconciliation, the said Cuban government was continuing its antagonistic posture toward the United States and "we don't note any change in the Cuban attitude."
- The United States has stepped up its behind-the-scenes diplomatic efforts to initiate direct or indirect negotiations between the rival Middle East parties.
—The United States hopes to continue improving relationships with the People's Republic of China. He mentioned increasing trade and exchange of visitors. Presidential adviser Henry Kissinger is now talking with Chinese leaders in Peking.
Rogers was put on notice in an appearance before the House Foreign Affairs commission, and the commission does not want the United States to rush in too fast with economic assistance to North Vietnam. The Vietnam peace terms were set forth in a series of terms, without setting any specific amount.
Kissinger, in his recent Hanoi visit, agreed to a joint U.S.-North Vietnamese economic commission to deal with postwar reconstruction aid. The Nixon administration has yet to spell out what amounts it will wanis Congress to appropriate.
On the amnesty issue, Rogers denied any contradiction between President Nixon's amnesty denial policy and reconciliation with the former enemy abroad.
He said that the administration policy on issuers or draft evaders "is not a failure of the system."
When people resisted or deserted military service he said, others had to serve for them, and some may have been killed, or were beaten up. When their lives should not be forgotten, he said.
"Those who violate the law should be dealt with by legal processes," he said.
Funding Endangered Docking Tells Profs
By ELAINE ZIMMERMAN
Konson Staff Writer
Gov. Robert Docking said here Thursday that the Republican-dominated Kansas Legislature was apt to jeopardize higher education and to finance higher education to finance public schools.
Docking spoke at a dinner meeting of the University of Kansas Chapter of the American Association of University Teachers in the Kansas Room in the Union.
"They already are threatening—as they did in 1971—to rob Peter to pay Paul," Docking said. "They are threatening to rob funds from higher education, from the tuition grant program, from the retired teacher programs and from the business center, to fund a school finance formula that will increase taxes by as much as 75 per cent for some families."
Docking warned that the Republican leadership's proposal to raise income taxes by 1½ per cent would really cost taxpayers in either 48 and 74 per cent more in taxes a year.
He said the tax increase would raise only $62.8 million for the $245.5 million school finance program. The legislature still needs $123 million to carry out the program, in addition to the money raised by the tax increase and from other sources, he said.
If the Republicans raise the $123 million, "on
If the Republicans raise the $123 million, will be at the expense of higher education, Dr. Brennan said.
Docking said his own program of financing schools was a sound one, that required no tax increases. Property taxes would be reduced under his program, he said.
During a question and answer period after the speech, Docking clarified his program for financing public schools. About 60 per cent of the funds would be allocated to districts according to their number of students, he said, and the remaining 40 per cent would be allocated according to the number of faculty members as the number of faculty members or the number of faculty members holding masters degrees.
He said that during the first year, a "grandfather clause" would apply. No school district would receive less than 90 per cent of the funds it now receives.
He said he also recommended appro-
prating $40 million in additional funds to
Kansas must revamp its school finance system because the present system has been declared by Johnson County Court to be unlawful. A subsequent clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Equal educational opportunity requires that the quality of a child's education not be dependent upon the wealth of com- putees, nor on the financial finances or property taxes, as they present are,
The professors brought in the question of faculty salaries and fringe benefits. One professor asked about the prospects for the Board of Regents' request that faculty salaries be increased by about 10 per cent a year during the next three years.
"It the Board of Regents recommended it,
it will be given careful consideration.
If you have a question, please call."
wealthier communities have more money for education.
Docking said fringe benefits for faculty members were deleted from his budget because he wanted to examine the issue of overpayments before he recommended appropriations.
He said he wanted increases in faculty fringe benefits to have some conformity with increases for other state employees. His proposed retired teachers program already has met with some disagreement concerning fairness to other employees, he said.
Docking at first answered the question by saying that the state could not earmark funds for every job and that a program for student success was passed through the University Administration.
After the results of an affirmative action study of two years ago were mentioned, 10 of the participants were reenlisted.
A woman in the faculty said that a special appropriation for equalizing the salaries of men and women of the faculty was needed. If a 5.5 per cent salary increase was used to increase the salaries, there would not be enough money left for them to realize the full 5.5 per cent increase.
Docking he favored returning money from revenue sharing to the homeowner through his circuit. The owner retails of between $100 and $150 for incomes up to $20,000.
Docking said he was proud of the commitment his administration had made to
Docking also commented on Congressional Bill 1202 alluring the federal funds for education, from kindergarten through graduate school, to be channelled through one source; the bill could have been utilized in the allocation of educational resources, be said.
His administration is somewhat hesitant about immediately forming a board to give his students representatives soon will go to Washington, D.C., to discuss suggestions made by a task force about establishing a board. The task force works from many types of schools, he said.
report or of salary inequities and that he was "more interested" in affirmativeenkal than KH1.
He said he did not want Kansas to follow the footsteps of Missouri, where an illegal immigration law was passed.
No. Viet Spokesman Verifies POW Release
SAIGON (AP)—The chief spokesman for the North Vietnamese delegation, Bui Tin, here said Thursday that 20 American students were released in Hanoi on Saturday or Sunday.
Asked when the U.S. POWs would be needed, Perhaps tomorrow or if and when the day after,
an said that some technical problems needed to be worked out. He did not specify these problems, but they did not appear to be major.
A subcommission of the four-party Joint Military Peacekeeping Commission met the Wednesday.
KU Arts Center Delayed
By GARY ISAACSON Kansan Staff Writer
"Last year, I signed into law appropriation bills for fiscal year 1973 for the state colleges and universities—excluding the University of Kansas Medical Center—which include $75.5 million from the state general fund, the fund which is made up mainly of income and sales taxes collected from the individual taxpayer," he said.
TOPEKA—The University of Kansas will probably lose a year in the planning of a new visual arts building, Chancellor Raymond Nichols told a joint session of the Kansas Senate and House Ways and Means committees Thursday.
U.S. Dollar Steadies; Value of Gold Rises
Bankers and other financial sources interviewed here warned that a number of banks had already unsettled the next day or even weeks. But none predicted a further crisis selling wave of dollars in the spring, which last one week which forced Washington to delay.
LONDON (AP)—The U.S. dollar steadied on Europe's money markets Thursday for the first time since it was devalued Monday night, suggesting that the world monetary crisis of the past two weeks is coming to an end.
Foreign exchange dealers said there were signs that money markets were adjusting to the dollar's new exchange rates after the 10 per cent devaluation. These rates include a limited high or ceiling level, a central level, partly, and a permitted low or floor level.
A rise in price prices, however, had been generally expected as one result of the dollar devaluation. It remained to be seen whether the Fed would touch off more monetary trouble.
new ceiling rates and moved more or less steadily down. But in much of Europe on Thursday the dollar began moving back up toward the new ceiling rates.
Normally, a rapidly rising gold price is a sign of lagging confidence in the value of paper money. In major European centers gold jumped more than a dollar an ounce Thursday to close at higher ticks of 73.37 and $73.62 in London and $75.26 in Paris.
Most of the world's leading foreign exchange markets were closed Monday and Tuesday. When they reopened Wednesday, the devalued dollar started generally at the
The dollar improved in Frankfurt, London, Paris, Amsterdam and Milan. It fell in Brussels, Zurich and Tokyo. The generally steady pattern, however, was the dollar's best daily performance this month. It traded at $124 against the euro in Europe for the second straight day.
"An ominous sign," a French banker said. "Confidence has been yet fully grown."
Nichols said that the preliminary plans for the project would not be ready for the state architectural service until September or October.
"In view of the change of scope of the ba imitium move to more in the preliminary imitium," Nicholas said.
Keith L. Nicher, vice chancellor for business affairs, said that the 1972 legislature granted KK $3,600 to an estimated cost on an estimated total cost of $3.4 million.
"But because of the planning already done, it has been determined that the building will cost approximately $5 million," he said.
Because the funds for preliminary planning were figured as one per cent of the total cost of the building, Nitcher said, the project would cost $80,000 to complete the preliminary plans.
for the final plans would cost the University a year.
The delay in the preparation of the preliminary plans was partly the fault of the University's campus planning personnel, Nichols said.
"I did not make a request for the final planning funds because we would need the preliminary plans for justification of the higher appropriation, and they are not able to justify their request. We have to give their approval to a higher appropriation request, and they have not."
The University had originally planned to ask this session of the legislature for $80,400 to support the state's facility. The state Board of Regents approved this request, but Gov. Robert Docking did not recommend it in his budget. He did not make the request on Thursday.
Nichols said that because of the higher estimate of the total building cost, the $80,400 would not be enough to fund the final planning.
"We had to come up with something on our own," he said.
He said that the state planning manual
should be given to private bus facilities.
Nicholas he said he thought the chances for approval of the supplementary $18,000 for the preliminary plans were good. But he said the delay in the appropriation of funds
Regent Jess Stewart, Warnemo, presented an appeal for all six state schools in which he urged the legislators to retrain three students from governor deleted from the original request.
Stewart also asks for a one-half per cent payment to the faculty retirement committee.
Stewart said that the Regents would not raise its salary increase request, although they could do so now because of the lifting of President Nixon's Phase Two restrictions. However, Stewart asked for the reintroduction of $251,000 required to fund a faculty disability and life insurance program.
Stewart's final system-wide request was for funding for computer operations at all six state schools. He said that a coordinated plan for providing computer service to the campuses and the state had already been released and was ready for implementation.
The Regents requested $612,314 for the project, but Docking cut $400,000 from that request. Stewart asked the legislators to reinstate the entire amount.
"We think that everything possible should be done to make Kansas colleges and universities attractive places in which to work," Stewart said, "and, again, this is one of the fringe benefits which would help prepare students for college to provide the best, positional faculty."
North Vietnam had announced Tuesday that 20 Americans would be freed within the next few days as a sign of good will. The North Vietnamese and Viet Cong released 143 Americans this week, and the next week a group of them is to be around the middle of next month.
It said that teams of the International Commission of Control and Supervision and the joint military commission would leave for Hanoi on Saturday to be on hand to observe the POW release, as required under the peace agreement signed in Paris Jan. 27.
The second flight in a three-plane airlift bringing 60 more returned American
prisoners of war home took off for Travis
Bass in California early this
afterword.
The third planeload of 20 men was scheduled to follow four hours later. The first of the three flights left Thursday morning.
POWs on the second flight included the LRJ, a fighter jet, the Navy, Nav JL Comdr. Ewerd Avauge
The last 20 of the 142 POWs brought to Clark from Hanoi and Linh Nouch, South Vietnam, on Monday were scheduled to depart for the United States on Saturday.
A cheer of recognition and delight went up from several hundred school children as Alvarez, who was held in North Vietnam nearly nine years, stepped off a hospital bus that brought him and 19 others to the flight line to board the departing C141 Starlifter.
Speaking for the 20 men on the 15-hour trip to Travis, Alvarez said: "It's been a long time coming. But we're finally going home, home to the greatest country in this world."
He walked over to a squealing group of American school children and young mothers.
They were holding a large brown paper sign which said, "Feliz Viva L. Cmdr."
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Kansas Staff Photo by PRIS BRANDSTED
Nichols and Regent Jess Stewart Before Legislators . Tenit to joint session of House and Senate Ways and Means Committees . . .
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