THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
83rd Year, No. 83
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Comp Center Plans for Future
Monday, February 5.1973
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Tax Reform Contemplated In Congress
WASHINGTON (AP)—A Democrat-controlled Congress today begins formal consideration of tax reform, which the administration indicates as a major issue in the 1972 campaign.
The House Ways and Means Committee opens hearings that are expected to last about eight weeks and cover every aspect of the 2014 Code. The last major review was in 1969.
There was no advance outcome of the kind of bill the committee eventually may produce, but Chairman Wilbur D. Mills, D-Ak, has put a damper on hopes for a general tax cut. He also has belittled some reformers' estimates that the government could pick up large revenue increases by closing what they call loopholes.
Tax changes made to treat all taxpayers equally. Mills has said, generally tend to accept a higher tax rate.
Mills has indicated that he would consider changes in capital gains taxation. These could include lengthening the period, six months, for which an asset must be held before profit from its sale qualifies for the favorable capital gains treatment. He also suggested a slight reduction in sliding scale of taxation, so that the levy would decline on assets held many years.
Another likely candidate for changes is the minimum tax, enacted in 1989 to provide that large incomes should not entirely escape taxation regardless of the legal jurisdiction. In other words, proposals include plans to tighten the tax, and some would increase the rate.
Estate and gift taxation, not changed in 1969, is certain to be reviewed.
Mills also has said a proposal to offer states and local governments an alternative to the exemption of interest on their bonds may be considered. Instead of issuing tax-free bonds, usually bought by banks and government, they are instead taxable-interest bonds at competitive interest rates, with the government providing an interest supplement.
Kansan Photo by TY BROWN
Dole Speaks at Lawrence American Legion
. . . Calls for investigation of Vietnam War . . .
Dole to Seek Inquiry Into Cause of War
By GARY ISAACSON
Kansan Staff Writer
Sen. Robert Dole of Kansas, former Republican national chairman, said here Sunday that he would offer a resolution in the Senate this week to call for a joint professional committee to investigate the causes and origins of U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
"A joint committee appointed by the Speaker of the House and the president of the Senate will, I believe, provide the fairest, most impartial means of providing a forum to hear what he have." Dole said at a forum of about 250 Legion members and their wives.
Dale prefaced his announcement of the resolution by saying that the United States could and must learn from the experience of other countries in discovering the "whips" of the war, he said.
"We wee it to those who died to search out those lessons," he said. "We must learn from the past if we are not to repeat it again and again.
"I can see no more clear-cut and pressing necessity than the illumination of the reasons, decisions and policies that led us to this terrible division, cost and suffering."
Dole said he considered it important to go to the beginning of the war to find answers to the U. involvement. The early events and policies of the United States, which eventually involved this country usually in the war, must be questioned, he said.
"When the battle flags are brought home and America has recovered her sons, and the question is asked, 'How did it all begin?' A people such as ours cannot simply reply with weary indifference, 'Ah, if only one knew'." he said.
Dole said that the private papers of Presidents Kennedy, Johnson and Eisenhower could contribute something to answering questions left by the war. He singled out Johnson's papers as being particularly important.
POW Release to Begin This Week
nameses support personnel and return them to Tan Son Nuit Air Base, headquarters of the Air Force.
at 6 a.m., Monday, dropped to below 10 for
at 7 a.m., Eighty-nine Incidents were reported
One of the C130s carried Rear Adm. Brian McCauley, commander of the Navy task force which will conduct mine clearing operations in North Vietnamse ports, and 15 members of his staff, U.S. spokesmen said.
The Pacific Military Command in Honolulu said the first U.S.-North Vietnamese meeting on mine clearance operations would be held Monday in Haiphong. McCaulley's Task Force 78, expected to number 20 to 25 ships, has been gathered in the Gulf of Tonkin.
In other developments, two more U.S.
130 transport fleets to Hanoi on Monday
from the People's Republic of China.
"I am sure President Johnson must have felt a great concern that these lessons of the war be learned while the events of these wars were still fresh in our minds," Dole said.
an prisoner recovery teams were
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The head of the control commission said the first prisoner releases could be expected about three months later.
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Dole said he hoped Congress would approve the creation of the committee. He said that once created, the committee could perform two essential functions.
"First, it can lead us to those vital 'whys' of our involvement in Vietnam and from there to wisdom and understanding for future decisions and policies, he said.
Dole said in an interview before the luncheon that his former position as Republican national chairman would have been a major factor on his reelection campaign in Kansas.
"Second, by bringing this wisdom and understanding, it will be a means of healing some of the wounds which eleven years of war have left," he said.
"On the positive side, my chairmanship has gained me wild recognition in the school system."
Concerning his recommendation of President Nixon for the Nobel Peace Prize, which has been accepted by a committee chosen by the Norwegian parliament. Dole nominated a rival nominating Nixon earlier but he had waited until a peace had been achieved in Vietnam.
"the president, if he has no other strong points as an administrator, has great ability to understand the situation."
me from doing some things I feel are important for the state."
Dole said that future presidents could bring Nikon's trips to China and the Soviet Union.
"I believe that the President is a world leader who truly stands out as one who is an authority on the issues."
Dole, who lives in the Watergate building in Washington, said that the Watergate bugging affair did not have much effect on Mr. Clinton, and that it could have hurt other Republican.
The affair had a bad effect on
Republicans in here, who could not help
accept it and were ready to vote.
Moore Hall Dedicated; Namesake Reminisces
SAIGON (AP)—U.S. officials indicated Monday that the first group of American prisoners of war held in jungles along the South Vietnam-Cambodia border would be located in the An Loc area, 60 miles north of Saigon and the nearest point on the Cambodia border.
By ELAINE ZIMMERMAN Kansan Staff Writer
The officials also indicated that the United States and the Viet Cong had tentatively agreed on at least one other site in the Saigon region and two sites in the Mekong Delta for the release of American prisoners, including the U Minh forest.
Raymond C. Moore, attending ribbon cutting ceremonies Friday afternoon at the building named for him, reminiscent about his 66 years of study and service since the day he decided to "sally forth and see what the geology of the state was like."
More taught geology at KU between 1917 and 1962 and is the former director of the Kansas State Geological Survey. Moore Hall is the new headquarters of the Survey.
Before Moore made his remarks, he and Gov. Robert Docking cut a wide, gold ribbon with a pair of scissors engraved for the occasion. The ribbon cutting originally was scheduled to take place outdoors, but cold weather forced the ceremonies inside.
When Moore made his first trips into the fields, he said, he made an effort to contact state legislators to impress upon them the importance of mineral resources for Kansas. He met Alf Landon, former Kansas governor and presidential candidate in 1936; Sen. Frank Carlson; and Sen. William Ireland.
Carlson, then a freshman in the legislature and member of the Ways and Means Committee, made the Survey "his baby." Moore said.
A U.S. Air Force C94, especially equipped to handle medical evacuation of prisoners, flew Sunday from Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines to Saigon's Tan Son Nui Airport and landed for 25 minutes and then took off again, destination and mission were not known.
CARLSON WAS primarily responsible for
the great change in the status of the Survey, Moore said that the survey's financial woes were alleviated when Carlson introduced a new database appropriating $10,000 for the Survey.
Moore said he had met Ireland in Woodson County, but had found his response to the Survey lukewarm. Ireland became friendly, however, after Moore named a scientist after the senator and discovered an outcropping which he named the Ireland Sandstone.
Moore told a trip into the Grand Canyon at a time when waters rose to unusually high levels. His party returned safely, but he found headlines about the "disaster" and read his old obituary in the University Daily Kansan.
"I've been living on borrowed time ever since." he said.
Moore said that Kanaas had been one of the first states to cooperate closely with the U.S.
Moore said he was particularly proud to direct the "Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology", which involved specialists from state and federal geological surveys and from foreign countries. The project, a joint effort with the Earthborne fossils of all periods, was begun
The U.S. Command said there had been no prisoners released as of 9 a.m. Monday.
Field teams of the International Commission for Control and Supervision fanned out across South Vietnam to supervise a cease-fire after a week's delay. The number of truce violations reported by the Saigon command during the 24-hour period ending
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SES Passes Test; Fiscal Support Granted
U.S. Pushes For Shakeup In Cambodia
The proposed shakeup apparently is intended to make Lon Nol's Social Republican party regime appear more representative and therefore more acceptable to the Republicans, its agents, the Khmer Rouge, as a partner in discussions to end their three-year-old war.
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) —The United States has put pressure on President Lon Nor's government to broaden its range of policies. In the face of the opposition, it was learned Sunday.
By KATHY TUSSING Kansan Staff Writer
The message was brought to Marshal Lon Nol by Vice President Spiro Agnew during his five-hour visit here, a well-informed Western diplomat said.
The Supportive Educational Services (SES) program received financial support Saturday for the spring semester from the University of Kansas Memorial Corp. at a meeting of the corporation's board of directors.
Among the names proposed for possible inclusion were those of Sisowah Sirkik Matak, leader of the Republican party, and In Tam, head of the Democratic party.
The action followed an investigation of the SES program by the fiscal and financial officers.
It also was seen as a move to mute the widespread discontent with the party's manifesto.
The program, intended since 1989 to provide tutoring, scholarships and loans to members of racial minorities, came under the administration of many students excluded on non-blacks.
The board of directors decided that funding of the program next year would depend upon whether the SES program was made available to all minority groups and whether the SES program accepted and used University accounting procedures.
Members of the Black Student Union (BSU) waited for three hours outside the board meeting to hear the board's decision. David Dillon, Hutchinson senior and committee member, read the approved report to the students and answered questions. The president, also a vice president of the corporation, also talked to BSU members following the board meeting.
THE OFFICE OF Student Affairs will assume the administration of the SES in order to ensure that the vice chancellor for student affairs. The office will develop procedures and guidelines to be followed by the educational department and meet the means of permanently financing the program.
The Office of Student Affairs will receive $3,000 from the corporation to be used for services to minority race students not currently participating in the SES program.
At its Dec. 2 meeting, the board of directors had requested information from SES concerning the policies and procedures of the program. They had also asked for a majority intention to include all minority groups on a regular basis by the fall semester 1973.
The approved report included a recommendation that the acting director of MIMA (MAR) should
The committee received two reports from SES, both of which were released Saturday.
THE FIRST REPORT included a short history of the SES program, tracing it back to the Urban Action Council, BSU and Urban Scholars program. The report also included a financial statement for 1972 and a projection for the spring semester.
"In the opinion of the committee, although the first report was welcome it did not in any way suture to answer the questions," Dillon said.
The projection showed a total expected amount of $17,490.01 and expenditures of $19,583.02.
The report stated that there were six bases for awarding grants, scholarships and loans. These were the availability of money from such sources at the KU Endowment Association, BSU or other donations; a financial need; other avenues being exhausted; the inability of a student to remain in school without this aid; an indication of some source of repayment or loan; and payment check on time, because of procedural issues.
The second report, issued by Brenda Marzett Varn, acting director of the Office of Minority Affairs, provided more specifics about the program.
The report also listed for the fall 1972 staff one assistant director, eight counselors (a decrease of three from the previous year), ten assistants, and 16 full-time and six part-tutor units.
THESE PERSONS WERE responsible for
reserving the 165 students in the room.
The assistant director of the program received a salary of $500 a month according
to the report. The graduate assistants received a maximum salary of $300 a month; counselors, $120 a month; tutors, $3 an hour; bus drivers, $2 an hour; student assistants, $2 an hour.
In other business, the board heard a financial report prepared by Ronald Hamilton, University comproller and corporation treasurer. The report showed net income from operations for the six months ending Dec. 31 as $69,715.
The only Union department losing money, according to the report, was the food service area. It had a deficit of $10,102 so far this fiscal year. The Union management expressed the hope that a new "Dell" now in operation would increase sales in the food department.
Although sales to customers have decreased $21,702 since last year, the cost of
sales has held steady at 64 per cent. Net income is up $2,949 since last year.
THE CORPORATION APPROVED a six per cent patronage refund for bookstore customers for period 52 (July 1 through Dec. 31, 1972).
The corporation also approved Saturday and Sunday hours for the Union of 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays and 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. Sundays from June 4 to July 28.
Kanaan Photo by BRAD BACHMAN
Members of the BSU Await Memorial Union Board Decision
...A long wait Saturday for SSS funding procedures ...