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83rd Year, No. 77
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Vietnam History
Friday, January 26,1973
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Kansan Staff Photo by PRIS BRANDSTED
unthinking humans. She is annoyed at any disturbance from the outside. "Little S" was purchased from the animal shelter in Lawrence at 1805 E. 19th Street and, according to the owner, is adapting well to her new home. The owner said that a large number of cats and dogs were put to sleep each year, because they had no homes, and the shelter was not able to provide for all.
"Little S" enjoys the shelter of a discarded box. She peeks out with piercing eyes only when her walk in the darkness is interrupted by
LBJ Buried Near Home
Former President Lyndon B. Johnson was laid to rest Thursday in a ranch cemetery near Stonewall, Tex., where his remains are buried, and buried for three-quarters of a century.
It was a dismal afternoon, with rain falling and the threat of snow, but just before the ceremonies use skies began to clear somewhat. The footing was churned to by the people from his home and the nation's great coming to pay Johnson honeymoon.
"Here amidst these familiar hills and under these expansive skies his earthly life has come full circle," said evangelist Billy Monroe. "He is the national's favorite ministers in an eagle song."
"No one could ever understand Lyndon Johnson unless they understood the land
and the people from which he came. His roots were deep in this hill country. They were also deep in the religious heritage of this country." Grahman said.
JONSON, 64, died Monday at the ranch in a quiet farm from the cemetery where he worked.
Throngs massed on both sides of the Pedernales River to pay their last respects, and his immediate family stood near the casket during burial.
A 21-cannon salute by Texas National Guard howitzer boomed over the rangelands and oak-studded pastures. A seven-man rifle team sent a three-volley muskets salute crackling across the rolling hills, and an Army sergeant played
Drastic Cutbacks Proposed As '74 Budget Announced
Singer Anita Bryant, who had entertained
WASHINGTON (AP)—President Nixon's fiscal 1974 budget will call for drastic cutbacks in many of Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society programs, all in the effort of controlling inflation, it was announced Thursday.
Among the agencies that will be affected by the economy drive in Nixon's budget is the Office of Economic Opportunity, which broken up and taken over by other agencies.
Other agencies may be melted down or phased out, through special revenue-sharing programs featuring less expensive form from Washington, if Congress concurs.
Nixon's economic officials said the slashing must take place now. If the budget is allowed to control this year, it will reduce the impact you be felt for years by way of higher prices.
Cutbacks in funds for housing, health, education and social programs, subsidized public service jobs, work training and community services are expected.
The budget is expected to total $268 billion or $239 billion, an increase of about 1% from the previous year.
The budget is reported to call for big cuts in health programs, including research programs except those dealing with cancer, heart disease, and hospital construction.
Also scheduled for trimming are funds for technology, space and atomicenergy, power, energy.
The administration has been looking at a 10 per cent cut in federal support for education, including "Title I" funds to help disadvantaged children.
the Johnson's in the White House, sang the Bate Hymn to the White House, filling a chamber by the pope.
Pailbearers slowly folded the flag covering the silver casket and brick. Gen.
LADY BIRD kissed the flag she had been handed and slowly turned away.
Mrs. Johnson went immediately to the ranch house in a separate car, accompanied by Secret Service agents. Linda and Chuck worked on the front yard to shake hands and greet acquaintances.
The coffin was lowered into the ground as the crowd, estimated at more than 10,000, stood on the deck.
John Connally, long a personal friend of the former president and former secretary of the Treasury under President Richard Nixon, also eulogized Johnson.
"It seems ironic on this day," said Connally, "that his predecessors began the war in Southeast Asia and his successor ended it.
"It WAS HIS fate to be the bridge over the intervening chasm of conflict that swept this country and the world. But he accepted it, and not with the least bit of happiness he happier today, no one would be more appreciative of the beginnings of peace and the President who achieved it, than the president who worked so long and so unquietly for the tranquility that eluded him."
The nation said farewell to Johnson on Thursday with public tributes, formal church prayer and, for many, just a passing moment's silent tribute.
IN TEXAS all state offices were closed and colleges and universities shut down for at least part of the day for campus memorial services.
All federal and many state and local government offices and schools closed for at least part of the day, and millions watched the funeral rites on television.
Dallas held a noontime community
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Commission Primes For Watchdog Duty
SAIGON (AP) - The United States military embarked Thursday on the start of a peacekeeping role in Vietnam, marking the beginning of the end of what President Nixon called America's longest and most difficult war.
Helicopters that once ripped North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops with rockets and bullets were aitered to carry the Communist representatives who would join American and South Vietnam on four-part joint military commissions.
The commissions will put into effect a cease-fire beginning at 8 am, Sunday Saigon
SOME OF THE helicopters will temporarily support the International Commission of Control and Supervision. This permanent supervisory body will include troops from Indonesia, Canada, Hungary and Poland.
The Hungarian government issued a communique in Budapest and cited "the wish to contribute actively to the restoration of peace in Vietnam."
The Hungarians disclosed no details on the departure of their troops, expected to number about 290, to help bring the four hundred Hungarian's total strength to the agreed 1,160.
SOURCES IN Jakarta, Indonesia, said a contingent of Indian troops would fly to Vietnam even before the cease-fire was signed on Saturday in Paris.
Poland gave a public commitment to participate in the truce commissions.
participate in the truce commissions.
In Canada, Foreign Secretary Mitchell Sharp said his government would start immediate contacts with the other three countries and initiate steps. Canada has agreed to participate in the commissions on a 60-day trial basis.
Sharp told the House of Commons Wednesday that Canada demanded freedom of movement in South Vietnam, freedom to report findings accurately and the establishment of a continuing authority to which the commissions would report.
LACK OF THESE guarantees hampered operations of the cease-fire group set up
after the first Vietnam peace agreement in
1954, and the only time that group
with India and Poland.
President Nguyen Van Thien said in Saigon that conclusion of this cease-fire meant only passage from one phase of the war to the next.
"The second phase of our struggle will be to win the real peace and to win the political victory."
Thieu predicted that if the political phase slipped back into shooting because of Communist cease-fire violations, South Vietnam would get help from many nations.
ASKED SPECIFICALLY whether that meant the United States had promised to
help Sagion if the war returned after the umpire pillow. The replay, "Let's see in a camera."
Nguyen Tih Binh, bishop minister of the Viet Cong's provisional revolutionary group, told a conference that the government 'was disposed to respect scrupulously the agreement, and hoped that the other parties would do the same to insure an authentic connection.'
Binh stressed, as a problem still to be resolved, the organization of "free and democratic general elections in all South Korea" to determine its own political future."
Cong Raid Air Base; One Dead, 21 Wounded
SAIGON (AP) — A Viet Cong rocket attack on the Bien Hoa Air Base near Saigon early Friday, just two days before the scheduled cease-fire, killed a U.S. Marine and wounded 21 Americans destined to go home, the U.S. Command said today.
The 27 rockets came in a surge of enemy action that has killed dozens of South Vietnamese soldiers and damaged an American warship.
The dead Marine, who a Marine commander said had been on guard duty along a flight line, could be recorded as the last missing aircraft in the decade of U.S. military involvement.
He was not identified, but the commander said he had been at the base since last May. All Americans are to be withdrawn within 60 days after the cease-fire is signed.
Some of the rockets fired at the base fell three South Vietnamese civilians.
SOME OF THE Americans were wounded when rockets struck a barracks housing U.S. civilian advisers to the South Vietnamese air force. The attack also wounded three Vietnamese soldiers on the base, destroyed a South Vietnamese jungle-bomber and damaged an American gunship.
A U.S. Army helicopter unit at Bien Hoa had started re-equipping its aircraft for use by cease-fire supervisors. The dead Marine was the first American casualty since the peace agreement was signed two days earlier.
THE ROCKET barrage was the most severe of 112 enemy attacks throughout South Vietnam for the 24-hour period ending at 6 a.m. Saigon time today, the Saigon command said. There also were 113 enemy reported during the previous 24-hour period.
The bulk of the enemy attacks were indirect fire by rockets and mortars, the command reported. The North Vietnamese and Viet Cong strikes were the highest number reported since Jan. 3, when there were 116.
American tactical fighter-bombers flew 298 strikes during the 24-hour period ending at 8 a.m. Thursday, the U.S. Command said in a statement. The plane pilots flew a total of 106 strikes.
Lottery Proposal Goes to Senate
The proposed amendment must win two-thirds approval in both the Senate and the House.
TOPEKA (AP)—The Kansas Senate girded for prolonged debate today over a proposed constitutional amendment that would remove the ban on lotteries but make it mandatory to vote on a proposition to decide which forms of gambling would be legal if voters approve the amendment.
The Senate Judiciary Committee, which approved the resolution calling for submission of the amendment Thursday, also approved another resolution that would put the question on the ballot at the April 3 municipal elections in Kansas.
THE PROPOSED AMENDMENT to entirely remove the ban on lotteries was approved 10-1 by the Senate committee after Sen. Robert Talkington, R-Iola, offered an amendment which added the sentence, "the legislature shall have power to license, regulate, limit, prohibit and tax all lotteries and the sale of lottery tickets."
Lone disenter was Sen. Robert Madden, D-Wichita, who said, "We're opening the
THERE WERE NO predictions Thursday whether the proposed amendment would win the necessary 27 out of 40 votes in the Senate to send it to the House.
Pressure from these organizations has prompted the legislature to give early consideration to an amendment this session.
Minor Epidemic at KU, Doc Says
door to pari-mutual in addition to bingo and other forms of gambling."
Robert F. Bennett, president pro
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By CATHY SHERMAN Kansan Staff Writer
Madden also pledged to offer a floor amendment that would attach a 10 per cent tax on all lotteries made legal by the legislature.
Previously, organizations conducted gambling bingo games under a 1971 statute but the statute was thrown out last fall by the state Supreme Court.
This week a substantial number of students have come to Watkins with 104 degree temperatures, sore throats, rashes, itching and other flu symptoms, he said.
"Students were siting all over the floors in the waiting halls on Wednesday, because there were not enough chairs to accommodate such a large number." Schultz said. "A giant share of those students were those with respiratory diseases."
The University of Kansas is suffering a minor epidemic of respiratory diseases which may be the London flu, according to a report from the director of Watkins Memorial Hospital.
Schwegler said Thursday that the situation was not nearly as severe as the influenza epidemic that struck KU in December, 1967. At that time more than 1,000 students came to Watkins for treatment and students were hospitalized with flu symptoms.
He said that a patient usually was long
For this reason, flu vaccines, which are made from the virus cultures, are often not used in the treatment.
ONLY ONE SUSPECTED flu case at Watkins actually has been verified as being the London flu, Schweigler said. Suspected flu viruses must be sent to the National Center for Disease Control for testing, because Watkins is not equipped to handle virus cultures, which must be grown on living tissue. The process usually takes from four to six months before a particular strain of virus can be identified by stray viruses eliminated, Schweigler said.
Twelve of the 13 patients in Watkins had been hospitalized because they had severe flu symptoms, Schwinger said, and two of them definitely had pneumonia. Many other students who had severe flu symptoms were sent to their hometowns, if they lived nearby, because it was more economical for them to recover at home, he said.
Haskell Student Death Charged to Compeer
recovered by the time the virus actually was identified and before a vaccine could safely be produced, so that the best thing a patient could do would be to go to bed, take aspirins and drink liquids. Full recovery usually takes a week. he said.
By DAN GEORGE Kansan Staff Writer
Antibiotics are not effective against the flu, Schwegler said, and are only given when a secondary bacterial infection occurs.
rle said that several students had received flu shots early last fall, and that he had no record of any of them experiencing flu symptoms.
Fortunately, the London flu is only a slight variation of the Hong Kong flu from last year, and those who contracted the flu last winter and those who received flu vaccine shots last year have some similarity against the London flu. Schweder said.
The vaccine also has to be injected well in advance of the flu onlaustage. Schwegler said, to give the body time enough to develop antibodies to combat the flu virus. Vaccines injected just before a person is exposed to the flu virus or during the period he has already contracted the virus are not effective.
OLD VIRUS VACCINES developed from flu virus cultures of the previous winter are sometimes effective, Schweiger said, but the virus continues to mutate every year so that there have to be significant similarities in the vaccine before the old vaccine will be effective.
James Joaquin Brown, 22, a Haskell Indian Junior College student, was charged with first-degree murder Wednesday in the killing of Danny Lance, Jake D. Garda early Wednesday morning,
Dr. Laurence W. Price, Douglas County coroner, said in his autopsy report that the cause of death was a single stab wound in the lower left chest.
García, 19, of Santo Domingo Pueblo,
N.M., was found lying in the street in
the 2100 block of Massachusetts by a policeman
on routine patrol at 1:46 a.m. After attempts
to locate him, he was found in Lawrence
Lawrence Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival at 2 a.m.
The officers returned to the Haskell campus and soon reported that they had a
According to reports from police and sources this series of events took place.
Brown, a sophomore from Shurz, Nev., is being held without bond in the Douglas County jail. He is scheduled to appear in court at 4 p.m. Feb. 5.
A THIRD HASKELL student, Terry Wade Beaver, 18, of Oklahoma City was also taken into custody with Brown and charged with aggravated battery but was later released.
Lawrence Police Sgt. Rob Dalquest arrived at the 2100 block of Massachusetts Street and found Beaver bending over Garcia Haskell security officers were called and Beaver gave them a description of Garcia's assault.
man in custody who fitted the description given by Beaver.
At approximately 2:15 a.m., patrolmen Robert Sluder and Robert Avery picked up Brown at his room in Osceola-Keuku, a Haskell residence hall, and took him to the Lawrence Police Station where he was questioned.
ACCORDING TO FRANK L. Quiring J., Haskell dean of students, Brown told police that Garcia and Beaver had assaulted him with their belts.
Qiring said that according to Brown, both men had been drinking.
Dr. Price said that a sample of Garcia's blood had been sent to the state laboratories in Topeka that it would be at least two days before his office would have any results concerning intoxication or the influence of other drugs.
According to reports from the Haskell security division, Brown, Garcia and Beaver had argued on the Haskell campus earlier in the evening. David Bennett, a Haskell teacher-counselor, broke up the disturbance and suggested that the students go to their rooms. All three lived in Oseoela-Keuku.
Dalquest, however, said he saw the three off campus later before the stabbing
men off campus later before the stabbing.
A SWITCHBLADE-TYPE knife has been recovered by the police, but they declined to say when or where it was found.
Quiring said he thought that the three men did not know one another very well.
Although Brown briefly attended Haskell in the fall of 1971, and Beaver attended Haskell for a short time last fall, Quiring the student had completed a whole semester.