THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Forecast. Partly cloudy to cloudy. High mid 70s, low 50s.
84th Year, No.134
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Friday, April 26, 1974
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Kansan Photo by BARBARA O'BRIEN
Wrong Turn
A car crashed into a wall surrounding a patio at the home of the late Raymond Rice of 1351 Crescent Drive early yesterday morning. The car was noticed about 6 a.m.
The house has been vacant since Rice's death in February, Lawrence policemen are looking for identification of the car's owner.
Portugal's Premier Ousted
LISBON (AP)—Rebellious troops, who pledged democracy at home and an end to the costly war against black independence movements in Portugal's African territories, overthrew the authoritarian regime of Premier Marcelo Caetano yesterday.
Gen. Antonio de Spinalo, apparent leader of a new military junta, went on national radio and television early today to promise freedom of thought and speech, free elections to the National Assembly and "justice with the citizen having his rights."
Seated beside him were six of the seven junta members, including Spinola's old aide Don Gomes. The two were ousted by the leadership of the armed forces in March after Spinola published a book that attacked Portugal's policy of tight military control
Delirious crowds surged through the streets of Lisbon last night and a navy ship fired a trumpeter salvo. Unconfirmed reports said at least four persons had been
killed in Lisbon, including a police inspector.
Rebel broadcasts said Ceaント, 68, and several of his Cabinet ministers had presented their resignations to Gen. Antonio de Spinola after tanks surrounded them at police headquarters in downtown Lisbon. Antonio's resignation would sign the end of the unanticipated civilian regime that late on Antonio de Oliveira Salazar set up in 1932.
The newspaper O Seculo said Caetano later was escorted to a plane—reportedly by Spinola—and forced to leave for the Portuguese island of Madeira.
Portugal, the poorest and most backward country in Western Europe, has been spending about 40 per cent of its budget and maintaining 124,000 soldiers in Africa in its struggle to hold on to Angola, Mozambique and Portuguese Guinea.
The drain on the country's manpower and economy has caused major discontent. Spinola recently published a book that recommended a political solution with rebel
elements in the valuable African
varieties-perhaps a commonwave
system
Caetano supported a multicultural society in the territories and gradually increased self-government, but retention of tight ties to Portugal.
Spinola and Gen. Francisco da Costa e Cones were ousted as Portugal's two chief advisors after publication of Spinola's书. Subsequent to some 200 army officers, angered at the government African policy, tried to enter the army but were back by loyal forces.
in yesterday's rebellion, the rebel broadcasts said President America Thomas and Cabinet members were surrounded at a police strongpoint in Lisbon, but the suspect was Seculo said Thomas was holding out in barracks at Monsanto near the capital.
Interior Minister Cesar Moreira Baptista also was reported under arrest.
The rebel broadcast said the military would call a constituent assembly, respect all foreign commitments made by the United States and restore "citizens' civil rights" at home.
The communique that announced Caio's surrender was issued by the "Bombonera" on November 1, 2013.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization's biggest naval maneuver of the year began in flabish allusion without Portuguese participation. A naval attack on Naval headquarters in Naples said the exercise was to have been included one Porlândia vessel, but there had been a "delay."
Tanks patrolled Lisbon's downtown streets, but thousands of youths surged into the streets in a wave called "Halelujah!" Many of Portugal's young people welcomed a change in government because they opposed being drafted and fighting movements in Portugal's African territories.
Energy Use Up, AP Survey Says
By the Associated Press
Americans are relaxing their efforts to save energy now that the visible signs of the Arab oil embargo have vanished, according to a nationwide Associated Press survey,
William E. Simon, former federal energy chief, said Wednesday that the nation was beaded for further energy trouble if the survey was accurate.
The survey found evidence of increased use of energy throughout the nation since the middle of March. The survey indicates that there has been more auto traffic, raising rising toll-receipt receipts, declining use of mass transit and greater use of electricity.
Simon emphasized that "conservation has to be a way of life," and was the corollary to "conservation."
KC Teachers to Vote on Contract
KANASS CITY, MO. (AP)—Teachers and the Kansas City School Board will vote Sunday on ratification of a tentative motion to end a 40-day教師's strike.
Details of the agreement, completed last night, won't be made public officially until they are presented to the teachers Sunday, officials said.
However, it was learned unofficially that the pact calls for an 8 per cent across-the-board pay increase, plus an additional 2 per cent tax. The school a tax law steep increase in June.
Norman B. Hudson, president of the Kansas City Federation of Teachers, said, "The district is doing a good job."
The board scheduled a meeting for this afternoon to determine how large the levy will be.
talks for, we came out with." He predicted that the teachers would ratify the nact.
Robert L. 1, Medcalf, superintendent of schools, said he expected the board to appraise his own performance.
The teachers' old contract had a salary scale ranging from $7,274 for a beginner with a bachelor's degree to $14,179 for a 15-year-old. The average graduate degree and 72 hours of graduate study.
Ratification could mean reopening of 100 schools Monday for 60,000 students. The teachers walked out March 18 and the schools were closed March 26.
Staff members started bailing school supplies and nonperishable foods from the warehouse to the schools in anticipation of the settlement.
Hudson, who declared earlier that wages weren't the only concern of the teachers.
Robinson Urges Public To Work in Politics
The end of the embargo didn't bring an end to the energy crisis, he said.
By DAVID CROCKETT
Kansan Staff Reporter
The United States will undergo a political awakening in 1974, the Rev. Forrest Robinson, a Republican candidate for governor of Kansas, told a group of College Young Republicans at the University of Kansas last night.
The United States was forced to reduce its energy consumption by the embargo imposed in October by Middle East oil-producing nations.
"We're entering into an era where people want to get involved," Robinson said.
"I think many of the traditional things used in campaigns can be counterproductive, as we have seen in the past with television."
But the oil embargo ended March 18, apparently starting American back on the road to their former levels of energy use. Individual conservation efforts peaked in February and the first part of March, the survey indicates.
"I will have a high-powered campaign," he said "but it will be without the threat."
Robinson hopes his campaign will catch the people's imagination. He said his way of getting out and talking to people would ultimately pay off.
Robinson is campaigning throughout the state with what he calls a low-cost cam
Robinson said the largest contribution he would accept was $1,000. He said he would accept no more than $20 in cash and no more than $5 anonymously. And, be said, he will accept no contributions from organized labor or business.
People are beginning to realize that to trust their politicians, they must become
"Drugs and alcohol are of great concern to people, but there are other priorities," he wrote. "The history who has never prosecuted a case in court. And this is the man who everyone needs."
"the governor of the state has no power to change the constitution," he said. "I think it is immoral for the governor to try to influence the legislature on the outcome of these matters. I will support the law of the Constitution and take action that I don't personally agree with."
Atty. Gen. Vern Miller, a Democratic candidate for governor, is vulnerable to attack because he doesn't enforce all laws equally. Robinson said.
Speaking of a case in which $30,000 was allegedly kicked back to Gov. Robert Docking's 1972 gubernatorial campaign—a case that Miller hasn't finished—Robinson said, "I'd like to see him jump out of a trunk with a solution to that matter."
Robinson said he had a running mate, but he wouldn't reveal the name.
"The energy office has been monitoring traffic to see what people would do once the lines at gasoline stations disappeared. People are going back to their old driving license," John C. Sawhill, who replaced Simon as administrator of the Federal Energy Office.
When asked about his stands on legalization of liquor by the drink and marijuana, Robinson said, "I don't understand it." Another marijuana should be considered a felony.
said the agreement was a step toward better education.
"There are far more important issues facing the state of Kansas than marijana, bingo and booze. I'm getting tired of answering those types of questions."
However, Robinson said he would have no power as governor to make his stand on the issue.
The agreement was hammered out in marathon sessions directed by Beryl Tebula.
Golan Fight Continues; Arabs Talk
Syrian and Israeli communiques reported tank and artillery duels along the length of the 48-inch caise fire line and on the emerald coast. Hermon at the northern end of the front.
By the Associated Press
Syria reported that Egyptian War Minister Almiral Ismail was in Damascus yesterday conferring with Syriya's President Mustafa Azzal and Defense Minister Mustafa Tafta.
Hostile guns blazed across the Golan Heights for the 48th straight day yesterday as Egypt's war minister talks with Syrian officials in a seemingly marked 28 years of independence.
A spokesman said Imaiil delivered a message from Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and discussed "future steps to be taken in the light of the present situation."
And Barry Buding, an official of the Connecticut Emergency Energy Office, said, "Connecticut citizens have gone back to their old glorious lounge, people driving at the old speeds, one person in a car, the car pools having broken up."
Sadat is trying to get Syria to follow Egypt's example of disengagement on the Suez Canal. But he has also warned that U.S. allies will have the Golan fightings continued to escalate.
"There are as many people on the road
as there were in September before the end
of 2018."
The shadow of the October war and its 2,600 Israeli dead hung over the celebrations like the overcast sky that interrupted a spell of spring sunshine.
Israeli observed their 26th independence anniversary with quiet picnic and a protest march. The little gaiety that surfaced was compared with previous state birthdays.
This was reference to the fighting on the Golan plateau and the impending visit of U.S. Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, who will try to mediate an Israeli-Syrian military disengagement. He is due in Syria next week.
Receipts for Connecttion toll roads on Feb. 3, were $31,549—55 per cent below a year ago. But receipts for April 14, were down—down only 3 per cent from the year before.
It was a sharp contrast to last year's independence day, when Israelis danced in the streets, bright lights blazed and the crowd cheered. And then it was history marched through the Holy City.
West Virginia Turnpike traffic for the first eight days of April was reported down about 1 per cent from a year ago. Traffic for the first eight days of April was 1 per cent in the first three months of 1974.
The increase in auto use was reflected on several toll roads.
About 1,000 Israelis, mostly students and war veterans, marched down a Jerusalem street. They chanted folksongs and slogans demanding social and government change.
"Since they no longer have to wait in line for gas, they feel they should no longer have to go 53," said Chief Wilk Bachoffen of the Washington State Patrol. He said troopers are in the first week of April this year, compared with a weekly average in 1793 of 1,480.
And police in several states said the number of speeding citations was up.
"They've gone wild again. They're just
failing out there," said Capt John S. Tim-
mons, the chief investigator.
Patrol, which issued 10,390 speed tickets in February and 13,446 in March.
Use of mass transit increased during the height of the energy shortage, but the AP survey shows ridership is presently falling off.
The Mass Transit Authority of Baltimore said bus ridership picked up at 25 per cent in mid-Febuary but presently was only 'or' 8 per cent above 1973 levels.
The Norfolk, Va., transit system said its ridership increased 13.7 per cent this January over that month in 1973 Ridership was up 26.8 per cent only six-tenth of 1 per cent in March.
Electric utilities across the nation also said that conservation efforts appeared to be declining, but that Americans still weren't using the amount of electricity they normally would—an increase of about 6 per cent a year.
"My husband and I rarely go to work in separate cars any more." Jackie Campbell of Pittsburg said. "The main reason is the weather; it can be about 80 miles a day to and from work."
The Edison Electric Institute in New York said national electricity use during the first three months of the year generally stayed at or below last year's rate of consumption.
nation by the AP, about half said they would continue saving energy.
For some weeks the amount of electricity used dropped more than 10 per cent below 1973 usage, the Institute said. But there was a 4.1 per cent increase nationally with the week ending March 30, a 1.1 per cent increase the next week, a decrease of 2 per cent the week ending April 13 and an increase of two-tenths of 1 per cent last week.
In New Hampshire, the Public Service Co. said conservation had dropped from a peak of 12 per cent to about 6 per cent. And Florida Power & Light CO. said its electricity prices have increased between early December and late February but only 3 per cent less in March.
Energy surveys, conducted weekly by the National Opinion Research Center in Chicago, indicated that the idea of car pools never caught on in most of the nation.
Lowell Lifschultz of Chappaqua, N.Y., said, "I'm no longer trying to save energy. I don't think anything I could do would make a substantial difference."
The Chicago research group said its three months of surveys indicated that a large majority—about 85 per cent—the energy shortage was a very important national problem. But only 26 per cent of the respondents said they thought it was the rudest import.
In a random survey of citizens across the
Mrs. E. Clay of Atlanta said she wasn't practicing energy conservation.
"I believe this whole gas shortage thing is a hoax," she said.
Asked what government could do about the apparent shift from conservation, exenergy chief Simon said: "Convince and caijole."
W. Germany Pays U.S. For Troops
BONN (AP)—The United States and West German signed a long-delayed agreement yesterday under which Washington would receive $2.22 billion to offset foreign exchange costs of stationing 200,000 U.S. troops in Germany.
The agreement, replacing a previous two-year arrangement<sup>1</sup>, which expired June 30, 1973, was signed by U.S. Ambassador Bashir Waghi. The agreement was a senior official in the Bomb Foreign Ministry.
A joint statement said the agreement, covering the period from July 1, 1973, to June 30, 1975, involved a total West German payment of 5.92 billion marks, or $2.22 billion at a conversion rate of 2.669 marks to the dollar.
"The agreement is based on the strength of the U.S. forces in the Federal Republic of Germany as of 1 July, 1973," the statement said, indicating that U.S. troops in West Germany would remain at their present 200,000 level for duration of the agreement.
By JIM CLARKE Kansan Staff Reporter
'Cannonball' Debut Today At Potter
Dan Wessel, ahal "Lorenzo Weselini
The Human Cannonball," will attempt to
soar over Potter Lake in a plexiglas sphere
at noon today.
"I'm gonna put a white X as a target on the other side of the lake but I don't really expect to make it," Wessel, a Kansas City, Kan., senior, said Wednesday.
"I can't get the bugs out of it, so I'll roll instead," he said.
Wessel, who tried to be a human kite死年 said, he had never tried to be a can-
A 150-foot ramp is being constructed on the hill east of the lake. Locked inside the three-foot sphere, Wessel will roll down the ramp, smash through barriers of confetti and chicken feathers, pass through hoops of and become airborne at the edge of the lake.
“This is the first time and the last,” he said.
"1 figure I ought to be hitting a good 20
m.p.h. by the time I get the bottom of the
rain."
He originally intended to use two 600-pound-dest springs to propel the sphere down the ramp. However, he couldn't get it running. His machinery to work to his satisfaction.
Wessel constructed the ramp himself and had the sphere made to his specifications by a plexiglas plant in Kansas City. He has financed the entire project with his own money. And he said that charging aid would rain the whole purpose of the stunt.
"People no longer question your sanity if you charge for it," he said.
"If I were to charge people to see this, then they would think I was doing it just to make money," he said. "That's not the reason I'm doing it at all."
Wessel's reasons for the stunt are unique. He's doing it to get people to question his motives and his sanity. He wants people to react, to ask, "What's with this guy?"
Wessel he conceived of the stunt in June 1973 but didn't get round to starting it.
There won't be any practice runs, so Wessel isn't set to exact time for his hits.
"I have done most of the work on it in the last four weeks." he said.
He said that he would try it when he
drew the crowd was ready, probably be-
tween them.
"When I think everyone interested is here and the excitement is right, I'll go," he said. "I don't want anyone to miss it. It will be the only chance they'll get to see it."