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KANSAN
84th Year, No. 129
The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
Special KU Relays Issue
Kansan Staff Photo by BILL KERR
Krsna Krsna
Hare Krsna followers from Dallas danced and chanted in front of Watson Library yesterday. The Dallas members are visiting Lawrence to help spread the word of Hare Krsna to the Lawrence community. They danced and chanted to the beat of a drum nearly the entire day.
Pichler to Be Named Business Dean
Joseph Pichler will be named dean of the University of Kansas School of Business at a meeting of the Kansas Board of Regents today in Pittsburg.
The selection of Pichler, acting dean of the school since July, concludes 13 months of work by the school, a search committee and the administration.
Clifford Clark resigned as dean last March to become vice president for
Joseph Pichler
academic affairs at the State University of New York at Binghamton.
John Tollefson, associate professor of business, will become associate dean of the school. He has been acting associate dean for several months.
Ambrose Saricks, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said in making the announcements, "I am delighted that Dr. Pichler has agreed to accept the position. We all look forward to a continuation of the forceful and effective leadership which he has offered, but we also welcome University is fortunate to have a person of his caliber in this very important post."
Informed sources said that the three original choices of the search committee chose not to accept the position following negotiations with Saricks.
Their refusalures were for differing, mainly personal, reasons, said the Dinkel,aho.
"their refuits shouldn't be interpreted as a bad reflection on the school," Shanker告
Emery Turner, actress of charisma at the University of Missouri at St. Louis, and a man mentioned by sources as one who was offered the position, recently said that comments attributed to him to alarmed security dissension in the school were in error.
"I didn't see any real splits over there (at
diamond)—not in the business school."
(bc) senses "reality".
Turner said he never meant for his
GNP Decline Largest For U.S.in 16 Years
WASHINGTON (AP)—The nation's economy sink swiftly due a recession in the first quarter of the year, while inflation pushed prices upward at an ever-increasing rate, according to government figures released yesterday.
The Commerce Department said the country's Gross National Product dropped at a 8.8 per cent annual rate in the first three months of the year, the first decline in three years and the biggest drop since 1958. In October, sawned at a 0.6 per cent annual rate.
The double-barreled dose of bad economic news came one day after President Richard Nixon announced he was going to play a role in formulation of economic policy.
It also raised serious questions whether
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The Commerce Department said the sharp cutback in auto production was one of two major reasons for the decline in GNP. The U.S. economy, which has been hit by high interest rates,
The GNP measures the total value of output of the nation's goods and services and is considered the best index of the health of the economy.
the United States would be able to avoid a recession this year, as Nixon has promised. A recession is technically defined as two consecutive quarters of GN decline.
The first-quarter drop was the biggest since a 9.2 per cent decline in the first quarter of 1888. The last decline was in the third quarter, when the GNP fell at a 4.8 per cent annual rate.
The Arab oil embargo and the energy crisis apparently were important factors in the collapse of Iraq.
The inflation rate of 10.8 per cent showed that the administration had a long way to go before meeting its promise of a much smaller rate of price increases in the second quarter.
Over-all GNP in the first quarter increased $14.3 billion, or 4.4 per cent over the fourth quarter, to an annual rate of $1,351.8 billion. All of the increase was due to in-
Figures computed at an annual rate mean that the rate would be the final figure at the end of a 12-month period if the trend continued unchanged.
The 5.8 per cent rate of decline in the $t_{1/2}$ in the first quarter compared with an increase of 1.6 per cent in the fourth quarter is shown in Figure 10.27. In 1973 at the height of an economic boom
remarks to be interpreted as meaning that a split in the school was holding up the applause.
The search committee, headed by Lawrence Sherr, associate professor of business, submitted three names to Saricks in early December of last year.
The rate compared with an 8.8 per cent rise in the fourth quarter of last year.
After the original candidates declined to accept the position, the selection was left to the committee.
It isn't known how the final selection was made since it is customary for personnel to make the choice.
Nixon Tapes Subpoenaed By Sirica
WASHINGTON (AP)—A federal judge ordered President Richard Nixon yesterday to surrender tapes and documents of 64 conversations to be used in the Watergate cover-up trial involving men who were once his ton subordinates.
The subpoena was served on the White House a few hours after it was ordered by U.S. District Judge John J. Sirica. The President has until May 2 to comply.
Sirca acted on a request by special Watergate prosecutor Leon Jaworski, who said he needed the material for the conspiracy trial involving John N. Mitchell, Michael H. Fitzgerald and Charles W. Colson and three others. The trial is scheduled before Sirica on Sept. 9.
There was no immediate word whether the White House would comply with the latest legal effort to wrest Watergate information from the President. Deputy Press Secretary Gerald L. Warren said "the council will be considered by the special counsel."
The 64 conversations span nearly a year's time—beginning with a meeting Nixon had with special counsel Colson on June 20, 1972, and ending with telephone conversations the President had with Halderman on June 4, 1973.
The subpoena was the third issued at the request of the special prosecutor's office. The White House fought the first, last summer, until it lost before the U.S. Court of Appeals. It complied with a second subpoena last month without a flight.
Pichler has been a KU faculty member since 1965 and was associate dean of the school for one year before becoming acting dean. He was special assistant to the head of the department for manpower of the U.S. Department of Labor while on leave from 1968 to 1970.
The committee's chairman, Peter W. Rodino Jr., D-N.J., in a television interview yesterday that any White House editing of the 42 conversations his committee subpoenaed "could be considered a possible ground of impeachment."
twenty-four of the conversations sought are included in a subpoena issued by the House Judiciary Committee for its imprisonment. The committee requires compliance by next Thursday.
"Unless this is done," he said, "this is going to be considered by the committee as a refusal on the part of the White House to comply."
Rodino said he wouldn't be satisfied with excised versions and that it was necessary to redefine them.
"R's best for everybody that way," Saricks said.
He agreed the White House should be able to screen national security information but said leaders of the House inquiry should inform what could be screened and determine what could be screened on.
Pichler, a frequent contributor to professional journals in business and labor relations, received his bachelor of business administration degree from Notre Dame and his M.B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.
Otherwise, Redino said, the White House would make the determination of what to do with the Iran nuclear deal.
He and his wife, Susan, live at 1108 Sunset Drive. They have three children.
Auto Companies Given Licenses To Sell to Cuba
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The State Department announced yesterday approval of export licenses to three U.S. automakers for their Argentine subsidiaries to sell
The announcement constituted perhaps the most significant circumvention of the Organization of American States embargo imposed on Cuba 10 years ago.
State Department officials insisted that the decision didn't signify a change in the traditional U.S. support for the embargo.
"Our policy toward Cuba is unchanged," an official said, adding that the decision took into account the economic interests of the three American subsidiaries in Cuba.
"We did not wish to see these U.S. companies suffer as a result of U.S. policy," the officials said.
The licenses involve the sale of Ford, Chrysler and General Motors Corp. vehicles to Cuba. Auto industry sources have indicated that the deal may involve $150 million.
Earlier in the day, Cuba made it known it is prepared to become an active participant in inter-American relations for the first time since 1967.
The proposed side of auter in Cuba can be traced back to Argentina's decision last May. To re-establish relations with Cuba, they jointly initiated the OAS Submarine.
State Department of ficials said last night they believe it is "extremely unlikely that the government of Cuba would be represented in Argentina" at a meeting of foreign ministers of OAS nations. They said several countries have opposed Cuba's presence. The proposed side ofute in Cuba can be traced back to Argentina's decision last
Subsequently, Argentina and Cuba announced a six-year $1.2 billion trade agreement which includes the sale of auter manufacturer by the three firms in
The applications were received here last November but no decision was made immediately because of the Nixon administration's reluctance to help violate the
Officials had also expressed concern that a growing number of applications might be received from other American subsidiaries overseas wanting to do business with
According to U.S. officials, the issue came to a head Wednesday night when Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger met with hemispheric ministers.
Kissinger reportedly said that a final decision could be made only by President Nixon, and Kissinger apparently got the green light from the White House yesterday. Only 24 hours earlier, high state Department officials were saying there would be no major change in U.S. policy; détente Cuba should alert the end of the war.
Not since the late Ernesto “Che” Guevara represented Cuba at a conference in Urinus in 1962 has Cuba nativized an inter-American forum.
That same year the Cuban government was excluded from the Organization of American States, which decided that Cuba's Marxist-Leninist system was in violation of the United Nations Charter.
Two years later, the OAS decreed a commercial and diplomatic embargo on the island after finding Cuba guilty of attempting to overthrow the Venezuelan govern-
Cuba has expressed no desire to return to the OAS but the Argentina meeting will be held outside the OAS framework, Cuba's participation would not be in question.
Ken Kesev Speaks Out for Protection of the Environment
Kesey Urges Change of Lifestyles
By JAN HYATT
MICHELE LONSDORFER
Kansan Staff Reporters
Ken Kesey made his pitch for community action for environ- protection last night in a speech and "town
Kessy, author of "One Flower Over the Cuckoo's Nest," said the state of the national environment was rapidly growing worse because of over-consumption and wasteful lifestyle. He used materials like plastics and disposable diapers as examples of wasteful products.
An audience of 1,500 filled the ballroom and the surroundings to bear Kesey read some of his poetry and to watch a performance.
The film showed the exploration, refining and transportation of oil and its use in agriculture to make fertilizer and run farm machinery. It then showed wheat being milled and baked into uniform leaves of white bread and delivered to consumers in plastic wrappers. A slice of bread was burned in a toaster and ended up in a garbage pile.
After the film, Kesey spoke about the Oregon Proposition, a council of Oregon citizens who will meet July 3 in Eurea, Ore.
to "plan the next 25 years." They will discuss transportation, power consumption and development, land use, waste disposal, law and education. They will also poll state residents for their opinions on how Oregon resources and environment should be used. Kesey owns a 60-acre farm near Eugene, and he helped organize the council.
Keesy then announced that the lecture was over and a "town meeting" of Lawrence citizens had which would elect a president.
Following nominations from the floor and speeches by the nominees, Merle Goldman, Rockville Center, N.Y., sophomore, was elected in a run-off vote with Jerry Harper, Lawrence law student. Kesey passed hats through the audience to collect money to pay for her trip to Oregon. He said if there was enough money, both Goldman and Harper would attend.
Between poems Kesey described himself as "a worried man" who had changed in recent years. He compared continuing economic growth and environmental destruction to a vision of himself and others on a train that was heading too fast toward a
"One group decides to blow up the tracks, and the other group stays and tries to slow the train down," he said. He elected to be
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