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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
84th Year, No.126
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Students Face Frustrations In IEC Classes
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Tuesday, April 16, 1974
Sawhill to Be Energy Chief, Sources Say
John C. Sawhill will succeed William E. Simon as federal energy chief when is appointed treasury secretary, sources said yesterday in the statement.
The selection of Sawhill, who has been Simon's deputy since the federal Energy Office was created last December, is scheduled to be announced by the U.S. Treasury on Wednesday.
South Vietnam Ending Talks with Viet Cong
South Vietnam announced today that it was suspending political talks with the Viet Cong in Paris because of what it called increased Communist ceasefire violations.
The Paris talks, which began March 19, 1973, and were charged with manipulating the political future of South Vietnam, have been almost totally unremarkable.
The talks have made virtually no progress in resolving South Vietnam's internal political differences, in setting up a Council of National Reconciliation Commission and in addressing other issues.
Government sources said the South Vietnamese apparently informed the United States government in advance of their intention to suspend the talks.
Flood-Stricken Mississippi Hit by Rains
Residents of flood-striken areas of south Mississippi were flooded again yesterday by storms in a four-day torrent, which has left seven persons dead.
Officials moved to aid the thousands of persons forced from their homes by the flooding. Gov. Bill Waltler and the state's congressional delegation urged President Nixon to declare portions of the state a disaster area, and thus speed aid to victims.
Ban on Melting or Exporting Pennies
The rising demand for pennies has resulted from the rising price of copper, which is approaching the point where the copper in pennies will be
The Treasury Department has imposed a ban against melting or exporting copper pennies, in an attempt to head off hoarding and destruction of penny
Copper prizes hit $1.20 a pound last week, the price at which it becomes more expensive to muni premiums than the pennies are worth. The potential for higher prices is limited.
Contributions Sent Nixon for Back Tax Bill
Some 5,000 Americans have sent President Nixon more than $43,650 to help him pay a bill of $100,000 in back taxes, the White House said yesterday.
A press release reported that Nixon said he couldn't accept the contributions and would return those whose donors were identified. The rest, he said, will be donated to charity organizations.
The letters were unsolicited, the spokesman said, but presidential supporters and other groups have suggested campaigns to help Nixon pay the cost.
Mitchell Denies Guilt In Vesco Perjury Case
NEW YORK (AP)—Former Atty. Gen.
John N. Mitchell swore before a federal
trial jury yesterday that he was innocent of
the assaults he committed in the of-
ternational financier Robert Vesco.
On trial with one-time Commerce Secretary Maurice H. Stans on criminal conspiracy charges, Mitchell was asked at ease of direct questioning by his attorney:
"Are you guilty or not guilty?"
"Absolutely not guilty to any of those charles." Mitchell said.
Mitchell's only admission of intervention on behalf of Vesco was that after he left the attorney general's office, he once checked with the Justice Department to find out whether a perjury case is being prepared against Vesco. He said the answer was no.
"Yes, sir, absolutely," Mitchell replied each time in an effort to convince the trial jury that any errors in his grand jury testimony were due simply to lapse of the statute. He said Mitchell is Mitchell and Stans perjured themselves in an effort to cover dealings with Vesco.
Shortly before the lunch recess, Mitchell went under excamination at the hands of the nurse.
"Do those answers to these questions reflect your best good-faith effort to recall them?"
The charges against the two consist of a single count of conspiracy, two counts of obstructing justice and six counts each of assault or grand jury that indicted them last May 10.
Mitchell, 60, and Stans, 66, are accused of obstructing a Securities and Exchange Commission fraud investigation of Vesco in exchange for Vesco's secret $200,000 cash contribution to President Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign.
Rocking gently backwards and forwards in the witness chair, Mitchell was led through the text of the six perjury courts and then was asked after each one:
Mitchell testified that in late spring or summer of 1972, Harry L. Sears, a self-described liaison man between Vesco and Mr. Jesse, who had been there had been a reference from the SEC to the Justice Department in connection with the alleged pierjury charges that involved Mr. Vesco. I checked somebody and found Mr. Jesse's reference to the Justice Department."
Supermarket Controls Lifted
WASHINGTON (AP)—The Cost of Living Council yesterday lifted wage and price controls from food retailers and wholesalers, including supermarkets, one of the last measures taken to protect consumers from the administration's divine price control program.
But council director John T. Dunlap said that while there might be some price increases, the decontrol of the food industry should not result in "inordinate rises in food prices in the months ahead." . . .
The decontrol action affects virtually all foods on the supermarket shelf
Combined sales of the food distribution industry last year were estimated at $228 billion. The decontol measure also applies to the wages of the approximately 2.5 million employees in the industry.
The administration's two and a half year old controls program was scheduled to expire on April 30, and Congress so far had flatly refused to extend the program in even the limited form Dunlap has wanted.
But Dunlop said controls are being lifted two weeks early from the food industry, in part because of the agreement last week on a labor-management committee to help solve labor and wage problems in the industry.
This committee, known as the Retail Food Industry Labor-Management Committee, is to provide a forum for discussions.
Dunlap took supermarket chains and the food distribution sector generally were in widespread compliance with the administration controls program over the last two and one-half years.
He said an examination of profits of 24 large food retailers showed a general decline in profitability from 1999 through 2003.
The Phase Four controls on the food industry allowed food retailers and wholesalers to increase their prices for costs, but not for profits. They were allowed to maintain profit margins over costs, but not to increase the markups.
That meant a declining percentage of profit on total sales in many cases.
The council said that of the $18 billion increase in consumer food expenditures last year, $12 billion went directly to pay for rising farm prices and all but $100 million of the order for such items as transportation, wages and taxes.
The council said its decontol action "shouldn't have any independent or significant adverse impact on food prices"
But it said there could be some initial price increases as individual firms try to change their market position
The food decontrol action didn't apply, however, to food manufacturers, such as dairies, bakers, cereal manufacturers and processors of frozen foods, all of which remain subject to the control program.
Warrant Issued for Patricia Hearst
SAN FRANCISCO (AP)—A warrant for the arrest of newspaper heirress Patricia Heart as a material witness to a bank robbery was issued Monday night. It said a person who appearing to be Miss Heart was photographed during the robbery.
Three persons previously associated with the terrorist Symbionese Liberation Army were charged with the Monday morning robbery of a San Francisco bank. A U.S. magistrate set bail of $500,000 each for Miss Hearst and the three other persons.
Authorities said they believed the photographs taken inside the bank showed that the person believed to be Miss Heart was not the bank's manager. The charges was filed with the U.S. magistrate.
The affidavit quoted an unnamed person who said he didn't know whether Miss Jenkins was the child.
robbery in which two persons were seriously wounded. The FSA said in a separate statement that it was entirely caused by Hearst wasn't a willing participant.
U. S. Atty. James L. Browning Jr., in
describing the photographs, said, "1 think this is the first time in the annals of legal history that a kidnap victim has showed up in the middle of a bank robbery. If she was involved and investigation shows that, we're going to charge her as a bank robber.
Miss Hearst, the 20-year-old heiress to a newspaper fortune, was dragged screaming from her Berkeley apartment on Feb. 4. The SEAR WADDY NOTE 2.
It's clear from the photographs she may have been under duress."
Shankel Finds Duties Challenging
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By STEVE FRY
Kansas Staff Reporter
Working more than 80 hours a week, Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor for the University of Kansas' Lawrence campus, will lead a position in position challenging and time consuming.
Appointed in late January by Chancellor Archie K. Dykes as KU's first executive vice president of the university.
Dykes Says Opinions Of Faculty Are Crucial
By DAVE BURPEE Kansan Staff Reporter
Faculty participation in academic decision making involves more than the faculty voting on important issues, according to Chancellor Archie R. Dykes.
Dykes discussed faculty participation at the Kansas Conference of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) Saturday in the Kansas Union.
Other topics discussed by the AAPU included financial exigency and faculty training.
that time becoming oriented to his job and learning about the various problems facing him.
Dykes said faculty participation was important because "We need the best thinking of the best minds available to take over." Dykes noted that before us and to overcome problems.
In addition to his job as administrative head of the Lawrence campus, the 46-year-old Shunkel is a microbiology teacher and researcher.
To have a successful program, the faculty must accept a measure of responsibility for participating in such areas as alumni affairs and student activities, he said.
"Hopefully we have been successful in this at KU." he said.
Dykes also said the procedures for implementing faculty participation should allow rapid decisions and shouldn't involve the faculty in just trivial matters
The faculty also needs to understand the distribution of power in a university, Dykes
According to Dykes, the issues before the child should be broad in scope and should cover
The faculty is closer to the actual problems of a university than the administration, he said, and can provide valuable planning information.
"My biggest problem has been trying to learn what makes everything work and attempting to get it all working together. There have been a tremendous variety of challenges in different areas," Shankel said Thursday.
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Some of the problem areas are preparation of the 1976 budget requests, making decisions on proposals made by the outreach and computer task forces, finding replacements for several resigning students for the University.
Working between 12 and 14 hours each weekday, Shankel's average daily schedule consists of appointments, teaching class three days a week and a constant stream of meetings, starting at breakfast and lasting into the night.
As executive vice chancellor, Shankar has broad powers in running the Lawrence
"The chancellor defines the position of executive vice chancellor as having overall authority over everything that relates to the Lawrence campus with the exception that I will always confer with the chancellor for all matters involving conferences or taking major action," Shankel said.
Examples of major policy decisions are starting or stopping academic programs or deciding major University priorities, he said.
The four vice chancellors view Shankel as the administrative head of the Lawrence campus, said Keith L. Nitcher, vice president of the university's more accessible for consultation on University problems than Dykes can be because of Dykes' role as administrative head of both the Lawrence campus and the Medical Center at Kansas City, Nitcher said.
A big problem for KU has been the lack of sufficient funding, Shankel said when he was appointed. In response to this problem, the executive vice chancellor has appointed five task forces to gather information to support the 1976 fiscal budget requests to
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Ford Walks a Political Tightrope
By JACK McNEELY
Kansan Staff Reporter
You can sense his coming. The security guards tighten their shoulders, rise to the balls of their feet. The double doors crack and half a dozen Secret Service men fan across the room. Then the doors burst and he strides quickly to the podium.
He's huge; he stands on his beels without blinking at the television lights. He is motionless, a calm center radiating energy that washes the room.
Vice President Gerald Ford is a very impressive man. But his vacillating support of President Richard Nixon is very unimpressive at best.
Ford, stopping first at Overland Park and then at Great Bend, stumped through a lot of challenges in order to muster support for Republican candidates in next fall's Congressional election, to argue half-heartedly of Foxon Nixon and George W. Bush, who he isn't a candidate for President in 1976.
In Overland Park, about 1,200 Republicans paid $50 apiece to shake Ford's hand and hear him call Rep. Larry Winn "first-class member of Congress." But that isn't all they were there for. They could listen to schmaltz and eat hors d'oeuvres
About 2,000 Great Bend Republicans paid
Kansas Staff Photo by ERIC MEYER
Vice-President Ford and Senator Dole Face Republicans Saturday in Overland Park
$60 a plate for Col. Sanders' best. The profit will fatten a campaign fund for Sen. Robert D. Kruse, who, according to a recent report, has donated his Democratic opponent, Dr. Bill Rey.
This is the first time a president or vice
president has ever spoken in Western Europe. She has never spoken in Nixon's strategy in 1968 including giving attention to Southerners. No one had ever paid much attention to Southerners, and there was no reason to do so.
Ford is doing the same thing. His stop in Great Bend means that Western Kansans will vote and pay for Ford's election, but the governor has not been president," Ford said in Overland Park. But by the time he got to Great Bend, Ford was having second thoughts.
"As you all know, I made a promise to my wife that I wouldn't run for any office in 1976," Ford told the Western Kansans. "Of course, you know how women are. She told me I could make up my own mind and didn't have to abide by my promise."
Ford's loyalty to his president also apparently widened between Overland Park
In Overland Park Ford praised Nixon for accomplishments in foreign affairs and for ending the draft. He said Nixon had "more pluses than munies in domestic affairs." In overland Park Ford predicted that Nixon wouldn't be impeached and convicted.
But in Great Bend he introduced Dole as "one of the impeachment jurors" and Rep. Keith Sebelius, R-Kan, as "a member of the impeachment armur 'surv.'
When Ford was addressed as "Mr. President," he said, "Now just a moment. I'm going to get out."
Ford is playing political mumbles-peg. By singing Nixon's praises in the morning and being merely lukewarm at night, Ford is stretching his fortunes to the limit.