Kelley Says FBI Goal Is to Protect National Security, Individual Rights
By SCOTT HILL
Kansas Staff Reporter
Americans must achieve a delicate balance between safeguarding the rights and security of society and protecting the rights of the individual, said Clarence Kelley, director of the FBI. The agency's Commerce annual banquet in the Kansas Union Friday night,
“This is the genius of our American system,” Kelley said, “that we can protect both our internal security and our common welfare, yet at the same time allow freedom for the private individual to develop his own unique personality.”
Kelley, a 1938 graduate of the University of Kansas, returned to his alma mater to speak on "The FBI's Role in Protecting America." He was appointed permanent director of the FBI last July. Before that he had been police chief in Kansas City, Mo., for 12 years. After graduating from the University of Missouri at St. Louis, Kelley served as agent and field supervisor before becoming police chief in 1981.
Kelley said the danger from extremist groups in the 1960s and early 1970s caused the FBI to form "cointeclpro," an abbreviation for counterintelligence program. This program was designed to weaken groups such as the Students for a Democratic Society and the Weathermen, and to protect the rights of innocent citizens, he said.
"I feel strongly that the FBI's counterintelligence program contributed substantially to neutralizing these elements in this case," he said.
Terrorist groups or individuals advocating violence shouldn't be allowed to bring the country to its knees, Kelley said. He said the FBI couldn't wait for a terrorist strike before acting. The counterintelligence program was used to stay abreast of the extremist
"Some of these revolutionaries attempt to justify their actions by
claiming they are responding on a higher law, "Kelley said, 'Such a revolutionary philosophy can only mean a disintegration of our freedoms. Individual freedom doesn't mean the freedom to plot and carry out crime or overthrow our government by force and
"Cointelpro" was discontinued in 1971, but Kelly said the FBI continues to counterattack guerrilla groups under existing laws.
"We are going to abide by existing legal constraints," Reiley said. "We today have laws on our statute books and they are being enforced legally. The FBI doesn't condeme illegal or unethical tactics in the handling of investigations."
Kelley said civil disorder had greatly subsided today, and the campus dad had changed from burning buildings to streaking. He got applause and laughter from the audience when he said he had searched hard but couldn't find any violation of federal law in
However, he warned that it would be foolish to believe that terrorism and extremism have been eliminated from society.
"These guerrilla-types have openly declared war on our society," he said. "They have shown a willingness to use the most potent weapons."
Kelley said it was difficult to determine what the balance between internal security and individual rights should be, and many of the changes would have to be made.
"Some people think the importance is in protecting society," he said, and say that individual rights must be chipped, cut back, reduced. Other say there is too much emphasis on protecting community rights to the detriment of individual rights."
A blending of the two viewpoints would help determine the answer. Kelley said.
Kelley said he considered the matter of achieving a proper balance and operating within the framework of the law the most important.
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Nixon Owes On Property In California
WASHINGTON (AP)—President Nixon has a final mortgage payment of nearly $250,000 coming due this summer for his San Clemente, Cali, estate. In addition he may face other major personal expenses as a debtor who owes home tax and impoundment proceedings.
Although he was nearly a millionaire on paper last May 31, a rapid series of sixfigure debts could deplete Nixon's savings and neerths lead him to take new loans.
A final payment of $228,650, plus $17,000 interest, is due July 15 to the family from whom he purchased the oceanis San Clemente property five years ago.
The bulk of Nixon's $988,522 net worth as of May 31 was in real estate.
The two major obligations other than the mortgage payments are only possibilities at
Although the President himself recently mentioned the possibility of taking a loan, the White House won't speculate on Nixon's finances.
A joint congressional committee has been reviewing Nixon's 1969-72 tax returns at the President's request. It is expected to report shortly whether it believes Nixon should have voted against his controversial deductions are disallowed, could amount to more than $300,000.
Nixon said he will abide by the committee findings.
Major points of controversy are his deductions for donations of pre-presidential papers to the government, his business use of his San Clemente estate, and the tax handling of the sale of two pieces of real estate.
The other possible major expense could be legal fees in connection with the bailout.
"KU is a fine school," he said yesterday, but I really have accomplished all I can here and want to move on to a more challenging job."
Charles W. Watson, associate vice chancellor for institutional mobility, resigned yesterday to accept a similar post at the University of Jacksonville in Reno,
Charles Watson Resigns, Takes Reno Position
Watson, who has been at KU for seven years, has personal reasons as the cause of his death.
Roger A. Thomas, vice chancellor for institutional mobility, said a search committee would be named soon to select a replacement for Watson.
His resignation is effective today
"Chuck (Watson) has been an extremely able administrator," Thomas said. "We'll begin with a new system."
Watson, a KU graduate with a bachelor's degree in institutional studies, is married and has one child, Wendy. 3. He began at KU as assistant to the director of University planning before becoming associate vice chancellor in 1972.
Watson served on the search committee to select a new chairman of the institutional research committee.
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Impeachment Plans Begin
Senate Prepares for Possible Nixon Trial
WASHINGTON (AP) — Quiet preparations are under way in several Senate offices for the possible impaction trial of President Nixon later this year,
With any House action probably more than two months away, no one will admit.
Democratic leader Mike Mansfield has said several times he has not started any study of how the Senate would proceed, but his response is clear. He doesn't want to anticipate House action.
However, some work is understood to be in progress in at least two Senate offices, with other studies being made by individual senators.
"No one will be caught unprepared," said one usually well informed source.
Until recently, few senators have been willing to say they expect the House to return articles of impeachment against the President.
Last week, however, Manfield said he had been told by House members "the vote
Some estimates are that the issue may meet the full house in early June. If the House musters the majority needed for an event, it could reach the Senate by early July.
Mansfield said he would expect the Senate trial to begin within one or two weeks after
Several senators have told reporters that they had been reading the accounts of past impachments, especially that of President Andrew Johnson.
Manfield said he probably would reject the idea of a Senate committee of 12 to take action.
"My feeling has been that the Senate, as a body of equals, should consider the matter more seriously."
He also said he favored televising the proceedings.
The rules make clear that, in every matter leading up to the final vote on the nomination of the senate procedural decisions. For example, the Senate could overturn rulings by Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, a Nixon appointee who preside at a presidential trial.
For conviction, a two-thirds vote would be needed on each article presented by the
KANU Receives Peabody
The University of Kansas' FM radio station, KANU-FM, will receive one of the 21 George Foster Peabody Awards for the program series "The American Past. Introduction," produced and written by M. Pickett, professor of journalism.
Sometimes called the "Pullitzer prizes of broadcasting," the Peabody Awards have been given each year since 1940 to honor distinguished public service by radio and TV stations, networks and individuals. Pickett hopes to attend the formal presentation of the awards May 1 in New York to accept for KANU.
"The American Past: Introduction," a popular history program, has been broadcast at 8 p.m. each Wednesday since September 1973. The production supervisor of the series is Mark K. Klugman of KANU. This program is one reason for the program's success.
"Pickett uses an approach to history that most people overlook," said Klugman. "History is made up of all people, not just those on the front page. He tries to show through this popular culture what it was like to live in the era he talks about.
"Pickett had no broadcasting work before coming to KU. He doesn't have a typical broadcasting voice, but what he has is perfect for what he does."
Pickett gathers and writes all of the material used in the show himself. An avid historian, he says the program covers many areas of history.
"I use many different documents to illustrate the period," said Pickett. "I use anything from speeches and editors to popular music. It's not necessarily a time period. I've done them on personalities, as well as fiffes and Sixties and the big Band era."
john Brenner, professor of journalism,
called Pickett a master synthesis.
"He knows how to put things together," said Bremner. "His winning this award is a tribute to himself, to the school and to the University."
Pickett considers himself an educational conservative and believes journalists should have broad and deep cultural interests.
He entered newspaper work when he was 16 as a printer and reporter on the Franklin
Pickett has been a member of the faculty of the William Allen White School of Journalism since September 1951. He received his B.S. from Utah State University in 1944, his M.S.J. from Northwestern University in 1948 and his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1959. Pickett has said that he came into life at Riverside High School in newspaper in 1946 and spending a year at Northwestern he was tired and was offered
County Citizen, a weekly in Preston, Ibadan.
He was a reporter on the Salt Lake City
Tribune in 1946 and was a copy editor on the
Chicago Journal of Science in 1947,
instructor at Utah State University from
1946 to 1948 and then joined the faculty at
the University of Denver in 1949, before coming
a teaching job in a setting he knew he'd like, be said.
Students generally regard Pickett as demanding, but fair. This semester he teaches Reporting I, History of American Journalism, Propaganda and Censorship, Introduction to Graduate Study in Mass Communication and Seminar in History of Communication.
"I think I try to make my students see that journalism is more than a lot of gimps."
Pickett was the winner of the Standard Oil (Indiana) Foundation Distinguished Classroom Teaching Award in 1967 and was selected as the first Oscar S. Stauffer of the year. He has also been a finalist in the annual HOPE Award competition at KU.
Sorority to Raise Funds To Aid Instructor's Son
Kansan Staff Reporter
By SHEILA JONES
Sean Singer is worried he might never be the same.
His father, Stan Singer, isn't sure what to tell him. Sean is 9; in the middle of February he fell victim to glomerulonephritis, a disease of the kidney prevalent in people between the ages of 25 and 40, and an assistant instructor in speech and drama.
Sean is still hospitalized at the center. Singer said that Sean should have been released Friday, but that he had caught pneumonia.
The doctors have said that there is little hope that Sean's kidneys will ever function properly again. Presently Sean is sustained by a medialyxal, a machine which connects through the wrists and artificially purifies the blood.
Although he almost died the night he reached the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, the center's urinary analization was able to pull him
For three weeks Sean was thought to have the flu. By the time it was realized he was suffering from a kidney injury he had a 6.6 blood pressure and an abdominal blood stream, a fatal level for his adults.
Sean's kidneys will probably be removed in three months. After this he will have to wait six months to one year before his condition is stable enough to make a transplant possible.
Until then, Sean will need a dialysis treatment twice a week. The cost is $140 per treatment. After Sean is released from the center he will have to be transported to the center twice weekly for the overnight, eight-hour process.
Singer's insurance will cover the cost of the treatments for nine months. After this Singer hopes to be accepted for the state Medicare program. Nevertheless, there are many costs, such as transportation to and from the hospital, that will not be covered by insurance.
The Singers have three other children at name: Stephanie, 15; Michelle, 13; and Shailah, 12.
Singer said that another family, whose child had the same disease, told him that their medical costs had been around $80,000. The Kunze family did not find food or help to drive with Sean's scarcity.
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