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The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
84th Year. No.107
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Tuesday, March 19, 1974
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The University of Kansas basketball team boasts its trophy in the air after beating Oral Roberts University in the finals of the NCAA Midwest regional Saturday. The KU
Jury Report to Go to House
WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. District Judge John J. Sirica ordered the Watergate gator juice's Nixon report turned over to the House impachment inquiry yesterday, noting that "it draws no accusatory conclusions."
He said he had no other choice, declaring that delivery to the House Judiciary Committee is "eminently proper, and
The judge said "it it seems incredible that grand jury matters should . . . be unavailable to the House of Representatives in a proceeding of such importance as an appeal to the State Department, which responds, then go to police investigations and disbursement proceedings."
"We deal in a matter of the most critical moment to the nation, an impeachment investigation involving the President of the United States," Sirica said in a 22-page opinion.
The judge allowed lawyers for the seven men indicted March 1 in the Watergate cover-up two days to appeal the verdict.
Sirica received the report and recommendation that it be placed in the hands of the Judiciary Committee at the time.
John J. Wilson, the lawyer for H. R. Halderman and John D. Ehrlichman, and attorneys for the other defendants opposed transmittal to the House. One reason was that Mr. Ehrlichman had prejudice their clients' ability to get a fair trial, they said.
Wilson said he would file an appeal by tomorrow afternoon. He wouldn't discuss the matter further.
Sirica said "The person on whom the report focuses, the
President of the United States, has not objected to its release to the committee. Other persons are involved only
He thus gave the first official confirmation of widely published reports that the secret report centers on the actions of the President in the aftermath of the break-in. At the White House, Denny Press Secretary Gerald L.
At the White House, Deputy Press Secretary Gerald L. Warren said Nickson had been informed of the order but gave no response.
Sirica said of the document, "It draws no accustomary conclusions. It deprives no one of an official forum in which to respond. It is not a substitute for indictments where indictments might proovenly issue.
"It contains no recommendations. . . It renders no moral or social judgments. The report is a simple and straightforward compilation of information gathered by the grand jury and no more."
Reps. Peter W. Rodino Jr., D-N.J., and Edward Hutchinson, R.Mich., the chairman and the senior GOP member of the House Judiciary Committee, said they were pleased at the decision.
"The grand jury report was obviously intended for the committee and the committee should have it." Hutchinson
The grand jury had recommended that the materials it turned over to Sirica be given to the House, the judge said, because the evidence has "a material bearing on matters of public jurisdiction of the committee in its current inquiry."
Sirica said it was up to the committee to decide whether
to accede to a request by President Nixon's lawyers that they be allowed to review the report.
Yesterday's opinion was Siricus's last major act as chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. He relinquishes the title at midnight, on the eve of his 70th birthday, but will remain an active judge.
The judge had to decide two questions in connection with the report and a satchel full of evidence that accompanied it; whether the grand jury had the power to make such reports and whether the court could discuss them and to
On the first question, Sirica cited a number of precedents and said the court would be unjustified in dering the grand jury.
"The grand jury has obviously taken care to assure that its report contains no objectionable features," he said. On point two, Sirica said the grand jury recommended "no public dissemination, but delivery to the House Judiciary Committee with a request that the report be used in connection with the constitutional rights of persons under indictment."
To that he added: "The court believes that it should presumptively favor disclosure to those for whom the matter is a proper concern and whose need is not properly identified. The committee is eminently proper, and indeed, obligatory."
Rov Announces Senate Candidacy
Because the report is not an inductive, arice san., "the President would not be left without a forum in which to adjudicate any charges against him that might employ report materials. The President does not object to release."
By LYN WALLIN
lansan Staff Reporter
TOPEKA—Rep. Bill Roy yesterday announced his candidacy for the U.S.
Roy and a group of 40 family members supporters and members of the press traveled to six cities in Kansas, where Roy made announcements of his candidacy.
Roy promised that his campaign against the incumbent senator, Bob Dole, would be successful. Mr. Obama said
Trips to NCAA Tourney Planned
plans to make the Watergate scandal an issue "unless the Republicans make it one." On a tightly-run schedule starting in April, the Republican governors of Kansas City, Kan., Pittsburgh, Wichita, Dodge City and Hays before returning to Toperak at 10 a.m. He was welcomed by a large crowd.
BY LINDA WEINSTEIN
Kenan Staff Reporter
Tickets to the NCAA basketball finals were sold out by 4:30 p.m. yesterday, according to Don Baker, sports information director.
He listed the five issues he considered most prevalent in the upcoming campaign as inflation, the energy crisis, employment and more effective legislators.
A ticket for both nights sold for $20.
The University of Kansas, Jawahiri will
The University of Kansas was allotted 1,000 tickets for the NCAA Tournament Saturday and Monday at the Greensboro Coliseum in Greenbore, N.C.
Oil Shipment Resumption Linked to U.S. Peace Effort
VIENNA (AP) — The Arab oil nations announced yesterday that they would lift their oil embargo against the United States in recognition of U.S. efforts to promote a settlement with Israel. But they said they would review their decision in two months.
The ban was to have been lifted today, according to Saudi Arabia's oil minister,
The United States "will get enough oil for its requirements," Yamiani said. Shipments would begin reaching U.S. shores in 60 days at the latest, be said.
Yamani declined to say whether the Arab states would restore overall cutbacks in oil production imposed at the time of the embargo. The cutbacks caused a world squeeze and more than tripled prices in the last five months.
Yamani said their opposition was "a
In what appeared to be a significant split in the Arab view of the use of the oil weapon, Libya and Syria opposed lifting the embargo.
Algerian oil minister Belad Abdelessam said Syria and Libya did't seem the proper solution to their conflicts.
question of timing." He said all Arab countries had agreed to the move in principle.
"They believe the U.S. change of position is not enough . . . and consequently believe the time has not come to lift the embargo," he said.
The United States was getting about 10 to 14 per cent of its oil from Arab producers before the boycott was imposed. Oil experts said it would take between six and eight weeks for Arab oil to reach the United States.
In Washington, Deputy Press Secretary Gerald L. Warren said the White House hadn't been formally notified of the report and declined comment pending that notification.
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Speaking after the ministers' meeting, Yamani said the United States would get it
play Marquette at 12:10 p.m. CDT Saturday
the UCLA-NCAA Carolina State
game which starts at 2:10 p.m. The two
winners will play Monday at 8:10 p.m.
CDT for the national championship. The third
place game will be played at 6:35 p.m.
Two trips have been chartered to go to the NCAA tournament.
The KU-Marquette game will be telecast nationally starting at 2 p.m. CDT.
Fifty-eight seats were still available Monday...
Student Union Activities has chartered two buses for the trip, according to Bill Brown, Riverside, III, senior and SUA Travel Board member.
The SUA trip offers all necessary transportation, beer and other beverages on the bus, tickets in the KU section and three nights accommodations at the Holiday Inn North in Winston-Salem, N.C., about 20 miles from Greensboro.
Steve Clark, assistant director of the Alumni Association, said the trip had been planned in about four hours yesterday after being filled and a waiting list had been started.
Donna Neuer, alumni office receptionist, said the Alumni Association was planning another charter, but those plans were incomplete.
Roy said the Nixon administration had brought about inflation "by great deficit spending." He said that if he was elected to preside over the country, he would prudent, responsible policies of limited federal spending and a balanced budget that I have followed as a member of the Senate.
Clark said the Alumni package would cost
The KU Alumni Association has planned a charter flight for 55 alumni.
The entire trip package costs $105.
Roy said he advocated a "lively fair wage" and said Dole had repeatedly voted against proposed increases in the minimum wage.
He listed "effectiveness as a legislator" as another issue in his campaign. He encouraged the voters to compare his record with that of other candidates, and never written a major piece of legislation.
Roy also said that there was a need for increased benefits for senior citizens. He said that Dole's voting pattern "reveals his desire to decrease for our older citizens."
Rep. Bill Roy
Roy wrote the Health Maintenance Organization Act, which became law Dec. 29, and also the windfall profits restriction section of the Energy Emergency Act.
Roy said that throughout the campaign he would “speak to other issues and I will call them.”
Out-4-f-state interests will make an attempt to buy the election for Dole, Roy said.
He said that Dole "has so many coy relationships with so many special interest groups that an attempt will be made by out-of-state interests to buy this election."
Dole's contributors lists include the names of Howard Hughes and the Rockefeller and Mellon families, Roy said at a news conference, which means the big bankers and big oil apparently are supporting the state's junior senator.
"Bur banks should support Dole," Roy said. "The interest rates are the highest in the history of the country and Dole has consistently been the administration's top credit matters."
Roy said large oil interests also should support Dole because his voting record was positive.
Roy estimated that Dole probably would
spend $250,000 more than Roy in his campaion.
"But I hope to get enough small contributions to finance an effective campaign."
Asked about his primary opposition, perennial candidate George Hart of the Democratic Party, bustle to win the primary. Roy noted that Hart had been elected state treasurer, nominated for the U.S. Senate and had given Republican Lt. Gov. Dave Aoven a majority in the House.
Responding to a question concerning Republican allegations that Roy's past campaigns have been fraudulent, he said he would be thought state GOP Chairman Jack Ranson "had better be more cautious or we'll sick Norbert Drewling (state Democratic chairman) on him."
Roy said he had no quarrel with Ramson and was prepared to run for election on his behalf.
Atty. Gen. Vern Miller, who announced has candidacy for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination Saturday night in Wichita, introduced Roy at a Wichita lamb.
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Congressmen Retiring Near Record Number
By JIM KENDELL
By JIM KENDELL
Kansas Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON-Rep. Bill Roy's announcement yesterday of his candidacy for the U.S. Senate brought the number of Congressional retirements to three short of
Although the general election is almost eight months away, 43 members of the House and Senate have announced plans to retire or seek other offices.
Watergate and a liberal retirement program are certain to produce a record this year.
In 1972, 46 congressmen retired, equalling a record set in 1952. Since 1934 an average of 34 congressmen have retired every two years.
Roy didn't mention Watergate directly in his announcement but called this "a year of the
national crisis" in which "there is today the greatest distrust of government in our country."
Roy became the 10th House Democrat to announce plans to seek higher office. Only one Republican has declared for higher office.
Filing dates have passed for only ten primary elections, and at least one other House member is seriously considering a number of retirements is sure to increase.
Age and health problems were significant factors in the decisions of just over half of the 32 congressmen retiring from public life.
At least 25 per cent of them faced tough political contests in primary or general elections.
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Senate to Apportion $394,374.80 for Campus Groups
By JACK McNEELY
Kansan Staff Reporter
sixty six student organizations have requested $533,113.39 from the Student Senate for fiscal year 1975, but that is $138,938.59 more than the senate can allocate.
The senate will apportion $934,748, which is its estimated income from student activity fees to be collected from July 1, 1974, to July 1, 1975. John Beemer, Salina junior and student body president,
A student's $12 activity fee is divided among the following groups: Intercollegiate Athletics—$5.00; Organizations and Councils—$2.30; the senate—$1.50; the Kansas—$1.35; University Theatre—80 cents; concert Series—80 cents; and men's and women's intramurals—20 cents.
The allocation requests submitted to the senate amount to less than in fiscal year 1974 because the Emporium Book Store, the International Film Series, the Liberal Arts and Sciences Program Instructors and the Reclamation Center will no longer be drawing from the senate's funds, Beisser said.
This year each standing committee will review the requests of three student groups that appropriately fall under the standing committee's domain, Mike body treasurer, said the graduate student and student body treasurer, said.
The senate will use a new method to hear the budget requests. In past years all requests had to be approved by the senate's Finance and Auditing Committee.
The standing committees are academic affairs, communications, culture, student services, sports, union operating board and rights, responsibilities and privileges.
Of the 68 groups requesting money, 59 are listed under Organizations and Councils. They will be responsible for their actions.
Joel Goldman, Shawnee Mission senior and president of Forensics, says he thinks his group is ready to take action.
"With the exception of Bands, we are the only group that is an integral part of the University of Oregon."
Mike Youngblood, Freeport, Grand Bahama Island, graduate student and coordinator of the Graduate School Council, said his group had calculated its request by asking for $2.50 for each
The University of Kansas debating team is one of the best in the country, he said, yet it receives less support from its senate than do the teams at both Wichita State University and Emporia State College.
Youngblood said graduate students should get at most $2.00 per capita from the $2.00 per capita they receive and $1.00 per capita they receive.
The Graduate School Council will try to determine the legal rights and responsibilities of teaching assistants with respect to the faculty, Youngblood said.
“It’s easy to find money to send a debater, who might be an undergraduate, to a tournament, but it’s difficult to find money to send a graduate student. It would be much more likely which might be a major part of his education,” he said.
Graduate students make contacts at conventions to get jobs later, Youngblood said.
Iqbal, the only student from Bangladesh at KU, is also the organization's only member.
The smallest request came from the Bangladesh Association. It asked for $1.
"There is a three-fold purpose for this unusual request," said Zahid Iqbal, Dacca, Bangladesh, graduate student. "I am testing the wisdom of the old way of learning to be successful on by the solitary member from another country."
Cynthia Hirth, Lawrence senior and president of the Commission on the Status of Women, said students'
Another purpose of his $1 request, lalpai said, was to encourage groups to take less money from the senate and do more to reach out to the local community, even if it meant spending from one's own pocket.
He said he was also protesting a propaganda attack by one national club on another last year, which he said was a reflection on the international student community.
demand for the commission's services justified its $3,900 request.
Hird said the commission's purpose was "to let people know and realize their potential."
The Committee on Indian Affairs want to spend the $5,666 it requested to educate non-Indians on campus about Indians, Edgar Heap of Birds, Wichita sophomore and president of the group, said.
A desire to know more about Indians exists at KU, as is evidenced by the early closing during enrollment of a history course on Indians. Heap of Birds said.
Cary Glusenkamp, Lawrence law student and student director of the Kansas Defender Project, said his organization was seeking senate money because he had been involved that supported the project since 1965 was driving up.
The project provides legal advice to indugent inmates of state and federal prisons in Kansas,
Fifteen second-and-third-year law students participate in the project, he said.
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