THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
84th Year, No. 102
Monday, March 4, 1974
Reports Say Nixon Part Of Cover Up
WASHINGTON (AP) - Two subjects of the sealed grand jury report on President Nixon involve discussion of executive clemency and charges of hush money, bombing a Republican yesterday.
The Washington Post and New York Times reported that the jurors concluded in the report that Nixon was involved in the conspiracy to cover up.
The 50-page report was handed to U.S. District Judge John J. Sirica Friday by a grand jury that also indicted seven former Nixon aides and campaign officials for allegedly trying to block the investigation of the Watergate break-in.
It was learned that the 23-member grand jury which spent 20 months investigating the break-in and cover-up was determined to have been upon its findings concerning the President.
The panel finally voted to give a secret report to Sirica with a recommendation that the council be made a witness.
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Kansan Staff Photo by BILL KERR
Peter Dart (left in insert), professor of radio-TV-film, and Curtis Garner (right). Ankency, Iowa, senior, shoot a documentary film on location at the Kansas
Legislature The film, funded by the legislature, will be shown in high schools
Israeli Premier Meir Ouits...
JERUSALEM (AP) - Premier Golda Meir announced yesterday she was resigning as head of the Israeli government. The 75-year-old leader made the stunning announcement at a closed meeting of her Labor party executive, or governing council, Transport Minister Shimon Peres said. Then she walked out of the meeting.
Meir told the party leadership she wouldn't be premier of Israel's next cabinet, evidently because she was thwarted in the efforts she has been making for the past two months to put together a broad coalition government.
"This is my final decision," Meir declared, Peres said "it would take a political miracle" to persuade Meir to retain the premiership.
The surprise announcement came just two weeks after Defense Minister Moshe Dayan threw the Labor party into turmoil by refusing to join Israel's next cabinet.
Israel's state radio said Meir would make her resignation formally to president Ephiam Katzir, the ceremonial head of state.
Meir has led the Israeli government since 1969. He refusal to form a new cabinet left the Labor party founding without a clear leader, and in 2004 he joined the Israel politics since the state was formed 25
years ago.
Neither the party nor ministers of the present caretaker cabinet indicated might take over as premier. One of Meir's strengths would emerge as the new government leader.
Among the chief candidates for premier were Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir, Deputy Premier Vigal Allon and Foreign Minister Abban Ebae.
"I have tried to serve to the best of my ability, the radio quoted Mei as saying. In writing, I will give you the full name."
announced she was stepping down, the radio said she told her party colleagues, "It would have been better if I had resigned in August before"—before the October Middle East war.
Meir, who repeatedly tried to resign last year to make way for a younger leader, immediately was afflicted with an attack of cancer, an acute virus disease of the nerves.
The Labor alignment, Israel's military leadership and Meir's entire establishment have come under heavy public criticism for their failure to defend war and early losses in the Arab onslaught.
Party executives at the meeting said Meir had announced a new minority cabinet that would be led by a woman.
ambassador to Washington, replacing Dayan as defense minister. Only later did Meir disclose she wouldn't continue as premier.
Exhausted by the war and strained by political infighting after the New Year's Eve election, Meir has been aling ever since.
... Heath May Quit, Too
LONDON (AP) - Prime Minister Edward Hewes has failed to win the support he needs from the Liberal party to stay in office and have a good show at home. He's Conservative party said last night.
The source, who was informed about discussions Heath held with his cabinet, said Queen Elizabeth II is now expected to ask Harold Wilson, leader of the opposition Labor party, to form a government when Heath resigns.
Wilson's Labor party won the most seats in Thursday's general election but fell short of winning a majority.
The Conservative source said Jeremy Thorpe's Liberal party, which holds the balance of power in the new Parliament, had rejected Heath's offer of a coalition, and that Heath had called in senior cabinet members to inform them of the Liberals' decision.
Without the Liberals, the source said,
Dykes Puts Off Decision on Parking
Student Senate Task Force to Offer Advice
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes has agreed to postpone action on the Parking and Traffic Board's suggestions for operation of Security and Parking for next year until the Student Senate task force can suggest an alternate plan.
Dykes told John Beisner, Salina junior and student body president, last Friday of his decision to accept a senate petition that expressed disapproval of the current policy in relation to the chancellor to consider alternate choices which would be suggested by the task force.
The Parking and Traffic Board submitted its suggestions last week. They included only minor word changes in the rules for parking, no changes in the amount of fees or fines.
Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor,
said yesterday that he and Dykes had
The three member task force will be appointed tomorrow, Beisner said. It has been allowed 30 days to suggest an alternative plan for next year's operations of Security and Parking specifically aimed at reducing fees and fines.
Cpt. Joseph Marzuff, chairman of the Parking and Traffic Board and professor of Navy ROTC, said he didn't think there was any way that Security and Parking could retain its present services in the area of parking still reduce the fees and fines or new tax.
decided to accept the petition because there were still two or three weeks before the election.
Beisner said he hoped the task force would focus on a new philosophy of what services needed to be provided and how those services should be financed.
He said there was no question that services could be reduced, thus reducing fees and fines. But he said the first people to be students could be students patrolling the parking lots.
The parking operations of Security and Parking are supposedly self-sufficient, be said. Their budget is supplied by money collected in fees and fines.
task force all the help it could and would answer are viable alternative the task force accomplishes.
Marzluff said the board would give the
Heath can form no workable alternative coalition or alliance with other small groups elected to Parliament, but the prime minister is legally entitled to try to make deals with these groups, or even to approach the Liberals again.
Beisner said the task force would probably be expected to have some concrete work done.
Marzillu said Security and Parking could do away with some positions but he said he questioned where the breaking point would come where control would be lost and someone was there.
His chances of clinging to office appeared slim as the British press, striking coal miners and other trade unions began a "Heath Must Go" campaign.
The prime minister called last Thursday's elections to seek an increased mandate of tough measures to resolve what he called Britain's worst economic crisis. A deadlocked deadlocked result created the country's worst political crisis since the war.
Heath lost his 15-vote majority in the old parliament and no party won the 38 places needed for a majority in the new 63-sit House of Commons. The results gave Harold Wilson's opposition Labor party 30 seats, Health's Conservatives 26, Jeremy Corbyn 20, and Labour 16 mostly nationalists from scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland—a total of 24 seats.
Although the Conservatives finished second in terms of parliamentary seats, they won the largest popular vote—11.8 million to 11.8 million for Labor. Heath used this to justify attempts to try and stay in office.
The prime minister faces two immediate problems. He must have assurances from other parties that would give him a majority in Parliament. And he must be able to settle quickly the national strike by coal miners that they are supplying of materials to and halt industry. His prospects on both counts appear poor.
Death Toll 346 In Jet Crash Outside Paris
PARIS (AP)—A packed Turkish jetliner slammed into a wooden slope and exploded on Paris yesterday, spewing debris and bodies for miles in the worst air disaster in history. An air official said all 346 persons aboard were killed.
"It exploded with a great roar," said a witness.
Bodies hung from trees and parts of bodies were scattered in the forest around the bits and pieces of the airship. Six bodies were recovered nine
Arguin Yelutas, European manager of Turkish Airlines, said there were 324 passengers and 12 crewmen aboard the jct DC10. He said between 2009 and 2015 there were 287 flights.
The jet had taken off from Paris' Orly Airport five minutes earlier after a stop on its flight from Istanbul to London. Yelutas said the takeoff was normal and the skies clear, but when the plane reached 13,000 feet, "there was no more news."
The secretary of state of the French transportation ministry, Aymar Achile-Fould, said: "The fact that debris and bodies were found in a village more than 10 kilometers (six miles) from the accident tends to prove that the explosions occurred in flight."
Several witnesses said they saw the plane burst into flames after it crashed. Others said they heard an explosion, but it could not be determined whether the crash was accidental or deliberate.
There was no immediate indication of sabotage, although a Turkish official said he was not ruining it out.
Rescue workers continued poking into the turf as night fell, finding only bright magazine pictures, electrical parts and the endless, meaningless wallpaper.
The British rugby team, which played against France here Saturday, intended to travel on the plane but could not get bookings, airport sources
The highest previous known crash toll was 176, records show. That count was recorded twice; when a Soviet plane crashed near Moscow in October 1972 and when a Jordanian Boeing 707 went down at Kano, Nigeria, in January 1973.
The plane crashed to the ground shortly before noon in the Forest of Ermenoville, 24 miles north of the French capital. It fell near a town and three villages, officials reported, but the point of impact lay in an uninhabited spot and there were no reports of casualties on the ground.
It was the second crash of a Turkish flight in plane just over a month. A plane on an internal Turkish flight from Izmir to Istanbul crashed Jan. 26.
The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board in Washington announced that it was sending a three-man team to France to observe the investigation
"We want to be on hand to read as rapidly as possible what happened," said spokesman Edward E. Slattery. "I'd say more than 100 DUOes are used."
Judge to Rule in Watergate Mistrial Charge
A judge is expected to rule today whether the criminal conspiracy case against Atty. Gen. John N. Mitchell and former Commerce Attorney Randy Maddox has merit.
A motion for a mishap was made Friday after Ast. U. Attorney James W. Rayhill instructed jury members in his opening statement they should put themselves in the place of grand jurors who indicted the two former Cabinet officers.
The defense objected, contending the statement was prejudicial in that it implied the trial jurors should infer guilt from the indictment, which is only a reasonable assumption.
U. S. District Court Judge Lee P. Gagliari said Rajallil's remarks contained "apparent excesses." He ordered the prosecutor and defense attorneys to explain their cases.
Congress to Discuss Proposed Pay Raises
Congress comes to grips with a prickly political question this week—whether to allow a paragon to go into effect that eventually would mean the resignation of a president.
The Senate is scheduled to begin debate today on altering or stopping the scheduled 7.5 per cent a year raise for three years for Congress, federal tax reform and other issues.
Various alternatives are up for consideration, including postponing the raise for a year, substituting for it a one-time 3.5 per cent raise or killing it altogether.
6 Senators Report $200,000 in Contributions
Congressional elections are eight months away, but many of the senators seeking votes have already started campaigning—for contributions to build
42 senators reported contributions of $200,000 apiece as the election year began. Nine senators had collected a total of more than $21 million in contributions.
The six senators who have collected more than $20,000 are: Sen. Alan Cranston, D-Callif, $338,100; Sen. Richard Schweiker, R-Pa., $339,165; Addilid E. Stevenson III, D-IIll, $290,747; Daniel M. Inouye, D-Hawaii, $290,747; Daniel M. Dekker, D-Md., $250,320; and Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan., $273,438.
Solar Energy Viable For KU, Dean Says
By RON MYERS
Kansas Staff Reporter
Solar energy may prove to be the best answer to the problem of heating and air conditioning the University of Kansas campus, William P. Smith, dean of the School of Engineering, said Wednesday.
Smith said there was a better than 50 per cent chance that the University would be faced with building a heating and cooling system within the next 10 years, including taking other natural gas or fuel oil as a power source.
"Solar energy is a nondependent source of energy that is free, nonimplying and readily available," he said. "As the cost of fossil fuel escalates, solar systems become competitive." Smith said.
Smith said that some utility plants were already beinl forced by federal mandate to convert to coal.
"The amount of natural gas burned in the KU power plant last year was sufficient to heat some 2,500 private residences for one year, Smith said." Thus the very high demand it may be forced by federal mandate to convert to coal.
"It doesn't appear feasible to build a coal-burning plant in the center of campus. If coal will be used, the
a heat pipe lying inside the troughs would contain a volatile fluid. Heat from sunlight would vaporize this fluid, and the vapor would then be condensed to give its water to heat, Smith said. After the fluid was condensed it would return down the heatpipe to repeat the cycle. Heat exchangers would be constructed to keep the water under pressure so that it would remain liquid at temperatures approaching 400 degrees Fahrenheit.
palm trees has proposed a solar energy system that would be located in the west campus area. The solar farm would consist of a number of sunlight-gathering trails situated so that they would run along the course of the sun in its daily travel. The trays would cover an area from 20 to 50 acres.
plant will have to be located on the west campus."
Smith said the heat exchanger at the power plant would be used to convert more water to steam, which would be used in the present system for heating and cooling buildings.
This hot water would be fed by an insulated pipe system running to the existing KU power plant, where it would run through another heat exchanger and then a return loop, taking it back to the solar farm, Smith
The difference in viscosity between the hot and cold water would result in little mixing of the two at the well (Fig. 2).
A well would be sunk at the solar farm and hot water pumped in, displacing the cooler ground water.
Smith said the capacity for storage of heated water in a well could be the answer to the problem of maintained heated water on cloudy days and at night. He said underground water storage was particularly effective because of the low heat transfer afforded by storage under the ground surface.
Smith is working on a system that would minimize modification to the existing heating system. Heating water by solar energy would be applicable to all buildings that are connected to the KU steam tunnels.
Another objective was to use steam for cooling as well as heating because most of the University buildings are air conditioned by heat absorption units that use steam.
Smith said his plan for generating steam by solar energy would be an applicable to such units.
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"The principle is the same as that used for gas refrigerators that cool with a gas flame." Smith said.
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