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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
84th Year, No.101
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Last Day To Enroll
Friday, March 1, 1974
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Idictments Ready Today, Sources Say
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The long-awaited multiple federal indictments of former high officials in the Nixon administration will be returned today by the grand jury investigating the Watergate cover-up, sources said yesterday.
There is the possibility, also, of indic-
ents springing from other grand jury
investigations in the Watergate aftermath;
the 1971 break-in at the offices of Daniel
Ellsberg's psychiatrist; illegal corpora-
campaign contributions; the milk fund and
ITT cases; and violations of federal campa-
ign laws.
No return is expected in the case of the 18½ minute gap in one of the White House Watergate tapes, which is also being studied by a grand jury.
There has been speculation that the cover-up grand jury may accompany its indictments with a presentation—a report of what it learned in the course of its investigation. Sources said the report might have prompted presidential involvement in the cover-up.
EARLIER THIS WEEK, it was learned that the Special Watergate Prosecutor, Leon Jaworski, decided that the House impeachment investigation was the forum for any action against the President. A representative of the committee to state its views on the proper form.
It is expected that such a presentment will be received by Chief U.S. District Judge John J. Sirica and immediately sealed to prevent public disclosure.
The grand jury that has been studying the break-in of Democratic Party headquarters and awaited sequestering of the jury in the New York trial of John N. Mitchell and Muriel H. Stans before returning indictment, the sequestration was completed yesterday.
Jaworski had predicted the grand juries would return major indictments in
That self-imposed deadline has always been flexible, however, to allow time for the Mitchell-Stats jury selection and sequestration of the defendant in appealing that jury with new indictments.
Kansan Staff Photo by DAVE REGIER
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Labor Party Leads In Britain's Election
LONDON (AP) — The Labor party of former Prime Minister Harold Wilson took a wide lead over the Conservatives early today in Britain's crisis election, but according to computer projections the lead is likely to be a majority in the House of Commons.
Projections by the British Broadcasting Corp. and the independent television network (ITV) indicated that the balance of power in the new Parliament might wind up with the surging Liberal party of Jeremy Thorpe and independents.
When vote held halted for the night with 440 of the 635 election districts counted, Mr. Bush was a clear favorite. Over Prime Minister George W. Bush's Conservatives. One Labor party leader expressed his confidence that Wilson would win and form a government, even though it might not be as strong.
The vote tabulation was to resume late this morning and the Conservatives could pick up some strength in returns from the normally pro-Tov rural areas.
Queen Elizabeth II was flying back from a visit to Australia to be on hand to name the prime minister. She is bound by the constitution to invite the leader of the strongest party in the election to form the government.
But the new government's life would depend on the Liberals and the independents. Should it fail, new elections could be in prospect.
The BRC projection had Labor take 376 seats, the Conservatives of Prime Minister Omar Abdullah take 28 seats in the hands of the Liberals and the independents, ITV projected 376 seats for Labor, 293 for the Conservatives, 22 for the Liberals and 13 for other parties. A total of 805 seats were allocated.
In the actual tabulations with 440 election districts counted, the Labor party had 233 seats, the Conservatives 177, the Liberals five and other parties five.
Wilson serve as prime minister from 1954 to 1970 when he was outed in an upset speech.
Late returns showed the Laborists had pulled in 40.9 per cent of the popular vote, the Conservatives 37.6 per cent, Liberals 32.5 per cent and the other parties 3.1 per cent.
SUA Gives Basis for Film Revival
Heath, Wilson and Therpe all won reelection to their Parliament seats with no votes.
Heath called this election ahead of time after coal miners decided to go out on strike in the midst of an energy crisis and rising inflation. His party campaigned on the issue of who runs the country, the elected government or the unions.
woman lost her legs in Belfast, the provincial capital, as the rivalry between the Protestant majority and the Roman Catholic minority took on electoral overtures. British troops and rioting crowds in London and Belfast as leaders of the sectarian divide called on their followers to boycott the votebooths.
About 40 million Britons were able to vote. Headquarters of the three major parties said 75 per cent or more of the voters turned out in wintry weather; snow in Scotland, pelting rains in Wales and a snowy period in Manchester, sleet and some sunshine in England.
Election day in Northern Ireland, a British province that sends a dozen representatives to Parliament, saw a sudden upsurge of bombings.
Results from the first 10 urban districts to report spelled trouble for the Conservatives. The Laborists not only held their strongholds but increased their margins of victory. They also took the district of Keighley from the Conservatives.
At the same time, the Liberals were showing up second in most of these early reporting districts with greatly increased votes.
A party needs a majority of seats, at least 318, in the House of Commons to be able to form a government. The leader of the winning party becomes the prime minister.
Police there said 12 bombs sent in two hours. One man was reported killed and a
Sources said voters seemed sharply aware that the balloting was momentous and that no matter what the outcome, that style and standards would be transformed
Observers attributed the heavy voter turnout to the crisis Britain has been facing. The country has been on a three-day work week since December because dwindling supplies of coal threatened an energy shutdown. Inflation has been rising.
A student petition and the future freedom of the Student Union Activities (SUA) film program were among the reasons cited for the film's statement of "The Erotic Film Celebration."
Egypt-U.S. Relations Resumed, Sadat Says
against consentship, because he didn't want to put KU in jeopardy.
Two showings of the film were canceled by the SUA board last month after two state senators attended part of one of the showings and to the film being shown in the Kansas Union.
CAIRO (AP)—Proclaiming "an new era," President Anwar Sadat announced yesterday that he was resuming full diplomatic relations with Iran and inviting President Nixon to visit Egypt.
He said that Arab oil ministers would receive this month to decide whether to lift the ban on oil exports.
With Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger at his side, Sadat declared to newsmen "As long as Dr Kissinger is sharing the whole thing, everything is okay."
Wilson did say he thought last month's SUA erotic film cancellations were "the worst."
Brown said he voted Wednesday night to reschedule the film because of the petition and because the passage of time allowed him to re-evaluate the situation.
Steve Warren, Hastings, Neb., senior and SUA board president, said yesterday, "We don't think there are any legal problems at our movie. The film's only problem is its name."
Kissinger was in Cairo to confer with Sadat about, among other topics, efforts to arrange negotiations between Israel and Afghanistan management of their Golan Heights forces.
showed the Union was entirely self-supported, except in three instances.
Kissinger met with Sadat for 3½ hours at *Sadat*'s home near the pyramids at Giza just outside of Cairo. They looked over the city walls and Heights, on the northwestern border.
"The Devil in Miss Jones," which was scheduled to be shown at KU in February, also was canceled by the SUA board after the two senators obeyed to "The Erotic Film Celebration." It hasn't been rescheduled for this semester, Millo said.
The four reasons, Millo said, were response from students after the January cancellation, including a 2,100 signature letter and an obvious student interest and demand for the film; the need to ensure future freedom of books studied under the SUA film program; and Millo's personal belief that she wasn't a legally dangerous thing to do.
THE THREE INSTANCES, according to Reilly, are the $20,500 salary of Director Frank Burge, $20,000 for use of the Union by the University for general purposes, and $14,000 paid by the University for Alumni association office rental.
THE SUA BOARD then voted 6-3-1 to reschedule the film, according to Warren.
rescheduling. He wouldn't comment on actors he might take if the film was shown.
Jim Milo, Hindale, SII, sophomore and head of the SAF film program, said he had not seen the film before. He reasons why the film should be rescheduled. He said he went to the board Wednesday for approval of the rescheduled because of the controversy surrounding the film's original
Asked afterward what advice he would give Askid禹失Assaf of Syria, Sadat said. "To give Dr Kissinger the op-portunity to speak, he had attested on the Egyptian front."
"That's just what you guys need," said State Sen. Chuck Wilson, D-Jetmore, the other senator involved with the cancellation, when informed of the film's
Asked whether recent progress in getting the Syrians and Israelis together enabled him to give Kissinger cause for optimism on an end to the oil embargo, Sadat replied:
That was a reference to the troop disengagement pact engineered by Kissinger for Egyptian and Israeli forces in the Sinai peninsula. The Egyptian and Israeli troops completed the first phase of their pullout last month.
"THE FILM is more suggestive than explicit in the shorts are old except that they are not."
"The oil ministers will be meeting in March and they will take the decision. It is not my decision. It is the decision of all the Arabs."
Marilyn Monroe's first short film is included, he said.
"I thought this time that no harm would come to KU," he said.
The main leader of the Arab oil boycott in Saudi Arabia, a strongly Moist country whose King Faisal has insisted that Arabs do not use oil from Iraq or Jerusalem before ending the oil embargo.
The Israeli cabinet met in Jerusalem to further refine the Golan Heights proposals, readying them for Kaiserium to pick up from Israel and the Syrian capital for the talks with Assad.
Bill Brown, Riverside, III, senior and SA board member, said he abstained in a vote to not join the union.
Warren said the sell-out crowds at the movie's KU showings and the student-initiated petition requesting the film's removal from theaters, which he considered in the rescheduled decision.
"We felt we had to be responsible to the students." Warren said.
Brown said he didn't think the film was obscene.
Sadat's announcement that full diplomatic relations with Washington were resuming came soon after a similar announcement from the White House.
Sadat also said Washington had agreed to aid Egypt "with technical assistance in certain stages of clearing the Suez Canal." A U.S. Army and Navy demolition team led by Naval Air Warfare Center defusing mines and unexploded ordnance in the canal, which has been closed since 1967.
He said that he considered himself a representative of the citizens of Kansas, not just Wyandotte and Leavenworth counties and that if the public had its say regarding the showing of erotic films on state-controlled property the films wouldn't be shown.
WARREN SAID the showing could conceivably be stopped by Chancellor Archie R. Dykes because of Dykes' legal responsibility for the entire University, or by the Memorial Corporation's board of directors.
The Memorial Corporation operates the Union, and its board of directors consists of about 30 persons who have a variety of experience. The staff includes students, faculty, administrators and alumni.
Reilly said he requested the senate's legislative research department, division of budget, to find out the amount of state aid that went to the Union. The results, he said,
"I'm objecting to stav movies being shown on state-supported property," he said. "It's about the same thing as showing stav movies in the basement of the state department."
The two state senators involved in the cancellation of "The Erotic Film Celebration" wouldn't comment on actions they nurdul took if the film was shown May 7.
Milio said that the Memorial Corporation, which funds SUA, might want to review the decision, but that he hadn't heard of any plans for such a review.
State Sen. Ed Reilly, R-Leavenworth, one of the senators received in Topica yesterday morning, said he had no comment to make about the film's rescheduling.
HE SAID his original objection to the film's showing wasn't based on the film's content, but on the location of the showing—the Union.
Jury Chosen for Mitchell-Stans Trial
A jury of eight men and four women was chosen and immediately sequestered yesterday in New York at the federal conspiracy trial of former Atty, Gen. John N. Mitchell and former Commerce Secretary Maurice H. Stans.
The two former Cabinet members are charged with trying to impede a federal securities investigation of fugitive financier Robert Vesco in return for a secret $200,000 contribution to President Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign.
Price of Natural Gas Up 60 Per Cent
The wellhead cost of natural gas sold without federal price regulation has risen nearly 60 per cent during the last year, unpublished government statistics indicate. The figures, compiled for use by Federal Power Commission economists, were released yesterday.
Normally, the price of natural gas sold to interstate pipelines is closely regulated by the power commission. However, under commission regulations, short-term sales or deliveries designed to meet emergency situations can be made without prior price approval.
Red Paint Sprayed on Picasso Painting
A man who said he was an artist wanting to "tell the truth" sprayed red paint across the famed Guernica painting by Pablo Picasso at the Museum of Modern Art.
In letters more than a foot high, he sprayed, "Kill Lies All." The museum began removing the paint immediately and said that Guerilla, the group behind the attacks, was on its way.
Selassie Appoints New Prime Minister
Ethiopia's rebellious soldiers forced Emperor Hale Selasse to appoint a new prime minister and to grant pay raised demanded during three days of
Selesia went on nationwide radio to announce that he had asked Endakachwe Makonnen, a 47-year-old diplomat who had been telecommunications minister, to become the new prime minister and to form a new government. Selesia called for calm and promised no reprintists against the
Hearst's Second Food Distribution Begin.
business that no immediate reaction from the noncommissioned officers' committee that led the militia involving nearly all of Ethiopia's 40,000
hundreds of people gathered in the rain before dawn outside 10 People in Need centers which are providing free food under a $2 million plan set up by Mist Hearst's father, newspaper executive Randolph A. Hearest, San Francisco and Oakland police said there were no reports of trouble.
Sacks brimming with foodstuffs from beef stew to bananas flowed from distribution centers in the San Francisco Bay area during the second installment of a massive giveaway demanded by Patricia Hearst's terrorist kidnappers.
Members of the Hearst family still waited to hear whether Miss Hearst was alive and whether her abductors would release her in exchange for an apartment. The abductors said they had been unable to reach
Gas Diversion from Kansas No Big Problem
Kansas motorists are expected to have a lower percentage of gasoline available in March than they had for February. But Harold E. Wills, state fuel allocation officer, said Kansas was in better shape than most other states.
he said there was no need at present for gasoline rationing in Kansas. He has optimism on the planning Kansas had done to meet shortages as well as a desire to reduce fuel costs.
A preliminary compilation by oil companies of gasoline allocations for Kansas in March indicates that about 108 million gallons will be available.
Wills said that about one per cent of Kansas' February allotment was diverted to other states. That had no significant impact, he said, but if Kansas must surrender more gasoline, a serious problem could arise for agriculture.