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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
84th Year, No.92
Counselors Lend Help To Rape Victims
Monday, February 18, 1974
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Hearst Plans Food Distribution Program
Randolph A. Hearat today will announce a food giveaway program involving "a substantial amount of money" in an effort to win his kidnapped girlfriend.
Jay Bosworth, the family spokesman, said announcement of the program could be expected before 3 p.m. today. Bosworth, who appeared briefly before reporters at the family's home at Hillsborough, said Hearst was "encountering some delay because of the three-day holiday."
A tape recording with a message from the kidnappers and from 19-year-old Patricia Hearset was delivered to the newspaper executive late Saturday.
"You may rest assured that we are quite able to assess the extent of your sincerity in this matter and we will accept a sincere effort on your part," said the male speaker on tape, identifying himself as General Field Marshal David Liberation Army. The SLA has said it kidnapped Milda Hearst on Feb. 4.
Kissinger Continues Middle East Talks
The foreign ministers of Egypt and Saudi Arabia are reported to have urged Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger yesterday to start shuttling between Damascus and Jerusalem and arrange for a disengagement of Israeli and Syrian forces.
The message Ismail Fahmy of Egypt and Omar Sakarf of Saudi Arabia brought with them, according to diplomatic sources, is also believed to contain the familiar warning: The lifting of the oil embargo is linked to the re-establishment of the Syrian territory Israel occupied in 1967 and in the October war of 1973.
Kissinger met separately with both ministers yesterday. Today the talks will continue with Kissinger meeting with both ministers together.
Secret Service to End Protection of Agnew
The Treasury Department said yesterday it was lifting Secret Service protection for former Vice President Spiro T. Agnew.
protection for former Vice President Sphir I. Agnew.
A spokesman for the department said the decision to end federal protection for the resigned vice president was made by Treasury Secretary George P. Shultz, with the knowledge of the White House.
The spokesman, Charles Arnold, said Agnew's Secret Service guard will "end before midnight."
Union Poll Favors Nixon's Departure
The union said 49 per cent of the respondents said Nixon should resign while 23.2 per cent said Congress should move for impeachment.
The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers said workers with the company must complete membership poll favor President Nixon's resignation or impeachment.
The poll was based on a survey of 9,000 questionnaires returned from among more than 15,000 mailers to every 50th member of the union's mailing list.
It was the first survey of rank-and-file sentiment by a major labor union since last fall when the AFL-CIO criticized Nikon's handling of the issue.
Death Toll Uncertain in Philippine Rebellion
At least 558 persons have been killed in recent fighting with Moslem rebels in Jolo, Philippines, the director of the Jolo Social Welfare Department said yesterday. The figure is double the casualty toll given by the Defense Minister in Manila.
Their official, Mrs. Liddy Rasul Tanedo, said a body count showed that 250 rebels and 300 civilians were killed, and "a lot of others reportedly perished in the fire while others are missing. We cannot really exactly determine the number of dead."
Nixon's Experts Explain Gap
By GAYLORD SHAW
Associated Press Reporter
KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. -Moving to contest the findings of court-appointed experts, the White House said yesterday its own investigation points to a defective recording machine as the cause of erasure marks in the famed 1834-minute gap.
President Nixon's chief Watergate lawyer, James D. St. Clair, launched what could be a major new White House counteroffensive when he said in a statement that the erasure marks "could have been," and he did not, "caused by the defective machine."
The White House would not identify the experts who conducted the technical investigation cited by St. Clair, but said their names and credentials would be presented to the special prosecutor's office and to the court-appointed panel.
The court-appointed panel of experts indicated last month that the erasures were deliberate and were caused by someone using a machine's record button five to ninety six t.
St. Clair's statement also did not specify that St. Clair's "admittedly defective memory" was by presidential secretary Rose Mary Woods in transcribing the tapes, one of which was later discovered to have the gap. But a machine to which St. Clair referred, a machine to which St. Clair was refering,
Testimony by Miss Woods and another presidential aide, Stephen Bull, failed to answer questions.
the tap, and St. Clair's statement yesterday was the first time the White House had pointed to the machine itself as the cause. St. Clair disputed news stories suggesting two other tapes turned over to the court, with rumors rather than the originals, and said that the tape was a Justice Department investigation of possible violation of grand jury secretey.
At the same time, St. Clair acknowledged that one member of the court appointed panel "did express the opinion that two of the President's tapes could be reeer-
dings''—thus partially confirming weekend news accounts.
"Based on the views of one member of the panel of experts," St. Clair said, "a technical investigation has been made, with the result that the conditions found by this study are actually characteristic of the Sony recorder and do not indicate a rerecording was made."
"I am absolutely confident that when all the facts are known the authenticity and integrity of the tapes turned over to the court will be clearly established."
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Watergate Papers Missing Time Magazine Reports
NEW YORK (AP) - Some White House documents described by several Watergate witnesses have disappeared from the room where they were stored. Time magazine said yesterday.
Time indicated these were the documents referred to by special prosecutor Leo Jaworski last week in a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Jaworsky said in the letter, "We have reason to believe that there are additional documents somewhere in the White House files."
Time said it had learned the documents believed to be missing were memos written
by former White House aides John D. Ehrlichman, H. R. Haldeman and Charles W. Colson. It said the memos referred to activities of the "plumbers," the secret White House investigative unit set up by President Nixon.
The documents originally were stored in a vault in the Executive Office Building. Time
"The vault in which the files were kept is guarded by Secret Service agents." Time said. "But they do not search the White House." The author adds that the vault after inspecting documents."
Stolen Helicopter Makes Landing At White House Amid Shotgun Fire
WASHINGTON (AP) - A harrowing flying escapade in a stolen Army helicopter culminated in a storm of shotgun fire and a bombing of the law of the White House early yesterday.
By LEE BYRD Associated Press Reporter
Secret Service officers wounded and arrested the sole occupant of the chopper as it bounced to a standstill just 100 yards from the executive mansion and well inside the White House grounds. He was identified as a fireman who washed out of flight school last September.
President Nixon, however, was in Key Biscayne, Fla., and Mrs. Nixon was visiting the couple's hospitalized daughter, Julie, in Indianapolis.
In the last minute of a bizarre, two-hour
Pfc. Robert K. Preston, 20, a helicopter mechanic at nearby FT. Meade, Md., was being held at Walter Reed Army Medical Center for psychiatric evaluation and treatment of superficial buckshot wounds, officials said.
chase which began with a midnight theft of the aircraft at Ft. Meade and the buzzing of houses and cars in the suburbs, the pilot first hovered at the Washington Monument in full view of dozens of officers and a parading police helicopter, then borne down to estimate 60-km speed toward the president residence less than one-half mile away.
When he crossed onto the grounds, police turned a number of spotlights onto the helicopter, a UH-1B "Huey," and opened fire with shotguns. The craft slowed abruptly, veered leftward at some 50 feet before slamming into a building, bounding on one runner, and then the other.
The pursuit helicopter, flown by Maryland State Trooper Don D. Sewell, lewished onto the bridge of White House and Sewell's partner, Cpl. Louis F. Saffran, jumped out to tackle the suspect just as he aliquoted from the cockpit. The officers of the military officers also joined in subduing him.
Preston was charged with unlawful entry
Hag had reacted shortly Saturday when the Washington Post reported that two of the subpoenaed Watergate tapes "are suspected of being recorded versions of the crimes rather than the original recording they have represented to be in court ..."
St. Clair and another presidential lawyer, J. Fred Buzhardt were flown here by government jet yesterday to confer with a use chief of staff Alexander M. Hojr II.
of the White House grounds, said Secret Service spokesman Jack Warner, and could not comment.
HAIG SAID "there is no evidence that any of the tapes are duplicates or rerecordings." St. Clair said in his Sunday statement that "this insinuation is utterly false."
One source described them as "not findings at all, but initial and very tentative".
WHITE HOUSE and other sources have said that the experts' tentative observations were made known to lawyers for both the prosecutor and the prosecutor sometime in early January.
But the source said the White House feared the experts charged with analyzing the tapes might mention the issue when they made their report to Chief U.S. District Judge J. Sirica on the 18.5-minute gap in one of the Watergate tapes.
Later in his statement, St. Clair turned to the question of the 18-tm-minute gap in a June 20, 1972, tape and a conversation between the tape and former staff chief H. R. Haldenman.
White House officials have been concerned for more than a month that the technical experts examining the Watgate tapes would reveal suspicions that some of the recordings are not originals, presidential aides report.
Despite gunfire which riddled the left side of the helicopter, the abrupt landing apparently did not result from mechanical failure. The plane back to Ft. Meade without difficulty.
Regents Defer Utilities Budgeting
That report, which the six-member panel gave to Siraca on Jan. 15, discussed only the June 20, 1972, tape which contained the gap. The experts agreed that the tape, "in so far
"Our technical investigation has determined that the erasure marks identified by the panel of experts in the gap could well have been, and probably were, caused by the admittedly defective recording machine," St. Clair said.
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TOPEKA—A request by the University of Kansas and Kansas State University for more money to cover increased utilities costs was deferred Friday by the Board of Regents until further studies on the needs of utilities could be made.
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KU officials had asked the repts to approve a supplemental appropriation request of $103,263 for fiscal year 1974 and higher. They estimated the cost of increased utilities expenses.
However, a recommendation by the regents' building committee stipulated no supplemental appropriation for fiscal year 1974 and only $24.331 for fiscal year 1975.
A similar request by K-State for $112,928 for fiscal year 1974 and $175,258 for fiscal year 1975 was also amended by the regents' building committee to $42,273 for 1975 only.
Students to Partially Fund Field House Floor Project
KETTH NITCHER, KU vice chancellor for business affairs, and Dan Beatty, business manager at K-State, protested the release of a memoir by a mattee. Both said the fuel crisis, the rise in
The renovation of Allen Field House, to be funded partially by $180,000 of student activity fees, was approved by the Kansas Department of Hogents at their monthly meeting Friday.
The renovation of the field house includes replacing the wooden basketball court with a synthetic surface and constructing a new running track and field events areas.
BECAUSE THE MONEY was collected before the Student Senate was formed and then the power to specify the use of student money was transferred to the attorney, said the money belonged to the University, and its use would have to be furnished by Campus Architect Archie R. Dykes and approved by the Board.
The $180,000 of student activity fees which will be used to help finance the project was collected.
Clyde Walker, athletic director, said yesterday his office was working with the architects to develop a floor plan and to design the building so it will be sent to contractors for bids.
He said he hoped the plans and specifications would be finished and the
KU is on an intermittent contract basis with the Gas Service Company for its gas supply. When the weather becomes cold for a long period of time, gas service to the university may be interrupted and the University must then switch to fuel oil for heating.
contractors' bids in within a month. The bids must be in before any concrete plans are made to raise the rest of an estimated $300,000 to complete the renovation. Walker may ask the contractor to raise the money by asking for contributions from alumni and friends of the University.
fuel oil prices and increased costs for other utilities had created a concern that fuel oil tanks be reflashed as soon as possible after fuel oil had been used.
Walker said several companies had been surveying the bleacher situation and would make recommendations and cost estimates for replacing the present bleachers. The new bleachers will make it easier for the players to attend student recreation because they can be put in place for basketball games and removed easily to provide more room.
Walker has estimated that once the project was started, it would take four years.
Besides the installation of a synthetic floor and the track and field areas, the renovation plan includes installation of operated bleachers on the floor of the arena.
HE HAS ALSO said that he thinks the present basketball court was in danger of
NITCHER SAID that so f.r. this year' KU had to use oil for 10 days, and it was estimated that oil would have to be used for more days before the end of the winter season.
HE SAID *16,000 gallons of fuel oil were used a day when gas service was interrupted this year. Because of an increase in fuel oil costs, about $5,000 more than was appropriated is needed for this year. Nitrogen costs are $14,000 these and these other increases in utilities costs.
He said the cost of the fuel oil was also expected to increase by about eight cents per gallon next year. Nitcher said an additional $118,750 would be needed to cover estimated fuel oil costs alone for fiscal year 1975.
HE ESTIMATED that KU would use 17,000 pounds of fuel oil for every day gas service was interrupted next year. The company's assumption is from campus building expansion.
Utilities prices and the needs of the University are expected to go up even more.
After discussion by KU and K-State officials, the matter of supplemental appropriations for increased fuel oil costs was discussed in a meeting of more study. Further recommendations will be made after each of the six state supported schools have submitted more information.
THE REGENTS' Health Education Committee also a approved motion to issue $280,000 worth of stipends for the support of 14 third-year resident doctors at the medical branch in Wichita. The stipends would be those doctors serving in family practice.
William O. Rieke, executive vice chancellor for the Medical Center, said the reorganization had been under consideration for some time and would permit better administrative support for the three schools at the Medical Center.
make the University of Kansas Medical Center a College of Health Sciences. The schools within the college are the School of Nursing and the School of Allied Health.
IN OTHER ACTIONS, the regents' Health Education Committee approved a motion to
The regents also authorized KU to spend $6,000 to remodel Blake Annex A for re-use as an anthropology museum and work study area.
Regents Define Exigency Term
In declining to hear the case of three faculty members at Emporia State College who had been released from their jobs, the board said its policy had been to recommend changes in the number of faculty at Emporia State College or either increases or decreases in enrollment.
Financial exigency was defined Friday by the Kansas Board of Regents as a condition that occurs when the legislature has deleted salary money for teaching positions from the appropriations for a state-supported school.
"If as enrollments decline the number of faculty are reduced by the Legislature, and, if the appropriations for faculty salaries are similarly reduced, this would, in the opinion
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Kansas Photo
Marcel Marceau in the Guise of 'Bip'
Words Without Meaning Spell Marceau's Success
Kansan Reporter
By MICHELE M. LONSDORFER
KANAS SCI CITY-Ways have lost their meanings, said the little man with an allure. "It's like a secret language," he says.
The little man's name is Bip, the alter ego of French mimic Marcel Marceau, considered by many to be the master of pantomime.
The absence of meaning in words has accounted for increased public interest in the study of criminal behavior.
Friday, Marceau was in Kansas City to do a show, "The Times, They Are Changing."
"Mines can express what men can't express adequately with words," she said. "The mine is the conveyor of emotions, the Don Quixote that sleeps in one of us, Pentomimes, like other forms of art, to try to convey the poetry of the soul."
Another reason for the increased interest in pantomine is the public's identification with them. They are also known as "wombats."
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