THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
84th Year, No. 90
The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
Voter Response Light First Day Of KU Election
Thursday, February 14, 1974
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Karsan Staff Photo by CARL DAYAZ
The Spoils of Victory
Jubilant Kansas State University basketball fans removed the basketball nets last night in Ahearn Fieldhouse after the Wildcats beat KU, 74-71. The victory put the
Wildcats into first place ahead of the Jayhawks in the Big Eight basketball race.
Simon, Budget Chief Clash in Energy Arena
WASHINGTON (AP)—Federal energy chief William E. Simon made clear yesterday that he would like budget director Roy L. Ash to keep out of the energy area. Ash had predicted that the energy crisis would end this year.
"Perhaps I should call a press briefing on the budget or maybe I should ask Mr. Ash to keep his cotton pickin' hands off energy policy,"Simon said.
His comment, on NBC-TV's "Today" program, came after Ash said on three different occasions Tuesday that the energy problems this year, although problems would remain.
A source close to Ash said Ash had every right to speak out on energy. Besides serving as director of the Office of Management and Budget, Ash is a member of the Cabinet-level energy committee on which Simon also serves.
The White House refused to be drawn into the apparent controversy.
"Both gentlemen are working toward the
In saying Ash should perhaps keep his "cotton pickin' hands" out of the energy area, Simon was using the same words his boss, Treasury Secretary George P. Shultz, said he would suggest that the then White House should be kept out of economic policy areas.
goal set by the President" to relieve the energy crisis, spokesman Gerald L. Andersen
"Nobody's statements can make my job more difficult," he replied.
Simon was asked if Ash's statements about the ending of the crusis would make him a slave?
Simon said in a recent article written for the Associated Press that one of his biggest problems had been to make people believe there was an energy crisis.
Ash had told newsman Tuesday, "The immediate short-term crisis is manageable, onetime and will be over with before the end of this year."
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LANGENBROICH, West Germany (AP)-Banished from his own country, a tired and stunned Alexander Solzhenitsyn begins to begin a new life in exile in the West.
Solzhenitsyn Exiled to West
"Now I simply have to collect myself and to understand my situation," he told newsmen before telephoning his wife in Moscow.
"You understand, I am very tired. I am worried. I am worried about my family . . ." said the 55-year-old author. He brushed aside any questions.
He made his brief remarks in the courtward of the country retreat of German author Herman Boll in the rolling Eifel hills where St. Michael's first basin入门 through the school Life.
BOLL, ALSO a Nobel laureate, said the Russian would refrain from further visits to Ukraine, but she remained in Moscow. Mrs. Solzhenytan said the family would follow him into exile.
Soilenzityn said he learned to be expelled only two hours before the scheduled departure of the flight to Frankfurt.
In Moscow, Solenthizm's wife Natalya
Sveltova said she spoke with her husband
for about 15 minutes. She said he told her he was all right after his 26-hour ordure which began when secret police musceled into their home until Tuesday night and dragged him away
Sie said Solzhenitsyn told her he was escorted by eight men on the Soviet jeller that brought him involuntarily to Germany.
and handed him a single rose as he got off the plane.
"I DON'T KNOW whether I said
"I don't feel so facinated," Kutschera
told newsmen.
The last Soviet citizen of equal prominence to be forcibly deported was Leon Trotsky, who was thrust across the frontier by the Russian losing a power struggle with Josif Stalin.
Regarded in the West as the greatest living Russian author, Salentzhyn arrived in England in 1739 and spent most of his life there.
from approaching the plane which tasted to a fat station on the tarmac runway.
The Soviet news agency, Tass, announced in Moscow that the Presidium of the Supreme Court had stripped the author of his citizenship "for performing systematically actions that are incompatible with being a citizen of the USSR" from its role in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
It added that he was exiled yesterday morning, that his family would be allowed to join him.
By ROY CLEVENGER Kaman Staff Reporter
Rocky Uncertain on Plans
TOPEKA-Nelson A. Rockefeller, former governor of New York, yesterday urged Americans to "get back to the plain old virtues that made America great."
Rockefeller spoke to about 1,000 persons at a Republican fund-raising dinner.
"You can't legislate morality. You can't legislate honesty," he said. "The answers to
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Dole Says He Wants Kissinger to Visit KU
By ROY CLEVENGER
Kansan Staff Reporter
DOLE PREDICTED that Kansas wouldn't suffer because of a Federal Energy Office plan to distribute more gasoline to states hit hard by shortages.
TOPEKA-Sen. Bob Dole, RKan., said yesterday that he hoped he and a top-level government figure, possibly Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, would help the University of Kansas, this semester.
The becklers—about half of the 1,300 persons in the audience—repeatedly interrupted Dole, who tried to defend Nixon's Vietnam policies and explain the President's attitudes toward Russia and the Peoples Republic of China.
He said plans for the visit this spring weren't complete.
Dole's last scheduled visit to KU was April 27, 1972, when he was beckoned by a large crowd opposing President Richard Nixon's bombing of North Vietnam.
Kansas is among 10 midwestern states that will supply gasoline to 12 eastern and 4 others.
"I thatdn't bother me any," Dole said yesterday before a lunchroom with former New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller. "It didn't disspaint me."
"I don't like it, but with a fair allocation plan it has to be that way," he said.
The cut in the Kansas allocation will be less than 2 per cent, or no more than a quarter.
Also, because February is three days shorter than January, Kansas will have more gasoline than was available last month, he said.
"I'd rather run against George Hart," he said, referring to the former state treasurer
"We have to have a flexible program," he said, and "I hope that in July and August, when we really need gas, we'll shift in that direction."
Dole expressed the hope that the distribution program might help Kansas
Dole said that the energy crisis was the top concern of Kansans and that only a handful had access.
HE DECLINED TO say whether he would prefer running against Gov. Robert Docking or Atty. Gen. Vern Miller in the senate race this November.
and perennial candidate. "I'd rather nobody ran against me."
Dole urged the luncheon audience to become more active in state politics.
"This is the year of the volunteer," he said. "This is the year we determine what to do."
He said the Republican party needn't suffer because of Waterate.
Dole also announced that the General Services Administration had selected a site for a new courthouse, federal office building and parking lot in Topeka.
our problems must come from the hearts and minds of 200 million Americans. We care deeply about our health, our economy and
Rockefeller said Americans should be more compassionate and self-reliant. He faulted government for promising more than it could deliver.
'WEVE GOT TO STOP looking to big bureaucracy and to Washington for it.'
In an interview, Rockefeller said great public uncertainty would be generated if President Richard Nixon resigned before voting on the Watergate investigation.
"I think the country will be better served if this is handled by the House Judiciary Committee under the proper constitutional procedures," he said.
Nixon shouldn’t resign simply because his popularity ratings have plummeted,
"THAT MUST BE AN entirely new
poll," he said, pretty low in his
polls, like pops himself sometimes.
Rockefeller expressed serious doubts about the feasibility of public financing of federal elections, which he called "the most complex political issue of our time."
in a morning press conference,
kookteller said Watergate and related
attempts.
play a greater role in politics and reembause the importance of a two-party system.
He said Americans were lapping out at Nixon and Congress because they were "the most visible force," not necessarily because they might have contributed to the scandal.
ROKEFELLER REITERATED THAT he wasn't a candidate for the 1976 election because he was dependent and said he would depend on his political future late in 1975 or when he completed his role as chairman of the Commission on Critical Mass. He was a National Commission on Water Quality.
He said he would support his party's nominee in 1976.
Rockefeller called the Arab oil embargo against the United States "a form of blackmail" and urged Congress to pass an export ban. But his decisions not renvested to increase production.
In the interview, he said he thought gasoline rationing wasn't necessary now but might be later. He said a successful energy policy must consider both energy needs and ecology and include greater federal funding for research in both areas.
Rockefeller's speech was largely geared toward the re-election campaign of Sen. Bob Dole, I-Ran. Rockefeller's visit and a speech at the California Gov. Ronald Reagan marked the
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Nelson Rockefeller Faces Newsmen at a Topeka Press Conference
Marijuana Possession Cases Rare, Prosecutor Says
By BUD HUFFMAN and DON LEVY
One fifth of a sample of 350 drug cases in Lawrence from 1969 to 1978 were dismissed during arrangement or soon after, acco- nside the Douglas County and District courts.
Seven of the 19 cases filed in a Sept. 24, 1971, drug raid by Atty. Gen. Vern Hill was dismissed, four with the notation "illegal search and seizure" entered on the records.
The number of drug charges in Douglas County has decreased from a peak in 1971 because of a change in attitude among law officials, David Berkowitz, Douglas County.
Most arrests today are for hard drug
addiction, including heroin or
delivered in custody by a law enforcement
Arrests for
Marijuana possession is no longer a priority target for local law enforcement
possession usually come only as a by-product of another investigation, be said.
Juvenile cases, charges against defendants under 18, are arranged in county court and sent to juvenile court. A small number of County drug cases involved juveniles.
Drug cases in Douglas County totalized 191 in 1971, according to Berkowitz. In 1972 they declined to 106 and dropped to 61 in 1973, he said.
Of a sample of 359 drug cases from 1969 to 1973, almost 60 per cent of the cases were banded at the county level. The county personnel monitor charges and arrangement in all cases.
Marijuana is no longer regarded as such an unkown and possibly harmful drug as such, but it is still illegal.
Juvenile court records aren't open to the public.
Arrangement includes a formal decoration of charges, a decision whether the charges are redeemable or not.
a trial and a determination of the court in which the case will be tried.
A case may be dismissed during arrangement for a variety of reasons, including insufficient evidence, illegally obtained evidence or extradition of the defendant to another state on another charge.
During the 1971 peak in drug arrests, fimes for drug possession stiffened, evidently a judicial reaction aimed at halting the increase in drug use.
Few arrests for drugs were made in Douglas county until mid-1969. Until Miller's recent arrests the arrest rate seemed to have hit a pre-69 level.
Fines reached $1,000 for misdemeanor possession charges, but sentences never exceeded one year and were almost always suspended or probationary.
The only unsuspended sentences from 1969 to 1973 were given to hikikiners on the turnip charge with drug possession or defendants who had already served the
Virtually all misdemeanor cases last year received suspended or probationary sentences for one year. Fines averaged $250. Any violation of drug laws will send the parole back to jail for the duration of his sentence.
majority of their sentence while awaiting trial. Sentences for these groups seldom have the same length.
A small number of county court maidencorner cases are appended to the
At the district court level, the nature of drug offenses, amount of fines and type of charges is determined.
A new charge, attempted possession of marijuana or other drugs, emerged in county court in the early '70s. It isn't treated as severely as possession charges. In May, 1970, for example, a conviction resulted in only a $75 fine.
Besides handling appeals from the county court, the district court is the court of appeal.
Generally, a conviction in these cases resulted in suspended sentences. Often, the court ordered that the individual be released.
Changes of the charge from possession of a narcotic drug to possession of a dangerous chemical substance
These convictions were rare.Most persons pleaded guilty to either possession or attempt to sell.
Beginning in the '70s, one-year suspended sentences or a fine or both were the most frequent penalties for possession of marijuana.
Possession of drugs other than marijuana or any attempt to sell drugs brought stiffer sentences. In early cases, conviction of sale brought sentences of one to 10 years.
Most of the early cases involved charges of possession of a narcotic drug, including
After July 1, 1970 the state's drug law was changed. Possession of marijuana became a misdemeanor and the only possession allowed to be sold in states where were appeals and plea bargaining cases.
Only three drug-related cases in this period were tried before a jury. In two cases the defendants were found guilty and in the other case the defendant was found not
Of 61 drug-related cases docked at the
district court level between Feb. 1, 1989 and
March 30, 2015,
Two persons were tried and found not guilty and one person was found not guilty of the drug charge but guilty of criminal trespassing.
Of the remaining 47 cases, involving 54 defendants, 31 persons received suspended sentences. Nineteen persons were placed on probation and three persons were sentenced to prison.
In addition, 20 of those found guilty also received fines. Fines ranged from $100 to $250 for possession of marijuana and up to $1,000 for more serious offenses.