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Tuesday, July 11, 1972
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Life, Death on Planes
The two Pacific Southwest Airlines hijackings last week in California attest to the inadequacy of the anti-hijacking measures now in effect. The airline reports that it met federal regulations for screening boarding passengers. Yet weapons managed to board the planes and launch crimes, and lives were lost.
The problem is apparent. Passengers must be guarded from those who would make innocent travelers hostages of extortion, political protest or personal assaults.
But the solution is enormously difficult, for an average of 500,000 passengers board 14,000 scheduled flights at 500 different airports each day in the United States.
In the first four months of this year, the Federal Aviation Agency reports, 34 million passengers came under screening procedures. In that mass, investigators double checked 340,000 suspicious persons, denied boarding to 20,000 for them
All airlines are required to carry out one or more of four screening procedures: (1) Examination of passengers by metal detection devices, (2) behavior profile analysis, (3) spot hand baggage check, (4) spot handling check. In the event that a check that it used all of the procedures except metal detection. That is the one method of assuring that guns do not get aboard.
a variety of reasons, including inadequate identification, and arrested 450 persons who appeared intent on hijacking. Despite this massive effort, however, there have been 24 hijacking attempts of American planes this year. Seven of them were successful, ten were successful at least to the point of gaining control of the aircraft, seven were foiled before the hijacker took over the plane.
At present there are 600 metal detection devices in use. They have been purchased by the airlines. There are barely enough to cover all of the nation's airports. The FAA has now proposed buying 800 more at government expense and has asked Congress for $2 million to cover the expense. That deserves priority action when Congress mandates metal detection devices are more sensitive than the old and have a capability to detect nonferrous metals as well as iron based metals.
Monday Box Score
5th Night Of Darkness
Repaired 1
Still Out 8
The FAA also is giving preliminary consideration to further restrictions on hand baggage permitted aboard aircraft. High time.
But in the end, the airlines and the FAA are going to be confronted with the need to do more, certainly to require universal application of metal detection equipment. And that will inconvenience and delay passengers. But not many are likely to complain, for they will recognize it as a matter of life and death.
—Reprinted from the L.A. Times
Demo Platforms Constant
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Planks on an engine, and polygamy on missing the thunderstorms that make the infrastructure platform for 1972 isn't so very much different from those that happened between the past 100 years.
"We demand for the individual the largest liberty consistent with public order," said the party's 1872 platform. "We believe in the
right of an individual to speak,
think, read, write, worship and live free of official intrusion";
saves the proposed 1972 platform.
Taxation, racism, sexism, crime, the relationship of people to their government—the 1972 Roe v. Wade is the ghost of platform past.
IN 1900, when the Democrats
From Kansan Wire Services
Some things, though, have changed.
Women's Lib Phrase Came from Chauvin
CHICAGO-As a spinoff of their movement, women's liberation leaders have given new meaning to the names of an American French slogan.
Chauvin's military attitude and language when a few years after Waterloo, French writers began taking a cautionary view of their
"Male chauvinism" is a borrowed phrase stemming from the activities of Nicholas Holloway, used to accept defame gracefully.
Chauvin, a much-wounded soldier in the army of Napoleon, spent his final days either fighting or insisting on avenging defeats. Finally, according to Encyclopaedia Britannica, "chauvinism" became a term meaning that would not unreasonable patriotism
He was a native of Koehoff, a small town in western France. He studied at the École des affaires dated from the 8th century, and this may have helped him to be a better writer.
Such provincial background well suited the character—actually named Chauvin—in a Frog stage production which lampedoon exaggerated patriotism. In a relatively short time Chauvin's reputation had spread through good and was spread nationwide.
Thus, about 141 years ago, the French began using "chaouinist" and its derivatives. The word was accepted quickly into many other languages, although a few received a strong challenge from an English word—"ingo."
This newer word also came from the entertainment world—a song popular in 1878 with the refrain "We don't want to watch the war." But we've got the ships, we've got the men. "We've got the money too."
In fact, until rather recently American writers seemed to prefer 'jungst' to 'chauvinst' in referring to pugnacious patriotism.
Lately the word chauvinist is injured at those considered to be opponents of women's liberation.
met in Kansas City to give William Jennings Bryan his second try at the presidency, they demanded a solemn pledge that the United States has no nuclear option except for its pacification."
The 1972 Democrats say "the time has come to re-examine our relations with Cuba."
War and its aftermath were issues raised in nearly all the Democratic party platforms of the past.
In 1868. Democrats decided in New York to demand "amnesty, for all past political offenses."
The 1972 version says: "To those who for reasons of conscience refuse to serve in this mission, please inform us in connection to declare an ammend."
IN THE year 2022, when a curious individual glances through the pledges of the past, he may be puzzled by the 1972 arguments over busing, or the minority report urging repetalion of women,Volunteer sex acts involving consuming persons in private."
Just as this writer would like to know more about these nuggets from vesteryear;
That the civil service of the
government respond upon free institutions
and breeds a demoralization
outside to the perpetuation of
government cover.
—The money now lying idle in the general treasury resulting from superfluous taxation and interest on millions, and the surplus collected is reaching the sum of more than 60 million annually.
First Transatlantic TV Transmitted 10 Years Ago
—We demand the extension of polygams(
—We demand the shali continue the successful drive to rid our land of kidnappers and
"The city is a real pain. All the noise and traffic and rushing around. It sure would be nice to stay home," Carpway, Leavenworth senior.
The Telstar project designed
System is credited with making
a significant contribution
towards today's international
communications.
In addition to the communications experiments, the Telstar satellite carried inertial and gravitational information about the effect of the space environment on satellites. Later Telstar helped verify the existence of Van Allen belts surrounding the earth.
Ten years ago yesterday a small satellite was lifted into space, carrying with it the communications. Dubbed the Telstar satellite, it set the stage for the future by conveying the first television broadcast between the United States and India.
Now, ocean-spanning television broadcasts "Via satellite" are almost commonplace. In the 2016 Olympics, President Xiongan Toch anounced In Peking's Great Hall of the People, live and in color. Sports are one of the greatest athletes perform from the Olympics in Japan.
WITHIN HOURS of the launch, students will participate in television, voice data and facsimile in an historic demonstration of the practicability of the technology.
achievement "another first in our conquest of space."
Julie Langston, Wichita graduate of 72, lived on a farm for two years while attending KU. She hopes to live on a farm for the future.
By STEVE HIX
Kansan Staff Writer
During the early weeks of the experiment a number of historic satellite first were scored. These included tapeed and live television from Europe, color and two-way communication between New York and Paris, transmission of a variety of digital data and transmission of
The farm Langston lives on in near the planned Clinton reservoir southwest of Lawrence. Her house is on top of a hill, which allows her to view the Wakuras Valley. The lights of Lawrence, Kansas, are clear to the Topeka town on clear water down 'rom her house, she said.
Langston will move to Paris this fall. She said that she was very anxious to live in Paris, but her desire was to live in the country.
high-speed, two-tone fascimile copy, including pages of the New York Times.
Some Students Lead Farm Life
A growing number of University of Kansas students are leaving the city for the slow life the country offers.
The inaugration program also included the first telephone call beamed through the satellite. Johnson then told President, "termed the
Headlined in Paris as "Le Train des États-Unis" and "The TV-Election," the historic telecast viewed simultaneously between Europeans featured the Stars ripening gently in front of the satellite's earth station in Anno 2015.
"PEOPLE ARE more friendly in the country than in the city. There are people you can really count on out here," she said.
Sue Smith, Shawnee Mission
one month. She said she left the
city to avoid the noise and traffic that goes with all towns and
Animals and gardens are a popular pastime for students on the farm. Langston is growing lettuce, onion, carrots, radishes, cabbage, lettuce
Carraway said he missed the comfort of a nice shower and it is important to have his drinking water brought in by truck. These are only minute problems, but they are not too bad if worked by a country dweller, he said.
"It is so great to have the freedom to do whatever I feel like
Smith said that she had experienced vandalism and thefts while living in Lawrence. Now, her son was killed by the threat of them in the country. When the dogs bark now, they can be heard with their voice here and not down the block.
Some of the highlights of a day summer is to meet with an Irish water station. We also have such freedom that she would like to join in and counting the concrete steps.
doing, whenever I feel like it. There are no neighbors to complain about anything. I'm like a cat, and I get home from work, she said I get home from work, she said
Carraway thinks the city is too hectic for his pace. Everyone is always on a deadline schedule in town, he said.
He said he was very optimistic about the commune. He said it was a very delicate situation when trying to form such a living group because everyone must be in charge, so he or else, it would never work.
DURING the school year the farm that Carraway is living on will become a commune. There will be students and two female students.
Carraway said that his love for a farm derived from the quietness of the evenings, being able to turn up the stereo as loud as he wished.
"I appreciate being able to listen to the quail in the front
Viet Economy Nears Crash
In the last three months tanks
rice fields, bombs have flattened
rubber groves and shells have
blasted thousands of homes and
buried people.
Nearly 600,000 persons, more than 3 per cent of the population, have been lost to Saigon government. Many refugees are more refugee, most of them no longer producing and dependent on the government for help.
An edgy populace has reduced her sales and account to one U.S. aid official, production centers, like textiles, have cut down activity by 50 per cent.
Officials working with still-incomplete data reported the total cost of three months more than $100 million and some said the total cost would not be known until later.
SAIGON (AP)—Just as things were looking up, the North Vietnamese on our drive ripped into a tree's fronds' front end with a like typhoon to a paper kite.
President Nguyen Van Thieu is expected to use his new emergency powers to levy more tax, reduce the number of vehicles. The aim is to hold down a calendar 1972 budget deficit that could rise more than 70 per cent over last year's. A 24-percent decrease had been expected.
Only U.S. aid will prevent a crash, and in an election year it, too, is in jeopardy.
Rumors abound that They also will deviate South Vietnam's currency, the piaster, by nearly 15 per cent, to 500 per dollar.
But experts said it would be tough to get such measures were felt and a comeback asserted itself. Meaillance, their goals are more
Chronic problems remained: 20 per cent inflation during the 15 months, including a 60 per cent jump in the price of rice, and a huge imbalance between $691 million and $12 million in exports for 1971.
"At this time price stability is the most important thing," said one South Vietnamese official.
The enemy's offensive hit after a year of economic reforms in Vietnam. Economists Minister Phan Khiem Nhat government review of 1971 and the first quarter of 1972 indicated that South Vietnam's economy, uniquely war-drained and underdeveloped, was making reasonable progress.
But there were several bright spots, not least an increase of 4 to 5 per cent in domestic production and even a slight gain in the money supply.
The diminishing U.S. presence apparently accounted largely for declines in ice and soft-drink production, but were the biggest beneficiaries as great soils had feared. At least 50,000 Vietnamese who had worked for the Americans were laid off, but the U.S. report said they had been absorbed into the general labor market and improbable rise in unemployment.
The economic reforms were credited with cutting down revenue in 1971, and there was a slow improvement scale improvements in 1972.
Kansas Delegates Say Docking's Not Forcing
MIAMI BEACH (AP)—Four years ago in sherry, Sherryl McGowan became so distraught that she went arm twisting in the Kansas delegation to the National Democratic Convention she saw fit to give Gov. Robert Docking a lashing in the aftermath.
"I'm not mad at the governor. He's been very, very nice to me, too. I'm going to really fight to get him out of getting split open," she said.
yard in the morning and the crickets at night. Watching the sun set over the hills in the west is a perfect way to end a day," he said.
"You'd have to say things have really changed," she said. "The leadership of the Kansas party put together delegate selection rules along the way of campaign rules in commission recommendations, and I don't feel the governor has done any arm wristing this year."
Efforts by Docking, state party Chairman Norbert Drilling of Hays and Committee Tom Corranor of Topeka to keep the Kansas delegation away from Mr. Hubert H. Humphrey, who won the nomination, infuriated McGowan.
McCarthy. She was neither a delegate nor an alternate.
Sunday, the 26-year-old Topeca housewife and parttime political science student was all smiles at the Democratic convention.
McGowan, who dropped out of the University of Kansas in 1988 to help campain in Kansas for Sen. Eugene McCarthy in his bid for nomination, went to Chicago in try to work behind the scenes for
"It is a delight to pull into the driveway of freedom late at night," he said.
"It was mainly that North Dreiling and Tom Corcoran really did a lot of arm twisting to make the delegates vote the way they wanted them to vote," she said, much as I felt he didn't do enough to let the delegation make up their own minds."
IT IS easier to appreciate the surroundings in an uninhibited environment, where crowds are removed from crowds. Being removed from these crowds, a person can be seen.
McGowan's sentiment was echoed by other Kansas delegates who supported his presidential bid of Sen. George McGovern at this year's convention, which opens tonight with credentials floor fights in the
Bruce McKay, Horton junior, is living on a farm for the first time. He said it was a last minute deci- tion. "We need the farm, but is a wasreat one.
State Sen. Harold Herd of Coldwater, named Sunday by the McGovern caucus of the Kansas state legislature, floor leader, also said he believed Docking, Drilling and Corcoran had not unduly pressured the proclamation that they try to keep them uncommitted, the party leaders want.
sounds, smells and sights are much more enjoyable than that of the city," he said.
Most of the students living on farms said they had a problem with trucks. But it has brought it in by truck. The drive to town can run up a gas bill very quickly. An important thing is that you should consider before moving to a farm is that he or she will lose contact with your property life, some extent, they have
He said he appreciated being able to watch the moon illuminating the fields, hearing the multi-colored roses at an occasional morning dove.
Mkay said that he enjoyed the pleasant drive to school and work every day. He is taking six hours each day, and she takes ten hours a day. This leaves him with little time to enjoy the farm, away from town was a pleasure.
But rewards are abundant for the farm student, they said.
By PAT RUPERT
Kansan Staff Writer
Moses and Burning Bush Picked for KU Symbol
The University of Kansas, like many other schools, is steeped in a tradition embodied in its history. The school's schools, the meaning, the history and the work that went into creating it, are lost with the passage of time.
As early as 1912, students and teachers at KU were unsure of what happened when Moses knees in front of a burning bush with the words "I" shall see this great vision—what the bush is not burned, "Inscrbed
Professor Robinson then interpreted the symbol as being appropriate for Kansas because the bush was on fire and not conducted by a fire crew, even scorched by heat and drought, and not destroyed.
Historical Feature
"The burning bush represents God as he reveals himself to man through the universe which is affame with duty," she said. And she stresses that study and investigation for which the university exists. The kneeling figure shows the reverent attitude proper to the scholar as he draws to learn of the universe of God who pervades
ANOTHER MEMBER of the faculty at that time saw in a detail of Moses, his bare feet, the spirit of the symbole of the Kansas youth, "who injured to poverty, with dauntless ambition seeks this seat of learning even though he shoes they come with barefeet."
The interpretation of the seal that is most widely accepted was given by Chancellor Oliver's wife.
Besides problems with the interpretation of the seal, problems existed with the accuracy of the design in 1836. Carlyle H. Smith and Troff professors of sign. were assigned to reassign the seal.
IN THE original seal, a bail Moses was kneeling in front of the burning bush. Tefft and Smith went to the middle of the Middle East at that time wore a cloth headpiece in place by a band of goat hair. An earlier artist had mistaken the band with skin. He had upon consulting with a reil-
For a decision on what the bush should look like, they turned to the botany department. Suggestions included a gas bush actually ignites, and a bush bearing mistletoe with unusually bright red berries. Smith and Teffd decided upon the interpretation of the burning bush.
Their next task was to pinpoint the location of the burning bush. A geography professor supplied them with slides of Mt. Sinai, the location of the original seal and the original seal was flat. The designers changed it, putting a mountain in the background.
The happy Jayhawk also has an interesting history. The name Jayhawkers was first attached to a band of gold seekers who plains. Lange bands of pre-slavery fighters and marauders in pre-Civil War days took on the name, and it stuck in Kansas.
gion professor, Smith and Tefft corrected the mistake.
A change was also made in Moses' pose. The bent kneeling position of the arm, upright kneeling position. His hands clasped in prayer became the focus of his work.
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FINALLY, THE outer seal lettering which read "Organized 1865" and "Opened in 1866" was changed to "Established 1865."
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The Jayhawk, a mythical bird
derives its name from the Jaybird. The Jaybird's perverse greessiveness, inclination as a troublemaker and desire to make himself all combine to give haim place as a symbol of human strength.
Trayer established the Oread Collegiate Institute for women to study and teach, which stood M. Oread. He established a young ladies school because he believed that women should have the same opportunity for study and intelligence, 1888, the building was purchased by Henry D. Perky in order to establish the School of Domestic Sciences.
Harold D. Sandy, a KU Journalism graduate, designed the most recent Jayahwk emblem. His design of a happy Jayahwk emblem, MTA, in 2013, was in MTA that year he sold his copyright to the book for $250.
"THE DEVIL'S Backbone"
and "The Hogback" were just a few of the names the early hunters M. Oread, Ml. Oread was named in honor of Eli Thayer, whose Emigrant Agent company sent an officer who did much to make Kansas a free state. The name was suggested by Vergil's lines about the nymphs who followed Diana.
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