THE SUMMER SESSION
KANSAN
Ryun's Run
Wins 1,500 Berth
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The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Monday, July 10, 1972
Kansan Photo
Telescope Readied for Eclipse
Gary Westgren, Tougannoxie junior
majoring in astronomy, makes an adi-
centive contribution.
Room 501 from which the who wish may view today *solar eclipse*. The eclipse will pass through the sun.
Backus, History Prof. 51, Dies in New York
Oswald Prentiss Backus III, professor of history and Slavic and Soviet area studies, died Saturday night in Bath, N.Y. He was 51.
Backus, who had recently returned from a trip to Poland and France, was hospitalized in New York on his return to the United States.
Survivors include his wife, Barbara, four sons, Robert, Oswald IV, Anthony and Frank, and the daughters, Penny and Frances, and the nurses, Mrs. Elma Backus, all of the home.
Private burial services will be in be New on Tuesday, and a memorial service will be in Lawrence this week. Memorial cemetery will send to *kU* KU Endowment Association.
Backus came to KU in 1950 as an assistant professor of history. He became a professor of history in 1961. His works include *Musevote Russia* and eastern Europe.
HE WAS born in Rochester, N.Y. on March 11, 1921. He received a B.A. from Yale in 1942 an A.M. from Columbia in 1943 and a Ph.D. from Yale in 1949. He was an assistant in French at Yale in 1947-48 and a lecturer in history at Rutgers in 1948-50. He received a certificate from the Sorbonne in 1948.
He had a number of visiting professorships, including Michigan State in 1864, the University of Chicago in 1960, 1983, and the University of Bonn in 1966.
He received a Carnegie grant in 1867 and a Fultigher grant to study in the Slavic language.
1957-58 He also received an Inter-
union Finland to the Soviet Union.
Finland in 1960.
A Phi Beta Kappa, he was author or books and articles on Muscovy and Russian legal history. In 1959 he received a LLB. from Harvard.
He had an American Counsel of Learned
Societies grant for research in Finland, Parke-
dow University.
HE WAS A member of the board of directors of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. He also belonged to the American Historical Association, the Medieval Academy of Asian Affairs. He was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church and taught Sunday Church School classes.
W. Stitt Robinson, professor of history and chairman of the history department, In the 22 years as a member of the faculty, Professor Backus has contributed significantly to the growth of the department of history and to the development of an excellent graduate program, especially in Russian and east European history.
"His leadership in the organization of the Slavic and Soviet area studies program was particularly outstanding and has produced valuable contacts and exchanges among organized universities, including the recent organized program in Poznan, Poland."
Prof Says SALT Accords Limit Chance of Holocaust
By MARY PITMAN Kansan Staff Writer
The chances for nuclear holocaust have been reduced by the recent SALT agreements between the United States and the USSR, according to Clifford Ketzel, an assistant professor of science, who spoke Sunday at a meeting of the Lawrence Peace Committee.
"I don't buy the theory that the United States has somehow been conned by the Soviets in this treaty," said Ketzel, who is a professor of settled treaty to be approved by Congress.
Although the terms of the Interim Offensive Weapons Agreement would limit the United States to fewer ICBMs and submarines than the USSR for a five-year period, Ketzel explained that the discrepancy in numbers was equalized by
KETZEL quoted Henry Kissinger as saying that it took three Soviet submarines for every two American submarines to reach the surface or parity, between the US and the USSR.
other circumstances advantageous to the United States.
Ketzel said that the 'deliverable
invasion' of US far exceeded
that of the Soviets.
One great advantage of the United States in case of war with the Soviets is the bomber and submarine support of US allies in Western Europe.
Ketzel explained that this Western European strength on the side of the United States was carefully taken into consideration by the Soviets, as they
Seating Disputes Loom
See SALT, page 5
The senator from South Dakota worked his way among the assembling Democratic delegations, seeking support in the name of fair play in a delegate-seating dispute pivotal to the contest for the presidential nomination.
Sen. Hubert H. Humphreys vowed to fight to a showdown on the convention floor to deter McGovern the 271-delegate sweep he held in California presidential primary
The political pressures mounted on both sides in the dispute, and so did the crowds of delegates, managers and onlookers at the events along the Collins Avenue hotel strip.
Convention-Goers Assemble
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — While rival Democrats arrayed for national convention battle, presidential front-runner George McGovern gained a parliamentary and new political allies Sunday as he campaigned on a crucial California debate contest.
There were demonstrators, too. a Police- estimated 100 young protesters paraded Sunday night outside the Playboy Plaza. They shouted and cheered in a party. They dispersed when police
There was a Resurrection City II, a pug tent encampment in a Miami Beach Park. There was a marjuana-smoking session as about 300 young people massed outside the Miami Beach Convention Hall to demand legalization of pot.
arrived and there were no arrests and no violence.
McGoventry got the parliamentary assist, when party officials held that a majority of delegates eligible to vote on the California case can sitel the issue. That would mean McGoventry could win his point, and all 271 delegates, with 1,433 votes.
Muskie himself said his support for one side or the other could be decisive.
"I would think that we do have the 1,433," McGovern said.
Convention Politics Greet Kansans; Uncommitted Delegates Canvassed
He worked the delegate caucuses
By BOB LITCHFIELD Kansan Staff Writer
MIAMI-It is only hours before the welcoming address by Sen. Lawton Chiles, D-Fla., will begin the 1972 Democratic National Convention. But Sen. George W. Bush won the nomination than he was five weeks ago after his California primary victory.
As the opening draws nearer and the battlelines are drawn, McGovern's and opposition's organizers are talking tougher.
A caucus of Kansas delegates pledged to McGovenn and those leaning toward him was held at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in a suite of the Newport Hotel.
The caucus voted to ask Kansas Gov. Robert Docking at today to issue a public notice that the governor supports
The vote on the credentials committee delegations' selection tonight is considered the key to a McGovern nomination. The showdown is the first item of business and unless we get it off on without recess until the issue is settled, a platform committee report Tuesday night.
California regulars and challenge representatives canvassed Kansas' uncommitted delegates as soon as the hashes were checked into the Newport Hotel.
Kansas delegates said they were "on their own" in voting matters, and all conceded Kansas' voting position, seventh, has hess the pressure on them since the state's 1980 candidates are overturning every rock in search of additional delegate support.
McGovern supporters said they were well received and believed they could count on many of the uncommitted votes in the showdown tonight. The challengers, many supporters of Sen. Hubert Humphrey, D-Minn., also said they were confident of receiving some of Kansas' uncommitted votes.
"The credentials battle is the most important issue. The unchallenged California and Illinois delegates will be to vote. That should be a big help," he said.
The Rev. Melvin Long, Salina alterna-
tory. He was confident about McGann's
chance.
teller to count the delegation's votes on the convention floor.
The Kanaas delegation has 18 uncommitted, 16 for McInovien and one for Dudley.
No other activities are planned until 1 p.m. today, when a caucus of all Kansas leaders will convene.
At the McGovern caucus, state Senate minor leader Harold Harder of Coldwater joined floor leader for Kansas McGovern delivered the meeting was described as procedural.
Charlton said she and other members of the McGovern caucus were disturbed because several newsmen were invited to the meeting by Karin Lawing, Wichita, a member of the Convention's credentials committee. CBS News is filming a story about Lawing's activities as a typical delegate. Charlton said she believed the meeting should have been private and that pictures could have been obtained without interrupting the caucus.
A representative of McGovern's was present to outline convention rules and
Betty Jo Charlton, 101 Pawnee, Lawrence, said there was a threatened force in the Kansas McGovern forces because of the presence of a delegates before the state convention.
Herd said he would appoint several whips, "not arbitrarily, but with respect to the conduct of the business."
Docking, delegation chairman, has said repeatedly he thought that Kansas should remain uncommitted until they got the feel of the convention scene. He reported
Charlton said the gap was bridged during the meeting Sunday.
See POLITICS, page 3
U.S. Jets Destroy Depot; American Adviser Killed
SAIGON (U.P.) - U.S. Air Force jets destroyed one of North Vietnam's biggest military vehicle repair depots on the edge of Hanoi and shot down three MG125s to intercept them, the U.S. Command commander. It reported one American plane lost.
Brig. Gen. Richard Tallman, the deputy American commander and adviser for the Saigon Military Region, and three other Americans were killed in a North Vietnamese artillery shell during an inspection trip.
Two other Americans were wounded, the U.S. Command said.
In ground warfare, South Vietnamese forces remained at a virtual standstill in their drive to retake the city of Quang Tril in South Vietnam's northernmost sector.
One of the eight Air Force F4 Phantom fighters that engaged four MIGs in a battle of America's and North Vietnam's fastest supersonic jets was down, but the two crewmen were rescued, the command said.
North Vietnam claimed four Phantoms were shot down in the action, which oc-
In broadcast by Radio Hanoi, North Vietnam claimed two more U.S. jets were shot down in raids Sunday, again in the Hanoi area.
Tallman was named deputy commander of the U.S. 3rd Regional Assistance Command, which includes Saigon and 11 surrounding provinces, on June 27 and was promoted to brigadier general the next day.
The U.S. Command said it had no additional plane losses to report immediately. The command has a longstanding policy of not announcing aircraft losses while search and rescue operations are being carried out.
Tallman, 47, a native of Honeside, Pa., was the eighth American general killed in the Vietnam war and the first in two years. A Navy admiral was killed about two months ago in a helicopter crash in the Tonkin gun.
looking for support. "I'm asking you, regardless of what candidate you're committed to, to vote with us to seat those who will represent us in California," he told Iowa delegates.
He said the issue of fairness transcended that of presidential preferences. But in fact, the two were intertwined, for restatement of the California sweep would override the threshold of the convention majority that the driver the nomination for the White House.
The Associated Press count of delegate
president John McCarthy put
McGearown at 1,322.68 Sunday night.
Rep. Ronald V. Dellums of California endorsed McGovern, saying he could not abide "dialectical and cynical" efforts to stop the front-runner.
It will take 1,509 to choose a nominee.
McGovern captured the California McGovern under a take-all primary rule, but the Democratic Credentials Committee voted instead to apportion the delegates among candidates on the basis of their popular vote shares.
A top-ranked McGovern strategist said Sunday night that Sens. Thomas F. Eagleton and Stuart Symington of Missouri both would support McGovern's bid to regain the whole delegation. Both have endorsed Muskie for the nomination.
Sen. Harrison A. Williams Jr., originally a Muskie supporter, said he now regards McGoventry as the best candidate to unite the Democratic party.
Second Fight Is Predicted On Platform
Wallace' forces propose strong opposition to busing school children for firearms, to stance stance and opposition to bans on possession of firearms. They support the right of states to impose capital punishment, and back laws that require education and screening of welfare rolls.
MIAMI BEACH, Flu. (AP) -- Supporters of Alabama Gov. George Wallace and advocates of a drastic tax change lifted support separately Sunday for what may be the most battle of the Democratic National Convention—over the party platform.
The substitute tax plank is backed by a group headed by Sen. Fred R. Harris of Oklahoma. It would repeal the Internal Revenue Code and substitute a graduated tax on both personal and corporate incomes.
"I believe we can get the convention to adopt it," said Harris, who plans to address a series of delegate caucuses to seek backing.
The majority plank endorses pending legislation to bring most tax preferences up for review by providing for their repeal in the future. The congress decides to retain particular ones.
Instead of the various deductions now allowed, there would be personal tax credits which Harris said at a news conference, would give a break to taxpayers with incomes generally below $20,000, and to smaller businesses.
Law Student Campaigns for Office
By RALPH NICOL Kansan Staff Writer
The newly created 44th District of the Kansas House of Representatives includes the University of Kansas campus and downtown Lawrence. It has a slate black population, and the citizens of old West Lawrence. It has college students and senior citizens, Greek houses and street people.
A majority of registered voters in the district are Democrats. But Barry Albin, KU law student, is convinced that he can draw traditional Democratic votes and win the district contest for the Republicans.
Abin, 23, was the first to register for the GOP race for the new district last year.
the first to register for the GOP race for the new district last spring.
"I believe I can offer the people of this district the most for their money, in terms of qualifications, experience, contacts," Albin said. He had his work in local Republican politics, running campaigns for attorney general and governor, and experience with Sen. John M. Simpson, R-Salina, in the state legislature.
"I SHARE the concerns of these
people," Albin said. "I know what concern lower-middle-income people. I come from a background I myself ground my mind."
Albin believed he had something to offer all the groups in the 44th District. He claimed the full support of Cynthia Turner, one of the co-directors of Balfour Community College, which he thought would give him support from most of the blacks in his district.
Albin reported building an effective organization with students and faculty. He said that he had done more campaigning against opponents for the GOP nomination.
One of the issues Albin was most concerned about was tax reform.
"We have to switch the concentration of taxes from lower income people to high income people. The burden should be fair proportionately on rich and poor," he said.
Albin also said that sales tax was an excellent form of revenue, but he would
SPECIFICALLY, Albin supported a homestead exemption, a tax exemption on real estate occupied by the owner, with a limit of $25,000. He called a severance tax "essential," and "something the people want."
"Kansas must also keep concerned with international politics," Albin warned. There are new prospects in selling which would mean a new source of revenue."
include exemptions on food, medicine,
drugs and clothing. He called for
restructuring income tax laws to include
new exemption laws, instead of just
at the federal tax level.
Barry Albin
Albin believed that any growth in wheat farming would also be beneficial to Lawrence, bringing in new industry and factories. He was concerned, however, that any new industries should meet anti-pollution standards.
Albin also saw a need to change some of the state's priorities.
"TM concerned that we are spending more on building more highways, while at the same time state institutions are impractically large and we are receiving the necessary support," he said.
Albin proposed using the gasoline tax to maintain existing highways, and also to build new highways.
"That might cause us to lose some federal funds, but we would gain considerable local funds," said Albin. He said that street maintenance was a major portion of local budgets, which could be used for other local services.
Albin expressed support of the legislature's recent attempts to equalize the quality of public education in the state, which tries to equalize the spending per student on education, wprobably need some state subsidy, according to Albin.
See LAW, page 3