DREARY
KANSAN
82nd Year. No.130
The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
City Plans To Beautify Downtown
Wednesday, April 26, 1972
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Kansan Photo by MARC MAY
Assistant HEW Secretary Speaks in Union
John Montgomery, assistant secretary of Health Education and Welfare, spoke in Washington to the nation on a guaranteed minimum income Tuesday in the Kansas Union. Montgomery promised
to take a statement given to him at the meeting back to President Nixon. The statement said domestic issues have caused the use of the Vietnam war. See Story Page 12.
WASHINGTON (AP)—President Nixon will make a nationwide address tonight by radio and television to discuss the situation in South Vietnam and to announce his decision on U.S. troop levels there after May 1.
The White House announced Tuesday that the broadcast will be carried at 9
But Presidential press secretary Ronald L. Ziegler told reporters, "I wouldn't draw
The President made his decision about the address after meeting with his top national security adviser, Henry A. Akers, who returned its 'return' from a secret trip to Moscow.
Nixon to Discuss Vietnam
Committee sources predicted a close vote recommending that Kleindienst, a nomination of the Nixon administration, be confirmed without further delay.
Before the vote however, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass, planned to ask for a one-day extension of the committee if the committee already spanned more than eight weeks.
Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W. Va., Senate majority whip and a committee member, said he would support that as well as an extension by one day of a committee-imposed deadline to report to the Senate by Thursday.
McGovern, Humphrey Split Presidential Primary Wins
Committee Vote Expected Today On Kleindienst
WASHINGTON (AP)—Amid liberal protests that its investigation is incomplete, the Senate Judiciary Committee will meet today to vote on what to recommend to the Senate on the bill, or for the general of Richard G. Kleindienst.
Instead, the Pending Legislation Subcommittee of the Student Rights Committee recommended that the bill be amended and until further study of it could be made.
Kansan Correction
It was incorrectly reported in Tuesday's Kansan that the Student Rights Committee of the Student Senate voted Monday to change the balance of votes to change Be structure of the Student, Senate.
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John Hackey, chairman of the subcommittee, said Tuesday that the recommendation had been made because he was not satisfied he had been enough discussion of the groundmine.
In Massachusetts, McGovern was approaching the sweep he had forecast, leading for 88 convention votes. Muskie led for none. As the statewide winner, McGovern was assured of 20 first-ballot convention votes. That meant the big name Democrats who had supported him were winning their convention votes for the South Dakota senator on the initial convention ballot.
Hackney said that no official recommendation of the bill had been made, but that if banners of the bill had been submitted to the committee subcommittee would have probably recommended rejection, since its members thought more time was needed.
Sen. George McGovener, D-S.D., won the Massachusetts presidential primary Tuesday night and, in Pennsylvania, Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey, D-Dinn, swept to his first victory as Democrat voters House of Seven, Edmund S. Muskie, House guest of Seven, Edmund S. Muskie.
FOR HUMPREY, by bypassed Massachusetts, Pennsylvania delivered the first major primary in a career of successful campaigning that dates back 12 years.
Muskie lost twice in a day, by wide margins. Furthermore, he was running a virtual dead heat with McGovern for the second time, when he came up a campaign concentrated on that state.
The presidential preference poll in Pennsylvania was not binding on national convention delegates. In separate competition for nominating votes, the candidates led for 35, Muskue for 32 and McGovney for 12 with 7 per cent of the vote counted.
a linkage between Henry Kissinger's visit to the Soviet Union and the President's decision regarding what troop levels will be in South Vietnam after May 1."
NIXON HAD consulted with South Vietnam president Thieu and top U.S. advisers and received their concurrence in his decision. Ziegler said.
Nixon has been systematically reducing the level of U.S. forces in South Vietnam since the summer of 1969, when the United States invaded the headquarters of its armed forces in South Vietnam.
He put set a withdrawal rate that would heid that to 69,000 by May 1. Ziegler hit 73,000.
In deciding whether there should be a continued pullout, Nixon has been faced with an escalation of the war and a major offensive launched by the North Vietnamese, who are known as the Marsh. He ordered a resumption of bombing of North Vietnam targets, including raids by B52 bombers on Hanoi and Haiphong.
NIXON ADMINISTRATION officials have publicly admonished the Soviet Union for its large scale shipments of sophisticated armaments used by the North Vietnamese in their current offensive.
In the face of these developments, Nixon dispatched Kissinger on a secret mission to Moscow for talks with Soviet officials on the war in Afghanistan on "important international problems."
The President also consulted and received the "approval and concurrence" of President Thieu; U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker in Saigon; Ambassador William Porter, the chief U.S. negotiator at the Paris peace talks; Gen. Creighton W. McGee, the former South Vietnam, and senior advisers, including Kissinger, Ziegler reported.
Nixon conferred by telephone with Secretary of State William P. Rogers and Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird andonymously with Kissinger again Tuesday.
Pennsylvania was electing 137 of its 182 delegates to the convention.
Govern. George C. Wallace of Alabama was running fourth in Pennsylvania, second in Georgia.
The senator from Maine decided after that battering to focus his campaign on Pennsylvania. He denied that he had been in a fist fight with the South Dakota, "but he cut back his
Pennsylvania
Here are the totals in the Pennsylvania Democratic presidential preference primary with 65 per cent of the 9,656 precincts reporting:
Appalachian 18,732 - 25 per cent.
McGovern 189,332 - 22 per cent.
Muskie 183,711 - 21 per cent.
Wallace 158,711 - 19 per cent.
Jackson 28,905 - 3 per cent
Massachusetts
Here are the totals with 23 per cent of the
1,964 precincts reporting:
McGovern 57,431 - 48 per cent
Muskie 24,948 - 21 per cent
Wallace 10,531 - 75 per cent
Chisholm 6,988 - 6 per cent
Mills 4,648 - 4 per cent
McCarthy, 2,664 - 2 per cent
Humphrey's Pensylvania victory was sure to resound in the campaign for the Ohio primary, which will pick 153 convention votes next Tuesday.
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President Nixon was a runaway victor in the Republican preference poll in Massachusetts, where he was gaining 79 per cent of the vote.
Rep. Paul N. McCloskey Jr., R-Cal., who urged voters for himself in the GOP balloting and for McGovern in the Democratic primary as protests against him began on Monday, with a 15 per cent Republican share. McCloskey had withdrawn as a official candidate.
Rep. John M. Ashbrook, R-Ohio, had 5 per cent.
THERE WAS NO GOP preference contest in Pennsylvania.
Alabama's Wallace, who was in Indianaapolis, said the share of the votes he got in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts indicated "we are going to win in Indiana." The primary there is next Tuesday.
Humphrey's campaign game plan made Pennsylvania a pivotal state in his third bid for presidential nomination. He was the only candidate to secure a candidate for the nomination in 1960.
THE STRATEGY was devised when Muskie the Democratic forerunner, and was based on a maximum Humphrey labor, to overtake him in Pennsylvania.
But Muskie ran into trouble when the primaries began, scoring a minority victory in New Hampshire, where McGovenn gained a 5.71 per cent share of the vote, while the Democrats defeated Florida's March 14 election. Humphrey finished second to Wallace in that one.
M. GEOVEN LOST to Muske, 60 to 13, in a contest for delegates in the Illinois State tournament to victory in Wisconsin on April 4. Muske once again ran a lagging four.
and Philadelphia Democratic chairman Peter J. Camiel in Muskie's behalf. He backed four years ago, when the nomination without entering a primary. But he said the party has been reformed when and that he helped bring that reform.
UNDER THE PENNSYLVANIA system, the 137 delegates elected in the primary will choose another 27, and the state committee will elect the other 18.
Wallace campaigned in Pennsylvania and briefly, in Boston, on Monday, where he accused McGovern of "stealing my thunder" by casting himself as a candidate running against the establishment.
Antiwar Activities to Continue at KU; Protesters to Plan for Moratorium
By JOE ZANATTA Kansan Staff Writer
McGovern pushed hard in Massachusetts, and a poll commissioned by the Boston Globe rated his support at 43 percent. He said the and the absent Humphrey at 44 per cent.
Steve Hollis, Lawrence senior and spokesman for the organizers of the meeting said the purpose of the meeting was to discuss specific projects for the next few weeks.
"We're trying to build onto the energy of Saturday's demonstration," Hollis said. "We're committing ourselves to continued action until the war stops."
In Massachusetts, Muskie was allied with an array of party leaders headed by Mayor Kevin H. White of Boston and Rep. Richard O'Neill, the House Democratic whip.
Committees were organized to plan action both on and off campus. A spokesman for the Vietnam Veterans Against the War announced that plans were being made for a demonstration at gates of Forces Air Force Base in Tuekske.
campaign and his budget there to put his push in Pennsylvania.
Vietnam and presentations at chemistry department functions were also discussed.
A committee was organized to plan activities for the Lawrence area on May 4, which has been named as the date for a national moratorium against the war.
A program against the war was tentatively scheduled for May 1. This program will feature lectures, workshops, slide shows and a theater presentation. A
A 20-minute film was shown during the meeting. It presented interviews with Vietnam veterans and showed war scenes in Vietnam.
IN THAT CONTEST, he had the support of Gov. Milton J. Shapp and Democratic organization leaders, notably in Philadelphia. But the organization backing showed signs of coming unglued after his Wisconsin defeat.
site has not yet been scheduled for the program.
Also organized were committees for a teach-in, a possible newspaper of antiwar activities and a discussion on women's antiwar action.
A further demonstration is scheduled to Thursday noon in front of Anderson Hall.
Humphrey criticized the efforts of Shapp
Plans were also made at the University of Kansas meeting to get as many people as possible to attend the Robert Dole, RKan, lecture on Thursday. The group also planned support for the Palestine Liberation Day activities on Friday.
The silent protest is to begin at 7:30 p.m. under the sponsorship of the Manhattan Ad Hoc Committee to End the War. The committee is composed of students, faculty and clergy members of the community.
An all-night candlelight vigil in protest of the Vietnam War will be held tonight on Sunday.
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Senate to Debate Hike In KU Student Fees
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By HAL RITTER Kansan Staff Writer
The Student Senate will meet tonight to consider the student activity fee budget proposed by the Finance and Auditing办公室. The meeting promises to be a long one.
To solve the money problem, the Finance and Auditing Committee will recommend a $2 increase in the semester activity fee to $14 and a 20 cent increase to $1.40 per hour for students enrolled in less than six hours.
The reason why the senate may run into problems is that allocations proposed in the budget total $473,400, $64,500 more than the estimated activity fee revenue for
One opponent of an activity fee increase is David Dillon, Hutchinson junior and assistant coach.
He said an increase was also what the Senate had tried to prevent when it passed enactment No. 17 in December that created the new apportionment system of eight major areas that receive senate funding.
Dismayed by the committee's recommendation, Dillon said he would urge any student who objected to the proposed increase to contact his senator and voice protest before the senate meeting tonight.
Dilson based part of his opposition on a belief that an increase was proved to be undesirable to students by the activity fee referendum held last fall.
"IF NOTHING else, the one thing it did say was that students don't want an increase in the activity fee," Dillon said of the referendum.
"If there isn't any increase things will suffer. 'There's no way around it.' Downer
The idea behind the creation of school councils, as provided in Enactment No. 17, was to provide each school with a body that could assume the job of making allocations to groups that are related to a school and are now funded through the Senate.
A proponent of the activity fee increase is Barbie Downer, Topeka junior and chairman of the Finance and Auditing Committee.
SHE SAID KU students had expressed a desire to have so many groups funded that
With the council's budgets cut to leave only enough money for "operating expenses," the Senate will fund all school-related groups again this year.
Downer said the cuts were made because the councils had not been formed, but if they did exist they could help the senate out of its financial squeeze.
If the Senate does not approve an increase, Downer said it would have to decide between excluding two or three major allocations or else make "a percentage cut across the board" to all groups funded by the Senate.
money was not available with the present activity fee.
The latter solution was especially undesirable to Downer because she said all groups had already been cut to the "bare heart" of the group, and would "unmarry their ability to operate."
DOWNER SAID the school council's budget had been reduced from nearly $2,000 to $3,780 to allow more funds for student organizations.
She said that although a final decision had not been made, the athletic team would have to increase student football and basketball tickets next year regardless of the senate allocation to athletics. A $ 600 cut would mean a 25 percent cent increase to football tickets. she said.
Downer defended the committee's proposed cut of $8,000 in funds from the athletic department by saying that the plan had been presented to athletic director Wade Stinson and that Sinton supported the cut.
Returning money to the school councils would allow each school to determine allocations to most student groups since most are tied to a school.
See FEES DEBATE Page 6
United Methodists Urge Confession of War Guilt
ATLANTA (AP)—The United Methodist governing conference approved a report Tuesday calling on the United States "to confess" that the war in Indochina "has been a crime against humanity" and to take immediate steps to end the war.
About 1,000 delegates, after a heated two-hour debate, adopted the majority report by the Committee on Christian Social Concerns.
Calls on President Nixon to cease immediately all bombing in Indochina.
—Pleads with governmental leaders of Hanoi and the United States to agree immediately to the release of all prisoners in Guam, a possible date, no later than Dec. 31, 1972.
-Calls on Nixon to proceed with immediate withdrawal of all U.S. military forces from Vietnam no later than Dec. 31, 1972.
Calls on the U.S. Congress to cease providing any funds for the support of military activities in Southeast Asia after Dec. 31, 1972.
"We are exposed for caring more for the lives of Americans than Asians and for blocking from our minds the horror of our continued bombings. . . .
Citing an estimate of more than 450,000 Asian civilians killed, more than 790,000 Asian military personnel dead, and more than 55,000 American military men killed, the report said. "We are therefore moved to congratulate the men for their complicity in this violence and death..."
"We further call upon the leadership of the United States to confess that what we have done in Indochina has been a crime against humanity, and an insurmountable step to bring U.S. involvement in this war to swift conclusion."
Kanan Photo by PRISCILLA BRANDSTED
Calder Pickett Speaks at Forum
Speaking on the speech in the 1972 election, Calder Pickett, said that the one party press exists primarily on the editorial page. Pickett spoke at the
American Presidency Forum held in the Kansas Union. See story page 6.