Nixon Victorious as Humphrey Is Dumped in Poll
BvCLYDE LQBB
Kansan Staff Writer
President Nikon will win the November presidential election, according to two-thirds of the college students interviewed in a recent survey conducted by journalism students at the University of Kansas and at college campuses across
The Iowa Opinion Research Bureau, a university of Iowa-based polling organization, randomly selected 6,000 students on 17 campuses in 15 states to participate in the poll. The poll dealt with many contemporary issues.
rowing took place before any presidential primaries had been held.
While Seh. Hubert H. Humphrey may be strongly supported by party members for the Democratic presidential nomination, and while Thomas R. Kennedy and the 2,580 college Democrats interviewed.
THE TWO MOST favored Democratic
candidates were Sen, Edmund Muskie, D-Maine, who lead with 28 per cent, and Sen. George McGovern, D-S.D., with 24 per cent.
mayor John Lindsey receive 9.9 per
microchip John Lindsey receive McKinsey 9.9
per microchip
Alabama Gov. George Wallace, winner in the recent Florida presidential primary, died peacefully on Monday at his home in Tampa.
In response to a question for only registered student voters, students favored either Muskie or McGovern to Dixon Nikon in the 1976 presidential election.
Of those interviewed, 83 per cent agreed that "It is in the interests of the United States to formally recognize Communist China." The survey was taken at the time of President Nixon's trip to Communist China.
believed the 1972 presidential election would be affected by the lowering of the
A majority of college students believed that the federal government and black liberal-moderate groups such as the NAACP were able to obtain racial equality. Their person's drive to obtain racial equality.
In the Southern schools 91.7 per cent of the students believed the status of the black in achieving racial equality had improved, with only 6 per cent believing that it was possible per cent believed this to be true and 11.6 per cent believed the statement be false.
STUDENTS INTERVIEWED in the poll overwhelmingly blamed American industry for much of the nation's pollution and a majority gave the Department of Interior a fair to poor rating in its decision of serving our natural resources.
When asked if a person should be
allowed to the without medical aid if in the opinion of his doctor there is little hope for recovery and there is consent of the patient, nearly three-quarters of the students agreed the patient should be allowed to die.
ABOUT 86 PER CENT of the students favored abolishing the electoral college and letting the people elect the president directly.
A national presidential primary should be instituted as a means for selecting the nominees of each party for the nation's presidential race, according to 75 percent of the student.
This spring should be a peaceful one as college campuses across the country, according to three-fourths of those interviewed.
The reason given by most of those interviewed for the "calm" is because of the winding down of the war, apathy, and the presence of an election year, which
seems to be functioning as the center of attention for those students who previously did not attend.
According to the poll, one-half of the college students believed armymust should "definitely" be granted to American draft resistors by the Nixon administration. One-quarter believe that "under some conditions" armymust should be granted.
Capital punishment should be ruled unconstitutional because it is cruel and inhuman punishment, according to half of the college students interviewed. Sixteen per cent strongly disagree that capital punishment is cruel and inhuman punishment.
Twice as many college students doubt that the North Vietnamese are sincerely interested in a peaceful solution to the conflict, and as many believe they have believed in the Communist's sincerity.
RESPONSES VARIED from "Hell, No!
The North Vietnamese have been fighting for years and they are not interested in anything but taking over South Vietnam," by a university of New Mexico student, to the most common opposite response of "no one likes war."
Those students interviewed are sharply divided over the idea of limiting U.S. foreign investment.
The Bureau found 39 per cent of the students 'strongly favored' and 29 per cent "slightly favored" such a political reform.
On the other hand, 34 per cent did not not favor senatorial terms to twelve weeks.
Similar results were found on the issue of changing the length of terms of members of the House of Representatives from two to four years. Thirty-three per cent did not favor and 35 per cent "did not favor" the lengthening of representatives' terms.
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U.S. Officials See 'Swipe' Bv N. Viets
Randy Gould Looks Back, Looks Ahead
Predicting a real battle between the North Vietnamese 324th Division in league with elements of the 304th and the lst South Vietnamese Division, one military expert said the fighting "will be the final examination of Vietnamization."
WASHINGTON (AP) — American officials are expecting the North Vietnamese “to take a swipe” at the ancient imperial capital of Hue in the next attack an attack viewed as a major test of President Nixon's Vietnamization program.
The officials said the 1st Division was the best in South Vietnam's army and they pointed out the unit had not been used until the current fighting, leaving it, ready to go.
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As the United States sent more ships and planes to Southeast Asia, 17 Senate and 45 House members said Thursday the U.S. is making an effort to American involvement in the war.
The American position would be affected enormously by a battle for Hue.
The Members of Congress for Peace Through Law asked Nixon in the letter for a full report on the size, purpose and cost of completed U.S. military action in Indochina.
One source, citing captured North Vietnamese documents and testimony from prisoners, said Hanoi hoped to capture Hue and other cities in an effort to incite a countrywide uprising, underermine government power, and war sentiments within the United States.
"If news reports are accurate, our country is now assembling in Southeast Asia one of the largest air armadas in the world," they said in a letter to President Nixpy.
Failure to hold the city would dangerously weaken defense lines in the northern sector and open to attack the American air base at Pai Bai just south of
They add that a North Vietnamese victory at Hue would not only weaken the morale of troops in the rest of the country but also provide domestic support for the Saigon government.
The failure of Saigon's best troops could indicate South Vietnam is not able to defend itself and, therefore, the failure of Nixon's program of troop withdrawals and ultimate reduction of U.S. military involvement, officials say.
American reinforcements were flown to Phu Bai Wednesday.
Kansan Photo by MARC MAY
Zumwalt Speaks to His Former Latin Teacher
. Reception allows time with Mr. and Mrs. G. Bailey Price . . .
Finance-Auditing Opens Season
By HAL RITTER
Kansan Staff Writer
Selecting a chairman and familiarizing its members with Student Senate budget procedures were accomplished Thursday morning. Auditing Committee held its first meeting.
Barbie Dower, Topeka junior, was elected chairman of the committee after being nominated by the Finance Committee, who cited her experience in budget procedures as the main reason for his nomination. Dower is beginning her fourth term in position of the Finance and Auditing Committee.
As chairman of the committee Downer will be responsible for setting up hearings during the year for groups requesting allocations from the Senate's contingency fund, transmitting information from the student body treasurer's office to the senate and distributing reports of committee recommendations concerning allocations for the Senate.
Downer will also be a member of the
Committee (Studex)
for the next year.
After her election Downer said committee hearings on budget requests by
the more than 110 groups seeking funds would be held Monday to Thursday next week with the times tentatively set for 6:30 to 11 each night.
She said a representative from each group should stop at the Student Senate office in the Kansas Union and sign up for a hearing time by Monday.
At the beginning of the meeting Bill O'Neill, Ballwin, Mo., junior and student body treasurer, presented a report on the preliminary budget report that contains budget requests for 1972-73 by each organization.
O'Neill read a report from Dave Dillon,
Hutchinson junior and student body
president, that contained recommend-
ment to hold him the committee will
involve its work.
O'Neill also explained the Senate's budget system and procedures followed in adopting the budget each year to the committee members.
Dillon, who was chairman of the Finance and Auditing committee the past Senate term, advised the committee members to take a more active role in apportionment divisions of funds allocated for efforts on allocating the more than $50.000 provided for student organizations.
Zumwalt Says Budget Cuts Are Harmful
Rv MIKE MOREY
By MIKE MOREY Kansan Staff Writer
Adm. Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr., chief of naval operations, said in a speech Thursday night in the Kansas Union Ballroom that if Congress keeps cutting the President's proposed budget budgets, "the Navy is going to be in crisis," Soviet Union in terms of naval strength.
Zumwalt said, in a speech sponsored by the Vickers Memorial Lecture Series, that in fiscal year 1971, Congress cut the budget for the Army from $2.5 billion in fiscal year 1972, by $3 billion.
Just how far behind we fall, he said, depends on how much money Congress can pay.
He said that the Navy and the Marine Corps operated on a budget of approximately $23 billion per fiscal year. The defense budget, he said, is down to 31
Bids Revealed; Plans Set for KU Hospital
The Constant Construction Co. of Lawrence, with a bid of $1,356,200, was the apparent low bidder for the general contract work of the University Student Health Service building were opened Thursday afternoon in Topeka.
Hospital case work—Bowlus Supply,
$3,597;
Funding for the facility has been approved and construction will begin soon.
Electrical Contract--Norris Bros., Inc.,
Lawrence, $252,800;
The other apparent low bidders were:
Mechanical contract—Norris Bros,
Coca-Cola.
Kitchen equipment—Stephenson
Equipment, Topeka, $7,815.29.
According to R. Keith Lawton, vice-chancellor and director of facilities, planning and operations, the building is intended to be open for the fall semester of 1973.
Zumwalt spoke of several crises which the United States and the world have had to face in the last quarter of a century. Among others, he mentioned World War II, the Korean War, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the war in Southeast Asia.
Zumwalt said that the Navy could be hurt by an volunteer Army, but that he hoped the changes which have already been made in the Navy and the changes which would be made in the future would make him a more attractive enough to fill their ranks.
The two-story structure will contain approximately 80,000 square feet of floor
space. It will be located in the area southeast of Robinson Gymnasium and northeast of O-Zone parking lot, which is actively a playing field for intramural sports.
The first floor of the building will consist of waiting areas, examining rooms, administration offices, an x-ray room, a kitchen, a pharmacy, and an emergency room.
The building will primarily provide outpatient services for KU students but will also include a 34-bed ward for inpatient services.
per cent of the federal budget, the lowest since 1950.
The hospital ward will occupy most of the second floor but it will also contain a chaotic office, a minor surgery suite, physical therapy room, central supply office and staff library.
The facility will be a reinforced concrete building of contemporary design with a brick exterior finish. It was designed by George Hampton and Associates of Wichita and Kenneth R. McLain, associate to the state architect.
Zumwalt received an appointment to Annapolis in 1939.
He said that these crises clearly showed the need for American naval supremacy. The Navy's mobility, missiles and aircraft were vital to the defense of the United States.
He also served as a professor of Naval
Arms and Marine Corps program at the
University of North Carolina.
He said that if an enemy of the United States had the capability of disarming the United States ashore and had the antiballistic missiles to stop U.S. missiles, they would surely win if a confrontation arose.
Zumwalt said that the United States would never strike first, but that "we must look at what survives after someone strikes."
Zumwalt said that he realized the need for naval reforms while he was Commander of U.S. Naval forces in Vietnam. He said that when he visited the hospitals, the majority of the young men he spoke to didn't ask him why they were not allowed to him, he said, why they weren't allowed to look like other people of their generation.
Zumwalt has served the Navy in many capacities. He has served on and commanded several destroyers. He has served in the office of the assistant secretary for international security affairs as desk officer for France, Spain and Portugal.
Zumwalt, who rose from the rank of captain to become the senior officer in the Navy as chief of naval operations, on July 15, 2006, and began liberal regulations governing Navy. Navy
Zumwalt said that the United States must maintain Navy supremacy so that it could keep up with Russia.
Zumwalt said that the Navy offered many opportunities, including such things as training in electronics and oceanography. He said that the importance of oceanography couldn't be stressed enough.
He said that the "whole future of mankind lies in the possibility of exploiting and preserving vegetable growth in the sea."
Zumwalt said that when he became chief of U.S. Naval operations, he remembered those visits to the hospitals and the military. He said his men and began his campaign of refembrance.
'significant positions of responsibility in the navy' and would also qualify them for
In his directives, known as Z-Grams, he ordered the acceptance of a wide variety of hair styles and full or partial beards. He also directed that beer could be dispensed
in the barracks of enlisted men and that stronger alcohol beverages could be kept on the menu.
Among other things, he also ordered that civilian clothes might be worn at shore installations and neat work clothes might be worn at the construction department to avoid many chances of uniforms.
Zumwalt said that there was a Constitutional Amendment, which had not yet been ratified, that would end any discrimination against women.
This, he said, will give women more
Hijacker Holds 2-Hour Monologue
LOS ANGELES (AP)—A Mexican national jacknair an airplane from New Mexico to Los Angeles Thursday, then surrendered his gun after telling newsmen called to the plane about the problems of the poor and a story of his own hard luck.
The man turned over the gun—which was unloaded—to the plane's pilot after a rambling two-hour interview that was not recorded. The plane was He was taken into custody by the FBI.
The hijacker commanded the Frontier Airlines 737 jetliner for more than seven hours, including five hours on the ground at Los Angeles International Airport.
He let the 27 passengers disembark, but kept four crew members and later three Spanish-speaking newsmen on the plane at Amsterdam Airport. A Dutch speech in Spanish over radio and television.
The man was identified as Ricardo Chavez-Ortiz, 37, a Mexican father of eight who has lived in East Los Angeles and Santa Fe. N, M. The Federal Aviation Administration in Washington said he had a history of psychiatric problems.
A Frontier spokesman said later that the airline had used a combination of security
The FBI said Chavez-Ortz was bitter over having been fired as a cook in Los Angeles and told them he thought of the blacking a few days ago.
Throughout the hijacking, Chavez-Ortiz demanded to speak for two hours on radio and television to "tell my story." That, he said, was his aim. He apparently were his only demands.
measures to check passengers boarding in Denver and Albuquerque. He said the measures were based on Federal Aviation Agency recommendations, but he did not
AAUP Gives Poll Results
Over 60 per cent of the questionnaires that were returned to the committee were not properly overall for collective bargaining among KU professors is probably somewhat lower, since many professors either to return their questionnaires.
Charles Krider, assistant professor of business and chairman of the KU Chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) committee on Representation of Economic and Professional Interests, announced last night the results of a KU faculty poll on collective bargaining.
elaborate.
The KU chapter of AALUP also conducted its election of the chamber officers at last night's meeting. The officers for the next week are: Professor John Watson Library, president; Grant Goodman, professor of east Asian studies, vice-president; Anna Condit, library systems analyst, treasurer; Lloyd Wilson, assistant professor of history, secretary.
The spokesman said Chavez-Ortiz "did raise suspicion by our people, who questioned him and were satisfied." He did not say what questions were asked.
The interview was heard by thousands of viewers and listeners in the Los Angeles area. The hijacker's words were carried on Spanish language stations and a television station where television stations whose cameramen provided pictures of the captive plane.
He talked about injustices to Mexican-Americans, blacks, Orientals and other minorities. He described his life as a chef, pilot and mechanic in Mexico. He mentioned low wages and the deteriorating environment.
"What kind of human beings are we?" he asked, and on the floor, and on the carpet, and around it it was.
The Spanish-speaking hijacker was interviewed aboard the plane at an isolated section of the airport where it had landed several hours before.
Several hundred law officers stood by at a distance from the plane.
In the broadcast on the plane, he sat on the floor, smoking cigarettes, drinking coffee and animatedly discussing with the three newsmen the treatment of minorities. The newsmen assumed his .22-caliber revolver was loaded.
Throughout the hijacking, authorities said they believed a second hijacker was aboard. It wasn't until after Chaves-Ortiz surrender that they discounted it.