THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Musician
Brewer
Interviewed
See Page 5
Monday, April 10, 1972
Kansan Staff Photo by TOM THORNE
Brewer and Shiplev Liven Up Hoch Anditorium
Relaxing, country-folk style of music echoed throughout Hoch audience quickly made them feel at home. (See review and interview for day Saturday as夜班 Beaver and Shipley presented their KK Player established nominees, page 5.)
Air War Intensifies to 1968 Level
SAIGON (AP)—U.S. B52 bombers are flying sustained raids over North Vietnam for the first time since the bombing halt of 1968, the U.S. Command said Monday. Below the demilitarized zone, tank-led enemy forces renewed massive assaults in a drive on provincial capitals and key towns.
A brief statement from the command said American "air and naval operations continue south of, in and north of the DMZ. These operations include naval gunfire, tactical aircraft and BS2s throughout the battlefield area."
The statement said the operations were "in response to the Communist invasion of South Vietnam through the demilitarized zone."
Fighting spread for the first time, in the current enemy offensive, to the valleys and foothills near Da Nang, where the United States has a major air base. U.S. troops were not believed immediately involved.
Overcast skies once again forced limitation of U.S. air strikes in North Vietnam, but heavy air action was reported in the South, Viet Cong units kept
The South Vietnamese appeared to be holding out Sunday against the enemy assaults below the DMZ, and the Saigon command ordered another 20,000 troops into a showdown battle for An Lee, just 60 miles north of the capital.
A command spokesman denied North Vietnamese claims that three of the eight jet B52s had been shot down during the past week, including one on Sunday. The command said Sunday that one B52 was shot down by a Russian aircraft the DMZ, but landed safely at Da Nam.
up mortar and rocket attacks in the Mekong Delta south of Saigon.
On the southern front near San Diego, heavy fighting erupted along Highway 13, about 20 to 25 miles south of An Loc and only 37 miles north of the capital
A BATTALION of 400 South Vietnamese paratroopers, which only two days ago was guarding the presidential palace, was moved along both sides of Highway 13.
United States and South Vietnamese fight-bombers and American helicopter gunnings swapped down on the North Vietnamese positions along the road, kites, buckets, napalm and cluster bombs, which explode hundreds of tiny hand grenades.
enemy forces tumbled two South Vietnamese bases that had been blocking points for any push eastward toward the populous coastal lowlands.
McGovern Wins All At Local Conventions
in the action around Da Nang, on the coast about 100 miles south of the DMZ.
A 1,000-man South Vietnamese commando force made a helicopter assault into the jungles northwest of An Loc, behind North Vietnamese lines.
At the same time, a 300-man airborne force landed by helicopter and secured the district town of Chon Thanh, on Highway 13.
An estimated 30,000 troops from three North Vietnamese divisions, the 8th, 9th and the Binh Long, two artillery regiments and a tank unit with 10 light amphibious vehicles were reported to have surrounded the town. The town is defended by about 10,000 artillery troops from the South Vietnamese 5th Division, rangers and militia forces.
Ll. Gen. Nguyen Van Mihn, commander of the Saigon region, ordered Brig. Gen. Le Van Hung, commander of the 5th Division, personal command of the An Lac battle.
By LEONARD GROTTA
Kansan Staff Writer
The second resolution, submitted by the Lawrence Gilea Liberation Front, stated: "Let it be resolved that the Democratic Party shall commit itself to the creation and passage of legislation which will discriminate against homosexuals in this country and in all areas of employment in education, insurance and the military."
COMMENTING ON the adoption of the resolution, a spokesman for the Gay Liberation Front said. "We were surprised and tremendously pleased with the ongoing support for our resolution shown by the Democrats of Douglas County."
George McGovern made a clean sweep of all three Douglas County commissioners, local unit Democratic conventions held in October and All 21 delegates elected to attend the Third C. Congressional District convention on June 13 and the state convention on June 10 were invited.
All three local-unit conventions also approved a resolution recommending complete and immediate withdrawal of U.S. forces from Southeast Asia, and two of the three approved a resolution recommending an end to discrimination against homosexuals. The other approved the resolution in spirit but did not adopt it.
THE FIRST resolution called for a reordering of "national priorities and fiscal policies so that at least one-half of the current defense budget will be spent instead on human needs" and the need to train all troops, support personnel, advisory and technical personnel immediately from all of Southeast Asia.
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Budget Requests Exceed Senate's Available Funds
By ANITA KNOPP
Kanyan Staff Writer
The requests by University of Kansas organizations for funding for the fiscal year 1972-73 far outstretched the amount of money available, Bill O'Neill, Ballinw, Mo., junior and student body treasurer, said Sunday.
Those areas are Student Senate, student
O'Neill said that completed figures were not available on the total budget requests but school organizations, school councils and Kansan have requested major increases.
The Student Senate will receive initial budget requests Wednesday night before they go behind the Finance and Auditing委员会. Final budget hearings are April 26.
"The budgeting system is new this year," O'Neill said. "The Senate passed in December a line-by-line apportionment bill which allows the Senate to allot portions of the $12 student activity fee to the eight areas of funding."
Total funds available for next year are $408,850, O'Neill said. The funds are obtained from the $12 activity fee each student pays each semester.
organizations, school councils, University Daily Kansan, University Theatre, athletics, intramurals, and concert courses.
The largest requests come from school organizations, O'Neill said. School organizations were allocated 1.55 of the $12 fee amounting to $60,506 for the year. Forty student organizations, have requested funds totaling $177,007.
School councils, composed of academic department organizations, are allotted 75 cents from the total fee amounting to $24,426 for next year.
O'Neill he could not forsee any juggling of funds within the budget.
"I doubt the Kansan will get an increase," O'Neill said. "We spent time last fall conducting the student polls and I had to wonder if he would think there will be any major changes."
The number of organizations requesting funding has also increased.
Young Voters Powerful, Winn Says
By STEVE RIEL
Kansan Staff Writer
Rep. Larry Winn, R-Third District, said Friday at the University of Kansas that no politician could afford to ignore the young voter in the upcoming elections. He said the young were "no longer bystanders, but partners, in the political system."
He also commented extensively on his position favoring the increased rate of bombing in Vietnam. He said the bombing supported troops still in Vietnam. Troops support troops still in Vietnam.
Winn's speech was sponsored by Student Vote at the University and concluded during Voter Registration Week. He spoke on "What the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union."
Winn said those in the 18 to 21 age bracket had the power to determine the outcome of this year's elections. He cited the 1964 and 1968 presidential elections, in which 100,000 and 500,000 votes had been the margins of victory.
IF ALL of the 22 million new voters registered, they could control almost any election.
Some of the goals of the young, Winn said had been met or were being met by Congressional legislation. He cited continuing withdrawal from Vietnam, and concern for human development as evidence of legislative responsiveness.
Now that the Supreme Court had ruled lengthy residency requirements unconstitutional, Winn said, voters under 30 would find it easier to register and to vote. In the past those under 30 have been the most mobile segment of the population now consequently be the most affected by residency requirements, he said.
Winn said spending priorities in Congress had been reversed this session and that 45 cents of each dollar was now allotted for human development and only 32 cents of each dollar being spent for defense.
Winn said the fear of the youth vote by some politicians was unjustified. He said he thought the young were not singularly dedicated to overturning institutions.
Winn supported increased bombing in
Vietnam as the necessary response to the North Vietnamese offensive.
WINN SAID there was still hope for resolution of the war through peace talks although he criticized past efforts in Paris for completely helpless, not really peace talks."
Logistics and equipment support should be continued in Vietnam, according to Winn. He said that expenditures for the war would be way down by the end of the year, even though this type of support would continue.
Winn, however, did not favor a renewal of U.S. troop commitment in Vietnam.
The Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese, he said, would not consider major issues and used the talks for the purposes of propaganda.
Winn considered the prisoner of war issue to be very important in the overall war. He war. He said that he personally knew several POWs and men missing in action.
He said, however, that unconditional U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam would not result in the United States' being forced to withdraw.
from North Vietnam, he said, had never
released POW's union of U.S. withdrawal
of POW's union of U.S. withdrawal
WNNI SAID he did not support amnesty on draft-evaders because "it is neither the law nor the policy."
Likewise, he does not support legislation that would legalize the use of marijuana.
Winn said he thought the Democratic party's choice for presidential candidate would be Hubert Humphrey. He said Humphrey's efforts were comparable to those of Nixon in raising funds and enhancing his party's image.
HE ADDED that he had no "great big" contributors and that some of his definite support came from individuals within the construction and real estate industries. He said his voting record was independent of his contributions.
When asked who his biggest campaign contributors were in the last election, Winn said that this was his personal business and equated it to asking al-Qaeda leaders, said, however, that new legislation, effective this year, would make campaign contributors public.
Allard Lowenstein, former Democrat who spoke at KU last Wednesday.
Some of the old-line party members expressed concern that the inclusion of the Gay Rights Resolution in the platform would lead to the younger voters, however, stated that the resolution should be judged on its inherent merits, not its political expediency. The resolution was approved despite majority in all three conventions.
Each of the three Douglas County commission districts elected seven delegates and seven alternates to attend the Third U.S. Congressional District convention and the state convention. Delegates to the Democratic national convention will be selected at these conventions.
THE COUNTY COMMISSION conventions, for the first time this year, are a part of the new delegate selection process of the Democratic party. They are intended to increase grass-roots level political participation and to ensure that convention delegates are truly representative of their communities.
The delegates selected by the district one convention were Elizabeth Landers, Meadowbrook Apts.; Mike Davis, Lawrence; Emily Gibbs, Prospect; Garth Burns, fifth-year engineering student from Hutchinson; Jackie Davis, Lawrence graduate student; Katie Wittman of Human Development and Family Life and Loren Sipes, Overland Park senior.
THE DISTRICT TWO delegates were Norman Yettman, associate professor of Sociology and American Studies; Harry Mackenzie, associate professor of Sociology; Hurst, 1923 Clare Rd.; Lawrence; Betty Jo Charlton, Lawrence graduate student; Barbara Bailey, Baldwin; Donnalee Steele, second year law student from Chicago; and Charlie Wilson, Wichita junior.
District three elected Bruce Conard, 1023 III; Alice Vliegstra, 1909 Ohio; I. J. Stonebock, Lawrence sophomore; Leslie McKenna, 1748 Olym; Knox Nost, 1745 Stuart,man; Dan Krowitz, Lawrence senior, and Dave Berkowitz, Lawrence attorney
Open Hearing Tuesday On Insurance Benefits
The possible addition of a maternity benefits plan to current Blue Cross-Blue-Cloak student insurance coverage will be announced on Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the Kansas Union.
Members of the Senate Student Services insurance plan subcommittee have arranged for Dr. Raymond Schweigler, director of Watkins Hospital, and Blue Cross-Blue Shield representatives to be present to answer questions and to discuss plans related to the insurance plan being recommended to the Senate for approval Wednesday.
The maternity benefits option, which would result in an increase in all student rates, will be the main question considered, according to Kathy Allen, Topeka sophomore and chairman of the insurance plan subcommittee.
"When the Student Senate considers adding a maternity benefits option to the insurance plan, it has to consider how to make it take advantage of this option," Allen said.
Alien said that the proposed plan offered more coverage for the student than the teacher.
Under the current plan, drugs are covered up to $100 per illness. Under the
proposed plan full drug coverage,
including birth control with an
emergency contraception provider.
UNDER THE CURRENT plan, hospita-
coverage pays up to $30 for a semi-private
room with a private room allowance up to
$30. The proposed plan pays full coverage
for a semi-private room and pays the
average semi-private room charge toward
the room. There is a $25 deductible
for room charges outside of Watkins
Hospital.
The proposed plan provides for accidental injuries and medical home and office calls, which are not included in the current plan.
The subcommittee favors the adoption of two options in addition to the basic plan, the out-patient diagnostic laboratory and the treatment of contraceptive devices. Allen said.
The basic yearly insurance cost with these two options would be $70.92 for a student policy, $191.16 for a two party policy and $200.76 for a family policy. Allen said.
Allen said that the purpose of the open hearing was to give students the opportunity to voice their opinions and to ask questions concerning the policy.
Kansan Photo by RAY TOTTEN
Campus Canine Enjoys Friendly Frisbee Game
While most campus dogs are out looking for bones or sticks, this one takes a more human approach toward his life. If you don't mind a slobbered on frisbee or one with a few teeth, it man's best friend could make a worthwhile addition to a growing campus pastime.