University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, March 29,1972
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KING HUSEIN of Jordan met with President Nixon Tuesday but the White House said no stand was taken on the monarch's plan to establish a semi-autonomous Palestinian nation on the West Bank of the Jordan River. Hussein is in the United States not only to help keep the Jordanian army on the ground but to national military aid from the United States, particularly in the form of modern battle tanks, rifles and new military aircraft.
Reacting to criticism, some big retailers said that they were not responsible for RISING Prices for meat and other foods. Those who operate at the retail level said that the pressure of competition kept them from passing along all of their costs increases. President Nixon, in a news conference last Friday, said that the spread between what the farmer gets and what the consumer pays was too great, and that he would "take action" if food prices did not come down.
PRESIDENT JOZEF CYRANKIEWICZ of Poland, a falling star in the Communist hierarchy, resigned, an official announcement said. Henry Jablonski, a member of the party's ruling Poliburo and until recently a minister of education, replaced him.
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SAIGON—American B52 bombers hammered suspected enemy targets in South Vietnam in a campaign to break up any enemy attempt at starting an offensive. The U.S. Command said the bombs logged seven missions in South Vietnam, three of them in northern Thien Thu Province and the others in the Province of Kontum in the central highlands.
Food Contamination Limits Announced
WASHINGTON (AP)—The Food and Drug Administration made public the first time it will require contaminants as rodent droppings, insect fragments, or mold it allows in processed food.
The so-called filt-tolerance guide below which the defect is unavoidable under current technology and is the agency said, it conceited it has been too secretive in the past about these defects.
Although the technical guidelines dating back to 1911 have been zealously shielded from public view, FDA officials acknowledged that the food industry has obtained general training and experience years through government seizure cases taken into court.
The limits cover microscopic insect fragments, rodent parallels and caterpillars. The cysts, fruit-fly eggs and rot in food products such as fruit juices, cheese, yogurt, eggs, flour, grain, spices, chocolate, nuts and jam and jelly.
For example, the FDA said it generally allows one rodent pet dish to be used if there is damage or damage in 10 per cent of coffee beans, up to 10 million bottles.
a maximum of one per cent insect
culture in 10% salt and
pepper, mold in from 20 to 40
percent of most tomato products
samples in cages in 100
cents of soil.
FDA officials said there was no way to avoid such defects from food supplies, even with modern technology, and processing technology
"Unless you grow things in a greenhouse there is no defense." The defendants, Virgil Wodicka, director of the PBA's Bureas of Foods, said at a hearing on Monday.
"The only answer is to remove them as your wife does from garden vegetables."
Officials said the guidelines were maximums, above which the government moves to seize or sell food products from commerce.
Although FDA officials insisted the process of preparing filth tolerances for public release had been delayed, they conceded that they conceded it was speeded along by a recent threat to Chicago Sun Times newspaper William Hines to force disclosure of the Freedom of Information Act.
FDA General counsel Peter Hunt said they were not released because he was the agency feared private industry leaders rather than outside limits.
Kansas Teacher Retirement System was merged with the Kansas Public Employees Retirement System.
A MEMBER of the conference committee on the tax lid-local sales tax measure said the department agreed upon a plan which called
House Approves Appropriations
- Extension of authority to levy sales tax until December 31, 1973 for only the three cities that have been named cities, Topeka and Manhattan.
Prison Break Delays Davis Trial
SAN JOSIE, Calif. (AP)—One prison者 was slain during a jail break in which he caused a one-day postponement of the Angela Davis trial. Two
Teachers retiring since the
receiver is more likely to
receive much higher benefits
than those who retired earlier.
The omnibus appropriations
bills passed last year and
extension bills had been the
major items holding up ad-
dministration.
The jail break, which deputies said was not connected to the trial, erupted on the second floor of the Santa Clara County jail where four inmates Davis and her attorneys arrived at the courthouse 200 feet away.
Udershershery Tom Rosa said three inmates—two Mexican Americans and a white—came into the medical section on the second floor of the main jail where she was being treated with 12 inch blades on a 20-year woman secretary and a male public defender.
Rosa identified the dead man, who was shot at the jail elevator; as Jacob Zitcher, 30, also known as Chuck Williams, a San Quentin
The House and Senate joined in ratifying the federal equal rights for women constitutional amendment.
—Authority for any other city or county to levy a local sales tax would expire with the tax lid.
TOPEKA (AP) — The Kansas Legislature adjourned adjournment Tuesday night, completing action on a multi-million dollar ombits bills and reaching apparent agreement on two other major bills.
Final action on the appropriations bill was by the House. It adopted a conference report which took out the bill to boost retirement benefits of teachers who retired before the
The Senate approved a conference committee report on the salary bill and sent it to the House.
The House approved the tax lid local sales tax extension conference committee report and sent it to the Senate.
The appropriations measure went to the governor.
One bill would extend the sales tax lid and authority for some local units of government to lower local sales taxes, and the other would provide pay increases for most official officials, including legislators.
He said they threatened to kill the hostages if their demands weren't met.
The murder-kidnap-conspiracy trial of Miss Davis first was postponed and then recessed for the day, at the request of her attorney. The defense had been scheduled to begin opening statements.
After seizing the hostages, the three inmates had demanded that the sheriff's department supply a getaway车 with the motorcycle.
Lucas and Guerrero were taken to a hospital where doctors described them as "in an emotional state of shock."
For almost two hours, Rosa
ROSA SAID the other two in-
ventors, uca, 22, and Ted Guerrero, 31,
Sue Kawamoto, 20, and public defender Alex Leonoff, 31, were
The undersherifr said first word of the escape attempt came at 8:40 a.m. when the jail internal alarm sounded. It was all over at 8:40 a.m., one minute after the final shot was fired, he said.
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Cenie J. Williams Jr., president of the National Association of Black Social Workers, will talk on the viability of the social work profession through the blacks at 7:30 tonight in the Union Room of the Kansas Union
violation of probation
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Lt. Don Tamm said Zitzer, who was serving a life term for killing an American hostage escaped from San Quentin Prison Dec. 13 by stuffing a dummy in his bed and scaling a 20-foot wall of a rope fumed of prison denial.
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back into the elevator where the two other were holding the camera while the single shotgun blast, Rosa said.
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might shout louder, rose said.
Deputies then rushed into the
elevator to capture the other
immates and free the hostages.
An informal discussion is to be held at 4 p.m. in Parlors A and B of the Union.
Lucas was being held on a federal bank robbery charge and Guerrero was awaiting transfer to another bank. She was a robbery conviction and
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said, she sheriff* deputies the trio, who finally ended the desecration demanded immediate freedom, threatening to kill the hostages
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