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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
OD Staff Tells
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82nd Year, No. 95
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
Tuesday, February 29, 1972
Kansen Photo by MALCOLM TURNER
Workmen Bring in Reinforcements of Steel
Construction workers carry steel wire to be used for floor reinforcement in the new Wesley Hall. Completion of the multimillion dollar project would allow the use of this
favorable weather has been greatly appreciated not only by the Wesco laboratories but also by sidewalk superintendents as well.
Tarr Criticizes Amnesty
WASHINGTON (AP) — Selective Service Director Curtis W. Tarr told senators Monday that granting amnesty to Vietnam would be un判 in and set a dangerous precedent.
Tarr told Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's judicial subcommittee that the induction system could be wrecked by granting total military power to those exile rather than fight in Vietnam.
He said it could jeopardize the safety of the nation in future conflicts, set a dangerous precedent of selective acceptance of laws and be unfair to men willing to enter the armed forces when drafted.
"The nation would accept a precedent for permitting the evasion of Selective Service law that might some day be an unwelcome tradition." Tarr said.
Tarr said he would instruct draft boards to give these men a chance to reopen their draft status, but Selective Service officials said the number is not likely to be large.
However, he said, some Americans who fled the country and were not under indictment might have since become victims of government misconduct status because of Supreme Court decisions.
Kennedy who said the United States has become a creator of political exiles rather than a haven for them, criticized Tarr's administration of the Selective Service under reform legislation passed two years ago.
The Massachusetts Democrat accused the system of showing "a willingness to unduly sacrifice the right of registrants to the ease of its own operations."
While estimates of those who have left the country rather than face the draft have ranged up to 70,000 and the number of applicants has fallen from 20,000 to 14,000, Tarr said 6,000 draft registrants face possible prosecution. He said that if they were not penalized, it would be difficult to get them into the job market.
Tarr said the induction process might not be harmed by the proposal of Sen. Robert Tait, I-Osho, to grant amnesty if he is found to have committed either induction or alternative service.
But such a bill would be grossly unfair.
he said, to 2.5 million men and women who were Vietnamese and to those still being drafted.
He said he could go no further than President Nixon, who said recently that no amnesty would be considered until the war and all American prisoners were returned.
"How much of a penalty are we going to ask these people to pay?" Kenneth asked, asking if he would be willing.
country are getting much of a "free ride."
"Most of the political leaders of this country are asking for amnesty from their past positions on war and they're going to publicly to public to try to get it," Kennedy said.
Tarr replied later that he believes "that when the authority to induct expires, the can embark on a careful examination of the full problem of amnesty."
KU Strikers to Retain Jobs, Oldfather Rules
Student picket lines did not appear in front of Strong Hall Monday in light of a statement by Charles Oldfather, University of Kansas attorney, that striking civil service workers would not be discharged from their jobs.
University administrators had threatened to discharge striking employees under a Kansas law which says civil service employees off their jobs for five consecutive days without excuse can be considered to have abandoned their jobs.
Picket lines manned by students sympathetic to the striking workers had appeared Friday in front of Strong Hall, when university administrative offices located
Keith Nitcher, vice chancellor for business affairs, said resignation papers would not be processed for striking and would said they would not be paid for days absent.
Referring to the five-day rule, Oldfather said. "We do not find the regulation sufficiently definitive to justify treating the employees as having resigned."
Oldfather also asked the state attorney general's office for an opinion on the status of civil service employees who have been off the job, some for eight daws.
A new labor law is scheduled to go into effect Wednesday which prohibits strikes
Oldfather explained that his letter requested the attorney general's "advice and directives about what posture the attorney should take when he goes into law goes into Wednesday morning."
An estimated 100 workers continued picketing at various campus sites Monday, but the University's action drew favorable reaction from them.
Some of the striking employees said last week they were not worried about being fired by the University, and that they were so disheartened through court action if they were discharged.
by civil service employees. It also calls for a statewide labor agency to employee representation.
KU's Spring Enrollment Increases 3.4 Per Cent
At issue with the employees is a pay raise approved in November of 1970 that was to go into effect July 1, 1971. The University did not provide the money for the raises.
There are 2,873 freshmen enrolled, a per cent decrease from last spring. But there are only 15.7 per cent higher than last spring. Junior enrollment is down 619 from last spring.
Taking tacit note of conservative criticisms of his Taiwan pledge, Nixon said he returned to the Capitol that Paul was "reinforced into to decide the fate of any nation.
Nixon Returns Home Lauding Peace Work
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Nixon returned Monday night from his historic mission to China, defending his pledge to ultimately withdraw all U. S. forces from Taiwan, and proclaiming his journey had made an occasion for a new structure of world peace.
He said that it was due to students dropping out because of financial or scholastic problems.
Addressing a crowd of several thousand jammed into an airport hangar—and a national television audience—Nixon traced the details of the communique that was issued after his unprecedented talks with Chinese leaders.
He repeated a phrase he used several times in China—"Peace is too urgent to wait for centuries. We must seize the moment and move toward that goal now."
The numbers of seniors are fairly constant, according to Conard. He said a KU degree was prized and even though students go to other schools in the country, they still come to KU for their senior year. The figures show eight more seniors than last year.
Affirms Taiwan Exit
Nixon noted the devotion of the Chinese to their way of government, but said: "I come back to America with an even greater sense of faith in our system of government."
There are 635 more students enrolled at the University of Kansas, than at this last year, an increase of 3.4 per cent to officials in the registrar's office.
"THAT IS what we have done on this journey," Nixon said.
He said—without giving specifics—that a procedure had been set up to continue discussions with Chinese leaders in the future.
He expressed hope that as a result of his trip 'our children will have a better chance to thrive'.
The object, Nixon said, was to "talk about differences rather than fight about them."
Enrollment figures show 19,116 students this spring, compared with 18,461 last year. The figures represent Lawrence and Kansas City campuses.
we don't bring back any ... until we get to the point of unwitting peace in our time," he continued. There is no magic formula, Nixon said, but "we have made some necessary and important changes."
AGNEW, in welcoming Nixon, said "Because of your visit, the Chinese and American people stand further removed from the confrontation the world has feared for decades. We feel easier tonight because of your trip."
then, With vice President Spiro T. Agnew at their side, they walked along the ranks of congressional leaders, Cabinet officers and diplomats to the platform Nixon faced the television cameras and the crowd jammed into the large hanger.
HE INWOKED the "seize the moment" statement—similar to Chairman Ma Tsetting's phrase "Seize the hour"—when he planted in China a tree planted in China by the U. S. party.
Although an increase from last spring, it is a drop of 4.8 per cent for the Lawrence campus from last fall.
As President and Mrs. Nixon stepped from the blue-and-white presidential jet, the "spirit of '76," the Army herald trumpeters sounded ruffles and flourishes, and he was the nation's most national anthem and other martial music with five other service bands, joining in.
"There were no secret deals of any kind" reached during his talks, Nixon said.
As the chief executive stepped before television cameras to report to the nation, he was under criticism from conservatives upset by his pledge that U.S. troops
The growth of a redwood takes centuries, Nixon said, "so we hope that the seeds planted on this journey for peace prosper" into a more enduring peace.
John Conard, director of University relations and development said Monday that the decrease was normal.
But he also had endorsements from some members of Congress, including warm praise from Sen. Edward M. Dickerson, a longtime administration critic.
Before leaving Elmendorf Air Force Base near Anchorage, Alaska, on the last leg of his 20,355-mile journey, Nixon told a crowd of about 1,000 that because of his peace for this generation of people is the best since the end of World War II.
ultimately will be withdrawn from Taiwan. This is emerging as the mostcriticized portion of a communique issued by the government a week of talks with Communist leaders.
Nixon's nine-hour stopover at Anchorage's Elmendorf Air Force Base was arranged so he could readjust to timezone changes.
The big presidential jet, the "Spirit of 76," left Elmendorf at 3:38 p.m. EST, and was due at Andrews, just outside Washington, between 9 and 9:30 p.m.
Before leaving Shanghai, where he held the last of his series of meetings with Premier Chou En-lai, Nikon told a banquet "this was the week that changed the China. The Chinese and American people hold the future of the world in their hands."
"THIS MAKES me realize the big responsibility to bring the world peace—to build a world where we can all live in that was the purpose of our trip," he said.
In the communique issued Sunday in Shanghai, Nixon promised to withdraw all U.S. troops from Taiwan and agreed with the Chinese to develop bilateral trade, support the development and contacts between the two governments short of formal diplomatic relations.
Administration officials defended it as a logical application of the Nixon Doctrine that allies should be chiefly responsible for their own defense. And they argued that the broad results justify the concession, at any rate.
The United States "reaffirms its interest in a peaceful settlement of the Taiwan question by the Chinese themselves," the communique said. "With this prospect in mind, we intend to establish objective of the withdrawal of all U.S. military installations from Taiwan.
ACCORDING TO THE 1,750-word communique, the extensive talks with Chou—and a brief session with party Chairman Mae Tse-tung—brought on
PRESIDENTIAL ADVISER Henry Kissinger said the wording does not contradict the President's recent pledge to Taiwan, the mutual-defense treaty with Taiwan.
change in the two governments' opposing positions on Vietnam.
It was the portion of the communique relating to Taiwan that caused most distress.
But Rep. John M. Ashbrook of Ohio, a conservative challenge Nixon for the Republican presidential nomination, said Mr. Obama's decision to the President's agreement on Taiwan.
Ashbrook said he was distressed also by "the contrast between the conciliatory, deferential rhetoric employed by the United States and the military propaganda that marked the Chinese portions of the communique."
"In the meantime, it will progressively reduce its forces and military installations on Taiwan as the tension in the area diminishes."
Most Democratic presidential contenders were less sturdier but one, Sen. Henry M. Jackson of Washington, said "it appears we're doing the withdrawing, and they're doing the staying. That doesn't sound like a good horse trade."
SEN. EDWARD M. KENNEDY, D-MAX,
a frequent citizen of communi
Dysart said it wasn't known whether the defendants named were actually in the building, but said, "We have reason to believe that," knowledge of who was in the building.
Dave Dysart, KU umbandsman and Lawrence third-year law student, said Monday the names would replace four or five lawyers. Does listed in the original complaint.
Dyart said the named defendants will be sent an interrogatory—a legal paper with questions which must be answered. The parties should also be to get additional names of defendants.
At the same time the amended complaint is filed, Dyssart plans to request a hearing in this case.
KU to Amend Complaint Adding Sisters' Names
Dyart said he didn't think it was the role of the umbandsm's office to act as copplaint, but said he would continue as co-pilant, but said he would Hooper, Liberal, first year lary student.
The complaint against the women who occupied the East Asian Studies building Feb. 4, will be amended today to include the names of four or five defendants.
Bays Ties China Interest to War
The KU ombudsman office was listed in the original complaint as co-plaintiff with the BM. The BM filed its complaint with
By STUART BOYCE
Kansan Staff Writer
The ombudsman's office will also remove itself today as co-plaintiff in the case. According to Dysart, the office must report action after deliberation and consultation.
explained that such an order would require the defendants to answer the interrogatory within 10 or 20 days (the time period would be in advance of the court) or be held in contempt of court.
If such an order is issued, it and the interrogatory and copies of the original and amended complaints will be sent by registered mail to the named defendants.
Because of the Vietnam war Americans desire more information about China, Daniel Bays, KU professor of history, said Monday night.
Bays spoke on "Mao and the Mandate-
Bays the Chinese Communist Party since 1949" in
a talk at New York University.
Bays said that until recently China has been known only through the endeavors of Chinese officials. But there was not much of a desire for information about China, and in some people's minds China was a diabolical power making life miserable for the
However, he said since the Vietnam war began, it had become more important to know what was actually taking place in South Korea and China and desire to know more about it.
BAYS SAID the U. S. government was now dealing realistically with China. Also, receiving facts and impressions about China said because the media can now report
directly from Peking, they are more objective and less bewildered.
Bays said perhaps now historical judgements could be made about China.
Bays explained that in the past China was ruled by the concept of a mandate of the emperor, which delegated power to the emperor and to man. However, the people had the power to take away the mandate from a bad emperor, accounted for the dynasties in China's past.
Bays said that even before the establishment of the Chinese Communist Party in 1921 there was a search for a new political system. The old system was not strong. It could not ward off the exploitation of its nations. Thus a new mandate was needed.
THE OBJECTIVES of this new mandate were quite clear. Not only did the mandate need to establish unity and control of China in the external status and work on internal change.
The Chinese Communist Party was
Bays said that when the Communist party and Chairman Mao came into power Bays said that if he was to succeed
described by Bays as being a tight-knit organization but spread over a large area.
Daniel Bays
and the people. He said it is not just an organization, for it leads and directs the society and has the compliance and cooperation of the people.
Bays said the new mandate had rebuttai national power. Externally, China has established respect for its power although it has far to go to obtain national security.
INTERNALLY, CHINA has had a series of mass political campaigns and cultural changes in the late 1960s. Since 1949 the social system has been transformed. Social level is now in the party. The destruction of class lines is being achieved.
Bays said that this social leveling had been criticized as leading to a mass drabness. However, Bays said, the Chinese now had justice, equality, a minimum standard of health and security and that the achievement was a colossal one.
Bays said the party was not self-serving and had retained the allegiance and his impression that he said that his impression that he qualified young people were still joining the party.