Friday's issue of the Summer Session Kansan will be a special one, both in form and content. Prepared by Richard Loue, the 24-page tablebook includes a range of art work and a new perspective on the world.
Headquarters Keeps Going
The University of Kaunas—Lawrencee. Kaunas
81st Year, No. 10
Tuesday, July 13, 1971
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Army Rebels In Morocco Condemned
RABAT, Morocco (UPI)—Rebel army officers who led a bloody but unsuccessful coup against King Hassan II were to be executed by a firing squad Monday.
Kansan Photo by Hank Youns
Hassan, asked at a press conference if the rebels could be interviewed, said "they should have been shot out of hand and I am afraid that it may no longer be possible to execute them as they will probably be executed by a fireman," he added. "have us all the information we need."
How many officers might go before the firing squad was not known. A government spokesman said 158 rebels were killed in fighting and 700 were captured. But apart from their generals and two colonels, the spokemen did not know how many of those prisoners were officers.
University Employes Picket Outside Chancellor's Residence
Another 28 persons were killed, most of them guests at a reception marking Hassan's 42nd birthday at the Skirat Palace killing was south of Rabat. Among those killed is the Belgian ambassador to Morocco, Marcel Dupet, Moroccan Supreme Court President Ahmed Bahini and several Moroccan generals.
... workers seek increase in salaries
The king escaped unharmed, although he was held for two hours by the rebels. There was a brief outburst of fresh fighting Sunday night, but it was quelled. Officials said the army had crushed the last pockets of resistance in the city center.
Rebel soliders, most of them young cadets, were marched to prison camps with their heads shaved and their hands tied. They had seized the radio station Saturday night,
Hassan told the news conference, "it was a Libyan-style coup d'etat with everything that goes along with it, like childishness and imperfection." He said several officers had tricked their soldiers into rushing the palace in the belief the king's life was in danger. The dashing into the banquet hall and for two hours, they would rob the king, and fired at anything that broke them.
"Their staccato gestures, their stirring eyes and the way they sweated confirmed to us that they were drugged." Hassan said. He said drugs were found on the cannulated troops.
The attack ended when some cadets realized what was happening, recognized the threat, and left.
The leader of the coup, Gin. Ahmed Medbouth, head of the Moroccan Military School and a close adviser to Hassan, accidentally was killed by one of his own men, Ferdinand de Moorocco republic. The nation has been a submarine and then a kingdom for 12 centuries.
Hassan said the attempt would not affect the visit of Vice President Shiro T. Agnew, scheduled for July 25. Agnew is on a 10-nation world tour.
Belfast Erupts on Protestant Holiday
BELFAST, Northern Ireland (UPI) — a series of bomb blasts caused damage and injuries in Belfast early morning but failed to dampen Protestant enthusiasm for their rebellion. Orange Day celebrations marking a 300-day victory over the Roman Catholics.
British forces—11,000 of them—were on guard throughout Northern Ireland to try to stave off trouble between the two religious groups at parades and celebrations under way in 19 cities. More than 100,000 Protestants were taking part in the various celebrations.
Seven blasts rocked Belfast before dawn
Monday, destroying two dreary showers.
knocking out the doors and windows of a Chinese restaurant and a demolishing a row
In the Bryson Street area where both Protestants and Roman Catholics live, a borne rippled through a private home, injuring two people. The destroyed an electricity transformer at Fire Island where thousands of Orangemen were gathering later in the day for the main parade celebrating King William's victory over France in 1682, James II in 1690 at the Battle of the Boney
slogans when the explosions went off. The crowds scattered in many places and there were some shouts of "It's the IRA"—the outlawed Irish Republican Army—but they later regrouped and the celebrations continued.
On the political front, Jack Lynch, the premier of the Irish Republic to the south, called for the reunification of the North and South. In a speech on the anniversary of the Irish Independence in 1947, he announced a timetable for withdrawal of financial and military support for the North.
Belfast's Protestant neighborhoods were dight with bisonhes fointing anti-Caballero
Northern Irish Premium Brian Faulk,
accused Lynch of encouraging terrorism.
Union Demands Increase in Pay
About 50 employees of the University picked Cicherell E. Lawrence Chalmers, Jr.'s house Saturday morning in a demonstration for higher wages.
The union blames Chalmers for not increasing the civil service salaries. In an interview last week, Chalmers said the state legislature had not allocated any money in the budget that would increase, and that there is simply not any money in the budget for such increases in salary.
Chalmers said he was concerned about self-truth and manifestation" being used in his own work.
Lloyd Rose, business manager for the union, said there were about 1,500 civil service or classified, employee working at KU. That state law declares that classified degrees shall be eligible for pay raises annually, but that the raises are not given this year.
The protesters, most of them members of the Kansas Public Service Employees Union, Local 1132, demanded that Chailmers find the money and employees the mend pay increases they were receiving.
union's claim that although civil service increases did not come through, several employees with salaries more than $15,000 received raises totaling $42,000.
"The organizers are ignoring the fact that the $3,400 could not be distributed to classified employees because that money came, for the most part, from career development grants or career development grants are federally funded, and include stipulations about any increases."
According to Rose, the legislature aumented money for other state employees to receive increase's. He said employees at the KU Medical Center have received increases.
Harry Buchholz, of the physical
property for buildings and grounds, said that the problem is very complex.
“There are no raises until July of next year because there’s no money for,” Buchholz said. “The legislature did not allow money for it.”
Rose said that although a strike unpleasant for everyone involved, the union would not rule it out as an alternative if action is not taken by Chalmers or by the legislature.
Open Market Bidding To Set Price of Gold
The move is expected to "create the gold rush of 71 in Southern California," said David Callahan, president of the West Coast Commodity exchange.
LOS ANGELES (UP1) -- The world's first open market for public trading in gold futures - payable in legal gold coins more than once a week, next week, it was announced this weekend.
"open bidding procedure will determine gold prices for the first time in the 300-year history of commodity exchanges in this country and abroad," Callahan said.
Beginning July 20, the exchange will begin dealing in gold futures just as it presently deals in silver, copper, cocoa and sugar, he said.
The exchange will thus join the U.S. government and an exclusive consortium of London banks in determining the worth of the loan. The U.S. government expects its unique market to attract investors from around the world and "strengthen the dollar, reverse the drain on U.S. gold reserves and aid in easing the currency crisis," an exchange spokesman said.
pending repeal or amendment of the Gold Reserve Act of 1934," which forbids U.S. citizens to own private gold bullion stocks. The new law, made in british gold coins minted before 1934,
The exchange announcement said that
"Legal ownership of pre-1984 gold coins is specifically authorized by the Gold Reserve Association."
Four British gold sovereigns will be accepted under the exchange's deals as one troy ounce.
The British coins will be "the first of several international gold coins to be acceptable for equivalent delivery under the gold contract," the exchange said.
Gold is currently priced under a "two-wier" system, with the U.S. Treasury pigging the price of monetary gold at $35.00 an ounce, and the price of non-monetary gold floating at higher prices-up to $42–under the guidance of the London consortium.
The London group has been the sole international source of gold pricing, with the approval of refiners and assayers in 14 nations—the United States, Britain, Russia, France, Canada, Australia, Belgium, Mainland China, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, South Africa, Sweden, and Switzerland.
Art Museum Must Keep Works Under Wraps
Kansan Photo by HANK YOUNG
Valuable Paintings Stay in Storage Rooms .. insurance agencies fear works will be damaged
Bv DEBBIE GUMP
The Museum of Art here at the University of Kansas has in its possession 75 to 100 masterpieces that KU students and neighboring art lovers will never see. Painting by Lorenzo Rossi, Theodore Rombouts, and Eduard Manet cannot be admired. An engraving by Albrecht Durer and a statue by Tilan Riemenschneider may not be seen. Many other art works too numerous to mention are behind locked doors. A public view, remaining behind locked doors.
After the burning of the Kansas Union a year ago last spring, the two insurance agencies handling the University's policies began worrying about the museum. The museum ordered the museum to decrease the intensity of value of works housed in the museum.
The reason for this closed-door culture policy is that the Museum of Art is a fire trap. When the museum was built in 1984 as Spooner Library, it wasn't fireproofed. The library was moved in 1924 when Watson Library was built, and the building was left open to visitors. The present day Museum of Art. It still is as much of a fire hazard as it was 77 years ago.
As a result, the "core of the collection" was moved elsewhere on campus, said Charles Hankins.
In addition to its lack of fire-proofing, the museum has developed a number of other fire-sensitive features.
It's pretty gritty in terms of physical plant. Eldred lamented, as he listed the faults.
The exhibition galleries are inadequate for temperature and humidity control. During the summer months, the temperature sometimes soars well over 100 degrees on the second floor. Not only does this discourage visitors from spending time in the collection. Because of "difficulties with melting art works," Eldredge said, they had to move some pieces down to the air-
The museum does not have elevators, which creates a problem for both the visitor and to the process of moving heavy and fragile art works.
conditioned offices
In the dry winter months steam has to be pumped in to maintain proper humidity, but this results in water bending up on the surfaces of paintings and sculptures. Edlore compared the situation to putting a wooden chair in a steam bath for 50 years.
"Space is the main problem," declared Eldredge. "We're just hurting the walls."
The budget we're just building the Wink! The budget also not what it used to be. The state of NY is operating budget and salaries, and given salary for new acquisitions for the art museum. This year, both the operating budget and the acquisitions allowment were cut.
A good portion of the building was originally used as exhibition space, but several exhibition galleries were lost when the department of art history moved into the museum. Space has since become a precious commodity.
The museum raises funds for new acquisitions from private donors, and from its annual membership drive, acclaimed the Patrons and Benefactors Program, which has raised approximately 400,000 since it began in 1963. Eldredge said there have been inquiries from some donors as to why their gifts can't be donated. Once the situation has been explained, the beneficiaries realize how unsafe it would be to display the works in the museum.
More than half of the 172-piece collection that was on exhibition at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts are members of the elite group of artists in the collection. The collection returned to KU at the beginning of July. The main gallery will be closed from Aug. 1 through Aug. 28 so that the art works not returning to storage can be reinvented and put in for certain items in the collection.
The collection that was removed from the museum is actually better off where it is now, since the humidity is controlled by a dry method. A time will come, however, when there will not be room for the art works to be stored elsewhere.
Several other requests for the exhibition have been received, but there are no plans to proceed.
To start off the exhibitions, Jeoffre Karth's photos, Portraits of Artists, will be on display from Aug. 29 to Sep. 19. From Sept. 28 to Nov. 7 the exhibition will be Kansas Landscape by James Enyart, and from Oct. 24 to Dec. 5 Gene Swenson's collection of Pop Art will be shown. From Nov. 28 to Dec. 19 there will be an exhibition of Willa Blake's prints.
certain amount of danger, Eldredge sau,
every time they are moved.
Neither are there any plans to show the pieces in sorage to the KU community. Eldredge explained that even though there are a few places where one or two pieces might be shown, there would be no protection for them. Some are paintings on wooden panels and reaction to the heat and humidity would cause the paint to buckle and crack.
At the thought of a new building, the acting director sighed, "Wouldn't it be nice?" There's been some discussion about a new museum and the KU Endowment Association. It was established in 1967. As part of their centennial activities in 1967, the Association began a three-year Program for Progress, a capital gift campaign. A new museum was luted as one of the objectives in the program, but no donor was willing to contribute the $3 million necessary for a new museum.
Despite the ailments of the Art Museum, it will be as active as possible next year. One activity will be the Descent program, in which fifth and sixth graders are given tours of the museum after being taught in their classrooms on what they will see.
There are tentative plans by the University and the Endowment Association for a special fund drive to raise money for a new museum. The date for the drive, the amount desired, will be decided not yet been decided upon. Irving Younghold, executive secretary of the Association, said.
Kansan Photo by Hank Young
Space for Exhibits Is Limited
... new museum desperately needed for display