Sunshine
Sunny and warmer with 10 to 20 mile per hour south winds. Increasing cloudiness and warmer with increasing south winds tonight and Thursday. Highs today 65 to 70, moderate Thursday 75 to 80, precipitation probabilities near 0 per cent today and tonight.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
81st Year. No. 125
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Off-Campus Housing
Wednesday, April 14, 1971
See page 4
Israel Plans May Reopen Suez Canal
By United Press International
Israeli experts were reported Tuesday to have drawn up new proposals calling for limited withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Suez Canal to clear the way for reopening the blocked waterway. Diplomatic sources said a plan might be sent to Washington next week.
In Bcaro, a ranking member of Egypt's political leadership said the Mideast was "approaching the moment of an inevitable war," which peace efforts had reached a dead end.
Dia Eddin Dawd, a member of the Arab Socialist Union's Supreme Executive Committee, said in a Cairo TV interview that "Israel is fooling the world with false press reports about a partial withdrawal" and that Israel should maintain its occupation of Arab lands.
Kansan Staff Photo by DAVID HENRY
At the United Nations, Israel complained to the Security Council that Arab terror organizations based in Lebanon outraged 19 attacks on Israeli villages in the upper Galilee in a one-month period ending April 10. Israel Ambassador Yosel Tekah said the attacks were aimed at displacing arms fire across the border and the planting of land mines that blew up Israeli vehicles. In Jerusalem, diplomatic sources said the new Israeli proposals for reopening the canal were drawn up after several weeks of deliberations by top military and political officials. The plans would be presented to the cabinet for approval at its weekly session Sunday.
The proposals envisage a "limited" Israeli troop withdrawal from the Suez Canal through an elaborate system of safeguards to limit power loss in the balance of power in the area, the sum set
The safeguards, the sources said, include firm commitments that there would be a permanent cease-fire along the Suez Canal, an end to the state of belligerency and iron-clad guarantees that no Egyptian or Soviet troops would cross the waterway.
The sources declined to say how far Israel was willing to withdraw from the Suez Canal.
Death
Emick nominated Pallium. The nomination, was seconded by Hambleton.
"The last commission served about 12,000 hours and Bob Paulman worked through all of us."
Pulliam, who is a 1952 graduate of KU with a major in economics, is currently in the middle of his four-year term as a commissioner. He has been chairman of the city council during his term. He is manager of Terrill's Department Store, 800 Massachusetts St.
A larger number of people than is usually present at commission meetings witnessed the swearing in of the newly-elected city commissioners and the new mayor and vice mayor.
Bob Pullman, one of two incumbents on the city commission, was elected mayor of Lawrence Tuesday at the commission's meeting at city hall. John Emick, the only commissioner另 one to Pullman with two years' tenure, was elected vice mayor.
Whitewater, grad student, Richard Scharine, Whitewater, grad student and Peggy Friesen, Lawrence. Jones's play is about a great king Berengef, who is shown in his final hour before his death. The play is an attempt by Jones to reatomize死 and to help people accept dying. It will be presented April 23,24, and at the Westminster Center.
Bob Pulliam Is Elected New Mayor
City Clerk Vera Mercer administered the oaths of office to Nancy Hamleton, 2009 Oxford Rd., Jack Rose, 3430 Bellevue Circle, and Charles Fisher, 2400 Orchard Lane.
Rehearsing a scene from the play "Exit the King" by Eugene Ionese are from left to right, Jeanne Dellings, Wilmore, Ksra, junior Michael
Senate Holds 3rd Budget Hearing
By MATT BEGERT
Kansan Staff Writer
The Student Senate Finance and Auditing Committee heard allocation requests from six student groups last night at the third session of the committee, being conducted this week by the committees.
The Legal Aid Society requested $2,300 from the Student Activity Fund. The society, which is composed of 50 KU law students, is seeking any other community including any students who meet the financial specifications. An amount of $1,920 was requested for a secretary for the organization. Funds were also requested for typewriter maintenance and notary public fees.
Arnold Air Society and its honorary organization, Angel Flight, requested $250 for organizations provide programs for two rest homes in Lawrence, work with underprivileged children and support an orphan through the Christian Children's Fund
HEADQUARTERS, a division of Catalyst, which did not receive any previous funding, requested $1,550. Headquarters is a drug crisis center headed by citizens in the community. Services provided by the headquarters 24-hour telephone service for people seeking education and information on drug use and abuse and rehabilitation facilities.
Approximately half of the clients of Headquarters are University students. Other persons aided by the organization include young community members and high school students. Lawrence High School provided Headquarters with $800 for the continuation of the program, and the group also receives funds from the community.
The Commission on the Status of Women requested funds in the amount of $80,000. The Commission will accept such requests.
organization which stands to serve the needs of women at KU."
THE GROUP INCLUDES all women students at the University of Kansas as members of the organization. Activities of the group include presentations to the human sexuality seminars, a careers
program, a monthly newsletter, funds for publicity and public relations, research, leadership programs, a communication handbook, a child care center and maintenance and addition to the library located in the office of the dean of women.
See BUDGET Page 2
6,000 Vietnamese Troops Push Toward Fire Base 6
SAIGON (UP1)—Six south South Vietnam, the Vietnamese paratroopers and infantry launched a pincers movement Tuesday on Communist troops who have besieged Fire Base 6 in the northern Central Highlands for the past two weeks.
In the two-week fight for Fire Base 6, near the tri-border area where the frontiers of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos come together, 6,000 South Vietnamese troops closed on in the base Tuesday in a drive to crush its North Vietnamese besiegers.
U. S. Air Force B52 Strato-fortresses, each capable of carrying 30 tons of bombs, flew six missions Tuesday in jungles around Fire Base 6, trying to smash North Vietnamese troop concentrations. Air Force transport planes dropped two more 7-5t bombs in the area, adding to the destruction caused by two which were unloaded Monday.
By late afternoon, hours after the South Vietnamese task force landed by helicopter, advance elements reported pushing to within sight of Fire Base 6, a hilltop outpost on the Central Highlands near the Laotian and Cambodian frontiers.
Military sources said the Daisy Cutters were being used for the first time against
Committist troops, but an official communique from American headquarters said the giant bombs, the largest conventional explosive device in the U.S. arsenal, were designed to blast away foliage and create "instant" helicopter landing zones.
The South Vietnamese task force, composed of 1,500 paratroopers and about 4,500 infantrymen, landed on helicopters which had flown in from Quang Tri, a base in South Vietnam's northern quarter which served as a training base. The aircraft against the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos.
"There is no indication that they are being used for any other purpose," an official U.S.
South Vietnamese commanders said the paratroopers landed three miles south of Fire Base 6 and the infantrymen two miles north. The two units then began closing a pierces as U.S. and South Vietnamese artillery batteries took positions to prepare for explosive shells on the surrounding terrain.
U. S. helicopter gunships, jet fighters-bombers and South Vietnamese aircraft streaked overhead, supporting the push toward the base, and field reports said there was no significant contact with the enemy through late afternoon.
Summer Deadline
Laird Pledges End to Combat
WASHINGTON (UPI)- Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird said Tuesday that the U.S. combat role in the Vietnam War will end this summer, but that some naval and air forces will be maintained in Southeast Asia indefinitely.
While he declined to say when the American presence in South Vietnam might be terminated allogether, Laird pledged that there would be a "commitments of "massive manpower" there.
Declaring that President Nixon's doctrine for Southeast Asia "is to make the best use of the resources our Allies have," the secretary said, "To say that we would not have a nuclear war after Vietnam under the strategy of realist difference . . . would certainly be misleading."
"I would envision that United States presence in Asia as far as naval forces are concerned and as far as air power is concerned. We will be able to make a realistic deterrent we would maintain in Asia."
In predicting when the combat responsibility might be turned over to the South Pacific, it is important to
than "in the summer period" this year.
Then, looking beyond that, he told newsmen: "I would not have you think that we would not have a security force or that it would not be involved in some combat.
"Some people go away from these meetings with the impression the combat forces we have in Vietnam then will remain around defense lines and not protect the peace. This is not true. They will protect the American presence."
During the news conference, Laird denied that the tough resistance in the South Vietnamese met in the incursion into Laos had the effect of preventing Nixon's Vietnamization process.
On another subject, the secretary said, in reply to questions, that there was evidence the Soviet Union has supplied Egypt with increasing amounts of sophisticated weapons and also evidence of the "establishment of a naval base in the Mediterranean area."
On the latter point, defense officials saina Laired refer to long-standing Soviet naval facilities at Mersa Matruh — not previously referred to officially as a "base."
Military Police Foiled; Robbers Get $250,000
NEW YORK (UP1). Three polite gunmen posing as detectives outwitted military police Tuesday and stole $20,000 veterans hospital payroll from a bank on Brooklyn's FL Hamilton military reservation after holding 14 persons hostage overnight.
Police said the operation was carried out with such precision that the robbers must have been thoroughly rehearsed in their movements. They even took care to spray the lens of the protective television camera in the bank with black paint from an aerosol can.
Officials of the Community National Bank and Trust Co., whose military reservation branch was the gang's target, said it would take 24 to 48 hours to determine exactly how much money was taken from the safe when the robbers made their escape in the bank. The officers who identified the money were identified as the payroll for the nearby Veterans Administration hospital.
The car was found abandoned at 10 a.m. in Brooklyn, which is linked to State Island by the Verranza Narrows Bridge. At midafternoon the gang had not been apprehended. A 13 state alarm was issued and the FBI entered the case.
According to police, the 12-hour drama began about 7:30 p.m. Monday when bank manager Charles Disgraa, 84, answered the doorbell of his Staten Island home and found three men. They identified themselves with a man in his 60s, a woman and said their car had broken down.
Diogra said the men then pulled guns, donated skips masks and gloves and forced him to drive to the Karatta house. Once there they tried to find a safe place in Diane; Mrs. Karatta, her husband, John, and
After Diogna admitted the men, they told him to send home a woman whom he was helping with her income tax returns, a reward for his efforts and an award asked Diogna about his wife and family and he told them they were spending the evening at the nearby home of Mrs. Diogna's sister, Mrs. Margaret Baratta, secretary to the Richmond County Democratic Party
their son John Jr.; their daughter and son-nan law, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Castellano; their three sons; and another Baratta daughter, Ms. Joanne Millar; her husband and son. Sometimes after dawn, the hostages were either tied or handcuffed to pipes in the courtyard and two of the men left with Disigra. Mr. and Mrs. Daniela Barattua house. Disigra said the man took off their masks, put on dark glasses, and told him to look straight ahead.
The car bore an Army sticker that got them by military police at the gate to Ft. Hamilton. When they reached the bank, the men put on their masks again and ordered Disagra to work his half of the safe's combination. When he returned, she arrived, she was ordered to work her bell.
By this time three other women employees had arrived and were handcuffed and tied up with Disogra and Mrs. Guiliano in a lady's laxity. Police and the robbers completed the task, but Ms. Guiliano made phone call to his confederate at the Disogra home saying, "We're leaving now."
FBI Agencies Could Close Due to Theft
WASHINGTON (UPD) - Faced with the embarrassing theft of internal documents, the FBI Tuesday was reported planning to close some of the 500 resident agencies it maintains throughout the nation because of security problems.
The FBI declined comment on how many of the offices might be closed or where. The decision could be taken without any formal announcement.
More than 1,000 documents were stored last March 8 from the FBI's two-man Media, Pa.-resident office in a college suburban area of Philadelphia.
Vice-Chancellor William Balfour
... studied to be a doctor
Job 'Rewarding and Frustrating'
By BOB DICKSON
Kansan Staff Writer
In 1968, Balfour took up the University of Kansas' dean of students. Francis Heller, vice chancellor of academic affairs, recommended Balfour, and said he was a "very good candidate" to accept, accepted, and he served as dean of students until 1969.
William Baifour and the office of vice chancellor for student affairs seem tailor-made for each other. It is not unusual to have a dean who is
In 1969, the title of the office changed to vice chancellor for student affairs, and with the change came an influx of new responsibilities. Balfour fielded those responsibilities as if he had been handling them all his life. He hadn't.
His education was aimed for a career in internal medicine. He had practiced medicine for 15 years, including his internship. He came to KU in 1987 while the medical school was still on the Lawrence campus. He taught physiology and biology while doing research on rates of brain metabolism.
THE MEDICAL CENTER moved to its present location in Kansas City, but Balfour remained in Lawrence to teach and continue his research. As a professor, he became interested in curriculum in general and the study of pedagogy in particular. After a few years as a counselor, he was appointed director of Pearson College in the CWC program.
The came the surprise invitation to become dean of
students in 1968.
"The job" It's very rewarding and very frustrating." Balfour said.
"It is rewarding for all the normal reasons you might suppose. Just helping people—seeing things happen that need to happen. But for every time something does happen, it takes a lot more that hasn't. That's the frustration," he said.
HELPING PEOPLE is almost inherent with Baflour. His middle name, Mayo, links him to his cousins, operators of the world-renowned Mayo clinic in Minneapolis, who was his only consideration for a profession he said.
Still he continues to teach "the same course, the same notes, the same old jokes," that he taught in his early years at KU. He likes to teach, and he said it helps him keep up on the advances in his field.
With all that already demanding his attention, there are still things that Balfour would like to see initiated.
"I couldn't go back to it now though, even if I wanted to. It has been nearly fifteen years since I left the practice. Medicine changes too fast for that," said Balfour, without visible regret.
WHEN HE BECAME vice chancellor of student affairs, he found himself in charge of 10 University concerns that relate to students. Within his jurisdiction are the deans of men, women, and foreign students, housing and problems, the health services, the student union, guidance counseling, financial aid and the information center.
"We're really don't do enough research. We can talk about things we are able to do—doing students and solving problems. We can't seem to get the resources to beat these things before they arise," he said.
He also would like to see changes in the University residence hall system. At present, he said that the residence halls are not fulfilling the needs of today's students.
"It would be nice to see them all replaced with something more practical, that is out of the question."
BESIDES KEEPING touch with students on campus and working to solve their problems, Balfour must meet with groups outside the University community. He said this was often one of the most difficult parts of his job, because many people who are out of touch with today's culture understand why some of the old traditions must be changed.
The vice chancellor said he would like to get a campus-wide placement service organized. Although individual schools have such placement offices, he said, he was assuming a good bet by not establishing one central bureau.
"I'd like to see some experimental programs started if we can ever get the staff." Bailour continued
*Analysis of what a student contends with in his University life, what can be done for off-campus students in his country.*
There was a brief pause, and a quiet chuckle. "I also raise orchids."