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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
81st Year, No. 121
Thursday, April 8, 1971
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Kansan Staff Photo by JIM HOFFMAN
A year ago this month a fire extensively damaged many parts of the Kansas Union, including the ballroom. That area is now nearing the
final stages of renovation. Renewal Myers, who is employed by an area flooring firm, applied one of the squares of composition flooring while a co-worker mixed a batch of the cement used in application. All the finishes were applied with touching touches should be completed in time for spring commencement.
Congress Urged to Investigate FBI
WASHINGTON (UPI)—Congress was urged Thursday to thoroughly investigate the FBI to assure members of Congress that J. Edgar Hoover's agents were not eavesdropping on them as House Democratic leader Hale Boggs has charged.
As the controversy over the FBI and its 76-year-old director continued unabated, the police and security officials specially firm to make sure no members' phones were tapped and a committee chairman released private, three-week-old calls. The officers had never tapped a commissional telephone.
BOGGS FIRST made his charge on the House floor Monday and repeated it at a news conference Tuesday, saying that the FBI had kept congressmen under surveillance and attacked him with bombs. The charge was quickly denied by the Attorney General J. Mitchell and the White House.
Rep. John Rodney, D-N.Y., chairman of a House appropriations subcommittee, Wednesday disclosed testimony in which Hower voluntarily told the panel March 17 that the FBI had never tapped a congressional telephone since he became director in 1924.
Hoover also told the subcommittee, according to Rooney, that his agents went out of their way not to involve congressmen in routine surveillance activity.
"As to surveillance," said Hoover, "when our agents have a suspect who has violated a law, we can go in and inspect any of the buildings of the Capitol compound, the agents drop him at the entrance and they never enter the building to follow him to the building where he is, what congressman or senator may see."
Rep. Wayne Hays, D-Ohio, chairman of the House Administration Committee, announced plans to install an electronic service after he conferred with speaker Carl Albert.
HAYS SAID his committee would sign a contract with an electronics firm that will check all congressmen's telephones in order to see if any listening devices were attached.
Hays presumed that if there were any phone taps now, they would be removed because of his announcement. But he said the committee would maintain the service to make occasional and irregular checks on house telephones.
Deputy Attorney General Richard G. Kleindienst, saying Boggs must have been "either sick or . . . not in possession of his faculties" when he made the charges, said an investigator who was needed to prove Boggs wrong and endure that his allegations have argued in Congress.
Rep. Bella Abzug, D-NY, a critic of the FBI and its 76-year-old director, introduced a bill meantime to the House Judiciary Committee Investigate Bogg's charges.
Bougs first made his accusations on the house floor Monday, accompanied by a deposition from his design, and charged at them a news conference in close deputies by the White House and Attorney General John N. Mitchell. Hoyer was later appointed to lead Leader Hugo Scott as deriving him虎牙.
JUDICIARY COMMITTEE Chairman Emmanuel Celler, D-LYN., said he would have to talk with his committee members and examine Kleindienst's statements and Mrs. Abrug's bill before speculating on the possibility of an investigation.
Although Boggs offered no evidence to substantiate his charges, the told newsman
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Kleinstein said Hoover sent an FBI agent to Boggs' office Tuesday to ask for proof, but that the Louisiana congressman, the No. 2 Democrat in the House leadership, refused to
Kleindienst said in a CBS television interview that Bogg's claimed created uneasiness among members of Congress and who responded to investigations to investigate to put their minds at rest.
"... I would think that responsible members of the Congress would want to have in investigation of the whole operation of the war, and we would be setted once and for all," said Kleinstendt.
100,000 Troops By Dec. 1
Nixon Schedules Boost To Vietnam Withdrawal
Late word from Saigon indicated that U.S. troop strength in Southeast Asia had dropped between 300,000 men in the past week, in keeping with reports of war by the total to about 50,000 or less by胡迟1972.
Confronted with eroding public support in the polls for his Indochina policies, the President also summoned Democratic and Republican leaders of Congress to the White House for a briefing just before his nationally broadcast address to the nation.
THE WASHINGTON Post reported that nine Republican senators told Defense
WASHINGTON (UP)—Declarating that "our goal is no American fighting men dying any place in the world," President Nixon Wednesday night ordered a modest boost in the Vietnam withdrawal rate and the return of an additional 100,000 U.S. troops by Dec. 1
Nixon rejected growing demands by Democrats that he set a deadline for a total U.S. pullout and appealed to his nationwide broadcast audience for patient support of his plan for a gradual disengagement from Southeast Asia.
He insisted that while others would end the war "precipitately and give victory to the Communists," his strategy to get the United States into Vietnam a chance for freedom is working.
In the seven months beyond May 1, be sad,
American troop strength in Vietnam will be reduced to 184,000 men, its lowest point since
the two most recent nine months after U.S.
Command troops left.
NIXON ASSERTED throughout his 20-minute address to the nation that "American involvement in Vietnam is coming to an end," he said. The state Department's observation that his determination to reach that goal had been hardened in meeting the children of slain Medal of Honor winners at Nixon's funeral.
He conferred with his senior defense and foreign policy advisers Wednesday a few hours before disclosing to the American government in uping U.s. troop withdrawals from Vietnam.
Secretary Melvin R. Laird Tuesday night at the home of Sen. Jacob B. Kryn, JR.Y, that they hoped Nixon would give a firm forecast to U. involvement in the Indochina war.
Laird joined Nixon, Secretary of State William P. Rogers and Henry A. Kissinger, chief of staff of the national security council, for a final review of the next announced phase of the troop withdrawal. The President spent most of the day working on his brief speech at included quarters in the executive office building adjacent to the White House.
The address was viewed primarily as a bid to gain more public patience with the course of gradual disengagement, which Nixon has been following for the past 22 months.
Administration officials familiar with intelligence reports from Sasanion which Nixon has received say the President is convinced that the Laoist and Cambodian operations have deprived Hanoi of the capability of launching a major offensive for 18 months.
THESE OFFICIALS explain the recent flurry of North Vietnamese attacks in the northern regions of South Vietnam as a show of determination more from weakness than strength.
The White House said Nixon had spoken several times by telephone with Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker and Gen. Creighton W., the U.S. troop commander, in Saigon.
Officials of allied forces fighting alongside Americans in Vietnam also had been consulted about the speech, said Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler.
But in response to growing pressure from Republicans as well as Democrats, the President asserted no less than four times during his 20-minute address to the nation that "American involvement in Vietnam is coming to an end."
The President again urged North Vietnam to enter serious peace negotiations and appealed in particular for "the immediate and urgent protection of all prisoners of war through Indochina."
Table Tennis Team Accepts Invitation to Go to Peking
NAGOYA, Japan (UPI)—The United States exam playing in the table world t赛 championships accepted an invitation Wednesday to visit Communist China, the first such organized American group to go to the Chinese mainland since 1949
Graham B. Steenhoven, president of the U.S. Table Tennis Federation, said he and 12 other players and officials of the team would fly Friday by way of Hong Kong to the Communist Chinese capital of Peking. He said the visit would be for five or six days.
In Washington, U.S. State Department officials welcomed the invitation, President Nikon lifted the long-standing ban on trade between China and Communist China as December.
George Harrison.
Steevenhoen said the invitation was extended by the secretary general of the U.S. delegation to Mrs. Demers, Sun Chang, in a meeting Wednesday morning with another member of the U.S. federation.
Later in the day, Steenhoeve said, Harrison went into the Chinese section of the seating gallery in the auditorium where the tour began. He emphasized to motify the Chinese of the American acceptance.
The team's visit to Communist China will be the first by an officially sanctioned, organized American group since Mao Tse-tung in 1949. The Communist regime on the mainland in 1949.
In addition to the United States, teams from brittany, Canada and France also accepted induction as taking after the tournament. The tournament was Wednesday, the first world championship in which the Communist Chinese have participated in 1965 when their cultural revolution began.
Stevenhoven and the Chinese would pay the Americans travel expenses from Tokyo to Beijing.
HE MADE NO direct mention of criticism against him by Capt. Abu Mreyan D. Daniel III, the army prosecutor of Lt. William L. Calley in the case and undermining military justice.
But the President noted public reaction to "reports of brutalities in Vietnam" and "atrocity charges" and took the occasion to defend the 2.5 million Americans who have fought in Vietnam with "courage" and "self-sacrifice."
"We can and should be proud of these men," Nixon said. "They deserve not our scorn but our admiration and our deepest appreciation."
Nixon dismissed demands by the House Democratic membership and several of his potential Democratic opponents for reelection in 1922 that he set a deadline of December, 1922, for a total withdrawal from Vietnamese control to serve the enemy's purpose and not our own."
CALLING ON the public not to "take what I say on faith" but to "look at the record." A comedian these gains as a result of the U.S. war with Vietnam offensive in Southern Louisiana.
— "The South Vietnamese demonstrated that without American advisers they could fight effectively against the best troops North Vietnam could put in the field.
"The South Vietnamese suffered heavy assaults. But, by the most conservative estimates, the casualties suffered by the nemy were far heavier.
"Most important, the disruption of enemy supply lines and the consumption of ammunition and arms in the battle has been even more damaging to the capability of the North entrance to sudan major offensives in Sudan. This would also lead to the operations in ambodia 10 months ago."
SENATE DEMOCRATIC whip Robert C. LYND, D-Wa.Va., who was briefed by Nixon before the speech, said he had "the very distinct impression that he means what he then he talks about total withdrawal" and that the residual data seemed to be ading.
Radical Voters Nearly Capture Political Rule
BENKELEY (UPI) — A coalition of radicals came close Wednesday to taking substantial control of the Berkley city government in a "peaceful revolution" via the ballot box.
Among first objectives after Tuesday's election were establishing "community control" over the police force, "soak-the city," and abolition of the city manager's office.
Voters elected by a margin of just 56 ballots out of 51, 64 cast the city's first black mayor, Warren Widener. 32. He said the election was "a victory for change in this country."
Three of four new councilmen elected were candidates of a coalition of new left activists, militant racial groups, some liberal Democrats, students and street people.
That gave leftists, including Widener, four votes out of nine in the city council—but one seat is vacant and will be filled by appointment by the council. The other council members are conservatives and moderates open-minded to radical ideas.
Presumably, the council appointee will be a compromise candidate acceptable to the radicals as well as other factions—making up of at least some of the radicals proposals.
Although the electorate rejected by a 2-1 vote a revolutionary plan to provide "community control" of police, the issue was far from dead.
The new mayor opposed the plan, but he advocates another kind of change—creation of an elected commission to administer the police department.
The proposal rejected Tuesday would have divided Berkeley's police force into three autonomous departments—one for black officers and one for the area around the University of California.
The turnaround of this plan, Widener sad, "doesn't mean a thing. We're going to call a special department and we're going to restructure the department anyway," he added.
The city manager system was attacked by radicals as making the government non-compliant.
The radicals, only one of whose city council candidates lost, were largely because the mayor had ignored them.
Dave Miller Explains Ideas, Hopes
By MATT BEGERT Kansan Staff Writer
A need for new, redirected policy is what David Mulligan now body president necessary for the future of the country.
"I'm very concerned about the University as a whole and student government in particular. The University has suffered many black eyes over the past few years, and what I am concerned about is that student government has been the wrong way. It needs new direction if it is ever have to credibility with the student body," he said.
"Student government needs to be redirected," he said. "By this I mean it should concern itself primarily with University issues. I don't think the Senate needs or should be a prime political mover on campus."
MILLER SEES A need for change in the student governmental system. He said the executive part of the School Board would have to accept
Miller has been a member of the All-Student Council, a Student Senate representative a member of the Athletic Seating Board, a member of the Finance and Auditing Committee for two years, Student Senate treasurer, an active member of the AURH and a Collegiate Young Republican.
"The structure stands in the way of the function," he stated.
He said he had experienced change in student governmental structure when he had the responsibility of the Senate treasurer. While Miller was treasurer, the entire student activity fund was put under his responsibility. He indicated that further change was necessary.
"COMMUNICATION IS awfully important," he said.
"A lot of people have a lot of feeling on a more individual level, and I'm going to have to communicate them." "I'm going to effectively represent the student body."
Part of his plan to increase University-community communication includes periodic meetings with officers from the Association of University Residence Halls, the Interfraternity Council, the Pan Hellenic Society, and the Student Council. He said he planned to move for an optional activity fee which he believes is what the students want.
Miller recently backed a bill which changes the composition of the Student Executive Committee to include as members the six chairmen of the standing committees of the Senate. The purpose of the bill was to increase the communication and action on the part of the Senate through utilization of committees.
MILLER SAID HAD it did not fashion himself as the political spokesman for the Student Senate. He does not use that language.
Miller, a senior, has put off going to graduate school because of his election to the office of president. He will remain an undergraduate until his term of office is ended, one year from now.
I couldn't go to graduate school and be president at the university. The office of president is too important.
Miller does not advocate as close an affiliation between the student body president and the Student senate as have his predecessor. "I 'THINK THE THING' is that he be a bit more what he wants and what he thinks best," he said. "The
president has been strongly tied to the Senate in the past. I wanted to change the Student Senate structure so that it could operate with or without a president. I would want him to be involved in a situation where he can to speak for the whole Senate."
Miller views campus politics, or the lack of *n*, as sometimes distressing.
"It is unfortunate," he said, "that some people once elected, don't feel a commitment to do anything. I think that hurts. Some senators, for instance, don't even come to meetings."
AFTER INITIAL, observation of the new Senate, Miller said that the Senate had changed. He said he was encouraged to use some of the legislation which was presented on the floor of the Senate recently sent to committee. He approved of increased use of com-mittee investigations and reports. He also said he thought the Senate used good judgment in rejecting a recent resolution which he referred to as, "almost pointless."
"In that perspective, he said, "we have a different kind of Senate, and I can't say 'I'm particularly disturbed.'"
The specific function of the student body president remains rubulous, according to Miller. There is no one to lead the students.
"The president has no real power. He is a member of the Student Senate, and he can claim to speak for the student body, but he has no veto power, no control over funds.
"His is a position you do with as you please. You can make out of it what you want. However, you will be blamed for everything the Student Senate does and nobody likes." **bg said**
Dave Miller Sees Need For Change KaN
... says he wants to be free agent