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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
81st Year, No. 111
Astronomy Dept. Needs Faculty
Thursday, March 25, 1971
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Pearson, Dole Vote for Funding
Kansan Photo by GREG SOBER
SST Funds Severed; Nixon Denounces Move
David Miller listens to Bill Ebert
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The Senate ordered an end to federal financing of America's supernasio transport plane, SST, by a 51-46 vote Wednesday.
President Nixon denounced the move, and government experts said the project appeared to be
The one-two panch delivered by Congress in the past week means that after spending $864 million toward construction and test flights of two SST prototypes, the government will run out of money for the plane next Tuesday, March 30.
To Sen. Henry M. Jackson's cry that "the know-nothings are taking over," the Senate upheld the House decision last week to deny the $134 million Nixon had requested to keep the program alive for the three months of the current fiscal year, ending June 30.
Two hours after the tense Senate roll call vote, the President issued a brief statement saying the project cancellation "represents an important step forward" in the care of workers affected and to their families.
also to the United States' continued leader ship in the aerospace industry."
it combined Senate meeting
The defeat of the program was a stunning rebuff of industry, the powerful AF1-CIO and for Nixon personally. All had lobbed intensively in behalf of the 1,000 mile-per-hour craft as a boon to the sluggish economy and a means of preserving American predeminence in worldwide commercial aviation.
Both Jackson and Sen. Warren G. Magnuson, Democrats from Washington state where the Boeing Co. is building the SST suite, were grim and silent when Vice President Jairo B. Aguere read the results of the showdown before a mural, crowded chamber.
While Nixon called the vote "a setback" in
Kunstler to Debate Head of Kansas Bar
William Kunstler, leading civil rights lawyer and attorney for the Chicago Seven, will debate the head of the Kansas Bar on Tuesday, April 6, in Hoch Auditorium.
Kunstler is coming to KU as part of the Student Union Activities' Minority Opinions Forum and will be co-sponsored by the Student Bar Association.
The head of the Kansas Bar Association is Robert G. Martin, a Wichita lawyer. The format of the debate and the topic have not been arranged.
The debate is scheduled for 7:30 p.m., April
6 in Hoch. The debate was approved by the KU Events Committee at its meeting.
Kunstler is one of two lawyers for the Chicago Seven. The Seven were tried in Chicago for violation of the federal conspiracy laws and crossing state lines to incitrate during the Democratic National Convention in 1968.
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The Seven were found guilty of inciting to rat after a lengthy and tumultuous trial. All of the Seven, Kunstler and his assistant were found guilty of court. All of the rulings are being appealed.
Senate Votes 10 to Council
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JAN KESSINGER
Kansan Stoff Writers
By MATT BEGERT
David Miller, Eudora senior, formally replaced Bill Ebert, Topeka senior, as student president during the Student Senate meeting in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union.
Miller took over the reins of government after the old Student Senate elected three members to serve on the University Council for the next year.
Rick VonEnde, Abilene, Tex. graduate student and former member of the University Senate Executive Committee commended Bill Ebert for his work as student body
Brad Smoot, Sterling junior, Louis Scott, Lawrence junior, and Gary Jacks, Prairie Village sophomore, will act as carry-over members on the Council.
president. VonEndel called Ebert "a great student body president."
The Senate responded with a long round of applaus. Miller motions Edtort to the Senate, then he asks for a second round.
Ebert said later, "I learned a lot of things, but I'm really glad the year is over with. I can't say that it was fun because it wasn't."
Seven members of the new Senate were elected to serve on the University Council. John Mize, Salina junior, R. L."Pu" Bailley, Attchison graduate student, Susan White, Hitchinson senior, Mohammed Amin, Dodge City senior, George Laugeh陪, Dodge City senior, Catherine Lawrence, freshman, and Terry Dunn, Kansas City, Kan, freshman, were elected.
Miller announced that there would be an invitation dinner for the Student Senate on Wednesday.
Jr., the vice chancellors and their wives would be invited. Miller proposed that the Student Senate foot the bill, but several senators objected.
Mize, chairman of the Finance and Auditing Committee said, "In the past we have been consistent on cutting out funds for companies that are not consistent, we should not fund the dinner."
Miller's proposal was then amended. The senate agreed to pay for the dinners of the invited guests, but not senators. Miller said as a acquaintance. Senate meeting would follow the dinner.
An amendment to the Senate Code was passed which would make the vice president of the University the acting officer of the Student Senate. If the governor, the chairman of the Student Executive Committee would appoint a committee to investigate the Amendment was sponsored by Bailey.
New Fighting Kills 22; N. Viets Boycott Talks
SAIGON (UPI)—Communist troops swept into northwestern South Vietnam Wednesday and launched attacks that killed at least 22 Americans, field reports said Thursday.
Meanwhile, U.S. B2B bombers dropped tons of bombs close to the last South Vietnamese base inside Laos. There were reports that the base was under heavy Communist attack.
U. S. medics at Khe Sanh said the Americans had been killed in a variety of shellings, ambushes and also, in helicopters that were shot down.
Reports from Ham Nghi, a major government base inside Vietnam, said at least a dozen of the eight-engine jets, each carrying 28 tons of bombs, dumped their deadly piles on North Vietnamese concentrations near Battery Base two miles inside Laos.
Communist gunners also poured 45 mortar, rocket and artillery rounds into the U.S. base at Khe Sanh, South Vietnam, the main support base for the Laos operation. Spokesman said damage to Khe Sanh and another base, 21 km south of the northeast was light with nr fatalities.
About 2,000 South Vietnamese marines were reported clipping to Hotel, military base.
U. S. warplanes Wednesday destroyed seven of 21 Communist tanks close to Hotel, the last remaining South Vietnamese tohold with the American battle communiques said Thursday.
Battle communiques showed at least three clashes between Communist and American troops Wednesday. Spokeness said 15 North Koreans were killed or two Americans killed and five wounded.
Though the North Vietnamese tanks have driven right to the Laos-South Vietnam in pursuit of the retreating South Vietnamese, they are yet known to have crossed the frontier.
Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird said the South Vietnam task force "achieved its primary objective" of disrupting Communist supply lines in Laos but he also said, in a statement, that it "tremendously vicious and violent attacks" by Communist troops forced it to end early.
The Laos campaign was the center of controversy and debate as the operation ended. Both sides claimed success and huge ill figures.
Another amendment passed changed the number of standing committees from eight to six. The Health Committee was expanded to ten. The Student Services Committee and renamed the Student Services Committee.
In Laoas, North Vietnamese troops intensified attacks Wednesday near the royal Laoatian capital of Luang Prabang and heavy fighting was reported only a half mile from the city's airport. The defense ministry said the situation "remains critical."
The Election Committee has become a subcommittee of the Committee of Student Rights, Privileges and Responsibilities. A committee was created to handle academic affairs.
The Viet Cong said the Communists in Laos "had smashed" the offensive after 45 days of fighting.
Communist units with mortar support regained the strategic Bain Done-Cho position three miles northeast of the Luang Prabbang and occupied the northwest of Laotian counterattacks earlier in the day.
Chairman and student members of the standing committees will be appointed by a Committee Board and approved by the Senate.
The announcement cited what U.S. Defense Secretary Melvin Laird's "threat to launch even greater air attacks against North Vietnam, while the Nixon administration continues to threaten to carry the war there."
In Paris, North Vietnam announced Wednesday it is postponing the Thursday session of the stalented Vietnam peace talks in "energetic protest" against U.S. aerial bombardment of North Vietnam and "threats of a new escalation and extension of the war."
Me officers chosen to serve on the board are Miller, Moly Laflin, St. Louis, senior and Senate vice president, Jacobs, Smoot, Steve Hix, Overland Park sophomore.
general terms, other government experts were plainly pessimistic.
Postponement of the Paris talks, announced in a typewritten press release, apparently took the U.S. and South Vietnamese delegations by surprise.
Northeast Vietnam insisted American war-
mores bear the heavy-populated regions"
"below."
Alioto Calls Indictment Politically Motivated Act
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI)—Mayor Joseph L. Ahote said Wednesday that a federal grand jury indictment against him charging bribery and fraud was a "shoddy, filthy," politically motivated act. He said he would press for an immediate trial.
In Seattle, the indictment was returned Tuesday, Alito's arraignment was completed.
"We're not going to let them drag it out," Altoite told a news conference. "We're going to get them under oath as quickly as possible."
The affidavit by Ray Talafiero, a producer with KHON-TV in San Francisco, was taken last month for pretrial proceedings for the assault and subsequent assault suit against Look, scheduled in December.
He called the charges against him and three former public officials in Washington state "this shoddy performance in Seattle," and produced an affidavit quoting a Nixon administration official as saying Altoa was "a political threat of the first magnitude."
Mitchell as well as other high-ranking Republicans regarded Mayor Ahlos as a political threat of the first magnitude on the state and national scene." Tallairo said.
Alito had previously indicated that the grand jury indictment and a 1969 Look magazine article linking him with the Mafia were part of a Republican drive to destroy him because of his swift rise as a Democratic politician.
Taliferro he said he and Jack Hushen, identified as director of public relations for the Justice Department, "made a social round of nightclubs" in San Francisco Oct. 29, 1970. Hushen was in the city in connection with an appearance at Attorney General John Mitchell on Taliferro's program, "Forum."
"During the course of almost seven hours
partially socialized together, Mr. Hubes stated the
following:
"Hussen said . . . it was felt that if Alito ran for governor and governor he would be 'our principal threat in 1972' . . . ," said Talidfero.
The indictment accused Alioto, former Washington State Attorney General John J. O'Connell, Richard K. Flera, a former O'Connell assistant Jerry伯猩, fraud and conspiracy. John G. McCathcart, former prosecutor of Pierce Berkeley, was charged with one count of conspiracy.
The charges involved a $2.3 million legal fee Alioto received in a huge antitrust case in Washington state, of which he paid O'Connell and Faler more than $800,000.
U. District Attorney Stan Pinik of Seattle
and Attorney General Bill Clinton of
washington adjourned the defendants'
"I think the case is a 14-carat fake and the grand jury investigation a star chamber proceeding," the mayor told a cheering welcoming crowd in San Francisco Tuesday night when he arrived from a mayors' meeting in Washington.
Alioto received the $2.3 million fee for recovering $18.2 million for 15 Washington state public utility districts in 1967. He has said he paid O'Connell and Faler for their work as private attorneys, O'Connell has reportedly said he gave McCushion $30,000.
"If I can be indicted for sharing fees in a legal case, then every Republican senator who has taken a referral fee should be indicted."
"Unless a workable alternative financing plan is presented—and I have heard of none at this time—we have no alternative but to disband the team of experts which have been assigned to the program and shut down the entire operation." <u>Transportation</u> Secretary J. A. Vulpey
He said he would plead innocent to all charges.
William Magrader, project manager for the SST in Volpe's department, told newsmen at the White House he had sounded out a number of potential donors and the possibility of private financing of the SST.
"I do not see at this time, in the face of the action of Congress, any response by the private sector to keep the SST alive," Magruder said. He noted he had only six days to come up with an alternative to the loss of federal funds.
Magnurda said it would cost $334 million in penalties, shutdown costs and possible lawsuits to cancel the project. The total initial investment in the two prototypes, with the government bearing the burden of costs was to have been $1.3 billion.
Nixon said he was determined that "this vote on the SST will not be a shift in basic direction" and that the United States would protect the people from the guard of scientific and technological advances.
Even if Congress reverses its later and approves Nixon's new request for a $255 million installment on the SST in the next fiscal year starting July 1, Maurger said it would take at least a decade to get an American craft into the air.
on the final showdown, with every seat filled on the Senate floor, in the galleries and around the edges of the chamber, 34 Democrats and 17 Republicans voted against the NST. For continued financing were 19 Democrats and 27 Republican.
Both of Kansae 'Republican Senators' - Bob Dates and James Pearson - voted to continue.
When it was all over, the Senate then approved, 94 to 1, the full bill appropriating $2.4 billion for the Transportation Department for the year - minus the SST funds Nixon sonopt.
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Japan Offers To Buy SST
NEW YORK (UPI)—Japan's aviation industry would like to build the superious transport plane and has offered 10 cents on the dollar for the U.S. taxpayers' investment, ABC news science editor Jules Bergman reported Wednesday night.
"The Japanese . . . are technically capable of the job, especially because all the difficult equipment work has been done." Bergman wrote in a letter to Howard K. Smith and Harry Reasoner.
The Japanese have offered to buy rugs, blueprints, prototypes, mockups and tools of the SST "for what amounts to government's cancellation cost—10 cents on the dollar or more" by nearly $100 million for the $1 billion of taxpayers' money invested so far," he said.
"If the Japanese company actually took place, it would be the end of U.S. dominance in world finance," he added.
Wednesday's snowstorm caught many people on guard, as is shown by David Lawrence, sophomore, who walked around campus with a light coat and hat. According to
Kansaú Photo by GREG SORBEF
forecasts, about 4 inches of snow will fall before the storm ends late today. Slick streets caused hazardous driving warnings to be issued and about ten minor accidents were reported last night to the Lawrence Police Department. The first snow to fall melted and caused hazardous driving conditions. Last year a similar late-season storm struck Lawrence on April 1.