THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Wednesday, March 24, 1971
Kansan Photo by EDDIE WONG
Wey Seng Kim, KU kuju instructor gives Riutes, Raintow, Mo,
sophomore, a dissertation showcased of his excellent creditors. KU
is privileged to have Kim as he holds the 6th degree Black Belt as well as being Korea's former National Champion. He is enthusiastic about the potential of the KU Judo Club and has hopes for KU to participate in Kansuri-Kansas College Judo Conference next Fall. See story page two.
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Keith Sebelius a Man in a Hurry
By MIKE MOFFET Kansan Staff Writer
WASHINGTON — Representative Keith Sebelius is a man in a hurry. Although all congressmen have busy schedules, not all of them have enthusiasm for the job that Sebelius has
Perhaps one could say this drive was more a result of impatience than anything else. But whatever it is, it is evident in what he says as well as what he does. The feeling that the slow pace of Congress at times irritated him came out in an interview in his office.
Sebelius's impatience showed through particularly on the question of American history.
Asked if he was satisfied with the with-drawal program, he said, "You're never satisfied. You're in a hurry. But I suppose what the President is doing is taking the long way to get to you, and that must be done. We can't just pack up and come home by July 1 as some would like."
THE BIGGEST PROBLEM left, Sebelius said, was how to retrieve the prisoners of war.
But he said he didn't know what kind of solution to this problem would be workable.
"I hope we've learned that we can't police the world anymore," he said.
He said the United States would do well to direct its attention to domestic problems.
"We can't fight our fires, and we shouldn't be looking for others," he said.
Sebelius is not, however, an isolationist. He favors economic and technological aid as the tools of foreign policy in the future. He also sees merit in negotiations such as the SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks) and the Mid East peace talks.
On the home front, Sebelius's dasatisfaction with the way government officials have been handling things is more common in the case of the Kansas attorney general.
"I THINK (Vern). Miller is publicity happy he said "If he calls me, I will be gravely worried." He
would do more preparatory investigation to get at the real problems of hard drugs and big drug trafficking.
Sebelius, who is a Republican, said, "And I don't mean this as a partisan remark." He said he would endorse Miller's efforts if he thought the attorney general were more sincere in his efforts and not simply looking for publicity.
"I have no quailms about Chancellor Chalmers. I am satisfied with the job he's done."
Regarding the campus situation, Sebelius expressed none of the dissatisfaction that some state officials have voiced in regard to the KU administration.
Sebelius expressed support for the proposed constitutional amendment to allow 18-year-olds to vote. However, he said he had been in favor of the age being set at 19.
HE SAID HE thought 19 was better because by the time young people had reached their teens, it was almost impossible to do that.
He said 18-year-old voters could have some negative effects on the national elections in 1972 if the amendment has been ratified by then.
from home and on their own to some extent.
"Many 19-year-olds aren't out of high eigh
"But any President in office is in trouble," he said, "especially one who has been trying to cope with the problem of a guns and butter dispute that was initiated by his predecessors."
However, Sebelius said he thought Nixon can win the next presidential election if he can successfully handle the economic crisis in Southeast Asia that countries is out of Southeast Asia as a year from now.
Even though Sebelius said he thought Muskie was the front runner for the Democratic nomination now, he said Hubert Humphrey still had a great deal of influence in the Democratic party and might well end up as their candidate again.
War Shipments to Arabs Increased by Soviet Union
By United Press International
International The Soviet Union has stepped up shipments of jet warplanes, anti-aircraft and tanks to Syria as well to Egypt, diplomatic sources in London said Tuesday. The report came as both Arabs and Israelis spoke of new war threats.
In Caro, government sources said Egypt was preparing for a possible resumption of hostilities if diplomatic efforts to get Israel to withdraw from Arab territory captured in the war were realised. The armed forces of Egypt and Syria were recently placed under a single command.
Israeli military sources described the Carro reports as part of a wint of nurses designed to keep the soldiers healthy.
L. Gen. Haim Bar-Lev, chief of staff of Israel's armed forces, said, however, that the war was not over yet. He said that while the Suez Canal resuscite-fire law was quiet "we must be prepared for a possible resumption of war."
pressures to force Israel to pull out of all occupied Arab land.
Across the Jordan River, officials in Arman said King Hussein watched military maneuvers with live ammunition by Jordan troops guarding the frontlines against Israel.
Prime Minister Golda Meir and other Israeli leaders have insisted Israel will never return to the pre-1967 war boundaries but is prepared to negotiate for secure borders.
18-Year-Old Voting Passed by House
WASHINGTON (UPI) - A proposed constitutional amendment lowering the minimum voting age to 18 years in all elections-federal, state and local-won final congressional approval Tuesday and was sent to the states for ratification.
State Ratification Next
The amendment passed the House, 400 to 12,
easily meeting the requirement for a two-
thirds majority on proposals to amend the
Constitution. The Senate passed the measure last month, 94 to 0, and no presidential action is required.
Before it can become the 26th amendment, o the Constitution, the measure must be ratified by at least 38 state legislatures. Its supporters hope the required three-fourths of the 50 states will ratify the amendment in time for the 1972 elections.
Within less than a half-hour after Democratic Leader Hale Boggs, serving as the presiding officer in the House, announced the result, the Minnesota Legislature—both the House and Senate approved the amendment. A few minutes later, Delaware's Legislature had approved it, too.
Lawmakers in Tennessee and Washington state quickly followed suit. The record for
Senate OKs Realignment Of Districts
TOPEKA, Kan. (UPI) - The Kansas Senate tentatively approved Tuesday a congressional reappointment bill already passed by the House.
There was little debate on the bill, although it split. Sedgwick and Wyndorde it cost.
A final vote was set for Wednesday in the Senate. It approved, it will go to the governor.
Robinson said he didn't feel the splitting would cause a legal flaw.
1> think this bill has many benefits that outweigh the fact it splits the two counties, he
During the debate, Sen. Jack Robinson, R-Wichita, chair of the Senate Legislative, Congressional and Judicial Reapportionment Committee, said the bill has acceptability with the congressmen.
The measure will realign the state's five congressional districts. It has the approval of 47 senators.
The bill would shift Rice from the Fourth District to the first.
Comanche and Barber counties would be moved from the Fifth to the First.
Washington and Clay counties would be moved from the Second to the First
Morris would be shifted from the Second to the Fifth
Miami and Anderson counties would go from the Third to the Fifth.
The Senate passed 21-17 a bill to establish fees on criminal court costs to fund the indigent defendant program. A $5 fee would be required for all cases and a $2.50 fee on underminder case files.
The Senate also passed a bill setting up the mechanics for the University of Kansas Medical Center to accept funds to make a $50 million building expansion. It would authorize the center to accept federal grants and gifts. The vote was 36-3.
approval of a constitutional amendment by the states is held by the 12th Amendment. Approved in six months and six days in 1949, it provides that members of the college college must cast separate ballots for presidential and vice president candidates
There was some opposition in debate to passage of a constitutional amendment that would remove state powers to set minimum voting ages for state and local balloting. The governor's final elections—for President, the Senate and the House—was set at 18 by Congress last year.
Rep. Emanuel Celler, D.N.Y., chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said the need for greater transparency.
"Any effort to stop it would be as useless as
a telescope to a blind eye. Youth will be served, "he said.
The amendment would not have been needed had the 1979 Voting Rights Act stood up in court. That law set the voting age of 18 for all elections, but the Supreme Court said Congress could establish voting ages by statute only for federal elections.
That meant that either the state legislatures would have to lower the voting age or the U.S. Constitution would have to be amended. Because only Alaska, Georgia and Kentucky have adopted the 18-year-old voting age, those states could not make the change without amending their own constitutions, Congress decided to do it all with one measure.
Showdown Vote Today On Continental SST
WASHINGTON (UP) The Senate votes today on the fate of the uplifted transport plane (SST), America's version of the commercial aircraft of the future, and President Nixon fought behind the scenes to save it from defeat.
The showdown will begin, at 3 p.m., and Sen. Henry M. Jackson, D-Wash., predicted Tuesday that the outcome would be "razor thin." Vice President Sipro T. Agnew said he would hold vole if the division among senators is as close as private, informal polls indicate.
the White House Tuesday with Republican congressional leaders and several cabinet members. He urged renewed efforts to persuade the Senate to restore the $134 million in SST funds which the House rejected last Thursday.
The President conferred for two hours at
The latest UPI survey of senators indicated that the membership was split, 48 to 48, among those who have announced their intention to run for governor in any way or another. The positions of only two, Senn, Margaret Chase Smith, R-Maine, and John Sherman Cooper, R-Ky., were unknown, while Sens Karl Mundt, R-S-D, and B. Everett Johnson C., were ill and expected to be absent today.
Rebel Troops Attempt Coup In W. Africa
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (UPL)—Rebellious troops fought a gun battle with palace guards Tuesday in an abortive attempt to assassinate Sierra Leone Premier Saira Stevens and seize control of the state of this West African coastal country.
Government sources said guards shot and killed two soldiers and wounded several others when they tried to enter the premier's residence.
Several guards were wounded in the gun
battle which heavily damaged the residence,
the building.
They said the rebel troops also seized the capital's radio station before they were overcome by government forces. Broadcasting from the station stopped during the abortive coup but the radio made no mention of the attempt.
Several members of the armed forces were arrested, the sources said.
Neighboring Guinea declared a state of emergency following the attempted Sierra Leone coup, the Guinean Voice of the Revolution Radio reported A broadcast afforded Abdijan said the high command in Guinea and asked guards to garrisons to be in a state of alert until further notice" and a close guard was ordered kept on the frontier with Sierra Leone.
Argentine Junta Assumes Power Following Coup
BUENOS AIRES (UPI)—Argentina's three-married军 junta assumed complete official control of the government Tuesday, after it overthrew President Roberto M. Martínez and a bloodless coup. It promised a return to constitutional democracy without saying when.
The commanders-in-chief of the Argentine armed forces, led by Army LY, Gen. Alejandro Lumaseu, whose confrontation with Levington triggered Monday night's coup, asked all ministers to remain temporarily on the job.
In a brief statement broadcast live on radio and television throughout the country, Senator Sandra J. Santas reassumed political power to address the creation of the indispensable conditions for the reestablishment of democratic in-legislation, in a cline of freedom, progress and justice.
The pledge was similar to that issued by juanta June 18, 1970 when it appointed Levinson as president only 10 days after the oustment then president Juan Carlos Organa.
The coup had little effect on life in Argentina. Schools held regular sessions and at the end of the day
Kansas Methadone Clinics Combat Heroin Addiction
By PAT MALONE
Heroin addiction has come to Kansas
Following it have been five methadone maintenance clinics, using the controversia narcotic methadone to "normalize" behavior and helping them to relieve their physical craving for heroin.
The oldest and largest of these clinics is in Kansas City, at the University of Kansas Medical Center, with 100 patients Started in October 1969 by Dr. Dr. Kenneth psychiatrist at the Medical Center, the clinic now has a staff of four: McKenney; Myrnan Hendricks, a psychiatric social worker; and Susan Barker, a social worker.
About 180 heroin addicts in Kansas are now under methdone treatment in out-patient clinics established in Kansas City, Lawrence, Leavenworth, Topeka and Wichita.
CONTROVERSY ABOUT the Medical Center's methadone clinic and other methadone clinics in the United States has arisen from allegations that heroin addicts have gone on methadone programs for a few weeks at a time when they could not support their more-expensive heroin habits and have then returned to heroin when they could
afford it.
Directors of the Kansas methadone clinics have emphasized that most patients have consistently remained on methadone although there has been some lack of stability.
Kansas methadone clinics have careful pre-admittance processes of interviews and examinations designed to reduce the burden of heroin addict abuse of methadone facilities.
"The Kansas methadone programs have been very well planned," said Thomas Johnson, Johnson City staff assistant of the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs.
"We have had absolutely no trouble with the Kansas programs," Johnson said.
PERHAPS BECAUSE of methadone's controversy, funding for methadone clinic programs has come primarily from daily payments by the patients themselves.
The Kansas City clinic operates on a shee string budget, according to Mrs. Hendricks, social worker for the clinic. Patients are charged $1 per day for treatment, with the rest of the operating budget coming from private contributions.
Treatment at the Medical Center clinic is limited to the actual daily oral dosage of methadone and occasional individual counseling by a recently-acquired resident psychiatrist. A current staff project is to start public "encounter groups," between patients on the methadone program and addicts interested in joining.
A satellite of the Kansas City methadone clinic was started in Leavenworth in December of 1970. After patients have been interviewed, given a physical examination and started on daily methadone maintenance dosages at the Medical Center, they are then dosaged daily at Leavenworth's St. John's. Four patients now receive methadone at St. John's, with the only funding provided by a $1 per day patient fee.
"WE JUST DON'T have the staff to provide a complete program, said Sister Mary Farrant."
Wichita has the state's most comprehensive methadone program. It includes not only the daily methadone dosages, but also job placement, regular physical examinations, individual psycho-therapy and group therapy. The clinic, located at the Sedgwick County
Mental Health Center, began in April of 1970 and now has 50 patients, according to Dr. Stan Mosier, resident physician in family practice and director of the clinic.
"We're kind of unique," Dr. Mosier said.
"Besides methadone itself, we got our social vocational, physical and psychiatric care
Not many out-patient programs can do this."
The Wichita clinic has another element unique among Kansas methadone clinics—a methadone detoxification program in ad-hoc manner, their methadone maintenance program.
UNDER THIS PROGRAM, some patients, depending on a doctor's judgment of their ability to be detoxified successfully are started on a high initial dosage of methadone which is gradually decreased over a 10 to 40 period. Methadone maintenance program simply maintain the patient on a standard doside fixeq for his bodily needs.
The Topeka methadone clinic, located au
Patients pay $1 per day for their methadone dosages at the Wichita clinic. The clinic also has a $2,000 grant from the Governor's Council. It is the only Kansas methadone clinic here.
the Stormtorn Vall Hospital, was begun shortly after the Wichita clinic, in July of 1970. There are now about 22 patients in the clinic, accused of its founder and director, Dr. William Nice.
THE 'ONLY FUNDS' for the Topeka methadone clinic come from the $1 per day plan.
The clinic has a social worker available to deal with individual problems. The staff also attempts to find jobs for the patients. Only the social worker clinics actively seek jobs for their patients.
"We got six new patients just last week."
Lawrence has the newest Kansas methadone clinic. Located at Watkins Memorial Hospital on the University of Kentucky campus, it opened in January of 1971 and now has eight patients.
Dr. Raymond A. Schweiger JR, director of the clinic, said the clinic was running out of money. The clinic is free to students, but non-student patients pay $2 a day for methadone treatment. Schweiger noted that many non-student patients could not find jobs and as a result, they cost a lot of money. He also pointed to a recent increase in demand in Lawrence for methadone treatment.
Schweigler said Monday, "There seem to be a number of people in the community catching fish."
Patient response to the Watkins program has been very favorable, according to Byron Byerley, DeSoto graduate student and "street lionson" with the clinic.
"I can't say enough good about the kinds of things Dres. Campbell, Hagan and Schwegler have done with this program." Byerley said, when he really a good response from the addicts.
Patient response and reaction to other Kansas methadone programs has been en-
A patient of the Wichita methadone clinic said, "Methadone is the greatest thing that ever happened to heroin addicts." He had been a drug user for five months before joining the Wichita clinic.
"I was just getting sick of the life I had to lead," the patient said.
Patients of the Topkai clinic have been very enthusiastic, according to clinical data.
"They've been offering to help me in any way they can," Nice said.
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