THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
81st Year, No. 105
Women's B-Ball To Nationals
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Wednesday, March 17, 1971
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Old Age Bill Passes, Sent To Congress
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Almost three months into its session, the 92 Congress sent President Nixon its first major legislation Tuesday a 10 per cent increase in Social Security benefits that sped through the House and Senate in less than two hours.
Although he had recommended a smaller increase, the White House said President Nixon would sign the measure into law. The measure also benefits received by 36.2 million citizens.
The increase swept through Congress in a rare display of legislative speed. After House-Senate conferences agreed on details Monday, the Senate rejected a vote to elect Vance almost as soon as it convened Tuesday.
Less than two hours later, the Senate added its approval to 70 to, and the bill was rushed to the governor's desk.
The real reason for the speed was that the benefits increase was a rider on a measure raising the national debt ceiling from $950 billion to $1.3 trillion needed quickly to continue paying its bills.
The Social Security benefit increases in the bill will be retroactive to Jan. 1, but higher payroll taxes to pay for them will not go into effect until Jan. 1, 1972.
Chairman Wilbur D. Mills, D-Dark, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, engineered the legislative coup in October 2013, passing through the Capitol like the March winds.
The Social Security increase will mean the average retired worker now getting $118 a month will get $130 monthly in the future. The average retired worker now receives $198 monthly will get $218.
ROTC Review To Be Held In Late April
The ROTC tri-service review, cancelled last year because of threats of violence and halted in progress the year before by demonstrators, has been scheduled to take place this year on April 29, Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr., said Tuesday.
Kansan Photo by GREG SORBER
The decision to hold the review was based on a poll of the 350 students in ROGTC and recommendations of the military science faculty, Chalmers said. A majority of the students involved favored having the tr-service review.
In 1969 about 200 persons, many of them non-students, prevented the completion of the review. Disciplinary actions were taken against many of the disruptors and some including student body vice-president Marilyn Bowman, were suspended.
The event will be open to all KU students and faculty, plus invited guests of the ROTC
The review will begin at 3:30 p.m. in Memorial Stadium if the weather is fair. In case of inclement weather, Air Force ROTC, the officer in charge of planning the event this year. In case of rain the review will be held in Allen Field House. The team will meet with students in each of the three participating services.
Tuesday at the First National Bank Building. Tuesday was the last day to register at the city clerk's office before the books were closed until the April general election. Among the issues that will be decided the election is the right of 18-year-olds to vote in state and local elections.
Andy Young, Leawood junior, was among those who registered to vote
Shriver Praises Nixon Viet Policy
By GALEN BLAND
WASHINGTON—Rep. Garner Shriver (R-Kansas) said last Wednesday in an interview in his office that President Nixon's policies would impact U.S. involvement in Vietnam were working.
"I would like to see the withdrawal troops speed up, but I don't see how the President can set a date for complete withdrawal when the peace negotiations are on going," he said.
Shriver said he was opposed to the draft and had introduced a bill that would create an all-volunteer army. In 1967 Shriver wrote a book titled *The Army in Draft: The Case for the All-Volunteer Arm*.<sup>13</sup>
On criticism of the war, Shriver said the North Vietnam were actually the ones who had invaded Cambodia and Laos. But all we hear, he said, is criticism of the United States.
"The North Vietnamese haven't followed the rules of the Geneva accords," he said. "Why is it that all we hear is criticism of the Vietnamese? The Vietnamese are committing just as many atroits."
Shriver said he did not see the Laotian or Cambodian incursions as enlargements of the war. These moves, he said, would shorten the length of our involvement in the war.
He said he did not think the South Vietnamese would invade the North and he doubted that Red China would enter the conflict.
Shriver represents the fourth Congressional district of Kansas which is the area around Wichita. The problem with the economy of Wichita (the high unemployment rate) he said, is that Wichita needs more diversified industries; they have depended too much on the aerospace industry, he said, and when that business slumps, it pulls the whole community down.
He said he had introduced legislation that went beyond the administration's policies in the form of accelerated public works projects in areas of high unemployment.
7 House Members Hear Student Ideas on Education
"The President," he said, "is working toward a better economic situation for the country."
Seven members of the Kansas House of Representatives listened to student grievances last night in a meeting designed to get student opinions on higher education.
He attributed the present inflation to what
Jim Magg, chairman of the House subcommittee on higher education, asked if students were receiving adequate counseling for personal and academic problems.
Pam Hooper, Liberal senior, said some advisers were not acquainted with specific requirements of majors that were not related to their adviser's field. She suggested training sessions for advisers to acquaint them with the requirements of all schools.
Kari Baser, Leavenworth junior, suggested that better counseling was needed by students who were confused about their graduation and major requirements. She said that the catalogs designed to familiarize students with requirements were difficult to understand.
Miss Hooper said the advisers were willing
Mike Ross, Overland Park senior, suggested that seniors and graduate students who were familiar with student problems could act as advisers. He added that a student's adviser should be in the same major field as the student.
Tom Kier, Washington, Kan., law student, asked the representatives their opinion of the recent one cent increase in pay for the KU faculty. He said that the increase, in relation to the rising cost of living, was actually a decrease.
to be helpful but often knew very little about the individual student. She said the basis of her teaching was:
Another representative recounted a suggestion that he had heard, to raise student fees by 35 or 40 per cent to help "these starving professors."
One representative said he regretted the relative cut in salary, but said the problem was with his pay.
Kier introduced the subject of the KU Board of Regents and criticized the age difference and lack of communication between students and Regents.
he called the "guns and butter" policies of Lyndon Johnson.
Miss Basser said she thought the Regents often treated students as children.
Magg suggested that a person from the office of the Board of Regents could meet with a University group on a regular basis to open communication between students and the Regents.
On the issue of the voting age, Shriver said the laws should be uniform or else the result would be unjustified.
"People are qualified to vote at 18," he said. There should be a constitutional amendment to ratify the Constitution.
He said it was unfortunate that the Army had been used for spying, as has been shown in recent investigations by the Justice Department.
"The thing that concerns me is that all of this was done without the consent or knowledge of my children."
WASHINGTON (UP)—Martin J. Bromley, portrayed in Senate testimony as the kingpin in a wide-world slot machine syndicate, denied Tuesday he ever offered an Army officer not to discuss alleged complicities involving military post exchanges and clubs.
Slot Machine Promoter Denies Bribe to General
Subcommittee and military investigators have described Bromley as the key man in a "service games complex," a global network of business firms founded by him and his father, Irwin Brondley, in 1949 to make, sell or devise slot machines and other coin devices.
Sen. Edward J. Gurney, R-Fla., said, "Bromiley is too smart to try to offer any bribe. If he were going to do it, he'd do it through an agent."
"All of Cole's testimony is in doubt," said sen. Adam Rabbock, D-Donn. "I doubt it."
Shivar said he did not think President Nixon was now in any serious trouble for the 1960s.
Bromley, 51, testified before the Senate investigations subcommittee after former Brig. Earl E.I. Fole, also linked with post exchange fraud, said in sworn testimony that贴 Bronley" offered him the bribe at a Pikeik培, Germany, airport in October, 1969.
Calling Cole's, the testimony, "infamous, rickless and rulless," Bromley said he had been instructed to read about the committee investigation in 1986. He said he could prove he was in Spain when the alleged bribe offer was made. Furious, Cole had never used the name "Jeff" Bromley.
"At this time I can not see any leader of the Democratic party who could defeat him.
At least two committee members were inclined to agree.
They testified that the parent organization is Club Specialty Overseas Inc. (CSOI). Subcommittee staff investigator John Brick testified Tuesday that COSI may have earned as much as $100 million during the past 10 years without paying "a dime of income tax"
There has been some talk about a dump-Nixon movement headed by Paul McCloskey (R-Calfitt), but Shriver said he knew McCloskey and did not picture him this way.
Brick quoted an unidentified Treasury official as saying CSOI firms and officials have used "bribery, kickbacks, intimidation, physical force and other非侵财 schemes" to win "a virtual monopoly on the slot machine business" on U.S. military bases.
The committee also has produced evidence that sold machines produced enormous profits for a network of manufacturers and controllers controlled by CSOI through an elaborate system. The soldiers they were sold to the military. One Japanese manufacturer, for example, sold its machines
Similar testimony was offered Monday by military intelligence agents in connection with investigations dating back to the early 1950s.
"I think what he is wanting is a complete discussion in the country on subjects related to this."
Thursday: An interview with Joe Skubitz.
Bromley defended sales of slot machines in the war zone. Estimating that the military was paying $2 million a year for some 10,000 slots, Bromley suggested the investment "vestiture" since the slots took up $7.5 million.
or $190 each. The military eventually paid up
service club district between the $750 and the $800
"I don't know how many slots the military has," shot红Backioc, "but the sooner the defense establishment kicks out all slot machines the better off we'll be . . .
"It becomes apparent in two years of these researches that all machines have been a failure."
More than two dozen witnesses have charged Cole with being involved with William J. Crum, a CIO representative who sold slot machines, liquor and other items to CL clubs and post exchanges under Cole's control in Vietnam in 1966 and 1967.
Cole denied any wrongdoing, but said Bromley offered him the bribe after he was transferred from Vietnam to Europe. The bribe was denoted to coloured and allowed to retire.
Bromley said he flew from London to deny the subcommittee that he offered the heeder a
Threatened Injunction
Miller Forced Chalk's Closing
Kansas Attorney General Vern Miller forced the closing of the Rock Chalk Cafe last week, according to the Chief Assistant Attorney General.
Miller had allegedly contacted Virgil Cooper, owner of the Rock Chalk, on March 9 and had asked Cooper to close the Rock Chalk window by an injunction declaring it a nuisance.
Leonard Munker, Miller's Chief Assistant Attorney General, said in a telephone interview with the Wichita Eagle-Beaon March 11. "We've researched the problem because that they'll voluntarily shut themselves down or take action to clean it up."
Commenting on the allegation that the Attorney General's office had suggested to Cooper that he close the Rock Chalk, Munker said, "I suspect that that course of action has been suggested by this office. I think we've been touch with him (Cooper) the last few days."
Munker cited the reasons that the Attorney General's office thought it necessary to close lawsuits.
"We know that a good part of the drug traffic that is in Lawrence is centered around the Rock Chalk," he said. "It's a gathering place, a focal point. Vern Miller has the attitude that it shouldn't exist if that's all it's existing for.
"We're not going to eradicate the problem,
Dewey Dies Of Heart Attack
Virgil Cooper refused comment Tuesday on the closing of the Rock Chalk.
but we're going to show it down. It may move to some of the other places, but they don't. They're just going to stick with what we have.
Miller had wanted to avoid the time-consuming legal complications of filing an injunction, according to a report of a Wichita Eagle correspondent. The correspondent said Miller had been read Section 65-2512 of the Kansas Annotated Statutes which pertained to common nuisances. Miller admitted that he had not previously read the statute.
MIAMI BEACH (UPI)—Former New York Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, who sprang to national fame by smashing Murder Inc., as a crime-busting district attorney but failed twice to win the presidency, died Tuesday at the age of 68.
Dewey, whose Republican presidential dreams were wiped out in 1944 by Franklin D. Roosevelt and in 1948 by Harry S. Truman, apparently died of "an acute heart attack," according to prominent Miami heart specialist Dr. Richard Elias.
Student Election Committee Performs Many Functions
By MATT BEGERT Kansan Staff Writer
(Editor's note): The following is the second in a series of ten stories concerning the Student Senate committees and student government.)
"Obviously, one of the main functions is to ran elections, but we tried to innovate this."
The task of running elections is not the only duty of the Student Senate's Committee on Elections, John Friedman, Overland Park and Olathe, said. The committee said in a recent interview Monday.
He said the election committee attempted to place senators on the committees which voted.
The Election Committee reviewed the other committees of the Senate, he said, "to make sure the senators stayed interested and to ensure the committees were getting things done."
Although there was no problem with the membership of his committee this year.
The function of the Election Committee, Friedman said, is "totally administrative, not
Members of the committee had to be careful about getting involved politically, he
"We've had the people to do the job," Friedman said, "Nobody had to take a huge burden. It is important to have a lot of people in our team and spend a lot of time and not get much out of it."
The Election Committee also served as an appeal board for dismissals. Under the present system, a senator with two unexcused absences or four excused absences from the district can be dismissed. Friedman said his committee had power to review these types of situations.
He said he thought that perhaps members of his committee spent so much time working on elections that they did not have time to perform the other duties connected with being
"The answer probably lies in going to the student body for members."
a senator. He suggested a possible solution to the problem.
There were two members of Friedman's committee who were not student senators.
"We tried to get more people on the committee who were not student senators, and we got them."
BT. BENNING, GA. (UPI) – In a final play for the life of 14. William I. . Caley Jr., the defense asked Tuesday an Army court-martial board to distinguish between errors in judgment and criminal acts at My Lai and “let this boy go free.”
Defense Asks Calley Freedom
The plea was made by defense attorney George W. Lattimer before the military judge, Col. Reid W. Kennedy, turned the case over to the prosecutor, six officers that will decide Calfie's fate.
Prosecutors characterized the 27-year-old officer as a cold-blooded killer reserving the
"I do not believe that history records another instance where the United States of America has taken a group of people collectively who thought they were in a war, but put them up before the courts for trial," Lafatier said in closing out his final summation.
"You, gentlemen, must chart a course for what must be done. His fate is in your hands to measure him by what's right and what's wrong with your criminal in your own conscience."
Calley is accused of slaughter of 102
Vietnamese civilians at the Mai Lai just
before the attack.
BSU Decries Penitentiary Action
The Black Student Union (BSU) released a statement Tuesday accusing the authorities of the Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary, Leavenworth, of illegally arresting three black inmates. The police said the prison response to an attack with a knife on a custodial officer.
The BSU release stated that 11 witnesses were willing to testify that the three accused were nowhere near the scene of the attack and that the Warden Robert 1. Moseley would not hear the testimony. Furthermore, the officer wounded stated in the presence of witnesses that he could not identify any individual or state the race of the assailants, according to the release. The officers of the BSU noted that the men held in connection with the incident were all black.
The Black Student Union charged that the prison officials attempted to keep this information out of the public eye. The BSU is in the process of setting up defense committees in the Lawrence district and has opened an internment effort by prison authorities to railroad black prisoners."
Moseley said Tuesday that there was no effort to keep the incident out of the news, because it was reported. Moseley also said he did not hear testimony in these cases. The investigation was done by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, he said.
'I turn names of witnesses over to the FBI, and they handle the
investigation, and I haven't received word from them as to any testimony," he said.
The release by the BSU stated that a demonstration to support the three black prisoners resulted in the solitary confinement of 60 to 200 black inmates. Mosley answered this charge by saying that the prison did not have solitary confinement.
"One week ago last Friday, between 9:30 and 10 p.m., 15 men sat down in the prison rotunda and another 200 refused to go to bed until they had seen me," he said. "Since I don't work at that hour of the night, and don't interview prisoners at that hour either, the man refused to go to bed. So, 35 were arrested and the rest went to bed."
The 35 were placed in a special cell block which Moseley emphasized did not amount to solitary confinement. He said the doors to the cells were not solid, but had bars similar to other prison doors, and that the prisoners were allowed out for exercise.
The release by the BSU was based on information from inmates at the prison with whom they stay in contact. According to these contacts, one of the accused attempted suicide. Moseley said there had been no suicide attempt.
The exact nature of the defense committees that the BSU will coordinate in this area and Kansas City is as yet not clear. BSU President Duane Vann said further information would be available in the near future.