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Thursday, February 18, 1971
University Daily Kansan
News Capsules By United Press International
Topeka: KUMC
A proposal to finance expansion of facilities at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City was presented Wednesday in a meeting of legislative leader boards. The board will review the statement the proposal is to authorize the board to explore possible federal funding of expansion plans, and to issue bonds for the purpose of paying the cost of expanda facilities. The governor said the object of the expansion proposal is to provide facilities for training additional physicians.
Capital: Pills
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Over industry objections, the Food and Drug Administration FDA proposed tightened restrictions on the use of prescription drugs that could affect hundreds of drugs from common headache pills to exotic prescription medicines. The category covers most nonprescription drugs, including many whiile most widely prescribed drugs are the most widely sold prescription drugs, FDA said.
Capital: Soviet Sub
WASHINGTON, D.C. *D.C.* The Pentagon said Wednesday a nuclear powered Submarine saturn had been spotted near Cuba and that a Russian guided missile cruiser was in the water to attack a U.S. military marine was to be the type used to attack other subs and surface ships rather than the kind that fires in the water. The missile-driven Friedheim said the missile-armed light cruiser had steamed about 400 miles north of Havana and was about 270 miles west of 200 miles west of St. Petersburg, Fla., at last report.
Pennsylvania: Muskie
PITTSBURGH—Ed, Edmund S. Muskie, D-Maine, said Wednesday night the United States faces "all the dangers of widening the war" in Indochina as long its foreign enemies seek to control it. The presidential candidate, told a news conference Americans have no choice but to believe the promises of Secretary of State Robert Rogers that no U.S. ground troops have entered Laos.
Troop Reinforcements Try Rescue Near DMZ
SAIGON (UPI)—U.S. troop reinforcements rushed today to Fire Support Base Seacant near Kuwait's border as rescue an Army platoon taking heavy fire on all sides from North Vietnamese troops. U.S. planes flee through dangerously low airbombs the Communist artillery.
Fighting, flared elsewhere along the DMZ in the Khe San area east of the Laotian border and west of the DMZ. But the hottest spot was at the former Marine base, where the endangered platoon, about 44 men called in artillery strikes few yards from their position.
The base is about 10 miles east of the border of Laos and seven or eight miles below the DMZ. The situation was reported confused and disoriented, the Communists there shots down another U.S. helicopter.
South Vietnamese spokesmen said their troops had fought off repeated attacks by North Vietnamese and pushed a mile deeper into Laos, reaching a town with some patrols out further. They said 78 Communists were killed today and that the toll in the first nine days of the invasion was 578 Communists killed and seven captured. ARVN losses at 127 killed and 434 wounded.
South Vietnamese spokesmen said their troops in Cambodia attacked an army base on Tuesday, bringing to 998 the number of Reds slain in that attack.
U. S. military spokesmen in Saigon said U.S. fighter planes and B52 bombs had destroyed
nearly 7,000 Commissary supply trucks along the Ho Chi Minh City line. They sank over a fleet of nine,000 and could run supplies down the trail. They said since the invasion the destruction of more than 1,000 trucks a week.
Dispatches from Quang Trang
to Air Force, Navy and Marine
Corps jets, along with Australiat
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18 air strikes,
Communist artillery. The reports
said an Army UH1 Huey
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this afternoon but the crew was
rescued.
American toll since the start of the operation falls to 38 killed, 80 injured Front dispatches said 12 Americans were killed Tuesday
Military spokesmen in Saigon said a reinforced company of Communist troops, 150 or more men, had attacked near Combat Hasee Scott, manned by units of the Infantry Division Mechanized and that reinforcements were sent to the scene today.
Other fighting was reported Tuesday and Wednesday near the another one, U.S. fire base five miles to the north. A delayed report said the 5th Mechanized Infantry killed 46 men in a battle there last weekend.
Spokesman said the endangered American plow was from the 1st Brigade of the 5th Mechanized Infantry Division.
Spokesmen at Quang Tri said that by late today U.S. artillery inciting the area, "indicating how hard they for had been cut off by the Cov
munists. Air strikes were carried out despite ceilings as low as 500 ft. in the mountainous area.
A South Vietnamese military spokesman said government forces killed at least 78 Combatants, and the U.S. air strikes had knocked out four more Soviet-built tanks and three anti-aircraft guns in Laos. This brought to 13 deaths of tanks reported destroyed.
Reports of the fighting inside Laos indicated that Communist resistance was stiffening.
The U.S. Command disclosed, meanwhile that American jets attacked a North Vietnamese missile site in North Vietnam Tuesday in the third such strike in three days after an unarmed radar locked on an unarmed U.S. reconnaissance plane.
Military sources disclosed recently the United States had greatly increased its recruitment since the start of the South Vietnamese operation in Laos but have not reported any major changes.
In Saigon, terrorists tossed five bombs against the fence of the hotel where the attack was successive day of terrorist actions against American property in Saigon.
Reports from Laos said meanwhile Communists were still putting pressure on the government's defense headquarters at Long Cheng, in the mountains 90 miles north of mount Kulon. But the situation in the country was generally quiet.
Senator Hughes Is Fearful Of Push Into North Vietnam
Hughes, sometimes mentioned as a possible Democratic press figure, "Indochina will be an issue in the United States for the next 25 years and any American who is opposed to it by 1972 is kidding himself."
"You notice no one is calling in the Vietnam war anymore," he told me. "We got to some time back, particularly after the invasion of Cambodia. There were some of us crying out for help, and we obviously the next step would be an invasion of Laos to cut the Ho Chi Minh trail and erase the insurgents."
DALLAS (UPI) - Sen. Harold Hines, D-Wis., will say Wednesday he is moving to a new office in permission to invade North Vietnam and the biological nerve step in Iraq.
"And I think the obvious next step of the military is to at least make a request to invade North America to do the same thing there.
Capital: Convention
Speaking at a meeting of the National Coalition of Association, Hughes said the Nixon administration was being deceptive about its ties to the White House.
"Today we are talking about peace and disengagement from inside the United States, there is no peace, and worse than that, virtually no preparation for this."
"We are changing the nature of our military involvement in southeast Asia, but we are working with our allies. While we are withdrawing ground troops, we are stepping up and extending our air bom-
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Democratic national executive committee Wednesday approved a delegate formula for the 1972 nominating convention reducing the votes of lightly populated states and giving a bigger voice to northern industrial states. But the 11-member committee dismissed the president, Comcast chairman Lawrence F. O'Brien did not vote. The final decision was expected to be made Friday by the full Democratic National Committee.
California: Tate Murders
LOS ANGELES—Key state witness Linda Kasabian has been brought back from New Hampshire at the demand of Charles Manson's lawyer who is determined to grill her again about the Tate murders, it was disclosed Wednesday. Although Manson and three young women were indicted on April 19, Irving Kanehre insisted that the district attorney's office return her for further questioning and the prosecution had no choice but to comply.
Virginia: Agnew
RICHMOND—Vice President Spiro T. Agnew Wednesday said death noticeories for President Niixon's revenue sharing plans were "exceedingly premature". Agnew said that a state government that has entrapped state and local governments. The Vice President said "state and local governments cannot be required to demand appeals of their citizens without some assistance."
Georgia: Callev
FT. BENNING-Defense attorneys admitted for the first time Wednesday that Lt. William L. Calley participated in a slaughter at My Lai, but said he didn't feel he was "killing humans"<sup>1</sup>. Lt. Calley will testify that he was he was following orders to kill every living thing in the village. 'Richard Kay,' one of the defense attorneys, said.
Capital: Military
WASHINGTON — A federal grant jury indicted Sgt. Mi. William O. Wooldridge, once the army's top-ranked officer in Afghanistan, for charges they conspired to defraud enlisted men's clubs in Vietnam through bribery and kickbacks. The 37-page indictment returned by a special grand jury in Los Angeles alleges that commissioned officers conspired to monopolize sales of thousands of dollars worth of food stuffs, bar supplies, or other prized items at a discounted price from a company some of them had set up.
President Requests Emergency Power To Handle Strike
Legislation enacted by Congress in 10 bars a stewardship in a state legislature. legislation was passed, three of the four unions that had attacked strike have reached agreement. But the United Transportation department representing 90,000 brakemen, workers still has not signed
Nixon proposed that the state dispense a wheel to empowered farmers to shut down of some, but not all, railroads, provide alternative roads and highways.
President Nikon urged Congress Wednesday to grant him emergency powers to behead the president, March 1, either by imposing a contract settlement or by offering only a limited strike or lock-out.
WASHINGTON (UPL)
The first alternative, he said, would allow him to impose recommendations made last November by a presidential
The President said he also was proposing suspension of employees in the armed forces and employment in event of a limited strike, "thus moving toward an equalization of economic pressures of such a strike."
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emergency board, calling for wage increases totaling 37 per cent over the next two years and modification of seven week rules.
FT BENNING, GA. (UPI) — a psychiatrist testified Wednesday that “in view of the pushing that was coming from above” and stresses of a combat situation, LT William L. Calley Jr. was unable to imagine whether orders to kill civilians at My LA were legal or illegal
Calley Trial Hears From Psychiatrist
Dr. David G. Crane, 34, of Indianapolis, a veteran hospital staff member, professor of psychology at Indianapolis University, was called with the Calley court-martial decision to express his professional opinion
The move was part of a defense effort to get before the court the chance to win by outrighting Callley's "diminished mental capacity" when he led his platoon during a search and-destroy operation in the intricate hamlet on March 16, 1988.
Crane testified that because of Calley's impaired "decision-making process" during the four years preceding his arrest, "contrive or plan" premature killing, to kill persons without justification, to determine the legality of orders given by Capt. Calley, to form the specific intent to kill.
Nineteen government witnesses have testified that on the night before the My Lai
The second alternative would allow a limited strike or lockout after March 1 "so long as such action does not endanger the life of an injured person any section thereof," Nixon said. Under this alternative, an emergency dispute panel would be set up to determine whether a weapon or equipment on lockout would jeopardize national health and safety.
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI)—Spinsters and widows between the ages of 30 and 64 are the best drivers on the road today, according to the claims files of a automobile insurance company.
Rolls Bankrupt With Booming Auto Division
operation, Medina, as company commander, ordered the village destroyed and the inhabitants killed.
LONDON (UPI)—The Rolls Royce group is bankrupt, but the Rolls-Royce auto division booms
Hands already are poised to nurse the bulging record order book for autos, the expansion program and secret engines being developed by the makers of world's most prestigious cars.
Potential bidders already have an eye on the new generation of proven heavy-duty engines in auto rolls Auto division, experts said.
Precision engineering and design genius were bedrooks upon which Riley-Royce built its fame.
Worldwide demand for Rolls-Royce cars still is building, a senior official said. Domestic buyers must wait for 18 months for delivery of an auto ordered from a company to feed off a rationing system. Only in the United States are dealers allowed to deliver from stock.
The government-appointed manager and official receiver with the business publicly has promised that the successful and profitable car driver is
Kansas House Approves Bill to Hike Pav Rates
TOPEKA, Kan. (UPI)—The Kansas House tentatively approved Wednesday a bill to increase the pay of legislators.
The measure authored by Kira Brian Miles D-Wichita, and Jeremy Jenkins, was tentatively approved on a condition that all call votes is expected Thursday.
Pay is currently $10 a day, but not exceeding $200 for a regular session and $300 for a special session. Pay is $6,000 a year for each leisure day.
Expenses are now $25 a day,
but not exceeding $2,250 for a
special session. The bill would
raise expenses to $30 a day but
not exceeding $7,200 for a regular
session and $800 for a special
session.
It would do away with the $100-a-month allowance for legislators between sessions.
A large amount of new legislation was expected today in the House and Senate.
The Senate Wednesday tentatively approved nine other bills.
One would allow the voluntary consolidation of counties.
Another would require that the property tax exemption for plumbing and schoolhouses not include those facilities when used for food preparation.
Sen Lester Arvin, R Rose Hill, faction chasers to expell church parishoners so that the property tax. This exemption was removed last year by the
Forty-five bills were introduced in the Senate, including a package of environmental protection measures.
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—increase the state highway paved from 295 to 785 members.
—Prohibit the sale of non-reusable containers after July 1, 1973.
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bardment in Laos, Cambodia and into North Vietnam," he said.
Hughes said Americans should give more thought to possible Chinese reaction to the recent incursion into Laos.
"Lao is to the United States," he said. Earlier in the day, addressing Louisiana Tech University students on reports that the administration was considering wage, price and profit controls for the construction industry.
refusal to act on wage controls," Hughes said. "Taking strong stems is going to be mandatory."
"now he is trying earlily balloons out the back door of the White House which is his usual procedure.
"The President has brought us into these conditions by his
"I am not actively seeking the Democratic nomination for President, but asked when asked about his political plan. Asked about his politics, being formed to back any hopes he might have for the nomination, Mrs. said, "Let's put it this way," not discouraging them."
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A TEACH-IN ON
INDO-CHINA
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with
Woodruff 3-3:30 p.m.
TODAY FEB.18 FREE
Prof. Harry G. Shaffer—Economics
Prof. Lawrence Velvet—Law
Prof. John C. Hight—Human Development
Dean Katherine Katz—Education
Prof. Gerald Mikkelsen—Slavic Languages
UNIVERSITY THEATRE presents THE WHITE LIARS
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The University Theatre—Murphy Hall
by Peter Shaffer
Feb. 18 and 19, 1971 8:20 p.m.
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