THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN 81st Year, No. 89 The University of Kansas - Lawrence, Kans
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Monday, February 15, 1971
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Oil Agreement Will Hike Cost Of Gas in U.S.
TEHRAN (UPI) - The western world's oil crisis ended Sunday, with oil companies agreeing to pay Persian Gulf nations billions of dollars more to end the threat of a boycott that could have crippled industries of western Europe and Japan.
The five-year settlement, ending 27 days of tough and tenacious negotiating, will cost the 23 companies, 17 of them American, a total of $1.2 billion this year alone. By 1975, when the agreements expire, the total cost to the companies will have risen to 3 billion.
"We received in full what we agreed we wanted," said Iranian Finance Minister Janshid Mujarze, who negotiated on behalf of Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Abu Dhabi.
This agreement, by revision of the tariff and royalties schedules, increased the cost of crude oil to the companies by 28 cents a barrel, to $1.25.
The six countries clustered in and around the Persian Gulf produce 14 million barrels of oil a day, more than half of the total exports available to the non-Communist world.
To consumers in western Europe, Japan and, to a lesser degree, the United States, the agreement means they will pay slightly more for gasoline, kerosene, diesel oil and heating oils. The oil companies said new price increases were inevitable.
Companies received guarantees the six Persian Gulf states will not demand more money from the companies for five years, or any claims from other producer countries.
Amuzegar said the companies also received assurance that the Gulf states will not reduce or cut off the flow of oil in the event of a boycott by other producers.
Both Libya and Algeria have threatened a boycott if they do not gain sizable settlements in forthcoming negotiations. The companies fear other members of the 10-member Petroleum Exporting Countries would join Libya and Algeria in a solidarity move.
Haskell
One of the oldest buildings on the Haskell Indian Junior College campus was destroyed
in an early morning blaze Saturday. Damage to the building was estimated at $100,000. A snorkel truck of the Lawrence fire department fought the fire in the stucco and wood frame Sacajawea Hall. See related story page 3.
Deadline Nears; Candidates Scarce
By JOYCENEERMAN
Kansan Staff Writer
The controversy over student activity fee appropriations, should be one of the main issues in this year's session.
"We have a definite problem," John Foldman, president of the Elections Commission, said Sandra.
Wednesday is the filing deadline for class officers and student senators, but only about 20 students have filed for approximately 96 of them. One has filed one has filed the 12 class officer positions.
"If people don't come out to vote for the candidates, they ought to at least come out to vote," she said.
He said that there are no minimum qualifications to prevent a student from running for Student Senate.
"The only thing a prospective candidate needs is a declaration of intent, signed by the dean of his school, stating that he really is in that school," he said.
Because of the time needed to print the ballots, Freidman said, there will be no exceptions to the 4 p.m. Wednesday filing deadline.
"The Election Committee would accept or reject the candidate's election," he said. "If
Freidman said there is no preposition for *w-in- votes*, and 'if I one should win, it
they rejected it, the candidate could appeal to the judiciary, and I would be willing to do that.
Also on the March 3 and a ballot will be the referendum on appropriations, that will read,
I agree, or I disagree with the enactment on appropriation by the Student Senate,
January 20, 1971.
The "day poll" will be open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. They will be located in the main rotunda of Strong Hall, in the north lobby of the Kansas Union and near the second floor.
lobby of Summerfield.
The "night polls" will be open from 7 to 10 pm, and will be located in Eldsworth, Olive Park.
Freidman said only 8 per cent of the student body voted in the fall elections.
"Ellsworth was the smallest "night poll." Oliver was the biggest—with 9 people voting," he said.
Those interested in running for a position or working at the pods, should contact John Greenberg, 612-357-8001.
Communist Site Bombed Also
CIA Mercenary Base Is Accidentally Bombed
SAIGON (UPI)—U.S. war-planes blaster, Communist positions in Las Vegas and accidentally bombed the headquarters of a clandestine mercenary army organized by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), American sources said.
U. S. Air Force personnel and CIA advisers are usually present in the base, which is basically an open area.
Six Laoati mercenaries were reported killed and one American, believed to be a CIA agent, was wounded.
The sources said a wave of U.S. Air Force Phantom jets dropped several clusters of deadly antisempler 'bomblets' on the Long Cheng headquarters of the Meo Hill tribe mercenaries, commanded by Maj. Gen Van Pao and financed by the CIA.
The commander of South Vietnamese forces that attacked the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos said his troops were prepared to stay until the infiltration route was closed and that it wouldn't be a short period. His statement contradicted earlier Saigon announcements
American sources said the accidental bombing at Long Cheng, 90 miles north of Vientiane, took place shortly before dawn. The U.S. planes were attacking Communists on the outskirts of the base but mistakenly dropped their bombs on Allied positions.
Officials said the bombing caused substantial damage to the airfield and headquarters of the base, which has been undergoing Communist pressure in recent days.
Sources in Saigon said several buildings were destroyed by the bomblets. Each of the bright yellow explosives contains hundreds of steel pellets designed to kill or maim anyone
in the area where it explodes.
Long Cheng has been under increased Communist pressure and reports from the field indicated Communist troops have apparently occupied a ridge which overlooks the base.
UPI Television News cameraman Ed Van Kan, who flew to two refugee sites within 15 miles of the embattled command post of the Mee tribe Sunday afternoon, said he saw a woman with her hands coming out of the area on foot and on horseback, carrying as many belongings as they could.
Van Kan said he saw 60 to 70 wounded aotian soldiers and civilians in a hospital 12 miles south. Long Cheng. He said American soldiers are a picture of Gen. Engo Vang Pao who had flown in to
visit the wounded. He said he was told the officials were emulges of the CIA.
Laoitan officials who spent the night in Long Cheng and returned to Vientiane Sunday afternoon, described the attack against the headquarters as being much less serious than the attack last week and told Van Kan. They said the only casualties were about knew two wounded civilians.
Military sources in Suigon said Sunday that South Vietnamese troops inside Laos have found two of the biggest arms caches of the current offensive. They said one of the storage bins contained more than 700 weapons.
At least 27 U.S. servicemen have been killed and 57 wounded in LaoTian air operations and support activities.
Railway Clerks Appeased; March 1 Strike Doubtful
WASHINGTON (UPI)—The government announced Sunday that the 180,000-member Railway Clerks Union had reached a contract settlement with the nation's railroads, leaving only one union threatened a coast-to-coast rail strike March 1.
A spokesman for the Labor Department, which is mediating the dispute, said agreement was reached early Sunday between the railroads and the Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks, the largest of the four unions involved, but that details would not be disclosed until the agreement is ratified by the union's members.
Agreement had been reached earlier on new contracts with unions representing 60,000 maintenance of way employees and 3,000 dining car workers. Still unresolved is a contract with the United Transportation Union, which represents 90,000 employees.
All four unions struck last Dec. 10, but Congress passed an emergency act requiring all employees to return to work in exchange for a 13.5 per cent interim wage increase. The motion was adopted midnight Feb. 26, permitting the UTU to strike at that time if no contract has been reached.
Second Round On Protest Bill Begins Tonight
The hearing, which LaGrie emphasized was "Open to everyone," will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. in the Council Room of the Kansas State University, and a member of the University community to attend.
A rewritten and revised version of the Enactment on Freedom of Protest will be presented tonight in a second public hearing sponsored by the Student Senate's Committee on Privileges and Responsibilities, according to Johnson junior, and chairman of that committee.
The Enactment on Freedom of Protest was referred to committee at the last meeting of
Church Drops Withdrawal Deadline
WASHINGTON (UP1) - Sen. Frank Church, D-Idaho, urged fellow Senate dowsun to abandon efforts to legislate a deadline for President Nixon to withdraw all U.S. troops from Southeast Asia. Instead, he brought the meeting total withdrawal as a national goal.
Church said he still supported the McGovern-Hatfield amendment to impose a Dec. 31, 1971, deadline as a 'gesture' of how the Senate feels about the war. But he said the amendment stood no chance of becoming law, since the House overwhelmingly opposes it.
and the President would veto it even if both houses passes it.
"Now, in recognition of the realities, I think that we ought not focus any more on trying to impose a deadline on the President," he said in a UPI interview.
"I think we should recognize that that's going to work. And I would prefer to call upon the President to negotiate a final date for the completion of the withdrawal of troops."
Church, the co-sponsor of the 1970 Cooper-
Church amendment to ban American ground
crime shooting in the United States.
offer a resolution that would set total withdrawn from Vietnam as the national purpose of the United States, without suggesting a fixed date.
The McGovern-Haffield amendment—now known as the "Vietnam Disengagement act"—was rejected by the Senate 55 to 39 last year and also was overwhelmed defeating the in House. But Sen George McGovern, who is vice-president, Rob Roy has viewed they will try again the first opportunity this year in the wake of the new allied offensive inside Laos.
First Part of Series on Student Presidential Candidates
Smoot, Hendrix Discuss Elections
Hendrix
By JEFF KENNEDY
Kansan Staff Writer
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Walker Hendrix and Patricia Murphy are leading the Boston Tea Party into this spring's student government elections. Hendrix, a junior, is a history and political science major from Overland Park and Miss State is a junior in social welfare from Wichita.
Hendrix said he wanted the campaign to be educational so that the Lawrence community could more easily understand the problems it must face. He said he hoped to achieve a better understanding of all people on campus so they would work together and create a community that incorporates not only the community but the other segments of the community.
Hendrix said his main objective was to alleviate the alienation of townpeople and See HENDRIX Page 3
Walker Hendrix . . 'collectivism'
Brad Smoo
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... 'new concept'
Smoot
By MARTY SLATER
Kansan Staff Writer
Brad Smoot and Steve Emerson say they are not running a conventional campaign. Smoot, a Sterling junior, and Emerson, a Topka teenager, run for something running but for something.
In the past, the Student Senate's role has been that of legislator and bureaucracy rather than executive.
"It is time for a whole new concept of government to meet the needs of the average citizen," she said.
The main emphasis in the Smooth-Emerson platform is to establish task forces of volunteer workers in a variety of areas to gather facts and do the research, they said. In this way, Smooth and Emerson said they would be free from the restrictions of limiting
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No Feet
Runoff from melting water accumulation on Jayhawk Boulevard, but the water did not run off.
Kansan Photo by GREG SORBER
Standish, Adrian, Mich., graduate student as she splashed through the driving pulse her mini-bike to class. Her mode of transportation, unlike automobiles, did not threaten pedestrians with an untimely shower.