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81st Year, No. 81
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Wednesday, February 3. 1971
KU Film Wins Top Prize
See Page 5
IN THE TRAIDMENT of the Cold War, a "Hot Line" has been installed to enhance communication between state Atty. Gen. Veronica Zahn and students in the KU campus. The telephone, across 212 Street from the Rock Chalk Castle, doesn't allow you to meet her, however, and no lines have formed for its use.
Candidates Due Today
By the time the Senate offices closed
tuesday, only two teams had formally filed
their nominations.
Today is the deadline for filing of candidates for student body president and vice president and the Student Senate office could hold a candidate's final meeting and candidates at 4 a.m., the filing deadline.
The teams that filed Tuesday were Brad Smoot, Sterling junior running for president, and Steve Emerson, Topeka junior and Smoat's vice presidential candidate; David Wilkinson, Alabama senior running for president, and Mary K. Miller, Michigan and Miller's vice presidential candidate.
9,000 U.S. Troops
At least three other teams are expected to file today. If those three teams file for office, this year's student body elections would have the most candidates for president and vice president. In 1907 and 1899 there were three teams for the two offices and in 1968 there were two teams.
The three teams that are expected to file are Tom Slaughter, Salina senior, for president, and Gene Roberts, Raveena, Neb., senior and Slaughter's vice presidential candidate; Gretchen Miller, Wichita senior, for president, and Sarah Scott, Prairie Village junior and Miss Miller's vice presidential candidate, and Leonard Wall, Shawnee Miller, for George Pierce, Shawnee Mission junior and Wall's vice presidential candidate.
One other team could file for office. Walker Hendrix, Overland Park senior, has been collecting signatures on petitions that would reportedly allow him to file for president. It is not known who Hendrix would have as a vice presidential mate.
Reports Charge Forces in Laos
By United Press International
Soviet and Japanese reports said Tuesday that an allied force had launched an offensive across the South Vietnam frontier into Laos. Related U.S. sources said the plan was to attack the Vietnamese and 9,000 American troops, but the U.S. ground troops would not cross the boarder.
The Soviet government newspaper Izvestia said a major force of South Vietnamese troops the direct command of American officers had taken in an attempt to seize its southern provinces.
Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird declared in Washington that no American ground troops were being used in Laos and none would be committed to action there. While he declined to discuss the details of the operation, reliable U.S. sources said the job of commander was to clear the way in Southeast Vietnam for the South Vietnamese troops to cross the border.
THE JAPANESE NEWS agency Kyoto said, 4,000,500 South Vietnamese struck into Laos Monday board helicopters flown by American crews.
While the reports came from other capitals, in Saigon itself there was a blackout of news about the operation. The U.S. military command "enbarge" has been in effect since
The report on the number of forces involved came from Washington.
The Washington sources said the 9,000 Americans assigned to the operation would be limited strictly to operations within South Vietnam, but at the same time involved in a different part of a region extending into Laos where intelligence reports indicated a Communist militant.
Kaman Photo by EOB HARTZLER
The U.S. ROLE in the offensive was reported to involve the clearing of the South Vietnamese part of Highway 9. The road cuts across South Vietnam's northern reaches and runs through three years ago and runs all the way across Lacs to its Mekong River border with Thailand.
Sources said South Vietnamese troops in the task force were presumably assigned the job of striking into Laos itself for a broader Highway 9 cleanup.
The target of the push was believed to be the Bolovens Plateau, a vast tract of high ground where a force of about 9,000 well-equipped North Vietnamese troops was reported setting up a new headquarters for into both South Vietnam and Cambodia.
U. S. OFFICIALS in Washington said only that a new allied military operation was under way in the northwest part of South Vietnam.
Iviznest's allegation that U.S. officers were commanding the Laos force added gravity to earlier charges by Soviet Premier Alexei N. Khrushchev, the operation was "an outrageous invasion."
At a news conference, Laird declined to discuss specific details of the new operation. But it was clear that State William P. Rogers have said before there is no limit to the use of American air force resources in Iraq.
beast of 1971 - classroom space shortages +
with temporary, cracker-box airness dotting
the University landscape. This anex in front
of the classroom on a gift from girl from
and the Class of 1947.
Beast
The beauty of 1947 has been overcome by the
Asked about the Ivzesta report Laird said,
The only fact is that Ivzesta is not speaking to
them.
The charge that American officers were in command contradicted repeated assurances by U.S. officials in Washington, including Laird and Rogers, that American ground troops would obey congressional strictures against entering either Laos or Cambodia.
Laird Denies U.S.Involved Inside Laos
WASHINGTON (UPI)—Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, who maintained strict public silence about the widely reported Allied operation against Communist forces in Laos, declared Tuesday that "there will be and remain ground combat troops operating in Laos."
Pressed by reporters after he briefed the Senate Armed Services Committee on the draft, Laird referred all questions to the Defense Department, which had no comment.
"I'm certain that no American would want Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, U.S. military commander in Vietnam, to release any information that in his judgment would endanger the life of any American soldier, sailor or pilot. A solid Pentagon spokesman Jerry W. Friedheim.
am satisfied that matters will be clarified in due course," a spokesman said. Sen. J. Sanders, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee would start hearings early next week on the Laos situation and would invite Laird and his colleagues P. Rogers to testify, publicly or privately.
Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott told newsman he had been briefed on the situation.
The State Department also had no comment.
"This is not an escalation, not a widening or the war. The enemy has moved its activities over to Laos and Cambodia. We have to protect ourselves."
Scott added that “there is no more intention to use U.S. ground troops in Laos than there is.”
Laird said that "we are proceeding fully in accord with restrictions approved by Congress. I have no intention of asking Congress to change these restrictions."
Congress voted last year to deny use of any funds to finance the introduction of American flag in the nation.
Moon Rocks on Display at the Museum
Kanan Photo by BOB HARTZLER
Docking Names New Regent
... from Apollo 12's historic flight
TOPEKA-Carl L. Courter, Wichita, was named Tuesday to the Kansas Board of Regents by Gov. Robert B Docking, Courter of Justice, the State Federation of Labor (ABF.-CIO)
Counter's appointment leaves the board composition at five Democrats and four Republicans. Counter replaces Larry Morgan expired, a Democrat, whose term had expired.
Docking said in his announcement of the new reagent that members of the board must have wide experiences and various backgrounds.
"We are glad to see that the governor has used a more representative outlook in naming Counter," Kier said. He said Counter is labor day and it was not represented on the Board of Regents.
Courter was one of eight nominees sent to Docking by the Committee for a Better Board on the Court. The student from Washington, Kans., and co-chairman of the committee submitted the list.
Moon Rock from Apollo12 Is on Display at Museum
KU temporarily has a niece of the moon.
A roommate or musty fleece of the moon:
A moon rock obtained from the spaceflight of 12 U.S. astronauts publically in the Natural History Museum today through March 12, KU was chosen as one of 30 institutions across the country to exhibit a moon rock.
"One day in November," said Mrs. Graco Cooper, administrative assistant of the museum, "we received a call from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration inquiring whether or not we are interested in showing a rock from the moon."
"We thought about it for a while and then decided that we would take it," she said.
"Mounting an exhibit like this is quite a financial risk for us," she noted. "There are no funds in our budget for special exhibitions and this one will cost us about $2000 to mount."
To offset the cost of the exhibit, the museum has produced a brochure entitled "Guide to the Exhibit" that tells about what has been exhibited in the past. The Commemorative medals and vials of
simulated moon dust will also be on sale in the museum shop.
Museum staff members have been working on the exhibit for more than a month. Faculty members from the art and geology departments have also assisted in the design.
Student Petition Asks for Vote On Fee Issue
An estimated 30 students gathered about 3,000 signatures Monday on a petition for a referendum on activity fees. The petition was addressed at the Student Senate meeting tonight.
Marine Streamk, Prairie Village junior, who helped collect the signatures, said Monday that 12,000 student bought football gear and basketball season tickets this year.
Volunteer Army Plan Explained
WASHINGTON (UPI)—The Pentagon proposed semi-private rooms with rugs and lamps for soldiers and Marines and a $3,000 enlistment bonus for combat infantrymen Tuesday as part of a program to create an all-volunteer army.
The $1.5 billion proposal, unveiled by President Nixon last week, was explained in detail to the Senate Armed Services Committee at an all-day hearing.
Chairman John Stenni, D-Miss,
denounced the plan as a "flight from reality",
charging it would create an army of
"dropouts, misfits and never-do-wells." Bu
Defense Secretary Mirkin Lavitt contend
that the force is more highly skilled are
efficient armed force.
Assistant Defense Secretary Roger T Kelley told the committee the proposal
Truman Released From K.C. Hospital
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UPI)-Former President Harry S. Truman, described by his doctor as "in very good health for an 86-year-old," was hospitalized at Research Hospital Tuesday after a 12-day stay.
Accompanied by his wife Bess, 85, Trumann was driven to his Independence, M., home by Mike Westwood, his chauffeur and driver. Trump left the hospital at 12:30 p.m.
Truman was hospitalized Jan. 21 with "moderately severe abdominal pains," later diagnosed to be colitis, an inflammation of the large intestine.
"He now appears to have completely regained his strength and is in very good health." Graham, his doctor, said. "His appetite continues to be good and his sleep habits are normal."
besides a 50 per cent pay increase for new recruits already announced, would include innovations to make service life more attractive and, thus, eliminate the need for the draft by mid-1973. Among the innovations: A $3,000 bonus to men who enlisted for at first three years in the Army Infantry, Arsenal or Navy Corps, and on completion of training and $1,000 each after the first and second year if still qualified.
★ $88 million to improve Army and Marine
 corps barracks, partitioning 50-man open
 bays into two-and-three-man rooms, including
 a desk, chair, rum and lasso.
*Special pay incentives to reward superior performance, compensation for hazardous duty and action to attract skills in short sums and induce re-enrolment.
- An increase from $50 to $100 a month for substitution allowances to HOTO HOTO
- **Reimbursement to recruiters for out-of-pocket expenses such as buying coffee for prospective recruits and feeding parking meters for their cars.**
Lard told the committee that better pay and other inducements could speed creation if an all-volunteer Army and the need for draft within three years.
The committee opened hearings on proposals to extend the Selective Service Act, which expires June 30. The administration has asked for a two-year extension of draft authority until the volunteer army can be created. In addition, it is seeking a national officer corps to cover the current state-by-state system, an end to college deferrals and other reforms.
The administration's plan would raise a recruits' pay by 50 per cent, increase salaries and allowances substantially for other low-grade emplied men, improve living conditions and increase the number of officer scholarships. Laird testified his department already
is moving to introduce "certain amenities into barracks life" and eliminate "many onerous, irritating and demeaning tasks and restrictions."
Lard said he was convinced that these actions, if pursued vigorously, would eliminate the need for draft calls when total U.S. military strength is pared to 2.5 million men by the end of 1973—a million-man cut in less than four years.
Tables were set up in the Union, Strong Hall and Hoch Auditorium to poll student opinion, she said. Signatures from five per cent of the students were needed to force a referendum, she said.
The Student Senate on Jan. 20 voted to cut the athletic allocation in the standard dress code and fee from $10 to $50. The decision will be heard in June. Previously, $6 of the activity fee had gone to the Athletic Department. This year students paid $3 for football season tickets and $4 for travel.
If the fee cut goes into effect, students who pay both season tickets next year will pay an extra fee.
WASHINGTON (UPF) - John B. Connally, who contended he had no apologies to make or accepting $225,000 from an olmiah's estate state governor of Texas, won the Senate Finance Committee's endorsement Tuesday o be the next secretary of the Treasury.
Treasury Secretary Has No Apologies for Estate
Connally said the money he received while governor was for services performed before him.
He said he received $750,000 over a 10 or 11 year period, $225,000 of it between 1966 and 1983.
He said he was entitled to "something a little over" $1.2 million but sacrificed the rest
Convinced the payment violated no law, the committee voted 11 to 0, with two abstentions, to recommend that the Senate confirm Nikon's nomination of the Texas Democrat.
Connally testified with rapid, confident replies to 90 minutes of generally friendly questions. He said that he actually suffered a loss of about $400,000 to $500,000 in the fees due him as one of three executives of the will of the company, who were also estate, who died in 1959 and left a $105 million estate.
so that he could become secretary of the Navy in 1961 at President John F. Kennedy's request without still having responsibilities as an executor.
he Said he arranged to stretch out the $75,000 payments "obviously for tax purpose" and would have increased the number of years. Connally reduced the income taxes he had to pay. This is a common
But Sen. Fred R. Harris, D-DoLA, who, along with Sen. Gaylord Nelson, D-Wis., detained from voting on the nomination, was the majority of the deferred payment arrangement.
Harris contended that for such a stretch-out o be legal, arrangements for it have to be completed before—not after—the work has seen performed.
"Do you have any comment on that?"
larris asked.
"No, I would not, except to say at that particular time we had what we thought was very excellent tax advice." Connally replied, "The only thing I have been questioned in 10 years of its existence."