Docking comments on M-day activites
Robert B. Docking
House approves ammunition bill
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The House Wednesday approved without debate a compromise bill that exempts shotgun and high power rifle ammunition from regulation under the 1968 Gun Control Act.
The measure was sent to the Senate on a 334-47 vote for certain final congressional approval.
The Senate amendment, while removing shotgun and high power rifle ammunition from registration requirements of the Gun Control Act, leaves all handgun ammunition and 22-caliber ammunition still covered by the law.
12 KANSAN Nov. 20
1969
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TOPEKA—Governor Robert B. Docking said Wednesday he was glad the Nov. 15 moratorium observance in Topeka was peaceful.
Without giving a blanket support of the moratorium, Docking said moratoriums without advocating specifics, indicate Americans desire for peace.
"I am not sure the supporters of the moratorium showed any constructive way to end the war," Docking said.
The Governor said most of the mail he has received is highly critical of the anti-war protests. He said these people felt the demonstrations showed a divided America which was hurting the Paris peace talks and prolonging the war.
"The President wants to end the war; he wants peace," Docking said. "I am not sure whether the moratorium activities will have any effect on President Nixon's present Vietnam policy. Nixon has said the demonstrations would not affect his course and frankly, when the President says something, I assume he means what he says," Docking said.
Concerning President Nixon's Nov. 3 speech on Vietnam, Docking said although the President did not offer new or unique ideas for ending the war in Vietnam, he did renew his commitment to withdraw troops as soon as possible.
In regard to the recent controversy at KU over the crowning of a black homecoming queen. Docking said he had no object-
"The President deserves support and cooperation of all Americans in his pursuit of peace." Docking said.
tions to the course of action that was taken.
"I have great confidence in the Board of Regents and the Chancellor and I do not feel the legislature nor the governor has the right to interfere with university operations. This was my basic
disagreement with Sen. Shultz because he thought the legislature should take a part in university administration. I feel we have experts like Cancellor Chalmers for this and I will back him as I backed Clarke Wescoe." Docking said.
Senate committee warned of war's cost to taxpayers
WASHINGTON (UPI) — An economist who helped stabilize war torn European economies during World War II warned Congress Wednesday that "complete novices" in the U.S. government are letting the Vietnamese economy slide toward collapse at the expense of American taxpayers.
"In ultimate analysis, every diversion of foreign exchange from Vietnam means dollar for dollar, penny for penny, million for million, an added burden on the American taxpayer," Gabriel T. Kerekes told the Senate permanent investigating subcommittee.
He said Vietnam's flourishing black market—which now pays 240 piasters per dollar, more than double the official rate—
was feeding on the fears of impending defeat, spurred by the "contemplated reduction of the U.S. commitment."
Kerekes urged a series of monetary reforms, including a multiple exchange rate to make the black market less lucrative, but he and Sen. Abraham Ribicoff, D-Conn., agreed the South Vietnamese government would have to cooperate and was not willing.
"The Vietnamese pay less and less for the burdens of the war, and we have to make up the difference," Ribicoff told newsmen after the hearing.
Kerekes explained that residents of any war-torn country decide their money would be safer if converted to a "hard"
currency like dollars, and banked overseas. Hence they are willing to pay more for dollars than the official exchange rate. The demand creates a currency black market.
The dollars spent in the country, rather than staying there for needed foreign exchange, are bought through black market and illegally sent to banks in Switzerland and the United States.
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