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Tuesday, December 7, 1971
University Daily Kansan
People:
EDGAR SMITH, who spent more time on death row than any American prisoner, was released from prison Monday. A judge accepted his plea of no defense to murdering a 15-year-old girl in 1957.
CALVIN B. MANON, veteran Associated Press newsman and reporter at the St. Luke's Hospital in Kansas City, Md., has an apparent heart attack. Manon was honored as Man of the Year by the Kansas City Press Club as editor of the Press Club Review and for his work with the newspaper.
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PNIM PENN, Cambodia—Cambodian troops fired from a town near Phnom Penh, which was attacked by garrison was killed or wounded in two days of fighting. Fighting lagged on other battlefields of the Indochina War. American troop strength in Vietnam dropped last week by 4,100 men to 178,300, the Army said.
BELFAST, Northern Ireland - A Salvation Army girl died in a car crash while visiting her sister and ripped apart a scar by a shirt factory and touched off a fire. The homing and gun battles between Irish republicans and British troops ruled out any anniversary celebrations for the treaty that ended the conflict.
MANHATTAN—A call for cooperative effort by Kansas senators on transportation strike settlement legislation was issued Monday by Ray Frisbe, president of the Kansas Farm Bureau. The farm is seeking to build a domestic marketing and losing export markets for the U.S. farmer.
Things:
Glen Beck, vice-president of the School of Agriculture at Kansas State University, says a PROPOSED SLASH IN THE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH BUDGET could eliminate branch experiment stations. Beck said the $50,000 cut recommended by State Budget Director James Bibb might mean stations conducting herbicide treatments at Colby, Tribune and Garden City would be shut down.
INFORMATION ON THE TOTAL MEMBERSHIP AND INCOME of the National Farmers Organization has been revealed in U.S. District Court records as part of the organization's answer to a dairy industry lawsuit. Many of the details have been kept secret since the founding of the association in 1855, because leaders emphasized that more effectively if their membership strength was unknown.
Atty. Gen. John Mitchell revealed Monday the creation of a NATIONAL CORRECTIONS ACADEMY to reform American prisons, which President Nixon called "colleges of crime." Mitchell said the academy would offer training for local, state and federal counsel as an effective means for upgrading the profession and assuming that correction is more than a euphemism for detention."
Hexachlorophene Under FDA Fire
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration citing new studies questioning the use of hexachlorophene as a germ fighter. Monday warmed against it use for bathing babies and infants.
The @ency ordered warning labels on soaps and skin cleaners containing 3 per cent or more of the chemical, and sent a separate warning to 600,000 and other health professionals.
In controlled studies, the FDA said, 50 newborn infants bathed daily with hexachlorophene preparations absorbed measurable quantities of the chemical sodium hydroxide at time of their hospital discharge, although none displayed toxic symptoms.
The FDA action was based on studies by the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council which found hexacarboxylic acid skin cleanser, at best possibly effective in treating impetigo and other staphylocalyx skin infections and acne, but lacking substantial drug resistance. A single douche or for treating chronic eczema, wounds and burns.
The study found the chemical lacked effectiveness as an "aid to personal hygiene."
the new FDA requirement for the labels warning against its use in skin testing. The company through rinsing applies to such products as Phioshenk skin cleanse and detergent cream laundering and wash laboratories. Hyper Phaze by Colgate-Palmolive and by Arbek Division of Ethicon.
Consumer advocate Ralph Nader helped to remove bactacophenone products from the open market and make them prescription drugs.
In place of hexachlorophene but with chlorine, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend "washing with plain soap and water or tap water."
Hexachlorophene, introduced about 22 years ago, now is found in thousands of household products including soaps, deodorants, acne creams, hand and body lotions, shampoos, soap to mouth swabs, toothpastes and over-the-counter drugs.
Israeli Tells U.N. Nation Open for Peace Talks
UNTED  NATIONS  N.Y.
N.Y. on the island is a Monday
that "on the island must be
still open" for Middle East peace
negotiations without prior con-
firmation.
In opening the Middle East debate Friday, Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad of U.E.F. called for the use of U.N. enforcement measures, generally known as the "Islamic State," to withdraw its forces from Arab territory captured in the 1967 war.
DESCRIBING THE African peace mission as "an impressive attempt, to unfreeze the deadlock" [Shabat said], it is the Israeli answer. It would reply to the negotiation proposals submitted by the heads of nine African states offers a possibility for resolving the deadlock in exchange for a prior surrender by either party its rights, claims or positions."
Abba Eban, Israeli foreign minister, told the U.N. General Assembly his government accepted a proposal by nine African delegates to negotiate with Egypt, in order to reach a peace agreement."
Nixon, Trudeau Confer To Begin Summit Series
Ehana reiterated that Israel was not prepared in advance of challenges to the security environment on troop withdrawals from territory encountered during the invasion.
Eban dealt at length with six proposals for Mideast peace submitted to Egypt and Israel by the nine nations.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Nixon and Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Levesque have other international issues at longer hours. Monday in what assessment he prayed as a worthy workshop.
Neither the White House nor Trudeau would give any answers rudden, however, on items like whether it was two-hour afternoon parley. Side-talks between economic matters went on at the same time.
The conference and a later dinner at the White House were the first meeting of all five leaders with five allied leaders in advance of his trips next year.
"If it opens the way to free and unprejudged negotiation it will meet the test with a consequent efficacy and prestige," he said.
ISRAELI PREMIER Golda
Washington, declined comment
on a report that Israel and Egypt
would "proximity" talks in
Gaza.
Eban appealed to the assembly not to let "majority strength" perpetuate the deadlock.
Presidential press secretary Ronald L. Ziegler reported a meeting of his chief of discussion 'between the U.S. and Canadian chiefs and said Nixon was pleased with Trudeau's call, which he returns to Ottawa Tuesday.
Newsweek magazine said
Agalyon had accepted E.J.
Sugars's offer to represent
Israelis representatives would
occupy nearby hotel rooms
and assistant Secretary of State
Russell would shuttle
between them.
Blasts Unrelated
Last Friday, a Panhandle Eastern Pipeline Co. line exploded near Olpe. Wednesday night, a large natural gas pipe line exploded by the Kansas Power Company exploded northeast of Hutchinson.
TOPEKA (AP)-Ukrain Iwrin
Kansas Corporation
Corporation Management
Thursday two gas pipeline blasts in the last six days are inflated
There were no injuries reported in either of the recent blasts, but both were speculated to have been caused by a glow that could be seen for miles.
Canadian officials told newsmen the prime minister had sought to find out the long-term U.S. attitude toward Canada, and
Ziegler said the two leaders, who spent their time discussing and debating the situation in East-East relations and the India-Pakistan war. The India-Pakistan war. The United States will not join.
that he had received a Nixon response he considered reassuring.
Canada wants a removal of the 10-per-cent import surcharge Nikon imposed in his emergency economic program last August. The U.S. has most trusting partner, Canadians, that the levy hits them unfairly.
the talk was about U.S.-Canadian economic issues.
Bibb Will Brief Press On Status of '73 Budget
TOPEKA (AP) - State Budget Director James Bibb will brief newsmen this morning in his fiscal 2017 budget for fiscal 2017.
Bibb, who last week concluded budget appeal hearings, will explain to newsmen just where the state stands as far as budget recommendations Bibb plans to make to Gov. Robert Docking about his plan to raise state treasury is likely to have in fiscal 1973 to meet the budget.
A spokesman in the governor's office announced the briefing, and said it is unique in state history. He said Bibb has been
before conducted such a briefing ahead of presentation of the budget, that its implications to the legislature. Ribb has been state budget
The governor's office said the briefing will be on the record and newsmen will be free to report out of the 1973 budget to the public.
Last year, Docking raised Bibb's recommendations somewhat when he presented his budget to the legislature. A study found that the areas of higher education and welfare—is expected this year.
The president in his proclamation said that his government would place top priority on the protection of women who would not tolerate "all elements of social unrest" that might affect national security; the government must afford from 'irresponsible debate' national security, and every
Besides the threat of attack by North Korea, Park is concerned about the possible withdrawal of a United States-backed Communist China's recent admission to the world body. He also views the foreign aid controversy in the United States as a threat to the security of U.S. aid might be lowered.
There was no precedent for the proclamation in the republic's 23rd history, but a government spokesman called it an "adductive measure" one step short of presidential emergency powers.
SEOUL (AP)—President Chung Hee Park tightened his grip on South Korea Monday by declaring an emergency. He warned of an increased threat of invasion and international developments.
THE EMERGENCY measure that was not accompanied by any immediate force, but it was expected to have a deep effect on the future of the region.
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In Washington, the State Department declined Monday to endorse Park's view of the proposed North Korea invasion.
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officials to meet with their North Korean counterparts to discuss the fate of separated Korean families. Park and other South Korean leaders have repeatedly warned against possible snarls on diplomatic issues may be planning, taking action on the Red Cross talks.
Park surprised many political experts when he invoked the garrison decree in October to mobilize troops against student attackers when many thought it an "excessive measure."
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Three bills to be taken up by the Korean cabinet Tuesday are a law on the protection of military facilities, a law on the protection state secrets, and a revision to the government confiscation.
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He also ordered crackdowns on what he considers decadent influences including hippe-influenced costumes, go-go clubs and pornography. He maintained his country could not afford such when it was under constant Communist threats from the North.
Despite the deep concern of the Park government about North Korean threats, some Korean opposition elements and U.S. officials disagreed with the government on the extent of the danger.
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