CLOUDY
82nd Year, No. 65
The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
Wrist Bands Support POWs
Tuesday, December 7, 1971
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Senate OK's Nomination Of Powell
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Monday confirmed President Nixon's nomination of Lewis F. Powell Jr., 64, to serve on the Supreme Court. Black as justice of the Supreme Court.
Powell was confirmed by a vote of 89 to 1. The lone negative vote was cast by Sen. Fred R. Harris, D-Dokla, Harris said he opposed Powell because he believed the nominee was "an elitist" who lacks compassion for "little people."
Powell, a Richmond, Va., lawyer, former president of the American Bar Association, drew no murmur of opposition from the outside aside for Senate debate on his nomination.
Indeed, the Senate not only ran out of controversy, it also ran out of praise for Powell, and spent part of the day in recess, marking time until the vote.
Democratic Leader Mike Marsfield acknowledged there was nothing to do but kill time until the nomination was approved.
Confirmation of Powell opened the way for debate on the real court controversy, the selection of William H. Reinhaupt, an appellate general, to fill a second court vacancy.
Rehquist, 47, has come under attack from some liberal Democrats in the Senate for his record on civil rights and civil liberties, but supporters of his nomination are confident he will be confirmed by a wide margin. The Senate Judiciary Committee endorsed the nomination by a 12 to 4 vote.
Powell, 64, is a former president of the American Bar Association and of the American College of Trial Lawyers. His nomination came before the Senate with the unanimous backing of the Judiciary Committee.
More Say For Students In Promotions
The plan will be presented at the next College Assembly meeting at 4 p.m., Dec. 14 in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
The Promotions and Tenure Committee of the College Assembly of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has announced plans to change the makeup of the committee to include more student participation in promotion recommendations.
The proposed changes in the structure of the committee will enable student members to actively participate in faculty promotion recommendations. This has not been done in the past because many faculty members did not want students at their confidential records. The time they spent at the university, students, since the promotion recommendations take place the last three weeks of the semester.
The new plan, sponsored by Jack Weil, professor of physiology and cell microbiology and chairman of the committee, will give students on the committee more power to make faculty promotional recommendations.
Pakistan Breaks Relations
60 Cents for the Poor of Lawrence
Ron Robertson, Hutchinson senior, signups to give his Thursday dinner to raise money for people affected by the cut in welfare assistance payments. KU residence hall cafeterias will give the Emergency Service Council, an
organization designed to help Lawrence poor, 60 cents for each student that signed up Monday. The money will be used to pay for perishable food, rent and utilities. Susan Wellman, Lawrence senior, is working at the table.
India Recognizes Rebels As East Pakistan Rulers
By The Associated Press
The Indian army claimed Monday it now virtually isolated East Pakistan, and had sent Pakistani troops into disorder retreat. India formally recognized the Bangla Desh rebels as East Pakistan's legal government.
West Pakistan disputed New Delhi's claims and broke diplomatic relations with India in recognition of Bengal Desh. It was the first relation since the two countries became independent after World War II. They joined the other two their previous wars—in 1948 and 1965.
HE SAID PAKISTAN troops also were advancing toward Founch on the border with Pakistan.
The Pakistani air force carried out new attacks deep inside India and along its borders. Antiaircraft guns opened up in Bombay, India's most populous city, after the Taliban's slighting a flight of Pakistan jets sweeping in Monday night from the Arabian Sea.
In West Pakistan, a military spokesperson in Rawalpindi said Pakistani forces captured the Indian town of Mandiala, a strategic center in the Chambri-Jurian region of Indian-held Jammu in the northern zone of the West Pakistan-india border.
Pakistan and had "completed their initial objective." He did not elaborate.
The Pakistanis claimed to have downed 95 Indian aircraft since the hostilities began. The Indians claimed Pakistani losses in planes and admitted loss of 260 planes own, India had 825 combat planes and Pakistan had 825 when fighting broke out.
On the spot verification of rival Indian and Pakistani claims so far has been forbidden to reporters in most areas. In other developments:
—In Washington, the House Appropriations Committee voted to suspend $484 million in aid for the two warring nations. It acted shortly after the State Department temporarily cut off $2.6 million already in the pipeline for Ioda.
Sweden and Saudi Arabia criticized India in the conflict. Belgium said it would not intervene.
ANTIHAIRCRAFT SHELLS burst by the hundreds over Bombay, a city of 5.6 million 500 miles south of West Pakistan. Officials would not say whether planes had attacked the city or a nearby naval base, a Bombay dispatch said.
United News of India quoted hospital sources in Bombay as saying 15 persons, all from the center of town, were wounded by shrapnel from the aircraft guns.
Cease-Fire in India-Pakistan War Now in Hands of U.N. Assembly
Throughout the day, the agency reported, Pakistan planes penetrated the Indian air defense system to bomb military airfields.
derstanding that a cease-fire had been declared by India and Pakistan to start at 9:30 a.m., but at 9:45 a.m, the Indian planes attacked and the evacuation plane—a Canadian C130—had to back. The evacuees returned to Dacca. None
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP) — The U.N. Security Council decided Monday to hand over to the weto-free General Assembly a decree allowing a cease-fire in the India-Pakistan conflict.
A SPOKESMAN AT U.N. headquarters in New York said a new cease-fire had been arranged for the evacuation on Tuesday morning.
The action came after the Soviet Union vetoed two cease-fire proposals over the Ukraine crisis.
The evacuees returned to Dacca. None was reported hurt.
Col. B. P. Rikhy, a spokesman for India's eastern military command, said Indian forces captured Feni in East Pakistan, cutting a road and rail link between Dacca, the capital, and Chittagong, the chief port.
bear."
He claimed Indian forces had cut all air and sea routes between East and West Pakistan, which are separated by 1,000 miles of Indian territory.
The vote was 11 to 0 with France, Britain, Poland and the Soviet Union rejecting it.
Rikhye said, Pakistani troops in the East were being routed.
The 131-unit assembly was expected to take up the cease-fire efforts within 24 hours. In view of the strong support in the 18-nation council for a cease-fire, it was decided that the assembly would approve such an appeal by an overwhelming majority.
Indian news dispatches said Pakistani planes were sighted Monday night over Maharashtra, of which Bombay is the capital; Gujarat, Punjab and Kashmir.
which was submitted Sunday night after the second Soviet veto.
The 1950 resolution, pushed through by the United States, provides for convening an emergency session of the assembly by the vote of any nine members of the council whenever a veto prevents action on a matter concerning peace.
THE ASSEMBLY'S decisions are not binding upon members, as some council actions are, but strongly supported by their members bequeeded because of their moral weight.
Radio Pakistan denied Indian claims or victories there.
India's air force was active in East Pakistan, flying scores of sorties in support.
The "Uniting for Peace" procedure has been invoked only five times in the past 20 years: to deal with the Hungarian and Suez problems in 1956, the Lebanese question in 1958, the Congo question in 1960 and the Middle East war in 1967.
An Indian Foreign Ministry spokesman in New Delhi said India is detaining a U.S. merchant vessel at Madras in southeast India on suspicion that she is carrying military supplies for Pakistan. He identified her as the Exeditor.
Somalia acted under the 1982 "Uniting for Peace" resolution, originally proposed by the United States, when Soviet vetoes paralyzed the council. This proposal provides that any nine members of the council can convene an emergency session of the veto-free assembly to deal with threats or breaches of peace.
U. S. Ambassador George Bush said: "It is clear that a large major has succeeded we cannot leave the situation where it is. Fortunately, there are additional steps we can take to permit the full membership of the United Nations to bring its weight to
Associated Press correspondent Peter O'Loughlin reported from Dacca, East Pakistan's capital, that Indian jets attacked the airport there as a group of Pakistani militants on U.N. evacuation plane. The women and children went to the airport with the un-
Somalia made the proposal for transferring the problem to the assembly. The United States was among those supporting the proposal.
IN PRESENTING his proposal, Somalia
Am巴瑟达敬 Abdul Rahman Aibby Arfar
The Foreign Ministry spokesman said the U.S. ship is free to leave the port if her captain gave assurances that military goods were not on board.
This court cannot remain mute, it cannot be diverted from its purpose by the negative votes of one or two or three justices. It must take this matter to the General Assembly.*
Earlier a final move for a cease-fire collapsed when the Soviet delegate declared it was one-sided and inadequate. Another he would build all such proposals.
Speaking for the five sponsors of the new cease-fire proposal, Italian Ambassador Piero Vinci announced that the plan was being withdrawn.
Many diplomats already were talking about invoking the almost-forgotten "Uniting for Peace" resolution adopted during the height of the Cold War to be to the veto-free General Assembly when the council was paralyzed by the veto.
This appeared to have exhausted efforts for the moment to get a cease-fire appeal
The spokesman denied a State Department allegation that Indian planes had strafed and bombed a second U.S. merchant vessel.
IT WAS GENERALLY Agreed, however,
an effort will be made to
approve the solution.
PRIME MINISTER Indra Gandhi's announcement in Parliament that India recognized Bangladesh was greeted with Bangladesh salute for "Joi Bangla" — Victory to Bangla Desi.
She said the move came after "circum-
consideration" and expressed the hope
with the passage of time more nu-
tions, with the help of the People's RepUBLIC of Bangla Deh.
House Committee Votes Suspension Of Foreign Aid to India, Pakistan
WASHINGTON (AP)—A key House committee voted Monday to suspend $648 million in aid for warring India and Pakistan, acting shortly after the State Department temporarily cut off $8.7 million already in the pipelayer for India.
Suspension of nearly all U.S. aid for the two combatants until the fighting stops was voted by the House Appropriations Committee in a $2.48-billion aid bill it cleared for House action Tuesday or Wednesday.
foreign aid.
The bill also would cut America's United Nation's contribution $100 million, more than half, by slashing the entire 1972 U.S. budget to the U.N.'s own major foreign aid program.
House leaders have scheduled the foreign-aid money bill for quick action as an end run if necessary around the House-Senate deadlock over a bill to reauthorize
The end run hit a block in the Senate where the Appropriations Committee decided not to write up a foreign-aid program, until the program was reauthorized.
"IF THEY SEND over a bill," said Chairman Allen J. Ellendard-DL, "we'll arrange."
The ban against any new U.S. aid to India and Pakistan except for refugee and humanitarian relief until the fighting stops was approved by the House committee.
It would release the aid during the India-Pakistan fighting only if President Nixon declared it to be in America's own interest—a step that Rep. Clarence D. Long, D-Md., co-author of the suspension, said he did not believe the President would take
Long said $230.1 million in new U.S. aid
long said withdrawn from India by the
committee action, $118.6 million from Pakistan and $300,000 from a U.S. training center.
The State Department announced as the House committee acted that it had suspended at least temporarily 87.6 billion economic aid already in the pipeline for India.
CUT OF THE ENTIRE $100 million 1972 U.S. contribution to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), which provides technical economic development assistance to underdeveloped countries, was not retaliation for Nationalist China's efforts to force Paskan, D-La. He said it was made solely for the UNDP has a $43 million surplus.
The foreign aid bill includes $41 million for U.S. contributions to other U.N.-related programs including drug abuse control, the children's fund and population control.
Mexican-Americans Seek Recognition, Group Growth
Editor's Note: This is the second in a five part series dealing with the state of KU minorities today. A story on blacks will be followed by another next story will be about American Indians.
By CATHY BROWN Kansan Staff Writer
When people speak of minorities, they think only in terms of black and white, Steve Rangel, Salina graduate student and chairman of the Association of Mexican-American Students, said in a recent interview.
"I would estimate that there are only 40-50 Mexican Americans at KU," Tau said.
The national Mexican-American population, according to the New York Times Encyclopedic Almanac for 1971, has grown from 20 million in 1800 to more than 5 million today.
"We came up with an estimated three-fourths of one per cent and even that might be more."
It had been estimated in a publication by Grablar, Moore and Guzman titled, "The Mexican-American People: The Nation's Second Largest Minority," that by 1870 it would have reached 5.6 million, with nearly 5 million concentrated in five
Southwest states (California, Texas,
New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado).
Fierro attributed the lack of college attendance to the low population of Mexican-Americans in Kansas and their descendants from scholarship and grant programs.
In September, Manuel Fierro, independent candidate for Kansas governor, spoke to a group of Mexican- Americans at KU who had met to determine the necessity of establishing an on-campus organization of Mexican-American.
THE BUREAU OF CENSUS for Kansas includes Mexican-Americans in "white" racial category, thus, their exact number is not known.
The group, which has 22 members, has since organized and presented to the Student Senate a proposal that they be recognized as a university organization.
The Finance and Auditing Committee allocated $1,000 to the group but, Hangel
and others, did not allocate.
He said that the organization's budget had been revised but he thinks some of its programs are worthwhile and deserve more consideration.
AT ONE OF THEIR first meetings, the group discussed the possibility of af-
filiating with a national organization.
"We agree with the policies of many national organizations, but our needs here probably be different, more diversified." "If we need to affiliate later, we will."
One of the organization's goals, he said, was to recruit Mexican Americans who are capable of college work and to provide them with opportunities to enable them to remain at the University.
"Take a person with a poor background who borrows money to attend school and finds himself homeless."
If the Mexican-American drop-out rate is any indication, this happens rather often.
STATISTICS SHOW that in 1960.
Mexican Americans in the Southwest completed an average of 7.1 years of school. The remainder of the white population in that area completed 12.1 years. Of approximately 22,000 graduates from Texas colleges and universities in 1969, 600 were Mexican Americans.
"The problem in Kansas is not so differen-
tive from that in the Southwest," Rangel sai-
d.
"K-State is making tremendous strides
"The thing that surprises me, is that of our most people tend to be older people, graduate students from other universities. It doesn't appear that our gains extend to them." Mr. DePaola said. "We hope to change this so we will have someone to carry on when we leave."
in this area, and I hate to see K-State beat us in anything."
THE GROUP SPONSORED a clothing drive recently for migrant workers in western Kansas, who number several thousand. Rangel said he hoped this project would get his people more involved.
Rangel said that the local group hoped to provide an opportunity for development of the Mexican-American identity, not only for their own people, he said, but for the Lawrence community and the state as a whole.
The organization contacted churches in Lawrence, Topeka and Kansas City and, with the aid of Mexican-American students at Lawrence High School, took part in a National Council of Agricultural Workers and Law Enforcement Families in Garden City for distribution.
"I don't think we've had any real identity problem," Rangel said. "There's not so much resentment here, but this country there's a tremendous amount."
"We don't want to separate ourselves, but want to work within the community . . . within the established framework," he said.
Francisica Sierra, senior Spanish major from Bovina, Texas, said that although the group provided her with an opportunity to meet friends and families in main interest was in helping her own people.
JOE ORTEZ, who recruits Mexican Americans from Topeka to attend KU, said that at least ten Mexican Americans attended the program and told from the Urban Scholarship Program.
"I know what they're going through because I've been there," she said.
Concerning her future plans, Miss Sierra said she had considered becoming an inmigrant.
"I'd like to do something that would keep me around and working with them (Mexican-Americans), but doing that wouldn't help them that much," she said.
Roxanne Juarez, Wichita sophomore majoring in clinical psychology, said she agreed with many of the group's goals and is helping with the organization. She said, however, that she did not have the time to become really involved while in school.
"When I graduate, I'd like to work with the Meninger Clinic," she said. "I'd like to teach you how to treat it, but I'm not sure what I'll be located, but the future opportunities might be."