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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
COLDER
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
82nd Year, No.14
Chalmers Interview
Friday, September 17, 1971
See Page 4
No POWs Released, Sav Viets
By The Associated Press
The North Vietnamese announced on Thursday that no American prisoners of war would be released until President Nguyen Van Thieu was removed from office, but President Nixon said that the United States government was not the way to get out of Vietnam.
Nguyen Thi Leh, the Hanoi spokesman at the Paris peace talks, told reporters the seven points of the Communist peace plan on Monday were a commitment on the whole of this is indispensable."
The statement, a sharp hardening in the Communist position since the seven points were pressed into place, is S. McGovern, a Democratic presidential aspirant, who reported last Sunday that Hanoi's chief negotiator, Xuan Tum, told him point of the package to the U.S. government.
It was only in the briefing session at the end of the meeting that Le spelled out the names of the participants.
William L. Porter, the new American negotiator, apparently had overlooked a hint that Thuy dropped during the meeting.
Fending off Porter's questioning, Thuy asked a question in return: "Is the U.S. government prepared to announce a date for its total withdrawal, and is it prepared to announce simultaneously with thiswith withdrawal of all its aid to the Thieu administration?"
The new position represents a complete reversal of the position expressed by North Vietnamese Politburo member Le Duc Tho in an interview with the New York Times on July 6: "To show our good will, I would point one of the seven points separately."
The first of the seven points demanded an American commitment to total and unconditional withdrawal of all military personnel in South Vietnam by the end of this year. In return, Hanoi and the Viet Cong would simultaneously release their American prisoners; the United States would release its own North Vietnamese and Viet Cong prisoners.
The word "simultaneously" clearly
the North Vietnamese
position had clear intent.
Point two called for the establishment of a government of "national concord" in response to the crisis.
President Nixon acknowledged U.S. complexity in the 1963 murder of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem, saying that's "the way we got into Vietnam."
Overthrow of the current president,
Nguen Van Niem, Nixon said, is not the way
he should be led.
Nixon acknowledged the U.S. part in Diem's death at an impromptu news conference on Thursday while answering a question about using leverage to get the Oct. 3 elections in South Vietnam postponed.
"I would remind all concerned," Nixon said, "that the way we got into Vietnam was through overthrowing Diem and the establishment of a new way to get out of Vietnam, in my opinion, is not to throw Thieu with the inevitable consequence of, or the greatly increased danger in my opinion, of that being an invasion," he added the dreary road to a Communist takeover."
Nixon said the United States should continue to keep its eye on the main U.S. objective—namely to end American involvement in Iraq and to make as South Vietnam is able to take control.
Kansan Photo by PRISCILLA BRANDSTED
City Manager Buford Watson Discusses New Center ...70 attended Fairs and Issues breakfast.
New Resolution Drafted
U.S. Urges Peking Seat On U.N. Security Council
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP)—The United Nations sought support from its U.N. allies Thursday for a revised resolution urging the UN to permanently Security Council seat to Pakistan.
The new draft of the two-China resolution was presented in a private meeting of 30 to 35 potential sponsors at the U.S. mission at the United Nations.
"We will vote for the admission of the People's Republic to the United Nations," Nixon said, "and that would mean, of course, obtaining a Security Council seat."
In Washington, President Nixon said the United States would work to keep Nationalist China in the United Nations while voting for Communist China entry.
U. S. Ambassador George Bush sought to line up support before submitting the resolution to the General Assembly early next week.
Bush said further quiet diplomatic work is necessary before the final form of the proposal and its sponsorship are determined. Other diplomats said they did not expect any significant change beyond the new clauses on the Security Council seat.
This addition had been under study by the United States for several weeks and was finally written in under pressure from other U.S. allies in the United States.
The original U.S. proposal, circulated to
friendly countries Aug. 2, simply called for
Speaking before about 70 persons, public officials and members of the Citizen's Committee for Governmental Center (CCGC) old of the needs for a new center both the Douglas County and city of Boulder, where crowded facilities now being used, William Womack, co-chairman of CCGC, said that the only way there could be efficient
Breakfast Boosts Proposed Center
"Efficient Government Doesn't Cost, It Pays" was the theme of the Eggs and Issues breakfast for city and county officials and members of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, Thursday morning at the Holiday Inn.
government was for all offices to be housed under one roof.
He said keeping all records and files dating back one hundred years in the county court house has become a fire hazard.
"If the State Fire Marshall ever injected the facilities, he would have to move."
Presently the county jail is more a pen than a jail, according to Womack. "We give more humane treatment to animals at Gage Park Zoo in Topeka than we give to prisoners incarcerated at Douglas County Jail," he said.
American Peace Activists Bring Back POW Tapes
WASHINGTON (AP)—For the first time, American peace activists visiting Hanoi have brought back something related to U.S. prisoners of war held in South Vietnam, tapes purported to carry the voices of four POWs.
Each of the four speakers on the tapes makes antarwar statements with a central theme of support for the seven-point peace proposal put forth by Communist Paris and Paris in a call for Americans to pressure their government to end the war.
The tapes, released Wednesday by antwar groups, assert the prisoners are forming a peace movement of their own, in the publication of a pacifist magazine.
Against the War and the Committee of Liaison with the Servicemen in North Vietnam.
The tapes concern prisoners of the Viet Cong and were released by North Vietnamnes in Hanoi, where visits in the past have been made. The matters relating to prisoners in the North.
Two of the speakers were not identified. The others gave their names as Maj. Floyd Hardd Kushner, an army flight surgeon, and Army Special Staff Sgt. John Arthur Young, both captured by the Viet Cong in South Vietnam.
Copies of the tapes and transcripts were given to The Associated Press by J. B. Schoenberg, 247 Fifth Avenue, New York.
There also were references to the Pentagon papers, a Defense Department report on the 2015 attacks.
The offices now in use were designed in 1904 when the population of Douglas County was about 20,000. The new building is being planned to adequately serve the needs of an estimated 100,000 people who will live in Douglas County by 1990.
Because there is only one district courtroom in the old building, and a large agenda of cases, the District Court Judge is being helped by a judge from Ottawa. The new building will have two courtrooms.
There will be two parts to the new building; four stories for administrative offices of both city and county; and another part for the judiciary.
On the third floor of the new structure will be the jails. It will be possible to separate juvenile offenders from older prisoners and women prisoners froth men—neither of which was possible in the old County Jail.
It also will be possible to get prisoners from the street level to the third floor level or vice versa.
There will be cells for 93 prisoners in the new building compared with the 44 it is now possible to house in the city and county jails.
The portion of the new building to be used by the county is 72 per cent and 28 per cent.
Great efforts are being made by city officials and members of CCGC, as well as others, to familiarize Douglas County residents with inadequacies of the present facilities and to vote in favor of the bond issue at the Sept. 28 election.
The Chamber of Commerce Board of Trustees voted unanimously Tuesday to support the bond election. The Lawrence Labor Council also gave its support.
the seating of mainland China in the United Nations while permitting the Chinese Nationalists to remain. Theitation of the Security Council was left open.
Secretary of State William P. Rogers said at a Sept. 3 news conference, however, that in a survey the United States had found strong support for giving the seat to Pekining and that the idea was being considered.
Most of the participants in the private meeting Thursday morning were cautious about discussing the question of sponsorship. Bush said those who attended
were divided into three groups: those who will support the plan strongly without being sponsors and those who came with open minds to hear the U.S. position.
Bush told newsmen he was encouraged by the discussions and that the addition of the special provision on the Security Council seat had made "a big difference."
Bush is known to be concerned by a growing movement of Peking supporters to create a feeling among delegates that the two-Chinas—or "dual representation" plan—has little or no chance to be approved.
Draft Extension Faces Vote by Senate Today
WASHINGTON (AP)—President Nixon put pressure on Congress Thursday to pass draft legislation, which is scheduled for a Senate vote today.
The bill combining a two-year extension of the draft and a $2.4 billion pay raise for military personnel has been passed by the House but stalled in the Senate. Vietnam war critics and senators opposed to any draft law say they will fight it.
If Congress fails to continue the draft authority, which expired last June 30, Nixon said, the result would make the United States "the second strongest nation in the world with all the implications that has."
Nixon said at a news conference that scutting the draft legislation would jeopardize international negotiations in which the United States hoped to reduce East-West armaments on a basis of mutual agreement.
At the Capitol, Sen. Gordon Allott, R-
Colo., told the Senate that the President has agreed to support separate legislation to boost the pay of servicemen in the lowest grades more than the bill provides.
This brightened chances for passage of the draft legislation. Sen. Mike Mansfield, D-Mont., said that he will try to table the bill today.
A key issue has been amendment sponsored by Mansfield calling for withdrawal of all U.S. troops in Indochina in nine months if U.S. prisoners of war are released. Senate House conferees watered this down to call for an end to U.S. military operations in Indochina at the earliest practicable date.
Allott said he will offer an amendment to the military procure bill, which is slated to be brought up in the Senate after the draft legislation, to add some $300 million to pay raises for servicemen, in addition to the increases in the draft bill.
Assembly Vote Proceeds Despite Sparse Turnout
Only a handful of voters turned out for the College Assembly elections in Pearson and Centennial Colleges Thursday. Election results for the other Colleges within-the-College and departments in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences were unknown Thursday night, according to college officials.
The 95 voters in Pearson College selected eight freshmen and three sophomores from a ballot of 15 names. Assembly representatives for the college included Troy Simpson, Southeast, Southard, freshman; Douglas Merrill, freshman; Barbara Morgan, freshman; Karen Kruskop, freshman; William Drees, fresher; Gregory Cooper, freshman; Pamela Schoenbecker, sophomore; Judy Schroeder, sophomore; Ron Schroeder, freshman, and Kathleen Pickett, freshman.
In Centennial College 75 of the nearly 1,000 students enrolled cast ballots for four candidates. The two narrowed the 13-man ballot to elect seven sophomores and four freshmen. They are
Mary Aumick, freshman; Eileen Garlyle,
sophomore; Nancy Conyers, sophomore;
Ann Pfrau, freshman; Louis Huber,
sophomore; Bob Kiene, freshman;
Patrick McKenzie, freshman; Jeanne
Roebach, sophomore; Natalie Ralph,
sophomore; Barbara Gayle Wamser,
sophomore; and Debbie Ruttenberg,
sophomore.
The new College Assembly representatives will participate in deciding freshman-sophomore and graduation requirements, in approving courses for credit and in reviewing material presented by a petition of 25 assemblymen.
The undergraduate membership in the new governing body will total 165 representatives, 72 departmental representatives, 30 Friday night, seniors elected 110 representatives and graduate instructors chose 55 assemblymen, 10 per cent of the number of faculty faculty members. All college faculty members will be members at the assembly
Bicycle Parking Generates Petition
BY LYNNE MALM
Kansan Staff Writer
Dean of Men Donald K. Alderson became aware that some bicycles were being kept in the owners' residence hall rooms on Monday while visiting Elsworth Hall. Bicycles are classed as traffic vehicles, and barring bicycles from residence halls, but as traffic vehicles, their indoor status was not clear.
Parking bicycles in residence hall rooms became an issue of concern for hall residents and university officials Monday. The issue has not been settled, but has aroused action aimed at an equitable solution.
RUMORS THAT BICYCLES would not be allowed in residence hall rooms began Monday evening. A petition group for keeping bicycles in hall rooms was formed at the University of St. Mary Smith, Wichita sophomore, Ed Nazarian, Wilmette, Ill., senior, and others in Ellsworth. The petition was concerned with the owners' need to protect his bicycles from weather. The Ipage petition was handed to weather on Wednesday morning.
EACH HALL will work through its officers and staff to formalize a hall position on the owning and storing of bicycles. Existing or special committees may deal with the problem, Alderson said, but each hall will use the method of collecting information that may build a proposal. The hall staff were informed of this project on Thursday.
Alderson received the petition and spoke to Walden, Emily Taylor, dean of women; J. J. Wilson, Director of Housing; William Baird, vice-chancellor of student affairs and Alderson met later to discuss the matter was constructed by Wednesday evening.
The halls will be responsible for gathering opinions from all residents, not just bicycle owners. Proposals will include guidelines for enforcement of rules that seem to fit the majority will of the residents. Alderson stated.
In infringement of maintenance, safety and the rights of those without bicycles will be considered in the final proposals. Group opinions such as those of the bicycle clubs will be welcomed in finding an equitable solution.
THE RESIDENCE HALL proposals are to be handled through the Association of
University Residence Hall's) executive committee. Alderson said he hoped the proposals would be received in the next two weeks, Alderson stated. If accepted, the halls will have the major responsibility for enforcing the rules which they adopt.
Alderson said that interest was placed on getting bicycles in the buildings in the quickest, most efficient way. The bicycle issue was referred to each residence hall in the building and the number of the students in the halls would not be inconvenienced by the presence of bicycles.
The large number of bicycles present on the campus was not anticipated. An adequate number of storage racks for the bicycles was available at the beginning of the semester.
"I hope most students will be using storage racks near the front door of the hall. I feel they are convenient." Adelson said, "The racks will be available in the next few days."
Smith, a petitioner, believed the action to be taken fair. He thought the interest in the problem shown by the petitioners would generate official action on the problem.
Kansan Photo by ROBERT BURTCH
Phil Klever, Gray, Iowa, Junior, Explains Bicycle Petition
... Acts as writing board for students in McCollum dining room . . .