THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
82nd Year, No.10
The University of Kansas—Lawrencee, Kansas
Monday, September 13, 1971
Alison
USSR Buries Khrushchev In Obscurity
MOSCOW (AP)—Nikita Khrushchev, consus to obedience for the last seven years of his life, is expected to be buried today in a quiet, private funeral.
The former Kremnl chief and world-traveling apostle of Soviet communism died Saturday of a heart attack in a car for the Soviet elite. He was 77 years old.
His successors in the Kremiln, who conduct a staid and sober regime in contrast to Kirushchev's flamboyant and impulsive style, tried to ensure that the world would hear little as possible of his death, which was forced from office in October 1964.
His name was tabo for the Soviet press, and he was never invited to appear at a political event. He virtually disappeared from public view, and the Soviet Union went on with its business as though Krushchev had never headed the Communist party for a dozen years.
Even after death the rules against giving him special attention were applied. Although his death was officially confirmed to Western correspondents, there was no public announcement regarding his death. Enewspapers carried no obituary or report of the death.
The Soviet press customarily delays death announcements for a day or two. It seemed likely that Khrushchev was being given the routine treatment. It was possible, too, that the ban on reporting of news of him would follow him to the grave.
Kansan Photo by FRED BERNS
A newspaper spokesman announced Sunday night that Pravda, the official press of the Communist party, would publish an obituary of the former party leader today. It will appear on the front nave without a headline or a picture.
The obituary will say, the spokesman reported: "The Central Committee of the U.S. Army and the Council of Ministers of the U.S.R.A report with sorrow that on Sept. 11, 1971, after a severe and long illness, the former first secretary of the Central Committee of the U.S.R.A, and personal pensioner Nikita Sergey, Krushchev, died in his 78th year."
Petitions Due Today in Vote By College
The deadline for nomination petitions for the new College Assembly is 5 p.m. Tuesday, according to Delbert Shankel, president of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
To file as a candidate to represent a college-within-the-college, a student must clap a petition form from the Kansan (Page 3) and have it signed by five students from his college. Seven students may be elected Thursday from each college.
The College Assembly is a new policy making group for the college. Students in the College but not in a College within-the-College will nominate representatives Thursday from their departments.
Tina Turner: 'Sustained Musical Orgasm'
Belting or crooning, Tina provides the spark that lights the fire of the Bee and
Tina Turner Revue. See page 3.
Demo Hopefuls Coy But Running Hard
WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen, Fred Harris of Oklahoma staged a formal opening last week of headquarters for his campaign to get the Democratic presidential nomination, although he hasn't conceded yet that he is a candidate.
His action is typical of the race. There's only one official candidate, Sen. George McGovern of South Dakota. The others, including front-runner Sen. Edmund Muskie of Maine, are running hard and playing coy.
Waiting for just the right moment for the official announcement—or campaigning while still leaving oneself the option of bowing out gracefully, as did Sen. Harold Hughes of Iowa—is typical of pre-convention jousting.
But seldom have so many hopefuls of such stature been in the running for a presidential nomination. At least a dozen candidates are in this derby, one way or another.
Muskie, Sen. Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota, the 1968 Democrat nominee, and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Louisiana, insisted he isn't a candidate, are leading the polls.
McGovern has been in the forefront of opposition to the Vietnam war, but he is the least known, which probably is why he proclaimed his candidacy. Since that announcement, McGovern has had a well-organized organization working to build his image.
Sen. Henry M. Jackson of Washington represents the conservative wing of the party, combining a liberal voting record on social legislation with a hard-line advocacy of law and order, and unwavering support of military preparedness.
Sen. Birch Bayh of Indiana, who led the successful fight to block Senate confirmation of two President Nixon's war crimes court, has an organization already at work.
McGovern Reports
North Viets Drop Demand For Removal of Thieu
PARIS (AP)—Sen. George S. McGovern reported Sunday Hanolh had dropped its demand for the removal of President Nguyen Van Thieng as a prior condition for a cease-fire and the release of American prisoners.
The condition was contained by implication in the Communist's July 1 sequestration.
The South Dakota senator, a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination and a long-time opponent of the war, said six hours of private talks with chief Hanoi negotiator Xuun Thuy and acting Viet Cong delegate Dinh Ba Thu. The state's senate administration had misinterpreted this key element of the Communist proposals.
He said Hanoi and Viet Cong negotiators had assured him they now place only two American prisoners in the release of American prisoners: the withdrawal of all American military personnel from South Vietnam by Dec. 31 and the withdrawal of American bombs through Indochina.
Mgovern said Thuy and Tli told him the release of American prisoners would be delayed because they set a total withdraw deadline. Thuy also indicated that Hanoi is prepared to drop several of the strings that American prisoners believed to be attached to the seven points.
Extension of the proposed bombing halt to Cambodia and Laos was a new Communist demand that was not explicitly contained in the seven points.
These included earlier Communist defends for the release of all Viet Cong held by the Saigon government, removal of the president from South Vietnam, cessation of American financial aid and arms shipments to the Saigon government, and American action to remove President Thieu from power in favor of a "government of national control."
MGcovern said Thy made it clear that these matters could be set aside for discussion after a cease-fire by the opposing forces.
The senator spoke to a crowded news conference minutes before leaving for Saigon, where he has appointments to meet Thieu and other South Vietnamese leaders. He will be Friday and Saturday with Thu. Thi and the new U.S. negotiator, William J. Porter.
There was no immediate confirmation from the Hanoi or Viet Cong delegations that they had modified their position as McGovenn reported.
U. S. delegation spokesman Stephen Ledogar declined to comment on McGovern's report, but stressed that if the Communist negotiators wished to explain or modify their peace plan they should do so officially to the American delegation.
The Communist negotiators seemed convinced the Thien government would collapse almost immediately if American troops were withdrawn, McGoverson said. He said it was less insistent on formal agreement concerning the political future of South Vietnam.
The American negotiators are likely to
be irritated by Thuy's detailed clarification given to an antiwarrior on a private visit. They have pleaded with Thuy at every session of the peace talks since the beginning, and that the kind of explanation of the seven points he apparently gave to McGovern.
American officials are expected to avoid any public disagreement with McGoventry's interpretation of the Communist position, while describing Thay's apparent softening as largely a propaganda exercise and as a genuine move toward a settlement.
ste by GEORGE VERHAGE
Two Sign Prairie Park Petition
... David P. Crawford signatures ...
Sierra Club Circulates Petitions for Prairie Park
The Lawrence Sierra Club has collected several thousand signatures on its petitions supporting the formation of a Prairie National Park, Dennis Lynch, action chairman for the group, said Sunday.
About a dozen workers took signatures at the KU-Washington State football game. Most persons contacted by the club supported the park, but there were not enough workers to reach the goal the club had set, Lynch said.
The club now has several thousand signatures that it got on campus and in the community.
The sigmature will be given to Sors. Bob
Courtney at the university to Sors.
Courtney will give the sigmature
to Sors.
The club wants the federal government to buy 60,000 acres of Kansas prairie and allow it to return to its natural state. The park would be located considerably south of Manhattan where the Central Lowlands were approved. Congress said.
Ladies Haven't Struck Out
The land is now used for cattle raising, and the cattle raisers are the only group that opposes the park, he said. The park would use only one sixth of one per cent of the state's cattle grazing land, he said, but he thinks the land is privately owned.
By REG ANKROM
Kansan Writer
Wht was once sensational strike in Lawrence has become little more than a quixotic by 14 women who still are not as adept as the Nicea Color Press after a decade of efforts.
Their number has dwindled from 37 who left the plant when negotiations between the International Typographers Union (I.T.U.) and the printing firm, located at 22nd and Haskell, broke down Sept. 19, 1961. There were five strikers who returned to work. Others have retired and a few have died.
Often the strike, in a state whose right-to-work laws prevented closed union shops, was withdrawn. And in the courts, All that has changed. During the past four years, there hasn't even been a picket. A court ordered that the self-witness was deterred at about the same time.
Although some of the men continued to picket for five years, all are gone now, forced to look elsewhere for work when strike benefits failed to pay their bills.
THE ONLY lawful thing strikers have been able to do is distribute handbills
"our purpose right now is not to bring attention," said Marge Schutz, strike director, "but to let new magazines know that we're on strike and to keep them in an allied shop instead of an unfair one. This is the way we feel about Color Press."
The handbills go to salesmen and customers of the firm, which publishes 16 million copies of various magazines, from agricultural periodicals to TU Guide.
The women don't know how they will mark the 10th anniversary of their strike, nine days away. In the past there have been Bar-B-Q's and family get-togethers which in some years were held in a lot across the street from where they meet; how the event will be observed this year is expected to come at their regular meeting Monday.
The women claim to have dissuaded several magazines from publishing at the time.
So the women are now left to their routine shifts, measuring time by grasslands on their patches of boulevards near the firm. But they will go on, even if it takes them a little more to win a contract. That "victory," as Mrs. Schultz calls it, may never come.
MRS. SCHUTZ, who was with the others in the walkout a decade ago, said Thursday that morale was as good then as it was when the strike began.
"After this long time, it's kind of a way of life to them, really," she said.
Myron Ellison, the company's labor attorney, said there was no possibility that any of the women would be rehired. Ellison, who represented Kansas Color
GERTRUDE ZIMMERMAN, president of the firm, said, "Everything is copacible except for the wage freeze." The company had felt the strike at first, she indicated.
Press in negotiations, said the women had been replaced.
"However, we're producing more than we ever have," she said.
The firm employs more than 350 persons.
The women on strike, who sit some 200 feet from Mrs. Zimmerman's office or by knitting the hours away, still expect to see him, and said she thought that "time will win out."
"If they grow tired of us out here, maybe they'll put us irasde," she said. She and other striking women asked that their names not be used.
"I HAD NO idea that the strike would last this long," another woman said, "but I figured however long it lasted, that's how much time I had to get out another 10 years if it takes that long."
The president of the Lawrence Typographical Union Local 570 said he did not foresee an end to the strike before an agreement was reached. The only other conditions which could stop the strike are union members vote its end or that the executive council of the LTU, determine it no longer feasible to continue the strike.
The T.T.U. has not withdrawn support during the strike.
Kansan Photo by REG AKROM
See STRIKE, page 7
Woman Keeps the Faith at Daily Vigil in 10-Year-Old Kansas Color Press Strike .. As the strike enters its second decade, their belief that they will return to work remains unshaken.