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Monday, December 11, 1972
University Daily Kansan
Kissinger: From Peace to Poses
CATHY SHERMAN
By SCOTT SPREIER
'Man of the Year'
He searched for peace in Southeast Asia. he was the centerfold in the Harvard Lampoon. if he wasn't China-watching in Asia, he found her girl-watching in Hollywood.
He's Henry A. Kissinger, Nixon's foreign affairs adviser and secret negotiator, companion of beautiful women and the Kansan's Man of the Year for 1972.
After setting up the historic trip, Kissinger meticulously put together eight thick black volumes of political and cultural notes to brief the President.
Kissinger, a Harvard professor before coming to the Nixon administration in 1969, has been a dominant policymaker in foreign affairs. His furtive meetings with China's Premier Chou En Lai last year, which led to Nixip's trip to China in February, were his first revealed series of secret talks and pushed him into national prominence.
ALWAYS THE diplomat, Kissinger,
sensible sense friction with the U.S.S.R.,
took pains to explain that the new U.S.
relationship with China "is not directed
'73 News: Insomnia Cure
Although 1973 is fast approaching, no major changes are expected to come about except, possibly, a Vietnam peace settlement. But even that is dubious.
ROBIN GROOM
Newspapers will seem similar to soap operas because no matter where you pick up the story, nothing much will have haunted you. The most favorable are the valuable and improbable news leads for 1973:
SAIGON, Jan. 3- Informed sources reported a weakening in President Thieu's adamant opposition to the proposed peace settlement. The change is supposedly a result of Henry Kissinger's seventh visit here this year.
Although the smiling Kissinger refused to comment on the substance of the talks, official sources reported that he had warned Thieu that Washington was firmly committed to bringing the negotiations to a rapid close.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 14—The
Washington superbowl
today in Los Angeles Coliseum
By ROBERT WARD
It is hoped that a settlement will be reached before the inauguration.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20—President Nixon, in his inaugural address today, restated that an end to the war was in sight but that the U.S. would not make any concessions that would undermine the U.S. government.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.-L. Patrick Gray, acting director of the FBI, said Saturday that investigators into the bugging of the Democracy adjudicants would be released in six weeks.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15—Earl Butz, secretary of agriculture, today denied that recent shipments of grain to Russia were spoiled.
"Why, that wheat is hardly 30 years old. How do the Russians expect us to believe that it's spoiled already?" Butz said in response to questions from newsmen.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20- The White House announced Tuesday that Henry Kissinger had been in Paris for the last two weeks conducting secret talks with Le Duc Tho. The White House, while refusing to comment on the substance of the talks, said President Nixon was satisfied with the progress of the talks thus far.
The meetings almost bore fruit in October, when Kissinger announced, "Peace is at hand." Secret negotiations with Hanoi were again revealed, in which a nine-point peace settlement with North Vietnam was to be signed Oct. 31.
But the date for signing the peace agreement passed by without the U.S. signature, largely because of the resistance of the French and his South Vietnamese government.
Klasinger smiled and posed for photographers outside a building on the recent talks.
But perhaps more important were Kissinger's secret negotiations with representatives of North Vietnam con-
firmation of the war in Southeast Asia.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27—Sen. James O. Eastland, D-Miss., today announced that he personally would conduct an investigation into the Watergate bugging incident as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Eastland added that Sen. Edward Kennedy's and Rep. Wright Patman's proposals to investigate the bugging incident would not be necessary.
against the U.S.S.R." And after the great China odyssey, he proved the way for the war.
NEW YORK, March 1-Martha Mitchell today announced that she was homesick for Washington and that she and her husband would be returning soon.
White House sources said John Mitchell would resume his roof as attorney general.
WASHINGTON, D.C., March 17—L Patrick Grick, actor, acting director of the FBI, said today his investigation of the man convicted would take at least another month.
AP NEWS SERVICES, March 28 — Informed sources in the Middle East are upset over a Soviet Arab relations. According to officials, Lebanon is outraged and offended over a
shipment of Soviet tanks that they recently received.
The tanks, it seems, lack first, second, third and fourth gears.
KISSINGER'S BOSS, President Richard M. Nixon, took a back seat in the Man of the Year race, although the success of each depended on the other.
Adding insult to injury, all markings and operating instructions on the tanks are in
NEW YORK, April 5- Andy Warhol told
released a 24-hour epilogue of Mark Spitz taking
a bath. Warhol described the film as second
his film of the Empire State Building.
The President began his fourth year in office with historic ice-breaking trip to Communicate China. Nixon also thawed the Cold War with a diplomatic meeting he met with Soviet leaders in Moscow. Between the boasting, touring and feasting, Nixon and the Soviet leaders made many trade, health and science agreements but disagreement on the Middle East or Vietnam.
SAIGON, April 4—A smiling Henry Kissinger was briefly spotted surrounded by Asian beauties at a popular Salisar resort today. It was rumored that Kissinger is in Saigon to test President Thieu's reaction to a new proposal by Hani.
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Nixon also reaffirmed his opposition to busing, ordered the mining of Haiphong harbor and vetuted authorization of funds for the construction of the airport. Seek no tax increases unless Congress overspent, asked Congress for a $250 billion federal budget tax lid and the power to enforce it, and vetoed bills for domestic travel that would intact the largest military budget ever.
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HE REFUSED to grant amnesty to draft dodgers and denied that U.S. bombers had bombed jinks in North Vietnam. He didn't take serious action to improve general health services or to improve the welfare system as he had promised in 1968.
In a culmination of the President's year, the nation's voters gave Nixon a sweeping mandate, one of the largest in history, in which he took all but 17 of the nation's 538 electoral votes and overwhelming his opponent, Sen. George McGhee. Nixon failed to pull many GOP contenders into office with him, however.
McGovern and his youth forces masterfully fused together a coalition of minority, youth and majority group delegates to side-line old-time party regulars and gain the party nomination in Miami.
the longest in modern times, placed third for Man of the Year.
McGovern was seriously challenged in his integrity and credibility when he dropped the ball.
M. Gevern, the preacher's son and former professor who lost from obscurity to make a name for himself.
IN FOURTH PLACE was Sen. Thomas Eagleton, the junior senator from Missouri, who rocketed to national prominence on a hot July evening in Miami when he was nominated as McGovern's vice presidential runate mate. Eagleton was hastily chosen by McGovern after several other choices had turned him down.
Eagleton's candidacy was short-lived, however. Soon after the convention, in an
affair surrounded by controversy,
Eagleton was taken off the ticket after it
was learned he had been hospitalized in
1984 and suffered a nervous exhaustion.
The slug from its foot assists its gun
left the fifth Man of the Year choice crippled
for life.
George Wallace, making his second and ill-fated, attempt for the presidency, was gunned down May 15 by 21-year-old Arthur Beumer in a Laurel, Md., shooting cord.
Wallace was campaigning for president when the Democratic standard after switching to the American Party, with which he made an unsuccessful bid for the presidency in 1968.
But Wallace, the conservative Alabama governor who had won the Florida primary, went on to win the Maryland and Michigan contests. However, paralyzed from the waist down, Wallace was forced to drop out of the battle for the presidency.
Too Many Candidates Cause Party Problems
By JOYCE NEERMAN and NANCY JONES
For George McGovern and the Democratic party, the year was marred by internal political dissension, by tragedy and by serious political blunders.
As the political year came to a close Nov. 7, memories of the past 10 months passed quickly and vividly through the minds of both losers and winners.
There were too many candidates—all from the same party but from different parties, and no spectrom. Eleven candidates tried for the nomination and all balked at compromise.
There were Sens. Edmund Muskie an-
Hubert Humphrey; Gov. George Wallace,
the conservatives' standard-bearer; Shirley
Watson; Mrs. Hillary Clinton; women;
Mayor John Lindsay; Sen. Eugene McCarthy;
Sen. Henry "Scoop" Jackson;
Sen. Vance Hart of Indiana; Mayor Sam
porter of Los Angeles; Wilbur Mills,
portrait of Sloan leader; and of
course, George McGovern.
AS EACH CANDIDATE threw his hat into
the air, there were rumors that Sen. Ed-
ward Osborne was the president.
Newsmakers Leave History in Wake
By LYNNE MALIN
The supremely negative news of any year is its deaths.
Floods worked havoc in the U.S. in 1972. The West Virginia floods of February claimed more than 80 lives. Flooding in Rapid City, S.D., in the spring killed 200.
War and disasters natural, accidental, and violently planned head the list of events that brought death to many people. Vietnam, Uganda, and the Middle-East probably cost the most lives in wars and brush-fire fighting.
Accidental deaths occurred in mine caves, train and plane crashes. A mining accident in Wankle Colliery, Rhodesia, trapped more than 400 miners. Plane crashes in London, New Delhi, Pleuk, and Moscow set ever higher single crash death rates died in an ice cream parlor in Sacramento on September to take off on Sept. 24 and overshot the runway. The rail crash near Saltillo, Mexico, claimed 187.
Man's violence rather than brotherhood was displayed in the slaying of 11 Israeli
competitors by a Palestine commander group at the Olympics in Munich by a Palestinian commander group. Four of those commanders died in the airport gun battle in which nine of the Israelis were slain. Southern University, La., was rocked in November by the deaths of two black students.
LISTED BY MONTH follow the deaths of some of the newsmakers of our time.
January: Roy O. Diensy, 78, co-founder of the Disney entertainment empire; Clarence Earl Gideon, 61, the Florida convict who was an indigent; a court-appointed lawyer, 61; and Wainwright Supreme Court decision; Dr. Lillian Gilbreth, 93, pioneer efficiency expert and mother of the family described in “Cheaper by the Dozen”; John Marshall Hain, 72, former Supreme Court justice. Foster, 60, govetspher of civil rights leader.
March: Jane Grant, 79, early women liberationist and co-founder of the New Yorker; Edmond A. Guggenheim, 84, philanthropist and heir to one of the largest
family fortunes in U.S. history; Maria Goepert Meyer, 65, the only woman besides Madame Curie to win a Nobel Prize in physics for her "shell theory" of the universe, 44, columnist and radio commentator often accused of fabricating news items.
April: Cristobal Baliencia, 77, Basque who became a Paris fashion designer; Gabriel Heater, 81, radio commentator known in World War II for his opening line, "There's good news tonight"; Adam Clayton, 83, politician, preacher and playboy.
M. J. Edgar Hoover, 77, head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation under eight presidents; Kwame Nkrumah, 62, former president of Ghana issued in 1966 and the first African president to dependence for his country after World War II; George Sanders, 68, actor who died by his own hand and left a note say, "I am leaving, because I am bored," Yasuari Nakawa, 72, who in 1968 became the only author to win a Nobel prize for literature.
Modern Art; Howard D. Johnson, 75,
restaurant founder; Andrew Mallory, 37,
subject of the Supreme Court case that
is being heard in bringing a suspect before a magistrate.
August: Charles Suydam Cutting, 83,
naturalist and explorer who visited the
Tibetan Shangri-La city of Lhasa in 1935;
Allen J. Ellender, Louisiana, 81, senator,
third in the line of succession to the
presidency.
SEPTEMBER: Warren K. Billing, 79, a laborete who with Tom Mooney was convicted of bombing and killing 10 persons in a patriotic parade in San Francisco in 1916; Sir Francis Chichester, 70, British solo voyager around the world in 1666-67 in his ketch Gipse Mich IV; Charles Correll, 82, and radio of 'siam "Amos n." Andy'
October: Louis Leakey, 69, British anthropologist who discovered several links between man and prehuman beings; Harlow Shapey, 68, Harvard astronomer who proved that the earth and its solar system lay at the frinces of the Milky Way.
Supercrime Reaches Peak in '72 And Crime Rate Keeps Climbing
November: Martin Dies, 71, progenitor and chairman for its first six years of the House Un-American Activities Committee; Edward Long, 64, Missouri senator who established a prominent wiretapping; Ezra Fould, 87, poet and ex-patriate to Italy.
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may steadily be refused to become a candidate.
Crime for 1972 had all the business it could handle. Besides the normal rapes, muggings, armed robberies and homicides, 1972 will be recalled as a banner year for the rise of global hopping air piracy and international capture with shootouts and captures in Munich.
And then, as 1728 had hardened, J. Edgar Hoover, founder and guiding spirit of the New York Times, died.
But according to the bureau, violent crimes were down only slightly in 1972, and far ahead of 1688. In the end, the administration itself had the lid on a little more than one year and based on such favorites as burglary, bugeing, conspiracy and fraud with the U.S. mail.
The year began for the United States Bureau of Statistics on Jan. 1, 1972, but for the Nixon administration it began in 1968 when the wledge of "four years of law and order" made campaign hay from Maine to Oregon.
December: Antonio Segni, 81, former president of Italy and longtime Christian Democrat, twice Premier and several times a cabinet minister; Wendell Smith, 58, writer-and broadcaster who helped promote baseball's racial integration.
The airlines had their problems with hljackers in 1972. Cuba became less favored as a refuge, and intercontinental hopes to Aligiers were exceeded in suspense only by backups out of the back door of jets with several hundred thousand dollars in ransom.
IN MUNICH, television cameras covered the drama of a kidnap-hostage play with all the live suspense of the Oswald shootin- in Munich. The screen is the hand of either police or captains as the
June: Dr. Walter J. Freeman, 76, psychiatrist and neurologist who pioneered the use of prefrontal and transorbital lobotomies as a treatment for severe illness; Edmund Wiltan, 77, newspaper and magazine literary critic and author.
The airline pilots' association struck throughout the world in protest of developments; the skymarsal program was ground-concentrated; profiles of hijacker 'types' made ground detection easier. Yet the hijacks continued.
For stealing the Pentagon Papers, Daniel Elisberg and friend Anthony Russo went on trial in what promised to be a long session. In Florida the "Gainesville S six" were in
As a kind of reinforcement that all values weren't lost in 1972, the old saying "Crime doesn't pay" hit home again when big-time gangster figure Meyer Lansky couldn't find a taker anywhere in the world for a little while. Then he took a million and take Lanskey. No, she joined Lansky more than the United States, which finally took him back for free. He arrived in Florida to face tax charges and to prove conclusively that "Crime doesn't pay."
Gradually the field narrowed, but not every candidate was able to leave without tragedy or loss of self-pride. The pictures of personal tragedy were many—Muskie's crying in the snow on the steps of a newspaper office in New Hampshire; a thin bulletin board confined to a wheelchair by a ballet assailant's bullets; Sen. Thomas Eaglehammer's announced his reluctant resignation from his party's vice-presidential spot; and Hubert Humphrey, bidding his final 'arewell' to his dreams of the presidency.
renonination and received only minor opposition from Sen. John Ashbrook, who expressed the conservatives' dissatisfaction with Paul McCarthy's voiced opposition to Nixon's Vietnam policies. The only speculation about the President's cqmage was whether he would dump Sipro Agnore for John Connally. Agnore, and Connally resigned from his job as secretary of the treasury to lead the Democrats for Nixon campaign.
July; Athenagoras I, archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome and edoumalic patriciarum who initiated the reconciliation between the Orthodox and Catholic faiths in the 1960's; Josephine P. Boardman Crane, 89, founded of the New York Museum of
Govern. George Wallace, campaigning in a Maryland shopping center parking lot, was felled by William Bremer, a self-awored madman without political motive. The Wallace shooting was graphically recorded as he ran through times in slow motion by the networks. Wallace and spent the rest of the year recovering. Doctors said he would never walk again.
Drugs continued in the news, with conflicting reports about the trends of drug usage and sales. In Kansas City several metropolitan high schools reported usage at the 50 per cent mark, and President Nixon announced a renewed effort to curb sales and use, calling drugs the number one domestic problem.
dicted for conspiracy to disrupt by violence the Republican national convention.
Mass murders continued in the news throughout the year. A Chicago group calling itself "De Mau Mau" was under indictment for multiple murders of whites, and the Corona murder trial in California continued to probe the killing of 26 migrant whose bodies were unearthened in shallow graves four years' end announced the indictment of a militant member for fragging white officers from behind in Viet Nam.
inevitable shootout followed in the darkness of an airport. The cameras recorded blackness interrupted with retorts and powder flashes, followed by silence.
In white collar crime Glen Turner, the self-made 50-millionaire who said in May, "They can't touch me, I'm too strong," found himself under indictment in no less than eight federal and in the federal jurisdictions for various crimes unlicensed securities sales and deception.
Other celebrities in the crime news included Clifford Irving, his wife Edith and his mistress Baroness Von Pallant. Howard Hughes, the recuseillion billionaire, said he never authorized a biography, and the convicted Irving, named "Con Man of the Year" on a *Time* magazine cover, admitted it all in a book called "Hoax."
SOME CITIZENS had bad feelings and questions about the bugging of Democratic headquarters, ITT and Dita Beard, unidentified contributors to the Nixon administration. But Martha Mitchell saying she was held prisoner by her own security agents.
BUT FOR ALL the murder, the Supreme Court handed down its long-expected rebuke to the death penalty, although as a fine point he was not abolish capital punishment altogether.
In California an unlikely ransom plough against Johnny Carson ended unhappily for the culprit, who was killed when he shot and then fatally shot a lot. And in Chicago, beleaguered state's city. Gen. Harranham was finally vindicated of any wrongdoing in Illinois.
HIS ATTORNEY, F. Lee Bailey, said things were under control. Bailey, as a sidenote, divorced his second wife in March and took on a third in June, at the same time holding his move into the girlie magazine field with an entry called Gallery"
But all these were overshadowed by the people's trust in Nixon as a peacemaker, increased by the memory of his trips to China and Russia, his arms pact with Russia and his eleventh-hour promises of impending peace in Vietnam.
The Republican story was much different. Richard Nixon was a shoe-in for his party's
Nixon's personal victory was overwhelming. He received the largest popular vote in history, breaking Lyndon Johnson's 1964 record. His 821-17 electoral vote margin exceeded only by Franklin D. Roosevelt's victory over Alfred M. Landon in 1936.
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