Tuesday, November 7.1972
University Daily Kansan
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Kansan Staff Photo by JOE COLEMAN
Salisbury Claims Viets Unaffected by Election
Salisbury Opened the Slavic Festival Monday Night. Earlier in the day, he discussed Vietnam.
The U.S. presidential election campaign probably has had little influence on the vote in Vietnam peace negotiations, Harrison Salisbury, assistant managing editor and editor of the opinion and editorial page of The Journal of 75 journalism students Monday afternoon.
Salisbury, who was also the opening speaker Monday night in the Slavic Festival at the University of Chicago. Slavic languages and literature, said that when he was in North Vietnam in 1967 as a correspondent for the New York Times, the professor seemed very naive about American politics.
In the beginning of U.S. involvement in Vietnam, he said, the North Vietnamese had expected the United States to behave as the French, who had previously occupied their country had behaved. This anology was followed by however, Salisbury said, because of a difference in arms and economic strength between France and the United States.
THE PRESIDENTIAL election campaign probably did not have much significance for North Vietnamese leaders, Salisbury said, because they didn't base their policy on any individual president. Although Americans see differences between the presidents, Sainsbury said, the North Vietnamese see a consistent view and view the results of all U.S. presidents and view the results of all presidential administrations as being the same.
The North Vietnamese still are a long way from understanding the American political system. Salisbury said, but they do understand and the political direction of the United states.
Press restrictions for U.S. newsmen in North Vietnam are remarkably loose and free for a war-time situation, Salisbury said. He said that although the North Vietnamese regarded American newsmen with suspicion and read everything they saw, he had seen censored in two small instuttions. He said he was able to write every thing he wanted to write and transmit it out of North Vietnam without any deletions.
Because the United States has not declared war in Vietnam, Salisbury said, the U.S. newsmen had great freedom of the press. If war had been declared, the U.S. government would probably prohibit publication of material from an enemy
WHILE FREEDOM of the press in North Vietnam is relatively free, Salisbury said, many Slavic countries are crippling themselves with internal censorship. The Russian government would be Union could do for its people would to abolish their censorship, he said.
--country even if a reporter was allowed to enter the country.
Film From Brazil
In a speech, "The Arts in the Slavic World," Monday night in Woodruff auditorium, Salisbury commented on the effect of government censorship and oppression of Soviet writers in his discussion of the Slavic arts.
"The Given Word," a Brazilian film, will be shown at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday Nov. 7 in Dyche Auditorium. "The Given Word," is the second in the Latin American Film Series. It won first prize in the Cannes Film Festival and has received other awards. In the film, a simple story makes a carry a cross to the cathedral in thanks for the cure of his donkey. Fate and bureaucracy combine to frustrate his effort to keep his given word.
Salisbury, who spent five years in Russia as a correspondent for the New York Times, said that the natural heritage of the Slavic nation was a heritage of struggle and oppression.
--evenly split, the percentages would be: 67.1,
McGovern; 32.5, Nixon.
McGovern Tops Nixon In Latest DUPE Poll
Sen. George McGovern was the overwhelming choice among 170 journalism students polled at the end of last week on their presidential preference.
McGovern won 105 votes (61.8 per cent).
President Nixon won 47 votes (27.6 per cent).
Eighteen students (10.6 per cent)
were still undecided.
In a similar poll by DUPE two months ago, the percentages were: 46.0, McGovern, 27.3, Nixon, 26.7, undecided. Thus, McGovern picked up almost 16 percent of the polls, the previously undecided voters, while Nixon's percentage remained almost the same.
The poll was conducted by DUPE (Definitely Unscientific Polling Enterprises), a Lawrence nonpropet organization.
According to a DUPE spokesman, if the still undecided vote is divided between the candidates at their present proportion, the candidate with the lowest percentage is 39.9, Nixon. But if the undecided vote is
The students' stated religious preferences were 98 Protestant, 31 Catholic, 5 Jewish, 13 Other.
The poll indicated that 48 per cent of the Protestants were for McGovern, 42 per cent for Garner.
Catholics voted 68 per cent for McGovern,
22 per cent for Nixon. 10 per cent undecided
Roll, 10 per cent unseceded.
Those with no preference voted
84 per cent for McGovern, and 3 per cent for
Nixon. Thirteen per cent were
Four of the five Jewish voters were for
McGovern, none were for Nixon and one was
unsecded.
Those with other religious preferences veto 10 for McGovin, two for Nixon and one for Obama.
The DUPE spokesman said his non-
prophet organization looked forward to
conducting a poll in 1976 between John B.
Connally and Edward M. Kennedy.
"Meanwhile," he said, "peace."
Student Thumbs 700 Miles To Cast Michigan Ballot
Some people will walk a mile for a cigarette, but Steve Hamburg, Holland, Mich., graduate student, is hitchhiking 700 miles to visit.
This odyssey was not really planned, however. Hamburg said he was not aware of the paperwork and forms that were necessary to obtain an absentee ballot.
He said he had written requesting the ballot about two weeks ago, thinking he would simply get the ballot. Instead, he said, he received forms to fill out, which he would have to return before he could receive a ballot.
When he realized that by the time he got
Two Vietnam veterans connected with the Gainesville Eight conspiracy are scheduled to speak at the University of Kansas Nov. 13. Their appearance is sponsored by SUA.
John Kniffin and Wayne Beverly will speak on their experiences with grand juries, the justice department and the war, according to Marla Watson, Kansas City, Kan., senior and spokesman for Vietnam Veterans Against the War.
SUA Schedules Gainsville Men
Kniffin is one of the eight indicted on the charge of conspiring to disrupt the Republican National Convention in Miami in August.
the ballot the election would be over,
the made the decision to return home to cast his
poll.
Hamburg, 23, has voted before in state and local elections, but this is his first opportunity to vote in a presidential election, his reason for soing.
Hamburg, a teaching assistant in radiation biophysics, late left Monday after he finished work. He wore white clothes and carried a knapsack with a sleeping bag, a few sandwiches and a large sign saying "Michigan to vote."
If it takes the 12 to 13 hours in which he has made the trip before, Hamburg said, he will be out.
After voting, Hamburg plans to return to Lawrence.
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On arrival, he planned to spend about half the day determining whom to vote for in his district.
★ Swimming pool
★ Co-educational
When he votes, for whom will he vote?
Hamburg said it would be President Nixon.
★ Maid service
★ Unlimited seconds on good food
Plan now for spring '73
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"Pearson's independence . . . has evidenced itself." —Ralph Nader Congress Project
"You have done a great service to the public": "John Gardner, Chairman, Company to Senator Pearson following Senate approval of his amendment to establish a Federal Factions Commission to写信 spending and to require full disclosure of finances.
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"Your courage on our behalf is appreciated by consumers in your state and in 49 other states."—Mrs. Angweine, Executive Director Concern America, in a letter to Senator Pearson following his vote for No-Fault Automobile Insurance.
"We wish to express our appreciation for your interest and in work in behalf of the environment and conservation." —"Ron Baxter, Chairman, Stairman, President of support for Senate Pearson's bill to establish a Tallgrass Prairie Park in Kansas.
"Jim Pearson has been in the forefront of the struggle for civil rights throughout his Senate career."—Ironically, United States Senator From Massachusetts.
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