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University Daily Kansan
Friday, November 3. 1972
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Hoffman Criticizes Vern's Tactics
By DON JEFFERSON Kansan Staff writer
Robert Hoffman, Republican candidate for Kansas attorney general, is running on the slogan "Let's put 'attorney' back in 'attorney general,' and he does not hesitate to explain exactly what the slogan means.
In a telephone interview last week, Hoffman explained his position on the duties
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of the attorney general and on the way in which his Democratic opponent Vern Anderson has been impeached.
The University Daily Kanans was unable to contact Vern Miller for his views on campaign issues. Miller, age 43, was Sedgwick County sheriff for six years, a police Officer, a peace Officer Association and a member of the Kansas and Wichita bar associations.
"I think in the field of law enforcement the 'sledgehammer' approach is not really good law enforcement from the high court of the attorney general," Hoffman said.
HOFFMAN SAID the present approach was particularly ineffective against the problem in Kansas. As a solution to the problem, seminars or conferences with youth leaders across the state should be established. he said.
"I'd like to come up with some answers and eventually come to the legislature with some kind of program that could attempt to stop the climbing rate of drug use," Hoffman said. "The higher now than it was in January 1971, when the present attorney general took office."
"I'm not claiming that it's his fault entirely, but it seems to me that the attorney has not been properly informed."
The foremost duty of the attorney general, Hoffman said, is to serve as attorney for approximately 140 state agencies. He also should be the chief law enforcement officer in the sense that he is the state's chief prosecutor.
"HE HAS A pretty broad role, I think, not on setting priorities in law enforcement or in law enforcement for the people, keeping his ear to the ground for problems of the population," Hoffman said. "Where he finds inequities or in justice where he finds inequities or in justice which he finds inequities to bring law suits on behalf of the public."
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Secret Talks a Trend, Profs Say
"There is just a myriad of things the
Editor's Note: This is the last in a series of stories examining the possible effects of a
By ANN McFERREN
The secrecy of recent peace talks between the United States and North Vietnam may be a trend for future U.S. diplomacy, accords between the two countries or professors at the University of Kansas.
By ANN McFERREN Kansan Staff Writer
Donald McCoy, professor of history, said, "Secret negotiations have been common in the Vietnam affair. But that is a statement that is hard to quantify.
Charles Sidman, associate professor of history, said the tendency in future diploma relations would be to continue to study the roles that are completely open to the public.
"It is sometimes important to carry on negotiations without the interference of the United Nations."
"There are many secret diplomatic affairs concerning Vietnam, but they are all of the same nature."
these off the record negotiations is unofficial."
McCOY SAID A NEW aspect of the secret negotiations that was the public given was given to the press.
Clifford Ketzel, professor of political science, said that secret negotiations were a necessity and that secrecy would probably be necessary in the future as a result of these talks.
Clement Keto, assistant professor of history, said the change to secret negotiations was necessary because of public pressure. He said public opinion played a big part in diplomatic affairs and it was necessary to keep public pressure at a minimum in order to successfully carry out negotiations.
During his administration, President Woodrow Wilson said he thought one of the factors that added greatly to the causes of war was secrecy in diplomatic affairs. He consequently tried to make all of his diplomatic affairs public.
KETZEL SAID he disagreed with Wilson's philosophy.
"Successful negotiation is secret negotiation," he said. "Successful negotiations can be possible only when public pressure is not involved."
Special assistants to the president are not new diplomatic factors but they will probably play an even more important role in future foreign diplomatic affairs if the Indochina peace issue is settled, Sidman said.
He said one of the reasons the secret talks were effective so far was Henry Kissinger's background. Kissinger's European experience led to his finesse in quiet, informal negotiations.
"Woodrow Wilson had his Col. House, Roosevelt had Harry Hopkins, Kennedy had his brother and now Nikon has Kissinger," she said. "I think he sent a special aide to negotiate a treaty."
attorney general is responsible for and he acts as a kind of official ombudsman. He is the one person whom the people can go to and at least be heard."
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Hoffman, 53, has served as an assistant attorney general for 19 years, six of those as first assistant. A resident of Topeka, he is a graduate of Washoula University School of Law and the Kansas Bar Association and a member of the Kansas Bar Association. He is married and has four children.
HE IS A cofounder of the Law Enforcement Assistance Foundation, and he organized the Kansas Consumer Protection Division in 1962.
"I don't know what the purpose of all this was unless it was to give the secretary of state candidates some artificial issue," he said. "It sounds like a political opinion to me."
It was especially suspicious, he said, because Miller did not hesitate to declare unconstitutional an entire section of the Kansas Constitution on the basis of recent abuse of power. But the decision was quickly forcoming when others had been delayed a long time.
Hoffman said he was suspicious of the attorney general's motives when he recently issued the legal opinion that women who had recently married and changed their names would not be eligible to vote.
IF ELECTED, Hoffman said, he would rebuild the attorney general's staff. The office has had about a 60 per cent turnover in staff in the past 20 months of operation, he said, and the office is now filled with young lawyers with little experience.
"The attorney general's office has become a kind of on-the-job training ground, and there isn't enough experience in the office to give them the appropriate skills." Hoffman said. "Certainly they can't get it from the ternary general with an unused law degree."
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Hoffman said that he was qualified for the office because of his 23 years of law practice and his 13 years in the attorney general's office.
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"Here we have a situation where we have an ex-sheriff filling this office," he said. "It's my notion it may be unique in the United States that this particular office, which is a traditional and ancient one, has been filled in this manner."
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