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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
83rd Year, No. 47
The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
Final Day For Blood Drive At Union
Wednesday, November 1, 1972
Kansan Photo by TIM WINTERS
"Whose woods are these?" These words from Robert Frost's poem might be echoing through the mind of this student as he crosses the KU campus. The coming of fall has brought a blaze of color to the campus, especially to the wooded area north of强 Hall.
Colorful Campus
Nuclear Waste Dumping Grounds Rejected by KU Geological Survey
The Kansas Geological Survey ended a two-year controversy Tuesday over an Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) proposal to locate a national dumping ground for nuclear waste in Kansas by the U.S. Department, considered in Kansas were unacceptable.
The survey eliminated the three sites located in rural areas of Lincoln and Wichita counties as possibilities for storage of radioactive waste. The Kansas Geological Survey had earlier indicated the AEC that the sites might be feasible as storage areas, Rod Hardy, director of the Geological survey information and education, said.
The three locations were the last Kansas site on the survey was studying as possible.
Two Lincoln county areas, one west of Sylvan Grove and the other southwest of Lincoln, failed to meet the criteria of salt thickness and quality. The salt must be a certain quality and at a certain depth for safe mining and storage, Hardy said.
The site in Wichita county, southeast of Leoni, failed to meet the criteria concerning salt quality and the mining possibilities of that salt, he said.
As early as 1959, the AEC began looking at
Charles Bayne, associate director of the Survey, said the latest report meant that unless other prerequisites were set up or other methods determined, there were no areas in the state the Survey considered suitable.
Congressman Reveals 'Wired Nation' Plans
WASHINGTON (AP-A secret White House study of plans to wire every American home, car and boat into a central communications system under government control was made public Tuesday by Rep. William S. Moorehead, D-Pa.
The study, prepared for President Nixon's Domestic Council, envisions a "wired nation" that would provide the government with a disaster-warning system and a means of dispensing a wide variety of services and information.
The study in Moorhead's possession is stamped "Administratively Confidential" on each of its 300 pages. It is dated August 1984, as it is described as a preliminary response to a request for the study by Dr. Edward D. David Jr., Nixon's science adviser.
It provides also, said Mouthhead, a blueprint for a government-operated propaganda and spy system. He asked Nixon to inform the nation about the administration's intent and to make available more information about the plan.
David said Moorhead's suggestion that the Domestic Council 'advocates some kind of 'big brother' communications link to every house' was absolutely wrong.
AT THE White House, press secretary Ron L. Lindley. Ziegler was an unaware of any such report but declared, "I am sure that Mr. Lindley will oppose or proceed with something like that."
A report by the Geological Survey to the AEC in December of 1971 questioned the site at Lyons and encouraged the AEC to look elsewhere for possible sites, Hardy said.
He said the suggestion is one of many received every year of which "some are good and some are terrible."
It wasn't until June 1970, when the AEC announced plans to establish a national nuclear waste repository in an abandoned site, and proposed became the center of controversy.
Kansas' abandoned salt mines as possible radioactive wastes dumps.
DAVID SAID this idea was rejected because it "did not take account of the right of privacy of citizens, nor of the social acceptability of such a scheme."
The second report by the Survey made earlier this year, Hardy said, designated eight alternate areas in the state for the repository. This number was reduced after further investigation of the Lincoln and Wichita counties areas.
David said Moorhead could have had the facts if he had asked.
The study contains detailed descriptions of systems for sending letters by satellite; disseminating educational, cultural and social services through a public broadcasting network; alerting the nation or any locality to an impending disaster; and providing local police with information they need to combat crime.
"But I guess he was more interested in a headline than a fact," David said in a headline.
The study also contains charts of a proposed television network linking every state, city and home which would be the heart of a wide-ranging system of public-service programs, including special educational programs for children.
THE BASIS of the disaster-waring system discussed in the study is the required installation of a special reception in every car and boat sold in the United States.
They make only one brief reference to any concern that might arise over the issue of care in a hospital setting.
The receivers could be turned on by the government to broadcast warnings and alerts.
IT SAYS such a system could be launched by 1975 with two full-time broadcasting channels, expanding to six channels by 1978 and to 10 by 1980.
Hardy said that the Nuclear Energy Development and Radiation Control Act gives the Survey the authority to review geological feasibility of the areas.
"There may be opposition to requiring receivers to be built into all radios and telephones."
"This is a blueprint for the 'Big Brother' propaganda and spy system which George Wormald warned about in his novel '1848'. But it also opened into effect even earlier," Moorehead said.
The AEC is considering a number of other areas outside of Kansas for the nuclear waste repository, the Survey news release said. Possible sites include areas near Carlsbad, N.M. and sections of Utah, Colorado and Arizona.
U.S. Bombers Raid Hanoi Supply Drive
SAIGON (AP)—U.S. B53 bombers made their heaviest rails in nearly three months in the southern part of North Vietnam in an attempt to halt a Hanoi effort to beat a cause-fire with a big supply push into Laos during North Vietnam, field reports said Tuesday.
Forty of the B52 Stratofortresses unleashed 1,000 tons of bombs on coastal supply routes south of Vinh leading both to the demilitarized zone and the Laos border. Vinh is 170 miles north of the DMZ. The United States, however, maintained its halt in air and naval attacks above the 20th Parallel, which is 80 miles south of Hanoi.
PRESIDENT NIXON has ordered the partial bombing halt during current efforts
to conclude a peace settlement worked out earlier this month in Paris between U.S. and North Vietnamese negotiators.
MBASSADOR Pham Dang Lam, head of the South Vietnamese delegation to the UN Security Council, said that some details remained to be ironed out before signing of a cease-fire accord. He mentioned his government's desire for a cease-fire and that he would withdraw of North Vietnamese troops.
The agreement, when signed, would mean a cease-fire in Vietnam, and an end to all air and naval operations against North Vietnam, withdrawal of all American forces from Vietnam, and the release of more than 500 U.S. airmen held prisoner by Hanoi.
I A COMMENTARY, Saigon's official television network said South Vietnam had been urging the United States against hasty action in concluding a peace agreement. It President Nixon had been advocating "peace with honor and this we shall have."
Radio Hanoi assailed the Nixon ac-
ministration for not signing the agreement Tuesday, as originally scheduled by both sides. It accused the American government of taking a "tricky attitude in not respecting what it had agreed upon, not only evading the signing of the agreement but also seeking to change the agreement which had been reached."
Foreign Commission To Supervise Accord
WASHINGTON (AP) — The tentative, nine-point agreement to end the war in Vietnam remained unsigned Tuesday but plans went forward for having a 1,000-man force in place to supervise the cease-fire when it comes.
Canada, Indonesia, Hungary and Poland have agreed to provide 250 officers each for what is expected to be the complex and difficult job of seeing that terms of the peace accord are carried out in the field, informed diplomatic sources said Tuesday.
As the Oct. 31 deadline originally set by the North Vietnamese for signing of the pact on October 25, House continued to withhold any hints, when this ceremony might be carried out.
The reported new international policing agency would line up two Communist nations with two non-communist countries, supplanting the old, ineffective commission created under Geneva agreements and made up of India, Canada and Poland.
PRESIDENTIAL press secretary Ronald L. Ziegler told newsman that the objective to achieve a lasting agreement remained and does not leave the seed for future conflict."
AT THE State Department spokesman Charles W. Bray neither affirmed nor denied reports that the new watchdog commission was taking shape.
Henry A. Kissinger, President Nixon's chief foreign-officers adviser and principal U.S. architect of the pending agreement, said last week that one more meeting of three or four days with the North Vietnamese was required to iron out all the detainees in the agreement which would be drawn for by the U.S. drawal of all American troops within 60 days, accompanied by release of all prisoners of war over the same span.
The United States would like to see the International Control Commission put in place at the same time the Vietnam cease-fire is promulgated.
The timing of the cease-fire announcement appeared to be drawing nearer.
According to diplomatic sources, Kissinger and Le Die虏, Hanoi's Polibourb member who has negotiated for North Vietnam in Paris, would meet again this week. The final accord could come by Sunday, according to some diplomatic sources.
In the Jan. 25 proposal put forward by the United States and South Vietnam jointly, there was no mention of withdrawal of North Vietnamese forces from the South.
It has been said that both the United States and North Vietnam are trying to build up as much war stockpiles as they can before a cease-fire.
In South Vietnam, Communist-led forces, vowing to continue fighting if the United States refuses to sign the draft agreement, have demanded positions for the sixth successive day.
WHILE NORTH Vietnam is trying to push war materials southward down the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos and across the DMZ, the United States has launched a crash program to supply South Vietnam with all the military equipment it can before the peace agreement places a limitation on American military aid.
Canadian Conservatives Apparent Election Winners
The margin was 109 seats in Parliament to 188, with some contests still to be decided by election.
TORONTO (AP)—The Conservative party led by Robert L. Stanfield emerged Tuesday as the apparent winner of an election that carved away the governing majority of Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau.
The result, leaving the two major parties at almost a standoff, was one of the most unexpected in Canada's political history. It remained to be seen whether Stanfield could form a new government displacing Trudeau's Liberals.
In any case, the Liberals had lost the majority they had in the last Parliament and could rule only with minor-party help. That was true of the Conservatives, too.
For the time being Trudeau remained prime minister, although the voters had given his party only 40 per cent of the House of Commons seated it soitw.
Stanfield is a former premier of Nova Scotia. As a graduate of the Harvard Law School, he is the first Harvard man to be in leadership of the Canadian government.
Stanfield is 58. Trudeau 53.
Trudeau told supporters he was sorry things turned out as they did and advised him not to blame the people.
The election was for 264 seats in the House of Commons. Late standings gave the Conservatives or Tories 109, the Liberals 108, the New Democrats 30 and Social Credit 15 with two seats going to independents or undecided.
A new federal election is probably just around the corner, perhaps in the spring. It is sorrowful news to the political parties, as a huge share of the expenses of this campaign.
The Canadian system, like the British from which it is derived, requires the party with the most House of Commons seats to be prime minister. The party leader, who becomes prime minister,
In 1968, a political bulldozer powered by a fuel called Trudeauania flattened the Conservatives in a trumpet sweep that left the leader in command of a majority.
The Trudeau magic disappeared this time and the result was political chaos, at least.
The virtual standoff was unprecedented.
Constitutional experts said that Trudeau had a duty to face the new House of Commons, and see how it lined up, before admitting defeat or deciding what other course to take.
Peace Issue Unemotional, Profs Say
Editor's Note: This is the third in a series of stories examining the possible effects of a peace settlement in Indochina. The following story discusses the emotional responses of Americans to an immediate cease-fire.
By RAYNA LANCASTER Kansan Staff Writer
Apathy or a modest sign of relief may be the only emotional response of Americans to an immediate cease-fire and end to the war. The problem, sociologists and psychologists on campus
The reason Americans would react without enthusiasm to the war's end is that most people are not emotionally involved with Vietnam, Shelly said, except for the person who has served in Vietnam or the family of a prisoner of war.
Maynard Shelly, professor of psychology, said the long duration of the war had conditioned a great many people to the war and made it more difficult for them to be prepared them for peace in Vietnam. He also said that the subtle effects of this war on Americans could not be seen now, but that after three or four years of observation research the effects would become evident.
KEENTH C. W. Kammeyer, professor of sociology, said that if the war ended today, Americans would not be excited but they would have no chance with North Vietnam was reached on the eve
of the presidential election instead of four
much personal interest that there was not much
"Vietnam will drift from the American consciousness. It will be surprising how quickly we'll forget about the Vietnam war," Kammeyer said.
Students have lost interest in the war, he said, because they no longer fear the draft, a direct involvement in the war, as they did in the late '98s.
Most Americans want to believe in Nikon's "peace with honor" pledge because they want to maintain a good image of America to the rest of the world. The people of this country may regret involvement in Vietnam, Kammeyer said, but will take the attitude of "We came out of it all right, didn't we."
People will not accept McGovern's approach of "we've made a mistake—now let's get out," Eitzen said, because many Americans feel they have the responsibility to protect our country from war. He said that first in Korea and now in Vietnam, Americans realized that some
D. STANLEY Eitzen, associate professor of sociology, said Americans had displayed an unwillingness to question the administration. Americans are tired of involvement in Southeast Asia and want to get out, he said, but for some reason have not demanded withdrawal or questioned Nikon's "peace with honor" pledge.
wars could not be won with the smashing military victories of the past. Now Americans want only to be able to say they have not lost, he said.
"We do not want to believe that the lives of young people are lost in vain." Ellitzen said.
There will be no great euphoria among Americans at this war's end, he said, because like Korea, we have not completed the reserving democracy or stifling communism.
KAMMEYER SAID that if five years from now Vietnam were unified under Communist regime, most Americans would ignore it.
"If you are faced with the threat of draft into a war you feel to be profound immoral
Wax said that students, who had been traditionally militant, were no longer faced with the personal threat of fighting in Vietnam and had lost interest.
Murray Wax, professor of sociology, said that the Vietnam war was not a significant issue with most Americans because they were less personally involved with the war. They were seen been and that most Americans would feel authentic toward an end to the Vietnam war.
"There will be a segment of the population who will be sad without a spectacular victory in Vietnam but criticism from this country is welcome," he said, with most Americans, "he said.
this would lead to intense political involvement. If you're not faced with this moral crisis then it becomes somebody else's problem," Wax said.
"PROTEST HAS RUN its course," he said. Students suffered significant political defeats during the late '60s when they tried to oust a candidate who had said, and apathy was a natural response.
He said 'that in the past Americans believed that the wars they fought were moral and that the overriding mood was enthusiastic. Vietnam is the first major war, he said, in which a large segment of the people depressed a principled objection to the war.
"Most Americans are spotted. Other countries have had military defeats and lived with them; they had no illusion that we were the saviors of liberty. Americans find it hard to admit defeat, be
Shelly said that people were not expecting a victory in Vietnam because there have been many reports of the absence of any smashing military victories.
During the 40s and 50s Americans began to seek satisfaction and pleasures from involvement with the external world which, in turn, turned to political involvement in the 60s.
"With the advent of the Jesus movement, transcendental meditation and drugs, there has been a turning to the inner world, especially among students," he said.