THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
83rd Year, No. 46
Revenue Sharing Examined
Tuesday, October 31, 1972
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4-Year Rule By Trudeau Gets Rebuff
TORONTO (AP)—Canada's voters handed Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau a severe jolt Monday in a cliffhanger election that gave neither major party a majority in the House of Commons.
Early today it was still in doubt whether Trudeau's Liberals or Robert L. Stanfield's Conservatives had the best chance of forming a minority government.
The indecisive outcome left the balance of power with the socialists of the New York City.
At 11:30 p.m. Lawrence time, with only 10 seats in the 286-seat House undecided, the Conservatives were one seat ahead but were 17 seats short of a bare majority.
The standing then was Conservatives
Liberals. New Democrat 29.
Supreme Court
Whichever of the two major parties founded a government, it was not likely to
The painful blow to Canada's swinging prime minister was first signaled by a demand that setback was followed by a sharp uprage in Conservative fortunes in the country.
A decisive Ontario swing gave the Conservatives 40 of the province's 88 House of Commons seats. The Liberals in Toronto lost party11 and one went to an independent.
Four years ago when a wave of "Trudeauania" swelt the Liberals into office with a big majority, the Con-
gress had not voted. The Liberals with only 17 seats to 64 for the Liberals.
In Canada, as in Britain, the party with the most House of Commons seats forms the government. Its leader, a House member, becomes prime minister. In that role for the last four years, Trudeau has relied on a liberal majority.
But Monday's election results suggested a new election will be imperative.
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Kaman Staff Photo by PHS BRANDSTE
Army Veteran Express Allied War Orcs
Army Veteran Exposes Alleged War Crimes Anthony, Herbert, Talks to Union Crowd.
The optimism was expressed as presidential adviser Henry A. Kissinger sat in his White House office, far from the final meeting he says is necessary to wrap up details which now block the signing of the agreement.
Today, Paris time, was set by the North Vietnamese as the date to sign a peace pact, but White House press secretary Ronald L. Ziegler said Monday the United States would not sign such an agreement until the conditions were right.
Viet Pact Unsigned; U.S. Still Optimistic
WASHINGTON (AP) - The chance of signing a Vietnam peace by today's deadline set by Hanoi apparently has been cut, the UN still says an accord will be reached soon.
Diplomatic sources said Monday night that the United States and North Vietnam would resume talks this week. These sources said Kissinger would meet Le Duc Tho, Hanoi's top negotiator, for a signing expected at Saturday or Sunday.
SUCH A MEETING probably would be in Paris, the sources said.
It also was learned that agreement has been reached on a four nation international mission to oversee the cease fire and withdrawal of foreign forces from South Sudan.
Making up that commission will be Indonesia, Hungary, Poland and Canada. That new lineup, representing two communist and two noncommunist countries, has been formed by the control Commission which India headed with Poland and Canada as members.
Diplomatic sources here said South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu could be expected to agree to the new arrangement.
The State Department declined com-
U.S. Veteran Alleges War Crimes
Kansan Staff Writer
By JOCELYN WOLBER
Herbert made the comments in a speech Monday night in the Kansas Union Ballroom sponsored by the University of Kansas Junior class.
Truth or Consequences, the Bell Telephone Hour, and Sewing Bee are but a few of the war games being played daily in Vietnam by American forces, according to Lt. Col. Anthony Herbert, the most decorated enlisted man of the Korean War.
Harmert described atrocities and war garnes he had witnessed and asked why the attackers had been so intent on it.
and shot full of electrical current until they were willing to talk.
Often referred to as "super soldier," Herbert exposed many of the atrocities he said were taking place continually in Vietnam and called for a cleaning up of the army in order to keep the atrocities from reoccurring.
Truth or Consequences was another game, he said. Prisoners were taken up in helicopters, and one by one pushed out of the prisonerican soldiers, obtained the desired results.
The Bell Telephone Hour war game, Herbert said, was a game in which North Vietnamese prisoners who were unwilling to talk were connected to telephone wires
The Sewing Bee was a third game played by lining up young children in the presence of their mothers and "sewing" them together with wire inserted through their
ears in the hopes of getting their mothers to talk.
Herbert said that in his effort to expose war crimes such as these he was relieved of his command of a battalion in Vietnam, given an efficiency report that eliminated all chance of future promotion and then sent home.
"will do what the man above them wants in order to advance," he said.
The inmate man above, West. moreland, wanted bodies, Herbert said, in order to make it appear to the American public that the U.S. was winning the war.
Herbert placed the blame for war crimes on "careerism" where soldiers
So the "body count" was instituted, he said, but the means to determine who should be killed, who were Viet Cong and others, who were not made clear to American soldiers.
Little Economic Change Foreseen After War, KU Professors Say
Editor's Note: This is the second in a series of stories examining the possible effects of a peace settlement now in Indochina. The following story deals with the
Chicago Commuter Trains Collide; 44 Persons Die
CHICAGO (AP)—A collision of two crowded commuter trains during the morning rush hour Monday killed dozens and injured bodies through the jettisoned wreckage.
Officials at the Cook County morgue said they expected more bodies to be brought in by ambulances. Several hospitals received the injured.
THE COLLISION of the Illinois Central Gulf Railroad trains occurred when a lead train, a four car, double-decked train called the High Liner, overshot the 27th Street station on the South Side and began backing up.
than 300 were injured, hospitals reported. President Nixon canceled plans for a noon-hour motorcade Tuesday in downtown Washington, expressed his sorrow and concern about the tragic accident which cost so many lives and inflicted so much suffering.
Forty-four persons were killed and more than 300 were injured. hospitals reported
It was rammed by a second commuter train made up of five coaches. The second train ran between the station across from the McCormick Place exposition hall on the Lake Michigan
There were an estimated 500 passengers aboard each train. The front car of the second train plowed through the rear car of the lead train. Both cars were crumpled and telescoped. Many of the riders in these cars met instant death.
WITNESSES IN the second train said
she was not identified,
about a warning.
The screams of pinned victims were clearly audible to rescuers who pried at the twisted steel. Doctors and medical teams crawled through the debris to administer morphine and give emergency aid.
Cutting torches and heavy wrecking equipment were rushed to the scene, but several persons remained trapped four hours after the crash which occurred at 7:38 a.m.
Dr. Edward Goldberg, a surgeon at Michael Reese Hospital, only a hundred feet from the wreckage site, said many patients had been brought in with partly severed limbs.
"Run back! Run back! We're going to crash."
The engineer was among the final trapped vulture to be freed and was taken by helicopter.
Railroad ties were propped against the ripped open cars to prevent them from breaking.
A team of investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board was rushed from Washington to investigate the collision.
Gov. Richard B. Ogilvie ordered a state investigation.
economic repercussions in the United States of a negotiation.
By MIKE BAUER
Kansas Staff Writer
Harry Shaffer, professor of economics said, "People who buy stocks now are sure of Nixon's reelection, and these people believe they would benefit.
He said that was not the case. Friday when the averages went down 4.4 per cent as more news of a peace settlement was reported, and so far in the stock market when the war ends.
Darwin Dacoff, professor of economics, said that on Wall Street it was a widely held belief that if the war ended the Dow-Jones average would rise 30 points.
The ending of the Vietnam war will have little or no effect on the economy of the United States, according to several professors of economics.
"The whole tone of the economic aspects of ending the war is kind of trivial," said Ronald Olson, chairman of the department of economics.
"Most investors are awaiting the outcome of the election."
Olsen said the only noticeable effect the end of the war could have would occur if six billion dollars presently used to finance the war were taken out of circulation.
The Wall Street Journal said Friday that Nixon might be able to cut federal deficit, funnel more funds to civilian needs and still avoid a tax increase.
The amount used to finance the war will probably be committed to reconstruction.
Schaffer says he thinks that Nixon will find a need for the money within the domain.
If the defense budget is cut, the extra money will be used in some other area, Shaffer said. This would create the same amount of employment present used to manufacture war goods. There would be at temporary rise in unemployment if there
Shaffer said that if troops were brought home Nixon's goal would be to keep expenditures down, which would benefit control of inflation.
Olson said, "If troops are withdrawn you have a release of resources," Olson said. "The question is where the resources will be used."
were a change from producing war goods to public goods, he said.
"If the government discharged all the troops in Vietnam, which seems unlikely, it would only be a small fraction of the total employment," Shaffer said.
The United States must cut taxes and increase spending power, or turn the extra money over to the public sector for housing development. Olsen said.
"However," said Olson, "the Department of Defense has found a need for the use of advanced surveillance."
Even if the administration decided to cut the defense budget, it would not affect U.S. military spending.
ment on the report, which came from foreign diplomats.
Olson said that if there were a lot of troops coming home as in World War II, the economy of the U.S. would be in trouble, but that in the present situation there were not enough troops coming home from Vietnam to affect the economy.
When the U.S. decided to commit resources to Vietnam, Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant in DeSoto began operating quickly, Olson said. He said the same principle would be true of switching from war goods production to civilian goods production. The change would be rapid, with little difficulty.
Olson said he thought that the war increased inflation, but that even when the war ended inflation would not be alleviated.
"War leads to an excessive demand on resources, and this would have been handled by taxing. If you increase resources going to defense you tax the
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HANOI AND its Viet Cong allies continued Monday to insist that Kissinger had agreed to sign by today and said the American refusal was bad faith, even though he had indicated more consultations are necessary. South Vietnam as well, as North Vietnam.
Mrs. Nguyen Thi Binh, the chief Viet Cong negotiator, vowed at a news conference that the Communists would fight "until total victory" unless the Nixon administration forced Saigon to accept the U.S.North Vietnam draft agreement.
A North Vietnamese broadcast quoted Nguyen Duy Trinh, North Vietnam's vice premier and foreign minister, as saying the country is resisting a signig in response with the U.S.'s side.
"The United States is trying to fool the public by saying that it will take just another session to settle various minor matters . . ." he said.
"If the United States does not stop stalling, the agreement can never be signed to end the war and restore peace in Vietnam." Trinh added.
TRHN CLAMED that, "since Oct. 11, the United States has many times demanded a revision of the contents of the agreement and of the signing schedule."
Officials said there was as yet no word on Hanoi when it would be ready for the next round of talks. Kissinger said last week that he would seek for such a session was up to North Vietnam.
Criticism of the tentative settlement, which would end the fighting within one day of a signing and bring home all American forces in conjunction with the release of U.S. prisoners in the following 60 days, continued as well from Saigon.
In an often sarcastic broadcast, the official Saigon radio said North Vietnam was trying to get a quick agreement from President Nixon in return for a few ballots.
SPEAKING FOR President Nguyen Van Thieu, the broadcast said any U.S.-Hanoi settlement would be worthless if he does not pay the debt. It will provine the current, tentative agreement.
The State Department said it does not naire Suigen's assessment of the situation now.
Other American officials said they still considered Thieu's position, including the broadcast, as armed more at his internal political situation than at Washington.
Sen. Edward W. Brooke, a Massachusetts Republican who often has been critical of Nixon's war policy, said Monday, after Sunday briefing at the White House, that he was convinced that was the case.
The administration seems to feel, Brooke told newsmen in Boston, that There's objections are political rhetoric and that the Saigon leader ultimately "would agree and be a party to the agreement."
He said American POWs might be home by Christmas.
Brooke gave public support also to the private assessment that no settlement would be wrapped up and signed before the decision but that one would follow shortly.
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U.S. Ships Move South From Tonkin
SALGON (AP)—The United States has removed much of its powerful 70 Fleet in the Gulf of Tonkin, a strike force it built to attack the US in World War II, informants disclosed Monday.
The withdrawal was seen as another gesture of good will in an effort to get a peace agreement with the North Vietnamese.
Dozens of carriers, cruisers and destroyers have quietly steamed southward below the 20th Parallel, and the Navy has halted all bombardment and new mining of North Vietnamese waters above the line, the informants said.
It had been disclosed earlier, and confirmed by Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird, that all air strikes had been halted above the 20th Parallel.
The U.S. reduction hails all types of attacks against North Vietnam's heartland, by the major cities of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, and northwest rail line covering with China.
The 20th Parallel is just above the port of Thanh Hoa, 55 miles south of Hanoi and 210 miles north of the demilitarized zone separating the Vietnamese.
In Saigon, Foreign Minister Tran Van Lam said his government would not sign an agreement until North Vietnam withdrew its troops from the South and an agreement on the exact role of a proposed National Council of Reconciliation and Peace was reached. It is supposed to maintain a cease-fire and supervise elections.
Lam said that under the present wording of the agreement, the council was a "party to the treaty."
Furry Food
Karan Photo by MALCOLM TURNER
the serving of rabbit meat in residence balks is but one of a number of food items that can be found at the stables.
services by product promoters. On the average, five promoters a week bring their products to the University for taste approval. The food products before being served to hall residents must first get the approval of the food service supervisors and 10 volunteers from the various resident halls.
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