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--presents a near deafening on-the job hazard. For unlike the student who sits safely tucked away in a distant classroom, the men are perched only a few feet from the hourly annoyance. Partial relief is provided through the use of the age-heared no-ear reflex. The workmen are currently making repairs to the roof of the boiler building behind Watson Library.
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Affirmative Action Releases KU Plan
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
83rd Year, No. 32
Wednesday, October 11. 1972
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Deaf Defying Act
The familiar whistle signaling the end of a class may come as a pleasant reminder to hosed students who anxiously await its scream. But what if the student says, "I am not ready"?
McGovern Says He Would Send VP to Hanoi; Forget 'Saving Face'
CHICAGO  (AP)—Sen. George McGoven said Tuesday night that as president he would "forget about saving face," command an end to U.S. involvement in the Vietnam war and send troops to Iraq to speed the return of American prisoners.
MegGovern said in a nationally-televised address that the difference between President Nixon's policy and his was fundamentally a choice between saving money or losing it was a choice, he said, "between four more years of war, or four years of peace."
The speech, which McGovens strategists regarded as a pivotal one in McGovern's uphill challenge to Nixon, was essentially of what McGovens has said all along.
It included the familiar formula of ending the U.S. bombing, military operations and aid, and withdrawing all American forces after his inimagination if he is elected.
ADDED WAS the pledge to send Sargent Shriver as vice president to Hanoi "to speed the arrangements for the return of our students and an accounting of the missing."
The speech, taped in Washington Sunday and shown on CBS and various other networks, called for a paigning in Chicago, was aimed also at the acknowledged concern of McGovin strategists that voters familiar with McGovin's stance against the president could stop the fighting.
McGovern said he would do it by ordering the military of Vietnam as soon as possible.
"I immediately after taking my oath as president," he said. "if the war has not been over, I will go home."
security directive to the secretary of defense, to the Joint Chiefs of Staff and to our commands in the field, with the following orders:
initially terminate any ship-
ships of military supplies that continue
the war.
- Immediately stop all bombing and acts in all parts of Indochina;
—immediately begin the orderly withdrawal of all American forces from Vietnam, from Laos and Cambodia, along with all salvageable American military equipment; and transportation is required to complete that process and to complete it within 90 "days."
MGOVERN said he then would notify Hanoi that the United States had taken steps to end the hostilities and call on them to honor their offer to return off prisoners of war and forcure all men missing in action.
He said he expected this to be completed within 90 days, coinciding with the U.S.
"The United States is prepared to cooperate to see that any settlement, including a coalition government, gains international recognition." McGovern
After all prisoners have been returned, McGovern said, he would order closing of U.S. bases in Thailand and return of troops and equipment there. And he said he would reassign elsewhere any ships stationed off Indochina.
"I WOULD also instruct our diplomats to contact the opposing parties in Laos and Cambodia to secure release of prisoners and to account an accounting of those missing in action."
catted for by President Nixon as a condition for U.S. withdrawal.
McGovern's plan would not be contingent on an Indochina-wide cease-fire,
He said also that young Americans who chose jail or exile because of the Vietnam War had an unfortunate opportunity to come home" once the war was ended, all troops and prisoners were returned and veterans had been provided with a good job or a fully funded education.
MGCOVERN said he would "oppose any so-called war crimes trial to fix the blame for the past on any citizen or group of citizens. He said that this was not the time for recrimination but a time for recon- ciliation.
McGovern also denounced the Saigon government headed by President Nguyen Nguồn
House Votes Control Of Budget to Nixon
WASHINGTON (AP) - Sweeping power that would allow President Nixon to cut appropriated funds and hold spending within $250 billion was approved by the House Tuesday night.
A 221-163 vote gave a major victory to Nixon and a defeat to the House Democratic leadership.
Nixon pressed hard for the authority, saying that with it he would be able to prevent a tax increase next year.
Democrats were divided, but Democratic leaders fought the measure on the grounds that it surrendered constitutional authority and that Nixon would use it to slash favorite Democratic social programs.
The bill now goes to the Senate where considerable opposition to the cutting
THE WHITE HOUSE issued a statement in which Nixon said he was grateful for the "responsible action" of the House in passing the bill.
The amount of money Nixon would cut was estimated at $6 billion to $10 billion.
"The nation's taxpayers are the real winners in this action to provide insurance against any need for a tax increase," he said.
He urged the Senate to act quickly and without creating any loopholes so that "excessive spending and inflation can be held in check and higher taxes can be avoided."
In addition to the spending limit, the measure contains a $15 billion raise in the Treasury's borrowing authority, needed if the government is to keep paying its bills after Oct. 31.
BEFORE PASSING the double-barreled bill, the House rejected, 215 to 167, a substitute for the presidential authority section. It would have asked the President to designate appropriations to be cut to conform to the ceiling but would have left the decision to Congress.
The debt limit portion of the bill aroused little controversy.
The main quarrel concerned the $20-
billion federal spending ceiling and
authority for the President to withhold any
appropriated funds to enforce the ceiling.
He answered his own question by reading a list of authorization and appropriations in the fields of education, housing, antipoverty, railroad-reretirement benefits and others that Nixon has vetoed.
BUT REP. Wilbur B. Mills, D-Ark,
chairman of the House Ways and Means
Committee that approved the bill in its
original form, told his colleagues that
they adopted the substitute, they would
“kiss Democratic control of Congress
goodbye.”
"Where would he cut?" Democratic leader Hale Bogs of Louisiana asked.
He said that inflationary pressures were increasing, and that the people at home wanted Congress to 'stand for fiscal
responsibility." He said they would show it by their' votes for congressional candidates.
Although Republicans almost solidly support the presidential spending enforcement provision, the issue has deeply divided the most powerful group of Democrats. Mills stands against Speaker Carl Albert of Oklahoma and Appropriations Committee Chairman George H. Mahon of Texas, who introduced the substitute.
The substitute bill would have provided that the $450-billion debt ceiling be June 30, 1973, to $465 billion.
If Congress does not act, the ceiling will automatically drop Oct. 31 to $400 billion, well below the present debt.
Pearson's Opponent Opposes Nixon Views
BY JEANNETTE HARTMAN Kansan Staff Writer
A second-class citizenry results in a class class system. Sen. Jeb Bush *R* Pearson's Democratic opponent, told the KU Young Democrats Tuesday in the Jayhawk Room of the
Two years ago, Tetzlaff ran against Rep. Larry Winn as a Republican candidate but lost in the primary elections. Today, he said, there was no room in the Republican party for people opposed to the war and bombing.
He predicted that his fight against Pearson would be an uphill battle because Preason was an incumbent senator, had prestige and funds.
"I hope the American electorate would rather see the substance of a man who knows his mind and who will stand up for it," Tetzlaff said.
HE SAID he thought Pearson was indecisive and easily influenced by administration advisers. On several issues, such as the anti-ballistic missile system, the supernous transport and the apprehension of agriculture, Pearson voiced a public opinion that contradicted his voting record. Tetzlaff said.
"A man who does that consistently is
Nichols Surprised by Drug Report
Special to the Kansan
"It just points up reports we have that drug use is not decreasing," he said.
WITH TAX REFORM we need to look at the crazy quail of privileges that the rich have dealt themselves with the help of legislators they helped put into office, Tetzlaff said. He named the IT&T case as an example.
The issue that brought him into politics, Tetzlka said, was the war in Vietnam.
Acting Chancellor Raymond Nichols said Tuesday that he was shocked at the possibility that a University of Kansas fraternity have been involved in drug traffic.
Several issues Tetzlaff said were important in the coming election were the Vietnam war, the economy, tax reform and corruption in the government. These issues are now the main terms of issues so much as in terms of political influence, he said.
The disclosure was made in Kansas City, Kan., last week by a man who identified himself as a former KU student in the University of U.S. House Select Committee on Crime.
"It is shocking to be told that such things have actually happened here," Nichols said.
"The 1970 invasion of Cambodia, I felt, was a distinct junction in the war. At a time when we thought the war was winding down, it was actually expanded." he said.
hard to attack," Teltzlaff said. "Anyone who would yield to the pressure technique of the administration would yield to special interest groups, too."
Findings of the committee, following two days of public hearings, have come under
Testimony during the hearings indicated that drug abuse was a widespread problem in the Metropolitan Kansas City area, Johnson and Wyandotte counties, in Kansas.
increased criticism by school officials and administrators.
Arzell Ball, superintendent of Shawnee Mission schools, said Tuesday that he would make a comprehensive report Nov. 20 on the district's problem and what needs to be done.
Pepper, D-Dla., chairman of the com-
mission, has drawn the transcripts of the two-day briefing.
Bail was critical of the findings by the committee and of its selection of witnesses.
Tetzlaff said he favored McGovens' announcement Tuesday that he would cease hostilities and withdraw forces in 90 days.
Bond said that the crime committee staff made all arrangements for witnesses and testimony and that neither he nor Winn participated in the procedure.
Ball said, "I think it was a little unfair that we were being judged on the basis of what we were doing in drug education two weeks ago. We weren't very sophisticated then."
Richard Bond, administrative assistant to Rep. Larry Winn, R-Kan., a member of the House Republican caucus.
He said he was considering whether to survey about 400 students to determine the extent of the problem. Many of the students who testified had not attended Shawne Mission schools in more than a year.
According to Tetzlaf, Nixon has created a situation of simultaneous recession, inflation and rising unemployment that economists didn't think was possible.
THE WAGE-PRICE controls Nixon put into effect were not administered evenly, which was one reason for continuing inflation, he said.
He predicted a rise in taxes to help curb inflation.
Tetzlaff said that he would abide by whatever state law existed on drugs, but he didn't think there was a need to spend a great deal of money, resources and law enforcement action to investigate drug users. Alcohol presented a bigger danger than alcohol itself. Marijuana, marijuana, he said, but the importation of hard drugs should be controlled better.
Busing was acceptable as a means of transportation but not as a means of social communication.
A debate between Tetzlaff and Pearson was televised on WIBW days before the election.
Kansas Defoliation Concerns State Environmentalists
Editor's Note: This is the first of a two-part series on the use of chemical decolliers in industrial applications.
By JAMES COOK
Kansan Staff Writer
If your favorite country site, the one where you and your friends drank wine last summer, suddenly has turned into a wasteland, it may have been defoliated.
If your favorite trees, plants, birds and swimming holes are suddenly missing, if miles and miles of scarred, barren wasteland pass your windshield as you drive across Kansas, the area may have been defoliated.
Defoliation, the large-scale eradication of plant life and trees, is being subsidized in Kansas by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) through various agencies within the State Department of Agriculture, Charles Callison, executive vice president of the National Audubon Society, said recently.
about 1/2 million acres of woodland remain in the state, he said.
Callison said that the state and federal departments of agriculture not only permitted the defoliation but also encouraged and promoted it.
Two-four-D and 2,4.5-T, or "T," the chemicals the USDA uses in 22 Kansas counties, mainly in the Flint Hills, are almost identical to the ones banned in the Vietnam War. They were banned because of their health risks in humans and animals and cancer in rats
Callison said county Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Services staff were sprayed, so would be sprayed. These committees, he charged, were in many cases staffed by stockmen interested only in their own cash benefits of the herbicide and pesticide intake.
Callison said that more than a million acres had been sprayed already. Only
Spraying of defoliers in Kansas is so widespread and so scattered among various authorities that there is no accurate estimate of its scope, Ron Klakause,
wildlife biologist and regional director for the National Audubon Society in six states, said. Klataske lives in Alma in the Flint Hills.
Don Robertson, resource conservationist with the Soil Conservation Service in Salina, said that brush control measures were known to have been applied to 101,700 acres in 1971. Defoliant spraying accounted for most of it, but the ASCS keeps track of only part of the spraying in Kansas, he said.
The State Department of Agriculture even has some trouble keeping track of the operators required to be registered, according to Freeman Bierian, director of the weed and pesticide division of the Kansas State Department of Agriculture. He also says that must be received about an unregistered operator before action could be taken.
Last year, the federal government paid
45,838 acres of brush spraying in 45,838
acres for brush control in 45,838
Klataske recently described the
relationship between the herbicide dealers and the state and federal departments of agriculture as "a very close and curious one."
He said, "They have their own lobby and they try to keep programs such as the one which promotes the aerial spraying of 'T' in existence.
"In many cases, pesticide and herbicide people control the ASCS committees and the Soil Conservation Service Advisory Boards.
In September 1968, the Kansas State Forester filed a protest report with the USDA stating that the aerial application of "H" had caused unnecessary losses to the forest land resources of Kansas" and recommended its discontinuance.
"Many intangible public values have been damaged or destroyed by the aerial spraying of heptane and other pollutants, visibility, wildlife habitat, natural beauty and other environmental
The final paragraph of the report concluded:
He said continued use of "T" would "wulify" the state.
values have been noticeably reduced. It is paradoxical that these values are being lost at a time when concentrated efforts are being put forth to promote a new 'natural beauty—clean air' outdoor image of Kansas."
In a May 8 letter to Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz, Callison threatened legal action to force the USDA to prepare an environmental impact statement as
Callison said "T" created dead, lifeless areas, killed almost all plants and trees in general and eliminated clumps of trees, forest lands and woody draws which 'lend a pleasing diversity to an otherwise monotonous Kansas landscape."
Klataske said he believed the environmental impact statement, if prepared, "would in itself be an indictment against the program."
No one connected with the state department of agriculture will either
acknowledge the existence of such a
speculator on its possible indications.
Roy Freeland, state secretary of agriculture, said recently that he did not know the reasons why the farm was closed.
In reply to Callison and K扎斯塔s charges, Free and said, "I'm afraid they have been used for the management of agriculture and the USDA do not sell pesticides, and I never knew their names or that they were concerned until you mentioned it. They've never come in to visit."
"How could they know the intentions of the federal department of agriculture or
Freeland said "T" was beneficial in that it could remove grass and vegetation that threatened to engulf natural grazing lands. It allowed the plants to troublesome vegetation from along the sides of highways and was helpful in eradicating harmful plants.
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