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KANSAN
83rd Year. No. 22
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
City to Act On Fund Sharing
Wednesday, September 27, 1972
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Hanoi Charges U.S. With POW Spy Plot
PEKING (AP)-Three American prisoners of war freed by North Vietnam left Peking for Moscow this morning on the next lef of their long air voyage home.
American antiwar activists traveling with the three pilots disclosed before the departure a charge by Hanoi that U.S. packages mailed to POWs have contained spying devices rigged into such things as the Pentagon called the claim ridiculous.
The Soviet Aeroflot plane carrying the pilots and their American escorts left the Chinese capital at 6:50 p.m. Tuesday Lawrence time. They were to stop in Irkutsk in Siberia on the way to Moscow from Hanoi.
THE PRISONERS, who arrived in Peking Tuesday from Hanoi are two U.S. Navy lieutenants, Mark Gartley and Norris Charles, and Air Force Major J. Edward Elias, Gamecock Charles' delegation to Hanoi to bring them home.
Cora Wea, leader of the four-member antwar delegation, said of the charges that POW packages were rigged: "It looks to us an unmistakably professional job."
The charge was first made broadly on the American delegation's second day in Hanoi, Sept. 17. Hoang Tung, editor of the official Communist party newspaper Nhan Quoc, described the attack as "upset by electronic devices hidden in packages regularly sent to prisoners."
THE ACTIVIST delegation—Weiss, David Dellinger, the Rev. William Sloane and James Lester, who asked for evidence to back up the charge. This evidence, they said, was displayed Monday shortly before the group left for Peking and Moscow en route to the United States.
Their schedule calls for a further stopover in Copenhagen and arrival in New York Thursday night. The antiwar delegation said this route was chosen to keep the three released pilots out of U.S. military hands on the way home.
As described by the delegation, the nearest thing to an "electronic device" is a mobile phone.
WEISE TOLD OF a display of the devices at Hoa Binh Hotel. Photographs
were shown which she said the North Vietnamese had described as showing packages and contents sent to American prisoners.
A Pentagon spokesman, Ma.J. Gen, Daniel James, said "The charges are too ridiculous to dignity by trying to address the real issues," he said, such actions taking place and I think it is just another propaganda web Hanoi is spinning to obscure the real facts concerning her intracisional position in the war, which is meaningfully for our prisoners of war."
From the pictures could be discerned that Mr. Robertson urged recipients, Charles Roberty Teller, Edward Alan Bruno of Harrison, N.J., and William Robinson of Robersonville, N.C.
**WEISS' GROUP** told of the following:
—An extra-large tube of toothpaste was contained what Hanoi said was a receptacle for a battery compartment and an earpiece.
-Inside a candy bar two pieces of cellulose paper were reported found with instructions for writing messages that would not be detectable.
out and contained a message, and cans of
water. The attacker Hani said also
had contained messages.
-A peanut shell that had been hollowed
—A toy hippopotamus which, when opened, showed an enclosure with raised writing on one side reading "use secret keys" and on the other, "hold together, stand up."
The instructions with this were said to read: "Identify X reference word X provide details on letter writing procedure X. Are you under constant observation by your supervisor or are you home queries? Are some POWs not allowed to write? Do you get to keep your letters from home? Do POWs have access to or control of communications receivers? What frequencies and times are transmitted? Are not available, what critical parts are included in receiver? How effective is our cover POW communications?"
ONE SMALL cellulose sheet was said to have asked for verification of the deaths of two Indonesian soldiers in North Vietnamese, and information about any others known to be dead. The same sheet asked recipients to provide any information they captured anywhere in Indonesia.
Soviets Demand An End To U.S. Role in Vietnam
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP)—The Soviet Union declared Tuesday, that the United States is carrying on an "unprecedented expansion" of the Vietnam war and demanded the withdrawal of all American troops.
It was the strongest speech Gromyko has made on the subject of Vietnam in 1965.
Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko told the U.N. General Assembly, "The Vietnamese people cannot be defeated. Their stamness will not be broken and they are protected by the blockade of their ports, or by damage to their hydro-technical installations."
Grad Student Named To Search Committee
BY LINDA SCHILD
Kansan Staff Writer
Clyde Chapman, Newark, N.J., graduate student, has been chosen as the Lawrence campus student member of the Chancellor Search Committee. John House, chairman of the Student Executive Office (StudEx), announced Tuesday.
Chapman, a 24-year-old PhD candidate in human development, was excited and very pleased by the decision but said he hadn't expected to get the appointment. He was on campus all afternoon and didn't learn of the decision until 8 p.m.
House and Ken Reeves, second-year Lawrence law student and member of Senxh, were both impressed that Chapman wrote in his written and verbal statements.
"I was trying to feed the dog at the time and became totally disoriented," he said. "I had the feeling Monday night that I had boggled the interview.
"ITHOUGHT that whatever I had done, I'd gotten off on the wrong foot. I wasn't nice and quiet, but sort of made waves. After the interview I felt that I hadn't made all of my points clear to them; their 'sweren't all clear to me."
"Chapman was the overwhelming choice of the committee; however, it
Clyde Chapman
Jess Stewart, chairman of the Kansas board of Regents, said Chapman 'sounds authentic.'
certainly was not an easy choice to make. We were very favorably impressed with all the candidates." House said in a written statement he released at 2 p.m.
"The key question, in particular, was difficult. One of the interviewers asked me three times in three ways what kind of man I would pick as a chancellor, and each time I had to tell him, 'Sorry, I can't answer that question.'
"What a candidate thinks, how he lives and what he is prepared to do on campus are important," he said. "How well prepared an applicant is, how much he knows of the campus, is significant. An interested candidate should have a pretty good idea of this."
"I have some reasonable idea, but I'd like to keep it as an idea. I feel unsure saying what kind of person should be given, and I'll probably never see him in an interview."
"Selecting a chancellor is a serious and critical task. Whoever is chosen will direct the entire course of the University. The fact that this is so important was the stimulus to my decision to apply for the Search Committee.
CHAPMAN SAID "The take-off
questions caused our problems. The
offences were correct."
"I can't begin to represent 18,000 students, I won't even try. But I have an idea of what is important to the students, to show them how that the administration's concerns are."
"You begin to talk, judge and ask questions when the person is there in front of you. I'd like to find someone comparable to Chalmers."
CHAPMAN SERVED on a presidential and vice presidential selection committee while he was an undergraduate at Kansas Wesleyan College.
"MY DECISIONS on this committee will have to be based on my own frame of reference. I'll listen to the students, I think they will learn." "I'll have to weigh everything as I see it."
Chapman said he would prefer a chancelor who was not overly liberal or religious.
U. S. Ambassador George Bush said Gromyko had reiterated the Soviet position "with which we certainly cannot agree."
*Our position is well known in Vietnam and is in contradiction of the Soviet view.*
Gromyko also said the Munich massacre of 11 Israeli athletes by Palestinian militants.
He did not say, however, whether the Soviet Union supported the proposal made by Secretary of State William P. Rogers on Monday, to convene a conference next year to adopt a convention that would bind extremists to prosecute or extradite terrorists.
The Soviet minister submitted to the assembly, which opened its 27th session last week, a draft resolution providing for "unrestricted use of force, including nuclear weapons."
Gromyko said the Soviet Union supports the "just struggle" of the Palestinians but that it is "impossible to condone the acts of terrorism committed by certain elements from among the participants in the Palestinian movement which have led, notably, to the recent tragic events in Munich.
The draft also asks the Security Council to make the declaration mandatory for all
"Their criminal actions deal a blow also at the national interest and aspirations of the Palestinians; these acts are used by the Israeli authorities to attack them, their bandit-like policy against Arabs."
Dedication
Kartan Photo by ROR SIMISON
Julie Nixon Eisenhower applauds at the ground breaking ceremonies for a $2.5 million federal housing project for the elderly at the Woman's Landing in Jersey City.
Eisenhower gave a speech in which she praised former President Dwight E. Eisenhower and said, "... we must remember that he was 70 when he retired. I think he symbolizes what older Americans can do." As part of a five-day camp trip she also visited the Museum of Science and Technology to gain headquarters and praised volunteers for working toward the re-election of her father. (See story page 2.)
Forer Urges Students to Aquire Motivation Through Self-Respect
Editor's Note: This is the first in a series of interviews with the 11. 1972-73 HOPE
By JAN KESSINGER
Kansan Staff Writer
Norman Forer, assistant professor in the School of Social Welfare has what may
U.S. Presents Monetary Plan To End Key Role of Dollar
WASHINGTON (AP)—The United States seized the initiative in world monetary reform Tuesday by laying down a comprehensive plan for more flexible currency values, a greater role for "paper money" and an enhancement of the keystone role of the dollar.
The U.S. plan will be on the table when the IMF's Committee of 20, a new policymaking task for reelection both countries, holds its first meeting Thursday.
Secretary of the Treasury George P. Shultz presented the proposals to the annual meeting of the 124-nation International Monetary Fund.
—Allowing the dollar the same flexibility as other currencies to float above or below its stated par value; also permitting the U.S. government to buy and sell currencies in foreign exchange markets in those countries do, to protect the value of its money
THE U.S. PROPOSALS includes
The IMF's artificial money, Special Drawing Rights, or SDR, would gradually become the standard of value for all currencies, replacing the dollar in that currency by a much larger amount used only by governments in settling their accounts, is now worth $1.08.
- Study would be given to converting into SDR's some of the roughly 860 billion
worth of excess dollars now piled up in form. The result of chronic U.S. economic deficits, deficit.
—Providing orderly processes to diminish the role of gold in international monetary affairs. But Shu扎说 he did it wrong. He holds the gold of money to disappear overnight.
—Placing pressures on countries with rising reserves of gold, SDRs and foreign currencies to correct such surpluses by revaluing their currencies or by other means. The government may be required to devalue or take other steps to close the payments gap.
—Countries which refused to correct persistent deficits might forfeit their rights to borrow currencies from the IMF or their allocations of SDRs. Countries with surpluses might also be penalized by withdrawal of IMF's services.
- Small devaluations would be freely permitted and if the deficit grew larger, the deficit itself would provide a justification for a greater devaluation "under appropriate international surveillance."
—If a country with a chronic surplus failed to correct it, forcing chronic payments deficits on its trading partners, "other countries should ultimately be free to protect their interests by a surcharge on payments from the chronic surplus country."
be called an unorthodox attitude toward education.
"I try to have students relate to the material, not to me as an author,"
Even though he is a teacher, his 17-year-old daughter left high school with him. He thought an individual must develop his own education, and the motivation coming from the student rather than from the teacher. His daughter he said, "a case in point."
"Class starts with the students. What they believe and what they feel should be expressed. They have no valid reason to be ashamed of feelings. Their feelings are legitimate, even if they disagree with my own." he said.
"IF A STUDENT is free to think this is
wrong, we should be able to find out
what I think they are wrong."
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Norman Forer
"A student has to respect himself. They are deserving of respect. Respect helps to motivate students to make their own judgments."
Forer, in his second year at KU, started teaching on a part-time basis at Middlesboro College in New Jersey. He acted as a sociology instructor, without ever having taken courses. His teaching position was at Cornell University. There he taught an adult education course. He worked with trade unions, poor people, city officials and did some work with interested college students. He continued his seminar at a regular classroom course.
FORER LEFT Cornell to teach at Shaw College in Raleigh, N.C. Shaw is an all-black school. He was instructor for a course in urban sciences. He left Shaw after a year to come to KU and became one of teachers in the School of Social Welfare.
Forer had not intended to enter the teaching field, but was intrigued by his experience as a part-time teacher at Middlesex. Forer graduated from Queens College, New York, in 1949 with a bachelor of arts degree in philosophy and English.
Forer has worked for the antipoverty program in New Jersey. He was an assistant director from 1968 to 1968. He was a longtime staff member of the national rebellion in 1968 at Sefall Hall.
Forer regards KU students as more trusting but less verbal, than students he builds.
"THE KU atmosphere is more open and is healthier. It also is less status-conscious. The Midwest is more friendly in general than where I've been before." Forer said, "The KU atmosphere for learning is freer, it is more comfortable to a warm and open relationship."
Ferri gives some credit for the casual atmosphere to the numerous students who attend her classes.
Forer said he would like to see some changes in University policy-making
See FORER page 2