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Thursday. September 14. 1972
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Activity Fee
Student activity fees have long been debated not only at KU, but also at many other universities. On one side are those who say such fees are unfair, discriminatory and often misused. Those who favor the fees would be much more satisfied of a legitimate source of revenue.
The situation seems to be nearing a climax at the University of Nebraska, where two students are waging legal battles against the fee.
A case now before the state's supreme court challenges the university's right to collect fees that support noneducational activities.
A second case, which is being heard by a U.S. District Court, also objects to the use of the fees. The plaintiff says the fees are im-imum. The defendant says speakers on sex, rallies, attacks on the President and student strikes.
At KU this year, the mandatory activity fee was increased from $12 to $14 so the Student Senate could, as one member put it, "adequately fund" student organizations. However, the $87,000 budget still exceeded the estimated revenue from the fee by more than $13,000.
Many useful organizations and projects are aided by the fund. In the 1972-73 budget, for example, $26,000 went to the University Concert Hall. In 1974, the received $27,600, and $25,000 went for instructor evaluation.
The problem begins where the University ends—when those organizations that reach beyond the University itself ask for handouts.
The Yellow Brick Road School, an alternative to public schooling, received $4,350 from the activity fee this year. Not only is the school highly controversial, but it also has little to do with KU. Few University
students are involved in it.
Allotting $20,000 to a University day care center also is questionable. The center takes faculty and staff children as well as those of students, teachers, and students, most of whom are children, single, should be asked in support it.
Many students questioned the Black Student Union's $18,000 allocation because the BSU's programs included a food subsidy, bus service and physical education equipment for nonstudents. However, as a large group of blacks watched, the item was passed.
It's almost impossible to draw a mandatory line and decide who will and who won't receive aid, but you must be done. A limit must be set.
For most KU students, $14 is a rather insignificant amount of money. The projects and organizations supported by the fee are usually valid. However, new organizations are continually forming and immediately asking for help.
The Student Senate is quickly turning from small-time politics to big business. Too much time and too much thought are given to financial matters.
Nearly a half-million dollars was handed out last spring in a few late-night meetings. Those voting were upset, and tired, sometimes intimidated.
It's time to slow down, sit back and take a hard look at the entire system. The fee itself and the way it works are very important. Alternatives should be examined:
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But above all, a boundary for student support and responsibility should be established.
Scott Spreier Editor
Bikes vs. Cars
Our oil and fresh air reserves are rapidly diminishing, primarily as a result of our extravagant use of the automobile. In such circumstances it would seem logical for state, local, and federal authorities to place a special emphasis on measures that would reduce the use of the automobile. Specifically, one would expect responsible authorities to do all they can to encourage the use of bicycles.
In some cases local authorities are pushing the bike. In Atlanta, for example, six bicycles have been added to the city's transportation pool. On campus, not only has the administration done a heroic job of providing bike racks, but they have even gone so far as to modify curbs on campus with small indentations that serve as excellent bike ramps. Measures such as these, which encourage and make more convenient the use of bikes, deserve our recognition and commendation.
Unfortunately, in most places bikes are either ignored and discounted or marketed at a lower price were pleasure vehicles. Lawrence, according to an architect
for the downtown Urban Renewal project, one of the main objects of the Massachusetts "beautification" was to make the downtown area more convenient for cars. City officials indicated that currently they had no plans for accommodating bike traffic. For the most part, they "hadn't given the matter any thought." Others refused to believe that the city would number people who would go shopping by bike, because officials pointed out that there simply were no funds available for bike racks or special bicycle routes that would provide bike riders safe access to the downtown areas.
In Europe, bicycles are a major means of transportation (even bank presidents ride bikes to work), primarily because there the bike, both economically and traffic-wise, is more convenient than the car. It is time we stop spending millions to make car travel more convenient and begin spending a few thousand to make bike travel at least a little more convenient. If we don't, car travel may become more than just inconvenient; it may become impossible.
—Robert Ward
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Terrorists Plot Hussein's Death
WASHINGTON- The BINC September terrorists, who were behind the Olympic massacre, have marked Jordan's King Hussein as their No. 1 assassination target. They hope to kill him on one of his trips abroad.
They take their name from September 1970, a black month on their calendar, when King Hassan's forces crushed the guerrillas and drove them out of the city. They have sworn revenge.
The Central Intelligence Agency, indeed, has linked the Black September terrorists to al-Qaeda in the West by guerrilla organization. They reportedly belong to a secret assassination arm of Fatah's al-Qaeda group.
Whether Fatah's leader, Yasser Arafat, controls the Black September group is disputed. He has disallowed any responsibility for the terrorists. But the CIA has received "reliable" information that the Black September is merely an arm of Fatah's assassination arm.
The CIA got wind of the assassination plot against King
Warms a secret CIA report: "Fakhril al Amari, who is chief of the special services section of the security assassinations, kidnappings, sabotage and other acts of terrorism, was still working on his plan to 'get' King Hussein of Jordan in lather or latter travels outside Jordan."
ussein from inside Fatah intelligence service, which go to the name Jhazal al Rasd.
"Part of the plan involves one al Husayni, who is a captain and a pilot for Royal Jordanian Airlines, who many times has piloted the king's plane when the king has traveled abroad.
"Husayni's role is to provide Rasid with intelligence on the exact flight data when the king next files, including Amman stops on route. This information is needed for a possible backup emergency attempt, if Rasid discovers that the primary plan has been leaked. Husayni is also aware of the time of arrival at the destination and is to tell Rasid in advance whether Husayni will be flying on
Because the king was expected to visit Paris, the plot on his life became known, at first, as the "Paris plan." The trip, however, came across the place and the terrorists are waiting for their opportunity.
that particular out-of-country trip or not."
Terrorists dressed as Muslim or Christian priests also are targeted to be stalking other Jordanian leaders. Declares the Jordanians.
"Fatah's assassination pane are 'aimed solely at Jordanian ministers, army officers and members of the Royal Hashemite family. It is planned to execute these individuals wherever they may be found abroad in Arab countries, Europe or America."
*For this purpose, Fatah has calculated a number of forged passports appropriate countries, i.e., Syrian passports in Egypt, Egyptian or Kuwait passports in Saudi Arabia, Gulf passports in Saudi Arabia.*
"The plans include the adoption of Muslim or Christian priestly disguise to use when appropriate or necessary."
Some 200 trained terrorists, all Fatah members, are reported to belong to the Black September extremist organization Jordan's Preacher Wesley Cairo last November and, subsequently, made an unsuccessful attempt on the life of Jordan's father to London, Zayed Rifal.
Black September terrorists also have claimed responsibility for sabotaging a West German plant that manufactured parts for the Israeli Air Force, blowing up an Israeli base in Italy, and murdering five danians who allegedly had been spying on Palestinians in Europe.
The Black September group has also attempted to hijack several Jordanian airlines, once successfully. Last May, four Black September members—two Syrian rebels and one Sudanese Sabena airliner to Tel Aviv, But Israeli security men killed the men and captured the girls.
Jordanian security official told the CIA, classified Black September documents “were intelligence of Egyptian intelligence officer in Amman, Muhammad Abad al Salam, for safecewriting.
Jordanian authorities have linked Egyptian intelligence with the Black September movement. The Islamic State's assassination of Wafat Taal, a top
The Black September terrorists are organized into "airtight" cells, which keep on the move. The chief, Fakhril al Amari, used to have his hideout in the months ago, according to the Claims. The Zubayr a Tawit building in the Sabra quarter of Beirut.
"This building (was) guarded by a minimum of four armed guards at the downstairs entrance," reported the CIA. "No one was allowed to go up to the building until the flat in the building until the first called Amari personally from downstairs."
"Amari then instructed the guards to let the individual enter. Even then, one of the armed guard physically accompanied Adami to Adami's flat and remained until dismissed by Amari."
Copyright, 1972 by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.
News Analysis
Rogers Left Out in POW Effort
By KENNETH J. FREED
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - The strange case of James Hoffa's efforts to reach North Vietnam makes clear that Secretary of State William P. Rogers has been left plunged into a storm of concerns American prisoners of war, either by design or constant oversight.
The untidy affair points also to poor liaison among some of President Nikon's highest advisers and underlies Rogers' failure to end an internal fend off. The State Department for years
The secretary's lack of a role in administration thinking on the POW issue became clear the moment the news broke last week that Hofa planned to go to North Korea to help detain six prisoners.
The first public word came in a Detroit News story for *Thursday* that Hofa, the former Teamsters president of the union, Hanol at the invitation of North
Vietnamese trade union officials.
In their noir briefings with newsmen Thursday, spokesmen for both the White House and State Department said all they knew was that Hoffa, paroled in September, had left December, had obtained a passport validated for travel to North Vietnam.
At that moment, nobody in the State Department knew anything more and Secretary Rogers hadn't even been told that much.
He didn't find out until a few hours later when the administrator of the department's Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs, Barbara Watson, complained she hadn't been consulted on approving Hoffa's passport for travel to Hanoi.
Rogers is said by sources to have exploded with anger, and he ordered Hoffa's旅法 validation revoked, saying the failure to notify Miss Watt constituted "procedural irregularities."
But it was more than technical problems that sent Rogers into
what some department insiders called "almost uncontrolled rage."
He had learned late Thursday that the White House had known for two months of Hofa's plans to attack the city, had not discouraged the trip.
"How could you send that jalibird" to negotiate on POWs, Rogers is quoted as saying. He accused the Army of torturing jailer, jury tampering, and mail fraud.
His anger was sparked also by what the sources said was his feeling of betrayal because the White House had used him to take control of AIT. Gary Ramsey Clark's recent trip to North Vietnam.
It has not been determined whether Rogers was purposely left out of the Hoffa dealings or was just forgotten, but it is equally clear he wasn't told until he asked.
What he didn't know was that on July 5, Hoffa, his attorney, William L. Taub, and teamsters Vice President Harold Gibbons
Griff and the Unicorn
By Sokoloff
Although the White House now acknowledges the meeting as well as some involvement by President Nixon, it says Hofa was not encouraged to make the trip.
However, it has not stated that he was discouraged and Taub claims Kissinger approved the policy. He also rolled a ball roller" on travel validation.
Taub says, and the White House concedes, that Kissinger asked Hoffa to delay his trip until after July 20 because the foreign-policy adviser had a secret meeting set for July 19 with Le Duc Tho, Hanoi's main peace negotiator.
had met in San Clemente, Calif., with Henry Kissinger, President Nixon's chief foreign-policy adviser.
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Administration officials say that Rogers didn't know at this early date in July of Kissinger's closed meeting with La Duc Tho.
The White House does not comment when asked why Rogers was not given the same information.
Taub also uses as support for his claim of Kissinger approval the White House-awakened fact that Le Duc Tho was told in the July 19 meeting of Hofa's trin.
Nonetheless, it has been learned that Raymond F. Farrell, an official of the department's Immigration Service, ploned the Passport early last week and set up an appointment
Justice Departmen.
spokesman says Eric锦 merely informed Taub there was nothing in the law to prevent the visit and that Hofa would have to obtain the proper travel documents on
In the meantime, Taub me,
with Deputy Atty. Gena Ralph
Ericson this month and
himself. "It's going to save
saves he was given a go-ahead.
for Hoffa and Taub.
They appeared Wednesday morning in the office of Robert Johnson, the deputy head of the FBI's counterterrorism unit, Frank Sievers, who is the State Department's specialist on POW deaths. There was no objection to Hofa's trip.
Johnson then issued passports to Hoffa and Taub and validated them for travel to North Vietnam.
In revoking the validations the next day Rogers is reported to have "royally chewed out" Johnson for not calling Mali and authorize only her and her deputy to approve trips to Hanoi.
In the future, Rogers is quoted as saying, Johnson and his boss, Frances Knight, must follow channels. The secretary thus stepped into the middle of a bitter, year-long dispute.
Mrs. Knight has had the view that the State Department is far too lax in its attitude toward allowing travel by so-called飞机, and it is reported not to be on speaking terms with Miss Waston.
It is known that whenever possible the Passport Office has tried to go around Miss Watson and operate independently.
Rogers now has said this must stop. But such orders have been issued in the past with little real effect.
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