University Daily Kansan
Monday. October 30, 1978
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Voters tolerant of scandal-makers
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — Last time
were paused Washington and politics,
runs on the ballot.
Wayne Hays gave up 30 years in Congress and returned to his native Ohio rather than face those who accused him of keeping his mistress on the congressional payroll.
Wilbur Mills forfeited his chairmanship of the House Wills and Means Committee when he attempted to launch "Famie Fox, the Argentine bombshell" into movies. He finally pulled out of the House entirely after admitting to alcoholism.
Allan T. Howe, a Democratic congressman from Utah, was abandoned by party leaders and voters after being conceived as policing an undercover policeman.
BUT THIS year's crop of Washington scandalists are standing fast and hoping for re-election in November despite the headlines.
The gamebille seems to be paying off. In inquiry by the Associated Press suggests the folks back home have developed a high level of understanding of the wrongdoings of their elected officials.
the backers of Daniel Flood, 74, the long-term congressman from Pennsylvania's Wyoming Valley, who has been charged with 13 felony counts, seem confident.
"ITS ALL newspaper talk," said Wilkes-Barre barrie Bernard Barkiewicz, chairman of a "Trust Flood" campaign to raise $250.00 for his defense.
"If he was shady in any way, I would have nothing to do with him," said the wealthy jeweler, who brushed under his arm against a cover of accepted $65,000 in payoffs and 100 shares of bank stock from eight sources since 1971 and sought another $100,000 from a developer in 2018.
Rep. Charles C. Diggs, D-Mich., also is confident of his re-election chances. Diggs, the senior black man in Congress, was elected to be president of fraud and of illegally diverting more than $60,000 of a congressional employee's salary to pay his personal bills. He faces five years of imprisonment on each count and up to seven years without being to be re-elected next week to his 13th term.
A DOZEN other legislators are trying to run out the political firestorms brought about by what many of them perceive as a post-Watergate moral crusade. They in-
- Six-tem Rep. Joshua Eliberg, D-Pa., indicted on charges of receiving compensation for helping a Philadelphia hospital project obtain federal funds.
Mideast peace negotiations frozen, Israeli Radio says
JERUSALEM (AP)—The United States has frozen the Israeli-Egyptian peace negotiations while President Carter awaits a letter from Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, Israel Radio reported yesterday.
The radio's Washington correspondent, quoting U.S. sources, said the State Department was analyzing the Israeli and Egyptian positions. The positions include proposals for air force units to be built on the two sides before the Israel delegation returned home last week.
IN WASHINGTON, State Department spokesman Kenneth Brown declined
comment when asked whether the talks were frozen, as Israel Radio reported. Cyrus Vance, secretary of state, met with the two countries' delegations separately Saturday, but no talks were scheduled yesterday.
ISRAEL RADIO said the Americans, after Begin's letter is received, would prepare a new draft treaty to bridge the differences separating the two sides.
Begin's letter came in reply to American complaints, including a cable from Carter, that Israel's decision to expand Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank of the Jordan River was detrimental to peace talks.
Tonight At
BIGK'S
LAI MAIHI
JOB MASS. LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Pitcher Night 8-12
Buy first Pitcher at
Regular Price; refills
for only $1.35
(Mich. $1.45)
Oct. 26th &
27th features
Moffet &
Moffet & Beers Band
Even Wayne Hays is back, this time running for the Ohio legislature.
*U.S. Sen. Edward Brooke, Mass., the first black senator since 1880. Brooke has been haunted by the fallout from a bitter divorce battle and has been under investigation by the Senate Ethics committee to be the one in the most trouble with voters.
Flood best hit the Curley mold this year; the hometown boy pushed around by the
ONE CASE often mentioned to show voter tolerance is the colorful mayor of Boston, James M. Curley, who in 1946 ran for reelection from prison, where he was serving time for federal mail fraud. He won handily and was later released to fulfill his mayoral duties.
An important factor in Flood's continued
WEDNESDAY EVENING SERIES
support is that he still delivers. Wilkes-
en is one of the few万里 in federal
grants within the past few years.
SABER-TOOTHED CATS
Museum of Natural History
NOV. 1 $1.50 7.30 p.m.
Similar clout in Congress is seen as one reason why Rep. Frederick W. Richmond survived his primary race in Brooklyn even though he lost the state House ("the child molester"). In politics, such a charge usually has proved fatal, but Richmond is expected to retain his seat mainly because community leaders see that his colleagues have been more militaristic establishment generally supported him.
Depart November 22. Return November 26.
SPACE IS LIMITED! For details see
Maupintour travel service 843-1211
K.U. UNION/THE MALLS/HILLCREST/DOWNTOWN
*Price subject to change, based on minimum 20 group.
DETROIT'S DIGGS has ties to a tight with his own county as Flood has with Wilkes-Barre, having served since 1955. Diggs' supporters charge that he has been singled out the 'white establishment' for prosecution because of his sincerity in Congress.
K. C./CHICAGO $84
Depart November 22. Return November 26.
Speaker:
Tod VanLaningham
West Hills Party Room
Pot Luck Dinner
Oct. 30,7 p.m.
Gay Services of Kansas
ROUND TRIP
jeans for beans shirts and skirts 1903/2 mass.
B. Y.O.B.
Bring your old bottles and jars to The K.U. Ecology Club's glass recycling center November 18 and 19 in the Daisy Field Parking Extension, between the hours of 9 a.m. to 5 p.m only.
For more information call 8414184
For more information call 841-4184 or Stop by The Ecology Club Office, 103 Snow, open 1-3 weekdays. Funded by Student Senate
Halloween—Tuesday October 31
$2.50 without costume
COORS ON TAP
$2.00 with costume
All you can drink—
Merlin, a professional magician,
from 9:30-11:30 p.m.
Pizza with pepperoni, mushrooms or ground beef plus TWO 16 oz. Colas Only $3.25
Also presenting
1445 23rd St
Lawrence
841-7900
HALLOWEEN PARTY
October 31
with blues legend
JOHN LEE HOOKER
and his group
Tickets available at:
Better Days Records &
7th Spirit Club
Also: Beer Gineaways for best costumes!!
'Franchise area only
Also: SECRETS
ONLY:
$3.00 Today
$4.00 Tomorrow and at door
$ Cash Prizes $ Halloween Punch for All 701 Mass. At the Eldridge House Lower Level
7th & Mass.
CELEBRATE THE SOLSTICE WITH US COME SHOW OFF YOUR COSTUME
All Hallow's Eve
At G. P. LOYD'S
Make your plans now to attend Shenanigan's Halloween Party
Tuesday, October 31, 1978
2—$25 prizes
1 guy
1 girl
Free Admission with Costume $1 without Costume
Shenanigan's
901 Mississippi
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