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KANSAN
'Hawks Impressive In Season Opener
The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
84th Year, No. 65
Monday, December 3. 1973
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Sen. George McGovern Fields Questions from Local Press
4,000 Hear McGovern Senator Calls for Nixon Impeachment
By ROY CLEVENGER Kansan Staff Reporter
Sen. George S. McGovern, D-S.D., said here Friday night that he had reluctantly concluded that President Nixon should be impeached because the American political system "can't stand much more damage" from the Watergate scandal.
McGovern spoke before more than 4,000 persons jammed into the Kansas Union Ballroom and three other rooms equipped with loudspeakers.
"We can no longer endure a government which has the earmarks of misgovernment and which has fallen into the habit of serving up 'the lie of the week.'" he said.
He expressed the hope that a full impeachment inquiry would inspire a new approach.
"I have come to the conclusion that there is just one federal agency left with a Constitutional remedy," he said. "That agency should be doing what it did before I was reluctant to come to this conclusion."
McGovern said he had remained silent for months after the 1972 presidential election because he thought people might see his views as the vindictive response of a state republican. Nixon would prove his innocence by full disclosure of all documents and tapes.
"For me that hope has been driven away, and the time for silence has passed," he said. "If we try much longer to put this issue out of sight, we will sanction by our own actions the responsibility and the importance of leadership that will usave us a lesser country for our children."
McGovern said an impeachment investigation was necessary to assure that the government had taken steps to address it.
"This government has become inoperative," he said.
MGCOVEN CHARGED that President Nixon's preoccupation with Watergate had hampered his ability to handle other pressing problems, such as inflation and the
"We are in danger of having a President who is in office but out of power, a President with no guiding principle except a desire to fight for the programs that are in the interest of the programs that are in the interest of
terest of the citizens of this country," he said.
McGovern expressed concern that the military alert called by President Nixon Oct. 25 might have been intended to divert attention from Watergate. If the alert was justified, McGovern said, the Russians had tried to stop the damage done to Nixon by Watergate.
'Our voice has been diminished abroad
and our views discounted in the minds of millions of people both here and the world
MGeven said Congress had enacted important legislation design concern in the state's budget.
CONGRESSIONAL VOTES to ban bombing in Cambodia and override Nikon's decision to expand its drone program.
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Nixon Unveils Finances Amid 'Operation Candor'
By GAYLORD SHAW
Associated Press Reporter
WASHINGTON - President Richard M. Nixon paid $78,613 in federal income taxes for the years 1983 through 1972. White House documents showed yesterday.
The still-confidential documents, being prepared for release this week as part of the President's "Operation Candor," list the lowest payment, $72,688, being made in 1999.
Nixon was listed paying $4,298 for 1972,
$878 for 1971 and $789 for 1970—the years he claimed substantial deductions for state taxes. His presidential donation of his vice presidential papers.
In addition, the documents indicated that soon after taking office Nixon had paid $38.646 in taxes on his 1968 income. They showed that the government had withheld $30.616 from his paycheck in the first five months of this year.
NIXON'S salary is $200,000 a year. He also receives a tax-free $50,000 annual expense allowance and records indicated real estate transactions in recent years.
Some data on his federal income tax payments had emerged earlier, but the listing obtained by the Associated Press disclosed on the controversial passive disclosure.
The documents showed that after taking office in 1969 Nixon had paid $7,351 in New York state income tax for income he had earned in 1968 as a Manhattan lawyer.
They indicated he had paid no state or local taxes since then.
Presidential associates said District of Columbia law exempted a president from local income taxes. They added that Nixon's tax advisers had concluded that he wasn't liable for California state income taxes, but California was his voting residence.
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A cash flow statement being prepared for release in the next few days lists Nixon's
total income tax payments for the period Jan. 1, 1969, to May 31, 1973, as $154,644—a figure covering earnings before as well as during his presidency.
McGovern Calls Nixon's Reaction To Scandals 'Almost Treasonous'
By ROY CLEVENGER
Kangan Staff Reporter
McGovern said worldwide cooperation would be needed by the end of the century to prevent widespread wars caused by a shortage of basic resources. He said critical water resources should include fresh water, arable land, lumber and some foods would develop within two decades.
"There was a great build-up of hope over the band, but now we find the crucial ones are missing or partly erased," he said. "We know that people are coming to be very difficult for him to restore it."
"We WILL have to rely on the United Nations and other organizations," he said. "The United States and other countries must have closer international cooperation."
Their charge came after they failed in an extraordinary Sunday session to break the impasse that has left the federal debt $63 billion above its legal limit.
According to White House figures, Nixon has paid $74.32 in state property taxes for his California and Florida homes during his presidency.
He said Nixon probably had no chance to restore his credibility.
The 1972 Democratic presidential candidate was in Lawrence after addressing more than 4,000 persons Friday night in the Kansas Union.
THE VOTE was 47 to 33 for cloure, one of three votes at the first scheduled Sunday meeting.
President Nixon has taken actions that were "almost treasonous" in connection with Watergate and related scandals. Sen. McCain, D-S.C., said Saturday in an interview.
Supporters of public financing fell seven votes short of mastering the two-thirds majority needed to invoke closure and force action on the bill. They said they faced an uphill battle in subsequent tries scheduled for today and tomorrow.
SUCH PROPERTY tax payments are deductible in computing federal income taxes. So are $271,580 in interest payments and $345,960 in debt payments. Nixon's new tax deduction—about
"There must be a full-scale impeachment investigation and possibly impeachment in the House of Representatives leading to him being Senate," McGovern said in the interview.
$500,000—came from his donation of his vice presidential papers to the National AR-
The filibuster was created by Sen. James Allen, D-Ala., who took advantage of the Senate's unlimited debate rules to balk a vote on the bill that combines an extension and increase of the debt ceiling with the campaign financing rider.
In addition, one source said sections of the income tax return of the President's daughter, Tricia Nixon Cox, would be disclosed to prove she had paid capital gains tax on her portion of the profit from a Florida land investment with her father.
WASHINGTON (AP)—Democratic supporters of a bill for publicly funded presidential campaigns said yesterday that President Nixon was responsible for the
Presidential aides indicated that portions of Nixon's tax returns might be made public as part of the White House effort to answer allegations about his personal finances.
Demos Say Nixon Is Foe of Campaign Bill
"We should go back to the early virtues of thrift and economy. People will feel better at the end of the day, and we pollute less if we consume less energy."
"It will make us more conservation conscious and economical," he said. "People are unhappy knowing that we're depriving our resources, our time and our energy."
or there will be international chaos as we claw each other for the remaining reasons. There could be hot commercial crises or tragic conflicts throughout the world."
"For the average person, Watergate is the number one public concern, and that should be the case whenever the government is subverted."
McGovern said the current energy crisis could be helpful in showing the American people that a policy of "wasteful affluence" couldn't continue indefinitely.
He said it "wouldn't hurt to tighten its belts" by lowering highway speed limits.
driving smaller cars, turning down thermostat and using less lighting and air conditioning
"Most people couldn't believe that the President was involved," he said, "I didn't want to, either. Now we have come around to that view."
He said that he thought his 1972 grass-roots presidential campaign would leave a lasting influence on the American political system and that similar campaigns would
MGOVERN SAID he was puzzled that the American voters weren't more disturbed by Watergate during the 1972 campaign.
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Allen said a provision that provided public financing for presidential primaries was "a federal handout to some one score or more presidential hopefuls."
HE SAID NIXON wanted the Senate "to disregard the lesson of Watergate" and kill the public financing measure without Nixon having to veto it.
Sen. Russell B. Long, DLA.-floor manager of the bill, called on Nixon to publicly oppose Allen's filibuster, sayin Alenn't could succeed "if the man who sits in the White House did not want that kind of filibuster to succeed."
Sen. Walter F. Mondale, D-Minn., charged, "The real opponent to clouture and to cleaning up American politics is not Jim Allen but Richard Nixon."
"In my judgment," he added, "we won't be able to do that." The vet and would eventually have to yield.
If Congress passes the bill, Nixon could still veto it. Long said.
He pledged that, in that event, Congress would promptly pass a bill limited to an allowance of $400 billion for limit, which dropped to $400 billion Friday night even though the actual debt is about $200 billion.
suspended sales of government bonds, and Long said "an extremely serious situation" could result by midweek unless some action on the debt limit is taken.
THE MEASURE would require 1976 presidential nominees to finance their campaigns from a fund to be created by a checkoff plan, under which taxpayers can carmark $1 of their income taxes for the federal government ($21 million general election spending limit.
For primaries, it establishes a matching system whereby candidates who raise at least $100,000 to start with could get up to $7 million to match what they raise privately.
The Treasury Department has already
The Sunday session, the first since March 15, included nine instructors. It lasted one hour and 88 minutes.
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Supporters of the public financing plan
By JILL WILLIS
Kansas Staff Reporter
Secret Society Evokes Disgust And Questions
Baisner said the objective of the letters was to try to bring the various groups on board.
Campus reactions to Pacachacam
Pacha), a secret fraternity at the University of
Maryland.
Wayne Atwood, Lawrence senior, said recently, "If this is the cream of the crop, that doesn't seem to say too much for the rest of us. The whole secret society idea, of course, can be achieved by squirrelly. Perhaps these people tend to take themselves a little too seriously."
Raymond E. Nichols, chancellor emeritus, said he knew of current Pach activities only from the story he had read in the Kansas.
"We don't intend to run a fauxional campaign. We don't want to divide the team."
' When I was a student it was a political party," he said.
The filing deadline isn't until Jan. 23, but two students already have announced their candidates for the offices of student body president and vice president for the 1974-75
Donald K. Alderson, dean of men, said Pacchacmae was a name he had known for years. He was the head of the program.
Beisner said he wondered how many students were serving on University policy-making boards, and whether students were effective or effective voice in University operations.
Beiser and Hunter send letters yesterday to campus organizations asking for suggestions for improvements in the student senate and for new projects for next
Because the primary purpose for a student at KU is academics, Beisser said, he hopes to find ways to improve this area of the University.
John Beisser, Salina junior, and Todd Hunter, Oklahoma City junior, declared Friday their intent to file for the presidency and vice presidency, respectively.
As the vice-presidential candidate,
he and he wanted to promote more
efficient energy.
"I can tell you for sure I'm not a member," he said.
He said he wanted to determine the extent to which senate and University services must be provided.
Two Declare Candidacies For Student Body Posts
Leroy McDermott, Welch, Okla,
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"I want the meetings to express correct use of parliamentary procedure," he said.
By JILL WILLIS
Kanaan Staff Reporter
Beisner said he was interested in three main areas: student services, student relationship with the administration and academics.
Nixon's decision to give San Clemente to nation follows presidential precedent.
Close Nixon associates reported during the weekend that The White House will disclose within the next few days that President Nixon and his wife will leave their California estate, valued at about $500,000, for public use after their deaths.
Although other presidents have donated their homes, no home has been the center of as much controversy as Nixon's. Using a trust arrangement that kept the first family's name off the public record, the Nixon's purchased the home and surrounding 29 acres in 1969.
The next year they sold 23 acres to an investment corporation formed by presidential friend Robert Abaluhan and Rebehozo.
It wasn't until this year, after a California newspaper suggested that Nixon had used campaign funds to buy the estate, that the White House announced that it was not planning to do so.
Ben-Gurion's body lay in state as Syria battled Israeli forces in heavy fighting.
Thousands of Israelis filed past David Ben-Gurion's casket yesterday mourning the founder of modern Israel and its first premier who died
Meanwhile, one of the heaviest Golan Heims clashes since the October war erupted. The reported fighting came as Cairo newspapers warned of possible new battles along the Suez Canal and questioned the usefulness of a bomb scheduled for Dec. 18 in Geneva if Israel failed to live up to its commitments.
Democrat's response to Nixon's policy on energy is that rationing is necessary.
Sen. William Proxmire, D-Wis., the Democrat's spokesman, argued for rationing on TV last night. He said many experts in the administration had long been reluctant to accept this move.
He also suggested a vigorous national fight to improve mass transit, a reduction in energy consumption by the Pentagon beyond the 11 per cent cutback already announced and a national energy research program "with some real muscle in it."
Worried drivers hunted for gasoline and others didn't travel as stations shut down.
Police and American Automobile Association officials reported a falling off in the number of auto plying the nation's roads on Gasless Sunday. And gas dealers who remained open said their business was much slower than expected.
There were scattered reports of strandings, but for the most part, motorists appeared to have either stocked up or stayed home.
As Jupiter looms larger. Pioneer 10
heads for a historic encounter tonight.
Accelerating steadily in Jupiter's fierce gravitational tug, Pioneer 10 transmitted pictures that revealed in increasing detail the turbulent swirling clouds of the planet's thousands of miles of atmospheric disturbances. Tongue Pioneer 10 will fly within 61,000 miles of the colorful cloud tops at a
Scientists raised the possibility yesterday that Jupiter's energy and chemical-rich atmosphere might harbor life. They emphasized, however, that Pioneer 10 wouldn't confirm the existence of life. But it may indicate the presence of substances from which life might have evolved.
Arabs Kissinger will visit Washington as most powerful voice in Arab oil policy.
Arabs' Kissinger will visit Washington
Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Ahmed Zaki Yamiani is the Arabs' Kissinger. When Yamiani visited the United States in April, he warned Nixon that the Arabs would fire their oil weapon unless Washington changed its pro-Israeli stance. Yamani is scheduled to visit Washington again today.