84th Year, No. 53
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Thieves Take Art Projects
Friday, November 9, 1973
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Morton Speaks to Haskell Students. (See Page 3)
Spirit Called Key in Energy Crisis
By ROY CLEVENGER Kaman Staff Reporter
TOPEKA-The American spirit will be the key factor in enduring a severe shortage of heating oil and fuels, according to Rogers C. B. Morton, secretary of the interior.
Morton addressed about 223 members of the Five Score Club, a Kansas Republican party fund-running group, at the Ramada Inn here yesterday.
"When people get into the spirit of energy conservation, when they save money and see how effective this is, it will draw us all closer together." Morton said.
The cutoff of oil supplies to the United States by Arab countries will contribute to a shortage of as much as 17 per cent in needed heating fuels, he said.
"For two or three winters in a row, we're going to have to really scratch to provide a new set of rules."
MORTON SAID A DECISIVE force in ending the energy crisis will be the free
"The factors in the shortage are mostly economic," he said. "You have to get out of the economy."
Morton expressed support for the energy message President Nixon delivered in a speech at the White House.
"He laid out the problem in very direct terms," he said. He told it exactly like it was.
Morton urged public support for Project Independence, Nixon's proposal for American self-sufficiency in energy supplies by 1980.
Lack of Plan Delays Park, Morton Says
TOPEKA-The main obstacle to the establishment of a tallgrass prairie national park in Kansas is the lack of a specific proposal by the Kansas Congressional delegation, Secretary of the Interior Rogers C. B. Morton said last night.
"We know this is very controversial in Kansas, and there's no use getting into that until the people out here decide what they want," he said.
"When the members of the Kansas delegation get together and decide what they really want in terms of the boundaries and size, then we're ready to study the proposal." Morton said after his speech to the Five Score Club.
Morton said he disapproved of the federal government creating a park before Kan-
dian control.
"Don't put me in the spot of being an arbiter among the people of Kansas," he
The park issue will be brought into clearer focus, Morton said, because of the recent death of John P. Saylor, R.-Paa., the senior Republican on the House Interior and Insular Affairs committee, will elevate a Kansan, Joe Skubtz, to that position. That committee would hold hearings on any proposed bill to create a park.
Morton denied that he had a negative attitude toward the proposed park and told a park advocate, "Well, if you want it, let's have it."
Charles D. Stough, Lawrence, president of Save the Tallgrass Prairie, expressed his support for the creation of a new park.
"He is definitely for it," Stough said last night. "The secretary shares our belief that this is an important part of our natural heredity." And so we see us go together and go forward."
A dampening of demand through conservation of energy will be necessary to meet this demand. So this will bring about changes that should have been made years ago, including a better balance between man and nature and an end to the American attitude of an industrial society.
**WE SHOULD COME out of this with a new dedication to what this country’s all
Morton said the Watergate scandal should cause the public to take a heightened interest in the events.
The President should make available to any prosecutor all information that was obtained by the Justice Department.
"Nixon will come out as clean as a whistle." he said.
Special prosecutor Archibald Cox injected partisan politics into the Watergate investigation, Morton said, and many of the politicians who were involved in politics instead of legal investigation."
"Let's get off the President's back as far as impeachment is concerned," he urged.
Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan., making a surprise appearance at the dinner, echoed Mrs. Koch's advice.
"I think the time has come for the Democrats to move ahead with the impachment inquiry," he said. "We've got a lot of important things to do in this court."
DOLE SAID NIXON telephoned him Wednesday night after the President delivered his energy message. He said Nixon expressed concern over Kansas disaster areas caused by flooding and the energy shortage.
The senator said conversations with Kansama yesterday indicated to him that the public was interested only in getting all the facts about Watergate.
rms demonstrates to me that the President is in command and recognizes that Kansas has some special problems." Dole said.
"They don't want to condemn anyone," he said.
Egypt, Israel Accept 5-point Cease-Fire
By the Associated Press
Israel and Egypt have both agreed to a five point cease-fire agreement that could produce peace talks in a Middle East settlement by the end of the year, U.S. officials said.
The officials, accompanying Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger in Saudi Arabia on the last leg of a Mideen trip, met with newsmen early today and said the agreement still had to be submitted to U.N. Secretary-Geral Kurt Waldheim.
The agreement, the officials said, would ease tensions by providing an exchange of prisoners and giving the Egyptians access to their enriched 3rd Army on the east bank of the Suez Canal and to the city of Suez on the west bank.
The officials said the agreement calls for readjustment of the cease-fire line to conform with terms of the U.N. cease-fire resolution of Oct. 22.
Israeli and Egyptian officers met yesterday to discuss a new cease-fire line in accordance with the reported cease-fire plan, Isaeli Defense Ministry sources said.
THE U.S. OFFICIALS, describing Washington as "the trustee" of the new cease-trace agreement, said action to implement the agreement could begin in a
At the United Nations in New York, it was learned that U. A. Bombassard John A. Schall was to meet with Waldheim early today, apparently to give him a copy of the
The U.S. officials said it was understood that the agreement also would provide for the lifting of a blockade that had barred Israeli ships from going to the Red Sea to Egypt.
Announcement of the agreement followed Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger's visits in Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan and Arabia, where he will be conferred with royal landmarks.
An assistant secretary of state, Joseph J.
Sisco, flew to Tel Aviv Wednesday to tell
Dole Criticizes Docking Race
TOPEKA-Sen, Robert Dole, R-Kan-
criticized Goff. Robert Docking
yesterday, claiming Docking is cam-
sel with the team without
announcing his candidacy.
He's been running for the Senate for the past four months," Dole told The Five Score Club, a Kansas Republican fundraiser. "I'll do my best to declare he's a candidate, he's got to start chartering his airplane and not飞到 the state airport at your expense."
"We've had this charade long enough. It's time the governor made his official announcement."
Golda Meir of Kissinger's talks with President Awad Sarat of Egypt.
KISSINGER MET FOR 90 minutes yesterday with King Faisal of Saudi Arabia, the largest Mideast oil-producing nation. The Arabs have cut off oil shipments to the Netherlands and have cut back shipments other countries by as much as 25 per cent.
The U.S. officials with Kissinger said Syria had not endorsed the agreement.
U. S. officials were so certain of Cairo's approval of the new agreement that they said the package did not have to be sub-tenant. Satat now that Israel has accepted it.
President Sadat and Syrian officials have said in the past that they would never bargain directly with representatives of other countries to stand, suggesting at times that the United States favored face-to-face negotiating and at other times suggesting that negotiations be conducted through an intermediary between the two sides "were under the same roof."
Before the U.S. officials announced the new agreement, the Israeli state radio station "Czur" reported that a nuclear reactor
a five point compromise worked out by the United States and Egypt.
THE POINTS OF THE PLAN, the radio said, were:
A prisoner of war exchange as soon as possible.
A U.N.-supervised supply corridor through Israeli lines to the encircled Egyptian 3rd Army. No weapons are to pass or it is to be in any way controlled by Israel.
—Ending of the Egyptian blockade of the Mandeb Strat, Israel's only outlet to the Indies.
Negotiations between Israel and
egyptian military commanders to arrange
a peace deal.
-Direct peace negotiations between Israel and Egypt once the first four points are made.
The plan, as given by radio, dropped earlier Egyptian insistence that Israel pull back to the original Oct. 22 cease-fire line as a preliminary to any other steps toward peace, including an exchange of prisoners. In Cairo, a U.N. spokesman said Israeli forces were using Irish peacekeepers to troops into Israel-held areas of the Sinai Desert. The agreement broke a 10-day stalemate in stationing U.N. forces in the area.
President's Secretary Saves Tapes Unclear
By HARRY F. ROSENTHAL Associated Press Reporter
WASHINGTON—President Nixon's personal secretary testified yesterday that the quality of some of the subpoenaed Watergate documents one would be able to bear every word.
The secretary, Rose Mary Woold, toled of laboring nearly a month, sometimes until 3 and 4 in the morning, trying to transcribe what she was seeing, in the office, made秘密ly, in the President's offices.
Asked whether she was able to make a verbatim transcript, Miss Woods said: "I 'frown' at her. I want to ask her."
Woods, 55, a Nixon aide for 23 years, was a witness at a federal court hearing exploring the White House claim that two key Watergate conversations went unrecorded.
the court albedo heard from H. R. Haldeman, who resigned as presidential chief of staff.
HALDEMAN TESTIFIED THAT at the President's request on April 25 he listened to a tape recording of a March 21 presidential conversation with John W. Dean III, White House counsel at the time of the meeting. The tape also led the President a summary of the conversations that same day and then requested the tape again the following day for another listening
session because the President had some questions he was unable to answer.
County to Install Citizens' Council On Drug Abuse
By ROY CLEVENGER Kansan Staff Reporter
Haldeman said he could offer no explanation of why Secret Service logs showed that the man, who was arrested in April 23 and from April 26 through May 2. Haldeman said he didn't think any tapes were held over in his office after he listened to the March 21 tape recording the second
"We recommend that the commission sponsor a county advisory group to prepare a program for the State Drug Commission and plan and apply for state grants to local authorities," Mossberg told the commissioners.
The Douglas County Commission agreed yesterday to appoint a citizens' advisory council on drug abuse. Commission members also discussed preparations for a bond election for the proposed Kansas River bridge.
Mossberg urged that the council have representatives from school districts, institutions of higher education, law enforcement agencies and cities within the county.
HE SAID the aim of a council would to create alternatives to imprisonment for prisoners.
Howard Mossberg, dean of the School of Pharmacy at the University of Kansas, proposed a county-wide council of 14 to 16 members.
The request for a drug abuse commission came from area residents who represented Douglas County at the 4th Annual Government Conference on Drug Abuse in Wichita, Oct. 6.
Messberg said $200,000 might be available for local programs in Kansas in 1973.
City, David Berkowitz said Law
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ruadanman said that he got "a group" of tapes, but insisted he listened to only one line.
Nixon formally asked Congress to blend energy proposals into pending legislation.
The requests went far beyond those in an emergency energy package proposed by Sen. Henry M. Jackson, D-Wash., chairman of the Senate In-
Woods' testimony was the first to contend, in six days of hearings, that the quality of the tapes was poor. A technician had testified earlier that even whispers could be picked up by the sensitive microphones in the President's desks and wall lamps.
The Jackson bill would give the President most of what he requested, but it stops short of allowing the administration to suspend so-called primary elections. The Senate should decide.
Nixon asked Congress yesterday to give him standby authority to impose fuel and gasoline rationing.
Top officials formulating energy policies
He had announced Wednesday night the steps he wanted included in legislation now before Congress,
RICHARD BEN-VENISTE of the Watergate prosecution force said the prosecution had not formed any opinion about the tape recordings and conversations actually did go unrecorded.
This was shown in an Associated Press survey conducted two days before President Nixon's address.
Meat of those entitled to chauffeur limousines use them. But at least three officials have switched from the traditional heavy, gas-guzzling limousine to a more luxurious one.
Of the congressman surveyed, most drive themselves to the Capitol. A few ride with aides. Some live nearby and walk. Very few use Washington's
White House officials say they operate 20 limousines in the conduct of presidential business. John A. Love, the President's special assistant for travel to the White House, said
Docking said a mandatory 50 m.p.h. limit will be imposed on state owned vehicles.
The order was announced as state and local governments and businesses in Kansas gave indications they planned to cooperate with President Nixon's office.
Docking he was fully in favor of a voluntary program of driving speed reduction for Kansans but added, "I'm concerned about private rights."
He said he was hesitant about imposing a mandatory 50-mile speed limit for highway travel because of the infringement it represents on passengers.
Viet Cong said they beat Saigon troops
and accused South of inflicting casualties
A spokesman for the Viet Cong delegation to the Joint Military Commission said three battalions of government troops were put out of action.
Hertfering to a big government air attack Wednesday on the Viet Cong administrative capital of Loc Ninh, the spokesman said 32 civilians were killed and 70 others wounded when bombs dropped on principally non-military targets.
Two fugitives were arrested and held
for questioning in slaying of nine persons.
The two men were sought in connection with a massacre in Victor, Calif. The victims included seven adults, all board and gagged, and two children.
The two men were songwriters born between Harrow and Maiden. The victims included seven adults, all of whom had engaged, and two children.
Douglas Gretzier, aged 22, of New York City, was apprehended during search of the Club Inn four blocks from the state Capitol in Sacramento.
Haldeman, who claimed to have heard one of the tapes, had told the Senate Watergate Committee that the quality of the tapes was "good at times and not good at times. There is a lot of echo and bounce, but it is not by any means impossible."
Gretzel's companion, Wille Lutter Steiman, aged, 28, of Lolid, Calif., surrendered at an apartment house 90 minutes later and police fired fire tear gas.
weren't enough, rationing might be needed.
"The need for rationing is not as far removed as President Nixon indicated," said a spokesman for Sun Oil Co. "His analysis of the shortfall was overly optimistic, and these proposals will still leave a shortage of a million barrels a day."
caries a day.
Exxon President Clinton C. Garvin Jr. maintained that even if Nixon's proposals were fully adopted, "there will still be a crunch. There's no way to make up the past month's loss of petroleum."
Dilmen said Nixon's energy proposals
After review by U.S. District Judge John J.
Sirica, the tapes will go to the Wagerate or
the District Court.
the hearing in Sirica's court proceeded, the APL-CIO began a national investigation into the impeachment of the President, claiming Nixon has "given clear evidence he does not intend to resign." A statement said the President has "consistently lied to the Senate" as he has.
Nixon said in a broadcast speech Wednesday night that he has "no intention whatever of walking away from the job I was elected to do."
At the White House, press secretary Ronald L. Zeigler said that "we will recognize the fact that the tapes matter and that the fast-breaking developments concerning the recorded conversations might have given the impression that there had been some tampering."
He said an attempt would be made to clear the question up.
The former head of the Secret Service technical division at the White House, Robert Bassett, said he was straight day and said it was possible that repeated playback of the tape could damage them. But he said he didn't know if this would detract from the sound quality of the tape.
Wong said it is standard practice among law enforcement agencies to make duplicates of any tapes that might be used as evidence and to store originals to avoid any possible erasures or damage. Woods says the duplication of the subpoenaed White House tapes.
AT TIMES IRRITATED at repetitive questions during nearly $1\frac{1}{2}$ hours on the stand, Words cleared up the question of the so-called gun in one tap.
Gen. John C. Bennett, a top presidential aid, testified Wednesday that before he came to court Woods said she found the gap in the conversation of April 16.