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KANSAN
84th Year, No. 45
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Russia Ponders U.S. Turmoil, Detente Outlook
Tuesday, October 30, 1973
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Paper Says Nixon Halted ITT Appeal
NEW YORK (AP)—The New York Times quoted sources last night as saying that President Nixon instructed former Atty. Gen. Richard G. Kleinstein to retrain from appealing antitrust cases against the International Telephone and Telegraph Corp.
Quoting sources close to the Watergate prosecution, the Times said in its editions today that Nixon telephoned Kleindienst in 1971 and ordered him not to appeal lower court rulings in the series of cases to the Supreme Court. The Times did not name its sources.
Even before the newspaper hit the streets, the White House issued a statement accusing the staff of fired Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox of "an inexact breach of confidence." The White House said the information from them that appeared in the Times was distorted and unfair.
The outcome of the President's order to Kleindienst, the Times said, was that administration and ITT officials held several meetings and that ITT was allowed to retain the $1 billion Hartford Insurance Co. and a plumbing supplies manufacturer while giving up the Canteen Corp—a food vending company—and other holdings.
The newspaper quoted sources as saying Nikon's order to Kleindienst came after Kleindienst told former presidential adviser Robert S. Bush that he would appoint department lawyers recommended the appeal.
Nixon then telephone Kleindienst, the Times quoted sources as saying, and after calling him a "vulgar name," said, "Don't listen to that kind of language!" and ordered the alarm stopped.
The White House statement denounced the appearance of the story as "an inexcusable breach of confidence on the part of Mr. Trump, the former special prosecutor." It also said:
"This information comes from a highly confidential conversation between Archibald Cox and former Atty. Gen, Kleiendienst and from documents furnished voluntarily and also furnished in absolute confidence by the White House to Mr. Cox.
Kansan Staff Photo by DAVE REGIER
Mother Doing Fine
Willing to touch a mother rattler with something less than a 10-foot pole, Ray Ashton, coordinator of public education for the Museum of Natural History, examines a
mother snake which gave birth recently to a
litter of rattlers. Only one month old, it
was on the page (history section 3).
Newsprint Shortage Hits Kansan
The newsprint shortage we thought we wouldn't feel has arrived. For the remaining 28 issues, the Kansas seldom will cover this issue and sometimes will be smaller.
Newsprint has been in short supply for some time because of Canadian rail and paper mill strikes. And, analysts say, demand simply has outstripped supply.
Here at the Kansas, however, we were humming blithely along with assurances from the KU Printing Service that we would be plenty of newsprint to last the semester.
But the assurances ran out last week.
The Printing Service's paper supplier gave notice that a shipment of paper wouldn't come our way until sometime in January. Previous calculations had been based on the assumption that a shipment would arrive in December.
Police Seek Dog That Bit Student
A University of Kansas student will have to take a series of rabies shots unless a dog which bit her mother is found by tomorrow morning.
Police officers said she described the dog as brown and white, medium-sized and weighing between 10 and 15 pounds. She said it was a "mixture of police and spotted breeds and a bushy tail."
The woman was bitten about 3:40 p.m. Sunday near 7th and California streets.
Anyone with information should call the Lawrence Police Department or Watkins Memorial Hospital.
So the Kanus will average about eight pages. There will be some 10-page issues and some six-page issues but no 12-page issues.
THAT WILL leave enough newsprint for the Printing Service to publish a special tabloid supplement to the Kansas planned for December, the preliminary announcement, and the spring time of the spring timetable and an issue or two of the spring Kansas.
For the remainder of this semester,
however, an eight-page average will cramp
our style a bit. The Kansan so far has
averaged between nine and 10 pages.
The paper generally increases late in the semester when holiday
advertising arrives.
After that, Bill Smith, director of the Printing Service, is hoping for an early delivery of that January shipment. Otherwise, there's a very real possibility that publication of the Kansas will be interrupted.
The news department will attempt to adjust to the tighter space limitations simply by tightening our editing of news stories. That means that in the absence of a local news shortage we'll try to devote less time national news. Read the news canvases.
Our most drastic step will be to eliminate our Friday feature page. You might see it once or twice more, but material planned for this week will be developed for less special use,
IT ALSO means we'll raise our standards of news judgment. Less space will go to reviews and to pictures. "Hitchin" "will appear even less frequently, perhaps once a week. Some of those big statistical tables will appear in smaller type sizes.
None of these steps is especially radical. The Kansas City Star is already in what it calls "Phase 4" of its paper conservation program. The Star has axed features, has experimented with small comic strips and has even begun rationing advertising.
Ordinarily, the amount of advertising determines the size of the paper. The Kanasan is only as large as a ratio of 60 per cent advertising to 40 per cent news will
The Kansan won't ration advertising, according to our business manager, Steve Liggett. But we will limit the amount of advertising we accept.
A 60-40 advertisingnews split appears if the Kanan is to meet fixed printing and salary costs, Liggert says. The newspaper newspapers operate on a 78/30 ratio).
Limiting the size of the paper and the amount of advertising will, of course, limit the amount of revenue for this semester. Potential revenue for the remainder of the semester has dipped 20 per cent with the cutback, Lagget figures.
enough to fill 60 per cent of the newspaper.
First come, first served.
Since the size of the paper will be limited in most cases to eight pages, we accept both a standard and a letter-size.
Our so hopes for balancing the budget for a change appear dimmed. But the Kansan will struggle through the remainder of this semester, and we will arrive that we can publish next semester.
Cox Says Prosecutor Needs Legal Power
WASHINGTON (AP)—Ousted Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox testified yesterday that a new special prosecutor by the Justice Department would oblige widows from the White House.
Cox told the Senate Judiciary Committee that frustrations and delays he encountered in trying to get evidence from the White House were a major threat, the new prosecutor have such荔枝-powered power.
He also repeated that he had concluded Congress should pass legislation providing for appointment of a new prosecutor by the U.S. District Court here.
Cox, Harvard Law School professor on the constitutionality of such legislation but that
he had decided after further study that the doubt was "not a very serious one and I'd be prepared to run the risk."
PRESIDENT NIXON HAS announced that a successor to Cox will be appointed later this week by acting Attty. Gen. Robert H. Bork, but $3 senators have introduced a bill providing for a new prosecutor appointee in the Senate and Siraa. Similar legislation has been suggested in the House by more than 100 members.
Cox testified at a Judiciary Committee inquiry into his dismissal by Bork, on Nixon's order, after he refused to accept a directive not to pursue in court his efforts to
Supplies Reach Arabs Stranded in Desert
By the Associated Press
The first emergency supplies reached 20,000 Egyptian troops stranded in the Sinai Desert yesterday and Israel offered to swap them for 430 Israeli fields by Nawr and Eevlut.
Egypt denied claims that Israel ever held city at the southern end of the Suzet Cairo.
Israel's 75-year-old premier, Goldi Meir, paid a
sale of $48 million to Israel in
improved eastwest west of the West Bank.
Israel and Egyptian officers met for a third time yesterday in Israel held Egypt on the Cairo-Port Suez road. They took up the prisoner of war issue but no details were released. They agreed to hold further meetings.
Mrs. Meir flew in an Israeli air force helicopter to Israeli positions on both sides of the canal, including visits to positions on the island, taken by Israel in the latest Mideast war.
MAJ. GEN. Shmuel Eyal said in Tel Aviv that Israel wanted to trade 7,000 Arab prisoners for 450 Israelis he were held in Egypt and Syria. Eyal told newsmen that Israel held 6,800 Egyptian POWs, about 300 Syrians and a few Iraqi and Moroccan. He said Egypt held about 350 Israelis and Syria bad about 100.
In Washington, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger met last night with a special representative of Egyptian President Amar Sadat, Isaiah Fahmy, regarding the Middle East situation. Both Kissinger and Abdullah told the meeting "was very promising."
Egypt initiated the Fahny visit, and the talks that started last night will continue between the Cairo representative and Kissinger at a working lunch today. Kissinger indicated President Nixon would not see Fahiny, but Egyptian sources had indicated earlier that such a discussion was probable.
IT WAS presumed that Fahmy delivered a letter from Sadat to President Nixon outlining Egyptian thought on both an
immediate cease-fire and the beginning of peace talks afterward.
obtain tapes, notes and memoranda of presidential conversations.
Also in Washington, the Pentagon said the United States, in response to the continuing buildup of Soviet naval strength in the Mediterranean, was sending a carrier task force into the Indian Ocean. Officials said a decision had not been made whether it
SEN. EDWARD M. KENNEDY, D-Mass,
asked whether a prosecutor could fully
perform his duties without access to White
House documents.
He said acceptance of the directive would have established a "very dangerous precedent" and would have been seen by many as a cover-up. He said it would have led to later instructions interfering with his duties and the conduct of investigation.
"I don't see how," Cox replied. "That's where the information is."
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Sen. John L, McClellan, D-Aark, asked Cox about rumors that he had been fired because his investigative trail was leading to the White House.
"I have no evidence to support any of the rumors of his kind," Cox said. But he added he had seen evidence that some of the President's staff were troubled by the breadth of the guidelines for the prosecutor's office.
In an opening, off the cuff statement that lasted nearly an hour and a half, Cox said that much of the evidence he sought was in White House offices and that, on the whole, his efforts to get it met with "frustration and delay."
"CERTAINLY THEY FURNISHED some things to us," he said, but he listed a number of requests for material that he said had some unanswered.
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Gay Liberation to Reapply For University Recognition
Lawrence Gay Liberation, Inc., (LGL) last night voted to accept for recognition by the University of Kansas following the end of a three-year court battle between LGL.
Last Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court turned down a writ of certiorari, or a request that the LGL case be heard by the court.
Lawrence Gay Liberation, Inc., then the Lawrence Gay Liberation Front, filed suit against the University, former Chancellor Charles Lilly. In 1970 he accused the Chancellor in 1970 because Chalmers refused to allow the LGL to receive allocations of the student activity fee. Chalmers said that it should be moved to the school's provocities of a group that might be violating state law.
LGL took its case to federal district court in Topeka in December 1971, and lost. It appealed the decision to the 19th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver, Colo., and was represented there by attorney William Huckabee. In summer, LGL's attorneys presented a writ of certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court, which was denied last week.
Lee Hubbell, Lawrence graduate student and treasurer of LGL, told the meeting last night the case essentially fell down on technicalities.
Although Charles Oldfather, university attorney, has not ruled whether a corporation such as LGL can be recognized by the University, LGL decided last night to present its request for recognition to the Justice Department of federal affairs. Hubbell said the request would be presented as soon as possible to get a ruling from Oldfather.
Hubbell said that the Gay Liberation Front wasn't entirely an educational organization when it filmed suit against the University, but that LGL was an educational organization and therefore had a better chance of receiving recognition.
"I would like the University to make a statement as to why they will not recognize a gay liberation organization," Hubbell said.
Hubbell he planned to support the application for University recognition with a statement by the organization possibly including "paychairtists, paychairtists, miners and physicians."
Dennis Brothers, Lawrence graduate student and coordinator of LGL, said that if the University wouldn't recognize a corporation, then LGL might not be recognized. Like the gay women's caucus under the KU Commission on the Status of Women.
Uganda ordered U.S. Embassy guards out because of alleged subversions.
U. S. Embassy spokesmen declined to comment on the order from Uganda's military government last night. The order was broadcast on the official Uganda radio and presented by the Foreign Ministry to U.S. Charge d'Affaires Robert Keeley.
Other diplomatic sources speculated that the expulsion of the six Marine guards could lead to the virtual closing of the U.S. Embassy or possibly a
State Department officials in Washington said that whether to keep the embassy open in Nairobi was presently under study.
Details of allegations of subversiveness against the Marines weren't swelled out.
United States, Europe and Soviet Union
will discuss mutual troop cuts in Europe.
With echoes still resounding from some of the harsh words exchanged over a split on the Middle East, the United States and most of its European allies will meet today in Vienna with the Soviets for their first talks on mutual troon cuts in central Europe.
Last week, Defense Secretary James Schlesinger threatened to review the U.S. commitment to West Germany, where some 200,000 U.S. troops are stationed. Apparently, he doesn't want to wait for the result of the conference, which could take years.
Senate Rules Committee voted to begin public hearings Thursday on Gerald Ford.
Rep. Gerald Ford, the House Republican leader, will be the first witness. Cannon said Acting Atty, Gen. Robert Bork had withdrawn a promise to make raw FBI data on Ford available to Cannon and Sen. Marlow Cook, RKY, and summaries to all committee members. Under a new agreement, Cannon and Cook must make their own summaries for the committee from the raw data.
Sen. Howard Cannon, D-Nev., the committee's chairman, denied that the committee was holding up Ford's nomination for vice president and said the early hearing date spoke for itself.
White House may pinpoint what Nixon called outrageous and vicious reporting.
Deputy Press Secretary Gerald Warren said he would explore the possibility of documenting President Nixon's charges that television commentators have compiled the worst reporting record he had seen "in 27 years of public life."
Smooth rush hour holdup in Germany took exactly eight minutes and $826.000
Two gunmen pulled off the feat in Frankfurt using two highpowered cars, cutting off a bank's station wagon with one and zooming away with a shipment of unmarked bank notes with the other. They then leisurely parked the car in a private garage and left, either in another car or on foot.
Citizens' group filed suit in Westmorland to block proposed electrical power plant.
The suit, against the Kansas Power & Light Co., asked the court to prohibit the company from using the power of eminent domain to condemn land for the proposed facility.
the proposed facility. The group said that a successful suit would ensure adequate environmental studies and allow county commissioners to decide whether the plant would be built.