KANSAN
84th Year, No. 41
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Date Set For Vote On Airport
Wednesday, October 24, 1973
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Signing Up
Roger Martin, graduate student, signs a petition to the Senate to prevent the process of presidential President
Nikon, at a booth near Wesley Hall Becky
Steele, the law student, looks on,
(see Story Page 3).
Nixon to Surrender Tapes
Associated Press Reporter
WASHINGTON - President Nixon agreed to turn over the Watergate tapes to a federal judge yesterday, even as the House of Representatives voted to confirm verification of impachment proceedings.
White House chief of staff Alexander Haig Jr., the President's top aide, discounted the seriousness of the impachment move. But he said Nixon's reflected a realization that there was a threat of grave attacks developing in the wake of recent events.
nixon scheduled a nationwide radio and television address on the issue tonight at 8. The address will be carried by the three major television networks.
"This President does not defy the law," Wright said. "He has authorized me to say he will comply with the court's order in full."
NIXON'S CHIEF courtroom lawyer, Charles Wright, said Nixon had decided to give in to a U.S. Appeals Court ruling because the weekend's events had made it clear that his proposed compromise wouldn't settle the constitutional crisis.
The announcement shocked spectators in the packed courtroom who had been waiting to hear how Sirica would respond to the President's proposal to summarize the tapes and have his summary verified by a senior member of the Senate.
It was the President's stated refusal to turn over the tapes that taped him to fire special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox on Saturday night after Cox said that he would pursue his court battle to obtain the evidence as evidence for the Watergate grand jury.
SIRICA HAD ISSUED an order on Aug. 29 directing the Governing to give him nine Watergate-related White House tape copies that would be sent to the president to examine them in private and determine if the President had a valid claim for withholding them. The White House had delivered to Sirica Monday a copy of the memorandum and a process order accepting it.
The impact of Nikon's stunning reversal, after weeks of open resistance to disclosure
House to Continue Investigation Drive to Impeach Nixon Slowed
WASHINGTON (AP)—House leaders decided yesterday to go ahead with an inquiry that could lead to President Nixon's impeachment despite his agreement to release the White House Watergate tapes to a federal judge.
They had already announced the start of the investigation before Nixon's about-face on the tape and said they would continue at least until the effect of his action became
With the controversy over the tapes apparently stilled, Nikon's critics in the House said their major concern was to assure the continuation of an independent prosecution of the Watergate case and its many off-shoots.
Nixon abolished the special prosecutor's office when he fired its director, Archibald Cox, touching of the uproar that led to the beginning impeachment proceedings.
REP. DONALD RIEGLE, D-Mich., said in a House speech, "By giving up the tapes Nixon showed that Cox was right in insisting that he could not succeed in his order. Now he should bring Cox back."
There seemed little doubt, however, that Nixon's decision would take some of the steam out of any impurchase drive. A chief criticism aimed at Nixon during an emotional House session was that he had to comply with an order of the court.
Some key Democratic senators also said they expected the developments to diffuse away.
HOWEVER, Democrats such as Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, Philip Hart of Michigan and Birch Bayh of Indiana said they would press ahead with legislation to create a special Watergate prosecutor not subject to dismissal by the President.
They also said they expected the Senate Judiciary Committee to conduct hearings on all the circumstances surrounding the death of Archibald Cox as special prosecutor.
Kennedy said Chairman James Eastland, D-Miss., told him that, if it was the will of the committee, Cox would be called today after an executive session of the members.
REP. JEROME WALDIE, D-Calf, who introduced the first of several impeachment resolutions in the House yesterday, said Nikon's decision was an indication that the President intended to comply with the law. But Waldaide said he wouldn't withdraw his resolution until he saw the contents of the tapes and documents.
Because the court order applies only to nine tapes and related papers, there will likely be further demands for White House tapes and documents involving Watergate, the Watergate Committee, Corp., antitrust settlement, the milk-price deal and other matters under investigation.
Grading Questions Stump LA&S Ad Hoc Committee
IN A SERIES of other fast-moving environments that preceded the President's action.
- Nixon's so-called compromise with the Senate Watergate committee on the tapes is one of his biggest mistakes.
By NANCY HARPER Kansan Staff Reporter
It is easier to get good grades in one department than in another? Do students majoring in the same point average (GPA) than students majoring in Y? Are grades even important?
Formed by the College Assembly, the committee was charged to study:
Those were some of the questions confronting the ad hoc Committee on Grading
—The appropriateness of current practices in relation to the objectives.
—Current college objectives regarding grading.
First of a Series
and Evaluation of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in the spring of 1972 when the committee began examining grading policies in the college.
—the effectiveness of grading practices. The committee was also asked to recommend changes to better implement college goals.
Cox's lieutenants on the special prosecution force met with the new chief of the administration's Watergate investigation to determine whether they should resign en masse or proceed under his leadership.
Former Atty. Gen. Elliot Richardson, who resigned instead of carrying out Nixon's order to发函 Cox, told a nationally televised news conference that the American people must decide whether impeachment of Nixon is a proper course. He declined to pass judgement on the question.
"BASICALLY, we couldn't agree on the charge," Art Skidmore, assistant professor of computer science, said.
Now, two years after the committee was formed, the questions remain unanswered.
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*Watergate Judge John Sirica, to whom Nixum must turn over the tapes, told the two federal grand juries investigating the case that he will not be dismissed except by this court.*
of the tape recordings, was not immediately clear.
Former Atty. Gen. Elliot L. Richardson, who resigned instead of firing Cox, had held a nationally televised news conference before the announcement and said the American people must decide whether impeachment of the President was the proper course. He declined to pass judgment on the question.
AFTER THE ANNOUNCEMENT, he issued a statement saying he hoped Nixon's decision would overcome the wave of protest as a consequence of the firing of Cox. The latest move, he said, was a constructive, statesman-like step.
VICE PRESIDENT-DESIGNATE Gerald Ford, who has supported Nixon's actions repeatedly in recent days, said the decision to surrender the tapes ruled out any need to rehire Cox or anyone else as a special Waterate prosecutor.
"I see no need for that whatsoever," Ford told a news conference in Harrison, Pa.
The technicalities of the tapes turnover have not been made final but the tapes aren't to be made public for some time. It is advisable that the owner private and decide what portions to give to
the grand jury, which conducts its business in secret.
THE CONTENT of the tapes could eventuate public release if they are in evidence as an evidence
The Nixon decision and the later White House announcement that the Watergate committee will not get the tapes material may displease panel members but other senators were pleased Nixon planned to give the tapes to Sirica.
Nixon's refusal to release the tapes had been one reason cited by his critics for the several impeachment motions filed yesterday.
Wright announced Nixon's decision to U.S. District Court Judge John Sirica who had originally ordered the President to surrender the lapes to him for private inspection.
SIRICA'S RULING had been upheld by a federal appeals court, but Nixon at first refused to go along with it and fired Cox when Cox balked at an out-of-court arrangement to have the tapes edited by Sen. John Stennis, D-Miss.
Sirica's clerk later said that the judge had no advance knowledge of the Press.
left open but Wright promised it would be done as expeditiously as possible.
Wright told Sirica that the President had hoped that the compromise he announced Friday night would end the constitutional crisis,
Nixon's decision to give in on the tapes was thought likely to lessen sentiment for Democrats.
"events over the weekend made it very apparent it did not," Wright said.
HOWEVER, MANY of his critics have attacked him on other matters, including his orders to Cox to refrain from seeking other White House papers and tapes relating to the ITT, milk fund and other controversies.
The time of the delivery of the tapes was
Nixon's nixes decision also leaves the Watergate prosecution within his own Department of Justice, another major complaint of his foes.
Senate critics of Nixon's action have cited what they consider to have been an administration commitment to an independent investigation by Cox.
That commitment was made by Elliot Richardson in Senate Judiciary Committee proceedings on his nomination to be attorney general.
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Israel Announces New Cease-Fire
By the Associated Press
TEL AVI-Israel and Egypt agreed to a second cease-fire in the Arab-Arabian war early today, the Israeli military command announced. Israel's chief of staff ordered his forces on the Egyptian front to lay down arms by 7 a.m., 2 a.m. CDT.
There was no immediate word from Cairo on the Israeli announcement of a cease-fire.
The second cease-fire order came in response to a renewed appeal from the U.N. Security Council after the first truce proclaimed on Monday was followed by hard fighting on both the Egyptian and Syrian fronts.
Israel Defense Minister Mose Dayan launched the new cease-fire hour to the head of the U.N. truce supervisors for the Middle East, and he transmitted it to Egypt.
Egypt's affirmative reply was reportedly imputed to him an hour before the testimony was delivered by Daysan.
MEANWHILE, CLASHS between Egyptian and Israeli troops continued through the night along the Suez Canal. The Israeli navy attacked Syrian oil installations in Bania harbor and Palestinian guerrillas were active against Israeli settlements along the Lebanese border, an Israeli military spokesman said.
Aerial combat and artillery duels had continued yesterday, breaking the original, old-day cease-fire and the U.N. Security Council's decision for an immediate hall to the fighting.
The U.S.-Soviet sponsored cease-fire request yesterday, the second in as many days, had urged the Arabs and Israelis to return to positions occupied at the first truce deadline and asked that U.N. observers be sent to the battle fronts.
THE INTENSITY of yesterday's fighting had created the possibility of arguments about where the battle lines were drawn on and where the first cease-fire was to have taken effect.
U. N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim said last night that the Syrian government had notified him that it accepted the security council's initial cease-fire appeal.
"If the Egyptians want to continue the battle, they will find Israel ready, strong and determined," Premier Golda Meir told the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem.
ISRAEL AND EGYPT issued statements accusing each other of violating the day-old cease-fire, which both had accepted Monday evening. Egypt demanded that the council hear its complaint that Israel had invaded with more territory in the Egyptian heartland.
Syria charged that about 60 Israeli warplanes streaked in over the Golan battleground to bomb civilian targets north of the Syrian capital.
Israel claimed a victory in the 18 days of fighting and said it held about 750 square kilometers of land.
canal- and about 300 square miles in Syria beyond the land captured in 1967.
The Syrian front has been relatively stable for days about 21 miles from Damascus and 19 miles beyond the ceasefire lines established in 1967.
That would put Israeli troops only about 50 miles from Cairo and give them mastery of the key road between the Egyptian capital and the canalside city of Ismailia.
Israel acknowledged that the Egyptians recaptured about 300 square miles of the Sinai. But Haim Herzog, Israel's top state radio commentator and former army intelligence chief, said a combined effort of the Israel forces cut off in the Sinai by Israeli forces who crossed the canal, then turned south to face the Egyptian units from behind.
Cox to Stay in Washington
WASHINGTON (AP) - Former special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox promised yesterday to remain in Washington as long as he considered that his presence would "help make clear the situations facing our constitutional system."
Cox issued a brief statement after a two-hour session in the special prosecutor's office where he said farewell to his 80-member staff.
Later in the day Cox said, "I know that all citizens will be happy, as I am, that the
President wisely chose to respect the rule of law."
A spokesman said there were some tears during the farewell statement Oxel delivered privately to his staff. The farewell party was described as very friendly and not at all
Cox said he was "obsessed" with not making his continued presence in Washington seem to be a personal thing. He said the conduct of the Watergate prosecution and the availability of the White House tapes weren't personal matters.
Uganda warned its citizens to prepare for an attack at any time by Americans.
The Ugandians were warned to be prepared for an attack by American, British and Israeli commandos parachuting into Uganda, an Eastern
Quoting a military spokesman and "reliable sources in the U.S.A.," radio Uganda said, "The American Central Intelligence Agency has revealed that American and British commands will be parachuting into Uganda and make a surprise attack on Uganda any time from now."
There was no explanation why the United States, Britain and Israel should want to attack Uganda.
U.S. Supreme Court backed Vern's raids on liquor-serving Amtrak trains in Kansas.
The court rejected without comment Amtrak's contention that its operations in interstate commerce and its special authority from Congress pre-empted an amendment to the Kansas constitution that bans open saloons.
"We expected it," Kansas Atty, Gen. Vern Miller said of the outcome. Kansas had contended that Amtrak violated the 1st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which forbids Congress from passing any law that abridges a state's right to regulate liquor.
The Pentagon said the U.S. reduced its airlift to Israel to slow the fighting.
The reduction in the airlift appeared to be an attempt to pressure Tel Aviv to slow the pace of the Mideast fight.
Officials declined to say how much the airlift, which has been running at energetruly 20. flushes a day, had been reduced.
Le Duc Tho refused the peace prize;
A Pentagon spokesman said it was understood that the Soviet Union had also slowed its rate of delivery of arms and equipment to Syria and Egypt.
Le Duc Tho refused the peace prize;
Nobel physics, chemistry winners named.
The informed the Nobel committee in Stockholm that he couldn't accept the peace prize until the "guns are silenced" in Vietnam. He and Henry Kissinger had been named to share the award for negotiating an official end to the Vietnam War.
to the Vietnam War.
Lee Esaki and Ivar Giaever, researchers in New York State for IBM and General Electric, were named to share half the Nobel physics prize for their pioneering work in electronic "tunneling" phenomena.
The other half of the $120,000 physics award went to Brian Josephson of England, who predicted new and unexpected phenomena in supercurrents in a theory named the "Josephson effects."
a Geoffrey Pfiffenburg of London's Imperial College and Erst Otto Fischer, a Munich, Germany, professor, were named to share the chemistry prize for pioneering, independent research on the chemistry of "organometallic called samarium dust." This work has such applications as locating fuel for gasoline.
The start of Mitchell's and Stans' trial was postponed once again, until Jan. 7.
The trial of the two former Cabinet officers, John Mitchell and Maurice Stans, was seen as a betrayal to obtain White House orders and tapes that might bear on the case.
The postponement was announced before President Nixon said in Washington that he would turn over Watergate tape to U.S. District Court Judge John Sirica. It was not known immediately whether those tapes included the ones sought in the Mitchell-Stans case.