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KANSAN
84th Year, No. 37
Withdrawal From Classes Discussed
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Wednesday, October 17, 1973
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Oil-producing countries in the Mideast announced a 17% crude oil price increase.
The countries are Iran, which is non-Arab, and Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Qatar, all Arab. They are the six largest oil-producing countries on the Persian Gulf.
prompted that they said they took their action in direct response to what one envoy called the "intransigence" of the Western companies in negotiating a price increase for oil.
The price increase—from $0.12 to $6.54 a barrel—is not expected to affect the U.S. consumer at once. The United States depends upon the Middle East
Nixon will meet with four Arab ministers to discuss U.S. involvement in the war.
The foreign ministers are Abdel Alex Bouteffel of Algeria, Sabah al-Sabah of Kuwait, Ahmed Talib Benihima of Morocco and Alu-al-Saqal of
An Arab spokesman discouraged speculation that they asked to see Nixon to discuss oil shipments to the United States.
"They want only to take up the U.S. involvement in the war," the spokesman said.
The U.S. has sent 500 tons of supplies to Mideast, a tenth of the amount by USSR.
But the effort by the United States to resupply military equipment and ammunition to Israel started only Sunday. The Soviet Union had been flying hundreds of transport planes to airports in the Arab countries, Egypt and Syria, for six days.
The American airlift was just starting and had been limited to about 30 flights. U.S. officials said the continuation of the U.S. effort would be necessary in the needs of the far-reaching force.
GAO said the Nixon administration filed incomplete Cambodian aid reports.
The General Accounting Office (GAO) said the Nixon administration had filled incomplete spending reports and used military personnel for more than 30 years.
The report also said U.S. economic aid in fiscal 1971 and 1972 had exceeded the amount the Cambodian economy could absorb. The report said supervision of military aid remained inadequate and funds were still going to Cambodian troops. It saidad supervision had improved in recent months.
Maynard Jackson beat Sam Massell
Maynard Jackson beat Sam Massey to become Atlanta's first black mayor
Vice Mayor Jackson unseated Jewish Mayor Massell to become the first black mayor of a major southern city in modern times.
in the race for city council president, white moderate Wyche Fower held a commanding lead over black civil rights activist Hossei Williams.
Arab, Israeli Forces Clash On Western Side of Canal
By the Associated Press
The Cairo command reported two Israeli thruests yesterday at the Suez Canal. Tel Aviv said an Israeli task force penetrated Egyptian territory on the west bank of the canal and was making commando-style attacks from 100 miles from the Egyptian capital.
Cairo said its forces were waging a vicious battle against Israeli army trying to seize the city.
A Cairo commune said Egyptian commanders had entered airport, infantry
President Amar Sadat of Egypt warned that he might unleash missile war against
He had said earlier that he was ready to accept a cease-fire and attend a U.N. peace conference if Israel pulled out of all Arab lands occupied since 1967.
LATER IN THE day, Premier Golda Mei told the Israeli parliament she had received no cease-fire offer from any source. She said the Egyptian drive into the Sinai had been blunted after 11 days of fierce desert tank battles.
"The time for a cease-fire will come indeed when the enemy's strength has been broken," she said. "I have been asked to give up my position, but when it is weaken to defend the enemy."
Sadat and Mei spoke soon after the Israeli command in Tel Aviv asserted that its jets were bombing targets in the Nile Delta about 100 miles north of Caro and冲冲 bunk battles raged in the Sinai peninsula and in Syrian front along the road to Damascus.
A MILITARY COMMUNIQUE from Cairo said Egyptian troops were battling late in the day to beat back the Israeli attack on the base. The soldiers' territory on the western side of the canal.
The Egyptian command said Israeli armor assaulted a beachhead at about noon and tried to cross the canal about 2:30 p.m. at another point. Both battles were in the central sector of the 104km waterway, and from there down back, according to the Caro account.
THE COMMAND SAID Egyptian air
Seven Israeli tanks made a "desperate attempt" to cross to the west bank of the canal in the area of Great Bitter Lake, about 75 miles from Cairo, the Cairo command said, but three of the tanks were destroyed and the others fled.
Marines Join 6th Fleet
MOREHEAD CITY, N.C. (AP)—Marines in full battle gear boarded the U.S. helicopter carrier Iwo Jima yesterday and the ship sailed for the Mediterranean to join the Navy's 5th Fleet.
The carrier departed at 5:10 p.m. CDT after boarding troops through much of the city.
The Pentagon said last Thursday that the carrier had been removed from exercises at Camp Lejeune, N.C., to prepare for the Mediterranean.
The Defense Department said in Washington yesterday that the attack carrier John F. Kennedy had been ordered to return from a rather than return to Norfolk, Va.
Already on station in the eastern Atlantic are two other carriers, the Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Independence.
The Iwo Jima had been scheduled to join the 1st Fleet in November but the Pentagon said last week that the carrier was expected to leave within a few days.
The planes "strafed enemy positions, forcing the enemy to withdraw, leaving his
power turned the tide in the Israeli assault on the beachhead.
tanks behind on fire," the Cairo command said.
Aerial encounters over the battleground resulted in the shooting down of 11 Israeli
Israel asserted that its task force on the west bank of the canal was striking at Egyptian antiaircraft missile batteries and bombing targets in a region of more than 100 miles from the Egyptian capital.
planes and two Egyptian planes, the Cairo communique said.
Previously, Israelis commanded teams had mounted hit-and-run raids on the western border.
Suez seized control along the eastern bank of the Suez Canal after its forces stormed across and knocked back Israeli defenders when the current round of Middle East hostilities erupted Oct. 6. Israel seized Simail in up to half the army in the 1987 war.
WHILE THE FIGHTING raged near the canal, Israeli forces on the Syrian front remained locked in combat near the town of Sasea about 21 miles from Damascus. The Israeli troops launched a counter-offensive against the Israeli tank drive but was beaten back.
Ford Helped Liddy Get a Job
WASHINGTON (AP)—Vice President-designate Gerald Ford confirmed yesterday that he helped with Watergate conspirator G. W. Bush by calling for a political favor for another congressman.
But Ford denied another story, published in a book last year, that he underwent psychiatric treatment for a year. He called it a categorical inaccuracy.
Ford, the House Republican leader, said he called the Treasury Department to help get Lidky a job there in 1967 or 1968 at the request of Rep. Hamilton Fish Jr., R-N.Y.
Ford told newsman, "I said, 'Ham, he's not my constituent, he's yours.' It's your constituent," he says.
Ford said he called Eugene Rossides, then assistant secretary of trade, and Liddy subsequently got a job in the Treasury Department.
Liddy later joined the White House plumbers unit and became counsel for President Nixon's re-election finance committee.
Liddy was convicted of conspiracy and wripping the Democrats' Watergate
Hutchschner said Ford did visit him briefly one day but said he could not recall
Ford said Winter-Burger had urged him repeatedly to visit Hutchinson and he did. The team had never visited Ford.
in the first place," Hutschnecker said. "This is shirer fantasy."
"He (Winter-Berger) exfoliated Hutschnecker's virtues as an emperor doctor of the city."
Editor's note—This is one of a series of profiles of the 10 semi-finalists for the 1973 HOFE award. The field will be held in November. No. 6 will be a recognition banquet. Final voting will be Nov. 6 and 7, and the award will be presented Nov. 10 during half-time of the KU-Colorado football game.
Pickett describes himself as an educational conservative. He favors traditional teaching methods, and his attention is focused on in his classes, which center on lectures.
By BILL WILLETS Kansan Staff Reporter
An avid historian, Pickett hosts a radio show every Wednesday on KANU
And, more often than not, Calder Pickett,
professor of journalism, is nominated for
the Pulitzer Prize.
Asked how Winter-Berger had gotten close enough to Ford to make such suggestions, Ford said the lobbyist was originally introduced to him by friends.
Pickett, a nominee two of the last three years, was nominated for the first time in 1961 and was a finalist for the award last year.
Every fall the trees lose their leaves, the grass turns brown, the weather becomes cooler and University of Kansas students talk about their football team.
"I still believe good lecturers are valuable," he says. "I don't necessarily believe discussions are good. I am a teacher have found that discussions can be a total
Pickett, 52 years old, has taught at KU since 1951. This semester, he is teaching History of American Journalism, Mass Media and the Popular Arts in America, Editorial and Interpretive Writing and a graduate seminar.
PICKETT PERSONALLY ALL of his examinations and papers, with the exception of minor quizzes, and usually returns them at the next meeting of the
"I'm always disturbed to grade papers where students are expressing opinions," Pickett says. "When my opinion differs, I am not sure I'm being objective."
disaster. A lot of students don't want to hear reports from other students."
But Pickett says he frequently finds that difficult, especially for such classes as his Editorial and Interpretive Writing class. There, students learn to express opinions.
Students generally regard Pickett as demanding but fair. He quickly becomes acquainted with his students even though he frequently number more than 100 students.
national headquarters while he worked for the Nixon committee.
The allegation that Ford had psychiatric treatment for a year from Arnold Hutchinson in New York City was published by Washington lobbyist Winter-Berger in his book, "The Washington Pay-Off."
which reflects his nostalgic views on American history.
Ford told newsmen he visited Hutchinson for a minute one time to meet him but not yet.
ALTHOUGH HIS views often coincide with those of students and he is tolerant of student attitudes with which he may be confused, he doesn't always sit aloong well with students.
"During the campus uprisings of the 2000s, I was sometimes in violent danger."
"I've always been suspicions of teachers who say they don't care whether their students succeed or fail."
Pickett says he doesn't think today's students have changed drastically from when he was a child.
"I was working on a newspaper in 1946, he says. "I'd spit it at the year at No. 300," he said.
Hutchscheer said in a telephone interview from his New York office that the agency is working with him.
STUDENTS ARE more casual today and better informed about some things, in that they know more about what's going on in a classroom than they do in real life, will do themselves, Picketts says.
"I can't decide whether they're more idealistic or not," he says. "Over the years, I've found students to be pretty much the same."
"Another of those accidents" brought Pickett to teaching, he says.
He (Ford) never came here as a patient
Kansan Staff Photos by CARL DAVAZ
for a teaching job in a setting I knew I'd like."
After coming to KU Pickett worked summers for the Topeka Daily Capital and for the Kansas City Star. He says he worked for several companies, and also because he enjoyed the work.
While a student at Utah State, he was a news and radio extension editor. In 1946, he became a reporter for the Salt Lake City News, where he worked as desk at the Desert News in Salt Lake City.
Prof. Pickett Tolerates Differing Student Opinions
STUDENTS MUST have a great deal of guidance in order to learn, he says, because they aren't likely to do much learning on their own.
Pickett served on the faculties of Utah State, from 1948 to 1949, and the University of Denver.
"If I hadn't had guidance I wouldn't have read certain books," Picket says in the book. "I could
Pickett received a B.S. degree from Utah State University in 1944, an M.S. degree from the Medil School of Journalism at Northwestern University in 1948 and a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Minnesota in 1959.
He recently was named to occupy the
President's press secretary's chair in the
KU LSB of Journalism.
Learned Expansion Begins
Pickett received an honorary associate membership in Alpha Epsilon Rho, national radio and television organization of the Standard Oil Foundation classroom teaching award in 1967. In 1970, he won a research award from Kappa Tau Alpha, honorary journal society, for his
In 1951, Pickett was named assistant to the dean of the William Allen White School of Journalism at KU and in 1960 was appointed acting dean.
He is a member of Sigma Delta Chi,
professional journalism society, and the
author of several books.
The $3.75 million expansion of Learned Hall officially begins at 3 p.m. today with a groundbreaking ceremony at the building site east of the present building.
Construction will start immediately, and the completion date is set for fall 1975. The B. A. G. Construction Company of Lawrence is the general contractor for the
HE IS THE author of a biography of the late Atchison editor, Edgar Howe ("Ed Howe: Country Town Philosopher"); numerous articles in Journalism Quarterly, Journalism Educator, Journal of Journalism History and the KU Alumni Magazine; and many features and book reviews in the Kansas City Star.
Stanley Learned, Bartlesville, Okla., for whom the building is named, will join Chancellor Archie X. Dykes and William W. McGraw of School of Engineering, in breaking the ground.
dition will increase the number of classrooms, laboratories and office space for the department of chemical and petroleum engineering, the department of mechanical engineering and the engineering division of the civil engineering department.
A tour of Learned Hall is scheduled after the ceremony.
The planned expansion includes two floors to be added to the top of the present building and a five story wiring attached to the east side. The $2,000-square foot ad-
Kangan Photo by KRISTA POSTAI
Pumpkin Season
The statue of James Woods "Ucle Jimmy" Green (right) former dean of the KU Law School, appears to be congratulating his student companion for
getting with the swing of the season. The statue, in front of Green Hall, has traditionally been the target of pranksters.