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Friday, October 12, 1973
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Sonny and Who?
The Kansan received grim news this week.
Sonny and Cher, the darlings of television's cutey set, won't be available for interviews, press conferences or photographs before their performance this weekend at Allen Field House.
During their performance, however, they will generously allow photographers to take pictures of them.
Kansan staffers greeted this particular tidbit of information with wailing and gnashing of teeth reminiscent of their reaction to the announcement in 1972 that Richard Nixon had been re-elected.
The overall reaction, however, assures that who the hell do they think they are.
One would think that Howard Hughes was coming to Lawrence. Or Greta Garbo, Or some other notable recluse. Nope—it's Sonny and Cher, whose time is apparently too valuable to spend on reporters.
The move is certain to set off a bonfire of rumors. They're getting divorced and don't want anyone to know it just yet. Both of them suffer from ophthobia—the fear of crowds—and will have to get stoned to work up enough nerve to appear in the Field House. That would be to much bother for a loudy press conference, of course.
And then there's the possibility that photographs of Cher taken
without the benefits of heavy makeup and bright lights make her look like a taxicab going down the street with both doors open.
This is all pleasant nonsense, but the question remains: Who are these people? Why are they so important?
Not that Hope is in the same
league. Some go on their league.
kloughly go on their league.
Lots of other heavyweights have come to KU in the past and found time to talk to the press. Some notable examples would be John Connally (who isn't really an entertainer) and Bob Hope.
Ah, well. Kansan staffers who had been looking forward to interviewing the duo with the anticipation they normally reserve for train wrecks will just have to punt. Journalism is a rewarding profession, but now and then you have to take your lumps.
One can just imagine the broken-hearted Kansan reporters nursing warm beers in dark bars over the kitchen, helping how to explain this to Mother.
All of them, to be sure, will mentally be telling Sonny and Cher the same thing. Okay—don't be prepared for interviews before your show.
Don't bother be available for interviews after your show, either.
Garden City, N. Y. "The woman never met Gelman, but she has sent him into retirement a dozen times, has stricken him with cirrhosis, leprosy and cancer, has multilated him, incarcerated him, even buried him and all in vain.
Bv JOHN PASCAL
—Chuck Potter
She Had His Number—She Thought
Gelman owns a small tool and die company. About a year and a half ago, he moved to new quarters at the same time the woman was moving with her family into a new house. She inherited Gelman's old phone number.
"Well, in the beginning," the woman was saying the other day, "nine out of every 10 calls were for Gelman. It was clear what had happened so I just said that Gelman had a new number and that they'd have to look it up in the phone book."
charged me twice for the same item."
"But it went on for weeks and weeks, 20 calls a week at least. I finally asked one caller, 'Didn't this Gelman notify you of his new number?' 'No,' he says, 'This is the number on his stationery.' The bill came this morning. 'What's my what叫 me about'<sup>11</sup>
The calls continued with infurting frequency and the woman decided to phone Glen.
"I was stunned. "Then pay it!" I shouted at him and hung up."
"He was very nice about it," she said.
"He hadn't realized his office was sending old stationery and he promised me he'd put a stop to it.
"But the calls kept coming and, after about two months, I figured that was plenty of time for him to get his new stationery, so I called him again. He was still very nice. Humby apologetic. He had slipped his mind now I absolutely took care of it. But he did."
"So I called the phone company and asked if there were anything they could please do to me. I was in the same company—our representative will be in touch with you," or something like that. I never heard from them. Nobody ever does. I have no idea how it happened. My phone company. But that's beside the point.
"I got no satisfaction from the phone
company and no satisfaction from Gelman
so I thought, all right Gelman, two can play
That, says the woman, is when she began having fun. "The phone would ring and somebody would say, 'Gimme Gelman, please,' and then go to a moment please,' and then go read a book.
"I did a few times but thought to myself, ah, I can be more inspired than that, so I started saying things like, "I'm going to be sick." I said with cancer. Yes, it was very sad."
I gave my friend Gelman every disease in the dictionary. I retired him to Florida. I had him run over by a train and losing a leg. He died several times.
"I got the names of other tool and die companies from the yellow pages and told the callers that Gelman had gone bankrupt and was recommending that all his customers transfer their business to the XYZ Company or whatever.
"Last week I put him in jail. It was a spur-of-the-moment thing. A man called and I said quickly, 'You're not the newspapers are? You're not the news!"
the newspapers about it. "About what?" he asks. "What's going on?"
"Mr. Gelman was arrested this morning for child molesting," I told him. "It's all very ugly and we are all very upset about it. And all I can say. I'm sorry." I hung up.
"But I still get the calls. I suppose not from the same callers. They'd be wifd if they didn't figure out they'd been talking to a nut, and I assume they got Gelman's real number. But I can still count on two or three calls a month, so I guess he's still got some of those old letterheads around and is going to be an easy sell. I really am an outrage, but what can you do?"
"The trouble is, I have such a conditioned reflex to wrong numbers now that I lose my grip."
"About a month ago, a woman called mistaking me for a movie house.
"What time would be most convenient for you?" I asked.
Then I was this little piece and she says, "would 8:30 be all right?" I think we can arrange that. I said, and she says, 'Thank you.' So I sure to find someone like you these days."*"
'Misleading'on Biking
To the editor:
Stolen Plants Need T.L.C.
Readers Respond
However, during the course of the semester I have begun to see a trend develop toward both misleading and inaccurate reporting in connection with bicycling, especially in reference to events involving MOOC.
During the semester the Kansan has run quite a few articles concerning bicycling. As a member of the Mount Oread Bicycle Club (MOBUC), I would ordinarily be delighted to see such attention being given in that direction.
Several weeks ago Eric Meyer managed
They need moderate temperature (60-80 degrees Fahrenheit), an east or west window (or south if you don't do over it), and a ceiling at this stage to keep the soil barely moist.
In the meantime, if anyone else has a healthy spider plant-or other plant-that needs a good, loving home, contact the library reference desk (4-3347).
Carol Chittenden
To the person who stole the library's spider plants:
The plants you ripped off are just barely rooted and may not survive the move. Please care for them tenderly—I have tried to prevent this, but it's the closest I have ever come to success.
I suggest three light waterings a week. Cut back to one thorough watering a week after they are well started. These were grown in water, and so have a drinking habit.
Assoc. Reference Librarian
If you would like more plants in the future, please ask at the reference desk. We will supply a selection of the ones that are well established, but have not been bringing in the plants about two months ago in an effort to add some life and gentleness to our garden. So, so some are still very young and frail.
Arabs 'Trying to Alarm the Outside World'
to report on several dramatic moments at a Lawrence City Traffic and Safety Commission meeting at which MTOCB presented a proposal for bicycle routes, neglecting completely to mention the many comments that went on in the course of the meeting.
Rv DAVID HIRST
By DAVID HIRSAT
The Manchester Guardian
BEIRUT—"The Fourth Round," Beirut newspapers said last Sunday morning, is entirely different from the Arab-Israeli wars of 1948, 1956 and 1967.
"The Arab radio stations," says Al-Hayat, "have not burst into frustatic jubilation, no fantastic communiques about enemy losses are being issued, and no one has said he is going to drive the Israelis into the sea."
It is certainly true that, when highpitched and not without references to Saladin and the eventual fate of the Crusaders, the radias are more moderate this time—and so are the war aims that the Egyptians and Syrians have set themselves.
In 1967, in his first communique, Syrian President Hafez Assad, then defense minister, announced that his armed forces had joined a battle which would not end until "the complete removal of the Zionist presence from Arab soil."
Not only did he present a rather jaundiced view of the meeting, but he didn't even take the time to get the name of MIOBC's transportation committee chairperson, Ken Lister, giving all the credit for a job well known from some unknown person named Kent Webster.
This time he concluded his address to the Syrian people with these words: "Right and justice are on our side. We are not alone in destruction, we do not seek to kill but only to prevent our air people being killed. We seek peace, we are working for peace and stability," and now we are today so as to enjoy peace in the future."
For their part, the Egyptians say they are fighting for the "implementation of U.N.
resolutions” There is in fact little doubt what the two Arab protagonists want. They are now fighting the so-called “limited threat” often threatened but always failed to wage.
Their purpose is ultimately diplomatic. They are trying to alarm the outside world, especially the United States, into strenuous intervention at Israel's expense, but it amounts to an immense gamble—a desperate attempt to snatch an "honorable peace" from the jaws of highly probable military disaster.
In another way, October 1973 is completely different from June 1967. The Israelis attacked first last time. There is not much doubt that Syria and Egypt, in close coordination, did so this time—and chose the least expected time to do so.
Having decided on the gamble, they had to do all they could to limit its risks. That is a lesson they learned from 1967. Then president Gamel Nasser, with the closure of the Straits of Tiran, created a warlok for the first time, and during that real war, refused to follow through with that first strike which some of his advisers urged upon him.
It must have been clear to Sadat and his commanders that, if they were to make any success of the "limited war," they must have the initial advantage of maximum surprise.
The Egyptian heartland is perilously exposed to those depth raids by Israeli Phantoms that prompted Nasser to seek massive Russian assistance in the first half of the war that has gone to war in the almost sure knowledge that Syria will be his only effective help.
So, for maximum surprise, Egypt and Syria, themselves in the middle of Ramadan, chose to attack on the Jewish day of atonement. And of course the attack was not on the ground, but "mobilization" which, since the six-day war, has come around like the seasons. Until the fighting broke out there were no blackout instructions, no air raid warnings, no formation of "Citizens' Battle Components" to deter the countdown to wars that never came.
armed force headquarters as he did in November 1971, in the closing stages of his famous "Year of Decision." He has not entered his "Operations Room" as he did in April this year. Sadat barely ever wore a shirt or tie. We have talked enough about that, he said.
Sadat had not taken up residence in the
Moreover, Egypt, the main Arab protagonist, is even worse off than it was 16 months ago when Satad, in his last great speech, said that he had been killed who were serving in an advisory capacity with the Egyptian armed forces, supervising the forest of SAM 2 and SAM 3 missions. He was killed by or flying the MIG-21s from half a dozen Soviet-controlled airbases in the delta.
The Arabs, of course, have no moral misgivings about attacking first. They consider their enemy the embodiment of anger and hostility, and say said Sunday: "They are only too happy at the accusation. For they consider that to make war to occupy their occupied land is not a crime but a right and a duty. If they do so, they have had delayed long in doing it."
Egyptian forces are on the wrong side of that formidable barrier, the Suez Canal, and the Syrians are no longer perched on the natural fortress of the Golan Heights.
What has driven Sadat and Asad to a gamble which they have balted at for so long? The underlying reason must be that the United States is the only country to save their relentlessly designg recipes.
Sadat is a gambler anyway. There can be little doubt that for a long time now he has been deeply tempted, through sheer perseverance, to lash out and damn the consequences.
his mood has been best reflected in the public musings of Isabu Anshi Kollous, his confidant and editor of Akbhar Al-Yaum. Anything, including defeat, is better than fear. But an incident with Salat was apparently contemplating the plunge he finally took last Saturday.
Unanswered Questions in 25th Amendment
By MERLO J. PUSEY Special to the Washington Post
In the 1960s, Congress took a new look at the problem of presidential succession because of the several illnesses of President Eisenhower and the assassination of President Kennedy. Its major concern was not the filling of vice president vacancies and continuity at the White House in cases of disability on the part of the president.
WASHINGTON—With Vice President Agnew's resignation, the United States has the first opportunity in its history to acquire a vice president by presidential nomination and confirmation by both Houses of Congress.
IN THE COURSE of patching up the Founding Fathers' confused provision for using the vice president when the chief executive is unable to function, Congress should have an opportunity to give greater continuity to that second post in the executive hierarchy.
It is interesting to note, in passing, that former Vice President Richard Nixon, then Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee in favor of reconvening the electoral college whenever necessary to keep an under-study committee active.
Congress was confronted by the fact that eight vice presidents had succeeded to the presidency, seven others had died in office, and three had been removed from view of this record, the country should have two vice presidents. Others thought though they would fill to填空 any vacancy in that office.
The original language, which stemmed from a report by the American Bar Association, was deemed appropriate for president to act within 30 days after the office became vacant. The requirement was eliminated on the assumption that both the Bar and Congress would act expeditedly.
into the resolution, which became the 25th amendment, was much simpler and more direct "where there is a vacancy in the office of president, the president shall nominate a vice president who shall take office upon the majority vote of both Houses of Congress.
In the absence of any guideline as to how Congress should proceed, experts studying the problem on Capitol Hill tend to assume that there will be hearings. Most likely the nomination will go to the Rules Committee or to Judiciary.
THE METHOD THAT CONGRESS wrote
As in the case of most constitutional provisions, however, its brevity leaves little room for argument.
WHAT STANDARDS WILL BE applied to a vice president nominee? In considering
nominations to the Cabinet, the Senate is inclined to give the nominee the benefit of doubt because he will be a member of the President's official family.
The biggest question is whether the President will use his opportunity to nominate a vice president as a means of influencing the choice of his successor. An attempt to install any of the potential Republican candidates now preening for the 1976 Presidential Race will certainly provoke a revolt on Capitol Hill.
Congress will have to decide which measuring stick to use when it is called upon to confirm a vice presidential nomination, or it may apply new criteria. It seems improbable that any vice presidential nominee will be accorded the soft treatment usually accorded cabinet choices.
Some other noninnes (to the Supreme court, for example) are held to stricter rules than the ordinary rule.
CONGRESS MIGHT, IN THE END,
confirm such a nomination.
The Senate is entitled to enqurring this
constitutional duty in a political dogfight is obvious.
According to Sen. Birch Bayh, (D-Ind., chief sponsor of the 25th Amendment, the President could bypass this dilemma by naming several nominees so that Congress can deal. There is no indication, however, that the Hill resort to that concluding approach.
In this Hearing, and in his Saturday Evening Post article, Nixon also gave clues as to what he will look for in a vice presidential nominee. Any one chosen for that office, he said, should be of the same political party as the president, should have the same political philosophy as the president, should have a receptive to the president. There is nothing in recent history to suggest any deviation from these views.
When Nixon testified in the 28th Amendment Hearings, he said pointedly that the president should submit only one name for Congress either to accept or reject.
HOWEVER JUSTIFIALE they may be on a philosophical basis, an attempt to prove that there is no God.
enliven the contest in the general climate of 1973.
Democratic National Chairman Robert S. Strauss has called for a "non-presidential type of appointment." And there is talk in the Senate of an "older statesman" for the potential assignment to circularcut a full-scale political encounter.
The difficulty with these conciliatory gestures is that the "non-presidential type" or the "older statesman" might shortly be elected, but in international crisis. One basic reason for passing the 25th Amendment was to narrow the risk that the country might be caught in an emergency without a leader of conservative cathar capable of vigorous action.
Griff and the Unicorn
bv Sokoloff
It is a great misfortune that the first test of this new constitutional machinery comes at a time when political considerations are so acute. History records that all changes in the law of presidential succession have been powerfully influenced by personal preferences and political interests that were dominant at the time. The shift that is to be made in the vice presidency of Donald Trump has been the President and Congress under heavy obligation to keep the drag on their new constitutional function to a minimum.
(The writer is a former associate editor of the Washington Post who wrote extensively about the deliberations leading to enactment of the 25th Amendment.)
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Now we have another bit of expertise by Larry Fish to add to the collection of not-quite-accurate accounts that have appeared in the Kansas.
To begin with; there probably are very few, if any, who like hills to climb when bicycling, but that does not mean that they have been profound in justice has befallen them.
The manner in which Mr. Fish wrote about the October Octoginta made a very pleasant bicycle ride sound like a modern torture-on-wheels. He wrote of "mountainlike hills" that "perplex" (now, really?) the cyclists.
Bicyclists bicycle because they like to, and I can assure you that 99 per cent of the riders in the Octoginta enjoy the tour, regardless of that "peculiar rubberiness" in their legs or numbness in "certain parts of their anatomy" after the ride was over.
As to the paragraph about the member of the tour who got lost, let me first say that it was not one word. It is encountered was about one foot deep, and they rode through it, not waded. I ammit that Fish's remarks about cheek-deep water make good copy, but not
There are now over one hundred members of the Mount Oread Bicycle Club and it is growing all the time. If a reporter needs correct information about a MOBC event, any one of us would be best to supply them with the contact information, please consult the MOBC Newsletter.
Roger Oelschlaeger
Roger Oeckelberg President, Mount Oread Bicycle Club
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This is a letter of thanks for the wonderful student team received from the student football team received from the student body at last week's game in Memphis.
Thanks, KU Fans
players, and coaches' wives when I say that your support is important and well appreciated.
Also, a thanks to all of the fans who met us at Jayhawk Towers on our return. You're a superstar!
Teri Sweatman
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