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KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Homecoming Edition Section A
84th Year. No.34
Friday, October 12, 1973
Midwest Weather May Get Worse
County 458 Was One of the Roads Flooded by Yesterday's Rain
KANSAS CITY (AP)—The fall of 1973 "is starting out like a disgusting carbon copy of last year," Allen Pearson, director of the Weather Service's Severe Storms Forecast Center here, said yesterday.
"It could get worse," said Pearson of record-breaking rainfall and serious flooding in areas of Kansas and Missouri Wednesday night and yesterday.
Pearson said the wet weather was a result of a nearby stationary low pressure trough and low atmospheric moisture.
heavy Midwest rains of last fall were caused by the same thing.
“These things come and go across the country routinely,” Pearson said, “but this one has been extremely slow-moving. It is actually being used to Kansas city, normally a one-day trip.
"WE CAN EXPECT no real relief from
this until this trough moves on," Pearson said.
He said there would be some cooler weather in the northern Midwest today, but he wouldn't have to worry.
"It should stop raining over eastern
Kansas and western Missouri for a couple of days but then it could start all over again or wait until the weather turns.
The same system is causing warm, bainly weather along the east coast and near sea coasts.
The trough keeps drawing in warm, humid air from the south, air that normally might be distributed all across the country. It also enters into the midwestern trough producing rain.
Last fall's long wet spell began about this same time. It seriously delayed planting of crops.
During the panel's morning session, another former McGovere aide, Rick Stearns, accused the committee of a partisan, political attempt to smear the
Sen. George McGovern's former political director, Frank Mankiewicz, told the Senate Watergate committee yesterday, "What was created by the sabotage effort was an unparalleled atmosphere of rancor and discord within the Democratic party."
Former McGovern aides, Mankiewicz and Stearns, say their campaign was clean.
He said that anti-Democratic sabotage had created a strong sense of resentment among the candidates so that a united party was impossible once they were in power.
THE AFFECTED area covers Kansas,
Missouri, Iowa, mozox of Nebraska,
Missouri.
Two Austrians and a Dutchman share the 1973 Nobel prize for physiology.
Austrians Karl Ritter von Frisch, 86 years old, and Konrad Lorenz, 69 years old, and zoologist Nikolaas Tinbergen, 66 years old, of the Netherlands, were described as founders of a new science of ethology dealing with the comparative study of behavior and cited for their "discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behavior patterns."
Their studies of birds and bees, which earned them $40,000 apiece, helped explain an infant's first smile and sexual and aggressive drives in animals
Eglal Krogh Jr. was indicted for perjury arising from testimony about conspirators.
The federal grand jury indictment charged that Krogh led Aug. 28 about the knowledge of the activities of Watergate conspirators E. Howard Hunt and James F. McCarthy.
The indictment of Liddy, a member of the so-called White House plumbers unit, was returned by the second Watergate grand jury, which was empaired to investigate the Ellsberg break-in, administration of an antitrust case, and phone & Telegraph Corp. and other matters tied to the Watergate scandal.
The results of a national sampling of 1,478 households Sept. 22 to 25 showed the same 65 per cent to 32 percent negative split as the previous month, with 41 per cent positive split.
In addition, Nixon's rating on personally inspiring confidence in the wume House fell to 73 to 18 per cent negative, the lowest since he took office. And, for the first time, a plurality (45 to 40 per cent) denied that Nixon was a man of integrity.
Krogh is already under indictment in California in the Ellsberg burglary case.
The Harris poll showed Nixon's rating still at a record low of 65% disapproval.
Dole was recommended by GOP leaders in Kansas for the vice presidency.
Dole was recommended in a telegram to National Republican Chairman George Bush by McCluck "Huck" Boyd, national committeeman; Mrs. Bent Rogers, national committeewoman; and Jack Ranson, state GOP chairman. Bush himself was accepting the telegrams from all the states' GOP leaders. Neither Bush nor his aides would say how the confidential poll, which was to be sent to the White House last night, was going.
"Rainfall of Wednesday night and yesterday was bad enough by itself," Pearson said. "But it came right on the heels of a similar spell two weeks ago, part of the same system, before anything had a chance to dry out."
offensive into Syria bore the chalked slogan: "Non-stop to dorsaeus."
Topeka's recent 3.72 inches pushed that city to an all-time record of $3 inches for the first time since 1985.
The forecast for the Kansas River was optimistic. The weather service said that the river would have crested five feet over flood stage last night at Topeka, where levees can handle about 10 feet more than flood level.
So far this fall, Kansas City is 17% inches of mean annual rainfall and 20% inches of 20 inches above.
Dayan told his soldiers in a report broadcast over Israeli television yesterday, that the Syrian front would be "finished off in our favor" during the night. Syria ignored the claim of a breakthrough on the ground and said its forces were holding firm.
Israeli Tanks Strike Past Golan Defenses
The state radio said tanks leading the
A high-ranking military official told newsmen last night: "The road to Damascus is open to us." But the official indicated Israeli forces would stop short of Damascus and a capital because international protests would be too strong if Damascus were taken.
The Israeli military command claimed its tanks blasted their way through Syrian defenses yesterday and were rumbling along the road to Damascus. Defense officials blast detected a lightning victory but did not say if the Syrian capital was a military objective.
Gen. Haim Herzog last late night in Tel Aviv that there were two more Syrian lines of defense between the Israeli forces and Damascus, and a "bristling" military complex around the town of Qatana, about 18 miles southeast of the Syrian capital. Herzog, a former chef of Israel in Jordan, now a commentator for the state radio
By the Associated Press
*PENTAGON SOURCES* said the United States was preparing yesterday to rush tons of explosives and ammunition.
At the United Nations in New York, Foreign Minister Mohamed H. el-Zayyat of Egypt said a communique to him from Cairo told of 500 persons killed in air attacks on Port Said, Cairo suburbs and Egypt's northern delta.
The state's radio quoted Dayan as selling a newspaper, that the Israel had insisted to do. He told reporters.
ISRAELI PLANES had attacked Port Said twice since the war began, but no Israeli war communique yesterday men- See MIDDLE Press
There also were conflicting reports from the two sides about the other naval battle earlier yesterday. The Greek Merchant Marine Ministry said an Israeli gunboat sank one of its ships, killing two crewmen, during that battle.
SYRIA AND ISRAEL tangle in two naval battles off the Syrian coast. Early this morning Syrian and Israel war companies attacked northern towns north of Israel. Syriya claimed it sank three Israeli boats and shot down a helicopter. Israel said it sank two Syrian ships.
A Cairo war communique said Egyptian fighters intercepted Israeli planes over Egypt, shot nine of them down and forced some to drop their bombs and flee.
—In the air war, Syrian and Egyptian communiqués claimed more than 100 Israeli planes shot down yesterday. An Israeli communique said Israel shot down a total of 11 Arab planes. Pentagon observers have exaggerated their aerial kill reports.
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-Cairo radio said Egyptian tanks punched farther into the Sinai peninsula to wipe out troops.
In other developments:
THE COMMAND SAID ISAid forces were six miles inside the 1967 cease-fire line along the heights, a hilly area rich with farmlands seized from Syria in the 1967 war.
—Egypt's Middle East News Agency, in a report immediately described by the U.S. news agency, said Friday that it
Western diplomatic sources in Cairo claimed that U.S. carrier-based warplanes were on patrol.
The Israeli command said it broke through the Syrians' Golan Heights defense after an all-day tank and infantry offensive backed by massive air support.
The President, secluded today at his retreat in the Catoctin Mountains, was described as moving quickly toward a final choice.
Nixon Narrows List For Vice President
From all indications, the names of John B. Connally, Nelson A. Rockefeller and Ronald Reagan still rank high on Nixon's list. But sources familiar with the President's thinking cautioned against focusing exclusively on these three names—one for each president and one sidinger a surprise choice from the steadily growling list of long-shot possibilities.
By GAYLORD SHAW Associated Press Reporter
CAMP DAVID, Md. (AP) -Insiders say that President Nixon has shortened substantially the list of possible successors to Surtio T. Agnew and that he has rejected the notion of naming a caretaker vice president.
When asked whether Nixon might forego picking an Agnew successor who might prove a strong contender for the 1976 GDP presidential nomination, Warren responded yesterday, "I would not limit the President's options in seeking a successor."
A public remark by Deputy Press Secretary Gerald L. Warren and private statements by other aides underlined Nixon's reported conviction that he should seek a man without regard to 1976 presidential politics.
Though Connally's favor with Nixon is
If the President names Connally, that would split both parties," said a leading Democratic senator. Another congressional member who identified Connally would be rejected by the Senate.
unquestioned, there are growing signs that the former Democrat and Texas governor could face a long and troublesome confirmation by Congress.
Agnew resigned Wednesday before he was sentenced to three years probation and financed $10,000 on a cont情 play to an inquest after a statement from a corruption investigation.
A majority of both the Senate and House is needed for approval.
Administration sources indicated that no more than a half dozen or so were still in the running, and that the President's choice would be disclosed before the first of the months.
Within an hour after the stunning developments, Nixon said through a spokesman that he would seek the views and recommendations of national leaders before sending a nomination to Congress. The White House said that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's recommendations of the Senate's 42 Republican members to the President's personal secretary, and that House GOP leader Gerald R. Ford had done the same
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Sidman Risked Censure for Ideals
Editor's note—This is one of a series of profiles of the 10 semi-finalists for the 1973 HOPE award. The field will be narrowed to five finalists. Nov. 4 at a recognition banquet. Final voting will be Nov. 6 and 7, and the award will be presented Nov. 10 during halftime of the KU-Colorado football game.
By JEFFREY STINSON Kansan Staff Reporter
It was a Monday morning late in the spring semester of 1970. A course in recent European history was being taught in the mock trial room of Green Hall, Cambodia had just been invaded and four students had been killed at Kent State University.
To prevent another Kent State from happening on the University of Kansas campus, the administration and student body at KU had decided the previous Friday that students would have the option of continuing classes and taking their finals. Students who had earned to that point or taking incompletes for their classwork that semester.
The professor in the mock trial room finished explaining to the students in that class that they were expected to attend the class, complete the remaining work and take the final. If they didn't, they would fail the course.
THE PROFESSOR ASKED the student to seat himself and remain silent or leave the classroom. The student declined and continued to protest.
A graduate student in history rose and began to voicenorously protest the precept.
The professor walked up to the student and started to usher him out. Suffling back, he said, "Hey, I want you to stay."
Six members of the class rose in defense the teacher. They weren't needed. The teacher did not.
Those six students rose in defense of Charles Sidman, then associate professor of
Today, Sidman is a full professor and chairman of the department of history.
He is also a candidate for the HOPE award, given annually by the senior class
tor faculty members who demonstrate willingness to help students, success in challenging and stimulating students and excellence in the general field of
Sidman and the graduate student reconciled their differences the following semester when the student assisted him in teaching a class. Sidman saws.
"I told him he didn't have to assist me if he didn't want to," Dikman said. "He told me he wanted to work with me and we became very good friends."
SIDMAN TOLD the graduate student and others that if they really believed in the Cambodia protest as much as they said they did, they should have been willing to make a personal sacrifice, such as failing the course or taking an incomplete.
"The point I was trying to make at that time was, if you really believe in something you have to be willing to sacrifice," he says. "If you are willing to give up your life, if you are willing to give something up."
"I was willing to subject myself to censure or toiring by the University. I felt that if I was allowed to write, it would be true."
classroom, there would be no more academic freedom."
Sidran was later called before a
university committee for his actions that
died.
"that spring taught me that one had to devote time to students," he says, "Since then, I've been quite careful about keeping my door open to students."
Sidman almost didn't take the chairmanship of the history department when it was offered to him this year. He said he was afraid that if he did, he would no longer have time to devote to teaching and contact with students.
SIDIMAN SAYS he has always enjoyed
teaching he taught junior high and high
school.
"What he's talking about excites him so much that you can see it on his face," a student says of Sidman. "He makes you want to learn about it."
"My style is to teach without notes and to try to read through the eyes of the students the points they don't understand," Sidman says.
A person's ability to understand through
his eyes is a natural gift, according to Sidman.
"He's got the best personal eye contact of
among them," one student says,
"I'll imply by laughing."
Even with his devotion to teaching,
Sadrian finds time for research in modern
language and literature.
He has published a book on the German collapse in 1918 and has a book on Germany's Weimar Republic at a publisher. A book he has written on national socialism is being translated into German and he has a manuscript for a book on modern Ireland.
HE IS ALSO a baseball buff. A former student claims that Sidman knows something about every ballplayer who ever lifted a bat in the major leagues.
He devised the computerized baseball game that the Ball Park in Lawrence has incorporated, and he says he has intentions to enter the entire history of major league baseball.
"Carles Sidman is a gentleman and a scholar," a CU senior said last week. "I was the first woman to attend."
Kaman Staff Photos By DAVE REGIER
Charles Sidman devotes time to students, research, and baseball