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KANSAN
84th Year, No.33
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Local Reaction To Agnew Is Mild
Thursday, October 11, 1973
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Vice President Agnew Resigns
Congress Must OK Successor
Agnew resigned from the nation's second highest office yesterday at the same time he pleaded no contest to a charge of income tax. Mr. Agnew, who was president of a vice president in the country's history,
WASHINGTON (AP) — A replacement for Spiro Agnew, who resigned as vice president of the United States, will have to seek a third term for Nixon and both houses of Congress.
The replacement procedure contained in the 25th Amendment to the Constitution provides that a vacancy in the office is to be filled by an elector. The President and ratified by Congress.
Agnew Speaking at Dedication of KCI Last Fall
Differing from other presidential nominations, a choice for vice president must be ratified by both the House and Senate instead of just the Senate, as in the case of cabinet members, judges and other top officials.
During most of the nation's history a vacancy in the office of vice president, created either by resignation or promotion to the job, has gone until the next election.
However, the 25th Amendment, ratified Feb. 10, 1967, provides in Section 2:
"WHENEVER there is a vacancy in the office of the vice president, the president shall nominate a vice president to take over." The majority vote of borough houses, of Congress.,
The second newest amendment also provides a new order for presidential succession and a formula for removing an incapacitated president who becomes
Will Resignation Restore Trust In U.S. Politics? Profs Disagree
By ERIC MEYER
Kansan Staff Reporter
Two political science professors at the University of Kansas yesterday expressed differing interpretations of Vice President Soiro Anew's resumption.
Earl Nehring, associate professor and chairman of the department, said the resignation could further damage the political system and public trust in the political system.
Roy Laird, professor, said the resignation demonstrated how the American system of justice applied equally to everyone, including the vice president.
"These circumstances are bad for the system," Nehring said, "especially at a
time when we keep reading headlines about corruption and scandal in government.
Nebring said Agnew's resignation also damaged the Nixon administration's ability to govern.
Laird said, "It'll undoubtedly hurt our image abroad, although perhaps not as much as some might think because it surely also has its reverse effect, proving the strength of the American democratic system over the Watergate flashec and where the vice president is put into the position of having to resign.
"Ironically, this is strong evidence of the working of the system."
LAIRD SAID THE presidency and the
government were practically inseparable, so the damage to the administration because of the resignation also could lower a public's opinion of government as a whole.
Enrollment Data Indicate Loss of $600,000 for KU
THE JUSTICE Department agreed to drop the charges of bribery, extortion and conspiracy that Agnew also faced. The charges were detailed in a 40-page document submitted to the court. did not count the tax evasion charge but denied the others.
Disclosure of the resignation, the second by a vice president in U.S. history, was almost casually revealed by a staff secretary here as Agnew himself was making a surprise appearance in the Baltimore court.
Atty. Gen. Elliot Richardson, appearing with Agnex in the federal court in New York, said he was involved involving the vice president had established a pattern of substantial cash payments to him by contractors when he had been Baltimore county executive, governor and mayor.
These payments continued from the early 1960s into 1971, and one engineer doing business with the state made payoffs up to and including last December, Richardson
Reading from a paper held in trembling hands, the 85-year-old vice president told me that he was not alone.
AGNEWS' resignation was part of an agreement struck by his attorneys with the Justice Department which allowed him to plead no contest to a 1967 tax fraud charge and have all other allegations facing him dropped.
President Nixon, expressing "a sense of deep personal loss" over the stunning development, met with Democratic congressional leaders at the White House to discuss "procedural questions" on the selection of a successor.
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Agnew Resigns Decision Made in Public Interest After Admission of Tax Evasion
Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield said afterward that Nixon had given no hint of whom he favored but that he expected to make a choice this week or next.
Within hours after his resignation, Agnew said he would make a public statement within a few days, before he did not know exactly when or what format he would use.
WASHINGTON—Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned abruptly from office yesterday and pleaded no contest to a charge of federal income tax evasion. A judge sentenced him to a $10,000 fine and three years' probation.
weeks to end widespread press speculation that he would quit.
had hit an all-time high of 20,322 students, a gain of 247 since last fall.
The full-time equivalent enrollment (FTE) was 18,238, an increase of 104 from a year ago. However, FTE increased by 12 less than had been expected.
man that his decision to quit and plead no contest to the felony charge "rests on my firm belief that the public interest requires me to solve the problems which are facing me."
AGNEWS DECISION came unexpec-
tively after he had sought through-
put documents.
Agnew admitted yesterday to receiving payments in 1967 which were not reported on his income tax and to his awareness that he had been denied that any payments had ever influenced his execution of the public trust as Baltimore county executive, governor or as
He said his lawyers had advised him a legal battle over the allegations against him could last for years and that the attending publicity would divert public attention from other problems, "to the country's detriment."
The University could lose more money because FTE fell short of expectations, Dykes said. State funds for the University were down by 6.7 percent to rate of $22 for each credit hour taunted.
FTE is computed by dividing the total number of credit hours being taken by 15, which is considered to be a full-time student load.
BY RICHARD H. PYLE Associated Press Reporter
Related Stories On Pages 2,12
The actual charge against him contained in an information filed by the Justice Department, that he was't helped to account for $1,353.47 in federal taxes for the year 1967.
By ERIC MEYER
Korean Staff Reporter
See AGNEW Page 12
The main purpose of the meetings, said presidential spokesman, Gerald L. Warren was to talk about procedures to be followed in Nixon's nomination of Agnew's successor which requires confirmation by both houses of Congress.
The University of Kansas will lose more than a half million dollars in anticipated revenue because of inaccurate enrollment records and cancellor Archie R. Dykes said yesterday.
Barely two hours after announcement of Agnew's historic action, Nixon went into a meeting with four top Republican congressional leaders—Sen. Hugh Scott of Michigan, Rep. Richard Griffin of Michigan, Rep. Gerald Ford of Michigan and Rep. Leslie Arends of Illinois.
Nixon also summoned two congressional Democrats, House Speaker Carl Albert of Oklahoma and Senate Majority Leader Ted Cruz to an evening meeting in the Oval Office.
However, Dykes said the fund decrease because of the 12-student difference would be only abut $4,000, a relatively insignificant sum.
In that year, the information said, he
reported income of $28,099 and taxes of
Dykes said most of the losses would be in student fee collections, which would be $621,356 less than expected and budgeted for fiscal year 1974.
White House officials will not give a timetable for selection of a new vice president, nor would they speculate on who might be picked for the post.
WASHINGTON (AP)—President Nixon yesterday acknowledged with a "sense of deep personal loss" the resignation of Vice President Sipro Agnew, and he quickly began consulting Republican and leadership leaders about nominating a successor.
No HOPE Profile
He attributed the decreased fee collections to an increase in the number of part-time and resident students, who paid less in fees than full-time and nonresident students.
"We are sort of feeling our way," Man-
Nixon Consults Leaders In Quest for a Successor
Editor's note—The HOPE award profile scheduled to run in today's Kansan will be run tomorrow because of the abundance of resources for his resignation of Vice President Spro Agnew.
There are 521 fewer out-of-state students enrolled at KU this year than last fall, Dykes said, and there are 587 more part-time students.
Because of these changes, average fee collections were $234 a student, or $1 less per student.
Figures released Tuesday by Registrar William Kelly showed fall enrollment at KU
The White House press secretary, Ronald L. Ziegler, without giving specifics, had said before the meetings that Nixon would "promptly begin consultations with appropriate national leaders" both inside and outside the administration.
Dykes said the decreased fee collections were ironic because head-count enrollment was free.
street said after noting that Congress had no
responsible way to fill in the vacancy
created by April 7.
Ziegler, appearing before newmen an hour after the disclosure of Agnew's resignation, said Nixon had learned of Agnew's decision when they had met secretly for a half hour Tuesday evening in the Oval Office.
In the past, the state legislature has subsidized part of the difference between anticipated and actual revenues, Dykes said.
At that meeting, Ziegler said, "The President expressed to the vice president his sense of deep personal loss" and his "appreciation for the vice president's dedicated service to the nation over the last 4½ years."
The President also voiced "his respect for the vice president's decision to put the national interest above personal consideration." Zielier said.
Nixon "intends to move expeditiously in selecting a nominee and he trusts that Congress will act promptly" in confirming Agnew's successor, Ziegler said.
Keith Nitcher, vice chancellor for business affairs, and Raymond Nichols, chancellor emeritus, reportedly made the enrollment review.
The losses were discovered when university administrators began reviewing the financial records.
Nichols and Rick Von Ende, executive secretary of the University, met with Dykes most of the afternoon yesterday before he announced the losses.
But, when asked how KU would replace this year's loss, he said only:
"That's a good question. That's a very good question."
He also said he couldn't immediately estimate how the losses would affect KU.
Israeli Troops Cross Suez Canal
By the Associated Press
Israeli commanders crossed the Suzit Canal early today for the first time in the new Middle East war and made a hit-and-run convoy, the Israeli command said at dawn.
The Israelis said the commanders had returned safely across the 200-foot-wide canal after attacking "convoys and rear echelons of the enemy" in the canal's southern sector. Earlier in the night, Israel shot at a Syrian air force base the Suze front, and the Golan Heights.
Israeli said its gunboats had shelled Syrian oil installations during the night at Lakatia, Banias and Tartous on the Mediterranean coast more than 300 miles from the Egyptian canal front. A communique said "large flames could be seen."
THE ISRAELI claimed they had sunk two Syrian missile boats; the Syrians claimed they had sunk three enemy aircrafts. In this regard, also had they been sunk during the attack.
Egypt and Syria had no immediate response to the claims. Earlier accounts from newsmen on the Suez front said that Egypt were continuing to move across the canal.
Premier Golda Meir said yesterday that Israeli forces had recaptured the Golan Heights from Syria. She said the Soviet army was pouring in arms to help the Arabs.
Babadghad radio said Iraq had thrown its troops and air force into the five-day-wild
Israel jets carried the air war into Syria for the second consecutive day.
In other developments:
--KING HUSSEIN said Jordan had mobilized its reserves.
Jordan fought with Syria and Egypt against Israel in the 1967 war, but so far has not committed forces to the current fighting.
Regarding the Soviet arms, Mrs. Meir said the Soviet Union had been "incessantly" arming the Arab states since 1967, and "even at this moment we have reason for saying that the weapons, to Syria especially, are flowing all the time."
President Nikon said the United States was "trying its best to mediate the 'very difficult' situation."
A Pentagon spokesman declined comment when asked about U.S. aid to Israel, but there was no indication that the United States was cutting back its arms sales to Tel Aviv.
SYRIA AND Egypt countered the Israeli claims of victory in the skies, and reported shooting down 24 Israel warplanes. Israel and Egypt took 20 29 Iran and Egyptian fighter planes.
Neither side gave its own losses.
"We have moved to the offensive almost everywhere," Mrs. Meir said yesterday in a televised address. "There is absolutely no doubt about the result of the war. We will
In part of her speech, Mrs. Meir indicated Israel's goal might to advance beyond the cease-fire lines that had existed before the war broke out Saturday.
Israel had claimed once before that its forces had pushed the Egyptians back to the canal and had carried the Golan Heights of Israel into Syria. Israel general said that this was not so.
'W E W A I N T TO hit them, force them back across the lines, and push them beyond the lines" to prevent any renewed Arab attack, she said without elaboration.
"The war could be a long one," said Maj. Gen. Sturm Gonee, Iowa commander. "It would cost us."
Tal Aviv and Damascus reported savage air clashes over the Golan Heights battleground and during the Israeli raids on targets in the Syrian heartland. Each side claimed the other had suffered heavy losses.
President Nixon met with congressional leaders in Washington and won their support for his efforts to halt the war. Nixon's peacemaking proposal to the U.N. Security Council remained stalled, however, over conditions for a possible ceasefire.
SENATE MAJORITY Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana said after the White House session that the question of U.S. arms for Israel was "always under advisement"
but that it did not arise in his talk with Nixon.
Other Arab countries have plied
blood and Syria and Syria some have
woken token.
The Iraqi announcement that its air and land forces were fighting on both fronts inside the city of Mosul entered the fight against the Israelis in the fourth broad Arab-Arab conflict since 1963.
The Beirut newspaper An Nahar reported Iraq had committed 18,000 troops and 100 tanks along with an undisclosed amount of weapons to the Golan front and Egypt in the Sinai battle.
THE ISRAELI military command claimed its raiding jets had inflicted "considerable damage" on the French-built Damascus airport and abashed it with blasted aircraft after they landed on Mediterranean and other strategic targets in Syria and Egypt.
But Syria claimed its air defenses had risen to meet the four jets attacking over the Syrian border. It was out of the sky before they could get near the airport. The fourth Israeli jet fled with Syrian MIGs in hot pursuit and was down before it could reach safety in Israeli skies,
The attack was the second reported on Syria's capital since the new round of war with Israel, the Ministry and the government radio station on the city's eastern edges Tuesday. Heavy civilian casualties and damage to buildings in the central area, a Soviet diplomatic center, were reported.
THE SYRIANS claimed yesterday's attacks also had caused civilian casualties at Homs, an industrial city 85 miles north of Damascus; at Minaat al-Bayda, the naval center; and at the main Syrian Mediterranean port of Tartus and Latakia.
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