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KANSAN
84th Year, No.23
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Thursday, September 27, 1973
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Condition of astronauts is a landmark
in medical history, space doctors said.
"We're impressed," Dr. Paul Buchanan, one of the space agency doctors, said yesterday. He said the tests on the astronauts showed a 10 to 20 percent drop in oxygen levels during the mission.
Weightlessness has the effect of permitting muscles to decondition or weaken. Since the muscles don't have to work against the constant tug of gravity, they waste away. Personal exercise halted the deconditioning in the astronauts, Buchanan said.
Kissinger said Nixon would definitely make a trip to Europe in the near future.
Kissinger also said at a news conference at the United Nations that the positions of the United States and its allies across the Atlantic on a new economic and political relationship were still far apart.
He discussed prospects for a presidential trip and a final declaration of cooperation during what Nixon has called "the year of Europe." However, he declined to set any "artificial deadlines" on either the trip or the declaration.
U.S. is headed for best trade year
in three years, commerce economists said.
The United States had a small $16.6 million trade deficit in August, which followed a July surplus, the Commerce Department said. The continuing improvement in the country's trade balance has been the one bright spot in the economy since the stronger dollar abroad and more jobs at the government economics said.
Director John Dunlop of the Cost of Living Council said the council would approve increases in the price of gasoline later this week. He also hinted that the council might challenge the proposed two-cent increase in air mail and first class stamps, as well as other postal rate increases announced by the council this week.
More hunters will be tramping in woods to beat high meat prices, officials said.
Roast venison, barbecued elk and squirrel stew may turn up on a lot of dinner tables this fall as a substitute for roast beef and steak.
At least 15 states have already received more license applications than in the rest.
A Kansas ficial said, "The beef situation is probably the biggest factor in the unexpected upsurge. Another reason may be the gasoline shortage."
Misconduct charges have been dropped
against two former prisoners of war.
A qualified Pentagon sagen the charges had been dropped against Marine Lt. Col. Edison Wainright Miller of Tustin, Calif., and Navy Capt. Walter Wilber of Crossroads, Pa., for activities during their years in North Vietnamese prison cannons.
They are the only ex-POW officers to have faced misconduct charges. No charges are now pending against any of the 666 returned prisoners of war.
BBC plans to press 10,000 "hit" records of Princess Anne's wedding Nov. 14.
A first pressing of that size is usually reserved for big-name entertainers guaranteed to have a smash hit.
The BBC had a surprise hit with Anne's brother, Prince Charles, six years ago when he was invested as Prince of Wales in a colorful and ancient palace.
House passed proposal concerning Russia and its Jewish emigration policy.
The proposal, which reportedly was passed by a unanimous voice vote, would prohibit most-favored-nation tariff treatment for the Soviet Union.
President Nixon has opposed such action by Congress, contending it could jeopardize the present U.S.-Soviet defense, including not only trade but
House Puts Off Agnew Plea
WASHINGTON (AP) - Speaker of the House Carl Albert has decided against any House action for the time being on Vice President Spirio Agnew's request for an investigation of charges that he was involved in political corruption in Maryland.
That left a federal grand jury in Baltimore as the only forum scheduled to hear evidence on the allegations against Agnery, Atty. Gen. Elliot Richardson had ordered the panel to begin hearing that evidence this morning.
Albert announced his decision on Agnew's in a statement vesterday afternoon.
"The vice president's letter relates to matters before the courts," the statement reads.
"In view of that fact, I as speaker, will not take any action on the letter at this
Agney's surprise request for the House investigation was made in a letter the vice president sent to the senate.
The vice president was on Capitol Hill yesterday and told newsmen he had every idea of what the next president would do.
"I want to make it very clear that I am not resigning," he said.
Agnew also said he would hold a news conference at some future time.
Agnew was asked about news reports that he and his attorneys had engaged in plea bargains in the past.
and that he had offered to resign in return for a reduction or dismissal of charges.
"At no time," he replied, "have either Ior
my attorneys initiated an plea
beneath me."
Sen. Mark Hatfield, R-Ore., told a reporter that 10 senators met with Agnew for more than an hour during lunch and that no one in the group believed Albert's rejection of Agnew's request was final or irrevocable.
Meanwhile, the White House said President Nixon had neither encouraged nor pressured Agnew to take any particular action or for fighting the graft allegations against him.
Senate 'No' to Troop Cut
WASHINGTON (AP) - Overturning a vote taken earlier in the day, the Senate yesterday rejected an attempt to force a governor to leave U.S. land-based troops stationed abroad.
The reference was to Gen. Andrew Goodpaster, chief NATO commander.
A 49-46 vote yesterday morning had resulted in a tentative acceptance of the amendment by Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield. But a second vote was necessary on attaching the provision to a defense-recruitment authorization bill.
Mansfield, asked his reaction to the vote,
said, "I have nothing to say. We lost."
Asked how the votes were switched, he said: "You'll have to ask the defense department, Gen. Goodpaster and the White House."
That vote was 51 to 44 against the amendment.
The amendment, strongly opposed by the Nixon administration, would have had 188,400 of the estimated 471,000 troops stationed abroad withdrawn by July 1, 1976, at least 47,100 being pulled back by July 1, 1974.
The proposed withdrawals would have applied to U.S. troops in all foreign countries but would have exempted 100,000 seabased troops from the cutback.
U. S. forces are stationed on every continent, including Antarctica.
Marsfield originally had asked for a with-a-
lift of 50 per cent, but amended it at the la-
nds.
For the order to have become effective, it would have had to win approval of a House-Senate conference and later of both houses, and be signed by President Nixon.
The House voted earlier this year against
a 20 per cent cutback in foreign-based
expenses.
Nixon had said that this was the wrong time for a withdrawal. Mansfield, however, told the Senate that action was long overdue.
Sen. John Tower, R-Tex., said the Mansfield amendment would sabotage planned U.S.-Soviet negotiations on mutual reductions of armed forces in Europe.
Responding to statements that European nations have not contributed their share to NATO, Tower said the United States wasn't willing to contribute and did not protect protection of American security interests.
Sen. John Pastore, D-R.I., noting arguments that a U.S. presence in Europe is essential to the defense of that continent, asked: "Why don't the European nations do
their share? Any time we try to pull back one man, they shout "the Communists are here!"
Deputy White House, press secretary Gerald Warren said he believed it would be improper for the White House to comment on Agnew's choice of methods for fighting the graft allegations but added that Nixon had already made a strong privilege to handle this in his own way.
Including money spent for dependents of U.S. servicemen, foreign nationals hired to support them and U.S. civilians abroad. For example, a $20 million donation to $30 billion a year for maintaining a U.S. military presence around the world. Of that amount, $71 billion goes for troops in Iraq.
Other major U.S. u.s. troop commitments are in Thailand, Korea, Taiwan, Okinawa and Japan.
On another matter, Warren said Nixon did not concur or need to concur in Richardson's mission. Take Justice to the federal grand jury in Baltimore.
Nixon "did not want to interject himself into or interfere with the judicial process and therefore it was not a matter of the time that he got the attorney general's action." Warren said.
Last month federal prosecutors notified the vice president he was under investigation for possible violations of tax, extortion, bribery and conspiracy laws. Agnew has steadfastly proclaimed his innocence.
In rejecting Agnew's request for a House hearing, Albert left open the possibility that when Agnew's case is no longer a matter for him, the house might reconsider the decision.
As leader of the Democratic majority in the House, Albert's personal decision is decisive providing he can keep Democrat leadership. He has announced after conferring with other House Democratic leaders and there were indications that the decision would not be made.
House Republican Leader Gerald Ford of Michigan said he would not try to forge any new alliance.
Associated Press Reporter
Political Pranks Defended By Nixon Speech Writer
By HARRY F. ROSENTHAL
KU Financial State Bemoaned by Dykes
Kansan Staff Reporter
WASHINGTON-Nixon campaign tactician Patrick J. Buchanan said yesterday that ghost-written advertisements, pranks and conspiracy operatives are legitimate political weapons.
By ERIC MEYER
Higher education in Kansas is at a crossroad, Chancellor Archery R. Dykes said yesterday at a meeting of the Lawrence Commerce at the Lawrence Country Club.
He said that deterioration of financial support for the University of Kansas had slowed, but that the financial situation was not stable.
"It would not take much to destroy the stability and force the institution on a downward course again," said Dykes, who was asked to be killed as a State of the University address.
"Historically, the University of Kansas has been the primary institution in Kansas for graduate education, research and public service." His responsibility to continue these functions:
"if they are neglected, the people of Kansas and the University will suffer because the quality of life for all people is closely linked with the level of our
knowledge and understanding of the world. Society must be an educated society today.
Much of the quality of KU's education has been accomplished through sound management practices, Dykes says, but it can do only so much with limited resources.
Dykes said the University was in the top 10 per cent of the nation's major universities in terms of academic ratings but was in the bottom 20 per cent in terms of faculty.
"It appears unreasonable to assume that the combination of the best in talent and worst in pay can be held together much longer," he said.
The purchasing power of an average KU faculty member's salary has declined. 7 per cent in the past five years, Dykes said, though per-capita income in Kansas increased 14.4 per cent during the same period.
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Testifying to the Senate Watergate committee which began the dirty tricks phase of his hearings, Buchanan denied that he pulled the strings on political sabotage in the 1972 campaign from his post as President Nixon's top speech writer.
Sen. Sam Ervin Jr. of North Carolina, the committee's Democratic chairman; Republican vice chairman Sen. Howard Baker Jr. of Tennessee; and majority counsel Samuel Dash all said they deplored the leaks.
"There are covert and clandestine activities in intelligence, in my view, that there is nothing wrong with," Buchanan testified.
Buchanan said leaks to the press previous to his appearance represented "a covert campaign of vilification on by staff members of your committee."
He conceded that he directed the preparation of ghost-written advertisements that appeared in the name of various committees, but added, "I've glosed speeches for presidents, for vice presidents, for senators. I've glored letters editor. What's wrong with ad that people are willing to put their names on?"
He accused the committee of harboring "character assassins" who, he said, orchestrated a campaign to malign his university's news media in advance of his testimony.
He admitted that he had urged an early
The KU Campus Was Crowded with Umbrellas as Rain Continued to Fall Yesterday
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attack on Sen. Edmund Muskie of Maine when Muskie was the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, but said he was not aware of any political sabotage campaigns against Muskie or any other Democrat.
He confirmed that he had recommended measures to counter tax-exempt organizations like the Ford Foundation whose policies, he said, are "in basic disagreement with our own political philosophy.
"My view is that we ought to make the whole question of tax-exempt foundations and the use of their funds . . . to unbalance the system." (public and political issue, "Buchanan said.")
He said he recommended creation "of some of our own institutions—conservative in nature—to counter institutions with a view to the public good and discretionary funds for such organizations.
"I would recommend that the President turn over grants to organizations that follow principles we believe in, rather than to such as the Brookings Institution, which in my judgment is a government in exile for the Democratic Party," he said.
Buchanan said he was asked in summer 1971 to direct an investigation of Pentagon Papers figure Daniel Elisberg but turned it down as "a waste of my time and abilities." It wasn't known at the time that group of "plumbers" was subsequently set up for that purpose.
occuranan, long a vocal defender of Nixon policies, appeared without a lawyer. He invoked executive privilege only indirectly, refusing to bring documents asked in a committee subpoena. He said he did so on the advice of White House attorneys.
The committee presented 34 memoranda it had obtained elsewhere and Buchan answered questions about them. The documents showed that on March 24, 1971, Buchan, in a memo to the President headed the Museum of History, instructed his interests' interest's "dictate smoking him out now and keeping him in front as long as we can."
Buchanan explained he felt then that political resources should have been concentrated on Muskie, then the Democratic front-runner.
Of the election, Buchanan said, "If Muskie or Sen. George McGovern had won the election, given their views on American politics in Southeast Asia, it would have been little short of a catastrophe. The only Democratic candidate I would have been comfortable with would have been Sen. Henry Jackson."
Other documents showed that:
—On April 19, 1971, Buchanan told the President "I believe that outside of the White House, we should keep the heat on Big Ed. If, then, he does get the nomination, he will be scarred—as to be politically ineffective."
"On July 28, 1971, deputy campaign director Jeb Stuart Magruder wrote John Mitchell, then attorney general, that "in Buchanan's view . . . if Muskie is nominated, he should be painted 'as far left as possible.'"
On April 27, 1972, Buchanan wrote Mitchell and H. R. Haldenman, then
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