Tuesday, September 18. 1973
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Hunt Wants Guilty Plea Withdrawn
Watergate Conspirator Cites Withheld Information
By DONALD M. ROTHBERG
Associated Press Reporter
WASHINGTON - E. Howard Hunt Jr.
wuggle to withdraw. gully plea in the
southwest of Boston.
In another court move involving last year's presidential campaign, Donald H. Segretti agreed to plead guilty to violating federal election laws.
Segretti, an underground political
operative for President Nixon's re-election campaign, also agreed to cooperate with federal prosecutors investigating sabotage in 1972.
Hunt, one of five men who pleaded guilty in the Watergate trial early this year, asked a federal judge to withdraw his plea and dismiss the charges against him.
In a motion filed in U.S. District Court, Hunt said evidence that would have enabled
Committee OKs Bill To Change Elections
By JEFFREY STINSON
Kaman Staff Reporter
A bill to move the Student Senate's spring elections from March to February was approved yesterday by the senate's committee on Rights, Privileges and Respon
If the bill is passed by the senate at its meeting tomorrow, elections will be four weeks before spring break. In the past, bills have been one week before spring recess.
Mert Buckley, Wichita senior and student body president, said changing the elections to an earlier date would expedite the planning of the senate's yearly budget.
"By having the elections earlier, Finance and Auditing Committee can have more control over the election process."
EARLIER ELECTIONS would also give the newly elected senate more time to become accustomed to its responsibilities and procedures, he said.
The bill would require the candidates for student body president and vice president to file a declaration of candidacy by the first Friday instead of 30 days before spring break.
In other business, committee members reported that they had received no response from the departments within the university on departmental provisions for student representation on policy-making committees.
The senate code requires 20 per cent student representation on all University Council.
"THINK ITS A real slap in the face of this committee that no department has replied to our letters," said Rick Ewing, junior and chairman of the committee.
The committee sent letters to the departments two weeks ago requesting that they comply with the code by having elections.
The committee would continue to contact the departments that haven't made provisions for the election of students to committees, according to McLaughlin.
If compliance with the code was ignored in the future, McLaughlin said, the committee would ask the senate or the senate to force the departments to comply.
him to defend himself against the conspiracy, burglary and wiretapping charges
- Last Friday, the four other men who had pleaded guilty to charges stemming from the June 17, 1972, burglary of Democratic legislators in Baltimore, asked the court to withdraw their pleas.
MONTHS AFTER the Watergate trial, which opened in January, it was disclosed that files from Hunt's White House safe have been given to then-acting FIRE Director L. Berman.
They said their guilty pleas had been "premised on false assumptions which had been fostered by them by others, including co-defendant E. Howard Hunt Jr., and ultimately, high officials in the executive branch of the government."
The four men who asked last week to withdraw their guilty pleas are Bernard L. Barker, Eugenio R. Martinez, Frank Sturgis and Virgilio R. Gonzalez.
The move by Segretti was made earlier in the day.
One charge against Segretti alleges involvement in a bogus letter accusing two Democratic opponents of Sen. Edmund Muskie, D-Maine, with sexual misconduct. The campaign ministry was distributed during the Florida Democratic Presidential primary campaign.
SEGRETTY'S DECISION was disclosed in a brief appearance before a federal magistrate where he agreed to have a case against him. Tampa, Fl., transferred to Washington.
No date was scheduled for Segretti to enter his guilty plea. The magistrate set a date.
A federal grand jury in Tampa returned a four-count indictment Aug. 24, charging Segretti with conspiracy to violate federal election laws and illegally publishing statements during the Florida primary. It had remained sealed until Monday.
Segretti had received money from
Hitchin'
WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen, Charles H. Perc, Riley, 31, said yesterday that he would see a sliding-scale tax on new automobiles based on their rate of fuel consumption.
Percy to Propose New Car Tax
Under the bill he plans to introduce today, a tax would be imposed in 1976 on cars that got less than 20 miles a gallon. The car that gets five miles a gallon or less.
provide revenues for energy research and stimulate conservation of fuel.
Percy said the proposed tax would encourage development of fuel-efficient cars.
Under the bill the tax would apply in 1981 to all new cars that got less than 25 miles a gallon and the sliding scale of rates would increase to a maximum tax of $1,090.
Sen. Walter Mondale, D-Minn., who like it is regarded as a potential 1976 presidential candidate, said in a press conference.
Nixon's former personal attorney and campaign fund raiser for an alleged campaign of political sabotage in Florida and elsewhere.
introduce a bill taking a different approach to the energy problem.
Mondale said his bill would create a federal corporation, financed with revenues from offshore drilling leases, to undertake research into energy conservation.
The independent corporation he proposed would study ways to reduce the use of energy through improvements in building designs and materials, greater efficiency in electrical appliances and better design of vehicles and industrial processes.
Special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox has assigned a team of lawyers to investigate the reported political espionage activities.
A SPOKESMAN FOR the special prosecutor's office said the expanded indictment disclosed yesterday supercedes the earlier one.
Segretti, 32 years old Monday, had pleaded innocent in Tampa on May 17 to a two-count indictment charging him with the killing of George A. Hearing, pleaded guilty to one count of the same indictment and is serving a maximum one-year prison sentence.
He said that as a result of Segretti's agreement to cooperate, no further charges were laid.
Herbert W. Kalmbach, former personal attorney for the President, told the Senate Watergate committee in July that he passed on money to Segretti at the request of then-White House aide Dwight L. Chapin. He didn't know what the money was used for.
A resident of Los Angeles, Segretti faces a maximum penalty of one year in jail and a $10,000 fine for violating the law.
The four-count indictment charged Segretti with conspiring with Hearing and Robert Mellon Benz to disrupt the primary agency. Mr. Mellon Benz, M. Jackson of Washington and Muskie.
Benz and Hearing were named co-conspirators but were not indicted.
More than 20 members of the President's Committee on Mental Retardation will visit the Kansas Center for Research in Mental Retardation in Haworth Hall, Thursday as part of a four-day, four-state public forum on mental retardation.
Group to Visit Mental Center
The committee members will be guests tomorrow night at a reception in Topeka given by Gov. and Mrs. Robert Docking, president of the KU Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., on Thursday afternoon. A review and demonstration of current programs conducted at the medical center in research, training and coordination will be presented.
While at KU, the committee members will work directly, with handicapped, children.
A public forum will be held Friday at the Crown Center Hotel in Kansas City, Mo. Representatives of state governments and local officials will participate. Nebraska and Missouri will participate.
in brief
Lab Receives Grant
The Flight Research Laboratory of the KU Department of Aerospace Engineering has received a $28,148 continuation of a National Aeronautics and Space Administration grant. The continuation will cover the period from September to December 2016 for initialization of all attitude-command-control system with separate control systems which is being designed around a Beechcraft Model 99 airliner.
DENVER, Colo. (AP) - Eugene Stanek, the father of four boys and two girls born Sunday night, said Monday that he expected that his 18-year-old brother because his wife took fertility drugs.
Multiple Births Expected Sextuplets' Father Says
One of the boys remained unnamed because Stanek said he and his 34-year-old wife, Eida, had picked names for three girls. Stanek said they long enough to agree on those," he said.
The five named are, in order of birth,
John, Julia, Steven, Jeffrey and Catherine.
Brian, Julia, Steven, Jeffrey and Catherine. The 31-year-old accountant said he and his wife had "known for several weeks that six was a real possibility."
"There was no shock last night (Sunday), though it was still a surprise," he told newsman. "We thought we were prepared—I'm not so sure now."
The infants were born seven weeks premature. Five were reported in satisfactory condition in incubators at Colorado General Hospital.
Julia was listed as fair and was receiving oxygen for a respiratory difficulty. Doctors predicted she would survive. Forty medical personnel, including three obstetricians, 12 pediatricians and a platoon of nurses, attended the births.
"We are optimistic, but cautiously optimistic," said Dr. James Strain. "The team is trying to be the best."
The exact weights of the infants haven't been determined, but it is estimated they range from just less than two pounds to just less than three pounds.
With seven children, Stanek said his three-bedroom home in suburban Lakewood wouldn't be big enough and he would have to go hunting.
Stanek said he and his wife had a 4-year-old son, Gregory, but "we wanted a second pregnancy," which took daily injections of the fertility drug Pegfilen for two weeks before becoming pregnant.
Russell Means Talk Set for Wednesday At Union Ballroom
WASHINGTON (AP) - The government said Monday that high prices and a demand for more food were pushing farmers toward another record year of crop production in industries added that the benefits would be seen in trickling through to supermarkets.
Russell Means, national coordinator of the American Indian Movement, will speak at 8 p.m. tomorrow in the Kansas Union Conference program is sponsored by SUA Forums.
Record Crop for '74
Means, an Oglala Sioux, became nationally known last spring because of his part in the occupation of Wounded Knee, a conflict major in large Indian protests since 1968.
The Agriculture Department said farmers were likely to boost wheat and livestock feed grains about 9 per cent each next year. Officials said that would be domestic and export demands a year from now and begin rebuilding stockpiles.
Don Pau尔berg, director of economics for the department, told a news conference that if the larger farm materialized they could help reduce livestock production costs,
Means is an a lecture tour to raise funds for the legal defense of Indians involved in the death of a local Native American.
Record crops are being harvested now, but exports are helping keep prices at near-zero levels. Farmers have prompted farmers to cut back production of meat animals, milk and
"I don't see, really, how we can predict that during 1974 there's going to be any sharp, general decline in retail food prices." Pearlberg said.
He warned, however, that the build-up—even if the crops materialized—would take many months and that food prices meantime would remain high.
boost the output of cattle and hogs and boost the beginning add more to consumer tables.
In fact, he said, it looks now as if consumers will be "short of what you could call an abundant supply" of livestock products, such as pork and milk, through meat of next year.
The crop analysis was based on previously classified "projection" figures used by department experts to determine how future crop production might shape up. Officials stressed that the figures released Monday for the first time were "rough approximations" and subject to revisions as conditions changed.
Zook was credited with 13 tackles, one fumble recovery and tacked Washington State ball carriers 3 times for losses. The junior defense and from Larsen was instrumental in winning the State option play in the Jayhawks 29-8 victory over the Cougars.
ACME Salutes Player of the Week
DEAN ZOOK
For Outstanding Play in the Washington State Game
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