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KANSAN
84th Year, No.16
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Hunt Desires Change of Plea, Case Dismissal
Tuesday, September 18. 1973
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The Swedish elections ended in a tie between Socialists and non-Socialists.
the official Swedish news agency reported yesterday that unless party allegiances crack through defections or backstage combinations, parliamentary proceedings could be stalemated and new elections could be necessary.
Premier Olof Palme's Social Democratic party, which has ruled Sweden for 41 years and set up much of its socialist system, suffered a marked setback. The party lost six seats, with 157 it was still the largest single party in parliament.
Complete returns of Sunday's polling left the competing coalitions with about 49 per cent in favor, the official agency said, and gave each one an aggregate of 36.3 percent.
Still to be counted are about 50,000 mail votes from Swedes living abroad and others unable to vote at polling stations. Their ballots are expected to be
Chilean military contended that Allende had planned assassinations of top officials.
The two Chilean newspapers, El Mercurio and La Terracer de La Hora, said yesterday a "high military source" brought documents describing a plot to assassinate top军官 officers and opposition political leaders to the newspapers. The newspapers reportedly were found in a safe at the bomb-initiated political prison.
The documents allegedly were taken from the safe of Daniel Vergara, a Communist party leader and Allende's minister of interior. The newspaper stories said the assassinations were to have taken place yesterday during a military parade.
They said the killings were scheduled well before the coup that toppled Allende's three-year-old government last Tuesday.
The documents, whose authenticity could not be verified by newsmen, did not explain why Allende's government decided upon the alleged
Britain's Heath and Ireland's Cosgrave conferred against a backdrop of violence.
Edward Heath paid the first visit to the Irish Republic by a British prime minister to Dublin in an attempt to Dahlun was an important step towards renewing relations with new accusers of Northern Ireland.
Liam Cragrove, prime minister of the Irish Republic, was believed to be pressing Heath for quick action in setting up a council of Ireland to give the president powers.
In Britain, one of two bomb blasts in the industrial center of Birmingham seriously injured a bomb disposal expert. Another explosion damaged an army camp near London. Extremists were blamed for the violence of the Irish Republican Army.
Several persons were hurt in Belfast when a bomb in a car blew up outside a bar. Two Roman Catholic schools were damaged in other Belfast exteriors.
U.S. Embassy announced plans to meet medical needs.
critical medical problem in Kompong Cham.
The embyssa said equipment for two hospitals would be airlifted into the hospital. The embyssa said urgent messages to bone stations for critically needied medical and supply
One the war front, the Cambodian military command reported fighting at two points on the edge of Kompong Cham, shelling of a government outpost northeast of Phnom Pehn and the closest government insurgent clash to the heart of the capital in months.
The grand jury investigating Agnew may deliver its evidence to the House.
Such action could be a prelude to impeachment proceedings against the Justice Department, an investigation said. The Justice Department said it had concurred on the
The procedure would permit the Justice Department to avoid facing the controversial constitutional question of whether a vice president can be indicted before he is impeached by the Senate. If impeached, he would be a private citizen subject to indictment without constitutional questions.
The vice president is under investigation by the federal grand jury in Baltimore for possible violations of tax, extortion, bribery and conspiracy
UAW, Chrysler Near Pact
By PIET BENNETT Associated Press Reporter
DETROIT - Chrysler Corp. and the United Auto Workers reached tentative agreement yesterday on a contract that would increase pay slightly more than 5 per cent and allow retirement with full pension after 30 years of work.
A voluntary overtime provision would guarantee a maximum nine-hour day and a six-day working week. Provisions to make auto planters saver and cleaners were also
after the union struck the country's third largest auto-maker.
The tentative settlement came 63 hours
UAW President Leonard Woodcock said
12,000 striking production workers would
be allowed to work in the city.
The rank-and-file union members must ratify the contract. The council of local union presidents will not meet until tomorrow.
WOODCOCK SAID the average worker would earn $ 5.40 an hour in the first year of the proposed contract or about 5 per cent more than current wages.
"I have no idea of what this package
costs, have I no idea of the percentages of increases," Woodcock said.
Federal guidelines under Phase 4 call for
immigrate wage increases to 5.5 per cent with
their implementation.
Woodcock did say that inflation protection under the new contract would be about 17 per cent greater than under the 1970 contract, which provided for a 1-cent an hour increase for each. 4-cent increase in the cost of living index.
Pay parity between Canadian and American workers was achieved under the new agreement.
earn about 10 cents an hour less than American workers.
OTHER CONTRACT provisions would allow strikes by skilled tradesmen when outside workers take their jobs, create special representatives to handle company benefit plans, and guarantee speedier resolution of disciplinary grievances.
Details of the proposed three-year contract were announced during a news conference last night at Solidarity House, the union's international headquarters.
Earlier yesterday, the union's international executive board began the
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IBM Found Guilty in Monopoly Suit
By DAYTON BLAIR
By DAYTON BEAIR
Associated Press Reporter
CHRISTENSTEN mailed his order to the court here where he heard testimony in the case for nearly two months earlier this year. He ordered IBM to disclose certain
TULSA, Okla.-International Business Machines (IBM) Corp., the unrivalged giant of the world wide computer industry, was found guilty of monopolistic practices by a federal judge. IBM ordered begin steps to end 'predatory' acts in the computer access market.
IBM was ordered to pay the Telex Corp, a Tulsa-based competitor, $32.5 million in damages while Telex was directed to pay IBM $2.9 million for theft of trade secrets.
IBM closed yesterday at $272, down 26 from Friday's close. Telex soared 3% to $7.625 a share, rising 79 per cent in price during the short time it was traded. On the American Stock Exchange, Telex warrants—rights to buy Telex stock at $11 a share—more than doubled in price, jumping 2%-to $4.25 a share.
Stock in both companies was delayed in opening on the New York Stock Exchange as Wall Street trained the rulers by U.S. law, but it has been called the Sherman Christiansen of Salt Lake City.
portions of electronic design when an-
nouncing new electronic data processing
He also enjoined IBM from "adopting, implementing, or carrying out predatory pricing, leasing or other acts, practices or activities," and he required that we maintain a monopoly in the market..."
IBM was ordered to stop "single or bundled" pricing of IBM memory systems in its System 370 central processing unit, which required the computer and memories separately within 60 days.
Telex had argued that IBM had been pricing the equipment in ways designed to make it more expensive.
An IBM spokesman at company
internants in Armonk, N.Y., said IBM
International.
A Telex spokesman said Telex was pleased with the decision. He said Telex would "vigorously prosecute" the overseas firm and separate it from domestic competitive issues.
**TELEX HAD sought $1.2 billion in damages, accused IBM of predatory marketing actions. IBM denied the claims, saying it was acting as the computer accessory market—a field it
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From a competitive standpoint, the decision "is bound to diminish
said now has 1,800 manufacturers—had declined annually.
Christensen upheld IBM's suit in industrial espionage and ordered Telex to pay the damages, to return all IBM documents and confidential information in its control to destroy all copies of Telex manuals which infringe on IBM-copyrighted manuals.
For IBM itself, the implications are enormous. The $323-billion damage pretax profits Wall Street estimates the company will amass in 1973. And there is the possibility that other competitors, such as from Telex, will go to court themselves.
In its counterattack, IBM accused Telex of sealing IBM secrets by burying IBM emblem.
If yesterday's ruling ultimately stands, the experts say, there will be a broad impact on the company, its competitors and the industry as a whole.
Experts Say IBM Ruling Will Promote Competition
By JOSH FITZHUGH Associated Press Reporter
NEW YORK-Computer men and Wall Street analysts say yesterday the IBM-Texel decision, if it survives further test tests, will result in some major changes in one of the country's most glamorous growth industries.
Within hours after the decision was issued ordering HM to pay Telex $32.5 million in damages and to follow certain pricing rules, the huge company said it would appeal.
dominance the field by IBM," and W Carroll Bumpers, chairman of Greyboudron
And the ruling could have additional impact on other industries dominated by giant companies. Judge A. Sherman Christensen's ruling on the need for companies to sell products rather than leaving them up to supply and demand factors for each particular computer product appeared to raise an issue that could extend to other industries.
He also prohibited Telex from hiring or soliciting any IBM employee for two years and did not allow IBM employees hired by Telex must not be assigned to development or manufacture of products similar to those on which the company would have worked two years after their termination with IBM.
Telex was also ordered not to copy IBM-copyrighted materials or solicit or use any IBM confidential or proprietary information.
WASHINGTON (AP)—Vice President Spiro Agroen has held lengthy discussions in the past few days on the advisability of resigning, the Washington Post reports.
Fund Helps Crash Victim Graduate
"This will certainly make the computer industry more competitive and, if upheld, will give a better opportunity for others to do so. It is the real manufacturing business." Bumper said.
The decision apparently limits IBM's expansion into the fast-growing field of "peripheral" computer components like readers, typeseters and cathode ray tubes.
The ruling could also lead to the proliferation and expansion of independent firms, like Telex, Memorex and Mohawk as well as other companies manufacturing those sideline components.
By KATHLEEN HODAK
Kanaan Reporter
Paper Says Agnew Considering Resigning
Ronnie didn't know then, but he was the sole survivor of an auto accident in which his father, mother and three-year-old sister were killed. His father, Walter E. Ewert, was assistant professor of journalism at the University of Kansas.
The Ewert family was enroute to Marion, S.D., to visit Professor Ewert's father, who was critically ill when the accident occurred. The Ewert car skidded on a snow-packed highway and crashed head-on into a semi-trailer truck.
Six-year-old Ronie Ewert lay in a semiconscious condition at an Onawa, Iowa, hospital where he was being treated for a crushed chest and multiple fractures.
The newspaper quoted a senior Republican figure as saying he was "99% per cent certain he will resign—and probably this week."
ON MAY 1, 1956, only three weeks after the accident, the All Student Council established the Ronnie Ewert Scholarship to be matched a committee to collect the money.
That was 22 years ago. Time has its way of removing bandages and mending broken bones but the emotional impact of such a break is easily erased from the life of a small boy.
father of two daughters. He works with a brokerage firm in Wichita. His graduation from Wichita State University last spring marked the fulfillment not only of a personal goal but also of a goal shared by the many students, faculty and alumni of the University who contributed to the Ronnie Ewert Scholarship Fund in 1950.
When Kansan staff members learned that Ewert's two insurance policies totaling slightly more than $4,000 would be depleted after hospital and burial expenses were met, they initiated a drive to collect money for Ronnie's education.
Growing up without the relationship of either parent robbed Ronnie of some of the more carefree moments usually associated with boyhood. Those who knew Ronnie well, however, recognized in him a quiet man of great wisdom and from the time of the accident to the present.
Professor Ewert, described by an associate as a "quiet, unassuming man and an outstanding teacher," was well-liked by his students. News of the fatal accident that killed Lawrence were widely reported. Lawrence community more than it did the Kansan staff to whom Ewert was adviser.
The committee, whose chairman was Ed Chapin, a senior in the School of Journals, told The. The money was to be used by Romney to attend his choice. Anything over $300 would be his choice.
TODAY EWERT is married and is the
used to perpetuate the name of Walter E. Ewert.
The drive was carried from the Kansas Union to fraternity and sorority houses, from the Lawrence business district to the remote towns of Kansas. An appeal for students to radio station KLWN and letters were sent to all University faculty members and staff.
The Lawrence Journal-World sponsored a similar drive, which earned him $1,700, to pay Romaine's hospital expenses and any other expenses which might occur as he was growing up.
The scholarship fund mushroomed within three weeks into a total of $319.17, which was to be invested by the KU Endowment until Ronnie would be eligible for college.
SOME OF THE DONATIONS TO THE scholarship fund were substantial. The Kanasa Board contributed $1,000; Weaver's department store, $50; the KU Mennonite Fellowship, $38. But most of the donations individuals who could least afford to give.
"We have gone over our goal of $3,000 thanks to your generosity." Chapin wrote in a Kansas editorial. "The money that you received from this foundation is cynicism and hardness so rampant in the
IN A LETTER June 26, 1973, to Irvin Youngberg, executive secretary of the Endowment Association, Ewert wrote that the generosity of so many people who made his education possible had been a continuing inspiration to him to complete his degree. In reply to the inquiry in the fall of 1985 Ewert resumed his education at Wichita State University.
"Although several years beyond the traditional four-year term were necessary for me," Ewert said, "I have felt that completion of my academic career was an obligation on my part to all of those who gave to the Ronnie Ewert fund 22 years ago. I only wish it were possible for me to thank each and every one of them in person."
world today are not yet in control of our lives."
The primary goal of the fund, a college education for Ronnie, has been achieved. Approximately $1,200 remains in the trust and will be used to establish a Walter Ewert Scholarship in the School of Journalism, Youngberg said.
The scholarship fund proved to be more than a financial asset to Ewert's education. After completing an adademically unsuccessful two years at Bethel College in North Newton, Kan., Ewert quit school and went to work for a manufacturing company.
The vice president's spokesman has declined to comment directly on the substance of various news reports concerning the actions of the U.S. government in Maryland political corruption investigation.
J. Marsh Thomson, press spokesman for Agnew, did not deny the Post report fairly, but said it was "no better a story than the vice president," calculating about the vice president recently."
A source who is familiar with the vice president's thinking said the report that he was considering resigning appeared "totally contradictory to the vice
In the past, Agnew and his aides have repeatedly discounted any possibility of a bombing.
president's whole frame of mind and his predisposition to face up to the case and see it.
The Post quoted the high-ranking Republican as saying Agnew was determined to prove his innocence of the charges of bribery, extortion and tax law violations.
But, according to the source, the vice president gave two reasons for believing he
One is the "terrific tension and pressure" placed upon members of his family by his present effort to maintain and preserve his office and perform its public duties while preparing for what could be a protracted legal battle.
The second, the Post's source said, is the clear indication that the White House—and apparently the President himself—wants Agnew out.
Kansan Photo by JAN SEYMOUR
Marked Down
Mary Crawford, a clerk at Dillon's Grocery Store, 113 W. 604 S, displays beef cuts that are made with turkey.
freeze on beef prices. Chickens also cost less this week.