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KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
84th Year, No.12
Emporium Closure Urged
Wednesday, September 12. 1973
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Senate Watergate Committee meets today to decide how to proceed with investigation.
The closed session will be the first meeting in more than a month for the seven senators who used the summer recorder to check on back-home reaction to the committee's often sensational public hearings. The committee is under pressure from a number of Republicans to lower its profile.
Chief counsel Samuel Dash, whose staff has continued during the break its investigation of 1972 campaign practices, is to give the committee a report on the staff's recent findings and a recommendation that the hearings continue.
Increasing numbers of manufacturers
Increasing numbers of manufacturers have proposed price increases under Phase 4.
The Cost of Living Council is receiving 80 to 100 price increase proposals a day compared with an average of about 20 a day in the first week of the anti-inflation program, James W. McLane, deputy council director, said yesterday at a news briefing.
Proposed increases announced by the council run the spectrum of wholesale and retail products, ranging from forgings用的 Borg-Warner and other components.
Atty. Gen. Richardson showed a wiretap
report to ease Kissinger's confirmation.
Two members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which will decide on Kissinger's nomination to Secretary of State, met at the Capitol with Richardson and his acting deputy, William D. Ruckelshus to read the FBI wiretap.
Sens, Clifford P. Case, R-N.J., and John Sparkman, D-Ala., said they planned to present a summary tomorrow to the committee. They indicated they did not think it would alter plans to vote Tuesday on Kissinger's nomination to succeed William P. Rogers.
While declining to discuss the substance of the report, Case said, "The question is his (Kissinger's) role in the process."
A federal trial judge postponed criminal proceedings against Mitchell and Stans.
At the request of an appeals court, District Court Judge Lee Gagliardi directed defense and prosecution to decide upon a mutually satisfactory new date for the trial in New York of the two former Cabinet officials. He previously had refused a delay in the proceedings against the former atorney general and ex-commerce secretary in connection with a secret $200,000 contribution to President Nixon's re-election campaign.
Mitchell and Stans were charged with conspiracy, obstruction of justice and perjury in their campaign dealings last year with fugitive financier Robert Vescob. An extraordinary panel of 1,500 prospective jurors already was on hand for the trial's scheduled beginning in the federal courthouse.
Watergate prosecutor and Nixon's lawyer
discovered on access to confidential tapes
disagreed on access to confidential tapes.
Charles Alan Wright, Nikon's counsel, told a federal appeals court it would cause grave damage to the Presidency to yield confidential tape recordings.
But special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox said learning the truth of vital parts of the investigation depended on access to the nine tapes.
In two hours of argument, the two specialists on constitutional law carried to the appeals court the historic confrontation that is certain to reach the court.
Coup Ends Allende Regime Chilean Takes Life Rather Than Surrender
BY ROBERT D. OHMAN Associated Press Reporter
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - Salvador Allende, the first freely elected Marxist in the western hemisphere was ousted in a violent coup by the Chilean military yesterday. Police said Allende took his own life rather than surrender to the attacking
Allende's slumped body, a bullet through his mouth, was reportedly found in the presidential palace after a 20-minute attack by the military using bomb-dropping planes.
A four-man military junta took control of the government and declared a state of siege. Censorship and a curfew were imposed.
Initial Reaction Unfavorable to Allende Ouster
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By The Associated Press
Foreign reaction to the coup in Chile
westerday was initially unfavorable.
The Soviet news agency Tass called it a "reactionary military mutiny." Havana radio, which said that Chilean troops fired upon the convoy, attacked Alonde's overthrow a, "rightful plot."
The Mexican government announced its willingness to grant political asylum to Allende's family and to any Chilean citizen whose asylum petition was legitimate. President Luis Echeverria, a personal friend of him, expressed deep regret over the coup.
In Buenos Aires, thousands ofleft youth marched in protest against the coup, and in Mexico City 300 students demonstrated in support of Allende.
The move to topple Allende drew mixed reaction in Washington yesterday even though it was carried out by the most powerful element in the country, the armed forces.
The White House was non-committal on the subject but some officials said privately that the ouster was perhaps the best hope of seeing a victory in the United States and Chile. Others, however, said this prospect could lose its significance if a change of command in Santiago meant the ouster.
Allende has said repeatedly in recent months that his chief goal was to avoid civil war. To fail in this task, he has said, would result in the destruction of the country. Some officials in Washington said they believed that was not an exaggerated prediction.
Police officials said Allende committed suicide rather than surrender.
The coup capped weeks of violent unrest in Chile, in which the armed forces finally joined growing groups of workers and others who had been demanding Allende's resignation.
But the 64-year-old Allende hold true to his firm commitment not to halt his attempt to take office.
IN HIS LAST public statement, Allende said, "I will not resign. I will not do it. I am
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Jest Becomes Prophesy As Allende Chooses Death
By WILLIAM F. NICHOLSON
Associated Press Writer
President Salvador Allende once told foreign newsmen in Chile that the only way he would leave office before the end of his term would be in a nine box.
The quip was designed to underscore Allende's determination to see through his pledge to lead Chile down the road to socialism. But it turned into reality yesterday in a military coup that toppled Allende's three-year-old regime.
Police officials said Allene committed suicide rather than surrender.
The 64-year-old physician had spent much of his life seeking the presidency. He was elected in 1970, and only after the Congress voted to confirm his 63.3 per cent plurality at the election.
Despite Chile's slide into political and economic chaos during his rule, Allende never wavered from his determination to stay in command and socialize the Chilean
Allende presented Chileans a dandelion figure before his downfall. He was short and stocky with a full head of burun hair that his detractors hunted had been dived.
But Allende was a different man in the political arena, the only leftist Chilean politician capable of uniting half a dozen often quarrelsome Marxists and左翼 parties.
He had a trim moustache and wore hand-tailored suits and sport jackets. He enjoyed the perquisites and pleasures high office could bring, including imported whisky, Chilean wines and the company of pretty women.
By forging them into a unified front, he won the 1970 election. During the three tumultuous years that followed—including Cabinet reshuffles, inflation of 323 per cent in one year and food shortages—it was not until he kept the Popular Unity coalition aloft.
But even he began to worry in public in recent months as national strikes brought the already crippled Chilean economy to its knees.
Allende
ready to resist with whatever means, even at the cost of my life, in that this serves as a lesson in the ignominious history of those who have strength but no reason."
The chief photographer for the Santiago daily E! Mercuro said he was Alice lyding because of her role in the restoration of the palace dining hall. He said the president had shot himself once in the
Police Prefect Rene Carrasco confirmed the suicide. He said Augusto Olivares, a close Allende adviser, had also killed himself.
A list of 68 prominent Socialist and Communist leaders was broadcast and they were ordered to appear at the defense conference in Paris. Communist and Socialist party members were reported arrested in Santiago and Havana, but the lawful units began the coup early yesterday.
Yesterday morning, the chiefs of the army, navy, air force and national police sided with the anti-Markist opposition and issued a noon ultimatum for Allende to
Moments after the deline passed, two air force jets dropped bombs and fired rockets, severely damaging the fortress-like presidential palace. The president's official helicopter bombed the bombed after forces there resisted the armed forces and police, the iauta said.
Allende, midway through his six-year term as president, refused the demand for military honors and paid his time in the palace with his personal bodyguards and presidential palace police. The palace defenses crumbled in a final 2014 attack, unsupported soldiers and national police.
No casualty figures were immediately available. A U.S. Embassy spokesman said no Americans were known to have been wounded.
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Follow-up Inspection of Housing Will Determine Code Compliance
By KAREN HILKER
Kansan Staff Reporter
Since the first inspection in December, property owners of all but about 25 of the 77 houses in the area have complied with the code, City Manager Buford Watson said.
The City Commission yesterday voted to initiate a up- inspection of housing east of the KU campus to determine which buildings are in compliance with the city housing code.
New Court to Handle Small Claims
By JEFFREY STINSON
Kansan Staff Reporter
Are you having trouble breathing, did your dog get bitten by another dog or do you want financial recompense for your agonies? Take it to court.
These claims and 24 others similar to them have been filed in the Douglas County Small Claims Court since its inception July 1, Donna Hunt, a clerk at the court, said.
Claims filed in the Douglas County court have ranged from $34 to pay veterinary bills to $200 for an unsatisfactory job of sodding bluegrass.
legislature in 1972 to handle claims of less than $300.
Small claims courts were established in every Kansas county by the state
In one case scheduled for trial this month
before Judge Mike Elwil, the plaintiff is making for damages incurred while the case is being litigated.
The plaintiff's petition claims he was "overcome by noxious fumes and exhaust emanating from a plant operated by the defendant, causing him (the plaintiff) to be seeking £250, interest and costs, because the fumes were "deteriorated to his health."
The petition must include the names and addresses of the persons involved, the reasons why damages are being sought and the name of the person. The trial date is set when the claim is filed.
A person who has a claim against someone who owes him money can file a petition in the office of the probate court on the floor of the Douglas Courthouse.
Circumstances surrounding a claim must have occurred within the county. This is necessary because the court has no jurisdiction outside Douglas County.
When the trial is held, the plaintiff and the defendant are allowed 15 minutes each to present their cases. Ten minutes are allowable for cross examination of opposing witnesses.
There are no closing arguments and no lawyers are allowed in the courtroom.
If a person wants to call witnesses, the court must be notified within five days of the trial date and a $5 fee is charged for each witness.
"I don't think we'll put the collection agencies out of business," Hunt said. "Most of the people wouldn't take these claims to an agency, and an agency wouldn't want to bother with cases like the collection of baby-sitting fees."
Most cases are filed for collections of overdue rent, money for services rendered or other expenses.
Only five claims a year may be filed in the court by the same person.
Property owners who refuse to comply with the code will be taken to District Court, and may be prosecuted.
Commissioners also discussed construction of new sidewalks along the west
Watson suggested the area of inspection be expanded, but commissioners deferred action until results of the re-inspection were available.
The commission approved a plan calling for construction of sidewalks on the west side of Iowa Street from 15th Street to 21st Street, the east side of Iowa Street from 15th Street to 19th Street and the north side of street from Iowa Street to Naishtm Drive.
Public hearings were scheduled for 2 p.m. Sept. 25 for plans involving construction of sidewalks on the north side of 11th Street from West Campus Road to Missouri Street and on the east side of Engel Road from 15th Street to Crescent Road.
"I don't think there's any place in the city
All but three property owners in the area—affected by the plan have signed a petition protesting the plan, according to Kheba Wales, 1826 Haskell.
About 30 residents from the area attended the meeting. Most of them said pedestrian traffic along Haskell Avenue wasn't very heavy. Only two members of the group supported the proposal to construct the sidewalks.
"in view of the universal dissatisfaction." Rose suggested the Commission delay action on the issue and conduct another public hearing Oct. 9 after further in-
that needs a sidewalk more than this area." Commissioner Jake Ross said in reference to the potential problems.
A proposal to construct sidewalks along Haskell Avenue between 15th Street and 23rd Street received an adverse response in the area who attended the commission meeting.
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Firemen Will Appeal Pay Parity Decision
Kansan Staff Reporter
By KAREN HILKER
Fire Fighters Local Union 1996 will appeal Monday's District Court ruling concerning pay parity for firemen and policemen to the Kansas Supreme Court, union president Alvin Samuels said yesterday.
City and union officials had agreed that the ruling hinged on whether the proposed
Samuels said he was advised yesterday by the union's lawyer, Dear Burkhead, that his case was under consideration.
"The proposed ordinance." Paddock ruled, does not constitute a comprehensive policy for personnel administration of the city government.
Judge James W. Paddock of Douglas County District Court II yesterday ruled that a pay parity ordinance supported in a petition by 3,400 local residents was administrative in nature and therefore not subject to referendum.
"Instead of making a new law or policy, the ordinance deals only with a segregated portion of the administrative personnel and with part of the administrative problems. It merely precribes details within the law to establish the planned plan and is administrative in nature."
ordinance was administrative or legislative in nature. The union had contended it was a legislative matter, and the city said that it was administrative.
Judge Padlock noted a provision in the ordinance seeking retroactive pay parity of
"Since police personnel presently receive higher wages than fire personnel of corresponding rank, its retroactive provision would require an additional public expenditure. It does not consider money resources. It makes no provision for utilities. It makes no provision for ways and means to obtain money to fund the additional expense."
"If the proposed ordinance was ruler legislative, the electorate could, in piecemeal manner, approve any other segregated portions of the city personnel," Paddock said. "Such action would be prescribing details for the execution of an overall plan or policy already in place."
The union submitted the petition requesting a referendum vote on pay parity to the City Commission June 12. The commission then asked the court for a declaratory judgment on the validity of the petition.