KANSAN
84th Year, No. 6
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Show Goes On Without Guru (See Story Page 3)
Tuesday, September 4, 1973
Los Angeles jury reconvenes today to decide whether to indict in Ellsberg break-in.
Those under consideration for possible indictment are former White Houseides Eugel Krogh and Lai Keung. Young, former president of advisory John Eckhart, is in federal custody.
Dist. Atty. Joseph Busch, who ordered the probe, said he expected indictments to be returned. The members of the so-called plumbers unit broke into the Beverly Hills office of Dr. Lewis Fielding on Labor Day weekend 1971 to get Ellsberg's psychiatric files.
Canadian railroad strikers returned to work; shipments of newsprint to U. S. will resume.
The lone holdout union in Canada's strike order stricken its members back to their posts in compliance with a government back-to-work directive. All the workers at Amtribank were held up by the company's response, Abitibi Paper Co. Ltd. said its three plants in Ontario and Manitoba, which were closed by the railroad strike, would start production and resume shipments. But negotiations were still suspended between them and two other newsprint producers, which have been shut down by strikes.
The paper mill and railroad strikes have caused a shortage of newsprint in the United States, which imports 65 per cent of its requirements from India.
Tropical storm Delia approached Galveston,
was expected to bring heavy rain inland today. Della picked up speed and changed direction slightly, heading for a land-fall this morning. The National Hurricane Center reported the storm moving north-northwest with highest sustained winds of 65 to 70 miles an hour. (Her winds were less than the 74 miles an hour needed for the storm to become a hurricane.)
The storm's center was reported losing its organization but was expected to dump four to six inches of rain today as it moved inland.
In Houston, the 26-man team of Skylar flight controllers were placed on board in case the storm forced them to fly to an alternate control center near Green Bay.
Cambodian navy convoy reaches besieged provincial capital with reinforcements, arms.
Kompong Cham, Cambodia's third largest city, received a needed 14-boat convoy from Phnom Penh with troops reinforcements and U.S. arms and equipment to help protect the nation.
The command said the convoy was "cheered by the people all along the bank of the Mekong River because they hadn't seen one for more than a year."
Petroleum industry estimates 16 to 32 percent increase in average gas bill by 1980.
Removal of federal regulations from natural gas prices would increase the average household gas bill, but the 16 per cent increase may occur even if prices remain regulated, since the Federal Power Commission has been preparing to raise the ceilings.
The industry has said that higher prices and removal of price regulation are needed to stimulate exploration for new gas fields and relieve the pressure on natural gas resources.
Coast Guard cancelled desperate tactics in ship fire because chemicals elsewhere.
A highly toxic chemical, tetra-ethyl lead, believed aboard the 306-foot Liberian freighter Key Largo, which was burning in the Mississippi River 50 miles downstream from New Orleans, was found on a New Orleans wharf. Consequently, emergency precautions, including the evacuation of one ship and the drops of a firefighting liquid, were discontinued. Officials had feared the 45 barrels of tetra-ethyl lead could be turned into poisonous gas by the fire.
But firefighters boarded the vessel and held the barrels which had been believed to contain the chemical actually held a liquid solvent less toxic
3 Prison Hostages Released
MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. (AP)—Three officers held hostage by dissident inmates at the Indiana State Prison were released unharmed yesterday, and order was restored in the prison, officials said.
Robert DeBard, executive assistant to Gov. Otis Bowen, said the three hostages were released after the inmates were promised complete amnesty from any charges related to the takeover of three of the prison's cellblocks.
The cellblocks were taken over by the prisoners Sunday morning to press a set of 25 demands.
Officials said the three cellblocks that had been controlled by dissident inmates were restored to order soon after the hostages
were released at 10 p.m. EDT. The three hostages were guards who had been on duty in the cellblocks when the takeover occurred.
DeBard said Bowen told the inmates that plans were in progress to satisfy their demands.
The offer of complete amnesty was relayed from Bowen, who remained at his home in Bremen, DeBard said.
Little damage was reported except to the prison commissary, which was reported ransacked when the disturbance began Sunday morning. It was not immediately known how much damage was done to the cellblocks.
Negotiations continued briefly after the
release, DeBard said. Inmates asked specifically for improvements in food, medical treatment and conditions in isolation cells. They also pressed for changes in personnel and policies at the prison.
Inmates also asked that an ambudman be appointed as an intermediary between prison officials and inmates. DeBard said
Earlier yesterday, warden J. Russell Lash said officials had decided to play a "standoff game" with the inmates. He said he had only two recourses: rush the cellblocks or play a waiting game.
Lash had said throughout the takeover that the hostages were in good condition.
He said the rebellion was begun by
prisoners demanding the release of four members of a black gang who were isolated after a stabbing. There are three black gangs within the prison, he said.
DeBard, said the governor would meet with the inmates, but not before the guards were set free.
The demands included the immediate dismissal of Lash and other officials, "an end to blatant racism," minimum wage salaries for prison industries, better medical care and changes in mall, parcel and disciplinary procedures. DeBard said.
The seized cellblocks hold about 900 inmates. Total prison population is about 1,600, half of them black, according to authorities. Officials were not sure how many of the 900 were directly involved in the takeover.
National Journalism Award Goes To Kansan Editor, Bob Simison
Bob Simpson, Wichita senior and editor of the Daily Kansan, will receive the 1973 Barney Kilgore Award sponsored by Sigma Tau Phi. The nationalistic society, the Society appended Sigma Tau Phi.
Simpson will receive a $2,500 cash award
Nov. 16 at the annual convention of Sigma
The national award is designed to recognize outstanding qualities in college journalists. It is named for the late Bernard Kilgore, who was editor of the Wall Street Journal and national president of Sigma Delta Chi.
Simison was nominated by the student chapter of Sigma Delta Chi at KU. He was selected for the award from a field of five students, including four of Bronx, N.Y., a student at Fordham
University, H. J. Cummins of Seward,
Neb., a student at the University of
Nebraska. Randy I. Bellows of North
Miami Beach, Fla., a student at the
University of Texas and Jane Weisman
于 San Diego, a student at California State
University, San Diego
Simison is the second student of Susanne Shaw, assistant professor of journalism and Kansan news adviser, to reach the final stage of the Kigale competition. David Witty, a senior editor who is now with the Associated Press, was one of the finalists last year.
Both Bartel and Simson came to KU from Wichita High School South, where Shaw was publications adviser from 1965 to 1970. He was editor of the school newspaper in 1970.
Simison's other honors include a William Randolph Heath Foundation scholarship, Honor scholarship, Summerfield scholarship and Gannet Foundation scholarship. He was a National Merit finalist and belongs to Omicron Delta Kappa, KU senior men's honor society, and Kappa Tau Alpha, journalism honor society.
Simison was resident manager of Grace Pearson schoolship hall last year.
In addition, Simison has worked as a summer intern for the Dallas bureau of the Wall Street Journal, the Rochester, N.Y., Times-Union and the Wichita Eagle. He has also been a part-time sports writer for the Lawrence Daily Journal-World.
Buckley Introduces Veto Petition
By JEFFREY STINSON
Kansan Staff Reporter
A petition to give the student body president veto power over Student Senate legislation was presented to the Student Executive Committee (StudEx) Friday by Mert Buckley, Wichita senior and student body president.
The petition, which was sent to the Student Rights, Privileges and Responsibilities Committee, stated that vetoed legislation would have to be reconsidered by the senate and passed by a two-thirds vote before it could become law.
"There is no clear-cut structure in the senate code for what the student body president should do," Buckley said after the meeting. "Often times the senate does things that he doesn't agree with but he takes the heat for."
"This proposal would give him more power than this one vote and the acquaintance."
Buckley said that if the bill passed, it would not go into effect until April 1, 1974, and Mr. Clinton said he would do so.
New Oil Era Emerging Arabs Exerting Force; Prices Rising
By FRANK N. HAWKINS JR.
Associated Press Reporter
BEIRUT, HURT (AP)—A new era in Middle East oil history is taking shape with far-reaching consequences for Middle East oil companies. Many homes or power their cars with Arab oil.
One bus gave 1,200 rides on the new bus passes Thursday, he said, and more than 500 passes had been sold. Three thousand dollars were paid to the bus system to break even financially.
--Growing awareness by Arab nations of their power and wealth, and a burgeoning determination to use the power for political purposes.
In other action, Studied agree to propose to the senate that at least one bus be added to the route.
Buckley told the committee that he rode the buses Friday morning and found them filled, and the addition of a bus now carries 20 cars, demanding demand for buses during cold weather.
—An unprecedented number of shattered and threatened agreements between the increasingly militant oil-producing nations and Western oil companies.
Oil experts in Beirut agree that the changes come due to an explosive competition.
America's pro-Israeli policies are coming under increasing pressure, Americans, Europes and others will soon be paying more for fuel, and a major new political and economic base is being created in the Arab world.
After being scrutinized by the student rights committee, the petition must be passed by the Student Senate and the University Senate to take effect.
-Increasing fear of an energy and fuel shortage as international demand escalates.
Evolution of major oil companies from producers to consumers.
Two events, one scheduled and one just announced, symbolize the new era.
Leapfrogging crude oil prices.
THE FOREIGN MINISTERS of the
Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries meet in Turkey today to consider a draft plan for a common oil policy in connection with the Middle East conflict
PLAYING A KEY ROLE is Saudi Arabia, which controls the world's largest known oil reserves, at least 160 billion barrels. Under heavy Arab pressure, most notably from Cairo, King Faisal in the past year has from his apolitical stand on oil to cautiously expand his control of Israel of unified action is necessary to fight Israel and influence the United States.
"The use of Araa oil as a weapon in the battle against the islam is only the item on the menu."
The United States now depends on the Middle East for only 6 per cent of its oil, but this figure is certain to climb at least 20 per cent by 1980.
The organization consists of the oil giants of the Persian Gulf and North Africa: Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Bahrain, Lahira, Algeria, Aleger, Andorra, Syriaca.
Oil industry sources talk of a possible agreement limiting production increases; an effort toPlanned consumption increases in the United States and other industrial nations.
Daddafi took over full or majority control of three Western-owned oil companies in Libya earlier this summer. Saturday, his regime announced a 51 per cent nationalization of the rest: Amosae Oil Co., jointly owned by Texaco and Standard Oil of Mexico; the Osee Standard group including Atlantic Richfield, and Royal Dutch Shell.
At the moment, the Western oil company is occupied with actions to acquire unprefabricated oil-oil-coalitions.
THE BEIRUT NEWPAPER Al Anwar reported yesterday that Qaddfi planned to follow up the nationalization decree with a plan of increasing and refusal to accept U.S. dollars.
ADDING TO THE UPWARD pressure on prices is a clause in the 1972 agreement that compensates for the Arab oilrations to the Arab oilrig dollars, the unit of value for oil contracts.
The new price demand quoted by Libyan Premier Abdel Salem Jallam was $6 a barrel, more than double the going Persian Gulf prices for crude oil.
The price hike, if it is enforced, and the nationalizations seriously jeopardize price and concession agreements throughout the Arab world.
When the dollar slumped, the oil nations met to invoke their claim to higher per barrel tariffs. Although indirect, the inevitable result of higher crude oil prices is higher gasoline prices at the neighborhood American gas station.
LeRoy McDermott, Lawrence graduate student, suggested that the buses be added to the routes in the area east of the campus. He said students living in that area couldn't stay in the apartment on the west side of the city and added the benefits of the pass system more.
To prevent the use of a pass by more than one student, the pass must have the student's signature and I.D. number. Students would check student LD.s periodically.
Kansan Photo by JIM ZIX
THERE are few Americans around International House as Kawdwo Akosah, Mampong, Chhna, graduate student, University of Alabama with Ebony Magazine. (See story page 2.)
Mike Steinemeyer, Shawne Mission senior and Student Senate treasurer, told the committee that the Whompr and the Emporium Booksstore were in financial need, we recommended that senate funding of the fund dropped if some profit wasn't shown soon.
Several committee members said the Whomper had been hurt financially by a drop in demand for metal and glass, and that the Emporium didn't have a large enough selection of books for students to purchase.
Simison
By RONALD J. OSTROW
The Los Angeles Times
San Clemente Gets U. S. Aid For Police
Sgt. X's mission—gathering, evaluating and disseminating intelligence—is not the kind normally assigned in a 50-man police unit. With that mission, vacation-oriented community of 20,000
SAN CLEMENTE—On a typical day, San Clemente Police Sgt. X., whom Chief Clifford G. Murray refuses to otherwise identify, pores over intelligence reports, demands and talks with his counterparts on much bigger police forces around the country.
But because the Western White House is here, the San Clemente Police Department handles many of these cases.
About 19 per cent of its current budget—$189,207 out of $992,593 will be paid by federal funds, if the department's latest application for a Law Enforcement Assistance Administration Grant is approved.
THE LATEST GRANT, the biggest ever
See SAN CLEMENTE Page 5
Senate Seeking Funds To Keep Programs
By JEFFREY STINSON Kansas Staff Reporter
The possibility of raising the student activity fee to meet the problems created by the Student Senate's inadequate contingency fund was not dismissed by the senate. The committee treasurer after the meeting of the senate's executive committee Friday afternoon.
Unless the senate can raise more money, programs such as the LA&S 48 courses and the Curriculum and Instruction Survey will be to be funded from the contingency fund.
Mike Steinmetz, Shawnee Mission senior and senate treasurer, said the activity fee might have to be raised as much as $1.50 a month for employees providing paddleidding to the senate's account.
"Dykes, Nichols and Balfour didn't feel
He said he had already spoken to Chancellor Archie R. Dykes, Chancellor Emeritus Raymond Nichols and William Fitzgerald, who presented official affairs, about the problem of funding.
"Raising the activity fee is our last resort," said Mert Buckley, Wichita state University.
Buckley said he was seeking money from the Office of Academic Affairs, the Endowment Association and the College of Arts and Sciences to meet the shortage.
we should be too optimistic about receiving funds from the administration," Buckley
Steinmetz said the senate possibly could pay part of the money from funds allocated to the senate and part from the $9,709.79 remaining in the contingency fund, but the senate's reserves would then be dangerously low.
Solutionsto the problem are scheduled for discussion by the senate in its first meeting today.
"I think if students would show the administration that they are in enthusiastic support of these programs, the ad-
ministration would be happy." Josserand, who is also a student senator.
"I have appointments with Balfour and Dykes this week about the funding of the LA&S 48 courses," said Jon Jossemer, Johnson sophomore and chairman of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences School Council.
"8,000 students would gather on the
strength. Strength will show the admin-
straintals could respond."
Josserand said he was not in favor of raising the student activity fee because he felt it would be too burdensome.
"There are a lot of senators who campaigned with the promise of lowering the activity fee and they're not going to like having to raise it," he said.