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KANSAN
84th Year, No.3
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Bank Captives Freed
Wednesday, August 29,1973
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Sirica plans to rule today on whether Nixon must turn over the Watergate tapes.
Officials in the court of chief Washington District Court Judge John J. Sirics said yesterday the decision will amply be filled with the clerk of the court.
The ruling would be the first step toward the possible "definitive" Supreme Court decision President Nixon had pledged to obey on the dispute between him and Mr. Obama.
Sirica heard oral arguments last week on whether the White House must give the Watergate special prosecutor recordings of certain conversations in an effort to discredit her.
Federal auditors are investigating failure of Nixon campaign to disclose reporters' pay.
The General Accounting Office said it was looking into a $1,000 weekly salaries paid to two reservists, Sevmur Freidin and Lacy Goldberg.
The two, as reporters, supplied daily secret reports on the campaigns of Sens. Edmund S. Massey, Henry M. Jackson, Hudert H. Humphrey and Benjamin W. Woods.
the GAO said the Finance Committee to Re-Elect the President had the responsibility to report the payments under the campaign finance disclosure
United Auto Workers called Chrysler offer "a mockery." rejected 3 per cent wage hikes.
"This offer is worse than we got in the very bad recession year of 1958," UAW President Leonard Woodcock said. "Any optimism we may have had about a settlement certainly seems remote." There are 18 days remaining until the end of the recession September 14. Chrysler has been designated the UAW "target" company.
India and Pakistan agreed to release
Pakistani POWs to remove final peace block.
The pact, which removes the chief obstacle to a final settlement of the December 1672 war, was signed after 22 days of negotiations. The text was not immediately released, but sources from both sides said it covered all the
The 1972 war between India and Pakistan resulted in creation of the independent state of Ranadulpho, formerly the eastern wing of Pakistan.
Although Bangladesh did not take part in the negotiations—it has refused to meet with Pakistan until recognized by the government—the Indians sought and received approval for the final agreement from Prime Minister Muibur Rahman of Bangladesh.
U. S. ambassador to Cambodia resigned his post and is returning to Washington.
Emory C. Swank, the ambassador, had served "a rather normal tour" of three years, Deputy White House Press Secretary Gerald L. Warren said in making the announcement in San Clemente. He described the action as a "normal matter."
Swank has served as a key link to the government of Lon Nol, now facing strong侵袭 pressure after the Aug. 15 half of U.S. bombing in Cam-
Phnom Penh forces gained in fourth day of fighting to reopen major routes.
However, the government troops suffered a sharp setback on the outer defenses of the capital.
The commanding general of the drive to reopen Cambodia's Highway 4, Phnom Penh's lifeline to the southern seaport of Kompong Som, told newsmen the entire 147-mile roadway was open. But the Cambodian military command announced later that less than two miles of the highway to the sea was still closed, just below Mohasaing, about 30 miles southwest of Phnom Penh.
Quake Devastates Mexico
MEXICO CITY (AP)—A predawn earthquake ripped through Mexico's midsection Tuesday, ravaging villages and towns in the country's worst disaster in modern history. Nearly 500 persons were reported dead and more than 1,000 injured.
Most of the 80 persons reported dead in Orizaba, a beer-brewing center in Veracruz state, were in a five-story building hit hard by the anuke.
Cracks 100 yards wide surrounded a string of small townns in much of the stricken area across the states of Puebla, Veracruz and Tamaulipas in central Mexico across central Mexico south of the capital.
President Luis Echeverria ordered immediate full-scale aid for the area.
"It was before dawn when the earthquake began and then I thought it was going to be the end of the world," and Santiago Martinez, 67, of Tehuanac, located about 160 miles east of Mexico City. He said his son had been killed in the quake.
In Cordoba, an agricultural city in Veracruz state, the quake damaged buildings and blocked traffic in the center of the city, according to Veracruz officials.
The Eau Royale, the strongest in Mexico
in the阵营, measured between 5 and 6 foot
on the ground.
Central and eastern Mexico were just recovering from the effects of Hurricane Brenda and a month of torrential rains that killed 109 persons and left hundreds without shelter.
Mexican seismograph record more than 2,000 quake a year, but almost all of them are too light to be felt. The last major earthquake hit the country on July 28, 1957, killing more than 67 persons, including 57 in Mexico City.
Authorities said about 400 persons were feared dead in Puebla state where huge
cracks can be seen from the air and another 90 dead in Veracruz state.
communications were cut off with many communities and the death toll was expected to rise as new reports filtered into the larger cities.
Clusters of people could be seen standing around wrecked homes in Ciudad Serdan, a town of 22,000 about 120 miles east of Mexico City that was reported virtually destroyed.
From the air church steepleps could be seen toppled in piles of debris in communities across Puebla state, which has been damaged by as many 16th and 17th century churches.
Many survivors in Puebla state told newsmen the first indication of the quake
was huge cloud of dust seen hovering at a mile high over the southeastern section of the island.
"Iran out of my house with my wife and both of us keltu and started praying," said a man in Tehcanah. "But my son . . . I couldn't wake him. When I looked back our house had collapsed. Later a friend and I pulled out his body."
Emerging Paralegals Promise Service to More at Lower Cost
By ERIC MEYER
Kansan Staff Reporter
*Paralegals are lay people hired to do many of the time-consuming details for*
A recent ruling by the American Bar Association could make legal services available to more people for less money, Martin Dickinson, dean of the School of Law, said yesterday.
The ruling, in the form of a set of guidelines for the training of legal assistants, signaled bar approval of the emerging "paralegal" movement.
merely performed by lawyers," Dickinson said.
Because paralegals could be employed for smaller salaries than lawyers, a substantial savings for routine law clients would result, he said.
Dickinson compared a paralegal to a nurse.
"For years, nurses and others have taken case histories, temperatures, administered minor treatments," he said. "They relieve the doctor so he can make the important diagnoses, perform operations and prescribe treatments."
LAWYERS ALSO are confronted with
Gas Available Here Labor Day Weekend
"But it's really a continuum," he said. "While only a few office uses trained paralegals, many others have experienced the benefits of real-time job training, really function as paralegals."
Travelers driving through Lawrence over ala. Dan should find gasoline filling stations at the door.
The use of paralegals has increased, he said. Dickinson estimated that five per cent of workers in the job were paralegals.
A survey of 14 local service stations conducted yesterday indicated that one would be open on Sunday, and that at least two would be closed early all stations will be open on Saturday.
Service station owners in some parts of the country have reported that they planned to close over the long weekend to protest the government's Phase IV price controls. None of the 14 station managers contacted here gave that reason for closing.
large amounts of detail not requiring their personal attention, Dickinson said.
Although Dickinson admitted experienced secretaries were quite capable, he said "a little theory would be very helpful."
None of the stations will be rationing gas to customers, however. Most of the managers said they thought it was best to keep the stations open, but the gas lasted and then close the station.
The problem in Lawrence is more basic than a disagreement over government policy.
Every station contacted reported earlier closing hours than last spring. Several station managers said that to keep their stations running, they would have to sell Monday's allotted gas.
Commission Sets Figures Funds Allocated for City Improvement
City Commissioners yesterday earmarked $10,000 of the city's federal revenue sharing money for improvement and beautification projects planned by the recently formed North Lawrence Association.
A spokesman for the North Lawrence Association told the commission that the $10,000 would be spent on clean-up campgrounds. The organization and beautification of north Second Street.
Commissioner Barkley Clark said the allocation was a 'very reasonable figure', and that it could serve as a catalyst for the implementation and the association to work together.
The commission also considered other possible expenditures of the city's $61,574 in revenue sharing funds. Final approval of the budget is made at next week's commission meeting.
Lawrence is slated to receive $64,574 in revenue sharing funds during the fourth entitlement period, from July 1973 to July 1974.
Renovation of the community building was estimated at $235,000 plus $35,303 carried over from third entitlement period revenue sharing funds.
OVER 80 per cent of the proposed expenditures has been slated for renovation of the community building and the police wing of the police-fire building. 745 Vermont
Other proposed revenue sharing allocations are $13,000 for expansion of the book collection in the Lawrence library and $7,000 for summer programs, a summer youth employment program.
If the expenditures are approved, the Public Health Committee will receive an allocation of $22,500 for operating expenses and $6,725 for remodeling.
Renovation of the police departments was estimated at $233,349.
The Local Housing Authority has a proposed allocation of $10,000 for a social service program for Edgewood Homes and Babcock Place.
To aid the continuation of the adolescent referral program, the Mental Health Committee was allotted a proposed allocation of $6,000.
THE COUNCIL on the Aging will receive an allocation of $1,200 for expansion of his health care plans.
In other business, the commission scheduled a public hearing for Oct. 9 concerning safety regulations for mobile homes.
The Summer Teenage Employment Program will receive $3,000 if the student
To cover administrative and auditing expenses of the revenue sharing funds,
director, presented a report to the commission which recommended that all mobile homes in Lawrence be anchored by new construction. The home will be provided in all new mobile home parks.
Dick McClanathan, city-county planning
MOBILE HOMES, McClanahan said, are vulnerable to winds of 60 miles per hour or higher. Excessively high winds can cause飞翔 debris to penetrate a mobile home or knock it over causing structural damage to itself or an adjacent mobile unit.
F. W. Robertson, manager of the Sinclair station at ninth and Iowa streets said that his September allocation of gasoline was 40,000 gallons.
Following the second storm, the city planning staff surveyed damage in seven of the larger mobile home parks in Lawrence. Four units were destroyed and 14 were damaged by demolition said. Of the 18 mobile homes destroyed or damaged none had lie-downs.
The city planning staff contacted officials in nine other Kansas cities concerning mobile home safety regulations. Overland Park officials responded that city ordinances did not permit mobile home parks within the city limits. Five of the remaining eight cities require both tie-downs and an annual inspection of the mobile units.
"I could use 65 or 70 thousand—75,000 tops," he said. To remain open for the entire month, he said, he probably would further reduce the hours the station remained open.
The managers gave several reasons for closing their stations on Monday instead of the morning.
During the windstorms that struck Lawrence June 16 and July 2, winds were strong.
"The main reason is I don't want to work," said R. E. Leonard, owner of the Standard station at ninth and Indiana streets.
Currently 33 per cent of the mobile homes in Lawrence are secured by tie-downs. Country View Mobile Homes Estates, 19th floor, includes all 19 of its units installed with tie-downs.
A few managers indicated that they also would have had on Labor Day regardless. Shortages, shortage
Several others said that they were closing on Monday to avoid selling gas to out-of-town travelers so more gas would remain for their regular Lawrence customers.
Although the shortage has drive a few Lawrence station owners out of business, not all managers viewed the shortage as a complete disaster for them.
Dickinson said at least one firm in Kansas currently was using paralegeal.
"It has changed from a buyer's market to a seller's market," said one manager.
Nearly all of the managers said they hoped to obtain larger allocations of gas next month. Many don't yet know what their allocation will be, but several said that theirs would be increased. One station reported that it would return to its normal business hours for the first time in six months following Labor Day.
DICKINSON SAID the resulting lower cost would help people who were entitled to compensation benefits but who lacked funds to hire professional lawyers.
The increasing use of paralegals resulted from a national trend toward specialization, Dickinson said. He said only large law offices could afford to hire paralegals.
"This firm hire a paralegal to handle Workmen's Compensation claims," he said. "As you know, when a person is injured on the job, he is entitled to financial remuneration. With the paralegal, the injured man can come into the office and have the legal assistant fill out the necessary forms, talk to the doctor and file the forms."
Dickinson said the increasing use of paralegals would help fulfill a basic bar commitment to make legal services available to everyone.
"If the benefits were refused," he said,
"then you to go to litigation and the lawyer
"There has been some thought that paralegals would take away the work load for lawyers and decrease the number of positions for lawyers," he said. "This is especially important because of the increasing numbers of law school graduates."
But Dickinson said paralegals would make legal services more available and, in the process, be paid.
"THERE HAS BEEN quite a controversy—nothing hot, though—about this problem. The average law graduate now is finding difficulty in securing a position," he added.
Dickinson said there were no paralegal training programs in this area. He said vocational-technical schools and community colleges would provide most paralegal training.
"Our only involvement here in the law school with the paralegal program is in a course discussing the economics of the legal profession," he said.
Solzhenitsvn
Russian Writer Speaks, Says Purges Unlikely
MOSCOW (AP) - Alexander Solzenhutten, winner of the 1708 Nobel Prize for literature, said yesterday that the Kremlin would not return to repressions like those of the Stalin purges of the 1930s because Western powers had sided with Soviet dissidents would prevent it.
The world-renowned novelist, in a long and rare interview with two Western correspondents, said that official threats had been made against him and his family.
He said that if he should be killed it would be the work or inspiration of the security police and that should he disappear, the main part of his works would be published.
Solzenhutzin is best known in the West for the novels "The First Circle," "Cancer Ward" and "August 1914." His works are banned in Russia.
"Vladimir Maksimov is an honest, courageous writer who in a disinterested and sacrificing manner is dedicated to truth and has already been very successful in the search for truth," he said. "Therefore, his writing, 'Writers Union' is complete normal."
In the interview, Solzhentysen spoke strongly in defense of Dr. Andrei D, Sakharov, the physician who is a leading Soviet voice for human rights.
The 54-year old writer also talked at length on the Soviet social situation, the jamming of Western broadcasts and the recent expulsion of Vladimir Maksimov from the Writers' Union, the same official body that expelled Solzhenitsyn.
For the Last Time?
Kamaan Staff Photo by CARL DAVAZ
Errant footsteps yesterday made it necessary for Ronnie Ellis of Kassen Construction Co. to refinish a stretch of freshly laid sidewalk near Wesco Hall.