CIA tied to Kennedy assassinations, Gregory says
Reporter
America needs to become immediately alert to its internal problems, Dick Gregory, comedian and sociologist.
Gregory, who was introduced as a free-lance humanitarian, spoke to an enthusiastic audience of about 1,000 people in Hoch Auditorium for two hours about everything from former President Richard Nikon to birth control. He spoke in the SUA forum series.
Non-violence and service to others will be the keys to saving our country, he said. And he stressed the potential he said the youth of today had for making the world a better place in which to live.
The American people know little of their nation's activities, Gregory said. Everyone in the world
knew that the CIA overthrew Chile's government before Americans did, he said. Everyone also knew about the bombing of Cambodia two years before Americans did.
GREGORY SAID THAT IF WATERgate were properly investigated it would go back through the CIA and lead all the way to the day former President John F. Kennedy was shot in Dallas.
Gregory challenged the audience to investigate and outloud the political assassinations of the past 11 years.
Kennedy, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., Black Muslim leader malcolm X and former assassin George W. Wallace, who wasn't killed, were all more than killings by crazy people, Gregory said.
Do you really believe that all the men caught in
Watergate that night just happened to be ex-CIA agents, Gregory demanded. What compose an ex-COA agent? What does a CIA agent do?
Gregory raised some questions he said no one had ever really bothered to investigate.
Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was killed from three shots that entered from the back of his body, Gregory said, but Sirhan Sirah, Kennedy's convicted assassin, was standing in front of him. The only thing behind him was the Secret Service, he
WALLACE WASHT five times. The man who was arrested for his shooting had a five-shot gun that was emptied, but then he shot the three other people around Wallace, Gregory asked.
Ten days after former President Lyndon Johnson said he thought it was a conspiracy that killed
Oswald, Johnson died, Gregory said. Sen. Edward Kennett got out of the presidential race because he knew what would happen if he ran and why he would be killed, he said.
Gregory offered no answers to these questions. He
doubled up the audience to think about and
investigate their own challenges.
Morals are at a very low point in America right now, Gregory told the audience. The president is supposed to be the moral leader of the country, he said. But he has no confidence in Nikon or President Gerald R. Ford moral leaders.
GREGORY QUESTIONED the morality of the way in which Ford handed the oil situation over to General Motors, but he never said a word to the American oil companies made huge profits from the oil crisis, Gregory said.
Americans vote for the lesser of two evils when the "evil" is end up with all up with the "evil" of the evil, he predicts.
Gregory spoke for better treatment of Vietnam war veterans. The Veterans Administration can't punish them, but wounded men who returned because they don't have enough money or adequate staff, Gregory said.
Anyone who waves the American flag to the boys as they go away to fight but isn't there to welcome them home again is waving a rag, not a flag, Gregory said.
It is easier for a draft resistor to get a job at present than it is for a veterigator, Gregory said.
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol.85-No.30 Monday, October 7,1974
The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
By Kansan Photographer DAVE PETERSON
Saturday morning blues
parade had already begun to form when the rain started, so Robert Foster, director of bands, gave the go-ahead order to the parade.
When it rained on the KU Band day parade Saturday morning, all of the schedules 183 bands kept to schedule and adhered to.
Explosion injures 2 KU students demolishes downtown business
By STEVE FRY City Reporter
One student is in Watkins Memorial Hospital and another was injured Satur-
they after they were injured in an explosion
Frida Friesen was interviewed the building they were working in.
Loan Ann Lee, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, junior, is hospitalized with second-degree burns on her hands, hips and back. Connie Willbern, Coffeyville sophomore, was released after treatment for a small cut and first- and second-degree burns.
Lee and Wilborn were working at the Accurate Telephone Secretarial Service Center. They were testing a gas explosion at about 8:30 p.m. destroyed the one-story concrete block and brick building. The blast leveled the building and closed windows for a radius of one block.
The explosion occurred when Williburn struck a match, and natural gas that had leaked from an uncompiled line in the building ignited. The gas leaked from a pipe about 10 feet to the door that no one knew about. Larry Jarry was injured by Fire Department inspector, said yesterday.
FRIEMEN ANSWERED the alarm for the explosion at 8.31 p.m. and put out a fire alarm.
men estimated the building loss at $ 5,000
and loss of contents at $ 7,500. No firemen
Stemmerman said that he didn't know who left the gas line uncaped, and that he thought it was hidden behind a filing cabinet.
He said he didn't think there was any criminal intent or conspiracy in the ex-plosion.
The gas company turned on the gas Friday for a heater recently installed in the building, he said. The gas company notified the occupants of the building that the meter showed gas was flowing in the building and the company shut off the gas.
Unsford said the workman told her the smell came from gas escaping while he was working on it and that the gas would go away if the door was left open.
THE BUILDING'S OWNER, Al Underowen, sent a workman to fix the heater. While working on the heater, the workman found an open flame it off when he left, Stemmerman said.
An odor of gas was apparent in the building when Wilburn came on duty at 6 p.m. Unsdorf, owner of the building, used Utsunomiya to leave the door open to let the gas out.
Lee said she arrived at the building at
about 8:25 and immediately noticed the gas smell. Lesa asked Willimans whether she had been to work at a store that she didn't smell the gas because she had been there for two and one-half hours.
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Prof outlines allegations of sexual discrimination
By JILL DOLES
Reporter
The political science department at the University of Kansas has tried to follow affirmative action guidelines, according to Earl Nehring, chairman of the department.
The department of political science has been in violation of the policies of the University and its affirmative action procedures.
Wilner outlined her allegations in a *page letter sent Sept. 27 to Chancellor Archie R. Dykes. She divides her charges into three major claims:
-There is sufficient evidence that the department has continued this pattern of discrimination against women in recruitment, "Willner said.
"—The department chairman has also discriminated against the single woman member of the department, who happens to be myself."
also wonder if this could happen in my department, or if I happen to happen in other departments.
Nehring said Friday he was confident that allegations by Ann Ruh Willer, professor of chemistry at the department had violated affirmative action guidelines would be proved unjustified.
Chancellor Dykes referred Wilmer's challenger to the Justice Department for chancellor. Shankel said he wrote Wilmer to tell her he was referring her complaints to the Justice Department for Affirmative Action Committee for study.
"I have confidence that they would carry
X-Zone parking charge answered by Shankel
Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, defended himself Friday against a charge by Francis Heller, professor of law and political science, that the administration had violated confidentiality committees to take extreme positions by informing them of major policy decisions.
"I KNOW THAT THE University needs to provide free parking for contributors, but it is wise for the Athletic Association to pay for its parking in the Mackey, Parking and Traffic Board chairman.
SenEx voted last week to send Heller to the Parking and Traffic Board to protest平峰's decision to reserve 400 X-Zone planked parking for football field for athletic contributors.
"I made a decision that the athletic department would not have to pay for the X-zone, but it would cost 10 years, the University has always provided the athletic department with spaces for contributors. The spaces have a large UAA (KU Athletic Association)," he said.
SenEx charged that Shankel's decision violated the Senate Code's guarantee that the parking policy was to be developed by the Parking and Traffic Board.
University of Kansas fans fame found out how good their team was Saturday as the Jayhawks blitzed fifth-ranked Texas A&M 28-10. The victory vault KU into the Top 20. Coach Don Fambrough called it the greatest effort he'd ever seen. See Page five.
Inside the KANSAN
He said it was "bad for security and parking to be the focal point of financial loss while the Athletic Association would be the focal point of financial gain."
The gloom of the last few days should lift today with a return to partly sunny skies. A gradual rise in temperature will continue through Tuesday. The high temperature today should be in the mid-60s with the low tonight in the mid 40s. The wind will continue to gust but will be moderate to moderate at 10 to 20 miles per hour. No precipitation is forecast.
Partly sunny
Shankel said the athletic department awarded about $300,000 in grants-in-aid for the institution.
Jayhawk blitzkrieg
"They would get a grant-in-aid somewhere else if we didn't give it to the school," Athletic Association had to raise its funds means, ticket prices might go up," he said.
Athletic contributors of $100 or more a year can get up to $17 in free football and basketball parking a year. Preference in seat selection and free pregame lunches in the Victory Clubroom also are among privileges given the contributors. Shankel said.
HELLER REJECTED Shankel's
position that a ruling by Chancellor W. Clarke Wessex supervised the Senate be's guardian that parking policy was to be adopted by the Parking and Traffic Board.
"The mode of operation of the Wesco administration should not provide a model to the present administration." Hehler said, "and to have a succession of confrontations?"
"We really are anxious to work in a spirit of cooperation," Stankel said.
"I think what's at stake here is bringing the legal authority of the chancellor into a healthy congruence with the governance system," Heller said.
A. JOHNSON, Extramural Independent Study Center counselor, charged in a recent letter that the Department of Security and Understandment undertaken a "massive ticket campaign."
Johnson had been ticketed in the parking lot just north of the center after parking at a nearby building.
Johnson said he called Security and Parking to ask why cars only in the east end of the parking lot had been ticketed, while those on the west side weren't.
"When I inquired as to the reason for this," Johnson said in the letter, "I was told that the officer had run out of tickets so only half the 'violators' would be cited."
Clifford Ketzel, professor of political science, said he feared Security and Parking might lose an additional $3,000 in parking fees during basketball season because free spots for top contributors. Frickey has a director of Security and Parking, this afternoon to consider trying to get financial compensation for the spaces.
out a fair and thorough review of your allegations," Shankel wrote Willner.
"In my opinion, there is absolutely no basis whatsoever for the allegations. I am not sure that such an unbounded charge has been found by Roy Laird, professor of political science."
THE DEPARTMENT HAS bent over backwards to hire the most qualified people to certain that it didn't unconsciously obey against any particular group, Lard said.
Ambrose Saricks, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said he hoped to meet with Joseph Pichler, chairman of the Board of Directors Affirmative Action Committee, today.
"As political scientists, we are particularly aware that this might happen, he said.
Saricks had no comment concerning the allegations themselves.
"According to the handbook, records are required to be kept, and they have not been kept," she said. "They were reconstructed, so to speak, from memory."
Wilmer said the political science department was in violation of the affirmative action procedures because it kept records of its recruitment processes.
Wilner said, "My salary increased during the chairmanship of the present chairman by the second lowest if not the lowest in the department."
ACCORDING TO WILLNER, every professor or associate professor in the political science department, except one who has had a health problem, has had salary increases over the past four years ranging from 20 per cent to 40 per cent.
am the only person in that category who is known to be considered below that," she said.
Wilmer came to the University in fall 1969 as an associate professor. She was recommended for promotion to professor after two months.
Willner said she knew of men who had the
same qualifications who came to the University as full professors.
In May 1972 Wilmer leveled charges against the department of political science. She said her charges were based on four accusations that women during the recruitment process.
THE CASE WAS HEARed by the affirmative action board, and according to Wilher, the department was exonerated on a technicality.
"I had a feeling that after they had such a close call, they would be more careful," she said. "I have found out that this practice of information has continued in my department."
Since the first investigation, seven appointments have been made in the department of political science, she said. All of them are candidates. No women were interviewed on campus and peraps 15 to 20 men were brought to campus for interviews.
Wilmer said her first case against her department was the first and only case heard by the affirmative action board since its creation in 1972.
She said the present affirmative action program, which considerably abridged from the original product, was introduced.
The original proposal, she said, called for a department to forward the names of all participants in the recruitment process to the affirmative action office. The accepted affirmative action procedures require only certain applicants be recorded—not names, she said.
"THERE IS NO WAY, even if there were the resources, to check up, because there are no names forwarded to the affirmative action women, including myself, think is one of the loopholes in the affirmative action procedures as now constituted," she said.
Willner said another loopole in the affirmative action procedures was a clause that required a department to report why the department chosen over the other candidates. The original proposal called for a reason for rejection of each candidate.
Lighting his fire
By TERRY KAFKA
Jose Feliciano displayed his virtuosity Saturday night to an enthusiastic audience in his performance of "Snowball" in the Spanish music, Feliciano ended his performance with the crowd's lightening. "Lighting is fun," he said.