Monday, September 23. 1974
University Daily Kansan
DIGEST
Cards, flowers for Nixon arrive at hospital
From the Associated Press
LONG BEACH, Calif.-Flowers,
telegrams and get well cards began
arriving yesterday at the hospital where
former President Richard M. Nixon is
scheduled to be admitted for treatment of
his phobia.
Nixon is to enter Memorial Hospital Medical Center today for at least three days, after weeks of speculation on the state of his health.
Varying reports have circulated aboutixon's decision to condition since he was the president. A response
His former White House physician once told an interviewer that Nixon refused to pay him a salary.
earlier to be hospitalized, he said "if I go into the hospital, I will never come out"
That reported statement was later explained by Nixon spokesman as meaning Nixon thought it necessary to his good health not to be confined to a hospital. He said the length of his hospitalization, say only that it will be at least three days.
Grace Hollenbeck, nursing manager on the sixth floor of the hospital, where Nixon's room is prepared, said bouquets of fall flowers featuring bright yellow chrysanthemum and the formal chef executive, but she did not know who the well-wisheres.
Hospital spokesman Karen Krantz said a few get well cards and telegrams had begun dribbling in, and callers with messages for patients even lightening up the switchboard all weekend.
Nixon's care will include anticoagulant treatments for his phlebitis, a disease in which blood clots cause swelling of the veins. Doctors say two blood clots have formed above Nixon's left knee and either caused him to lose loose and lodged in his heart or hung.
Medication in such treatments must first be given intravenously and later can be taken orally. The treatment also includes a course of fluoroquinolone doctors said was his painfully swollen leg.
It was not known what time the former chief executive planned to enter the hospital, located about 50 miles north of the San Clemente estate where he has remained since his retirement at the White House. He spent time there in 1986 undergoing a physical examination.
Nixon's physician, John C. Lungren will make an announcement after his arrival, a hospital spokesman said. Lungren is a former chief of staff at the 820-bed facility, the largest privately run non-profit hospital on the West Coast.
It was not known whether any family members will stay at the hospital with them, but about 10 rooms at his disposal, although only two were requested, hospital officials said.
Nixon until now has reported resisted his doctors' efforts to hospitalize him. Air Force Maj. Gen, William Tkach, the former White House physician who earlier quoted Nixon as fearing for his life, said last week that the phlebitis condition had worsened and that Nixon also was suffering from "seven physical strain and physical fatigue."
He was quoted a week ago by Newsweek magazine as saying that Nixon would need two years to be elected.
Other reports from friends and family members have described Nixon variously as severely depressed or in relatively good spirits.
'Laird behind Kissinger power cut'
WASHINGTON - Melvin R. Laird is being mentioned most often as the likely proponent of a rejected "transition recommendation" that the powers of Henry
An aide said President Gerald R. Ford himself thinks that the former defense secretary was behind published reports last week that the secretary of state should surrender his dush assignment as White House director and director of the National Security Council.
At the State Department, however, some sources speculated the aborted move to replace the current ambassador.
The former president has been subpoenaed by Special Watergate Prosecutor Leon Jaworski and defendant John D. Ehrlichman to appear at the Watergate coverup trial, scheduled to begin Oct. 1 in Washington.
The Associated Press reported the recommendation last week but received none of its information from Laird or Quie, close friends of the President.
by Rep. Albert H. Quie, R-Minn.
Laird's office reported that he was out of the city. Quee'd not return a reporter's call. As secretary of defense during Richard Nixon's first term as president, Laird sometimes differed with Kissinger on Vietnam policy.
Officials said they knew of no attempt by any responsible person to drive Kissinger out of government, although some columnists have suggested as much.
Ford personally wrote a tribute to Kissinger, which he added to his Wednesday address to the U.N. General Assembly. He wrote several comments with his top foreign policy adviser.
assurancees Wednesday that he valued Kissinger both as secretary of state and as a diplomat. The defense chief said.
Kissinger is understood to have been deeply disturbed by reports of the recommendation that the scope of his operations be reduced in order to assure Ford a
broader range of advice on national security questions.
There was unconfirmed speculation he might have told Ford he could not continue to conduct delicate international negotiations in potential internal threat to his domain was removed.
Another subpoena requiring Nixon to give a deposition in a North Carolina civil suit next Tuesday has been postponed because of Nixon's health. Nixon has moved to have the subpoena quashed and no new date has been set for that hearing or the deposition.
Ford's initial reaction to the published reports, relayed by a spokesman six hours after Kissinger first discussed the matter with him, was ambiguous.
In any event, Ford gave public
Fuel,plane shortages slow relief to survivors
From the Associated Press
SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras—a shortage of aircraft and fuel slowed down relief efforts yesterday along the flooded northern coast of Honduras where Hurricane Miti left thousands dead and many survivors still clung to trees and rooftops.
Fifth sweep through the region four days earlier with sustained winds of 110 miles an hour.
Dazed Hondurans wandered along washed-out roads or dug through piles of debris searching for friends and relatives who disappeared during the storm.
GOVERNMENT officials said they had confirmed finding at least 5,000 bodies. They estimated that the death toll might be that before rescue operations were completed.
U. S. Ambassador to Honduras Phillip V. Sanchez reported that there were no Americans believed missing. He said he knew nothing about reports that some 70 Peace Corps volunteers had been in the area where the storm hit.
Fifi, downgraded to a tropical storm,
continued to blow its nose out against the
mountains of Chiapas in southern Mexico.
The city was hit by at least three.
Eleven Mexicans were reported dead.
THE STORM and flooding washed out whole villages along the Honduran coast. It was a huge blow to the National Emergency Committee said yesterday that at least 600,000 persons were affected.
Many survivors stayed close to radio
many survivors as announcer read off the names
of those who were killed.
An international relief effort was underway, and food and medical supplies were being collected in many countries, including the United States.
TWO U.S. Air Force C130 transport planes
brought boats, life jackets, food, drinking water and other emergency supplies into San Pedro Sula from the Panama Canal Zone.
A Honduran Air Force spokesman said there was a critical shortage of aircraft for rescue operations. He said that 15 planes and helicopters were all that were available.
"There just isn't enough aviation fuel to fly." The pilot said. "We need helicopters desperately."
ANOTHER OFFICER said, "It is an unbelievable disaster. We need fuel and aircraft soon or we will lose thousands more grounded on rooftops and in trees."
Floodwaters turned the Ulua River valley from San Pedro Sula to the coast into a 20-mile-wide lake at some points. Only tree tops and hills were safe from the water that was pushed back into the valley by 12-foot tides during the storm.
An emergency committee official said at least 80 per cent of the banana, sugar cane and wheat
He estimated that at least 75 per cent of the homes and 90 per cent of the roads in the hard-hit northwestern sector of Honduras were destroyed by the floods.
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