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Wednesday, September 18. 1974
University Daily Kansan
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Draft dodgers released under amnesty plan
From the Associated Press
Atty. Gen. William B. Saxbe ordered the temporary release of all federal prison inmates serving time for draft evasion, and the first draft dodgers to seek anemity under President Ford's clemency plan surrendered in San Francisco yesterday
Telephone calls, meanwhile, started trickling in to the Pentagon and other military centers designated as clemency information points as military deserters, their relatives and their lawyers sought information about the plan announced Monday.
John Barry, 22, who surrendered in San Francisco, said he took the action because "I don't want the government to have me on me to throw我 in jail and mess up my life."
A Bureau of Prisons spokesman in Washington said 95 inmates were affected by Saxbe's release order. He said most of the inmates were released yesterday on 30-day facilities.
Bureau spokesman Mike Aun said some other men serve draft evasion terms are ineligible for furclosures because other charges were pending against them or they were serving concurrent sentences for convictions not related to draft violations.
Ford had directed that such prisoners serving terms in connection with Selective Service violations be released pending a conviction cases by the clementry board be named.
Among the first to be freed were seven men released from the federal prison camp at Allenwood, Pa. The identities of the men were not immediately disclosed.
"We want to give them a chance to get some," said a prison spokesman. "Some of the people that were arrested were
A Pentagon spokesman said 22 calls had been received from draft evaders and their families seeking information about Ford's involvement in the attack. Deserters could earn a clemency discharge
by spending up to two years in public service jobs.
The spokeman said 18 of the calls were from deserts and four were from relatives in northern Mexico.
He said military authorities had no estimate as to how many of the 12,500 deserters from the Vietnam war era would eventually check in.
The Defense Department urged deserters to write or call the Fort Benjamini Harrison bridge.
A spokesman at the base said only that 14 calls for information had been received by
A spokesman for the U.S. Air Force Deserter Information Point at Randolph Air Force Base near San Antonio, Tex., said the center had received one inquiry from a deserter who was in Canada and three calls to deserters' relatives by noon yesterday.
U. S. Atty, James L. Browning Jr., said in San Francisco that the young man who turned himself in had just wandered in off the street.
The Justice Department confirmed that
the young man was the first to seek anermy since Ford announced his plan on Monday,
Browning said the young man failed to register for the draft in 1700. He said he sent the man home and told him to return on Monday with a decision whether he wished to up to 24 months of alternative service or not. He said that if the man refused to submit
He said that if the man refused to submit to the plan he will be subject to arrest.
Doug Bile, 28, who fleed to Canada in 1970 and was indicated in 1971 for failing to report for induction, returned to the United States and then to San Francisco from Vancouver, B.C.
He said he wanted to consult an attorney about Ford's plan and said of the public service employment program: "If I'd had someone, four years ago, I would never have left."
Government officials urged draft doctors and deserters living in Canada to call or write before reporting to a U.S. attorney or prosecutor, and evaders and deserters believed living in Canada have 15 days from the date they re-enter the country to report to authorities.
Swedish life comfortable for war resisters, one says
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From the Associated Press
Associated Press
KANAS CITY Maryland JOHN R. Veget, 72-year-old Pittzburg, Germany
Point graduate who deserted the Army in 1971, said yesterday he understood what the majority of the American people think and I know that Ford had to please them.
Speaking from Stockholm, Sweden, by telephone, Vequist said most of the nearly 400 American war resisters in Sweden were deserters. Most, he said, have married
Swedes and gotten jobs; those are the kind of people that will never return.
"I have no plans to return," said Veqtui, who is married and has a 4-year-old daughter.
He said he was a milling machine operator in a factory manufacturing tool factory.
"I am pretty well settled in, I think. The Swedes aren't hard to get along with."
Ears stapled to cut weight
Retireees who report to customs officials at the border will be checked off, but won't be followed. U.S. Customs stations on the Canadian border have had computerized
From the Associated Prose
From the Associated Press
WICHITA—A metal staple in the ear is one of the latest experiments for losing weight.
Maurice Tinterow, a Wichita anesthesiologist, is conducting the experiment using stainless steel surgical staples.
Tinterow said results of the project wouldn't be available until late next year, but he added that early indications showed promise.
so far 70 to 75 per cent of the patients in the experiment have lost weight ranging from 15 pounds up to 35 pounds during a six-week period, he said.
The process involves placing a stair in or immediately adjacent to the external ear. Referred to as auricular-acupuncture or ear acupuncture. Exercises may include smoking, alcoholism and drug addiction.
When a patient feels the urge to snack or reach for a cigarette, he merely jiggles the staple and taps at his earlobe, causing the staple to jiggle, Tinterow said.
The process isn't an easy way to lose eight, the doctor said, in fact it can be a difficult one.
A person must want to follow the prescribed procedure by staying on a diet and taking supplements.
Insurance firms reduce auto rates
TOPEKA-Fletcher Bell, state insurance commissioner, announced yesterday that half the insurance companies authorized to write automobile insurance in Kansas were reducing their rates on private automobile policies by 5 per cent effective today.
From the Associated Press
Bell said the lower rates were filed by the Insurance Services Office (ISO), a national rating organization that represents 195 of companies writing car insurance in the state.
Among the larger firms ISO represents Aeetra, Hartford and Continental Resources.
of rising prices for most other goods and services.
Bell said it was the second year in a row the companies had reduced their rates in response to lowered gas prices.
Bell said the reductions reflected a 5.3 per cent average statewide reduction for liability insurance and 5 per cent for physical damage.
Bell said the reductions should result in a savings of about $1.11 million to Kansans. He said a similar reduction put into effect would reduce Kansans private car owners about $500,000.
"From the cold, hard figures furnished my office, it is impossible to determine the precise reason for the predominantly favorable loss experience." Bell said. "But I can assure you that most of us are, to a very large degree, a reflection of the driving habits and skills of motorists."
Through Tuesday, Kansas had more than 100 fewer highway fatalities this year than the previous season.
Bell did not relate the reduced rates to the 55-mile-per-hour speed limit, which most safety experts have cited for recent decreases in fatal accidents in Kansas.
Bell said ISO had sought a 4 per cent increase in its rates on automobile bodily injury liability, but his office had determined the rating organization couldn't statistically justify even that small an increase.
Bell said ISO's increase request was based partly on an assumption that the legislature's republic of the state's guest company demanded an increase in insurance company payments.
However, Bell said no such assumption could be made until there was experience of using it.
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Canadian border said they had not had a single inquiry from draft evaders or their families during the first day of the amnesty program.
Spokesmen for several groups of draft evaders in Canada and Sweden had urged a boycott of the amnesty plan and complained it wasn't liberal enough.
lists of deserters and evaders since 1970.
Guidelines for handling draft dodgers and deserters were sent out to 300 border stations by teletype Monday night.
Reports from several border points showed to indication of any large number of incidents.
U. S. Customs officials on the New York-
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French workers take over plants to prevent closings, bankruptcies
From the Associated Press
PARIS- Within one week, 4,000 French workers have occupied their working places in an attempt to hire their jobs rather than accept a shutdown notice.
The luxury liner S.S. France swings idly at anchor off Le Havre harbor, seized by a sit-in crew. At Marseille and Mabeuge and near Lyons, workers locked themselves inside the three plants of a bankrup truck trailer manufacturer.
At Rosporen in southern Brittany the employees of a shoe plant in liquidation pledged two weeks of work at maximum output and highest quality.
A year ago, the closure of the Lip watch factory in Besancon, one of France's largest, was announced. The workers occupied the plant, the stocked, sold much of it at cut prices and demanded that the government act to keep the plant going.
In the case of the France, it looks hopeless. The liner's losses are running at about 280 million a year and the government is under a threat of resuming a subsidy it ended in July.
The workers are hoping publicity will force the government to come up with plans on immigration.
For about 2,700 workers occupying the Titan-Coder trailer plants and 380 employees trying to save the Donval Shoe factory, there is a hopeful precedent.
In Italy, workers occupied three factories last year in attempts to keep them going after owners had announced a shutdown. On one occasion, managed to survive and was still operating.
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After weeks of fruitless negotiations, the government sent in riot police to clear the plant. But the workers assembled watch parts in secret locations, and nine months later a deal was arranged to reopen the plant and maintain most jobs.
The Titan-Coder management announced July 26 it would apply for liquidation. Demands from the workers moved the Ministry of Industry to ask the state-owned
Renault auto giant to see whether it could refloat the company. But Renault gave a
In Britain, workers have employed the sit-in tactic with some effect.
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