2
University Daily Kansan
News Digest
From the Associated Press
Mayaquez action criticized
WASHINGTON - U.S. Marines were ordered to rescue the Mayaguez crew from a Caribbean island despite reports indicating the crew was no longer there, a
White House Press Secretary Ron Nessen, defending the actions of Pres. Gerald Ford, said, "We disagree with that conclusion
"The President carried out the actions in the Mayaguez case and believed they were right."
The report by the General Accounting Office said U.S. jet pilots had accurately reported seeing all or most of the Mayaguez crew on a fishing boat off the island. But it said U.S. commanders relied instead on an inaccurate report that the crew was on the island.
The U.S. Marine assault May 15, 1975, on Koh Tang to rescue the ship and crew seized by Cambodian gunboats three days earlier 18 Marines dead or missing; 23 Air Force men involved in the mission were killed in a helicopter crash two days earlier.
UAW. Ford reach accord
DETROIT (AP) — The United Auto Workers and strike-bound Ford Motor Co. are demanding that the union keep driving a four-day work week for the union's long-range drive toward a four-day work week.
Announcement of a settlement on a new three-year accord was made in a statement by President Leonardo de la Vega, almost three weeks to the hour after Ford warned that their jobless
No details of the settlement were disclosed pending ratification by members.
However, sources close to the talks have said key provisions include 13 additional paid days off over three years, wage hikes averaging 3 per cent a year, continuation of the current cost-of-living wage adjustment formula and improved fringe benefits.
The strike is almost certain to last another seven to 10 days, however, because of the UAW's ratification process, and it could be another few days beyond that before the auto maker's 62 assembly and manufacturing plants resume normal operations.
Fallout dusts eastern U.S.
WASHINGTON—Slight radioactive fallouts from a recent atomic explosion are sprinkling parts of the eastern United States, but a federal nuclear agency is investigating the source.
Reports of fallout came from federal and state agencies in at least seven states: pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, South Carolina, Maryland, Delaware and California.
Michigan authorites reported a small rise in environmental radioactivity probably caused by the Chinese blast.
Senate staffer quits after faked hearings
WASHINGTON (AP)—The staff director of a Senate Appropriations subcommittee has resigned after disclosure that a series of budget-billion budget was based were never held.
Aides said the director, Harley Dirkens, submitted his resignation in a letter to Sen. Warren Magnuson, D-Wash., chairman of the labor and health, education and welfare.
Columnist Jack Anderson disclosed several weeks ago that the printed record of a series of subcommittee hearings last winter on the proposed budgets for the federal labor and health, education and welfare were faked—that the hearings were never held.
In addition, the transcripts were sprinkled with occasional remarks in an apparent attempt to make it seem the hearings were actually held.
As it turned out, the 4,500 pages of transcript contained printed testimony submitted by witnesses and written remarks by members of the subcommittee.
At one point, for example, the transcript has Magnuson calling a subcommittee session to order and welcoming several witnesses.
Magnuson was on his way to Seattle yesterday and couldn't be reached for comfort.
A Manuson aide, however, said the senator had accepted Dirk's resignation. Dirks gave personal reasons for quitting, and he admitted that he had to do with the so-called phony hearing.
Dirks, in a letter to subcommittee members June 30, said that changes in the way hearings testimony was handled had allowed printers to prepare a full transcript of hearings and make it available to members and their staffs in near-record time.
Mondale raps Nixon pardon
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—(AP)—Democratic vice president candidate Sen. Walter Presley said yesterday that the timing of President Obama's visit to Nixon for Watergate crimes "made a mockery of the notion that in America, there is no sovereign who stands above the unlawful."
He told an audience at the University of Missouri at Kansas City law school: "That pardon was issued with no accountability, no official listing of crimes and no means of determining the specific offenses involved."
The Minnesota senator emphasized that he won't blamish President Ford for the killing of Senator Richard Burr.
The speech marked the first time that Mondale had spoken at length on the campaign trail about the Nixon pardon, a subject that Democratic presidential nominee Jimmy Carter had said he wouldn't make a cammaim issue.
Instead, he said, he was attacking the weakness of leadership in *Ford*'s handling of the parishioner's demands in a time when the White House, by Nixon's hand, from the White House, and Ford's response to disclosures of illegal actions and other crimes by the FBI and various intelligence agencies.
The senator stressed that it was the timing of the pardon to which he objected, and was denied. The senator said:
ended the actions of Richard Nixon, long after it was obvious to many members of his own party, as well as most of the American government and administration was obstructing justice."
Teacher, Ford led the fight to prevent the first investigation of the Watergate break-in, a probe by the House Banking Committee. Mr. Ford "to the bitter end, strongly def-
Roses $2.50 per dozen
Mixed bouquets $1.50
with KU ID
9:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m.,
Mon.-Sat.
9:00 a.m.-8:30 p.m., Thurs.
826 Iowa 842-1320
Offer good thru Oct.15, 1976
Dirks 'office said he was on vacation and he couldn't be reached after his resignation was disclosed. Further details weren't available.
The Magnuson subcommittee has jurisdiction over the second largest appropriation bill in the federal government. The $6.1-billion version for the 12 months last week over President Gerald Ford's veto. Hearings weren't legally required.
SUA FILMS
Dirks is reputed to be one of the most able, and most powerful, aides in the budget handled by his subcommittee over the budget handled by his subcommittee often was referred to as Sen. Dirks.
CLASSICAL SERIES
FILMS OF THE MAYSLES BROS
Oct. 6, 9
SALEMAN (1988)
Dir. Mayes Bross and
Charlotte Zwein.
Documentary
CHRISTO'S ALLEY CURTAIN
Mr. Mayes Bross and
Charlotte Zwein.
Wed., Oct. 6, 7; 3:00
FILM SOCIETY
GIMME SHELTER (1970)
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, with the
Rolling Stones, with the
Tina Turner, Jefferson Airplane
and WHAT'S HAPPENING! THE
BEATLES IN THE U.S.A. (1964)
The Beatles, in Paris, in 1964.
Thurs., Oct. 7, 9:00 & 11:30, $1
POPULAR FILMS
GREY GARDENS (1976)
Gregory Gardens, a children's playhouse with Edith Bovier Beale and daughter Edie. A non-fiction film with Edith Bovier and 9 & 3: 30; 7: 50; 9: 30; 5: 10
Wanna get high & get down?
Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union
Room to rent?
Advertise it in the Kansan.
864-4358.
Sky Dive!
KU Sky Diving Club
Oct. 7 at 9 p.m.
in the International Room of the Kanax Union. For further information, in advance at 841-4704.
Beginners welcome.
REMINDER:
The KU Backgammon Club meets every day, at 7 p.m. Oread Road University Union, before 7:00 to play in the tournament.
BRING YOUR BOARDS
1420Crescent
842-1117
STUDENT SENATE ELECTIONS FALL 1976-77
6 Nunemaker Senators, Freshman Class Officers College Assembly
VOTE
Wednesday, October 6 and Thursday,October 7
POLLING PLACES
$ \star $ October 6 and 7
8 a.m.—5 p.m.
Union—South Foyer
Wescoe—West End of 4th Floor
Summerfield—2nd Floor
Ev
TOI
small
at 1 p
HALL
2:30 p
SOCC
Colleg
Comp
October 6 (only)
5 p.m.—6:30 p.m.
Kappa Sigma Fraternity
Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity
Kappa Alpha Thota Sorority
Ellsworth Hall
Lewis Hall
Oliver Hall
G.S.P.—Corbin
JOH anthro von I conduu Augus mus
GR
An
All i reside young Monst Murp to sim their
★ You need your KU I.D. to vote. Paid for by Student Activity Fee