THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
No.159
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Dial-Drug's fate is on the line
Thursday, July 10, 1975
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CIA infiltration alleged; White House the target
WASHINGTON (AP)—The Select House Intelligence Committee has evidence that the Central Intelligence Agency infiltrated the White House and at least two federal agencies, two members of the committee said yesterday.
Rep. Robert W. Kasten Jr., R-Wis, a committee member, said yesterday that CIA documents indicated agency contacts had reported back to the CIA from their employees. In addition, the Management and Budget, and the Treasury and Commerce departments.
"I'm not sure spying is the right word." easten to listen as books as if she was looking at the cliff by the Clyde.
Kasten and Rep. Ronald V. Dellums, Kasten and Rep. Calif., the other member, said the committee also had evidence of CIA infiltration of the media—both broadcasting and agencies.
Kaster said that he had no specific names but that he had seen documents indicating there were CIA contacts in broadcasting companies and press companies.
He said he understood a small European company was operated almost entirely by the CLX.
Kasten and Dellums said they had few details on the CIA infiltration and were telling what they knew publicly in an effort to ensure that for keeping the select committees alive.
They made the disclosure as the House Rules Committee considered proposals to abolish the select committee, which has been removed and to replace it with a new committee.
Dellums said it was clear that what they said was CIA infiltration of the White House and other agencies occurred during former President Richard M. Nixon's administration.
But Kasten said the evidence he had seen indicated it was an agency practice over a long period of time and was not predominant in any one administration.
"It may still be going on," Kasten said.
"M may stay be going on," Klassen said. President Ford last December showed that
the major buildup of CIA's domestic spy
during early years of the Nixon administration.
The report, previously released but released by the CIA for the first time Tuesday night, also stated that quick replacements were needed to prevent the CHASO" program in the summer of 1972.
It said the volume of material was causing a "physical drain on the health of the group's officers trying to keep up with the enormous continuing volume of work."
"Operation CHAOS" was the code name for a program designed to uncover any foreign influence behind domestic unrest. It later turned to reporting on domestic activities of U.S. citizens, according to the Rockefeller Commission.
The report, comprising a six-page letter from CIA Director William E. Colby to Ford and 56 pages of documents, contains no major revelations of CIA activities beyond those documented by the Rockefeller Commission.
The Colby report was drafted in response to allegations published by the New York Times that the CIA had conducted a massive, illegal domestic war operation.
Librarian opposes collective bargaining
One White House official called the Colby report "historical fact of no particular importance."
Tall tales and dreams
The Colby report contained no mention of alleged CIA involvement in assassination attempts. The confidential reliable sources have said that the original report drafted at the insistence of Defense Secretary James R. Schlesinger during his brief interview with Colby was information on assassinations,
By JACK FISCHER
Canyon Staff Manager
University Professors, said he hadn't spoken to any faculty members who were fatly opposed to the establishment of a unit, but added that it was difficult to make an accurate evaluation because many faculty members were away for the summer.
University Theatre, William Kuhke (left) stars as Joe and George Weiss (right) portrays Kit Carson. See review page 4.
Indications of dissent to the proposed faculty collective bargaining unit have surfaced in the form of a letter written last summer by the president, associate Special Collections librarian.
Of the faculty members on campus, Griffin said, they are taking a wait-and-see attitude possibly because no major issues affecting them are being decided at present.
The Rockefeller report also documented the buildup of "Operation CHAOS" during the Nixon administration, and the Colby report offended the first detail account by the CIA of its own spy operation.
Mitchell wrote Donald Hoffman, examiner for the hearings, and Carl Leban, who originally petitioned for unit consideration, that no attention has been publicly given to faculty members who would prefer not to be situated in a collective bargaining situation.
The letter, dated July 3, reads in part,
. . . there is at least one member of the
University family who wants no part of
colleague training or anything remotely
remotely it.
William Saroyan's "The Time of Your Life" opens tonight at the
Liability insurance sought
"This is not a situation where the only way to be heard is to have a union," Mitchell said yesterday. "The thing that will be lost, far more important than money, is the family feeling that we're all in this together."
According to Leban, faculty members still have the options of not signing the petitions to select candidates to represent them in the final election, for no representative in the final election.
"The only tyranny that we all submit to is the one of a man like Leban. Is said in response to Michaela's charm."
Mitchell said the creation of a bargaining unit would formalize faculty-administration relations and cause the faculty to lose its sense of being equal with the administration.
"Nobody can oppress anybody by exor-
genating his rights under the law." Lehan said.
BY ALISON GWINN
kansas Staff Reporter
George Griffin, president of the local chapter of the American Association of
Leban, whose actions were cited in the letter, countered by saying Mitchell had from March through last week's hearings to exorcess his point of view.
Liability insurance for state officials, including all University of Kansas administrators and faculty members, may be purchased by an employer can make a contract with an insurance
Beware of letters bearing gifts
By KELLY SCOTT Kansas Staff Reporter
The common chain letter, once merely a maisons broken by all but the very superstitions, has grown into a big time story of the defense to the attorney general's office in Topeka.
Curt Schneider, Kansas attorney general,
issued a warning last week for Kansans to watch out for a chain letter circulating in the state. The letter promises a return of $1 million to one dollar membership fee to the first name on a list of ten at the bottom of the letter.
This type of chain letter is illegal under the clause in the state constitution prohibiting lotteries, Richard Shank, assistant attorney general, said Tuesday. The state's law does not require are subject to prosecution under the Kansas consumer protection laws.
Shank said the attorney general's announcement was prompted by an increase in consumer fraud in the state and a series of crimes by people who had received the letter.
Chain letters that don't involve money are legal. Shank said.
Chain letters that involve money are considered lotteries, he said, because they
have the three elements which characterize lotters under the law; prize, consideration
The letter circulating in Kansas is from out of the state, Shank said. He wouldn't be here for the meeting.
Shank said federal postal authorities and the attorney general of the state where the letter originated had been contacted in an effort to track down the person who initiated it.
The letter purports to help raise investment capital to start new businesses, Business 12.
The membership fee is legal, Shank said, just as entry fees required in bingo games are legal. The chain letter becomes illegal when the scheme itself meets the criteria for lotteries and is transported through the mails.
"I'm my opinion, they violate the deceiving
ide states," Barkley Clark, professor of lor-
gistics.
To constitute a deceptive consumer sales practice according to the Consumer Protection Act the practice must, among other things, pretend to have "uses or
The deceptive trade statutes are part of the Kansas Consumer Protection Act, which has limited
In order to fall under this statute it must be proved that the chain letter doesn't produce the promised money. Neither Shank nor Hugh O'Donnell, assistant attorney general of Missouri, knew of cases in which he did not receive bad no evidence that the letters didn't work.
Federal law outlaw chains letter that involve a "gift enterprise," such as the one in Karsas, as fraudulent use of the mails, Shank said.
Federal case law supports statutory prohibition of lotteries or gift enterprises
Once a chain letter is established as an illegal lottery or gift enterprise, the person responsible is in violation of federal post office regulations. The U.S. Mails can't be used to defraud.
The scheme to defraud alone isn't the gist of the offense, according to the law. Instead, the crime lies in the use of the mails for the scheme.
Staff photo by DON PIERCE
O'Donnell said a similar scheme was presently operating out of California and New York.
Tee time
benefits they don't have" or "intentionally use in any oral or written form, representation of exaggeration, innuendo, or ambiguity."
Mike Davis, University attorney, tees off on the first hole of the recreational service's summer golf tournament. Davis finished two strokes behind the leaders with a nine-hole score of 40.
O'Donnell said this letter told the recipient that because he had the same last name as some inmate, as some inmate in California, he might be eligible to receive a share of the dead person's estate. The letter said that for $15, this service would check the recipient's eligibility to receive part of the estate.
No complaints have been received by the Consumer Affairs Association about chain letters, Susan Smiley, president of the board of directors of the association, said.
The case is now in California probate court, O'Connell said.
Steve Shear, student intern at the Douglas County Legal Aid Society, said his office is helping families with legal issues.
The insurance would cover anyone working at the University who could be injured.
company, Mike Davis, University attorney,
said vester dav.
The state official who is sued would be provided with legal council and would be covered for certain amounts of money charges brought against him, he said.
Davis said the insurance policy was very important.
"We're asking administrators who serve on committees to lay their financial lives on the line when they make decisions, which isn't fair," he said. "We can't force faculty members to buy $100,000 insurance policies when they're donating their time."
Davis said that even if the accusations in a legal suit are groundless, the person sued would spend several thousands dollars for defense, even if he won the case.
"I think that a faculty member, administrator or even a student should be able to make a proper decision without knowing the difference might cost him money." Davis said.
He said that litigation was being used more frequently now.
"There are at least two major law suits at the Med Center right now," he said.
There are always several of these floating around, being threatened at any moment.
A University official might be audited for
slander, false imprisonment or
discrimination.
One case is a suit for $9 million against a department chairman and William O. Rieke, former executive vice chancellor for the KU Medical Center, he said.
Suits might concern salary increases,
dismissal of untenured faculty members or
committees faculty members and
committees faculty members
Anybody could be sued, Davis said. For example, someone not recommended for tenure might sue his entire academic department and members of the department can have a vote.
Don Hoffman, chief assistant attorney general for Kansas, said that the insurance would cover "everyone from the chancellor right down to the janitor."
No liability insurance exists now to cover university officials. They would be obligated to pay out of their own pockets if they lost suits, Hoffman said.
The legislature sometimes creates a special bill to pay for a particular claim, but it is not always correct.
The insurance will cover all state agencies, state employees and state activities, Hoffman said, because the state can now be held responsible for torts committed on proprietary functions (those performed by private institutions).
The state surety bond and insurance committee, comprising the state treasurer, state attorney general and all commissioners, will submit specifications for the insurance on July 2.
one time, the state and state agencies could not be used, but employees, agents and officials
The committee will now have to negotiate a contract with an insurance company. The company has insured immediately upon the signoff of the contract with a company, Hoffman said.
A total of 129 cases concerning liability are pending in the state, and most are for property damage.
Viets get local sponsor
Three local churches will sponsor the first family of Vietnamese refugees to arrive in Lawrence.
The Rev Paul D. Olson, pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church, said yesterday that Nguyen Ngoe Thi, his wife, three daughters and one son should arrive in Lawrence City.
Thoc, who was a physical professor at the University of Salign, will have a job with Lawrence Memorial Hospital when he arrives, Olson said. Plans for housing are pending.
In addition to Trinity Lutheran Church, Good Shepherd Lutheran and Emmanuel Lutheran churches are also sponsoring the family.
Rev. Olson said that this sponsorship was part of a national program by the Lutheran Chuch to find homes and jobs for the refugees.
House debates road bill
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KANSAS STAFF REPORTER
Federal funding for the construction of Clinton Parkway will be considered by the U.S. House of Representatives today as part of a general highway appropriations bill, a spokesman for Rep. Larry Winn said yesterday.
Late yesterday afternoon the Rules Committee voted by voice to grant an open rule on amendments, which meant that any changes would be made to the bill is considered by the full House today, and to waive points of order against the bill. There are points, none of which apply to Clinton Parkway.
The bill appropriates $10 million for the construction of "access roads to public
recreation areas on certain lakes "Clinton Parkway was one of six such projects given priority in the legislation, which authorized the lake access highways program.
Winn's legislative assistant said that to his knowledge there was no opposition to the bill as a whole or to the section on lake access highways funds in the House.
He said the Senate would consider its version of the bill later this month. The transportation subcommittee of the Apo Lawrence delegation presented its request for the funds two weeks ago, is scheduled to mark up its final draft of the bill July 18. The full Appropriations Committee should present it to the Senate.
Kansas congressmen hope the Senate version of the bill will appropriate the full $25 million authorized for the lake access highways program. The larger appropriation would improve chances for the lake to be allotted the $413 requested for it.
After the House and Senate agree on a
bill, it will be sent to President F.
President Ford.
Winn's aide said that although the administration was known to oppose the funding for the lake access highways, it favored the bill as a whole because the money it provided for the interstate highway program was needed.
He said he didn't think the President would veto the bill.