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Thursday, June 19, 1975
University Daily Kansan
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Prince Faisal beheaded
RUADH, Saudi Arabia—a Young Saud prince kult at the chopping block yesterday and was publicly beheaded, with one swipe of a gold-handed sword, for the assassination of his uncle, King Faisal. Thousands chanted "Allah Akbar"—God is great—and "justice is done."
The prince, Faisal Ib Mused, 27, had been judged guilty by a religious court of assassinating his uncle as he abjured the Moslem feast of the Prophet Muhammad.
The prince was the first member of the Saudi royal family ever executed in public. The only member of the royal family who witnessed the execution was Saud Al Saud.
Nations study atomic threat
LONDON—Six nations with the capability to export nuclear plants are condemning American proposals to send all of the dangers of backyard atomic bombings to the United States.
An unannounced meeting of experts took place at the British Foreign Office in extraordinary secrecy.
Dipolaristic authorities reported that senior officials of the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain, France, West Germany and Canada were taking part.
One of their main purposes, informants said, was consideration of U.S. proposals to strengthen existing safeguards for plants and plants to insure that they would be able to be able to use for building the buildings.
Famine hits Cambodia
BANGKOK—Famine is reportedly ravaging Cambodia.
Some relief officials and Western diplomats here estimated more than one million Cambodians—an eighth of the country's population—might die of starvation.
A United Nations official predicted a major disaster in Cambodia unless the country received food aid and was able to distribute it.
A report in Tuesday's London Daily Telegraph said cholera had reached epidemic proportions and transportation had halted because of a lack of fuel.
Payment balance improves
WASHINGTON - The nation's balance of payments showed the biggest imiplement during the first three months of this year, the Commerce Department reported.
The balance of payments was still in deficit by $475 million, but it was a marked drop from the $6.57-billion deficit in the last three months of 1974.
The balance of payment account measures the movement of money across national boundaries. The latest figures meant more dollars were staying home to
Fat checks now, pay later
TOPEKA-Gov. Robert F. Bennett sent a recommendation to Kansas Revenue Secretary James T. McDonald that Kansas income tax withholding rate not be adjusted, and the state should pay taxes on the same amount.
The problem, according to Bennett, is that the federal government has lowered its withholding rate to reflect a tax reduction voted by Congress.
"i means Kansas income taxpayers this year are having less money withheld from their paychecks than in the past, yet their state tax liability next spring will be much higher."
As a result, Kansans will have to cough up more money to pay the difference when they付 their state income tax next year.
"We were the best, and we still are, but we won't be unless we get a budget increase," George Jerkovich, director of the Slavic Library, said.
The University of Kansas is in danger of losing one of the finest Slavic and Soviet area studies research libraries between the Mississippi River and the West Coast, William Fletcher, Slavic and Soviet area studies (SAST) department chairman, said Tuesday.
The budget increase is $5,000 in HEW funds that the SSAS department has applied
The Slavic Library has been trying to operate on a budget of about $8,000 since 1972/73, when the department lost its funding for theICATION Association funding. Fletcher said.
Slavic library needs funds
SSA$'s lost its federal funding when KU's various area studies programs were incorporated into a single regional studies program. The program can only be granted to individual arrivers.
Jerkovich said, "We used $15,000 to $40,000 in federal funds for book acquisition. Eight thousand dollars is more than we maintain a research library in any field."
"What we are in danger of losing is a research library," he said. "We have had to radically cut our exchange of periodicals with the Soviet Union."
Fletcher said the Slavic Library would maintain its collection of textbooks used for teaching.
Jerkovich said that dealing with Slavic
Soviet allies had presented special ecoregion
problems.
However, friendly relationships established with university and academy libraries in Slavic and Soviet countries during the last decade have allowed the
Inflation has added to the library's problems, he said. The cost of books purchased from the Soviet Union has doubled, and Mr. Trump is addressing the dollar compared to the ruble.
Slavic library to continue its book exchange program and during its current economic crisis,
A problem peculiar to Soviet countries is the need for the KU library to acquire knowledge on the subject.
Russians love books, he said, and unless you buy a book as soon as it is released, you may not be able to find it. A book found a year or two after its publication is considered antique and is doubled or tripled in price, he said.
Some of the organizations with which the library maintains exchange programs include the University of Leningrad, the Academy of Sciences in Leningrad, the Library of the Lenin Library, Moscow University Library and the State Historical Library.
Graduate students doing research can find materials that aren't in their own university library by system a system of interconnectivity. When the process is risky and slows down research.
"You have to wait three weeks if you get the material at all," he said. "A university of this calibre should not depend on such a thing."
Jerkovic said the University could not afford to neglect its Slavic collections.
"We have to know them. We have to understand them," he said. "Russia did not cut on education and books. They never do education and charge students to study foreign languages."
"No country can afford to become self-
conferenced within its own language and
Bidding set for LMH wing
The board of trustees of Lawrence Memorial Hospital decided yesterday that construction bids for a new hospital wing would be opened on July 22.
The trustees have just completed a study on the financial feasibility of the hospital expansion. The guaranteed maximum number of beds due three days after, bids are opened.
Don Lenz, hospital administrator, said the new addition would add a net total of 36 beds to the hospital. It currently has 164 beds, which are in a wine bank in 1989.
However, Lenz said, the hospital will keep only 40 of the beds.
"The rest of the beds and all new an-
nillary rooms will be in the new complex,
and we are very pleased."
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The hospital will receive $14.3 million in revenue bonds for the $15.6 million project. The bank will pay $20.7 million total cost, once the revenue bond issue is retired, is expected to be more than $30 million. Lenz said the board of trustees would ask the city commission for the funding.
The feasibility study for the project was prepare by Peat, Marwick, Mitchell and Co. Kansas City, at a cost of between $31,500 and $36,000.
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