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Friday, April 11.1975
University Daily Kansan
Connallu's prosecutors rest
WASHINGTON—The government presented its final evidence against John B. Connally Thursday and anchored its bribery case on circumstantial evidence and a single witness who said he made two $5,000 waivers to the former treasury secretary.
The government rested its case in the seven day of trial. Connally's lawyers will fit routine motions today asking that the case be dismissed without further appeal.
The chief defense witness probably will be Connally, a three-time candidate of Texas, who once seemed destined to become a presidential candidate.
Connally's defense, as outlined by his lawyer, Edward Bennett Williams, will be that he was offered money by milk fund attorney Jake
Athlete mum to Hearst juru
SAN FRANCISCO-Former Olympic athlete Phillip K. Shinick refused Thursday to answer questions from a special grand jury probing the Patricia Hearst case, while in Pennsylvania a government attorney indicated that sports figure Jack Scott would be subpoenaed there.
"I am not guilty of any crime," Schennick, onetime Olympic long-jumper, told reporters after a 15-minute appearance before the federal prosecutor.
Scott, former athletic director at Oberlin College, and his wife, Micki, who surfaced here Wednesday, appeared outside the San Francisco grand jury room along with basketball star Bill Walton, who expressed support for Shimnick.
In Scranton, Pa., U.S. Atty. John Cottone indicated Scott would be subpoenaed to testify soon before the federal grand jury in Harrisonburg which is also investigating the Hearst case. The Scotts said they would refuse to answer any questions about the Hearst probe.
Campaign expenses reported
WASHINGTON—In the last of the free-wheeling, big-spending elec-
tors in their 1974 campaigns, Common Cause reported Thursday
that $4 million in their 1974 campaigns, Common Cause reported Thursday
The Common Cause survey showed that the funds were spent by 1,161 candidates for Congress in the 1974 general elections. The figures in Figure 3 indicate that about 50% of those who
This was the last Congressional campaign before the new campaign reform law took effect on Jan. 1.
Democrats spent $38.4 million in House and senate races in which candidates for both parties were running. Republicans spent $2.5 million
Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan., was one of seven senatorial candidates to spend over $1 million in his campaign. His total expenditures of $11,100,000 were less than half of the president's total.
State appointee sues for seat
TOPEKA-An appointee of Gov. Robert F. Bennett who was denied a seat on Monday in the Kansas Adult Authority filed in the state Supreme Court Thursday asking that her rival be ousted and she be adjudged the lawful holder of the office.
Mrs. Carole Leek, an attorney from Johnson County, brought the original action against Franklin Riddle Thesis, the incumbent member of the board. The board formerly was the state Pardon and Parole Board. Theis has refused to surrender his position.
Charles N. Henson, Topeka attorney, filed the petition in quo warranto with the Supreme Court in late afternoon.
Senate passes energy bill
Fronts weaken around capitals
WASHINGTON (AP)—A bill giving federal and state officials broad powers to force Americans to save energy without paying the higher prices advocated by
SAIGON (AP)—A battle for a key city 40 miles east of Saigon headed into its third day while in Cambodia insurgents drove to within two miles of Phnom Penh airport, their deepest penetration ever, field reports said Thursday.
North Vietnamese gunners pouled salves of rockets, artillery and mortar fire into the fighting for Xuan Loc. The South Vietnamese responded with their own artillery and sent helicopter gunships and warplanes to pound rubber plantations, the suspected location of North Vietnamese troops and tanks.
Communist-led forces, who already control three-fourths of the country, also shelled Mekong Delta areas south of Saigon and Ninh City. 55 miles to the northwest.
In Cambodia, reinel forces pushed closer to the Pinnom Penh airport after a government artillery barrage accidently rained on the Pinnom troops on the northwestern front.
President Ford was passed by a vote of 60 to 25 in the Senate Thursday.
The proposal, still subject to House consideration, will virtually kill Ford's own conservation program by allowing either the manufacturer or the oil company to remove federal controls from oil prices.
Ford has indicated he will attempt to remove the controls next month in an effort to force energy conservation. Opponents would raise fuel cost $18 billion a year.
In addition to the provisions requiring joint federal-state efforts to save fuel, the bill will give Ford standby authority, with congressional approval, to ration gasoline if foreign countries boycott the United States again.
At the last minute, the senate adopted an amendment that will impose price controls on 40 per cent of U.S. oil production. Those prices are set to impact the world level of about $12.40 a barrel.
Sen. Henry M. Jackson, D-Wash., chief author of the hill,叫led the measure a substitute for President Ford's own conservation plan, which is based on raising energy taxes and allowing fuel prices to rise to curb demand.
The amendment would prevent the price of such new oil from rising above the Jan. 1, 1982 price, about $14.00. Presumably, this would mean that the current price for $12.40 would be reduced in price by $2.
Ford asks Congress for Viet survival aid
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Gerald R. Ford asked Congress Thursday night for nearly $1 billion in emergency military and economic aid for South Vietnam and for clear authority to use U.S. military forces to evacuate Americans, if necessary.
The bill extends federal controls over oil prices at least until March 1, 1976.
In a prepared "State of the World" address, Ford said Congress should appropriate $722 million for military hardware and an initial $250 million in economic aid to the armed forces to "ease the misery and pain of the people of Vietnam," that has befallen the people of Vietnam."
Indicating it might be too late to rescue Cambodia from a Communist takeover, Ford said a stabilization of the military would ensure that there is the best opportunity for a political solution.
Ford made no new requests for Cambodia and reminded Congress that a $222 million loan was being offered.
The $721 million combined military and economic request for South Vietnam more than triples the $300 million Ford sought in January which Congress has yet to approve.
"The national interests of the United States and the cause of world stability require that we continue to give both the United States a chance to the South Vietnamese." Ford said.
At the same time, he said, Congress should immediately clarify its restrictions on the use of military forces in public to protect civilians by ensuring their evacuation, if necessary.
"I hope that this authority will never be used, but it is needed there will be no time for it."
In early reaction to the address, members of Congress said Ford's aid request prompted
Sen. John McClellan, D-Ak, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, said further military assistance would only prolong the suffering in Indochina.
Sen. Harry F. Byrd Jr, Ind-Va, said; "I would say the odds are against Congress
Ford urged Congress to complete action on his Indochina proposals by April 19.
Congress barred all U.S. combat activity in Southeast Asia as of August 1973, and has
Ford called for North Vietnam to immediately halt military operations and for their compliance with the 1973 Paris ceasefire agreements. He said the Soviet Union and China, as well as all other members of the Paris conference, were being urged to use their influence to halt the fighting in South Vietnam.
TOPEKA (AP) - Atty. Gen. Curt Schneider criticized the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs and state news media Thursday for their handling of a confrontation Wednesday at a BIA office in Horton.
balked at taking the Ford administration special military aid appropriations of $300 million for South Vietnam and $222 million for Cambodia.
"Let us start afresh," the President said.
The options before us are few and time is
BIA, media criticized by Schneider
He went on to criticize the media, declaring the entire matter was blown out of proportion. He said it appeared that a small group of dissidents had informed television news reporters of the sitin in the Horton "more for publicity than anything else."
Carson had been scheduled for transfer at the end of March, but the transfer had been delayed pending administrative review from Washington.
He appealed to Congress for partnership in foreign policy, and blamed the debacle in Cambodia partially on legislative restrictions. Because of them and steady external support, he said, the Communist insurgents have shown no interest in negotiation, compromise or a political solution.
Schneider said the BIA "suscumbed to what appeared to be a strength of肩并腰," and she went on to say,
James gave the Indians written permission to stay in the building until the dispute was resolved and later sought and received permission from BIA commissioner Morris Thompson in Washington, D.C. to transfer Jack Carson, Horton Influenza Center. This settled the immediate controversy and those occupying the building left.
Despite Ford's expression of sympathy for the Cambodian government, he made no new request himself for food and ammunition. He demanded Cambodia not to other fronts. Ford said.
He renewed the pledge he made when he entered the White House last August to work cooperatively with Congress while asking her to support America's word throughout the world.
Charles James, area superintendent for the BIA, arrived in Horton early Wednesday at the Mackinaw Bridge.
"You had a dissatisfied percentage of Indians who wanted Carson's removal," Schneider said. "They were able to obtain aid by electing the support of Mr. James."
In seeking peace in the Middle East the United States has "agreed in principle" to reconvene the Geneva conference, but is prepared to explore other forums, moving ahead on whatever course looks most promising.
"We won't accept stagnation or a stalemate, with all its attendant risks to peace and prosperity and to our relations in and outside of the region," he said.
"I think the BIA succumbed to what appeared to be a show of strength by the team," she said.
— Congress should lift the U.S. arms embargo against Turkey, a vital ally of the security of Mediterranean, the bank of West Bank and the collective security of the Western Alliance.
However, he said, there was no property damaged, no threats and no violence.
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