THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
79th Year, No. 123
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Friday, May 2, 1969
Power struggle hits ISP
UDK News Roundup
By United Press International
Reagan supports ABM
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Gov. Ronald Reagan of California said yesterday he would like to see the Republican Governors Association declare its support of President Nixon's Safeguard plan for developing an Antiballistic Missile (ABM) system.
Speaking as chairman of the association, Reagan stopped short of saying he would press for a resolution to endorse the administration's ABM plan. He said he would explore it with other governors first.
Hitler supporters unite
HAMBURG, Germany - The first self-declared Nazi group in post-war Germany opened a secret founding convention yesterday in defiance of a government ban.
Wolf-Dieter Eckart, a 29-year-old Hamburg electronics engineer, met with four followers at the village of Bispingen near the autobahn between Hamburg and Hannover, then drove with them to a secret location in a lower Saxony state.
"We support the ideals of Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich," Eckart told newsmen who accompanied him as far as the Bispingen rendezvous. "We agree with all he did."
Costs concern Laird
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird said today the Pentagon must "restore its credibility on Capitol Hill or we'll be in trouble." Laird said an investigation of cost over-runs on defense contracts is an "ungent" priority matter.
He made the comments to newsmen after appearing before the Senate Armed Servives Committee to discuss reports of a 100 per cent cost over-run on an Air Force contract for jumbo cargo jets.
Gen. Wheeler still no.1
WASHINGTON - The Senate Armed Services Committee voted yesterday to give Gen. Earle G. Wheeler another one year term as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff despite grumbling that the Air Force and Navy were not getting a chance at the No. 1 non-civilian defense spot.
The vote was unanimous on a resolution to give Wheeler, an Army man, special permission to stay on as chairman for a sixth year.
Rep. Mize accepts seat
WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Chester Mize, R-Kan., announced today he has accepted the chairmanship of the International Trade Task Force for the Research Committee of the House Republican Conference.
Mize, a member of the International Trade Subcommittee of the House Banking and Currency Committee, will head a 14-member group which will research several areas dealing with our trade relations and policies and will make recommendations to the GOP Research Committee.
The International Trade Task Force will study tariff revision and the protection of domestic industries.
--a loyalty to the Senate, student body and to ISP. He explained that ISP was the "vehicle by which he was elected," but the student body required his greater affiliation.
By MICHAEL NAGEL Kansan Staff Writer
The Independent Student party is in a state of confusion. After placing their presidential and vice-presidential candidates as well as 26 Senate candidates into office, a power struggle of political methods has broken their camp.
With the election in the lap of ISP, the party found itself divided in how to achieve the legislation it seeks. Others thought Dave Awbrey, Hutchinson junior and ISP president-elect, was beginning to forget his party affiliation. And with the reorganizational meeting of yesterday drifting in the back of the mind of every ISP member, the interim week found persons jockeying for a future position.
But as the first meeting of the new Senate neared, the members of ISP were caught between idealism and pragmatism.
Last Thursday night, ISP found itself surprisingly successful. The party found itself with the positions and the numbers to push through its reforms.
Over the weekend, ISP coordinators, Peter George, Tuckahoe, N.Y., senior, Gus diZerega, Wichita senior, and Abwrey met to form a slate of ISP Senate members to push for election into Senate committees which were to be formed in the Tuesday night meeting.
But when Tuesday night's Senate meeting came, all of the slate composers had decided not to push the slate which they had created. Awbrey arose to the Senate floor and publicly denounced anybody who would push any slate.
To the ISP members who were unaware of the sudden change in methods to seek committee membership, it seemed as if the new president was forsaking the party.
In explanation of his action,
Awbrey said in an interview he had
Commenting on the problems of ISP, Awbrey said, "I see a lot of wrong, pettiness and personality conflicts with ISP. I feel I have to rise above this," he said.
In an earlier interview, diZerega had said, "ISP is undergoing reorganization to allow for more democratic control in the top offices."
George had also agreed with the need for change in the ISP upper echelon. He said in the future, ISP would have to be a more open party and not so directly run by the influence of the ISP executive council.
In a Wednesday meeting to select the members of Senex, the Senate executive council, reaction to the nominations of diZerega and George were in the manner of
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Presidio march was 'peaceful'
More than 300 persons participated in a fast-moving, orderly march with the Committee for the 27 yesterday to protest what they called the unjust treatment of the prisoners involved in the San Francisco Presidio "mutiny" last October.
After a 20-minute on-campus march, the demonstrators stopped at "Wescoe Hole" to stage a reenactment of the events which led to the Presidio mutiny.
Earl Robinson, Overland Park freshman, acted out the part of Pvt. Richard Bunch, a 19-year-old inmate of the Presidio military stockade, who was killed by a prison guard October 11, 1968, as he attempted to escape.
Three days after Bunch's death, which the Army declared
"justifiable homicide," 27 of his fellow inmates sat down during morning roll call and sang "America the Beautiful" to protest Bunch's death and the allegedly overcrowded conditions at the stockade.
John Sanford, Bartlesville, Okla., junior, narrated the campus "mutiny" and told of the allegedly bad conditions existing at the Presidio up to and including the time of Bunch's death, as the "prisoners" at Wescoe Hole peacefully protested by singing.
Intent spectators lined the elevated embankment of the hole and watched as Daryl Klippsten, Prairie Village junior, portraying Captain Lamont, commanding officer of the Presidio, read Article
94 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Using a bullhorn to read the article, which deals with mutinous actions, Klippsten could barely be heard over the singing of the "prisoners."
The march began in front of Flint Hall. Singing "We Shall Overcome," the marchers headed down Jayhawk Boulevard to Lindley Hall in a four-abreast line that extended in length from Flint to Marvin Hall. From Lindley the marchers turned down the hill to the Military Science Building.
A group of about 30 students, sitting in the grass near a flag pole at the Military Science building, gave the first few marchers hostile glances, but calmly watched the
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'Mutineers' hear charges
Photo by Halina Pawl
Actors in yesterday's Committee for the 27 reenactment of the San Francisco Presidio "mutiny" are shown here as the "charges" against them are being enumerated.