Candidates to debate
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
A debate between the three candidates for student body president will take place at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Kansas Union Forum Room.
During the session, sponsored by the University Daily Kansan, the candidates will discuss and debate important issues in their campaigns.
The parties and presidential candidates are: Independent Student Party, Dave Awbrey, Hutchinson junior; Campus Coalition, Rusty Leffel, Prairie Village junior, and Progressive Student Alliance, Mark Edwards, Emporia junior.
79th Year, No.110 The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas Tuesday, April 15, 1969
Nixon sets programs for crime, tax reform
WASHINGTON (UPI) President Nixon outlined his domestic program for the first time yesterday including tax reform, increased social security benefits, and more efficient attacks on crime and job discrimination.
In an informal State of the Union message to Congress, Nixon also indicated he would submit long-range proposals to reduce hunger, reform the welfare system and attack urban decay.
The message reached Capitol Hill as members of Congress returned from a 10-day Easter vacation, and after Democratic leaders had criticized the President for not spelling out his domestic desires sooner.
Nixon did not go into detail, but outlined 10 major legislative programs in broad terms, explaining: "We have deliberated long and hard on each of these measures in order to be sure we could make it work . . .
"These programs will not carry extravagant promises. The American people have seen too many promises, too many false hopes raised, too much substitution of the easy slogan for the hard performance."
His 10 proposals, listed in this order, were:
An increase in social security benefits, to take account of the rise in living costs.
New measures to combat
organized crime, and to crack down on racketeers, narcotics traffickers and peddlers of obscenity.
A program of tax credits, designed to provide new incentives for the enlistment of additional private resources in meeting our urgent social needs.
A program to increase the effectiveness of our national drive for equal employment opportunity.
A program for the District of Columbia, including home rule and congressional representation.
A comprehensive reorganization of the Post Office Department.
A start on sharing the revenues of
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Sirhan's fate to jury
LOS ANGELES (UPI) — A weary jury of seven men and five women yesterday began deciding the fate of Sirhan B. Sirhan for killing Sen. Robert F. Kennedy.
The historic trial of the slayer of the second of the Kennedy clan want to the jury at 2:55 p.m. PST after the prosecution demanded a verdict of first degree murder for a "vicious, cunning, cold-blooded assassin."
After a 15-week trial that has cost more than $1 million, the 25-year-old Arab—brooding and sullen—was in the hands of 12 American citizens.
First degree murder could mean either a sentence of death or life in prison with the jury deciding which.
The defense asked for second degree murder with a legal penalty of from five years to life in prison.
Photo by Ron Bishop
Superior Court Judge Hervert Walker read the instructions to the jury that ended the trial.
Walker told the jury that they could bring in four verdicts: first degree murder, second degree murder, manslaughter (one to fifteen years) or acquittal.
Double your fun
Actually chances of Sirhan ever being executed were virtually nil. Not a single person has been put to death in the United States in the last two years. There are more than 80 persons in San Quentin's death row alone successfully appealing their cases.
You're seeing two men once, not one man twice. Identical twins Stan and Steve Zimmerman, Topeka freshmen, will be doubling up next fall in Memorial Stadium as part of the KU cheerleading squad. Stan's the one in front—we think. See story on page two for the reason behind the confusion.
But chief prosecutor Lynn Compton pressed the jury to bring in a verdict of first degree murder as appropriate justice for a man who killed because he hated Kennedy.
Sirhan's defense was based on a plea of diminished capacity, which is a defense unique to the state of
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UDK News Roundup
By United Press International
Sniper battles police
CHICAGO — A berserk Purple Heart veteran—named as the bomber of a department store because "I wanted to show them how awful war is" killed two policemen and injured five more persons with gunfire and grenades before he surrendered in his besieged apartment last night.
Deputy Police Supt. James Rochford pleaded for an hour before Frank Kulak, 40, a disabled Marine veteran of World War II and Korea, agreed to give himself up.
Ike's son is sworn in
WASHINGTON - John S. D. Eisenhower, son of the late president, was sworn in yesterday as ambassador to Belgium as his widowed mother, Mamie Eisenhower, looked on with tears in her eyes.
Antitrust suit is filed
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department filed an antitrust suit yesterday to force Ling-Temce-Vought Inc. (LTV) to abandon efforts to take control of the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.
It was described as the first antitrust action taken against a major conglomerate.
Bishop Pike quits church
NEW YORK James A. Pike, former Episcopal bishop of California who was once accused of heresy, said yesterday he is leaving the church because members no longer practice what they preach.
Pike said the doctrine of brotherly love is ignored in churches today and most of them retain doctrines people no longer believe.
Governor will get plane
TOPEKA - The Kansas Senate has passed and sent to the governor a bill calling for expenditure of $220,000 to buy an executive aircraft for the governor's office.
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Neil Armstrong will be first American on moon
SPACE CENTER, Houston (UPI) — Neil Armstrong, a veteran astronaut with blue eyes and steel nerves, will be the first American to set foot on the moon under present plans, the space agency said yesterday.
Armstrong, the commander of the Apollo 11 spaceflight, will step onto the lunar surface on July 20 from the bottom rungs of a small metal ladder down the side of the spiderlike lunar landing ship.
A few minutes later, Air Force Col. Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin will follow him, said George Low, head of the Apollo spacecraft program.
Armstrong, Aldrin and Michael Collins will be launched July 16 on the 10-day Apollo 11 flight and Armstrong and Aldrin will detach in the lunar lander to make the actual landing.
22 hours
Armstrong and Aldrin will spend two hours and 40 minutes walking around on the lunar surface after the initial landing, and a total of 22 hours on the moon.
Armstrong had been a test pilot for the space program since the days when he flew the X-15 rocket plane. He was the commander of the Gemini 8 mission in 1966 which went out of control in space.
He also narrowly escaped last year when a lunar lander training craft he was testing spun out of control, crashed and burned. Armstrong ejected from the trainer.
Low said some details of Apollo 11 are still being worked out.
Armstrong calmly brought it back to an emergency landing in the Pacific.
Sack of dirt
He said the first thing Armstrong will do after stepping out on the moon is collect a sackful of lunar dirt. He will pass it up to Aldrin to be stowed away in the lunar lander so a sample will get back to earth even if the lunar exploration has to be cut short.
Aldrin will then join Armstrong on the moon to take pictures, send television signals back to earth, and try walking around in moon gravity where they will weigh about 30 pounds each.
They will also gather as much as 50 pounds of lunar rocks and set up a small radio broadcasting station to send back seismic information after the astronauts leave.
Low said all the experiments will be carried out within 100 feet of the landing craft.
"We see no reason to go any further and use up a lot of energy in walking," he said.