THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
79th Year, No. 95
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Friday, March 14, 1969
--politics," Hansen said. "We are both non-violent, but devoted to change."
UDK News Roundup
By United Press International
Plays tapes at Sirhan trial
LOS ANGELES — Sirhan B. Sirhan talked about the stock market, murder cases and the high cost of having a family in the first few hours after he was arrested for shooting Sen. Robert F. Kennedy.
The 24-year-old Arab immigrant chatted with police officers who questioned him but declined to give his name, referring to himself as "John Doe."
Tape recordings of the interrogation of Sirhan by police and members of the district attorney's staff were played at his murder trial yesterday in a reconstruction of events after his arrest at the Ambassador Hotel where Kennedy was mortally wounded last June 5.
Peru rejects request
WASHINGTON - Peru flatly rejected a recent U.S. protest about an incident involving California tuna fishing boats off the Peruvian coast, U.S. officials disclosed yesterday.
The Peruvian note, it was disclosed, did not go into details about the incident with the California fishing boats which were chased and fired upon last month by Peruvian naval vessels.
Arms race will cost
WASHINGTON - Unless the nuclear arms race is cooled down, it will begin to cost the United States $30 billion a year, Sen. Stuart Symington, D-Mo., said today.
Liquor referendum set
TOPEKA, Kan. (UPI) — The Kansas House of Representatives today passed a resolution to permit a vote of the people on a proposed constitutional amendment to permit liquor by the drink. The vote was 84-38.
The vote was final action on the resolution which had already passed the Senate. The amendment will go to the voters in 1970.
Nixon favors ABM
WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Nixon today announced he had decided to deploy the Sentinel antiballistic missile (ABM) system on a "substantially modified" basis of an unmistakably defensive design to guard against nuclear attack or missiles fired accidentally by the Soviet Union or Communist China.
Nixon issued a formal announcement on the ABM just before a news conference and after a two hour meeting with bipartisan congressional leaders.
He asserted that the Sentinel system as inherited from the Johnson administration had been modified "so that its defensive intent is unmistakable."
"It will be implemented not according to some fixed, theoretical schedule, but in a manner clearly related to our periodic analysis of the threat," he declared.
After weeks of studying the Johnson administration program to deploy the limited Sentinel system following a work suspension in January, Nixon said he had reached three basic conclusions:
- The concept on which the Sentinel program of the previous administration was based should be substantially modified.
- "The safety of our country requires that we should proceed now with the development and construction of the new system in a carefully phased program."
- "This program will be reviewed annually from the point of view of A, technical development; B, the threat;
C, the diplomatic context including any talks on arms limitation."
Nixon said his planned "measured deployment" was designed to fill three objectives;
- "Protection of our landbased retaliatory forces against a direct attack by the Soviet Union.
- "Defense of the American people against the kind of nuclear attack which Communist China is likely to be able to mount within the decade.
- "Protection against the possibility of accidental attacks from any source."
The Chief Executive rejected other possible choices, including continuation of the Johnson administration program and indefinite postponement or massive deployment designed to defend U.S. cities against Russian attack.
"Although every instinct motivates me to provide the American people with complete protection against a major nuclear attack," he said, "it is not now within our power to do so."
A system to protect major cities, he pointed out, still could not prevent "a catastrophic level of U.S. fatalities from a deliberate all-out Soviet attack."
He was concerned, too, that a heavy missile defense system "might look to an opponent" like the prelude to an offensive strategy threatening the Soviet deterrent.
ISP-ACT in coalition to stop third party
By PHYLLIS JONES Kansan Staff Writer
The political juggling of student body presidential candidates ended last night when Bill Hansen, Wichita senior, withdrew from the political arena.
At a meeting of the Independent Student Party (ISP) in the Kansas Union Forum Room, Hansen announced a "political deal" with David Awbrey, presidential candidate on the Action Coalition (ACT) ticket.
Awbrey is running for president on the ISP-ACT ticket with Marilyn Bowman, Merriam junior, as his running mate.
Hansen predicted that if he and Awbrey, Hutchinson junior, both ran on separate tickets, they would split the votes allowing Rusty Leffel, candidate on the Campus Coalition ticket to win.
"Awbrey and I have the same emotion about
ACT and ISP had previously joined in a political marriage Wednesday, but a fight over who was head of the house ended the union two hours later.
Hansen, who was to run as vice president on the ISP-ACT ticket, decided to run for president on the ISP ticket only.
Explaining his fickle emotions, Hansen said, "I joined with Awbrey because I didn't want to split the votes. But, I didn't think it was honest, so I got out."
But, the "positive aspect of allowing the Left to have one candidate for office overrides all else," Hansen said. So, the remarriage.
Before announcing his decision to withdraw from the race, Hansen explained his reasons for running for president.
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Photo by Ron Bishon
Chancellor-designate E. Laurence Chalmers battles microphones and reporters at yesterday's press conference