Army deploys missiles
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The Army, seeking to end apprehension about deployment of nuclear antimissile rockets around cities, has told Congress atomic antiaircraft rockets have been installed around some U.S. cities since 1958.
The testimony before a House subcommittee Jan. 15 was made public yesterday by the Army to call attention to the fact that its Nike-Hercules missiles, designed to attack manned bombers, had actually been armed with nuclear warheads.
Lt. Gen. A. D. Starbird, head of the Army's Sentinel antiballistic missile ABM system discussed the 11-year-old Nike-Hercules network at a closed meeting of a House appropriations subcommittee.
D-Fla., subcommittee chairman, noted public protests over plans to place Sentinel missiles, intended to intercept intercontinental ballistic missiles, in metropolitan areas.
Rep. Robert L. F. Sikes,
Sikes asked about the possibility of accidental explosions, what kind of warheads were on the Nike-Hercules rockets and if complaints had been received about the Nike-Hercules sites.
Starbird replied that:
U. S. nuclear weapons had so many safety devices that "the likelihood of any nuclear yield in case of an accident is essentially nil."
Nike-Hercules missiles with nuclear warheads were phased into urban air defense sites starting in 1958 and the
installation was completed in 1961.
- The Army received no complaints over the storage of Nike-Hercules missiles in urban areas, but that "in the interests of security ... the exact location of Hercules warheads has not been disclosed."
Feb. 20, 1957, then Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson announced nuclear weapons had been introduced into the United States for defensive purposes, including those on some Nike-Hercules. Since then, however, the military usually declined to talk about deployment on nuclear weapons on grounds their specific whereabouts were classified information.
Starbird testified before Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird suspended deployment of the Sentinel missiles pending a
Nixon to face riots while on Berlin visit
BERLIN (UPI) - Leftist West Berlin students yesterday promised violent demonstrations against the visit Feb. 27 of President Nixon. Moscow radio warned of further Communist moves against Western traffic into the city.
"We will not be blocked by police," vowed the leftist-dominated student parliament of the Free University. The group led riots against then Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey on his visit April 6, 1967.
The student statement said Nixon "will leave here with another state of mind" than did John F. Kennedy after a triumphal presidential visit to this outpost deep in Communist territory on June 26, 1963.
An aide to Nixon said the President would go through with the visit of several hours despite a new blockade of traffic into the city scheduled to begin Saturday.
The East German blockade will close land routes into West
Berlin to the 1,038 members of the West German Electoral College, their aides and any documents or material connected with them.
The college vowed it would go through with its plan to meet in West Berlin March 5 to elect a new West German president. Members said they would beat the blockade by flying.
West German Foreign Minister Willy Brändt told the Soviet ambassador to Bonn, Semyon Tsrapkin, yesterday that West Germany has no intention of bowing to Communist attempts of disrupting the election.
In a German-language broadcast Monday, Moscow radio warned of more new steps against West Berlin would be taken if the Bonn government continues its "adventurous course."
The college has met in West Berlin every five years since 1954 to elect a West German president, ignoring Communist objections that the city is not part of West Germany.
Wiretaps legal
WASHINGTON (UPI) — For the first time since 1965 the federal government is using electronic surveillance to fight organized crime. It was learned yesterday. Atty. Gen. John N. Mitchell has authorized several wiretaps since taking office Jan. 20.
All forms of "bugging" were forbidden, except in national security cases, by an executive order signed by former President Lyndon B. Johnson June 30, 1965.
Although Congress authorized electronic surveillance for use against organized and major crimes last year, former Atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark refused to use the authorization.
Mitchell's wiretaps have been authorized under procedures provided in the law.
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Robert E. Nunley, associate professor of geography, will present a paper "The Distribution of Human Populations in Central America" at the Continuing Seminar on Central American Development at 2:30 p.m. Friday in 203 Bailey Hall.
Nunley's paper is a Long-Range Research Project financed by the National Science Foundation. Emphasizing research development, the paper is the result of a four-year study of research design.
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After his lecture, Nunley will lead a discussion relating priorities of development to human population problems.
A thorough search of the newsroom by the members of the news staff and four members of the campus Traffic and Security department yielded no bomb.
Flint Hall was evacuated last night after the newsroom of the University Daily Kansan received a bomb threat via telephone.
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Templin resident must pay damage
A Templin Hall resident Erric Parton, Overland Park sophomore, has the option to pay a $40 damage fee for vandalism of his door, or drop out of school by Feb. 17. Parton received this ultimatum in a letter from the hall house manager, Mrs. Margaret Reitz.
Parton said an unknown party ignited lighter fluid outside his door about 4 p.m. Jan. 11. He and his roommate soon received word a $40 fine would incur. Instead of paying the fee, Parton repaired the door using professional materials—sander, wood putty, primer and clear varnish.
Their homemade efforts did not appease the University, represented by Mrs. Reitz and Ernest E. Pulliam, assistant director of housing.
"To have something tangible to further criticize about the door, Mrs. Reitz took a fork and scratched the same area while I was in class one day," Parton said.
Mrs. Reitz labeled the incident, "something we deal with everyday, no exception." As house manager, Mrs. Reitz oversees the physical plant, maid
and janitorial services and the 25-operator switchboard area.
"All students sign a contract when they enroll saying they assume full responsibility for their room and that includes the door," said Mrs. Reitz. "Whether the damage was actually committed by the signer is no concern of mine."
Dennis Casey, Templein resident director, acted as mediator between opponents, but he remains uncommitted to the issues of the situation.
University policy sets $40 as the standard price for this type of damage. Larry Anderson, Wichita sophomore, investigated the retail cost of an identical new door and found it to be $19.95 at Wood's Lumber Co., Lawrence.
Parton said the ultimatum is unfair from several angles. "We have to go to class, so how can we be held responsible when we are away from our rooms?" he complained.
Parton says he knows that he can not "fight the long-established establishment." He added, "If I have to pay for that door, I'm chopping it up and taking it home in toothpicks."
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