UDK News Roundup
By United Press International (Continued from page 1)
Nixon gets the word
WASHINGTON—White House Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler said Thursday night that telephone calls lit up the White House switch board even before President Nixon finished his speech and were running 6-to-11 in favor of his position.
Beverly Cole, White House operator, said the flood of calls constituted the greatest response she had seen in 27 years at the mansion. A full staff manned the telephones and callers were channeled to about 50 persons who logged the reaction.
Commission head named
TOPEKA—A former Colorado state legislator, Thomas Neal Jr., will serve as executive director of the new Commission on Reorganization of the Executive Department created by the 1970 Legislature.
Neal's appointment was approved Thursday by the Kansas Finance Council. He will receive $22,000 a year.
WASHINGTON—Curtis B. Tarr, the man who replaced Gen. Lewis B. Hershey as this nation's draft director, said last week that he was about to review the 30-year-old accumulation of orders left behind by his predecessor.
Draft reviewed
Tarr said that he wanted to give local draft boards more guidelines so that decisions would be more uniform—a reform long demanded by draft critics. Tarr indicated that because such guidelines had not been present before, he believed many draft boards were still not sure how to perform their job.
Questioned on other aspects of draft policy, Tarr confirmed, for the first time, that President Nixon had plans for an all-volunteer army of 2.5 million men and that the administration did not want this army full of career soldiers. He said the administration anticipated volunteers would drop out after four to eight years, making room for newcomers.
Tarr said he was campaigning to make the members of local draft boards younger and more racially representative. He also disclosed that a reduction in the number of local boards, which now number 4,087, was being considered.
In a message to Congress last week, President Nixon asked for pay raises and benefits to encourage an all-volunteer army but warned that it could not be achieved quickly and said the draft should be made fairer in the meantime.
In an effort to do this, Nixon barred all future occupational, agricultural and paternity deferments, and sought congressional authorization to phase out student exemptions.
Tarr said, "The President has made it reasonably clear to us that he would like to have the local boards more representative of the population from which young people are drawn."
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Docking to announce-
No other Democrat has yet announced his candidacy for the 1970 gubernatorial nomination.
Three Republicans who have announced their candidacy are Rick Harman, who lost to Docking in 1968; Attorney General Kent Frizzell and Raymond Van Skiver of Wichita.
US troops-
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As if answering an outpouring of criticism from Capitol Hill over his decisions to further involve the United States in Southeast Asia, Nixon said, "I have rejected all political considerations in making this decision."
"I would rather be a one-term President than to be a two-term President at the cost of seeing America become a second-rate power," he said.
Assessing the possible political repercussions of his decision to commit U.S. combat troop to action in a second Southeast Asian nation, the Chief Executive noted that "a Republican senator has said that this action means my party has lost all chance of winning the November election."
Nixon also noted that "others are saying today that this move against enemy sanctuaries will make me a one-term President."
But he said that "whether my party gains in November is nothing compared to the lives of 400,000 brave Americans fighting for our country and for the cause of peace and freedom in Vietnam."
"Whether I may be a one-term President is insignificant compared to whether by our failure to act in this crisis the United States proves itself to be unworthy to lead the forces of freedom in this critical period.
Criticism of Nixon's policies in Southeast Asia, which had been stilled for some time, resumed with a fervor Wednesday when the United States disclosed it was allowing American advisers to go into Cambodia with South Vietnamese units and providing air and other support for them.
Lovell to visit KU May 13
Naval Captain James A. Lovell Jr., commander of the Apollo 13 moon flight, will speak at KU May 13, said Congressman Larry Winn (R-Kan.) who arranged Lovell's visit.
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1970
Lovell will speak at a convocation of University, high school and elementary students at 3:30 p.m. in Allen Field House.
Nixon's statement that the U.S. involvement was on a far, far larger scale, triggered renewed opposition.
Administration officials gave no information on what military units were involved in the latest offensive into Cambodia, which followed by nearly two days the South Vietnamese foray across the border with the help of U.S. advisers and air and artillery support.
But Nixon said, "We take this action not for the purpose of expanding the war into Cambodia but for the purpose of ending the war in Vietnam and winning the just peace we all desire."
He again appealed for serious negotiations in Paris toward ending the war more rapidly, and said the United States would insist only that the future of South Vietnam be determined by South Vietnamese themselves.
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