THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
80th Year, No.70
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Tuesday, Feb. 3, 1970
UDK News Roundup
By United Press International
WASHINGTON—President Nixon plans to operate the White House with 28 less employees this year and a reduction in costs of $450,000, his proposed budget disclosed Monday.
Nixon to reduce staff
In the new budget proposals transmitted to Congress, Nixon asked for a $8.55 million for salaries and expenses of 548 people who work in the Executive Office of the presidency.
Costs for the current fiscal year were figured at $9 million for 578 employees.
Red China supports Arabs
TOKYO—Premier Chou En-lai of Communist China Monday pledged his country's support to the Arab nations in the Middle East conflict and predicted they will "defeat the U.S. and Israeli aggressors and win final victory."
Marcos to step down
MANILA—President Ferdinand E. Marcos, in a move to placate militant students, promised Monday he would not seek a third term and ordered politicians in the governing party to stay out of next year's constitutional convention.
Marcos, who was reelected to an unprecedented four-year second term last November, spoke at a news conference three days after thousands of youths stormed the presidential palace in the worst rioting here since World War II.
U.S. observes ceasefire
SAIGON—The United States and South Vietnam said today they will observe a 24-hour cease-fire during the Tet lunar new years holiday starting Thursday night. Off-duty U.S. troops were ordered to stay out of Saigon for fear of attacks coineiding with Tet.
The standown announcement followed the heaviest fighting of the year throughout the country.
Threat delays plane
Forty-one passengers and the seven member crew left the Boeing 707, while police and FBI agents searched the plane and all the luggage aboard but found nothing.
KANSAS CITY—A Trans World Airlines flight was delayed more than two hours Monday by a bomb threat received by telephone.
Budget cut has no affect
SPACE CENTER Houston--The space agency's new and "very austere" budget for fiscal year 1971 will have little bad effect at the Texas Space Center which serves as home base to America's astronauts, the deputy chief of the agency, George Low, said Monday.
Low told Houston civic and business leaders and key Space Center officials in a special briefing that the $3.333 billion space budget included in President Nixon's spending plan for fiscal year 1971 was the lowest the agency had been offered in nine years.
Nixon budget hits new high
WASHINGTON (UPI)—President Nixon's new budget drew hearty and predictable praise from Republicans Monday but Democrats generally dismissed it as long on promises, short on delivery and misleading.
Members of the President's own party described the $200.8 billion, budget with its anticipated surplus as a sharp blow against inflation. They said it began the process of shifting dollars away from defense and toward unmet domestic needs.
President Nixon asked Congress for a budget that would request Americans to pay $2.2 billion more to the government. Republican said the request was justified.
The general reaction from Democrats was that the President's requests short-changed domestic needs and didn't match his rhetoric. Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield suggested that cuts in Nixon's request could be
made, primarily in military expenditures.
Nixon said the budget was "one we cannot only defend, but one which will provide adequate funds, in this period when we must fight inflation, for programs the government is involved in."
Nixon's $200.8 billion "hard choices" budget would require raising Social Security taxes, user taxes and postal rates and extending excise taxes to enable the government to fight inflation with a $1.3 billion surplus.
The added cost averages to about $11 for every man, woman and child in the nation.
Sen. Wallace F. Bennett, R-Utah, in a statement that summed up GOP feelings, said, "I hope the Congress follows his lead in this fight and that it doesn't bow to the short-range political expediency in an election year and raise it for vote-getting purposes."
"The most significant aspect of the 1971 budget is that it is balanced," said Rep. Frank Bow, Ohio, ranking Republican on the House Appropriations Committee.
"Those who have been calling for a reordering of priorities are seeing this President reorder those priorities," declared Senate Republican Whip Robert P. Griffin, Mich.
Nixon's budget followup to his State of the Union promise to clean up the nation's waters evoked criticism from several democrats. They noted that his $10 billion program amounted to only $4 billion in federal funds and that only $800 million would be released next year, no more than Congress provided this year and $400 million less than Congress is already authorized to appropriate.
"More puff than performance," snapped Rep. Charles Vanik, D-Ohio, whose hometown of Cleveland lies on the shores of Lake Erie, one of America's most polluted bodies of water.
Whites boycott schools
INDIANOLA, Miss. (UPI)— The Supreme Court's total desegregation order was implemented Monday in several school districts in the Mississippi Delta, the cotton-growing plantation country where Negroes outnumber whites five to one. Two districts immediately became virtually all-black.
"Something has got to be done about this," complained Joe Dotson, vice-president of Indianola's chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. "The schools are still black. You can't call this integration."
None of the nearly 1,000 whites in Indianola's public school system showed up for classes with its 2,800 Negro students. Only two of 441 white children registered for classes at Tunica, a delta town with 3,000 black students, and officials said the two didn't show up Monday.
"We have an all-black school system," said George F. Petty, Tunica school superintendent. "We tried to tell the courts this would happen."
More than 40 school districts across the South, attended by a half-million children, are under court orders to end all vestiges of the dual school system this month. Several closed temporarily to prepare for compliance, while others awaited final word from federal judges on where their students should go.
In Louisiana, where 17 districts must desegregate this month. Gov. John McKeithen wired VicePresident Spiro T. Agnew that his state will defy any court orders putting education secondary to integration.
"These directives, if allowed to stand, will force us into a position of defiance which we would like to avoid if possible," said McKeithen, who joined Georgia Gov. Lester Maddox and Florida Gov.
Claude Kirk in advocating defiance.
Mississippi asked the Supreme Court Monday to let it sue the government in an attempt to alter its desegregation requirements. Gov. John Bell Williams said total desegregation rulings "are causing serious and irreparable harm to the state of Mississippi, its public school system and its economy."
The Supreme Court refused Monday to allow Mississippi, Alabama and Florida to file suits protesting integration plans.
Thirty-nine of the 41 white teachers in the Indianola system resigned. Several of them are now teaching in the Indianola Academy, one of hundreds of private schools that have cropped up across the South in the wake of desegregation pressure.
Photo by Ron. Bishop
They all look the same
It was the traditional battle between students and the IBM cards last week as KU students once again went through agony and bewilderment during enrollment. Karen Zupko, Morton Grove, Ill. sophomore, was one of many students trying to figure which cards to keep and which to turn in.