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Thursday, March 24, 1977
University Daily Kansan
News Digest
From our wire services
Kidnap victims strangled
TULSA, Oklahoma—Two women kidnap victims died within hours of the time they disappeared last Thursday, autopsies showed yesterday.
A medical examiner said the two women, Kendal Ashmore, 35, and Kathy Anne Brennan, 22, were stranded before they were buried in a shallow grave north of Sailillow, Okla. Neither was sexually abused or beaten before being strangled, Dr. Neil Hoffman said.
Bodies of the women were found Tuesday on land owned by Larry Chaney, a Jenks, Okla, carpenter who is charged with kidnapping for extortion. He is held under $1 million bond with a preliminary hearing set for April 11.
unbelief Biffa, D., S. M. Fallas Jr., who headed the investigation, said Chaney would be charged with murder in the deaths of Ashmore and Brown, but no charges will be filed until after the autopsy when he learned when the women were killed.
Dr. Hoffman placed the time of the women's death at sometime Thursday. Further study will be necessary to set a time of day for the death, he said.
Carter requests drought aid
WASHINGTON- President Carter asked Congress for $844 million in loans and grants yesterday to help communities, farmers, ranchers and businesses stricken by drought in western and plains states.
In a message to Congress, the President urged immediate consideration of his legislative proposals.
legislative proposal
Interior Secretary Cecil Andrus predicted the proposals would win quick approval from Congress.
"Although we don't pretend that we can prevent every hardship or relieve every defect of the severe drought we are facing in many parts of the nation," Andrus said, "we do feel that the total program . . . will substantially alleviate some of the worst conditions."
Grain elevator inspected
WICHTA—Federal inspectors began an investigation yesterday to determine whether safety regulations were being violated at a grain elevator where two men were found dead.
The company that owns the elevator, Garvey International, announced it has appointed its own fact-finding team to investigate Tuesday's accident that killed 25 people at a hotel in Las Vegas.
Roger Clark, local director of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, confirmed that an onsite inspection of the elevator began yesterday.
FCC ruling frees phones
WASHINGTON—A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a Federal Communication Commission order that would give telephone users more freedom to attach most types of telephone equipment they buy.
action type. The type of equipment would allow the installation of any equipment, whether furnished by the phone company or the customer, provided the equipment was registered with the appropriate regulatory agency.
At present, a person may purchase a phone at a store, but he must pay the phone company to install a device to protect the telephone network.
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) —Richard M. Nixon sat down today with British talk show host David Frost to start the first of 12 taped interviews about Nixon's life, his political career of almost 30 years and the case scandal that drove him from office.
New tapes to tell Nixon's story
There is tight security around each interview. Only a handful of trusted Frost employees are working on the shows, who say advance disclosure of anything may allow that Nikon is certain to say may lessen the impact of the lappings and its ratings.
Frost, 37, calls the interviews—Nixon's first since resigning—the most challenging of his career," particularly since Richard M. Nixon is renowned to be an incredibly private person, and we want to see the real Nixon, find out the answer to that enquirion.
THE TWO-HOUR interview sessions, the last set for April 20, will be edited down to 94-minute programs to be broadcast in New York City. The states and at least 10 foreign countries.
According to Frost, the tapings are being done at a private home near Nixon's estate in San Clemente, 75 miles south of Los Angeles. The owner, who calls the public the name of the owner of the home.
A spokesman for Frost's Paradise Productions, Inc., which bought exclusive rights to interview Nixon, said yesterday's opening interview began at midnight.
NEITHER FROST nor his company will say how much Nixon is being paid, but published reports put the fee at about $800.000.
The CBS, NBC and ABC television networks have declined to pay to interview Nixon, 64, citing policies against paying for "hard news," Nixon's agent, Irving "Swift" Lazar, reportedly had sought $1 million.
Nixon signed with Frost on Aug. 9, 1975,
exactly a year after he resumed from office.
Frost, in an interview earlier this month, said he had been "marinaring" in his mind the questions he wanted to put to Nikon even before the former president for the interviews.
Last summer, he opened an office in Washington, D.C., to begin research on the
Nixon story. Among those who helped him are Carl Bornstein and Bob Woodward, the Washington Post newspaper whose assistance helped lead to Nixon's resignation.
THE TWO REPORTERS, who've since written two best-selling books on Watergate and Nixon, "are but two of hundreds of who've given us their help." Frost says.
"We've talked to literally hundreds of people, had a full-time staff of four working since July, and they've talked to hundreds of people," said Alison Saka—for against and in the middle."
Frost said that Nixon "has no right to know any of the questions in advance nor even to preview the edited program before it is broadcast. So he will see it when the rest of America, the rest of the world sees it."
THE PROGRAMS are scheduled to be broadcast on at least 118 American TV stations, from 7:30 to 9 p.m. locally in most cities, and from 2:45 to 2:52, and on a same-day basis overseas.
Marvin Minoff, a Frost executive, says the Mutual Broadcasting system, with 730 affiliates, bought radio rights and will broadcast the interviews the same nights as the telecasts. He said the giant entertainment company MCA bought "non-technical" rights to film films of the institutes to schools, libraries and private groups.
He declined to reveal the fees paid by MCA or Mutual.
When broadcast, the Nixon-Frost interviews face mainly network rums. Leonard Koeh, a top officer at Syndracid on Wednesday, was one of many interviewees, expects good ratings for them.
HE SAID AUDIENCE projections now call for between 15.7 million and 17.8 million homes tuned to each show. In contrast, viewers in an estimated 40.4 million homes saw Nikon's augmentation speech when it was August 9, 2014, according to Nielsen ratings estimates.
Despite news media interest in the Nixon interviews, there has 'been no rush by advertisers to buy the six national minutes of his speech. They are at the local stations to get another six local minutes.
Water projects' fundings could be cut, Carter says
WASHINGTON (AP)—President Jimmy Carter put 30 federal water projects, including the Hilldale Lake in Kansas, on the chopping block yesterday and said he would drop the ax if they didn't meet economic, environmental and safety tests.
Sixteen were among a group of 19 projects for dams, canals and reservoirs that he cut last month from his fiscal 1978 budget pending review. The 14 others will remain in the budget until their reviews are completed, an aide said.
Of 19 projects on Carter's original "endangered life," three were later reinstated in the 1978 budget. They are the Dickey Lincoln School Lakes project in Maine, the Paintsville Lake project in Kentucky and the Freeport Lakes project in Illinois.
That leaves 307 of the 337 water projects of the Corps of Engineers and Bureau of Reclamation on Carter's "safe list." They passed initial administration screening, won't be subject to further review and will be funded in the upcoming fiscal year.
APPLICATIONS for new officers of the commission: President, Vice-president, Secretary, and Treasurer, are now available in 220 Strong. They must be filled out and returned to the same office by 5:00 p.m., Friday, March 25. Everyone interested is encouraged to apply. Selection will be by interview.
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were reluctant to involve their firms with the Nixon interviews.
Q: A mini-brewery is:
THE DEAN OF BEER'S QUICKIE QUIZ.
"I don't think there any doubt about that," he said. "I don't know what their minds are, but I don't want certain people who wouldn't want to associate their company with Nixon, just like some wouldn't want to do with the late Clinton. And though there are possibly more with Nixon.
One thing was certain: Frost had Nixon locked up for all interviews. A report who called and requested an interview simply down by a Nixon aide, Jack Bremen.
Each minute of national advertising time costs $125,000. Syndicat's Koch says. He said his company initially tried to get one or two national sponsors for all four shows. It failed, and only this year started selling the program to various sponsors.
THERE'S JUST ONE WORD FOR BEER
Q: A mini-brewery is:
a) Hidden in a basement somewhere in Greentown.
b) The result of trong to make Broken Teo, Idaho.
c) He paints the beer capital of the world.
d) The right man protest beer ingredients
e) D both (a) and (c)
A: If you answered this question (a),
you obviously know something I don't.
And you are in a lot of trouble
Now, as for the correct answer
Yes, Schltz actually does have a mini brewery
where they test brow the ingredients that go into
Schltz. And if they're not right, they never go
into Schltz
Which is something to remember the next time
you're going into your favorite place for a beer
You know which one.
AS OF THIS WEEK, he said, 50 per cent of the show's available national advertising was sold to six sponsors. He said one was Jerry Reed, but the other, but he declined to identify the others.
Brennan said Nixon's contract with Frost barred even that kind of interview, and added: "I don't think he'd be prone to do it anyway."
However, he said "sales on this are right on schedule" and predicted that "by the time we go on the air, we'll be 100 per cent sold out, or sold out as much as we want to."
Frost's executive on the show, Minoff, was asked whether he thought sponsors
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