Daily Iowan (Iowa City, Iowa), 1969-01-31
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Happy Weekend Forecast Finals end today, Registration begins Monola'1, anei the whol. pr o~e" b.g\ns Partly cloudy to cloudy today, tonltht anew Wednesday. So The Oaily Iowan and Saturday. A 1I"le wumer tonl,ht would like to wish all its readers a n ry ail Iowan anti 51 tvnllY. H Ith todlY l bout it. long and happy weekend. Serving th~ Unioersity of Iowa and the People of Iowa City EstAblished in 1868 10 CeTllll a copy Associated Press Leased Wire and Wirephoto Iowa City, Iowa 52Z~Friday, January 31, 1969 Pentagon to Hold Nixon Eying Spy Ship Probe WASHINGTON I.fl - Secretary of De· ing up a report. End of Draft fense Melvin R. Laird announced Thurs· On other matters, Laird said Packard WASHlNGTON I.fl - President Nixon volunteer army would be $5 bilUon to .., day a review o[ lhe Pueblo aera ir to de· also has been given responsibility for a has directed the Pentagon to work out billion a year, but he said this would be termine whether such ocean espionage major review of the Pentagon's $78·biUion a detailed plan of action for ending the incressingly offset by savings due to a missions sho uld be continued - and, if so, budget for fiscal 1970 and will consider draft when Vietnam expenditures can be how they ean be safeguarded. reduction in the turnover of military man· culs or increases in such projects as the reduced, the White House announced power. As ouUined by the defense chief. lhe reo disputed Sentinel antiballistic missile sys· Thursday. view will: tem, the Air Force's FBlll swing·wing In another followup te hI, Clmp.I,n. • Study Ihe kind of protection [hal could strategic bomber , its huge C5A cargo It wa Nixon's initial step toward ful· Nixon told the men who wi lt direct hi • be given these intelligence ships, to see plane and lhe Navy's carrier·based FI4 fillment or a campaign promise to seek planned Inlult on crim. thl t "no Intlex how such incidents could be prevented. fighter. an all volunteer military establishment. of the success of this adm inistration will . Seek "to see that we are In a position The Sentinel Iystem, at a tentllive The instructions sent to Secretary of be more closely Witched" than the drive where the rights of all individuals are pro cost of about $5 billion , wou ld be intend. Defense Melvin R. Laird were among 14 for lew Ind order. tected at all times, and to see that they ed to provide protection against li mited sets oC directives Nixon dispatched Wed· "There's never been a lime In this na· are and have been in this case." nuclear Ittack such as China mi,ht be nesday to eight j!overnment agencie lion's hi tory when more Americans were • "Study the whole maL,er of the role of able to Il unch In the '70s. seeking advice and recommendations on concerned about law enforcement," Nixon this kind of craft. .if such a role is nec· On Vietnam, Laird said he feels the subjects ranging from interest rate ceil· lold some 200 officials and employes of essary at any lime in the future." . military situation has improved over the ings to the future of the supersonic trans· the Depa rtment of Justice. A Navy inquiry is now under way at last 12 months and he plans a personal port program. The President drove down Pennsylvan· Coronado, Calif., on the f>ueb lo's Jan. 23, in pection trip to the war zone in the "not The White House .nnouncement Slid ia Avenue to aP!)ear at tl1at agency after 1968 capture by Nor t h Ko rea. It hu too distant future." Laird "was Idvised of the President's . ~nding his first mes age to Congre and stirred some public concern that Cmd r. Laird was drawn again into a con tin· conviction that an all.volunlter armed lI~signing Apollo 8 astronaut Frank Bor· Lloyd M. Bucher is being saddled with uiog semantic discussion about nuclear force b. est blished .fter the expendi· man to undertake a goodwill mission to an unfair share of the blame. "superiority" and a term recently used turts for Vietnam are substantially re· Europe. Laird told his first full·scale Pentagon by President Nixon , "nuclear sufficiency." duced, and WIS requested to plan a spe. At the Justice Department, Nixon had news conference he believes the inquiry is Laird said he thinks "sufficiency" is elal commission to devetop a detailed words of praise for lawyers who have being "handled in a very fair way." And probably the better term but "I am not plan of Iction for ending the draft." devoted their careers 10 government servo he added that it is important that both giving up the idea of maintaining a suo White House pre's ecretary Ronald L. ice. Nixon said this represents 8 financial sides - the Navy as well as the skipper - perior force in the United States." Ziegler said Nixon Is "moving al1ead on ~acrifice ror attorneys who could other· "have an opportunity to slate their case." Laird said he believes the United States developing his thoughts and getling fur. wi~e have entered private practice. Lait'd indicated, however, he feels a has "suHiciency" - the power to deter ther recommendations" on his proposal high·level examination of the entire mat· a nuclear altack on the United States - But as a man who lIas served both In that the Selective Service System even· government and a a Wall Street lawyer, ter is needed because of overriding public as well as superiority but l1e cautioned tually be eliminated interest in the case. Laird's chief deputy, that the Soviet Union is clo ing in with I\fixon said his choice would have been The While House announcement Indi· the same. David Packard, has been placed in charge more nuclear forces and what he called cated a shift from the po ilion Nixon took of overseeing the Pueblo maIler and draw· a tremendous naval buildup. during hi presidential campaign: "That "It has become fa. hionable to run down when thl' war in Vietnam is over the draft the career service and sometimes the should be ended." caTe'er rvice like the political appointees In ·tead. the White Hou spoke of mov· nel'ds a little jacking up and there will ing to a volunteer armed force after Viet· be some of that in this administration," esc Chairman Disagrees nam elpenditures are substantially cut. Nh:on said. i During the campaign, Nixon said the He said he l1as great respect for career draft is not an ef£icient system for ob people in Ihe government. "We need your The President ancl Justice taining manpower In a time when con· ~Up[lOl't, wr want it and we hope 10 be With Decision on Code ventional war is unlikely. He said if war worthy of it." Nixon said . President Nixon speakl to officIal I and amployes of the Justice Department Thursd.y comes in the future it is more likely to He di c1o~ nothing new about his By CATHER INE BO RCK ARDT dent Llfe which Is not substantially equiv· under I herolc·size statuto The Chief ElCtcutlve .ald that "no Index of succe .. of this be ,I(IIerrilla or 8 nuclear exchange. crime fi~htinl: program. The White House ;rlready has announced the new admlni!· The chairman of the Committee on Stu· alent to some provision of :.he Committee administration will be more closely watched" than the drive for taw and order. Seated Nixon said last Oct. t7 that the total on Student Lil~ (CSL) is ipso facto invd· It left Is AHy, Gen. John Milchell. - Af> Wirephoto cost of pay raises needed to attract an all Irati on will ask Congress for more money dent Conduct differed with his colleagues for law enforcement. on the committee Wednesday on a deci· id ." sion last week to strike down two con· Curtis did, however, concur in the de "No index of the ucce s of this admin· troversial sectioas of the Code of Student cision that Sies had violated sections 5 istration lvill be more closely watched Life. and 6c of the Code, and agreed with the Ihan the conduct of the Department of sanction placed on Sies. Legislativ~ Ethics Groups Propose Justice in the enforcement of law and In a five·page written dissenting opln· Sies was warned by tbe C\lmmitlee th~1 , ' order." 11l' said. lon , released We:lIieSliay. CSC Chairman repetition of behavior violating those sec· It was Nixon's third stop in a series James Curtis, professor o[ speech path· Hons might result in stronger discipline. of visits 10 Cabinet agencies which he said ology, criticized the grounds on which the In explaining his dissent, CUI'lis stated will continue over the next two to three majority o[ the committee had ruled two Mild Disclosure Ru les for lobbyism that he was not sure whether "circum· weeks. He previously had visited the De· Code sections invalid. stances and fact.- surrounding the develop· DES MOINES (.!'I - Iowa Senate and has made lobby isis the 'arget of I vigor. The proposed code of ethics must now fense and the State departments. The decision ' ame in the case of Jerry ment of the prin~iple (of sufficient stu· House ethics commiUees voted Thursday ous penenal campai2n, ha, b.en quite be voted upon by both chambers. ][ ac Before returning to the Wl1ile House, Sies, A4, Iowa City , one of three students dent participation) are such as to require to impose mild financial disclosure rules outspoken in his criticism of current cepted, it will become part of the per· Nixon strode across the Ju lice Depart· who have been charged with violating the that it be accorded the status of funda· on legislators and require lobbyists to re· practices.