Vegetarian Menus Still Lacking Foods Hanoi Says Talks Deadlocked

(icmnttttntt Eatlij (Eamjms Serving Storrs Since 1896 VOL. LXX NO. 56 STORRS, CONNECTICUT Friday, December 1, 1972 vegetarian menus still lacking foods Tim Murphy through the state commissary in Dieticans planning menus for the Middletown," and eventually cleared vegetarian meal plan begun here two through Hartford. He said the process months ago are still working without a can take as long as 10 weeks unless there number of items the administration is a "rush" put on the order. He said promised to supply. "no special rush was put on this order" Special food items promised to for the items. vegetarians and ordered several weeks One frequent complaint being made is ago, "very definitely" "should be here the alleged problem of "too much Friday or Monday" said Mary Z. Long, repetition, too much pasta, and not chief dietitian, Thursday. cnought protein." Long said the items, which include "They've left us to drink as much brown rice, soy beans, Granola and milk as we can to get adequate protein" several other foods, were placed on said Laura Gaccionc, a third semester order October 20. She said she called student who eats at Whitney dorm. food distributors in Boston Tuesday and Many students eating on the plan was told the order would be shipped by have said cooperation with the staff at truck to UConn within a few days. the two dining halls has been good. Most The special meal plan for vegetarians feel that any problems that have arisen began October 16 at McMahon and have their roots and solutions in the Whitney dining halls, after committees University administration. from the Inter-Area Residence Hall Council polled students and recommended the institution of food rogers stays-, services for vegetarians. Paul Edelen, a graduate student who started the movement to institute rush is named vegetarian food services last spring, said "It should have been possible to get the food a lot quicker." deputy secretary Edelen said students on the plan have WASHINGTON (UPI) - President paid full price for their food but have Nixon said Thursday he was keeping not received all they were promised. "I'm really surprised that they waited William P. Rogers on as secretary of so long" to get the added items, he said. state and moving his one-time professor of law at Duke University. Kenneth H. Long said her office has no money Rush, from the No. 2 place in the State with which to purchase food items. She Department. Students celebrating the first night of the Jewish holiday Chanukah, gather said all purchases arc controlled by state Rogers, one of Nixon's closest friends around the giant menorah in the Student Union Lobby to sing songs, and watch statutes and must be requisitioned from in the government, became the first the first electrical candle light up. Hillel members Mike Smith and Mark Weinberg her office, before being put out to bid. member of the Cabinet to be told that along with Rabbi Hirsch Cohen listen to Philip Ciller's recitation of a prayer Karl Pech, purchasing officer, said he would be retained in office in dedicated to Soviet Jews. (Photo by Noel Voroba). "Any food order must be cleared Nixon's second term. There had been reports that former Treasury Secretary John B. Connally might replace Rogers, but Connally told Nixon he did not want to come back into government on hanoi says talks deadlocked a fulltime basis. The White House refused comment on a report that Rush, who becomes PARIS (UPI) - The North "Those who know right now aren't and the war drags on, it is the Rogers' deputy secretary, would be Vietnamese said for the first time talking," he said. 'Those who are responsibility of the American side." succeeded as deputy defense secretary Thursday that the Vietnam peace talking don't know." Vy said: "After making an about-face by William P. Clements Jr.. founder and negotiations were deadlocked, but U.S. White House sources said Kissinger and refusing to sign the accord on Oct. board chairman of a $100 million-aycir negotiator William J. Porter said there will meet with President Nixon again 31, the U.S. government now requests Texas oil drilling firm. was no reason for pessimism. this weekend in at the Florida White modification of its very contents." Rush will replace John W. Irwin as In Washington, President Nixon met House at Key Biscayne before flying to He said Washington must sign since No. 2 at the State Department. Irwin is Thursday for a second time with Paris for renewed private negotiations "this solution is its best hope for a being offered an ambassadorial Nguyen Phy Due, personal emissary of with the North Vietnamese. disengagement in honor and a rapid appointment, the White House said. South Vietnamese President Nguyen Talks Resume Monday return of its servicement both from the Nixon was at his desk in the Oval Van Thieu, on the peace negotiations. Kissinger is scheduled to continue the field and captivity." Office at 7:30 a.m. to work on trimming Due was reported to be carrying a negotiations with North Vietnamese A Viet Cong spokesman indicated for his proposed budget for fiscal 1974 and request from Thieu requesting a summit negotiators Le Due Tho and Xuan Thuy the first time that Kissinger tried to to consult with the Joint Chiefs of Staff meeting with Nixon prior to final on Monday in a final attempt at ending press Saigon's conditions for ending the and Saigon emissary Nguyen Phy Due rnnuoimmation of a cease-fire. the war. war during his secret talks last week in before taking off for a long, relaxed At the regular weekly meeting of the In Saigon Thursday, U.S. Ambassador Paris. weekend in Florida. Paris peace talks Thursday Porter gave Ellsworth Bunker gave Foreign Minister When a French newsman asked asked White House press secretary Ronald the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong a Tran Van Lam a written report from if the Saigon demands rejected as absurd L. Zicgler made these announcements of pledge President Nixon would permit no Due regarding his talk Wednesday with by the Vietnamese Communists were high-level personnel changes: avoidable delay in ending the war. President Nixon, Vietnamese sources the same as those Kissinger pressed William J. Casey, onetime Wall Conference sources took the remark as a said. during the secret negotiations, Street investor who is chairman of the direct warning to Saigon not to oppose Later, President Thieu called a spokesman Ly Van Sau said: "I am not Securities and Exchange Commission, the results of secret negotiations two-hour session of the National going to comment on the direct was named to be undersecretary of state between White House aide Henry A. Security Council but the subject of the negotiations but your reading is for economic affiars. Kissinger and Hanoi. meeting was kept secret. correct." - William J. Porter, a career diplomat Washington 'Demands Changes' The top-level meeting also followed a The Viet Cong Foreign Minister told who has been chief U.S. negotiator at Hanoi delegate Nguyen Minh Vy said persona] report to Thieu from his the session the demands by Thieu for an the formal, public Paris peace talks, was the peace talks became deadlocked nephew and private secretary Hoang all Indochina cease-fire, restoration of a named No. 3 man at the State because Washington was demanding Due Nha, who returned Thursday from demilitarized rone and direct Department with the title of basic changes in the draft accord agreed Paris. negotiations with Hanoi were undersecretary for political affairs. He last month. He served notice Hanoi will Hanoi delegate Vy's statement at the "absolutely absurd requirements we will replace U. Alexis Johnson, the not accept Saigon's demands and said Paris talks was the first authoritative have long rejected." highest ranking officer in the foreign the agreement must be signed as it admission that Kissinger's secret talks in Porter told the Communists "we service and the only diplomat now reiterate to you our President's firm holding the title "career ambassador." stands. Paris with Le Due Tho of North Porter told newsmen after the Vietnam had been suspended at an intention to permit no avoidable delay — Johnson will be given "a major new meeting there was no reason for impasse. in ending this war and entering a period assignment commensurate with his pessimism regarding the future of the "If the American side really is of peace and reconstruction. specific talents," Ziegler said. peace negotiations. He said, "Some news animated by a constructive and serious "In this present phase...we should Rogers has concentrated on the dispatches contain an unwarranted attitude, it is in its own interest to stand have faith that the serious purpose Mideast situation during most of his amount of pessimism. I would caution by what has been agreed already and demonstrated and the major progress tenure, leaving Vietnam negotiations to vou to take care unless you be caught sign the agreement swiftly," he said. achieved will lead at an early date to a Nixon and his White House advisor, with your pens down." If the negotiations remain deadlocked mutually satisfactory result." Henry A. Kissinger. Friday, December 1, 1972 top of the campus... fltmuwrttrttt Satljj Campus world of the acronym Editor-in-Chief by John Pallatto to do is feed them a few tons of Lincoln Millstein Have you ever noticed when money and they produce you peruse the pages of the hundreds of jobs for Managing Editor Business Manager Daily Campus or for that matter unemployed Americans. Alan K. Reisner Donald E.

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