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Tuesday, March 9,1976
University Daily Kansan
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The primal urge
The constant attack on detente by conservative politicians is beginning to
According to a Gallup Poll released last week, 22 per cent of the American public think we are spending too little on defense. This is the highest percentage in the seven years Gallup has taken this poll. When it was first taken in 1969, only 8 per cent thought too little was being spent.
THE POLL indicated, however, that 36 per cent thought too much was being spent on defense and 32 per cent thought defense spending was about right.
As the memories of Vietnam continue to wear off, the support for increased military spending will probably continue to grow. An indication of this is the Gallup figures for those who have college backgrounds. Two years ago, only 8 per cent thought too little was being spent. In 1976, 24 per cent think so.
THE COLLAPSE of Southeast Asia, followed by Communist success in Angola, has many Americans worried. The poll indicated that, although Americans were evenly divided on whether American power would increase or decline in the future, they almost all agreed that the power of China and Russia would increase. More and more are wondering whether $101.1 billion is enough. After all, that is only 26 per cent of the total budget. In 1972, the United States spent 33 per cent of its total budget on defense.
America seems to be drifting slowly and surely back towards a cold war mentality. We feel this need to show to the Russians that we have backbone, that we can and will fight. America is sort of like a little kid drawing lines in their mind on the ground before cross them. When they cross them, we are forced to either stand by our boasts or look like chickens (in adult terminology, evince a "lack of nerve")
WE'RE ALSO have to be number one or people won't respect us. Number one in number of warheads and number of times we can blow the other side. If we aren't number one, all is lost.
The Russians have been number two for thirty years and we haven't just respected them, we've feared them. We've had reason to fear them, too, since they can kill several tens of millions of us if they want to.
AS LONG AS America has enough strength to destroy the world a couple of times, it's hard to see how it could be called a second-rate power—even if someone else has more missiles and can destroy the world more times.
Slashing the military budget drastically may indeed be dangerous, but constantly increasing it just to keep a number one position is indeed childish.
Today's Florida primary is being billed as the final Republican in Reagan and President Ford, as well as a test of strength between three of the Democratic conservative candidates.
Contributing Writer
MANY POLITICAL observers say that if Reagan can beat Ford in a conservative, southern state the former California governor has lost his bid to unseat an unelected president for the Republican nomination.
On the Primary Trail
Conservatives tested in Florida
Reagan, however, has said he would fight Ford to the convention in Kansas City if
Jackson's win in last week's Massachusetts primary. Morris Durd who is staving
Morris Udall, who is staying
By Carl Young Editor
necessary. In the last two weeks Reagan has sharpened his
out of the Florida primary like the other liberal candidates
Schorr public protector
WASHINGTON — Unbe knownst to most of us, the federal government has built 96 cities that don't appear on ordinary maps. They are underneath the earth's surface and are of a covert, but not secret, nature. (Secret information is sometimes given out few; covert information is something known to Russian espionage, but not to Congress or the populace in general.)
Mickey Mouse, real reporters in broadcast journalism, is that he is now in an "adversary situation" with the government because he made this cover film. "CBS MIGHT just as well have
rumors persist in this city that not only individual journalists but news executives and news organizations have had working relations with the principalities of doomokm. is the suspension of Schorr a
The network's answer to this has been to suspend Schorr from his journalistic duties, albeit with pay. The reason CBS has given for doing this to Schorr, one of the few non-
RICHARD POLLOCK,
writing in the March issue of
Progressive magazine, has
pretty much worked out what
these underground cities are
and what goes on inside of them
at their place for the executive branch
of government to flee in case of
fire, famine, plague, rebellion
or atomic Armageddon. The legislative and judiciary
branches are apparently to be
operated as best they can with or
perish as best they can with the rest of us.
CARTER SAYS big government can be handled by cutting its 1,900-plus agencies down to just 50. Carter's design. He will cure unemployment by everything from rebuilding the railroads to establishing day care centers and helping the chronically unemployed.
POLLOCK WILL escape punishment for revealing the details concerning the care of his leaders, but CBS's Dan Scharr isn't finding the people's right to know much of a defense for having publicized that famous trial against him. In report, Scharr has said, "What is involved beyond specific details of my action is the public's continued right to know the face of a secrecy backlash.
Leslie W. Bray, director of the Federal Preparedness Agency which runs this moe kingdom, and he insisted that "at liberty" to divulge what transpires in his infernal regions. Pollock has found out anyway and has published it, he said. He also noted that public has a right to know."
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By Nicholas von Hoffman
He is for tax reform, zero-base budgeting, national health insurance, busing and increased use of new energy sources. He is against abortion and once suggested we consider a federal law against it.
Carter has turned his stop Wallace strategy to a stop Jackson one. Both candidates have been attacking one another while Wallace has been giving the Florida voters his patented anti-poity-headed anti-busing, anti-bussing, anti-busping, anti-busting, anti-abortion, antibig government and anti-welfare speeches.
A big Wallace win in Florida would hurt Carter more than any other candidate. Jackson can only benefit from the Florida primary because he has not been challenged by Florida until recently, but Carter needs a strong showing in a southern state.
10 An All
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put a memo on the bulletin board:
"1) Effective, immediately, any journalistic enterprise or initiative resulting in CBS's broadcasting an exclusive story or classified government material will result in suspension.
Massachusetts, Carter had been calling Florida a two-man race, just one Southern governor against a former one.
"2) Staff members with ethical problems concerning the people's right to know are invited to sign up for a Ford Foundation seminar on the ethics of academic promotion at Princeton University in the spring of 1978 or possibly later. "3) All staff members are also reminded that as journalists even the appearance of being in an adversary position v-a-s-i-v the government or any other agency may be violated by violation of the highest standards of professional conduct."
CARTER'S LOSS to Jackson in Massachusetts undoubtedly hurt his Florida campaign. Now, instead of one strong candidate challenging Wallace, Alabama governor might be the beneficiary of Jackson's insurgency.
warning to all scoop-nappy reporters that henceforth they must be vigilant with investigations to graft in the county assessor's office and stay away from trails that might lead into the own boss's property.
CBS'S TREATMENT of Scherr is so quixotic it even raises a few nagging doubts. The network worried about adversary relationships with the government, didn't the network suspend Scherr when the Nixon administration met the man? He was just as much a center of controversy then. Is it that the network was content to have the heat stay on Nixon, but not Scherr? Could he heat turned off the CIA? The
A COMPARISION between Schorr's story and Pollock's is instructive. Schorr broadcast and then caused to be published the book, which was much of whose contents had already been widely disseminated in essence, if not verbatim. So little was thought about that, when the stuff leaked, Congress and the White House accused each other of causing the leakage, an unthinkable act if any truly valuable information were in the document.
Pollock, on the other hand, demonstrated the qualities of a formidable bld. By sniffing and snooping, by lacking all sorts of intelligence, he was interviewing people, he has been able to describe a huge government operation which the authorities didn't want the police to investigate. Pollock won't be suspended, investigated and possibly tried, as Schorr may, we can conclude the people do have a right to observe and cowardice. only provided there is a reporter to tell us.
THE PEOPLE'S right to
Meeny said millions of American jobs were lost because of the Jackson but but the two have since made up.
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(except Pennsylvania Gov. Milton Shannon), said last weekend that he expected Jackson to do well in Florida. Jackson is well organized in Floridas, and has some "momentum" from his win in Massachusetts, Udall said.
CARTER SAYS THAT the national defense budget can be cut just a little, that U.S. combat forces in Korea, the Philippines and the Philippines should be withdrawn and that the number of American troops here and abroad can be reduced. He has said detente from the Soviet Union was okay but not as it has been going recently.
He supports Israel, a position he says he took long before he entered politics. Recently this move has sparked dollars: as much as 80 per cent of the money he raised last year for the 1976 campaign came from Jewish contributors in New York, Miami and California.
UDALL Could be right. Jackson has been called a great American by George Meany, another labor leader, the president of the 160,000-member Sheet Metal Workers International Association, has joined his personal endorsement.
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JACKSON LOST the support of organized labor when he was an amendment of the U.S.-Soviet treaty. The immigration quota amendment made the Soviets repudiate the treaty. George Meany was supporting.
JACKSON SUPPORTS national defense with gusto (the Boeing company is based in his home state of Washington) and once said, as he showed a visitor a captured CHEMICAL AK-47尉 in his office. "Thank God for the military-industrial complex."
McGovern the candidate of "acid, abortion and amnesty."
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Jackson voted for the civil rights bills of the 1960s, but he also voted to soften them before final passage. He won the John Muir Award from the Sierra Club but voted for the SST.
Scoop Jackson is one of the Senate's most informed members on the environment, defense policy and the economy. He is chairman of the Senate Interior Committee, an old cold warrior and the man who in 1972 called George
Jackson showed that he can win votes in an ethnically composed industrial state with hard, careful campaigning. And well-organized, well-financed, well-organized, well-financed campaign.
HE HAS A STRONG record of supporting civil liberties. He has also emphasizes the need for independence, the need to hold down prices and the need to halt the total destruction of nature.
know is a wobbling principle unless there is a corollary one laying down somebody's obligation to tell the people what they have a right to know. Schorr has assumed that we must put ourselves in our public life. It can't be found in the Constitution and it only exists here and there in our statutory laws.
Jackson is the most experienced of the Democratic contenders (34 years in the capital), but this could be theredicate anyone connected with "the mess in Washington."
The Schorr case may give it wider application, or we may decide we're better off not knowing. Are you happier with the knowledge that every top-level bureaucratic golfer has a skillset in golf, or in when the day comes for the second sun to shine in the sky and cook the rest of us into shadows on the rocks?
"The mess in Washington" is one of Wallace's favorite themes. He drives home that the president votes on the disenchanted.
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criticism of Ford, the administration's economic policy and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
ACROSS THE political fence,
Sen. Henry (Scoop) Jackson, D-
Wash, Alabama Gov. George
Wallace and former Georgia
George W. Bush after the
after the conservative-to-
moderate Democratic vote.
Ford campaign aides say Reagan is on the defensive, that he knows a loss in Florida could be a mortal blow. Reagan aides say the Florida crowds love the anti-Ford talk and want their support, but they are too close to call, but Ford has a way of starting slow and then staging a come-from-behind victory.
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In his previous campaigns, Wallace has said that you can't trust your lawyers, you can't trust the Commies, you can't be nice to murderers and rapists and expect them to come back. You can't keep taxing the good folks back home until they are broke. Everyone knows that George
Until Jackson's win in
Everyone knows that George Wallace stands for—especially the voters in Florida.
Honor bypasses roaches
Never let it be said that the Kansas state representatives don't earn their pay. For, after debating the issue for two years, the House of Representatives has reached a
DURING THE great insect debate, grasshopper advocates used quantity as an argument. They believed that because there were 4 billion grasshoppers in the state, that
By Marne Rindom Contributing Writer
momentous decision—it has approved the selection of the honeybee as the official state insect to present the matter on to the Senate.
NOW DON'T downplay the action. With such illustrious insects as the termite, grasshopper and ladybug under an easy decision, plot a little buzzing insect that is most noted for its ability to sting people. But after everything was said and done, the honeybee, because of its interest in surviving, won out as the state's most prestigious bug.
I wonder, though, if even after two years of debate, the House didn't overlook some important insects and their fine qualities.
TAKE, FOR EXAMPLE, the cockroach. Its qualities are certainly as good as those of the honeybee. It's industrial. Cockroaches have been found in the cleanest homes, even in places where there is no applause or shout. Sometimes appear in the wintertime, something I've never known a honeybee to do.
The cockroach's ability to survive ornanks any insect in the spray and exterminators that is unable to rid the world of the menacing horde. They are such sturdy creatures that scientists can get sick by the roaches' reproduction to find ways to kill them off.
least 4 billion cockroaches across the state.
was a good enough reason to select it as the state insect. This argument loses some of its force by failing to cover cockroach, or there must be at
Also, you don't have to worry about cockroaches intermixing. There is some fear that the killer bees of the Southern Hemisphere will arrive in Kansas, intermix with the honeybee and sting everyone to death. Deaths of cockroaches worry about one. Can be assured that they will continue to be bred into the same dirty, repulsive insects that we've all come to know.
REALLY, THE cockroach will be much less of an embarkment to the state than the honeybee. If the Senate approves the bill, suddenly little bees may appear everywhere.
But there is one argument that outweighs the rest. Many people would be very happy if they never saw another cockatoo called when he was told you tame your bird, bald eagle? the bird is so rare it is on the verge of extinction. Also, as far as bird watching
The state flag will probably be changed, basketball teams will become the honeybees and all our license plates will read "Kansas, the Great Honeybee" if the cockchaeb were chained, nothing would change. In fact, there would probably be a great effort to keep the whole thing quiet. Therefore, there would be no embarrassment and no offended bugs.
goes, I'm not a very perceptive person, but I can't remember ever seeing a meadowlark, the official bird of Kansas. Maybe awkward would also fade away under the weight of all its glory.
ALL THINGS considered, the subject of which lucky six-legged creature will finally be released is "insect" it is terribly complicated. No matter which bug is chosen and approved by the legislature, someone else will have a new insect was overlooked. What we need is "insect of the year" whereby each year a different insect could be offered as a gift or an award—which one gets to be first?
"CUBAN, SOUTH AFRICAN, RUSSIAN, WHITE MERGENARY, HOW THE HELL DO I KNOW—THEY ALL LOOK ALIKE TO ME!"
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