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Tuesday, November 25. 1975
University Daily Kausan
Privilege abused
The House Intelligence Committee voted last week to issue at least one citation cited to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger for refusing to provide documents relating to reported Soviet violations of the SALT I agreements.
Kissinger's main defense was a claim of executive privilege, which immediately brought to mind Richard Nixon's futile assertion that executive power gave him immunity from court proceedings in the Watergate trials.
Many have said that Kissinger's claim in this instance is just as worthless as Nixon's was. This isn't entirely true, however.
In U.S. v. Nixon, the Supreme Court ruled that, although the President couldn't use the implied power of executive privilege to withhold evidence vital to the enforcement of domestic criminal laws, executive privilege could reasonably be exercised in the areas of military secrecy, foreign affairs and national security in situations of extreme crisis.
It can be argued that Kissinger was exercising executive privilege, delegated to him by President Ford, in the area of foreign affairs, but Nixon was exercising executive privilege only in the interest of his own security and well-being.
The question then arises of whether Kissinger's right to withhold information from executives of executive privilges takes precedence over the right of Congress to be informed.
from Kansas autumn to Csonka's fall
Although Kissinger may be exercising executive privilege in an appropriate area, it seems ridiculous to claim that in a democracy, one man's right to secrecy precludes the right of the elected officials of the people to know. To make this claim, as committee chairman Otis Pike has said, is to claim that Congress can't be trusted.
The House Intelligence Committee is a part of the Congress. In conducting its investigation, it is performing a Congressional duty and is granted by the constitution the powers necessary to carry out this duty. By having refused to honor the subpoena for the documents, Kissinger was using the power of executive privilege to subvert the duties of Congress.
In so doing, Kissinger exceeded the bounds of permissible exercise of executive privilege and Congressional action against him is warranted. The power of executive privilege is imputed to the president and to exercise powers enumerated in the Constitution is more important and should always take precedence.
The Constitution gives to the Congress several enumerated powers and, according to Supreme Court interpretation, the powers necessary to carry out those enumerated powers. The powers of the Supreme Court, on other hand, is merely an implied power, and one that is tenuous in the minds of many left-wing liberals.
Jain Penner
Contributing Writer
Kansan Forum/ Cling to your last fall in Kansas
Preparing for winter this year is somewhat more painful than usual. With ice storms, gray skies, a wind that cuts through the inwards more sharply than a snowstorm, and cold streets, winter is the favorite season of few people in the Midwest.
This year, though, I am clinging more tightly than ever to the last few days of autumn. This is my last fall in Kansas.
Seven years ago, this lady called Kansas symbolized the cutting of the umbilical cord and growing up. A season after arrival, plagued with homeiness, Kansas was isolation and a longing to be near the ocean and the mountains again. Over the years, she kept her home and a resignation that in a specified number of years, like a prison sentence, I would be allowed out. But always there was the pain, the misery and the general discontent.
I began to slander this lady. She was hot, she was cold; she had cockroaches; she was unpredictable and temperamental; she was folky and she was in the midst of nowhere. I was ruthless in my criticism.
On trips west, it was difficult not to become high on the smell of the Pacific Ocean. But even so, it was equally difficult to return to the lady, Kanas, with whom I had no ties. California, its people, its natural at-rials and its faults, tugged at the spirit.
Over a period of seven years, the changes in a person are subtle. Often, he is not even aware that anything is happening to him, and pinpoint the day, month or even year when feels and ideas begin to shift. Part of the changes may be attributed to the normal maturation process, still to intangible and unidentifiable growth.
Gradually, you notice that you are slandering the lady less and less. While visiting in the West, you even slip and slip through the doorway to disbelief. Because she is so far away, you are expected to dislike her. Acceptance of her is a form of treason. The day then comes when you stop apologizing for 800 miles from the home of your family.
You are at last ready to open yourself up to the lady. The pulse of her territory begins to vibrate through your body, beginning at your feet and working its way to your head. Her people and their rich history, her farms and her towns and here are the lifeblood of this territory and you willingly become a participant.
Somewhere, in the midst of it all,
you've stopped slandering Kansas. On occasion,
you even defend her.
When your last opportunity to watch
The trees have been lovely, the autumn weather spectacular this year. Her reviews from all but the newcomers. She has taught me a lesson. Letting go will be just as difficult this time. But, because of the warmth and light, quick to judge the next place I live in.
the march of the seasons begins, you long to hang on and make autumn last as long as possible. At the same time, you begin to feel painful withdrawal symptoms. The feelings jar a memory. Seven years ago, your emotions were much the same.
Holdays away from one's family and birthdays without a cake will always be hard times. Despite those times, Kansas has taught me that, although environment can he'n, contentment comes within.
Lynn Meyer
I've stopped slandering this fine lady and my only regret is that I didn't allow myself to know her better.
Alcohol problem demands action/
Considering all the noise, conflict and action recently about beer sales in the Kansas Union and rowdiness by the Jayhawk and Wagon Bars; its use of the United States is in the United States merely the nation's tremendous alcohol problem.
as with many other problems,
efforts have been directed at
applying an immediate and
very visible bite while
the larger problem is
ignored. One can try to ignore it
with a good bit of deliberate
debolism is a grave problem
drain on the economy each year. The Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) estimates that nine million people die by alcoholism, which HEW links to more than 25,000 traffic fatalities, 20,000 deaths from other types of accidents, 20,000 deaths from road crashes, 15,000 assaults and suicides, and two million arrests each year.
The National Institute for Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) estimates that alcoholism causes a $15 billion
One must remember that these statistics represent the suffering of very real human beings. When the families of alcoholics are included, almost 40 million American lives are directly affected by alcohol problems.
Tragically, almost nothing is
done about the problem. The federal government spends only $20 million on alcoholism prevention and rehabilitation. Other responses have alcoholism prevention programs.
Drunkards are tossed in jails rather than being sent to prisons or jails where centers, where they belong. Society approves of drinking but does it sufficiently warn the men who becomes prisoners who becomes an alcoholic.
to depend on alcohol without knowing it.
Industry, perhaps with some government funding, has to help those who already have problems. Industry-run businesses may face detection and rehabilitation have been quite successful.
One of the biggest obstacles to effective rehabilitation is simply getting the alcoholic to admit his problem. Industry professionals because an alcoholic is likely to accept treatment when refusing it would cost him his job. Some industry programs boast that more than 90 per cent. And because more than 95 per cent of
Greg Hack
alcoholics are employed, industry programs could reach most alcoholics.
The NIAAA estimates that such rehabilitation costs only between $300 and $500 a per难受 an unreasonable amount.
Better education and industry-run detection and rehabilitation programs aren't the total answer to a problem because of emotional and psychological causes but they could prevent an enormous amount of economic loss and human investments could be made that would pay off so handsomely.
Poor Larry' will get over it /
World Football League players will be allowed to go job hunting in the National Football League, a federal judge's recent ruling.
U. S. District Judge Edward J. Devitt said professional sports and the public were better served by open competition.
"There has been a substantial amount of evidence showing the players will suffer irreparable harm if not permitted to play in the NFL this season." Judge Devitt said.
Although Dewitt's reasoning is sound, his ruling seems partly unfair. The players who bolted the NFL last year now are better off that they be welcomed onto the fold with open arms.
The Nov. 10 issue of Time magazine ran a story entitled, *Cosmokan*, the story was a tale about a jerker named Csonka, the former Miami Dolphin running back who joined the Memphis Grizzlies of the NHL.
Poor Larry Csonka. He said
he didn't know what he was going to do this year because he hadn't worked for him. He gave up his $60,000-a-year contract with the Miami Dolphins for a mealy $500,000. He also received a salary of $252,000 a year.
Poor Larry Csunka. He and his brother are farming an 80-acre tract of land in Lisbon, Ohio.
Poor Larry Csokna is just wasting away in Lisbon and making appearances on the "Six Million Dollar Man."
Poor Larry  Cskona
moaningly told a Time reporter,
"When my kids registe for
school here, their father's
occupation will be listed either
as 'youed' or 'who
knowes'?"
Poor Larry Csonka. While other players are free to negotiate contracts with NFL teams, Larry has to wait until a rule change allows Judge Devitt allows only those WFL players not bound by
contract to a WFL team or owner to seek employment with the NFL.
Poor Larry Cossa is bound to Grizzlies owner John Bassett, who said, "Cassa is with me as long as I pay him."
Poor Larry Csonka still is being paid that miserable $25,200 annually. Bassett is hoping to use Csonka to be the head coach in position for admittance to the NFL as an expansion team.
Pete Rozelle, NFL commissioner, has been very negative about WFL teams. He was the most negative of clubs. Rozelle has his own expansion plans, and the Rozelle plans call for the admission of two teams in 1978, of which is in a WFL city.
Poor Larry Csonka is out for this season unless he can buy his way out of the Memphis Steelers, unlikely that his owner will sell.
One shouldn't feel sorry for Poor Larry Csonka. He's a big
Rachel Case
boy. He should have known that he was gambling and that sometimes it doesn't pay to gamble. And the foot-boom on his end, the 67% kick, was a period of tight-tightening for the NFL. Striker limits on the number of players is a primary example of this. Football is an expensive sport, and WLF just couldn't compete.
Judge Devitt's ruling was designed with the idea of allowing injury-plagued NFL teams to pick up one or two players, only 20 of the 320 NFL players would be taken by the NFL.
In any case, Csonka won't be among the 20. He is a fine athlete whose self-seeking motives caused him to forsake his better judgment. Few people ever gave the WFL much of a chance, and Csonka should be proud. Yet my Csonka may be viewed as a demigod by some sports fans but he is human. And like everyone else, he has to be able to live with an error of judgment.
Readers Respond / Missionary priest's comments refuted
To the Editor:
In response to the article, "Priest tells of Białfan tribes suffering," carried in the book *I Am the Lord* 18. I am immensely interested to note that an Irish Catholic Priest, Patrick Walsh, is an ex-Nigerian missionary and he did not attend priesthood days in the country.
Being a Nigerian naturally, I find corrections to Walsh's article inevitable. His voluntary stay in the country was not much different from the purely internal affairs of the nation.
I hail from one of the Eastern states of the country as do the other Nigerian Ibos.
1-Just as Father Walsh is fighting a war of Satan rebellion against Christ, the federal Nigerian government was fighting a rebellion war to maintain the country's ownness.
2-The last national demographic figure came out 83 million. The Ib population would then form one-ninth of the entire population and cannot constitute one-half of the country's population as it was by Father Walsh in his article.
3-The country became a 12-state state on May 27, 1987, and the secessionist state was declared on May 30, 1967. The country is now a 14-state state preceded secession and not vice versa, nor
after the suppression of the rebellion as reflected in the article.
Okon Ekpo Nigeria junior
4-Pristin Patrick Walsh is not an authority on the issue of military to civilian rule being only a legitimate concern of the federal military government. 5-In Nigeria there are facilities for retirement and the Catholic Father Walsh could come from the RT. Rev. Bishop Dominic Ekanem of the same faith
Errors discovered
To the Editor:
The first sentence in that article, "Patrick Walsh . . . teaches English in Sierra Leone, Nigeria . . ." indicates that Sierra Leone is a city in Nigeria; this disproves the fact that Sierra Leone is the sixth largest country in Nigeria (Dahomy, Togo, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia and Sierra Leone).
I was somewhat shocked to read the totally inaccurate article in the Nov. 18 Kansan that was written by Liz Nakahara purported to be the opinions of Father Patrick and Mrs. Emily H. Heidt of physical priests the priest had as he recalled his story, I would like to present a few facts and opinions.
In that same article it was stated that "they (British)
divided Nigeria into four states—Northern, Western, Midwestern and Eastern Nigeria' before "they ... left the country in 1914. ” While 1914 was the year of the amalgamation of Southern and Southern Nigeria, Britain didn't end her rule until the Nigerian Independence on Oct. 1, 1900. The British left Nigeria with three regions: Northern, Western and Eastern Nigeria; Midwestern region was created by the Nigerians in 1963.
"The Ibo . . . was a tribe of about nine million people . . . and made up about one-half of Nigeria's total population." One would guess that the total population at that time (1987) was about twenty million. The population is sixty million (1963 census) and currently eighty million (1973 census).
At this point I doubt whether Patrick was ever in Nigeria: He teaches English in Sierra Leone, where he worked before to bid for Bifra was received at Harcourt Airport." If Father Walsh had ever been to Nigeria, he would have known that there were many tribes in Nigeria that assassinated, massacre and loss of property was common to all easterners who lived in other regions of Nigeria and who had no protection there, an Ibo State. He said that in January, 1963, a military
coup, dominated by Ibo officers, overthrew the civilian government . . .” and I hereby refer him to “The Brother's War” by John de St. Jorren (page 48), or as it is often referred to, couprhe, therefore was not part of a Machiavellian Ibo plot to take over the Federation.”
"Walsh said that after Biflaar surrendered (Jan. 12, 1971), the Federation divided Nigeria's four states into three. Can he be trusted? Mr. Walsh had a twelve-state structure on May 27, 1967, with his statement? This confirms the fact that he might have been talking about a different country, not the Nigeria in West Africa.
Nigeria sold short
A great deal has been said and written about the Nigerian-Biafran war, yet a series of questions persist. While I don't provide the final answer, the careful reader will find in addition a series of friends that has governed my reaction.
It is impossible in one article aimed at restating remarks to set out in any detail the full dimension of this African tragedy and the entire complex nature of this drama.
Barido Deeor Ikbaba
To the Editor:
Port-Harcourt, Nigeria, junior
Allow me space in your widely read newspaper to
comment on your recent article on the Rev. Father Patrick Walsh and Nigeria and Bifral.
In the first place, I can't figure out whether Father Walsh is trying to tell the long Nigerian story short or repeat the war propaganda used in the war. Father Walsh did try to tell some gospel truth, but he failed to remark that the attempt of Blafnan's trying to break away from Nigeria because the Blafnans have oil is selfishness and that isn't true. Nigeriad was wrong. It wasn't war and in every war someone has to die.
Secondly, his interesting remark that "the Army enjoys many privileges that it will not readily give up" is, to me, a foreigner's view of the Nigerian situation. I feel one should give to Caesar what is Caesar's, and credit should be given to whom they are supposed to serve Nigerian leaders wear uniforms doesn't mean that they don't know what's good for Nigerians. Probably because Father Walsh isn't in Nigeria today he is not aware of the achievements our military men have brought to our country. The country so many and great that any sincere Nigerian has to thank our military men. For in their regime, Nigeria has come to be called a rich nation.
So who could afford to shed crocodile tears for a civilian
government that gave the military a chance? I wouldn't.
Enekan Thompson 1019 W. 10th St.
Shockley accused
The people (which includes all multinational opposition against the accused) hereby charge William Shockley and Robert Bacon to destroy freedom, life and liberty, i.e., promoting the oppression of certain national peoples within the United States against these people and against these people as well and with sabotage of the campus forums and media under the guile of free speech to commit such acts. Justice finds these criminals as criminal as well as unacceptable.
To the Editor:
In order that the records of justice may balance between the defendants of William Shockley and the accusers, the accusers submit the following for public examination:
—To more freely advance free speech and to provide a platform for the free flow of "all" ideas William Shockley might receive an open invitation to speak at the following annual meeting: Ku Klux Klan organizational meeting, at the bus stops of Easton; at the national convention of the John Birch Society; at the Kansas budget funding meeting for
—To more fully promote freedom of the people and to provide a platform for the free movement of people. Shockley might be banned and
wouldn't speak at the following—on the floor of the United Nations, at Watts or Wounded Knee, before the unemployment lines in the cities and towns across the United States, before the soup lines of 1978 or 77 or 78'97, at the new presentation of the Prize for Journalism at Yale, at the University of Southern California or at the University of Kansas.
KU of the American Nazi Party, at the next CIA-FBI committee meeting for the suppression of radicals and black revolutionaries and other U.S. citizens and at the press rooms of the Journal of World, Kansan, K.C. Thames and Topeka Capital.
Grace Jackson
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