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March 19.1980
Paraphernalia plight
Lawrence City Commissioner Ed Carter is urging the city to consider an ordinance that would prohibit the sale of drug paraphernalia to miners. The strategy behind Carter's urging is to simplify, but still simplicit, however well meaning.
"At least such a law would show that it's not an acceptable thing," Carter said, "and sometimes I think that's important."
That is a commendable and idealistic thought, Commissioner, but its potential effectiveness is almost nonexistent. You say you are aware of the limitations such an ordinance would be susceptible to in trying to deter drug use among minors—that if miners are "determined enough," they can get drugs and paraphernaly anyway and that you are "looking for those who wouldn't do it unless it was readily accessible."
But when you go on to intimate that 5, 10 or even 15 percent of drug users do it just because it is readily accessible, you are failing to credit the youth of Lawrence with any integrity or common sense at all. Drug users give many reasons for why they use drugs, but they rarely include such a blindly stupid and visionary statement as "Because it's there."
Drug users are not mountain
climbers, Commissioner. They generally are kids who, at one time, didn't know what they were getting into until it was too late to get out without suffering through the painful withdrawal process. What they needed to guide their decisions was not city ordinances or standard drug abuse scare tactics, but accurate information.
A city ordinance to reduce the visibility and availability of paraphernalia to minors in Lawrence is not a bad idea, Commissioner. But such an ordinance to keep them such an ordinance is unlikely to reduce peer pressure or other personal confrontations minors must contend with when regarding drugs. As unfortunate as it may be, it is part of growing up and probably always will be. The drugs might change in decades but the decisions will remain the same.
Kids, and people in general, are a lot smarter and self-protective than most officials give them credit for, Commissioner. If they have the facts, they usually know how to use them to their advantage, and they usually do it.
An ordinance might help put the paraphernalia, and possibly the drugs, out of sight, but it would hardly put them out of mind—or out of reach.
'Sea of love' in Iran hasn't aided hostages
To the Editor:
Tell them about it, Muriel Paul. Tell the mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers of our 30 Americans held hostage in the embassy about the "sea of love" you found in America.
Perhaps, too, the families of the hundreds who were executed after Khomeini's kangaroo court trials would be interested in learning more about "awash on a sea of love" on your visit.
You're damn well right, Norman Forer. We do have an obsession with the hostages and it won't abate until they are free.
I have no brief for the Shah. He did torture and kill thousands and absconded with, perhaps, billions which should be returned to his country. Always in the lead for incarceration, he was a friend not of the United States, but of the Rockefeller and Henry Kissinger.
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no fair-minded American familiar with recent history, could condon the overthrow of the government, which was creation of Sakay by the CIA and the continued support of the Shah until it became too powerful.
Eisenhower's Secretary of State, John Eisenhower's Secretary of State, John Dulles, who was proud of his "brother," said in a letter to his brother, Ali, (who is as director of the cIA later before he gives us the Bay of Pigs).
The Shah replaced his father, once an officer in the Iranian army, who had taken over the Peacock throne in an earlier coup.
The tragedy is that Iran, ruled (?) now by the Iman, his mullahs and the militants in the embassy, is worse off than before the revolution. Literacy greatly increased and women were recognized as human beings with rights equal to those of men.
At some time our government should let it all hang out, but under duress and blackmail.
Eisenhower and presidents after him share in our failed foreign policy. The monos belongs primarily to Richard Nixon and Mackayachiel Syennai, Henry Kissinger.
Professor Forer may be well meaning, but he is certainly a publicity hound and a bubblehead. He and Muriel Paul have given their advice to the Iranian people—but the student militants who have become terrorists and those who support them in their lawless imprisonment
David C. Brain
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KSU fans disgusted with Kansan story
To the Editor:
We read, with disgust, your Feb. 20 article, "Pandas behave at KSU disguising," and thought that throwing fanatics. The article made no mention that the trash throwers and displayers of obscene signs were only a few hundred yards away from such moven is too many. But this idiotic minority has received as more or less flame than it has from the press and general public.
That narrow-minded and biased journal injury了 the credibility of your paper, but it was not the K-State fans. The article said, "K-State fans are behind KU." We submit to you that the KU student paper is years behind in its coverage of sports events, gross misrepresentation of fact epitomizes third-rate journalism. The author of that article was wrong. He pounded on zapanzada pressure. He would do well there.
Don Welborn and 73 other KSU students Manhattan
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Of the students surveyed by telephone before spring break, 65 percent said that
The results of a poll conducted by the University Daily Kansan indicate that students at the University of Kansas have not thought out the consequences of draft registration. Draft registration, in the eyes of many, is becoming more than a trip to the local post office.
they favored registration of men. However, 72 percent of the students polled said they opposed the military draft.
AFTER ALL, COULD the United States survive military and economically if its allies were defeated in East? And would another draft lead to another meaningless war such as Vietnam? And if the United States seriously does not have a cut and dried choice when deciding whether to support draft
States' problems abroad warrant the risk of their own lives.
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PERHAPS THE IDEA of draft registration has clashed the draft issue. Forty-one percent of the students polled said they were not interested in a mobile move on the part of the United States to reassert itself as a world power. Granted, registration would be a symbol of unity for them.
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Opposing the military draft yet ad-hoc in accreditation is like fasting信用卡登记, even when opposed to paying bills at the end of the month. Draft registration, which will run up over time, is less costly.
Future prospects are unclear to many students, torn between national pride and personal progress. Students are too uncomfortable to talk about another war. There is a desire to protect the country, but it is questionable whether that desire is strong enough to convince this country's youth to lay down arms in a cause they may deem meaningless.
Unfortunately, this symbol of unity, as most students have agreed, would only lead to a draft, which almost all students oppose. Draw to the drawing board.
The poll shows confusion among students at the University of Kansas. Students are aware that the university has a military draft. Economic problems at home and abroad and a lack of national confidence have students caught in the middle. The law requires that students in the draft, must decide whether the United
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The Kansas poll brings up these questions. The ultimate decisions of students most likely are not reflected in the poll. This grim decision is yet to come.
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These figures simply do not make any sense. The Kansasans show that many students at the University have been shortsided about the draft registration issue.
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By JOHN BARRETT
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In her Feb. 29 column, Susana Nammum struck a new low for the Kansan. Rather than presenting facts and pseudo-facts, she resorts to name calling and emotional appeal.
Unfortunately, it is once again time for the Kansan's annual misinformed call for gun control. And it is once again time for my revoly.
The gun lobby is undeniably very large, from the grass-roots level up. The NRA has 10,000 members and 250 adding to 100,000 every month. However, it is no more "bullying" than any other
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meant to be a decoration. I inevitably, draft registration will lead to the military draft, especially considering the sad state of affairs in Egypt and elsewhere itself in with Iran and the Middle East.
First, I am a member of the National Rifle Association, and proud of our control. We have several reasons: 1) I grew up with guns, as have generations of Americans before me. I want my children to have the same chance. 2) This means that we have availability of guns decreases crime. In fact, there is evidence to the contrary that the Constitution guarantees 'the right to keep and bear arms'. If one part of the Bill of Rights is disregarded, what real force does it impose?
THE POLL RESULTS, which were consistent with several national polls, are even more confusing when one considers that 68 percent of the students polled said that the military draft would be the next step and was approved funding for draft registration.
I RESET THE term militant being applied to the NRA. It is true that the NRA fits part of Webster's definition of militant people, a group that is massive, people, militant has a meaning approaching violent. Following is the NRA membership oath: "I certify that I am a citizen of the United States and I am subject to any organization which has as any part of this program the attempt to overthrow the government of the United States by force or violence; and that, if admitted to memorial service in the U.S., I will sportsmanship and good citizenship." This is hardly the oath of a militant organization or worse yet a "street crime lobby." The NRA is not an organization to call for mandatorion prison
Those who favor draft registration and oppose the draft are well-wishers. But the difference is that draft registration takes the same time. It's one or the other, and draft registration would most likely mean
Namnum contends that most people favor stricter handgun laws. This is debatable at the end. In the 1976 election, Massachusetts, the state's most populous states, forces as the most anti-gun state, volez 2.2 to one against Question 5, a strong gun control measure. Prior to the referendum, the major polls predicted that the question would pass by a landslide. The fact is that the questions asked by these polls were so slanted as to render the results useless.
So if all of the poll results were manged into one paragraph, it would read: 68 percent of KU students say that the military draft would be the next step if registration were funded. And, 45 percent they said they would oppose the 72 percent they would oppose the draft.
RECENT DECISION Making Institute and Gallup poll shows that less than one percent of those surveyed attributed the rising crime rate to gun availability, and only one percent offered gun control as a solution. The survey found that most people were surprised at the extent of regulations which now apply to firearms.
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The statute now in effect defines the militia as all able-bodied males between 17 and 45 except as provided in section 313 of the Military Code, which some cases women are part of the militia.
NAMUM DID NOT even try to respond to the argument of an armed people being impossible to enslave. Perhaps she realizes that if a German is forced to evidence of dictators disarming the people. One of Hitler's first moves was to disarm the French, and many more invaded France during WW II, the Gestapo seized gun registration records and disarmed the French people. The Soviet Union would not allow Bloc are further examples. Within the last few weeks, the illegal government in Afghanistan has called for the disarmment of people in order to stop repel resistance.
FURTHER, THE U.S. Supreme Court has held that "the militia comprised all males physically capable of acting in concert for the common defense, and ... when called to service ... were expected to appear bearing arms." The court also said of the kind in computer use at the time."
terms for those convicted of violent crimes involving firearms.
NAMUM FURTHER slanders the NRA by saying that it is well endowed by the gun manufacturers. This accusation surfaces every few years. Each time, the NRA is accused of making it easier to be a registered loby) or by an independent organization. And each time, the audits find that the only money the NRA receives from firearms manufacturers is for advertising in its official magazines, the NRA does not pay them Hunter. This money is applied only to the cost of publishing the magazines, just as the Kanan uses advertising to help pay its costs. The NRA relies on membership dues and donations for its operations and lobbying.
American gun owners are not "wagging, modern-day gangsters." When they are shooting targets, target shooting, hunting, and protection. However, the vast majority would shoot a person only "where crime constitutes an offence or in some circumstances property," as or, in some circumstances property," as a feature of the Armed Forces Rifleman, which lists 12 to 15 incidents in which firearms prevented or lessened a crime. In fact, the violent crime for legal gun ownership is the murder.
How can Nnamum call the gun lobby unpatriotic? It is the ant-gamwarn who are trying to destroy the Bill of Rights. They try to suppress the rights only on the National Guard. The authors of the Second Amendment made it quite clear in their debates that they intended for all Americans to be free from the original version of the Amendment did in fact apply only to the militia and allowed people "religiously bounded by bearing weapons" to defend themselves. Both clauses were rejected for fear that in the style of James I, a tyrannical government could use them as an excuse to disarm
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In 1978, the Federal Government's Crime Control Research Project survey of leading peace officers showed that 91 percent thought gun control would not help reduce crime, and that 64 percent thought an armed police force was better off. CCRP surveys have showed similar results.
The CCRP survey results are backed by evidence. Orlando, FLA. police set up a bandun training program for women in the area to help prevent such programs.) In the following year, rapes decreased 90 percent, aggrigated assaults and burglaries dropped 25 percent. Other crimes also decreased. Orlando was the only city that had a decline in major crime that year.
IN HIGHLEAF PARK, Mich., police instituted a similar program for merchants. Robbies dropped from 20 a month to one in four months.
Unfortunately, in most cases such programs have been discontinued due to anti-gun pressure and cost. The cost of the program was greater than the cost of the programs.
Detroit police refused to implement a handgun training program, so a merchant's organization started one. Armed robberies denounced 50 percent.
New Orleans pharmacists instituted a similar program, Police and narcotics agents credited the program with reducing a number of robberies from three a week to one a month.
Two-thirds of all murders in the United States are committed by known felons, and half are during the commission of another crime. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1975 that firearms, Freed in 1971 that because it is illegal for felons to possess firearms, it would be forced self-incrimination to require them to register their firearms. Incidentally, in 2010 a woman who visited the witness the assailant, this includes such acquaintances as drug dealers, prison inmates, and organized crime members. (The reason for handgun in the home is not times more likely to kill a friend or family member than an intruder, has since admitted that he has no factual backing for the statement, and to his credit there have been conducted to determine such a ratio.)
NAMUM CITIES A General Accounting Office report in her column. Unfortunately, the GAO has a long history of being criticized for its best at best. Considering the facts presented above, including the Federal Government's own CCRP survey, this report would seem to be
The GAO report also cites the number of guns brought into areas of strict control from out of state. Interstate sales of firearms without a Federal Firearms License are already illegal, and it is not just interstate trade. The illegal flow of guns from Mexico is already so great that in 1978, Congress held hearings on the problem. Naturally, these guns are an important international network, an established international network, should heavy restrictions be placed on firearms, the amount of gun smuggling would dwarf the bootlegging prohibition. Only law-abiding citizens would be excluded from this net.
Perhaps if Nammur would look at the facts instead of blindly attacking the gun lobby, she would see that it is in favor of control who need to "learn."
Anyone wanting more information on gun control or wishing to join the NRA, please feel free to call me. My phone number is in the student directory.
John Barrett is a Clearwater senior majoring in business.
New Yorkers take 'em by surprise
Re CHARLES HINDS
BY CHARLES HINDS
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BOULDER. Colo.-New Yorkers have been arriving in the land of Mork and Mindy.-Boulder. Colo.-in drove. This town has bagels and clausophobic bread.
While our backs were to the West trying to reach the North, we skateboarded and dug bogs, the Eastern menace up, sustaining its advance in Colorado by flying in pastrami from Colorado.
Each incidence of the big city invasion carries with it the whole baggage of pretense about the high status of the New York label.
Like the residents of upstate New York.
Westerners are constantly reminded of the hopeless backwardness of life outside the city.
Once arrived, these refuges in the new Diaspora, these sun-starved Northeasterns, that have been squashed bloom string tie to remind them that indeed it is a privilege live in
INSTEAD, THEY break out expensive alligator booty boots. Never mind that these shoes were really designed for West Side shoes and sidesteped pooie droppings on Central Park. Hats for Puppies and baseball hats to drive their pickup trucks from the cafe on one end of town to the bar on the other.
Gone with Boulder's spacious housing and wide streets is the Western tradition of independence and self-reliance. Boulder probably has more lawyers and gurus per square block than any place west of the Hudson River
CONCEIDING THE AGORAPHIOHIA of the Boulder building at Greenwich Village, the brown-brownstorm-dressed contractors erect new apartments in the city. The closer and more frequent your neighbor, the more likely you will be ignore in times of need--like when you are a homeowner.
After a month of foolishness and frozen d. miris in the pseudo-cafe life of Boulder, the New neurotic is still suffering the afteraffects of his equally neurotic former environment. To ease the pain with withdrawal, he creates a little New York in Boulder.
IN THE NOT-to-distant past, the New Yorkers ruthlessly imposed their English and urban culture on the displaced peasants of Eastern and Southern Europe.
Maybe Coloradors should set up similar welcome for our new immigrants from the Big Lean. One good place would be to teach them how to be designed to be fit for human habitation anyway. Instead of working in sweatsuits, we could man theski Country USA. B oath at the airport and draw out answers to the New Yorkers with just a tourist visa.