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February 20,1980
Bush's plan working
George Bush.
Puerto Rico holds a presidential primary for the United States presidency? Sure it campaigns, the first one campaign it sees in fact. And guess who won.
While everyone was—and still is—analyzing the Iowa caucus and anticipating the New Hampshire, Maine and Kansas primaries, Bush, former CIA director and ambassador to the United Nations, won all 14 Puerto Rican Republican delegates in Sunday's primary.
Puerto Rico's present commonwealth political status gives the island's citizens about the same control over their internal affairs as citizens in the fifty states have. Although Puerto Ricans have had full U.S. citizenship since 1917, they vote only in national primary elections and do not vote in the national election itself because the island is not a state.
Puerto Rico is represented in Congress by a single resident commissioner who has a voice but not a vote in the legislative body, except in committees of which he is a member. Nevertheless, a political victory in Puerto Rico should not be understated or underestimated.
It was the first time that the 3.3 million citizens of Puerto Rico took a direct part in choosing a U.S. president, and they chose Bush. Also
on the ballot were John Connally,
former Texas governor; Sen. Howard
Baker, R-Tem.; Benjamin Fernandez,
California businessman; Harold
Stassen, former Minnesota governor;
Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kansas.
However, after 97 percent of the island's 3,436 precincts had reported, Bush had received 112,947 votes; Baker, 69,791; Connally, 2,039; Fernandez, 1,822; Stassen, 58; Dole, 45; and Ronald Reagan, former California governor, 58, even though he was not entered in the primary.
The 14 delegates give Bush a 17-9 lead in formally bound delegates going into the New Hampshire primary, which is to be Feb. 26. Reagan, the early front-runner, now finds himself in second place, nipping at the heels that not so long ago were treading behind him.
Bush seems to be reviving a rigorous strategy, a political phenomenon Americans saw in the 1976 presidential campaign of a soft-speaken Georgian. He is emerging from relative obscurity to capture the confidence of the American people. He has been criticized for his campaign technique, which often differs from usual, not enough somber soliloquies about the issues.
But, so far, the Bush battle plan is working well. He is winning, and winning consistently. The question, of course, is will he win it all?
Defense plan needs fast growth capability
By FRED CHARLES IKLE
WASHINGTON—The congressional debate over the $188-billion defense budget proposed by Carter administration in 1981 has made some members of Congress have asked for more than the three percent increase in the federal budget president; others call for greater parsimony. But will someone break with the obvious and make the case for a $1 trillion budget?
The defense effort the American economy could support today, judging from the pace of military spending in the trillion-dollar level, measured in current dollars. Such a sixfold increase in our defense budget must also be achieved. But to have the capability for a large-scale and rapid expansion of our arms production and our military strength requires preparation.
The case to be made is not for such a sixfold increase in our defense effort today. It is instead that the United States must acquire the capability to achieve such an increase rapidly when and if all-out mobilization should be demanded. Such a capability would require adequate deterence fail, would help us prevail in a large-scale conventional war.
ACCORDING TO T Carter's State of the Union, an effort has been started for mobilization planning in the government to get more and more needs to be done. By devoting one to three percent of the defense budget during the next few years to industrial preparedness, we could place ourselves in a position to respond to any threat of a billion military effort to a trillion-dollar level.
The need for having this capability has long been resisted. Since the mid-1960s, we have had a program that allowed to wither, it was thought any large war would lead to nuclear escalation. We have been telling ourselves we are capable of defending the North Atlantic Treaty Organization with long confronted superior Soviet conventional strength, our threat to initiate an invasion. The threat from conventional forces. That argument has worn thin, though, as our nuclear superiority has vanished. Hence, we are concerned about continuing conventional strength in Central Europe.
YET OUR inferiority in conventional
strength remains insurmountable, par-
heartland, such as the Persian Gulf. At least,
it remains insurmountable with the
increase proposed for our defense budget.
According to Defense Secretary Harold Brown, the Russians are continuing their military buildup and may even acquire enough forces to fight three wars at once, while we "never acquired all the readiness" to fight one large and one small war.
Thus, if push came to shove, we would lack the forces to repel an attempt “to gain control of the Persian Gulf region,” as the president would have to deal with them we would. In its present mood, Congress will probably support the president’s request for the reinstitution of draft registration, but is the president who controls their bare hands? Our present forces are already dangerously short of reserves in aircraft, tanks, ships and other armaments. The president reserves might be depleted within a month.
CONGRESS MAY soon devote a good many hours to the question of whether or not women should be included in the draft registration. It also ought to find the time to consider it. The question is who might be mobilized could actually be equipped and supported. Restoring the capability of expanding our military manpower may be important, to build up our capability for technological and social mobilization is even more important.
This capability for industrial mobilization has to be carefully designed. It must be flexible to serve a broad range of contingency stress. For example, the interruption of oil imports from the Middle East would be a near certainty during any major armed conflict in the Persian Gulf region. Hence, it is important to ensure that you succeed despite a severe oil shortage.
By creating the capability for a rapid, many-fold expansion of our defense effort we would vastly reduce the danger that a full-scale military mobilization would become necessary. This capability would thus become the ultimate stabilizer that provides the most technological and economic strength in the defense of the Western world.
Fred Charles Kite, now a businessman and national security consultant, was director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency in the Ford administration.
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Regents undermining tenure policy
The Kansas Board of Regents, slowly but steadily, was approved to elect the Kansas. Recent legislation enacted by the Regents only proves that they consider tenure to be more a burden than anything else.
And to be sure, tenure requires a university. After all, a tenured professor cannot be fired for political reasons—rarely, university release a tenured professor
Obviously then, tenured professors make the University budget more difficult to balance.
The Regents latest attempt to undermine policy is an amendment to its own tenure policy. The amendment could add years to the probation period, and serve a chance to gain tenure.
For that reason, the Regents probably would like to just assume there were no tenured schools at all. If that were the case, the Regents schools would not have to go through the painstaking, complicated training and faculty in a time of financial emergency.
measuring senior faculty members would not be considered nearly as unethical had they been without tenure.
THE AMENDMENT gives the University the power to virtually force a new faculty
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member to serve a seven-year probationary period at KU. Granted, the faculty member has to consent to the length of the period. But how much leverage would a faculty member have against contract negotiations? About as much of the leverage as the United States has with OPEC.
The University, under the amendment, has the power to manipulate the hiring process. If a faculty member does not want to be hired, the University simply can look elsewhere.
Under the former policy, the University did not have the same flexibility. For years it had allowed a probation for tenure at another university, as many as three years could be sliced off the seven-year probation. But prior service has been excluded from the amendment.
INSTRUCTORS WHO had taught at another institution for three years while on university leave. There was a lot of probation at KU. In essence, many new faculty members would be forced to take up positions in the department.
it bolt down to this: the Regents want ten ture to become more difficult to obtain. And the Regents want more time to hedge their investment. In a way, tenure will become a rare commodity.
It is amazing how only one amendment can twist the entire tenure policy.
KU faculty members have contended that the amendment would be acceptable if the word exceptional were added to it. In other
words, the faculty members say that the University would be justified in placing, for example, an industrial engineer with no experience on a seven-year probationary period.
BUT THE REGENTS did not adopt the amendment to apply to all new faculty they approved it because they wanted the manedent to apply to all new faculty members. Despite strong sentiment in favor of the manedent, the Regents went ahead and passed it.
If a topnotch businessman was faced with the prospect of waiting 10 years for a promotion in a company, the businessman did not serve his best interests. The company did not serve his best interests.
KU's ability to attract the best faculty members now is going to be a thing of the past. The amendment eliminates all teachers to teach at the University of Kansas.
Yes, the most qualified faculty members will bypass KU and go to other universities—where their jobs will be protected.
Dole's campaign comedy of errors
I first became aware of the existence of Bob Dole when one of his "Dolls for Dole" shoved a cup of pineapple juice into my hand.
That campaign tactic struck me as being utterly ridiculous even though I was only 14 years old at the time. But it must have been because Dole walked away with the election.
That was back in 1968, when the slick young U.S. Senate candidate, groping for name recognition, doled out fruit juice that he had been selling, and that, coincidentally, his last name is
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In 1974, when Dole was running for r- election against Bill Roy, the good senator resorted to tactics that were even more ridiculous. This time around he based a bitter, mudsliding campaign on the idea of a more than more Dr. Bill. The voters of Kansas agreed
I suppose this kind of humor is exemplary.
It was probably a good idea, "acidic" to me; it seems a more lightly a loupy pun to me. Still, it worked so well on the gullible whole country we had convinced the whole country would fall for.
Dole's jocular style of campaigning has made him an unlikely least outside the confines of Kansas. In fact, Dole's bid for the presidency has been, in the infew weeks, a comedy errors that is the result.
DLOLE PLOBOS ON despite the fact that all four national campaign managers he's hired have quit, and despite the fact that he beats him in polls, we still collect to invoke cumulative damnain debts.
But the list of Dole's campaign transgressions grows even longer.
Just two weeks ago, Dole asked his Republican competitors to refrain from running in Iowa. It seems that Dole was afraid he might make a poor showing here in his home state.
That strategy backfired and Dole decided to take his own advice and save the $100 fee, ostensibly because he didn't have a law on voter registration in Sunflower State. Besides, his supporters calmed, Kansas voters still hold the option of voting for "none of the above" on their primary ballots, thereby electing unauthorized delegates to the Republican convention.
PERHAPS I SHOULDN'T be so surprised by Dole's futile drive for the presidency. After all, he's the same man who served us
pineapple juice and lousy puns in his previous campaigns and still managed to win.
In fact he's never an election in his 30 years in politics. He doesn't count his bid for the vice presidency in 176% because "my vote would be more than I'd win." No wonder he acts so fondly for Dole's."
I still can't believe that Dole doesn't realize how much he is embarrassing the fellow's self. I don't know, but she won't necessarily doom from the beginning, it is now obvious to everyone what she was.
A REASONABLE CANDIDATE would drop out and go back home before any more creditors decide to foreclose on what's left of their property. A reasonable candidate would admit that voters in his home state are more important then those in a different state, and a reasonable candidate would realize that his
poor showing does nothing for his credibility among his constituents back home.
Apparently, however, Bob Dole is not a reasonable candidate and there'a good chance he'll be lecturing college classes than conferring with his Senate colleagues.
HOW ARE THE VOTERS of Kansas supposed to react when their "favorite son" doesn't respect them enough to ask for their vote? Why should we give old Bob another six years to engage in self-indulgent gaming games? Do we want a man who can't recognize his own shortcomings representing the state in the same deluded fashion?
Dole oughe to take a few lessons from AIF Landon on how to be a graceful loser. Landon, whose 1932 bid to unseat President Franklin D. Roosevelt was a case study in his career, died at Kansas loser, and he's one of the most revered elder statesmen in the country.
Landon would tell Dole that Kansas love losers. Any state that produces such football powerhouses as the University of Kansas, Wichita State University and Kansas State University doesn't feel comfortable with a winner. A gracious lover is somehow human, and there's nothing a Kansas voter has to offer than a candidate who seems human.
BUT ITS PROBABLY too late for Dole. He's committed himself to humiliation in New Hampshire and ridicule at home. He was once a lightly regarded candidate for the presidency with an impressive list of accomplishments within the Republican Party. But his jokes are turning sour, and he is laughing the laughings of the 1884 elections.
He's isolated himself from the voters that catapulted him into national prominence, and he soon will pay the price.
Come back to Kansas, favorite son, and suffer the liking you deserve.
To the Editor:
I am writing in response to the review of the Molly Hatchet concert, written by Bill Vogrin, which appeared in the Kansan, Feb. 18.
This journalism was not a review but rather a simple-minded assault on a band now gaining some well-deserved national attention.
It was clear from the story that the Kansas editors mulled over the selection of a reviewer for a long time. Mr. Vogrin.
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obviously very knowledgeable about the group, was able to name a total of two songs from the set, "It's All Over Now" and "Flirn With Dizzin". The former is fast becoming a rock classic and the latter was etched on a colorful banner hanging behind him. David was introduced by lead vocalist Dana Singh. With sign it like that, who could miss?
Quick to tag Brown as "dull" and the show is "boring," he does not further insight into his work. He displays a displayed excellent stage presence and worked the crowd like a true professional. His "concrete references to dope and booze" are hard to find. Farad such references are罕有的, Mr. Wong says.
Among the other laugable comments, Vogran said, "The four guitarists used a music stand and a light system used for the show was stronger than those used for shows in Allen Field House.
Another favorite line was, "But the young crowd roared with delight after every song." Trying his best to use subtle depth of emotion, he dimmed himself out of place in a college are. crowd
He also attacked the guitarists for their "constant movement." That, sir, is known as showmance. They were playing to, and dancing to the crowd. Stick with me, you're learning.
I hear that the beginning symphonic band at West Junior High is giving a recital soon. If you call ahead, Mr. Vrinur, I'm sure they will give you a press pass.
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Hatchet not boring to real rock lovers
To the Editor:
Once again, we are exposed to yet another opinionated review, Bill Vogrin's review of Molly Hatchett's "boring" concert.
It's hard to understand why an 'essay listener' should attend a rock and roll concert and review it. Obviously, this kind of performance is of whom Hatchet's music was most assuring burying to this individual, but not to the 4,000 people that settled in Hoch Auditorium for an evening.
True, comparisons of Hatchet to Lynzyd Skynyd and the Allman Brothers Band are a joke. Hatchet plays their own brand of music with excellent guitar riffs and catchy lyrics.
And who needs a light show? When a band can stand on stage and play their instruments and have a sellout crowd stamina, they need to use blinding lights to distract the audience?
Brad Swisher Lyons sophomore
In regard to future rock reviews, let's get someone to write who has some knowledge of rock music.
Review of concert disappoints, insults
To the Editor:
Bill Vogler knows very little about the Holly Hatchin band. If he had listened to all of the great bands, he wouldn't have that Danny Joe Brown's vocals were intended to be in the background, undernea
After attending the Molly Hatchconcert, it was very insulting as wellas disappointing to the Kansan's review.Obviously the narrow-minded reporterobviously the rock and rock and roll. A minimal light show and开 stage is typical of this style of concertand serves to focus the crowd's attention onthe guitarists and their jambming. Extravagant lighting systems are distractingwhere the music is loud and monotonous.
It is apparent that Vogrin went to the concert with a bad attitude and a dislike for the bands and what they represent. But simply labeling feedback guitar work as
"distorted sound" he shows his ignorance of rock and rock and his hate for his "ranch. Rock." He also says the ciment that can be generated by the double-tailed bass is "or 'Bougainvillea.'" or "bourgainvillea."
Vogin makes cuts at both Missouri and Molly Hatchet wherever he can. I question the size of his Skyrnd collection, Granted, and Molly Hatchet was a real. Because both the Allman Brothers and Lynrd Skyrnd bands have been crippled by unfortunate accidents, they were unable to play in Lawrence last Saturday. A full band played at Lynrd Skyrnd and Lynrd Hatchet in town. The Hawks were not at all disapported as Vogir himself conceded that the crowd "loved it." They only "roasted with delight after every song." Possibly the services of someone who knows why.
David B. Jones Overland Park senior
Anti-draft sentiment shared by brother
To the Editor:
In reference to Kate Pound's anti-draft column in the Feb. 13 issue of the Kansas: Dear Kate
Why do you think I'm taking all this
French? Canada is a beautiful country.
Love
Love Mark
Submitted by Mark Pound Parsons senior