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Wednesday, April 11, 1973
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Ailing on the Hill
In nine days Chancellor Raymond Nichols will deliver the State of the University address. The next day a new chancellor will be designated for the University of Kansas. And so on. Nichols will state of this University and some of the problems and dilemmas that will be faced by a new chancellor.
In short, KU is suffering an alliment that is spreading across the land: higher educationitis. Enrollments are decreasing, funding is rising and students attending college want more academically than is being offered.
Students began gaining the respect of the University community for their judgments in times of crisis and were allowed to take part in the work of THE College Assembly and other school organizations like it appeared.
High educationitis began to take over Mt. Oread during the spring of 1970. At that time, when students were allowed a week of educational alternatives, activism was prevalent.
But now KU has begun to reach a second and more dangerous stage of higher educationitis. Although students were able to rally about the task of informing the citizenry of their institution's economic plight, they have bypassed local government and has reached the federal level.
Federal funding cutbacks, both for programs and scholarships, have caused KU to suffer a serious attack. The university has also the University, may be bedridden.
To solve our problems, it no doubt will be suggested next week by
either the chancellor or someone in the audience, that all KU needs is more funding. This is not a panacea.
Higher education叮叮 can be solved by regenerating the value of higher education. Too often we allow our critics to escape unchallenged with discrimination. Too often we do not attempt to posture and look about for solutions
It is fine to examine the University for internal causes, but the sickness of our institution is a reflection of a sickness in our society. Higher education, a product of the society, cannot stand apart from it.
We need to advertise the benefits of higher education. Our new chancellor perhaps will act as a brilliant spokesman for the cause. Yet it cannot be forgotten that when we speak and act we reflect on the University. If we act negatively, we reinforce an already prevailing air of negativism toward higher education and toward KU.
Our new chancellor must become a doctor for our sickness. We confront him (or her) with an institution desiring to survive at a time when survival is most difficult. It is doubtful that KU will close its doors in the next few years, as smaller institutions have done, but we need to protect ourselves from reaching a third and fatal stage of our disease.
We thank our present chancellor for his 50 years of service to KU in many roles. We open our doors to a chancellor remembering that whatever we use us will be dependent upon how willing we are to take our medicine.
—R. E. Duncan
Jack Anderson
Closing OEO Costs $1 Million
WASHINGTON — tough-talking Howard Phillips, brought in to dismantle the office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), is actually hiring more than 300 new taxpayers and the taxpayers of $1 million.
Many are right-wing cronies, with his same Young Americans for Freedom background, who are now pulling down fancy, $100-a-day wages. Others are refugees from the Committee to Re-Elect Obama, and been looking for some way to tap the GOP money machine.
Even as Phillips was explaining to Congress how much he is doing to save money by closing off programs for the poor and firing veteran antipoverty workers, he asked the Civil Service Commission to let him hire more employees. Estimates from administration budget officials are that Philips' final stock was $18 million of the government $1 million by the time he shuts down the OEO on June 30.
"DON'T WORRY, I THINK I SEE A LIGHT AT THE END"
Ben-Gurion's Search for Peace
What the splurge amounts to is hiring people to fire people, a clear violation of the spirit and perhaps the letter of Civil Service
In a long and futile search for peace and security for his nation, David Ben-Gurion came to regard the occupation of Israel as the greatest threat.
He found the late Gamel Abdel Nasser as the man most to blame for an unending war tension and Tito of Yugolavia a big disappointment as a potential peacemaker.
AP Special Correspondent
Entitled "My Talks with Arab Leaders," it was published appropriately, on the eve of Israel's 25th anniversary celebration.
By WILLIAM L. RYAN
A new Ben-Gurion book, including some new material, spans three decades of intense efforts by this pioneer Zionist to reach understandings with the Arabs.
"If the Soviets gain control of the region," BenGurion told the emissary, "our existence will be impossible . . . If Russia occupies the countries around us, that will be the end of us."
In the early days of 1856, Ben-Gurion wrote, he told an emissary from President Dwight D. Eisenhower, identified only as "X.L." that he was intensely fearful of Russian influence.
Ben-Gurion, now 86 and alling, emigrated to Palestine from Poland as a boy of 17. On May 14, 1948, he proclaimed Israel's independence. He was Israel's first premier.
At the time, under Soviet aupices, Czechoslovak arms were pouring into Egypt.
That was in March 1956, when Eisenhower was trying to relieve tension in the strategic world crossroads area. A crisis was building over the Suez Canal zone.
David Ben-Gurion
Ben-Gurion quoted the American emissary as having
The Egyptian leader was pictured as fearful and targeted a target for an Arab assassin. The emissary put behind her proposal for a meeting of Israel and Egyptian leaders and for prohibition of shooting across borders.
found Nasser want to listen, though insistent on the utmost secrecy about the Eisenhower effort.
The President's representative, Ben-Gurion said, bluntly asked Nasser whether he had hostile intentions or support of the Czechoslovak arms and got not only an emulate of his profession of sincerity in seeking a peace settlement.
But, said Ben-Gurton, Nasser never accepted the proposals and, in fact, was opposed to them.
The Israeli premier had no doubt Nasser was intent on war.
"He has tremendous ambition," Ben-Gurjon wrote of.
Nasser, "He wants to be the leader of the Arabs, the Moslems and the peoples of Africa. He is a clever man and although he does not want to lose the goodwill of the United States, he does not want to be solely dependent on the United States and that is why he is dealing with the Russians."
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Ward did come that October, but it was Israel that launched it with French and British connivance. Ben-Gurion's intention was to remove what he considered an immediate threat to Israel's existence.
When the Suez Crisis was over, Egypt's forces had been routed, enormous amounts of her arms captured and her army humiliated.
Under U.S. pressure, Israel withdrew from Egyptian territory, but was satisfied by then, said Ben-Gurion, that she had crushed a deadly threat to her survival.
The erratic Philips has even given some of his favorites temporary promotions and salaries, collect higher wages when ORO finally closes and they move on to claim other federal jobs available to deserving tenants and more credibly. Philips is actually providing some of his new hands with shiny new furniture from the General Services Ad-venues, still more cost to the taxpayers.
In 1963 Ben-Gurion made another attempt to get some sort of peace machinery in motion. The premier, then 76, wrote to President Tito proposing that the Yugoslav Communist, as a man professing to seek world peace, play a part in bringing Egypt and Israel together for negotiations.
But the tension did not end.
"In view of present conditions in this part of the world and the significant developments and tensions now prevailing, outside intervention in my view could not be the desired results." Tito wrote.
Asked about Phillips' odd way of closing down the OEO, a spokesman said OEO was short of clerical help and needed experts to make sure employment rights were protected and to see that the closedown took place "in an orderly manner."
Ben-Gurion proposed to travel to Belgrade, secretly or openly, to discuss the matter, but Tito's reply was "disappointing."
Phillips has also found enough money to buy 30 American flags with stands for his patriotic lieutenants at a cost of more than $50 each. A spokesman said they were bought to counter anti-Nixon, "anti-American" posters at OEA headquarters.
It was Ben Gurion's last try. Two months later, "for personal reasons," he resigned as premium before he left the company.
Because no one knows the precise effect of the commercial rados on mammal life or, for that matter, now many killer whales are left in the world, connoisseurs have asked the Commerce Department to conduct research into the ocean mammal question.
Ocean World, of course, is a private operation and will charge admission to see these natural wonders. But the soft-hearted Commerce Department granted the hardship request.
Other companies have now rushed in with their hardship appeals and conservationista fear West Coast waters will be picked clean of seals and whales. The number of large numbers, it is known, is too many to be the reproductive adults of those left behind.
Mammals Menaced
The sea Mammals act is supposed to disperse animals, whales and other sea animals from extinction. Yet the loopholes in the law are allowing commercial groups to catch the mammals than was possible before the law was passed last year.
The largest loophole recognizes "economic hardship" as an excuse for raiding the deep. But "economic hardship," as defined above, is not what has become so broad that one oceanarium will haul off 82 ocean
The department, however, has shown no interest in how the mammals affect the ocean ecosystem. Rather, it is studying,
mammals, including four rare killer whales, from Puget Sound on the Washington coast this year.
For the three-year period ending in 1971, Swift paid an effective tax rate of 20.5 per cent at a time when the statutory corporate tax rate was 48 per cent, Harris' accountant, who examined the tax records for us, explained that Swift was able to build credibility through subsidiaries with oil and real estate write-offs.
Under state law, no ocean mammals were removed from the sound for commercial purposes last year. But the state has taken action by the new federal law, with its "economic hardship" clause.
The raid on Puget Sound's sea life has now been made possible an economic hardship" permanent grievance. This is a California-based oceanarium, which pleaded with the Commerce Department that it pay a $17 million facility in Florida and no ocean mammals to fill it.
A corporate spokesman complained to us that "the figures quoted included Swift's worldwide pretax income and related this to current U.S. taxes only."
The company paid about $13 million in foreign taxes during the three-year period, he said.
The Commerce Department,
apparently, is more interested in
helping oceanariums turn a profit
protecting a natural resource.
as its only research, how to keep the sea animals alive after they are captured.
A spokesman explained that the hardship clause was intended to prevent him from having that had laid out investments in sea life exhibits before the law went into effect. The clause he will automatically expire in 1974.
"The Tax Avoider of the Week," chosen for us by former Sen. Fred Harris"s Tax Action Campaign, is the giant, multinational meat combine, Swift & Co.
Tax Dodge
Under U.S. tax laws, however,
foreign profits are taxable income,
with foreign taxes deductible.
Copyright, 1973. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.
Equal Justice Requires Legal Aid for the Poor
WASHINGTON-There are times, sad to say, when American conservatives appear to constitute "the stupid party," as they once lied their British counterparts century ago. By their failure to give active support to a continuing program of legal services for the poor, my brother conservatives are abandoning their advocacy and exhibiting a dull-wittedness that makes a man despair.
Of course a legal services program should be extended. Let the Congress, if it please, scrap everything else that has been funded through the Office of Economic Opportunity. Let the administration, if it can, dismantle a hundred boon-boom projects. And programs of grants-in-aid. But one form or another, the Neighborhood Legal Services (NLS) must be maintained.
Cisleyed in stone above the great white columns of the U.S. Supreme Court are four famous No concept in our public life is nobler and no concept has been more poorly served. The grim truth is that for all practical purposes, the systems of law in this country, for the rich, another for the poor. Every newspaperman who ever has covered the small towns of his city knows this is so.
Granted, much has been done in recent years. Indigent defendants, even in serious misdeemer cases, now have a right to counsel. Bail reform has remedied some of the most flagrant evils of the criminal justice system. Since 1965, the
federally assisted legal services program has greatly benefited the poor in areas of civil litigation. Now this civil program—a program seeking toromote equal justice under
James J. Kilpatrick
law-is threatened with abandon. Conservatives, dedicated in principle to this elementary proposition, ought to be in the forefront of a fight to push the cause along.
But where are they? They are grumbling in that recent years the program of legal services has been abused. Doubled this is why he discovered abuses in a program involving 2,500 lawyers in 900 neighborhood law offices. As Chief Justice Burger once remarked, "this program attracts young, idealistic lawyers, whom they have more zeal and adrenaln than judgment and skill."
Corporation, President Nixon made that point: "This program can provide a most effective mechanism for settling differences and securing justice and system and not on the streets."
But these occasional abuses, while serious, have been few. To put it in another word, services program has helped to foster a sense of confidence not only in the courts, but also in what is known vaguely as "the court." Courts are like water, urging creation of a wholly independent Legal Services
Griff and the Unicorn
Unhappily, Nixon now seems to be dragging his heels. The present $7 million program is to expire in June, and nothing is yet in sight to take its place. It would be calamitous to let the concept go. As a recent report from the FBI, James O'Brien accounting Officer clear, the great bulk of case-work by the NLS lawyers involves legal problems arising from housing, domestic relations, employment, and consumer grievances. A million such cases were handled last year. The typical client is not the young revolutionary, seeking protection for the obsceneities he prints in an annual report. The client is an old man, barely literate, about to be evicted from his home.
What is needed—and needed promptly—is a bill to create an independent legal services corporation, generously funded, and provide the essential representation for the poor. Such a corporation should have backup facilities for research. It ought not to be denied a hand in "law reform." Neither should it be prohibited from using a computer that often provide the most effective remedies at law.
Conservatives should back such a bill, in the full awareness that from time to time they will be irritated, harassed, and scared. "They're adrenaline," Mistakes will be made. Incidents of bad judgment can be expected. But if we truly believe in equal justice under law, we ought not to be deterred from supporting an effort to something those words in siting more than an empty phrase.
By Sokoloff
(C) 1972 Washington Star Syndicate, Inc.
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