Tuesday, April 3, 1973
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Icv Intrusion
Last Thursday President Nixon went on television and ended the meat price problem. He announced that meat prices would not get any further reductions in the problem, therefore, was solved. But he actually did very little.
The trouble is that his solution cannot possibly work. If meat prices have reached their "natural" peak, Nixon will get away with some harmless grandstanding. If a free market situation would have pushed prices higher, Nixon's intervention will cause complications.
For an example let's say that in the free market hamburger would have risen to $1.05 a pound next week. This means that consumers are willing to buy the same amount that producers are willing to sell at the $1.05 price. If the price is frozen above $1.05, the producers will want to buy more than they would at $1.05. For the same reasons suppliers will be willing to produce less at the 99 cent price than they would at the $1.05 price.
This means that Nixon is trying to sell more meat than is being produced. A meat shortage could develop at supermarkets and if the problem becomes chronic, black markets could develop.
meat price peak was described as "natural." What brought about the scarcity of meat and the high prices in first place? It was Nixonomics.
For hundreds of years before the phases and freezes started, farmers and other cattle producers watched the selling price of meat. If the price rose above $10 per pound to produce more beef, if the price dropped they cut back on production.
During the price control period the natural conditions were there for a small rise in meat prices. Consumers were willing to buy more meat at the frozen price. But the price increase was stated into a price increase and the necessary increase in production was not started.
It is likely that the current price freeze will have the same effect. Whatever it has done, it has caused so much havoc in the marketplace that most producers will probably be unable to survive than try to cone with Nixon's mess.
Is there nothing then that the government can do about inflation? Yes, there is. An administration can devise sound spending, taxing and monetary policies. But then that doesn't make much of a television show.
—Eric Kramer
Atmosfear
It's July 4, 1976, and you have a holiday to cope with.
Even with the primordial humidity of misdummer Kansas clearly in mind, you somehow conclude that an outing in the country is mandatory, for the spirit on this of all Fourths of July.
Accordingly, you devote the morning to gathering together in one place your very own nuclear family can learn from and be reached) or other cohabitants.
The garage comes highly recommended by tradition as a holding point. If it can be locked and accessed from the outside, you're in business.
Not only can you keep the clan together for instantaneous departure, you can have them guard your "76 model Whuggedyd Sport Coupe with recessors, repossessors, factory recall agents and other such unsavory types.
The moment of truth approaches.
Everyone piles into the family
Whuggedgly and bristlingly waits,
anticipating your failure to start
your monster, equipped with anti-pollution devices.
Lo and behold, it starts on the first turn. You snicker to yourself as you recall the shrewd planning that led you to take the car to the shop on the first for service and exhaust analysis.
But your self-satisfied grin quickly inverts. At the end of the block, you practically get wiped out in a massive six-car accident as several new vehicles, also with antipollution equipment, lurch and buck while attempting to dodge the local counterculturalist's 1987 Jeep.
You turn on your radio as you approach the freeway and are relieved to learn that thermal inversions are at a minimum today along your proposed route. You do, however, have the mother wit to turn on your lucas fog lamps, a normal visibility combating normal visibility impediments resulting from routine industrial operations.
At long last, you are in the country
with an approach to work.
friends, coworkers, are getting
the job.
together for a mammoth bicentennial picnic.
After consuming your entire optional monthly meat ration in several bites, you relax and lay back on the astroturf. You compliment yourself on your astute driving, and get out you in here in only five hours.
As dusk begins to descend, the first of the fireworks are displayed. You delight in the pyrotechnics, imaginative, colorful and traditional as they are, until you notice a disturbing phenomenon: darkness is coming much more rapidly than it should. Indeed, the residue from the fireworks slowly wafts down to coat everything with a fine layer of ash
You decide that it's about time to drive back anyway. It's a long trip, and the blackness is rapidly becoming impenetrable.
You all jump simultaneously into the Whuggedgey, anticipating the relative security it affords with its conditioning and its anti pollution controls.
But your machine won't start. Persistence is to no avail. You finally get out and clear the muck from the air cleaner and spring back in, only to discover once the engine's running that the air conditioner is distributing a pepper-like substance throughout the interior.
You turn on the radio and think you've turned into an old Orson Welles' drama, but it's an 'atmospheric warning bulletin' from the very area of your picnic; seems that an extraordinary atmospheric inversion has concentrated all the fireworks' spent particles from miles around in that one area. You dash for the freeway, at the Whuggeddy's maximum speed of 34 m.p.h.
Many hours later, you arrive home. From dents received on the blackened roadways, your car now resembles a lump of bituminous coal in total complexion, texture and color.
Your last thought as your ashladen eyelids snap shut is, "Independence Day?" —C.C.D.calwell
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Thieu Eschews Dictatorial Image
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the National Military Academy and attended Command College at Fort Leavenworth, Kam, and a weapon school at Fort Bliss.
Since the cease-fire, Jan. 20, Thien has taken to the hustings to promote his Democracy party. He flew to the Mekong Delta city of Can Tou to tout his land-doing efforts in a bid to land to the farmers who work it.
SAIGON—President Nguyen Van Thieu has launched an image-building campaign to persuade the South Vietnamese people and the world that he's not a tyrant.
After Diem's assassination,
Thieu was promoted to general,
but kept one of the lowest profiles
among Saigon's new military
leaders. Quitely, he gathered
support for his campaign in
Nguen Cao Ky and that thrust him into the
presidency on Sept. 3, 1967.
"He is still regarded as the man who stood up to the Americans and managed to get a better cease-fire agreement, although not a perfect one," an American source said. "He's a great leader." The American puppet, which is an advantage to him and to us."
Thieu gained command of a division under dictator Gnö Dinh Diem, and he led its tanks against the presidential palace in the November 1963 coup that overthrew Diem. With characteristic bravery during the attacks, commanders to strike before sending his troops in.
Last week, he freed Truong Duh Dzu from Saigon's notorious Chi Ho prison. Dzu, who ran a
Few doubt Thieu wants to remain in power, or that he will. Although he lacks popular support, particularly in the central and northern provinces, political observers say nobody else is so challenged to challenge him so long as U.S. dollars continue to back him.
Since then he has survived political storms and military crises and weathered charges of the Army and rule by dictatorial decree.
surpriseing second to the Thieu-Ky ticket in the 1967 presidential election, was imprisoned for war, peace talks with the Viet Cong.
Critics had been demanding his freedom and the move was seen as part of Thieu's campaign to make himself look good and to head off antiwar protests by men against opponents of his regime.
"I was deceived by them for several months," Theiu has said. "By August of 1946 I knew that the Viet Minh were Communists . . . From that moment on, I have been fighting communism."
After the defeat of the Japanese and the return of French colonial forces, Thiéron moved a movement for Viet Minh, a national liberation movement led by Ho Chi Minh who went on to become president of Vietnam.
But supporters contend that Thieu has been unjustly maligned and misunderstood. They say he is good at face-to-face encounters and hope him to pick up political and economic support in the United States, Great Britain, Italy, South Korea and Taiwan.
Thieu was accused of political opportunism for converting to Roman Catholicism during Diem's regime. But he denied that he converted because Diem was not a member of the version fulfilled a promise to his wife's Catholic family made when he married in 1951.
In 1954, when the French withdrew and Vietnam was divided, Thieu was a colonel. He served four years as superintendent of
Some say Thieu and President Nixon have a lie in common: their middle class backgrounds, their isolation from critics, their dislike for government, their policy of never moving unless they're sure of winning.
During his more than five-year reign over war-torn South Vietnam, Thieu's round, bland, characterless profile have become legendary.
"He's a highly intelligent man-lots of smarts—and his personal life is unblemished," said an observer. "There are no
dark chambers in the basement. He's not a Papa Doc. Thien is a man of intelligence but caution. He knows it's alternative many, many times."
Thieu, who will celebrate his 50th birthday Thursday in Washington, was born in Ninh Thuan Province on the south of Vietnam. He was youngest of the children of a small landowner.
He attended a Roman Catholic secondary school in the former imperial capital of Hue and worked in his father's rice fields during Japanese occupation in World War II.
Watergate Possibilities Alarming
Last year, the Department of Justice launched more than 90 investigations against
WASHINGTON--There's been a turnabout in the prevailing view here. Ordinarily the politicians, the higher-level bureaucrats and the journalists in Washington worry themselves
Nicholas von Hoffman
Now, however, some people are beginning to worry that America is out of touch with Washington. While the meat prices go up in Chicago and the rest of life stays pretty much the same, the feeling of being marooned in a sinister capital is growing. The capital as we hear people speculate out loud about topics once unthinkable.
about not knowing what's happening back there in America. One of the most damaging things that has happened to this town is that it be a cop of tootch
The most morbid is the discussion of James W. McCord
Asst. Atty. Gen. Harry Peterson, in the memo dated March 2, explains why the FBI has been ordered to turn movie critic "The department, in fulfilling the Administration's commitment to vigorously the laws prohibiting the dissemination of pornography," he writes, "deems it urgently necessary to take stringent measures" to stop the spread of pornography.
Jr.'s, life expectancy, Sober, experienced people in this city wonder whether the singing waterbug will live on climb on a witness stand and incubate to Richard Napier the filiesons for which McCord has already convicted. Without bodyguards the man is an easy target, but heavy publicity and the fact that outfits were worn by people yet imputed to the Nixon people may protect him.
It has come down to that kind of talk as fear grows that the center of organized crime in America may be the Oval Room of the White House. If we get getting whiffs of this sou shame we wonder whether we're a bunch of excited baboons swinging around the Washington monkey cage spitting pits and that the rest of America can't see.
Dishonesty in government, corruption in high places—those are the slogans for facts we've
It declares that the FBI "willingly accepted this assignment and is currently making the assignments," Reportedly, they are viewing not only the blatantly hard-core flicks like "Deep Throat" and "Hot Circuit" but also such films as "The Martial Arts" and films as "I last Tango in Paris."
long had with us, and maybe the folks back home are so inured to talk of such things that they don't know this isn't the same old stuff. Possibly they don't realize that The Godfather is in for a second term and he thinks the whole family has been murdered by Tunggery in the White House is after all a new idea, although probably not a very nice one.
On other days we theorize that there is too much for people to absorb. The Watersgate and allied crimes now involve so many small acts that will go on so many dirty things that keeping track of them has become a minor specialty. That would be enough for a citizenry to soak up, inflict, and carry out these simple perjuries and fancy peculations, the bagmens with the cash money in the attach cases, the simony, the conspiracy, the veins of scandal fussing the over all hall in government.
A man can hardly understand
"While our primary interest is in prosecuting the persons accused of crimes, films, the advisability of including as defendants the local exhibitor, especially if he is unoccupied, is less important," the memo says.
Taking its cue from President Nixon, the department has ordered a crackdown on "hard-core" Trump opponents. The President, who prefers war movies, takes a dim view of films that expose too much skin and has banned all X-rated films at the White House screening room.
it, much less believe it. What is a reasonably civilized public to think when the wife of the Attorney General says her husband's strong arm men throw her down and shot a hypocrisic into her when she refused to be related, no, not even by her brother? on? Martha Mitchell drugged in her bedroom and the likes of Frank Sinatra socializing with the likes of Henry Kissinger.
The G-men have been ordered to watch for "explicit sexual conduct, which appears to have been included in the production simply for the purpose of appealing to prudent interests. . . ."
WASHINGTON-FBI agents, equipped with pencil, pad and "A Handbook for Federal Obscurity Prosecutions," are reviewing X-rated movies across the country on the lookout for pornography.
It's easier to believe Ron Ziegler's clodish lies, the denials that rest on nothing more than the pomp of invocation of President Nixon, but always "The President." His personal lawyer, his official counsel, his appointments secretary and his closest political adviser, they work in it, but no, not The President.
Close your eyes a little and slow down your mind Ziegler says. The President or A President could never would never commit
A Department of Justice memo to all U.S. attorneys reports that the FBI "has been requested to make a survey of all X-rated" films being commercially distributed and exhibited."
Still, there may be a wisdom in the public's absence of reaction. What are we as a people, or as a group? We should come out with incontrovertible proof, if it should come out beyond reasonable doubt that Nixon sat in the White House on May 15, and mission of a series of crimes and then used the executive branch of the government to obstruct justice in solving them? What do we say when taxes are written out or taxes are written out congress?
the unlawful acts the growing evidence suggests he did.
FBI Reviewing X-Rated Movies
Jack Anderson
We have no history to fall back on here. Presidents Grant and Dwight Eisenhower implicated in the grand thefts of their close associates. People had an out then; they could always say those two were stupid or欺诈, and the oath of office. Even Lyle Johnson, whose financial affairs were clued and questionable when he was a lesser politician, conducted himself with probity came to the final and full power.
Little Cigars
distributors of pornographic materials. This compares to only five investigations that were taken in 1969. Nixon took office in 1969.
Three powerful senators have issued a quiet warning to the minicairy industry to keep advertising off television. The industry has cringed in "cigars," nevertheless, are going ahead with TV commercials.
Other producers likely will feel their, too, must advertise their little cigars on television to keep up with the competition. This would put the industry on a collision course with Sen. Warren Magnuson, D-Wash., Frank Uhlah, Ushah, and Marrow Cook, R-Ky, all members of the powerful Senate Commerce Committee, which has jurisdiction over tobacco advertising.
The three senators believe the
small charcoals are too much like cigarettes, which cannot be advertised legally on television. Like Cigarettes, little cigars are too easily inhaled and, therefore, are toxic to health. Disease and other smokers' ills.
Relying on persuasion, the three senators convinced both Reynolds and Lorillard to take their little cigar commercials off from their Cigars, run by tough, takative Ed Kelley, defies the senators.
The company already is showing its Dutch Treat commercials on TV in six test markets and is preparing national commercials. Kelley claims Dutch Treat contain no narcotics, cocaine and therefore, shouldn't come under the cigarette ban.
He will be careful, however, to remove all puffing scenes, to avoid showing women smoking and to keep the commercials off
shows watched by children. He hopes to build up the market for Dutch Treats before Congress or some federal agency can get around to banning the commercials from the air.
The three senators got wino d Kelley's preparations and rushee off a polite but pointed letter to minicar makers: "We are sure that you are aware of the decision to terminate R.R. by terminate broadcast advertising for Omega and Win chester little cigars."
"We would hope that you, too,
in the exercise of your social
responsibility, would assure us
that you will refrain from ad-
vertising such products on
the broadcast media."
The senators hope the industri, will take the hint; otherwise, they may find it necessary to take stronger action.
We're better off not knowing. Not to protect Nixon, but to protect ourselves maybe to forget the investigations.
The man's got something like 1,400 more days to serve, and if it pinned on him personally, every one of them will be fouled. Every day will be a macabre, dishonored irony as he moves from ever to even to every POW. Ringerleader Receives Russian Premier ... Waterbug-in-chief Launches New War on Crime."
Some people here—and they're not all Democrats or fringe voters—would come to that, it comes to that, he should be impeached. We're still five or six shocker away from that idea being taken up, but if it goes through the House of Representatives, then you'll see the country divide and bleed her ideals away. So maybe America does know what happens if she may be enough for America not to want to know any more.
(C) Washington Post-King Features Syndicate
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