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Monday, March 12, 1973
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Chancellor Murphy
They don't name buildings after just anybody.
Franklin Murphy, University of Kansas chancellor from 1851 to 1960, wasn't just anyobody. He became chancellor at age 32, the youngest KU has had. During his term as chancellor Murphy toured the United States and the rest of the world discussing educational concepts and bringing fame to KU.
A lover of good books and music, Murphy appreciated a wide variety of culture. Appropriately, KU named its fine arts building after him.
Murphy will speak at KU Wednesday night in Murphy Hall as part of the Kenneth A. Spencer Memorial Lecture series.
Murphy was well-known before he became KU's chancellor. In 1949 he formed a health plan to bring doctors into rural areas of Kansas. His plan became the pattern for similar programs throughout the country.
Besides being an authority on American education, he has published articles in the fields of chemotherapy, cardiovascular
diseases and mental education. He has served on the Commission on Government Security and was chairman of the American Council on Education.
When Murphy announced his resignation as KU chancellor in 1960, 600 students assembled on the lawn of his house urging that he reconsider his decision. But he was not persuaded. Later, more than 4,000 students heard his emotional farewell speech at Hoch Auditorium.
But Murphy's career was not over. He went on to become the youngest chancellor at the University of California at Los Angeles. He is now head of the Times-Mirror Corporation of Los Angeles.
The Spencer series seeks only the highest quality speakers. Because of scheduling problems, KU has not had a Spencer lecture since November 1968. Wednesday night's lecture will probably compensate for the years KU had no Spencer lectures. The lecture deserves the support of the students and faculty.
—Barbara Spurlock
Jack Anderson
WASHINGTON—Senate investigators suspect that the same "Mission: impossible" team also have broken into mayhem in the embassy several weeks earlier. And three Chilean diplomats in New York City, the investigators said, were similarly blamed for similar, invasive breaches of smell.
Watergate Trail Grows Warmer
Of the New York City breakins, the memo stated: "We ... learned from highly reliable government sources that the Watergate defendants were out of the Taft Hotel in New York City, that the Cuban community knew they had worked together on CIA jobs over a number of years and that Sturgis and Hal Tyson's TPA public relations department knew each other for years."
Levinson was cautious, about implicating ITT in the alleged Chilean caper. "The staff of the subcommittee," he reported, "has developed a relationship between ITT and the team which was arrested at the Watergate." But he stressed
In a memo intended for the eyes only of senators investigating ITT operations in Chile, staff director Jerry Levinson reported, "A source with excellent contacts in the Cuban community told the subcommittee staff that Frank Schultz, who he and Martínez and Gomez two other Watergate defendants, had broken into the embassy to photograph documents."
BEAKA VALLEY, Lebanon—Emile is the police chief's landlord and one of the bigger hashish growers in a picturesque village snuggled under the snowcapped Lebanon Mountains.
He admits in the oblique Arab way: "Here everyone who grows hashish grows sunflowers." Then he says, "hear me."
Here, however, is the circumstantial case, which the subcommittee staff has披针形 intelligence: "Government and nongovernment sources alike have told us that the Cuban exile community has a pool of talent available for dirty tricks. This talent has been used at one time or another by a number of federal agencies for missions of national importance and outside of the United States.
Ask About Sunflowers, Not Hashish
lives in a big stone house, drives a French sedan and keeps a Russian-made Kalsakhikov the authorities get too many.
Half his 100 acres are devoted to the cannabis plant, known as marijuana in the United States. He sows in April and harvests in September. Each acre yields 600 kilograms of green marijuana, which refine to 12 kilos of hashish.
nieghbors all grow hashish.
Villages in the Bekaa are
"Technically, I'm supposed to arrest them," he admitted. "But how can you arrest a man who needs movey to feel his family?"
His father grows it. It brothers grow it. His neighbors grow it in a hundred other villages of the Hermel-Baalbek area in Lebanon. The Bekan Valley Lebanon. The Bekan Valley of hashish in the Middle East.
Emile gets 681 a kilo from Lebanese buyers. By the time it reaches Americans, "blonde" babies are selling a kilogram a kilogram, enals 3.2 pounds.
'If we expect to live like human beings, we cannot respect the law,' Emile says. 'If the United States and the United Nations want us to stop growing hashish, we cannot not through the Lebanese government. There is no money in sunflowers.'
The Belirut government has ordered farmers to grow sunflowers in order to pay paying them twice the market price. Emile obligingly surrounds his fields with a thin screen of sunflowers. But the
"I get 125 Lebanese pounds per
dunum of sunflowers. I get 200
pounds per dunum of green
pounds for refined hashish."
veritable arsenals of illegal arms, but there is sedum trouble with the police. They tend to have to wait for them to be patrolling through the hashfields.
"that the case outlined in this memorandum is circumstantial and that there is no hard evidence of ITT involvement."
This translates to $160 an acre for sunflowers, $270 an acre for unprocessed marijuana and $800 for hashish.
"If we expect to live like human beings, we cannot respect the law," Emile says. "If the United States and the United Nations want us to stop growing hushish they must pay us direct, the Lebanese government. There is no money in sunflowers."
"Federal sources report the Cubans to be absolutely loyal, fanatically anti-Communist and willing to take any risk. It is also likely that when 'teams' were formed, they would have one or perhaps two members knew who had requested and was financing the operation."
Emile sends his five children to private schools "because the public schools are no good." He
Washington business and political sources report that about eight months before the war, he sent a letter to Hunt let it be known around the city that he had a 'team' available for 'Mission': Impossible assignments and that he was willing to work for private clients.
The volunteer, usually a seasonal worker without land of his own, is paid up to $1,500 to spend a few months in jail.
"Sometimes the police have to make an arrest. Then the village gets together and selects someone to take the blame."
"I like the taste of money ar." he savs.
was investigated by the FBI, which dismissed it as routine. But Senate investigators disagree. "Careful investigation of the case," Mr. Levinson wrote in the conclusion," Levinson wrote, "that it was not routine."
Emile's household refines his bashish right under the nose of a woman who stores blocks of cannabis resin by rubbing the plants through a large sieve. The marijuana are used as fertilizer here.
"Do Americans really smoke the leaves?" asked Emile.
He claims he has never tried hashish.
"Valuable office equipment and cash were left untouched. The ambassador's office and the office of the first secretary were both searched and files were inspected. The thieves walked in and more attractive offices to get into their secretary's office, suggesting they knew where they were going."
"Strange people."
George Abou Haider, the 'rais' or mayor of another Beka village called Hawsh Barada, said he switched to sunflowers because "I have a position to maintain." But his
Haidar conceded that president Sleiman Franjiek is "much tougher" than his predecessors: "all the time I get government advice from a lawyer, not illegal. But the law is applied only to the weak, the small favors
"They come to me and say, Rais, we must grow hashish. I tell them 'God go with you, my son, you come,' and the coming comes you're on your own."
Because of this, Emile and Haidar believe the government is not really serious about stopping hashish.
"When the police come they never destroy the crops in the big landowners. They collect some to sell." "The hashish still grows."
More knowledgeable sources in beak note that Lebanese legislators the biggest landowners in the Bekaa Narcotics arrests seem to be confined to small-time smugglers who tourists try to hide some information.
Western Narcotics agents say Lebanese hash is superior because it has the highest THC content, standing for tetrahydrocannabinol, the substance that produces the
"You're not going to stamp out hashish as long as it earns one to two billion dollars a year for the sale of its killing class," one informed声.
smoker's "high." Most of Lebanon's crop ends up in Egypt, but the agents say they detect an Iranian plant in Canada and the United States.
"I don't have to have any figures, nothing you can put your finger on, just personal knowledge based on investigative leads," said one U.S. agent based in Beirut.
"More Lebanese has, he said, seems destined for the states. We cannot guarantee that Egypt will continue to get the bulk."
"You're fighting habit and tradition. Even if you build him the dams to irrigate his crop, the roads to transport it to market, the roads to deliver it to bank, hash, he just might迎 to sit back and grow hash anyway.
"The government has admitted the problem and said it wants to do something about it. Right now 2,500 families grow hashish. I'm talking about big families, clans. If the government put them in jail it would have starvation and revolution on its hands."
The United States is a major contributor to the U.N.-funded Green Plan, which enables the U.S. to send seeds for 16 cents a kilo and resell them for half that. Narcotics agents scoff at U.N. claims of decreasing hailish production from 1986 to 2,500 acres in 1971.
The burglarizing of the New York apartments of Chilean diplomats were described in the diploma as "similar clear breakings."
"I believe in the Green Plan," the agent said. "It's a good idea. But you can't ask a farmer in the Bekaat to switch from hashish to sunflowers overnight. Cannabis grows like a weed. It doesn't need water." So it's an ideal crop for the small farmer with poo rocky land and no rain.
"It is possible that Hunt, acting as the contractor for the 'team', had more than one client and that a second client was ITT which was interested in obtaining information about its negotiations over the fate of its investment in the Chilean Telephone Company. The clients we have recruited, thinking they were doing a patriotic thing to block a 'Community' government,
in investment worth $153 million in the Chilean Telephone Company; it knew that documents were leaking from its files; it asked the government to move negotiations from Santiago to Washington. "
We reported last week on other strange links between the ITT and Watergate scandals. We noted, for example, that acting attorney Kevin Connolly convicted Watergate foe Hunt had been involved in an abortive effort to discredit the famous Dita Bear memo, which tied a $400,000 political pledge from ITT to a settlement of its antitrust troubles.
The Washington Post reported that Hunt, apparently disfigured in an inexle red wig, went to the office of a lawyer renouncing the memo. We
reported that Gray, meanwhile turned the original memo over to ITT for its experts to try to discredit.
Gray refused to comment when we called the FBI for his response. Questioned by senators who had told him that he had not turned the memo over to ITT directly but had delivered it to White House aide John Dean. It was the White House, in other words, that not issued the memo, but swiggged Hunt to Denver but also passed the document to ITT.
This makes the story even more sordid. It shows that the White House, while denying any involvement with ITT, was involved in the grant with the giant conglomerate to discredit the Dita Bare memo.
"TTT is the only likely contractor for operations against the Chileans. It claims to have an
" NOT ONLY IS THE CUPBOARD BARE, SOME URATIC TRIED TO THROW ME IN A FKYING PAN!"
"Nationwide in the last two decades," she writes, "any teacher with a conservative background is one of the basics of an education—spelling, grammar, a knowledge of our English heritage—has been considered an old fogy, a drag on children and one who should be trained to the classroom or thwarted in her efforts to achieve pupils a
James J. Kilpatrick
Ex-Teacher Condemns Schools
She will not let me use her name—she understandably does
WASHINGTON - Now and then a letter comes across this desk, ringing with what someone has called "the bell-like ring of authority." Such a letter came when a teacher who who spent 40 years teaching in a small town in Kansas, and now lives in retirement in Missouri.
not want her peace and quiet disturbed—but she has some things to say about the public he said to be. Let me yield the floor:
James J. Kilpatrick
degree of perfection in basic skills.
"Schools of education have insisted for years that learning must be a 'pleasurable' experience. Some learning, as you learn, is through repetition and sheer hard work. Small wonder, with the current educational philosophy, that people are no longer perfectionists in their work and skills, and that young people find satisfaction to life situations which are not 'pleasurable', intolerable.
"The present generation of teachers is inculcated with the belief that the child should be exposed to only pleasurable experiences. Along with this comes the philosophy that the child should make all decisions. Children lack the base knowledge and experience for decision making, and here I would include in the word 'children' people will learn in a way that time for conservative responsible adults to set standards and make decisions. . ."
My correspondent is disgusted with what she describes as "the new breed of school superintendent, administrators, turned out with doctoral degrees in education, are mostly skilled in empire building. Their first purpose is to make it easier for us to see. She suggests what comes next:
"Then you persuade the board to hire you an assistant superintendent, a business manager, a curriculum coordinator, a media specialist (they all have fancy titles), a head
librarian. These will require a number of subordinates and secretaries and probably an office building. Now you have a real bureaucracy of your own, but with your private office and dream your dreams of a bigger town and a bigger job."
Meanwhile, she says, school administrators can amuse themselves with gadgets, gimmicks and textbooks, often without consulting the teachers. She writes:
"Not one teacher in 10 was sold on all the expensive gadgetry that he had been forced to use in the classroom in recent years. Its greatest appeal was to those who would rather stall than teach. Millions of teacher hours have been devoted to teaching equipment which has little educational value. But superintendents love to buy, and offices are overrun with eager-beer salesmen.
"The sale of textbooks is a big business, too. Changing textbooks is just like a broker
'churning' an account. It makes money for the broker if for no one else. In order to sell new textbooks, the approach, the system or something has to be changed. Students who want to adapt to any harbored scheme that publishers dream up to sell a new series of textbooks. While they struggle, the publishers, the salesmen and the superintendents sit back and count their revenues as education is examined, it's a sordid, sorry, commercialized racket."
The answer, my correspondent goes on to say, lies in a tuition grant system that would permit the private schools to compete with public schools, the system is far off. Meanwhile, my friend is living peacefully in retirement with her birds, a horse and a fat white dog. She sent me pictures. She likes the ones she saw, but she doesn't her former superintendent, but doubtless there's nothing novel in that.
Griff and the Unicorn
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