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Thursday, March 8, 1973
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Too Bad, Earth
The technician was awakened by a recording of a song that was popular in section seven of galaxy three. At least, it had been popular when he left galaxy three 12 intervals ago. There was no way of knowing what was popular at that moment in time. The technician then traveled while traveling was speeding through hyper-space at 12 times the speed of light.
Realizing that the time must be near, he touched a button and the cot upon which he was lying converted into a computer and needed a complex instrument panel.
He was now ten minutes away from his destination-Earth. His mission: to monitor Earth's channels of communication for several minutes. That would be all the time necessary for the ship's vast computer system to evaluate the planet's stage of development. If the inhabitants of the Earth were threatened, the mission would land and extend an invitation to them to join the Federation of Planets, allowing them to reap the benefit of thousands of years of scientific research.
The moment was approaching. The technician adjusted the monitoring instruments. He activated the systems.
Ten minutes later the mission had been completed. The technician was reevaluated.
"Technician," the Sr. Fellow of the membership committee for the federation addressed him. On your recent mission to section three of galaxy four, you eliminated the planet from your membership in the federation. Our data indicates that this planet was ready for membership.
The inhabitants of this planet have made significant advancement in
the field of astronautics during the
deep interval. Why were they
passed to me?
"It is the duty of a technician to exercise judgement," he answered, "My instruments detected strong indications of nationalistic sentiments among the inhabitants. During the time I was monitoring the channels of communication, I discovered that one nation had destroyed an aircraft of another nation in a great loss of life. Diplomatic nations were slaughtered by ignorant savages from another. There were strong signs of differences between segments of the inhabitants which were based on differences in the color of their skins. There were..."
"You do not understand, sir," said the technician. "In one segment of one of the most advanced countries on the planet, I came across a curious phenomenon. Even though the planet is besieged with tremendous problems, the inhabitants of this region, who are, I might add, among the world's best concerned with more confirmed with his certainty, be dispensed, whether by the ounce or by the bottle, than they are about solving some of the world's important problems."
"One moment, technician," the Sr. Fellow interrupted. "There are many planets with problems along these lines, which you accepted for Earth, which is emerging from its primitive era should not be excluded because it is besieged with such problems."
The Sr. Fellow looked sad. "This is disappointing for me, he said. I'm not promise it."
—John P. Bailey
After the Moon . . .
"If they can put a man on the moon why can't they. . . ? I hate to hit you with these three words, but I use them for you to use next time you are asked.
(This isn't so exciting as James Kilpatrick's suburban wife swapping introduction to a discussion of his relationship less disappointed after it is over.)
Congress never established a National Goddamn Can Opener That Works Administration and never awarded $25 billion to solve the problem."
Well, America got to the moon. In fact, it was done four or five times. But the TV rating started to drop off sharply, and, as it turned out, we did it mostly on a dare from the Russians.
We watched Alan Shepard zoom up out of our TV screen pictures, TWA started selling reservations for its first moon flight and we stood on the verge of a new age thoroughly convinced that the next problem for humanity to confront was being lost in space.
Space travel is for another generation, and we are still stuck on Earth with the same old problems and some new ones developing.
One of the problems we are going to be hearing more and more about is the energy crisis. Not that we are not doing something about the crisis. We are talking about increasing the oil depletion tax deduction, which is basically a welfare program for the underprivileged oil millionaires; we are increasing our oil import quotas, which gives the people in Kuwait more money to pay for Germany and Japan to trade in on real money; and we are driving economy cars like the Chevy Nova with small 307 cubic inch engines
If we are going to maintain our
standard of living, we are going to have to do a little better than that. We are going to have to develop the theory to run away from fossil fuels.
This isn't simply a matter of shoveling uranium instead of coal into our furnaces. There is the amount of uranium wastes and thermal water pollution.
We are circling around a huge atomic furnace, but most of our research has been dedicated to finding efficient methods to get a tan. We are on the cool crust of a mountain that melts away from one pound of molten rock and could provide enough electricity to open quite a few cans.
But we don't have the technology to use these things. A lot of work will have to be done before we can use either atomic, geo-thermal or solar energy efficiently and with minimal damage to the environment.
What does this have to do with the moon? For an answer, I'll quote Alan Shepard slightly out of context. He said, "They somehow seem to feel that progress will be made regardless of government impetus. Most of us in the astronaut group don't feel that way. Progress has to be guided, has to be specific; it won't automatically happen."
Of course, Shepard was talking about the space program, but what he said applies to the energy crisis. A solution won't happen automatically. We need a government body, like NASA, to research new sources of energy. This body should have enough funding to do enough research to find some solutions before frostbite reaches epidemic proportions in this country.
Eric Kramer
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Correction
The column entitled "Indians 'Bribed' into Compliance," which appeared in Wednesday's Kansan, was improperly attributed to James J. Kilpatrick. The column was written by Jack Anderson.
WASHINGTON - On Dec. 19 of last year, NBC broadcast a documentary, "What Price Health?" On Jan. 10, Dr. Ernest B. Howard, executive vice president Medical Association, strongly complained to NBC of bias and distortion in the program; he asked for equal time to reply. On Feb. 12, NBC responded to Dr. Ernest by charging the charges, defending the show and refusing equal time.
James J. Kilpatrick
Doctor Slams Documentary Bias
The exchange of correspondence is instructive. Viewed simply in terms of its subject matter, the NBC documentary offered an excellent example of what television ought to be doing. The quality of health care in the United States clearly is a matter of national concern. The subject ought to be examined critically.
At the same time, it ought to be examined fairly. That is what a "documentary" is all about. Such a work is not intended as a work of art; it is only a work of fact. If documentaries are to live up their billing, they should present evidence not on one side only, but on both sides.
This NBC failed to do. The
For example, the program had Newman saying, "Good health care is hard to find." That is an editorial judgment. Hard, one might ask, compared to what? As documented, it pointed out, documenting its timent, 2,300,000 persons a day manage to see a physician.
producers of "What Price Health?" set out to make a case that American medicine is poor, that doctors are unduly rich, that patients who can't pay for their health want of it and so on. Under a flimsy veil of neutrality, the network made that case. Its writers picked case histories to support their view; they picked examples from other presentations, and they rejected statistics that might have given a different picture. Then they put it all together, gave Ed Newman a script to read and called it a novel. What it was, an editorial.
"The U.S. Public Health Service," Dr. Howard continued, "says that the nearest doctor is only 17 minutes from the average hospital year for which data are available), 20 million house calls
he made, more than half of
them to families with under
$3,000 annual income, the elderly,
or the handicapped."
For a second example, the program had Newman saying, "If you go to an emergency ward, the average wait is five hours, and 14 hours is not unusual." His purposes to be a statement of faith were to serve as Dr. Howard, who knows the meaning of documentation, replies, "The U.S. Public Health Service found in its survey that people who phoned an emergency room for an appointment had to sleep overnight; those with no appointment waited eight minutes longer."
To prove the poor quality of medical care, the NBC documentary relied on post figures that showed all suits were filed in 1970. The statement may be true—doubtless the suits were filed—but it is not the whole truth. A judge said in a case against 6,160 palmate suits that year in which payments were made. The figure was two one-hundredths of one per cent of the number of hospital discharges.
taken from United Nations sources, to show that health care in the United States is poor as compared with the Demographic Yearbook itself cautions against such comparisons. Statistical data are not uniform, nation by nation, lifestyle necessarily comparable.
The network spokesman,
Executive Vice President Richard C. Wald, refuses to admit the slightest fault on NBC's part. He sees the show as "an honest, fortnightly statement well
within the bounds of responsible journalism." One of the witheses on the program, Dr. Alex Berber, sees it differently, "Had known in advance that NBC was interested in a listened view of medical care in his country, I would never have consented to be a part of it."
A black woman has more to deal with in terms of liberation than any white female. Society has idealized the white woman.
Copies of the correspondence may be obtained from the AMA, 535 Dearborn St., in Chicago. The letters provide documentation, if you please, of what TV's critics often have in mind.
This whole women's rights task is an intrusion of male whitened-and controlled movement into black political and institutional battles. The black male is getting pre-empted from employment and politics, and the black female is being a pawn. Whenever black males make up with near abolishment or cooptation of black interests after the goals are won.
(C) 1973 Washington Star Syndicate, Inc.
Feminist Leaders Adopt High-Pressure Strategy
That determination received added impetus at the recent National Organization for Women (NOW) convention.
WASHINGTON (AP)—Feminists are determined to get the Equal Rights Amendment ratified by Aug. 26, the $2nd charge of the Nineteenth Amendment, which gave women the vote.
Jack Anderson
Ann Scott, NOW's vice
Ex-Colonel Reveals CIA Secrets
WASHINGTON - The cloak and dagger boys at the Central Intelligence Agency are trying to get an advance copy of a book that is highly critical of the CIA's "dirty tricks department."
The author, ex-Air Force Col.
L. Fletcher Proust, was the Pentagon support officer for the
Pentagon to provide allied diddled everything from supplying
them with James Bond weapons to shipping three dozen lobsters
to a CIA bigwig. And he has
been very about it, "The Secret Team."
"Do you represent the others?"
To get the united galley, the CIA library approached the distinguished Sidney Kramer to help organize the White House. A representative of the bookstore immediately called Profty and suggested he could "help the government provide a copy of the galley."
But Prouty had been in intelligence too long to be an easy touch. He agreed to meet with the Kramer representative and then secretly recorded their conversation. Here is a partial transcript:
president for legislation, said the feminists would adopt more high-powered, visible tactics and "wash to being nice about it."
"I can tell you who wants this," confided the emissary. "They're on our backs—the CIA." "They are?"
asked Prouty.
"They are?"
"Evidently someone was going to present them with a copy the day before yesterday," said the student. But the deal fell through."
- The CIA, Prouty charges,
trained agents in the Maine
country to be the Russian forest fires. Then it flew them to Norway where they were hopped into Russia on a light pontoon plane which
Although the letter-writing and polite personal visits will contain some extra details, the will picket and demonstrate to push 11 more states to ratify the agreement.
Prunty refused to turn over the galleys to the CIA, which had a messenger waiting for them at the bookstore. We can provide the CIA, however, with some of the highlights:
—THE CIA skillfully managed to keep out of the Pentagon Papers almost all mention of its assassination and other "dirty operations" open to the South Vietnam Strategy. Proust Instead, the CIA larded the Papers with examples of how good its intelligence proved to be.
Look at the busing turnover and remember the angry white mothers who refused to let their children attend schools with blacks. Or just think about the black chief, who marched on Washington.
A black woman may believe that she is only struggling to define her role with men, but realistically it goes far beyond that because white people are still defining both black men's and women's roles in society solely on the basis of race.
Readers Respond Black Women
To the Editor:
Black people, it seems, have now taken a back seat to the women's movement. Affirmative action focuses on female employment, the media amplifies it, and the women's leaders, devoting space to their cause, and the black male gets shoved back even further.
The women's rights and liberation movement is essentially a女权, politically and socially directed movement. It doesn't touch or even deal with the male condicion. The women's strength perceived and defined in the context of sexism, not racism.
She has been raised to be a servant to her husband, to please him and sit at home and be pretty. She lacks the independence that was forced on black women.
The whole issue of self-definition for black people confronts the black woman. This makes women's liberation a challenge, and should be basing ourselves on mutual? understanding between male and female. Besides, women who seek the things that belong to men may find that they only other women. In blackness.
Sharon Woodson Topeka Graduate Student
In 1959, one of CIA chief Allen Dulles' spy planes allegedly was hot down over Russia. The crew was captured, questioned by Soviet intelligence and later quietly returned to the United States. (They were debriefed after their interrogation others, James McCord, a former CIA man convicted in the Watergate scandal.)
—Even though the late President Kennedy ordered the Joint Chiefs of Staff to take a tight rein on covert CIA military operations after the Bay of Pigs invasion and the order in Vietnam and the Pentagon supinely let them get away with it, says Prout.
In an earlier incident, the CIA went to court to block a book by one of its former employees. He was never on the CIA payroll. When we asked the CIA whether an attempt would be made to suppress evidence, he said, "There are no plans whatsoever to do anything about the book."
But the wheelchair has slowed
Wallace down and has raised
doubts among his supporters that
he remains a creditable can-
nibler. But Wallace's cash has stopped flowing in. 1968, Wallace raised a staggering $2 million in $1, $5 and $10 bill.
After he wound up in a wheelchair, however, he collected less than $2 million in 1972.
We reported last July 19 that Alabama's Gov. George Wallace didn't consider his confinement to a wheelchair, as an obstacle to his presidential ambitions but rather looked upon himself as a poor man's Franklin D. Roosevelt out to coordinate with the FDN and rank four presidential campaigns from a wheelchair.
He now desperately needs money to pay old campaign bills and to fuel his future political campaigns. He plans, therefore, to send solicitation letters to everyone on his mailing lists and to make personal calls to his big financial backers. He wants to fill
his campaign chest with enough money to run for governor again in 1974 and for president in 1978.
Tax Dodger
Out of his exhaustive research on tax inequities, ex-Sen. Fred Harris has agreed to select for us a tax avoider of the week. This week's award goes to the bank. In 1971, Alcaa didn't pay a penny on profits of $50,190,000, Harris charges.
Other corporations paid a corporate tax of 48 per cent. Alcao was able to get away with his gigantic tax dodge because of a mineral depletion allowance, which would avoid most of their income tax. The rest of the taxpayers, of course, must make up what Alcao was excused from paying. Harris' Tax Action Campaign and pamphlet the major tax aviolers every week up to April 16.
Copyright, 1973 by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.
The concentration will be on Ohio, Illinois, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Washington, she said.
Wilma Scott Heide, NOW's president, told a news conference recently that she was encouraging the organization to take radical steps to rid society of sexism and racism.
She said this did not mean feminists necessarily would take bizarre actions or any that would lead to violence.
NOW will attempt to isolate sexism and racism within all institutions in society, she said, but is not doing enough educational, religious, political or related to health. As part of a radical commitment, NOW will take every step necessary short and direct imbalances. Heide said.
She said she believed NOW had finally made its case as the equivalent of the NAACP for women. NOW has an additional 50 percent of its employees selfs from restricting sex role stereotypes as well, she said.
"Sex role stereotypes, just as race role stereotypes, deny us individuality, civil liberties and civil rights," she said.
During the NOW convention, backers of the Equal Rights Movement swapped ideas and strategies at a series of workshops.
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