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Thursday, February 22, 1973
University Daily Kansan
KANSAN
Editorials, columns and letters published on this page reflect only the opinions of the writers.
The Big Drought
The long arm of the law has reached into strange places before. But now that arm is reaching into the skies of Kansas to prevent the flight of alcohol on airplane flights originating or terminating in the state.
The elastic arm, of course, is that of Atty. Gen. Vern Miller, who has received confirmation from Continental Air Lines that liquor will not be served on their flights originating or terminating in Kansas while the planes fly over Kansas. Miller says he is confident that other airlines with flights in Kansas soon will follow suit.
Miller's action regarding the airlines follows logically from an incident in late 1972 when an Amtrak train rolling through Kansas was boarded, and liquor, by the case, was confiscated. Railroad employees were taken into custody for violating state liquor laws.
That the action follows logically does not mean that it is logical. No apparent harm is caused by consumption of liquor in the skies of the United States or carted away. Besides, only one major airport is situated in Kansas.
Then, too, there is a question of enforcement. Who, for example, will finance airplane tickets for the Kansas law enforcement agents who
Enforcement would not extend to flights that do not originate or terminate in Kansas, according to Miller, because this would be imminent. It is a goal of this new campaign, but it is not going to be achieved.
Wayfairers who board flights in towns outside Kansas and fly over the state can still drink with impunity, so long as their flights don't land in the state. Heaven help them if they crash.
Even passengers whose flights originate or terminate in Kansas can still take a drink when they cross the state line. People on flights from Wichita to Dallas can drink within five minutes after takeoff.
Then, too, airlines might avoid the whole problem by simply applying for licenses as private clubs in Kansas.
Listen, the next time you enter an airport, for the announcement: "Private club 707 now departing at gate 16 for St. Louis and points east
Steve Riel
WASHINGTON — Howard Phillips, the young arch-conservative whom President Nixon picked to demolish the Office of Economic Opportunity, has in two weeks turned the war on poverty into a purge of moderate Republicans.
Moderates Purged from OEO
Jack Anderson
Phillips is supposed to be dismantling OEO and reducing the staff. Actually, he has been hosing dozens of arch-conservatives who, collectively, are earning tens of thousands of dollars to advise Phillips on where to arm his wrecking ball.
replacing moderate Republicans who are being summarily dismissed, some worse than even a new "acting" poverty chief.
Phillips' demolition crew is
"Phillips isn't dismantling OEO. He's dismantling it," one outgoing OEO official complained. "It's a bloody business. It could have been done with dignity."
A typical firing took place late one afternoon last week when a phone call from Phillips eight floor suite came down to Rodger and was responded by the minister who served as a deputy assistant director. Betts
was told he and his staff had 30 minutes to clean out their desks and move across the street where OEO outcalls are now in a holding pattern until they can find new jobs.
The next morning, New York Senator Jim Buckley's ad campaigns against Jones, took over Betsi fifth floor offices and began to direct operations. Buckley's office tells him that the temporary leave of absence."
Conservative consultants earning $100 a day are invading other OEO offices." My office has actually doubled," an OEO adviser told me, and got three consultants, now, and three professional staff people."
"Of all the OEO programs, Legal Services is the one most capable of fundamentally altering America," states the memo. "For that alone, it should be the first eliminated."
uncertain terms, the memo spells out what Phillips should attack first.
This program has been providing free legal services to the employees of the esternation of landlords, employers, banks and local officials, who have been hauled into court for disadvantaged and deprived.
corporation is dismissed as "not salable politically." In place of the corporation, the memo suggests that the federal agency take more money" to "more traditional" private legal aid groups.
SST and Cancer
BY FRANK CASSIS
AP Science Writer
Bv FRANK CAREY
"First," the memo points out, "control of the traditional legal aid societies rests with ABA-type lawyers, a group not noted for a special profession." Second, the local groups are necessarily fragmented, and with no special focus. Although national coordination by law overtly exists, it still possible it might consider more difficult."
WASHINGTON -The launching of large fleets of supersonic transport airliners (SSTs) might kill 300 Americans a year and give 8,000 skin cancer, a special panel of the National Academy of Sciences said Sunday.
The report, released by the academy's Environmental Studies Board following a study partly funded by the government, said the exhausts of large numbers of SSTs might partially destroy the earth's protective shield of ozone and permit increased ultraviolet radiation to bombard the earth's surface.
The White House has assured liberals on Capitol Hill that the President will submit a bill to Congress soon to establish a legal service corporation. But Philips' campaign has argued that the President's promise and considering alternative ways of reforming legal services.
Overexposure to ultraviolet rays from the sun can cause skin cancer, particularly among white males, the panel.
The report added, "Sufficient knowledge is at hand to warrant utmost concern over the possible detrimental effects on our environment by the operation of large numbers of supersonic aircraft."
The report conceded the ozone-shield-destruction theory is still a subject of scientific debate.
If the ozone shield were shattered, the 46-page report said, "the effects of increased levels of ultraviolet radiation on biological systems other than man may have greater long-range significance than the problems of human skin cancer.
"Although definitive predictions are difficult, present information suggests an increase in terrestrial solar-ultraviolet radiation might diminish the biological productivity of the ocean, interfere with the mating and other behavioral patterns of insects and other lower animals and damage plants, especially agricultural species."
A spokesman for the Vice President insists that Agnew personally endorses the President's idea of a legal services corporation. "The memo," he spokesman, was sent to ODE without the Vice President's official endorsement."
The study group called for establishment of a global network of ultraviolet-radiation monitoring stations to check environmental effects of the SST fleets if they go into operation.
It also said intensified research should be conducted on the biological impact of increased ultraviolet radiation.
No SSTs are operating commercially yet. The United States has scrapped plans for building its own plane in the foreseeable future, and major U.S. airlines have announced plans to buy the British-French Concorde which is still final test runs.
The Soviets have flown a prototype SST but haven't scheduled mass production of the craft.
Ozone is a form of air that girds the earth 10 to 20 miles above the surface. The theory, previously voiced by some scientists and endorsed by the panel, is that water and oxygen react with oxygen by numerous SST engines would partially erode the ozone.
"The consultants" are busy crating thousands of OEO documents—some for the officers others for the incinerator.
The academy panel said its analyses suggested that a five per cent reduction in the ozone shield by a fleet of commercial SST aircraft would account for at least 8,000 extra cases of skin cancer in the white population of the United States leading, with current treatment, to about 300 extra deaths.
In the memo which vice presidential aide David Kenne forwarded to Phillips office last week, President Nixon's legal
Meanwhile, Vice President Agnew's office has sent over a document that Phillips' wrecking crew is guarding closely. In no
Copyright, 1973 by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.
Ellsberg Fights for Acquittal Doubts Supreme Court Mercy
LOS ANGELES — Daniel Ellsberg was duplicating several law review articles about the First Amendment on a Xerox machine and had become the most famous Xerox operator in history through the Pentagon Papers, he had a professional's admiration for the company's new model and machines. (AP)
Nicholas von Hoffman
to a cent per page. At that price we could have given every newspaper in the country a Xerox of the papers."
Instead he gave it to the New York Times and the Washington Post, thus setting off a chain of events that has brought him here to a federal court accused of theft of government property.
Ramsey had been captured by the Viet Cong and was given up
While he Kerosen he talked about Douglas Ramsey, whom he had watched on television that morning walking down the steps of an Air Force transport plane at Clark Field in the Philippines. He had not seen Ramsey for seven years before he became a civilian officials working on one of those hearts-and-minds programs in South Vietnam.
for dead years ago. Their boss, the celebrated guerrilla fighter, John Paul Vann, died in a helicopter crash during the last North Vietnamese offensive, and Ellsberg had gone on to become the Daniel Ellsberg of the Pentagon Papers.
"I'll be interested in the effect of the Pentagon Papers on Ramsey," said Ellsberg. "His position back then was like Vann's and mine. He was very critical of the GVN (the name for the government of South Vietnam in the officialese that I discovered) luars (languages.) He wanted it to be more effective, more like the Viet Cong, but he though we had a right to be there."
Ellisberg spokes a lot of people with his single-mindedness about the papers, but he's not quite as obsessive as he may seem from afar. He is concerned about little human feelings and has been in correspondence with Ramsey's parents. A letter from them had arrived just that morning, and Ramsey said he knew what Ramsey must have gone through: " living in those tunnels for seven years! They're not built for Americans and he's six-four-five. It must have been torture."
There is a degree of similarity between an Ellsberg and a Nixon. Neither of them believes in amnesy and both of them place great faith in their own brand of medicine. Ellsburg wants
Ramsay to read the papers. He believes that if Vann had read them, he might have changed his life. If Vann did the combat zone before he died
But most of all Ellsberg wants the makers of the war policy to read them: "They should be sent the same task I was.
to read the Pentagon Papers. The truth is that for all these guys ignorance is their excuse. What ignorance they did after a short they went to not to know."
But even if the prisoners of war are coming home, even if the United States is paying the North Vietnamese 2.5 billion devolved government, Ellsberg had inside the government are his most vivid recollections, the present and future meanings of his case aren't lost on him. His intelligent words aren't all focused backward.
Readers Respond
He points out that 'the period mentioned in my indictment covers the time, not when I was giving the papers to the press, but when I was told by Congress. There is a Boston grand jury looking into the distribution of the Pentagon Papers to the press.'
Library Union
Library Labor, Southard Reply
To the Editor:
According to the Kanus of Feb. 16, in an article referring to attempts of KU Library employees to make universities more universiarly profuse that there be larger and fewer labor unions instead of many small ones because this would make theresses of bargaining simpler.
In reply to this we would like to say that if our main goal was to make things simple for the University we wouldn't organize at all, which is undoubtedly what the University adopts. The University probably gets if our unit determination is denied in favor of combining the
whole scattered civil service staff at the University into one unit. The letters column of the Kansan is not the place to present our work, so we will staff as a separate unit, but we would like to say that our right to improve our salaries and working conditions is as critical and important as the University's effort to keep its processes simple.
Management is seldom enthusiastic about dealing with unions and the administration at a given institution, different from any other boss. We might regret taking their valuable time in pursuit of union rights and unhappy people working at the KU libraries, and so far the
Communications Workers of America are the only party to offer us a realistic chance for improvement.
improvement.
Sandra Wilson
Library Assistant,
Architecture and Engineering
Library
Cecile Deaton
Library Assistant,
Watson Library
Southard
To the Editor:
Since my initial observations appeared in the Kansan on Feb. 14, I have been the target of several rather unprincipled attacks on both my opinions concerning the Pearson Program
and my integrity in general. In spite of this, I have remained an impartial observer, even though I have received strong urgiments from my opponents on the same level that they responded to me.
I will not do so, however, as enough rhetoric has already been expended on the issue. Rather, I would like to present a portion of a curious document which has been forwarded to me by an author who is unfamiliar with the program. Although he did not reveal his name, he did enclose a copy of what he called "The Pearson Creed." This creed, he informed me, is an integral part of the little-known rises and falls of the program being initiated of the program. It reads as follows:
Griff and the Unicorn
By Sokoloff
"I believe that the great majority of students are incapable of judging what is best for themselves, and that therefore they should be guided by the doctrines of the Program.
"I believe that the Program will prove to be the balwark of truth, the judge of truth, the judge of justice and the wonder of all mankind, and that it is the best method of education which has ever been advocated.
"I believe in the infallibility, all-sufficient wisdom and infinite goodness of the Program and that it is immune to error, that it is immune to error."
It is said that there are other such oaths and vows, but of them even less is known to outsiders.
"I believe, finally, that to speak, write, read, think or hear what I say, I must be vicious and odious heresy, and that anyone who differs from me in belief concerning the Program is more probably a fool or devil."
Thus, as Elsberg sees it, his conviction would mean that leaking information to either the government or the police would henceforth be a crime when heretofore the worst that had happened to a leader who got caught was being fired. His case, however, remains an open question. Whitten, Jack Anderson's associate, must result in the government's receding yet further from both the view and the judicial judgment of the governed.
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Jeff Southard Wichita Sophomore
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So Ellsberg and his co-leader, Anthony Russo, fight for an acquaintance here at this first level of proceedings because they doubt the Supreme Court's President. Nixon's pre-centralized government will ever vote to save them. Their fight is as it is against the government, which can afford to send special troops and forth from Washington with carboids of evidence.
To compete, the defendants must have an entire office and staff of 20 people including lawyers, legal researchers, public relations representatives and money raisers. Even with most of the people accustomed to the money raisers will have to find something like $500,000 to pay for the trial.
The money may not come easy. The war is over, and Ellsberg, the intense man who makes people feel mild, makes people feel funny. He's not a martyter who exiles love, and free speech has never been a popular issue, but Daniel Kamenov, who mighty Xerox machine, and we know what he was able to do with the old one. (c)
(C)
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