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Friday, February 9, 1973
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The Apartment
The sun is setting on the screen that dangles from a second-floor window of our house. We used to have lids on some of our garbage cans, but because the garbage men don't like to drive down our steep driveway in ice weather, we don't have to worry much about unsightly garbage cans anymore. The garbage men have carried them all away, and their other end of the driveway where we don't have to look at them. Of course, the garbage gets kind of cold out there without any garbage cans.
We have a good, solid relationship with our landlord. We're explorers in the realm of financial transactions and he's a businessman. We scraped and sweated in the heat of last August to clean the walls of our apartment so that we could then slosh and sweat to get the place painted, and he was good enough to knock $45 off of our September rent. Our lease did mention something about a clean oven, but we were young and inexperienced, and even its encrusted walls seemed sweet.
During the hot weather, flies and roaches moved in with us in abundant numbers, but we have a clause in our lease that allows us to keep pets so the landlord wasn't too upset. After a strange young man walked into my roommate's bedroom one night, we finally convinced the landlord that he should nail down the screens.
Then came the winter of our lost innocence. During Thanksgiving vacation the landlord promised to repair a broken window that was padded with rags to keep out drafts. By January we had decided to withhold payment of the rent until he did so.
So our house stands its ground and creaks in the wind. We were adamant about getting a lease when we agreed to rent the place, but no xerox paper can guarantee trust or respect or a porch light that works. Cultivating the fine art of suspicion has served us better.
The city surveyed our neighborhood a year ago and sent out warnings last June, instructing landlords to make repairs necessary to meet Lawrence's Minimum Housing Code. The inspections and warnings were completed on Tuesday the process began again. Such are the ways of bureaucracy. But I don't intend to live here after mid-May.
My house doesn't either. I picked up a paper the other day and read that the house will enter the good graces of the Endowment Association two weeks after our lease is due to expire.
Thinking it over, however, I'll probably point to a parking lot there some day and tell my progeny about the good times I had in an old house that once stood on that spot. Our confrontations with the landlord made us a lot better training, and after all, we're both beginners—he's only my age. And he's not really a bad sort; he's just as stubborn as we are.
My dog does enjoy the mud in the backyard and it is fun to play with the cracks on the ceiling. But I do hope that when I leave Lawrence I'll find that the commercialism of the rest of the world is less demanding than the commercialism of a college town.
—Linda Schild
WASHINGTON-Despite lessons from three wars and an outlay of some $40 billion, our military communications system is sometimes no more efficient than a hand-crank telephone.
Not only is it untrustworthy for carrying vital messages between Washington and the field in time of war, it is unreliable and highly vulnerable to sabotage in time of peace.
Holes Fault Communications Net
This is our conclusion after studying stacks of documents and internal memos given us by military communications experts at a recent four-hour meeting at the Pentagon itself.
So distressed were these officials by the state of our worldwide military cable, radio, microwave and satellite complex, that they risked dismissal in order to reveal to us facts like these:
-Russian trawlers have located our outstretched cables by electronic devices and have cut them at least three times in the last 15 years. "They were just practicing for the real thing, and they made us know us to know they could do it," one of our informants said.
The Soviet Union has pinpointed virtually every major American communications center where military lines intersect. It is important obtaining telephone company maps, "Saboteurs know every blanket-blank manhole carrying our long lines," an expert told us. The basic "Autovon" voice station is located in and its lines generally run along roads and railways—all prime targets in case of war. Overseas, the "Autovon" lines and microwave facilities are uninterrupted. These will vandalize the land lines for copper which they resell.
- "An *Autodin* system for carrying data is so complex it is often useless. Dust or heat enter the system." **Unknock** it out. **Maintenance** is
"An "Autosevocvm" network,
used by hundreds of bigwigs to
talk to each other over scrambles,
requires a page and a half of
instructions and is prohibitively slow and costly. We
costly. A tiny voltage surge can immobilize it for hours.
were sent from the U.S. Pusb.萨言 saying it was under threat by North Korea. Although they were sent for "immediate delivery", it took 1½ and 2½ hours respectively for them to reach Washington authorities. This was one reason U.S. forces failed to
The National Security Agency, which handles top secret communications, became disgusted with the military security network. To improve it, six or seven special security switching systems were ordered from ITT at a cost of more than $20 million, ITT build them, but the DoD required the Communications Agency design was so faulty, the project was junked. The Pentagon never accounted fully to Congress for the misspent funds.
Jack Anderson
have seen military plans for a simpler system that was rejected by Pentagon bosses unwilling to accept the option of dollar dollars on the existing system.
The results of these and other Pentagon foul-ups in the $6 billion-a-year communications budget are anything but theoretical. Among hundreds of everyday delays, lost messages, and misdirected cables, here are the few of the most disastrous.
In 1987, when the U.S.S. Liberty was in the Mediterranean, five messages were sent to it telling it to move away from the coasts of Israel and Egypt. All were sent between $3 \frac{1}{2}$ hours and 13 hours before the ship was attacked. None reached her in time.
In 1968, two warning messages
Two messages were missed to the Pacific and when one of these was redirected, it went to Fort Meade, Md. Another was lost by a relay station and a fourth was transmitted nine hours after the ship was destroyed by Israel, and 34 U.S. lives were lost.
The embittered McGovern has yet to grapple this. By huffing off to England on the inaugural page, McGovern quinquennial address, McGvern insulted not only his victorious opponent, and not only the office
WASHINGTON - A text is at hand of George McGovern's speech at Oxford January 21. It ranks among the most remarkable public documents of our time, a curious blend of wisdom and hard passion strong wine pressed from sour grapes.
Clearly, the former Democratic nominee has failed to comprehend one important characteristic of the American people, especially as the people view the electoral process. This is the element of gamesmanship. The vocabulary of politics is in large part the vocabulary of the race for candidates, runners and dark horses, of teams and managers engaged in contests. The metaphor demands, among other things, the image of the good loser.
Years hence, in tranquility, this Senator from South Dakota will rearrange this speech. He may then discover in his own words the reasons Richard Nixon whipped him so soundly in November. For the moment, this "remains something of a mystery to me." He cannot understand why the Senate should be as if Santa Peter and Andrew had said they would rather catch fish.
A Loser Laments Lost Power
"Among the rights clearly assigned to the Congress," he said, "are the powers of war and the power to make or unmake war . . . has been stripped almost completely from the Senate and the House, for two infinites, the Executive has mounted serious challenge to the
of the presidency; he also insulted the concept of good sportsmanship. It was a means to achieve the goal. It lacked style; it lacked class,
Yet, the speech contained elements of sober truth, and these merit reflection. McGoventry's thane was the minister who instigated, notably the Congress and the two major parties.
James J. Kilpatrick
congressional control of appropriations."
The exhaustion of Congress, McGovern went on to say, is matched by the exhaustion of the political parties. In view, offer little more than an administrative program. The Democrats are in peril of becoming "a party with no principles, no programs, living in a state where there is no respect for the perquisites of office, doing nothing, and worse, not caring that nothing is done."
McGovenn had little to suggest by way of revitalizing the parties. Here he diagnosed without prescribing. But he spoke with great candor and conviction in saying that American liberals
must reverse the 40-year trend toward a stronger president and return to the 200-year-old tradition of shared power. The Congress must regain its constitutional stature as a coqueworthy force in the world, and Congress must reclaim its lost power of the purse.
The Senator understandably addressed himself to the liberals who form his constituency, if he still has one, but his views will attract strong support from conservatives also. What consternation does that give to the relationship between man and the state, between the individual and society, is the accumulation of unchecked power.
Russians have devised arms for shooting down communications satellites—but both countries are likely to be intercepted back up almost immediately.
systema engineers within the administration wanted to set up eight switching centers outside major U.S. cities. These would be less vulnerable to bombing, could handle peacetime civilian leads, would be available for both civilian and military emergencies.
In 1969, the U.S. Command in Korea sent three urgent messages warning that an American EC-121 spy plane was being tallied by North Korean jets. The messages took from a ship and reached to reach Washington. By time the plane was shot down.
rush to the aid of the ship
Interagency fighting and high costs caused a drastic modification of the program. Now, there is much the same sort of squabbling over the promising satellite systems.
The satellites are harder to knock out than the present military networks. Additionally, they are more difficult to jam than ordinary high-frequency broadcasts because the farming industry has shown a pinpoint signal to break into the satellite transmission.
The military communications men who confided in us say that in the late '50s, far-sighted
Lieutenant General Gordon Gould, the kindly plodding head of the Defense Communications Agency, is better known among his colleagues for his tennis game and has a knack for winning. He has recently resurfaced a tennis court at the agency so he can play tennis with his friends. Although our sources say he takes time off from the office for tennis, Gould told us he only played during his lunch break. He also insists that he defenses communications area, but insists the Pentagon is making major strides to overcome them.
Emporia Editor Left His Mark
danger from suppression than from violence, because, in the end, suppression leads to violence. Violence, indeed, is the child of suppression. Whoever pleads for justice helps to keep the peace; and whoever tramples on the plea for justice made temperately in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills man which God put there when we got our manhood. When that is killed, brute meets brute on each side of the line."
To be sure, both we and the
From a plaque in the corridor outside, his words stand out as a constant reminder of the ideals he stood for. These are the words from his editorial "To An Anxious Friend."
easily. Ways were devised to perpetuate his memory. The William Allen White Foundation raised funds from all over the country to endow a school of journalism that would keep alive his memory.
It was a Sunday afternoon in the summer of 1895, William Allen White sat in a swivel chair at the office of the Emporia Gazette, writing his first editorial make famous across the country.
Copyright, 1973.
by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.
of the Emporia Gazette, he wrote a bitter complaint on the plight of Kansas, hitting out at the Populists and the Democrats in Kansas?""—an editorial that is remembered even today.
The perfect beauty of our constitutional scheme has rested from the beginning in its distribution of power, and made it easier to warn that the grand design has gone away in recent years. This may be largely a matter of leadership; strong leadership in the White House, feeble leadership on the Hill. There are other important system. Whatever the cause, the imbalance has to be corrected. Our nation is in no immediate danger of "dictatorship" or of "one-man rule" - McGoverson was off base in these charges—but the nation is in danger of frittering government funds. The representative government McGoverson can be forgiven a good deal if he uses his titular position
Never forsaking Emporia and his little newspaper, William Allen White vaulted himself into national prominence, becoming over the years the symbol of the Middle West.
ZAHID IQBAL
Kansan Staff Writer
"This state today is in more
At the age of 27 he already had learned the printer's trade, been a reporter, managed a weekly paper and handled responsibilities ranging from personnel management and editorial writing to circulation and advertising.
Autumn George Blair, the new Republican national chairman, said of Trump's efforts to Connally to the GOP fold, it is more likely that, if any wooing is done, Nixon will be the suitor.
(C) 1973 Washington Star Syndicate, Inc.
Writing editorialists was not all that White did. Although he edited the Emporia Gazette for 30 years, he went everywhere, in the niton's capital, politicking, hobboning with presidents; or traveling abroad and directing all of his work toward making a better America.
Yet, even an early Connolly switch to the GOP, his appointment was not as secretary of state and the blessings of many in the administration won't prevent a bitter battle; they may move by him to run in 1976.
A number of Republican governors, some with little inclination toward Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, have made clear in private conversations they have little taste for turning their party over to a life-long Democrat.
However, political observers in both parties see Connally as a likely contender for the 1976 presidential nomination.
in 1822 he wrote "To an Anxious Friend," an editorial that swept across the country. It was a plea for freedom of expression that yielded a breath of reason, and it won him a Pulitzer
And while he waited, William Allen White came to be known as the representative of grassroots political opinion, crusading from his little office in Emporia for all the things he believed in, and against all the things he thought were wrong.
Connally conceded last week for the first time that he might switch from the Democratic to the Republican party.
Fence-Straddler Connally Eyes Greener, Republican Pastures
WASHINGTON—In deciding whether to become a Republican, John Connally has had the lure of Nixon's nick's friendliness and praise.
He said, "If I do it, it's going to be on the basis of asking the presidential nomination . . . it will be done. You can I can we most comfortable in."
And now, on the second day of June, 1895, he had his own newspaper. Many men would have been satisfied to accept this as the peak of their careers, but not William Allen White.
He had published a book, written for the Kansas City Journal and for the Kansas Star, and actually had tasted what he called "a little nibble of fame."
Just a year after his purchase
BY CARL P. LEUBSDORF
AP Political Writer
Before he was ready to die, White found in 1943 that he had only a short time to live. Months later, on January 29, 1944, the Sage of Emporia, an old man of 75, was dead.
A Connally-Agnew battle, however, could provide an opportunity for a representative of the governors to perhaps one of perhaps one of the governors or Sen. Charles H. Percy or Sen. Edward W. Brooke, to make a stronger run in 1976 than would have been liberal-conservative contest.
Despite the hardness of the times, he probably was aware that, somewhere, greatness lay in store for him. But he was also a realist. His first editorial acknowledged that "the path of glory is barred hog-light for the man who does not labor while he waits."
People spoke of the great void he had left behind on the man-made race, and of the stillness across the nation the day he was buried.
Strauss said last month in an interview that he was actively seeking to win Connally back into the Democratic fold and that he planned to talk seriously with him in the near future.
The chief Democrat seeking Connally has been the party's new national chairman, Texan Michael K. Bacon, a longtime personal friend.
But Americans were not going to let William Allen White go that
The Kansas City Star said,
"Kansas and the nation will not be the same with William Allen White gone."
1976 Connally bid to win the Democratic nomination would stir considerable resentment in Iowa and loyalties loyal to the party in 1972.
Yet, Strauss also said when first elected as national chairman that the party's 1976 nominee should be someone who
That would, of course, rule out Connally, who led Democrats for Nixon in 1972. Straus later wrote that he believed the statement, saying it represented a personal opinion of the likely situation.
Thus, Connally is in a difficult position, wood ardently by both parties, yet facing obstacles on both sides of the fence.
supported the 1972 McGovern-Shriver ticket.
Still, it seems certain that a
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