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Tuesday, February 6, 1973
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A Secret Army
Sen. Robert Dole has promised to introduce a bill establishing a joint Congressional committee to investigate the origins of the Vietnam War. Dole would probably like to organize the investigation around a question like, "Who stuck Nixon with this war?" but much useful information could come from such an investigation.
As a political issue it seems that Vietnam is dead. With the events that are likely to occur in South Vietnam in the next two years, it is doubtful that Republicans will be bragging about the peace settlement in 1974, and the Democrats aren't likely to bet on a horse that was too old and feeble to get out of the starting gate two years earlier.
An investigation could be valuable if it ignores the politics involved and studies the problems in our foreign affairs. It could also plowed such a thing to happen.
The role of the CIA in foreign policy should be explored. When Congress passed the National Security Act in 1947 to establish the National Security Council and the CIA, it specified the CIA's duties as gathering intelligence and performing "such other functions and duties related to intelligence affecting the national security as the National Security Council may from time to time direct."
Apparently this clause has been given a rather broad interpretation. Victor Marchelli, who served on the CIA director's staff, told Nation magazine in April that the CIA concentrated less than 10 per cent of its men and materials on gathering intelligence. He said the other 90 per cent were concentrated in "the clandestine mechanism whereby the executive branch influences the internal affairs of other nations."
The investigation of the CIA could easily go beyond the Vietnam War. These are the people who brought us the U2 incident in 1960, the Bay of Pigs in 1961, the National Student Association scandal in 1867 and the CIA-TTT-Chile affair last year, as well as incidents in the Dominican Republic in Iraq, Guatemala, Los Ángeles, Some of these were direct CIA interactions in the domestic affairs of other nations, and some were just tremendous blunders because of the CIA's faulty intelligence.
Congress should investigate the wisdom of allowing the executive department to maintain a secret army of 18,000 men, that seems quite capable of finding intelligence that suggests intervention, and that seems quite deaf to information that suggests its projects will fail.
—Eric Kramer
Loans Threatened
If President Nixon's proposed federal budget cuts are approved by Congress, social programs will be the main victims of the federal axe. The National Direct Student Loan (NDSL) program is one that Nixon has earmarked for termination. A limited Educational opportunity Grant program would also be phased out. The two would be replaced by a "basic opportunity grant."
National Direct Student Learning presently provide aid to about 1,700 University of Kansas students. If Congress approves the termination of the program, severe hardships will begin hundreds of KU students.
The NDSL program has provided loans to thousands of students at an interest rate of three per cent. The proposed substitution of basic opportunity grants has advantages, in that it will make the program, the substitution will effectively place educational assistance out of reach.
The main advantages of the basic opportunity grant are that it charges no interest and does not demand repayment. But these advantages make it more attractive for fewer grants will be awarded to loans under the NDSL program.
The disadvantages of the proposed changeover to the new grants are many. Last year hundreds of students could not get aid from the NDSL program because of limited Because of a small loan program, the form proposed by Nixon, less financial aid would be awarded.
The proposed changeover also
allows no recourse to students who do not qualify for the basic opportunity grant. In the past, those students who did not qualify for the limited grant program, now sponsored by the federal government, were able to apply for an NDSL loan. Under the substitution, private loans would have to make up the difference.
Private loans are not as readily obtainable as NDSL loans; they require that a student have a solid credit rating. Many students from low-income families, consequently, be unable to secure a private loan.
Then, too, disadvantages would affect students whose family income was in a bracket above that considered in the allotment of the basic opportunity grant. They would not be able to secure low interest loans, expensive credit or the same opportunity grant. Their recourse again would be to private lending institutions, charging rates they might not be able to afford.
The NDSL program has provided needed assistance to thousands of students. Its low interest repayment rate has allowed students to pay for an education they otherwise couldn't afford. To see it go, which it will if you opt in, visit www.ndsl.org or a backward step in educational funding. Its replacement, although admirable in some respects, lacks the coverage of the old program.
If educational aid and other social programs fall under the ax of a new government priority system, it will be time to re-evaluate the desirability of singleindedly balancing the budget.
—Steven Riel
PRINCE GEORGE COUNTY.
Md.-In the parking lot outside
William Pace Elementary School
there were stickers on the
school windows. I urged "Let's make It Work."
The "it" was a reference to
the final, irrevocable federal court
order requiring that, after 15 years of drowning and integrated into schools.
Busing Controversy Dies Down
Prince Georges County is another of those vast urban-
suburban places like Nassau
Nicholas von Hoffman
County, N.Y., or Orange County, Calif., without a central place name to tell you how populist it is. In fact, with 182,000 children in its schools, the county's system is one of the largest in the nation. Thus, with 40,000 of those students, the number of both races in approximately the same proportions is an impressively large undertaking.
On I- Day Monday, when the yellow buses rolled and previously all-black William Paca got itself integrated, he took the schoolhouse door as so many people have during all the miserable years of this degrading controversy. This time, however, they stood next to tables with flowerprint cloths and coffee ursa, to welcome and reassure them, will be attending this school, named after a long-forgotten signer of the Declaration of Independence and son of Maryland.
At other schools, staff members and PTA volunteers moved about about five months ago "tags on their lapels. For a reporter who had once come to equate school integration with National Guard halfracks and 30-caliber machine guns, she was having so decently and intelligently was an unflaming experience.
Not that there werent ants. You could see signs in the front windows of some of the houses, but not very many, that declared, "Our Coca-Cola Buses?" or "Kangaroo Justice Deporta Our Children." A corporal's guard of these women made a ceremonial and picketing visit to one of the schools. On the front steps of the cardboard tombstone to represent freedom, justice and the neighborhood school. In front of it they placed plastic snap-draggons and they walked in a snap-draggon. They sang their own antibusing words to the Coca-Coca song.
Such is political expression in " shopping center land," where the folks don't have a lot of money and they can't store and the good clothes at another. The gourmet cooking at the local restaurant may induce an emotional dyspepsia, but the folk's upset may also be a gripping and funny story. There are many of the people who favor busing send their own children to private schools.
Marylanders also have been mised by numberless politicians cheap-shoting for votes on the party, President, to Mandel, their governor, they've been inflamed into thinking that a family has a constitutional right to free parking in front of a brick-wvee building and is unable to school. If there has been one issue on which you'd think the politicians might have displayed a little of that leadership they're not supposed to be able to handle. One politician, Charles Mathias, senior Senator and the
best thing to come out of Maryland since soft-shell crabs, has nothing on his record to apologize for, so of course, being a feary target, the ladies were singing nastie little songs about him.
None of which is to say that busing is going to secure anybody an education. The internal-combustion engine hasn't solved any other problems in our country, but it's one in the buffering field of education. But some issues are symbolic, just as some acts are.
For us in America, school integration is a symbolic act, just as the once de jure segregated school system of Price Georges County was symbolic race relations.
At this stage of the game we integrate our schools, not knowing what academic good may come of it. We do it for reasons of law and justice, but they don't include black and the white kids may like each other, and, even if they don't, they'll have more realistic
Busing may also destroy the real estate conspiracy, because in the future it will be impossible to build a concessionary buyer a convenient, local nilwhite school. But whatever the future show us, the present activities of the people in Prince Georges County suggest that at long last, this inimobile business issue is about to join the past.
Cargo Greater Safety Threat Than Skyjacking, Pilots Say
(C) Washington Post-King Features Syndicate
WASHINGTON - The greatest threat to air safety, in the opinion of men who fly the jetliners, is hazardous cargo.
reasons for their respective prejudices.
While the airline industry is mobilizing to stop skyjacking, there may be a worse threat to the passengers in the cargo hold.
Pilots have told us that 90 per cent of the 14,000 daily dormesti
"clarified" a ruling, that would have the effect of allowing even larger amounts of radioactive materials to be shipped.
Yet at the request of the radioactive manufacturers and the Air Transport Association, the company has its ministration has obligingly
The Airline Pilots Association, in conjunction with Naked Rader, has brought suits against the FAA charging that the "clarification" was an illegal rule change. The pilots are also
flights carry dangerous cargo.
Anything from carabolic and sulphuric acids to highly flammable fuels may on the next day be in danger. In case of an accident, the inbound ores are obvious and ominous are
Jack Anderson
Radioactive materials, for example, are illegally but routinely shipped by passenger planes. In 1701, a leak developed in a lead container holding radioactive material. It wasn't discovered until nearly two decades ago, due to dangerous radiation as the contaminated plane visited 11 cities.
rying to stir up a congressional investigation of the hot cargo problem.
The pilots' case against the FAA can be summed up in one dramatic statistic. To check the safety of truck cargo, the highway authorities have 15,000 inspectors. To check the safety of air cargo, the FAA has one inspector.
The FAA has said that their cargo checks were "comprehensive, an intensive questioning, and they acknowledged that only 'spot checks' were made of the cargoes. The pilots, however, are checked regularly and they have storage on board their planes.
Readers Respond
Zumwalt vs. Kissinger Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, the
The lack of dialogue allows those watching the movie to enjoy some of the beauty present. Redford is dwarfed by the magnificence of the background. If viewed closely, one can hear
Different Review, Differing Views
'He Survived'
To the Editor:
A different review of "Jeremiah Johnson" would have Robert Redford portraying a man from the southeastern United States, leaving the scene of the Civil War, and travelling to South Africa to search for what "mountain men" seek to find in bounteous solitude.
"Jeremiah Johnson" was a refreshing movie. Duke Callaghan captured the true beauty of the mountains. He showed the mountains from season to season and a diverse range of landscapes, trying to stay alive amid hostile Indians and the harsh wilderness.
and see wind blowing through the pines and the running of snow water. It is possible to feel a "Rocky Mountain high" as one gazes at the splendid scenery, and the rocky landscape illustrating the savagery of the Rockies and their looming superiority to men.
Luke A. Miller
Overland Park Junior
The lack of dialogue and sound, save those natural ones, wind an rain, is a refreshing break to the movie-goer who is usually manipulated by the sounds made by computer or produced in the studio.
The plot seemed to be a common one, man vs. the elements of nature. Redford was the man thrust against the early American wilderness. He survived.
Jazz
In his review (Jan. 29) of the Modern Jazz Quartet (MJQ) concert, Tim Bradley reveals only that he knows nothing about jazz. The MJQ is decidedly not part of a "Gillespie school," like many in for-profit Lewis strives for a career with concertion of jazz. Also, Connie Kay was not a member of the original MJQ.
To the Editor:
More importantly, Bradley has no appreciation of jazz music, preferring and "too-tappers" He says that the group "soprificates" by implication, that it took its music too seriously, that the group "soprificic" and "nod-off music," and that jazz ought to be relegated to "smoke-filled taverns" where the listener can be doing something else (and also less likely to listen), fact, we are indebted to John Lewis for liberating jazz from such non-musical environs.
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--congratulates the President for "An Honorable End."
As those who listened to the quartet know, the concert was one of the most musically exciting eections in recent KU history. Lewis' piano was rhythmic and melodic. Percy Heath's bass work was complex and complex. He prefers the rhythmic diversity of Grand Funk) and Bags lived up to his reputation as one of the great jazz artists. The group played some of its classic pieces, "Bags Groove" and "Django," a beautiful Lewis composition, as well as new music ("In Memoriam," "The Martyr" and the lyrical "Romance"). The band's greatest hits are "True Blues," which lived up to its name, and "Willow Weep for Me."
Bradley's attitudes about jazzy are indicative of America's casual or even oppressive apathy, as seen in the black artists—Parker, Powell, Coltrane, Dolphy—have died without receiving recognition of their accomplishments. While we know that a lot of squallers like Mick Jagger, our great musicians like Ornette Coleman and Sonny Rollins are forced to struggle for survival or, at least, Gordon, are forced into exile.
Wake up to the truth of American, and especially black, music. Only then will the earthly force of 'Trace live on.'
Buddy Bolden
2530 Redbud, Lawrence
A Dirty War
To the Editor:
The comment of John Bailey in the Feb. 1 Kansan displays such a frightening amount of irrational emotions that I was simply overcome by the realization of one of those poor victims of the capitalist, anti Communist fear-machinery, who are still convinced that Communists (I wonder, if he knows what this name really implies?) do not believe in the category that anthropologists term "human beings."
To him it seems only fair that Nixon ordered the heaviest bombing in the history of the Vietnam War to force the "enemy" back to the peace table. Because Bailey looks at such a case, he must have lived of hundreds of innocent civilians, as the action of a "careful, calculating man," it is naturally understandable that he
To me it seems that a dirty a fight with dust weapons from the American public, can only have a dirty end.
I do hope that Bailey does not intend ever to become President of the United States.
Wolf B. Reuter Lawrence Graduate Student
Pearson
This concerns the letter of Jim K. Swindler (Feb. 2).
One of the symptoms of a degenerate intellectual environment must certainly be the audacity of a graduate student to criticize three full professors in an argument amounting to this:
—In an open and pluralistic university all educational points of view are to be tolerated, except in which I personally disagree.
—It is merely illogical.
"I is merely 'hogreal.' To me he insists, "I must not agree with what the man says, but I will defend to the death his right to say it."
To Pearson Integrated Humanities Program he mutters, "Crush the infamous thing."
dynamic, gushy-browed Navy chief, has been making some stinging remarks in private about Henry Kissinger.
Charles Gentry Topeka Law Student
Zumwalt has complained that Kissinger's handling of American foreign policy, particularly in the Middle East, is flawed and drift like a "rudderless sin."
The outspoken admiral was caustic about Kissinger but a staunch supporter of senators. He grumped that "the Soviet Union has an active foreign policy" but the United States "regrettably has a passive one."
The Navy chief, whose famous Z-grams brought liberal reforms to the Navy that ranged from hair length to beer raids, is now tightening up again. Zumwalt has disputed complaints that his reforms had hurt the Navy, citing Vietnam and the high reenlistment rates. Nevertheless, he is quietly cracking down on lax discipline in a new campaign called "Operation Shape Up."
Women at Sea
The Navy is in an uproar over the assignment of two women aboard ship for a five-day cruise. They were selected, along with 33 male clerks, to work see how their team work affected actual ships.
Flanigan Flops
But the salty old admirals and captains who run the Atlantic fleet, manned aboard their vessels. The two ladies were rejected after being told they could take the cruise. The rejection upset navy Captain Kidd, who authorized the trip. Kidd got on the teletype to the Atlantic fleet, and the reigning Atlantic sails grudgingly agreed to take aboard both women and men. The candidates nominated by Kidd.
President Nixon is privately placing some of the blame for the energy crisis on his top business adviser in the White House, Peter Flanigan. This it he has done to cite the President's recent action in removing import controls from home heating oil. Flanagan had blocked the lifesaving of controls for the power plant that was overruled by the President.
Consumer oil experts,
however, say some of this positive action may be erased because Jack Bennett, a former Esso International vice president, will preside on po-ty-day oil policies at the department of the Treasury where he is an secretary.
Control of the White House's oil policy has also now been shifted to tough-minded Treasury Secretary George Shultz, no great friend of the oil industry. The industry had hoped the unit would stay quietly behind and be shifted to the Department of the Interior, which traditionally has danced to his oil's tunes.
Copyright, 1973,
by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.
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