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Monday, January 29, 1973
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Blinded by 'Honor'
President Nixon, in his televised announcement of peace Tuesday, directed words of praise toward the people of South Vietnam for their "courage" and "sacrifice." He asked the leaders of North Vietnam for cooperation in building a "peace of reconciliation." He asked other major powers involved for "mutual restraint."
To the American people, Nixon said, "Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible. I know that you would not have wanted that peace jeopardized."
Within the past few months, as Nixon has dangled the prospect of peace in front of the American people, Americans have become more and more steadfast in their insistence on peace. The stock market rose and dipped with the ups and downs of the Paris peace talks. Frustrated members of Congress vowed to find some way to remove the war powers the President had assumed. Even Henry Kissinger, overly eager for a settlement, prematurely announced that an agreement had been reached.
Nixon was partly right: Americans have been steadfast in their insistence on peace, but only for peace. Nixon, however, claimed he was seeking a double commodity—peace with honor. Honor to Nixon amen a renewal of massive bombing to dramatize to the North Vietnamese that the United States would not tolerate violations of an eventual cease-fire. Honor meant the loss of more American and Vietnamese lives to compel the North Vietnamese to return to negotiations and to show President Thieu the United States was not giving in to the Communists.
Death and destruction hardly seem to be what the American people would call honor. Yet, Nixon, in striving for this false honor, delayed peace for years. Nixon will now say America was right to be in Vietnam, and that every American life lost was worth the honor it brought. With his eye always on "honor," Nixon was fortunate enough to finally attain peace, but only as a belated side effect.
Nixon was right Tuesday night to thank the American people, for they were responsible for the peace. Their insistence on peace ended a war perpetuated by a president in pursuit of senseless honor. Consequently, Nixon's celebration of "peace with honor" at this point is absurd. It seems immoral to celebrate such empty honor, and too late to celebrate peace.
Barbara Spurlock
Vietnam Settlement Portends Increased Sino-Soviet Rivalry
Bv STEPHEN BROENING
WAR, BROOKLYN,
MOSCOW--A new focus
could become a new focus
for rivalry between the Soviet Union
and China.
Asian diplomats forecast that the two Communist giants will compete for influence in North Vietnam as Hanoi redirects its energy to postwar reconstruction.
Even during the height of the fighting in Indochina, the Moscow-Peking dispute overflowed in what should have been a harmonious joint effort to aid a Communist ally.
The Soviets accused Peking of refusing transit across Chinese territory of essential munitions for the North Vietnam名稱.
Soviet commentators claimed the Chinese had "adventurous" plans to cut economic relations with Russia, Union and Asian countries.
In Peking, the counterchance was that "Soviet revisionism . . . wants to dominate the recipient countries politically so as to establish a colonial rule of the new tsars."
attracted by the question of Soviet-Chinese relations."
The inference was that Soviet aid in Asia, North Vietnam included, was aimed at expanding the influence to China's southern border.
With this mention of foreign concern, a new formulation, Kirtlenni appeared to suggest that the agency could input into an international problem.
The North Vietnamese have been caught in the middle, but in their quest for developmental aid they can probably count on playing Russia off against China to obtain reconstruction funds.
million worth of aid annually,
most of it in military. In 1970 non-
military exports to North Vietnam
totaled about $300 million,
and were worth $157
$157 million. The figures for 1972
are not yet available.
During the war, the Soviets gave Hanoi an estimated $500
In an apparent attempt to obtain rehabilitation aid on the same scale, North Vietnam's foreign trade minister, Le Thanh Nghi, conferred with Soviet officials in Moscow last month.
With their circumstantial bond as comrades in arms broken by the peace. Soviet-Chinese forces have taken a turn for the worse.
Western experts presumed he got what he wanted.
By STEVEN BIEI
Nascent amid filters the sunlight. People, autos and chrome streaks for miles in every direction. Traffic on these roads has doubled in the last decade. Crime has risen here 126 per cent in three years. Litter collects at the roadside and in gutters. Shirts, trousers, socks and underwear. Angles, from clothlines. Wheels, radios caterwal. One-quarter million people are living here.
Crowding Plagues U.S. Parks
A small waterfall gurges its way down a rocky crevice. The寸阶 chipmunk ventures from the crevice into the valley. Across the valley bluish mountains rise majestically. Quaking aspen rustle in the breeze, brushing primelinal pines and firs. Below, a mat of pine needles sounds. The forest stretches for miles in every direction.
It's difficult to watch a dream die. But that is what happening to the 100-year dream for a park. Gurgling waterfalls in parks, Gurgling waterfalls in parks, and quaking aspen have been overrun by cars, people and litter. During peak visiting hours the national parks are masses of humanity, far removed from pristine solitude and beauty.
Yosemite National Park, long touted for its waterfalls and rock formations, is being invaded by smog from nearby California. The park is susceptible haze covers the park in severe conditions and park has discontinued nightly fireworks displays in hopes of reducing the number of visitors. Acadia National Park, situated near populous New England and New York, attracts 250,000 visitors in the summer, 2.5 million of them. An ever larger
number of visitors trek to Yellowstone National Park to gaze at Old Faithful, and escape the cities. Seven million people flock to Great Smoky Mountains National Park on the North Carolina-Kentucky border. On Independence Day weekend in 1972 one-quarter million people visited the Great Smokies. Pine Valley is run by the forest service, is planked of picnic tables, fire pitles and outhouses. Pine Valley is situated in an obscure section of Utah. On holiday weeks trishpiles up until it touches lower branches of trees in the amphitheatre of Gabriel Mountains, outside Los Angeles, have been plagued by burglaries and vandals. Sleeping
bags, stoves and all sorts of camping equipment have been stolen from the camping area.
These examples gloomily portray the plight of the national park system. According to park officials, more than 264 million visits were made to 36 national parks and hundreds of monuments in 1971. The park service projected 202 million visits; 245 million visits are expected.
He said, "Serious attention in our country as well as abroad is
In a speech Wednesday, Politburo member Andrei Kirillenko attacked the Chinese for their hostile, anti-Soviet policy and added a turn of phrase Asia experts saw as ominous.
While serious crime in the United States in 1966-1969 rose 53 per cent, crime in the parks in
arrived, when the chastened sublimity of a moor, a sea or a mountain will be all of nature that is absolutely in keeping with theinking among mankind. And ultimate commonist tourist, spots like Iceland may become what the vineyards and myrtle gardens of South Europe are to him now, Hedeby and Baden be passed as he has hastens from Alps to the sand dunes of Schwenegen."
escape, are burgeoning in the parks. The exodus of city residents to the parks, ironically, city problems to the wilderness.
Perhaps Hardy did not go far enough in his prognostication, for
Until recently, the park system had not confronted such problems. In 1956, for example, the park system inaugurated a program to develop park roads and open them to annual visitors. By the mid-1980s, it was evident that the plan had backfired. So successful was the plan that many more visitors came than the parks could
creased 128 per cent. Traffic has doubled in the park system in the last decade. Traffic jams are a common sight in most parks. Camping space is at a premium; thousands of tents and trailers are available in the parks have become frightful wilderness slums; urban problems of crowding, noise and pollution are evident in them.
park facilities, the service began a program to reduce road mileage in parks. Included in the plan was a de-emphasis on increasing park facilities such as campgrounds.
Concurrent with these developments is the 101st anniversary of the park system. A year ago, the land was set aside for use as a national park. It became Yellowstone National Park. But birthday celebration of the park may well be its wake.
Close upon the founding date of the park system, Thomas Hardy wrote a blemme that seems particularly appropriate to the plight of the national parks: "The time sees near, if it has not actually
now even the sublimity of mountains and seas is being threatened.
handle. Beginning in the mid-1960s the park service began to take positive steps to reduce the number of vehicles in the system. Instead of increasing
The parks face the triple pressure of population growth, expanded leisure time and urbanization. Each year millions of visitors are added to the list of park devotees. Part of the interest in these parks is their growth in the population. But the major thrust comes from other social forces. More Americans have more leisure time as on-the-job time is reduced. A certain percentage of this time is spent in parks. As a result, perhaps the greatest pressure on the facilities of the National Park Service. Large cities often have no trees or parks that attract city residents. The national parks offer an alluring alternative to concrete, pollution, metal and wood structures, rapidly becoming less desirable. The problem of urban areas, which urban residents seek to
These plans are designed to reduce the attractiveness of the parks to the floods of people who visit annually. The park service also encouraging facilities outside the borders of the parks. Park tours are being reduced. Rocky Mountain National Park in the Colorado Rockies is phasing out its camping facilities in order to preserve its wild state. Other parks are following the same effort to preserve the parks will be revealed in time.
Meanwhile park enthusiasts who are repulsed by summer crowds are using the parks in the off-season. Camping in the winter, when the parks are nearly deserted, is becoming more popular. Until regulations permit camping on a regular number of summer campers, this may be the only means of enjoying the solitude and natural beauty of the parks. The park service is even considering a quota system for admission to the parks to stem current trends.
The underlying problem in the park system is revealed in the goal established 100 years ago by the designers of the system. The goal, then and now, was to preserve wilderness and natural two incompatible goals are arranged suited to the problem. For almost by definition, public use does not lead to preservation.
As the park system moves into its 101st year the choice seems to be between chimpnips and people, waterfalls and litter.
Readers Respond
Vietnam War, Funding Athletics
The War
"officially" ended. We all know it isn't quite that simple. Enclosed in quotes is that I think will help people remember what the war has done. Answer: It will let it happen again.
To the Editor:
David A. Wooters
Des Moines, Iowa, Junior
FBI Investigates OEO 'Grants'
The charge was leveled by a
WASHINGTON--The FBI is investigating a report that President Nixon's proposed new anti-poverty chief, Howard Phillips, wanted to offer government grants to black lawyers as an inducement for them to become Republicans.
Jack Anderson
top official who worked closely with Phillips in the Office of Economic Opportunity in 1971. We have spoken at length with the official who told us, in return for our promise to withhold his identity, what he had reported to the FBI.
"I can recall quite clearly," he said, "Phillips tells us that we ought to find some way of getting OEO money into the hands of some black attorneys and show them an advantage of turning Republican."
The official said he had given the details to FBI agent Al
Dougal and was prepared, if it should come to court proceedings, "to step forward and testify." My associate Mike Kiernan reached Dougal who was investigating the charge.
The FBI has learned that Phillips held a private meeting with half a dozen black attorneys in Berkeley, Calif., in the summer of 1971. This coincides with the time that Phillips allegedly urged granting government funds to black attorney Bill Gates. The White House offer of an extra $2.5 million to California to experiment with different methods of providing legal aid to the poor.
The purpose of Phillips' meeting with the black lawyers, ostensibly, was to discuss 'judicature.' This is a proposal to provide legal assistance to the black lawyers in associations or nonprofit corporations. Critics claim judicature would wind up benefitting
lawyers more than poor people.
hays's more than poor people. The Berkeley meeting was held incidentally, in the offices of Tom Kemp of the unidentified black attorney in the State documents show he had been raking in huge fees as a state consultant to OEO. He admits receiving $10,000 in consultant fees for the months of June, July and August, 1971.
He assembled five prominent black lawyers to hear Phillips' pitch. One lawyer who attended the meeting recalls: "The thrust of the meeting was politics, political Phillips let Berkley talk, and he did quite a selling job on us. Don't get me wrong. No one said anything about pocketing huge fees. But I came away thinking these people were outliers in promoting their own law practice in helping the poor."
The attorney was so upset that he went immediately to the Charles Houston Law Club. "He told us what he heard at his head."
We have also obtained notes taken at a later meeting with OEO executives in Washington. Significantly, one entry quotes the lawyers as saying: "Sublized black lawyers (are) necessary . . ."
meeting," recalls Don McCullum, the city attorney in Berkeley. "The gist of it was: if we supported private jacute care, we look forward to enjoying considered privacy." Most of us reacted negatively."
Through a spokesman, Phillips denied he has ever made any changes to his policies to encourage babies to become Republicans. He acknowledged going to Berkeley, Calif., for what he described as a "routine" visit.
Footnote: Charles Lloyd, who attended the meeting in California, turned up in Washington, summoned as a witness to a defendant to Phillips. Lloyd worked four months, collected $11,000 and returned to
his law practice. In response to our inquiries, he asked us to call Tom Berkley, who shouted to us "We're the biggest distance phone." I publish six newspapers. I own property. I run the oldest, biggest integrated law firm in the state," he told me. "I don't need their money."
Copyright, 1973.
by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.
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By Sokoloff
Today a war ends.
For some, it ended long ago.
were "providing substantial support for their athletic colleges," he expected is to be self-supporting." Mr. Eberhardt, chairman of the Athletic Board, and Dr. Roberts, 1972, that failure to obtain additional financial support from the University "prompted a review of our policies."
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To the Editor:
I would like to join with the people who have expressed their desire to work together their sorrow at his resignation. I particularly admire Silinson's insistence that the coaches not be NOCC regarding recruiting, eligibility, and questioning about his resignation, he stated that, "there werePressure to cheer from people whose direction is directive" University. I admire him for resisting those pressures. It is clear that he is a man of principle.
J M L
My sorrow at his resignation stems, in part, from my fear that his replacement may not be so pleasant. The pressures to cheat, which caused Stinson to resign, are indeed bad. It may be that his successor will not be willing or able to resist those pressures. Indeed, it may be that he cared less about the pressure because as Stinson has noted: "Those that cheat have been treated with the antibiotic success." Since Stinson has resisted these pressures, and since his successor may not resist them, he must press for the pressure to cheat, however, was only one reason for Stinson's resignation. The other reason is that he has with the level of financial support provided by the University. This reason was mentioned by Stinson when he announced his resignation. It also has been brought to the attention of many others on occasions. The minutes of the Oct. 12 meeting, for example, state: "His (Stinson) also pointed out that his successor will not be willing or able to resist those pressures."
The financial support issue has been the subject of discussion by the press that the institution has. However, the lack of financial resources and immediate importance issue have prevented immediate and important issue management.
Although I admire Stinson's stand on the cheating issue, I disagree with him (and other members) in regard to the financial support issue. The facts are that the Athletic Corporation supports the Athletic Corporation. Contrary to popular belief, the Athletic Corporation is not responsible for the University provides support in the way of salaries, services and training; it does not provide an athletic director, for example, is paid by the University, not the Athletic Corporation. Because it has been appointed to enrollment, if the Athletic Corporation paid the salary, it would permit the addition of 20 students to the classes and more individual attention to students. The field house and stadium are also used by the Athletic Corporation. If the Athletic Corporation were self-supporting, commercial equipment, it would have been on these facilities. Instead of receiving rent from these facilities, the Athletic Corporation bids them on them. Thus, the AC is not self-supporting—The University provides a considerable amount of support for intercollegiate athletics.
In addition to the support received from the University last month, we also received approximately $1.6 million in revenue from ticket meals here, share of gate meals at miscellaneous items, such as concessions. On top of this, it is important that we remain on endowment at the Endowment Association. Despite these revenues, we have submitted subdueable financial trouble. It lost money last year and it needs more time to recover. In order "to be able to compete," Specifically, the minutes of the meeting amounted to expenses now are paid by the AC but which Stinson (and other members of the University) should be paid by the University.
Because I do not understand what benefits would accrue the University from supporting the AC by $177,000, I am opposing it. Particularly in this time of tight budgets and employment freezes, we would provide financial support to the university instead with a much larger budget at the University.
Robert R. Sterling Professor of Business and Economics