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Monday, January 28, 1974
University Daily Kansau
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Docking's Star Falls
After being on the defensive for so long because of the Watergate break-in and other scandals, Kansas Republicans may find it difficult to suppress an occasional snicker or chortle or even an unrestrained guffaw over the hot water Gov. Docking is suddenly in.
In a way it can be said that the Republicans are getting their revenge. Watergate had never been unseen. Dochate will be in only lukewarm water today.
But, alas, a Watergate mentality has overtaken the country. Today, if an ambitious newsman can forge even the remotest link between a newspaper and a foul play, the politician may as well cash in his campaign buttons.
That's not to say that Docking shouldn't be publicly excoriated and removed from office if his former patronage aide, Richard L. Malloy, was really bribed by five architectural firms and Docking knew about it or helped cover up the bribery.
`Yet, if the bribery story had broken before the Watergate affair, it is almost inconceivable that newsmen would have asked the kind of routing question has actually been asked. For example, Gov. Docking.
For example: Gov. Docking
have you given any thought to resigning? As if a grand jury accusation of the governor's brother, a murder investigation, were grounds for resiring.
A $30,000 campaign bribe somehow doesn't stack up to the Watergate break-in, the dirty tricks squad, the plumbers unit, Nixon's questionable campaign contributions from ITT and the milk industry and his illegal contributions from Minnesota Manufacturers. Gradyear Tire and Rubber Co., Gulf Oil Corp, Phillips Petroleum Co., Carnation Co., Branif Airways and American Airlines.
Still, a wrong is a wrong. Unless Docking is exonerated, his political career is over. Some think he's finished whether he's cleared of guilt in the alleged bribery case or not. That's unlikely.
If the energy crisis and skyrocketing food prices have proved nothing else, they have certainly demonstrated the power of the economy. Americans, nothing is more sacred than their weekly paycheck.
Docking has long prided himself on being a governor who doesn't believe in tax increases. Kansans won't soon forget that.
—Hal Ritter
Boiled Eggs and Issues
Politicians, of necessity, are athletes. They must occasionally be physically fit enough to rake mud, sling mud, continuously exhale great amounts of hot air and run for re-election.
Athletic endearment for politicos reached new heights Tuesday in the Missouri Senate, however. In a display of boyish enthusiasm, two senators threw a hard-boiled egg at each other.
A hard-boiled egg?
It seems that eggs had been placed on each senator's desk by the Missouri Egg Merchandising Council as a promotional activity. The eggs were accompanied by a recipe booklet titled, "It's Egg Time."
The Kansas City Star (Jan. 23) reported that Sen. Edward Lineham, D-St. Louis, seeing the egg on his desk, threw it across the chamber at Sen. Lawrence Lee, D-St. Louis.
Lee caught the egg and threw it
That duel settled, the Senate turned its attention to more serious matters, such as a resolution to provide additional parking spaces near the capitol building for legislators at the expense of other state employees. The resolution was approved 31-1 despite objections by Sen. A. Clifford Jones, R-St. Louis County.
back, missing Lineham and splattering the egg against the chamber's marble wall. Senate apportioned the money to submit the mess, the Star reported.
Jones, according to the story, said the Senate's petty arguments with the executive branch over parking spaces made his constituents think "we're a bunch of clowns. I can remember when the Missouri Senate was one of the most popular states in the United States, but now we're the laughing stock of the whole state," he said.
That could well be true, Senator.
—Chuck Potter
Priest Exorcises Couples Denounced by Colleagues
By DARYL LEMBKE
The Los Angeles Times
The priest to whom the couple first went to seek help from what they considered an assistant minister of law made a statement with two colleagues. The statement questioned whether the whole matter had been explained.
SAN FRANCISCO - A local Roman Catholic priest's claim that he drove away the devil from a young couple's household by using the ancient church rite of exorcism has been greeted with skepticism and even disgust by some fellow priests.
MOHER SAID THE young couple lived in Daily City and had been attending his church, which was assured he correct published reports that they and his staff wouldn't help the couple, to whom Rev. Karl Patzet of another church in San Diego regularly administered the exorcism rites.
Patzell was put in touch with the tammys a bunn who told him that the couple were divorced.
assailant, Patzelt said these acts were confirmed by him and included being knocked down and witnessing objects flying through the air.
Mother, Riley and Rolle said in their statement that "the truth of this matter is that Riley has been wrong."
"There were a multitude of unresolved questions," they stated. They added that "these unresolved questions, while not ruling out the possibility of a supernatural presence of evil, indicate to us that the issue is not clear" as news reports indicated.
"IT IS TRUE that, in May of 1972, the question came to St. Andrew's Parish with their problem," they related. "However, it would be grossly inadequate to state that we would not help them, or that we would not solve our solution or that we unresponsible."
They said two unidentified law enforcement officers and numerous others made up an investigative team that looked in the case for almost three weeks.
They said they had been advised by Archbishop Joseph T. McGucken, who gave permission for Patzelt to conduct the excursion, not to comment in detail on the case.
Vietnam but because of decisions in Moscow, taken after the missile crisis of 1962 and Khrushchev's order in 1984, to build up Strategic forces in order to play the role of a leader.
By STEPHEN S. ROSENFELD
WASHINGTON—The general political community in this city is only beginning to cope with the central strategic issue of the 1970s, which isn't oil but how the changing military balance between the superpowers affects their political interests.
Power, Not Oil, Chief Issue of'70s
This is an issue, to be candid, on which "liberals" and others with a record of interest in improving relations with the Russians have performed inadequately. They haven't appreciated that the same spread of power that gave rise to Soviet rule also furnished a real margin of military, political and psychological advantage.
Since 1957, when they first fired an intercontinental missile, the Russians have been able to destroy us; they have had a little difficulty in doing so. We are about on both sides since then is to hold or gain enough extra force, beyond the requirements of deterrence, for political leverage - to intimidate the other's allies or enemies, and to bargain. Wastalite, terrible, but true.
We have since lost a lot of the arrogance—everyone grasps that. But—this is less well understood—we have also lost a good part of our lives. We've been denied not because we were denied not because of developments in
THROUGH THE 1980s a consensus developed, at least in the United States, that the proper strategic goal was equality, known by various names and was is and was to measure strategic aboutists. To measure the strategic equation. There probably always will be argument about
But the basic political fact is how the strategic equation is perceived in the political arena. The question isn't only if one side are as seen stronger but if it is seen as deliberately and successfully trying to get stronger. While the adversary-out-of-case, misjudgment, political incapacity or what have you—seems to fall behind.
whether one side or another is trying for superiority.
We are thrilled and delighted to discover that out there in the big world exist two
"OH COME COME, MR. NADER HAVE WE EVER LIED TO YOU!"
The general perception today, I think, is that the Soviet Union is trying deliberately to move beyond strategic equality in order to ensure that the country is not averse of States hasn't lost its homeland security or its nuclear deterrent but it no longer can extend its nuclear umbrella, and therefore its political influence—surely and intentionally. So the issue for the United States now is
The BSU needs and deserves a share of the student budget. To deny it access to this money is to make its tasks more difficult. Anyone who deliberately does this is siding with those who would retard the struggle for equal rights.
Thanks, Senators
If the constitution of the SUA or the Board of Regents says a black organization has to admit whites, a Black organization has to be changed.
I myself am white and I like my that way. But I unconditionally in favor of the students of my organization, from outside interference, and I encourage other students who are of the same opinion to make their opinions known. An injury to the rights of students is not an excuse.
BSU, Erotic Films Are Defended
To the Editor:
The Jan. 23 and 24 issues of the Kansan carried stories about the alleged refusal of the Black Student Union (BSU) to allow white students to become members. The implication is that this refusal is some sort of Black racism, and I imagine someone who has been a victim of civil rights for white students and to compare the BSU to the White Citizens Council.
This approach has been used all over the continent to deny Blacks and other oppressed minorities (and women, a majority) the right to have their own rights. The response of the people by the people they are intended to serve. I hope everyone here recognizes that Blacks, Chicanos, native Americans, women, gays and other groups are under constant pressure from white society to denise their basic rights in our society and they need their own voice and their own pressure groups. What the BSU doesn't need is a bunch of white students trying to disrupt their activities under the guise of a social concern about equal opportunity.
So the issue for the United States now is how or whether to sustain the influence it
Readers Respond
Christopher Starr
Ottawa, Ontario graduate student
To the Editor:
Griff and the Unicorn
The first is to say, in effect, that the United States lacks not only the means but the worth or stomach for a major world role and should accept contrib-—in the name of realism, or detente—whatever diminishes come to itself or its friends.
bad and the commitments it made at a time when its appetite for foreign involvement and its means for supporting that appetite are greater. There are several possibilities.
We do hope these moral missionaries are asked to return to Lawrence and are invited to inspect and approve our classes, seminars, museums; bookstores, libraries, magazine stands and trash cans. Thus, in their superior judgement, they can eliminate for us that which they consider harmful, mental and psychological well-being. Amen.
leighard C. Brown
jameson H. McDonald
Ronald D. Lewis
Bolivia Graduate Student
Richard D. Perrin, R.
Maryann Kearney
Reginald T. Brown
charitable Kansas senators concerned with the welfare of our souls.
Boogie and Buffoonery At Impeachment Ball
By TOM ZITO The Washington Post
Despite the fact that the film series, shown in the Kansas Union, are presented solely for the University community, we are ecstatic to learn that these two "guardians of the public mortality" were bodily present at the showing of "The Erotic Celebration."
We are grateful that these two aficionados of the arts made a special trip to Lawrence (what with the gas shortage) to save us from the pitfalls of deprivation. After all, we are defenseless and mindless creatures trapped in an institution of higher learning.
WASHINGTON—There are starchy parties in the social life of Washington, and there are frilly parties, and there are gourmet parties. Something of each came together in a swirl Saturday night at an inaugural anniversary impaction ball that attracted more than 2,000 of the old left, new left, libbers, formers, businessmen, housewives, curvy women, and the merely curious.
Inside the ballroom of the downtown Ramada Amada it was hot and heavy, not unlike some politically charged fraternity costume party.
"There was the woman who came as a 'sinister force,' dressed as the Wicked Witch of the North but bearing a placard that proclaimed "Tape Erasing a Specially." There was the "confirmed acrobatic secretary." There was the man inside a cave, blinded. There were the Arab oil sheels, American oil tycoons, and hundreds behind Richard Nixon masks or wrapped in magnetic recording tape.
A SECOND AND related possibility is to contend that no unpleasant or, at any rate, no unacceptable effects for itself or its friends would follow from the retreat of Iran and Syria in this view, the Soviet Union is essentially a stateQoN nation that can be counted on to avoid trying to exploit any local situation from which American power is withdrawn.
And outside there were protesters, 150 by police estimate, waving tiny American flags and distributing handbills declaring that "the nation itself is being deceived" in the president." Members of the National Prayer and Fast for the Watergate Crisis group started by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, (a Christian evangelist from Korea) who speaks no English), carried placards angrily calling for the first stone," and "God loves Nixon."
THE GROUP MARCHED on the hotel's sidewalks until about 11:30 p.m., singing their theme, "The Day of Hope," as well as 'irving Berlin.' The God Bless America.
The impeachment ball was sponsored by the Washington Area Impeachment Coalition. Until Tuesday, they shared sponsorship with the Washington Area American Civil Liberties Union. Then the team was forced to focus of the ball will be on matters other than civil liberties aspects of impeachment."
Now, this was advertised as a ball, and most of the people there, aside from political considerations, seemed to be interested in dancing—particularly the few drowned-out folks who kept screaming BOOGIE! throughout the evening.
But like most political events, the fun couldn't begin until the ideological preliminaries were consummated. These included Theater by the Earth Onion, a feminist group, addressing the crowd as "brothers and sisters"; ;;" the reading of the "Nixon 2D palm" (indecipherable on the room's distoring PA system); a toksinger whose most dour moment came when, to "dress for the revolution," as she put it, off came her fur jacket and lime skirt to reveal a white cottontop; the contingent of students from Kent State.
DR. ANNALEE STEWART, 73, said she came with her 77-year-old husband "because we support the things that the young people are working for."
"I think I can understand why Nixon won with such a landslide if this is the best they can get together," said an imppecably dressed follow in a brown suit with a brown hat. "There's a certain frivolous quality to the whole thing that drags it down."
The man said he was a local psychiatrist but declined to give his name.
Frivolity certainly was rampant, from the outrageous costumes worn by many of the performers; and in a crowd, to the auction of such items as "Martina Milhacic cellphone" and a pass "Penny."
Perhaps the one moment of serious, prolonged applause came when Phil Ochs, a protest singer famous in the '60s, "wanted me to bring his韶's to the State of Mississippi,"" singing:
Richard Nixon find yourself another country to be part of.
Here's to the land you've torn out the heart ot.
Then it was time to boogie to the music of Zapata, a local rock group.
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A third possibility is to acknowledge that growing Soviet strength could produce unacceptable new increments of Soviet influence in various local situations and could threaten Kremlin an unacceptably stronger bargaining position in a super-power crisis.
The final possibility is to try to regain the measure of strategic superiority, and consequent mobility of policy, that the United States earlier enjoyed.
I would guess, nonetheless, that most people—some anxiously, others more confidently—are prepared to cope with difficult realities if these are presented clearly and credibly. The principal reality is that strategic power hasn't been screened out of world politics just because the United States' former advantage in it is no more.
The administration finds it hard to tell people that these are, in fact, the possibilities. It doesn't want to call into question the diplomatic achievement or to antagonize the Russians too openly, by pointing out that the Russians may turn out to be an unreliable international partner. Then, too, Mr. Nikson has nourished the notion that it isn't so much power as his own skill that is the reason the international progress has been made so far.
Rock Concerts On Telscreen Shades of 1984
By TOM ZITO The Washington Post
Allen's version is pure Orwell: The brain police are watching every minute. The one in Largo, Md., is more subtle. You can speak but do to so usually also means not to see.
It is mildly amusing and slightly scary that the 1984ish behavior monitors in Woody Allen's new movie, "Sleeper," and the gigantic TV screens at the Capital Museum are the same name: Telscreen. Both of them create your life, but to different degrees.
"Rock concert" be the wrong term for what takes place at Capital Centre. It's 'concert' for the first 20 rows squashed in the theatre; for the rest, it's eyes on the Television.
NOW TELSCREEN is just a symptom of the problem. Ever since athletics became a spectator sport of huge proportion, and circuses graduated from the traveling carnival in the 1960s, concerts became crazy free-for-alls in giant amphitheaters, away went the personal.
Strictly on the concert level, it's become a situation of only the super-groups making it. That means 20,000 kids want to see the Allman Brothers and Alice Cooper.
Less than 300 turn out for a much more musically ambitious concert by the Electric Light orchestra. Music doesn't really make that much difference now. You go to see who's hot, and not necessarily who's good. And you go in droves.
How do you accommodate these drives? You put them in a monster auditorium, so superhuman people nonchallantly walk into the room and pass the room, taking too many dowwers. How do you let all these people see what they're happening? You give them what they've been weaned on;
THE KIDS WILL tell you they love Telscreen. But they're been duped. They treated like cattle—come to accept being treated like cattle—stockyards, entertained and ejected. For the first time the TV eyes let them see the infant being handed a candy cane. A starving infant been handed a candy cane.
They do air one legitimate complaint. Telscreen lets you see the stage only as long as the people in the control booth aren't too busy trying to create schlock light-show. The kids want to see Alice Cooper's face, no bloo of blue with a face peeking through.
As for the 1984-today invasion of privacy aspect of Telescreen—controlling crowds with visual commands and showing the audience close-ups of itself at intermissions — it will stubly persist until you can sit on screen with his best friend's wife. You can be the $y$ pay a visit to the control room and try to have things changed.
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