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Tuesday, June 13, 1972
University Summer Kansan
KANSAN Photo by STEVE CRAIG
Ecological Warfare
Olaf Palme, Sweden's prime minister,
really accused the United States of waging "ecological warfare" in Vietnam at the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment. Predictably, the U.S. State Department reacted quickly, calling Palme's accusation "one-sided," "unbalanced," and "incomprehensible."
Furthermore, the U.S. was "deeply disturbed," said a state department spokesman, "that the Swedish prime minister had introduced what we regard as an extraneous matter" into the Conference session.
Extraneous matter? Deeply disturbed?
The irony is too good to pass up. Daily our B-52's drop huge 500-pound bombs on the Asian countryside, creating numerous craters, which have turned the land into an ugly mess. These craters measure 30 feet across and 15 feet deep, displacing 131 cubic hards of (extraneous) earth.
On a routine schedule of four to five missions a day, a squadron of B-52's can create as many as 100,000 new craters each month.
These water-filled craters in Vietnam have not only greatly multiplied the breeding areas for disease-carrying insects, but they have also, because of their depth, made the terrain unsuitable for rice cultivation. The Vietnamese, one would think, might be deeply disturbed to hear that our State Department doesn't conference is the place for a discussion of kelia malaria, berbicide and malnutrition.
Intraneous matter?
Between the years 1965 and 1971, the United States exploded 28 billion pounds of war debris throughout the Indochina countryside. This shocking figure represents an average of 142 pounds of explosives per acre of land, or 584 pounds per square mile. It little larger than the state of Texas. Big things do come in small packages.
The environmental effects of these bombing raids are even more shocking.
In hilly terrain, the explosions tear up the soil, causing large-scale erosion. The removal of vegetation and soil humus in and around the bomb craters makes the land permanently barren. The trees in Vietnam are riddled with missile fragments, causing infection by wood-rotting fungi. A recent study by the State Department refuses to discuss the facts at a world environmental conference.
Such an attitude is both apalling and criminal. To systematically sterilize vast areas of land, causing a permanent ecological imbalance in Vietnam, and then to employ forceful killing of environmental experts, will weight heavily on our conscience at a later date.
If the United States sincerely believes in the need to correct certain ecological imbalances, then she should begin by discussing the situation she has created in Vietnam. And what better forum could be offered than the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment to begin the much needed discussion?
Mark Bedner
NEW YORK (AP)—At least physical or mental or medical treatment or both, caused by lack of iron, a prominent pediatric病a sign preceding
By ALTON BLAKESLEE AP Science Editor
The majority of victims are adolescents and children who, in their illness, said the professor of pediatrics emeritus at Harvard Medical School and now at the University of Cali-
One of the more tragic results of this iron-deficiency is growth failure in children with brain cells in infants who receive inadequate amounts of iron.
"Iron deficiency is a systemic disorder in the growing individual, and it is one of the pre-school child, the adolescent in a spurt of growth in the pregnant woman nourishing a young child, who has bounds. New every and growing body need iron to attain its potential; Dr. Diamond said
ANEMIC adolescents may have poor appetites, slowed breathing and attentionless, low motivation. In their lethargy they drift into an apocalypse of unrest.
Iron Lack Harmful, Doctor Says
Adults usually have few symptoms until and unless their anemia becomes severe. Then they may feel breathless, have a rapid heart beat, and a lowered chance for exercise or exertion.
BUT LONG before anemia be diagnosed through blood tests, the patient has have loss of apetite, weakness apathy, slowed growth, and other
For example, tiny amounts of iron are essential in the formation and action of many enzymes, or chemical governors of life.
OTHER symptoms of iron deficiency may be increased irritability, weakness and frequent crying and disinterest in play, all of which "have often been the result of poor nutrition" proved by iron supplementation of food," or by giving medicines to iron-deficient men.
Growth of brain cells may be diminished by insufficient iron before birth and in the 18 months afterwards. Dr. Diamond said.
Iron deficiency has increased not only in girls but also in boys between the ages of 13 and 17. Dr. Diamond said.
Poor diets, with youngsters eating snacks and poorly balanced meals, are one cause of the lack of iron, he said.
ANOTHER reason could be
ness, loss of ability to concentrate, low motivation and increasingly poor performance in their studies.
"This same group, by age 15 and 16, has the largest number of disciplinary problems, of dropouts and delinquents."
Foods rich in iron are generally the more expensive ones and therefore less often consumed by children. Fruits and vegetables med explained. These include meats, fish, eggs, green vegetables and fruits whether fresh, or dried.
THIS WAS not unexpected in 5 and 6-year-olds, for studies of children with congenital anemia that start revealed anemia to the extent of 13 to 20 percent in the
"In a recent survey in a large Eastern city, 27 per cent of 15-year-old girls and 19 per cent of 14-year-old boys were anemic.
"The unexpected finding was the same high incidence of anemia not only in girls between the ages 13 and 14, but also in the 13 to 15. The highest percentages
And so, curiously, it could be the fact of greater cleanliness in the kitchen than in the ordinary dirt used to contribute appreciable amounts of iron to cookware.
state review of pre-school children in the National Nutrition Survey found an incidence of real anemia between 5 and 50, per cent.
"AGAIN, THE large majority are black from low-income communities by independent investigators found a close association of illness with poor appetite. The same is true for fatigue, lack of attention."
modern refinements of foods.
Dr. Diamond said one motivation, and only one, to take up drugs such as heroin was that the drug's physical strength, and for self-protection joined groups or gangs, usages of drugs, and many drifted into drug use.
Dr. Diamond said a recent 10-
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General Telephone & Electronics, and handles about 80 per cent of the nation's telephone calls.
Phone Rate Rise Criticized
With profits from its manufacturing and research subsidiaries, it meted $2.2 billion in earnings last year, a comparison, General Motors, the world's largest industrial corporation, earned $1.9 billion last year. AT&T's first quarter profits were up 6 per cent to $392 million.
FROM 1966 through 1971, local telephone charges rose 11 per cent and dropped a little over 4 per cent, while consumer prices rose 8 per cent.
Since 1970, AT&T has boosted rates some $1 billion a year, or more. In the last two years, another $1.2 billion a year in 18 separate rate cases around the U.S.
developed new ones, the quality of reports increased. The months of 1971 showed a 'significant over-all improvement,' over 1970, the study
11 Harrowhouse-Gerald A. Browne NONFICTION
Since then, "Ma Bell's" appetite for new money has increased. AT&T raised $4.8 billion in 1971, accounting for about 11 per cent of all the new capital invested and bonds by American industry.
AMERICAN Telephone is a giant holding company which owns or participates in 24 telecommunications companies, long distance division. It operates about 100 million telephones in 48 states and serves 350 million phones of its nearest competitor.
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Despite this, the rate of earnings during the first part of the '60's was climbing. Technological version to the direct dial system for long distance calling, produced sharp economies. Telephone usage was increasing in 1970s and 1980s, handled, explained one industry.
Telephone rates are set by local, state, or federal agencies, which balance between consumer demand and reasonable rates and investor requirements for a fair rate of payment. The agency has decided to leave rate decisions in the hands of these agencies within certain boundaries.
"The increases are necessary so we earn enough money to provide first class service. F, M, T and AT&T vice president, said.
Beginning in 1969, telephone traffic nearly doubled its growth rate from that of the previous couple of years.
TO MEET THE unexpected burst in demand, AT&T pumped more money into plant construction. While in inflation was rampant and interest rates were soaring, financing increased for the company per cent. The company gulped
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AMERICAN Telephone said telephone charges had not kept pace with increases in other countries, and had bitten deeply into earnings. This reduces the attractiveness of Bell System stock and bonds, the company said, making it more difficult for users to money to meet service demands.
down $2.5 billion from bank loans, notes, and bond issues.
Interest expenses in 1971 more than tripped 1966 levels, and wage costs among the 24 Bell company rose 70 per cent, AT&T and others. During the five-year period, it added, increased by about two-thirds.
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"The reason AT&T needs so much money is because of poor customer service in a Federal Communications Commission attorney appointed to oversee one rate case. "If regulation merely covers up these mistakes, then the company will lose."
SERVICE, which had deteriorated at key cities around the country, began to improve, according to a 20-city FCC survey. Most of the cities still had problems and Atlanta, Milwaukee, and Pittsburgh
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In little over two years Bell companies have won rate increases in 35 areas of the country and 78 in other areas. Fourteen of these areas already have had one rate hike in the same period and Wisconsin has
In explaining the need for rate boosts, AT&T & Chairman John D. deButs said recently, "Only by providing reasonable return to their investors can utility companies, our own included, can we expand capacity it takes to expand capacity to meet the public demands."
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Critics claim the conventions plantation does not ode to the women who live there where they live; they may also have a harsh word to say about them.
HE STRESSED he was not suggesting that correcting the anemia would cure all the maladies and, or steer kids from drugs.
NEW YORK (AP) - Telephone rates are going up in most of the country and American Telephone & Telegraph Co., last year the world's top money maker, is the company with $1.2 billion in 18 separate cases.
"It may be one handle by which to take hold of the problem of managing the disturbed adolescents or ignored while we tackle the more difficult problems of poverty, crime corruption, unrestricted as wide as local disruption of human civilized law and order."
More Books Looked at
By DAVID BURKE
AP Business Writer
By DAVID BURKE
Also on hand, though it will be dagebited mightly soon, is B. Zanger's LEAGUE BASEBALL 1972 Player-coach biographies, previews, forecasts, schedules, team-by-team analyses, information on last rookies, anecdotes of last trades, anecdotes, records, trades.
Two interesting collections,
too. One is edited by Robert
Hoskins, WONDER-MAKERS:
A LIFE OF SCIENCE FICTION (Premier,
95 cents). Poet, Bierce, H. G. Wells,
Kiping, Forster, London, Doyle,
Benet are on hand here. The
other is edited by Raymond Van
Dyke, Littleton, CHINESE LITERATURE
(Premier, 95 cents).
There's also a valuable new volume out for the student involved in preparing papers for the WEBSTER POCKET DICTIONARY OF SYNONYMS (Pocket, $1.25). Entries are alphabetical and cross-worded, and it's a handy guide.
H. R. Hays' THE
R. HORSE SEX (Pocket,
$1.25) attract many readers. It treats
age-old hostilities between the
sexes, taboos, homosexuality,
and what he sees as men's war on
KU Work Study Funding Is Fourth
The University of Kannas not only has the largest enrollment in the state, but also the wealthiest. Senator Bob Dole concerning the federal funds allotted for the College program during the next fiscal year.
A total of 53 Kansas institutions of higher learning will receive $2,850,289 during the 1972-73 fiscal year, which begins July 1. With a large number of applicants, amount it will receive. Those institutions to receive the largest allocations are Fort Hays Kansas State College with $341,256, Kansas State University with $324,864, State University with $18,684.
This program provides federal funds to pay 80 per cent of student employeSalaries, Bernie Taylor, M.D., will be provided at KU, said Friday. The college or university is to provide the re-education through its various departments.
By BOB FULKERSON
Kansas Staff Writer
The Work Study Program is part of the Higher Education Act of 1865, and it is designed to expand part-time employment opportunities for students, particularly from low-income families.
AN APPLICANT must be able to demonstrate a real need for financial aid, be a full time student in good standing, and be a citizen of the United States or have the permission of becoming one. Taylor said.
"Work Study funds are not being withheld from KU because of past troubles or any government
dissatisfaction with KU. KU doesn't have as many students from low income families as some smaller Kansas colleges The federal government follows a complicated formula that rules on how universities shouldOWER another on any basis other than financial need," he said.
Recalling the small beginnings of the Work Study Program, Taylor said, "In 1967, we had 33 students on the program. Last year we had 617 out of approximately 1000 who applied. Currently, the size of the program here is less than half of that of federal money coming in."
ONE OF THE most important tasks of Taylor's office is determining the eligibility of students to the Work Study Program.
"If the applicant's parents' gross family income is over $8,000, their chances for eligibility will be lower," said factors into consideration, such as the number of children in the household or medical expenses," said Tayler.
"Our policy is that the student's parents should be involved in their student's education. There are many reasons why this cannot always be the case, beginning with the fact that students occasionally more complicated situations arise, such as conflict between parent and student.
"WE TRY TO be as flexible as possible, and still see that those needing financial assistance the most receive it."
The 20 per cent of the student's
salary provided by KU comes from the individual department where the job is performed. The other students are referred eligible students to the various school departments that have made their requests for student employees based on funds available within that depart-
The Office of Student Financial Aid also attempts to direct applicants to jobs that match their areas of interest. One such student is Emily Cohen, a renaissance sophomore. He is majoring in anthropology and has a part time job at the Museum of Natural History. Eakin is in charge of filing mailing requests which the museum receives for its publications.
"SUMMER JOBS are very hard come to you, especially Eakin Years," and this job gives me $1.70 an hour, and I'm working around mate-crush.
Eighty-five departments at KU are housed in the building with the opening price $390,411 for the upcoming year. Requests are made to the Office of Academic Affairs, 850 W. Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10026.
money according to each department's ability to pay the 20 per cent of the student's wage.
Most available positions are clerical, but there are also unusual jobs such as museum guards and animal animal care. The library and the KU Computation Center are the largest single employers.
The hourly wage, which may vary from company to company, each department. The higher wages are paid to students working on graduate research project.
MANY STUDENTS are working at KU this summer through the Work Study Program. Students may amount they may earn during the summer, as they may be during the regular session, but they must sign a paper promising to save 60 per cent of their take-home income to KU as a full-time student during the coming school year.
Taylor said this was to provide assurance that the individual was using the Work Study Program for educational purposes at KU. He added that financial promises, financial assistance could be withheld in the future.
THE SUMMER SESSION
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