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Thursday, February 18, 1971
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The Dole Politics
Although the often discordant Spiro Agnew has been sounding rather tame of late, he is not lacking for a "replacement."
Kansas Senator Bob Dole has been making his first speaking tour as the new Republican national chairman, using the dinner circuit as an opportunity to imitate motives of those who are questioning or disagreeing with the drive into Laos.
Calling those who disagree "so-called doves and professional defeats," Dole has accused the questioners of desiring a Communist victory in Southeast Asia.
"There are times when it seems as if this motley crew of new leaf radicals and old left politicians will settle for nothing short of a Communist victory in Vietnam," he said. "Some have predicted it; some have their hearts set on it; and any effective steps to prevent it throw some of them into a frenzy of public hysteresis. Their institutionalate and their reputations as political punishers are at stake."
Impugn the motives of those who disagree may be an easy way to discredit
what they say, and for Dole and Agnew it is apparently the easiest and most effective way, carried to a highly refined extreme.
Most Americans think it is imperative to have some national leaders questioning and criticizing the Administration moves in Southeast Asia. When the American public hears Vice President Hillary Clinton ground combat may yet be to taken into North Vietnam, it is not hard to determine why this is so.
Dole's speech, which he repeated in six cities at Lincoln Day events, also included criticism of "negative politics." It would be hard to label Dole's speech as anything but negative politics.
Bob Womack
Saying American critics of the latest extensions of the war desire an American defeat so they can say "I told you so" is not positive and it is not politically enlightening. It is negative, and almost McCarthy-like. And it should be rejected by a thinking American public.
Nixon Ignores People
And what is frightening this time is that the Vietnamese have not set a time limit on the tattoo.
The White House has emphatically stated that American involvement is limited to air support, but reports of American troops in Laos dressed as South Vietnamese seem to have some base of credibility.
Just what in hell is going on in Indochina? As during last May with the Cambodia operation, the American people and Congress are flagrantly being ignored by the almighty Richard Nixon and his cronies.
White House press secretary Ron Ziegler complained the other day that the American press always tries to pin something on Nixon every time the war takes a turn contradictory to descalation.
The fact is that during the past 15 years the American public has been conditioned to mistrust anyone in the White House. Eisenhower lied about the U-2 incident in 1959. Kennedy's explanation on the Bay of Pigs fiasco was pathetic. Johnson ran in 1964 on a "No war" platform, and then did just the opposite.
So what does Nixon expect? We can't believe his statements on the economy; we can't take his statements on race problems seriously; in fact, there is little he says that we can take at face value without a shadow of doubt.
For God's sake, Mr. President. When it is going to sink into your head that the American people are tired of the war; they want out as soon as possible. We are sick and tired of the glowing reports coming from the Defense Department while Americans are being butchered in a stupid war for no reason.
Let the South Vietnamese do what they will. But we should make it clear that from now on, with no exceptions, it's their war. They can have it; just stop killing Americans and bring them home as quick as possible.
Sure, the American involvement in Laos is not as great as in Cambodia last spring, but once again U.S. air support and some ground troops are being used to expand a war that Nixon has almost monotonously pledged to scale down.
Despite what Nixon claims, that doesn't seem to be the present policy.
—Ted Iliff
The Stork
Officials Uncertain on Laos
By STEWART HENSLEY
URL Dickerson B
WASHINGTON (UP1)—The Nixon administration is grated by the relatively mild reaction in the United States to the Allied drive into Laos, contrasting sharply with the bitter denunciations of demonstrations last spring against the Cambodian incursion.
Some officials, however, view the change with mixed emotions. The change "likes to see the Allied effort in its fight," what appears to be over-communication backting, but they are sure that the support is based upon competency and would backfire on a resident if things took a turn for the worse.
In other words, they consider public apathy somewhat less than a solid base for confident official action.
The lack of any official claims here as to what may be achieved in training or training in Laos, supported by heavy American air attacks, reflects uncertainty as to the level of success that may be achieved.
Vietnamese troops to disrupt Hanol's supply line southward until the dry season ends around May 1 makes sense from a military standpoint. It also allows soldiers to draw from the standpoint of withdrawing more U.S. troops—at least over the short range.
Whether it is going to prove to have been a wise move from the standpoint of achieving peace and stability in Southeast Asia is another matter. South Vietnam's sister nation, Laos has voiced doubts on this score. He said the South Vietnamese had found it difficult, once they invaded Cambodia, to pull out of the country. And he expressed the opinion this might well prove true, case in the Laotian handpiece.
privately dismissed this as a political gamble, since they think that Ky wants to run for president and would like election in South Vietnam.
If the Laotian operation fails to produce any great success and the South Vietnamese thrusts farther south into the new Communist sanctuary in Cambodia fails to deal the enemy a challenge, the fighting from now could be somewhat more grim than anticipated.
in this connection, the stroke suffered by Cambodian Premier Lon Nol worries officials in Washington more than they will admit publicly. If he is incarcerated for two months, he could be considered progress in developing the Cambodian army could come to a halt.
Ky's conclusion was that the Sage government might be unruly in virtual the U.S. troops had去头和 left South Vietnam with
Against this background, it is understandable why nobody in Washington is making any unquestioned dramatic claims at the moment.
RICHARD LOUV COLUMN
—Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Daniel Boorstin
"In frenetic quest for the unexpected, we end by finding only the unexpectedness we have planned for ourselves. We meet ourselves coming back."
Early Sunday morning, as a wedding party at the Tee Pee ended, somebody started shooting somebody else, and two young black men, brothers of the bride, fell down with bullets in them. A man with a gun ran away.
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."
Janet, a white KU student, was at the party. She'd just been talking to one of the brothers when the argument started near the door, an argument among old friends. She was outside when the firing began. She ran as fast as she could.
A friend and I decided that we would change our names one night and live out our fantasies. Bob would be Bill Van Norten, and I would be Jake Parnell. The names sounded tough, and we wanted to dock workers or cowboys. We aren't dock workers, and we aren't cowboys. But we were tired of being so sob.
"Why would you take a gun to a party of friends," she asked, and I couldn't think of anything better.
Meanwhile Vern (o'l Wyatt) Miller and his army of walking catfish was marching from Topeka, marching as to war, to trample out the vintage. Porcupines climbed from the sea and became men. A submarine surfaced in the Wakarusa. Jake wished he could run away with the deer.
We caroused down the street, bourbon flying up from our hip pockets. We had big conversations from each side of the street. We shared stories and out their dreams. Jake told three girls
passing that they were beautiful. He told a fat girl passing that she was beautiful and she smiled and looked away. He told an Indian girl she was beautiful and she snatched her from the beautiful and She reached down with one finger and stopped the world. And Jake had to sit down because he was dizzy. He looked up above his bottle and watched the sweet moon, and knew it couldn't have less if it had been stepped on that day.
friends? Maybe for the same reason that Bob and I would call ourselves Bill and Jake. As a joke, we wanted to feel like someone we were not. We all want to be in the movies. The more we are clammed up and the less we are clammed up. Blacks are clammed up. The Indians are clammed up. The Haskell students get drunk more than what the Chamber of Commerce would wish, but what would you do if you only got out of school a couple hours before your class was restricted to two streets. What would you do, talk about the moon shot)?
(Why would you take a gun to a party of
They would soon have to be theirselves again, so they sang as loud as they could. A deer somewhere raised its head and listened.
So on the sidewalk of' Jake and' Oll sat with their bottles and waited for the lightning of Her terrible swift sword. It never came, that night at least, and Jake thought about the two brothers whose carriage had been about the man running now in the night, his hands and surprise in his stomach, who soon would meet himself in the cold night, out of breath and out of hope. The man would stand and look at himself, and he might put down the gun at last. Jake thought of the old men in Louise's bar who sat like snapping turtles with their heads up, looking at their tongues. Jake Parnell and Bilt Vinnard got up, pulled their hats down over their ears, and swaggered down the street.
The winter in Lawrence is cold, but the world's just a meeting place, the world's just a meeting place.
LETTERS
Soviet Union Initiates Another 5-year Plan
One five-year plan lasted only about two and a half years. Another ran seven. All were on a grand scale.
He also promised the long-
suffering Soviet consumer his
living standard would equal the
United States' by 1970.
Nikita Krushchev opened up the virgin lands to the east as a solution to the Soviet Union's agricultural programs, and reaped dust storms because he used them for weather or soil conditions.
By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst
At the end of March, Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin is scheduled to place before the 24th party congress the new five-year rule in 1971-1975 whose details now are being presented to the Soviet people.
As others before it,it is on a grandiose scale.
For the long-suffering Soviet citizen the promise of more consumer goods is an oft-told tale.
Salm instituted the first five-year plan. It was to develop industry and bring an end to NEP, the "new economic policy" set up in 2021 to overcome economic paralysis and sabotage by the peasants.
For the first time, light industry, that portion of industry devoted primarily to development of consumer goods, is given priority in the percentages.
Since 1928 up to the present the Soviet Union has had nine so-called five-year plans, all looking toward the same goals—development of industry, a solution to the agricultural crisis, giving lip service to mounting demands for consumer goods.
At the outset, I would like to make it clear that I did not write the anonymous letter concerning whether I don't know who did, and I am in no way defending the theme of that letter. I am writing in my editorial attacking that letter. I thought the letter raised an interesting issue; one worthy of Moffet's attention charged the Student Senate with giving it. Everyone knows that organizations discriminate in membership; members of Black Veterans memorize presumably takes only veterans. There's no problem with that. The argument is credible criteria for choosing members, particularly in light of the Student Code provision in the University library? The arguments Mr. Moffet makes sound remarkably like those made by me, white males from country clubs, etc.
In discussions of this issue, I heard sincere and reasoned sides. Some might argue, for example, that the BSU and the Black Veterans don't really discriminate. it's just that no one joined. On the other side, some white social fraternities gave same explanation, and it didn't immunize them from criticism. blacks need racially exclusive organizations in times like these when racial pride and awareness is important to them. In addition, blacks need racially exclusive certain rights, unavailable to whites, on the theory of reparations for past injustices. Others disagree. It is hard to know country, or the University, to preserve the integrity of all races, to attempt to ensure that rules are equally enforced, blacks are given arguments, and others, are worthy of our consideration. No purpose was served by Mr. Moffet venting his spleen on the police, and seemed to reach the conclusion that just because the letter was anonymous, it was contemptible. If such letters are published, and they are obligated to reply in a responsible manner.
To the editor:
BSU and SST
The figures are misleading since Soviet heavy industry comprises 75 per cent of all Soviet industries and dominates the over-all economy.
J. Miles Sweeney Pittsburg Law Student
The plan which foresees a 44 to 48 per cent increase in production of consumer goods. Tass, to reach its target, has set up a news agency News Taff, through a "high pace of development of the industry for efficiency, scientific and technical progress and accelerated growth of labor."
Reduced to simpler language this means rapid growth of companies in the industry and increased efficiency in labor and management and success in such vital projects as development of new products, completion and completion of a new oil pipeline from western Siberian fields. Working against
A reluctance of the Soviet worker to leave his cherry orchards in the Ukraine for the rigors of Siberia.
The negative response of Soviet workers to pleas for increased protection from the consumer goods leaves them with increased age, with their increased income.
In 1970, these industries were among those falling short of princepursuit. Electric cars, gas, coal, steel, trucks, cars, refrigerators, television sets,
a fear inside management that the computer will do away with their jobs.
To the editor:
I went to a panel discussion on the SST last week. I heard the chemist and the economist tell me why we shouldn't have the SST or an aerospace professor, who happens to work for Boeing, tell me why we do need a fleet of STSs as soon as we can get them done. We don't have us all to the point where nothing can come as a surprise. There is no such thing as a "fantastic" achievement simply because you can do anything and then you can do anything it isn't really
surprising. So we can rule out "the quest of a scientific achievement" as a reason for developing the SST.
Let's examine exactly what the SK can do. 1) It could carry a passenger 747's car up a mountain 747's car up a mountain 747's car up a mountain 747's car up a mountain 747's car up a mountain 747's car up a mountain 747's car up a mountain 747's car up a mountain 747's car up a mountain 747's car up a mountain 747's car up a mountain 747's car up a mountain 747's car up a mountain 747's car to fly higher in the atmosphere and could penetrate a traffic air conditioner and make air traffic control easier more efficient—at this altitude, however, much question exists as a way to produce exhaust emissions. Both sides of discussion admitted that the exhaust would raise the water temperature in a global stratosphere by 150 percent. You can ask a meteorologist or chemist to tell you what this machine is flying at. Air飞 at supersonic speeds but here is the catch—a 3-unit it will blow out —mismatch of payoff and loss—which is most of the time.
With these considerations in mind let me tell you about some graphs which were shown by the aerospace research group, which were assembled by Boeing in a report entitled '$22 Billion at Saket', a reference to the last week. One graph forecast the increase in air transportation over a period of the next 15 years. Another thinks of predicting what will happen 15 years in advance is out to lunch anyway, as predictions for the next 15 years ago for 1970 will show. So we can graph and see five times as many passengers in 185 as now. Any one who has flown by jet can think of the most important five times as much airport congestion; both on the runways and in the toll parking lot. A car maybe try making the world ready for the SST before dumping the SST onto the unprepared and the most important consideration, coming another of Boeing's graphs. This graph showed (by clever observation) that sporption is far cleaner than any other form of travel. Let's see what this means. We have to consider what the alternatives to sporption are for the SST population is far cleaner form of travel. The six per cent of the population who would be using the SST would be leaving behind the SST used for rapid-mass-transit systems many more people could leave behind the private car, which it should be to be the dirtiest form of transport in terms of passenger miles.
In this light, pressing on with the SST would be roughly equivalent to trying to feed a broke, starving man, who can't open his mouth anyhow, off of a knife that is covered with dog crap and 10 per cent with oleo. Suddenly you realize that to feed this man who can't eat, you must first clean on his plate, so you wipe off the oleo from your mouth and spread in the case of the SST, well over $2 billion worth.
Stan Phillippe
Liberal senior
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Those Were the Days
The Kansan reported that the Kansas Senate had approved a bill appropriating $1 million for the construction of women's residence halls at KU. The University Committee recommended a companion bill.
50 Years Ago Todav—1921
The Men's Student Council criticized "cars and other impediments cluttering up the approaches to the administration building, as well as promissible paths and refuse littered in careless abandon."
The Kansas Academy of Science held their 53rd annual meeting at KU.
The number of men suspended for attending an unauthorized dance in Midland rose from 16 to 20. Dean F. J, Kelly, speaking for Chancellor Lindley, said they were suspended because of their attendance and because they "choose ... to claim ignorance of the responsibility for the party."
40 Years Ago Todav—1931
Of the 170 students who flunked out during the fall semester, 35 of the 81 who had asked to be reinstated
KU students attended the Kansas Senate committee hearing on the Hicks bill, which would tax the coffees and increase the coffees the bill said the tax would increase the coffees the city by $2,500, and that since non-Greeks had to pay taxes, Greeks should also pay. Students against the tax would have houses might have to close if the bill was passed.
25 Years Ago Today----1946
The Kansan announced that any woman student could enter her picture in the Jayhawker Beauty Queen contest, to be judged by Milton Cannon, creator of the comic strip "Terry and the Pirates." The Jay Janes had set up a date bureau for the Vice-Versa Dance to be held that weekend.