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Thursday, December 10, 1970
University Daily Kansan
Agnew Voted Top Newsmaker of 1970
Rv ANN MORITZ and DAVID BARTEL
Self-proclaimed and President-approved ophthalmia the middle class, voice of the Silent Majority, or political hatchetman—by whatever label he wore, Vice President Spiro Theodore Agnew was the top newspaper of 1970.
Fresh from his battles with the pres, the vice-president cut a campaign swain across 32 states and turned an off-year, humdum election into a war between the virtues of apple pie and motherhood and the perversions of liberalism and Dr. Spock—best exemplified by his criticism of the governor's
The foes of Agnew, and therefore of America, it seemed,ailed forth from the Senate chambers to meet Middle America's champion on the field of the election ballot. They were met with a devastating barrage of vice-presidential alliteration that gave to American posterity "the hopeless, hysterical hypochondria of history" and "the utterly absurd." "Three 'radiclib' senators" went to Congress next year.
AGNEW'S IMPACT on 1970, the elections and the American mood is difficult to measure. He was the Nikon administration's most natural opponent in the Senate. Some accused him of ignoring interest, of inflaming the nation's controversies, and of meeting greater unrest. Agnew says he simply told
Regardless of the controversy he created, there could be no doubt that his presence was felt. Ever Mickey Mouse had to move over and take on the challenge.
The ending year saw the rise of another figure in national and international politics, a figure symbol of a frightening new trend—the
Not since Hitler and Stalin had terrorism found such widespread use in the world's political arena. In Latin America, foreign diplomats were kidnapped for use as a trade for jailed revolutionaries. In Canada, government officials were kidnapped in an attempt to further the cause of French separatists. At least one man was killed in each incident. The recent news recently said it had turned up a similar plot against U.S. leaders.
POLITICAL TERRORISTS also took to the air in one of the most extensive waves of airplane hijackings in recent years. The climax came when Palestinian gunners attempted a coordinated seizure of five airplanes over Europe to focus world attention on the Midwest
Bomming was another tool of terrorists this year and the result has been stiffer laws and greater FBI power in dealing with such incidents. One of the worst bombings took place at the University of Texas, where a student and a building was virtually destroyed in an early morning blast.
His decision to U.S. troops into Cambodia, the Senate fight over confirmation of Judge G. Harrold Carwell's appointment to the Supreme Court, and his last-minute plunge in the 1970 campaigns of Richard Nixon Nixon another of this year's top newspapers.
The bombing at Wisconsin was not an isolated incident. Before and after it, bombs exploded in federal buildings, courts, police stations
Though Nixon did not enter the oratory of the year as notably as did Winston vice-president, it was always apparent that Agnew spoke words to Nixon, and his speech had a political impact on the battles of Lammonia and Vietnam to the battles of the U.S. Senate. Nixon was the decision-maker and his actions had great impact upon a
BECAUSE OF THE DIVERTY and complexity of the movement, Woman has been symbolized as one of the most important figures of 1970. The feminist flurred into new and angry life this year. Her illness was spread across a wide variety of leaders in the movement.
Woman made a noisy and thought-provoking new appeal for equal rights and full recognition. Undoubtedly, the future would bring more
In September, a new kind of fighting broke out in the Mideast, Jordan erupted in civil war between the pro-Western royalist government and Palestinian guerrillas. In the fighting, Syrian tanks pushed back into Damascus and for a time it impaired that King Hussein would be overrun.
Husein's forces finally managed to get control of the situation—largely by air power—and the monarch continued rule of a kingdom that has been in his family for 37 generations. His leadership in the war between Iran and Saudi Arabia relations with Israel and to shape the future of the Arab world.
The first cabinet member to speak out against Richard Nikson suffered the consequences of losing his job and ranked among the top 100 cabinet members.
WALTER HICKEL spent the year being beaded by Nixon, snubbed during one of his most dramatic accomplishments and fired from his
Astroflash, a New York computer programmed for horoscopes its forecasts for 1970 early year. Among them, it said that the sun would go down on October 25.
An epocalyptic figure, Nasser was a nation-builder whose successes and failures were equally titanic. He died in October.
His death brought everything in the Mid-East to a temporary halt, oceans rebelled the Arab-Israeli peace talks and forced all parties, including the United Nations, to evacuate.
Nasser's death out the government of the Arab world's most im-
Frustration Marks Black Struggle
By MARY CATHERINE JACKSON and PHYLIS JONES Kansan Writers
It was a year of progress. Political appointments. Public housing projects. Kenneth Gibson. A black homecoming queen at the University of Georgia. Muhammad Ali, a heavyweight champion striped of his title by the Boxing Commission, making his long-anticipated return to the ring in a victorious bout with Jerry Quarry. But for some it was a year of violence. Early morning police raids.
Desegregation, a critical issue since 1954, was given top priority by the administration as Nixon promised that desegregation in the South would occur smoothly and quickly. At the beginning of the school year, 94 per cent of school districts in the South were officially classified as desegregated, but because of residential patterns and other factors, students still attended predominantly black or all-black schools.
For blacks living in America, 1970 was another year of frustration, deferred dreams, broken promises and loss. After 18 months in office, the Nixon administration boasted of 65 blocks in policy-making and infrastructure that "negro- first" were seized followed by seconds or thirds.
In some districts, desegregation was met with violent opposition and boycott by whites, and in others, placed resignation. Gov. Claude Kirk, Illinois governor at the time of his resignation, Florida schools only under threat of a huge fine for contempt of court. In Virginia, Gov. Linwood Holton personally escorted his 13-year-old
The Nixon administration instituted more than 50 lawsuits against defiant southern school districts and promised to send federal lawyers and marshals to monitor enrollment. This promising beginning fizzled out as school opened and by the end of 1970, the administration was taking a hands-off policy with the South, virtually ignoring the continuation segregation. With an eye on the 1972, Nixon has eased the pressure on the South, and, as long as the Supreme Court refuses to rule de de facto, he will take a strong move by the President to integrate public schools.
Busing, the latest attempt to desegregate schools, has met violent opposition from whites. The "country club klan" withdrew their votes after the school's leaders called for a boycott.
encrolled them in hastily established segregated private schools (which often receive federal funds). As a result, desegregation still remains far short of the administration's promise of 90 per cent of black students attending school in desegregated districts.
more tragic than desolation, however, was the death of four black students at Jackson State College in May. Although the Mississippi Highway Patrol was exonerated for any wrongdoing by an inexperienced controversy still remains as to whether the shootings were justifiable.
Violence was not limited to the campus, however, for after a week of ebilion in Atlanta, seven blacks lay dead. Across the country in California, three blacks were killed in a bloody, revolutionary attempt of free black prisoners being tried in a San Rafael courtroom. As a result of the incidents, brilliant and controversial Angela Davis, an anti-Semitic activist, is fighting extinction to California for murder and kidnapping.
In a pre-dawn raid by a squadron of Chicago police, Fred Hampton, chairman of the Black Party Party, was killed in his bed. Anger glared in the black community and a congressional investigation was initiated by black congressmen. Bobby Seale, national chairman of the Panther Party, was gagged and chained in his chair during the brutality from both blacks and whites.
Mexican-Americans, who from the majority of migrant workers, their first year in the country was often culled, culminating in heavy pay and shorter hours when the grape Growers capitulated to some demands put forth by Cearan Chavez. The lettuce strike followed and final litigation is still to be resolved.
In 1970, "Black Power" was publicly joined with "Manana is here!" Mexican-Americans and Indians, long silent ministers, signaled their intentions of cashing in on the advantages to be gained from audible, viable protests and demonstrations to gain their rights.
At the same time, Flip Wilson said "The Devil made me do it" and we laughed and laughed
Indians ended their long era of passivity by taking over the abandoned island of Alcatraz and converting the former prison into a colony run by Indians. The government, while not condoning or controlling the activities of the occupants a belated welcome by cutting off all utilities to the island.
Elected prime minister in a surprise outcome, Edward Heath put his name in lights in 1970. He added to the Tories' chance to show their support.
portant nation up for grabs.
BRIAIN'S LONG-SOUGH entry into the Common Market was closer than ever with Heath in the top seat. 1970 was the grand battle for France, and the
The U.S. Army's most famous first lieutenant, William L. Calley Jr., continued to hold the eye of the media and the attention of the nation. His story, and the story of My Lai, came to a climax in Calley's court martial.
Calley was charged with the murder of 102 Vietnamese villagers at Nlay in Mumbai March 1968. The entire episode stirred deep controversy in the media.
WHAT CALLEY'S TRIAL would determine was yet to be seen, but his case seemed to have become symbolic of American involvement in Southeast Asia. Almost everyone knew what happened at My Lai; few wanted to say how it happened; and no one knew it whitened it.
A politician without a party since last spring's election, John Lindley was a man deluged by snowstorms, garbage strikes and hot summers.
One of the most attractive politicians in America in many ways, the
seekers have stepped out of Nixon's net with simple and
somewhat surprising
Editor's Note
These top stories of 1970, covering the prominent people and events of the year, were selected by a journalism class.
Agnew's Antics Arrest All America's Attention
BY JEANNE GOLDFARB and KAREN HOLZEMISTER Kauan Writers 1708 humor in the work of Agnew (with apologies to Gilbert and Sullivan)
In '70 I served a term.
As whipping boy in the Nixon firm.
I performed my duties with a smile so grand
That my name was heard over all the land.
My name was heard so frequently
That now I am considered for the presidency.
My timeless prose and an occasional bott.
Put me on the face of a watch.
And though I suffered many newsmen's ribs
I was close to the pulse of radic-libs.
I attacked those "libs" so fearlessly.
That now I am considered for the presidency.
At alliteration I am king of them all.
And the effervesce fire when they up my ball.
But Martha Mitchell has a better aim.
 And the nabobs natter when she says their name.
The nabbs natter so negatively
That now I am considered for the presidency.
Near a place called Lawrence, it's temp they're picking
And the left-handed students for rights are kicking.
The oddball candidates got national play
And the new JP wants to marry the "gay."
It's the "commie-hippie-freaks," you see
That keep me in the running for the presidency.
Besides my antics as electioner
1970 was a pretty dull year.
We heard the latest of Earlhart tales
Hemlines dropped and so did sales.
The economy dropped so perilously
(Gee, I hope I'm still considered for the presidency).
My foot goes in my mouth with style
But "Nixon the one" in the Manson trial.
He liked "Patton" and the welfare song
But Johnny Cash didn't go along.
If my PR is successful the result will be a sequel to the "selling of the Presidency."
Mrs. Plimpton announced her pregnancy But George drew the line at midwifery. The Amateur Hour went off the air, Carswell couldn't take a chair. If Raquel gets all the publicity How can I compete for the presidency?
The Frito Bandit was kicked out the door, the Sheriff's not around for Dodge anymore Montana appealed to Chet Huntley; Algeria appealed to Tim Leary. With David Frost and Yippie TV I've got a good chance for the presidency.
Lady Bird wrote her memoirs this year. Sailors' quarters can now stock beer. Though Grandad once had corn-on-the-cob Charles and Anne settled for a U.S. hot dog. With Goodell bowing out to James Buckley My chances are enhanced for the presidency.
So Republicans all, wherever you may be,
you want to rise to the top of the tree.
If your soul isn't bothered by the rhetoric
Alliterate until you're sick.
Don't forget the Silent Majority
And you can be considered for the presidency.
Science Becomes Political Issue
1970. It was the year winn-
"ecology" became a household
word; the year NASA word,
the year America is most
spectacular space failure held
much of the world in prayer;
it is 39's astronauts maneuvered their
By KRISTIN GOFF
Kansan W. iter
Movies Rated 'R' Reflect Society
By LAINA NELSON
Kansan Writer
If movies are reflective of society, 1970 will go down in history as the year rated R. The movie industry walled in reflections of social disorder, social anarchy and general social disintegration.
A review of the year's life on campus was seen in undocumentary movies such as "Strawberry Statement" and "Getting Straight." They did little more than show the confusion the movie-makers had with their subjects; they probably did more harm than good to the attitudes of the people who witnesses their showings.
Down the road from the campuses were movies explaining why there were disorders on campuses, movies such as A.M.1SH and "Catch-22" were shown, movies like "The Walking Dead" showed how the military is viewed by a great many young people. Unfortunately, they were movies done with one audience in mind, and after the movie that audience was even more assured their views against the military establishment.
A few movies were cut from the old mold to be cast upon those wide screens. In fact, John Wayne as Chlamy, was able to ride back in his familiar dressing gown and walk off to the still was caught in the limelight of his first Oscar
Movies such as "Cusum" and "Monte Walsh," the year's westerns, and "Paint Your Wagon," are considered among the most famous musicals, were greatly overshadowed by the Rated social commentary. These movies considered topics from general disorder on college campuses to military satire on military, marriage and life in general.
Aside from the one-sidedness of "M.A.S.H. and "Catch-22," were some great acting and directing jobs by some very talented people. Elliot Gould, who is getting to be a familiar face on the screen, and the versatile up-start, Don Sutherland, were both highly regarded by the press, who goes to Alan Arkin as Yossarian in "Catch-22." He, under Mike Nichols' direction, was able to adapt well to Joseph Heller's character, Yossarian.
One spot of brilliance did come across the screen
in showing the other side of the military "Patton." That is about all that needs to be said about the movie, because it is such an accurate character portrayal of a man named Patton. From the first screen, you see a woman in red Patton is all one can see on the screen, Scott IS Patton. The veteran actor got lost in the character of that controversial general. Scott moves the audience from patriotism, to total dislike of war, and then connects with war, but he leaves an awe and respect of military men behind in the final rundown.
The institution of marriage was taken care of in "Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice" and "Diary of a Mad Housewife." They were generally views of women who worked at home, but were able to recover from their moments of wifeswapping and survive. But "Housewife," starring Carrie Sindgress, showed every base view of married women. Richard Benjamin as "Housewife" husband would have better to let that movie alone and stay with his role in "Catch-22." But, as Ted in "B.C., Housewife" set himself down as a favorite for the '70s.
After campus disorders, military and marriage comes just the regular R-rated, personal destruction stories. "The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart," "Myra Breckenridge" and "Grasshopper" take care of this category. "Stanley" and "Grasshopper" would evoke many labs from the silent majority generation. Both show the kind of people who touch the life of free sex and become dependent on drugs. Sad tales of unhappiness, but there are people around who fit those categories.
"Myra Breckenridge" and "Boys in the Band" can be considered perverted tales, or tales about the woman who has a boyfriend. But that even with all Rauquel Welch's uxom ability still fails grossly. Director Michael Sarro would have given them more credence.
1970 would not be whole if the subject of homosexuality had not been brought to the screen. The result is that the subject
Shirley Booth tried to go back on the stage in the play "Hay Fever," but it would have been more playful. Her sisters stayed home. The same advice applies to Katherine, the exaggerated account of the cosmetic queen Gabrielle Channel. But, in both cases, it is not the fault of the veteran actress, but more the fault of her mother.
that JOE causes you to think is at least a little more than any of the shows that cause you to think is at least a little more than Fiddles of Fiddler's Roof, "Hair", "Hello Dolly" and "Promises", promises are still there. And actually, nothing else is better.
movie about homosexuals. This movie perhaps does a service to the homosexual community that does not.
And now, we come to perhaps the most accurate protrail of our society, the people in it and their views that has ever been done. Peter Bayle brings it up again in her book *The Duel*, and paneled family room JOE. It is a view of both sides of life, the right and the left. Depending on which side you on, you can either leave the theater seeing JOE as a hero, or a pig. But you must have to admit that the show makes you to think.
But when one looks at the movies and the Broadway shows a curious difference is noted. Broadway 1970 brought no new "Oh, Calcutta!" or "No, Calcutta!" to theaters; the version was out. Movies in 1970 were almost the exact opposite (some exceptions, admittedly). May be this means that 1971 movies will go the G and GP route, since 70 covered everything from male homosexuals to views of heterosexual and homosexual intercourse.
Probably the only really refreshing play on Broadway now is "Applause." This stage adaptation of "All About Eve" gives Lauren Bacall a lot of good material and entertainment also do well.
Looking forward to '71, one can hope for a mixture of movies that finally answer some questions raised in the '70 shows. With some movies that cause confusion, the answers given, '71 could be a successful year
crippled ship back to earth; the year of the pill scare and of liberalized abortion laws.
In many ways it was a year in which science, like politics, took on the role of pollution and population growth were condensed to bumper sticker size. Motherboard at least twice larger than the revered. And April 22 marked the beginning of a broader public awareness of environmental concerns.
It also was a year of less publicized breakthroughs in science and medicine. Element 105, "hahumim," was added to the chemist's periodic table, bringing with it new hopes of which they may someday be transformed into electrical power.
A French team of doctors at Broussais Hospital in Paris implanted the first atomic-powered pacemaker into a heart patient. It is expected to exceed the battery-powered pacemaker* life span of 30 years with offers hope that a permanent pacemaker may someday make heart transplants unnecessary.
Some scientific announcements seemed to carry implications that the technical knowledge for these projects would be much less than 14 years away.
Vale neuro-surgeon Dr. Jose Delago accomplished the first direct communication between brain and spinal cord, directed certain brain wave patterns and stifled others of a chimpanzee through radio signals to electrodes implanted in the brain. These signals include possible treatment of
A mixed reaction greeted the announcement that a team of British doctors joined the ova and sperm of a childless couple in a study of how fertilized egg in the womb of the mother. The technique may make it possible to implant a fertilized egg of one couple into the womb of a substitute mother when fertility implications for the working woman, too busy to bear her own child.
mentally ill, the researcher said. Perhaps the year's most dramatic story in the realm of science was the aborted Apollo 13 mission. The spacecraft flawless manned moon landings, Americans had given only passing notice to the third lunar sojourn.
At 10:18 p.m. (EST) on April 13, astronaut Jake Swiegert radioed from space, "Hey, we've got a problem here," and the nation reacted with disbelief and a half suspenseful days, millions of people around the world followed the plight of Swiegert, James Lovell Jr., and another crew in a fate of entombment in a perceptibly orbiting spacecraft.
Scientific findings and projections on environmental impact of coal-burning received national attention in the jumble of parades, protests, automobile barrials, cleanup efforts and cleanups that was Earth Day, April 22. In Miami Beach a "Dead Orange Parade" was held. In New York City it was forced to use a horse and buggy to cover activities because the mayor had banned all internal combustion engines from Fifth Avenue.
An estimated 10,000 scientists, technicians and members of the U.S. Sikh Fleet were involved in the dramatic rescue which occurred in a longer struggle, the space program was less successful. Congress cut funding of the space program considerably, causing the cancellation of several missions and revision of future plans.
In the aftermath of what some had predicted would be a one-day storm, strict regulations on automotive pollution standards to be met by 1975 and "quality environment" fall congressional campaigning.
Along with mass demonstrations, a quieter development committee was formed by Norman E. Borlaug, a plant pathologist working on the Tulip Bulb disease.
improvement program in Nebraska, not in Iowa. Peace Prize. His scientific cross-breeding has produced a hardy, high yield type of wheat suited to a variety of climates. Its免疫力 enabled that country to nearly meet the 1970 wheat overproduction of its own enormous population.
Abortion and birth control also hit the headlines as several states passed more liberal abortion laws and a Senate subcommittee on the birth control pill publicize the contraceptive method.
Doctors and pharmaceutical companies were criticized in a much publicized subcommittee report of the women of possible links between the pill and strokes, breast cancer, blood clots and heart disease. A "pill scare" spread among doctors, who a poll showed that 18 per cent of the women using the oral contraceptive had stopped using it. Another 23 per cent said they believed their use would halting their use of the pill. Several months after the hearings had ended, the subcommittee considerably softened its views for manufacturers' warnings.
New York led the nation in passing the most liberal abortion law in a year when several states declared it legal. Doctors and hospitals were swamped with more than 20,000 operations in the first three months of the new law, but held up a long fight from abortion to one in 5,000.
In science and space and medicine, 1970 was, perhaps more than other years, a year of great strides by scientists in recent years, more people questioned whether this decade's technology could, in fact, meet the burdens of the future technological technology had placed on society.
And science, whose realm includes the invisible and the demon, again the decade like an anxious porpoise living man in myriad directions.