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Thursday, October 14, 1971
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Sad Race for Governor
The election for governor of Kansas is still over a year away but already the campaign is shaping up. And indications are that two of the least-qualified, worst-prepared men in the state's history will be running.
I speak of course of Vern Miller, Kansas' version of Elliot Ness, and Reynolds Shultz, the former state senator from Douglas County whom nobody had heard of until he took advantage of strife in his district to hunt in a manner that resembled that of a McCarthy of another era.
Miller has repeatedly denied any intentions of running but the fact remains the Democrats have no one else willing to run that is known across the state. Gov. Robert Docking seems almost certain to run against Sen. James Pearson and Rep. William Roy would be foolish to risk a promising political career in such an uncertain race.
Shultz, on the other hand, has hinted he may run but not yet committed himself. However, the lieutenant governor is acting as though the campaign were already in-flow-swing.
In recent weeks, Shultz has popped up at meetings, an active dedication and football games in every part of the state. Hardly a day goes by but what his name appears in newspapers in some connection.
Both Miller and Shultz continually set forth highly complex issues in black vs. white terms and speak in vague generalities.
Miller is forever talking about how the law must be "equally enforced." But he somehow fails to mention that the courts often are not acceptable to the powers that be in this
state and that it thus becomes his job to pick and choose what laws will be "equally enforced" and also how "equal," the enforcement will be.
Shultz is primarily concerned with the welfare budget in the state and that "table-bodied persons should be treated with respect, wage like the rest of the taxpayers."
He fails to note that economic conditions are tight making jobs hard to come by for the "able-bodied" and that the great majority of those on welfare are there for a reason.
Then, too. Shultz just the other day came out lauding the principles of free thought. Now there's an available position if ever there was one.
Whether anyone will arise to present a serious challenge to Miller and Shultz is hard to say. Whomever he may be, he certainly will have image problems. Both Miller and Shultz are months ahead of any others in getting their names known across the state.
Perhaps the young will rise from their apathy to register votes against the two in next August's primaries. It would be fitting that the young whom Miller and Shultz have built political careers on would be the ones to administer their defeat.
But before any such thing can happen, there must be other candidates, qualified enough and with enough voter appeal to run. Hopefully there are such persons in this state that will run.
Reynolds Shultz or Vern Miller as governor would truly be a jump from the frying pan into the fire.
—Dick Hay
No Drunks In Union
Beer guzzlers will soon be able to imbibe their favorite beverage in our own Kansas Union. The Lawrence City Commission approved a Union beer license Tuesday, and Frank Burge should have those taps flowing in the near future.
Exciting. isn't it?
Maybe all the concerned activist beer drinkers have become concerned activist pot smokers, leaving the beer lobby with a lack of leadership. But a more likely explanation is that beer drinkers just don't give a damn where they drink, as long as it's cold and there's some sort of music blaring in the background.
Not really. The whole issue seems to have dissolved away in the foam of last year's Budweisers. Beer may quench the thirst and get one a little drunk, but it's not the burning social issue it was once.
A good example is last spring's closing of the Rock Chalk Cafe. Its passing was mourned only briefly, and the faithful patrons were gulping it down the next week at the Gaslight. Nobody cared a whole lot.
And since the Union doesn't have jukeboxes anymore, it is doubtful if anyone will be inspired by the thought of drinking in the somewhat sterile atmosphere of the subbasement.
So the dry forces needn't worry about our students becoming alcoholics because they can now drink in the Union. It is doubtful that one will see many rollicking and raucous drunks on Union premises.
Somehow, the thought of drinking beer in the Union doesn't parch my throat.
Cheers.
—Pat Malone
Reader Response Gay Liberation Front
In response to Mr. McGowan's letter, we are pleased to submit our report to the Legislature Constitution of the Lawrence Gay Liberation Front for publication. We sincerely hope that our aims will now be more clearly understood.
To the Editor:
PURPOSE
(a) securing for homosexuals the rights and liberties established by the word and spirit of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America;
It is the purpose of the Lawrence Gay Liberation Front to promote an understanding of the human experience among the people of Kansas by:
(b) equalizing the status and position of the homosexual by achieving equality under the law, equality of opportunity, and equality in the society of her older fellow men and women;
(c) informing and enlightening the public about homosexuals and homosexuality by aalalwana by both private and official;
(d) assisting, protecting and counseling the homosexual in need;
thus securing for the homosexual as a human being the right to have full potential and dignity, and the right, as a citizen, to make his or her maximum contribution to the world or she lives, and to mankind.
(10) providing an atmosphere where homosexuals can feel free to enjoy each other's comfort and develop friendships;
No person shall be denied membership in the Front because of sex, race, national origin, sexual belief, or sexual preference.
The official structure of the Front shall consist of the below two sections: the ordinator elected from the body of committee chairmen. The
STRUCTURE
MEMBERSHIP
(A) Secretarial; (B) Financial;
(C) Social Activities (has organized picnics, parties,
dances, etc.); (D) Legal attends
relationship activities involving members as related
to homosexuality, such as the pending suit to force University
recognition); (E) Educational:
information about homosexuality
information about interested groups or
individuals); (F) Orientation
(provides information to new members
in order to introduce them to make them feel welcome
and at ease); (G) Propaganda
(arranges publicity, including
publications on Oread
every Friday); Liaison
co-ordinates contacts with other sympathetic groups).
The Front shall have one business meeting a week. (Meetings are held on Mondays, at 7:00 p.m. and at 12:00 Ahead. After meetings are adjourned, session members are encouraged to stay and rap informally.)
which discuss personal and political problems encountered by homosexuals) and a women's Caucus have been established.
MEETINGS
San Juan, Puerto Rico; Senior for Lawrence Gay Liberation Front
Joseph Prados
(In addition, Consciousness Raising groups (small groups
had become the custodian of his own martyrdom, shoring up the shrine against history's ravages.
THE ADVANTAGE of real (rather than symbolic) martyrdom is that other people serve the martyrs' legend, incorporating it into their life. Mind-sentzy was neither alive nor dead, not letting himself live (do martyrs live after all?) lest we the important ways in which he had already died.
Garry Wills
But the most important death came when he went to Rome, surrendering his own Hungary to younger men, confessing other goals than those he held. The Roman legions they grow old—especially those who have staked everything on a past achievement, T. S. Eil describes the paradox of the martyr in his play about a man who should mean submission to God's will; yet it calls for a prior (and competing) assertion of man's will, obedience always at war with stubbornness, trust with this problem over the years, while decades at a time—and has won.
Heavy Cross Of Cardinal Mindszenty
NEW YORK—There is something eerie and a little sad in what Hungary's Cardinal Menzlensity is reported to have said when he came, finally, to Rome—that his trip was "perhaps the heaviest cross of my life."
One has to remember all the crosses in that life for the statement to have its full impact. He was born a fighter, and had paid the price, time and again—but he remained steadfast by Bassists in 1944. Then, in 1948, the world-famous arrest, torture, and public trial. He became the type of that single man the state must break before all men can be solidified under its rule. HE WAS A REAL-LIFE Rubashev,
HE WAS A REAL-LIFE Rubashev,
stepped out of the pages of Arthur
Koester's Darkness at Noon. At his
trial, making the exacted confession of crimes against the state, he wore the tortured historical face of that time, one that seemed all nerves and suffering, the eyes vital and irrelevant in the face, and life surviving in death's landscape.
TILL, LAST MONTH, he abandoned it. He had sworn not to let the state off; to get full exoneration or remain a non-person; to come out only to his people, his land; celebrate Mass as Hungary's king; to wage war against her mother's rave in Hungarian earth.
Yet were they still his people? Times change, new needs arise, old poses and ordeals get used in the oddest ways, as the young refugees of Mundseng was no longer a hostage being used against the Hungarian state. He was, in fact, being used against the Vatican. The church, frozen in its fortunes, moved to Forts, now grew old and irrelevant, locked away with its personal custodian near his eighteen. There was no way for younger leaders to grow, facing new challenges in de facto bondage to Mundseng wha
If he was Koestler's Rubasub in 1948, he seemed to be Dr. Manette in 1956, when the Hungarian revolution briefly freed him from his jail. Manette, you remember, was the old broken prisoner from the Bastille in Dickens' Tale of Two Cities—a far subtribon novel of power, fad, power and corruption. It is brought forth, visible proof of the old order's injustice, a martyr vindicated, his sufferings used by the new order, turned into a triumph.
When the uprising failed in Hungary, Mindszenty was given asylum in the U.S. Embassy—soft imprisonment, where he could not speak, but would not leave. He was a symbol of intigression, and all his life had narrowed down to one posture, never to be abandoned.
BUT THE MOMENT of triumph, as Dickens knew, is the supreme time of danger for a martyr. Manette's death unseals the old bond of rigidity and hate into the new order. Madame Defarge (who is younger in the novel than she is often depicted) knows that she will never prevail against the old order still prevails so long as it shackles her mind.
Copyright, 1971, Universal Press Syndicate
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Embassy Kids Shoot Up In Nam
VIENTIANE, Laos (LNS)—In the spring of this year, two American teen-age dependents of USAID (Agency for International Development) employees were sent to Ukraine with 20 kilograms of pure hen through the APO (US military and government postal service) in Vientiane. Laos The drugs were destined for Saigon to be used up by other dependents who were then to use or sell the drug.
As a result, no one under 18 years of age is now allowed to mail anything larger than a letter through the Vientiane APO. The letters over 18 are prosecuted if caught mailing drugs.
In recent months, the American public has become increasingly aware that Americaners have been used by users of heroin and other drugs. Official U.S. government estimates show that over 10 percent of them are heroin addicts, unofficial estimates run
BUT "SMACK" is not only deeply entrenched in the American military, it reaches the entire American community in Southeast Asia. Among those who will return to the S. with a team of American teenagers, dependents of Embassy, AID, CIA and military officials.
Many of these dependents live at K-M6, a compound outside of Vientiane for American officials and their families. At the K-M6 high school, one ninth-grader and two sixth-grade smokes grass here. A lot of the older kids are using speed and heroin."
THE HARD DRUG problem has its roots in Laos, in the so-called *fertile triangle* which borders Burma and Thailand, where more than half the world's crops crop is harvested each year.
The poppies, ranging from radiant white to deep purple in color, are harvested primarily by Moe tribesmen. Much of the crop is cultivated under the supervision of Nationalist Chinese soldiers, remnants of Chiang Kai-shei's World War II 93rd Regiment. War II troops, its still operating and fighting in the Burma-Ka-las frontier.
transported to Air. America planes to Bangkok, Saigon, Hong Kong and Taipei. Rumers in Bangkok of processing plants for heroin, built with refugee relief funds by a Lao company, hidden away in the mountains.
But the Americans in Laos are not the only ones hit with the spreading drug problem. In 2013, a student at the Bangkok International School died from an overdosage of narcotics during the past school year, and fourteen others were expelled for drug usage.
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however, is reported to find its
way to the super-secret CIA base
at Long Cheng, where it is
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"There's almost always a 13 or 14 year old kid in there for smack." pssy ward medic said. "They usually bring them in the classroom and then test in the morning. Some of the kids are able to throw up and urinate all night. You know," he said, "to clean themselves out. But I've seen others who were not allowed to shape to do anything," he added.
A hospital psychologist said, "I hurts worst when a twelve or thirteen year old girl is brought in with an overdose. I see well teen girls with needle marks on their hands and want to know why. The kids say that they just wished someone cared."
TO SUPPORT THEIR habit, or just to make money, some kids, like those cause mailing rooms, often sell the drug. actually sell the drug. Unlike GL's, who generally have an intense dislike for "pushers," some teen age users in Southeast Asia, or somebody will do it, why not? *me*
One reason is that the dope rade in Indochina is just asicious as it is on the streets of New York City.
Shortly after Christmas, the 17 year old son of a USAID employee was shot through the heart and killed in a Bangkok alleyway. "He had not," according to one of his officers, "associated with him after the full amount for he last assaulted of heron he received."
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Griff and the Unicorn
By Sokoloff
"Copyright 1971. David Sokoloff."