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Monday, October 4, 1971
University Daily Kansan
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Nixon's Hip Shot
Now, in the earliest moments of the 1972 presidential campaign, innuendo, rumor, and casual remarks by any one of the many contenders, serious or not, Republican or Democrat, are fine ammunition for the opposition and usually get headlines.
The latest victim of the innuendo attack is Democrat, Edmund Muskie of Maine, usually considered the strongest contender for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Muskie's reply to a question about the possibility of a black running mate in '72 was that he didn't think a match with a black had a chance of winning.
Realistically, it doesn't.
But, politically, where anything can happen if your public relations staff is large enough and you think happy thoughts, Muskie's honest answer left him open for all the reasons of shock at his "racist" statement.
Like a hungry jackal, President
Nixon leaped on Muskie's remark and played it for all he could bleed out of it. He called it a libel on the American people.
First, the president, who was a practicing attorney between politics, should know the difference between a libel and a slander. He should have said it was a slander against the American people. Perhaps, the president didn't actually dream up this indignant attack, but one of his poll-conscious aides thought it would cull a couple of Gallup points. Surely and sadly it will.
Secondly, it seems ludicrous at best, for the man who has taken a non-position on busing to nip at the heels of Muskie whose commitment back camp is supported by his record of support civil and social reform legislation.
But, in these days when any straw in the wind offers a chance for attaching them, it's easier to do it.
—Tom Slaughter
Miller and the Media
Guest Editorial
We wonder how much longer parents, young people and other thinking citizens of this state are going to tolerate the antics of Vern Miller and the sensationalizing of them by the news media.
Kansas' publicity-crazy attorney general is doing an excellent job of building a political career by playing Russian roulette with the reputations and careers of dozens and dozens of young Kansans.
We abhor and find utterly contemptible the conduct of Vern Hilerson's drug raids' and the sentimental ones, which we watch the news media has reported them.
When the attorney general's office, a couple of years ago (before Miller's time), brought price fixing charges against a dozen state milk companies for allegedly biking the Wichita and several other school districts out of thousands and thousands of dollars, we saw no pictures of the business executives who were accused in those alleged swindles. Where were the flash bulbs and camera crews then? Why weren't their names splashed all over page one?
Neither Miller nor the news media seems the least bit concerned about what they might be doing to a whole generation of young Kansans, most of whom will remain in this state and attempt to build a future. They seem little concerned that they are alienating young people.
There has been a lot of talk in recent years about the disaffection of the young and this is one time when their disaffection is fully justified.
What happens to the individual who unwittingly drops by to borrow a cup of sugar from a neighbor who is on Miller's "bust agenda"? His picture may wind up on the evening news. His name, and possibly a photo, may even make it to the front page of his hometown newspaper.
Will this person's name ever be
publicly cleared? Of course the answer is no. The press doesn't do too much in the way of follow-up coverage when it concerns the aftermath of one of Miller's blitz attacks. You can't victim must defend himself against a "where there's smoke there's fire" rationale...
Smoking marijuana is, of course, against the law. But upholding the law is one thing. Building a political career over the broken futures of young Kansans is quite another. And Michael Wagner is the local news media in their misguided zeal to have something sensational to put on page one.
We listened and wanted to believe Vern when he told us about "equal enforcement" of Kansas laws. He proved those promises were all rhetoric when he started his well publicized and sadly impotent "crack down" on boozing at football games.
Vern Miller's drug raids are cheap publicity shots; it's time Kansans woke up to it and put a stop to it. There is absolutely no justification for carrying out drug raids with camera crews tagging along behind and plastering these "criminals" names all over page one. Because there is absolutely no evidence in this state to substantiate the contention, if anyone wants to make it, that the publicizing of the alleged "drug users" names is a deterrent to this "criminal activity."
Readers Respond
We are not, by condemning Miller's antics and their press coverage, condoning law breaking. We are simply saying law enforcement as practiced by Vern Wilkinson; our press is discriminatory, unprofessional and degrading to this state and its citizens.
—The Sunflower Wichita State University student newspaper
Letters to the editor should be typewritten, double-spaced and should not exceed 500 words. All letters are subject to editing and condensation, according to space limitations and the editor's judgment. Students must provide their name on the down; faculty and staff must provide their name and position; others must provide their name and address.
Letters Policy
Gay Lib, Bob Hope and Others
The PPP
To the Editor:
Having recently learned that the Student Senate is not only willing but eager to give funds to the student body, our organizations, our organization decided it would be to the advantage of the Student BODY to
The Pretty Prostitutes of Poters also are in desperate need to raise awareness of the campaign to relieve social frustrations and academic frustrations.
Because of the increasing number of heterosexual relationships and sexual promiscuity with the 'new morality, and touch the lives most of KU's students. Due to an expanding program, President Nixon's wage price freeze, and
Our purpose is not to criticize the Gay Laws against the Gay Liberation Front, but to advantage of the generous allocations available to the gay community.
lack of individual student
protection
Prostates requires $ 8,000 to be
used in our campaign to get more
students actively involved in our
campaign.
P. S. For information call: 864-2700.
Nancy Archer
Sasha sophmore
Cathi Fuller
DeStelo sophmore
Margi Ford
Maryla Ford
Sasha sophmore
And the Shaft
To the Editor:
We want to thank the Gay
Liberation Front for giving our organization the chance to be a UNION. Just a few weeks ago we thought we'd never have the chance to come to the forefront at Kansas, but now we offer opportunity.
To the Editor:
SHAFT UNION consists of anybody who's getting the Shaft. Our members include such people as those who walked in line for the shirt, and the ticket, students with 7:30 and Saturday classes, victims of Vern Miller and most important of all, students (18,000, count 'em) who are seeing their fees being applied against them on their university against their own university.
Our proposition: Though the Gay Libs are vague about their feelings, they assume that they number no more than 5 per cent of the total population.
Mike Willome and Rick Olmstead Junction City, freshmam
group of 900 Gays can ask for $800 allotment, then we, the remaining 17,100, feel we are being very reasonable in asking for a greater share of the SHAFFEES. Though aren't as "widely recognized" as the Gays, our cause will be served when each of the Gays who participate is reimbursed his fair share of the appropriation: 66 cents.
Burnt Out
To the Editor:
Have you heard the one about the burnt out editorial writer who asked her newspaper staff to enter into them with inside jokes about the Endowment Association and how Vern Miller left them panting last summer.
Not that this is the biggest issue to ever hit the campus paper, or a big-time school event, but it presents a good insight as to what the cultural context of the event was.
The punch line comes in the September 27 editorial page of the UDK in the editorial, "A Barb for Bob."
Tom Slaughter's one-column editorials are predictably funny to some people, offensive to others and just plain boring, on the whole, to most of us. The point of pick-ing is obnoxious at best.
Bob Hope, it is true, deals in "good safe humor," and is probably not the most popular comedian on campus, but then he has to work hard to cert. and alumni ARE the ones who are supposed to come home. The fact remains that some students on campus might happen to enjoy Bob Hope once they are raised if Rauquel Welch takes along.
I seriously doubt if this is all a "clever campaign" by nefarious individuals working towards the rapprochment among the infighting groups at the University, at the university at the paranoid, don't you think?
I bet Tom Slaughter bought a thousand tickets to the James Taylor Concert.
Don Lasley Shawnee Mission senior
Don Lasley
Voting
To the Editor:
My name is Larry Knecht. I am a prefect at Lawrence. On Sept. 28 I went to vote at my precinct, the Church on Massachusetts.
As my friend and I entered the door, we were greeted by several ladies. One of these women looked up and said, "You had vote yes for the new bill so they'll have a nice place to put you."
I am under the impression this type of conduct is illegal. At the very least I consider it to be acceptable, and I think people should think people be pleased to see a member of the "counter culture" (or anyone else with that attitude) the "patriotic" duty and cast a ballot instead of a bomb. However, with treatment such as the above, is it legal? The question America are also outrages?
This is the first time I have voted, and I feel very strongly it is wrong to vote for the supposedly free, unbiased elections this country prides in.
Larry Knecht Lawrence junior
To the Editor:
It seems strange that at a campus where the parking situation is critical, there are a number of careless drivers. A tour through X-Zone will quickly point out the number of drivers who leave 4, 5 or 6 feet between car and the one next to 'hem'
Parking
To a driver who is in a hurry this situation is frustrating
A possible solution to this problem is for drivers should think before shutting off their ignition about the next gay in line and use some other strategy.
A more complex solution to this problem would be for the University to paint lines marking parking stalls. The security driver who didn't observe the driver who didn't observe the rule and park within the lines.
Nancy Rock Kirksville, Mo., special student
Billy Jack
In reference to the Kansan's overly opinionated movie critic, we would like to ask her just one question. How much do you think of the Wizard of Oz?
Your movie reviews in the Kansan are often clever and well thought out, but who are you to tell us and millions of other people that we have no brains in our heads for seeing Billy Jack. The apprehension is both terrifying, since When it is a crime to enjoy a movie?
To the Editor:
Regardless of how well we had photographed, Billy Jack meant something to us and we are others who charge our opinion.
What a challenge it would be to take you to a movie. Imagine trying to find a flick that your date wouldn't rip to pieces!
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Just because someone happens to like a movie doesn't mean he doesn't have a brain in his head.
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If Pentagon plans are successful, Buck Rogers' "Death Ray" will be operational by 1980.
may be operatonal by 1980. The laser, a beam of high-energy light popularly accalmated for its potential applications in communications and medicine, is used to penetrate tissues and contributes to the military. After spending $100 million dollars over the past ten years, the Pentagon will soon add lasers to its arsenal of weapons.
TO THE WEAPONS engineer, the laser is appealing because it
Presently, government engineers, working under secrecy comparable to that surrounding the World War II Manhattan Project, are creating a warfare in which supersonic jets can fly through the sky with deadly beams of high enry light.
Liberation News Service
In February of that year, the Pentagon conducted a special briefing for over 70 aerospace engineers to discuss the initial funding of $2.5 million. At that time, the military foresees using the laser primarily for targeting and bombardment in 1962, the Army's Franklord Arsenal in Philadelphia issued requests to industry for a hand anti-personnel laser gun as well.
Pentagon Studies Laser Weaponry
can rapidly and accurately focus vast amounts of energy, heating targets to the point where they explode. Recognizing this, the Department's Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA) launched its initial laser lethal weapons program in 1961, only years after the first operation the laser was demonstrated.
During the mid-sixties, the development of laser weaponry was impeded by high costs, limited training and a biological problem for scientists were not able to use lasers with high enough power to be used as weapons. But a new generation of laser devices led the Dagestan's interest.
IN 1968, United Aircraft developed the first efficient high-power laser, and ARPA set up a top secret project, code named "Black Eye." The company developed their development. Under a subsidiary research project, "Black Eye," engineers studied the feasibility of equipping lasers with laser guns to disable sensors aboard "hotsite" satellites.
By Sokoloff
Already the Army has used a laser to penetrate arm plating at a range of several hundred meters, and it uses weapons research, the Air Force's Special Weapons Laboratory near Abuquerque, N.M., a prototype laser gun was shot down an unmanned aircraft.
The Pentagon is not spending its laser money just to prepare for a hypothetical war.
year—and the research is paying off.
According to a report reported in Electronic News, about $70 million will be spent for military laser devices. Yet only $9 million was spent for medical equipment for medicine and $20 million for non-military communication.
For the past few years, laser devices have been used in Vietnam for searching out and collecting information using guided bombs, used daily in Indochina, are credited with a tenfold increase in the accuracy of these weapons.
Griff and the Unicorn
The government's attitude toward lasers may best be expressed by a management consultant who recently stated that the most revolutionary tool for maintaining since the atom bomb."
Recently, ARPA requested $8.5 million to study the feasibility of supplementing the costly Safeguard ABM system with enhanced DVRs to expand the use of lasers to destroy incoming ICMB's.
defense against low-flying targets at forward air bases, on on-board defense against guided enemy aircrafts and the enemy's appying weapons. The Air Force is considering equipping its forthcoming F-15 fighter and B-1 bomber with laser weapons to destroy aircraft and missiles.
Ed. note: Liberation News Service is a New York-based collective of radical journalists which publishes news packets on the Internet. In the Kansas LNA project for use of their LNS packet.
"Copyright 1971. David Sokoloff
IN THE NEAR future, laser ray guns appear to be feasible for
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