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Tuesday, September 21, 1971
University Daily Kansan
KANSAN comment Preserve Alaskan Beauty
Alaska is a land rich in both beauty and natural resources. If the resources are tapped
However, if the development proceeds with the hasty greed that has so often accompanied mining and oil interests, Alaska will provide a source of dollars, but the beauty will be lost forever.
For the first time in the battle to save the Alaskan environment, Kansans have an essential role to play. An amendment to the Alaskan native claims bill that would provide for comprehensive planning in future development is considered by the House Interior Committee.
Two Kansans, Rep. Jake Skubitz from the 6th district and Rep. Keith Sebellins from the 1st district.
Ever since oil was discovered on Alaska's northern slopes, American economic interests have been working to gain control of those resources and development of the land.
However, because of disputes with the Alaskan natives of over the control of the land, the oil and gas industry has been suppressed.
In 1969 Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall issued a freeze order to prevent the selection of federal land until the rights of the natives had been settled.
That freeze has been sustained by all of Udall's successors, but is now about to be replaced by a native claims bill that would provide for the restoration of certain lands to the natives, which
unless amended, makes no provision for the future development of remaining lands.
This is no small matter. The decision of the House will affect in one way or another a public land area twice as large as all our national forests combined.
Conservationists are solidly behind the comprehensive planning amendment. The issue is among the top four national concerns of the Sierra Club. The Alaka Action Committee, the Sierra Club, and the National Park Service Earth. The Wilderness Society and others are lobbying to gain passage of the amendment.
The battle, however, is a tough one. Their competition includes the wealthy oil interests, represented by such companies as the Alaskan Pipeline Service Company.
The vote will come Wednesday or Thursday, so it is imperative that you act quickly. A deluge of telegrams and phone calls to the offices of Representatives Skubitz and Sebellius could mean that the natural beauty of Alaska is preserved.
Alaska could become the showpiece of the world. The development of Alaskan resources could serve as an example of intelligence and careful planning that both preserves and creates, or it can become another industrial park.
It would seem a worthy cause for Kansans to their part to see Alaska made an example of the dangers of the war.
—Mike Moffet
Liberation News Service
Heroin at Treasure Island
LNS Editor's Note:
The military has initiated a program to rehabilitate heroin addicts and to deal with the increasing number of drug offenders among the ranks. Before leaving Vietnam, all military personnel are required to take a urinalysis which detects small quantities of opiates. But GIs have learned that urine is also validates the test. Urine which is clean of drugs is now selling at $25 on the black market in Vietnam.
Neverthill, the number of GIs being apprehended on drug offenses is skroytcketing. The haphazard manner in which the military seeks to identify addicts is only surpassed by the inefficiency with which they are rehabilitated.
Rehabilitation is a matter of individual choice. If a soldier chooses to enter the government program, he's put in a five-day lockup and is shot up with methadone. Often GIs who had traces of opiates in their system have become addicted to the program's methadone. The benefit of the program is that it entitles you to a general discharge. Those who do not wish to become rehabilitated have the option of accepting an undesirable discharge, which often makes holding most jobs in the United States.
Jon Stewart, a San Francisco journalist,
lently visited a base where sailors who have just returned from Vietnam wait for me to arrive. He writes that from a longer article he has written.)
SAN FRANCISCO (LNS)—Treasure Island, a man made appendage of Yerba Buena Island, lies in the middle of San Francisco Bay and is the home of 10,000 Navy and civilian personnel. Most naval personnel returning from Asian duty pass through the base in the process of moving to other areas of sizeable proportion assigned to Barracks 209.8—known around base as "Doper's Barracks."
THE DAILY routine around 209.8 is pure monotony. Almost no one works, except for a few hours a day guard inside the barracks or outside in the guard house. The typical day in 209.8 begins with getting stoned, breakfast, getting stoned, lunch, getting stoned some more, dinner, getting stoned some more, dinner, then a brief period of unconsciousness after which it's time to do it up again before breakfast.
The true junkies stained most of the time and do nothing else but sleep, wash dishes, and eat.
score more macerate. The others, who aren't heavy into heroin — or at least aren't really hooked on it yet—spend most of the day passash passh pipes and talking about going home. Occasionally, the more active man will go over to the gym and play basketbal on all the hot showers and take a "poor man's steam bath." It's deadly boring.
Since the returning dopers from Vietnam became almost too numerous to deal with at Treasure Island, the 12th Naval District (of which Treasure Island is the center) has instituted a program that is unique in the Navy. All men awaiting Bad Conduct Discharge (BCD) or summary discharge have been discharged undesirable Discharge (UD) and thus circumvent the long, drawn out court martial.
THE PROGRAM has been so successful that it is now difficult to get on the roster of men willing to accept the UD. Many of the men we interviewed said they would be happy to take a UD and get out, rather than wait around for the legal machinery to offer them a General Discharge (GD), which is not an Honorable, but it is cer- preferable to the UD. They really don't care how they get out, just they get out.
As the turnover of men in 209.8 is high, activities and moods vary considerably from week to week. We were told, for example, that had we come a month earlier, we have found a barracks full of men, only about 15 per cent of the men were strung on smack. Possibly 50 per cent of them used heroin, but only to supplement their regular diet of weed, hash and acid. Even the "pigs" change from month to month, according to the man. Currently one of the assistant arms is himself a head, and regularly bars and sells dope in the barracks.
All the men of 209.8 want to go home. The exclusive topics of conversation in the barracks are of scoring dope and going home. But the two ideas are often mutually exclusive. Most of the men are from small towns in the Midwest and West.
THEY'LL FIND it harder to score their brand of dope back home than on Treasure Island, where there is a steady influx from Miami and an Air base and the ships returning from A$A.
(Ed. Note: Liberation News Service is a New York-based collective of radical journalists that publishes news packets to the media/media project for use on their LNS packet.)
Readers Respond To a Weed
Written on the twelfth of September, 1971, in a secluded field I shall never reveal.
Hall to the hee, weed! I thee salute!
Proud of stature, deep of root—
Thy upward-yearning stems and stalks;
Thy fragrant, lovely flower-tops:
What angel hath annotated eceae?
With sweet dew-drops of eceae?
From God above thou came a gift
To lend men's souls thy sacred lift;
And men went forth to every part
To spread the word—how great thou art!
And though the faith be off suppress'd,
Still converts gather to thy nest!
But hold! Are Hered's soldiers near?
Let them not see! Nor can they hear!
For the Emperor's serving-men
Say ye must not be born again
To spread thy holy hope and joy—
Because they fear, they must destroy.
But powers they would fail revoke,
But such desires go up in smoke
When true believers pass here by
To share with thee thy treasures. Fie!
That ever a friend as thee
Should meet with such hostility!
Sing, O Muse! that more may know
This weed hath every right to grow!
And know, weed, I on thee expend
the best fruit of my humble pen
And speak well of thee in my poem,
For I dare not take the home.
Larry Mundy. Lawrence Senior
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Garry Wills
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3 Musicians, 2 'Men of Peace'
WASHINGTON—I heard of Krushhtone's death when I returned to my hotel room and flicked on the TV. Already the tributes were forming, men-men-men—the tongues — the ant-Statiln, sponsor of the "thwass," who humanized (somewhat) the Soviet dictatorship. Except of Mr. Krushhtone, shipped to Castro were widely counted as the darkest spot on Krushhtone's career—just as removing them was called John F. Kennedy's final analysis of modern politics
I had returned, that night, from a brilliant concert given at the new Kennedy Center by three pianists, Jerome Lepine and Leonard Rose, and pianist Eugene Iatomin. This chamber trio gave an ultimate test to the musicians of the almost 3,000 people. The three men and their instruments were as uniformly audible, throughout the concert as they would be in your parlor.
Garry Wills, a nationally yidicated columnist, sees 'the human comedy from its east appetizing side' in the ributes to the late Nikita khrushchev.
But there was a false note, sounded by politics. The opening moment was the finest—lustful but restless, large that turned three musical monologues into a weird new form of almost-communication—it's an eerie mix of noise with the cello, suddenly cuts off, leaving the cello's note to hang in the air like the cry of a bat. Then, even the machine's sweet protest.
But the program had been arranged toward a climax in Middelness's First Trio, since Middelness began White House night when Pablo Casals helped create the myth of a Kennedy culture. After visiting a music critic Paul Hume came on to read a long telegram from Casals, remembering that he presided over President Kennedy's yearning
for peace, describing the hour's private conversation Casal had with Kennedy on that very subject.
The President convinced the musician—no doubt, convinced himself—that all his acts were aimed at peace. Yet he was at a loss for a way to fight bullying and puffing over Cuba, preparing multiple Vietnamese of "counter insurgency." The end of the evening was political, and the president was forced to isolate Isoatom trio, unparalleled in their own right, to "play second string" to Casales, as did Beethoven to Mendelssohn. Even Paul Hume, who was attacked Evan Kielhof, pointed out that he was naked on the subject of his daughter's singing, went along with the actions involved. He has to illeve in the city, acclimatized to its illusory.
So I was ready, that night, to hear the praise of Khrushchev and his "thaws." Both Kennedy
and Khrushchev were called men of peace, seeking coexistence. Yet both had to prove they were men of peace. Two were men of peace. Each had to bluff, and bluster, and outbuff—until one backed down. Khrushchev sent mistresses. Kennedy by risking nuclear war. The victory went to rashness, defeat to prudence. Coming when it did, he was put under attack. Two "men of peace" were locked in combat to please each side's men of war. One had to get rid of them. One had to get of getting along with each other.
It is the human comedy seen from its least appetizing side. Our national leaders serve the nation, and we must meet the quest for peace. Just as, at the Kennedy Center, they serve the cause of national pride, and call it recognition granted to our nation's coopted coop. The corrupted corrupt.
Copyright, 1971, Universal Press Syndicate
James J. Kilpatrick
These broodings are prompted, improbably as it may seem, by the Flammable Fabrics Act of 1945, which requires the Department of Commerce has been putting out some broodings especially as to mattresses and children's sleepwear, and an impulse came along to give both the department and the textile industry a fine editorial drubbing.
WASHINGTON—The trouble with the Washington beat these days—and here you may insert a small slim line, that that things that seem simple seldom are simple. Impulses tell you learn, the less you know.
After all, said the voice of exasperated impulse, the act was passed in 1967 and here it is 1971. Holy Smokes! What's so tough about enforcing a flammable cigarette? Commerce's rule of July 27 mainly covers children's sleepup size to 66. Senator Warren Magnuson (D-Wash.) found the regulation timid and impure. The department curred. The department's proposed rule of September 9, as to mattresses, may not take effect for 15 months to two years. The impulse was bounce up down on the mattress makers.
Sleeping on Steel Wool
But facts have a way of knocking the wind out of impulse.
After the act was passed, a long time was spent—just as the law requires—in the finding of facts that may be difficult. This may sound simple. It isn't simple. More time had to be spent in establishing test procedures. Less time would have been fire-resistant, is immensely complicated, for different fibers react differently. And the legal issue involved is that problems are only the beginning.
There is also the marketing problem. The experience of Sears, a retail chain, people got hot on this matter ten years ago. By 1968, they had developed an insecticide cotton chemical treatment to resist fire. In the fall of 1969,
they launched a massive advertisement campaign to push the line—ads in major magazines, heavy catalog promotion, in-store displays, radio and TV commercials, the whole works. They predicted that we would predict an impressive sales volume. And what happened?
The big Sears store in Arlington, Va., bought 300 units. It sold only 48 at the regular price. Other stores in the area moved the stores to move the things at marked-down prices. Over all, sales of the fire-resistant garments reached barely 25 per cent of expectations. In retailing, as aokeskeeper said "this is disaster."
Griff and the Unicorn
By Sokoloff
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The problem as to mattresses and mattress covers is the same. The need seems evident. Hundreds of persons die every year in furniture fires, including smoldering mattresses. In Detroit alone in one recent year, 99 hotel fire claimed 35 lives in this fashion. But you can't make a difference. Why? Who wants to sleep on steel wool? The bedding industry includes a thousand manufacturers who produce 12 million mattresses a year. They would love to offer a product with no焊面 line. The answer eludes them.
in an effort to come up with fire- resistant garments that people will buy. The experts don't have the answer yet.
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When the line flopped again in the fall of 1970, Sears conducted a consumer survey to find out what was wrong. They found that women had more problems with the product." Women regarded the items as "an affront to their role as a mother." The treated sleepwear cost a dollar more than untreated garments, and they could not pay extra for the product."
The textile manufacturing industry still is struggling with cotton flannels, polyester and cotton blends, cotton yarn and cotton blends, and other fabrics.
"Copyright 1971, David Sokoloff."
My skeptical instincts tell me that probably there have been needless bureaucratic delays in the industry, which industry has been dragging its feet in certain areas. Even so, the more one studies the problem, the more apparent it becomes. The problem is that the industry has the technology, the feasible standards, or the testing procedures to make this well-managed work. It isn't a satisfactory situation but few situations are.
(C) 1971 The Washington Star Syndicate.
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