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Wednesday, September 8, 1971
University Daily Kansan
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'The Right Person'
The resignation of Rick Walker as a liaison between the city and the University, students and town citizens and "street people" and police presents this community with a problem and an opportunity.
Walker, regardless of the controversies he may have stirred, managed to remain a member of the company in years before refused to be even part of the same thread.
And anyone who attempts to do anything is controversial these days.
The very fact that he held a position as aide to the city in relations with splinter groups is a positive step. It demonstrates the recent realizations that dialogue is more than words and that words and action are worse than meaningless, they are the fuses to chaos.
Rick Walker managed to open a few ears. He set the stage for new action on old problems. It will be a great opportunity him with an effective successor.
But it also is an opportunity to go beyond dialogue and get down to the business of resolving tension, to eliminate in fact racial prejudice downtown and in the university, to make it possible for street people
and police to pass on the street without looking back over their shoulders, to make Lawrence one respectful friend, and to respect diversity and non-conformity.
City Manager Buford Watson said recently that the city has budgeted a full-time aide for the Lawrence River rehabilitation as a replacement for Walker.
That is encouraging. The commission has long been understaffed and overworked. A full-time aide could make a big difference.
Watson said it had not been determined whether the new aide would be a student or any other particular "type" of person. He said simply that the city is looking for "the right person."
The selection of the right person is no minor detail. The job is an important one and the person must be able to fill it. It is important that all segments of the community participate in the selection, watching, weighing, debating heatedly if necessary what should be done.
And after the right person is found, we hope that he is given the room to work and the backing to succeed. A great deal depends on it.
David Bartel, Editor
'Listen, buster. I'm not too happy with the seating arrangement either!'
AP Background
Executive Secrets Old
By CARL C. CRAFT Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP)—Treechoper George Washington may not have been able to tell a lie, but he has done so for refusing to tell Congress a secret.
Shortly after the birth of the republic, the country's father is sentenced to prison for privilege—an information-denial device born outside the Confluent system.
President Nixon has invoked it twice—in 1960 to guard some FDI interests, and in 2004 to senate the Senate Foreign Relations Committee data on military aid
Washington set the pace in 1796 in connection with funds to carry out the financial provisions of the Jay Treaty, regarding trade with
Great Britain. The House asked him to produce the instructions to the minister who negotiated that treaty. Washington refused.
"The nature of foreign negotiations requires caution," he explained, noting the success of dealing depend on security; and even when brought to a conclusion a full disclosure of all the measures, demands, or arrangements that may have been proposed or contemplated would be extremely impolite; for this might have a negative impact on negotiations or produce immediate inconveniences, perhaps danger and mischief, in relation to other events.
There is nothing in the Constitution that refers either to the power of Congress to get information or to the power of the
"Nonetheless, both of these rights are firmly rooted in history," said Rep. Richard Washington's action, Reinhquist said, "virtually every president had occasion to determine what the best form of information to Congress was appropriate under general standards laid down by President Obama."
president to withhold information
the "disclosure of which he feels
would impair the proper exercises
of his" constitution.
his "assumption." Gen.
William H. Rehquist requested
a Todd House subcommittee.
Historically, the doctrine of executive privilege has been used to restrict military affairs, pending investigations and intragovernmental actions.
James J. Kilpatrick
Public Employe Strikes Queried
WASHINGTON—One trouble with the United States Congress — it is a familiar failing of the whole human race—is that the Congress always tends to put pressure on lawmakers, does not absolutely have to do today. And because the Congress does not absolutely have to give its attention in to the problem of strikes in public employment, it is an exercise in fullity to use the legal powers of judges to confer the matter.
Even so, if one is in the exhortation of business, one exhorts the problems that exist. We are公立的 unionization of public employees are vexations. They are certain to get worse. And now is the time. And now is the time. Before the storm breaks, for Congress to tackle the vital task of enacting a fair and workable law in the field of public em-
In the August Journal of the American Bar Association, Edward R. Bar Boston admonition to the bar's Hispiz-winning essay defines the critical issue and suggests a wrong, in my own view, on one
James J. Kilpatrick, conservative Washington columnist, opposes the unionization effort of a labor sector. He says now is the time for Congress to enact legislation outlawing the use of fracking in its setting up a mechanism for collective bargaining.
point. He would encourage the union shop in government employment to take a balanced approach deserves the attention of leaders in government.
Mr. Lev sees the problem from both sides. He is plainly sympathetic to the government workers who are "wary of a failure to secure the benefits of employment long ago" (for example, the private sector). He understands the frustration they experience when humanistic titles are better instituted than being written in his view, that many teachers, trash collectors
and postal workers have run out of patience.
Yet Mr. Lev states the other side bluntly and precisely: "Strikes by public employees are intolerable. Our largely urban population is upon public servants—the unknown men and women who maintain the water supplies, treat the sewage, run emergency services, repair the traffic lights, clear the streets, kill the rats, prevent disease, protect our lives and put out fires. These and countless other functions of government are unwilling without producing crisis.
significantly different from public employment is thus publicly owned as part of universities as Tat-Harley implicitly recognized long ago: They carefully excluded governmental employees from coverage. State officials were not recognized the distinction also: Many of them have sanctioned law firms, so they are or not to join a union, but most laws on public employment have this failing—they deny a right to work because they provide nothing in its place.
Mr. Lev proposes that Congress create a Public Employee Mediation Board with broad and binding powers to settle disputes between governmental workers and governmental workers. He would require that governments at every level abandon their resistance to union organization; he would demand that they completely accept the bargaining principle as practice in private employment.
With these inducements, he believes, labor would accept responsibility before—an enforceable no-strike agreement. From the standpoint
of the unions, the prospect of recruiting dues-paying members from 9,800,000 government workers not presently organized would represent a gold mine to them. One other concession to labor is urged. Mr. Lev would require that government agencies grant some representation to the unions in making agency policy. The unions do not an awful one—other countries have lived with it for years."
Once such a system were instituted, he believes, everyone would benefit. In time, government would also be comparably with wages in the private sector. This would cost the public something in higher salaries, and would attract better qualified persons to public service; and the threat of paralysis, in the fashion it has come to be removed. The Lev proposal merits congressional scrutiny and it merits such consideration the day comes when the drawbridges are locked open again.
(C) 1971 THE WASHINGTON STAR SYNDICATE.INC.
Kansan to Feature New Cartoons
The Kansan will begin printing cartoons next week from two of the nations leading cartoonists.
Hugh Hainy, of the Los Angeles Times Syndicate, and Jules Feiffer, of the Publishers Hall Syndicate, are the authors of the nation's top editorial cartoonists.
Haynie, currently at work for the Louisville Courrier-Journal, is particularly noted for striking visual effects in his cartoons.
and experts in the field of newspaper art.
The artist, who joined the staff of the Louisville Courier-Journal in 1958, was born in Reedville, Va., in 1927. He earned an AB degree from the College of Arts and Sciences of Louisville, with the U.S. Coast Guard from 1944 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1952.
Prior to joining the staff of the newspaper in Louisville, Haynie worked as an editorial cartoonist for the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Greensboro Daily News and the Atlanta Journal.
During the past few years Haynie has grown enormously in national reputation and stature as it is today. Haynes's top nationals cartoons by national publications
One of the things responsible for the growing fame of the artist is his unique style of drawing. Haynie's panel is
perhaps the most striking from a visual point to be found on any editorial page in the nation today.
Hugh Haynie
Assisting in Haynie's growth as a top
newspaper artist is the valuable guidance he has received from the management of his home newspaper. Coupled with this is the absolute freedom of choice he receives in selecting and rendering his ideas.
Jules Feiffer has a satirical touch unlike any other cartoonist in journalism today. Feiffer writes the script for the movie "Carnal Knowledge:" where he interviews a writer expressed his outlook on what the rest of the world calls "news";
I get the feeling I don't follow anything very closely. I always fear that if I read the press too carefully, I'm going to fall into the trap of believing that they're telling me what's really happening in the world. What I find interesting about the Calley trial is how differently the public responds to Calley than he does to terms like "their alone," Calley has far outstanded Manson. He's our kind of mass murderer. Or possibly, people believe that the Tate murders happened but that My Lai didn't happen.
"The Tate murders happened
"The Tate murders happened because they took place in Los Angeles—which people think exists but
in fact doesn't—and My Lai didn't happen because it happened in Vietnam, which doesn’t exist except on television.
"It also happened to gooks, and they're not real people, and it happened during a war, and anything we do in a war is OK as long as it's our side that wins," she said. "They bomb in a market place and kills six people he's 'a fanatical terrorist.'"
"A B-21 pilot drops lots of bombs over North Vietnam and kills hundreds, but he's not a financial terrorist; he just doing his job. And if they shoot him down and take him prisoner, he's a bomber and a martyr, and a burglar chic.
"It all has to do with our rules of war, which state one; that Americans are good guys; two that we only get into good wars; and three, that no matter what we do and what acts we commit, they're the acts of good people, perhaps regrettable, but war-is-heil-and-acts-such-as-these - have - taken - place-in-wartime, which makes them pardonable, and Calley should be given either the Medal of Honor or Agnew's place on the ticket in 1872."
Veterans Fight 'Animal' Image
Associated Press Writer
By HOLGER JENSEN
They returned to Vietnam to do manual labor without pay. Some companies paid him money hacks. The only thing they had in common was that they had a contract.
SAIGON (AP)—The nine ex-convicted wanted to prove something they believed were true by calling their neighbors—"that all Vietnam veterans are proxies, smack them."
A FORMER NAVY lieutenant, Armisted Maupin Jr., 27, was working as a reporter for the newspaper Courier when a friend asked him to do publicity releases for Veterans Against the War. It was the time of the May Day Day in 1950, and his swiftly became disillusioned:
"in their desire to end the war at any cost, a lot of people appeared to be trying to portray all veterans as scagheads and radicals, apparently hoping to win over their way into administration. It seemed all wrong and I wanted to do something about it."
MAUPIN WROTE to Adm. P. Zimwalt, the chief of naval operations: "I'll find the men who can help us in Vietnam if you can give us a project and get us over there." Maupin exchanged more letters
with officials and got his project.
Navy and State Department
volunteers can help volunteers he could find assist in building a 20-unit housing project for dependents of South Vietnamese at Cat Lai, 15 miles east of Saigon.
MAUPIN REILIED on phone calls to friends and word of mouth to spread his appeal to the Americans, who know the Americans are getting out of Vietnam. Let's do everything we possibly can for the Vietnamese people before we take Mr. Dao's do something as civilians."
JACK MYEROVITZ, 23, a former Marine who helped recapture Hue after the 1986 Tet offensive, he was also the founder of a convention in Maryland. He got two months off without pay from his job as a government printer in Washington and left his home in Indiana, Md.
Charles P. Collins III. 28, another former naval officer from Dallas, Tex. quit his job as a pilot in the US Air Force to help bea
ple other volunteers.
Carrollton E. Reese Jr., 27, a Hattysville, Md., construction worker who once guarded an Army ammunition dump at QuinNoh leon finishes with a friend. It took him 30 seconds to volunteer.
Another Hyattsville resident
former Marine John F. B.,utter, 21, wanted to extend his 14-month tour in Vietnam but had to leave in November 1969 when his unit was pulled back. He decided to "to finish what I started."
Thomas M. Neilson, 23, Clinton, Iowa, gave up painting portraits on a houseboat in the Mississippi River to try to change the Vietnamese image of Americans. A former machine gunner with the army force, he wanted to prove "we aren't all a bunch of animals."
ZEPH LANE, 28, Wheaton, Md., was a Navy hospital corpsman when he was taken out in a plane over the border head. He left a wife and premedical studies at the University of Maryland to come back to Vietnam.
Karel J, Leadleater, 23,
Lanham, Md., says he was an activist in the Vietnam Veterans
Museum and started throwing paint on the Capitol steps. The former Air Force radarman decided to come because "search and destroy" in D.C. don't turn me on."
FRANCIS L. ABAD Jr. 25.
Bernard J. Broussard with pilot 100 combat missions. He left the service early this year after flying Phantom jets on an aircraft carrier.
returned to "build instead of bomb."
It wasn't easy persuading American and Vietnamese military brass here that nine veterans were willing to do grubby manual labor in the war. They were sent out. The nine men flew to Saigon in an Air Force cargo plane, arriving July 5.
"The AMERICANS were suspicious of our motives. They thought we had come here to buy cheap drugs. The Vietnamese tractors out to make a lot of money," he added. "Somehow we managed to convince them that our coming here simply reflected our support for the South Vietnam. Only we men had any building
experience. They learned fast,
installing plumbing and digging
drainage ditches. Much of the
work was done in moonsoon
THE MEN lived in the houses they built, at first without windows and doors. Their food was paid for by the Helping Hand Foundation. A charitable foundation of U.S. businessmen.
When the group arrived the housing project at Cat Lai was 30 per cent complete. It was 80 men and 80 when they departed Wednesday.
"It's a small thing we've done, but it's important to us as in-
spired," he said, "before we never be like the Maupin that he boarded the plane for home.
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