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Thursday, September 2, 1971
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Where Lurks Nixon?
My fellow Americans, your President doesn't trust you. In fact he not only doesn't trust you, he doesn't trust your representatives in Congress.
Tuesday, by invoking executive privilege, Nixon ordered the State and Defense Departments not to supply Congress with future details of the administration's foreign military assistance program.
The information was even requested on a confidential basis, but still the President asserts "It would not be in the public interest to provide to the Congress the basic planning data on military assistance."
This is only the second time Nixon has invoked his executive privilege to suppress information that Congress has requested, but it is representative of an attitude in the Nixon administration that has become obvious on more than two occasions.
Congress wasn't advised of the Cambodian incursion until after it was underway. The Laotion operations proceeded under a cloak of secrecy. The Justice Department fell all over itself in a rush to stop the publication of the Pentagon Papers.
Nixon puts great stock in the idea of bringing government back to the people, yet he seems afraid to inform his constituency about one of the most important issues of the times—defense expenditures. Expenditures that are counted daily, not only in dollars and cents but in lives.
Americans often support presidential action even though uninformed because they trust the man out of respect for his high office. Such trust should be reciprocated.
It isn't often an action is instigated by the President, and then justified by an examination of only the facts that he sees fit to make public.
Atty. Gen. Mitchell tells us to judge them by what they do, not by what they say. Nixon tells us to believe what they say, despite what others say they are doing.
Milton said, "Let her (truth) and Falsehood grapple: who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?"
In other words, let the people decide, Mr. Nixon. They will attest to your infallible judgment.
—Mike Moffet
Guest Editorial
Women's Lib Slow
I desire that you remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we have no voice or representation by our own holds ourselves by any laws in which we have no voice or representation."
Those words were written by Abigail Adams to her husband John in 1774. Women are still writing those words today; threatening, capling, pleading with spouses, brothers and lovers to cross the sexist gap and work toward greater rights for women.
Other women, not content to merely urge their cause, are urging themselves on: in court, in the legislatures, and even in the political arena.
But despite these gains, progress toward equality for women has been slow. In 1920, women became voters. Fifty years later, they would gain greater political representation in our governing bodies.
In the past, women's liberation has washed toward its goals on waves of fashion, fat and fervor. This latest crest also is in danger of becoming passe unless women of all classes, color and political ideologies join together to make the final push.
If not, women could look forward to another women's rights movement, around 2020 A.D. Have women come a long way? Some have. Some haven't.
By Teresa C. Pitts, Editor of the
Anna Daly, student newspaper at the University of Oklahoma
The Making of a Revolutionary
James J. Kilpatrick
Labor Wants to Stay Warm
WASHINGTON—In the two weeks that have elapsed since Mr. Nixon laid on the freeze, we have gained and gained some new insights into demagoguery. The Democrats had seemed so hopeful on the morning of August 18, already clouded over by a cold drizzle of snow.
One of our great illusions—and how we have cherished the dear memory of nationalism, mostly true nationalism Americans will respond in the swelling spirit of one nation inflicted by slavery. Shoulder to the wheel! Let us all pull together! These have been the telling watchwords of some
Praising big business for their restraint in response to the wage price freeze, Kipintzach castigates big bane for their load objections. And he does so with saykiprtz, "is like honor to Falstaff" the hell with it."
The president begged for such a response in his address: "Let us give our advice to our raise. Let us of all we contribute all we can to this great and good country that has contributed so much to the progress of our country."
The appeal was not altogether acceptable, and the response came not from within our country, but without it. By cutting the dollar from its own currency, Mr. Obama
lawyers, scurrying after loopholes. But by and large, the banking and industrial community have accepted the letter of warning to Laber B'Lor: Labor wants to stay warm. George Meany might have responded temperately, pledging labor's support to a stabilization program that would improve improvements in the President's program. Alas, temperatureen to Mr. Meany is like honor to Falstaff. The helm with it. So the governor asked Mr. Meany to Vesuvian eruptions, and when the administration failed to
set off an earthquake in the money market; by recommending a 10 percent surcharge on durable imports, he violently rocked the boats of world trade. But Europe and Japan reacted with anger and understanding. We saw some statesmanship there.
Here at home, the response of business was generally affirmative also. A few industries, especially hard hit by the freeze on prices, moaned audacity at its peril. But not everyone mistakable - bustle-hustle of
tremble properly at his wrath, he roared off to Miami and erupted again.
Leonard Woodcock, head of the autoworkers' union, joined the assaults, denounced the failure to protect profits which soon would be going into corporate coffers” of those who were in assemble in one of certitudes of prison years of watching the game from the press box. When you hear a word, like demag at work, the Word is intended to conjure visions of a miser in his dungeon; it is an allegory of having nothing to do with reality.
The two offended monarchs inspired similar outlines from a host of dissident dukes and lesser nobles—for example, the machinist and the railway and mine workers. If these men have witnessed one single constructive, public - spirted statement from a leader of organized labor, it would be pleasant to know of it. The union has been a response of negativism and complaint.
profits that will vanish into "coffees". The notion is sophomore. Four things happen in the business. (1) reinvested, (2) incorporated, (3) applied to corporate debt, or (4) distributed in business. suppose that business simply is earning on its earning, like a moping hen on a doorknob, hoping something happens, like a business a stupidity not alleged even by Mr. Nader. A major purpose of the Nikon program is to increase profits the jobs that create income. If profits should mount to some degree, no fear: Profits can be combined.
Does the President's program truly represent a "bonanza for business"? Will it produce lush
Where do we go from here?
Commerce Secretary Stans was right the first time, when he told me that some form of mandatory price and wage controls will have to be applied indefinitely after the 90 days. Even the mildest of punishments can be made workable only by a national spirit of self-sacrifice for a common cause. Sad to say, labor's reaction has blighted that much of us had much of a chance to grow.
Copyright 1971 The Washington Star Syndicate, Inc.
Jock State Reigns Supreme
The above-pictured football jocks aren't quite as close to Fraser Hall as Staff Photographer Hank Young's photo would seem to indicate.
They're standing in our freshly-painted football stadium, and the unseen distance separating the two is symbolic of something more, much more: athletics and academics—two potent and often opposing forces in the University.
And we all know who comes out on top in their occasional skirmishes.
Jock State, ladies and gentlemen
The past year or so has seen several additions to the Athletic Corporation's facilities—the stadium of its artificial turf and fresh baby blue paint job and the training table and corporation-paid jock apartments at Jayhawk Towers, among other improvements.
On the academic side of the fence, well, one could point to the portable classrooms, and Wescote Hole. But it's not the same.
They even tried to nab more by raising student football and basketball season ticket prices. Nixon's wage-price freezes stopped that plan cold.
While the academic university is staggering under one of the worst financial crises here in memory, Wade Stinson and his merry men are prospering and happily rolling in the dough as usual.
But the Athletic Corporation is not used to people getting in its way. After all, some of the corporation's best friends are members of the Kansas Legislature and the state Senate of Regents. The Student Senate has made two attempts to cut the student activity fee money that goes to athletics.
The first attempt was quashed quickly, and last spring's try met student opposition. The Senate finally managed to make a small athletic cut, and the senate voted in favor of the proposal.
College athletics are an entity unto themselves, bowing only to that greater being, "professional" athletics.
College football players, for example, often get a free four-year ride from the corporations they work for. Not many financially poor but bright academically-oriented students can brag of that. And professional football looks on its college counterpart as a cheap system of farm teams.
So why are college ("amateur") athletic connected to universities at all? Our academic resources are handy, it assenss, and the Athletic Corporation provides the best facilities.
Jock State may be okay for some, but we deserve better.
Griff and the Unicorn
—Pat Malone, Editorial Writer
By Sokoloff
"Copyright 1971, David Sokoloff."
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