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Thursday. November 2,1972
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Saving Face
Temporarily, at least, America's hopes for a military settlement in Vietnam have been tumbled by Thieu's adamant opposition to the proposed terms. Many commentators are predicting that Washington, that is, Nixon, will in turn gladly tumble Thieu rather than allow this peace plan to collapse just before the election. Without attempting to impugn the logic of such predictions, for they are perfectly logical, I would argue exactly the opposite, that even if it means losing the upcoming election, Nixon will support Thieu.
It seems that these commentators have overlooked one element of the situation that weighs very heavily in the Nixon scales, the element of
face. We need only look as far away as the war to see what a dominant factor face-saving is in Nixons decision-making. For four long years, Nixons has kept us in an unpuzzled position for the sole purpose of saving face.
Great Nixon faces, those of Pat and Tricia, are irrevocably committed to Thieu. They have both offered to die for him.
Nixon clearly has no choice. If he is to save face for Pat and Tricia and the family name, he must honor this commitment by standing firmly behind Thieu. This is what we must expect.
After all, has anyone named Nixon ever failed to honor a commitment?
—Robert Ward
Garry Wills
'Blank'-Shriver Ticket
If you were a politician, there was only one thing worse than being attacked by Mencken: being endorsed by him. After long and grazing contemplation of James Cox, he heaved himself into the horrible labor of voting on his conscience, all the way to calling by calling his own choice "the Marion stonehead," with all "the general intellectual lift and punch of a mackeler."
I suppose I could do the same thing with McGovenn. The sight of Nixon will scare one into anything. The trouble is that McGovenn followed his followers, and such opportunistic idealists, and those ideals of idealistic opportunists, should not be encouraged. Much more of their highminded country-slickerism and we could count on Richard Nixons in the White House all through our lifetime. They have already done a great deal for Spiro Agnew in 1976. If the party is ever to recover from a slump, they will have sacrificed. He richly deserves A man who commands so little popular trust could not govern even if, by a bluke, he got in (as, by a bluke, he got nominated).
Of course, the argument can be made that a vote for McGovenn does not matter, since he is bound to do so. If you believe it does not matter, So why do it?
What then? Nixon is out. My vote is not much, but war crimes should not be rewarded, even with so minor a thing.
One is tempted to get conservative, even sentimental, and vote for the only gentleman running this time—Dr. Benjamin Spock. He is so courtly that the judges defer to him each time he argues with a lawyer too honorable to think of in the White House, and any other reason for voting his slate will be considered frivolous.
Well, if there's nothing much to vote for this time, how about casting a vote for 1976 Agnew looms. Things just get scarier. Sarge Shirer has one, feels he can afford it, and some of McGovern's more righteous gestures (Shirer was a Muskie man, as long as that option stayed open). How about pretending 1972 does not exist, and anticipating the joy of voting on that issue before that becomes a dutv?
election board, to see if I could write in Shirner's vice. "Why do that? Just pull the lever for McGovern-Shriver." But I don't want to vote for McGovern. "If you lift up the write-in space at McGovern, you won't vote for Nixon, either." He spoke it as a threat; but the words fell like a benediction on my ear. No need to vote for either top man, and the extra advantage of voting against Agnew. A quiet way of saying this race put up no real candidates for the presidency. I am an ideal candidate, just one who is not an insult to the
I called the head of the local
Sen. Eagleton (on whom Shriver was a great improvement) has referred jokingly to the "McGovernian-black" ticket, an easy way to hard to fill a second time. The true slate, I think, is a Blank-Shirer one. So, if you want to escape the dreadless necessity of wearing a ticket or the preacher clown, just lift up the write-in slot, draw a line through the presidential space, and write Shriver in the second spot. Then go home to yourself for a nutticid duty done.
(C) 1972, Universal Press Syndicate
Jack Anderson
Nixon Labor Pal
WASHINGTON-One of President Nixon's favorite labor leaders, who has been inducted into the Republic holy of holies, is under double-barreled federal investigation.
Lyons heads not only the 100,000-strong National Association of Employees but, embarrassingly for him in the present circumstances, the 30,000-member Brotherhood of Police Officers.
Both the Justice and Labor departments are looking into the doings of Kenneth T Lyons, a tough and talkative union boss now serving as national vice chairman of Democrats for President Obama, whether he be committed perjury in a Mafia-related case, and Labor is investigating charges that he missed union funds.
But while government gum-shoes have been checking on Lyons, President Nixon has been courting him. The President has appointed him to the prestigious White House higher education commission and has invited him to at least two White House affairs.
As an officer of Democrats for Nixon, Lyons also attended the conference ex-Treasury Secretary John Connally threw for Nixon. But Lyons's entre to the councils of Congress did not deter the federal sleuths.
His trouble with the Justice Department began last June with Senate testimony about a detergent called Poly-Clean. The product, according to the Senate testimony, is linked to a Mafia family with a record for strong-arm business tactics.
The detergent's maker, David Weiner of Palmer, Mass., was called on the witness stand. His testimony was produced showed that, at Lyons's request, he made four trips to Boston to discuss Polly-Clean. One of their lunch and dinner meetings was that Tom Camerota, who was Tony Camerota, he is a nephew of the late Nick Camerota, who was the Mafia godfather for western universities until his recent demise.
hours, the vouchers attest
Finally, the vouchers tell of an agreement between Weiner and Lyons for distributing Poly-Clean through a company called "Noreast Sales Corporation." Talks about the deal lasted for
After Weiner's damning statements, Lyons demanded to testify the committee. He rewrote his complaint to deny all the allegations. He swore he didn't know Cameroa, had never heard of Near East Sales Corporation and couldn't recall that ever buying me a cup of coffee."
Lyons also testified that he had met with Weiner twice, not four times, that Weiner had tried to persuade him to give up that he had rejected the deal.
The Senate record was so shot with contradictions that it was referred to the Justice Department for possible perjury prosecutions. Within the last few days, the Senate has also sent a copy of the crime report to Boston Globe identify two new prospective witnesses in the case.
As for the probe into Lyons's alleged misuse of union funds, the charges were brought by union dissidents. The Labor Department said that the investigation deals with "financial affairs."
Wereached Lyons in Boston for his comments. He talked at length without notes, repeating the same detailed denial he had given under oath to the senators. "The thing is so unreal," he said of the Poly-Clean case. "It comes from the fact that the senator on The alleged misuse of funds, he was 'confident' he would be cleared.
It may take the courts to resolve the conflicting stories. He was a former hopeful, anticipating George McGovern's defeat next week, are already jockeying for victory in the 1978 presidential sweepstakes.
my associate Les Whitten, said he ran a clean company with no Mafia ties. He also stuck to his Senate testimony.
Weiner, in an earlier talk with
McGovern's two vice presidential choices, Tenn. Eagleton and Sargent Shriver, are also making presidential noises in private. But Eagleton will be outspoken on nudity and certainly Shriver will give his eminent brother-in-law first crack at the nomination.
They include three of the Senate's most able and articulate members—Indiana's Baird Bay, Idaho's Frank Church and Minnesota's Walter Mondale. All three have told friends, however, that Kennedy will step aside if Sen Ted Kennedy seeks the nomination.
McGovern is also expected to make a second bid if he isn't too pleased. McGovern will be November 7. But he might have trouble simply keeping his Senate seat, since he must come up for an in-state bid in 44 conservative South Dakota.
The big question mark is whether Kenny will run. He was one of those that he's definitely interested but hasn't made up his mind.
James J. Kilpatrick
SCRABBLE, Va. —The nicest thing about the campaign trail, to be honest, is that I like slakes, in that the trail must end at last. It ends for me, after one last weekend with McGovern on the campaign trail. I beauty of a Blue Ridge fall
Notes on a Vintage Fall
Our autumns have this in common with the wines of France: They come in vintage years. Last year was nothing but a splendid harvest before. But this is vintage autumn. September brought some heavy rains that washed the roadside foliage free of dust. Woke ten days age to find a killer伤口来 by a nightfall, muddles as brusquely as a slamming fall. Behold the burgundy fall.
For an hour or two, at least, the campaign can be put aside. The road that winds to Woodville is carpeted in gold. One walks through a long cathedral, vaulted now in green and bronze, great shafts of sunlight striking wood. A book just across White Walnut Run, a map makes a scarlet sanctuary.
It is an exercise for the painter, not the writer, to pause at the bridge and count the colors: Green, of course, but a green that is wholly different from the tints of spring—a somber green, veringing a black on Against the browns—dark brown, dull brown, the brown of stained old slippers, a birch that gives up leaves of creamy beige. The browns yield to rusty reds—crimson, russet, burnt umber. The reds sparkle with yellows, the yellow of lemons, the softer gleam of lilies, the brighter shades of uncorn, cut giant old soldiers clad in faded khaki, stand to one side in ragged array.
come a time, a few months hence, when snow is on the ground and at the earth is still frozen. Then winter vintage fall that now the eye finds movement everywhere—ripping water and swirling leaves, wind that tangles the hair of a little bird, and always, always, the birds.
It would be lovely enough, this autumn tapestry, if it merely lay in silence on the hills. There will
pointed, "that's only a cardinal."
I can only assure you that the Library staff will do whatever it
We had a guest not long ago, a Western woman, city-bred, who halted a serious bridge game to ask the baker how many asked, in tones of iaw, "is that beautiful bird?" We thought the piledated woodpeckers might have come back, or a tanner or an oak tree, "Oh," said Dummy, disap
The curtailment of hours has been another result of this season, in along with present books and booked the shelves. As you have read in the Kausan, the immediate future doesn't look very en-
Only a cardinal? We take our birds too much for granted. One night as well say, only a Browning somon, just a prelude by Chopin. This bold red ribbon, making above the fence row, is a beautiful sunny day. Keats' Grecian urn. To watch the birds on a golden afternoon is to savor the best wealth of all—wealth that never has to be hoarded up, or counted out, or burned away. This richness is a richness that lingers for an instant in the eye and ear, and then endures in the mind.
dole, subsidizing the housing of wrens and bluebirds? Brooks Atkinson once raised the question in an essay he wrote for the Audubon magazine. It seems to me an honest exchange: I feed them, they entertain me. Good capitalist workers, my sparrows.
talking of birds, their wisdom and their ways. They are great responses to one another—at times among the others, or mean ones, such as the cowbirds, and bossy ones, such as the jays and mockingbirds, but birds by an age are better than people: they are more intrusive, filled with larger grace.
We walk along the rustling road, down the amber aisle.
Politics intrudes; or at least philosophy intrudes. A guest raises a teasing question. How does a teacher consistently use his passion consistent with his philosophy of rugged independence, justify the maintenance of two large feeding stations? Am I not sanctioning a wildlife state, keeping sparrows on the
Tomorrow, or the next day, or the next day, we will talk again of Senators and cease-fires, of war. One hears a thousand speeches on the campaign trail. Not one of them, I regretfully submit, offers as much inspiration, or makes as much influence of a juncio in a vintage fall.
(C) The Washington Star Syndicate, Inc.
The real problem lies in the 28 years between the first and last Libraries over the last three years, a period in which the budget has set, at best, relative targets.
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Letters, Letters, Letters . . .
Library
To the Editor
The second question, about assignment of books to the Reserve Collection, is quite difficult. We need to put book on reserves to prevent the delay involved in recalling them from faculty members or in waiting for students to return their books for the three week loan period.
Melody Campbell's letter published in last Thursday's UKK is deserving of a response; the staff she raises have been of considerable concern this year to both the Libraries staff and the university.
The first is whether faculty members should be able to volunteer more than those for students. Although the Committee last year sustained the long-standing tradition of faculty members, it did bring about the present four-month limit which is now and will continue to govern how the book can be recalled from a faculty member after three weeks. The response to recitals has thus qualified that generally books can be retrieved from faculty members as promptly as from students.
can to minimize the
treatment to them
against faculty members whose salaries have been raised 4.5 per cent over the last two years is not
sufficient.
David W. Heron Director of University of Kansas Library
On the other hand, do you know yourself? Are your values really
Questions
To the Editor:
I have found it impossible to say all that I would like to be less than two-hundred and fifty words, so I would instead like to ask a few questions. Many people have probably already sealed and sent their ballots or minds, and they remain certain others, let them read this.
humane? Do you care about anyone besides yourself? Do you love America and not Americans? Do you love anyone else? Do you believe in right and wrong? Do you find out what's going on? If not, why are you using? If so, are you sure?
Gregg West Wichita Junior
Neither Richard Nixon nor Neil McGoveris is perfect. But do you know what their imposition remember what Nixon promised in 1987 Can you see what he has delivered? Or have you bothered George McGoveris to remember what Nixon promised in 1987 Can you see what he has recorded and what was in each bill? Do you know from original documents important about military tracting, government bureaucracy, the Geneva Convention, the B-22, the B-70? Do you know about overruns, the SST, economics, balance of trade, national debt, Phillips curves? Do you know about the killer cases, Watergate, etc.? Do you know anything about the i.e. nijamesen character and Kiennam character? Do you know George McGoveris has a PhD? What in
Terrorism
To the Editor:
I would like to leave a brief comment with the associate professor who wrote the editorial "Palestine's Flight." Never have I been asked to justify the justification of terrorism than in his editorial, except maybe in
Mein Kampf. We should all thank the "associate professor" for his keen insight and the now obvious reason for the extermination of Hitler's German forces in World War II. By the associate professor's logic, Hitler and his associates were driven to kill him because he was the most dangerous because of the pressures they had received from the Treaty of Versailles. Or, in the associate professor's logic, the activities were pleas of recognition. In more general terms, whenever you are backed into a corner, terrorism is O.K. to you.
Again, thank you associate professor, for your justification of terrorist acts.
Rodney R. Siegele Lawrence Senior
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To the Editor:
Last Wednesday you published a letter from Mr. Thomas Clark—Secretary of the International Club. My concern is not with what Mr. Clark says, but for the name of the club. In this case it is the International Club.
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By Sokoloff
Griff and the Unicorn
True, the Palestinian problem could be an issue in the industry. It is the club taking ideological sides? To be sure, every foreign student in the University has a secretary. So the secretary of the club using ideological slogans, the purpose of the club is neither reached, nor answered.
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Harry Hirsch
Iquitos, Peru Senior
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Illusions
To the Editor:
I would like to submit a response to my old and good friend, Tom Slaughter, in regard to his editorial of Friday, Oct. 27, *The Washington Post*. "Tom and I were both here when the current 'illusion' of which he speaks, homecoming, was the reality. We were here earlier," he said. "We disillusioned with the reality. And we are here now as the 'illusion' attempts again to become the reality. Having thus established our identity over the ups and downs of homecoming over the last approximate five years, I would like to continue the 'illusion' is back so soon.
As I walked by the Chi Omega house last Friday, I had the opportunity to see some girls and men having a good time. They were stuffing tissue paper into chicken wire and listening to too-loud music from a store in town and it seemed no scene not as long as ago it seems. At that earlier time, I was seriously involved in having a friend take an old photo of their friends we last Friday. Although Tom and his rationalizing "professor friend" may not realize it, having a good friend takes a photo Tom points out in his editorial that there are some people in Lawrence who are hungry. Is that? Well, there are more ways than one to starve a human being. As Mr. Sieary, the lispic creature proprietor in Dickens's Hard Times, chapter VI of Part 10 of that book: "People must be amuded, Tquire, thosehow they can't be lavish a working, nor can always be a lauvish a-learning."
John Neibling Lawrence Graduate Student