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Wednesday, October 25,1972
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Civil Rights Languish
A reporter for the new-defunct Newark Evening News, Peter Bridge, has been jailed for refusing to disclose details of an article he wrote about a housing scandal in Newark.
While candidate Nixon was signing the revenue sharing bill in Philadelphia last week, television cameras recorded a lone dissenter being hustled away by the camera lest he disturb the grand event.
In the last large antiwar protest in Washington, thousands of protesters were arrested, only to be released when the government realized it had gotten sufficient evidence to prosecute them. Only a handful of those arrested were ever prosecuted.
Last year, the Lawrence Gay Liberation Front went to court in an effort to gain recognition as a campus organization. That recognition had been denied by Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. The court too, ruled against the group.
Two years ago, an employee of the dean of men's office, Gary Jackson, was fired after it was learned he had been paid in the purchase of ammunition.
These cases have something in
common. In each case individual civil rights have been abridged.
The fact that any of these things could happen demonstrates that, at the least, the American perception of civil rights has changed since the days of the libertarian Warren court. Let it is unfair to lump the cases together in the same court. The change goes beyond the matter of judicial interpretation. American morality, somehow, has learned to tolerate heavy-handed bureaucratic interference. Most Americans seem willing to cede a few of their rights if they think that it would be better for dope peddlers, protesters, crooks, gays or anyone else who might not fit the norm.
At the same time, the government has acquired more power, unchecked by those, who in the past stood against this infringement.
In our blind desire to be safe at any cost, we have bought a new era of a false security. The illusory safety of no-knock, preventative detention and wire taps hasn't purchased a decrease in crime.
What we now have is the civil rights of expedition. Our reflexive move to salve one wound has opened and is now a serious and, in the end, perhaps fatal.
—Thomas E. Slaughter
Japan Fights Yen Raise
AP News Analysis
Japan struggled to hold down the price of the yen Monday in another of the complex international money dramas that have a direct effect on American pocketbooks.
transistor radio for example
This time the stake is how much Americans will have to pay for Japanese autos, cameras, televisions and radios. If the Japanese lose their struggle, the United States will go up.
The key is the price of the yen; that is, how many dollars it takes to pay a Japanese factory owner for his product. The yen is now worth about one-third of a U.S. cent. If the price goes up, it would take more dollars to pay the 3,000 yen the Sony Co. gets for a good
transistor radio, for example.
At present, the American importer can buy these 3,000 yen dollars in a month or be revalued to be worth 10 per cent more, he would have to pay $11 for these same 3,000 yen. That would mean he would have to raise his price to American buyers. The problem is that the yen is a strong currency because Japan is selling more to foreign countries than it means there are lots of dollars in Japan. The government must buy them or the price will fall.
By the seasun effect of foreign exchange rates, if the dollar goes down, it means the yen has gone higher. China's economy under Japanese government has been
buying dollars, $20 million Monday. So far this month it has bought more than $1 billion.
International money men still think the yen will have to be revalued upward, but the Japanese government hopes to put off any action until spring. It has already put in exchange controls to try to reduce the flow of yen for yen. The usual figure discussed for a revaluation is between 5 and 10 per cent.
Tokyo has fought bitterly against revaluation because the step would reduce Japanese exports by making the cost more expensive. Japan is an export country. Japanese factories, too, because imported goods would cost less.
Liberals Decry the Press
The people around McGovern continue to be crybabies about the press. They may be justifying some of Agnew's strictures. Though they claim to be asking only for fairness, there is a quarrelous note of betrayal in their plains, "Hey, you're"
Garry Wills
supposed to be our guys! Why aren't you performing right, promoting us?"
Watching this process, I remember the reaction of some people who backed Eugene Shepard. They were relieved, when they saw more of his erratic and vindictive behavior, that he did not prevail and become Press Secretary to do well to allow eleven gift certificates mouth. If McCarthy had been given a free ride by the press, and his faults only emerged after success at the national polls, think of the resentment that men have felt for a derelict birth.
Well, say some McGovern supporters, the press was wrong about McGovern in the primaries, so it is determined to get revenge on McGovern for showing it up.
Wait a minute on that one. We are told A, that the press didn't
see the new politics of the people as it arose, though B. McGovern saw it and got his message across to the people, desperate to escape from being running down his power as negligible. Now, having grasped that sequence, we are asked to believe that the press wants to "get revenge" by compounding its error, and making them appear even more ridiculous.
So we get the further sequence D, McGovern, having established his new politics by a series of successes, he E, plugs on in defiance of a mysteriously benighted press, and F—what? "I want to do it without the press last spring, what makes him need it now?" if he was "ahead of the politicians," with his marvelous feeling for the people's new stirrings, his now fabled "instinct"; if he did in the old politician's manage to communicate to estimate why he has suddenly lost that gift just when he has his largest opportunity for using it? It is even later in the "stirring" process out there among the people, and more then know him; why should they turn off that stream of subliminal messages last spring, now when they know who is sending the message?
Ah, there's the point. People who are wrong about what
happened in the spring are not sc much the reporters, but McGovern's attendant myth-ified that did not sense the mood of "the people" their joyous acclamations into Miami. He rode with a quiet cadre of activists whose delegates-snaring process flourished on a platform that — not causing serious resistance — to the quota concept; not scaring Party regulars into unity behind some more plausible candidate. McGovern could slip his vote and win states,
A sullen McGovern worker told me, "Well, if he did nothing else, he at least reformed the Party. It must be grateful to him for that."
Cold comfort—and even that may be denied the true believers. Since what McGovern will be remembered for, after November 7, is not what he did for the Party, but what he did to it.
WASHINGTON—A device that would cut the homeowners' gas bills by 20 to 30 per cent has been kept off the market by the American Gas Association (AGA).
The fuel saver, known as Vent-O-Matic, is an automatic damper which can be attached in the flue of a gas furnace. It has been patented by Gas Association, which tested the device and found it safe.
But the AGA, after four years of stalling, still hasn't even started the testing. As a practical precaution, it can be marketed and installed until it has been tested and approved by the AGA, because
Jack Anderson
Gas Men Stall On Fuel Saver
The AGA, of course, is formed by the gas industry which would
like to increase, not decrease, the homeowners' gas bills. The association was hardly enthusiastic, therefore, about the Vent-O-Matic fuel saver when it submitted for testing in back in 1986.
Routine tests were run on three basic types of furnaces. The damper was found to be safe and the gas leak was not issued. But AGA withdrew general approval on the grounds that no specific standards existed for the Vent-O-Matic device and the equipment submitted. But the purchase price of all the types of furnaces in use would have cost several million dollars. The manufacture standards be drawn up instead.
The matter was turned over to AGA's approval committee
Readers Respond
2. They are afraid of being disproven by the facts, Jabara is a lawyer and the case has been solved in a lawsuit against the U.S. government for its censorship of parts of the Pentagon building. In the U.S. role in the Middle East.
1. They want others, as well as themselves, to remain in ignorance as to the plight of the people in their hometowns forcibly driven from their homes in 1948, 2 million of whom have been living in tents and in institute conditions in refugee camps in the desert since that date.
Arabs, Allotment American Party...
To the Editor:
Thomas Clark
Baxter Springs senior
Secretary of the
International Club
Last Thursday, the Organization of Arab Students put up posters announcing a rally in Jabara on the persecution and attempts at liquidation of the Palestinian people by the Western powers and the East Mediterranean. The Middle-East Friday morning, all the posters in the Union were torn down. We decided to put some more posters up, and within a few days we were duly torn down again.
Posters
We can only conclude from this type of immaturity on the part of those people who tore down the posters that;
Our response to them is that oppressed people all over the world can never be silenced. We can never be silenced. LONG LIVE PALESTINE
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Because of the nature of the study of architecture. the
Last year in an effort to return the use of activity fee money to the needs of the student, the Student Senate allocated money to school councils of the various schools in proportion to the number of students in each council. The two new councils were set up by the headmaster (one of the few was the School of Architecture and Urban Design, which also defined a budget), the Student Senate Finance and Auditing Committee made an across-the-board cut which drastically reduced all funds to the councils. The cut the council of the School of Art and Design was from $600 to $211, which is not enough to fund the essential programs in the budget.
Funding
To the Editor:
An open letter to the Student Senate;
known as Z21. Finally, in 1971, the committee got around to authorizing a task force to test it by writing the standards. But a year later, no task force had been established. Last April, the Z21 committee reauthorized the task because still nothing has happened.
students within this school do not have time to participate in University-wide programs funded by their money, via the students at all hours of the night working in Marvin Hall. A student store has been established to compliment the educational processes. It is available at all hours of the day for students and teachers to the expense of studying architecture. But to keep it running the council has to maintain a student store manager at a pay rate of one dollar an hour. The store is making every effort to become really effective, help is needed in this initial step.
Some means of communication are needed to best utilize the facilities and activities available to architecture students. Student publications and a bulletin board are needed to inform students of the latest teaching lectures, special programs and current school news.
The AGA claims it can't get anyone to chair the task force. But the association refused to tell him, down the chairmanship and, as people had been approached, My reporter Ken Fisher could locate only two people who had been involved in the incident. California gas company official who said he declined because his company couldn't benefit from the device. The other, a Boston doctor, explained, said he lacked the expertise.
The council of the School of Architecture and Urban Design needs additional funding to implement its projects and services and therefore wants to be seriously reconsidered in the allotment of funds by the Student Senate.
Sui Peterson
Ames, Iowa, junior
President, Council of the
School of Design,
Urban Design.
After spending weeks talking to dozens of people familiar with the facts, we have concluded that the AG is deliberately stalled. An AG spokesman explained that it takes time to test a new device to be successful. The AG hasn't even set up a testing committee to begin the tests.
Homeowners, meanwhile, continue to pay for gas that the levice could save.
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R. Ammel
1716 Brook
Lawrence, Kansas
Conservatives
fo the Editor:
The development of the New American party is one of the most important political and historical developments of the past half century. The crisis created by the Laurel, Maryland, incident, the "attempt assassination of George Wallace," the new American party is emerging as a mature, and dynamic political party.
I urge everyone to give their time and serious thoughts to the candidates of this great new party. It is and always will be what the great majority of the American people are looking for. These candidates will appear on the Kansas ballot under the November election, but however, at a later date, after the November election, the change will be made to the title of American party.
It is of the utmost importance that conservatives of both of the old-line parties are beginning to recognize that they have a 'choice in 'Campaign 7.'
Washington Whirl
Nixon celebration—So conident is the White House of history in November that top ladies have been asked to keep a Christmas date free for a gala victory celebration with President Nixon at San Clemente, Calif. The President's
confidence has not been shaken by the Watergate affair, Soviet wheat deal, ITT case and other scandals. He told visitors privately that he was distressed over the scandals but didn't think they would hurt him on election day. They were too complicated, he said for the public to uncover. He said that the public memory of the scandals was short. He suggested that the voters have already forgotten, for example, what the ITT scandal was all about.
Burger's Dissembling-With his white pompado and sollen demeanor, Chief Justice Warren Burger looks as if he had been cast for the part by Hollywood. He should look to be, he doesn't always behave as a chief justice should behave. We caught him, for example, meddling improperly in the legislative process. He sent the attorney to the minister of the federal courts, to lobby with Speaker Carl Albert against certain provisions of the safe product bills. Lawyer-lobystaff Thomas Corcoran, who helped the speaker's office, used on kinks acted as Burger's representative. Corcoran and Kirk presented to the speaker arguments that Burger had made four days earlier before the American Bar Letter to the Speaker, has denied his role in the lobbying mission. "Any responsible person who wanted to secure the facts," he wrote, "could have secured them."
The truth is that we made repeated attempts to get a column appalled, half a dozen Supreme Court correspondents jointly written several letters to Burger. He still hasn't responded.
toope, disengage. A new years ago, commercial tuna fishermen discovered schools of yellow-finned tuna could often be found beneath schools of porposes. So the fishermen began encircling the entire mass of yellow-finned tuna to harmless, people-loving porposes along with the tuna. The porposes, being air-breathing mammals, would get entangled in the nets and would drown. Their carcasses simply would be conserved. Conservationists claim thousands of tuna killed every day. Tuna fisherman, naturally, say the daily kill runs "only in the hundreds." Environmentalists argue that there should be an immediate moritorium on porpose kills. Others say such a ban would be effective. Many of their boats under foreign flags and take their business elsewhere. Congress has now passed a law which permits tuna fishermen to continue their current techniques for two years while scientists engage in research on the problem. For a generation of Americans brought up on the adventures of Flipper, however, two years is a long, long time.
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