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Tuesday, October 17, 1972
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Creative Megalomania
According to people who study the growth of cities and enthusiasts for Kansas City, by the year 2000 Kansas City will no longer be properly called a mere city but will merit the elevated status of a megalopolis. The merits of a monstrous city extending past Topeka may be dubious but if that growth is inevitable it is irrelevant to worry about whether it is a good city or not. It is also important the quality of a city in terms other than size can hope that the recent decline in the population growth will continue and effectively curb the city's growth in our direction.
If such a city does evolve, the problems of coordinating it will be considerable. There will be the fights over annexation such as the one recently waged here in Lawrence. Street planning and zoning regulations as well as providing for water and utilities are all areas that have to be worked out in the near future.
Already research is being done to determine the best way for the city to grow. It will probably be the responsibility of the state government to take the most active part in planning for this possible city. However, individual cities such as Lawrence, which are in the likely path of the growing Kansas City, will have to figure out how they will fit into the urban development of their surrounding fields and farms.
The future's possibilities are going to force city planners to use not only caution but also imagination and creativity. Their caution will have to be mixed with a boldness that allows new ways of providing for old problems to be used. It is time to figure out different ways to provide mass transportation. Instead of continually putting more money into road construction maybe some of that money should be used to build newer although more expensive types of transportation now being developed. New approaches to city government will have to be recognized. City school systems and city services will have to be adequate to provide for more people in a larger area.
The present situation has to be dealt with in order to correct immediate problems but we can no longer allow ourselves the luxury of being oblivious to future demands. Everything from the disposal of trash to the zoning of residential areas should start to be examined from the viewpoint of what things may be like in thirty years as well as what lives there are now. Too much land and too many lives are involved to excuse any negligence. Since the year 2000 is less than thirty years away those lives will include our lives and that land will be our environment.
Mary Ward
Fall Reflections
Last week went by slowly, or so it seemed. The leaves were turning and a cold night wind prompted the unpacking of winter blankets. There were fewer kids outside after school and we watched the neighbors hustle from car to apartment at the end of the work day. Summer had passed and winter waited. It seemed a good time for reflecting.
Midweek brought the news that American bombers had struck Hanoi. In the process, the French embassy had been damaged. There were injuries to the staff and the consul. The war, it seemed, was coming back to haunt the French, too.
"Does it remain American policy to bomb Hand?" asked a newsman.
We listened as the Secretary of Defense suggested that the damage might have been the result of antiaircraft fire from North Vietnamese guns. We have tired of laughing but remembered the comedy from another year. It was haunting.
"Well," said the newspaper, "could these militarily associated targets be located within the city limits of Hanoi?"
"I don't know what the city limits are," replied the press officer. The time was December, 1966. We had not declared war on the French, yet.
"It is not American policy to bomb other than military targets or militarily associated targets," reported the state department press officer.
Friday the 13th and I read that the 'jinxed F111 fighter bomber was no spook, but rather "the greatest piece of machinery in the air." According to the National Air Force flying other airplanes was "like driving a Cadillac after a Chevy."
Someone had forgotten to tell the pilot about GM's recent recall on a number of Cadillacs. They had to go into a malfunction in the braking system.
But then the pilot probably wouldn't be one to see the humor in the most recent of the F111 tragedies either. One of the first of the new
planes sent to replace the old F4 Phantoms pulled its own disappearing act. It not only humbled the Phantom, but it also sent chills down many a taxpayer's spine. The new F111s cost $15 million apiece.
Saturday, windy Saturday. It was comforting to hear there were others having trouble with the fall wind. Since tickets cost the price of a new F111, any plans to attend the annual K.U. K.S.U. festivities were shelved quickly in favor of eating this week. No matter, it didn't sound like anyone was having much fun anyway.
We traveled the back roads and listened to the radio. The kickoff was at 1:30 p.m. in Baldwin and the first quarter ended in Scranton. The second quarter scoring and subsequent yelling produced more than 50 yards for the lead along the Burlingame main drain. It was painfully obvious by Osage City that it would have been nice to be in Manhattan, just this once.
Halftime brought the bands and a brief rest at the small woodcutters barn in America. For the first time during the week fall didn't seem so transient. Winter will wait, the woodcutter assured us.
Saturday nights seem all the same in Kansas towns. There was good humor over the big game and no one had a point. But that didn't seem fair either.
By the end of the week, after the good news that winter was coming, the bombers had hit Hanoi and the F111 was safe again, I decided to see a movie. It was an attempt at escape I suppose.
I wasn't to be disappointed. In the end the old cop had committed suicide and the young cop had died at the hands of a weak old man who had wanted to shoot his wife. It would have made a great TV series.
It was cold as we left the theatre and walked down Massachusetts Street. The week had ended. Monday morning beckoned.
"It wasn't all that good," said the woman as she passed us.
"An understatement," I muttered.
— Mark Redner
Garry Wills
Governments Remain Unyielding
Governments do not apologize. That is a very simple truth—one feels almost simpleminded in enlisting it. Yet it explains many apparently complex things.
Governments do not give in. They are afraid that, giving in on one thing, they will have to give up everything. This gives a rather desperate air to government possessiveness.
These lessons were reinforced, for me, by simultaneously reading several new books about the importance of the Harrisonburg trial. David Halberstam's "Best and Brightest" and David Landau's "Kissmer" remind us how important it is to the inability to admit error.
The planners are afraid that if they admit it, they will forfeit their influence within government (give up one thing, you surrender all); so they retain influence by obeying other actions such as building their mistakes thus making it impossible to use that influence for good.
The public does not want to think the country erred—all that patriotic fervor summoned, outrage to come away; how rei verse now? One's life has been given as a hostage to the great mistake. no politician wants to risk his own career in war. No politician they have their own hostages out.
Nixon put the law in words back in 1968, "I've come to the conclusion that there's no way to
Of course not. And so we have had the long bloody demolishes of my father, the same one itself. There was some excuse for the misguided idealism that took us into Vietnam; but not for the cynical evations that have kept
win the war. But we can't say that, of course."
The Harrisburg trial tells the same story on a different scale. J. Edgar Hoover had a letter suggesting that the Catholic Left kidnap Kissinger. Nothing came of that, after his expectations had been raised. So, not wanting the weapon to go totally unused, he sent Congressman press; jet Congressman, known as the last still, nothing happened. So last he used it in a congressional appearance asking for funds.
He got everything wrong—the name of the group that would have been involved, the leadership of the group, Daniel Berrigan's connection with the team. He knew we better than Hoover's own investigators, as their subsequent actions proved.
But Hoover was like America. He could not admit he erred. What would happen to all his other investigations? One must hold a credibility as Kaitlin like it. Don't give away a single thing.
other acts to suggest the Hoover Conspiracy had occurred. This dreary performance is traced in three new books—the clearest account of the dead and the account being "The FBI and Ronald O'Farrell Jack Nelson and Ronald O'Farrell
So the Justice Department scrambled, tried to burtress the bagger and tapped, indicted her re-indicted, shifted charges, used
It was a long and expensive and frustrating government campaign, involving millions of dollars and hundreds of government agents. (Our 'law and order' administration has tied up the FBI in fiascos like this and the Chicago trial—one we reason
do not have proper enforcement against real criminals).
The error, never admitted,
could be ignored—by those who
wanted to ignore. That is all the
government "bought" by this long campaign, culminating in unsuccessful prosecution and a reversible sentence for smuggling letters into jail.
(Again, the crooks who smuggle doe and money into jail are not harassed as much as those who send mail in).
The government never "gave in." Patriots can rejoin in that. And it took its toll—in the lives and money and efforts of the defendants and their friends. Just as, in Vietnam, we take our toll in Asian lives trying to cover up our earlier mistakes.
If we cannot win, we can still hurt; and rejoice in that power. Governments do not give way; they grant the graceless, o'bend. They break.
(C) 1972, Universal Press Syndicate
"FOUR MORE RAILROADS, THREE MORE BRIDGES, A DEPOT..."
Jack Anderson
War on 'Fences' Launched
WASHINGTON-Senator Alan Bible, D-Dev., is drafting subpoenas for some of America's most elusive citizens, the coastside "fences" who help sell $16 million in stolen goods each year.
As chairman of the Senate Small Business Committee, the stern former Nevada attorney general plans to summon the three days of hearings beginning next February.
Although he expects a litany of Fifth Amendments from the "fences," his staffers think they have enough data to expose a nationwide criminal organization that paddles everything from single can-openers to million-dollar hitch cargoes.
Bible has also turned up names of well-known department stores which are knowingly buying them to unwriting housewives.
The battle plan for the hearings is laid out in a confidential 45-
page report prepared by the committee staff.
In it, the staffers report that "in stolen goods eventually reach a legitimate marketplace." In some cases, law enforcement people that legitimate businessmen too frequently purchase stolen goods, knowing, from fences for resale or their wholesale or retail batches.
The stolen goods of choice are cattle, cars, salami, TV and radio sets, watches, cameras, wigs, whiskey, cigarettes and clothing. The books they sell in apartment burglaries, shoilings and other thefts of all kinds. The Bible report traces the goods from the thief to the robber. The identification identifies from the stolen crates and packages. The "fence" then sells the times to a jobber, who passes the hot metal canister to a dealer who, in turn, unloads it at rate prices to a retailer.
To break this chain of crime.
Bible is proposing a bill that would let the victim of the theft file a treable civil suit against anyone he catches with the goods. The bill would have to prove he came by the goods honestly. The bill would also let the Justice Department step in with a civil lawsuit down the chain merchandisers who consistently deal in stolen goods.
Malaise in Manila
The Philippines' dynamic Ferdinand Marcos has told Americans that he used his emergency powers to impose martial law to prevent "unfriendly forces" from taking over the government and confiscating American investments.
The U.S. embassy has confirmed, at least, that Marcos faced a genuine emergency, including floods and growing political chaos.
The embassy, meanwhile, is still trying to work out an agreement with Marcos to renew
American base rights in the Philippines. Marcos wants an arrangement which could be terminated by either country with one year's notice. The U.S. Pacific Command, however, is accepting a short-term agreement that would be renewed periodically.
American Ambassador Henry Broyade discusses emphatically with the military brass. After consulting with them in Honolulu, he said that we should "we are all in agreement on the objectives to provide maximum practicable security for our base rights in the long term. I have heard from the PINAC the Pacific Command about believing our base rights would be more secure than less if we accept the formula somewhat along the lines proposed by Marcos rather than going for a specific formula. which I believe is just about the worst thing we could do . . .
"A short-term agreement, which we presumably would
want to renew under normal conditions, sets a date before which our enemies and local hostile elements of the press will upon each occasion for renewal have of advance notice in which to build up a campaign each time against the bases. "
As a fallback position, the Pacific Command proposed an arrangement which would allow usage of our Philippine bases for four years after the defense agreement is ended.
Retorted Byrode in his secret cable. "I don't really see how we can visualize a situation in which conditions would be such that I don't need it in our respective interests to terminate our mutual defense guarantee and yet allow us four more years of usage of the bases entirely for our own purposes. I do hope that despite its defeat it won't be try to for that reason; we will only be wasteting time and causing unprofitable irritation."
Copyright, 1972
by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.
Readers Respond
Restaurant
To the Editor:
Nixon's Tactics,Student Vote...
Congratulations, Lawrence, on the acquisition of your 62nd on the restaurant bill, by you members of the City Commission for making it
Now you can proudly pat yourselves on the back for backpacks, and put Street into a commercial strip like 23rd and 61st streets. After all, the city may as well be by restaurants or ringed by restaurants.
Keep you autonomy and don't listen to your professional advisors like past city planner Ron Short and Kjensen Gorgens, inspector, who have said repeatedly this type of land usage is bad.
Just think, in a few short
months, you will have the claim to fame that you made Lawrence collection of franchise restaurant for the fastest ownership of ownership.
Gary Neil Peterson
Lawrence 6th year student
Journalism
Vote
To the Editor:
with the registration deadline only days away. I would like to go to the office and register to vote on November 7. Register here and vote here. By concentrating the student vote, we will be able to Lawrence and the University can become the tools of university community. The eighteen thousand, approximately, student votes in this area could effectively control local elections and possibly have the effect of changing state and national elections.
In failing to use the power that our rights afford us, we realize no abuse power. As Edmund Burke said, "All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the darkness is good enough to do nothing."
Chris McClenaghan
Lawrence Sophomore
Nixon
To the Editor:
Last Monday it was uncovered that the ReElect the President Committee reached out of the committee to investigate wripping and allegedly tried
their hand at espionage and fraud. The Washington Post quoted FBI investigators as asking the captain of a spyaspaign included following members of the Democratic Party, forging letters and candidates' letterheads, teasing false and manufactured items to the press, throwing campaign schedules into disarray, seizing inventories investigating lives of dozens of Democratic workers." It is this same "massive campaign" that the Watergate escaped was a demonstration of campaign that the Washington Post is holding responsible for the fearful demeal of Senator Edwards in the New Hampshire Primary.
This is an election year. This year we have a race where one man is clearly different from the other, and we not only have a choice, but also a measure of hope, and a chance to change the way things are conducted by our espionage, burglary and fraud to obliterate the power of the two
Griff and the Unicorn
Bv Sokoloff
party system, to halt that change and to extinguish the hopes and aspirations of those who are bounded with the people of America.
It is time to consider the real issues of this campaign. It is also time to consider the kind of ad攻势 the Nixon campaign country. The Nixon campaign remains shrouded by White House walls, the source of 10 million dollars in campaign money, and the man has allegedly provided funds and personnel for the undercover monitoring and sabotage of the Democratic Party. What has been open; the people have seen the man, felt the turmoil and have been the man's primary concern both in policy making and in campaign strategy. McGovern wants to bring America home; not home to the dishonesty and hopelessness of espionage and fraud, but home to the intelligence and ideals of a free people.
Howard Klink Lawrence former student
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