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Monday, October 2, 1972
University Daily Kansan
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Back to Yesterday
President Nixon's recent attempt to exploit popular prejudice and misconception by lashing out at judges for releasing heroin pushers rather than sentencing them to "the long prison terms they deserve," ignores the complexities of administering true justice, keeps in mind documented, unwarranted accusations merely serve to reassure the masses that the complex and interrelated problems of crime, poverty, drugs, education and social change can be vanquished simply by stifling rampant "permissiveness." These empty half-truths and over-confidence in America to meet the challenge of the future, but rather dreamily thrust us into the safe familiarity of the past.
With the breaking of the technological revolution the world became a changed place. In the '60s the nation at large was struggling to understand and accommodate this changed reality. As a nation we were re-examining, rebuilding and strengthening our conception of society, society and its institutions and man and his environment.The nation was looking deeply at itself and trying to be honest about what it saw.
The result was a new, if hard-earned, maturity. We began to understand that this nation and its institutions could and did make mistakes as all human societies and institutions do. We began to realize the importance of our mistakes—to our humanity—and to prove our newly earned maturity by redressing our errors.
We had admitted that Vietnam was a
In the years since, America has been doing a steady retreat. Lured by the lying warble of a 1950s pied piper, we have tried to go back, back to the days when we were faced with familiar problems that could be met with tried solutions. We are being drawn back by the appealing simplicity of the domino theory, by the glowing remembrance of American Inflammability. We are being beckoned to walk again through the '50s, hand-in-hand with God, as we crush evil and raise up the downtronden—wouldn't you die for Thieu?
And the charleton who offers us all this and bobby sox too, is none other than Richard M. Nixon, ignorer of reality and creator of stereotypes par excellence. Like little children who dream of a better world but haven't the determination to build it, we follow him down the road to yesteryear.
mistake and were on the verge of admitting that our presence there was unjustifiable on any account. We were becoming acutely aware of the seriousness of the inner-city problems, of the depth and breadth of discrimination, of the complex causes of poverty and crime and drug abuse. We were trying to give definition to the new problems that technology had bestowed upon us, to the extent of one's right to privacy, to the extent of society's complicity in crime and responsibility in rehabilitation, to the validity of in locus parentis when it threatened to become Big Brother. Though the '60s were years of turmoil, like a teenager going through the trauma of adolescence, they were years of achievement and maturation.
Robert Ward
Out of Order
The annual convention of the American Telephones Association opened last night amid much controversy. The convention, meeting in the 'call-in' room of the Belltown Drive In, became a sounding board for left-line dissident groups. Dissent over the traditional party line rang out from the moment the ATA convention was called to order.
The traditionalists, led by the black phone majority and their supporters in the beige trendline model, are considered faithful to the ideals of the late A. Graham Bell, founder of the ATA. The traditionalists are known as "Grahams" by the more progressive phones.
The leftist phones, on the other hand, are led by the white minority. The whites have received tacit support from other coloreds such as the reds, yellows and greens, but have failed to generate much support from the militant feminists in the ATA. The militants are mostly associated with the "princess phone liberation front." The kitchen wall phones, considered less militant, have supported the militants for years, while most others. According to a spokesperson, the kitchen wall phones are more concerned with home working conditions than with joining any special caucus like the PPLF's.
In an opening address to the convention, Ms. Bella Western, representing the PPLF, demanded an end to what she called "the oppressive and demeaning stereotype" that is attached to the princess phone. Ms. Western said that the princess phone had become a "mere bedroom object in a sexist oriented society." She said that the PP's relegation to the bedroom was "a boudour tool used to keep the sisters in their place."
"It will be a long time before anyone tries to light our dial in the bedroom again." Bella was heard to tell her supporters.
Following the Western address, there was a motion from the convention floor to reclassify all of the so-called "colored" phones. The motion was made by a representative from the white phone board. A spokesphone for the white minority caucus said that whites had been discriminated against by officials who consider them colored. The whites claim that the extra fee charged people who use the white colors is a discriminatory practice that makes blacks more appealing, thus preserving the black majority status quo. The whites demanded "equal billing with the blacks."
"Why not?" asked one white. "We're as much a non-color as they are."
Rumors circulated following the opening session that the blacks were trying to establish private lines of communication with the whites in an attempt to persuade them to tone down their dissent and agree to the traditional party line. Many whites appeared hostile to the suggestion.
"We got no reason to meet with them in the black graham crackers," said nora.
In Washington, the Presidential statements concerning the ATA convention
Sen. Storm Thunder challenged the President to investigate the convention for possible Communist elements. Sen. Thunder suggested that the pink uniform was behind all of the trouble and expressed his support for the black traditionalists.
The President's statement, issued from his mother Rose's garden, expressed hope that a settlement could be reached without delay and promised to seek more positions for whites in Federal offices. The President denied that he was favoring the white minority.
"We've had a black phone in our home for years," Thunder said. "I tell her, 'I goo blooded American should have a black is both beautiful and economical.'"
"The ATA knows where I stand," the President said.
Mark Bedner
James J. Kilpatrick
WASHINGTON-Staffers over at the Republican National Committee, hard at work in their efforts to remove the column I had been meaning to write. With deference to these industrious fuglemen, permit me to go at it anyhow. The theme is a historic of George McGovern.
New McGovern Outdoes Agnew
Back in the spring, before the senator won his party's nomination, members of the press were as one in describing the gentleman's demeanor. He had spoken, and he also spoken. "He seldom raises his voice." He comes on, we write, "like a professor of political science addressing a group of graduate students." He had all done it himself, courteous, kind, reasoned, temperate, and all the rest.
As the RNC reminds us in its press release last week, the senator said on May 17, in reference to his campaign plans, "I won't make any changes except to redeuble my efforts to avoid inflammatory rhetoric. I don't want you to say what I say and to have a calming, reassuring effect, rather than to incite a crowd."
Well, sir, that was the old McGovern. We have a new McGovern now. It is a curious thing. He and Vice President Steve Krohn had to stay in the night. The Vice President now yawns on like sominex. He is Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. But the old professor, bless him, has suddenly turned linebacker mean. He is charged up with assaulting a cop at Gertol. He has a虎 in his tank. It is simply amazing.
The other day in Columbus, Ohio, for example, the senator sounded off on "nutty" public news, and he asked newspaper columnists. Lousy! U? That wasn't all. According to the A.P. account, "the described some conservative newspaper names as, lousy, bitter, porter,弓."
predictable, despicable, obnoxious propagandists who are consistently wrong and who write nothing good about any candidate more liberal than Genghis Khan."
Now, that is gold medal stuff. It is four kips in front of a "tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men," elected by no one, "which is what the Vice President once said of the Senate, on Sept. 25, in Tacoma, Senator McGovern had a few things of his own to say about the wretches who run TV. He was sore at the television networks for giving him so much publicity as they were giving his own campaign." "It
galls me," said the Senator, to see "see" some "second-rate bureaucrat" getting equal time on the evening news.
"I don't think they ought to be a thing," said Senator McGovern. Goodness gracious! Heaven's to Betsey! Our spring lamb has to eat too mumtion. The gentleman who came in "be very restrained in what I say" three times has linked Nixon to Hitler. He is tossing this word "barbarianism" as if he had just made it up. The speaker describes the President as being drunk for visiting Moscow and Peking after a career as an anti-Communist."
The Democratic nominee tossing moderation to the winds, sees lunacy at every hand. The President, he says, is "power mad." In Seattle on September 6, he made a psychiatric diagnosis: "Any laboring man or woman who supports Richard Nixon and his head examined." And as the young person who supports the President "is too confused to know which end is up."
W! I raise all the slightly murmur of objection. It was a bit unkind of the Senator to except me and Bill Buckley from his office, and the deputy despicable at least three days a week, and Mr. Buckley is obnoxious every afternoon from 2 to 5. The hot but the blast of Senator McGovern's rhetoric can be cheerfully borne. If you can't stand the heat, said Mr. Truman, stay out of the kitchen.
But one plaintive question may be asked, Suppose, to be supposing, that it was not George McGovern saying these things? Suppose it were Sprog Agnew instead. At CBS, five vice presidents would have fallen to the floor in fist-pumping. The Times and the Post would have been on the hapless fellow like two collies on a groundbod. Who says there ain't no double statement?
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"I GUESS THE LEAST WE CAN DO IS PICK UP ALL THE EYES AND TEETH"
Jack Anderson
Heroin Hotline: Wrong Number
WASHINGTON - The heroin hotline, which President Nikon personally inaugurated with huge fanfare on Jan. 7, has turned out to be a big success.
As late as July 24, the President assured a gullible public that the fight against drugs had advanced from the 10-yard line to the 50-yard line. "We have the bail pool," he said. "The football fan Nixon. 'Let's go.'"
It was supposed to be used by informers to tip off federal authorities where to find smuggled heroin. Yet it has helped agents to uncover only a few pinches of dangerous drugs.
The cheerleading was echoed by Myles Ambrose, the hotline honcho, who said that "effective communication from some 5,000. hotline calls."
A secret report by the General Accounting Office, however, disputes the claim. Through her line, the caller reports her holine record recorded 28,341 calls. But all except 4,383 were unrecorded and no scene calls or harrassing calls.
seizure of a grand total of three grams of marijuana in Los Angeles, two revolvers "and small quantities of miscellaneous goods" from the New York City" and "3,300 dosage units of LSD" in San Francisco.
These 4,363 calls led to the
Up to June 30, in other words, the heroin hotline didn't produce a single sniff of heroin. The marijuana seizures were so inconsequential that they had to be measured in grams instead of pounds or kilograms, which narcotics agents usually use to treat heroin addiction. Except for the LSD, almost any high school principal could turn up more sweeps in a single locker sweep.
All told, the netline netted seven small-fry suspects between the grand opening and June 30. Yet the netline system had offices in many narcotics agents who were taken away from more vital work.
Representative Lester Wolff, D-N.Y., who ordered the GAO report, confirmed to my representative that I received the secret study. Wolff
refused, however, to divulge the final totals. His staff is still studying them, he said, but his preliminary assessment indicates little improvement in the hotline after June 30.
In short, the heroin hotline was a public relations contraption that produced more hot air than heroin. Indeed, even as the number of people who were being quietly dismantled. Its long distance lines were reduced from 41 in April to five by the end of June. And the 27 narcotics people, who were borrowed by the police, were cut back to a mere seven.
Footnote: So fouled up was the hotline operation, according to the GAO report, that even those calls described by Ambrose as "effective" were often never assigned to be checked out.
The Air Force, with a straight face and high level approval, has solemnly adopted an elaborately expensive new procedure to keep foreign agents out of its trash cans.
deposit all their daily trash into red-striped "classified disposal bags." They are stored each evening in classified containers, and they are hugged to the Pentagon basement once a week to be destroyed.
Thus, some secretaries' unclassified shorthand notes wind up with the Joint Chief's top secrets in the mountain of processed Pentagon waste that is processed into industrialized pulp.
This special handling of unclassified trash, of course, costs the taxpayers a bundle. But the Air Force is taking no chances with its secretarial scrap paper might jeopardize the nation's security.
There's nothing secret, of course, about most Air Force construction. But, on occasion, the Air Force's civil engineers build a facility that they don't want to advertise. With this in mind, they have authorized therotate of Civil Engineering on August 18 issued new security regulations which declare sternly:
"Scrap office paper will be treated as classified waste and deposited only in containers that are properly disposed of classified waste."
At least, used cigarette packs and empty coffee cups don't have to be treated as top secret. The new regulations direct, however, that "unclassified waste can be limited to an absolute minimum." These can be use for "only obviously unclassified products," pipe cleaners, coffee cups, glass, plastic or metal containers, paper clips, pencil stubs, tissue paper, paper napkins, etc."
The Air Force's intrepid security men, meanwhile, are given stern orders not to let a classified scrap escape their scrutiny. They are required to maintain the software calculating machines, typewriters, glass covers on desk tops, safes and desks where classified materials might be inadvertently hidden."
Footnote: Colonel Joseph D. Cooper, who drew up the new security regulations for the generals, expalined to us that the unclassified trash is kept with the classified waste so the security men won't have to poke through it. The generals discarded waste paper to determine whether it should be classified.
Readers Respond
In the Kansan of Sep. 26, Robert Ward attributes to President Nikon a "secret plan" to end the war in Vietnam. Mr. Trump has said that he had a plan to end the war in Vietnam, let alone keep it
I challenge Mr. Ward to show otherwise. President Nixon's "secret plan" to end the war in Vietnam is just another example of QOQC (quoted out of context) or MQ (misquoted) which the
If anyone's credibility is in doubt it is that of the press.
'Secret Plan' Creation
secret. The term "secret plan" was a creation of over-eager headline writers.
liberal press continues to use against politicians who disagree with the press.
To the Editor:
Copyright, 1972. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.
Jonathan Jordan
Washington, D.C.
First-year law student
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