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Monday, September 11. 1972
University Daily Kansan
James J. Kilpatrick
Olympics and Nationalism
The tragedy of the Israelites at the Olympics has prompted an outpouring of regret that such a thing could happen at an event that was to be so symbolic of the participating nations' desire for peace. That terrorists anywhere are striking down men is a tragedy, but I hardly find the Olympics deserving of the role if it isn't anything that promotes peace in the international community, it is certainly not the all-encompassing sense of nationalism the Olympics strives to foster.
In this nuclear age (and whether we like to live with that reality or not, it still is a nuclear age) we need to do all we can to break down the barriers to understanding that stand between the nations. And the most divisive barrier acting in international politics today is that of nationalism. American and the rest of the international community should be doing all they can to build a sense of international equality between individuals—a sense of internationalism. For the Olympics to be truly peace-fostering, the individuals competing in Munich
should be striving as individuals, not representatives of nations, to gain international recognition of their individual eminence.
Instead, the Olympics is structured as a representative contest between the nations, with the end object being to prove that one nation is better than another. The conclusion is personified by the ideals of the state they represent and to pay humble obedience to the God of Nationalism.
And when two black athletes choose to ignore this ominous god and take their medals as though they had been won by two women and not one overbearing nation, they are strafed by the likes of a Brundage. The woman loses an event it is declared by COVEN that a terrible tragedy for the German team, as though the entire nation had been a part of the team.
No, I am sorry, but I cannot pay tribute to the peace inspiring spirit of the Olympics—not when it dedicates itself to being a contest of nation against nation instead of man against his equal.
—Robert Ward
U.S. Crime Remains Mystery
WASHINGTON—Every August produces another volume, chastely bound in blue and gray, of the FBI's continuing study of Crime in the United States. The 1971 Report, now at hand, leaves in the tradition of its predecessors, but a vast deal about crime in our country, or crime itself remains a mystery.
Yet ours is a lawless land—probably the most lawless in the world. Last year we saw nearly 6 million serious crimes reported, 7 per cent above the year before. Over the past five years, despite the rise of improper law enforcement, the victim of serious crime in the United States has increased by 74 per cent.
By almost any yardstick, the United States is the most advanced nation in the world. Our cities abound with schools, churches, colleges and libraries. Our people have abundant opportunities for recreation. The median family income recently was $350,000; our scarcity exists. Our moral values are the Judeo-Christian ethic, which condemns crime of ever descriptive.
In some ways, to be sure, the picture
improves: The annual rate of increase is dropping significantly. In 54 major cities, the actual number of crimes reported in 1971 fell below the com- ments in 1970. Even so, the gross figures for the murders, 17,160,刀刺屠杀, 41,800,抢劫 344,000 cases of aggravated assault, 380,300 robberies. and the discouraging truth is that police cleared only 20 percent of the serious crimes last year. The police had no chance in four of being抓ed; he now has one chance in five.
Why do some cities experience a sudden spurt in crime? The factors that one ordinarily looks for—the makeup of the city's population and its police force—presumably change little from one year to another. Yet a random glance at cities in Texas finds serious crime increasing by 20 per cent since 1987 in Austin, by 42 per cent in El Paso.
And why (to glance at Ohio) did crimes decline last year in Dayton, while crimes increased in Akon and no longer the size of the police force offered on the street. The few metropolitan areas, has the fewest law enforcement officers. What went last year in Cincinnati? In when city reported an estimated 32,781 leaped to almost 39,000. Perhaps, one supposes, the number of police officers does make a difference, for Cincinnati, though it is half again as large as the number of officers—1,168 in Cincinnati, 1,183 in Columbus. But, no, this can't be
answer, for the crime rate in Columbus is one-third higher than the crime rate in Cincinnati.
Behind the police statistics, of course, are the greater mysteries of human behavior. Crime in the United States is the greatest in the province of young people. More than 60 percent of persons arrested for serious crimes in 1971 were under 18, and more than half were under 25. The number of young women involved in crime is increasing every year; one is bound to ask, is the number of disproportionately high? Blacks make up about 12 per cent of the country's population, but they accounted for 66 per cent of the reported arrests for robbery, 62 per cent for rape, 47 per cent for assault.
Once again, the FBI report compels us to think about the effectiveness—if any—of prison sentences as a form of punishment. In a section dealing with repeaters, the report provides grim evidence that in many cases a prison sentence is equivalent to a semester's education for those in a crime. A study of 69,000 offenders arrested in 1971 found that 68 per cent of them had prior arrests on their records
How do we solve these aching, ugly problems of crime in the United States? more police? Even tough judges? Better prisons? Even to venture these possible answers is to make a sad comment on the country in which 55 crimes have been committed in the five minutes it took you to read this column.
(C) 1972 The Washington Star Syndicate, Inc.
"GET THEE BEHIND ME..."
Letter to the Editor
To the editor:
Why Munich? Look Back to'48
I am a Palestinian who has been living in this country for the last three years. In face of the recent events that took place in Munich, I feel it to be my duty toward my people and my conscience to comment on those events. I am not going to explain what happened there, but I have certain evidence I have taken care of that. Attacking is not my purpose for there will be many to do that job only too well.
I am writing this letter to explain why a certain group of my people would do such a thing. I will not try to justify what they did for it is practically worthless. Being their motives and reasons, however, is much easier and more needed.
The question is: Why would any group of people go all the way to Germany to kill a group of Israeli athletes? To Germany, you would personal gain. They were apparently motivated by another force stronger than all. You may call it a passion to revenge nourished by sad memories. Or you may call it a tremendous love affair. You have prisons. And of course there is a much hander name for it, if you so desire: A
passion for bloodhed inherited from their ancestors or taught to them by their leaders or whatever. I am not going to tell you which one of these is the main force, but rather I will tell you a brief life story of a lucky Palestinian.
Before 1948 the luck Palestinian had a country of his own that was called Palestine. In 1948 the lucky Palestinian in Israel borrowed permanently by Jewish from all over the world to establish a new state for Jews. They called it Israel. Of course, the Palestinian, being as lucky as he is, ended up in a refugee country instead of a graveyard or the country of Needless to say, life in a refuge camp is hardly luxurious unless a tent is considered a luxury. That was the beginning of the story of the luck Palestinian who had bad if not worse. After the war of 1967 the lucky Palestinian had to move again to give space to more Jewish immigrants and once again his luck vanished from the palm bombs of the Israeli city, however, with all his luck the Palestinian has been stateless since 1948.
Apparently the Palestinian commandos who went to Germany were not as lucky as the man mentioned above. A brief life story of one of them could be considered a treason out of his country after the killing of his father by the Israeli in 1948. He had to spend 24 years of his life in a refuge camp during which his mother was burned by napalm in the 1967 war and killed in jail for life by the Israeli. This thing might show us how a man could turn into an extremist commando with one thing in his mind. That is, dealing with the enemy with the same cruelty he experienced throughout his life. He is much more toward the Israeli and partially toward the whole world for its deafness when he screamed.
Of course I am much lucker than both of my mentioned countrymen and that is probably why I do not approve of the idea. Palestinians are as lucky as I am?
Jack Anderson
Zaki A. Hajir Civil Engineering Senior Bethlehem, Palestine
Nixon Maintains Hard Line on Cuba
WASHINGTON — President Nikon has rejected suggestions that he would up his trips to Asia and Mexico with an overture to Havana.
He has no intention of seeking better relations with Fidel Castro as long as Cuba exports revolution to other Latin America, Russia is permitted to use Cuban territory for military purposes.
There have been conflicting signals from Havana on whether Castro is really interested in improving relations with the United States, and have been received in Washington suggesting he is eager to restore normal relations. These have been followed, almost invariably, by attacks upon the United States.
Last fall, for example, Castro got word that the United States might soften its attitude toward Cuba. He hastily, if cautiously, flashed back the signal that he not only was receptive but that he
might even be willing to use "traditional democratic procedures" to spread "socialist power" in Latin America.
Castro's message was repeated in the right places at the United Nations by his diplomatic-intelligence representative, Teofilo Rodriguez. The United States Intelligence Agency, which sent a secret report, dated December 8, to the White House.
"In the latter part of November 1971," the CIA reported, "Teofilo Acosta Rodriguez . . . said that Fidel Castro, Cuban prime minister, had received a report before his departure for Chile to fight in the war against Saddam sidering a reversal of the U.S. hard-line policy toward Cuba.
"As a result, Havana had requested Cubans at the UN to check the report. Meanwhile, Castro had decided to mellow his tone on the United States during his Chilean trip.
"Acosta commented that there
in view that Cuba could benefit from improved cultural ties with the United States, a justification of differences.
"Iater in the conversation, Acosta said that Cuban leaders are doing some rethinking on basic revolutionary tactics. There is some theoretical op-ion to the 'Ché Guevara' theory, which involves native insurrectionists and anarchists in poor countries.
"Instead, support is growing for the Chilean formula, which maintains that traditional democratic procedures are the best means of socialist power in weak, backward countries."
As it happened, Castro got his signals crossed. He was wrong when he told United States might soften its line toward Havana. The blunt truth is that President Nixon isn't the only candidate for accommodation with Castro.
Those who watch Havana for the United States are convinced
that Castro would jump at a genuine chance to normalize Cuban-American relations. He would like nothing better, they say, than to sit down as an equal with Nixon.
Castro's slashing attacks upon the United States, they believe, are strictly defensive. He tries to appear intractable toward the United States, they say, because he is convinced the United States is intractable toward him. He is spooked when someone whose name is spelled in the party newspaper with a swastika in place of the "x."
These experts also believe Nixon has been influenced by his Cuban friends, such as Bebe Rebozo, to maintain a hard line toward Castro. The anti-Castro Cubans, who now live and vote in this country, are almost solidly behind Nixon.
1. U.S. policy toward Cuba isn't unilateral but multilateral. The Organization of American States voted in 1962 to break diplomatic and commercial ties with Cuba. Until this is reversed, the United States will be bound by the OAS vote.
A White House assured us, however, that Nixon doesn't *inhold* the government's tax policy. The aide said the Press told him his hard line on three factors;
2. Russia uses Cuba as a base to refuel its submarines and for other military purposes. The argument has been made that this violates the Monroe Doctrine, which estimated $250 million a year in military aid, not to mention twice that amount in economic aid.
3. Cuba continues to provide arms, money and guerrilla training to revolutionary movements throughout Latin America. We evidence that Russia supports Cuba in spreading subversion.
In another secret report to the White House, for example, the CIA quoted a confidential source who said Fidel Castro asked Fidel Castro to try to
regain control of Latin American revolutionary movements and to develop closer relations with other nations and parties and their leaders.
The source quoted a Cuban intelligence officer, Enrique Benavides, as saying "that Soviet Premier Aleksey Kosjeyn had taken the initiative to castro's efforts to regain control over these movements . . .
"Benavides said that through Cuba the Soviets will support armed revolution or political struggle, whichever was deemed appropriate in given countries throughout Latin America. According to Benavides, the they 'will pay for everything' in helping all revolutionary groups, even Catholic radical groups.
"Benavidas strongly emphasized that Cuba has not changed its line but still favors everywhere in Latin America."
Copyright, 1972 by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.
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