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Thursday, September 7, 1972
University Daily Kansan
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James J. Kilpatrick
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Welfare Myths
About this time every election year the "welfare issue" crops up. Small-time politicians with nothing better to campaign on and editors better to write about begin relating their mythical tales of welfare fraud.
While I question the advisability of depriving children of all their whimsical fantasies, I think a few examples should inform our future system, nationally, should be known.
Welfare payments are not so high that people can make a better living on welfare than they can by working. In all but four states, welfare payments for a family of four are less than $331 per month.
The welfare rolls are not full of one-bodied loafers. Less than one per cent (126,000 of 13,000,000 recipients) are able-bodied males.
The welfare rolls are not filled with frauds or cheats who just want the extra income. Suspected welfare fraud is less than four-tenths of one per cent, that is, less than 31,500 cases nationally. Cases where fraud has been proven are far fewer than that.
Welfare families cannot earn huge incomes by having many children. The typical payment for an extra child in most states is only $35 per week. In some places, welfare families have more than four or five children get no extra money.
Still politicians and newspapers like the Journal World keep spouting their "Americans are fired of paying the bills for programs that encourage people not to work" rhetoric. They quote the businessmen who believe they can't get workers because "it might inflict a psychological harm on the food stamps." They report the rhetoric of the Wallaces and Jacksons. But they never bother to deal with reality, to check the facts.
This sort of politics is not constructive; it only locks people more securely to their prejudices, oppresses them, cheaply politics which sincere men who long for an enlightened solution to America's problems will avoid.
—Robert Ward
rally assumed that is what the State would want. No one expected that anyone would want a separate hearing on separate counts of the same indictment—something which would require dragging the same witnesses back twice to do the same thing. We were informed Monday, the 28th, that the State intended to retile the two last counts of the indictment that were dismissed because we had indicated that it would want to continue the hearing in order to avoid a needless hearing. Naturally, we did not expect to have a preliminary hearing on charges that I was being arraigned on that day (counts two and three). With that in mind, my chief lawyer (Ron Clark of Chicago) could have argued that a failure of a continuance (unlike the State, our finances are very limited). However, even in light
We noted in our article concerning my latest court hearing ("Court Grants Go Will Continence" - 83-172) the repeated request to be being at the request of the defense and, further, that the State was prepared to proceed with the hearing. We would like to take note of the fact that defense did not actually want a continuance (if you check the records I think you will find that we have always objected to continuances in both the state and the court). It is likely been ready for the hearing, too. However, several factors combined to make the rescheduling of this hearing a fact. Judge Rathbun, for example, may arrarange my hearing two three set a preliminary hearing date for Sept. 11 and quite natu
of all this, my local attorney was prepared to go ahead, but wanted to be sure a record was kept of the hearing—but no court reporter was available. So the judge sent the discretion of the court (wisely, I think) at than the request of the defense. The State insinuated that we were attempting to delay the case by getting it continued without using up our time. Judge Racknall's ruling that no matter what, we still had our statutory continuity option open for counts two and three—showed that if we wanted another delay we could get one. In fact, we had two counts, two years and I assure you the last thing I want is any more delays.
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new political factor in the area.
"This sort of thing is bound to continue until Palestinians become participants in moves to settle the Middle East situation," a Palestinian writer said. "It's a military spirit of revolutionary violence."
Guerrilla Raids Underline Bankruptcy
News Analysis
Disarray in the movement has led to the formation of a number of secret groups such as Black September, which seemingly are beyond control of the relative power of the Liberation Organization, the umbrella structure for half a dozen guerrilla around.
Black September is a breakaway group from Al Fatah, the largest and least ideological
Black September's attacks also underline the state of futility in which the guerrilla movement finds itself because their objective has been concerted against a political action to achieve a "free Arab Palestine."
anion factor in the area. Now there are no more raids against Israel, the guerrillas have been expelled from Jordan, the Taliban controlled the country, and restricted in Lebanon and are fighting among themselves.
Some of the most elaborately computerized files were maintained by the Continental Army Command, known as "the Army." The command's computer could search through "2,260 pages of detailed summaries of the political beliefs and activities nearly 5,500 persons." The information was stored in a computer shorterhud for "personality link."
Such actions as the Munich attack can be regarded as blunders because they antagonize world opinion and rob the mainstream of the guerrilla effort. For example, if it has left in Arab countries.
To the movement's dismay, both President Anwar Sadat of Egypt and King Hussein of Jordan are believed to be moving toward a negotiated settlement with Israel, possibly next year.
The Black September operation is likely to increase tensions between moderates and radicals, since it shows how out of control some guerrillas are. The attack in Munich may represent another nail in the coffin of a group of many many many Arabs after their disastrous defeat by Israel in 1967.
Two years ago this week when guerrillas hijacked three airliners to the Jordanian desert they were being described as the
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BEIRUT — Once again Palestinian guerrillas have carried out a desperate attack that has shocked the world. But I seems to underline the movement's bankruptcy.
Hussein has lined up the support of prominent, moderate astahistans in the Israeli-occupied west bank and Gaza Strip.
The apparent reasoning behind these attacks is that terrorism is the only weapon left to the slowly dying guerrilla movement.
The report covers some familiar ground, already traversed in hearings before Senator Sam Ervin's subcommittee, but it contains much that is new. It transpired through the hearings of Senator John Edwards and goes back at least to the time of Franklin Deloano Roosevelt, the Army had been systematically gathering in
This is a bone-chilling report, prepared for the Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights under the direction of Chief Counsel Lawrence M. Baskir. The document achieves dramatic impact by not being dramatic; it sounds a thunderning warning without raising its voice. For many years, poachers have been wondering. Were they suffer from wondering, Were they suffer from wondering, Were they suffer from wondering, Were they suffer from wondering, Were they suffer from wondering, Were they suffer from wondering, Were they suffer from wondering, Were they suffer from wondering, Were they suffer from wondering, Were they suffer from wondering, Were they suffer from wondering, Were they suffer from wondering, Were they suffer from wondering, Were they suffer from wondering, Were they suffer from wondering, Were they suffer from wondering, Were they suffer from wondering, Were they suffering, Were they suffering, Were they suffering, Were they suffering, Were they suffering, Were they suffering, Were they suffering, Were they suffering, Were they suffering, Were they suffering, Were they suffering, Were they suffering, Were they suffering, Were they suffering, Were they suffering, Ware
telligence on civilians who might cause trouble. In the ensuing uproar, thousands of ships and dossiers were delivered to the military orders were out to halt the surveillance.
By Harry Dunphy Associated Press Writer
"Has written a number of letters to U.S. Government officials, civil defense officials, and to newspapers. The letters are generally very critical of federal and local government because of what she considers the futility of a civil war, andrefusal of country to disarm.
A number of Arabs may be thrilled by it, but the Black September guerrilla action in Munich—like the Lod Airport in May—points up the impotence of the Palestinian leadership.
Were the dossiers in fact destroyed? Has the surveillance ceased? Baskar leaves the questions unresolved. "It is unlikely," he says, "that we will ever know the extent to which the monitor and the data banks have been cut back."
The Army Is Watching 1984?
The supplement, published only a few days ago, is titled, "Army Surveillance of Civilians: A Documentary Analysis." We are not far from Orwell's bright cold day in April, when the clocks were striking thirteen.
WASHINGTON. If it has been some time since you read "1884," let me recommend a return to George Orwell's classic; and then read a supplement to
Baskir's report stops at Dec. 31, 1970. At that time, by his estimate, Army Intelligence "had reasonably current files on the political activities of at least 100,000 civilians unaffiliated with the armed forces." The Army then was maintaining more than 350 separate records centers. Some of these were enormous: Fourth Army Headquarters at Ft. St. Houston, Texas, had the number of 120,000 officers on personality records "over the street." Pherson, Ga., the Third Army had dossiers on 4,672 persons and 2,220 organizations.
How did this outrageous invasion of constitutional rights get started? It was for the best of motives: The Army wanted to prepare itself for the threat of internal revolution and major civil disorders. Then the cancer of bureaucracy went to work. People had to appear to "doing something." Walt Disney had to do that, and the technological wonders of computerized data accessing did the rest.
Assuming that most of the dossiers have indeed been shredded, and most of the tapes wiped out, what is to prevent a recurrence of such surveillance in the future? That practical question, says Mr. Garrison, "we do not. Thus ends his report; and we are left to wonder, to go back to Orwell, when our clocks will start striking thirteen."
Baskar's somber observation, in a concluding statement, evokes the Orwellian nightmare: "What separates military intelligence in the United States from its counterparts in totalitarian states," he says, "is its not capability to warn us of intentions." And he adds, "This may not rehearse many Americans."
The Army's dossiers, many of them drawn, like the foregoing punk, from FBI records, covered the whole landscape of political activity. The National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, in one coding system, had Dossier 02 AZ 90 92 86. The National States Rights Party was nearby: Dossier ZA 90 00 97
(C) 1972 The Washington Star Syndicate, Inc.
Jack Anderson
N. Viet Morale Reported High
WASHINGTON—The breakdown in enemy morale, which led to the Korean truce, isn't happening in Vietnam. On the contrary, the North Vietnamese troops are so strongly motivated that there's little chance of a military collapse.
This is the conclusion of four confidential studies made for the Defense Department by the RAND Corporation in 1965, 1966,
1967 and 1970. The latest battlefield reports indicate that Communist morale is still as high as ever.
In the words of the 1970 study, the "principal conclusion" must be that the Communist side, "as a group, as man for man, seems unlikely to yield, let alone disintegrate, under the type of pressure the United States can apply in the pursuit of current
objectives.
"The thought of compromise in the current struggle, even in return for concessions, seems more effective than the study. "They see the war entirely as one of defense of their country against the invading Americans who, in turn, are seen to be successors to the French . . ."
Back in 1951, RAND did a
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similar study of Communist morale in the Korean War. The results were so startling that the RAND researcher, Herbert Goldhammer, rushed a secret order to the commanding general.
"If what these 22 men have said," advised Kellen, ... corresponds to what large people even the majority of Vietnam's 30 million people similarly feel, then the chances out of the (Communist) revolution by military force or political devices are undertaking a questionable in more ways than one.
"The CCF (Chinese Communist Force) has increasingly lost its capacity to control its military and is urgently, "it is a matter of greatest importance to realize that . . . the loss of its military-political grip over its troops reached a point in June for the communist command cannot be estimated to be less than critical."
RAND is a brain factory which does strategic studies for the Pentagon. The 1970 study, written by Kornell Kingdon, is based on 22 in-depth interviews with North Vietnamese prisoners and corroborated by many other interviews over the years.
Goldhamer's assessment turned out to be right and the Communists quickly thereafter agreed to a truce. But none of the signs, which led him to detect a collapse of enemy morale in North Korea, are now evident in North Vietnam.
"The findings would, if accurate, indicate also how narrow the negotiations can be, at best. In an indirect way, however, the findings also indicate a way for an event to occur on the one we have been pursuing.
Kellen was struck by the unshakable morale of the Communist troops. "To anyone experienced in interviewing soldiers in war," he wrote, "they can be more enthusiastic. Enemy morals appears high indeed, particularly in view of the enormous disproportion in power
"The intense anger against us, the full responsibility the respondents attribute to us for the war in its present form, are in visible contrast to the virtual absence of violence which compels their enemy compatriots. Does this indicate a high, reconciliation potential?"
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and resources of the two contenders . . ."
He found "particularly remarkable the degree to which the men do not simply 'mouth' what they have been told, but seem to have fully absorbed and responded to their own terms, illustrating it with their own examples and experiences.
"Thus, what may have begun as indoctination has become sincere conviction, opinion and emotion, and may, therefore, be regarded as virtually impossible to dislodge.
"The men polled here—all except one—are unlikely to change their views or to lose their readiness to make the necessary changes. But they can be dissuaded either by words or by hardships."
The study adds this ominous note: "The enemy soldier who, lacking all the important modern weapons and equipment in his morale and motivation, seems anomalous, because probably few enemy armies could have carried on the war with them in comparable circumstances.
"At the very least, others would resent fighting an enemy who had B-52s, sensors and napalm, which they lacked. But it is precisely that resentment—a powerful corrosive agent to morale—that seems entirely absent in the enemy forces . . .
"One of the most effective leaflets in World War II was one entitled 'Human Hands Vs. Machine Guns', that men could not be expected to fight with their bare hands against steel; that their air force, equipment and supplies were inferior to ours; and that it was, unlike us, not only logical for them to give up the fight and surrender.
Footnote: We reached Kellen, who acknowledged his authorship of the RAND report. Nothing he had ever done changed his views, she said, but he cautioned that he is no longer privy to prisoner information. From our own sources, however, her moralale is still rated as high.
"To Hitler's superman, this was an eminently sensible way of thinking, and they responded in Vietnam thinks differently."
Copyright, 1972.
by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.
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