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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, October 31, 1968
The Wallace position
The third party candidacy of George Wallace has been labeled a one-issue candidacy by many. Although the law and order issue has been the foundation of the Wallace campaign, the former Alabama governor has taken a position on other issues of this presidential campaign.
VIETNAM—Wallace has advocated an "honorable settlement" at the peace table. However, if such a settlement is not reached in a pre-established time period, Wallace says the U.S.' should seek a military solution.
the former Alabama governor says he would agree to a settlement that included provisions for the removal of the North Vietnamese armed forces and free elections in Southeast Asia. Wallace says he would not accept a coalition government in South Vietnam if it were imposed by Hanoi. However, he says he would accept a coalition if the South Vietnamese voted for such a coalition, although, he doesn't think this would occur.
FOREIGN POLICY-Wallace advocates that other free nations in the world share a larger part of the burden of defending the non-communist world. He points to such countries as Japan, Thailand, and the Philippines as countries that should provide more manpower, munitions and money in Southeast Asia.
money in Southeast Asia. In the area of the Middle East, Wallace has said he favors establishing a military balance while at the same time working toward a peaceful settlement of the Arab-Israeli dispute.
LAW AND ORDER-Although Wallace has been the leading proponent of this issue, he says that no new federal laws are needed to combat organized crime. What is needed, Wallace says, is a common sense interpretation of existing laws. The
third party candidate says he would lend moral support to local law enforcement officers in their fight against organized crime and crime in the streets.
Wallace says as president he would ask Congress to pass legislation which would overturn the Miranda and Escobedo decisions. These decisions established the right of a person under arrest to be informed of his rights at the time of arrest and the right to legal council during interrogation.
RACIAL DISORDERS—The police should be allowed to use whatever methods are available to prevent the breakdown of law and order, according to Wallace. However, he blames the disorders on a few militants who he identifies as activists, revolutionaries, anarchists and Communists. The rest of the disturbances are caused, Wallace says, by people who get caught up in the mob action and hysteria of the moment.
U. S. ECONOMY-Wallace has advocated eliminating some of the welfare and poverty programs and replacing them with public works programs to build highways, streets, sewers, and drainage systems. He has not specified what programs he would eliminate.
Also, Wallace advocates substantial cuts in foreign aid spending. The former Alabama governor has suggested increasing personal income tax exemptions to stimulate production and employment.
To curb inflation, Wallace says the federal government should remove some of the tax exemptions on foundations. And in the area of social security, he advocates increased benefits by drawing out of general revenue funds rather than increasing payments.
Apollo 7's publicity
By Tim Jones
The Apollo 7 astronauts splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean last week, thus ending an 11-day, $4 \frac{1}{2}$ million-mile orbital flight around the earth.
During the flight, American television viewers saw, for the first time, live television from space, including tours of the space ship and some semi-camp humor by astronauts Walter Schirra, Walter Cunningham and Donn Eisele.
"Greetings from the beautiful Apollo room, high atop everything," read a sign the astronauts held up before each telecast.
With a "pretty show for the whole family," the astronauts asked viewers to "keep those cards and letters coming."
The astronauts continued their jovial attitude through subsequent broadcasts and included demonstrations of weightlessness and tours explaining the functions of the various systems within the space capsule.
For television watchers this was the first glimpse of life in space—a personal touch with the astronauts—and provided an insight into what it's like to ride in a space ship orbiting the earth in that virtually unknown world called space.
There has always been a great amount of publicity connected with American (and for that matter, Russian) space shots, but never has one achieved the personal contact this one has.
There is quite possibly a reason for the publicity increase, even down to the astronauts' humor, taken in light of recent world and international developments in general and the space program in particular.
Since the tragic accident in February, 1967 in which three astronauts were killed in a fire which consumed a capsule as it sat on the launch pad for tests, little has been said about the space program.
Interest waned during the more than a year and a half between the accident and the recent launch. Congress talked seriously about a cut in the space budget two years ago and cut the budget this year.
It is quite possible that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, realizing the growing lack of interest in the race to the moon and further exploration of space, has embarked on its own public relations campaign to bring back the interest of the American people.
In general the space program fell behind the Vietnam war, social change and a host of other issues considered in the national budget.
With renewed interest on the part of the voters, it would be difficult for a candidate in this year's election to take a stand against further budget appropriations for the U.S. space program.
NASA's timing was perfect, whether planned or not. The shot came toward the end of a hard-fought campaign in which issues seem to be taking a more important place than in previous elections. No one has really taken a stand for or against the program, and it is doubtful that anyone would come out against it at this time. Some voters may take a look at their candidate's record on space appropriations; this could affect the election.
Whether the space shot, coupled with good public relations and peppered with good old American corn-pone humor, will affect the election is quite improbable. However, with the American people once again firmly behind the space program, it would be difficult for Congress to pass another budget cut for NASA.
In a time when newspapers are filled with social and political unrest, wars and tension-ridden peace, the world may be in search of a positive hero instead of the anti-heroes of today.
Maybe the silvery-white-clad men with their insect-like helmets and an American flag sewn to their shoulders can provide that hero
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The Hill With It by john hill
Leaving her proverbial cat to play with her knitting, the little old lady left her rocking chair to answer the doorbell.
"What was it you said again, doorbell?"
"I said," said the doorbell, "did you know there are three strangely costumed children standing on your doorstep?"
"No," said the little old lady, "but if you'll hum a few bars, I'll try and fake it for you."
She cackled to herself that she had again trapped the doorbell into the old line, and opened the door.
"Why, land o'goshen! If it isn't three little goblins out Halloweening! Who are you supposed to be, I wonder," she said, inviting them inside.
"Halloween is not a verb," said a four-year-old, from behind a mask of Curtis LeMay.
“Oh . . . ” said the little old lady, somewhat bewildered. “Aren't you children going to say-‘Trick or Treat?’”
"That," said a small voice, matter-of-factly, from beneath an elaborate cardboard costume of a giant can of Mace, "would imply extortionary methods and associated disreputable motives, i.e., blackmail, a condition that we do not choose to assume. If you partake of the present holiday's traditions, you may take these three brown paper bags and the storage trunks we have outside and fill them with silverware and other household valuables."
The little old lady didn't know what to say, and it was very quiet in the room for a few moments. The only sound was that of her cat noisily strangling itself in her knitting with its tail caught under the rocking chair.
"Uh, if I don't give you a treat," she finally said, "then you'll play some trick on me, isn't that right children? You'll play some prank like we used to when I was a little girl, like tipping over trash cans or soaping windows. Is that it?"
"We have an associate outside," said the third child who was costumed like a gigantic multivac computer, "who is presently ready, at our signal, to wire your car with dynamite, your bathtub with punjit sticks, and your cat with STP if our demands are not met."
"But all I have for all you little trick or treaters is a nice apple or maybe a piece of penny candy . . . "
"Trick or treaters is not a noun," said the first child, motioning the others to leave, obviously disappointed.
"But children," yelled the little old lady as she stood in he doorway, "I'm sorry what I have isn't enough. Don't you know how much I would like you to have the fun of a good old fashioned Halloween?"
"No," said the door, smiling to himself victoriously, "but if you'll hum a few bars, I'll try and fake it for you."
'Who're you gonna believe? Me or them?'