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Friday, November 9,1973
University Daily Kansan
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Guest Editorial
Hoping for a permanent peace in the Middle East, the United States is trying to placate the Arab countries at the expense of Israel. Secretary of State Kissinger appears to be pressuring Premier Golda Meir to give back the land Israel extracted from Egypt, Syria and Jordan during the 1967 Six-Day War. In return, the Arab nations (quite generously) will agree to recognize the existence of Israel.
A Generous Winner
The United States is the last nation that should be asked to help administer peace negotiations for a nation that wants to come out of even. To come out ahead, a nation needs an agreement on the United States on the opposing side.
Such a settlement is somewhat analogous to the United States suggesting to Chiang Kai-shek that he give half of Taiwan to the people of China in recognition of her for a communist recognition of his nation's existence.
The United States is quite proud of the reputation it has established for its military excellence and generosity astounded countries in Europe after World War I and
infuriated the Allies who feared the rise of Germany and Russia after World War II.
The United States can afford to be generous in the 20th century; the last battle-fought on American land was the end to the Civil War. The winners of that war were not particularly generous to the losers.
The United States' attempt to pressure Israel into concessions that are to Israel's disadvantage is naive and indicates a lack of U.S. awareness of the small nation's political position.
A large nation that is both economically and militarily powerful can afford to be generous in peace negotiations. However, a nation threatened with extermination at any moment cannot afford a generous peace settlement.
If the balance of power necessary for peace in the Middle East is to exist, the United States must realize that the concessions it is making to Israel are unfair and that it must move in favor of Israel instead of against it.
—Carol Gwinn
Federal Firefighters?
"I THOUGHT I THINK YOU NO DIGGING IN THE BACK VARD!"
By GEORGE F. WILL Special to the Washington Post
This trophy is the way I recognize and reward, in my imagination, the efforts of those who think the federal government, as a leader, is doing its best to help people need new challenges to keep it alert.
WASHINGTON—This month's winners of the Tenth Amendment Memorial Trophy are Sen. Warren Maguire, a Democrat and seven Republicans) who have joined him in sponsoring S. 1769, a bill to establish "a U.S. fire administration national fire guard among other things."
Thus S. 1789, which, at long last, will get the federal government into the firefighting business, and for the initial bargainment three-year price of only $12.5 million.
This breakthrough in creative government began, as all things do, with a commission. I expect that in the next improvement on the King James version of the Bible, Genesis will read: "In the beginning, a commission said, 'Let there be God.' And then God said, . . . )" The bill's "declaration of policy" says: "The national Commission is making recommendations to make an exhaustive and comprehensive examination of the nation's fire problem . . . and has made 90 thoughtful recommendations."
AN INTERVIEWER ONCE asked Eric Hoffer, the author-longshoreman, why his book is short. Look. Hoffer waged a way with a young author, waving at the interview. "this book has five especially well-wrought sentences and five new and true ideas. Of how many books, that one?"
Pause a moment.
Well, Hoffer is a piker. The National Commission spun off 90 "thoughtful" guidelines for the federal government in 1769. The National Commission concluded that while fire prevention and control is and should remain a state and federal government must . . . help . .
if any significant reduction in fire fires is to be achieved." When, I wonder, was the last time a commission conceived by the government to expand itself?
SO SEC. 2 (A)(3) says "Congress finds and declares that" fire constitutes a major burden affecting interstate commerce." Amid the hurly-burly of modern life, our legislators still take time to honor in the breach the doctrine that fire damages a business by justifying getting in the business of lower governments to its elbows.
that with formality disposed of, S. 1769 buckles down to what senators recognize as serious business, that is, rhetoric and the creation of new bureaucracies. So sec. 2 gives an account of the problem concluded that the fire problem is exacerbated by—" and now, class, there will be a snap quiz. Which of the following is the top-most exacerbator on S. 1769's list?
A. oxygen
B. combustible materials
Right. You might have thought Americans would be allowed to be indifferent about something these days, even a "problem." B. S. 7189, like so many other baskems evidence that it is a bill made to encourage people who American people are not interested in it.
C. matches
D. "the indifference with which Americans contend the subject."
SO, IN CASE OF "fire problem," break glass and pour on a spanking new assistant secretary of commerce, "who shall be known as the assistant secretary..." for fire prevention programs, she himself is directed to "establish a national program for fire prevention and control (FIREPAC)," and "the FIREPAC academy." In addition there will be a national data center, annual conference programs, and "demonstration projects."
and that, fans of the "new federalism," is how S. 1790 proposes to tlp up after war with Mexico.
Prewar Dream Egypt's Nightmare
(An editorial that was written by
lateral for the semi-official leadin Carlo
Cacone)
By HILLELUNZ
Six years ago Egypt lost its gold opportunity—the opportunity to establish a united Arab world under Egyptian leadership on the smoother remnants of the ancient Near East. Its share of this planet's known oil reserves and have had the power to freeze Japan, Western Europe and the United States, the amount of the ice that Bajser lacked faith.
peace in the Middle East, our loyal friend, the peace-loving Soviet Union, has replaced our old military hardware, which we lost to farseeid arrogance with a number of its latest and most modern missiles, tanks, planes and ships.
He did not believe that Egyptian soldiers could fight and that Egyptian generals could lead the soldiers to victory. In his eagerness to win the war against Israel without firing a shot, Nassau allowed the enemy to pre-empt them so we lost our golden opportunity and all of our army and military hardware.
Few nations receive within a single generation a second opportunity to fulfill their greatest dreams and their highest potential. They have her desire to establish a firm and lasting
THIS TIME our leader Sadat has full confidence in our military leadership, since he has appointed himself the commander of all armed forces. In order to show his full confidence in our military leadership, Sadat has declared his willingness to sacrifice the lives of a million Egyptian soldiers in another war for the national honor.
The decision to attack Israel will be made by our responsible leader Sadat and will not be a mere adventure, but an important initiative. This coming war will be our finest hour, a unique experience in modern warfare; it will be a war we cannot lose. So long as the Israelis are resolute, imperialist forces retreat, our prosecu- loving loyal friend, the Soviet Union, will
HOWEVER, as soon as the Israeli war machine begins a counter-offensive, the peace-loving Soviet Union will arrange to arm Israel with an air-drift resolution in the Security Council.
veto any U.N. Security Council resolution for a cease-fire.
Thus, stage by stage, mile after arduous mile, our beloved and ingenious military leader Sadat will lead us to victory, all the way to Tel-Aviv. And who will be the first to complete the target in our quest for liberation in this ingenious plan of modern warfare?
Our ingenious military leader Sadat has a game plan for every eventuality in this unique campaign. He is prepared even if part of our army is ordered to advance too fast, discovers that its portons had been burnt behind it and finds itself surrounded by the reckless Israeli military machine. If this happens, Sadat's generals, who were, of course, responsible for this mishap, and will easily arrange with the Israel army to supply our beleaguered troops until we will be
ready to resume our war, the war we cannot lose.
FINALLY, my brothers, Sadat has another secret weapon in our arsenal. He will arrange to reduce oil shipments to Europe and Japan, who will then pressure the United States, who will in turn order Israel to lay down its arms, abolish its military machine and liquidate itself. Only when this is accomplished would they all arrive in Europe and Japan, so that they can warm themselves in compassion for the Israeli refugees reaching their shores.
Thus, by a stroke of military genius, Satad will finally solve all our problems in Egypt, poverty, hunger, disease and war. But he is also a bad judge to a war we cannot lose. Hail Satad!
Our war aims have been stated very ably by our beloved leader Sadat in 1972: "In the coming campaign, liberation of our land will not be enough. There is no way out but the complete liquidation of Israel's arrogance."
(Hillel Uziz is a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Kansas.)
Police Corruption Prompts Call for Academy
By EDWAP.D F. DROGE JR.
Special to the Los Angeles Times
The police in this country are in trouble. And when the police are in trouble, the public-at-large is in trouble. It is time to seriously consider a national police academy, not as a panacea but as one way our police and, in effect, help ourselves.
Far too often we open a newspaper to see headlines proclaiming police corruption or listen to a radio broadcast alleging police racism or watch a television news segment with candid accounts of police brutality. Many times the stories in the media describe these and other items are not a complete surprise but they are part of the victims of very same police evils in our daily lives. We know they exist without having to be told
The charges seem never ending. In recent weeks some of the headline stories included these 12 police officers of the same precinct in Detroit, and in other cities, narcotics, 21 police officers and former police officers in Baltimore being indicted for bribery conspiracy and the chief of detectives in Patterson, N.J., being indicted for drug trafficking. The cases are Philadelphia, Chicago, Newark; Cleveland; and the list of tainted cities goes on and on. Last year the Knapp Commission report unequivocally asserted that police corruption was widespread in New York
In the major cities across the country, the educational prerequisite for becoming a
A BAD POLICEMAN and, more important, a faulty system that leads to widespread corruption, bigotry and brutality will always make news headlines. Police departments throughout the United States will continue to bear the brunt of a vast amount of ridicule and criticism until they are rid themselves of these common maladies.
The all-encompassing role a police officer plays in today's society demands a better-educated, better-trained man for the job. If he were just a law enforcer, four to six months of training might be sufficient. But he must also deliver life into the world and to help us bury our dead. He is a mediator of family disputes, the savior for many a bridge or rooftop jumper, the one we call if our basement floods or if a power line is downed in a storm and the one who risks his life. He is a street-level sociologist. He has the awesome responsibility and authority of incarceration, and he carries death on his 24 hours a day. Sometimes a police officer is the only contact a citizen will ever have with the person he is role is so important, yet his qualifications are so low, and his training is so little.
police officer is generally a high school diploma or its equivalent, and, once appointed, the recruit receives four to six months of training. There is no question that these standards are in dire need of revamping.
SIX MONTHS IS certainly not enough time to teach a man all he needs to know to be a good police officer; four months of training is ridiculous. Most cities offer little or no corruption training, despite the logic behind the theory that a new man should be trained in police corruption, how and from whom it will come and what to do about it when it does; in order to be prepared to take independent, immediate action the first day he hits the street in a uniform. A course in corruption training alone could take the better part of an entire year. But if you yet most police departments see fit to teach every facet of the job in six months or less.
good, potential, career-minded young men and women would be recruited for a minimum three- or four-year obligation after training. The purpose would be to establish national standards—and by no means to the creation of a national police force.
A national police academy could be set up similar to the military academies, in that
THE EDUCATIONal prerequisite would be a college degree. Academy graduates could serve in various cities and states throughout their careers, and, since this broad scope of national service would naturally be more than would work in one city, they should know that that knowledge would draw the cream of the applicant crop; a healthy starting salary would insure it. The police training would run a minimum of two years and a maximum of four. The few months immediately preceding assignment would be spent thoroughly familiarizing the police officer with the area where he would serve. Every time he was assigned to a new city, and receive its familiarization training.
in addition, a centralized training institution of this nature would be a perfect place to work on developing policies to work out unified codes and policies and share each other's knowledge and experience in hopes of avoiding another Chicago University convention, Southern University or Africa.
The idea is in its embryonic stage, and many problems will have to be faced, such as funding, facilities, administrators, etc. But no problem appears insurmountable.
THE BENEFITS TO BE reaped from a national police academy would be measurable. The public would get a better-trained and better-educated man, a man more understanding of the community and his history, and a brighter brutality would be minimized and, in effect, the citizen would receive all-round better police services.
The police officer would realize a long-sought goal of true professionalism. With the increase in status would come an increase in pay, but, more important, an increase in respect, a boost in morale and a deep sense of pride.
(Edward D. Froge Jr., a former police man), was a witness before the Knapp Commission on Police Corruption in New York City and told of taking brides while on job. Now living in Brooklyn, he is the author of "The Patrolman: A Cap's Story."
"Seven!"
Indians Heard Hebrew
Book Says Columbus Was Jewish
BY RICHARD HOMAN Special to the Washington Post
VIENNA-Simon Wiesenthal, who has made a career of tracking down Nazis who tried to hide their backgrounds and adopt new identities, now says he has found a Jew who did the same thing: Christopher Columbus.
Wiesenthal's theory is contained in a new book, "Sails of Hope: The Secret Mission of Christopher Columbus," published recently by MacMillan.
WIESENHAEL'S BOOK, which has already been endorsed by Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban and banned by Spain, contains little new information about the world's most famous explorer, whose books have had published scholars for five centuries.
"My friends say the Italian malfi will kill me-Columbus Day is their biggest day," said David Cotman, the book of the product of an examination of documents and searches of archives during spare moments over the last 20 years when he wasn't there. The man, who arrested Anne Frank
"But a very prominent Italian professor to me, Columbus can be Jewish, just be sure."
Griff and the Unicorn
by Sokoloff
It draws together all that is known—and suspected—about Columbus and his times to argue persuasively that the man who discovered America was a Jew who converted to Catholicism and that his 1492 journey was financed by Jews. It could have been a result of the French conquest in India for Spanish Jews who were persecuted by the Inquisition.
"I am sure he was a Catholic and I'm just as sure that he came from a Jewish school," he said.
Columbus, for reasons that scholars can only guess, obscured his early years so completely that, after his death, his own son was unable to determine what country he was from.
"SALVADOR DE Madoriaga worked on these questions for 40 years, and he was a historian," Wiesenthal said of one leading authority on Columbus. "I've worked on part time for 20 years, not with the eyes of a historian but with the eyes of persecuted
The eminent Nazi hunter, who heads the Jewish Documentation Center in Vienna and who survived imprisonment in several World War II concentration camps including Buchenwald became interested in Columbus by accident.
Shortly after the war he was helping Allied investigators to uncover Nazi crimes, Wiesenthal relates, and the "philosophical question arose: How could such crimes be possible? So I began looking for comparative events in history."
Spanish persecution of Jews in the 15th century and German persecution in the 20th century were identical in scope and intensity, he decided; with the added feature that in both civilizations the Jews had been primarily subject to the formation of the natural culture.
"THE METHODS that the Nazis used against Jews were not new," Wesenshal said. "They were all present in Spain 500 years earlier. The Nazis just added technology."
In his readings, Wiesenthal came across the many references to a possible Jewish role in Columbus' voyage. He satisfied himself with the fact that he believed at the time that members of the lost
tries of Israel had settled in India and that Jews, who were about to be banished as a people from Spain, were willing to invest in the search for new homelands abroad.
Washington Irving (whom Wiesenthal is just as likely to call Irving Washington when he gets excited) was U.S. Minister to Spain in his later years. He became an authority on Columbus and supplied what Wiesenthal considers a key piece of evidence about Columbus, actually one of Columbus' 1492 crew who was designated an interpreter was fluent, besides Spanish, only in Hebrew and Aramaic.
"THE FIRST words spoken to those Indians when Columbus landed were Hebrew." Wiesenthal said. "The schoolbooks like to say that Columbus set sail to bring Christianity to the unknown world, but it's interesting on his first trip, he didn't have a priest with him, but he had a Hebrew interpreter."
...semanus is convinced that documents in the archives of the Vatican could end some of the centuries-long guesswork about Columbus. Periodically, and as recently as 1822, the Catholic church has investigated whether he was as a possible candidate for canonization.
In 1892, according to Wiesenthal's book, "the holy office examined all the documents on Columbus to be found in the Vatican archives and came to a negative decision (on canonization). But when I inquired in Rome, I was informed that the Vatican documents on Columbus are not accessible."
WESENTHAL'S BOOK, published first in German a year ago, has now, with the English version, been published in eight languages, but not Spanish.
"They know very well the true history of Christopher Columbus." Wiesenthal added. "They just refuse to make the documents available."
"We have a Spanish text and publisher," Wiesenthal said, but "the Spanish government censor has twice forbidden publication," not because of what it tells us about the Spanish people. It says that the Spanish persecuted the Indians and behaved "much as the SS did
centuries later in the occupied regions of Eastern Europe."
Because of his zeal in tracking down former SS figures, Wiesenthal and his writings are unpopular in most of the German-speaking world.
It's a cold war against my name, not
it against my book." Wesenshal explained.
against my book," Wiesenthal explained. "WESENTHAL'S PROJECTS include a book examining the use of postage stamps as psychological warfare weapons (he's a stamp collector); an effort to prod Austria into re-trying Franz Mauer, former deputy minister of foreign affairs, who acquitted on mass murder charges was overturned by the Austrian Supreme Court nine years ago and giving Alec Guinness acting advice.
Wensental is a key figure in Frederic Forsythe's 'The Odessa File,' which is to be filmed with Alec Guinness playing the role (who will be on hand as a consultant).
"Alec Guinness playing me—well," Wiesenthal said shrugging. "He had to play Hitler, you know, and now me. He must be a good man."
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