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Alternatives to Guns
Exusable homicide is more than a euphemism for an accidental killing. It is a very real term describing and exposing the power of life and death that a loaded gun gives to a policeman.
Several years ago in Kansas City, a high school youth was shot in the back of the head as he ran. He was shot and killed. He had tried to falsify an exam.
Two weeks ago, an elderly Kansas City man was killed when a policeman's drawn gun accidentally fired in a scuffle. The man had tried to avoid getting a speeding ticket.
The week before last, a highway patrolman was killed on the Kansas Turnpike by a youth he thought to be a hitchhiker. The unsuspecting patrolman had not drawn his gun and did not know the young man was wanted for murder.
Somewhere between these extremes there should be a solution that would preserve the lives of the law enforcer and the law breaker.
The development in the late sixties of non-lethal mace guns and chemical irritants was seen as the beginning of a solution by some. There was talk of a tranquilizer dart, but none were found that would act instantly and safely on humans.
To spur research and development of such non-lethal weapons, Rep. James Scheuer, D-N.Y., and Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Dass-, under the financing of national weapons research in a federal anticorruption bill.
Through the years, private firms have developed and tested items such as electric shock guns, "bean bag" projectiles likened to a bullet called "fast ball" and dart guns used to those used to subdue dogs.
These devices have yet to be used.
Manufacturers and law enforcement officials agree that the $200 to $300 cost of an electric shock gun is, in itself, prohibitive. Police departments just don't have that kind of money.
Use of the less expensive drug-injecting dart gun is stymied by the law which says only a licensed physician can administer drugs. A successful lobbying campaign would be necessary to change the law before policemen would be able to use a dart gun.
Some law enforcement officials have criticized these attempts because they have not been sufficiently tested for safety and efficiency. Others say they are reluctant to provide policemen with an array of exotic non-lethal weapons for fear the wrong one may be used at the wrong time with disastrous results.
In spite of a failure, to date, to produce effective and safe nonlethal weapons, the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration is pushing for continued investment in potential institutes and encouraging National Science Foundation research.
But the impact of the Administration's action is dampened by police officers who maintain that although non-lethal weapons may one day supplement the use of guns, there is little likelihood that they will become replacements for traditional firearms.
The reluctance of the policeman to use a non-lethal weapon that has only been tested in a laboratory is a deadly bullet is understandable.
Let us hope, however, that scientific know-how will be able to produce a non-lethal weapon effective enough to overcome the menace of homicide so that future excusable homicides may be avoided.
—Linda Hales
Jesus People Take Different Routes
"Jesus people claim to be acting in the name of the Lord," Denis Touhy, a reporter for the London Times, said in July, 1971. "But so did the Spanish Inquisition."
The Jesus movement has confused, frightened and angered people since its exception in 1867, when TeWise set up a coffeehouse in the Haught-Ashbury district of San Francisco and began to turn the hippie residents off drugs and on to Jesus.
Some parents have been more confused by the Jesus movement than they ever were by pet smoking or war protests. Youthful members of the movement comprehend that no religious activism. A Unitarian minister called the Jesus movement the last gasp before all of religion.
Analyses of the Jesus movement, such as the one in U.S. News and World Report, March 20, 1972, identify the majority of members as white, middle-class, conservative adults separate. Different backgrounds separate Jesus people into two types:
"Jesus boppers," high school students who, in joining the movement, gain peer approval and a greater capability of resolving identity crises.
What is this movement that has everyone bewildered? What caused it?
- Young adults who participated in the drug culture and the peace movement but have not completed their education.
participants; the young adult groups are usually more stable and serious.
-Three campus oriented organizations: the American Association of Evangelical Students, the Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship and the Campus Cruade for Christ. They often interest (i.e., spread the gospel) their students in opportunities that potential members on campus.
The Jesus movement comprises many factions "That New Time Heavenly," by James Macdonald, author of *The End of the World*.
"Jesus boppers" have a rapid turnover of
Catholic Pentecostals, who deal with formal theological doctrine, Bible study and other activities.
—Children of God, now probably the most notorious group. It was founded in 1967 by David Berg and Fred Jordan and specializes in memorization of the Bible without interpreting it. Children of God believe in a rigid interpretation of the end of the world; the end is coming soon (with the second coming of Christ) and they must learn how to be faithful to the world to stay pure. This is the group that has been accused by angry and frightened parents of kidnapping its youthful members and brainwashing them.
—The Way Biblical Research Center of New Knoxville, Ohio, which was founded in the 1890s by Paul Wierwille who taught that the old Testament was written for the Jews, and the new Testament was written for the Gentiles and the rest of the New Testament for the "Church of God." The
—The Process Church of Final Judgment, which proposes to embrace "the full truth of all religions" with a trinity of equal gods, reveals that the Reconciliation reconciles the differences of the three.
Way believes that Jesus is the son of God,
but is not co-equal with God.
Many other groups exist, particularly on the local level. Witnesses from the groups often work on a door-to-door basis, talking to potential members about the Bible and Jesus. The groups are very personal, very familial. The movement emphasizes "personal experience, personal assertion and personal request for ultimate meanings" (Brady 2015). Peter Martin in the Saturday Review, May 6, 1972.
Drug people can often identify with the Jesus movement through the experience of conversion, frequently said to be similar to the way Christians in California has achieved some fame for turning members from drugs to Jesus with its "20-second hero cure," which guarantees "no withdrawal agonies, no sweats and no pain if you accept Jesus."
The movement provides the push-button results that the drug culture and the political system were never able to produce. It can explain and justify present suffering, and yet it is triumphant (good over evil) in the end.
It is a positive force—a good toward which to work—instead of a negative force
working against a social evil through violent protest. It retains the anti-materialism, anti-establishment ideals and maintains even greater degree than the drug caliphate.
Brian Vachon describes that idealism in a conversation in "A Time to Be Born":
"They'd walk all over you!"
"Look at it this way. If the majority of say, just the college students in America talked about and practiced the teachings of Jesus Christ, do you think there could exist an industrial-military complex in America today?"
'Maybe they would. I don't know. But in the walk over the power of the word of God.'
Many Jesus people were once the disillusioned members of the youth revolt and counterculture; in the Jesus movement they retain the emotionalism of the revolt, but with a new security—God is in charge of everything. He reduces the confusion and complexity of human life to unity that can be coped with. The movement provides the black and white morality of childhood and denies the complexity of human nature.
Like all men, the Jesus people seek peace in troubled times. They look for security and acceptance in confusing and hostile times. Ironically, they appear to be an added division of the 1960s and 1970s instead of a peaceful, unifying force.
Detente Brings Confusion, Conflict
By STEPHEN S. ROSENFELD
The Washington Post
Washington—This is a bad time to get one's earbuds straight in international markets.
When the possibilities of change were small, it was relatively easy to say where American foreign policy should go; the certainty of little or nothing happening saved one from having to grapple with the consequences of his choice. Now that the consequences of his grown, it becomes necessary to cope with such consequences. That's hard.
Specifically, many people of a nonideological center-to-left persuasion, "liberals" if you will, use to argue generally for improving relations with the working class and improvements that have taken place, they imply that progress is everything they like.
—Carol Gwinn
For "detente" turns out to spur camp for human rights issues on the Soviet side and to produce pressures to downplay the tension over the American side. The tension is acute.
LIBERALS USED TO FEEL, as Henry his langer observed at his confirmation dinner.
malization of Soviet-American relations would itself provide the principal pressure on the Soviet government to ease treatment in the countries. They have so far turned out to be wrong.
Should they shut up? To be narrowly consistent, yes. To be true to their values, no. One cannot ignore, however, that to continue now to express interest in human rights is to draw charges—from the government, from the administration and from spokesman like Sen. J. William Fulbright (D-Akr)—of raising obstacles to detente.
It would simply matter if there were a consensus on what condition we and the Russians ought to be working toward. But, in this case, there is no consensus. There is, rather, a debate that couldn't go on while the paramount Soviet-American interest was to reduce the chances of nuclear war and superpower competition. And now that that interest has been served.
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THE DEBATE IS CHARACTERIZED by the fact that each party joined it argues that his cause—first, if not alone—underlies true detente. Some equate detente with trade, other equates trade and armed settlements and arms control, a few aid for the world's poor.
The trade-equals-detente argument, as it comes from businessmen who previously showed scant interest in detente but who now stand to make money on the trade, is that the United States needs the big grain deal. Moscow made a fool out of the United States in a performance hardly calculated to build long-term commercial or political trust. Yet, to be fair, the businessmen's inconsistency and interest does not prove they are wrong.
I find both congenial and convincing Alexander Solzhentyn's analysis in his letter nominating physicist-liberalian Andrei Sakharov for the Nobel Peace Prize. "Saken by two gigantic world conflicts in quick succession, recent generations
have committed an emotional wrong" he wrote. "They saw the threat against mankind's peaceful, just and good existence as almost exclusively deriving from war."
BUT, DECLARES SOLZHENTSYN,
"Man's existence is torn and shattered not alone by the violent arms of war but also by the unending, inhuman processes of violence." He goes on to say that "permanent state violence"—a concept grounded in imagination of human rights—"is the most threatening danger in our world of today."
The soft spot in this position is, of course, that protests against "state violence" may give aid and comfort to the military-industrial complex or anti-detente faction in the United States, and in the Soviet Union as well. Liberals are reluctant to concede that their interest in human rights is grat for the army and the arms race, but it is plainly so and to a degree that no one can be sure will be kept within acceptable bounds.
The Soviet harshness to which some Americans point to help beleaguered Soviet intellectuals or Jews is picked up and used by others to swing votes for a speedup of a new submarine—and, no doubt, vice versa. Scientologist Victor Zorza has noted that the American Soviet hardliners reinforce each other's Soviet hardliners liberals demanding satisfaction on human rights may reinforce Soviet hardliners too.
If there is a way out of this painful dilemma, it probably lies in the twists and turns of events. Time can blur collars as well as bring them on. With the Russians now saying they can get along without immediate knife equity, the trade-offs have to be decided before separate continued progress on either front is far from assured.
New factors affecting international relations are at work in American domestic politics and probably in Soviet domestic politics. A responsible statement may be able to control.
The Dilemma of Today's Sticky Situations
Wanted: A Manual on Modern Incorrect Behavior
By KATHARINE WHITEHORN The London Observer
I was once told by a married friend that she'd fallen for another woman. So had her husband. The same other woman, and it seemed to me that they coily were in a menage a trois.
Even on the wider stores of love, apparently, there are problems about how to handle behavior presumably being that it always behaves badly in people by accident. Yet there aren't any charts or navigation aids for these seas—let alone when driving where there is all overlaps with ordinary roads.
You'd have thought that was problem enough, but while I was still trying to work out the basics, like who slept in which bed, she was going on about the status problems: is the wife in such a set-up dominant, the girl almost an au pair? Or conversely, the girl tougher than judge Martha, while Mary does nothing more than washing the master's feet?
PEOPLE LIVING OUTSIDE the conventions aren't known for being more forgiving or less touchy than anyone else. Forgiveness is a need a manual on incorrect behavior.
Many fathers who are resigned to their daughter sleeping with that young man still don't know what to call him. Not 'fiance' or "husband" because he isn't "young man" sounds out of date and low-class, "boy friend" sounds out of date and coy; and "bachelor" sounds out of date and young in a booming horsey voice with "and this is my daughter—sh-af-fellow."
How, if it comes to that, do you introduce any pair of what the social workers so charmingly call a 'stable illicit relationship' with someone you're saying "Mr. and Mrs.", and yet it's misleading to indicate nothing. I've only gotten sick and sayring "This is Tom" and Magee.
Presumably one or the other of them will be able to make it across the corridor during rain.
When a son brings his girl down for the weekend, what's a fond mother to do about the bedding arrangements? Take his word for it that one bed will be fine? Or realize that a girl may well prefer to have a room in which to sulk and apply face cream?
THE YOUNG, OF COURSE, have given up surmises, which ought to make things easier but doesn't; one guts for furious his girl's father for saying 'I am sorry, there's a problem', and he stays there for three months—but no one had ever called him aninthing but Bert.
As soon as you start on this sort of task, of course, someone says "But why do you need me?" And the answer is, "No."
But you need some sort of start. When you're trying to communicate, you're easily picking up all the clues you can get. How old?—There what prejudices are in your country?—A remark about Vietnam from an American is not the same as from a Scot.
you just accept them as they are without labels?—Though the last person who said this admitted that after 40 minutes' conversation with a shaved monk in an airplane she simply had to know whether it was a man or a woman.
What job?—or lack of it, or rejection of
past?—one can get far before some
thing.
The more mentionable things become, the greater the chance of saying the wrong thing. Take the unmarried mother. Few women are equally as severely alone—but you do turn up at the
TD SAY NOT because the worst brick you can drop is making the wrong assumption about what's to happen next; making her feel guilty about having it adopted by assuming she'll keep her baby, or weep by assuring she's keeping it. Better stick to flowers and cologne till you get the further outlook.
maternity ward with a pair of pink booties or not?
Griff and the Unicorn
Come to that, what about the white mother with a black infant? You assume it’s adopted and you get a mortally offended proud mother. If you assume the lady’s had a sultry lover you may have put your foot in it again.
The manual, if it ever got written, would tell me when to start treating a pair of homosexuals as a married couple for the first time. The fact that fidelity is to work out how permanent the
by Sokoloff
The two things they mostly seem to loathe, incidentally, are constant jokey references to their state to relieve the speaker's embarrassment, and being asked to perform as an eligible bachelor at dances. It's a mistake, too—and one which the teacher must be able to make up to assume that just because you know he's a homosexual, and he knows you know, that the matter can be openly referred to in company.
situation is. For all you know, your friend may be aching for an evening off from his ever loving companion. Or worse, he may be ill. But in the end, but the one left at home may be pining.
BUT A MESSY DIVORCE is probably one of the hardest things to sort your way through tactfully. You don't mention the "ex" unless your friend mentions him or her first, lest it cast a cloud. You don't say anything nasty in front of the children and its apparently salt in the wound to say "I always thought he was a swine anyway."
The paradox of our muddied view on it all is that, although we're so determined people should be free to follow their real feelings that we approve of their leaving home, we also expect the remaining one should on no account approve their real feelings by saying he's a laurel to go.
Prison? The criminal classes (actually Shaw said there were no criminal classes any more than virtuous classes)—anyway, the police had taken them almost too healthy attitude toward prison.
Drugs? Her son—what do I say? What would I do if it was mine? Come to that, what to do if you are offered a whiff and don't want to appear standoffish? They tell you it's wicked or excellent, but they don't tell you how to splutter if you don't know how to inhale.
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To the Editor:
Mike Rieke
After seeing how lawyers have operated in the Watergate and other related affairs, I think it is appropriate for the new law to make it easier for lawyers at the athletic offices of Allen Field House.
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Sauna Discrimination
To the Editor:
I recently came home from eight hours of dirty, tiring work in a greenhouse. Because I was fairly certain that the wana was open to women on Thursday evenings, I called up the teachers to find out the exact time, only to be told that it is not open to women at any time.
"They?") said there must be "volunteer(?) guard" (click) to ward off attacks from what are supposed to be animals on the campus. "They?" said she has volunteered, and yet the only sign I've seen advertising for such volunteers was in the Dean of Women's office. It is inane to assume that the responsibility lies with the athletic department, responsibility of the athletic department.
I remember being infuriated last spring, after being herded through the place in long lines, at the fact that there wasn't a separate sauna for women. Now I feel only an extreme tiredness, discouragement and resignation.
Instead, we must fume and waste energy on such things as social privileges, employment discrepancies and discrimination in education.
'Tis more than a pity, it's sick.
When will women have to stop worrying about the petty, trivial incidents of survival and comfort, incidents like this that never really matter, and we have to devote time and effort to change such blatantly sexist policies when, if we were considered to be human beings in this society, we could devote all our time to solving these problems. We can be acceptable for only one half of the population.
Senior, Kansas City, Kan.
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