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September 5,1979
Defaulters take heed
The federal government finally has decided that a new policy is needed to help universities collect the millions of dollars in delinquent student loan debts that have been building up for two decades.
The U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare recently implemented a new collection program that could drop KU's student default rate on National Direct Student Loans in 1978 to about 8.4 percent in 1979.
Loan program officials at the University of Kansas have been unable to collect on 464 delinquent accounts accumulating since 1958. Part of the reason for the build-up has been the lack of help from HEW.
But HEW has realized the great potential of its resources in helping universities across the nation to collect and preserve last lost loan repayment revenue.
HEW will now accept the names of loan defaulters from this University, and it will be able to go further than the KU loan office or collection agencies hired by the University in pursuing the defaulters.
THAT NEW assistance, say KU loan officers, has been expected since 1972 and now should mean the difference between the 12 percent delinquency
rate of last year and a 6 percent rate this year.
The HEW assistance will include telephoning defaulters and sending cablegrams requesting repayment of the loan. KU officials usually did not telephone defaulters because it was not trained and they扣款 the staff to do so.
The biggest plus of the new collection policy is that KU will receive 80 percent of the money collected by HEW, with 20 percent going to HEW for expenses. Twenty percent may seem like a big piece of the pie for money that goes back into the economy. Twenty percent is KU loan officers had lost hone or ever seen again.
This money will go back into the pool to be reallocated to more students in need of these low-interest federal loans.
The National Direct Student Loan program has been plagued by delinquent repayments that it allocated in good faith. This is because the program lacks knowledge of different reasons—both honest and dishonest—have denied that trust.
Finally, with a little help from HEW,
something is being done to remind
former students of their agreements
and to make the National Direct Loan
program the program it could,
and should be.
Chrysler aid needed for technology's sake
The Chrysler Corporation is like an overloaded iron barge, taking on water in the stormy seas of the energy crisis.
The Carter Administration will decide soon whether to bail out the sinking ship, or to let the country's third largest automaker go the way of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Despite the objections of the free-market economists ("If a company can't make it in the market place, it deserves to fold"); I agree that government is going to come to a driver's license.
It should. Not necessarily because it was government regulations that caused Chrysler's insolvency, as the automaker claims.
But another fact should be considered when the decision is made to save Chrysler or let it sink—the United States needs the automobile technology.
AND IT IS not necessarily because 300,000 people would lose their jobs if Chrysler goes into bankruptcy to lose $11 billion in tax revenue plus an additional 82 billion in unemployment.
This is not to suggest that the Chrysler Corporation has in the past held out much hope for manufacturing the car the United States needs. That would be far from the
Now, when gas shortages are commonplace, gas prices are passing the one dollar mark and 25 percent of the automobiles sold in this country are made in the United States needs all the domestic innovations in automobiles that it can find.
CHYRSLYS IS as guilty as General Motors and Ford of beating a dead horse—pushing gas-guzzling cars long after they have become impractical.
In fact, of the 10 models Chrysler manufactures, only two—the Dodge Dometri and its companion cars as economy cars. And those two models have Volkswagen-manufactured engines because Chrysler does not yet have the ability to make its own four-cylinder engines.
But the big boys at Chrysler are not dumb—anyone with enough money to voluntarily take a $359,000 annual salary and be employed by an armorman John Ricardo did is, far from dumb.
Chrysler executives buy, and publicly admit, that big cars are not selling. They know the American public now wants the Newport Hornets, not the Newport and Cordoba.
"GAS LINES flattered sales of almost all cars except the smallest," reads an advertisement signed by Iacoca and Riccardo.
With sales figures spelling out what is obvious to one-fourth of the car-buyers in our country, we surely know that their small cars are going to be the models that will turn a profit for them.
Next year, it still in business, Chrysler will begin building its own four-cylinder engines. The year after the company will be producing more than average over 22 miles per gallon.
Chrysler executives will not soon forget the trouble their big cars have gotten them into.
With a brush with bankruptcy fresh in their minds, and perhaps with even more financial incentive from the government, banks have become a leader in much-needed small car technology.
The knowledge, after 54 years of building cars, must surely be there. With that knowledge, coupled with a more accurate picture of the country's automobile needs, Chrysler could help save the United States from losing its reputation by provide some real competition for Honda and Renault and Volkswagen, and Toyota and . . .
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The delicate tapestry of the Middle East peace treaty, so painfully woven at Camp David earlier this year, is unraveling the firmly固定的 eyes of the Carter administration.
To blame are clumsy, bulb-headed efforts by the United States to try to pressure Israel to allow the Palestinians a role in peace negotiations.
threatens peace in Mideast
But equally to blame is fratricidal fighting among top American foreign policy officials, who are locked in an old fashioned, but extremely risky power struggle.
Israel has been mildly upset by this shift in American policy. Israeli Prime Minister Ben has refused to discuss the matter with U.S. officials and went further by refusing to attend a meeting of the Romanian President Nicolae Ceaucescu and Yasser Arafat, head of the PLO.
TO THAT END, American officials have called for the establishment of Palestine and especially the Palestine Liberation Organization. The reason for the emphasis on recognition of the PLO is that it is the main agent of the PLO.
The PLO essentially controls most of the Palestinian population, even in the Israeli-controlled Gaza Strip. And unless the PLO gives its approval to a peace settlement, chance is it will not be able to negotiate a deal.
Much of the controversy revolves around the new American efforts to involve Palestinians in future peace negotiations. American foreign policy officials have realized that no permanent peace can be achieved without the issue of Palestinian rights is resolved.
John
logar
COLUMNIST
"Our rejection of the PLO is so complete that we don't even want to hear what Arafat has to say to all sorts of people," one official represents a gang of murderers.
Ceaucescu had offered to mediate differences between the two sides.
NEVER ONE'S TO take a hint, American officials said they thought they could persuade the U.S. to come to terms with the PLO. To that end, the officials decided to try a resolution in the United Nations calling for Palestinian statehood. But it was hard for the United States, would fall far short of being a demand for a Palestinian state, but he said the PLO to support Palestinian participation.
not surprisingly. Begin rejected the idea of out hand. But U.S. officials still hoped to support the proposal, but instead to support the proposal. Sadat rejected the report, reportedly because the violent Israeli opposition to the resolution might jeopardize Israel's withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula.
American diplomats were shocked. The United States foreign policy machine had produced what it thought was a brilliant product, soothing most areas of the exotic world. They proved that ideas proved to be as delicate as a freight train. It offended just about everyone.
THE ISRAELIS were furious. They believed the United States had broken a promise it made in writing to Israel in 1957. The United States, then, refused King Hessian, said the United States would not recognize or negotiate with the PLO unless the PLO recognized Israel's
structions given him on a recent Middle East jaint did not give him enough flexibility. Still later, Straus said he would like to dissociate himself from an American college, as part of Nations Security Council that blasted Israel raids into Lebanon. He was overruled.
But at the same time, Vance is said to be concerned with the increasing friction between the State Department and the City Council, which is headed by Brezelski.
The aide reported that Vance will publicly seek more support for a more powerful state department at a news conference Wednesday.
The Palestinians were mad because they lost another round in the fight for a homeland.
BOTH VANCE and Brezinski are said to be upset with Strau; Vance so much so that a side once really said that Vance "had just about had it."
Israeli reluctance to recognize the PLO is easily understood. Too many Israelis have lost their lives to PLO terrorism and the strain of having to be constantly on guard against attack is telling. That strain is not made easier by the PLO's denial of Israel's right to self-defense. If Israel are allowed a role in helping solve the conflict, the bloodshed is likely to continue.
Egypt was mad because the resolution threatened to rock the already unstable Middle East boat.
THE WHOLE shebang was not helped by a good old-fashioned power struggle that his equipped among, three of America's top military officials, the United States battants are Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, National Security Advisor Zhigun Biewner, Special Middle East negotiator Robert Straus.
According to one analysis, Straus wants to assume a Kissinger-like role in Middle East affairs, reporting directly to the President. Reporting directly to the President is said to be particularly thrilled with the idea.
Straus, whose special role has never been really spoken out, has been eager to try his hand at free wheeling negotiations, but the last week he and Vance. He complained that the inj
What is not so easily understood are the motives for the top diplomats involved in this stupid power struggle. Were it in any other area of world politics, it might be easier to see these top-headed bureaucrates have chosen to do the dangerous dance on the trigger of the most dangerous area of the Earth. To pull that trigger could result in a world-wide explosion.
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By VICTOR NEKIPELOV
By Dr. NELEN K.
N.Y. Times Special Features
MOSCOW - we had glimpses of him for a long time, of course, if only unobtrusive and inadvertent ones; in the context of our discussion, we clicked on button of the conductor of the Tillys Moshawk.
In Georgia, the of the Soviet republics, it seems, Stalin's portrait is everywhere. He hangs in almost every home, in hotels, kiosks and shoe showers.
And in Georgia it is understandable—he was born there, and Georgians somehow contrive to connect their greatness as a king to the success of his truant, who had no equal in human history.
the hook-knocked profile of a petty sultan with the jet-black machesthe has suddenly begun appearing in our northern, Russian resiaes.
I wonder what is this? An accidental epidemic? A fashion? Or some new symptom of our society's chronic, pernicious disease?
And now they are appearing in Moscow, in every size and shape - some in taxis, instead
*STALN'S RETURN* to our life, of course,
is due in large measure to the demands of the
chief. And when he says, is that
behind might have been sanctioned "at the top."
I do not say "might have been" ac-
counted.
Think of it — I taisted, where once a flood of thousands and thousands of graffiti lay in the streets, heading in every direction, on his orders. The framed portrait, which he made a little more than twice, showed a little man did in his spare time. It's a full-scale production, a flood, a mass unrest.
If you said “A,” you had to say “B” and “C,” and you had to admit the inevitable slide toward democratization and bear the brunt of the problem. It’s a machine, deprived of some essential cog. Soon, for all practical purposes while the rest is clouded, they were already alighting on the brakes.
After Nikita Krushelshus's exposure of Alkin's cult of personality between 1956 and 1983, the jury rushed to the ruthlessness of this decision. Salin, fallen from his pedestal, dragged a curtain away with him, revealing all the skeletons in all the closets that should never have been visible.
THE PROBLEM of Stalin's rehabilitation (that is, of reinstating both the political authority of the system in the eyes of the population) from the moment it became particularly tough in the first years of Browzhens's success to power. At that time (1960), such a policy could not be implemented on its own place.
of the jumping monkeys on a spring, some outside, displayed on the windshield. Not just in cars, either, but in pickups and dump trucks too.
FORTUNATELY, the expected rehabilitation did not take place; the portraits of the 'leader of all times and all peoples' did not come to mind. The press pressed in the paper. It was confined solely to a reduction in criticism of the 'cult of personality' and to silence on the subject of death.
Ten years have passed since then. Ten years of deepening chills, militarization, catastrophic economic disorder, increases in crime and products, increases in crime and
Naturally the present party leadership would like the people to be disciplined again, as they were under Stalin, if only under the old hypothesis of the protarhetian superiority and as well as they did, to sign themselves into slavery, to rejoice at the ballot boxes.
In these circumstances they would not even object, behind the backs of the pressium, on the clubroom walls, there is no such possibility. In a fourth, mustachioed profile, as of old.
drunkenness and corruption and thieving. But above all, 10 years of an uncontrollable state have created the eyes of the people—the moral annihilation of not socialism in general, or even the use of violence.
In the last 10 years, despite all the efforts of propaganda, despite even the recent emergence of the so-called complex organism *Escherichia coli*, a generation has grown up here that simply will not accept a painted, galvanized plaster cast, just as any living organism will not accept a painted ceiling.
IN OTHER Words, the present leadership might have reinstated Stalin. They might have been able to take over, but to B, by not doing it in 1989, they cannot do it in 1979, despite its being Stalin's goal.
a better, more sensible and reasonable way of life.
So how, then, can we explain the portrait above the 20-year-old driver's steering wheel? We here encounter a curious phenomenon. Stalin on the windshield today is an upsurge from below, rather than a sction from above. This, too, is a protest, as they say, of social disintegration and lack of leadership, the expression of a kind of loncing for order.
On the other hand, what we have heard from their fathers is again a reaction to the senselessness of our life today: "Under Stalin at least there was more law and order. We didn't steal this way. We didn't feel that. There wasn't this kind of drunkenness."
OF COURSE, so-called ideological, "hard-line" Stalinists are still living, still strong and some still stand at the helm of the world. They are very hard to defend Stalin on the windshield today. The majority of these, doing it spontaneously, are the ones who see below the surface. With their own very original and despairing gesture they make their protest against the existing state of Russia.
DOUBTEDLY IT is also a sad and preposterous phenomenon, raising as it does the banners of murder and tyranny. They know not what they do, these youths. But then they genuinely do not know all of his crimes. They were raised on our new silence.
It is a cruelly grotesque symbol that emphasizes even more strongly all the things we know. It says, sign like the red arrow on a pressure gauge, which says that things cannot go on this way anymore: something has to change. And I mean, you don't get it wrong; it will come, it will not be to Stalin's advantage.
Victor Neckelpohl, a Russian dissident, was arrested in 1873 for "sadism" (self-hate) and sent to the Siberian Psychiatric Institute and later spent two years in a forced-labor camp. He was executed in 1974 in the Serkysh Psychiatric Institute and died in prison.
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