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September 4,1979
Dole gibe unamusing
Sen. Robert Dole's comments on last week's bunny incident were not a good way to convince the American public that he has buried his image as a batchet man.
Dole chastised Carter's insensitivity to the habits of wild animals after a report said Carter had fended off an attack by a "killer rabbit" while fishing from a canoe in a pond near Plains, Ga.
According to the White House, which refused to release official presidential photographs of the incident, Carter beat the rabbit with a canoe paddle after it swam toward him hissing and with teeth bared.
But Dole, despite a recent proclamation that the "new" Dole has cast off his hacnet man reputation, and added the opportunity to rib the president go by.
DOLE CALLED for the president to apologize for his violence to the rabbit and remarked, "I'm sure the rabbit intended the president no harm. In an effort to avoid something a little unusual these days—trying to gobble up the president's
boat. Everyone else seems to be jumping ship."
Dole stooled so low to suggest that this wasn't the first time Carter had been in trouble with bunnies.
"It seems to me he had a problem back in the fall of 1976," Dole said, referring to an interview Carter had with Playboy Magazine in which he said he had experienced lust in his heart for women.
The president's behavior "may be attributed to having had a bad experience with the Easter bunny as a child." Dole added.
Absurd comments on an incident that cannot even be documented is not worth risking his newly-acquired renutation.
EVEN IF THESE comments were meant as light-hearted jabs at the president, they were uncalled for and had too much resemblance to the hachet man image Dole is trying to avoid.
Dole has to learn that an image is more than just a proclamation. It is something that he has to live up to in life, and even does. Even if it is about a rabbit.
In light of the recent terrorist bombings last week in Northern Ireland that killed 22 people, including Lord Lous Mountbatten, a highly respected British official, it appears evidenced that the Irish Republican Army is to blame for the attack on the royal soldiers off the island.
IRA must disband for Irish peace
A few days after the bombing, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher went to Belfast to talk to officials about security threats. The prime minister that should be taken to alert the terrorism.
But if they cannot stop this violence, guerrilla organizations have vowed that they will take the law into their own hands. There is no doubt that this would mean a great deal of damage to the safety of the killings besides worsening the rift between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Europe.
The IRA appears to be a major roadblock on the road to peace in Northern Ireland. It continues to terrorize the area and has no real ability to stop it, and its attitude by this group is seriously hurting the country and its people, and unless the IRA is thwarted, peace in Ireland is possible.
The Catholic-Protestant conflict has been an on-going affair since the 18th century, when Protestants from Scotland were given rights to own land in Ireland. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the rich, landowning Protestants wanted to make Ireland part of the British Empire, a poor Irish peasantry.
After years of constrain struggle, there was an idea in the early 1900s of settling the situation through a law that became reality in 1920 and two separate legislatures were established, one
TODAY THIS separation is the focal point of the Catholic-Protestant conflict. The Protestants want to reunite Ireland, but the Protestants want to perpetuate the separation. Currently the Protestant population in Northern Ireland is undergoing a huge shift in population. However, future estimates
What costs $8.5 million, has 200 rooms,
meeting facilities for 2,000 persons and has
a good cool of being a white elephant?
has
Holidome gambling on the trade conventions would bring to city
Well, if you listen to some disgruntled people, they would say the design of the proposal is for convention center and motel that is to be built on a 10-foot site near 2d and 1owa street.
Industrial revenue bonds for the City were approved at the Aberdeen City Commission on Tuesday night, despite the opposition of two of the managers who said there were ahead far too early to make any changes.
"WE HAVE SEEN vacant rooms that weren't vacant in the past due to the energy situation," Glenn said. "Travel is down appreciably."
The two, John Ezell, owner of the Westminster Inst., 2825 W. 9th St., and James Gleason, co-owner of Travelodge, 1013 E. 9th St., were the central energy crisis had caused a drastic drop in the demand for accommodations in Lawrence. And, they said, with the energy prices continuing to continue for years, the addition of more move to the market is an unwise move at best.
"I don't see how large conventions can be done here," Lehew said, "We're so close to Kansas City and all they have
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Inesa Lewis, manager of the Westminster, Addison, adds that conventions were traditional for business. Lawrence said, just doesn't have the entertainment that larger cities
"Putting in another 200-room unit is not in the best interest of the city because the existing business just isn't there."
The pair also questioned whether Lawrence was the type of city that needed a convention center.
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there. It (the Holidome) is just not a good thing."
Those arguments, however, fell on deaf ears at the City Commission meeting. The commission voted 4-1 to approve the bonds.
ONE OF THE PROPONENTS was Barkley Clark, Lawrence major and KU law professor, who said the University stood to benefit the most from the center.
"That convention center will house many of the conferences KU currently has in campus, but it's not enough space," Clark said. "The University has the Kansas Union, but that's booked up most of the time and you don't have a lot of room there--there's no drinking, for example."
Social attractions at the Holidayhome would include an indoor swimming pool and proximity to other entertainment, Clark said.
The developer of the Holidime, Boh Brock of Topeka Inn Management, also expressed confidence in Lawrence's ability to entertain convention-goers.
AND WHILE HE was sympathetic with the fears of the other motel owners, Brock said he was confident the Holdem would actually improve business in Lawrence.
"This kind of convention center does a lot of everyone a good lot," Brock said. "We have a similar center in Hutchinson, and if you have a table or chairs owners there, you'd find it has generally
"There is a great deal going on here, particularly related to the University," Brock said.
helped them by bringing more people into the town."
Brock said he had no fears about the stinging charge after its center even though it could not be until 1981. Brock said he had contacted many groups about using the Holi-
Those conventions, though, probably won't be of the type that goes to San Francisco or Chicago, he said.
"We're not looking at national convention," he said. "We're looking at Kansas conventions. For those types of meetings, Lawrence is ideally situated between Kansas and Missouri."
MANY OF THESE conventions will be UNIVERSITY related, Brock said. And because of that, the University administration would four-square in favor of the project, he said.
"The Chancellor, the Athletic Director, the athletic director of schools have without exception said they were excited about the effects the facility could have on their departments," Brock
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But even with KU's strong interest in the convention center, the much ballyhooled Holldome is still a gamble. A gamble that the energy crisis won't make conventions worthwhile because they will pose engineers will chose the relatively quiet town of Lawrence over the metropolis of Kansas City. And a gamble that declining enrollments forecasted for the next decade combined with predicted economic woes, might drop in the demand for higher education.
By passing the bonds for the center, the commission and the devotee have rolled their stamps up right, Lawrence might have an $8.5 million, 200-room white elephant on its
predict that the Catholics will comprise the majority of the population by the year 2011
Besides the separation and religious issues, discrimination also is another point of focus. For example, Catholics, because they are a minority, are discriminated against in employment, schooling and housing. The British government has now issued an order to jobs and public housing, but the efforts have been unsuccessful because the Protestants unwittingly have become the beneficiaries.
Ireland be reused? The answers to these questions are unclear as long the IRA did not exert control over the documentation the group would dissolve if the soldiers did leave but For Ireland ever to be able to do so is still a dream.
Another reason is that a civil war could result if there were disagreements by the IRA with proposals accepted by parties representing the Catholics, Protestants and Muslims. If the IRA had British left, the IRA would more than likely disrupt the agreements and fight for what it thought was right—total victory for the IRA is not only the removal of British soldiers but also the realization of its concepts. Therefore, a civil war probably would follow.
THEERE are several reasons why there probably would not be peace if the IRA still existed after the British left. One reason is that the French would continue to terrorize the Protestants.
The Protestant guerrilla organizations seemed to be content to leave well enough alone before these recent bombings. And even now they might not retaliate against the militants with an attack on the violence. But there is no guarantee that if the soldiers leave, the IRA will not terrorize the Protestants—and more than likely they will. With the constant fighting that would result between the terrorist groups, any would be far from becoming a reality.
MOST OF the Catholics in Northern Ireland are poor and live in ghettos, the region of the country that is grown to be very powerful, capitalizing on the discontent found in the ghettos. It also is very tightening to the public because it has become a warning-as shown by the recent bombings.
solutionsto destroy the heart of the IRA-the ghetto. If the slight of the people living in the ghettos would be lessened, perhaps the government would come withdrawal of support for the Jews.
But even if the soldiers do leave, would the problems in Northern Ireland be over? Could the people there live in peace and harmony? Would the terrorism站? Could
There are various ways to do this. One way is to create community pressure people who live in the ghetto with good jobs, and decent housing, much of the IRA support would be undermined. These eminent leaders have carried out with aid from England and other countries. If these programs were developed so they would provide good jobs, then the government would carry them, they could improve the relations between the two groups, and weaken the support for the IRA. Then people would know what they needed—money and good houses.
THERE ARE however, some possible solutions to putting an end to the IRA. One
To relieve another area of IRA support, the British soldiers could slowly be withdrawn. Simultaneously, the representatives of the Catholics, the Protestants and Dulhin could meet and agree on proposals that would be to unite the factions and avoid a civil war.
And the IRA does! I have plans to give up its fight to rid Northern Ireland of the IRA and replace it with a new organization acquired more weapons and new explosives for its offensive, making it an even more powerful force.
The IRA is very powerful and will not easily be defeated. But not until the base for the IRA has been severely weakened can it take action against them, it will undoubtedly be a long time before peace will come to Northern Ireland—if it ever does. But there is hope that some day the enemy will be undermined and the Catholics and Protestants can live in peace and harmony.
Federal programs can work
BY JENN MATER
Y. Times Special Features
By JEAN MAYER
Last year, the Field Foundation again sent a team, many of them the same physicians, to retrace their steps of a 2013 shootout. The Congress that while the facts of poverty in the area surveyed had not changed, they longer could find cases of medically demonstrable malnutrition in any of the states, and had been found previously to be prevalent.
MEDFORD, Mass—As an educator, I feel increasing concern about the profound disclosure with organized action that seems to affect our population. The belief on the part of the younger generation that no government program, however urgent the need that prompted its development, has worked so hard that it is very dangerous at this time in history.
We are faced with large-scale, long-term problems of energy, protection of the earth, and environmental concerns that can be dealt with only through thoughtful and concerted action on national and local levels.
IN 1987, THE SUPPORT OF the Field Foundation allowed a medical team to go throughout the country to identify those areas where malnutrition was prevalent. It became clear that a number of sections of the nation were involved, with practically every ethnic group—white, black, Chicano, Indian, India, Eskimo, Aleut—represented.
We cannot afford the impotence that stems from a sense of futility. Nor is it the same in the case of programs that we have thrown federal dollars at badly designed programs that did not work. It is also true that we have spent money on programs that are clearly unsuccessful. For example I can think of concerns a set of programs that marked a major social ad hoc event or served as a benchmark for system large-scale nutrition programs.
THEY CONCLUDED THAT "in the area of food there is a difference...," The "Food Stamp Program, the nutritional component of the diet, is less available in our programs and to a lesser extent the women-
By our best estimates, more than 20 million Americans were hungry, malnourished and far too poor to afford the $106 a month the Agriculture Department estimated would feed a family of four a year. We are afraid that those who are always the most vulnerable: infants and young children, pregnant and nursing women and the elderly.
manufacturing receiving programs have made the difference."
Food stamps have proved to be our prime wrest against hunger caused by poverty. In 2014, the program had a highly unsatisfactory commodity distribution scheme badly served 2.8 million
Today it is a $8 million yearly effort. At the height of the 1972-73 recession, a much-expanded program was helping 18 million people. The number has fallen to about 16 million.
In 1968, 13 million school children received free or reduced-price school lunches. Today, it is a $12 billion program, serving 12 million students in the United States feed women, infants and children has expanded since its inception in 1974 from a $1 million program to a $600 million program, providing an ample 1.5%
MEALS-WHEELED and community meals serve almost 2.3 million of our older fellow citizens who, if not for these programs, might well be institutionalized at cost to family members the community far more than the $200 billion federal nutrition programs for the elderly.
Let us remember that earlier in this century, in the 1920s and 1930s, rickets were rampant in our northern states, and pellagra was a main cause of death in the United States. If government nonexistent, again because of government-mandated, vitamin-enrichment programs.
Thus, as far as acute deficiency diseases are concerned, because of government regulations, America is not the same country it was 40 years ago.
AS FAR AS HUNGER and malnutrition generally are concerned, because of government-financed feeding programs, it is not the same country it was 10 years ago.
This is not to say that all problems are solved. We still have situations that require close attention in our trust territories, on some Indian reservations and among migrant farm workers. But lately the problem have been altered dramatically.
All has occurred since the 1969 White House Conference on Food, Nutrition and Health on the goals, and the effort has been com-mpleted. It would not have happened without the support of members of Congress, in particular of the Democratic-dominated Senate Select Committee.
BUT IT WOULD not have happened without the wholeheated cooperation of two Republican administrations. At a time when whole counties were being added to the food stamp programs almost daily, the two politicians most responsible for this challenge were Merriman and Richard Nixon, who runge against each other for the presidency.
Because it was not a partisan issue, the course in our food programs was ignored. Our enormous past successes are not new; but these lessons are of great hunger and malnutrition caused by poverty is one of those great successes, essentially based on competent, judicious, well-administrated food sources.
I cannot emphasize how important it is, for the future of social justice and for our very survival as a nation, that our young people have it, that it happened, and that we made it happen.
Jean Mayer, president of Tufts University, was chairman of the first White House Conference on Food, Nutrition and Health in 1972. He is a Presidential Commission on World Hunger.
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