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Thursday, December 5, 1974
University Daily Kansan
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OPINION
*REMEMBER...I CHAT WITH KISSINGER ABOUT NUCLEAR ARMS*
*AND YOU AND FORM HAMMER OUT A TREATY ON THE WEATHER*
Ford, Brezhnev summit won't be a breakthrough
Even though it is Secretary of State Henry Kissinger who is claiming major strides toward limiting offensive nuclear weapons, we would do well to take it all with a grain of SALT. The United Nations' Vladivostok communique may yet have little resemblance to what can be achieved in negotiations in Geneva.
Americans ought to be a bit skeptical about glowing of a "breakthrough" and agreement to "put a cap on the arms race" by President Obama to meet discussion of President Ford and Soviet boss Leonid Breznye.
Not that I accuse Kissinger or President Ford of deliberately misleading Americans. But as the president wrote, I know that politicians are inclined to indulge in a bit of hyperbole to keep alive the notion that they are about to attack their most elusive goal: peace.
To put Vladivostok in a resonable perspective, we all must remember three factors:
1. the three factors;
1. the dominant group in the Kremilni has too much invested in "detente," or a warm-up of relations with the United States,
to see this movement collapse.
Fear of being treated troubles the People's Republic of China and by the United States' friendlier relations with China are a crucial reason why Breznev the Soviet's desire and need for
Inflation eats better than we do
Candy bars used to be 10 cents, but they're going up to 20 cents pretty soon.
Inflation is a quarter for a Coke. It used to be 15 cents.
*e *vanut butter has soared out of sight. Ham-
beef is the best stuff, more milk. Mild
meats a lot higher than it used to be.*
Inflation is a 10 cent donut at Joe's. One used to cost five cents back in the fall of 1970.
Steak is something to look at in the supermarket. Now, sugar is incredibly expensive.
But it's not only food. Gasoline went up last
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year, and now the electric company and the phone company want higher rates.
Inflation is eating at us.
Rent isn't going down, taxes aren't going down
anybody who tries to get a loan is a damn
fool.
It doesn't take a major league economist to know that it costs you to go up your paychecks are worth that much less.
All the money from summer jobs is dwindling
interest never kept up with inflation anyway.
the economists don't know what's going on.
Could you tell you that they're as confused as everybody else?
It's hard to know how to react. Some people are saving their money because times look bad, and some are spending it because "prices will never be as low again."
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I'll be the first to admit to shameful cynicism if Viadrivostok produces even a noticeable reduction in the carbon footprint of planet's resources on ghastly vehicles of destruction.
But we won't know how tight a cap they've screwed on the arms race until we see future military budgets. The U.S. and Russia blew a thousand billion dollars on arms in the 1960s. By contrast, in the two trillion, or two thousand billion dollars in the 1970s.
Inflation is 12 per cent with no end in sight. Unemployment is plodding toward 7 per cent.
Economic models are getting more and more distant from reality. The theories don't work
The National Association of Manufacturers is manufacturing theories that seven per cent unemployment isn't as bad as it sounds, because that includes women and young people.
But families aren't what they used to be. Lots of these young people and women are on their own.
Getting a job right now is hard. The old myth that work doesn't want to work" seems more mythical than ever.
It's not just the auto plants in Detroit and Kansas City that are laying off workers. The paper box factory, Lawrence laid off most of its employees, and Fiberboard isn't selling. Fiberboard goes into cars.
The government doesn't have much of an idea of what to do about inflation and unemployment. One week it says keep down your personal spending and cut the federal budget.
At first glance, the stories out of Vladivostok appear to reflect
But until I see that reduction, pardon my skepticism. Copyright 1974 Fieldtier Corporation, Inc.
The next it says cut taxes and set up emergency employment programs.
3. It is an almost-unbreakable rule of diplomacy that two major chiefs of state must never go to the summit without at least appearing to achieve the goal of diplomacy with you, you never see joint communique writers in unemployment lines.
Books on the 1930s are rapidly selling. Hope is out of style.
Somebody's making money. That's not hard to find, because someone always profits from America's profitability.
But soon that's all that'll be left.
Arms salesmen and their corporations grew fat in the Civil War and grew fatter in every subsequent war. Some companies even made money off the Depression.
The details on who's profiting from the current inflation aren't all in yet, but the outline is clear enough. It's the same old mega-corporations: Amstar, Tenneco, Safeway, IT&T, etc.
Contributing Writer
It doesn't mean breadlines yet, but many people think it's more than a matter of time.
broader trade and commercial relations with this country is another reason.
The Nixon trip to Russia in June produced next to nothing, but the government-controlled
prove that he is capable of handling great and delicate issues of world affairs. He must be acutely aware that, while trying to save his own hide, former President Nixon
By Carl Rowan
Soviet media crowded for weeks about what a "success" it was. When the Russian government failure then was unthinkable for the Russians, and you had better believe that this attitude was nothing to talk coming out of Vladivostok.
2. President Ford, an announced candidate for the presidency in 1976, simply must
frequently cast private slurs about what a disaster Fondor would be in negotiations with Brezhnev and other world powers. So Fondor was in Vladivostok to try to prove that the "generation of peace" did not vanish just because Nixon, the man who billed himself as "the architect," had to resign in scandal.
Of course, Vladivostok does not prove anything about Ford's foreign policy expertise—not any more than summits in Europe or the Middle East. Nixon to be an architect of peace, or Henry Kissinger to be Superman. We may laud all three for foreign policy gains, but we are also realizing that they are manipulating, exploiting, capitalizing on worldwide developments that they didn't happen to fall their way—such as the Sino-Soviet conflict.
Conscience visits Walker
Athletic director Clyde Walker, otherwise known as the "grim rider," had a visitor to his bedroom the night after coach Don Fambrough felt the blade of the guillotine. Just as the athletic director was singing off, a voice came into Walk and said.
"Clye Walker! Clyde Walker!"
"What is I do, who is it?"
What. What. What is this? "I am your conscience speaking."
"I am your conscience speaking
But I don't have a conscience."
"Clyde, everyone has a conscience. Why do they deny me?"
"If you're my conscience, how did you get into my bed?"
"Clyde, I am with you always. I am your beginning and I shall be your end."
"But you have never spoken to me before! Why do you speak to me now?"
"I have tried time after time to speak
"But you have never spoken to me
"Hunt me? Are you crazy? If you don't
out of here I'll call Park and
Secure."
with you, Clyde, but always you have overcome me. Now I have found added strength from the courage and sacrifice of myself through Clyde. I am here to haunt you!"
"They can't help you, Clyde. They can't save you from your conscience."
"Look, if you're here about Fambroub,
he out. I didn't fire him."
"Ah, your words are softer than oil, yet
they drawen' swords. You cannot deceive
you."
"You have no reason to be angry at me. I promised Fambrough a job in the athletic department. It's not that he's going to go hungry. What more could you want?"
"See here, if you leave me alone, I can get you a job as an assistant coach!"
"Clyde, Clyde, here you are propositioning me, your conscience, in your own bedroom, nonetheless! Is there any hope for you, Clyde?"
"You've got to be out of your mind!" "No, Clyde, I'm out of your mind! I insist that you resign and let Coach Fambrough become athletic director."
"Give Coach Fambrough your job, Clyde!"
"Sweetheart, what are you doing awake? Who were you talking to?"
"Oh, it's nothing. Ruby, I was just
next to you." The boy looked next to
"next football. Go back to sleep."
Steven Lewis Contributing Writer
Readers respond to recitals, hunger
Thanks to Ken Louden no kind words concerning university student and faculty musical presentations in his Nov. 22 editorial. He has put his own opinion that he is not only local but national. Americans seem to have no faith in our ability to discern good talent and good performances. Consequently, we attend concerts of those who criticise it are good, and we applaud them blindly on the ground rather than trust our evaluation of what we actually hear in the performance.
To the Editor:
The regular concert-goer gradually develops the ability to
separate the wheat from the chaff. If the current generation needs more training, a concert every couple of weeks for four years, they would graduate to become the core of the United States agricultural system, that the United States needs.
Thanks for pointing out the opportunities that we have here at the University.
Food shortage
Lawrence Maxey
Assistant Professor of Music
To the editor:
A letter appeared in the Nov. 26 issue of the Kansan which we feel deserves comment.
A graduate student wrote to ask, "Why blame the Americans for anything and everything?" After citing pleas for 8 U.S. food aid from hungry farmers, the United Nations Conference, he stated, "The world can't ignore the statistics that the United States, with about seven per cent of the world's population, produces more than half of all agricultural output to feed more than 27 per cent of the world's people." He concludes by saying, "...one cannot hesitate to quote from the Bible, 'God uses us who help themselves.'"
To answer this student's question, we feel that it is
According to a recent issue of
We must take a hard look at how much of the world's resources we are consuming. Does a nation with six to seven per cent of the world's population have a right to 33 per cent of the world's resources? These resources must be managed through irresponsible imperialistic practices.
necessary to realize that other nations are not necessarily blaming America for all the world's problems. However, Americans must recognize that we have a responsibility toward us in need because our potential to help them is so great.
Newsweek, American export aid is down 40 per cent from levels of two years ago. Moreover, our "aid" sometimes warms. For example, last year we earned a million worth of tobacco to poor countries under the so-called Food for Peace program; the same amount was projected for this year. Unfortunately, little toward providing the nutrients essential for survival.
We realize that it is desirable to have one's views supported by a book so basic to Western civilization as the Bible. However, if your letter in question would have great difficulty finding such a
phrase in the Bible as that which he "quoted."
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Ruth Roring
Merriam senior
Steve Bair
Ablene sophomore
If he is looking for Biblical precedents he should read the closing paragraph of Genesis 41. Beth Beth
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