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Monday, September 23, 1974
University Daily Kansan
OPINION
To begin with, let it be understood that most countries give only lip service to “international law” or to their pledge under the United Nations Charter not to intervene in the
Power play
As the only newsman around who has been a member of the Forty Committee, that small council is often a Council which approves and oversees U.S. clandestine activities abroad, it may help if I give you a report on just what society or morality sometimes conflict.
When the White House press corps challenged the President on U.S. intervention in Chile, they squeezed him into a tight little crevice between the president and practicality of foreign policy.
That press conference produced the rare spectacle of the President of the United States admitting that we use our wealth and our might to try to control the densest areas of society, and only rarely assume our ideological foes are doing the same.
Intervention game dirty, immoral business
This is a ruthless, dirty world where, despite talk of detente, the ideological struggle never ends. So the powerful middle class consigns itself to the weak-meaning, in truth, that there is no such thing as a truly independent small, weak or nation. For example:
The Fort Committee is told by the director of the Central Intelligence Agency that Russia, through Cuba, has put a plan in Venezuela to try to stir up a guerrilla uprising. The Fort Committee decides to provide helicopters, communications equipment, weapons and millions of dollars—plus some agency's training—for Venezuela's military and police forces.
internal affairs of other sovereign states.
That will be viewed by most of my readers as a legitimate intervention, for it can be construed as assistance given at the request of the legitimate Venezuelan government which is threatened by a foreign power.
But what right does the United States have to say who gets elected in Chile? The CIA reports—accurately, most likely—the Soviet Union is financing three Chilean newspapers that back Allende and has funneled several
earlier times would have been unacceptable to Washington as "too left."
million dollars into the coffers of parties backing Allende.
That is justification enough for the Forty Committee to recommend that millions in U.S. funds be given to political parties, people, newspapers supporting Frei.
So Frei is elected. But in six years in office he cannot reform his friends in the oligarchy or reduce the greed of businessmen from abroad. With passion and no small measure, Marxist Alendez has won and more of the people.
served by getting Allende out as fast as possible.
So, as President Ford has told us with no signs of guilt or regret, we pump millions in to finance, keep strong, the opposition news media and campaign, but we imagine the uprune and outrage in this country in 1972 if President Nixon had found that
Busing is self-defeating
By Carl Rowan
School busing is a superficial and capricious method of enforcing school integration rulings.
Twenty years ago in the famous Brown v. Topeka Board of Education case, the U.S. Supreme Court made a just and courageous decision in support of school integration. However, the spirit of the ruling has been lost in the shuffle of students being bused from school to school. So far, the board has used eyebrows, enraged parents and sparked mobs, as evidenced in Boston last week.
So in the next election Allende wins the presidency.
the Soviet Union, or Peking or even Saudi Arabia was pouring millions into the George McGovern campaign, and into the bank accounts of newspapers opposing Nixon?
Moreover, the idea of busing children to achieve integration is fallacious because bused children are automatically segregated and, therefore, confronted with hostile environments.
Children who are bused into a school from outside the neighborhood obviously are considered outsiders. They can't become part of their children's social groups because of bus schedules.
Since bused children, are forced to remain outside the social structures in most schools, one can only expect those within the social structures to be bused. They are also probably quite hostile toward bused children.
Besides being outsiders in the social environment, bused children usually have cultures different from those of other students in the school.
Once Allende is under fire from the CIA-subsidized press, the politicians the U.S. is bribing, the next step comes easy. The U.S. moves to shut off credit at the World Bank, the American Development Bank, the Export-Import Bank.
That's how the game is played. We win some that way. The Russians win some that way. The peoples of the countries involved almost always lose.
Cultures dictate mores and, to a large part, reactions to various stimuli. Being thrust into a situation in which their cultures dictate different reactions than expected, bushed children often react violently. And the children to whose schools they are being bused feel uncomfortable around them.
Once again a hostile environment is created. The most ludicrous part of school busing that it doesn't even get at the root of the integration problem is that students are meeting a racial quotal. But racial quotas, in and of themselves are discriminatory and provoke segregation within the classes, and segregation.
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Pretty soon Chile's economy is in a mess and the natives are so restless that we might not have to bribe any generals to help with the war. And we can say that we had nothing to do with any coup.
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Fears are bound in the CIA, the Defense Department, the State Department, the White House that Chile is about to become "another Cuba." It thus becomes easy for a Forty percent of Chile's U.S. national interest," or "the security of the rest of Latin America," or even "the good of the Chilean people" will be best
It is 1964. The United States realizes that the Chilean conservatives who have helped the country gain a long win the country can no longer win. The only way to block the accession to power of avowed Marxist ardoradeans is to give allon't to the Christian Democrat, who in
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confined to a smaller area, can become even more apparent.
Until integration laws in the area of housing are enforced there can be no integration in schools or any place else. As long as parents refuse to live next door to members of different races, children can't be expected to look upon those of other races with anything but suspicion.
School busing should be brought to a halt.
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Over a period of many years, in the bad old days of segregation, Southerners smarted under the superior morality of Boston. For a few days last week, these same Southerners might have been forgiven a sense of retribution.
Busing violates human dignity; protests move north to Boston
Newspapers and television brought vivid accounts of jeering children, racial epithets, helmeted police, angry voices. White parents bitterly united in a boycott. Some objectors were arrested. And all this took place of all places, in Boston,
By James Kilpatrick
Up in Boston, the white folks were crying "Nevah!"
Very well. It is perhaps unkind to rub it in. South Boston's reaction to Judge Garrity's order tends to confirm Simmons' Law, formulated some years ago by a distinguished Mississippiian, which holds that one's on-entertainment integration increases by the square of the distance by which one is removed from the actual event. So long as racial-balance
Racial-balance busing, which triggered the Boston violence, strikes me as dead wrong no matter how much I care. Here were the innocent black children of Roxbury, herded onto buses for shipment into a hostile neighborhood, for one reason only: their skins were blue, the white body being slippered. Why? Their skins were white.
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busing was decreed only in the South, many Northerners thought such orders were great. Is it conceivable that even Senator Kennedy may have second thoughts now?
North or South, this is racism. Such court orders violate not only the color-blind Constitution; they violate the rights of all children to spirit as well. Does racial-balance busing promote better education? The evidence in support of that proposition is remarkably flimy. Does racial-busing promote better education? It does not nonsense. So long as children are labeled, certified, and carted around because they are black, or because they are
The mind rolled back to April of 1964 in St. Augustine, Fla. Among the leaders of a civil war against Mary Elizabeth Peabody, wife of retired Episcopal bishop, and mother of Governor Endicott Peabody, she had come down from Boston, along with a Boston reverends, to instruct the Deep South in brotherhood.
The story got quite a play at the time. Mrs. Peabody wound up by spending a night in jail, and she respass. Pictures of the Bostonian all the papers. The general idea was that all the bigots were down in Dixie and all the angels of enlightenment were Massachusetts, and why could they be the Southerners be like them?
white, they cannot escape a constant awareness of race.
Perhaps good comes out of evil. Perhaps the unhappy news from Boston—news in which no one is willing to satisfaction whatever—will help to form a national constituency for sanity in our race relations. Once we perceive that prejudice knows no Masonry, and that incumulative humanity to man is no greater in the South than in the North, and that resentment against coercion stirs families in the city, perhaps our approach understanding. With national understanding, in time, perhaps some national answers can be found.
Well, chickens come home to roost, and last week they were roosting in Boston. A federal Animal Welfare Act ordered Arthur Garrity, had orders for the degradation of the Roxbury and South Boston communities. Pursuant to his order, South Boston High School, which last year welcomed 100 students and 15 blacks, was 1,804 whites and 941 blacks.
White parents protested. They protested violently. Some black parents also objected to biracial education to alien schools.
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Cultural events ignored
1 write to protest Miss Erwin's letter in the Sept. 18 announcement that we know her definition of the cultural entertainment," but I suspect
Miss Erwin has overlooked a few things. The London Symphony is by no means the only major orchestra to have appeared at KU. The Concert Series has provided in past
JFK's charm portrayed
By KENN LOUDEN Entertainment Editor
John Fitzgerald Kennedy is remembered for his unique combination of charm, wit, charisma and good looks. This work makes him the late President makes it difficult for an actor to portray him in a manner that would satisfy everyone. Despite thisious handicap, "Jeremiah Collins as J.F.K." was a success.
The act opened with a crowd "we want Nixon," instead outwardly Kennedy played by Collins. The Boston-bred mannersism and the Harvard accent was there that Gay gave his inaugural address.
The show ranged from very amusing to gravely serious. Among the more amusing parts of the program were the Pesidents' press conferences. No other president could handle
the press as well as Kennedy. He was a master of double-talk and twelve letter words.
When asked a difficult question, Kennedy would quickly answer, "I'm glad you asked that. Next."
Kennedy would take a jab at anyone. He kidded Nixon for saying that even though the Soviet Union was ahead in rocket technology, the United States ahead in color televisions.
The show had its serious moments also. Kennedy wasn't glorified as a great man. His
In response to criticism for appointing his brother, Robert, to be attorney general, he merely answered that it would be good experience before he went on to practice law.
Kennedy said after his comment that he wouldn't give ambassadorial positions on the basis of contributions to his campaign that his father hadn't given any more money.
Most effective, however, was the constant ticking of a clock—a clock that reminded the man who was assassinated at a young age, too soon to fulfill his potential.
Between the series of skits, tapes were used for a realistic effect. Included were readings of letters from a youthful Kennedy to his parents and children from children in the President
weaker moments were included. He had to answer for himself, which was the War. In contrast were his moments of triumph such as the Cuban Missile Crisis and its on integration and civil rights.
years a distinguished list of symphony orchestras, solistos, and dance companies. In addition to the Concert Series, the program presents a Chamber Music Series with an equally impressive list of performing groups, not to mention our own ensemble here and elsewhere both here on campus and elsewhere in the state and nation.
Each year students combine in various ways to give at least 75 formal performances. Each of the performing organizations offers a performance a semester. The theatre department does one major musical, one opera and at least a dozen plays per year. The new theatre and the newly dedicated Memorial Theatre.
The saddest thing of all is that more often than not, students in the performing arts get audiences consisting only of the ones we know where Murphy lives. It's big the beige building at the corner of 18th and Naimshim Drive. Drop in.
Kathryn Taylor
Lawrence graduate student