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Wednesday, September 11, 1974
University Daily Kansan
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OPINION
... AND THESE TRANSCRIPT OF ALL MY STATEMENTS ON
CHAPPAQUIDDILL WILL CLEAR UP ONCE AND FOR ALL...
By STEVEN LEWIS Contributing Writer
"Certainly sir, and what is your name?"
The polls haven't been kind to Sen. Bob Dole lately. A poll last week showed him trailing his former opponent, Bill Roy, by two per cent.
"Im Bob Dole, United States Senator from that great Republican state of Kansas" "Certainly sir."
"Operator, I'd like to place a call to John Mitchell in New York City. . . And make that call collect."
"Now don't get me wrong, operator. I don't mean to say that the other states aren't great. It's just that for the time being Kansas has a special place in my heart."
What is Sen. Dole doing to reverse the trend? Yesterday, I found recording tape in my mailbox with an unsigned note that said the enclosed tape was from Dole's conversation from Dole's Topeka office. Here's what was said:
"John Mitchell here."
Dole: the end of the line
"Mr. Mitchell, I have a collect call for you from Bob Dole of Kansas. Would you accept charges?"
"Cowboy Bob must be having problems. Yes, operator, put him on."
"John, John, it's so good to hear your voice again. I've been so worried about you. I know how you must be feeling. The news media have been unfair to me, too."
Reckoning time for CIA
The Central Intelligence Agency has done it again.
The New York Times reported last Sunday that between 1970 and 1973 the CIA pumped more than $8 million into Chile to make it impossible for Salvador Allende, president, to govern.
The news came days before the first anniversary today of the coup, which brought down the western hemisphere's first elected Marxist government.
Governments did fall in Iran in 1953 and Guatemala in 1954 at the agency's behest.
The CIA's involvement in Chile should come as a surprise to no one. The agency has a long history of trying to bring down governments that control the oil and United States interests, usually business interests.
Colby told the committee the CIA's covert actions in Chile were authorized by the "Forty Committee," the National Security Council's position making arm, headed by Henry A. Kissinger.
CIA director William E. Colby revealed the CIA's involvement in Chile at a special 1-day hearing before the House Armed Service subcommittee on intelligence last April 22.
Kissinger's involvement should come as little surprise, considering the hostility he expressed for the Allende experiment in September 1970 soon after Allende was elected.
CIA and government hostility toward Chile grew out of Allende's policy of nationalizing major industries and banks and his socialist ideology.
Nationalization threatened business interests
Chile, to supply the m. with cheap raw materials.
Business hostility stopped the flow of credit to Chile. Neither the Export-Import Bank, nor the Inter-American Development Bank, nor the World Bank would make loans to Chile under
Allende, loans which are vital to any developing country.
Ruth Needleman, former professor of Latin American Studies at the University of California, testified at a Congressional Conference on Chile last Feb. 28 that 70 per cent of the top U.S. government officials who shape Latin American policy are former businessmen.
Ideologically Chile was a threat, too. If socialism had succeeded in Chile, Chile would have become a model for the rest of the third world.
The repression which followed the coup should have come as little surprise. too.
Harald Edelstrom, the former Swedish ambassador to Chile, told a congressional conference that 10,000 to 15,000 people were killed, 35,000 imprisoned, 200,000 lost their jobs for political reasons and 30,000 students were kicked out of school.
The CIA's role in the overthrow of the Allende government raises basic questions about its political leadership and policy decisions.
In our open and democratic society, the CIA is a shadowy organization, much feared and little understood.
The United States tells the world that it is a democracy, a bastion of civil liberties and a shining example.
Most important, the CIA is not controlled by the American people. Control is in the hands of government officials heavily influenced by the business community.
Yet the CIA has encouraged the destruction of diplomatic governments, which in turn led to the suppression of the
At the very least the American people should demand the CIA account for how it spends its money, lest secrecy endanger the American experiment. Jim Kendell
Contributing Writer
"John, I'm serious. I need your help. The latest poll shows me trailing my Senate op-legs in the race. President Nixon's two victorious campaigns, and I'd like some of your expert advice."
I'M HERE WITH ME.
"Well, John. I've won money that my opponent, I've come out against any form of amnesy and I've even called him out, but nothing seems to work. If only George Hart had won."
"That can't be, John. Five hours before Nixon announced he would resign I came out in support of his impeachment. No, my problem couldn't be Richard Nixon."
"Bob, I think we both have the same problem—Richard Nixon."
"I don't know what I can do for you, Bob. Liddy and Hunt are in jail."
"That's (inaudible)."
"Bob, I think I know what your trouble might be. It's your name- Dole. Kansons probably you're an eastern liberal."
"But that can't be. I've never introduced a major bill in Congress, and I've voted against it," he said in defense and agriculture. And
last month I even voted against agriculture."
"There's nothing I can do for you then. Bob."
"But you have to help me, John. I'm going to lose. I don't want to live in Kansas. You want
helped Nixon clobber McGovern and you can help me beat Roy."
"Yes, John, we clobbered McGovern."
"Yes, we really clobbered McGovern, didn't we Bob? Bell me again, Bob, tell me how we McGovern. Say it again, Bob."
"Bob, we ripped McoGovern lim bib from limb, didn't we? We never knew what hit him. We didn't know where he down and stomped on him, didn't we. Bob? Tell me again, Bob, how it was . . .."
Energy fight lacks spirit
An uneasy feeling will not go away that in this business of any energy supply, the country is succumbing to the Scarlet Army and the United States worry about that tomorrow. It simply will not do.
Granted, wheels seem to be
between season, one no one seems to be greatly worried about fuel supplies once more appear to be abundant. Motorists who consciously slowed down to stop for zippers along again at 65 or 70.
By James Kilpatrick
spinning. The Federal Energy Commission is conducting hearings in 10 cities, looking toward a Nov. 1 report to the White House. The Congress has cleared a couple of bills for the President, one having to do with the power to regulate solar energy. Mr. Ford has addressed the question in his press conference.
Yet an impression persists that efforts to attack the continuing problem have lost the edge of urgency. In this inthe demand curve subsides. Alaskan production won't matter that much.
Petroleum consumption is off slightly, but the level remains disturbingly high.
What will it take to make us face the situation? America now is consuming 17 million barrels of domestic production in the neighborhood of 11 million barrels. That level of output has not increased significantly in four years. It will be at least $250 million a year. Alaska pipeline begins to provide new supplies, but unless
Meanwhile, the economic consequences mount up. Most families have a clear understanding of energy costs in terms of gasoline and electric power: they can see those dials on their fuel pumps. And they can read their monthly power bills and weep.
What hurts more subtly is the effect of the energy shortage up and down the line. Higher costs in electricity, for example, everything that is grown or manufactured or transported. Inflation, as President Ford remarked, is Public Enemy No. 1, playing the Godfather's role.
At his recent press conference, Mr. Ford was asked what he intended to do. His response was that every aspect of Project Independence "is that for the long haul. For the short haul, he wants again to pull together the nations for concerted action."
But it is far from clear precisely what the consuming nations can do. Their first
purpose is to get the price of oil cut back. The Arab nations show no discernible interest in a rollback. Their second purpose is to reduce oil consumption program of world-wide oil consumption. One classic way of reducing world-wide oil consumption would be to keep prices high or to lift them even further. In all conflict approaches are in total conflict.
Perhaps this is the best that can be done right now, but no observer familiar with the Washington scene will go into raptures over the approach. Five different agencies will give bureaucratic fingers in these cases. In every sentence of every report is reviewed in quuntuple, Sheikh Yamani will have all the money in the world and independence will still be a dream. It is a sense of urgency—a sense of mission—that is missing. Given the same galvanized audience program, we could solve the twin problems of energy and inflation.
Without that spirit, we drift,
say again; it simply will not do.
(C) 1974 WASHINGTON STAR SYNDICATE, INC.
Trumpeter defies Josbua
By TIM BRADLEY Music Reviewer
Ferguson has been around for
Maynard Ferguson plays the loudest trumpet since the walls of Jeroff went down and seems to be singing. He plays from his lungs, not his heart, and that's a mistake. He insists on playing in the upper register of his instrument and makes the squeal like a scalded monkey.
a long time and should know better by now. From Canada, he first appeared in this country in the 1950s. He went on and went on to do stints with Jimmy Dorsay, Charlie Barnett and Stan Kenton. He began leading his own bands, including his sexet and an octet, in 1966 or so.
Everywhere he went he was hailed as a virtual prodigy. Now
every tune his band does becomes a showcase for Maynard Ferguson's squealing trumpet and vampire trombone, and after a while the squeals start sounding like onks.
The new album, "Chameleon," on Columbia, may as well be called the music albums, because if you buy one, you've got exactly the same music you'd hear on any of the others. The musicians are tech-savvy and proficient and the music is very aggressive, but so are jackhammers.
The arranging chores were divided among five members of the band and each one uses all the trills and Frills ever invented in their music. The riffes are stiffs anyway. Each of the arrangers knows nary a beam about shading or that ever-elusive quality called emotion, for the music is never delicate even when the ballads go bulging.
Tunewise, Herbie Hancock's "Chameleon" is performed adequately enough, but the
Ford thwarts presidential hopefuls
I used to think it selfish and a bit silly that throughout the whole Watergate nightmare the most prominent Democrats were not pressing hard for the president's impeachment of Richard Nixon.
It is now obvious that Democratic chairman Robert Strauss, presidential contender Teddy Kennedy and other Democratic hopefuls knew something didn't: that anybody who holds the presidency becomes a tough man to beat.
How could it hurt them, I wondered, if a Republican became the first President in office in scandal and disgrace?
There was Gerald Ford.
A year ago Americans would have laughed at the suggestion that they might elect Gerald Ford to the highest office in the
"Chameleon" by Maynard Ferguson is full to bursting with impressive musical calisthenics, but it's all so superficial. Ferguson and his band need to sit down with some of those middle Miles Davis tracks, sometimes one soft note can say so much more than a thousand loud ones.
The Democrats who were reluctant to push Ford into the presidency were correct, it now appears that they'd be better off with Nixon
What Ford has shown so far is that honestly抓ed in a little horse sense is a much more enduring quality in this town than crookedness draped in shrewdness.
land. After only a month in the presidency, with nothing yet really accomplished, Ford is reelected. George people like George Meany, head
Finally, Ferguson tries to vocalize on "I Can't Get Started" and absolutely muffs it. He has a voice that could make a cabbage croak, and like his trumpet playing, he gets all the notes out, but without shading, variety or color.
of the AFL-CIO, and by many prominent Democrats.
to kick around until the 1975 elections. The thing the politicians remembered (which we reporters keep forgetting) is that you don't take at face value another politician SAYS.
By Carl Rowan
At the moment, Ferguson knows how to play and play well, but he's missing the best part, like the diver who murders the oysters but forgets the pearls.
seeking approval of his nomination to be *Vice President*, to be that person, not be a presidential candidate in 1976. There is Gerald Ford, the moving mans still unloading at the White House, announcing his candidacy.
There was Nelson Rockefeller, saying he was cut off. He later lingered in anybody's vice president. There is Rockefeller now, leaping to accept a new job, because time it really is offered to him.
After further listening, though, one gets the feeling that Maynard secretly wants to play her instrument. And just all grandstand showing off.
I suppose Strauss and Kennedy and Senators Walter Mondale, D-Mont, Birch Bayh, D-Ind, and Scock Jackson, D-Wash, foresaw just this kind of decision, but we therefore not inclined to rush Watergate to a precipitous conclusion.
over-arranging by "billiant new arranger" Jay Chathaw runs the slithering, serpentine feel that Hancock imparted to the original. "La Fiaesta," from the pen of Chick Corea and the chants of Jerry Johnson, features a lot more of Ferguson's trademark trussing, impetting, and really can grate the listener by the short and curly the first time through.
Stevie Wonder's "Living In The City," Paul McCarthy's "Jet" and Jay Chataway's "Man" are technically well performed in the same flashy, full-tilt style.
The experts watch with a measure of disbelief and no small amount of amusement as the Ford-Rockefeller team maneuvers to claim the massive political middle. Ford is rushing to shuck off a conservative image and record built up over a quarter-century, but it also delicately, advocating amnesty for Vietnam draft-dodgers (another sudden flopflop of his views), talking about women's rights. Meanwhile, Rockefeller really is, too, really is, how conservative he has become on welfare, how he
The conventional wisdom around this town is that in teaming up with Rockefeller, Ford has united and greatly strengthened the Republican party.
pushed through a draconian law to fight the drug traffic in New York, how he took the tough-guy stance during the Attica prison riots.
You just know that between now and 1976 Ford is going to hug a lot of black babies while Rockefeller runs around with grits on his face, wooing the Southern wing of the GOP.
All this while Strauss, Kennedy, Jackson, Mondale & Co. eat their political hearts out.
But it's all probably better for the country. If a Democrat wins in 1978 it ought to be because he's considered more desirable than someone else who is halfway decent, and not a bad judge of character, an adamable scandal. Copyright 1973, Field Enterprises, Inc.
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