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Thursday, October 16, 1975
University Daily Kansan
Protests intensifying
Word comes now from the FBI that a radical group called the Weather Underground may be planning its own observance of our nation's Bicentennial.
FBI intelligence sources have said they were concerned about vague threats of violent disruption of the Bicentennial that were made in three publications of the Weather Underground. One publication, called "Osawatomie," referred to the Bicentennial as "a giant chauvinistic fraternity party."
Nor is the Weather Underground alone in its advocacy of violence to achieve a socialistic revolution. On Monday, which was celebrated as Columbus Day throughout the land, several water storage facilities were dynamited in Pine Ridge, S.D., the scene of recent troubles between the man and the women. Although authorities have no hard evidence that the act was the deed of militant Indians, the fact that the blast occurred on the day celebrating the white man's arrival on this continent is certainly suggestive.
Some people at the University of Kansas and other places have recently asked what happened to the social protest movement of the late 1960s. Some have decried the loss; others are glad it's over.
But you see, it's not over. The legacy of the radical movement is the radical underground, which is embittered to the
point that it advocates violence as the only thing the Establishment pigs will understand.
Out of the common bond of the NeW Left, based on opposition to the Vietnam War, has grown a small corps of dedicated revolutionaries, hiding underground, only surfacing to commit acts of violence. Those violent acts have been frequent, too. The Weather Underground alone has taken credit for more than 40 bombings since February 1970.
Another manifestation is the Symbionese Liberation Army, whose exploits with Patty Hearst have been greatly detailed by Rolling Stone magazine. If that account has any validity at all, no one can deny the fact that a healthy, widespread underground exists which busies itself with hiding radicals and revolutionary plans.
What began as a hopeful, peaceful expression of dissent has turned in part into a cult of violence. The bitter and cynical reaction to the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago and the subsequent riots that turned a small number of formerly peaceful agitators into dedicated revolutionaries.
Though their number is small, they are a force with which to reckon, and they won't go away if we shut our eyes.
David Olson Contributing Writer
Mary McGrory
IRS director gets tough audit
WASHINGTON — Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Donald C. Alexander is feeling picked on. It is a feeling
Readers Respond
Sports fans should pay own way
To the Editor:
I was pleased to read that our student body president, Ed Rolfs, is recommending that the Student Senate end the ticket subsidy now given to KUAC. However, we still have reasons why he must extend the subsidy than the most important was overlooked.
Rolfs said that KUAC would get the same amount of money from students regardless of the subsidy if the subsidy is ended, ticket prices will go up. Being armed with this information, I don't think it takes too much insight to understand the nature of the ticket subsidy.
The benefactor from the subsidy is not KUAC; it will get its money with or without the
David L. Welch Holton junior
To the Editor:
Creation lecture
Milt Clark, in a letter in the Tuesday Kansan concerning the lecture by Henry Morris on the creatist's view of life and the universe, suggests that faculty who refused to debate Morris "failed in their responsibility to both the academic community and the general public." Because I am an astronomer, I was asked to participate in the debate; declined the offer, returned to the universe simply that such a debate would have served no useful purpose.
Just as some people acknowledge and accept the teachings of astrology, others acknowledge and accept the teachings of religion. It is accepted on faith, not
knowledge. One can debate a topic in which faith is the basis of one side.
It isn't in the realm of astronomy to prove or disprove the existence of a god, but to pose theories of the universe—based on those observations. Therefore, I declined to enter into the debate. I suggest that students who want to learn about the universe, that govern the universe, and the observations upon which those laws are based, enroll in one of the introductory astronomy classes offered at the University of Utah to carry on their own debate.
Stephen J. Shawl
Stephen J. Shaw1 Assistant Professor Department of Physics and Astronomy
Foreign films
familiar to the ordinary tax-payer.
To the Editor:
I would like to express my agreement with Chuck Sack's column on the lack of foreign travel and the failure of Alien Here," Oct. 10), and provide some additional information about "Lacia," the only comparatively new such book that never before been shown here.
First, the film is Cuban,
rather than Mexican. Directed
by Humbert Solas, it was made
in 1969.
In the Oct. 10 article, "Troupe stages religious plays about Jesus' life," the Karasan stated, "jb'ian" Moskowitz said he believed Biblical Christianity was identical to Biblical Moskowitz should consult a lawyer who would inform him that Judaism is distinct from the incipient stages of Christianity."
Second, although the support of the SUA has been very strong, the women's film's appearance here came from the Women's Studies Advisory Committee and the Women's Study for Latin American Studies.
He is being audited these days about "Operation Haven," one of the IRS's guadger exercises in the intelligence gathering, and the kind of thing which Alexander says he has shrubly vaulted to a stop.
ALEXANDER IS a small, grey-haird man with a full lower jaw and the manner of a small-town minister with an unruly flock. He confesses their sins and promises reform.
It is for that reason, he protests, that "faceless liars", presumably stymied spooks who resent the retreat, have spread scandalous charges about his handling of the case—but the facts are clear. Americans from seeking haven in Bahama Banks.
Basic concepts for Judaism,
such as good and evil, death,
pentence and the basic foundation
of Judaism, Mitzvot are distinct from
such concepts for Biblical
Christianity.
Initially controversial, the distribution of "Lacia" in the United States has only recently been shown at KU on Oct. 21.
Judaism distinct
He gives little sermons from time to time about his deep belief in and devotion to the Constitution. He finds it painful the fact that he is IRS's past transgressions. He closes his eyes, puts his head back, waves to an assistant to divulge the squalid facts—of which, by the way, there are many. In the case of Operation Haven,
Shirley Harkess
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology
To the Editor:
or not Operation Haven, also known as "Project Trade Winds," should go forward. Alexander took part in the month later decided that dissemination of the list of 300 shouldn't. Alexander took no part in the decision — he was out for a while but was briefed about it later.
Rep. Toby Moffet, D-Conn, a freshman, taxed Alexander with being responsible for making the decision.
"All tax evaders, whowere they are, deserve the same treatment," Alexander replied, somewhat off the point.
Like other members, Drinan had trouble understanding why the list had lain around for 20 months until a stench oared from it, causing IRS officials to decide it was "tained" evidence and couldn't be used to prosecute the evaders.
"I CATERICALLY deny that," said Alexander, flinging down the little gold pencil he had drawn in him, to indicate his indication
"THIS IS A document that just doesn't stay in a drawer," said Drinan. "People have a phone if someone covered up."
In a bureaucracy the size of his-some $2,800 employees—he can hardly be expected to keep up with his team, he said, looking long-suffering.
What names are on the list?
Alexander doesn't know.
When asked by Drinan, he replied plausely, "They are famous." He didn't care if they're Mafia or whatever. I don't want to see it."
Pam LaPine
its owner, a Bahama bank official, dalled with what Rep. Robert Drinan, D-Mass., advised. He thoughtfully provided for him by the IRS. The contents were removed, photographed by the IRS and replaced, with the original papers, probably, until just last year.
Chairman Benjamin Rosenthal, D-N-Y, inquired if Alexander might have been protecting the names on the list.
Nobody could explain. The briefcase contents had been flown immediately to Washington to IRS headquarters and taken to the Justice Department, which hasn't moved against anyone involved in the illegal windfall.
Shirley Harkess
In July 1975, the IRS finally took up the question of whether
One of Alexander's assistants was unable to say even whether he terminated it. He would have told her that she said The man who knows the most
In Operation Haven, which flourished before Alexander issued his guidelines, little attention was paid to legal niceties. And these show how the police, who often seek a 300 man of haven seekers
BUT THE HOUSE Government Operations Committee was markedly less cordial—much more like the kind of people who examine your records and demand the last recorded penny of the maid's Social Security payments.
THE LIST WAS in a briefcase negligently left in a hotel room in Miami in January 1973 while
Hillel co-chairperson
Alexander passed all the hard questions to members of the large entourage he had brought with him. They didn't know the answers, either. He limited them to a couple of important importance of obeying the law while tracking down tax dodgers.
"Your agency has led a charmed life," Moffet retorted, in a tone that suggested that Alexander's returns on "Haven" will be subject to further scrutiny.
has refused to talk. He is still on the payroll.
When Alexander, who was one of Richard Nixon's last appointments, went before the Senate CIA委局, he was pelled with bouquets. The members could hardly remember when they had met a man who would have taken one who frowned and shook his head as he spoke of the hellish plots hatched before his time.
(c) 1975 Washington Star Syndicate Inc.
3rd and long
Fan passes bourbon, not ball
Every fall, a strange breed of human being known as the footballis enthusiastica obnoxioxo comes out of hibernation. If you've ever been to a football game, chances are none, for they inhabit football all over the country.
The footballius enthusiastica obnoxioso has many distinctive
Jain Penner
Contributing Writer
mannerisms that make him easier to spot in a crowd. You can first observe him as he lumbers up the stairs to his reserved seat, holding two hot dogs and a program in one hand and an extra large Coke and a box of popcorn in the other.
Behind the footballists enthusiasm axes obsolete trails his creature who sits helplessly beside him throughout the game, timidly shaking a crepe papan, papan touchdown.
The footballist enthusiastica obnoxious always wears a hat with his team's initials on it and, if one of his team's colors is especially loud, for example red or purple, you can bet he'll show up dressed entirely in that color.
The footballall enthusiastia obnoxioso goes into action as soon as he sits down. Within a matter of minutes, he has poured out half of his Coke (soaking the coat of the woman in front of him), replaced it with the bourbon he smugged in in
his coat pocket and devoured tt : hot dogs.
After cleaning off the popcorn and the drink, he lights up a cigar and tries to strike up a conversation with the man (in his dog's seat) that the old alma mater's playing today.
The man behind him nids politely and grunts in the proper places while the footballists enthusiasm obnoxious continues berating the other team fast array of four-letter words
Finally, it's time for the kickoff and the footballus enustasista obnoxioso quickly peen jumps up in sloshing a few drops on his wife and delivers that classic footballus enustasista obnoxioso cheer: "Kick that ball, you sons of bipeds."
He tells the players how to play and where to go if they make a mistake. He tells the coach what plays to call and which players to kick off the team.
Throughout the ensuing four quarters, the footballus enthustiac obnoxiox suddenly becomes Vince Lombardi, Bart Starr and Pete Rozelle all rolled into one.
The refs aren't the only ones who fall prey to the abuses of
His main target, however, is the referees. Whenever he call a penalty against his team, he unleashes a scalding torrent of foul language against them, using descriptive terms that would make the coarsest of army sergeants blush.
the footballis enthusiastica obnoxiox. Even his own team is chastised with a rash of harsh wounds when fumble the ball.
After three hours pass, the time on the clock out (as well as the bourbon in the cup) is taken into his noxoso's bottle) and he and his wife get up to leave. As he staggers down the stairs, leans heavily against his wife, he passes group of students.
"Oh, hell," one of them says.
"That was a rotten game."
"Hey!" the footballiens enthusiasm obnoxious hoisters, Watch your goddamn watch in front of my wife, kid!"
As they slowly stagger out the gate and head for home, he mutters, "Whaasa matter with these damn, smart-mouth kids these days? Don't they have no school spirit? Why, they don't even cheer for their team. (Hic!)
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