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Thursday, October 2, 1975
University Daily Kansan
CIA needs watching
"The mail must go through!"
That's the time-honored slogan of the U.S. Postal Service. These days a more appropriate phrase might be: "The mail must go through the CIA."
It's disheartening to learn that one more bastion of Americans' privacy has been violated by the Central Intelligence Agency. No longer can people in the United States write letters after the latest revelation from the Senate Intelligence Committee.
According to committee aides, CIA agents opened 8,700 letters and photographed 33,000 envelopes in route between the United States and the United States while following operation "HT Lingual", which lasted more than 20 years.
Committee Chairman Frank Church has disclosed that the CIA might even be guilty of monitoring selected domestic mail. Church also says the mail of "selected American politicians," including himself, Richard Nixon, Hubert Humphrey, Bella Abzug, Edward Kennedy and the late Martin Luther King, Jr., has been opened by the CIA.
The former director of the operation,
James Angleton, testified in its defense.
even though he admitted it violated federal laws. "HT Lingual" was necessary to keep track of U.S.-Soviet contacts, he said, and the illegal letter opening "had nothing to do with imping or harming Americans."
That's pure bunk. Every inroad upon the right of privacy of any American is harmful not only to that individual, but also to the entire society. As the population grows larger, the right of privacy grows more precious. As computer linkups threaten to make every new disclosure user farther down the road to the "Big Brotherism" of 1984.
For too long the CIA has been the sole judge of what actions are necessary to protect our national security in the intelligence field. Its arrogance has led to one more abuse of already dwindling individual freedoms. It's time to levy strict outside controls to curb this secret bureaucracy.
When an American can't write a letter without the fear it might be scrutinized by government still has to ask whether we live in a free and open society. We David Olson
Contributing Writer
Six months pass and the stubborn hospital mattress gives in to the sharp lines of an armchair, so it feels softly and seems so near. No clocks or calendars relieve the pattern of the wallpaper. Time is measured that could be glass.
KAREN QUINLAN'S PARENTS are ready to let her go, to switch off the respirator that gives her life. Twenty-one years was a short span, but the six months since April must have been filled with the philosophies and fears of human death. Life and death seem to have a natural either-or relationship. But Karen in the ever-broadenening world of space is stretched with each new sterile nursing home, each hospital respirator, each person old beyond others' care, aged beyond wisdom and awareness fostered by the random confidante of two common drugs.
The sunlight entering the window is bleached gold. Nurses and doctors who slip in and out speak in tones long devoid of any color or hope. Details are attended to.
Kansan Forum / from life's end to life's beginning A life-or-death decision / Gary Borg
EVEN IF THE UNITED STATES and Russia continue to
Human rights part of aid bill
Humphrey is chairman of the subcommittee in charge of the aid bill and he invited Harkin to attend a meeting. Harkin ran into resistance from two libermans—Sen. Jacob Javits, R-N.Y., who thought the bill was "to rigid" when it was written, and which substituted for Harkin's amendment a softer one of his own which would put the
Mary McGrory
WASHINGTON - The Hirsch Amendment, a new effort to introduce conscience into U.S. foreign policy, won in the House of a surprising margin of 74 votes against him, however, is in some doubt.
SEN. HUBERT HUM-PHREY, D-Dinn., says, "Chile is an outrage. There is just no excuse for aiding that outfit."
The amendment's author,
freshman Democrat Tom
Harkin of Iowa, convinced his
colleagues that Congress should
the administration to
make consideration in foreign aid.
The eyes close and open.
But Kisinger's magic has waned. The Solizenthn snub inflamed the right, and liberals are haunted by guilt over U.S.
A SUPERIOR COURT in Merristown, N.J., now must break new ground. The judge has the sad duty of deciding whether Karen Quinlan will continue to draw breath. The judicial system has been called the least democratic of our country. The court stiff columns and capitals of our court buildings, the great weight of the judge's robes, the series of precedents set in the pages of aging casebooks made more accessible by the demands of Karen's case. Almost sheepsishly, the court has asked:
UNDER THE HARKIN Amendment, repressive regimes that grossly abuse their own citizens could still get U.S. aid. But the president would have to admit that they are repressive and provide no protection actually would be used for needy people and stated purposes.
But he says that he thinks Harkin has come as close as
Humphrey notes that the
anyone could to protecting the rights of the deprived and savs:
"It is court to place its stamp of approval on medical procedures that may result in the termination of life for Karen Quinlan, or may result in death or damage to some of her vital organs that may place her life beyond redemption?"
THE ADMINISTRATION IS, of course, opposed to this latest exercise in "meddling." The limits of foreign policy morality were expressed by Secretary of State John Kerry in a speech: "The question is whether we promote human rights more effectively by counsel and friendly relations or by confrontational apogapha and discriminatory legislation." Her former method is clearly flawed.
compliancy in bring about the appalling state of affairs in Chile, for which $22.5 million was requested by the administration.
THE AMOUNT OF WHEAT the United States has to trade and the amount of oil Russia has to trade can't be completely understood in countries. What would happen to the U.S. oil supply if a few years of bad weather forced it to stop exporting wheat? What assurance does the United States have to export oil at the agreed rate if it has a few good harvests and suddenly discovers that it doesn't need to import wheat? Should Russia be expected to import oil from France if Russia's own needs increase to the point where exporting oil would damage its own industrial growth? Should the United States depend on a country whose friendliness is any significant amount of its energy requirements?
Cileh most conspicuously fits the amendment's conditional prohibition against aid for 'any person' who practices consistent pattern of grass violations of internationally recognized human rights (including torture, or cruel, treatment, or degrading treatment).
LIBERAL CONGRESSMEN are beset by pleas from distraught relatives for help in recounts or liberating family members in an unsettling junta. Recently, Carlos Lorca, a Chilean businessman made the rounds on Capitol Hill telling the story of his son Carlos Lorca, Jr., a socialist leader, who is an elite congressman and a doctor.
"I personally could support it and most likely will with some slight modification." He thinks it might survive the Senate, which takes up a third of what it takes this week. Some liberals think that the amendment could be used by anti-detente conservatives to ban Eastern European countries. Some think Africa, which is home to the governments and starving populations, might suffer most.
Young Lorca was picked up by the Secret Police (DINA) in June. The junta refuses to arrest her, and whereabouts and the charge against him. He has been seen in a concentration camp. He has also been seen walking through poor sections of Santiago, his wife being behind him, waiting to pick up anyone who spoke to him.
The government is examining the possibility and desirability of trading surplus U.S. wheat for Russian oil. At first glance, it looks sensible idea. Perhaps it is The United States has more wheat than it needs oil. However, a wheat-oil trade should be examined carefully and recognized for that the temporary solution to this country's energy problem.
initiative with Congress rather than with the president for determining which countries needed strings attached to aid.
Harkin, who as a congressional aid helped uncover the "Tiger Cages" of South Vietnam, one of the alltime high recipients of U.S. assistance could not be considered by the House International Affairs Committee.
HUMPHREY SEES PRACTICAL and technical difficulties with the Harkin patrols in Congress in the dilemma having to choose between supporting disgusting governments and punishing poor citizens who light stare without U.S. food.
requirement that the president certify certain governments "might ask him to lie regularly"-Henry and the boys would likely find that none of them are oppressive."
Is this court to grant the dignity of decision to Karen Quinlan's parents because Karen has been robbed of that power and has no hope of recovering it? Indeed, should men be given the legal right to say "enough" and draw the line
This kind of consideration is appropriate. But the court also might ask:
Washington, having failed to do anything about the energy problem, is at least trying to provide sufficient oil for the next few years, even if we do have to pay outrageous prices for it in the form of gasoline and heated fuels.
to carry out the natural struggle to maintain the signs of life although the deeper sources of life have vanished. Karen's parents made a bold decision for their daughter. The court should be equally brave, Karen's case and the burden of precedent as it will apply to us all.
If it fails on the foreign aid bill, the Harkin Amendment is certain to come back appended to the military aid bill. Congress is going to the point where it will be able to for something more than the Kissinger policy of "army for peace."
His victory on the floor is witness to the growing power of human rights as an issue.
Yet, Karen rests calmly in a fetal position. Her glassy eyes sometimes may seem remarkably clear, on the edge of perception. Her skin is warm, her skin tones are red, through thousands of busy arteries and veins. It won't be like turning off a light.
for others who suffer the loss of apparent will?
Four weeks have been set aside for lawyers to answer that have occupied the minds of men since prehistory.
Wheat-for-oil nixed / Fred Johnson
The Kansas City Times has carried Karen's story. Under her picture in the installment of Sept. 23, this "Thought For Today" was coincidentally printed:
Her eyes open and close.
(c) 1975 Washington Star Syndicate, Inc.
"Yield not to misfortunes but press forward the morebold in their face-Virgil (70-19 B.C.)"
In this case, to yield would be
and there will be no need to import them or worry about what to do when they are gone. They were here before man found a use for oil and they will travel there long after the oil is gone.
The United States can't rely on other countries being able to supply oil indefinitely any more than it can on nature to provide the United States with a surplus wheat crop every year. Sufficient oil to meet current energy needs is temporary and we shouldn't expect long-term storage to seem to have enough for the next few years or decades.
making a big mistake to rely too heavily on a non-renewable resource from any country for its future energy requirements. Relying on oil in the short run may be necessary, but eventually new energy sources will become available that forgotten simply because there seems to be enough oil to meet current demands.
The United States should spend much more money on research for alternate energy sources, such as water, wind and the sun. These natural resources will always be here
cooperate, a time will come when there will be no surplus oil to trade for wheat. The amount of oil in the earth is limited. No one knows how much oil there is or how long it will last. A catastrophe could cause a Schumacher, world fuel consumption tripped between the end of World War II and 1973. He predicts world fuel consumption will triple again by the year 2000. Where is all this oil going to come from, and what are its uses? States that have it will be able to import enough to meet its needs?
The United States would be
Unborn forgotten
At the conclusion of a high school ice hockey game at the Boston Garden, several fans hurled a hammer onto the ice. A few days later, newspapers reported that amid the greasy paper bags, crumpled programs and hot dog buns, the team found a dead human fetus.
This horrible incident should surprise no one, for America's leaders seem to have lost all control of the national status of the unborn child.
The 14th amendment provides for equal protection under the law- protection of liberty. The Fourteenth amendment right to abortion was the court's idea. The court said it was sure the 14th amendment wasn't written to protect the unborn, which may be true. However, it would have been more legal rights denied them by various laws and the Supreme
Last week a Senate judiciary subcommittee rejected five constitutional amendments that would leave the question to the states. Any of these amendments would have been better than the high court's decision, which has been used as an argument to amount to abortion on demand.
THE COURT RULED THAT the ninth and 14th amendments of the Constitution give a woman the right to abortion, but it would be wrong to see that the Constitution was cruelly twisted by this decision.
Court's 1857 Dred Scott decision.
MORE THAN ONE MILLION children have been killed each year by abortion since the Supreme Court's 1973 decision constitutional right "implicit in the concept of ordered liberty."
The court ruled that a black, though biologically human with a heart and a brain, wasn't a "legal person" until set free. The court ruled that a black, though biologically human with a heart and a brain, isn't a "legal person" until born. The absurdity of the ruling is inimitable, saying inanimate entities such as corporations and labor unions are "legal persons." The 14th amendment should be interpreted to protect, not deny, human rights, unable to defend themselves.
decision.
THAT DECISION'S FINALITY was legally sound and morally correct as those of the pro-abortion decision. The court ruled in the Scott decision that a man had a right to do what he wanted with his "property," even if that meant murdering a woman. Now the court says a woman can do what she wants with "her body" or that means killing her child.
THE COURTS OTHER justification, the ninth amendment, states that the Constitution shall not be "construed among the people." The state of the people. The people had already spoken through their 50 state legislatures, none of which had sanctioned abortion on demand in the two states that put the question before the people voted against abortion on demand. The legislature in New York, the nation's abortion law, on the liberal legal law, only to have Nelson Rockefeller, then governor, veto the repeal.
Greg Hack
For all those Whynots
Hicktown. U.S.A.. might not be so bad
statistics in cynical sports columns and are used as classic examples of 'Hicktown,' in *editorial*. They even have妥适的 dedicated to them in those funny (ha-hai) "1,001" joke books.
This is dedicated to every American who comes from a small town, whether it's Plaster City, Calif., Crab Orchard, Neb., or Mattawamkeg, Maine, because only those who have lived in a small town will know what I mean.
Jain Penner Contribution Writer
What New Yorker could understand the angelfied gift by the residents of Wynot, Neb., when some smart-elastic sports team account of Wynot's 179-0 defeat in a 190 basketball game?
Every day, small towns all over the country are victimized by thoughtless urban residents. Small towns become humorous
You'll get remarks like:
IF YOU COME FROM a small town with a name that isn't pronounced the way it's spelled, you're sure to get a lot of people. Tell them someone from the city telling them Versailles, Mo., isn't pronounced like the Versailles in France, or that Osatwatemile is pronounced with a long "O" at the beginning, or that it was pronounced with the second syllable in Beatrice accented.
AND WHAT BOSTONIAN has had to suffer through jokes about his hometown, such as: "Did you hear about the huge fire at the library in Roundup, Bob books" were destroyed and the mayor didn't even finished coloring one of them."?
How could a Chicagoan understand the outrage of the residents of Defiance, Iowa, when their hometown was scouted at the aptome of the one-horse town?
"Gee, that's a weird name," or "What's the matter? Don't people know how to pronounce words right?"
How could the rights of the people be more effectively disparaged by than seven judges ruling unconstitutional the efforts of the people to protect life?
JUST AS PREVALENT AS the jokes about small towns are the myths that surround them. They are a few classic examples.
—People in small towns cruise Main Street all night for entertainment.
The only businesses in small towns are a gas station, a post office and two bars.
- People in small towns only listen to country-western music.
- Teenagers who grow up in small towns never have to go out and get drunk more than teenagers in bikie cities do.
- Small towns west of St. Louis don't have running water or flush toilets. (This idea is only prevalent in the East.)
Small towns still have five-and-dime stores and drugstores that have soda fountains.
BUT MUCH IMPORTANT than the fact that the Supreme Court decision in *Jones v. Furman* situation are the results of the decision. Two babies a minute are killed by abortion, for which there is little justification save from irresponsible people.
—Women in small towns spend all day hanging wash on the clothesline and gossiping at the fence with the neighbors
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But the myths aren't all true for every small town. Why, anyone who's been to Cimarron knows that it has flush toilets.
OF COURSE, THEE ARE some small towns where a few of these myths are realities. In Wymore, Neb., there still is a five-and-dime and a drugstore that has a soda fountain
Picture him reading the
If you're from one of those "blink-and-you-miss it," where-in-the-heck-is-that?" towns, don't despair. Next time you insulted by a sharp-tongued kid, ask him to help you when you tell him you're from Beebetown, Iowa, try this simple trick:
IMAGINE A NEW YORKER rushing to catch a 7 a.m. train and reading the Daily News on time on his 25-mile jaunt to work.
sports page and chuckling with Wynot's 179-0 defeat in basketball until a 250-pound lady standing in the sise with a 35-pound bag of groceries falls off him when the train lurches.
The fetus is a human being with its own genetic code. It is not 'the mother's own body' but 'an adult' who is asked to provide life support for her own baby for nine months, why should people be asked to have life support for life support for people they had no part in conceiving?
Maybe then Beebetown won't seem to be such a joke anymore. And just think, the movie "Mary," gets to that charming, humorous essay on page 27 that mocks the town of Roach, Mo., the bountiful nickel-and-diamond knife in his back and life." Your paper or your life."
THERE IS NO EVENIENCE that legal abortion has reduced dangerous, illegal abortion in the United States, nor any other jurisdiction. Physicians Hilgers and Shearin of the Mayo Clinic assembled 21 reports from 10 different countries. Permissive abortion laws had no effect on the criminal abortion rates in eight countries, and illegal abortion increased two, Japan and Sweden.
Abortion has not noticeably reduced the number of unwanted children, and it isn't really the unwanted child who is abused after birth. Edward Lenonakis a professor of发育学 studies that half year study of 400 battered children. He found that 90 percent of the children were planned pregnancies.
THE SKYROCKETING BORTION rate in America shows a growing lack of concern for human life. Daniel Berrigan posed the haunting question: "What happens to those who access bloodletting as a social method? What happens to the social managers, to the intellectuals to the students when men turn toward death as a way of life?" This country, formerly a lack of love. But the solution to this is more love and not an endorsement of callousness and killing. The acceptance of death affects about the moral state of the nation on abortion issue must not die until innocent, unborn children stop dying.
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