Wednesday, February 9, 1977
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The United States and the Soviet Union are battling over issues again, but the most recent meles doesn't deal with matters of SALT negotiations or involvement in African affairs. This time it's over the question of human rights.
And the matter has turned into literally a "one-and-dow-derive-another" contest.
"one-good-turn-deserved-another" contest.
Last week George Krimsky of the Associated Press was given a week to leave the Soviet Union after being accused of espionage activities and violation of Soviet currency regulations. Both Krimsky and the AP have denied the charges, however, and have inferred that the dismissal was the result of Krimsky's extensive reporting on Soviet dissidents.
SO IN A similar move, Vladimir Alekseyev, a Washington correspondent of Tass, was told by the State department to leave the United States within one week.
Frederick Z. Brown, a State department spokesman, said, "... We regret this course of events, which is a step backward from the objective of improving working relations for journalists contained in the Helsinki final act, and from the more fundamental interests of promoting a freer flow of information."
But the root of the problem doesn't lie with the Krimsmy and Alekseev dismissals. Rather, it lies with a recent State department statement concerning Andrei Sakharov, Soviet nuclear physicist, who won the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize for speaking out against Soviet treatment of political prisoners. Sakharov was unable to accept the prize because of Soviet government pressure.
DEFENDING SAKHAROV as "an outspoken champion of human rights," the statement warned the Soviets that any attempt to "intimidate" Sakharov would "conflict with accepted international standards of human rights."
By many political observers, the Soviet dismissal of Krimsky is viewed as a retaliation of the statement defending Sakharov. Observers also note that the
statement has come at a difficult time for Jimmy Carter. Although release of the statement wasn't authorized by Carter, he said its elements were basic to his thoughts
All of this has occurred while a “new”
Washington de oration relations with Moscow
(which is the goal)
BUT RUSSIAN treatment of political prisoners should be deployed by others, it seems, when reviewing Russian treatment of some of its more creative citizens in Ukraine.
Besides Sakharov:
Sakharov himself, in a recent letter to Carter, has said that disidents had “a hard, almost unbelievable situation” in East Bec land and “our duty and your duty to fight for them.”
● Aleksandr Solzhitsyns was forced to die the 1970 Nobel Prize for Literature after being told he could never return to the Soviet Union from Stockholm if he accepted. Solzhitsyns, who once was acclaimed by his Soviet comrades, wrote extensively about Soviet labor camps from his own experiences and from interviews with others.
● Dissident-writer Andrei Amalrik and his wife were exiled to Israel after continual betrayals by the Soviet Union. Amalrik explained, "This is not a decision taken freely . . . When a man is born in a country and is a writer, he does not want to leave—not ever."
Soviet pilot Viktor I. Belenko flew his MIG25 jet fighter to a northern Japanese island in an independent, voluntary move to leave his country. He later was granted asylum to the United States. Belenko applauded it was fed up with Soviet military policies.
The Soviets could have asked Sakharov to leave the country, too. But there seems to be one snag—Sakharov's knowledge of military secrets.
Perhaps the Soviets are justified in asking others not to meddle in their internal affairs; but as far as human rights are concerned, their treatment of dissidents is deplorable.
" 'ROOTS' IS CERTAINLY GETTING A LOT OF REACTION!"
©1977 NYT Special Features
Freud finds cause of everything
It's been a while since I've had to suffer through a study of Freudian psychology. But thanks to the wishes of two of my instructors this semester, I have been able to my Freud texts out of mothballs. Once again I'm reminded of how sick we really are.
Before we proceed any further, perhaps we should define our terms. Sigmund Freud is
Ma Bell's junk mail jag
I love getting mail—just love to see the old mailbox stuffed with stuff.
know-what. Your id is much too crafty for such banalities. Instead, you very likely dreamed of something nice and sedate
I especially love junk mail—advertisements proclaiming the magnificence of the military, the bliss of early retirement, the security in owning life insurance.
The problem is I haven't gotten any good junk mail later. That is, until this week. When I go to work, Insurance Co. blew it. I didn't mind being addressed "Mr. and Mrs. Bill Sniffen." A small oversight on Globe's part, no. Then I opened the envelop:
"Dear Mr. and Mrs. Sniffen:
The YOUNG AMERICAN
Plan is designed especially for
young people such as your son
If there is a Mrs. Bill Sniften somewhere, I'm not aware of her. And if I have a son, I'd rather not think about him. I threw the letter away, with gusto, like some graceful flowers. Never for the Los Angeles Lakers — a Jabbar of Junk Me.
junk mail. I can throw it away.
No skin off my nose; no money out of my pocket. To read, or not to read.
And that's why I used to love to get my monthly telephone bills. Inside is "Telephone Bank." You can find a full of regional history, tips on how to save money while using the telephone, an occasional
dividends,"" a Bell Co.
spokesman in Topeka told me,
"I's worth reading on an
ongoing basis. And it's the most
inexpensive way of reaching
customers."
THE SPOKESMAN went on to explain that the phone company was competing with the bank. The bank wasn't included in my bill,
That's part of the reason I like
Gone was my right to decide whether to read it or not. I was paying for it; I had no choice.
That's like the owner of the only drinking fountain in town telling his customer to either call for a chip charge or dig his own well.
joke. Just the thing to take the sting out of the enormousness of my phone bill.
Bill Sniffen
Editorial Writer
IT WAS, until I discovered I was paying for it. Based on Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. estimates, "Telephone Talk" costs each Kansas customer eight cents a year. Small change? statewide is $60. Big change? big change to right decide whether to read it or not. I was waiting for it. No bad choice.
I bear no grudge against the telephone company. They shut us out of our house when they feel you have to. And those blue late-payment notices, containing only a warning, don't bother me all much.
Why does the only phone company in town have to advertise?
that bearded guy (now dead)
from Vienna who revolutionized the world of psychology with his revelations in psychoanalysis.
"BECAUSE," the spokesman replied, "We're not."
business would be lost to retailers who sell decorator telephones thereby boosting sales. The additional added, is especially keen in the commercial sector. A business-oriented insert, "Business Communications", is thereby used as the battle for the commercial buck.
'' 'Telephone Talk' pays great
The old mailbox just isn't the same.
Nor do I suspect a conspiracy between the U.S. Postal Service and Southwestern Bell, despite subtle similarities and the apparent union with which they work—my phone bill comes by the end of the month, so call to call the phone company to tell them why I can't pay it.
So keep those cards and letters coming in, folks.
ITS 'JUST that I miss the good old days when I had the great-grandchildren to Talk' away, but with a gut-gunning guilt that somehow all the starving children in China were worse because of my callousness.
Stewart Brann Editorial Editor
Freudian psychology is a school of thought that is based on the premise (in a nutshell) that everything we do, say, think, write, feel or wish, and everything we don't do, say, want, need, want to do, derives from our need for sex and aggression. Mainly sex.
I DON'T know a great deal about psychological concepts, but I am very interested in about the intricate workings of the human mind, but there is one thing of which I am certain: According to Freud, I am a very hard-working man.
Don't laugh. So are you. But don't take my word for it; see for yourself;
such as dancing with a beautiful woman (or man) on a dance floor of foggy nothingness taking twisted about that, right?
What did you dream of last night? Bananas, trains and Goodyard blimpets Probably not obvious symbols for the you-
Oh! how wrong you are!
THE WOMAN (or man) in your dreams signifies your mother (or father); the dance symbolizes your unconscious need to be loved by that person. It is in the form of invest, that is.
But you say you never in your life have had even an ounce of desire to "love" your parents? Touch. Dreams don't lie.
generous when a boy of 10 comes to your door soliciting magazine subscriptions so that he might attend summer diction
And by the way, the foggy nothingness is obviously your craving to crawl back into the worm, whence you came.
And what of your waking hours? Do you find yourself speeding through 20 m.p.h. school zones? Are you less than
DO YOU know why? Your unconscious intent is to eliminate a piece of child behavior (money). Do you know why? You are symbolically trying to exercise unpleasant childhood memories from the deep recesses of your mind. Because you were an unhappy child, because you hated your father, because he had something you didn't have (and would be talking about his coin collection).
You say its uncongruous that you would unconsciously love your father in your dreams and unconciously hate him while awake? Nonsense. It makes all wrong. Stop asking inane questions.
is rightfully yours. Do you know what that means? It's apparent that you underwent a severely deprived childhood—deprived of happiness, deprived of a stable emotional environment and most of all, deprived of sex in all its glorious forms.
**HOW ABOUT your habits in the kitchen?** Yes, it is a sensitive subject, but something more important is theeless. Have you ever marveled at the fact that you can go for hours without having to wash dishes or get dressed, nor marvel. You obviously don't want to give up that which
Are you "regular"?？ You are?！ So why do you insist on making something as mundane as using the restroom into such an exacting and precise science? Food for thought.
AND SPEAKING of which, what do you have in your mouth right now? Chewing gum? A cigarette? A finger? Bingers? Your toothbrush? Jerk it out now. You've already proven to the world that you were weaned too early. And that's why you hate your mother (though you idolize her) because beautifully does it not?
Are you laughing at all this?
Why? Did you know that laughter is merely an outlet for releasing the basest of id impulses? The heartier the laugh, the inhibited the impulse has been.
Are you not laughing? Why?
What are you trying to hide?
C'mon, you can tell me. I'm only here to help.
Letters
To the editor:
Dope policy isn't news
This letter concerns Joe Radliffe's article, "Dope smoking often condoned in KU residence halls," which appeared on the front page of last Friday's Kansas. It was a very
Let's keep our city government
By BRENT ANDERSON
Guest Writer
Who cares? Students of University of Kansas who are here now not be here in April 1979, and most probably aren't even aware that Lawrence has a commission-manager form of government. So what would it matter whether Lawrence had a mayor-council system? I think it would matter a lot.
The voters of Lawrence will decide April 5 whether to change the form of their city government. Lawrence now has a commission-city manager form of government, but if a proposal for a mayor-council form is approved, city government will have a new look in April 1979.
When Joe College thinks about city government, he is most aware of those services the city is supposed to provide him. He is upset, for example, when he is told that the city is not because the bin is full or his only can is outside, waiting to be emptied.
SALLY COLLEGE doesn't have much contact with city government either. She knows that when that man came to turn off the water last week because she "forgot" to pay the bill, she had to write out a check to the "City of Lawrence."
So when Joe or Sally were asked to sign a petition to change the form of city government in Lawrence, they might
have thought about that overflowing trash can or that water bill and decided to sign it, as if that would be a way to redress the city.
The motives of those who organized the petition drive to put the question to a vote are less clear than those of Joe or Sally. They are more motivated to improve city services? Will it make the city more responsive to the needs of its citizens? Will it increase citizen participation in local government in making decisions that affect the city?
"Say, why not?" I heard one student say when approached at Allen Field House after enrolling to sign the petition. It as good a reason as any, it suppose.
IF THE answer to one or all of these questions is yes, then maybe changing to a mayor-council form of city government is a good idea. It is no secret that the city has had and is having serious management problems, the symptoms of which can be seen on almost any street in Lawrence.
WHATEVER THE reason, 3264 registered Douglas County voters signed the petition, which puts the question of whether to change to a mayor-council form of city government on the April 5 local election ballot.
Personnel problems, trash problems.
AS A RESULT of the new maintenance garage finally opening, trash service has improved, though the commission's indecision on the matter has already cost the city thousands of dollars. In the face of the worst winter in at least 20 years, the city has been forced to take safe, and dangerous traffic situations have been handled well by the police.
sidewalk problems, maintenance problems have kept the city commission and the city manager busy, especially in the last year. It is possible to blame someone for these problems. Stray dogs have even been accused of being the cause.
Nevertheless, we must look to the commission and the city manager to solve these problems, under our present form of government, regardless of whether they caused them. In my opinion, they seem to be solving them.
The basic question is this: How would things be different if Lawrence had a mayor-council form of government? I doubt that they would be better, and I can think of several reasons why they would be worse.
UNDER LAWRENCE'S present form of city government, five commissioners, elected at large, make decisions concerning the city's affairs, which are to be carried out by the city manager, whom the commission has hired for that purpose. The city manager isn't elected, but rather is selected by the commission, based, hopefully, on his qualifications to manage effect, a multi-million dollar business.
The mayor-council system replaces the city manager with a full-time mayor and the commission with councilmen elected from wards in which they live.
I SEE TWO distinct disadvantages to the mayor-council system. First, the city manager, a man trained to run city governments, is replaced by a full time mayor, who might be trained to do what the council wants. Second, the councilmen will be elected from the ward in which they live and have no reason to worry about any other ward or the city as a whole. The result, I'm afraid, would be a mayor concerned with enforcement and councilmen trying to get the most for themselves and their neighbors.
Certainly the commission-manager system has the same flaws to some extent, but they are minimized by the structure of the system. That structure, which encourages compromise and consideration of the problems of the city as a whole, would be lost if we were to adopt a mayor-council system.
Brent Anderson is a senior majoring in journalism.
interesting article, but it was not news. This is my ninth semester in my third KU residence hall and the five hall staffs with which I have lived have all had the same "policy" of which Tom Egan spoke in the article.
Drunkenness is common in residence halls. I have yet to see or hear of anyone getting kicked out of the residence hall system for drunkenness. Also, I have yet to see or hear of anyone getting kicked out of the system because noise from their beddings leaked under their door into the hallway.
Another perversion of truth is many readers' misinterpretation of Egan's statement "... that about 80 per cent of the residents of Hashinger have at least tried marijuana." This was Radden's interpretation—not a quotation.
Anyone who thinks this situation is scandalous must have just decided so since reading Friday's Kansan, as he said in his book, the resident of the residence hall system in recent years. If this is news to you, welcome to the big bad world of KU where people mind their own business until they are judged by the media. (If you want a real story, I'd like to know where every dollar of my contract money goes). In the meantime, SCA-seekers and your personal judgment on other people's business.
Egan didn't say 80 per cent of Hashinger users use marijuana. He said they have tried it. There is a difference. Not that it matters, but he didn't say that that 80 per cent tried marijuana. No, that's not the lot of Egan's speculated 80 per cent it tried during high school.
One last response to Radcliffe's article is in regard to the effect it has had on Hassan Ali. He has large arms under attack. I challenge anyone to deny that Hassinger Hall is the most positive, active, and creative residence hall in the Middle West, perhaps in the entire Midwest.
Jim Stringer Prairie Village senior
President Carter has made several good decisions recently,
Those of you with mouths agape at Radcliffe's little expose, please close them. Your naivete is showing.
Pardons judicious To the editor:
e. g., his pardon of war resistors is particularly judicious especially given the treatment of Col. Calley, and the virtual military officers of the honor code at the nation's military academy.
But, owing to the comparative silence of the media on the matter of his pardon of a convicted murderer (or so it has been reported) I think that in keeping with the need for criticism of any impropriety, it is reasonable to argue of life and death, the moral issues should be exposed for public scrutiny. One might be inclined to argue that rehabilitation is the issue. This may be the case. This defense rings, however, of artificially, mainly because the same persons who would make it are those who were critical of Ford or Rutherford. Strictly, they well should have, no one then seemed concerned about Nikon's rehabilitation.
To use the words of another expert on cronymism at its 'best,' the late mayor of Chicago, Richard Daley: "I tink deee people are talkin out both sides of der mout."
Steven Bayne
Steven Bayne Chicago graduate student
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