NOTES IN THE NEWS
NOTES in the NEWS Hunger "Some of the children/' the report emphasized, "could not go to school because they had no shoes, and had distended stomachs, chronic sores of the upper lip, and were...
...You may write what you please," the new Premier Constantine V. Kollias told the press, "but you have no right to print information that offends the government...
...Seventy business, civic, and educational spokesmen, including officials of the Chamber of Commerce, the Retail Merchants Association, the Board of Realtors, and Central Virginia Industries, the presidents of Randolph-Macon Women's College and Lynchburg College, and the chairman of the city school board, joined in a letter of protest mailed to every home in the community...
...Meanwhile the immediate plight of Latin America remains critical...
...From such demonstrated efforts of ITT and its eager accomplice, ABC, to manage news, it is obvious that if their merger is consummated the country's third largest network could become a conveyor belt for ITT's propaganda...
...The treaty may have more symbolic than practical value, yet at this stage of space exploration it is important to lay down the principle of peaceful development of the heavens...
...They wore beards, and teachers with beards are viewed by some school authorities as disruptive to class discipline, if not downright subversive...
...They agreed to forego unnecessary arms expenditures, but carefully refrained from specifying which weapons would be regarded as "unnecessary...
...To Egypt...
...Proxmire has made a minor but significant change in the measure, which Douglas approved, that greatly improves its chances for passage by the current Congress...
...She refused because she felt it was not that important...
...The commitments made at Punta del Este were far too tentative and long-range—and the record of broken commitments is far too long—to justify euphoria, or even equanimity...
...Justice James J. Cobey wrote: ;'A beard, for a man, is an expression of his personality...
...The coup was said to have come as a complete surprise, but Clayton Fritchey, the well-informed Washington columnist, raised the point that "many informed foreign correspondents had been warning for months that the military . . .was prepared to seize the government if democratic forces won the May 28 election or even if they appeared on the verge of winning...
...As is customary at these affairs, the rhetoric flowed freely around the conference table in the converted casino of the San Rafael Hotel...
...This is a development to be lauded at any time, and particularly in these days when the cause of civil rights is tragically losing some of the widespread support and forward thrust so evident in recent years...
...When the student newspaper at Randolph-Macon College called such coverage unfair, Glass's News carried an editorial headlined, "Randolph-Macon Students: Down The Red Line...
...When it had been accomplished, in a matter of hours, 5,000 political leaders were in prison, effectively undercutting any immediate political opposition...
...A study of 800 families revealed that on the average they thought they were paying 8.3 per cent to their various creditors when the actual rate was 23.2 per cent, nearly three times higher...
...As he reached the sixth paragraph he was told that the AP office in New York had received a complaint from ABC about the wording of his opening paragraph...
...Yet few consumers know with any degree of accuracy how much they are paying for installment credit, revolving charge plans, automobile financing, or almost any other form of credit...
...Senators Wayne Morse of Oregon and Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin, both Democrats, protested the FCC action...
...Recently, citizen Douglas appropriately led off the testimony in a hearing on a similar bill sponsored by Senator William Prox-mire, Wisconsin Democrat, who has taken up the fight...
...They emphasized particularly the danger that ITT might use ABC's news facilities to advance its own interests...
...The bloodless coup was executed with lightning speed and ruthless efficiency...
...They're detrimental to everything that's good in the city of Lynchburg...
...A UPI reporter was quoted by The Wall Street Journal as saying that he considered one of the calls to his editors "an obvious economic threat" in view of ABC's role as a big customer of UPI's radio and television news reports...
...Last December, the Commission voted four to three, after only two days of hearings, to approve ITT's application to merge with the American Broadcasting Corporation...
...Fritchey concluded that there "was nothing to prevent" the United States from using its powerful influence to let the militarists know that we "strongly opposed overthrowing the constitutional government...
...so once more we have gambled U.S...
...Indeed, set speeches were the sum and substance of the summit, for both the agenda and the final Declaration were prepared "at the working level" before the presidents ever sat down to confer...
...In the past two decades short- and intermediate-term consumer debt has soared almost 1,500 per cent...
...We wanted the colored race in this city to know that we appreciated them taking all this stuff . . . and that we were just as disgusted and displeased as they were...
...Finot's triumph comes after three years in a legal battle that should never have been necessary to fight...
...ABC, which was receiving the story on its AP teletype, failed to get Aug and the AP to make the change in wording...
...He said he would consult when he returned to Washington, and see what he could do...
...There was ¦* no indication at this writing whether our government would knuckle under to this newest blackmail maneuver...
...The student newspapers at Lynchburg College and nearby Sweet Briar College then supported the Randolph-Macon college newspaper in a joint protest...
...In another instance ABC behaved as if it were already under ITT's thumb...
...As a result, The Wall Street Journal reported from Athens, "there is a threat that the coup will strengthen, rather than weaken, Communism in Greece by driving mild leftists to the extreme left and forcing creation of a leftist underground...
...Of the 7.3 million, 2.1 million— mostly women—are sixty-five or older...
...If the news of Justice Cobey's common-sense ruling is brought to the attention of school officials around the country, the more fearful ones may take heart...
...Consumer credit has become one of the nation's largest and fastest-growing businesses...
...Decade of Urgency' If well-intended words were edible, if promises provided shelter from the elements, if noble oratory were readily convertible into cold, hard cash, no people on earth would be so well-fed, comfortably housed, and generally affluent as the 225 million citizens of the Latin American republics...
...His figures demonstrate that only 50,000—fewer than one per cent—of the 7.3 million persons on welfare are capable of being trained to hold a job...
...The military regime is also considering abolishing the parliament and doing away with all elections...
...Over a period of four decades, U.S...
...If Congress does not open up the whole subject in a thorough investigation, it will betray the public interest...
...The Committee concluded that Latin America's struggle against poverty, disease, and illiteracy is "suffering from critical weaknesses in organization and financing," in the words of The New York Times summary of the report...
...We have marked the date—April 13—on our 1977 calendar to see how the decade turns out...
...Carter Glass III is general manager of the newspapers which provoked additional criticism in the community by their recent coverage of the trial and conviction of a Negro on a charge of rape...
...The FCC majority also overrode a Department of Justice opinion that the proposed merger raised questions of "possibilities of adverse effects" on competition...
...Never in history have so many been promised so much, only to have their aspirations frustrated...
...In a market that absorbs almost as much as the nation's grocery bill, it is a question that deserves a clear and forthright answer...
...ABC said the Commission had "suggested," not "ordered" the delay...
...He sought a court order that would require the officials to return him to classroom teaching...
...The space treaty is one more reminder that if we could only extricate ourselves from the Vietnam quagmire, we could speed the reduction of East-West tensions and open new paths toward peace...
...We are not so naive as to believe that these facts will quiet those who have made a career of attacking welfare programs...
...A century and a half after the era of the great Liberators, liberty still has gained no sure foothold in most of the nations of the hemisphere...
...This time, much of it was on the theme of the need for action rather than words...
...Edward J. Gerrity, Jr., the senior ITT vice president for public relations, "badgered" her, she said, to get the Times to print the full text of an FCC document that criticized the Justice Department's intervention against the merger...
...The Commission majority accepted at face value the promises of executives of both companies that ITT's worldwide interests—some of them involving foreign governments—would not be permitted to influence ABC's handling of the news...
...Proxmire's bill would require a creditor to provide a consumer with three basic facts: an itemized statement of all finance charges...
...The Truth about Credit For years, former Senator Paul Douglas tried, without success, to persuade Congress to adopt a "Truth in Lending" measure that would put an accurate price tag on credit...
...There was no reference to birth control, though the burgeoning population virtually wipes out gains in economic development...
...At the recent FCC hearings, news reporters subpenaed by the Justice Department gave these examples of the relentless pressure they had been subjected to by ITT in the weeks after the merger case was reopened: % Eileen Shanahan of The New York Times testified that her coverage of the proposed merger had prompted five or six telephone calls or visits from ITT officials...
...To the most pressing requests of the Latin American leaders—for increased aid, preferential tariff arrangements, and development loans free of onerous "buy American" clauses— President Johnson was able to give only stinted, tentative answers...
...it has already been signed by seventy-nine nations...
...The last provision is a simplification of the Douglas bill's requirement that the lender provide the "simple annual [interest] rate," a mathematically cumbersome procedure which almost invariably results in a figure running to several decimal places, and which had met strong resistance from lenders and Senate committee members...
...The newspapers declared that the Negro's attorney was "linked to Communist front organizations and efforts...
...Stephen M. Aug of the Associated Press in Washington testified that on February 1 he was dictating a story by telephone to his office about the FCC order to postpone the merger pending a new hearing...
...Army Rangers has been flown to Bolivia from Panama, to open a jungle warfare and anti-subversion training camp for the Bolivian army...
...700,000 are blind or severely handicapped...
...This is a patently absurd generalization, but until recently there was a lack of documentary evidence to prove to what degree it was false...
...All it does is require the seller to answer the prospective buyer's age-old question: "How much does it cost...
...Furthermore, when the cost of credit is stated it is rarely the true cost, and frequently is only half, or a third, or even a fourth of what the consumer eventually pays...
...But symbols, under appropriate circumstances, merit constitutional protection...
...Of the fathers, two-thirds are incapacitated...
...When it came his turn to address the presidents, Mr...
...Gerrity, Miss Shanahan said, made "accusatory and nasty" comments about her coverage and asked "if I didn't feel I had a responsibility to the shareholders who might lose money as a result of what I wrote...
...It is possible that he may be in Bolivia, where the action seems to be...
...H. G. Leggett, Sr., a chain store executive and a signer of the letter, commented: "We could have gotten 5,000 signatures if we wanted...
...The London Times man, who seems to have scored a scoop, also reported something that the Pentagon has not seen fit to make public—that a unit of U.S...
...When this was denied he appealed his case, in 1964...
...Beards, he said in effect, are protected by the Constitution...
...Population growth is almost double the productivity increase...
...Each time the Russian's answer was unequivocally affirmative...
...Alexander Kendrigk CBS News...
...Although its own actions were playing into Communist hands, the new government promptly and predictably asked the United States for massive aid to "prevent the country from falling to the Communists...
...Johnson proclaimed a new "decade of urgency" for the hemisphere...
...To Northeast Brazil...
...President Johnson, according to his associates, came away "elated" with the progress that was made...
...Senators, six Democrats and three Republicans, affirmed this first-hand observation in their appeal to the President to hasten emergency food relief...
...An official report issued shortly before the Punta del Este summit conference by the Inter-American Committee on the Alliance for Progress disclosed that the increase in productivity in the Hemisphere adds up to little more than one per cent per capita a year contrasted with the 2.5 per cent growth rate set by the Alliance when it was launched in 1961...
...policy toward the "sister republics" to the south has made the transition from Gunboat Diplomacy through Good Neighborliness to the Alliance for Progress—all without appreciably improving the miserable lot of the Latin American multitudes...
...A California court of appeal recently ruled that Paul S. Finot, a high school teacher in Pasadena, has the right to wear a beard while teaching...
...The white leaders of that conservative city of 60,000 protested the racist news policies of the local newspapers, the evening Daily Advance and the morning and Sunday News...
...On the one hand it has been interpreted as a symbol of masculinity, of authority, and of wisdom...
...900,000 are mothers of these children...
...The letter accused the newspapers of adding to "frustration and bitterness" in the Negro community...
...The least our Government can do now is to stop at once the flow of arms to a military junta which brutally opposes everything America says it stands for...
...Our conviction is that the real story about the proposed merger—including all of its political, financial, and press aspects—has yet to be told...
...To Mississippi, in the United States of America...
...The weapons and other military equipment employed to smash what had survived as democracy in Greece were provided largely by the United States as part of our dedication to strengthen the "free world...
...Douglas argued that disclosure of true interest rates would stimulate competition in consumer credit...
...150,000 are fathers...
...On the other hand it has been interpreted as a symbol of nonconformity and rebellion...
...In one of these sessions, it can be authoritatively reported, the Russian representative was bluntly asked: "Are you saying that despite recent events, Mr...
...The bigotry of the Lynchburg newspapers has evoked a healthy "white backlash" which might sting the Glasses into realizing that in that city, at least, racist news policies are deeply resented...
...It is too soon to tell whether the "Latin summit" held in mid-April at Punta del Este, Uruguay, marks a turning point...
...James A. Weghsler New York Post May 2, 1967 Welfare Facts One of the tenets of the conservatives' bible is that Americans on public welfare rolls are lazy bums leeching on society, and should be kicked out and made to work...
...Participants in these discussions repeated variations of that question...
...NOTES in the NEWS Hunger "Some of the children/' the report emphasized, "could not go to school because they had no shoes, and had distended stomachs, chronic sores of the upper lip, and were extremely lethargic—all of which are the tragic evidence of malnutrition...
...Among the rubble was a picture of Guevara, and the Spanish text of a speech by Marshal Giap, the North Vietnamese commander and defense minister...
...The degree of need for such a law can be measured precisely by the powerful pressures opposing it...
...At the same time, a message has been published in Cuba, purportedly from Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Castro's onetime revolutionary companion—a call for guerrilla warfare in the hemisphere and the creation of "two or three Vietnams" here, as Guevara is said to have put it...
...corporations that own much of the land and evade many of the taxes...
...prestige on leaders who have no popular place in their own country...
...But no matter what the Glasses do, the white leadership has demonstrated a decent concern for the dignity and worth of Negro residents...
...The answer was: "Absolutely yes...
...3.5 million are children...
...This might be regarded as merely the Castroite propaganda reply to the Punta del Este Declaration of the American presidents...
...To persist in these [news] policies can only be destructive of the general morale as well as the reputation of our community," the civic group protested...
...The Department of Justice requested a new FCC hearing to present evidence which it contended would justify a Commission action rescinding approval of the merger...
...Oligarchs and military despots hold the reins in many of the republics, and the gap between the few rich and the many poor continues to widen...
...Military forces crushed the remains of the democratic system in Greece to avert the national elections scheduled for May 28, which were expected to strengthen the middle-of-the-road Center Union Party so that it would be in a position to oust rightists from high civilian and military positions...
...point of view prevailed in the twenty-three-page "Declaration of the Presidents of America," but while this may be a matter of professional pride to the State Department, it is hardly grounds for elation...
...Four years ago, when Finot refused to shave off his beard, Pasadena school officials reassigned him from his high school government class to home tutoring...
...the total finance charge in dollars and cents...
...But there could be more to it...
...They pledged their nations to increase the pace of industrial and agricultural development, to cooperate on regional projects in transportation, power, and communications, to allocate additional resources to pathetically inadequate systems of education, public health, and sanitation...
...Fortunately, judicial help is on the way...
...Two decades afterward, the Greeks are in the grip of a fascist-military dictatorship instead—a military dictatorship imposed by an army on which the United States has lavished almost two billion dollars as part of the Truman Doctrine...
...This is how the United States got started in Vietnam...
...This leaves 50,000 men who might be put to work—a substantial number, to be sure, but minute when compared with the total welfare load...
...Morse also called attention to ITT's unsavory system of extracting political contributions from its own executives...
...Proxmire's modification would disclose the approximate annual interest rate, which could be easily arrived at, in whole numbers...
...But these figures provide material for a solid argument against the chronic cranks who would drive into the labor market the children, their mothers, the aged, the incapacitated, and the blind who constitute ninety-nine per cent of welfare cases...
...Much was missing from the summit agenda...
...Truth in Lending" is a simple, practical measure...
...Recently, after two serious attacks by guerrillas on government troops, a British journalist has seen a captured rebel training-base in the jungle...
...Where the Action Is The anniversary of the Bay of Pigs six years ago is being marked in Havana with parades and speeches describing it as the first great armed defeat of imperialism in America...
...Badgering' the Press No more blatant display of bullyragging the press has come to our notice in years than the one put on by the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation and disclosed in recent hearings before the Federal Communications Commission...
...This is the third treaty negotiated with the Soviets aimed at slowing the arms race—the first, in 1959, banned military activity in Antarctica, and the second, in 1963, restricted testing of nuclear devices to underground experiments...
...Now Joseph A. Califano, Jr., a special assistant to President Johnson, has for the first time coordinated the data from the scores of welfare rolls across the country...
...and the total finance charge expressed as an annual percentage rate...
...The Constitutional Beard If Michelangelo were alive today he might not be permitted to teach art in some American school systems, nor could Louis Pasteur teach chemistry, nor could Abraham Lincoln lecture on the art of government...
...Peace in the Heavens Amidst the heightening tensions between the Communist nations and the United States generated by the escalation of the Vietnam war, a hopeful note was sounded in the Senate's unanimous approval of a treaty, negotiated largely with the Soviet Union, banning armaments in space...
...These leaders of the white power structure rebuked the newspapers for their long-standing refusal to print Negro obituaries except as paid notices in classified advertising columns, and their generally distorted coverage of events involving Negroes...
...But "the United States has never concealed its distaste for Papandreou [the former premier] and his following...
...Kosygin's statement that negotiations can be arranged if the bombings stop still stands...
...The president of the local NAACP, the Reverend Haywood Robinson, Jr., said, "If this is representative enough, the newspapers will have to respond to some degree...
...The treaty grew out of the Administration's "bridge-building" program designed to improve relations between East and West...
...Credit is apparently the only thing Americans seem willing to buy without knowing the price...
...The supreme irony of the rightist dictatorship in Greece is that it crowns twenty years of the Truman Doctrine, which was initiated in that country as a bulwark against Communist dictatorship...
...We assume this is the usual official hyperbole...
...The evidence is overwhelming that American consumers have only a foggy notion of what they pay for credit...
...With a notable lack of enthusiasm, the hemispheric heads of state agreed to establish a Latin American Common Market between 1970 and 1985...
...Perhaps it was the apparent success of these agreements that so markedly reduced the traditional suspicions of the Senate where the Soviets are concerned that the space treaty was approved without a dissenting vote after only brief debate...
...Negro leaders were hopeful that the stand of the community's white leaders would provide a rallying point for other white moderates...
...Even the cautious Wall Street Journal called its passage "likely...
...To India...
...Those who make their profits from extending credit prefer to keep consumers in the dark...
...On a number of occasions, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal, representatives of ITT and ABC have gone over the heads of newsmen to complain to their superiors about their coverage of the merger case...
...Tragedy in Greece The recent military coup in Greece has given Europe the only dictatorship of the totalitarian right to take power on the continent since Franco's capture of the Spanish government thirty years ago...
...1f Jed Stout of United Press International testified that an ITT official asked him to use his Department of Justice sources to find out what the Government's plans were...
...But he was equally firm in insisting grimly that there could be no talks—"for psychological and symbolic reasons"—while the bombings continue...
...The Door to Negotiations An important Soviet figure has just spent some three weeks in this country quietly telling both responsible government officials and private citizens that the door to negotiations is still wide open if the United States suspends the bombings of the North...
...The Lynchburg newspapers are owned by the Glass family, descendants of Carter Glass, who was Secretary of the Treasury under Presidents Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt, and a power in the U.S...
...Nine U.S...
...the U.S...
...American consumers pay $22 billion a year in interest and finance charges, almost as much as they spend for groceries...
...Healthy Backlash Something remarkable happened recently in Lynchburg, Virginia...
...Senate during New Deal days...
...The editorial sections of these newspapers are not only detrimental to race relations," he said...
...the shock of the truth might radically alter current credit practices...
...If as a result of more vigorous competition," the former Senator testified, "the average rate of interest on consumer debt declined by one percentage point, American families would save $1 billion a year...
...The Argentine firebrand, since he disappeared from public view two years ago, has been reported in virtually every Latin American country, and has also been, equally authorita-tatively, reported dead...
...It makes no attempt to regulate credit costs...
...There was scant reference to land reform and no mention of equitable taxation—omissions that doubtless pleased U.S...
...For Guevara—new photographs of whom were also printed, though these have been disputed by Cuban exiles in Miami—Guevara in his message refers to a new guerrilla front which has opened up in Bolivia...
...The new dictators, like all despots, have placed rigid controls on the press and other communications media...
Vol. 31 • June 1967 • No. 6
