NOTES IN THE NEWS

...The dedication it demands and the responsibility it carries deserve to be richly rewarded...

...These are only some of the more dangerous provisions of the proposed legislation...

...Its readers approve by a margin of nine to one...

...In Maryland the ten physicians who profited most from Medicaid during its first fiscal year averaged $27,448 each from that source alone...

...Too Rich/ Too Fast For almost two decades the American Medical Association successfully fought off Medicare with one of the most effective lobbies in Washington...

...The UAW telegram to Meany, for all its firm tone, was polite...

...The Vietcong's whirlwind offensive showed how feeble were the foundations of the pacification program, how little was our success in "winning the hearts and minds of the people...

...Among the random snapshots of events in the Newark explosion was this report: "On the evening of Monday, July 17, after the National Guard and state police had been withdrawn, a Roman Catholic priest saw two Negroes walking down the street...

...The Journal reported that in New York some doctors increased office call charges after Medicaid from $5 to $25...

...Surveys by Ebony and Jet, both black publications, confirm the preference among blacks for "Afro-American," with "black" second, and "Negro" a weak third...

...But a second message to the AFL-CIO president, this one by Emil Mazey, UAW secretary-treasurer, abandoned all pretense to protocol...

...Communists would be denied membership and employers would be permitted, without liability, to fire members of "subversive organizations...

...The New Statesman February 9, 1968...

...If Meany and his confederates refuse, the UAW will have "no acceptable alternative but to disaffiliate from the AFL-CIO," Reuther and his associates warned...

...Beyond that, action is required to reform and then abolish the long-discredited policy of paternalism...

...Gardiner's solution is as simple as it is sensible...

...policy in Vietnam is "creating more Vietcong than we are destroying...

...But finally public pressure and the obvious needs of the times pushed Congress, and in 1965 Medicare went into effect...

...The black and white supremacists," said Alexander, "have made 'Uncle Tom' an insult and they use it...

...The solid fact that emerges from the developments of the past few months ¦—and it is one that has been long emphasized in these columns—is that the people of South Vietnam and their army have no heart or stomach for this war we are waging in their name, have little or no confidence in their corrupt and corruptly chosen government, bitterly resent the absence of land reform, and yearn more for peace for themselves than for "victory" for President Johnson...

...and on vocational training for jobs...

...The Vietnamese soldiers promptly began charging their homeless countrymen up to forty cents a gallon...

...advisers, and because of U.S...

...Paraphrasing Gardiner's conclusion, the Associated Press said he urged that the United States "should try hard for a peace settlement and pull its forces out of Vietnam...

...1} In the title dealing with travel abroad, the bill would empower the Secretary of State to place any area of the world off-limits and to bar any "designated class of citizens" from leaving the United States...

...Communist movement, but his love soured into hate and today he is Birch-like in his conviction that the world Communist conspiracy is respon-ble for all our ills here in America...

...Thomas Tierney, Medicare administrator, said recently, "Very frankly, unless there is some evidence of self-discipline or deceleration of fee increases—and there is no evidence of this so far—we'll have to go to a ceiling on fees...

...One of the men turned to him...

...Indians live, on the average, only about two-thirds as long as other Americans...

...The clash between the UAW and the AFL-CIO has been moving toward a showdown for several years...

...Long a term of respect and dignity, one that Negroes themselves sought after in preference to the humiliating nomenclature employed by racists, the word "Negro" has now been downgraded in favor of "black," or "Afro-American," designations once considered somewhat disrespectful...

...U Giving "aid and comfort to an ad-versaiy of the United States"—even in the absence of a state of war—is made a felony...

...Hoyt W. Fuller, managing editor of Negro Digest, which is under "great pressure" to change its name, explains the shift as "a generation gap in usage...

...The Chicago conference had to be discredited as Hanoi-organized and Sunday Worker-inspired in order to justify Meany's boast that labor union members backed the Vietnam war 600 to one...

...In Pleiku, for several days American troops had to supply water to parched refugees in nearby camps before Vietnamese soldiers could take over...

...Johnson's proposed plan to improve the sorry lot of the Indian concentrates on education at the Head Start and kindergarten levels...

...Yet that is precisely what Senator James O. Eastland, Mississippi Democrat, and nineteen other Senators are, in effect, planning for us in a proposed new witch-hunt disguised as an internal security measure...

...In a "Dear George" letter, Mazey called brother Meany a liar, a demagogue, and a character assassin, questioned his "personal integrity and . . . capacity to lead the American labor movement," and demanded that Meany "retract false statements...

...The Attorney General or "one or more members of any labor organization . . . may file with the SACB a petition for a determination that such organization is . . . Communist-infiltrated...

...There are a number of other provisions designed to hamper immigration...

...That event vividly exposed the terrible hazard of the nuclear armed air flights and should have signaled a halt then...

...While many blacks, especially of the older generations, have been content with these foods, many more have preferred to upgrade their diet if possible, to eat "higher on the hog"—pork chops rather than sowbelly...

...Congress should act promptly and affirmatively...

...The forces for freedom across the nation must be quickly alerted to mount an all-out battle against this monstrous attack on the precious liberties that distinguish democracy from a police state...

...Undoubtedly, as the black revolution gathers momentum, there will be a great deal more of what the historians call revisionism—historical and contemporary, semantic and cultural...

...Two white officers got out of the car...

...the world is crowded with proud nations...

...But Meany, bewitched as always by Lovestone on foreign policy issues, denounced the conference as one that "was planned in Hanoi by a special committee that went there," and charged that he had read the resolution adopted at the conference "in the [Communist] Sunday Worker two weeks before the meeting took place...

...A recent survey by The Wall Street Journal revealed that doctors' fees jumped 7.8 per cent in 1966 and another 6.1 per cent in 1967—more than double the average annual increase before Medicare and Medicaid...

...Take that word "Negro," for example...

...Not a margin of three to two, mind you, but three votes for and two votes against...

...The practice of medicine is one of the most demanding and exacting of all professions...

...foreign aid agency in South Vietnam and today receives a continuous flow of grass-roots reports in his current role as executive director of the Federally-supported International Voluntary Services in Vietnam...

...While the Vietcong display the courage and commitment of those who believe in their cause, the South Vietnamese government and army reveal the cowardice and corruption that go with saving skins and making a fast buck characteristic of those who have no stake in the outcome...

...The great majority live in deep poverty...

...That isn't all...

...I've just been back from Vietnam two days,' he said...

...These sharply accelerated medical fees, combined with greatly increased hospital costs, drove the Medicaid budget to five times the Government estimate, and added eight per cent to Medicare's supplemental health insurance program...

...After surveying the countryside and talking to scores of American officials on the scene recently, two correspondents for The Wall Street Journal reported this catalogue of complaints from the Mekong Delta to cities of the north: "South Vietnamese soldiers looting the homes of their own countrymen and exploiting refugees...

...These are only some of the provisions of the proposed Internal Security Act of 1968: Tj Theoretical advocacy of revolutionary change "without regard to immediate provable effect" would become a felony punishable by twenty years in prison and/or a fine of as much as $20,000...

...civilian authorities who seemed to vanish with the sound of gunfire or who were frozen into inaction because Saigon hadn't yet told them what to do...

...Another unexpected turn took place in a junior high school in Milwaukee's black ghetto, where more than 130 students created a disturbance which damaged the cafeteria as they demanded "soul food," traditional American black fare, including such items as black eyed peas, chitterlings, greens, fat back, salt pork, catfish, and spoon bread...

...On the basis of all the available evidence, Meany's allegations were pure fabrication—the kind of total lie that Lovestone had learned to concoct during his years as Stalin's number one boy in the United States...

...The Catholic priest went across the street to help gather up the groceries...

...Eastland and company still see Communists coming out of the woodwork everywhere...

...those who haven't use 'black' and 'Afro-American.'" Richard Edwards, assistant managing editor of The Amsterdam News, said, "There seems to be violent objection to the term 'Negro' among young people, who link the word with Uncle Tom...

...An unmarked car with five police officers inside it pulled up alongside them...

...Uncle Tom, Alexander pointed out, said "a quiet but unmovable 'No, master' " when he was ordered by Simon Legree to murder, loot, and lash his fellow blacks, although his refusal eventually cost him his life by flogging...

...The background for this little-publicized confrontation is this: Meany has long been mesmerized on issues of foreign policy by a Rasputin-like character who hides in the shadows but exercises a powerful influence on Meany and his colleagues...

...Whenever in the past the military news was bad for "our side," our Government would turn on a propaganda faucet marked "WHAM" (for Winning Hearts and Minds) which would pour out a stream of statistics designed to show how we were improving the lot of the peasants and capturing the loyalty of the countryside through our much publicized pacification program...

...Now a new fight between the AMA and Congress is shaping up because, ironically, Medicare and its companion program, Medicaid, are making too many doctors too rich too fast...

...withdrawal from Vietnam] cannot be accepted by a major nation...

...But the bill must be taken seriously...

...Indeed, just before the Vietcong's Tet offensive, Robert W. Komer, chief of the pacification program who has been dubbed by irreverent newsmen "the Wizard of Wham," produced a mountain of statistical data to show how we were winning "the other war" as a result of "pacifying" more than 5,000 hamlets and providing security from the Vietcong for 1,500,000 South Vietnamese...

...on any black man who hesitates to communicate with rocks and bottles . . . Uncle Tom, they would have you think, was a weakling, a timid old man who said nothing but 'yassuh, boss' . . . Uncle Tom was no such man...

...Jay Love-stone was once top man in the U.S...

...For one thing, it was introduced by twenty Senators—a fifth of the members of the Senate—including that master of mischief, Everett McKinley Dirksen of Illinois, the Senate's Republican leader...

...On the basis of these reports, Gardiner is convinced that the United States is "going down now on a course that has no ending whatsoever," that "unless we do something different, we are going to be hopelessly bogged down in a major war in Asia which our military leaders have said we should avoid at all costs," and that constructive efforts toward a peaceful and prosperous Vietnam "are doomed if they must depend on the leadership of an unstable, little-respected military clique elected by a small minority vote...

...The bill would create a new Federal personnel security agency—whose administrator might be the chairman of SACB...

...Alexander went on to describe Uncle Tom as "a youngish man, and the strongest, most powerful character in a story that did, apparently, more than any other one thing to jell strong feelings against slavery...

...Indian children drop out of school at a rate double the national rate...

...He served for four years as director of the U.S...

...American Indians, the President pointed out, have been aliens in their own land for two centuries...

...Now the President has asked Congress to enact a half-billion dollar program designed to upgrade the Indian's standards in precisely those deficient areas...

...Our failure to make the Indians self-reliant is, in large part, responsible for the tragic conditions which engulf them, and it is time to bring this policy of domestic colonialism to an end...

...Issuance of visas would be transferred from consular offices to the Attorney General...

...An accused employe would be denied access to the identity of his accuser and barred from documents relating to his case if they contain "national security intelligence...

...Meany's total acceptance of Love-stone's neurotic obsession with the Communist peril has led him over the years to denounce almost every affirmative proposal to reduce tensions between the Soviets and ourselves and to equate programs for peace with Communist trickery...

...The Last American Black Americans, who constitute more than ten per cent of the population of the United States, have commanded the nation's concern in recent years, and if their problems are still far from solved, they are at least being studied and attacked...

...France made peace in Vietnam itself and again in Algeria after a material and emotional investment equal to that of the United States and in the Algerian case in a less parlous military situation...

...There is considerable evidence to support the UAW complaint that the parent organization has become smug and stagnant, that it has lost the idealism which once characterized the labor movement, and that it has failed miserably to achieve racial integration of the unions...

...If one or more members of a "Communist Action" group influences the management of a union it may be found to be "Communist-infiltrated" if some union policies parallel those of "Communist Action" organizations...

...Actually, looting of Vietnamese property by Vietnamese soldiers extended throughout the country, according to Americans...

...Family after family among the Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma," Senator Kennedy reported, "has an annual income of less than $1,000...

...Ninety per cent are on welfare in one county...

...Too Proud for Peace...

...Air-borne nuclear bombs have for years been obsolete as a defense mechanism...

...Profile in Disorder The Kerner Commission's report on the summer riots of 1967 includes a separate chapter entitled "Profiles in Disorder...

...Citizenship by naturalization could be revoked without due process required by Federal courts...

...The statistics tell only part of the shameful story: Unemployment among the country's Indians is forty per cent —more than ten times the national rate...

...Members of "Communist action organizations" would be barred from employment by the Federal Government, in defense industries, and by educational institutions...

...It seemed preposterous at the time, but only a few months ago the utterly useless and mischief-provoking Subversive Activities Control Board was given a new mandate in the Senate by a final vote of three to two...

...For, clearly, the Vietcong could not have achieved the measure of surprise and success they did without the massive collaboration of the South Vietnamese, in city and country, whose hearts and minds we were assured belonged to us...

...Approval of his program would be at least a modest and long over-due step in that direction...

...During the past month, the UAW's top brass fired off a telegram to AFL-CIO President Meany calling for a special convention of the federation in December to consider Reuther's plans to "modernize and revitalize" the parent labor body...

...It was Tom's 'no,'" claimed Alexander, "that ennobled the black man of America in the eyes of the world...

...Yet it took a serious plane crash in Greenland with nuclear bombs aboard to bring a suspension of such flights...

...The nation is fortunate to have survived this nuclear risk at such low cost...

...Retreat from the Brink If the Defense Department and its recently retired Secretary Robert S. McNamara are to be commended for halting the practice of flying nuclear bombs around in Air Force planes, they are also to be criticized for needlessly keeping the nation on the brink of nv-clear accident, possibly nuclear war, for so long...

...They have designed a law so sweeping and so restrictive that it threatens labor unions, the right to travel, due process by court action, naturalized citizens, academic freedom, freedom of speech—all this destruction of freedom in the name of saving it from Communist subversion...

...In it the Commission reveals, more in the form of dead-pan reporting than interpretive commentary, a measure of the extent to which police and National Guard excesses contributed to the death and destruction of the riots...

...citizens employed by the United Nations or any other international organization...

...However, the President's proposals, as Representative Robert Kas-tenmeier of Wisconsin pointed out, "unfortunately will not make much of a change in the Government's overly paternalistic policy toward the Indians...

...Those who have adjusted to things as they are use 'Negro...

...The final break may come late this year—soon after the Presidential election in November...

...Mazey demanded that Meany show that he was "sufficiently honorable and man enough to admit" that he had lied...

...But even as Meany was claiming this mammoth following for his war policy, the Gallup Poll was showing that forty-three per cent of the rank-and-file of organized labor feel that the war is wrong...

...Their ninety-four page bill overturns virtually every civil liberties decision of the Federal courts since 1955, and leaves no area of free speech untrampled...

...Uncle Tom, the tragic hero of Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel, whose name has been an epithet for blacks considered by other blacks to be servile to whites, is in the process of being rehabilitated...

...The authority of the discredited Subversive Activities Control Board (SACB) would be extended, and in some cases would supplant the Federal courts as an appeals board...

...His first-hand findings have led Gardiner to the conclusion that far from supporting the U.S...

...on health and medical care, with emphasis on child care...

...The black revolution is rewriting history books to give the Afro-American his rightful role in the past...

...The nation owes its original inhabitants the opportunity to achieve the goal set by the President: "A standard of living equal to that of the country as a whole...

...his struggle for identity has taken some unexpected turns in the present...

...There is pressure building for a ceiling on physicians' fees under Government programs, and the doctors are mobilizing to resist...

...The Meany-Lovestone forces were driven to make their unprincipled attack on the Chicago labor conference for peace in Vietnam because they felt the urgent need to prop up their unsupported claim that they could deliver organized labor solidly behind President Johnson's policy in Vietnam...

...Accusing the Negro men of looting, the officers made them put their groceries on the pavement, then kicked the bags open, scattering the contents all over the street, telling the men: 'Get out of here.' The officers sped off...

...The conference of several hundred labor officials did no more than call for an end of the bombing of North Vietnam and a negotiated settlement of the war...

...a deliberate lie"—because there had been no such meeting in Hanoi and no such resolution in the Sunday Worker...

...The Senator said the suicide rate among teen-agers on an Idaho reservation was 100 times the national average...

...At issue is Reuther's conviction that Meany's leadership of the AFL-CIO has robbed organized labor of its social militancy and progressive goals...

...The measure strikes hard at labor unions...

...Their small numbers, their divergent cultures, their fragmentation and isolation leave them politically impotent...

...Gardiner is no cocktail party pundit spearing his olive to show how the war can be won...

...Black Search for identity Revolutions have a habit of producing a great many issues peripherally related to the principal goal, and the Negro revolt now in progress is no exception...

...In his letter to Meany, Mazey called the former's charges "an outright lie...

...senior officers with an overriding interest in saving their own skins...

...They were carrying a case of soda water and two bags of groceries...

...I feel like going home, getting a rifle, and shooting the cops.' " New Witch-hunt The last thing this torn and bewildered nation needs is a revival of the evil spirits that roamed the land in the heyday of the late Senator Joseph McCarthy...

...Today they number about 600,000, scattered across the country...

...But precious little has been done to relieve the American Indian of a burden of troubles as crushing as the Negro's...

...These were all bitter pills to swallow...

...The AFL-CIO press has been similarly silent...

...There is a moral as well as a financial limit to how much they should profit from medical programs designed to relieve the distress of the old and the poor...

...The Soviet Union wound up the Berlin blockade, abandoned the Greek civil war, and beat a spectacular retreat from the brink in the Cuban missile crisis...

...You Lie, George Meany' The ties that bind Walter Reuther's United Automobile Workers to George Meany's AFL-CIO are shredding fast...

...Meany has refused the challenge...

...Unless physicians practice "self-discipline" in setting fees, they will be obliged to accept what they dread most—ceilings on fees imposed by the people through their Government...

...Weeks have gone by...

...This agency would also screen U.S...

...In any case, we greet the Defense Department's decision with relief...

...It is a striking sign of the changing mood among the young blacks that they now proudly identify with foods that have traditionally been associated with blacks, even though they also constitute a badge of poverty...

...effort in Vietnam, hatred for America exists in most of Vietnam today because of "the overbearing presence of 500,000 Americans," the jealousy of Vietnamese officials displaced by U.S...

...But wait a minute...

...But doctors are already enjoying an annual income four times the national average...

...Benjamin H. Alexander, black member of the District of Columbia school board, in a recent speech at predominately black Howard University, claimed that Uncle Tom has been unjustly interpreted...

...On first reading, they seem to stray so far from the course of constitutional freedom set by the courts that one would be tempted to dismiss them out of hand...

...a great many are hidden away on reservations, cut off from the mainstream of American life...

...The Amsterdam News, Harlem's largest newspaper, has barred the word "Negro" from its pages, favoring "Afro-American...

...It is against the background of this report—and there are countless others like it—that we can appreciate the truth of Arthur Z. Gardiner's recent assertion that U.S...

...But does modern history bear out the view that 'these things don't happen...

...The 'first American,'" Senator Robert F. Kennedy told a Senate subcommittee recently, "is still the last American in terms of income, employment, health and education...

...It is on the foundation of the renewal of SACB that Eastland has built his "internal security" measure, the most serious threat to our rights and liberties since the country cowered under the lash of McCarran and McCarthy...

...It requires long, payless years of study and training...

...It is often argued that such a setback [as implied in U.S...

...China abandoned her claim on offshore islands to which her legal rights are indisputable...

...Britain withdrew from Cyprus—after an unequivocal 'never'— and from a score of other possessions...

...But for that very reason, few are likely to accept the view that the United States alone can claim exemption from realism, from the need to recognize a hopeless position, from the penalties of a wrong and miscalculated venture...

...military tactics which have devastated the countryside, killed many thousands of Vietnamese, gutted the country's economy, and uprooted nearly a quarter of the civilian population...

...The alienation and cultural disintegration which these examples demonstrate are staggering," Kennedy concluded...

...The most recent example—the one which provoked Mazey's wrathful response—followed the Chicago conference of the National Labor Leadership Assembly for Peace in which Mazey participated...

...Shortly afterwards, Komer's computerized tables collapsed like a row of dominoes...

...Ninety-five Senators were absent...

...The Thule accident was only the latest of several, the most spectacular of which was a similar crash oa the coast of Spain two years ago...