Notes in the News
Notes in the News Beyond Ping Pong Some of the instant euphoria generated by the celebrated visit of an American table tennis team to mainland China seems to be fading. The policy-makers in...
...He sees and reads about the open friendliness of U.S...
...The way to security is to break this destructive chain...
...As reported in Six Myths About Welfare, issued by the National Welfare Rights Organization, the HEW discovered that of those on welfare, twenty-four per cent are old-age recipients, eight per cent are disabled permanently and totally, one per cent are blind, 50.3 per cent are children, 2.9 per cent are incapacitated parents, and the remaining thirteen per cent are mothers...
...By opening their borders to American correspondents and other visitors, the Chinese leaders have demonstrated a readiness to resume full participation in the community of nations...
...HISC's license to smear dissenters and enlarge its vast collection of dossiers on individuals and organizations was renewed by a House vote of 298 to 75...
...Attorney General John Mitchell, to whom the FBI is theoretically accountable, has made it plain by word and deed that his interest is in expanding rather than curtailing the agency's political surveillance activities...
...military aid...
...Of the welfare cases then on the rolls, 46.8 per cent were white, 51.8 per cent black, the remainder were of other races—a blow to the myth that nearly all those on welfare are black...
...Over the years, the law has been used to block the construction of almost half the low-rent housing proposed in California...
...In weeks to come, Members of Congress for Peace Through Law will be issuing a series of detailed reports challenging the cost—and the justification—of a number of specific weapons systems...
...Most important, they plan to ask, "How can the FBI be made accountable to responsible agencies of our government...
...Only one bill which it processed reached the House floor...
...The Committee for Public Justice, a citizens' commission headed by former Assistant Attorney General Roger Wilkins, and the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University have announced plans to conduct jointly a "long due study of the role and practices of the FBI in a free society...
...President Nixon, who remains noncommittal, at this point, on the Lodge Commission's report and the question of China's seat in the United Nations, faces a difficult decision, for he must decisively turn his back on two decades of absurd right-wing ideology on China —ideology which he played no small part in formulating...
...All Honorable Men The director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Richard Helms, recently abandoned his customary reticence to take a brief fling at the fine art of public relations...
...Fulbright's aides, James G. Lowenstein and Richard M. Moose, reported that although "all institutional laws necessary to put into force the constitution were promulgated by the end of 1970 as promised by the Greek government . . . , the constitution is by no means yet in effect...
...For the first time in more than two decades, independent experts are beginning to bring their judgment to bear on the military's previously unchallenged assertions...
...If it is also to prevail in the Supreme Court, the nation is headed for a time more tragic than any it has yet known...
...In Vietnam, these honorable men have operated the program of systematic assassination known as Project Phoenix...
...Business reverses," his aides explained...
...They still have it, thanks in part to a U.S...
...Helm's analysis of information gathered abroad is as incomplete and misleading as his interpretation of what prompts criticism of his agency here at home, then the country is clearly in trouble," the St...
...Hallow, an editorial writer for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, has discussed the Greek situation with demo-cratic politicians and former government officials in Athens...
...Under the Administration's rationale, says Professor Boris I. Bittker of the Yale law school, "the Treasury could announce that any taxpayer who thought his taxes were too high and wanted a ten per cent tax cut need only say so on his tax return...
...About one-seventh of the welfare mothers could work if day-care services were provided for their children...
...Pressed by reporters whom he angrily charged with invading his "privacy," the governor, a millionaire in private life, said that he also "got a rebate" on his Federal income taxes "the last couple of years...
...Their efforts, however, should not be confined to ADR but expanded to encompass the monumental inequities which persist in the nation's regressive, loophole-riddled tax structure...
...Perhaps the most graphic evidence of Hoover's fall from grace was a recent article in the Chicago Tribune, of all places, which referred to his "cult of personality," suggested that he is "quickly becoming a liability threatening to discredit the very organization he worked forty-seven years to build," and reported that the Government has spent $157,141 on his limousines since 1965...
...Stans thanked the nice Colonels for the "sense of security that the Government of Greece is imparting" to U.S...
...The regime has accepted the friendship and the military assistance but has ignored the persuasion...
...Nixon's Tax Giveaway The Nixon Administration's proposed "liberalization" of business depreciation allowances is nothing less than a big, beautiful tax bonanza for America's giant corporations...
...After decades in which no public official dared to voice anything but the most abject admiration for the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation—remember the alacrity with which John F. Kennedy announced Hoover's reappointment even before he was inaugurated as President—it is now routine to hear the generalissimo of the G-men denounced on the floor of Congress...
...The "reserve ratio test" which requires businessmen to prove that they are actually replacing equipment as they write it off would be abolished...
...Nixon has said that new depreciation rules would "help create jobs for the unemployed as well as young people joining the labor force...
...that one died in the Senate...
...Today it is taken for granted that any new President— Democrat or Republican—would allow the FBI chief to slip off into more or less graceful retirement...
...Nixon's welfare reform plan some of the liberal and moderate support in Congress that it needs for enactment...
...The bipartisan organization called Members of Congress for Peace Through Law now numbers twenty-nine Senators and eighty-six Representatives—still far from a majority in either chamber, but nonetheless a substantial bloc for peace and new priorities...
...In February, Fulbright's Foreign Relations Committee sent to Greece two staff experts whose findings, released two months ago, contradicted a State Department paper issued in January...
...That testimony came less than a month after my return from Athens, where I had found the opposite to be true...
...In a committee hearing, moreover, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Roger Davies reportedly told Senator J. W. Fulbright that the Colonels were making progress toward the restoration of democracy...
...The FBI after Hoover It is a wholesome thing, no doubt, that J. Edgar Hoover has finally been toppled from his pedestal...
...As further rebuttal of the slander that people on welfare will not work, Nixon Administration officials testified last year, according to The Washington Post, that where the present work incentive programs had been in effect, "the number of volunteering welfare recipients had regularly exceeded the number of jobs available...
...Walter W. Heller, who headed the Council of Economic Advisers in the Kennedy Administration, calls it "the wrong tax cut in the wrong way at the wrong time," and suggests that "the plan would reach its peak in revenue loss and economic thrust just about the time that demand inflation will again confront us...
...Among the 145,000 persons receiving Aid to Families With Dependent Children in December, 1970, there were no able-bodied men...
...The notion that the poor have no rights in America already suffuses the Executive Branch and often guides the actions of Congress...
...It is discouraging to note how much of the recent criticism—even in the wake of the ugly disclosures about FBI operations revealed by the documents stolen at Media, Pennsylvania—has been directed at Hoover, the man, rather than at the institution he heads...
...Proxmire accused Laird and Jackson of trying to frighten the American people with a "new round of the annual 'scare 'em' propaganda...
...Because the Government searches HISC records in the course of Federal security program activities, Kastenmeier pointed out, these files "raise grave questions as to the irresponsible use of information which may be inaccurate or misleading and which can have serious ramifications on the professional life of many individuals...
...Senator Sam J. Ervin of North Carolina, whose performance in surveying the extent of Federal snooping we praised in these pages a month ago, has since made it clear that he has no stomach for investigating the FBI...
...One-hundred-fifty years ago the Greeks began their nine-year struggle for independence from Turkey...
...After a season of filing returns under it many tax accountants and attorneys are concluding that there wasn't all that much reform in the reform act...
...Last year the Committee was voted $470,000...
...More to the point, it seems to us, is the comment of Representative Henry S. Reuss, the Wisconsin Democrat who has a well deserved reputation as a close student of tax inequities: "With the 1972 election close at hand, the Administration is anxious to channel new giveaways to the large corporations of America while the giving is good...
...Representative Reuss, who recently exposed the fact that hundreds of wealthy Americans paid no income taxes at all in 1969, says he "wouldn't be surprised in the least if the figures for 1970 again show hundreds of wealthy non-taxpayers getting off scot-free...
...Indeed, the regime seems to have been able to exert more leverage on us with regard to military assistance than we have been willing to exert on the regime with regard to political reform...
...He said that "underwriting everybody's income" would result in "undermining everybody's character...
...Dean Bernard Wolfman of the University of Pennsylvania's law school calls it "an illegal and unconstitutional arrogation of legislative power...
...Any step that brings the United States closer to perceiving the world as it is, rather than as we would like it to be, is welcome...
...By that he means other taxpayers, not himself, because it was revealed recently that he paid no state income taxes last year...
...This is borne out by the record: more than 20,000 bills were introduced in the House during the last Congress...
...Even more troublesome than the shaky economic rationale for ADR, however, is the Administration's insistence that it has a right to work such a massive tax change without the consent of Congress...
...It is now clear that the ballyhooed Tax Reform Act of 1969 amounted only to a quick cosmetic job...
...By sustaining the constitutionality of state referendum laws used to block the construction of low-rent housing, the Court gave its endorsement to one of the most vicious (and effective) tactics yet devised for containing the poor—and especially the black poor—in the urban ghettos while preserving the suburbs for affluent whites...
...nuclear arsenal can destroy the Soviet Union ten times over, he pointed out, while Soviet weapons can destroy the United States five times over...
...Only a few months ago the self-styled revolutionary Nixon, speaking of his ideas for a Family Assistance Plan, modestly hailed his own Administration for having proposed "that for the first time in America's history we in this great, rich country establish a floor under the income of every American family with children...
...As one who has said that "taxes should hurt," the governor does not seem to be in much pain...
...Ideally, of course, Senators and Representatives, no less than Cabinet members and the President himself, should be able to rely on the honesty and accuracy of U.S...
...Such an outright lie would have doubled-up with laughter the Greeks I had met...
...His salary has been raised to $49,100 this year...
...Such a study can prove to be immensely useful—but only if it gives the people a maximum amount of information about the secret police and suggests the means for bringing the agency under control...
...In 1968, Eugene McCarthy made big headlines by declaring that he would replace Hoover if he were elected President...
...The legal tax evaders and their attorneys are banking on the observation that major tax revisions seem to be enacted every fifteen years—in 1939, 1954, 1969...
...In our judgment, however, the new international problems likely to ensue from improved relations between China and the United States will be more than matched by the positive benefits to be derived from Washington's long overdue recognition of the fact that Communist China is here to stay, that it is not merely a momentary aberration to be set right any day now by the exiles lodged in Taiwan...
...weapons systems...
...Exactly twenty-nine—twenty-two of them similar to each other—were referred to HISC...
...In the House and Senate, the ranks of those who seek to impose rational limits on military spending seem to be growing rapidly, and they are developing their own independent expertise on the Pentagon's requests...
...License to Smear That ancient disgrace to the Congress and the country, the committee formerly known as the House Un-American Activities Committee and renamed the House Internal Security Committee, has won a new appropriation for the thirty-second time, at a higher cost to the taxpayer than ever before...
...It is far too late in the day," he wrote, "to contend that the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits only racial discrimination...
...A similar picture emerges from another source, North Carolina's Department of Social Services, which recently issued a report on welfare in that state...
...Oddly enough, it may be from the Commerce Department that the truth will out...
...There were 6,300 incapacitated fathers...
...However obsolete some of its weapons may be, the Pentagon can be counted upon to keep its propaganda up-to-date...
...The policy-makers in Washington and Peking have been taking stock of their positions and have discovered, not surprisingly, that formidable obstacles still stand in the way of "normalizing" their relations...
...They plan to scrutinize the agency's political role as well as its criminal investigatory activities...
...The public opinion polls show that while a substantial majority of Americans still hold Hoover in inordinate esteem, about half would be pleased to see him turn his office over to a new man...
...Government who had "lost" China, must be commended for his apparent willingness to lead America out of its long era of paranoid hostility toward Peking—even over the objections of the old China Lobby and his own Vice President...
...For years the U.S...
...But we know that in their devotion to America, the honorable men of the CIA have financed invasions of Cuba and Guatemala, conspired to overthrow the governments of a number of other countries, provided planes and pilots to the Congo, mobilized and maintained mercenary armies in Indochina, and helped to shore up the fascist junta in Greece...
...They have funneled funds into supposedly independent "free world" organizations and provided covert subsidies to magazines, book publishers, and radio stations...
...Whitewashing the Junta This spring is a double anniversary for Greece...
...The nation has, of course, done precisely what Helms said it must do: For almost a quarter of a century it has taken it on faith that he and his associates are honorable men, and it has therefore given them carte blanche to carry on their activities without the normal restraints of public oversight...
...Most welfare mothers are needed full time by their families...
...How could they argue against the purported wishes of the very Greek democrats they wished to help in restoring democracy...
...Ralph Z. Hallow (Mr...
...It will be some time, we suspect, before Chou En-lai receives a tickertape welcome on Broadway or Richard M. Nixon sits down to a dinner of Peking duck in the Forbidden City...
...Senator Fulbright is not, of course, the only representative of the American people to have raised critical questions about the efficacy, if not the morality, of this nation's defending "freedom" (and markets) against Communism by sponsoring right-wing governments which suppress the drive of foreign peoples for genuine self-determination...
...Only the style of the annual wolf cry has changed...
...The average monthly family benefit was $116.53, a figure that wrecks the myth that "they're getting rich on welfare...
...We see no evidence that this will not continue to be the case...
...No doubt his advice to those of the poor who do pay taxes will be to get themselves some useful business losses to cut down their tax payments...
...Yet, Fulbright was sandbagged into silence because he had not been in Greece and therefore could not know first-hand that the genuine anti-junta leaders opposed and still oppose U.S...
...Though he may cling to his job a while longer, the era of J. Edgar Hoover is clearly over...
...At a luncheon in Athens attended by several junta ministers a few weeks ago, Secretary of Commerce Maurice H. Stans uttered some public words which may yet win him the Martha Mitchell Blabber-Mouth of the Year award...
...To Americans who have long agonized over the coddling by successive U.S...
...But now, in keeping with the nuclear weapons technology, it is new Soviet missile sites that are sighted by the Defense Department and its friends...
...Without such control, Hoover's retirement will merely mean that an unpleasant man is gone, while a dangerous institution survives...
...The unverified material in HISC's files is available to Congressmen and two dozen Federal agencies...
...Nixon actually out-Reaganed California Governor Ronald Reagan by inventing the comment of such a recipient: "Everybody else is at the trough, why not me...
...The nation, he declared, must "take it on faith that we too are honorable men devoted to her service...
...The Presidential rhetoric about welfare deadbeats can cost Mr...
...But the nation can't afford to wait until 1984 to do something about its chaotic and corrupt tax system...
...The Department has surveyed the welfare rosters and found that less than one per cent of the nation's welfare recipients are able-bodied men...
...The case came to the Supreme Court from California, though at least eight other states have similar laws...
...this time the House gave it $570,000 in addition to the $250,000 which automatically goes to standing committees of Congress...
...That claim turned the trick—for the time it succeeded in silencing Fulbright and other critical Senators...
...The Administration's vigorous campaign for ADR coincides with its equally energetic drive to cut back the Government's pitifully inadequate programs for feeding millions of hungry Americans...
...It has paid a high price for its faith...
...Some observers believe Mr...
...The Court and the Poor The Supreme Court has dealt a heavy blow to the American city and the poor condemned to live in its abominable slums...
...arms aid for patriotic, national-security reasons...
...As The Progressive has repeatedly stated over the years, the United States must acknowledge that there is only one China, and that its government resides in Peking...
...Abolition of HISC would demonstrate common sense and courage on the part of the House—two admirable qualities extremely rare in that body...
...Jackson, of course, was just doing his bit for the military-industrial complex as he has for many years...
...The names were gathered by the committee staff, he said, "from unspecified magazines and newspapers which alleged that these individuals for unstated reasons were somehow a threat to the security of this country...
...He is likely to be a bland bureaucrat of impeccable credentials, and liberals are likely to sigh in relief and conclude that all is well at the FBI...
...That is exactly how it is beginning to look to us...
...arsenal, or to take further steps to protect existing U.S...
...The Internal Revenue Code is not a proper vehicle for showing the gratitude of the Republican Party to its corporate contributors...
...Slandering the Poor Nixon the Humanitarian, who said he was so deeply concerned about the poor, was replaced recently by Nixon the Tough Guy, who is going to see to it now that there are no loafers on the welfare rolls...
...Clearly, if a case can be made for stimulating the economy to the tune of $3 billion or $4 billion a year, there are likelier beneficiaries than the corporations...
...The President—who failed to tell the governors that the Department of Health, Education and Welfare had threatened to cut off $700 million in welfare aid to California unless it raises its welfare payments to meet Federal requirements—commended a beaming Governor Reagan for his contribution to "welfare reform," which has consisted of berating the poor as deadbeats and seeking Federal approval to cut welfare and medical benefits for nearly two million persons...
...The incident raises a familiar question: how can the American people's elected representatives evaluate foreign policy matters which concern faraway places...
...And President Nixon, who twenty years ago denounced the "appeas-ers" in the U.S...
...The vehicle for this great giveaway —the biggest business tax cut in the history of the Internal Revenue Code —is a proposed "asset depreciation range" (ADR) which would permit businesses to depreciate their assets at a rate twenty per cent faster than that provided in the Treasury's standard guidelines...
...Nixon again spoke of the need, as he saw it, of refusing benefits to people looking for "a free ride...
...foreign policy which is still based on fighting the Cold War against Communism...
...Even Mr...
...But his departure, welcome as it will be to those of us who have long chafed under his ignorance and arrogance, will hardly solve the crucial problem of the FBI —the problem of a powerful and pervasive secret police force in America, operating above the law and accountable to no one...
...Administrations of fascism in Spain, Portugal, and Latin America, as well as in Vietnam and Thailand, the staff report's conclusion was no surprise: "The policy of friendly persuasion has clearly failed...
...Kastenmeier expressed the hope that HISC would be abolished by the House and that any "occasional legislative activity" in the internal security field would be turned over to the House Judiciary Committee where it properly belongs...
...But in speaking to a recent meeting of Republican governors, the counter-revolutionary Nixon declared, "I do not think we can tolerate a system under which working people can be made to feel like fools by those who will not work...
...In the committee's thirty-three year history, said Democratic Representative Robert Kastenmeier of Wisconsin, who joined Ryan and others in voting against HISC, it has reported only six bills which eventually became law...
...Nixon wants the bill defeated so he can make it a campaign issue against the Democrats...
...One of the Congressmen who has long opposed HISC and HUAC, William F. Ryan, New York Democrat, said during the debate on funds that by supporting the committee "the House continues to throw bad money after bad...
...The U.S...
...Tax shelters are still around," The Wall Street Journal recently reported...
...In a later speech, before the Chamber of Commerce in Washington, Mr...
...The group charged the military with running "a classical numbers game featuring selective disclosure, questionable assumptions, exaggeratedly precise estimates, misleading language, and alarmist non sequitur conclusions...
...The reactionaries he is trying to appease are not likely to support the proposal anyway...
...China and the United States share one great common interest—the desire to discomfit the Soviet Union...
...The repressive apparatus at his disposal will in no way be diminished when Hoover packs up his souvenirs and goes home...
...Administration spokesmen contend that ADR is urgently needed to stimulate the lagging economy...
...His business losses brought him, if not to the poverty level, at least below the state tax liability level...
...Reagan's Tax Loophole Governor Ronald Reagan says he has pressed for the reduction of welfare payments in California to ease the burden on the state's taxpayers...
...Father Robert F. Drinan, anew Congressman from Massachusetts who is a member of Ichord's committee, told the House that HISC maintains a filing area "which contains 754,000 three-by-five cards . . . containing the names of individual Americans or groups...
...Louis Post-Dispatch commented after his speech to the editors...
...The next crucial question to be faced by the Nixon Administration is the admission of China to its rightful seat in the United Nations...
...To stay alive, what the present fascist government in Athens needs most is what only Washington can—and does—provide: the prestige of approval...
...Even if Jackson's report of forty new Soviet missile sites is correct, his conclusion that the United States risks losing its strategic superiority is "highly exaggerated and even semi-hysterical," Proxmire said...
...Thanks to the intervention of Ralph Nader's Public Interest Research Group, which plans to challenge ADR in the courts if the Administration proceeds with its plans, it may still be possible to head off the President's tax giveaway...
...Jackson's cry was that the Soviets are building forty new missile silos...
...Nonetheless, the first small steps that have been taken in recent weeks must be regarded as an enormously hopeful development—perhaps the most encouraging since the beginning of the Cold War...
...Whether the ADR system would actually have any beneficial effect on the economy is highly debatable...
...Helms blamed that unhappy state of affairs on an "inherent American distaste for peacetime gathering of intelligence...
...It will not suffice, of course, to ease a few minor trade and currency restrictions or encourage a few more good will exchanges between China and the United States...
...In later testimony, they claimed that anti-junta leaders wished the resumption of U.S...
...Wolf Cry at Budget Time Those two shepherds of national security, Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird and Senator Henry M. Jackson, Washington Democrat, have been crying "Wolf...
...But the President also faces a splendid opportunity, for the restoration of full relations between China and the United States could well turn out to be the major accomplishment of his Administration—and perhaps the only one...
...This cruel slander of the poor by the President—like that practiced by Reagan and others—is belied by figures released by HEW...
...Laird's purpose, to drum up support for a bigger Pentagon budget, came through clearly when he said that if the Soviet continued to increase its nuclear weapons system, and if no arms-control agreement were reached with the Russians, he might be forced to ask Congress to authorize more than the 1,000 Minutemen missiles now in the U.S...
...He insists, despite a growing number of court decisions to the contrary, that he has the arbitrary right to order eavesdropping on "domestic subversives" who constitute, in his judgment, a "greater danger" than any foreign threat...
...The law is, as The Washington Post observed, "a discriminatory kind of treatment aimed specifically at low-income people, whether white or black...
...Justice Hugo L. Black, who wrote the Court's majority opinion—and, in our view, tarnished a long and distinguished judicial career by doing so— ruled that "provisions for referendums demonstrate devotion to democracy, not to bias, discrimination, or prejudice...
...Localities are free to build middle-income housing, veterans' housing, housing for the aged, without consulting the voters...
...The answer to the credibility question was met in part earlier this year...
...Four years ago, with what many Greek democrats believe was the complicity of the CIA and the U.S...
...Fulbright's acerbic skepticism did not daunt the State Department's junta-apologists...
...Particularly galling for anti-fascist Americans should be the mendacity of some State Department officials who work hard at selling to Congress the Pentagon's line on the junta...
...Their studies are designed as a prelude to what will be a serious effort to reduce by a substantial sum the military funds requested by the Nixon Administration...
...The housing decision portends the danger that the Supreme Court will, in the months and years to come, undo much of the good accomplished by its own egalitarian decisions in the last two decades...
...There is a danger, we fear, that the newly aroused public consciousness of the police state peril in America will be dissipated when Hoover's successor is installed...
...With no free press, the average Greek may believe that actively opposing the junta is useless because it has American backing...
...All will not be well...
...By 1980, the total windfall for corporations would amount to more than $36 billion...
...In a rare appearance before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, Helms sought to dispel what he called the "persistent and growing body of criticism which questions the need and propriety for a democratic society to have a Central Intelligence Agency...
...intelligence agencies, the Pentagon, and the State Department...
...Happy rhetoric in Washington and Peking about "people-to-people" diplomacy should not, of course, obscure the fact that both governments are motivated to a substantial degree by the sordid realities of power politics...
...and to me, singling out the poor to bear a burden not placed on any other class of citizens tramples the values that the Fourteenth Amendment was designed to protect...
...According to the Treasury Department's own estimates, the new depreciation rules— which the Administration wants to institute by executive fiat—would result ill a revenue loss of $3 billion in fiscal 1972, rising to $4.7 billion by fiscal 1976...
...One of these officials told a Senate subcommittee last August that the anti-junta leadership in Greece favored unrestricted resumption of U.S...
...One expert recently described the emerging relationship among the three great powers as "a classic triangle—one in which everybody tries to screw everybody else...
...It is an effort that deserves the support of every citizen who wants to see America return to a course of sanity...
...military aid to the Greek dictatorship...
...If Mr...
...Navy sighted Soviet submarines off our shores at budget time...
...Nixon seems somewhat more equivocal in his public comments (though Vice President Agnew's enthusiasm is unabated...
...diplomatic and military missions toward the Colonels, whose best "proof" that they are the legitimate defenders of the "free world's eastern flank" is the continued American military aid to Athens...
...The rebate apparently was on taxes withheld from his salary as the state's chief executive...
...the remaining recipients were women and children...
...Senator William Proxmire, Wisconsin Democrat, promptly charged the Pentagon with providing Jackson top secret intelligence about Russian missile facilities in an effort to "propagandize" for a bigger arms budget...
...It involved an attempt by forty-one welfare families in San Jose to overturn a 1950 statute that requires approval of the majority of voters in any community before a Federally-financed low-income housing project can be built...
...again...
...He warned that this "action-reaction" complex of missiles escalation, based on fear by each side that the other will gain a nuclear advantage, "increases our insecurity and destabilizes the Soviet-American balance...
...Last year that salary was $44,100...
...With the increased funding, HISC can increase its staff of forty-eight, a staff already larger than that of such powerful, major committees of the House as Armed Services, Ways and Means, and Judiciary...
...The California law requires no local referendum for any housing programs except those designed to serve the poor...
...We have no quarrel with Justice Black's general observation, but find it incomprehensible that he should have applied it to the case in question...
...But Justice Black and a majority of the Court thought otherwise...
...He said that such propaganda, "based on selected intelligence data, telling us that the Russians are ten feet tall," blooms with the spring flowers just as the "hearings on the military budget are kicked off...
...How much longer must Americans take it on faith that the "national interest" is served by international outlawry...
...Inspired by the House's vote of confidence, Representative Richard H. Ichord, the Missouri Democrat who is chairman of HISC, said the committee will begin an early investigation of Vietnam veterans who oppose the war...
...business firms...
...It is not the intelligence gathering aspect of the CIA's operations that has fed the growing body of criticism...
...And it is discrimination of that kind, as well as racial discrimination, that we had always thought the Fourteenth Amendment was framed to prevent...
...In this regard, there is no help at all in the recent report of the Presidential commission headed by Henry Cabot Lodge, which merely reiterated the old "two Chinas" policy that is totally unacceptable to Peking (and, for that matter, to Taiwan...
...In every corner of the world, the CIA's name has become synonymous with the worst excesses of American empire building...
...Leading Democrats, including Senators George McGovern, Edmund Muskie, and Birch Bayh, are attempting to rally Congressional opposition...
...In a report released last month, the prestigious Federation of American Scientists described the Pentagon's exaggerations of Soviet military strength as "very dangerous...
...Of these welfare mothers, one-fifth are in job-training or employed but are making so little that they qualify for welfare...
...What the critics object to are covert paramilitary operations around the globe, and they question whether the secrecy that is admittedly required for some aspects of intelligence gathering should be extended to cover a host of questionable and frequently illegal activities under the pretext of serving an undefined 'national interest.' " A complete catalog of the CIA's honorable activities must await the distant day when the archives of the agency's "Department of Dirty Tricks" are finally opened to public scrutiny...
...military mission, a group of Greek army officers seized power...
...Congressional liberals who now feel bold enough to call for Hoover's resignation still shrink from asserting the Congressional prerogative to control the FBI...
...If this nation is ever to redirect its policies to the pursuit of peace abroad and democracy at home, it must begin by rendering powerless the honorable men whose undercover conduct dishonors this country and everything for which it is supposed to stand...
...Treasury spokesmen contend that the institution of ADR falls within the Department's prerogative of making "reasonable allowances" for depreciation without Congressional approval, but distinguished legal authorities disagree...
...In implying that the welfare crisis was connected with the refusal of recipients to accept jobs, Mr...
...Fortunately, Laird's scare tactics are starting to wear thin...
...Laird recently announced that the Russians had resumed construction of antimissile sites near Moscow and may be preparing to deploy an improved interception missile...
...But in getting facts, Fulbright and others must obviously do it with a little help from their friends—who apparently can be found neither in the State Department nor in the White House...
...In the scientific community as well as in Congress, the Pentagon's annual portents of impending doom—based on unverifiable "intelligence"—are no longer taken at face value...
...He assured the editors that the men of the CIA—no one but Helms seems to know how many there are, or how much of the taxpayers' money they spend, or precisely what they do—"understand as well as anyone the difficulties and the contradictions of conducting foreign intelligence operations on behalf of a free society...
...Justice Thurgood Marshall made the same point in a dissenting opinion...
...George Rathjens, himself a former Pentagon scientist, said for the Federation that "it is time for some honesty in the Defense Department, time that the misrepresentation stopped...
Vol. 35 • June 1971 • No. 6
