Notes in the News
Notes in the News The Corporate Dole While the Nixon Administration, Congress, state and local officials, and much of the public at large are wring- ing their hands about the mounting costs of...
...Senator William Proxmire, the Wis- consin Democrat who has annually led unsuccessful attempts to put the Board out of business, pointed to its one "bril- liant piece of investigative work...
...It has begun to move against phony advertising claims in an unprecedented effort to protect consumers...
...Miss Victor is best remembered among Indian activists for her admin- istration of the Intermountain Board- ing School in Brigham City, Utah...
...Tests can be faked, statistics dis- torted...
...Frye Gaillard (Mr...
...Meanwhile, we congratulate the FTC for coming to life at long last and we hope that this time around the agency will prove itself sufficiently vigorous to become fearless and worthy of the public trust...
...The House of Representatives, which has not yet considered the cancer bill, has an opportunity to endorse his lone- ly course, rather than the cheap shot that captivated seventy-nine of his colleagues...
...The provision for suspension of mil- itary and economic aid to Pakistan, also part of the foreign aid bill, was not challenged...
...Before approving the $3.4 billion foreign aid authorization bill and sending it to the Senate, the House voted 122 to 57 to retain a pro- vision which bars further arms assis- tance to Greece unless—and here comes the catch—President Nixon de- termines that "overriding requirements of the national security of the United States" justify lifting the ban...
...According to a valuable survey recently con- ducted by the Associated Press, Amer- ican taxpayers are now doling out an estimated $30 billion a year in subsidies —many of them hidden or disguised— to "private" interests...
...Nixon has returned from Peking —and others are likely to be acerbated...
...Stung by this barrage of criticism, the FTC has mended some of its ways...
...Transportation ranks among the biggest aid recipients: $450 million a year to keep the maritime industry afloat...
...So little that former Penn- sylvania Governor William Scranton, who was chairman of the President's commission of inquiry into the Kent State shootings, has testified before a U.S...
...Instead, the problem of cancer—or rather the problem of various cancers —represents a complex, multifaceted challenge at least as perplexing as the problem of the various infectious diseases...
...Over the last five years, students and Indian employes at Intermountain have leveled a number of serious charg- es—among them, that the school's In- dian employes (with the exception of Miss Victor) have been denied genu- ine advancement opportunities...
...Syria has weeded out its extremists...
...Senator Allen J. Ellender, the Louisi- ana Democrat who heads the Appro- priations Committee, noted that each of the five Board members drew $36,000 a year in salaries, and that Congress had appropriated more than $7.5 million for the SACB over the course of twenty futile years...
...Central Intelligence Agency now di- rects an army of 30,000 Lao irregulars (at a cost of $70 million this year) who fight against the Pathet Lao and the North Vietnamese, This force is augmented by 4,000 Thai mercenaries imported by the CIA at a cost of $35 million...
...In taking his solitary stance, Nelson joined such distinguished dissenters as former Senators Wayne Morse and Er- nest Gruening, who stood alone in op- posing President Johnson's Tonkin Gulf Resolution...
...There are no comparable benefits for people— but, after all, the Government can't be expected to pull everyone's chest- nuts out of the fire...
...We pushed hard for about a year," says Leon Cook, a young Chippewa in the BIA's economic development di- vision, "and the old-liners couldn't take it...
...The report also disclosed that most blacks go to hospital clinics rather than private doctors...
...He was the sole dissenter when the Senate voted, seventy-nine to one, to create the enticingly named Conquest of Cancer Agency...
...Nix- on will attempt to appease his disgrun- tled critics on the right, who are brok- en-hearted over his "betrayal" on China, by adopting an even more con- servative—and repressive—stance at home...
...The Associated Press acknowledged that its two-month survey "probably did not detect all the concealed busi- ness benefits" that flow from more than 200 separate Federal programs administered by sixty-one different agencies...
...Depart- ment of Health, Education and Wel- fare figures showed blacks of both low- income and middle-income families used clinics almost twice as often as did whites in the same income bracket...
...three times what it spends for strategic nuclear forces...
...The military dictatorship that rules Brazil under continuous martial law and terror is no exception...
...The first effective challenge to Mich- ener's version (he has opposed calling a Federal grand jury), written for The Progressive by two reporters who con- ducted an exhaustive inquiry at Kent State, appears on Page 35 of this issue...
...aid to Brazil...
...Although for the first time since the early 1950s the black rate was less than double the white rate, this was hardly a cause for cheers among the jobless in Harlem, Watts, or any other black ghetto...
...It manifests a fear of the American people...
...For a variety of reasons, it didn't work out that way...
...In some -cases, if the doc- umentation is not adequate but the manufacturers continue to make the claims, cease-and-desist proceedings probably will be initiated by the FTC...
...Nelson is not opposed to massive new Federal appropriations for the fight against cancer...
...One difficulty arose from Chairman Staggers' timing: Thanks to the Supreme Court ruling on the Administration's attempts to suppress the Pentagon Papers, the House (and the general public) were unusually aware of the First Amend- ment issue...
...For an ac- count of blacks in college, see William Steif's article on Page 32 of this issue...
...The easing of tensions between China and the United States could readily increase U.S.-Soviet tensions— especially if American policy-makers see the Chinese opening in terms of a Cold War move...
...For this reason, and because of the special factors that helped determine the House vote, our satisfaction is something less than un- bounded...
...But qualified observers place little, if any, credence in the Ohio jury's findings...
...But, like the alcoholic who must have "just one more" before facing re- form, the House indulged itself a bit of backsliding...
...It is possible, we think, to welcome the President's initiative without sharing the euphoric judgment of the British statesman who called it the most mo- mentous news of the modern era...
...We do not know where the breakthroughs will come, and I think it would be a great mistake to dismantle NIH in favor of an untested approach...
...Com- missioner Bruce had appointed a num- ber of progressive, youthful, and tough-minded activists to key positions within the agency, and they were de- termined to implement President Nix- on's Indian policy—which is, without question, the most enlightened in the history of the country, at least on paper...
...Crow, a veteran bureaucrat who is one-quarter Cherokee, immediately placed white supervisors over many of Bruce's young appointees, and they fear that he intends to sabotage a number of progressive programs now in the works—programs aimed at finding the delicate balance between Indian con- trol over their own affairs and the termination of Federal treaty responsi- bilities...
...The first victim, they fear, will be the National Institutes of Health, which Nelson calls "probably the finest biomedical research structure in the world...
...By a 51 to 37 roll-call vote the Sen- ate accepted Ervin's amendment to the Board's appropriation bill, prohib- iting the use of funds for the purposes specified in Executive Order 11605...
...Nixon—who in the past contributed in no small measure to America's absurd efforts to "isolate" China—is now ready to recognize these objectives and promote them, he has our congratula- tions and our support...
...But the controversial Miss Victor was hardly what they had in mind...
...that the school's 115-member guidance staff more closely resembles a police force, hand-cuffing and occasionally beating unruly students, shaving their heads as a form of punishment, and inspecting their mail before it is delivered...
...Miss Victor confidently assures in- terrogators that such charges "are not true at all," but BIA Commissioner Louis Bruce has acknowledged that most of them are, and in May of this year the new BIA education director, James Hawkins, conceded that Navajo students would probably be better off if the school were closed...
...In all, the American military effort in Laos cost $284 million in fis- cal 1971, and the figure is expected to rise to $374 million in the current fis- cal year—not counting the additional hundreds of millions of dollars ex- pended on the air war...
...The Progressive has, of course, con- sistently maintained over the past two decades that the United States must recognize the People's Republic of China, support its admission to the United Nations, including the Security Council, and deal with it on the terms that should normally govern relations among two of the most powerful na- tions on earth...
...It must back up twenty-five advertising claims, Chrysler must document eight, Ford six, and American Motors three...
...The FTC Comes Alive Following a Nader task force report which indicted the Federal Trade Commission for failing to protect the public interest, an American Bar As- sociation commission concluded, after completing its own inquiry in the summer of 1969, that "notwithstand- ing the great potential of the FTC in the field of antitrust and consumer protection, if change does not occur, there will be no substantial purpose to be served by its continued existence...
...There is a danger, too, of heightened tensions between the United States and Japan, a great and growing Asian force toward which the President has managed to display gross insensitivity...
...The pity is that Washington did not adopt a sane China policy long ago, when the opportunities were greater and the risks less formidable...
...We doubt that a Dem- ocratic President would have—or could have—taken such an initiative...
...Another fact drawn from the Cen- sus-BLS report further underscores the equality-of-opportunity gap and the strain upon black family life: In 1969 it took three wage earners in a black family—both parents and one child— to equal the income of the average white family with only one wage earner...
...Last month, however, the House, under the leadership of its once servile Foreign Affairs Committee, broke its bonds by voting to oppose U.S...
...Distinguished medical researchers have been virtually unanimous in warning Congress of the dangers of this approach...
...The preservation of world peace remains the first priority, and the prime re- sponsibility still rests with the two nuclear superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union...
...The Committee's able investigators, James G. Lowenstein and Richard M. Moose, who visited Laos last April and spent the next three months haggling with the Administration over release of their findings, have provided the first official confirmation of facts that have been the subject of broad specula- tion in the press but have never before been acknowledged by the Govern- ment...
...f Neither race made the advances in health care in the 1960s that were made in the 1950s...
...The one notion that the govern- ments in Washington, Peking, and Taipei seem to hold in common is that the future of Taiwan is of no concern whatever to the fourteen million Taiwanese, who long for self-determin- ation and freedom from Chinese dominance...
...We intend to change that...
...aid to two of the worst military dictatorships in the "free world," Greece and Pakistan...
...In 1968, as in 1960, the black who was twenty-five years old could expect to die six years earlier than "whites the same age...
...mil- itary installations, and accommoda- tions in luxury hotels...
...Miss Victor, an old-liner herself, joined the fight, and in July, she en- gineered a significant backlash victory: She pushed through the appointment of her old friend, John O. Crow, as deputy commissioner of Indian affairs, and she helped persuade Secretary Morton to grant him the astonishing power to "exercise any and all author- ity conferred upon the Commissioner of Indian Affairs...
...King Hussein has crushed the guerrillas in Jordan, and King Hassan the military in Morocco...
...The President, by this Executive Order, undertakes to author- ize a witch hunt to be carried on by the Board in every area of the United States in which two or more people join in any movement or any organiza- tion for the purpose of advocating the foolish things stated in the Executive Order...
...And CBS mounted a substantial lobbying campaign in its own behalf...
...If the President, under the "security" es- cape clause, orders Greek aid resumed, the House provision limits such aid to the 1971 fiscal year level of $99.3 mil- lion—hardly a severe cutback...
...In fact, the Senator probably under- stated the extent of American involve- ment with repression in Brazil...
...Almost every Government program benefits business in one way or an- other," the AP concluded...
...Implicit, too, is the grim reality that Laos is being de- stroyed by American-financed military intervention...
...When the measure returned to the Senate just be- fore it went into summer recess, the House version (and the President's new powers for the SACB) won ap- proval by a 46 to 44 vote...
...Henceforth, as The New York Times observed, "it will be increasingly diffi- cult to stave off pressure from corpo- rate and union alliances, backed up by powerful networks of suppliers, sub- contractors, financiers, and local polit- ical interests, for handouts from the Federal Treasury whenever an enter- prise has made such a mess of its af- fairs that it is threatened with liquida- tion...
...It was, first of all, a reaffirmation of the free press guarantee in the First Amendment and of the principle that Congress has no business meddling with the content of news and doc- umentary broadcasts...
...its American subsidiary must prove eleven advertising claims...
...At best, we can regard the House vote—like the Supreme Court decision on the Pentagon Papers—as a small and temporary victory in a fight that never ends...
...In testifying on the bill last spring, Dr...
...President Nixon's past performance does not permit us to be sanguine about this possibility...
...but the U.S...
...Federal aid for private enterprise," wrote AP correspondent Gaylord Shaw, "is more than twice what the Government spends for all its welfare programs...
...They came into military service or civilian employment under the policy in Executive Order 10501 which permits the classification of information, and they simply are not going to change their practice as long as the classification system exists...
...Alexander Kendrick (Mr...
...And yet, as columnist Clayton Fritchey recently pointed out, "experi- ence shows that overwhelming major- ities are not always overwhelmingly right...
...Having enumerated our misgivings, we reaffirm our conviction that the President's move toward rapproche- ment with China is long past due, and our hope that he will pursue it with the earnest intent of reaching an ac- commodation...
...Senator Sam J. Ervin, the North Carolina Democrat who often fights a lonely battle in the Senate for the pres- ervation of the Bill of Rights, mounted a fierce—and initially successful—bat- tle against Executive Order 11605, which he deemed an unconstitutional usurpation of Congressional preroga- tives...
...The automobile companies in particular, with the aid of their adver- tising and legal counsel, can work out ways to evade the consumer-protection intent of the FTC's orders...
...The hearings re- vealed, he said, "an altogether too close identification of the United States with the current Brazilian gov- ernment"—an involvement that has increased substantially since the mil- itary ousted the democratically elected government of Joao Goulart in 1964...
...We have come only a very short distance in the past ten years...
...The Politics of Cancer Senator Gaylord Nelson, Democrat of Wisconsin, cast a lonely vote a few weeks ago...
...Even the White House was reluctant to square off against the media again so soon, and instructed the House Republican leaders to op- pose the contempt motion...
...So the United States continues to hope, and to work for the reopening of the Suez Canal, and some peace formula beyond...
...Thus, when it became clear that Commissioner Bruce's "new team" re- garded the President's statements as more than just words, many old line bureaucrats began to fear for their in- fluence—even their jobs...
...The Opportunity Gap Black Americans achieved a meas- ure of progress during the 1960s but they ended the decade greatly handi- capped, both economically and social- ly, compared to whites...
...ten times what it spends to control pollution, and fifteen times what it spends to fight crime...
...Despite the wishful thinking of some American policy planners, the government in Peking is in no position—even if it were so disposed—to "call off" the Vietcong and the North Vietnamese, any more than the government in Mos- cow was in a position to do so when President Johnson tried that route a few years ago...
...Until the President came to its time- ly rescue, it appeared possible that Congress might finally consign the SACB to the oblivion it had earned...
...In going his own way, Nelson not only scorned the considered judgment of all his col- leagues, but invited the curious suspi- cion that he was, somehow, opposed to finding a cure for cancer...
...The Volatile Arabs Even Arabs must have a hard time trying to understand or explain events in the Arab world...
...Ford must prove the claim that its LTD model is "over 700 per cent quieter...
...Nixon?s action was, in its own perverse way, a stroke of genius: The Board, long since stripped of all meaningful functions by Federal courts that held its role to be unconstitutional, had become some- thing of a laughing stock, and the At- torney General's List had, for similar reasons, lain dormant since 1955...
...History has had a singular way of vindicating the Senatorial loners...
...Kendrick recently retired as an analyst for CBS News...
...Nothing has been gained for our domestic or international security by that expendi- ture," he said...
...There is a tendency, however—one which the President has helped foster and which he doubtless will exploit to the hilt in the coming political cam- paign—to regard his dramatically an- nounced "journey for peace" as a key to the solution of most of the world's problems, or at least of most of Amer- ica's problems in the world...
...Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Sta- tistics (BLS) which measured the ad- vances made by blacks in the past dec- ade...
...For example, GM must list, doc- ument, and substantiate the "109 ad- vantages" it has claimed for the Chev- rolet Chevelle...
...The United Methodist Church has sent the Justice Depart- ment a report, based on fourteen months of investigation, which con- tends that a group of Guardsmen agreed among themselves to "punish" some of the demonstrators and, on sig- nal, deliberately shot at them...
...f In our judgment, the President's China coup will not shorten the Indo- china war, and may prolong it...
...Staggers was reported stunned by the House action, but apparently he has made a quick recovery...
...Companies also may be required to run corrective advertisements telling how they misled readers in the first place...
...It all seems a vicious circle...
...What is most intriguing about the AP's list of subsidies to business is how many of them are quite "non-contro- versial"—if not completely unknown— to the great majority of American tax- payers...
...The net effect of this private in- vestment has been to take more money out of Brazil in the form of profits than has been put into Brazil in the form of new capital," Senator Church observed...
...and the late Estes Kefauver, who reg- istered the only "no" vote when the Senate passed the Communist Control Act by a tally of 81 to 1. The cancer bill on which Nelson chose to draw the line was a political gimmick concocted as an unlikely "compromise" between Senator Ed- ward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Mas- sachusetts, and President Nixon...
...However, the Federal study found housing occupied by blacks in both rural and urban areas significantly improved since 1960...
...And it was an almost unprecedented rebuff to one of the petty tyrants who derive their power from the House's ineffable seniority system—in this case Repre- sentative Harley O. Staggers, Dem- ocrat of West Virginia, the chairman of the Commerce Committee, who had assumed (as he had every reason to as- sume) that his colleagues would rou- tinely endorse his vendetta against CBS and its excellent documentary, "The Selling of the Pentagon...
...He told the Senate: "The Executive Order manifests a fear of freedom...
...Its fundamental premise, which the Sen- ate bought whole cloth, is that cancer will be "conquered" by a massive ef- fort in much the same way as the Na- tional Aeronautics and Space Admin- istration "conquered" the moon...
...The automakers were given sixty days to submit sworn statements...
...aid have been poured into Brazil...
...Farming, the nation's largest in- dustry, got direct and indirect subsidies of between $6 billion and $9 billion in 1970, depending on how subsidy is defined...
...Who said crime doesn't pay...
...Now that Con- gress has abdicated, however, a legal challenge to the Board's new powers should be mounted at once...
...Senator Frank Church, Idaho Dem- ocrat, recently released a censored transcript of secret hearings his Sub- committee on Western Hemisphere Af- fairs conducted earlier this year on U.S...
...These are the conclusions which emerge from a recent study by the U.S...
...It is scandalous, of course, for Con- gress to abdicate to the courts the re- sponsibility for an action which, on its face, poses grave dangers to the liberty of American citizens...
...An Ohio grand jury indicted twenty- four demonstrators, exonerated the National Guardsmen, and placed "ma- jor responsibility" for the incident on the university...
...To the extent that Mr...
...Apparently the U.S...
...There was a pro-Communist coup in the Sudan—and revolutionary Libya forced down a British air liner and kidnapped two of the new re- gime's leaders, calling them reaction- aries...
...Since 1968, Church found, American tax- payers have spent more than $1.1 mil- lion to provide young Brazilian mil- itary officers with "orientation tours" including night club shows in Las Ve- gas, trips to Disneyland^ poolside luaus, fifteen-gun salutes at U.S...
...Philip R. Lee, a former Assistant Secretary of Health, Educa- tion, and Welfare, told the Senate: "Cancer is not simply an island wait- ing in isolation for a crash program to wipe it out...
...Volkswagen is the import leader...
...His concern, rath- er, is that these appropriations be channeled through scientific rather than political-bureaucratic institutions...
...For the Greeks and East Pakistanis, the House action, if approved by the Senate as is generally expected, repre- sents the first clear evidence that America's lawmakers may be prepared to make something more than the dis- credited standard of mere anti-Com- munism the sole yardstick of worth in doling out our largess around the world...
...The glee of her detractors soon dissipated, how- ever, when it was announced that she was not fired, but promoted—to acting director of the BIA's entire education division...
...Government has not con- cerned itself with the honoring of In- dian treaties, and with the help of Miss Victor and others, it has managed to make a bad situation worse...
...and $172 million over five years to help commuter railroads hiiv new oassencrer cars...
...Nixon's China Coup Now that the first frenzy of cheer- ing has subsided, a few sober second thoughts seem in order about President Nixon's rabbit-from-a-hat announce- ment that he plans to visit Peking...
...GM leads the do- mestic pack in the tall-tales derby...
...Approval came by the narrowest of margins—a 192 to 189 vote in the House of Representatives and a 49 to 48 vote in the Senate—but it was enough to establish a sorry precedent...
...They began to fight back...
...Not only will the sinecures of the Board members be preserved, but the Admin- istration will be provided with a new vehicle for its obsessive interest in witch-hunting...
...For example: % While blacks increased their me- dian income by fifty per cent during the 1960s, their 1970 incomes were still only three-fifths that of whites...
...The danger is that the projected China visit will diminish the pressure from the peace forces in the United States, providing the President with more time to pursue his disastrous war...
...His two-part re- port ,on the Intermountain Boarding School appears in the August 16 and September 6 issues of the Center's Race Relations Reporter...
...It ordered General Motors, Ford, Chrysler, and American Motors, and domestic im- porters of three leading foreign cars— Volkswagen, Datsun, and Toyota—to document a total of sixty of their ad- vertising claims...
...Briefly, this is the chronicle of Miss Victor's recent rise: In the late spring of 1970, following a heated public con- troversy over her administration of In- termountain, she was removed as superintendent of the school...
...Everything depends on how strict— or lenient—the FTC is in checking the documentation provided by advertis- ers...
...The strange thing about it...
...Among the facts are these: The U,S...
...Testimony by William G. Florence, classification expert with forty-three years of military and civilian service in the Federal Government, before a House subcommittee...
...I don't believe that the advisers engaged in these programs really do much of anything...
...Finally, it seems likely that Mr...
...The dreams that Martin Luther King had of blacks and whites living together in equality and brotherhood are a long way from realization...
...Missouri Democrat, recently observed...
...Senator J. W. Ful- bright, who risked his political life two decades ago by opposing appropria- tions for the McCarthy witch-hunts...
...63 million to keep local service airlines flying...
...Facing it is a start, but the challenge is to stop it...
...The United States, Church noted, has almost 600 American officials ad- ministering its programs in Brazil, not including 300 Peace Corps volunteers and more than 800 Brazilians em- ployed by American agencies...
...It was an all too rare repudiation of the contempt cita- tion power often used by Congres- sional committees to intimidate, harass, and punish witnesses attempting to ex- ercise their constitutional rights...
...Bolstering Brazil A constant theme of U.S...
...that students who become disorderly when drunk are routinely subdued with Thorazine, a powerful and danger- ous central nervous system depressant, which is not recommended by physi- cians when large amounts of other de- pressants (such as alcohol) are in the body...
...The Lockheed loan was a rare exception—a corporate handout sub- jected to public debate...
...Now President Nixon has solved that problem by finding something for the Board to do, and its new task—the compilation of dossiers and blacklists— is one to which it is, by tradition and temperament, peculiarly suited...
...Let's face it, we have been appro- priating money for this war in the blind," Senator Stuart Symington, 'A Way of Life' The defense classification system is literally clogged with material bearing classification markings . . . The disclosure of information in at least 99 J/2 per cent of those classified documents could not be prejudicial to the defense interests of the nation ? . . Thousands of individuals at all echelons in the Department of De- fense practice classification as a way of life...
...that native Navajo religions are repressed among the student body in favor of the Mormon religion...
...Their fears were quickly confirmed when Crow transferred from Washing- ton to the relative obscurity of Phoenix a BIA lawyer, William H. Veeder, who is known as an outspoken and effective critic of the Government's treatment of Indians...
...still hopes against hope that it will be able to sal- vage some sort of "two-China solu- tion" in the United Nations...
...Nissan Motors, makers of Datsun, must back up four claims and Toyota three...
...to be a subversive organiza- tion...
...Food shipments and other humanitarian aid to Pakistan will continue...
...Best guesses: somewhere between $9.5 bil- lion to $15 biliion annually...
...They found the Communist Party of the U.S.A...
...aid has its light side, too...
...Four students were killed and nine wounded on May 4, 1970 when Ohio National Guardsmen fired into a crowd of students protesting the Ad- ministration's invasion of Cambodia...
...Mitchell that "serious questions" about the incident remained...
...The Vietnamese Com- munists and their allies have fought too long and too hard to abandon their struggle on instructions from Peking, and the Chinese give no sign of wanting to issue such instructions...
...But the House of Representatives, al- ways more amiably disposed toward assaults on the Bill of Rights, rejected a similar attempt 246 to 141...
...And Congress, af- ter what appeared—at least in the Senate—to be a genuine attempt to resist the President's reversion to re- pression, has meekly given its assent...
...This May —a year after the tragedy—twenty Congressmen wrote Mr...
...In March of this year, she was ap- pointed Morton's special assistant for Indian affairs—at a time when the BIA was beset by an internal power struggle of massive significance...
...Notes in the News The Corporate Dole While the Nixon Administration, Congress, state and local officials, and much of the public at large are wring- ing their hands about the mounting costs of welfare for the poor, the United States has taken a new, long step toward providing a generous and dependable dole for the rich...
...Yet without a peace settlement, the potential for explosion and the premium on irrationality increase...
...Since the military takeover in 1964, some two billion dollars in U.S...
...Kent State Cover-up Attorney General John Mitchell has so often voiced the Nixon Administra- tion charge that radicals bent on de- stroying the nation have been responsi- ble for most anti-war demonstrations that it is obvious why he has refused to convene a Federal grand jury to look into the killings at Kent State University: Such an inquiry might have yielded facts that would have punched holes in Mitchell's conten- tions about the conspiratorial roots of anti-war confrontations...
...The Lockheed loan, and the new lode it opens up for corporate exploita- tion of the public treasury, are the lat- est additions to what is already well established as the most open-handed system of socialism for the rich ever de- vised by the mind of man...
...The life expectancy figures did not increase significantly for either white or black, the latter re- maining as far behind as before...
...That wouldn't be free enterprise...
...It was the "practical" thing to do, said Senator John McClellan, Democrat of Arkan- sas, though he acknowledged that even he had misgivings about the constitu- tionality of the President's Executive Order...
...What does appear very clear, however, is that thanks to Wilma Victor, paternalism will die hard, and President Nixon's one de- cent policy towards minorities could well be subverted...
...The vehicle for this cancer "breakthrough" is to be an agency directly responsible to the President of the United States...
...It is important, however, that Amer- icans keep their eyes on the realities —on the risks as well as on the oppor- tunities...
...is that this very Board would be empowered by this Executive Order to do one of the things which the Board is set up to keep other people from doing, this is, denying people their rights under the Constitution...
...yet the fact that they are present on the scene means that the United States has to pay the political price of identification with a repressive government...
...Rebirth of McCarthyism By a single stroke of the pen Pres- ident Nixon has managed to revive and reinvigorate two of the most ob- noxious institutional vestiges of the Joe McCarthy era—the Subversive Activ- ities Control Board and the Attorney General's List of allegedly "subver- sive" organizations...
...programs providing direct assistance to the Brazilian military and police are "not so much iniquitous as they are nullities," he said...
...After months of debate, Congress has approved the Administration's re- quest for a $250 million Federal loan guarantee for the muddled and mis- managed Lockheed Aircraft Corpora- tion...
...There have been some appalling dis- tortions about the case spread across the land, the most singular examples being the James Michener book and the Reader's Digest excerpts from it...
...Crow's success as a saboteur is by no means a foregone conclusion, for he will face bitter opposition both inside the Bureau and out...
...It is in no way comparable to a moon shot . . . which requires money, men, and facilities to put to- gether in one imposing package the scientific knowhow we already possess...
...The stroke of the pen was the Pres- ident's signature on Executive Order 11605, dated July 2, which conferred on the moribund SACB the authority formerly held by the Attorney General to compile lists of "subversive" groups whose members may be barred from Government employment...
...K American policy pronouncements —including the recent comments of Secretary of State William P. Rogers —offer no assurance that the United States is ready to abandon in toto the absurd fiction that the decrepit regime of Chiang Kai-shek on Taiwan is the legitimate government—or at least a legitimate government—of China...
...The Amer- ican Civil Liberties Union has an- nounced its intention to sponsor such a test, and its effort merits the broadest support...
...policy for these past two decades has been Amer- ica's eagerness to provide aid, comfort, and cold cash to repressive right-wing regimes in every corner of the world...
...Deliberately excluded from the study were programs designed to help minority groups, provide low-cost housing, or construct public works— though each of these also spins off an- cillary benefits to big business...
...The ban on military assistance to Greece involves $118 million of aid...
...No breakdown is available on the number and value of Government loans to profitmaking concerns, but this fiscal year the total of outstanding loans—direct, guaranteed, and insured —will reach $250 billion, six times the outstanding credit advanced by all commercial banks...
...Although more blacks than ever before received college degrees during the decade, black youngsters continued to be far more likely thari white ones to drop out of high school...
...f Unemployment remained far high- er among blacks than among whites in 1970...
...But the volatility of the Arabs, whether as individuals or as states, re- inforces the Israeli argument that the Arab world is unpredictable, that per- sonalities and passions count more than policies, that a diplomatic settle- ment is not to be trusted, and peace can come only from an enforceable military defense line...
...Small Victory Several useful purposes were served by the 226-to-181 vote by which the House of Representatives refused to cite the Columbia Broadcasting Sys- tem and its president, Dr...
...Mitchell's grudging admission that the shooting of the students was "un- necessary, unwarranted, and inexcus- able" was small comfort for those who sought the truth through a Federal grand jury investigation of the terrible tragedy at Kent State more than a year ago...
...The House Says 'No' The House of Representatives has long been an eager-beaver errand boy for the Pentagon—a fact fully doc- umented by scholar Garrison Nelson in his widely acclaimed study, "Nixon's Silent House of Hawks" in the August 1970 issue of The Progressive...
...Basically, what the President says he wants to see is Indian "self-determina- tion without termination," and that flies in the face of the oppressive pater- nalism that has long characterized the BIA...
...Federal hand- outs take the form of cash grants, tax advantages, easy-term loans, technical guidance, low-cost services, and pay- ments routed through state and munic- ipal middlemen...
...Accord- ing to this Subcommittee's record, American training provided to the Brazilian military encompasses such useful skills as censorship, clandestine operations, use of informants, and con- tainment of mass rallies and public meetings...
...In rural areas, about half of all black-occupied housing units were clas- sified as substandard in 1970, com- pared with only eight per cent of rural white residences...
...This is a situation where the courts are going to have to decide," he said...
...Meaningful negotiations in the Mid- dle East are therefore cast further in doubt...
...The total American business invest- ment in Brazil is about $1.7 billion, and the generals have kept it remark- ably free of governmental restraint...
...The Ad- ministration had indicated it would ac- cept the curb with this escape clause written in, but there was a ritualistic protest from Assistant Secretary of State Martin J. Hillenbrand: "It is un- fortunate that we have reached the point where Congress feels it must act by hamstringing the ability of the Ex- ecutive to carry out a program it con- siders important to . . . security...
...He added: "For the fifty years of the Federal Trade Commis- sion's existence they've had a free ride...
...Anwar Sadat in Egypt has brought himself to speak of peace with Israel...
...Robert Pitofsky, head of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection, has pointed out something long known to millions of Americans, that "advertis- ers have been engaged in a business in which there has been virtually no reg- ulation...
...Defense contractors have custody of $14.6 billion worth of taxpayer- owned property and can use Govern- ment equipment for commercial work at least twenty-five per cent of the available time...
...that In- termountain's Mormon employes from Brigham City have not faced similar problems...
...Implicit in these figures is the Ad- ministration's deliberate and calcu- lated violation of the Fulbright amend- ments to the 1971 defense authoriza- tion and procurement bills, which bar American financing of "third party" forces in Laos...
...The military and economic aid to Pakistan involved in the House cut-off comes to nearly $132 million...
...These were among the findings of the AP survey: • "Backdoor subsidies for business and industry from tax breaks, incen- tives, allowances, and exemptions are so complex that Government experts can only guess at their size...
...There is no estimate on the dollar value of this type of aid...
...With a major election campaign only a year off, many members of Congress were reluctant to offend the television indus- try...
...In- termountain is a Bureau of Indian Af- fairs (BIA) facility serving the Navajo reservation, which, unhappily for the Intermountain students, is located al- most 700 miles away...
...It remains to be seen whether Hawkins will act on his concession, but in the meantime, Wilma Victor continues to consolidate her power, and at this point she may be the most influential Indian in the Government...
...Some major problems will remain long after Mr...
...The data they provide will be open to pub- lic inspection, the FTC stated, to "as- sist consumers in making a rational choice among competing claims which purport to be based on objective evidence...
...For instance, there was an attempted military coup in Morocco by right-wing officers—and it was cheered by Libya, the most left- wing of the Arab states...
...they requested a Federal grand jury...
...As provided by the House, military and economic assis- tance to Pakistan could be resumed if President Nixon found that the gov- ernment of Pakistan was cooperating fully in allowing East Pakistan to re- turn to reasonable stability and if it was permitting refugees from that blood-drenched land to return to their homes and reclaim their property...
...It has al- ready challenged some of the advertis- ing of Standard Oil of California, In- ternational Telephone & Telegraph, Coca Cola, DuPont, Continental Bak- ing (Wonder Bread), and McDonald's (franchised hamburgers...
...He will doubtless feel a need to demonstrate that the "old Nixon" still lives...
...The Federal agency plans to issue documentation orders, over a period of time, to all major advertisers on an industry-by-industry basis...
...Last month, barely a couple of weeks after the House vote, Commerce Committee investigators were reportedly on the road once again, inquiring into CBS news operations...
...Even the SACB's chairman, John W, Mahan, was constrained to confess to the Senate Appropriations Committee, "We do not have enough [to do] to fill our time...
...The Secret War If anyone still harbors the naive illusion that the processes of secrecy and deliberate deception so devastat- ingly revealed by the Pentagon Papers on Vietnam have been discontinued by the Nixon Administration, he need only refer to the staff report on Amer- ican activity in Laos released last month by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
...King Hussein of Jordan beat down the Palestine guerrillas, who are at war with Israel —and many of them sought refuge, in Israel...
...Setback for Indians When Miss Wilma Victor, a full- blooded Choctaw Indian, was ap- pointed special assistant to Secretary of the Interior Rogers Morton, the news was greeted with something less than universal jubilation by the country's Indian leadership...
...This is, we believe, a dangerous illusion...
...and that few of the school's teachers speak Navajo, despite the fact that many students speak little English when they arrive at Intermountain...
...The very exis- tence of the Intermountain school ap- pears to be a violation of the Navajo treaty, which requires the Federal Government to furnish teachers "who will reside among said Indians...
...Her road to the top has not been easy, but after twenty-seven years of practice, she has learned to manipulate the cumbersome bureaucracy of the BIA, and her long-standing friendship with Secretary Morton has not hurt her in the least...
...Despite this constant turmoil, de- spite all the talk about Arab socialism, and the receipt of mounting aid from the Russians, there have been some recent gains for moderation in the Middle East...
...True, her appoint- ment earlier this year came at a time when Red Power advocates and tribal leaders were clamoring for the place- ment of Indians in responsible govern- mental positions...
...To these findings we add our own judgment—that the study's data make it obvious that for blacks equality of opportunity continues to be more myth than reality...
...Nixon must make it clear by deeds as well as words that the United States regards detente with the Soviets as of paramount importance...
...Gaillard is a reporter for the Race Relations Information Center, Nashville, Tennessee...
...Frank Stan- ton, for contempt of Congress...
...To be true to the best that is in us as a people, we will have to move much further and faster in the next few years...
...Senate Judiciary subcommittee that "there ought to be a Federal grand jury investigation...
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