NOTES IN THE NEWS
Notes in the News Nixon's Dozen Vetoes Immediately after the Ninety-second Congress adjourned, President Nixon vetoed a round dozen of the 120 measures it had enacted in its final spasm of...
...We have lived on this land for 25,000 years," said Robert Jim...
...A close look at the events surrounding the land return is not likely to inspire much confidence in the American system as it relates to Indians...
...When this startling twelve-to-one discrepancy was first brought to the attention of the Department of Defense, the agency attempted to secure the product from the Canadian firm, but that firm's licensing agreement with the patent owner restricted its sales to Canadian customers only...
...But as the months dragged into years, the Yakimas began to fear that the executive branch had no intention of following the Claims Commission's suggestions...
...and (2) that the annual sales of the drug have been more than $1 million for three or more years...
...But to take its case to that court, an Indian tribe had to obtain the permission of Congress—which usually meant five to ten years of trying to get a bill of permission through both houses...
...The statistic on aid and financial assistance," he said, "is grossly juggled and falsified, giving the appearance that [nonmilitary] aid and assistance from the developed to the underdeveloped countries is much bigger than it really is...
...The Yearbook reported that in 1970 the developing countries, with a combined population more than twice that of the developed countries, consumed only a little more than one-seventh of the world's total energy output...
...What the vetoed bills had in common was that they attempted, in one form or another, to deal with human needs, and that Mr...
...Forest Service, resisted with equal vigor any attempt to reduce the acreage of the Pinchot National Forest...
...Last spring, the Department issued an opinion favorable to the Yakimas, and drafted an executive order for President Nixon to sign...
...Arms for the Poor Two separate compilations made by the United Nations, when taken together, add up to one stark conclusion —that what the poor nations need most desperately is economic development aid, but what the rich nations burden them with are massive shipments of tanks, guns, and planes...
...The bills that encountered the President's displeasure ranged from the $30.5 billion appropriation for the Departments of Labor and Health, Education and Welfare (which he had vetoed once before) to relatively minor measures authorizing new expenditures for such purposes as veterans' health care, economic development in depressed areas, rehabilitation for the physically handicapped, and care for the elderly...
...This is the conclusion of Hunger U.S.A...
...We are not suggesting for a moment that benefits have risen too rapidly...
...Until 1946, such claims had to be settled in the U.S...
...The extent of this discrimination has been documented by the Monopoly Subcommittee of the Senate Small Business Committee and by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare...
...What makes these small victories worth noting is the fact that they simply could not have been achieved a few years ago, when only an embattled handful of legislators would dare vote against the witch hunters...
...It comes as a bright interlude at a time when the forces of repression seem to be gathering strength for a new assault on the guarantees of the Bill of Rights...
...Bright Interlude Back in the era when Coxey's Army of unemployed marched on Washington, Congress enacted a law that prohibited large-scale demonstrations on the grounds of the U.S...
...Seventeen states have no law at all on the subject...
...the rule applying to House Members is inadequate...
...In fact if not in appearance, workers will bear the full burden of $1,404 a year, since economists agree that the employer's share would otherwise be apportioned to wages...
...H The new Federal Election Campaign Act, while containing strong provisions for reporting campaign expenditures, provides no ceiling on individual contributions and lacks an adequate enforcement mechanism...
...Written by Lawrence Gilson, state issues coordinator for Common Cause, Money and Secrecy is based on a six-month study of state and Federal laws and practices in the areas of open meetings of legislative committees, lobbying disclosure, conflicts of interest, and the financing of campaigns...
...We pay the price as taxpayers no less than as consumers, as the following example shows: Rhone-Poulenc, a French firm, discovered chlorproma-zine, a widely-used heavy tranquilizer...
...Like too many other problems of American society, it has been officially acknowledged, described, and defined—and left unsolved...
...The return was accomplished through an executive order signed by President Nixon...
...The Canadian and U.S...
...Second, the remuneration cannot exceed the fair market value of the land at the time it was taken, which means that payments are often pitifully small by today's standards...
...From the Indians' point of view, however, the Commission's usefulness is limited in at least two respects...
...Under the Administration's budget, for example, eighteen states will have to cut back this year on their expenditures for schooling of needy children under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act...
...Legislators pass laws from which their friends derive personal financial gain, and all this goes on beneath a shroud of secrecy...
...Capitol...
...Only intervention by Patterson and members of Vice President Agnew's staff (who were under intense pressure from the Yakimas) jarred the order loose and got it approved...
...The 21,000 acres of Yakima land were included in the edicts...
...Governments and their huge military-industrial complexes are by far the biggest dealers in the weapons business...
...The study headed by Gilson, and assisted by Common Cause staff and volunteers, found that only Arkansas, California, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Ohio, and Virginia have adequate open meeting laws...
...Some findings summarized in the book are: H Open meeting laws are so weak as to allow Congressional committees, currently including the House Ways and Means Committee, to decide by majority vote to close all committee sessions to the public...
...At the same time, Gardner's forces will be seeking changes in state legislative practices that work against the public interest...
...The 5.85 per cent rate applies equally to the worker earning $4,000 a year and to the one earning $12,000—but the executive who earns $50,000 will also pay the maximum of $702...
...There is almost no enforcement of such Federal laws and comparable state laws as do exist...
...Hunger Revisited Four years ago, a massive study called Hunger U.S.A., prepared and published by the Citizens' Board of Inquiry Into Hunger and Malnutrition in the United States, succeeded in stirring the conscience of America...
...Lobbyists operate unobserved and unregulated...
...Statistical Yearbook, discloses that in the past ten years the disparity in living standards between rich countries and poor countries has continued to grow...
...It is less than a third of the $6.5 billion space shuttle supported by the Administration...
...Senators to make public disclosure of their financial holdings...
...Shortly after the signing, however, the official map of the Yakima reservation was mysteriously misplaced in Government files, and it was not rediscovered until the late 1930s...
...The rebuke to HISC came when the House rejected a Committee bill that would have authorized the President to curb travel by American citizens to any nation whose military forces are engaged in armed conflict with the United States...
...It was the first time an American President had ever ordered the return of land to an Indian tribe, and the historic nature of the order was not lost on Indian leaders...
...The President is understandably defensive about the huge and un-Repub-lican budget deficits incurred by his Administration...
...But in the 1930s, the official treaty map was rediscovered, and it became clear that the surveyors had erred...
...The world average per capita is 1.9 metric tons, and most countries' per capita average is considerably less than that...
...But it is the only answer that will, in the long run, eliminate the shame and scandal of hunger in America...
...The real enemies of man—hunger, illiteracy, and population pressure—cannot be overcome by guns in a world that already has fifty million men under arms...
...It would have had the ancillary effect of empowering the President to bar American reporters from visiting North Vietnam...
...survey which disclosed that world expenditures on arms and warfare—which totaled $120 billion a year ten years ago—now exceed $200 billion annually...
...First, it can grant compensation only in the form of money, and most tribes would prefer to have their lands back...
...We should always have acted as our brother's helper, not his feeder...
...firms were each given a separate exclusive market...
...In October, 1971, Jim wangled an appearance on NBC's "Today" show, where he made the same argument and singled out Patterson for some rather blunt criticism...
...Less than five per cent of the worldwide trade in arms is now conducted by private traders, the U.N...
...They refused to act on it for weeks, contending that the land issue was a matter for Congress, not the President...
...Only California, Illinois, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Jersey, Texas, and Wisconsin have adequate laws on campaign disclosures...
...munitions with the export to the developing countries of more of our foods, fertilizers, and machinery on an aid basis...
...Nixon's attempt to make the Board custodian of the Attorney General's subversive lists was successfully blocked, but the Board, stripped of all functions, was still accorded a $350,000 appropriation for the current fiscal year...
...In recent years this 1882 law has been used to exclude anti-war and other protest demonstrations from the Capitol building area...
...The President's zeal for economy does not, of course, extend to matters military...
...The formidable increases of recent years have, of course, been the result of corresponding increases in Social Security benefits...
...The Yakimas, though they beat the system, did not change it...
...Court of Claims...
...As for food consumption, the U.S...
...Such patent monopolies permit the most incredible differentials between cost and selling prices...
...Four nations, according to SIPRI's 910-page study, The Arms Trade with the Third World, provide more than ninety per cent of all exports of arms to ninety-one developing countries where the wars of the last quarter century have been fought...
...Replying to U.N...
...We own it now, and returning it to us is entirely feasible...
...If it were, then obviously the land should be returned, but there are legal questions that have to be solved...
...The order was then sent to the Office of Management and Budget for routine approval, but low-level OMB bureaucrats almost succeeded in killing it...
...Welcome Setbacks Two durable relics of the witch-hunt era suffered rare but welcome setbacks in the waning weeks of the Ninety-second Congress...
...In those cases where product patents are permitted, as in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, compulsory licensing is required...
...Throughout these increases the regressive pattern of Social Security taxation established in the 1930s has been preserved as if set in concrete...
...When Congress adds funds for school lunches, Social Security, or black lung benefits, the Administration denounces us as 'big spenders/ " Senator William Proxmire, Wisconsin Democrat, has pointed out...
...Hearings of the Monopoly Subcommittee have indicated twenty-to-one and ten-to-one differentials between prices for the same drugs, with and without patent monopolies...
...No one disputed the fact that the land in question was supposed to belong to the Yakimas, but with that consensus as a starting point, it took the tribe more than thirty years to get its territory back...
...Every concerned citizen and decent political officeholder should make common cause with Common Cause's new campaign to "open up the system...
...The Senate scored its partial victory in the fight led by Senator Sam Ervin, North Carolina Democrat, to keep the President from conferring new powers on the dormant SACB, whose statutory functions have been ruled unconstitutional by the Federal courts...
...Gunnar Myrdal, the world famous economist who heads the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), has challenged their figures...
...Briefly, the chronology of the dispute is this: In 1855 the Yakima chief, Kamia-kin, signed a treaty which gave his people permanent title to about 1.3 million acres of what was to become the state of Washington...
...They usually lose but occasionally their cause seems to prevail...
...on the contrary, they remain pitifully inadequate for the millions who depend on them for their entire livelihood...
...The problem seemed to be a conflict between two Cabinet departments: The Interior Department, overseer of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, vigorously supported the Yakimas' position...
...But the HEW appropriation was another matter...
...only Arkansas, California, Illinois, Kansas, New York, Tennessee, Washington, and West Virginia were rated by Common Cause as having adequate laws in this area where the venality of legislators is most common...
...patent licensee for twenty-five milligram tablets to our Department of Defense was $32.62 a thousand...
...In some of these fields, the President did not even ask for enough money to maintain the previous year's level of assistance...
...I have, therefore, proposed a bill designated the "Public Health Price Protection Act," that seeks to protect the public from monopolistic excesses...
...This order was signed on May 20, and Indians across the nation have been celebrating since...
...The House recognized the bill as an outrage to the Constitution, and turned it down...
...His campaign pledge to avoid further tax increases (which is certain to be broken) will make it necessary, he insists, to block all attempts to enlarge domestic welfare programs...
...The weakest performance among the states was in the conflict of interest area...
...on the day he vetoed nine of the bills, he signed into law the $74.4 billion appropriation bill for the Department of Defense...
...The study provides the basis for these observations in the text of Gil-son's book: "Few but the rich are assured access to elected officials...
...The price of 100 tablets of propoxyphene (Darvon) sold by Lilly Company to the druggist in the United States is $7.02, but the price charged by the same company for the same product in Ireland is $1.66, and in the United Kingdom it is $1.92...
...survey requests, many governments provided figures designed to make it appear that their arms aid was nothing overwhelming...
...The big four supplier nations are, in order, the United States (which "accounts for over a third of the world's total weapons"), the Soviet Union, Britain, and France...
...Soon after the map disappeared, a Government survey was conducted, and it erroneously concluded that 21,000 acres of Yakima land were, in fact, public land...
...There is no lack of "reckless spending" in the Federal budget or, for that matter, in Congressional appropriations— but not in the areas of meeting human needs...
...In the hope of speeding up the process, Congress in 1946 established an Indian Claims Commission, which has as its sole function the compensation of Indians for lands stolen since treaty days...
...The House rebuffed its own ineffable Internal Security Committee (known in a previous incarnation as the Un-American Activities Committee), and the Senate scored at least a partial triumph against the Subversive Activities Control Board...
...This bill would authorize the Federal Trade Commission, upon the certification and with the advice of the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service, to require that a drug patent become available for reasonable royalty licensing on nondiscriminatory terms to all applicants for licenses, whenever the Commission finds (1) that the average price to the consumer of the drug is higher than five times the direct cost of manufacture, or higher than the average price of such drug to the consumer in any foreign country...
...Money and Secrecy (published by Praeger), writes John Gardner in his introduction, although "only a guide," is a book whose "impact must come from the released energies of thousands of citizens intent on reform . . . placed in the hands of a group of determined citizens . . . this book can provide the springboard for effective action...
...The Government, the report suggests, has always asked the wrong question: "How can we feed the poor...
...I expect that this bill I have introduced, if enacted, will go a long way to rectify this situation...
...By 1974, employers and employes will each be paying Social Security taxes at a rate of 5.85 per cent on the first $12,000 of earnings—a total of $702 each...
...Nixon, however, signed the decree without fanfare, merely observing that it showed "the inherent strength of the American system of justice...
...The price charged by the Canadian licensee to Canada's Department of Veterans Affairs was $2.60...
...The Indians' response was simple...
...As recently as 1950, they accounted for only one-twentieth of Federal revenues...
...For months, Patterson seemed paralyzed with indecision...
...the average intake in many poorer countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America is still less than 1,900 calories per capita per day...
...As the world's greatest merchant of death, the United States inescapably bears the primary responsibility to press for international action to bring arms sales under control and then to a complete halt...
...his tax rate, therefore, is not 5.85 per cent but 1.4...
...After four years of growing public awareness, Congressional concern, and doubled and redoubled Federal expenditures for food programs, the scourge of hunger continues to afflict an unconscionable number of the nation's -poor...
...In his original veto message, the President wrote: "Exceeding my budget recommendation by $1.8 billion, this bill is a perfect example of that kind of reckless spending that just cannot be done without more taxes or more inflation, both of which I am determined to avoid...
...Drug Price Discrimination For many years the American people have been forced to pay high and discriminatory prices for drugs—prices that fall most heavily on those who are least able to afford them: the sick, the poor, and the aged...
...The Social Security taxes violate the first principle of sound taxation in that they are not related to ability to pay...
...Acting on the suit, a three-judge Federal panel in the District of Columbia found earlier this year that the law violated the constitutional right of the people to petition Congress...
...The hang-up, in Patterson's view, was a 1968 Court of Claims ruling that if the President erroneously orders the taking of Indian land, the land has been taken nevertheless, and the best the Indians can hope for is financial compensation...
...The Most Regressive Tax The time is coming—and we hope it is coming very soon—when Congress will have to take a hard look at the most regressive and unfair tax levied by the Federal Government—the Social Security tax...
...These are only a few examples of discrimination against the American people...
...Stung by the publicity, Patterson asked the Justice Department for a ruling on the issue, and the Department was told that President Nixon "is very interested in doing right by the Indians in this matter...
...The wage ceiling and the flat percentage rate is what makes the Social Security tax such a regressive tax in that it falls heavier on those with lower incomes than those in the high income bracket," Senator Gaylord Nelson, Wisconsin Democrat, has pointed out...
...The forty-five per cent who use food stamps receive only enough assistance to purchase a diet at the bare subsistence level...
...thirty-six per cent was used by North American countries alone...
...It is rarely mentioned when the President and other politicians hold forth on the burden of personal taxes...
...Not long afterward, CBS News did a ten-minute report on the Yakimas' frustrations...
...today they amount to almost one-fourth, and are the second largest source of Government funds...
...But Dr...
...That year the United States, which leads the world in consumption of energy, burned an energy equivalent of 11.1 metric tons (2,205 pounds per ton) of coal per capita...
...It is not a moral issue," he had told a reporter, in explaining his delay...
...Of some twenty-six million Americans officially certified as "poor," forty-three per cent still receive no help at all from either of the Government's two principal nutrition assistance programs, food stamps and commodity distribution...
...both markets were on the same continent...
...Open Up the System John Gardner's 200,000-member citizens' lobby, Common Cause, plans a major Congressional reform project for 1973 called "Open Up the System...
...The Yakimas, acting through their tribal chairman, Robert Jim, asked the White House to mediate between the Departments and settle the issue...
...bombing in Indochina...
...That's about all they have been doing for a long time now, and they do it very well...
...Exactly how the error occurred is difficult to see...
...The President's string of vetoes was, in turn, a perfect example of the bizarre sense of priorities that we can expect from his Administration in the next four years...
...report projects that even if future annual military outlays do not take more than their present level of seven to nine per cent of world output, the world will be spending $300-$350 billion a year on arms by 1980—or, over the whole decade of the 1970s, the incredible total of $2,650 billion...
...Lacking any real choice, the Yakimas reluctantly presented their case to the Claims Commission...
...Gaillard, now a staff writer for the Charlotte [North Carolina] Observer, recently completed a two-year assignment for the Race Relations Information Center in Nashville, where he was assistant editor of the Center's publication specializing in Indian affairs...
...Common Cause has performed valiantly in efforts to resist the power of money over government and to fight for participatory democracy...
...By closing only a few of the glaring loopholes in the Federal tax structure, the Government could raise more than enough revenue to finance further Social Security benefits out of general funds...
...The Agriculture Department argued that the decision should be applied to the Yakima case, and Patterson, who is not a lawyer, maintained he did not know how to respond to the argument...
...In that decade the per capita gross domestic product of the developed nations rose forty-three per cent, while that of the still developing countries increased only twenty-seven per cent...
...and (3) that the existence of a patent is a substantial contributing factor to the high price of the drug...
...Even these levels have been attained only after "the most bitter and exhausting kind of bureaucratic infighting" against a hostile U.S...
...The question ought to have been—-from the beginning—not how can 'we' feed 'them' but how can they feed themselves...
...Writing now, in 1972, it is no longer necessary to debate the issue," the report asserts...
...Department of Agriculture, which has always treated the needs of the poor as secondary to the interests of food producers and suppliers...
...Americans are paying the highest drug prices in the world because of monopolistic patenting and licensing policies pursued by pharmaceutical manufacturers...
...The price charged in 1965 by the U.S...
...Notes in the News Nixon's Dozen Vetoes Immediately after the Ninety-second Congress adjourned, President Nixon vetoed a round dozen of the 120 measures it had enacted in its final spasm of activity...
...This firm secured a patent in this country and licensed Smith, Kline and French on an exclusive basis to market it in the United States...
...The Pfizer Company charges $20.48 in the United States for oxy tetracycline (Terramycin), but $4.63 in Brazil and $3.68 in New Zealand...
...f In the area of conflict of interest, there is no law requiring U.S...
...The most valuable contribution of the new report is a critique of the "misguided paternalism" that pervades the incredibly complex structure of Federal programs designed to provide food to the poor, and that squanders millions of dollars on restrictions and regulations designed to "make sure that 'they' eat correctly...
...Still further increases are urgently needed, but as Senator Nelson has observed, "it is not necessary to levy an unjust tax on the American worker to provide a just retirement for the elderly American...
...The Supreme Court's action does much to strengthen a long cherished American right that has been under heavy fire—the right to petition for redress of grievances...
...Revisited, a new study released by the Board a month ago, and published in cooperation with the National Council on Hunger and Malnutrition and the Southern Regional Council...
...Eight states—Florida, Maryland, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York, Oregon, West Virginia, and Wisconsin—were rated as having adequate campaign finance laws...
...But billions for space, defense, and highways are either lobbied for by the Administration or exempted from the budget ceiling...
...The patent is a public grant...
...daily per capita intake is 3,200 calories...
...The latest increase, scheduled to go into effect on January 1, will constitute an immense burden for lower and middle-income wage earners, and still another increase is in store for 1974...
...The Supreme Court has now upheld this decision unanimously, issuing a brief order to that effect without offering comment...
...Contrast all this with the findings of a recent U.N...
...Since 1950 the United States has exported in the form of military gifts and sales an astounding $70 billion worth of armaments, according to John K. Cooley in his comprehensive series on the global arms trade published in The Christian Science Monitor...
...But once the euphoria dies down, disillusionment may replace it...
...In 1968, the Commission ruled that the Yakimas' claims were "totally valid," but at the request of Yakima attorneys, deferred a ruling on compensation to allow the executive branch to work out a return of the land...
...In my judgment it is a gross abuse of the American patent system to permit such treatment of the public...
...the Agriculture Department, parent agency for the U.S...
...Nixon felt they cost too much...
...Suppliers on a much smaller scale are Italy, West Germany, Czechoslovakia, Belgium, the Netherlands, Israel, Sweden, Switzerland, Austria, and Australia...
...Ciba charges $3.00 for glutethimide (Doriden) in the United States, but 92 cents in Ireland, $1.23 in New Zealand, and $1 in the United Kingdom...
...It is an answer that is likely to be fiercely resisted by bureaucrats, politicians, and private interests that profit from holding the poor in thrall...
...Under the present system the American people are being subjected to monopolistic exploitation...
...The Yakima reservation was supposed to include Mount Adams, a 12,000-foot peak that towers over the surrounding evergreen forests, but the surveyors apparently missed the landmark, and they decided that the Indian-owned land ended miles from the mountain...
...When the ban was employed by the police in January, 1968, to prevent 5,000 women gathered in protest against the Vietnam war from meeting on Capitol Plaza, the protesters launched legal action to overturn the ninety-year-old law as unconstitutional...
...Additionally, no law requires any Federal official or employe to divest himself of any holdings that represent real or potential conflict of interest...
...Frye Gaillard (Mr...
...An important weapon in this citizens' struggle to make their elected representatives publicly accountable will be the recently published book, Money and Secrecy: A Citizen's Guide to Reforming State and Federal Practices...
...The Yakimas began trying to get their land back...
...What more could the Government ask...
...Bristol charges $21.84 for 100 tablets of ampi-cillin in the United States, but $9.31 in Ireland...
...I cannot see," Senator Ervin said, "that there is much that the members of the Board can do during this fiscal year except to draw their breaths and their salaries...
...and Government attorneys are already maintaining that the Yakima case is one of a kind—that it set no precedents applicable to other Indian groups...
...It is clothed with the public interest, and it is the responsibility of the Congress to see that the public interest, instead of private gain, is the paramount factor in the administration of the patent system...
...One of these sources of data, the recently published 1971 edition of the U.N...
...The twelve per cent who depend on surplus commodities receive less than three-fourths of recommended minimum dietary allowances...
...The Federal lobbying law is so vague as to allow such lobbying groups as the American Bankers Association, General Motors, and International Telephone and Telegraph to avoid registering as lobbying groups at all...
...The measure was designed to convey HISC's disapproval of Jane Fonda, Ramsey Clark, and other peace activists who have journeyed to Hanoi...
...The U.N...
...report noted...
...Campaign costs make politics a rich man's game...
...Thus, in four out of five states, lawmakers can make committee decisions in secret, can profit personally by these votes, and can benefit from secretly financed campaigns, all without fear of public recrimination...
...Gaylord Nelson (Senator Nelson is chairman of the Monopoly Subcommittee of the Senate Small Business Committee...
...On the basis of the survey, Presidential proclamations were handed down in 1897 and 1907, setting aside certain "public lands bearing forests" for what is now the Gifford Pinchot National Forest...
...The Red Man's Burden The recent "sit-in" of 500 Indians at the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the nation's capital served to highlight their age-old battle against the Federal Government for their rights...
...Rhone-Poulenc also secured a Canadian patent and licensed a company in Canada to market it in that country...
...We have always owned it...
...The Yakima Indians of central Washington pressured the Federal Government into returning to the tribe 21,000 acres of land illegally taken near the turn of the century...
...The answer, the report argues persuasively, is to provide adequate cash assistance, "in a just, non-degrading manner," that will allow the poor to make their own choices, solve their own problems, lead their own lives...
...If that contention stands, other tribes may well find the Government as formidable and unpredictable as ever...
...Most Western European countries prohibit product patents on items considered necessary to the health and welfare of people...
...This country should set an example by replacing the export of U.S...
...The answer has been tailored to fit the needs of the bureaucracy rather than of the people...
...We should always have focused not on creating an administrative jungle of mechanisms for delivering food to the poor, but on developing the simplest, most dignified method enabling them to determine when and how to meet their own food needs...
...It is a minute fraction of the ultimate cost of the new weapons systems being promoted by the Pentagon...
...The Yakimas, if anything, demonstrated that where red men are concerned, justice is hard to come by even in the most open-and-shut case...
...If it cannot deal justly with Indians in a matter this simple, then what can it do...
...The HEW appropriation exceeded the President's fund request because Congress attempted to compensate for the Administration's utterly inadequate allotments in such areas as aid to ghetto schools, grants for community and mental health activities, vocational and adult education, libraries, and medical research...
...The Board—a distinguished group of physicians, lawyers, educators, and foundation officials—documented the fact that many millions of impoverished Americans were victims of hunger and malnutrition, and were therefore prey to "infant deaths, organic brain damage, retarded growth and learning rates, increased vulnerability to disease, withdrawal, apathy, alienation, frustration, and violence...
...The matter was put in the hands of Bradley Patterson, a pleasant, cautious man who serves as assistant to White House Minority Affairs Director Leonard Garment...
...In their continuing quest to preserve or win back land that is legally theirs, America's Indian people recently scored what many regarded as an important, if symbolic, victory...
...The $1.8 billion "overrun" in the HEW budget will closely match the cost of this year's increase in the tempo of U.S...
...Securing such patent monopolies has been so important to some companies that they have not hesitated to commit fraud on the Patent Office...
...Social Security taxes have been raised ten times in the last twelve years...
...An article he wrote in the summer of 1971 about the Yakimas' frustrations with the Federal Government was a factor in the successful resolution of their case, the Yakimas said, and they presented Gaillard with an award at a ceremony on their reservation...
Vol. 36 • December 1972 • No. 12
