The People of the United States of America v. Richard Milhous Nixon
Smith, The Editors and Austin C. Wehrwein, Walter Cronkite, Ferret Guillory, and Winston
-COMMENTThe People of the United States of America v. Richard Milhous Nixon It was barely six years ago, though somehow it seems much longer; we have been through a lot in those six years....
...Slaughterhouse-Five is a surrealistic novel about an American war prisoner trapped in the bombing of Dresden in World War II...
...He also was a prime mover in the coup that brought Papadopoulos to power...
...Yet Drake is blinded as if by flames: "The newspapers and television make it sound like we burned some hard-cover classics . . . [instead of] a few cheap paperbacks," the school board clerk muttered...
...There on my wall is a picture of Abraham Lincoln...
...But a bad peace is better than a good war...
...The middle-aged, middle-class gathering was quiet —even "dull and boring," Lykken testified later...
...Three months later he formally dissolved the junta, named an all-civilian cabinet, and announced there would be parliamentary elections next year—the first ones in a decade...
...That this should happen in an academic community supposedly dedicated to the free and open exchange of ideas is a grave portent...
...Only coffee (free), pop (25 cents) and beer (50 cents) on a self-service basis with two small donation baskets at hand...
...William S. Cohen, Maine Trent Lott, Miss...
...I don't have a particular philosophy," he told a local newspaper interviewer...
...Three genetics experts— including a black psychiatrist—were on stage to refute Shockley's discredited theory, but when it came time to hear from Shockley the thousand students present set up such a clamor of hooting and whistle-blowing that he was unable to speak...
...In succeeding years civil liberties were abolished or curtailed and opponents of the new order were imprisoned and tortured...
...Patriot Frank Wills was there when we needed him, just as much as Paul Revere was...
...Among those who know him he has a reputation as a hard-liner's hard-liner...
...If I were still Prime Minister, I would announce that we are prepared to give back all the territory occupied in the Six-Day War except Eastern Jerusalem and the Golan Heights—Jerusalem for history's sake, the Golan for security...
...BEN-GURION'S LEGACY Peace, real peace, is now a great necessity for us...
...Women's purses were searched and, most grievous, the Lykken home was ransacked, without a warrant, from top to bottom...
...Greek Smiles—and Despair In Greece people are said to be smiling with satisfaction because President George Papadopoulos has been deposed, which means they may have not paid much attention yet to the men who deposed him...
...This has been furthered by those in positions of leadership who encourage their followers to flout the law...
...In our opinion, the President has no credible defense against the grave charges leveled against him...
...However much the Raleigh mayor's election contributes to Southern racial advancement, its significance cannot be limited to that...
...Suddenly, it seems, Southern cities, like Raleigh, are having to deal with urban-oriented problems—clogged traffic arteries, strip zoning along highways, inner-city blight, and suburban sprawl —that have plagued cities elsewhere...
...Such a move by Israel would not only command worldwide approval (which Israel urgently needs now) ; it would be the kind of generous—but, more importantly, realistic—step forward that would make David Ben-Gurion rest most comfortably in the plain wooden box which lies at Sde Boker, the Negev Desert communal settlement he called home since the 1950s...
...What is achieved...
...He was reported, only a few weeks ago, to be searching for loopholes that would permit him to resume the bombing of Indochina...
...But, beyond its racially historic symbolism, Lightner's election also provides a sign of other changes in the South and an example of a Southern city's citizens acting through politics to adjust...
...The scandal was ignited when a student of Bruce Severy, a Drake high school English teacher who assigned the literature for his class to read, complained to her mother of Slaughterhouse-Five's "unnecessary" language...
...Jerome Waldie, Calif...
...Nixon's rhetoric, while the Administration proceeded with its plans to sabotage the Constitution, and especially the Bill of Rights...
...Between the primary and the runoff, Oliver Williams met with black forces allied with Lightner...
...The right of school boards to judge curricula is not at issue...
...A Blow to Freedom American democracy took a bitter drubbing recently when students at Staten Island Community College refused to allow one of the participants in a scheduled debate to present his position from the platform...
...The Fourth Amendment protects the people of this nation against unreasonable searches and seizures...
...The President's current "Operation Candor" is, like his past performance, a patchwork quilt of deception, concealment, and total fabrication...
...If Severy agrees, the school board may be served an injunction to halt burning of the remaining texts, and face a lawsuit to insure Severy's freedom to teach them...
...For the half decade of the Nixon Presidency, America has been ruled by men who flout the law, and who have been getting away with it—so far...
...The wire service story did not give the name of the bank, so we called Green Bay and found out...
...Joshua Eilberg, Pa...
...In short, he would have his constitutionally guaranteed day in court...
...And it seems clear that he and his colleagues engineered the latest coup not in a reaction against repression, but mainly because they feared Papadopoulos was going soft...
...But his successors show every potential, at least, of rising to the challenge...
...John Conyers, Mich...
...We have surveyed the arguments advanced against impeachment, and they seem to fall into these categories: One—To impeach the President would be a drastic and draconian measure—one that would throw the nation into turmoil and trauma...
...James R. Mann, S.C...
...He has contributed $500, anonymously, to start a trust fund for Wills in a Green Bay bank...
...Just how obscene are the books...
...But, perhaps above all, Lightner appears to be a political pragmatist...
...But dismissal alone could not right the wrongs suffered by the twenty victims...
...Harold D. Donohue, Mass...
...Our task is to persuade every last member that his or her political future will be in severe jeopardy—in the primaries as well as in the general election—unless the question of impeachment has been squarely faced...
...Raleigh also has experienced a rapid and haphazard increase of huge apartment complexes...
...When Severy's juniors all refused to turn in Deliverance to school officials, their lockers were searched and some of the paperback copies seized...
...Several North Dakota organizations hastened to divorce the state from the Drake action, among them the North Dakota Education Association, the Department of Public Instruction, the Council of English Teachers, and the Bicentennial Commission...
...It is hardly surprising that all charges were dismissed in Municipal Court...
...For example, when it rains a bit more than normal in Raleigh, Crabtree Creek overflows and, as it does, it floods Crabtree Valley Mall, the largest shopping center between Atlanta and Washington, D.C...
...He recently voted with the council majority to allow another controversial development along Crabtree Creek...
...Since that time he was in charge of suppressing opposition—a mission he executed with universally recognized effectiveness...
...Shockley has been hooted down at Dartmouth, canceled at Harvard, and closed to the public at Princeton...
...The pretext for the raid, fruit of two days of "top secret" planning with the doltish counsel of a right-wing Assistant City Attorney, was a handbill for the party that contained the words "donation and cash bar...
...In some ways, Lightner is an unlikely precedent-setter...
...In the space below appear the names of the thirty-seven members of the House Judiciary Committee who bear the first responsibility to report an impeachment resolution to the full House...
...John Seiberling, Ohio George Danielson, Calif...
...Richard Milhous Nixon, private citizen, was tooling up his campaign for the Republican Presidential nomination...
...Blacks constitute only 15.5 per cent of the registered voters here in Raleigh, whose population >is 130,000...
...Only the most avid Watergate buffs are likely to recall that he is the sharp-eyed night watchman who discovered that the lock of the door to Democratic National Headquarters in Washington had been tampered with and summoned the police who arrested the Watergate burglars...
...And war is worse than slavery...
...As a councilman for six years, he fitted into the traditional mold of a Raleigh officeholder— sober, moderate, cautious, compromise-seeking...
...Last month, in these pages, The Progressive called for "immense and unremitting pressure" on Congress to meet its constitutional responsibility by impeaching Richard M. Nixon, and we provided our own ten-point "Bill of Impeachment," a summary of the offenses which, in our judgment, warrant his expulsion from office...
...After teaching Catcher in the Rye—a book that used to upset Nice Nellies on school boards—last year without a spark of protest, Severy cautiously invited the superintendent to review the three milder works...
...Don Edwards, Calif...
...they are well-educated families attracted by the universities in the area and the sophisticated jobs in nearby Research Triangle Park...
...They have begun releasing scores of students and workers arrested in the bloody repression of anti-government demonstrations eleven days ago...
...There had been a mass arrest, a rush to the jail in paddy wagons for booking, mug shots, and fingerprinting, detention for up to five hours...
...DAVID BEN-GURION Founder and first Prime Minister of Israel, in the Saturday Review, April 3, 1971 The incident was as outlandish as it was outra-gous: On May 9, 1970, about 11 p.m., a twenty-man morals squad task force, without a warrant, rushed through the front and back doors of Professor David Lykken's home in a quiet residential district miles from the campus...
...And the only way to reverse this trend is to stand up for the principles of law wherever those principles are challenged...
...In an earlier day—and too often even now—white Southerners were susceptible to appeals to vote on a racial basis regardless of their own best interests...
...Our Jewish prophets said: "Nation shall not rise against nation, neither shall they learn war any more...
...While the election of black mayors in Atlanta, Detroit, and Los Angeles received more national attention, it was a remarkable achievement for Clarence E. Lightner, a fifty-two-year-old black city councilman, to win a popular majority in a contest for mayor in North Carolina's capital...
...Now it is slavery, not abolishing it, that is considered impossible...
...It is our great hope that the millions who mourned his death will find at least a part of his legacy to them in his words reproduced on the next page...
...Watergate's Forgotten Man Who is Frank Wills...
...But, of course, while the press now is free to criticize the old regime, it is not free to attack the new one— not under marching orders quickly given newspaper publishers personally by the new unofficial strongman —the head of the military police—Brigadier General Dimitrios Ioannidis...
...He was reared in the small black middle class and, though he experienced segregation, it was perhaps not so rough on him as on most other blacks...
...Seby Jones, who developed the shopping center, is a former mayor...
...The students say the copies will not be surrendered...
...William Hungate, Mo...
...Hamilton Fish, Jr., N.Y...
...As a small businessman," he recently wrote in a letter to the bank accompanying his contribution, "I would like to thank Frank Wills for his service to the people of the United States of America...
...Two—Whatever the President's domestic transgressions, he has successfully managed the nation's foreign affairs...
...Of the seven city councilmen elected, only one— a former fire chief—is considered a representative of the old ruling establishment...
...Not only should we not make war, we should not learn war...
...Now, with the pace of change so rapid and radical, Arab-Jewish partnership may come faster than we think, and together we could turn the Middle East into one of the garden spots and great creative centers of the earth...
...Wayne Owens, Utah Edward Mezvinsky, Iowa REPUBLICANS Edward Hutchinson, Mich...
...It strikes us that one way to translate that legacy into affirmative action would be for the Israeli government to agree now to the return of some modest portion of the lands seized from Egypt as a symbol of other actions that may be taken later on and of their understanding of the mood of the Arabs...
...What is Frank Wills doing now...
...William Keating, Ohio M. Caldwell Butler, Va...
...However repugnant Shockley's ideas may be, the students' refusal to hear him out is not only revolting but dangerous...
...So the happy smiles of those Greeks awaiting liberalization may soon be frozen on their faces...
...One student finished his copy, then presented it to the board in ashes...
...Nor is it an isolated incident...
...hundreds who read about it wrote and called school officials, and even the janitor who carried out the deed is sorry...
...Nothing...
...Progressive Southerners have been saying for the last few years that the South still has the opportunity to avoid Northern mistakes in urbanization...
...The initial businessman donor has asked the bank to turn over to Wills any money accumulated in the fund...
...ARITHMETIC LESSON It seems that this businessman, of a rather shabby reputation, was interviewing applicants for the job of chief accountant...
...Nixon is fragile at best —as was demonstrated when American forces were abruptly mobilized two months ago for reasons still withheld from the American people...
...Vigilance against the practice of book burning should be the business of every citizen...
...Charles Wiggins, Calif...
...These frontiers I have indicated would be, from our point of view, far from ideal...
...Nixon's successor...
...Besides an apparent majority of Drake parents, no one is picking up the school board's torch...
...The judge ruled that the "inexcusable" (and illegal) arrests were "for the purpose of harassing those at the gathering because of their political beliefs...
...It is a graphic illustration, in the eyes of many citizens, of zoning folly in the local floodplain...
...Impeachment of the nation's highest official is, in-deedj a critical step and one not to be taken without the most profound deliberation...
...Richard C. Gerstenberg Chairman, General Motors Corporation before the Financial Executives Institute in New York City Book Burning Drake, North Dakota School board members in Drake, North Dakota, a farming village of 650, recently joined the historic company of Roman emperors, Nazis, and McCarthyites by pitching three dozen books into a fire...
...Meanwhile, Drake youths clamor to read the books they started in English class...
...The generals clearly are trying to capitalize on Papadopoulos's bad image by contrasting behavior...
...The President has managed, by his erratic and irrational economic policies, to alienate this nation's closest allies in Europe and Asia...
...To the generals, this simply meant Greece was not "ready" for a return to democracy...
...They confiscated antiwar material, environmental literature, all manner of personal and family papers—-including fifteen-year-old Jesse Lykken's two-page list of baseball players—PTA minutes, and a copy each of Nation's Business and The Progressive...
...Raleigh: Symbol of Racial Progress Raleigh, North Carolina Even as it moves, however falteringly, away from the racism of its past, the South finds itself confronted with the problems of growing urbanization...
...The presiding judge in that trial will be his own appointee, Chief Justice Warren Burger, who will, presumably, harbor no prejudice against Mr...
...Raleigh's election was a political expression of a willingness to try...
...It contains not even a single "damn," according to Severy...
...Severy never had the chance to justify his choices until they were banned...
...The community coalition distributed issue-oriented literature explaining "planned growth" and mentioning candidates favorable to it...
...But the Arabs, beaten and humiliated so often, desperately need the restoration of some measure of self-respect as they move at last to a full-scale Arab-Israeli peace conference in Geneva December 18, the date on which this issue of The Progressive goes to press...
...The Drake school board acted improperly for several reasons...
...Elizabeth Holtzman, N.Y...
...He is teaching grammar until the five-member board agrees on who will review his future selections for student reading...
...Unless we reverse this trend, we face an onset of civil anarchy...
...Were he to resign, he would be simply another citizen in hot water with the law—a status he is not likely to find attractive...
...On the record, the FBI disclaimed any interest, and while Neville dismissed a conspiracy count, suspicion continues that some Federal agency may have shared an interest in the anti-missile movement...
...Then, apparently, the straw that broke Papadopoulos's back was his hes-istancy in repressing the recent demonstrations...
...It is reflected in the statement of so conservative a commentator as James Jackson Kilpatrick: "The time has come, much as a long time admirer regrets to say it, to proceed with the impeachment and trial of Richard Nixon...
...In view of the 1973 election results, it is perhaps ironic that some of this neighborhood activism began in response to dissatisfaction several years ago with a school busing plan...
...David W. Dennis, Ind...
...The widespread outrage over the burning of the books has brought none of the censor-types a flicker of remorse...
...None of the lands offered up would need to include the strategic areas which Israel regards—and in some cases, rightly so—as positions indispensable to her survival and security...
...There is little point in detailing here the latest misadventures of his tangled and tampered tapes or of his ingenious tax returns...
...Carlos Moorhead, Calif...
...Look at France and Germany...
...A school board is supposed to enforce what it deems to be a community's moral standards...
...The third book is a collection of short stories by Hemingway, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thurber, Conrad, Fitzgerald, Joyce, Maugham, and others...
...Charles Rangel, N.Y...
...District Judge Philip Neville by the Minnesota Civil Liberties Union under the 1871 Civil Rights Act was evident when the police raid leader ran to the FBI with the names of those arrested and the illegally seized "evidence" of "a security nature...
...As I. F. Stone recently observed in The New York Review of Books, if Mr...
...For another, School Superintendent Dale Fuhrman approved purchase of all three volumes last spring...
...If Wills had been less alert, the whole astounding series of discoveries which has shaken the nation might never have come to light and an uninformed country might still be dozing in the shade of Mr...
...Fortunately, there is one formidable weapon available to those of us who want to see the legislature do its duty: Every last member of the House of Representatives must stand for re-election this year or go into retirement...
...Charles Sandman, N.J...
...Words to remember—words we would qualify in only one respect: When "those in positions of leadership" and their followers flout the law, what we face is not an onset of civil anarchy but an onset of dictatorship...
...Nixon could prove his innocence by "laying his cards on the table," he would have laid them on the table long ago...
...Lightner met with the community coalition and won its endorsement...
...Jack Brooks, Texas Robert Kastenmeier, Wis...
...The first two answered "four," but neither got the job...
...But Fuhrman failed to read them...
...But in the city elections, race was not injected as an issue as it was, for instance, in Atlanta...
...It contains four-letter words and sexual imagery, but nothing new to most high school students...
...It is reflected in the sinking stock market, in the sullen response to the President's appeals for cooperation in energy conservation, in the open skepticism accorded to his feeble and evasive "Operation Candor...
...AUSTIN C. WEHRWEIN (Mr...
...Six and a half years ago a group of colonels led by Papadopoulos took over Greece by coup d'etat to spare that country the insecurities and uncertainties of parliamentary democracy...
...All public institutions have been reopened except for those universities—those hotbeds of subversion...
...His protest was not a lone one: Newspapers around the nation censured the burning of the books...
...He has, thanks to the connivance of a supine legislative branch, new authority to deal arbitrarily and preemptorily with the burgeoning fuel crisis...
...The Israelis, of course, have taken the formally correct position—so hallowed in the history of war and peace—in insisting that no surrender of occupied lands should be made until a peace treaty is concluded...
...The leaders in the Kremlin and in Peking may dismiss the significance of Watergate in their controlled press, but in their private counsels they certainly wonder— as a growing number of thoughtful Americans must wonder—whether the President of the United States is not capable of precipitating a world crisis, perhaps the ultimate world crisis, in a desperate last attempt to salvage his political fortunes at home...
...Thus the case, seen in Minneapolis as a broadening of the 1871 Act's reach, might be considered parallel to the Watergate "plumbers"—that is, an attempt to cloak intimidating illegal acts with a national security blanket...
...Nations which have been at each other's throats today may fall on each other's necks tomorrow...
...The nation's security would be enhanced rather than undermined by Mr...
...For one, none of its members had completely read any of the books, nor had the clergymen, policeman, or parents who objected to them at the special meeting...
...A businessman in Green Bay, Wisconsin, thinks this is a national disgrace, and so do we...
...Henry P. Smith, N.Y...
...The other factor is the existence of a group in the community who are accustomed to dealing with both blacks and whites and have the confidence of both...
...To impeach him would undermine world stability and jeopardize "national security...
...But it is precisely the remedy provided by the Constitution for the tragic circumstance of a public official who betrays his trust by committing high crimes and misdemeanors...
...WALTER CRONKITE (This commentary by Mr...
...The issue was of particular concern to a coalition of activist community organizations that had been formed in the white suburban subdivisions along Raleigh's outer ring...
...This is, at best, wishful thinking unfounded in fact...
...Why do it...
...Harold Froehlich, Wis...
...The nation is in a state of turmoil now, and also in a pathological state of melancholia and anxiety...
...If it happens that the standards of Drake make the rest of conservative North Dakota look like North Gomorrah, that's for the school board to take into account...
...What's worse, the President is still embarked on the process—perhaps more persistently than ever—of arrogating power to himself...
...In Minot, a North Dakota city of 33,000, Slaughterhouse-Five and Deliverance have sold out completely...
...Seized were the pop and beer, but also wine and liquor in storage, and every scrap of paper the raid ringleaders noticed...
...To impeach means to indict, not to convict...
...No music or loud voices to arouse neighbors' complaints...
...Nixon has "learned his lesson," that he will sin no more, that the best thing to do now is to punish those of his hirelings who got caught, and to let time take care of the rest...
...That ugly term connotes a Victorian whorehouse, but the reference was really to an ancient part of the law covering "tippling houses," meaning unlicensed or after-hours joints...
...At this writing, while the nation plunges ever deeper into crisis, the House gives little indication that a decisive number of its members recognize the urgency of the task confronting them—or the mood of the American people...
...It is reflected everywhere in America except in the halls of Congress...
...Until recently it would have been hard to imagine leaders of Greece who would make George Papadopoulos look like a flaming liberal...
...Thus the charges: selling liquor without a license and operating and being inmates of a "disorderly house...
...Every nation needs it...
...They were copies of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.'s Slaughterhouse-Five, a best seller and 1969 runner-up for the National Book Award...
...It strikes at the very keystone of democracy—freedom of speech...
...So he was willing to adapt his campaign to the "planned growth" movement and to travel with the "planned growth" forces toward a racially-historic victory...
...And it is clear that affluent white Southerners—whatever their personal racial inclinations—decided to vote in accordance to what they perceived to be their interests, and it happened that in this case a black man was the more acceptable candidate...
...In the run-off, Lightner's opponent was G. Wesley Williams, executive director of the Raleigh Merchants Bureau and the candidate of the traditional establishment...
...Several candidates pledged to promote "planned growth" entered the city council races...
...a callous disregard for the constitutional rights of others who may have been of a different political persuasion...
...In any case, Judge Neville's ruling against the three raid leaders was based on more than a matter of false arrest...
...Nixon will spare the Congress and the country the "embarrassment" of an impeachment proceeding by resigning...
...Wehrwein is a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial writer for The Minneapolis Star...
...Greece, they feared, was "being dragged into an electoral adventure," a phrase which seems to spell bad news for those projected elections...
...At a special meeting demanded by several parents, the school board decided to burn all three "obscene" books...
...Three—However harsh the circumstantial evidence and however inept his attempts at rebuttal, the case against Richard M. Nixon has not been proven...
...We are convinced that the Israelis would be demonstrating wisdom and far-sighted statesmanship if, in the early days of the conference, they took the initiative in proclaiming, even before the long, tough negotiations begin, that they were prepared now to return at least some of the lands seized from the Arabs...
...Raleigh had traditionally been governed by a town "establishment," but lately a feeling has grown, as one citizen activist put it, "that any private interests can get what they want" from city government...
...The University of Minnesota psychologist and his wife, Harriet, were hosts to an earnest discussion-group gathering—a typical dovish-liberal affair...
...If you want to help the man who triggered the whole discovery of Watergate and its attendant White House "horrors," send your contribution to the Frank Wills Trust Fund, care of the People's Marine Bank, 200 South Adams Street, Green Bay, Wisconsin 54305...
...He had concluded that "law and order" was the basic theme that would carry him into the White House, and on February 15, 1968, he delivered himself of these remarks: "We have seen a general erosion of respect for the rule of law—an erosion that stems in part from a spreading mood of 'anything goes,' a mounting tendency to measure acts not by what is right, but by what a person thinks he can get away with...
...Robert McClory, 111...
...Deliverance is an adventure tale about four men who go canoeing down a river's rapids...
...The Egyptians insisted, as they entered the conference hall, that they would not compromise on their demands for Israeli withdrawal from all Arab lands occupied in the 1967 six-day war...
...Lightner now operates an insurance agency, a funeral home, and a cemetery...
...That mood is reflected in every public opinion poll showing that confidence in the Federal Government has fallen to an all-time low...
...Not a few of the confiscated copies have been stolen from classrooms, a teachers' lounge, and Severy's own desk...
...The police could only have been motivated by a desire to harass the guests at the fund raiser and/or attempt to set an example for others who might stage antiwar gatherings...
...The victim, Dr...
...In their own words, the generals acted not to overthrow the dictatorship of Greece, but to preserve it...
...Depriving him of his freedom to speak diminishes the freedom of all of us...
...Those who say that abolishing war is impossible forget that not long ago it was considered impossible to abolish slavery...
...And when one gets away with it, others are tempted to follow...
...He must be impeached by a majority of the House of Representatives solemnly assembled to discharge its gravest constitutional obligation...
...The impact of both of these trends was evident in the recent city election in Raleigh, which became the first predominantly white Southern city to choose a black mayor...
...HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE Letters, telegrams, and petitions calling for the impeachment of President Nixon can be addressed to the following members of the House Judiciary Committee (and all other members of the House) at the House Office Building, Washington, D.C...
...David Ben-Gurion Elsewhere in these pages we publish some remarks by David Ben-Gurion, the man who proclaimed the centuries-old dream of a Jewish state a reality twenty-five years ago...
...The only board member speaking to reporters said he would burn them again...
...But the Egyptians know, no less than do the Israelis, that the heart of creative bargaining is compromise...
...Two other factors should also be pointed out...
...All thirty-four of Severy's sophomores except two, the complainant and a board member's son, petitioned for Slaughter house-Five'& reinstatement...
...WINSTON SMITH (Mr...
...We recall not only the Nazi bonfires, but also the McCarthy era attacks on public libraries in this country that prompted President Eisenhower to decry bookburning in 1953...
...their love for this sometimes crotchety but always powerful and pioneering figure was abundantly evident...
...He found a "blatant disregard for . . . constitutional rights...
...There is, it seems to us, a fourth major argument against impeachment that is seldom uttered aloud, but that perhaps accounts for most of the Congressional inertia: the assumption (or at least the hope) that Mr...
...We need to finish with wars and armies...
...Robert Drinan, Mass...
...That is where we are as we enter a new year...
...Finally, some still seem to cling to the wan hope that Mr...
...It contains a homosexual rape scene, but one vital to the prize-winning novel's theme...
...Through it all, Severy is hunting, writing poetry, and planning his next assignment—quite possibly Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451...
...One is the influence of recent arrivals from the North who have settled in Raleigh...
...To proceed with impeachment will provide a desperately needed catharsis—"will clear the poisonous air," as James Kilpatrick said—by demonstrating to Americans that they are still in control of their own destiny...
...Guillory is chief capitol correspondent for The Raleigh News and Observer...
...Now that Papadopoulos himself reportedly is under house arrest following a new generals' coup recently, it is not surprising there are many Greeks who are not too sad to see him go...
...The stability achieved by Mr...
...Last June, Papadopoulos had proclaimed a republic, then staged a referendum in which voters not only approved his new constitution but also approved him as president with widespread legislative and executive powers...
...Thus, the generals now explain, they intervened to "save the country once more from chaos, anarchy, and vandalism...
...Oliver Williams got the black votes he needed, and the most ardent "planned growth" advocate was elected to the council...
...The response, from readers and friends of The Progressive, from labor unions and other organizations actively engaged in the impeachment campaign, from several members of Congress, has been most heartening...
...Cronkite was delivered over CBS radio on November 27...
...It is high time that Frank Wills, Watergate's forgotten man, be remembered and rewarded...
...indeed, we are well informed that he retained the basic thrust of this position until his death on December 1. Despite the continuing Middle East emergency and threatening weather, mourners came to Jerusalem from throughout Israel—more than 100,000 of them—while countless others watched and listened on television and radio...
...He asked each applicant how much is two plus two...
...Overkill' in Minneapolis Minneapolis The case of the Minneapolis "professor bust," an instance of crude but misfired political repression by Mayor Charles Stenvig's police, has been capped by a heartening re-affirmation of basic civil liberties in a Federal court decision that awarded the twenty victims damages of $19,000 in total and denounced "police overkill...
...Paul S. Sarbanes, Md...
...He can command widest media dissemination of his self-serving statements...
...20515...
...Severy, a young Californian, says it also decided to fire him this spring...
...A proclamation by Israel, before the hard bargaining begins, that she is prepared to return at once the nonstrategic areas she holds by conquest, might lower the temperature at the peace table and create a climate that would make negotiations less abrasive and far more conducive to the spirit of give-and-take on which all our hopes for peace rest...
...Adding "planned growth" support to his solid backing in the black community, Lightner defeated his opponent by 17,348 (52.9 per cent) to 15,476 (47.1 per cent...
...Nothing else will clear the poisonous air and restore a sense of domestic "tranquility...
...Thomas Railsback, 111...
...Holding power behind the scenes is nothing new to Ioannidis...
...The ideological key to the case presented to U.S...
...It is surely evident by now to every other government that it must deal in Washington with an Administration that has lost the confidence and support of its own people and the competence to manage even routine matters...
...And the press now is freely telling its readers that Papadopoulos was a bad guy after all...
...The third applicant was hired, because when he was asked how much is two plus two, he got up, closed the door, drew the blinds, leaned across the desk, and said, "How much would you like it to be...
...But he will have the opportunity to do so in an open forum, before all of the American people...
...The people who live near these new developments have noticed a correlation between the building of new apartments and overcrowding in the nearby public schools—a correlation that prompted one resident to comment, "They are having classes everywhere but on the roof in some of those places...
...He would have unlimited time, and the advice of the ablest counsel he could command, to present every iota of evidence at his disposal...
...Citizens in a free society have the right to expect that they may gather to discuss politics and to raise money for political projects without being harassed by the police," he said...
...The black groups assured council candidate Williams of support and Williams agreed to do what he could to increase Lightner's acceptance by the "planned growth" organizations...
...The open house party was designed to support an ad hoc organization that opposed the building of an anti-ballistic missile silo near Nekoma, North Dakota...
...In the mayoral primary, Lightner had come in second in a three-man field...
...this type of political liaison, according to one community activist, is "much more advanced than people thought it was...
...he had obtained almost solid black support but he needed more strength in white precincts...
...He attempted, against the wishes of eighty per cent of the American people as revealed in the Gallup Poll, to veto even the much watered-down war powers bill enacted by Congress...
...This violated freedom of speech, the fundamental principles of a free society, and "such police overkill . . . should not be tolerated," the judge added...
...History has proved the absurdity of remembering traditional enmities as eternal...
...Their grief was great...
...We come back to Congress, where the ultimate responsibility lies...
...So long as he sits ensconced in the Oval Office, he can manipulate and, to a substantial extent, control the various investigations now under way...
...Smith is a North Dakota newspaperman...
...After the primary, he determined that he would need support in black precincts in order to win...
...DEMOCRATS Peter Rodino, Jr., N.J...
...The Lykkens themselves were not members of the organization, called "People Against Missiles...
...Barbara Jordan, Texas Ray Thornton, Ark...
...Political pragmatism also helps explain the white suburbanite support of Lightner...
...And the only way to reverse this trend, as the man told us, is to stand up for the principles of law...
...The overriding issue of the election was what was called "planned growth...
...Walter Flowers, Ala...
...The Minot, North Dakota, chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union is considering legal action against the board, which already has hired its own attorney...
...But the idea of community organization has since broadened, the techniques of citizen participation have spread, and the focus is now on influencing the managing of urban affairs...
...Once he has been impeached by a majority of the House, the President will have the opportunity to present his full defense to the Senate...
...Conviction and removal from office will require the consent of two-thirds of the Senate...
...William Shockley, is an electrical engineer from Stanford who has gained a good deal of notoriety in recent years with his theory that blacks are genetically inferior to whites and should be rewarded for not reproducing...
...This man, to whom millions of Americans owe so much, is unemployed...
...The pathology can only become more acute if we fail to come to grips with our crisis...
...His two-year-old comment is as vibrantly eloquent and realistic as the day he uttered it...
...Wiley Mayne, Iowa Lawrence J. Hogan, Md...
...They, like all other members of the House and Senate, must be made to understand now that their constituents and countrymen want them to get on with the case of The People of the United States v. Richard Milhous Nixon...
...Of the 62.8 million people in the sixteen states and Washington, D.C., that the Census Bureau considers "South," fully 40.5 million live in an urban environment...
...But why should he...
...This is actually a reason for proceeding with impeachment...
...He can't get a job...
...Judge Neville ordered the Minneapolis Police Department to expunge the records of all the illegal arrests...
...It is worth almost any sacrifice...
...Such a step, it seems to us, would provide a symbolic affirmation of Israel's determination to go the last mile in pursuit of a just and enduring peace...
...by the time this issue of The Progressive reaches its subscribers, these are likely to have been eclipsed by new hair-raising revelations...
...It is nonsense to kill people...
...But the President will not be impeached by readers and friends of The Progressive, by organizations, or by a few members of Congress...
...FERREL GUILLORY (Mr...
...In Raleigh just a year ago, a referendum on a proposed merger of city and county schools was defeated in large part due to opposition arguments that it would increase busing...
...They have also released some old-time Greek politicians who made Papadopoulos angry by expressing sympathy with the demonstrations...
...It is widely reported that Ioannidis and fellow officers were distressed by Papadopoulos's personal aggrandizement of power, but absolutely outraged at the prospect of a return to democracy—even Papadopou-los-style—particularly because it seemed likely that in an election, sympathizers of military rule would lose...
...To get it, we must return to the borders before 1967...
...He can invoke the sundry "privileges" —real and imagined—attached to the Presidency in order to conceal or withhold information...
...At this writing, the fate of two other confiscated works, James Dickey's Deliverance and an anthology titled Short Story Masterpieces, is in doubt...
...What is questioned here is the manner of enforcement...
...Running for one of the at-large council seats (there are five district and two citywide council positions) was a young North Carolina State University professor, Oliver Williams, who served a term on the city planning commission and established himself as a strong advocate of "planned growth...
...The Middle East is not alone in being desperate for peace...
Vol. 38 • January 1974 • No. 1
