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Zwerdling, The Editors and Judith Miller, Jonathan Brandow, Frye Caillard, Les Aspin, Charles B. Ra
COMMENT Selling the People Short Democratic National Chairman Robert Strauss listened to President Nixon's State of the Union address and, on the morning after, delivered the jaded judgment...
...the State Department argued that it does not...
...His job is to travel around the country, matching Defense laboratory technology with civilian markets...
...A recent staff analysis of the Federal Power Commission, which regulates interstate natural gas sales, disclosed that an increase of natural gas prices to just $1 per mcf will cost the American consumer $18 billion a year...
...The New York Times, which is not given to editorial hyperbole, commented the other day that "the United States is a nation adrift...
...Embassy in Haiti, Washington officials have concluded that the Haitians are fleeing from economic privation, rather than political oppression, and that they do not, therefore, merit political asylum...
...There are a lot of people in this country who are desperate to be sold on the President...
...It is not the Republican Party that is being discredited in the eyes of the American people, but the political process itself...
...The nation is adrift because there is a growing suspicion that nothing can be done about it...
...Justice and the cause of civil liberties demand that the governor reexamine the case of the Charlotte Three...
...So far the extradition appeals have not gone well for the Haitians, and their attorneys admit privately that there is little cause for optimism...
...How America accepts and understands Kent State will tell us the answer to the question, does America work...
...consumers, it would add $9 billion to the consumer's gas bill, bringing the total added cost to $27 billion...
...The nation is adrift not merely, or even primarily, because its highest leadership has demonstrably committed high crimes and misdemeanors by engaging in illegal warfare, domestic espionage and sabotage, blatant deception, bribery, burglary, and sundry invasions of privacy...
...The monolithic Histadrut trade union, encompassing ninety-one per cent of the labor force, was exposed as a rather curious working class agent after repeatedly crushing strikes which demanded a greater share of rank and file management in Histadrut-owned factories...
...In a leftist peace government, party reins would pass to the radical wing of Labor—that is, to Eliav and former Histadrut Secretary General Yitzchak Ben-Aharon, who are eager to purge the party's old guard...
...The refugees' lawyers have appealed the decision through all possible administrative channels...
...Doctoral candidates presented abstract schemes they had devised for nurturing self-managed compa nies...
...DANIEL ZWERDLING (Daniel Zwerdling is a Washington-based free lance writer...
...Significant but ignored results on the opposite pole of the political spectrum, however, reveal that the public voted not for the Likud, but against the monotonous, often hypocritical, Labor government...
...If that cause fails, it should not be recorded as a failure of the people...
...District Judge in south Florida acknowledged during hearings in the case that he sympathized with the Haitians' plight, but on December 28 he ruled that, legally, his hands were tied: The refugees had been treated in strict accordance with U.S...
...It reflects, in only slightly moderated form, the boundless contempt for the people that permeates the Nixon Administration and that inspired the sordid crimes of Watergate...
...Kent State Reopened One day last August, while he was still Attorney General, Elliot L. Richardson announced that the Justice De partment was reopening the Federal investigation into the May 4, 1970 shootings at Kent State University which left four students dead and nine others wounded...
...Strauss's appraisal was, apparently, widely shared by those Congressional Democrats who, even at this advanced state of national decay and dissolution, are still tenderly toe-dancing around the question of impeachment...
...they are not ready yet to insist on a role in determining production schedules and corporate investment policies...
...Gassing the Taxpayers The Nixon Administration's goal of detente with the Soviet Union is highly commendable, but the selection of the Russian gas deal as a first test of detente is a tragic mistake...
...George Gallup's frequently reported statement that in thirty years of sampling public opinion he has consistently found the people to be out in front of their leaders on major issues affecting the nation's welfare...
...There have been few positive aspects of Watergate, but the Federal grand jury inquiry on the Kent State killings must be considered one...
...This rider prohibits the extension of U.S...
...As Rich ardson said: "a fresh look...
...Why does the Nixon Administration insist on the Russian gas deal...
...Down on the Farm with ITT Corporate giantism, which has stifled competition and then charged exorbitant prices in such major fields as the oil, steel, automobile, chemical, and communications industries, has been taking over U.S...
...The Haitians may be especially so because almost no one has rallied to their defense...
...They also ignored the investigations by Peter Davies, author of The Truth About Kent State, who concluded that the Guardsmen might have conspired beforehand to open fire on the students...
...His articles have appeared in New Politics, The Jewish Spectator, and other publications in the United States, and in Siach and Toorei Smol in Israel...
...Their disillusionment is borne out by public opinion surveys: The latest Gallup Poll available as these pages go to press reports that sixty-four per cent of the people disapprove of the way the President is performing the duties of his office, while only twenty-six per cent approve...
...District Court Judge Frank J. Battisti, to consider possible violations of the students' civil rights by members of the Ohio National Guard...
...Security Council Resolution which called for Israeli pullbacks from unspecified "territories," and a recognition of "just rights" for the Palestinians...
...Ironically, the discontent has given the administrators the key—the Gesell ruling—to improve the situation...
...all members then receive equal pay and equal voting rights, electing boards of directors from among fellow workers (anyone can run) and voting on major policies from capital investment and real estate purchases to dividend payment schedules and sick-leave benefits...
...Did the Guardsmen, in firing on the students, violate the students' due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment...
...last year's 59-cent sack of flour sells for 99 cents now, and one pound of rice priced at 21 cents a year ago is now 38 cents...
...The Government may be correct in its assessment...
...President Nixon and his surrogates in the Justice Department, John Mitchell and Richard Kleindienst, consistently resisted all efforts to begin the legal process in the Kent State matter...
...Rather than specifically convening a Federal grand jury, the Department intended "to exhaust every poten tial for acquiring facts relating to this tragedy...
...Each of the consortium's member laboratories has a "technology transfer representative," who keeps Metcalf apprised of developments in his laboratory...
...The only voice of American labor in the entire conference was UAW Vice President Irving Bluestone...
...Brandow, who has lived in Israel for two years, is now completing a book on Middle Eastern politics and the Israeli situation in particular...
...credits by the Export-Import Bank (or other government-financed banks) to any country which does not allow free emigration...
...Acting on recommendations from the U.S...
...Abourezk: "Once the basic food production of this country is in the hands of a few giant companies, prices will really skyrocket . . . Farming should be for farmers and not ITT, Greyhound, Purex, and the other giant conglomerates...
...It has become the scale upon which America's sense of morality will be weighed...
...He also wants vigorous enforcement of existing antitrust laws and more power for the FTC to help curb the growing dominance of a relatively small number of super-corporations in farming and food processing...
...America remains one of the few nations in the Western world which can boast of no worker self-management tradition...
...As every housewife knows, food prices have been climbing out of sight...
...It is almost as if that sour 1968 election rang down the curtain on career politicians...
...Morale has been bad at State for years...
...Senator Gaylord Nelson, who inserted the Safire col umn in the Congressional Record, has announced he plans to introduce a measure to raise the pay of Federal grand jurors...
...Israel's Coalition Politics Even as Israeli troops began to withdraw from the Suez Canal, the media in Israel concluded that Golda Meir's Labor Party had suffered a stiff but not debilitating setback in January's elections, largely to the advantage of the far-Right Likud (Unity) coalition of Menachem Begin...
...The People for Self-Management conference gave birth to plans for a newsletter and committees of correspondence^—all the basics which mark the infancy of a movement...
...Every American who is in touch with reality—and that category, it would appear, excludes a substantial segment of the Congress —can sense the pervasive feeling of frustration and alienation...
...COMMENT Selling the People Short Democratic National Chairman Robert Strauss listened to President Nixon's State of the Union address and, on the morning after, delivered the jaded judgment of an old pol: "It will play in Peoria," he said...
...It flies in the face of overwhelming evidence that Americans—and particularly those Americans who gave Richard M. Nixon a massive vote of confidence barely sixteen months ago—are fed to the teeth with the President who betrayed their trust...
...immigration laws and regulations...
...The refugees, who are among 400 from the island dictatorship to seek political asylum in the United States in the last fourteen months, have appealed their extradition orders...
...Double Standard on Refugees On October 1 of last year, sixty-two Haitian refugees were rescued from a sinking thirty-foot sailboat off the Florida keys...
...According to both senior bank officials and Administration officials, approval of the loan is likely...
...It is the feeling of the desperate truck drivers—"middle Americans" all, and members of the "silent majority" Nixon claimed as his own not long ago—who blockaded the nation's highways, and it can be heard in workplaces, living rooms, and corner saloons of every city, town, and village in America...
...Metcalf s offices are in the NSF, but half of his salary is paid by the Navy...
...It should have been enough, as it became increasingly plain that the Administration had lost both the will and the ability to govern, to convince even the most lethargic legislators that this was no time for evasion and procrastination...
...Straining Labor's traditional mystique of national unity, the Israeli Panthers, an ideologically heterogeneous the harsher Dayan faction, intends to give up its posts easily...
...The danger inherent in the expansion of the military into the civilian sector, and in the potential application of defense technology designed foi use against America's "enemies" to the inhabitants of American cities, clearly outweighs any possible "efficiencies" to be gained from the questionable transfers of technology...
...In that grim context, it is possible to understand one Congressman's comment that some of his colleagues would not vote to impeach the President "if he were caught in a bank vault at midnight...
...JUDITH MILLER {Judith Miller is The Progressive's Washington cones* pondent...
...They point out that in contrast to its policy of welcoming defectors from Fidel Castro's Cuba, the U.S...
...The projected price of Soviet gas delivered to the East and West Coasts respectively is $1.25 and $1.50 per mcf—a price increase of more than 500 per cent...
...New York is just one of the many cities and states receiving consortium assistance...
...And while officials go through the lengthy process of deciding their fate, they find themselves helplessly locked in a Miami jail—in order to facilitate what the American Government sees as their imminent deportation...
...A U.S...
...for a bibliography on self-management in the United States, Dan White, 151 W. 13th Street, New York City 10011...
...top defense counsel get $100 an hour...
...After another two-anda-half years in office, these Democrats reason, the President and his party will be so thoroughly discredited that the Democrats will have a hammerlock on national office for years and perhaps decades to come...
...To prevent any additional paralysis of the grand jury system, especially in the grave constitutional crisis that confronts us in Watergate, Congress must move speedily to enact Sen ator Nelson's bill...
...How can a self-managed firm engender the worker motivation and camaraderie necessary to help overcome enormous obstacles...
...Thus, the refugees are seen by Washington officials as hapless pawns in a larger political contest, and pawns are expendable...
...Hunter S. Thompson aptly summed it up when he wrote recently on the op-ed page of The Times: "One of the strangest things about these five downhill years of the Nixon Presidency is that despite all the savage excesses committed by the people he chose to' run the country, no real opposition or realistic alternative to Richard Nixon's cheap and meanhearted view of the American Dream has ever developed...
...farm families down to about 2.3 million—and, according to Senator Abourezk, decreasing by 1,000 families a week—passage of his Farm Family Antitrust Act is desperately needed, not only to protect consumers from even worse profiteering by the corporate giants of farming, but to help protect the livelihood of the small number of American families still on the land...
...It is aimed at halting loans and credits to the Soviet Union in retaliation for the discriminatory treatment of Russian Jews who wish to emigrate to Israel...
...For Kent State represents much more than the possibility of a few indictments by a grand jury...
...It was just ten years ago that the United Auto Workers called a strike to demand doors on factory toilet stalls...
...They may be right, but we suspect they are dead wrong...
...Export-Import Bank still plans, nevertheless, to decide in the near future on the first Russian request for $49 million in credits to help explore for natural gas in Eastern Siberia...
...Or, perhaps, President Nixon is afraid to say "no" to some hefty contributors to his re-election...
...The near catastrophic lack of military preparedness for the October War was, of course, a contributing factor to defections from Labor (whose generals are in charge of the Israeli Defense Forces...
...JONATHAN BRANDOW (Mr...
...Reports indicate the grand juries' work is far from complete...
...If we cannot see that we are all in this together and if we cannot bring about some kind of national air-cleaning, then we are headed toward anomie—existing without standards...
...And the contrast between Cubans welcomed as heroes, and Haitians thrown into jail, is one of the most striking testimonials to the Government's double standard...
...Nixon has been so busy with his own Watergate de fense that he has had neither the time, energy, or po litical strength to pursue a Kent State coverup...
...The labs have advised the Department on the use of drug-filled darts on humans, advancements in "non-lethal" weaponry, night vision equipment, photocopying devices, and communications systems...
...District Judge Gerhard Gesell recently ruled that the much criticized "selection-out" or dismissal process of the Foreign Service of the State Department and U.S...
...For those of us who wrote letters, gave speeches, and lobbied for a Federal grand jury on Kent State, the time for activism may be over...
...His target for the coming year is 100,000 Labor Party signatures...
...We are convinced they are mistaken...
...The consortium and the Police Department have also conducted negotiations regarding the "loaning" of Defense Department scientists to the Police Department's recently established Applied Technology Unit...
...But, according to several Senate and House staff aides, the consortium venture clearly violates the spirit, if not the actual letter, of the Mansfield amendment...
...For the new replacements would have to review much of the vast amount of evidence already submitted so that future investigations could account for all the relevant information...
...How can the Federal tax laws which favor capitalist business and discourage self-management be revised...
...Today the wellhead, or wholesale, price of natural gas in the United States is approximately twenty-three cents per thousand cubic feet (mcf...
...We need an impeachment or resignation to be able to say that we have made up our minds on something...
...One coverup at a time is enough...
...The Wisconsin Democrat told the Senate that while a short term on a grand jury may not constitute hardship, a longer term does: "When—as in the case of one of the Watergate grand juries—the term of grand juror lasts for nineteen months, the financial sacrifice endured by these people is considerable...
...Now, appeals exhausted, the three men have started serving their prison terms, and a campaign is under way to persuade Republican Governor James Holshouser to commute their sentences...
...In St...
...If it succeeds, it will be the people's success...
...Secretary of State Henry Kissinger may believe that the price of detente justifies consumers paying dramatically higher costs for more insecure sources of energy...
...As a beginning, the conference was more valuable in exposing how much we do not know about selfmanagement in America than in publicizing the little we do...
...getting nowhere, they have now moved into the Federal courts...
...It should have been enough, but it wasn't...
...How can the company structure prevent a small group of workers from becoming dominant...
...Some of the nation's major students of self-management joined together in two dilapidated MIT classrooms in January at the first annual conference of People for Self-Management...
...Checking out American companies with some forms of worker self-management is clearly an essential starting point for the American movement—and this basic chore still remains to be done...
...Bringing the War Home The legislatively-mandated separation between civilian and military sectors of Federally funded research is being blurred by a consortium of thirty Department of Defense laboratories which has quietly been selling its services to state and local agencies, including law enforcement units...
...What Senator Jim Abourezk of South Dakota calls "a spiraling corporate invasion of American agriculture," and the resulting monopoly in the food industry, "squeezes some 1,000 farmers off the land every week...
...What is sought now is not vengeance for Kent State, but the truth about what happened there and why...
...Louis, to take a mid-America example, hamburger that cost 78 cents a pound a year ago is $1.10 now...
...supplies during the current energy shortage, there seems to be little doubt that the Soviet Union would do the same during a serious international crisis...
...While domestic natural gas prices are expected to rise in the next few years, it is unlikely that the increase will match the high price tag of the Russian product...
...Second, in addition to being overpriced, imported Siberian gas would be purchased from a relatively insecure source...
...But now a new movement is taking form, mostly among academics, to devise serious strategies to promote worker-managed companies in the United States...
...So saying, U.S...
...We will see...
...As People for Self-Management explore why worker control has never taken root in America, and try to design strategies for the future, they must ask some hard questions: Without outside investors, how does a self-managed firm generate enough working capital...
...Instead, we are now being told that some Congressional Democrats have concluded that it will redound to their political advantage to let Richard Nixon swing slowly, slowly in the breeze...
...I still feel the same way...
...A highlight of Judge Gesell's opinion was his recognition that "selection-out" carries a stigma...
...At present, the Export-Import Bank charges only six per cent interest...
...Some of the companies have sold out to conglomerates, and in others a small clique of worker-managers has taken de facto control—but at several companies that I visited the spirit and practice of egalitarian worker control seemed very much alive...
...Tom Grace., shot and wounded at Kent State, recently wrote: "The killings brought home the bankruptcy of the American system and deepened my conviction against it...
...Years from now," predicted Walter Kendall, a director of England's Institute for Workers Control, "historians will look upon this conference as the beginnings of a major movement for self-management and worker control in the United States...
...Workers in West German corporations sit on the boards of directors, workers in Yugoslavia elect decision-making councils, in France some employes are literally seizing the means of production —at the Lip watch factory...
...Already they have returned twelve indictments—and received eleven convictions...
...First, the price of Siberian natural gas to the American consumer will be too high...
...They became so engrossed in the impact of the "energy crisis" on their daily lives that they failed to realize, for the moment, that the crisis itself was an integral part of the total collapse of the Nixon Administration...
...Behind the election losses of the traditionally dominant Labor Party lay an assortment of grievances that have flared sporadically since the broadly-based Government of National Unity—including most of the hawkish Likud as well as the Socialist Labor Alignment, a tag-along Independent Liberal Party, and the National Religious Party which derives its politics from the Bible—was shattered three years ago because of the lip service Premier Meir paid to the U.N...
...The theologian Martin Marty focused on that moral issue in a recent interview with Richard Reeves of New York magazine: "If we continue to react to Watergate as we have so far," Marty said, "then we're saying we can live under any kind of morality...
...Chairman Strauss's comment, and the political attitude it succinctly sums up, is an affront not only to the people of Peoria but to the people of the United States...
...The foreman of another Watergate grand jury, Julian Mur phy, quit jury service because his insurance business "was going down the drain," Safire reported...
...Though ostensibly coordinated by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the consortium is directed by a Defense Department weapons engineer, Harold Met-calf, on loan to NSF from the Naval Weapons Center, China Lake, California...
...The President's current Attorney General, William B. Saxbe, a former colonel in the Ohio National Guard, has promised to remove him self from supervision of the Kent State case...
...It is true that the people were diverted, briefly, from expressing themselves forcefully on the Nixon scandals...
...About all we can do," explained one of the lawyers, Michael T. Tarrant of Miami, "is try to delay and string out the appeals process until there is a political change of heart somewhere along the line...
...Even then, the people were far ahead of the politicians: Polls showed that the percentage of support for impeachment was twice as high among American citizens as among the faint-hearted members of the House...
...Tarrant believes their only hope may be for Congress to pass a special bill allowing them to stay, but no such bill has even been introduced, and there is little pressure for it...
...A certain percentage then are declared "non-competitive" and arbitrarily dismissed from the Service...
...One of them, Julia L. White, mother of eleven children, said that "to work on jury duty in the day and then at night as a janitor was too tiring...
...The responsibility now rests with the twenty-three-member grand jury panel, and U.S...
...Amidst the patchwork of vacuous rhetoric and warmed-over proposals that constituted the President's State of the Union message, it was possible to isolate one hard gem of inadvertent truth: One year of Watergate should, indeed, have been enough...
...Fourth, the interest rates for the Soviets (using U.S...
...Unfortunately, the initial response of Kissinger's underlings has been to protect their own image, and not to take Judge Gesell's due process ruling seriously...
...There was some applause...
...The crux of the thing is political...
...It is an issue on which they can make common cause with the family farmer, a vanishing American like the American Indian he replaced...
...But it is also catalyzing a much more serious and important effort to develop true worker self-management in the United States...
...To pay citizens $20 a day to serve on grand juries makes little sense...
...At the moment, the only way two consortia of American companies—one operating in Eastern Siberia and the other in Western Siberia—can finance this deal with the Soviet Union is with $2 billion in credits from the Export-Import Bank...
...One need not rely on the polls, however, to perceive the climate of the country...
...The American people, we are certain, are not suicidal, but their leaders—in Congress as well as the Executive Branch, in the Democratic Party as well as the Republican—seem hell-bent for self-extinction...
...One of the technology transfer representatives, however, detailed the relationship between the consortium and the New York City Police Department, one of the first law enforcement groups to take advantage of the consortium's services...
...Forty-seven years of age with eighteen years of service, he was summarily dismissed without a pension...
...milk has gone from 60 cents a half-gallon to 72 cents...
...Last year the three-year-old consortium sold $10 million worth of services to civilian agencies, and this year it anticipates sales totaling $15 million...
...Two years ago, Congress approved the Mansfield amendment, which prohibits the use of Defense Department funds for the support of research not directly related to military needs...
...A Federal grand jury, with the power of subpoena, can find the answers...
...The Thomas Legal Defense Fund was established with the assistance of the American Federation of Government Employes, AFL-CIO...
...even the complacent community was shocked at the sentences of ten years, twenty years, and twenty-five years, far in excess of average prison terms for similar offenses...
...In January, consortium representatives met with California's lieutenant governor to discuss the role consortium and other Federal laboratories could play in solving some of that state's pressing problems...
...Nowhere, he pointed out, "has the importance of the grand jury been more evident in recent years than in the investigations of crimes arising out of the Watergate scandals...
...Thomas's suicide brought the seething discontent of Foreign Service officers to the boiling point...
...Two cleaning women, William Safire wrote in a recent New York Times column, had to quit their regular jobs to continue as members of the original Watergate grand jury...
...Participants at the conference shared what scant knowledge they had about current worker owned and controlled enterprises in the United States—chiefly some two dozen plywood cooperatives in the Northwest...
...It asks grand jurors with modest or low incomes to make unfair sacrifices, or to quit grand juries and thereby further delay the workings of a faltering judicial system that already creeps at a snail's pace...
...Tarrant points out that despite the fact that Haiti's right-wing government is widely regarded as one of the most wretchedly despotic in the Western Hemisphere, it is also allied with the United States in opposing the spread of Communism in Latin America...
...Participants debated why unions did or did not have interest in true worker control, but so remote from worker experience were these conference members that they referred to the unions and the workers as "they," until one person recalled how whites in the 1960s used to discuss what was best for "them," the blacks...
...The lawyers are preparing an appeal to that order, but they expect the appeal to fail because, privately at least, they believe the judge may be right...
...It should have been enough, as one incredible disclosure of malfeasance was piled atop another, to persuade the Congress to abandon its habitual inertia and assume its constitutional responsibilities...
...The competition continues throughout an officer's career, with each one striving for the ultimate recognition of appointment to one of the dwindling number of career ambassadorships...
...Information Agency is "constitutionally defective" in that it-denies "all officers .. . an adequate hearing comporting with the requirements of due process under the Fifth Amendment...
...America's official hypocrisy in its distinction between Communist nations and the "free world" is, of course, a cliche by now...
...Under this system, Foreign Service officers are rated against their colleagues on a yearly basis...
...The practice, over the years, has been to declare the lowest ten per cent "non-competitive" and therefore subject to "selection-out"—removal from their jobs...
...Almost as soon as they hit solid ground, the U.S...
...It seems unwise to become so dependent on the Soviet Union, or any other country for that matter, for our energy resources...
...This is the horror of American politics today—not that Richard Nixon and his fixers have been crippled, convicted, indicted, disgraced, and even jailed—but that the only available alternatives are not much better...
...One fellow with a pony tail raised his hand and said he had belonged to a union a few years ago...
...Labor organizations and consumer groups should support the Abourezk bill...
...Martin, a career officer with the United States Information Agency who has served in Bolivia, Venezuela, Vietnam, and Paraguay, is president of the Thomas Legal Defense Fund...
...A smaller but perhaps even more significant sampling—a survey of 300 corporate heads by Dun's Review—found recently that most of these conservative businessmen believe the President should leave office because he "has lost confidence of the vast majority of the people...
...American labor has never progressed so far...
...How can a self-managed firm withstand the onslaught of conglomerates...
...THOMAS M. MARTIN (Mr...
...farming at an alarming rate...
...Nelson characterized the present situation as "intolerable...
...We must, therefore, redouble the energy, the resources, the grass-roots pressure being invested in the campaign to impeach the President...
...Then, in December 1973, Assistant Attorney General J. Stanley Pottinger announced that the Justice Department, represented by Robert A. Murphy, was about to begin presenting evidence to a Federal grand jury in Cleveland...
...They ignored a petition containing 50,000 signatures which called for a Federal grand jury investigation...
...Eliav has begun to recirculate his personal peace platform...
...taxpayer-supported dollars) are much more favorable than ordinary credits extended to the average American to buy a home or to a businessman or a bank attempting to borrow funds...
...People for Self-Management Recent interest in "humanizing work" has provoked a faddish and much publicized revival of manipulative worker "participation" schemes in such corporations as AT&T, General Motors, and Chase Manhattan...
...Their disposition now, as often in the past, is to sell the American people short...
...Rhodes, ignoring the advice of County Prosecutor Ronald Kane, had refused to close down the university the day before the shootings...
...Due Process Invades Foggy Bottom "Experience has shown that the greatest protection against mistake or arbitrary action is found in a hearing process that involves notice, the right to be heard, and some form of confrontation with accusers...
...A poll taken in December by the Roper organization showed that twenty-four per cent thought Nixon should resign, and thirty-eight per cent believed he should be impeached...
...The sense of professionalism runs high and standards of performance are reinforced by the competition as well as by the system itself...
...Judge Gesell's decision in the class-action suit brought by ten officers followed a three-year struggle to obtain an impartial review of the State Department's arbitrary procedures in firing career diplomats...
...The firms in the Russian gas deal contributed more than $250,000 to his 1972 campaign...
...The American tax payers are expected to float an incredibly cheap loan to the Soviet Union so we can buy back natural gas at five or six times what we pay for it today...
...More important, there is a crucial moral issue here that overrides all "practical" political considerations...
...The result is that many Federal grand jurors, who are paid only $20 a day for their service to justice, suffer critical economic losses...
...The percentage has ranged from twenty-five per cent of officers in a given class to the present low of three per cent...
...It is not the Administration that is being proven bankrupt, but the system...
...Sources to contact: for the newsletter, David Garsons, Tufts College, Medford, Massachusetts...
...How can workers who have had little formal business training make complex financial decisions which traditionally only executives handle in America...
...A highly competitive examination process leads to their appointment by the President with the consent of the Senate...
...West Coast and twelve per cent of the U.S...
...We stop saying anything makes any difference...
...Three-and-a-half years after the Kent State tragedy that shocked the nation, the machinery to dig out the truth had finally been set in motion...
...With the number of U.S...
...For the first time, National Guardsmen present at the scene will testify under oath as to their involvement in the May 4 tragedy...
...Three grand juries have spent many, many months investigating those crimes...
...But do they have the political wisdom to act accordingly...
...in the New York region, Henry Eskowitz, SUNY-Sociology, Purchase, New York 10577...
...Since 1971, Israel has been beset by omnipresent strikes, several of them violent...
...This speech will go over with them...
...Exploiting Grand Jurors The Government pays its employes their full salaries when they serve on grand juries, but most other em ployers do not...
...Career Foreign Service officers consider themselves to be an elite corps of Federal employes...
...If the politicians prove incapable of rising to the critical constitutional challenges confronting them in the coming weeks and months, we must give them no pretext for claiming that they were reflecting our will...
...Names of other companies with worker self-management schemes floated through the conference—American Cast Iron & Pipe in Birmingham, International Group Plans insurance corporation in Washington, D.C., a railroad in Prineville, Oregon, community-owned businesses in the New York and Los Angeles ghettos, and some hip groceries—but information about them seemed third-hand at best...
...East Coast gas would be of Russian origin...
...It was an obvious case of political repression...
...Anyone who can scrape up the cash can become a worker-owner by buying a share in the companies...
...CHARLES B. RANGEL (Representative Rangel, New York Democrat, is a member of the House Judiciary Committee...
...The suicide three years ago of Foreign Service officer Charles William Thomas dramatized the tragic consequences of this process...
...Congress may actually block the entire Russian gas deal by attaching the Mills-Vanik-Jackson amendment to the Administration's trade bill...
...As Safire noted, Federal judges in the Watergate cases are paid $40,000 a year...
...Former Ohio Governor James Rhodes and former National Guard commander Sylvester Del Corso, who both held their positions at the time of the killings, will be questioned about their role in precipitating the tragedy...
...What type of company will enable self-management to work best...
...Thomas was "selectedout" for time-in-class—that is, for not having been in the top five per cent, or promotable zone, of his class...
...Government has yet to grant asylum to any of the 400 Haitians...
...He cites a Federal Trade Commission report showing that in thirteen food lines consumers paid $2 billion more than they would have if the lines had been fully competitive...
...If Arab leaders, many of whom, including King Faisal, are rabidly anti-Communist and pro-Western, nevertheless feel free to cut off U.S...
...LES ASPIN (Representative Aspin, Wisconsin Democrat, is a member of the House Armed Services Committee...
...Consortium representatives claim that their activities are legal, since the civilian clients foot the bill for Defense Department research services...
...The U.S...
...For more than two years, the consortium has been providing the New York City Police Department with "state of the art" information on a variety of crime-fighting hardware...
...A twenty per cent devaluation of the Israeli pound and subsequent wage freeze at the expense of all but the rich (who were granted investment incentives by the same pronouncement), coupled with nationally publicized threats by Defense Minister Moshe Dayan to imprison strikers, incited public ire...
...The South Dakotan urges passage of his Family Farm Antitrust Act, a bill which would prohibit farming by-any company with non-farm assets of more than $3 million...
...Full exploitation of the Soviet gas deal would mean that eight per cent of the U.S...
...FRYE GAILLARD (Frye Gaillard is the editor of the Race Relations Reporter, published in Nashville...
...Immigration Service initiated proceedings to ship them back to Haiti—dismissing contentions by their hastily acquired attorneys that the Haitians would almost certainly face lengthy imprisonment, or even death, upon their return...
...This melancholy fact once again confirmed Dr...
...prosecutors average $22,000...
...The worst place to start is with the Russian natural gas deal...
...Justice Loses in North Carolina Last September, Frye Gaillard told in these columns the bizarre story of the Charlotte Three, three young black activists in North Carolina who were convicted of arson solely on the unsupported word of two black felons who traded their testimony with Federal agents for freedom from prosecution for a series of crimes they themselves had committed...
...It is a travesty of justice to think that these grand jurors can perform one of the great duties and privileges of citizenship only at considerable personal financial sacrifice," Nelson added...
...Judge Gesell's decision, if sincerely implemented by the administrators of the State Department, will provide Kissinger with a potent instrument to re-create a highly effective and responsive career service...
...If he succeeds in enlisting enough members, and allies them with Israel's independent radicals in the Knesset, then the balance of power will finally pivot toward peace—fulfilling the true Israeli mandate for 1974...
...If more jurors quit, it could greatly impede the grand juries' work and delay the completion of their tasks...
...Watergate, by leading to the de parture of Mitchell and Kleindienst as Attorneys Gen eral, brought us Richardson in their place, and he lasted long enough to set the wheels in motion for reopening the Kent State case...
...But in this case, unfortunately for 400 desperate human beings, the standard has gone nearly unchallenged...
...for self-management projects in the West, Barbara Byrd, School of Social Science, University of California-Irvine, Irvine, California 92664...
...It leads to suicide...
...Anomie only happens in affluent, technical, bored societies...
...They fear, it seems, that to act now, decisively, to bring the President to book will not play in Peoria...
...Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who relies heavily on these performance standards, has made many career appointments to positions previously held by persons who were not genuine career officers...
...The President should find new ways to open the doors of political and economic cooperation between the two superpowers...
...It borders on the ridiculous for the Export-Import Bank to grant $49 million of taxpayer-supported loans to develop Russian gas...
...The bitterness felt by Grace and thousands of others must not be reaffirmed by a failure to disclose the true story of what happened that spring day in 1970...
...Third, the granting of billions of dollars of credits and loans for the development of a foreign, insecure energy source appears contrary to the President's policy of energy self-sufficiency by 1980...
...It is necessary to develop detente with the Soviet Union, but as equal partners, not with the Russians or the Americans taking undue advantage of the other...
...Since the first flurry of publicity about the arrangement in a science policy newsletter, Science and Government Report, Metcalf and the NSF have been reluctant to discuss the consortium's projects...
...If the price were to rise to $1.50 per mcf for all U.S...
...the same dim collection of burned-out hacks who have been fouling our air with their gibberish for the last twenty years...
Vol. 38 • March 1974 • No. 3
