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Potter, The Editors and Raford Boddy, James Crotty, Lynda McDonnell, Judith Miller, and Bonnie
COMMENT Get On with It Clearly the heavily censored transcripts released by Richard M. Nixon last month in his latest, most desperate attempt to fend off the inexorable process of impeachment do...
...Lastly, a debate has begun over African policy, and the Communist and Socialist left has been allowed to come out of hiding and dissent...
...The United Nations, embodying so many of mankind's hopes, suffers another blow to its own standing among those who look to it for moral leadership...
...When exiled Communist leader Alvaro Cunhal met with General Spinola for the first time last month, his car carried a Russian flag—not a Portuguese one...
...The idea of the freeze and Phase II was to zap labor, and we did...
...In the context of American capitalism they will remain exactly what they have been—instruments to fleece the workers...
...This involves repeated grinding and huge amounts of water...
...Ambassador John Scali then brusquely withdrew) that the rich nations provide $4 billion in the form of grants, loans, and commodities—handled through the United Nations—to help provide the forty neediest nations with the food, fertilizer, and other resources they require to prevent widespread starvation and economic collapse...
...If the censored White House transcripts raise engrossing questions about what may have been left out, they leave no doubt about what has been included...
...Despite all of Defense's awesome jargon about "throw weights," "yield-to-weight ratios," and "hard target kill capabilities," the essence of the new targeting strategy is fairly simple: Counterforce is— and, more importantly, is so perceived by others—a first-strike capability...
...Double Standard at the United Nations Though we have never abandoned hope in the United Nations as an instrument of international peace, we are dismayed by the increasingly intolerable price the world organization is paying in prestige, public support, and moral stature as a consequence of some of its judgments during the past year or more...
...The plan to turn the trade balance around was quite simple and consistent with domestic objectives: Price controls on industrial goods would maintain exports in the highly competitive world market and also restrain price increases in the basic capital inputs into agriculture, where the primary export push was to be made...
...Unemployment rose to six per cent...
...For Portugal, a nation of nine million with a per capita income of only $500 a year, to continue to rule twelve million colonials by force could mean only ruin...
...The companies admitted they had concealed evidence by denying that they had plans for on-land disposal systems when, in fact, plans for four or five on-land systems had been in company files for years...
...Recently the Administration offered a proposal (which a U.N...
...for tampering, deliberately and repeatedly, with the duly constituted agencies of Government to serve his own interests and thwart those of the people...
...It is time to get on with it...
...Congress could, of course, refuse to appropriate these funds, but Schlesinger has testified that the switch to counterforce is not dependent on whether or not the funds are forthcoming...
...Defense has decided to strengthen U.S...
...As if this were not enough, there is also the energy situation...
...In 1966, Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin first urged the governors of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Illinois to request that a Federal pollution control conference be held on pollution in Lakes Superior and Michigan as a first step toward filing suits against polluters...
...so that if deterrence were to fail . . . the use of nuclear weapons would not result in the kind of orgy of destruction to which members of the committee have commented...
...Naturally, this fear makes labor less militant...
...The court has yet to decide whether Reserve, the Federal Government, or north shore communities should foot the $8 million bill for emergency water supplies and filtration systems...
...The tailings encouraged the growth of bacteria and algae, thereby contributing to the lake's deterioration...
...they lack fertilizers, fuels, and protein foods such as fish and poultry...
...The case did not come to trial until August 1973, and there has been considerable speculation that Armco and Republic officials, who are active in the Republican Party, pulled strings to have the trial delayed...
...Both in and outside of his own National Union party, forces on the left counterpoised those on the right, canceling each other out...
...BONNIE POTTER (Bonnie Potter, a free lance writer based in Washington, spent some months in Portugal last year...
...The initial suit stemmed from concern over the effects the discharge had on Lake Superior's ecological quality...
...As he approaches ultimate disgrace and downfall, Americans and people everywhere will be in mortal danger of a last, irrational, perhaps catastrophic attempt at self-preservation by the man who wields more power than any other human...
...effort...
...These are important developments, for Spinola is a pragmatist, and events will at some point force him to draw the line...
...State Department reports indicate that several important factories may have been taken over as well...
...But the political-economic exigencies of the Indochina war made this impossible...
...Any proposal for new controls should be rejected...
...As Judge Lord remarked to Republic's president: "In 1969, you made a decision...
...If the Reserve plant is closed permanently, the unemployment rate in surrounding Lake County could jump from 6.7 per cent to thirty per cent...
...Occidental, $68 million, up 718 per cent...
...Again the Unthinkable The notion that nuclear war can somehow be made decent has regained a terrifying respectability at the Pentagon...
...Against this background, there is no excuse for further Congressional obfuscation and delay...
...No one who reads the President's transcripts can come away with the certainty that there is anything he would not do, if he were convinced that it served his personal purposes...
...Another scheme which resurrects the old fallout shelter mentality and supports the view that the United States is emphasizing a first-strike force is the city evacuation program, or "Crisis Relocation Planning...
...Although the concept was abandoned in the 1950s, the $85 million bureaucracy of the Defense Civil Preparedness Agency (DCPA) is spending $1 million this year on plans for moving some fifty million Americans out of 250 cities in the event of natural or nuclear disaster...
...Thus, he and others advocate investment in mobile ICBMs and submarines, on the theory that counterforce is less effective if the enemy's missiles are difficult to locate...
...They believe this was done by other officers, backed up by large business interests and liberal technocrats...
...Sustained full employment, in other words, is good for most of us and bad for capitalists...
...Gulf, $290 million, up seventy-six per cent...
...The best example of the renewed emphasis on thinking the unthinkable is the recent change in the targeting strategy of American nuclear forces...
...Still, it is enough—enough, at least, for the Congress to go about its business of impeaching the President and removing him from office...
...After three unsuccessful years of wrangling with Reserve through the Environmental Protection Agency, the Federal Government finally filed suit against the company in February 1972...
...Upheaval in Portugal The surprising ease with which General Antonio de Spinola and a junta of military officers took over the government of Portugal in April demonstrates how little support there was for the regime of Prime Minister Marcello Caetano...
...In fact, a copy of the Soviet plan for dispersal of Moscow residents has recently been translated by the Oak Ridge Laboratory and is being circulated among Congressional offices to build support for the DCPA project...
...Interest rates eventually declined...
...Nevertheless, the plans are opposed by several members of Congress, especially by Representative Les Aspin, Wisconsin Democrat, who has called the scheme to limit the destruction of nuclear war "an extremely dangerous venture...
...The tragic irony is that the renewed American emphasis on planning to make nuclear holocaust seem less devastating serves only to increase the odds that it might occur...
...Minnesota, which had been pursuing Reserve through state courts, soon joined the Federal suit...
...During the trial's final weeks, Judge Lord, a former Minnesota attorney general, chided Reserve, Armco, and Republic for their recalcitrance, intentional delays, and misrepresentations of fact...
...The historical record indicates that workers' interests will be better served by militant collective bargaining struggles, buttressed by political demands for full employment, social welfare programs, and the freeing of domestic economic policy from the burdens of American imperialism...
...In our view, the crisis precipitated by the crimes of Richard Nixon will not be fully resolved even with his removal from office, unless that removal is accompanied by profound institutional changes designed to protect us from a recurrence...
...If the oil companies' massive profiteering has not aroused the American people to demand corrective action by the Congress, we are a nation of suckers...
...Clearly, it cannot afford many more "moral" judgments so lacking in morality...
...The DCPA concedes that two or three days' warning will be needed for a successful population relocation...
...dollar seem to be beyond the understanding of both the average citizen and most economists and politicians...
...As The New York Times noted editorially, "If the oil companies continue to be careful not to give consumers too much oil, prices should hold up nicely...
...Whoever it is that counts these things has calculated that the White House omitted approximately 1,670 conversation segments as "inaudible" or "unintelligible"—almost one such omission for every minute of the thirty-three hours of conversations covered...
...In recent testimony before a Senate subcommittee, Schlesinger claimed counterforce is intended to "shore up deterrence" by introducing "flexibility and options...
...That quality has been largely lost, as has so often happened before, in the double-standard Security Council statement...
...For ten years the United States has had weapons capable of destroying military targets...
...If he doesn't, others will...
...Monetary and fiscal policy became sharply restrictive...
...We now have on the public record, in a series of official volumes handsomely embossed with the Presidential Seal, documentation of depravity in high places that is unrivaled in American political history...
...lynda McDonnell (Lynda McDonnell is a free lance writer based in Minnesota...
...The hour is late, the danger is clear and present, and the remedy is at hand...
...It was an incredible end to a dictatorship that had begun with Salazar half a century ago...
...Republic Steel Corporation and Armco Steel Corporation, the companies that jointly own Reserve, responded to the order by closing not only the culprit processing plant, but the taconite mine that supplies it as well, leaving 3,100 workers unemployed...
...Some observers believe that while Spinola may have agreed to lead the coup, he did not conceive it or plan it...
...The state of Minnesota is planning to sue Reserve for its failure to produce required evidence...
...The Defense Department has requested about $250 million this year for research and development on improved targeting accuracy, which is crucial to counter-force capability...
...Until that happy goal can be achieved, the oil depletion allowance ought to be wiped out and a genuine oil windfall tax should be enacted to recover a major share of the profits plundered from the public...
...As the U.N...
...The role of government policy in this process is to assure that the business cycle functions properly...
...With the relative decline in the price of U.S...
...He has freed political prisoners, removed Caetano's political police from power, lifted press censorship, promised a general election for a constituent assembly to draw up a new constitution, and urged a political solution to the African wars by offers of membership—within a Portuguese commonwealth—to the colonies...
...It seems to us that for openers the United States itself should provide $4 billion in grants for the proposed international fund for the poor countries, and ask that the contribution from the other prosperous nations be added to that...
...The accelerating rate of inflation in the face of wage-price controls, the rising rate of unemployment, the record level of corporate profits, and the decline in the international value of the U.S...
...After the failure of two preliminary attempts by small military units to seize power, the junta took over in April with hardly a shot fired...
...What the Nixon Administration has not acknowledged publicly is that its plan of August 1971 necessarily included zapping the consumer, especially through skyrocketing food prices...
...The question is how far General Spinola's generosity, and the junta's, will extend—and how long it will last...
...Silver Bay, the town of 3,000 where Reserve's processing plant is located, depends on the company's taxes for sixty-four per cent of its village budget...
...Blood Money In the past three years the United States has sold $4 billion worth of arms to the developing countries...
...In our view, Richard M. Nixon represents the natural—perhaps the inevitable—culmination of a deteriorating political system that is, like our economy, guided primarily by considerations of greed, expediency, and the manipulative power of modern merchandising techniques...
...The Government played this role, more or less efficiently, in the late 1950s and early 1960s...
...The Soviet Union, though far behind the United States in missile accuracy and multiple targeting, is also developing a counterforce capability...
...Vice President Richard M. Nixon in a debate with Senator John F. Kennedy October 13, 1960 Inflation by Design The chaos of the current economic situation has left most Americans frustrated and confused...
...JUDITH MILLER (Judith Miller is The Progressive's Washington correspondent...
...The first step toward an adequate analysis of what is, and what is not, in our interest at this time is an understanding of the business cycle, particularly with respect to the behavior of wages, prices, and profits and the role played by government monetary and fiscal policy...
...Corporations, believing that wage-price controls are no longer in their interest, have abandoned them for now...
...Comes the Security Council of the United Nations with a resolution condemning violation of Lebanon's territorial integrity—a criticism with which we concur— but not a murmur on the Arab terrorist attack that triggered the Israeli reprisal...
...The President should be impeached and tried in strict conformity with the requirements of due process that he himself holds in such profound contempt, but with all the speed that Congress can muster...
...The United Nations needs all the friends and support it can muster in these times of crisis...
...Wages are brought under "control...
...One will be the Communist Party, whose many years as a clandestine, underground organization have led it to doctrinaire, uncompromising policy attitudes not warranted by the present situation...
...The Israeli retaliatory raids into Lebanon resulted in two deaths...
...An even more sensitive issue will be the control of factories and business enterprises...
...Exxon's profits were $705 million, up thirty-nine per cent over the same period a year ago...
...When policy was eased to stabilize the recession, interest rates declined further so that by early 1971 there were massive short-term capital outflows and a veritable explosion in our balance-of-payments deficit...
...Since 1969, the fight to continue dumping its taconite tailings has cost Reserve nearly $6 million, an amount equal to about five per cent of what it would cost the company to construct an on-land disposal system...
...What Spinola has given, or promised to give in the future, is the restitution of civil liberties...
...While pretending to embrace the spirit of detente, Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger has resurrected such abandoned projects as the city evacuation program, and has implemented changes in the basic doctrine of nuclear deterrence...
...Caetano also perpetuated the wars Portugal had been waging since 1961 against the independence movement led by black guerrillas in the African territories of Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau...
...Perhaps neither counterforce, nor city evacuation, nor some other scheme hatched by Pentagon planners is dangerous by itself...
...Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Americans are serving prison sentences today on evidence far flimsier than that provided by Nixon in his own transcripts of his own tape recordings...
...Mobil, $259 million, up sixty-six per cent...
...Uncertain that even the continuation of a serious recession would turn the trade balance around quickly enough, and faced with the possibility that strikes in key sectors of the economy would result in the loss of world market shares to imperialist rivals, the corporations were ready to turn instead to the policy which Democratic members of Congress had already prepared for them...
...In 1968, a report released by the Department of the Interior severely criticized Reserve's discharges, pointing out that they caused an area of cloudy green water extending over 600 square miles of Lake Superior...
...Translated, this means Schlesinger believes it is possible to wage a limited nuclear war without escalation...
...The theme of the message is: "Really, folks, you have no idea of how much it costs to bring in a well, and without these profits we couldn't find enough oil to keep your car running...
...The ultimate effects of ingested fibers are not yet known, since cancer that might be caused by the fibers would not likely appear until fifteen or twenty years after exposure...
...However, with the exception of modest tax relief, some new set of controls is about all that liberals have offered for our defense...
...The post World War II economic record indicates that, contrary to popular belief, full-employment, inflationary periods have been characterized by rising real wages...
...The great majority of us have been deliberately exploited through these controls for the explicit benefit of corporate profits and the maintenance of the American corporate empire...
...But the industry's own American Petroleum Institute reports that of all new wells drilled world-wide last year, three of every five was productive...
...This counterforce capability, however, has been a secondary mission of U.S...
...The workers have already taken control of seven major labor unions which, under the system of corporatism, were state enterprises...
...special session largely ignored and U.S...
...The only true force these resolutions now have—and it can be important—is moral authority...
...Organized labor gave up on controls some time ago...
...Farm products at first point of sale were completely free of controls...
...A conservative economic elite drew opposition from more innovative businessmen, who hoped to inject Portugal into the European Common Market...
...If ever a major American industry invited nationalization, Big Oil has...
...Combined, however, the proposals form part of a new defense strategy and mind-set aimed at making nuclear war thinkable once again...
...So, for 1974, oil profits promise to double over 1973 and reach about $8 billion...
...Another thirty-five sections were deleted as irrelevant to the Watergate investigation, and 146 remarks, most of them the President's, were censored as obscenities or personal characterizations...
...In other words, the nation that fires second will be firing at his enemy's empty missile silos instead of at inhabited cities...
...Nonetheless, Judge Lord's order is a landmark in the environmentalists' eight-year battle to force Reserve to stop dumping 67,000 tons of taconite tailings into Lake Superior each day...
...Judge Lord charged that the companies' failure to produce evidence was designed to delay the trial so that Reserve could continue to take its daily profit of $60,000 for as long as possible...
...These savage wars have eaten up nearly half of Portugal's yearly budget and caused nearly 100,000 young Portuguese males to leave their country rather than be conscripted for fighting in Africa...
...The President's monumental hypocrisy—the striking contrast between his venomous private discourse and his pious public utterances—does not constitute a "high crime and misdemeanor" in the constitutional sense, but he can be impeached for lying, deliberately and repeatedly, to the people and their elected representatives...
...Even the risk of being caught— which substitutes for conscience in many men and women—seems to be no effective deterrent in his case...
...Counterforce opponents argue, however, that this does not justify the U.S...
...He has given the Portuguese people their change of government—they did not take it themselves...
...This inevitably means even higher food prices...
...But the evidence on controls is that they do not benefit workers...
...The change is deceptively appealing...
...Federal and state governments still did not act, so environmental groups took up the cause and sued the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency to force it to hold hearings on the issue...
...for attempting, deliberately and repeatedly, to obstruct the processes of justice...
...They are still rising...
...In fact, the success of the April coup may have resulted more from the government's collapse than from a tough challenge by Spinola and other junta leaders...
...RAFORD BODDY and JAMES R. CROTTY (Raford Boddy and James R. Crotty are economists on the faculties, respectively, of the American University in Washington, D.C., and Bucknell University in Lewis-burg, Pennsylvania...
...Constant conflicts among the various elites within it left it exhausted...
...In turn, these fibers showed up in the water supplies of several north shore communities, including Duluth and Silver Bay in Minnesota and Superior in Wisconsin...
...The Special Prosecutor, whose responsibility it is to compile the strongest possible case against persons now under indictment for Watergate-related crimes and against others who may still face criminal charges—ultimately including, perhaps, Nixon himself—has an obligation to press his demands for evidence and to carry these demands to the Supreme Court, if necessary, against a recalcitrant President...
...The Government must see to it that recessions do not get out of hand and that expansions end when they reach the "dangerous" full employment stage...
...See Michael Klare's article, "The Pentagon Bleeds the Third World," Page 21...
...The Reserve plant supplies an estimated fifteen per cent of this country's iron ore by processing taconite ore with an iron content of twenty per cent into pellets that are sixty per cent iron...
...farm products abroad resuiting from the devaluation of the dollar, agribusiness costs restrained by industrial price controls, and domestic demand constrained by wage controls, agricultural exports went from an average $5 billion in 1966-69 to $9.4 billion in 1972 and to $17.5 billion in 1973...
...In 1969, President Nixon began to engineer his recession...
...One of the worst con jobs, perpetrated at the height of the "energy crisis" by Mobil Oil, claimed in a national television ad that drilling is risky because only one oil well in sixty pays off...
...There is serious talk, in Washington and elswhere, about the possibility of a Presidential coup d'etat and other contingencies that would have been dismissed, not long ago, as paranoid fantasies...
...If the plan works perfectly," a DCPA planner told one of Aspin's aides, "only 135 million people would die in a first attack...
...But after hearing testimony on how much of a risk north shore residents run when they drink water rife with the fibers, Judge Lord, in mid-April, ordered the Army Corps of Engineers to provide emergency supplies of drinking water to affected communities and to install equipment to filter out asbestos fibers...
...The profits of some of the others were: Texaco, $589 million, up 123 per cent...
...In the words of Arnold Weber, former Cost of Living Council director, "Business had been leaning on Shultz and McCracken to do something about the economy, especially wages...
...The government of Marcello Caetano had barely moved toward reforms in recent years...
...Where this leaves the new regime is difficult to say, but it is clear that much depends on General Spinola...
...The most recent and notable example came in the aftermath of the raid on an Israeli settlement by Palestinian terrorists based in Lebanon and the Israeli retaliation in raiding six Lebanese villages...
...But U.S...
...When inhaled, asbestos fibers can cause cancer of the lung, gastrointestinal tract, and larynx...
...The Big Oil Ripoff The proof that Big Oil has been shaking down the motorist and other fuel buyers for every last dime can be read in the incredible 1974 first-quarter earnings of the major oil companies...
...Reasonable men and women can differ on the circumstances that brought America to this tragic turning-point, and on the steps that must be taken to restore dignity, decency, and justice to our public life...
...Caetano's weakness as Premier had been matched only by the weakness of other political forces...
...All progressive forces should ally themselves directly with labor in such struggles...
...The United States has been one of the world's biggest arms merchants and as such it has played a major role in saddling poor countries with debt...
...If Judge Lord's decision is upheld by higher courts, the repercussions could be felt by industrial polluters across the country...
...At the same time, Big Oil has launched an enormous propaganda campaign—tax deductible as a business expense, of course—to divert attention from its gargantuan profits...
...About one-third of the total $4 billion would come from this country, the rest from Japan, Western Europe, and the oil-rich nations of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries...
...At the peak of an expansion, when labor markets are tight and jobs are plentiful, prices typically increase, but wages increase even faster...
...Wage controls would increase profit margins in the industrial sector and also constrain the American workers' ability to purchase their normal share of American farm products...
...Even the casual reader of those volumes must be stunned—as Nixon's former colleagues and supporters in the House and Senate have been stunned—by the casual, cheerful conversations in which the President and his aides discuss ways and means of bribing witnesses, muzzling critics, punishing "enemies," deceiving the people, and twisting the machinery of government to serve their immoral purposes...
...Historically, workers have achieved more through a combination of militant collective bargaining and political pressure for social welfare programs than they have from controls...
...Surely Nixon's treatment of Congress has been, and continues to be, contemptuous, but surely this is a trivial item in the catalogue of his outrageous offenses...
...But the Congress, in our judgment, has all it needs and more to make a prima facie case for removing Nixon from the office of the Presidency...
...Opponents fear that a potential enemy might construe city evacuation as the signal for the start of a nuclear war, especially if the United States has a highly developed counterforce, or first strike capability...
...the increased cost of petroleum imports will have to be paid for...
...The American share would be apart from the $5.2 billion foreign aid program that President Nixon has requested of Congress...
...In his decision, Judge Lord vehemently disagreed with the companies' contention that they could not afford to construct an on-land disposal system without Federal and state aid...
...With population growing at the rate of 200,000 a day, there must be an annual two per cent growth rate in food production merely to keep starvation diets from becoming more widespread...
...The decision seemed inevitable, spurred by Reserve's continued refusal to curtail its discharges despite evidence that the tailings release asbestos fibers, a known carcinogen, into Lake Superior and from there into the drinking water supplies of several Minnesota and Wisconsin towns...
...In any event, former Assistant Defense Secretary Paul Warnke, speaking recently before the Arms Control Association, suggested that pursuing a counterforce capability will lead to yet another costly spiral of the arms race, as each party seeks a first strike, silo-smashing capability, and is then forced to develop means of removing or protecting vulnerable targets...
...What we are seeking once again," he testified, "is the ability to conduct constrained nuclear warfare...
...Counterforce opponents argue that a secondary capability is sufficient...
...What's more, the White House is, at this writing, adamantly refusing to yield to the Committee—and to Special Watergate Prosecutor Leon Jaworski—any further tapes, transcripts, or related documents pertaining to the sundry criminal and impeachable offenses now under investigation...
...EXPLETIVE DELETED) It makes you realize that whoever is President is going to be a man that all the children of America will either look up or will look down to, and I can only say that I am very proud that President Eisenhower restored dignity and decency and, frankly, good language to the conduct of the Presidency of the United States, and I only hope that should I win this election that I could approach President Eisenhower in maintaining the dignity of the office, in seeing to it that whenever any mother or father talks to his child he can look at the man in the White House and whatever he may think of his policies he will say, "Well, there is a man who maintains the kind of standards personally that I would want my child to follow...
...And so on...
...As successor to dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, who suffered a stroke in 1968, Caetano did not do much to soften his predecessor's harsh regime...
...General Spinola, who had commanded Portuguese forces in Africa, concluded that it was a hopeless struggle and last year wrote a best-selling book urging that the war be ended by political means...
...It is not unlikely that corporations will again call for wage controls at the beginning of the next economic expansion...
...Standard of Indiana, $219 million, up eighty-one per cent...
...Food and Population Crisis Committee warned while the General Assembly was holding its recent session on raw materials and development, one bad monsoon, or a drouth in North America, could mean the deaths of millions in poor nations around the world...
...In a recession, millions of workers lose their jobs and many more millions feel that their jobs are threatened...
...Right-wing army officers, committed to the African wars, were offset by younger officers who wanted to get out...
...Setback for Polluters Minneapolis In one of the major environmental cases of the decade, U.S...
...Elections have been set for May 1975, and a civilian provisional government headed by General Spinola is to function in the interim...
...You came to a fork in the road and you headed down the fork that said you would spend your money on attorneys' fees, on public relations and politics, rather than to spend your money on trying to do the engineering and actually moving out of the lake...
...The order, which took effect the night of the court's decision, concluded a nine-month trial said to be the longest environmental trial in history...
...For decades the weapons-producing nations have been selling munitions to poor nations rather than bread...
...The Administration must now push the already excessive drive for agricultural exports to even more frenzied levels...
...The final version—upheld by thirteen nations including the United States, with China abstaining and Iraq not participating—did include a general denunciation of "acts of violence"—a bold foray against sin in general in the manner of the Reverend Billy Graham—but was silent on the bloodshed and wreckage of the guerrilla raid...
...delegation that it sought to widen the resolution to include an attack on the original terrorism, but its attempt was defeated by a vote of seven to six...
...In the event of nuclear war, destroying silos sounds less horrible than destroying cities...
...Since 1955, when the plant opened, the waste rock and used water have been dumped into Lake Superior, the world's largest, purest body of fresh water...
...District Judge Miles Lord has ordered Reserve Mining Company, a Minnesota-based taconite producer, to stop dumping taconite tailings into Lake Superior...
...Most of us, finding ourselves faced with surging prices, have a natural inclination to hope that some bulwark can be placed between us and the continuing corporate attack on our living standards...
...The classical recession policy, given enough time, could have performed its domestic function of disciplining labor, but the emergency in the international position of U.S...
...The EPA also found that the Reserve plant was releasing absestos fibers into the air...
...Profit margins, conversely, decline as the economy achieves and maintains full employment...
...To belabor the question of impeachment evidence now is merely to prolong beyond endurance the danger of having the nation's highest office occupied by a man who will contemplate any "horror"—the word is that of his former Attorney General—in order to perpetuate himself in power...
...Both are members of the Union for Radical Political Economics...
...They must reject the illusion that any prospective Administration will act as a benevolent shield between themselves and the corporations...
...It must be said for the U.S...
...Three days later, the plant and mine were reopened when a three-judge Federal appeals panel granted Reserve a temporary stay pending hearings on the company's appeal...
...Faced with the loss of their property or authority, these groups may not prove as understanding as Spinola of the Portuguese need to "let out steam" after fifty years of dictatorship...
...With an annual payroll of $46 million and state and local taxes of $6.5 million, Reserve is the major economic support of many small communities on the lake's north shore...
...The guerrilla attack on the Israeli community resulted in the murder of eighteen persons and the wounding of an additional fifteen—many of them children hurled bodily from rooftops and high windows...
...The total would still be far below the size of the fund needed to provide real relief for the starving millions whose lot our country (and other munitions-exporting countries) has made infinitely worse by insisting on selling their rulers arms instead of food...
...And perhaps we are...
...A $4 billion outright grant by this country to help save the lives of millions overseas would not only be an act of mercy that other arms-exporting nations should emulate, but an act of atonement long overdue...
...With costs under control, corporations are prepared for a renewal of the process of expansion and the huge profits that accompany its early stages...
...COMMENT Get On with It Clearly the heavily censored transcripts released by Richard M. Nixon last month in his latest, most desperate attempt to fend off the inexorable process of impeachment do not tell the House Judiciary Committee, or the American people, all there is to know about the miserable manipulations that have, for these many months and years, preoccupied the President of the United States and his henchmen...
...It was your choice whether to make the investment or abandon your employes and the state of Minnesota...
...Last year, however, the EPA discovered that Reserve's discharges were releasing billions of tiny asbestos-like fibers into the lake...
...The grain reserves of poor countries have been greatly depleted...
...It strikes us as absurd that the Judiciary Committee is debating behind closed doors, as we go to press, whether the President is in contempt of Congress, when he stands convicted by his own acts of the most egregious contempt for the Constitution, the American people, and the common precepts of human decency...
...Former National Security Council staff member Walter Slocombe, for one, believes the most effective way to neutralize Soviet counterforce is not for the United States to build its own, but rather to make the potential targets harder to find...
...And what is freely given can be freely taken away...
...The DCPA points out that the Soviets have not abandoned their city evacuation plans...
...The conservative Catholic Church faced opposition from radical "worker-priests," and even from liberal Catholics who joined with socialists and other liberals in outlawed coalitions...
...nuclear forces...
...But one need not subscribe to our analysis to agree that the removal of Nixon is the urgent priority...
...Judge Lord determined that far from needing a government handout, the companies could well afford to spend at least $180 to $200 million for an on-land disposal system...
...Shell, $122 million, up sixty-nine per cent...
...missiles at Russian missile silos, or "hard targets," rather than at cities...
...Workers, too, may contemplate a return to price controls to stop a seemingly endless erosion in their living standards...
...capitalism (and the Presidential election over the horizon) demanded faster and stronger action...
...After the long expansion of the mid-1960s, the Government clearly wanted a recession...
...By the end of 1968, the expansion had gone on at least two years too long...
...Nixon, in brief, has hardly fulfilled his trumpeted pledge to deliver up all "pertinent material...
...Either the Portuguese will rein themselves in, after their first outbursts of enthusiasm over their new freedom, or the steam may be let out for them...
...counterforce" capability, which essentially means aiming U.S...
...This version, the New York Post properly noted, promises "only to stir resentment in Israel and to gratify apologists for Arab terrorism...
...The agency suggests that citizens could be evacuated during a period of "increased international tension...
...Throughout the various Federal and state proceedings, Reserve has doggedly held that its discharge is neither unhealthy nor illegal...
...Certain danger signals will have to be watched...
...Standard of California, $293 million, up ninety-two per cent...
Vol. 38 • June 1974 • No. 6
