The Campaign Begins
Lens, The Editors and Judith Miller, Howard Bray, lames S. Fay, and Sidney
The Campaign Begins Now that the 1976 Presidential campaign is history, perhaps we can begin, once again, to pay some serious attention to politics. Of all the defects in our political system, none...
...We are aware," said James Kennedy, commander of the guards at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Richland, Washington, "that there are problems in the nation with terrorist groups...
...What makes the case important and intriguing is that it may serve as a clue to a widespread program of domestic surveillance by the CIA much of it conducted, perhaps, under the pretext that its victims were under consideration for recruitment as spies...
...There was no Oriental subtlety about it...
...Throughout the 1960s, Thailand's trade dependence on both the United States and Japan rose to an extraordinary level...
...They are entitled to their brief fling at optimism, if not euphoria...
...Late in October, ERDA ordered V-100 armored personnel carriers with M-60 .30-caliber machine guns to be dispatched to fourteen Federal nuclear sites...
...The End of Thai Democracy The end of a struggling three-year-old democracy in Thailand stirs bitter memories of the U.S...
...See "Korea: A Peninsula Divided," Page 22...
...In light of the current Washington investigation, the McCloy study seems seriously flawed...
...In late October, the junta disclosed that 4,287 citizens had been arrested following the coup on suspicion of subversion, and that almost 3,000 were still in custody...
...See David Thelen's article, "Our Government: A Wholly Owned Subsidiary," beginning on Page 15 of this issue...
...How will Carter cope with the fundamental fact that our entire Federal structure serves as an instrument of corporate policy, devoted first and foremost to the enhancement of corporate profits...
...The incumbent President has instituted a cosmetic reorganization of some of the agencies responsible for assaulting our liberties, issued executive orders purporting to deal with past excesses, and resolutely refused to punish either the architects of those excesses or the underlings who did the dirty work...
...foreign policy is business maintaining an open path for corporate markets, even where this entails the crisis-intervention services of the CIA and military forces...
...So they turned to U.S...
...Emphasis added...
...THOU SHALT KILL...
...A Gulf executive was summoned to the Blue House, President Park's residence, by Park's First Secretary, General Lee Hu Rak...
...NO COMMENT WE DO IT ALL FOR YOU...
...Hog Output Dip Threatens Jobs...
...For more than a year now, Weissman has been engaged in litigation under the Freedom of Information Act to obtain the records secretly amassed on him by the CIA...
...The response of the Executive branch has been no more reassuring...
...Indeed there are...
...A constitutional right to privacy would be a direct affront to the efficient operation of dozens of official departments, agencies, and bureaus...
...production workers voted 35,192 for ratification and 22,026 against The MIG-25 recently inspected by U.S...
...policymakers, far less reliable than a military dictatorship...
...For the dairy cow that is sedentary and spreading, the U.S...
...That work will not be done for us by the President of the United States, or by the Congress...
...Only recently has Gary Weissman learned he was a special case the subject of a secret, five-year investigation by the Central Intelligence Agency, allegedly to determine whether he was eligible for recruitment as a CIA agent...
...The oil giant's partner in its principal ventures was the Korean government, and Gulf depended on that government's good graces to maintain the growing profitability of its operations...
...He has obtained only some of the material in the fifty-four documents compiled on him by the CIA's International Organizations (IO) and Security Support (SS) divisions...
...restrictions might be placed on the availability of our personal files, driver's licenses, and Social Security numbers, and bugs might revert to the domain of the exterminator...
...Our Government, however, does not want us worrying about such things...
...The climate of repression is so severe that French Socialist Francois Mitterand has set up a committee in France to defend the civil rights of workers in Germany...
...The catch is that Gary Weissman never sought a job with the CIA and was never informed that he was being considered for one...
...The information released to Weissman offers no clue as to how he came to the CIA's attention, nor does it indicate why the five-year series of investigations was terminated...
...Several security checks were conducted in anticipation of using Weissman as an agent at the Seventh World Youth Festival in Vienna in the summer of 1959, in evaluating his potential usefulness "as a [deleted] representative in Europe," and for an undisclosed project...
...The election is over...
...It was in the best interests of the corporation, so I did it...
...The money was withdrawn from the account soon after, and the McCloy committee was unable to trace it further...
...Four years later S. K. Kim, a power in the dominant political party in Seoul, demanded a $10 million contribution from Gulf to meet an election challenge...
...In addition, the force of security guards at nuclear plants has been expanded, equipped with shotguns and automatic rifles, and instructed to "shoot to kill...
...Weissman informed the CIA that those files were definitely of interest to him, and began a year-long tug-of-war over access to the information...
...I don't like the food or the climate...
...In the case of the Chinese nuclear test, however, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA) blandly assured the media there was no cause for alarm...
...Headline in the Wisconsin State Journal, Madison, Wisconsin...
...Instead of a thirty-six or thirty-two-hour week, they settled for an additional thirteen days off over the three-year period of the new contract, and instead of allowances for retirees they compromised for a one-time bonus, to be paid in January 1978...
...Justice Department investigators are tracking reports that commissions to Park from the rice trade, illegal under U.S...
...Dorsey said later, "I thought it [the Korean payoff] was the correct thing to do...
...It is, unfortunately, not in the nature of our political system to compel candidates to discuss real issues in meaningful terms before the electorate makes its decision...
...Gulf paid the $1 million out of a secret Bahamas account that the company had earlier and often used to make illegal corporate contributions to American politicians...
...News item in The New York Times: "In a move seeking to add millions to the income realized from Federal and state Medicaid funds, the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation is attempting to fill every empty city hospital bed with Medicaid patients, it was disclosed yesterday...
...But the honeymoon which almost invariably attends the installation of a new Administration should not be allowed to divert attention from the realities...
...A similar system is being sold to the Soviet Union...
...The F-14 aircraft was developed to fight off a supersonic bomber attack on U.S...
...It is not our purpose to disparage the majority who chose to cast their votes for Jimmy Carter and who, presumably, are looking forward to a turn for the better in the nation's public life...
...If the Justice Department is really interested in pursuing the Park regime's Washington connections, it might find it fruitful to pick up where the McCloy committee stopped...
...The potential for abuse of such investigations is obvious," they say...
...Government bureaucrats attacked the problem with their usual directness and simplicity...
...investors for cash...
...There is urgent work that has been too long delayed to refashion our political, social, and economic institutions so that they begin to meet human needs...
...was expected to be a pacesetter, especially toward a shorter work-week and cost-of-living allowances for retirees...
...Recent increases in military and police aid to Thailand, a nine-month effort by the military to weaken popular support for the elected government, and the acknowledged connections between junta members and American military and intelligence agencies only begin to summarize the indications of U.S...
...if you're going to prosper and do well, you need the government on your side...
...The question of official recognition did not arise, a spokesman said, because the new military junta had stated its determination to re-establish a "democratic" form of government with the figurehead king as chief of state...
...PERFECTLY CLEAR...
...But the Federal Government, reverting to the cheery policy it pursued all through the period when the United States itself was testing in the atmosphere, charged authorities in Pennsylvania with "overkill" for warning that the fallout might pose a health problem...
...Granted, such a constitutional right to privacy would cause major and minor inconveniences for government...
...involvement in the internal politics of Thailand dates back to a decision in the 1950s by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles that Thailand could serve as the logical cornerstone of America's Asia...
...The 3 per cent annual wage increase, plus cost-of-living adjustments, is a carryover from past agreements, and in a number of areas such as compulsory overtime, prescription coverage under Blue Cross, speed-up, and benefits for new employesthe union either retreated or stood still...
...the vision of the "free market" that illuminates his work shines with all the beauty of a Platonic idea at the University of Chicago and in Chile...
...Does she complain you never take her out any more...
...Much of the story of Gulfs payments for political favors in Korea is told in a report prepared by a committee headed by New York attorney John J. McCloy, an eminence in the corporate-government-legal establishment, and filed last year with the Federal district court and the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington...
...Explaining why Gulf did so, Dorsey said, "You really are there at the mercy of the government and you are there at the sufferance of the government...
...The Koreans said that would be fine, but elections cost money...
...The probe has centered on Tongsun Park, a Korean businessman and a prominent figure in Washington's high life, who has been an intermediary in Food for Peace deals between U.S...
...By 1970, 51 per cent of Thai imports came from the United States and Japan...
...Security Council...
...NO SHEET UNTURNED...
...In the words of The New York Times, it was apparently "designed for a threat that never materialized" the B-70 bomber, which the United States decided not to produce...
...The $200,000 was transferred from a Gulf account in the Mellon Bank to a Swiss bank account of the principal stockholder of the Korean oil distributing company...
...Despite the recent revelations of government trampling of the right of individual and group privacy, Congress has been reluctant to take legislative steps to eliminate or even substantially curb the excesses of military and civilian snoopers and agents provocateurs...
...It is an illusion that our power elites, our channels of mass communication, and our political leaders do their best to foster...
...national security" apparatus under control, eliminate its power to subvert foreign governments, and compel our Government to serve the interests of our own people the interests of peace and social justice...
...State Department swiftly announced that Washington would maintain full diplomatic relations with the Thai regime...
...rice traders and South Korea...
...Early in his campaign, he ventured the timid suggestion that some $ 15 billion of "fat" could be trimmed from the U.S...
...This relationship was obviously threatened by the student-led revolution in 1973 that ousted the military government of Thanom Kittikachorn, who had enjoyed Washington's full support...
...That the plaintiff [Weissman] was unaware of the investigation of him, that he had not applied for CIA employment, or that he was investigated by the CIA within national borders are all facts which do not, in this court's opinion, change the legality of the investigation, and hence, the secret status of the files generated by the investigation," ruled Judge George L. Hart Jr., who never bothered to inspect any of the documents being withheld...
...Now that he has commanded enough of that trust to win the office to which he aspired so energetically, how will Jimmy Carter cope with the critical issues he evaded so effectively...
...Every American who cast a ballot on November 2, whether he or she voted for Carter or Ford or Eugene McCarthy or one of the minor party candidates, wasted that vote unless it is followed by the practice of politics not politics as a quadrennial "duty" to vote, but politics as a daily way of life, as a continuous dialogue, as a process of organizing, speaking, writing, marching, forging coalitions, exerting pressure...
...The Federal courts, which some trusting souls regard as the guardian of our privacy and civil liberties, have performed erratically...
...Therefore, this may be the opportune time to amend the U.S...
...The Government knows better...
...Corporate pins of up to $1 billion are expected from this one clause, which is being hailed on Wall Street as a boon to increased investment in our Caribbean colony...
...Prompted by press revelations of CIA spying on war opponents and other political activists in the United States, Weissman decided last year to ask the CIA whether it had compiled any files on him...
...Government go out of its way to minimize the dangers generated by a Chinese nuclear test...
...Department of Agriculture announces its new cattle jogger...
...The Poseidon submarine missile, for instance, was developed in order to penetrate what was believed to be a Soviet anti-ballistic missile system, Tallinn...
...He was stunned by the initial response from an agency official: "Unbeknown to Mr...
...Many perhaps most of the eighty million or so Americans who cast Presidential ballots on November 2 harbor the dangerous illusion that by going to the polls they have discharged their civic duty and exercised their political rights until the next election comes along...
...The Gulf Oil reference is intriguing...
...It is time for the campaign to begin...
...But Leonard Woodcock and his UAW team achieved neither of those objectives...
...Like most of his friends, he opposed the developing war in Vietnam, attended National Student Association meetings, and was politically active at the University of Wisconsin, where he was a graduate student...
...The fallout was particularly severe in the Philadelphia area, where a heavy rainstorm carried the radioactive material to earth...
...By focusing on the personalities of the major candidates, on their "decency," their "trustworthiness," their "love for the American people," the election became an exercise in drafting a blank check...
...It is a hope that the individual will be able to survive...
...Dorsey subsequently negotiated the demand down to $3 million, and paid it...
...Neither his oratory nor the identity of his old-guard policy advisers offer any assurance of a search for new directions that will serve the interests of peace and even survival...
...law, were a source of funds for the largesse to American officials...
...In consequence, the poorest Chilean peasant is as free as Nelson Rockefeller to open his own copper mine...
...Continued on Page 8) (Continued from Page 6) at the same time, the United States increased the already high level of military and police aid from $68 million in 1973 to $83 million in 1975...
...If, in further consequence, the military dictatorship has been bolstered, the economic elites enriched, and the people's lot rendered even more wretched well, these are political matters that are, quite properly, of no concern to a Nobel Laureate in economics...
...WORSE THAN SWINE FLU...
...JAMES S. FAY (James S. Fay is an associate professor of political science at California State University, Hayward...
...Park reportedly was trying to buy friends for policies favorable to his administration, which has been criticized in Congress and elsewhere for being repressive...
...PROHIBIDO FUMAR...
...The candidates merely cry, "Trust me!'" and a helpless majority replies, "We do...
...All other government powers are implied in that...
...commonwealth administration Puerto Rico enjoys a 13 per cent illiteracy rate and 71 per cent of the population receives food stamps...
...Both can be used, the Pentagon acknowledges, to support radar technology and analyze the results of nuclear tests...
...a slim UAW settlement...
...Union agreements negotiated this year have given workers nothing to cheer about...
...State governments in Germany have decreed that applicants for civil service jobs, including teachers, must swear they will not "undermine the free and democratic foundations of the society...
...The Thai peasant population remains poverty-stricken, in need of land reform, and victimized by the Bangkok-based business elite that practices loan-sharking in the countryside at interest rates as high as 60 per cent...
...U.S...
...Though the military junta ordered the establishment of centers for the "re-education and vocational training of individuals considered to be potential dangers to society," the crucial problems of Thailand will not be so easily solved...
...Because Washington does not want to alarm our own citizens, who might begin asking embarrassing questions about American bombs and American nuclear reactors...
...We suspect we know how all these questions will be answered...
...If interpreted broadly and administered creatively it could be a kind of libertarian milestone which might cause the spirits of our nation's founders to look with pride on their offspring...
...The documents indicate that the agency was supposedly considering Weissman for recruitment from 1958 until 1963, although he was never approached during that period...
...The purchase price was confirmed, but Lee asked that $200,000 of the amount be promptly made available to pay for President Park's expenses on a trip to meet President Nixon in California...
...aircraft carriers, though the threat, in the opinion of the Senate Defense Preparedness Subcommittee, was "either limited or does not exist...
...During the past thirty years politicians and bureaucrats of both parties and of all ideologies have tampered with our rights, invaded our homes, read our correspondence, monitored our conversations, and infiltrated their agents into our schools, media, foundations, businesses, unions, and churches...
...How will Carter cope with the enduring Cold War myths and the relentless quest for empire that have misguided U.S...
...PERSPECTIVES On Chinese nuclear fallout .. .witchhunting in Germany...
...Americans, it seems, must be constantly reassured that the atom poses little danger...
...The United Auto Workers' settlement with the Ford Motor Co...
...A U.S...
...The CIA has withheld twenty-six documents in their entirety and deleted portions of the rest, arguing that release would reveal intelligence sources and methods and would be damaging to "national security...
...Dan R. Eddy Jr., a member of the Texas Good Neighbor Commission, a state agency devoted to promoting better understanding between Texas and Mexico, as quoted in The Texas Observer: "If I would never get to Mexico again, it wouldn't bother me...
...But Tallinn, it turned out, was only an anti-aircraft system...
...The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists recently listed thirteen instances of security breaches at nuclear facilities since 1971, including the "disappearance" of uranium rods, the shooting of a night watchman, attempted forced entries, and ninety-nine threats or acts of violence at seventy-six nuclear facilities, as well as acts of vandalism, sabotage, arson, and efforts to blow up installations here and in Europe...
...Though not on the market for the holiday season, this latest tax-supported device for milking the public should be available soon a legacy of administrative imagination left to us all by the departed but unlamented Earl Butz...
...The worldwide radioactive fallout from that test, says Arthur Tamplin, a respected biophysicist who worked for the Atomic Energy Commission from 1963 to 1975, will result in 100 deaths from cancer and 100 severe genetic defects, such as mongoloid births...
...Civil Service Commission announced it was dropping the oath in Federal job applications...
...Of all the defects in our political system, none is more destructive than the simple fact that for a year or more out of every four, rational political dialogue becomes virtually impossible in the United States...
...Weissman, he was considered for employment by this Agency in the 1950s and there are records which reflect this fact...
...SIDNEY LENS Nuclear Poker As a gesture of "good will" toward Mao Tse-tung's successors, the United States is selling China a computer system that is capable of being used for military purposes...
...When Thanom was forced into exile, the United States decreased economic aid to the moderate Thai government from $39 million in fiscal 1973 to $17 million in fiscal 1975 which exacerbated unemployment and inflation...
...presence is felt...
...He doesn't like the initials...
...it is obscured by empty rhetoric, vapid preoccupation with personality, imagery, and style, and media concentration on trivia...
...Albert Soglin, father of Mayor Paul Soglin of Madison, Wisconsin, and a Chicago teacher who, along with my wife and one other teacher, refused to sign a loyalty oath back in 1955, died recently just after the U.S...
...I assume these records are of no interest, but if this is not the case, please feel free to let me know...
...HOWARD BRAY (Howard Bray is the director of the Fund for Investigative Journalism...
...That policy flourished in the 1960s, when Thailand became the major launching pad for the U.S...
...The death penalty also reflects the seriousness with which God regards sin...
...One such reality is that the campaign itself constituted a tacit reinforcement and ratification of the Imperial Presidency...
...trade with East Asia now exceeds our transactions with the European community...
...citizens who have no relationship to the agency...
...This is the latest attempt to revive Operation Bootstrap, a 1950s program to attract U.S...
...Still, if 200 persons had been killed or injured in a terrorist hijacking, it would have been sensational news for weeks and Henry Kissinger would be demanding an immediate meeting of the U.N...
...It would challenge millions of conservatives and liberals to confront their ideological preconceptions and clarify their political priorities...
...Which goes to show that if you want to play nuclear poker, you have to make sure there are players even if you have to stake them to the ante...
...Yet it is an issue our next President has not acknowledged, let alone addressed...
...The fate of 1,400 students arrested at Thammasat University was unknown...
...Weissman is appealing that decision...
...All of the other questions raised above hinge on this crucial consideration, for there will be no peace, no prosperity, no freedom so long as the demands of our huge corporate entities dictate public policy in America...
...A total of 200 personal catastrophes does not loom large compared with the 200,000 deaths and genetic accidents which, according to reputable scientists, have already resulted or will result from the 193 atmospheric tests conducted by the United States and the 161 by the Soviet Union between 1945 and 1963...
...complicity in the death of Thai democracy...
...The poor crowd into urban barrios or rural shanty-towns without running water or sewage disposal and these conditions will not change so long as we continue to prime our colonial profits pump...
...Agri-businessmen complained...
...FUN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY...
...intelligence experts after a defecting Soviet pilot landed it in Japan seems to have fallen short of expectations...
...In fact, of course, the primary business of U.S...
...Gulf was required to probe its domestic and foreign political activities in the wake of its post-Watergate admission of illegal contributions to American political candidates...
...From a discussion of capital punishment in United Evangelic Action, the official organ of the National Association of Evangelicals: "The highest function of government is the judicial taking of life...
...It is ancient political wisdom in America that while you may not be able to fool all the people all the time, if you can fool them once it's good for four years...
...In 1969, a Gulf proposal to increase its share of ownership in a virtually monopolistic fuel oil distributing company in Korea was agreed to under curious circumstances...
...Under the U.S...
...And in the meantime it has taken root in "Social Democratic" West Germany...
...That doctrine, as outlined by the State Department, maintains that the United States must preserve "stability" in Asia to protect the world's "peace and safety...
...McCloy's report admittedly did not pursue all areas of the firm's overseas bribery...
...A constitutional democracy with parliamentary elections was, in the view of U.S...
...Army demolition team set off a simulated A-bomb, complete with mushroom cloud...
...His attorneys Mark Lynch, Larry Ellsworth, and Alan Morrison of Ralph Nader's Litigation Group argue that the investigation was clearly illegal since Congress, in providing that the CIA "shall have no police, subpoena, law enforcement powers, or internal security functions," decisively prohibited the CIA from conducting secret domestic investigations of U.S...
...intelligence agents might lose their authority to peruse our mail...
...The report received the barest public attention, yet it traces the anatomy of one multinational corporation's overseas bribery and is interesting, to say the least, in the light of a boiling Washington political scandal...
...industry to Puerto Rico by offering cheap labor and special tax concessions...
...The Right to Privacy The Declaration of Independence encourages us to pursue liberty, one of a triad of social and political benefits expected to flow from the interaction of the citizenry and a just government In the 200 years since the Declaration, the scope and size of our political institutions and the technological tools available to our elected leaders have increased beyond what Jefferson and his revolutionary-conservative colleagues anticipated...
...The factories now shaping Puerto Rico into an island industrial park are capital-intensive plants producing pharmaceuticals, electronics, drugs, and chemicals, but employing few laborers...
...At the same time, a decade ago, Washington was encouraging the military regime in Seoul to create an American-style elective system...
...Udder Nonsense Is your cow going excuse the expression soft...
...The citizens of that happy land have benefited these last few years from the fact that Professor Friedman and his disciples have been in full control of economic policy...
...From a proposal prepared by the Federal Highway Administration: "With recognition of the need to consider mobility and accessibility problems from a multimodal, systems-analytic perspective, it is apparent that traditional traffic engineering approaches which focus on operational problems at isolated locations are no longer sufficient...
...TOO RED TO READ...
...air war in Indochina, and it remains a principal component of President Ford's Pacific Doctrine...
...Puerto Rican unemployment steadily increased to 21 per cent, according to Government statistics, and to almost 40 per cent according to independent estimates that include the welfare-bound, illiterate victims of our economic wringer who have abandoned the search for jobs...
...The agreement was so uninspiring that skilled workers accepted it by a slim margin of 489 votes (8,957 to 8,468...
...Carter pledged a return to "full employment" by which he apparently means a 4 per cent unemployment rate but if he has any program beyond a resort to the failed policies of warmed-over Keynesianism, he has yet to tell us...
...Similar committees in behalf of German freedom are functioning in Sweden, Denmark, and the Netherlands...
...military budget, but even that token cut shrank as the election neared, and finally vanished entirely from his rhetoric...
...Thailand is the latest victim of Washington's determination to maintain an exploitive status quo wherever the U.S...
...The Supreme Court has taken a fickle and emasculated view of privacy when it comes to government snooping with sophisticated electronic gadgetry or government use of evidence taken in disregard of an individual's right to protection of the privacy of his person or domicile...
...How will Carter cope with the endlessly spiraling arms race and the dangers it poses for all of humanity...
...Constitution, conferring upon each citizen an unequivocal right to privacy...
...Have you noticed that her girth is a bit larger, her muscles less supple (especially since the baby) than in years gone by...
...Professor Bruce Hannon of the University of Illinois has calculated that it takes the sustained yield of more than 630 square miles of forest to provide the McDonald's hamburger chain with a year's supply of paper packaging...
...We hope we will be proven wrong...
...How will Carter cope with the repressive institutions of government that have come to play such an ominous role in our garrison state...
...There is nothing dismal about the science he practices...
...Agribusinessmen converted their herds to drylot feeding in recent years, confining the cows to narrow stalls where life consists only of lying down, getting up, eating, drinking, being milked, and giving birth to a calf once a year...
...Instead of advising corporate farmers to graze the cattle, they designed an expensive, energy-intensive machine to exercise the animals...
...Once the military seized power allegedly on grounds that the civilian government could not cope with Thailand's "communist menace" the U.S...
...Many U.S...
...He reportedly told investigators," The Post said, "that his rice commissions could never be isolated because they were insignificant compared to the $1 million per month he received from Gulf Oil in an unspecified business arrangement and all his receipts were commingled...
...During fiscal 1975, mainland-based corporations realized a profit of $1.3 billion from their island operations...
...The monstrous crimes committed by the CIA, the FBI, and their ilk came to prominent public notice during his campaign, but he hardly gave them a mention...
...The Washington Post reported that Agriculture Department agents were stymied when Tongsun Park denied them access to his rice transaction records...
...By strengthening the right-wing military and destabilizing the civilian economy, Washington created the conditions for the impending coup...
...JUDITH MILLER (Judith Miller is The Progressive's Washington correspondent...
...GOOD NEIGHBOR...
...But McCloy does relate other Gulf payoffs in Korea that followed the 1966 episode...
...weapons fall into the same category, having been designed for threats that never materialized...
...We must let him know, as emphatically as we can, what we want done...
...Tax collectors and census takers might have to stop before demanding that we reveal all...
...threats' without substance Why would the U.S...
...The cows, understandably, got out of shape...
...Big Brotherism is a major institutional problem which, by threatening our individual privacy, undermines the substance of democracy...
...On September 26, China exploded in the atmosphere a nuclear device generally believed to be in the 100-kiloton range, equivalent in firepower to 100,000 tons of TNT...
...Computations by Tamplin and by Frederick J. Gottlieb and Ernest Sternglass at the University of Pittsburgh showed that Iodine 131 levels exceeded safety requirements set by Federal Radiation Council guidelines, and that pregnant women and children should have been warned not to drink milk for a minimum of three weeks...
...Korea's Gulf Connection By the mid-1960s, the Gulf Oil Corporation had become the leading private investor in South Korea, operating petroleum facilities and plastic and fertilizer plants worth at least $200 million...
...But right or wrong, we cannot afford to sit back and wait until the President lets us know...
...You are either going to put up the goddamned money or suffer the consequences," he told Dorsey...
...With regal impartiality, Congress has also ignored the prying and harassing activities of thousands of investigators who work for the private sector...
...Radioactivity readings on workers' clothing at a reactor site about forty miles from the city were so high that officials first thought there might be a leak in the reactor...
...The jogger, a mechanical exerciser, is a fenced ring around which a cow is forced to walk by four moving tailgates in effect, electric cattle prods...
...A CIA Case History Gary Weissman was a standard student activist of the early 1960s...
...Yes, a constitutional right to privacy is a Luddite response to the overbearing machinery of government It is a primal scream against the suffocating embrace of the state...
...The SAGE continental air defense'system (cost $18 billion) was installed to deter Moscow from planning an improved bomber plane, though no such plane was being produced or planned...
...Colorado State Senator Hugh Fowler has raised objections against a school program called Uninterrupted Sustained Silent Reading...
...A high official of President Park Chung Hee's regime told Gulf in 1966 that the corporation should kick in $1 million for the ruling party's coming election campaign...
...These increases now threaten our basic right of privacy and cast doubt on the adequacy of constitutional safeguards provided for this freedom...
...Congress and other Government officials...
...role in the overthrow of the Allende government in Chile...
...In Harlingen, Texas, 40,000 spectators paid up to $5 each to watch retired Air Force General Paul Tibbets reenact the atom bombing of Hiroshima...
...As Bob R. Dorsey, Gulfs chairman and chief executive officer, recalled the episode, "There were veiled threats of what you know threats if you want to survive and do well if you want to continue in the role you're in and prosper in this country you had best do this____We are trying to adopt democratic processes after two thousand years of autocracy...
...foreign policy for the past quarter of a century...
...Puerto Rican Profits Pump Deep within the recently enacted "tax reform" bill rests a little-noticed provision that will allow U.S...
...companies with Puerto Rican subsidiaries to repatriate profits tax-free directly into the mainland economy...
...This nation, like every other major industrial power in the West (except, perhaps, for Germany) , is in an economic crisis...
...In March, a Federal judge ruled in favor of the agency and dismissed Weissman's suit...
...Operation Bootstrap faltered during the recession three years ago, when mainland companies began the exodus to countries with even lower wage scales...
...police and judges might have to learn to respect the front door and the bedroom door...
...President Park appears to apply that line of reasoning inside the United States, too...
...The Justice Department is investigating allegations that President Park personally directed the dispensing of between $500,000 and $1 million a year in gifts, cash, and campaign contributions to dozens of members of the U.S...
...But it will not be the last victim until we bring the U.S...
...The loyalty hoax, however, is far from dead here because employes will still be investigated for loyalty...
...Trotskyists, Maoists, Communists, and many liberals are being denied government employment for their political views and, just as in the American McCarthy era, the effect on free speech and free discussion has been chilling...
...David Stry of Cuernavaca, Mexico, has stipulated in his will that he wants to be buried in the no-smoking section of the cemetery...
...But 60 per cent of the Puerto Rican population lives below the poverty level...
...Weissman's appeal is scheduled to be heard in December...
...Nobel Laureate Professor Milton Friedman is this year's Nobel Laureate in economics, and we can imagine no worthier recipient...
...Under the guise of protecting us, government at all levels has become the greatest threat to our civil liberties...
...A case can be made that our politicians and courts need more specific guidelines concerning the relationship between the individual and government...
Vol. 40 • December 1976 • No. 12
