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The question for all of us now is what do
system and make it work better.
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arrangements, presumably, would permit of this conservative) both correct.
by Anthony Harrigan
The BIA claims the Indians prefer the Government money from the Bank of the
afraid of the high risk.” Yet under profit instructions, uttered the following words:
President.
fight back instead in the hearing rooms of
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committee received ‘
fating from the AFI
meier of Wisconsin, Don Edwards of
California, Barbara Jordan of Texas,
John Conyers of Michigan, Robert F.
Drinan of Massachusetts and Elizabeth
supposedly impartial investigating bod-
ies were heavily biased and involved
with partisanship and special interests.
As for a grass roots movement, we’ve
come to feel that the average American is
happier with a government that he can
gripe about. That he can sit back and say
Judiciary Committee is solidly commit-
ted to the support cof .the union power
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The world starves
as producers scheme
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to vote, instead of a duty or obligation to
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nor there. We do not know what history will
be saying about Mr. Nixon three years
from now, let alone one hundred and three
years from now. But censure remains,
right now, the elegant alternative to
impeachment.
on Political Education, Big Unionism’s
political action arm. Six others had
ratings of 82 per cent and above.
Is changing the system completely, with
votes or bombs the answer?
Can the system even be changed?
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Is public financing of campaign the
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influence ' fair hearing at every point-from grand _
jury through House Judiciary Commit-
from John Connally in a speech before the smuggly that he didn’t vote for. He’s
Texas Bar Association, although the exact* happier not taking part in electing or
order of the statements and the part which .nonimating candidates. (Look at voting
was left out is not available; put together
this way it says a lot about our country in
our times, good and bad.
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1 we do to correct the problems our system
! faces, what do we do to polish up the
Washington
Merry-Go-Round
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“Just like it says on TV — delicious!”
“We are witnesses, a supreme test for
our political system and thus far it is
coming through with flying colors. We are
discovering that all Americans are equal
under the law—the rich and the poor and
the mighty and the humble. We are
affirming that the checks and balances in
our sytem work, despite pressures and
counterpressures that would topple a
nation built on softer ground than ours.
Frankly, we live in a time of blanket
condemnation, class indictment, social
and political polarization and bitter
recrimination. Evidences of tyranny have
occured in all three branches _ of
government. Calculated leaks of privileg-
ed information have become a way of life.
Character assassination has occured as a
matter of routine;” All of this came Friday
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all the domestic policies favored by the
President and by the voters in the last
presidential election.
The House Judiciary Committee is
loaded with representatives who want
America to be radically restructured-
congressmen such as Robert Kasten-
-. alimna against Richard Nixon not only on account
, of Watergate, but on account of the
Then there is the union
Sensing the News
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watch it,” Caulfield secretly testified. But
he didn’t think anythig ever came of it, he
said....The Republic National Committee increasing wheat sales to the Arabs,
paid $1,625 to rent 50,000 names from the Shipments of wheat and other grains to the
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by William F. Buckley
mailing list of the ultraconservative Arab countries may total $800 million
Liberty Lobby during a recent fund-rais- in the year ending in June, double the
ing drive. We have reported in the past $413 million for 1972-73. He figures that
that the Liberty Lobby has been infiltrated rewarding those who make economic
by Nazis who revere the memory of warfare on us doesn't make much sense.
tee-as any citizen involved in a case
before a state or federal court. If the
selection of a grand jury of congres-
sional committee amounts to rigging an
outcome, then the American people
should know about it so that they can
address their complaints and views to
Congress as a whole.
Changing the system? How? Who
decides how and when to change? Me?
You? I’d be all for it if we did it my way,
but would you like to sit back and let me do
it, my way? That’s the problem with
changing the system.
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We agree with Connally that the
American system is surviving, will
survive, and will outlast the prophets of
doom who the first time things don’t go
their way wring their collective hands and
forecast the downfall of the Republic. We
agree with Connally that leaks of
the dirt-cheap, people are anxiously turned to Congress.
of the
Indians more than
privileged information has been deliberat-
ely designed to assassinate the character
of certain individuals. And we certainly
agree that every branch of government
has overstepped its bounds in it
directions.
structure. Twelve members
How much justice and fair play can Congress. We accompanied them to
come out of this committee? The Capital Hill where we testified in their
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We’ve said before we are opposed to
public financing of elections for President
or for Congressmen. Yes, it would be nice
to have the assurance* that our
Congressman or President is not being
bought and paid for with someone else’s
money. But at the same time, I sure
wouldn’t want to see my tax money going
to pay to elect a Scoop Jackson or a Teddy
Kennedy.
• CENSURE -
Congressman John Rodes of Arizona is
quoted as saying that the censure of
President Nixon would be the “worst to
two worlds,” and liberal Democrats are
echoing that sentiment with such fervor as
* to betray the fact that it has become a real
political possibility.
I confess that I am surprised by Mr.
Rhodes’ position. But then he is, after all,
the Republican floor leader in the House or
Representatives. Perhaps, as such, he is
taking the positon that there shall be
nothing the record critical of President
Nixon, thus performing the function of the
coach who, at half time, declaims to his
team the fact that they are behind 26-0 has
no bearing whatever on their prospective
victory. Mr. Rhodes should be saying more
interesting things than that; and perhaps
he is. privately.
Because, as I say, the bitter-enders, who
wake up in the morning and dream of
meeting Richard Nixon at Appomattox,
are having nothing of it. Mr. Tom Wicker
is so exercised at the thought of merely
censuring Nixon that he is driven to
historical solecisms. “For Mr. Nixon,” -
Mr. Wicker write - “censure might be
acceptable if he wanted nothing more than
to cling to office - as sometimes seems to
be his goal; but it could hardly be a
satisfactory outcome for a man who has
steadfastly protested his innocence of
wrongdoing, and whose penchant for
‘firsts’ could hardly include ‘first *
President to be censured.”
It is more accurately said that Mr.
Wicker is apparently the last public
commentator in America to discover that
another American President was indeed
censured. It was Andrew Jakcson, in 1834,
and on the assumption that there might be
a few Wickers around, I devoted two
colums to the subject two a few years ago.
Ait that time, there was much fulmination
of the
per cent
factor. A majority
$15.36 rate, rather than a gamble on a United States, and b) firing the Secretary
percentage of the profits, because “they’re of Treasury who declined to follow his
has little or no idea of the built-in bias about its composition and outlook. Sen.
in that committee. If one examines the Carl Curtis of Nebraska recently stated
backgrounds and voting records of the that the grand jury which handed down
committee members, one sees that the the Watergate indictments was unrep-
committee constitutes a stacked deck, resentative of the country as a whole in
The majority of committee members is both political and racial terms.
deeply committed to liberal and union The District of Columbia is not a
causes—indeed, to opposition to virtually typical American community. It is a
, President, a minority whose political
Holtzman of New York. Perhaps the leaders have repeatedly characterized
best way to characterize these, figures Richard Nixon as bigoted and racist.”
is to describe them as MeGovernite in In view of the fact that this grand
their social and political thinking, jury brought an unprecedented charge
They-and the majority on the commit- against the President of the United
tee-represent that constituency in states, it is of interest to the public
American life which failed to elect its that the foreman of the grand jury,
candidates in the last presidential according to a report in the Washington
election Having failed to convince the Post, is a native of Yugoslavia and a
American electorate of the rightness of naturalized citizen. This item further
Can the system be changed? Hasn’t it?
Has not every President in the history of
this country changed some things in some
way. Hasn’t every Congress thut ever met
made changes, good and bad? Yes, we can
change our system, but only if we begin '
now to teach our kids how the system
works, why it works and most
importantly; let’s teach them that this
sytem is me very best. Let’s have teachers
teaching government and American
history who happen to believe in the WASHINGTON - No fortress of the The BIA leases the best of this Indian land to farm. It is true that the tribe banned bombing of Cambodia, which the Senate
American system. Let’s teach our kids early West could compare with the bastion to corporate farmers for $15.36 an acre, chemicals, which seeped into the streams was about to forbid him to do. For a while,
courses in world government, pointing out of bureaucracy that now holds the Indians which brings the Shoshone-Bannocks a and killed the fish. The aerial spraying Mr. Nixon took the position that he had the
the differences in.their systems and ours, at bay. With paperwork instead of return of less than two per cent of the also made the Indians ill. inherent power to bomb Cambodia: but the
Let’s let them know why our system is the fireworks, the bureaucrats who man the harvest. “ ‘ But Jack G. Peterson, an agricultural Constitutional question became lost in the
best. Bureau of Indian Affairs have overpower- Yet neighboring landowners, who lease economist who has spent two years in Ft. shadows of the testimony of John Dean.
ed the Indians more completely than the their land to potato grower, get 30 to 40 per Hall, contends that the Indian restrictions Andrew Jackson was censured on March
calvary ever did. cent of the take. The private landowners don’t increase costs at all. Nor have the 28,1834, by a vote of 26 to 20, on a motion of
Twenty months ago, a few fustrated have, shared with the grUWers in the great bureaucrats produced any statistics to Henry Clay. Clay was sayng that Andrew
Indians raided the BIA files and potato prosperity, as prices have soared support their claim that the chemical ban Jackson exactly the same kind of thing
triumphantly bore off hundreds of cartons from $1.80 to $6.80 a bushel since 1970. has reduced crop yield. Wicket et al are saying about Richard
f the hated papers. The aggrieved Indians Still the bureaucrats at the BIA, In any event, any profit-sharing Nixon and by the way they are (in opinion
showed us the stolen files, which proved
documentary proof of the neglect and
betrayal that have characterized the white
man’s conduct toward the Indian.
We wrote a series of columns citing
evidence from the documents that the BIA
had helped white exploiters cheat the
When historians get around to writing Four others had ratings of better Indians out of their water, timber and
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Certainly the public today is not getting record of leaks of secret material and behalf. •
certain significant information, despite grand jury data from the Judiciary Yet today, the BIA is as invulnerable
the public’s right to know. Committee points up the partisan and invincible as ever.
Consider the House Judiciary Com- character of the committee and the For instance, the BIA administers the,
mittee, for example, which is con- sham of its proceedings, tribal fends of the Shoshone-Bannock
ducting an inquiry into impeachment. As for the Watergate grand jury, the Indians who own some of the nation’s
Surely the vast majority of Americans public is entitled to know much more finest potato acreage at Ft. Hall, Idaho.
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definitive accounts of the so-called than 50 per cent. George Meany, head mineral rights.
Watergate period in American history, of the AFL-CIO, is on record, to be We advised the Indians, nevertheless, to
they are bound to record that sure, as urging impeachment of the abandon their futile raids and sieges and to
their views, they apparently hope to points up the unrepresentative char-
impose their will by other means. • acter of this grand jury from which
One of the prominent members of the confidential information has been leak-
Judiciary Committee is Rep. Robert F. ed.
Drinan-the first member of the House These matters cannot be kept from
to introduce an impeachment resolution, the public. For years the make-up of
The Washington Post, which admires juries and grand juries has been a
the congressman, recently described public concern, a concern of the courts
him, saying: “He dashes about, eyes and the Congress. The President of the
gleaning, proclaiming liberal causes.” United States is as much entitled to a
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sharing, even a poor crop would earn the “The eyes and the hopes of the American
from $1.80 to $6.80 a bushel since 1970.
Still the bureaucrats at the BIA,
unmoved by the Indian appeals for the
profit-sharing, continue to collect the same
fixed price for the Indians as the corporate
farmers paid before the price explosion.
The cororate tenants also leave the land
bare during the winter. This erodes the
soil, which runs off and pollutes the trout
streams. Under the law, an environmental
impact study should be made. But the local
BIA officials have refused. fixed-rate leases. They feel that they have been deceived and
“We’ve made our won informal Peterson tells us he has heard BIA insulted; their confidence abused; their
assessment,” said Hiram Olney, the local officials warn tribal members against J interests betrayed; and their liberties in
BIA superintendent, “and determine that profit sharing. “If your tenant doesn’t danger. They see a rapid and alarming
a full-blown environmental study is not grow any potatoes, you don’t get any concentration of all power in one man’s
needed.” This is another decision which money,” he has heard them threatened. hands. They see that, by the exercise of the
benefits the corporate tenants instead of This is all too typical of BIA tactics, positive authority of the executive, and his
the Indian landowners. which seem calculated to con the Indian negative power exerted over Congress, the
The bureaucrats claim that the sprinkler out of their legitimate earnings. It follows will of one man alone prevails and governs
systems on Indian land arid a tribar ban the BIA traditloh of favoring white the republic.”
against the use of certain chemicals make profiteers over the victimized Indians. Now Nixon’s insistence, as of his famous
the land more costly for the white tenants But the confused Shoshone-Bannocks broadcast of April 30, 1973, wherein he
finally got wise to their BIA administra- asserted his total innocence, must be
control of either party the answer? c
upon the BIA, which is under his
jurisdiction
WASHINGTON WHIRL: Sen. James
Symington, D-Mo., kicked Sen. Quentin
Burdick, D-N.D., in the stomach the other
day, knocking the wind out of him. But it
was all in good sport. The two legislators
were .sparring in karate class....Ex-White
House investigator Jack Caulfield conced-
ed to senators behind closed doors that he
‛ asked Assistant Attorney General Henrv
Petersen to try to link ex-Interior
Secretary Steward Udall and Ex-McGov-
em fundraiser Henry Kimelam to the
Mafia. Petersen “indicated he would
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the corporate growers to deduct legitimate Clay, reacting furiously against Jack-
costs. - - son’s a) withdrawing of United States
tors and sent a resolution to Washington examined in the light of what happened -
protesting “the inequitable manner in and Mr Wicker knows this. Obviously Mr. -
which tribal . . . lands have been leased Nixon did not sufficiently supervise the
by federal government.” The tribal activities of his subordinates. And Andrew
leaders demanded “an immediate Jackson, replying to Henry Clay,
investigation” by the Secretary of the vindicated Jackson’s firing of the
Interior. But their complaints so far have Secretary of the Treasury in words that
been ignored. - ‛ superbly frame the existing impasse. “...it
The General Accounting Office, mean was for the sole purpose of causing all
while, has conducted an investigation of executive officers, from the highest to the
the Shoshone-Bannock ripoff for Congress lowest, faithly to perform the services
But the unreleased report was screened by required of them by law that the people of
BIA officials before it reached Capitol Hill, the United States have made (the
Although it largely whitewashes the BIA, President) their chief magistrate and the
it confirms that the $15.36-an-acre the Constitution has clothed him with the
Indians are paid is only a fraction of what entire executive power of the govern-
their white neighbors are earning from the ment.”
potato boon. In other words, not only is there a
Footnote. In fairness to Interior precedent for censuring a President. The
Secretary Rogers Morton, he has recently facts surrounding that censure are .
sided with the Mohave and Cheyenne dramatically relevant. True, three years
Indians in controversies over Indian later, the Senate voted to expunge the
rights. His rulings have been imposed vote of censure; but that is neither here
center of intense opposition to efforts to.s
curb welfare programs and other
domestic giveaways.
Patrick J. Buchanan, a presidential
aide, has stated that only a single
member of the grand jury was of the
President’s political party. He also said
that 17 of the 23 grand jury members
were black members of a racial
minority that voted 10 to 1 against the
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MONTROSE, CALIF., LEDGER: “Ac-
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cording to Congressman William Lehman
of Florida, the good old USA continues to
turn the other cheek. He notes that while
Yank motorists wait at gas stations for a
few gallons of the stuff, the United States is
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By Don Oakley
The world has to be just a little mad.
— American farmers, hoping to force a rise in the price of
wheat, are withholding vast quantities of the winter wheat
crop. Only about 20 per cent of the harvest has reached the
market, where normally it would be 60 per cent at this time
of year
— Chicken producers, also in an effort to “improve"
prices, are not storing their product but are destroying baby
chicks by the thousands.
— Cattlemen, facing financial disaster because of de-
pressed prices, are appealing to the government for aid
Agriculture Secretary Earl L. Butz, testifying before the
House Agriculture Committee, warns that the United States
will not "stand idly by and become the dumping ground for
the world's surplus meat."
In the meantime:
— Millions of Africans living in the vast Sahel region below
the Sahara face starvation in one of the worst droughts in
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— The Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human
Needs is told that in the world's wealthiest nation, as much
as one-third of the dog and cat food sold in city slums is eaten
by people.
— The ordinary housewife, visiting the supermarket
weekly or even daily, no longer knows what her food bill is
going to be. Everything, with the possible exception of meat,
keeps going up and up and up
How can there be inflation for food consumers and defla-
tion for foqd producers? Since when did the world have such
an excess of grain that American farmers cannot get what
they consider a fair price for it? Where did the world get
such a surplus of meat that affluent America becomes a
“dumping ground" for it? When did the much-warned-about
specter of world famine vanish — if it did?
The fact is, of course, that people the world over are starv-
ing or are existing dn substandard diets. The fact is that for
millions, meat is an unobtainable luxury. The fact is that /
people starve, not just because they don’t have food, but be-
cause they don't have the money to buy food.
The fact is, in short, that economics, not the absolute quan-
tity of foodstuffs produced in the world, determines who eats
what and how well they eat.
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