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AY, NOVEMBER 2, 1962
NIGHT EDITOR: DENISE WACKER
Cuban Crisis Offers
Opportunity for Action
WITHIN LESS than two weeks the world has
run the full course of the pendulum--from
the brink of nuclear disaster to the first sig-
nificant thaw in East-West relations since the
end of World War II. Confused analysts don't
know quite what to make of the latest turn of
events; they will be troubled for some years to
come.
Optimistic commentators are already calling
the Cuban affair a major turning point in the
Cold War. It may well be. Or it may be the first
in a series of dangerous confrontations which
will eventually signal destruction. All depends
on how the two great powers interpret the
Cuban crisis, how earnestly they work to pre-
vent another one just like it.
Ostensibly, the United States has won the
greatest diplomatic victory of all time. We have
finally taken the initiative away from the So-
viet Union. This initiative was lost at the time
of the Berlin blockade in 1948 and remained
dormant through Korea, Indo-China, Hungary,
the U-2 and, until now, Cuba.
I THE WAKE of Chairman Khrushchev's in-
credibly conciliatory letter to President Ken-
nedy many people are searching for hidden mo-
tives. We have become so conditioned to the
Kremlin's penchant for "one-upmanship" that
we stare at our success in disbelief.
Khrushchev's thinking is not hard to under-
stand. According to many sources an invasion
of Cuba was less than 24 hours away when his
letter reached the President. Russia, unwilling
and unable to come to Cuba's defense, chose the
only available way out.
The real question is whether Khrushchev can
stay in power after the Cuban affair. Foreign
newsmen in Russia continue to fill the wires
with rumors of an opposition group within
the government whose hand has now been
strengthened. This group is much more war-
oriented than the present leadership. It pre-
sents a real danger to the new relaxed atmos-
phere, as do our own "warhawks" in the de-
fense department.
FIDEL CASTRO, totally ignored in the U.S.-
Russia bargaining over Cuba, is now trying
to complicate the agreement reached Sunday.
He won't succeed. At this moment First Soviet
Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan is in Ha-
vana presumabl'y telling Castro to quit pretend-
ing he is independent of Soviet control or suffer
the consequences.
Soviet missiles in Cuba will undoubtedly go;
many disturbing questions will remain. Our gov-
ernment's admitted doctoring of the news leaves
the country little basis for judging the Cuban
decision. President Kennedy has much explain-
ing to do-which is perhaps why he cancelled
his news conference yesterday-and concerned
observers can only view his explanations with
skepticism.
But that decision is history. It has under-
scored the immediate need for a nuclear arms
ban followed by total disarmament. The next
six months should tell how serious the United
States and the Soviet Union are in mouthing
these goals. The time for off-hand discussions
is over. This is an unparalleled opportunity for
action.
-H. NEIL BERKSON
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U ress: hat's the Problem?
CHING IS WRONG at the University began an unparalleled expansion program. Be-
Signs of trouble are beginning to show fore that time it had been a typical campus
of the press' carefully fashioned pub- press-small, unknown outside of its local area,
and limited to publishing scholarly works of
e. Its administrators, presumably ra- the faculty.
ople, are alternating contradicting each
fusing to answer questions which they BUT IN 1954, the University, following the
answer, and displaying an alarming lead of other colleges, reevaluated the pur-
of confusion as to what is going on. pose of the press. It decided that the press
ow they have been doing a marvelous should reflect its parent organization-that it
should be diversified as the University, as broad
scuring the problem, but their behavior as the University, and at the same time con-
indicates trouble somewhere. tribute to national culture.
is only one subject they can talk about With a new philosophy and a new director.
betraying their confusion. That sub- the press embarked on an ambitious program.
e Past. Ah, the glorious past! Smiles It was successful. In 1959, five years later, it
ross their faces as they haul out count- was publishing five times as many books and
phlets, progress reports, citations and making ten times as much money. It was build-
s. Admittedly the past is impressive. ing a world-wide reputation, and establishing
5 years of stagnation, in 1954, the press distribution centers all over the globe. It was
cited for excellence in publishing and progres-
sive attitudes. It was putting more emphasis on
cover design and marketing to stimulate sales,
dispelling the stereotyped image of a college
press. It was able to create a new image for
YEARS of existence, the University itself.
cal Society hit a new low Wednesday This is the past; this is what all the pam-
a supposedly discriminating audience, phlets and brochures deal with; nothing more.
and of Music" touring company served The image implies that the press has continued
h. of high school dramatics, movie mag- the 1959 status quo, with, of course, occasional-
og, hig school draandcs, vien mag ly making forward steps. But there are only
Alogue, gaudy sets and singing class generalities; no specifics.
and had the audacity to call it a
ay hit." ONE FACT we do have, however, is very in-
he excellence of last year's offerings, teresting. In September 1961 the director
al Extra Series performance struck a of the press, who had served all during the
e on the ears of music lovers. Ann Ar- expansion period, resigned. He took another job
in the publishing field. No successor was ap-
sed to the professional accuracy of such pointed until last May. Since 1961 the press has
Eugene Ormandy, Jerome Hines, Ru- not been operating under normal conditions.
rkin =and Herbert von Karajan should Since last May the press has been in a state of
ted that Jeannie Carson and company's flux. Changes in personnel are being made
ared the same distinction, now and no one's position is particularly sacred.
ociety substituted Rogers' and Ham- This may explain why everyone is very sensi-
s "The Sound of Music," hardly what tive about what they are saying. But it does
n Broadway, for Bizet's "Carmen." If not explain all the contradictions, and the re-
ty feels the need to substitute to have fusals to answer questions, especially on the
edule, at least it ought to be discerning part of the director.
oice. After reading the remarks of his subordinates
l comedy, an American tradition as for a would-be Daily interview, the director
ae as corn flakes, is not itself to be labeled some as "unfortunate" (even particular-
ed. Rather it is the exceedingly medi- ly bland), denied a good many others, and
lity of productions as the one seen in asked that others be deleted for the press'
which the Society should exclude from ae.
image.
-ELLEN SILVERMAN More important, he refused to discuss fi-
-MARJORIE BRAHMS nances. What his subordinates said on the
subject he denied. He announced that the actual
financial connection between the University and
the press was too complicated to go into, and
r Z furthermore, of no relevance. Current finances
were a similar story. When asked to explain
anyway, he reverted to the Fifth Amendment
Editorial Staff technique--always handy in a pinch.
MICHAEL OLINICK, Editor
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Director City EditorAH THE PRESS is part of the University and
DOW ................Personnel Director supported (at least in part) by public funds.
LEIER .............Associate City Editor Its finances should be public. The press was
SSELL KRAMER . Assoc. Editorial Directorh
NEU ................ Co-Magazine Editor happy enough to publish its finances in 1959
ERLSTADT.............Co-Magazine Editor for its growth period. Whq not now? What is it
mER ....................sports Editor hiding?
REWS............Associate Sports Editor
ULEMAN.......... Associate Sports Editor There is one obvious conclusion that can be
(EDITOR'S NOTE? Paul Potter, a
graduate student at the University,
was National Affairs Vice-President
of the United States National Stu-
dent Association during the 1961-2
academic year.)
By PAUL POTTER
Daily Guest Writer
THE EVENTS of the last two
weeks surrounding the Cuban
crisis have had a deep effect on
the students of this campus and
the people of the United States.
They have raised a number of
grave questions and inspired a se-
ries of frustrations, not the least
of which has been the acute feel-
ing on the part of many students
that they would like in some small
way to be able to influence the
course of events in Latin America,
not only to avoid the prospect of
recurrent Cuban crises, but also to
effect the possibility for the devel-
opment of democratic institutions
and movements in an unstable,
crisis-ridden continent.
* * *
IT IS IRONIC, that against this
backdrop, there has been a move
to disaffiliate this campus from
the principal mechanism which it
has to influence the course of his-
tory in Latin America-the Unit-
ed States National Student Asso-
ciation.
During the crisis, and for years
before, USNSA's Latin American
representatives have worked with
democratic national unions of stu-
dents throughout the continent,
assisting them with technical in-
formation, helping to maintain
programs of communication and
leadership development, and es-
tablishing other programs of prac-
tical cooperation such as the Chil-
ean relief effort after the earth-
quakes in 1960.
The Association, as the national
union of students of this country,
has been virtually the only Amer-
ican group to maintain close con-
tact with Latin American students
during the last ten years. Business,
labor, government and private or-
ganizations have either not tried,
or have been so singularly unsuc-
cessful that they have given up the
effort.
Although the USNSA program in
Latin America is too extensive to
recount here, it is worth noting
that the only successful literacy
program conducted outside of Cuba
during the last five years was ini-
tiated by the Bolivian national
union of students in close coopera-
tion with the International Stu-
dent Conference and USNSA.
* * *
IT SEEMS CLEAR to me that
the vast majority of students on
this campus favor the continua-
tion of the kind of effort describ-
ed above. But on this estimation,
I seem to differ with the eight-
man majority in the current Stu-
dent Government Council.
Let me illustrate this difference.
USNSA has been engaged in a
serious effort to recruit students
into the field of Latin American
student affairs. Last spring a
weekend program was co-sponsor-
ed by USNSA at Oberlin College to
introduce interested students to
the problems of Latin American
student affairs and hopefully to
recruit individuals to work, either
in Latin Americahor within the
United States in the Association's
program.
Although students from this
University were invited to the con-
ference, no one came and it is my
understanding that no effort had
been made by SGC to elicit sup-
port here. Instead, I suppose the
letter was taken as one more in-
dication that the Association is
not interested in "doing anything
for the Michigan campus.'
I would insist that in sponsoring
a program in Latin America, the
Association is doing something for
the students at the University of
Michigan - something that the
University could not do without
the Association-something that
in all probability cannot be done
by any other segment in American
society than an aroused student
population.
* * *
BUT LATIN AMERICA will not
wait. In 1950, there were no Com-
munist-dominatedunions of stu-
dents in the continent. Today there
are 10; by the end of the year
there will be 11 or 12.
And yet University students are
asked to disaffiliate. (If I may be
forgiven language unbecoming a
graduate student), I find this ef-
fort disgraceful and irresponsible.
At a time when there is such
great need, we are asked not very
politely (but perhaps finally) to
stick our heads in the sand.
All of this is virtually by way
of introduction. I have mentioned
only one aspect of the Associa-
tion's program and the complicat-
ed challenge which faces it and
this University. Of necessity my
treatment of the Association must
be brief.
THE UNITED STATES National
Student Association was formed
shortly after World War II to as-
sure American students a repre-
sentative and democratic voice
within rapidly developing interna-
tional student activity. The early
years of the Association were dom-
inated by concern with interna-
tin.1 n~iin anid Panpriallu the~
human relations programming,
student involvement in the educa-
tional process, in all of which
USNSA did pioneer work.
In addition the Association be-
gan to develop greater concern
with problems of national repre-
sentation of American students,
the development of technical in-
formation for student government,
the creation of student services,
the development of campus lead-
ership, and research into student
life and activities.
* * *
IN THE AREAS of internation-
al representation, the single most
critical activity of the Association
is in the International Student
Conference. It is difficult to over-
estimate the importance of the
Association's role in the ISC. An
African delegate returning from
the 9th ISC reported that there
were three blocks in the Confer-
ence: an Afro-Asian-Latin. Ameri-
can block whose primary concern
was with such issues as colonial-
ismi racisism and university auton-
omy; a Western European block,
primarily concerned with problems
of "practical" cooperation, schol-
arships, travel and student eco-
nomic welfare; and a third block,
composed of USNSA attempting to
hold the other two together in a
workable structure.
That effort has become increas-
ingly difficult during the last few
years as the IUS has mounted a
propaganda campaign of great in-
tensity against the ISC and as the
presence of Communist elements
within the Conference has emerg-
ed in the form of a destructive
minority dedicated to the ruin of
the ISC through abuse of its ex-
tremely democratic structure.
It is not at all clear that the
ISC can be saved, especially when
human resources and grassroots
support are denied USNSA through
the kind of effort going on on this
campus. It is clear, however, that
most of the unions now participat-
ing within the ISC will turn ex-
clusively to the Communist-con-
trolled IUS for support if the ISC
is destroyed; they must have tech-
nical aid and support for their
efforts; they will turn to any
source rather than go without it.
* * *
IN THE AREA of national rep-
resentation, the Association has
increasingly become the student
organization which the federal
government, educational organiza-
tions and other groups turn to
when they wish to discuss or elicit
student viewpoints.
For the first time, American stu-
dents are being represented by
students, instead of deans, college
presidents or faculty.
The development of increased
concern within the American As-
sociation of University Professors
for student academic freedom and
due process can be directly traced
to its relations with USNSA. Cur-
rently, the AAUP's committee on
student academic freedom cooper-
ates closely with the Association
and there is reason to hope that
the fruits of this cooperation may
lead to a major gain in the status
of student liberties.
Beyond the area of representa-
tion, lie other programs of im-
portance. As an example, I would
mention Educational Travel, Inc.,
which not only provides low-cost
educational tours with discounts
for NSA member schools, but also
subsidizes some of its programs
through scholarships. Publications
and program materials include
such things as a student discount
service, campus parking, student
judiciaries and vast amounts of
other materials available through
the Student Government Inforfa-
tion Service.
GIVEN the problems I have
mentioned, the needs and possi-
bilities which have been touched
upon, why are we involved in a
move for disaffiliation? The pro-
ponents of disaffiliation give three
main reasons:
1) USNSA is an unrepresenta-
tive organization dominated by
liberals (or worse);
. 2) Opponents feel that USNSA
doesn't do anything for our cam-
pus; and
3) (Closely allied to point 2) it
costs a lot of money to belong to
USNSA. Each of these arguments
will be raised during the referen-
dum and deserves some comment
here.
* * *
AS INDICATED earlier, the
founders of the United States Na-
tional Student Association had as
a primary objective the creation
of a democratic and representa-
tive national union of students
through which students could ex-
press their views on critical mat-
ters.
For this reason, they chose to
base the organization on the most
representative campus institution
in the country-student govern-
ment-and to determine its policy
through an annual national stu-
dent congress composed of dele
gates from .member campuses
rather than through an executive
structure as used in some other
national unions.
It was felt that in this way, re-
sponsiveness could be maintained
to the interests of the campus
and the organizations would avoid
the trap of minority control-which
snared student organizations in the
'30's.
* * *
THIS IS NOT to say that there
are not weaknesses in the quality
of representation. On the contrary,
supporters of USNSA have Iradi-
tionally recognized much more pro-
found weaknesses than those who
would destroy it. This was most
graphically demonstrated at the
14th Congress in 1961 when the
Association's critics suggested that
five minor structural reforms
would make the organization much
more representative.
Although all five reforms have
now been adopted in whole or in
part, Association advocates point-
ed out that USNSA will not become
much more representative until
delegates to Congresses and stu-
dent governments begin to com-
municate their concerns about the
Association to the campus, subject
themselves to election at least par-
tially on the basis of stands which
they have taken on such contro-
versial issues as the House Com-
mittee on Un-American Activities,
and make the effort to develop a
program on the campus which re-
flects the concerns they have ex-
pressed within the Association.
One of the mechanisms for ac-
complishing these goals on some
campuses has been the direct elec-
tion of USNSA Congress delegates.
Interestingly enough, such a pro-
posal was opposed by many of the
eight SGC representatives who now
find themselves in opposition to
continued affiliation with USNSA.
*.* *
GIVEN the weaknesses in the
current representative character of
the organization, two things still
remain clear.
First, USNSA is the most repre-
sentative student organization in
the country and has continued to
grow in its representative charac-
ter as membership and total en-
rollment increase.
Second, there is no other non-
governmental educational or pro-
fessional organization in the coun-
try of the size of USNSA which
begins to approximate its adher-
ence to democratic procedure and
local control. Compared to other
educational organizations, for ex-
ample, USNSA is democratic uto-
pia itself.
* * *
THE ACCUSATION that USNSA
is a liberal bailiwick loses some of
its steam when it is recognized
that the organization is democratic
and is controlled by the delegates
sent to the Congress. It is difficult
for critics to admit the possibility
that delegates who attend the Con-
gress have made up their own
minds on issues and cast their
votes accordingly. If in so doing,
the delegates have misrepresented
their campuses, that is a complaint
with the delegates and not the or-
ganization.
Historically, it is true USNSA
has taken small "1" liberal posi-
tions. Fundamental to the organi-
zation's stand on many issues has
been its liberal adherence to such
notions as academic freedom, uni-
versity autonomy and equal op-
portunity for all individuals re-
gardless of race, color or creed.
Such notions are supported by
many who call themselves con-
servative - some of whom have
held elected positions in the orga-
nization or served as national ad-
visors (e.g. Russell Kirk).
Although the Association's posi-
tion is most unequivocal on aca-
demic freedom today, it has not
always been so, and there is no
reason to believe that it will be
so indefinitely in the future-un-
less all those who hold differing
opinions lead their schools out of
the Association.
* * * -
THE CHARGE that USNSA
doesn't do anything for the cam-
pus is ,a little difficult to talk
about since the people who level it
have never made it quite clear
what they would have USNSA do
for them. There is a general com-
plaint that USNSA spends too
much time dealing with national
and international issues but a pe-
culiar lack of specificity as to how
priorities should be restructured.
Apparently SGC doesn't consider
academic freedom to be an appro-
priate campus issue-or at least
its bland treatment of the Asso-
ciation's request that Michigan
participate as one of 15 pilot,
schools in the current academic
freedom project would indicate as
much. The appropriate time to in-
fluence Association priorities is at
the National Student Congress
through the adoption of program.
resolutions, but to the best of my
knowledge none of the representa-
tives of the eight-member faction.
desiring disaffiliation who attend-
ed the Congress proposed or sup-
ported legislation that would have
the Association concentrate on new
program areas or even revive em-
phasis on old ones.
* * *
INDEED, SGC's almost paternal
concern for the welfare of the
campus has yet to be concretely
reflected in its -own internal dis-
cussion. At no time during the year
has SGC sat down to consider
what kind of USNSA program it
would like to have on the campus.
Will it be a program to make
the economic benefits of Educa-
tional Travel, Inc. known to the
campus? Perhaps a request that
the National Office assist Michi-
gan in establishing a badly needed
freshman orientation program?
Maybe an educational symposium
on the role of the student in Amer-
ican society drawing on USNSA
resources? Or a campus interna-
tional student relations seminar?
The possibilities for developing lo-
cally a program which positively
utilizes the resources and person-
nel of USNSA are numerous, and
might, one would hope, have been
explored.
But I am haunted by the
thought, that no matter what pro-
gram was established, in the opin-
ion of these critics, USNSA could
still not "do" anything for the
Michigan campus. Their opinions,
I submit, are not subject to reason
or information.
* * *
FINALLY we come to the finan-
cial problem. Although estimates
on what the University spends per
year for USNSA differ, let us ac-
cept the upper-most figure of $2,-
500. This is a great deal of money.
But it's a little unfair to put US-
NSA on the ballot with the sugges-
tion that it should be voted off the
campus unless somebody can spe-
cify what we get for our $2,500.
I'd hate to predict the outcome
if we put SGC on the block in a
referendum with the demand that
we be told what we get for our
$10,000-although I suspect that
one of the first answers we'd get
is, "representative student govern-
ment," and I'm naive enough to
believe that a majority of students
would attach real value to that.
A less ominous statement about
what it costs students on this cam-
pus to participate in USNSA is the
per capita expenditure of nine
cents. I know of several smaller
campuses that are spending well
over a dollar a student to main-
tain membership in the Associa-
tion without begrudging a cent-
but then that may be because they
have active USNSA programs on
their campus.
But the question hangs on,
"What do I get for my nine cents,
what does it mean"
IT MEANS that I am repre-
sented by students in Latin Amer-
ica, Europe, North Africa and per-
iodically throughout the world,
who are working with democratic
student groups, frequently against
heavy odds, to obtain the material
and ideological freedoms which we
enjoy.
It means that student leaders
on my campus receive a constant
flow of technical and program ma-
terials which can be utilized in
developing and sustaining a crea-
tive student government program.
It means that through contact
with the federal government US
NSA was able to bring foreign stu-
dent leaders together with Attor-
ney General Kennedy and other
officials in the administration.
It means that concrete, well-
planned and tested programs in
dozens of areas are available to
this campus.
It means that I am able to as-
sist students /in Angola who have
been dislocated by war, students
in South Africa who are strug-
gling against apartheid, students
in Bolivia who wish to extend the
benefits of literacy to all the peo-
ple in their nation, student leaders
in Algeria who were expelled from
France and would have been forc-
ed to study in the Soviet Union
had there not been a national un-
ion of students in this country to
support them, students in Iran and
Peru who have been dislocated by
disaster.
s s *
IT MEANS that I can assist stu-
dents in the South make the dif-
ficult adjustment to integrated ed-
ucation through the Southern Stu-
dent Human Relations Project of
USNSA whichhas trained student
leaders to help fill the vacuum
that is created when a campus is
desegregated and ease it toward
integration.
It means that I can support the
work and operation of the Inter-
national Student Conference as
the only alternative to the Com-
munist - dominated International
Union of Students.
It means that I can support and
participate in voter education pro-
grams in the South designed to
give every citizen regardless of
race an opportunity to exercise his
fundamental right to vote.
IT MEANS that foreign student
leaders will have the opportunity
to visit this country "and meet
their counterparts here and study
student life and institutions in this
country through USNSA sponsor-
ed delegations and the Foreign
Student Leadership Project.
It means that through my stu-
dent government and USNSA _ I
will be represented in the Inter-
national Student Conference, the
American Council on Education,
the United States Commission for
UNESCO, the World University
Service, the Young Adults Coun-
cil and the National .Scholarship
Service and Fund for Negro Stu-
dents and less formally to dozens
of other student and adult orga-
nizations.;
It means that low-cost educa-
tional tours, the International Stu-
dent Identity Card, publications
and other aids and services are
available to me at a discount.
* * *
IT MEANS that I have an op-
portunity to apply for special
scholarships to participate in the
International Student Relations
Seminar and other special USNSA
projects and seminars.
It means that the possibility
continues to exist that the Student
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POLITICS IN PERSPECTIVE:-
Bentley or Sael?
(EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the last
in a four-part series on the issues
of the state elections.)
BY DAVID MARCUS
BECAUSE of partisan bickering
and a refusal to face up to
the need for reapportionment,
Michigan is going to have a con-
gressman-at-large this year.
Two candidates, Alvin Bentley
and Neil Staebler are making bids
for the office.
Bentley spent an undistinguish-
ed career as a congressman, the
highpoint of which was his near
assassination by Puerto Rican gun-
men who invaded the House in a
wild spree of shooting in the early
1950's. He finally gave up his con-
gressional seat to run for the Unit-
ed States Senate in 1960 and was
soundly beaten. In his 1962 bid
to return to Congress. he has fail-
ed to gain the editorial support of
even the normally Republican De-
troit News.
He has tried to overcome his
former image as an ultra-con-
servative and has been running
around the state smiling, shaking
hands and kissing babies.
STAEBLER, on the other hand,
a ro-Knnedv Democtrt.-TH
to the present social security pro-
gram. He has said unequivocally
that he will vote for it.
On the other hand, Bentley op-
poses any program which would
make medicare compulsory. His
own proposal is that a private,
non-profit organization be set up
with the initial backing of the fed-
eral government, that would back
up the risks taken by private com-
panies in insuring the elderly. The
program would be entirely on a
voluntary basis.
* * *
ANOTHER major area of differ-
ence between the two candidates
comes in the area of education.
Both have favored a self-liquidat-
ing federal loan program to aid
students in obtaining higher edu-
cation. Bentley has also proposed
that tax credits be granted on
money spent for higher education.
But in the field of outright fed-
eral grants to local school dis-
tricts, states or universities, Bent-
ley is diametrically opposed to fed-
eral aid. The result of federal
programs in education has already
resulted in some control, Bentley
says. Since further federal con-
trol is undesirable and local dis-
tricts have been able to meet their
programs of the Kennedy adminis-
tration.
Bentley, on the other hand, em-
phasizes the need for the govern-
ment to restore confidence in the
administration.
He also sees as a matter of prime
importance bringing additional
prime military contracts ipto the
state. Michigan is presently get-
ting only 2.7 per cent of prime mil-
itary contracts and is falling even
further behind in its share of re-
search and educational grants.
. * *
CUBA is another area where
both candidatse have differed from
the beginning. Bentley, earlier in
the campaign, proposed a naval
blockade of Cuba. Staebler at the
time opposed the action as irre-
sponsible and said that it was not
warranted. Since then, he has
backed the President's actions on
the basis of new evidence.
All in all, both Staebler and
Bentley have been campaigning
hard and sometimes dirtily. At
least twice, Republicans George
Romney and Rep. Warner of Ypsi-
lanti have made overt attempts to
smear Staebler. But whether or not
they succeeded in doing so in the
public mind, there is not much