a Eighty-one years of editorial freedom Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, Mich. News Phone: 764-0552 Editoriols printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1972 NIGHT EDITOR: TED STEIN This war must stop The following editorial, drafted by a group of Boston area, university students, has been en- dorsed by 13 college newspapers Across the coun- try in response to the U.S. bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong. HE LATEST escalation of the war in Southeast Asia - the bombing of laiphong and Hanoi - renews the U.S. ommitment to defend the threatened rhieu government at all costs. The new scalation is open-ended and runs the dear risk of catastrophic confrontation with the Soviet Union. I The war will not go away; Nixon re- ains committed to military victory. This solicy must be resisted by the Ameri- san public. Two years ago, in an escalation of simi- ar magnitude, American ground troops nvaded Cambodia. Anti-war feeling co- tlesced into a national student strike. That strike, joined in a moment of srisis, delivered an ultimatum to the American government: You cannot ex- pand the war in Asia without provoking massive disruptions at home. The ultimatum was successful; the in- vading force withdrew. American stu- dents catalyzed a national movement that helped to save the lives of Ameri- cans, Vietnamese, and Cambodians. The bver-rising trajectory of the war began Lo turn downward. 1HE CAMBODIAN precedent denied the use of American ground troops in the 1971 invasion of Laos. In many other mo- nents, the anti-war movement has had similar success. We have given crucial support to those public leaders and con- ressmen who spoke out on the war. We have brought thousands of Ameri- cans to public demonstrations of opposi- tion. And we have managed to set the terms of debate on the war, because our position - total and immediate U.S. withdrawal - has been firm over the years. The current North Vietnamese na- tional liberation front offensive has re- duced the war to its essential compo- nents. The Thieu government is mortal- ly threatened. The U.S. has committed itself to supporting a corrupt dictator. The failed logic of Nixon's Vietnamiza- tion policy can now be measured by his newest campaign against North Vietnam. If the Thieu government had the legiti- macy or the strength to repel the offen- sive, these campaigns would not be neces- sary. How far will the United States now go to maintain a regime that cannot stand on its own? The bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong suggests that there are no limits. Nixon has said, "all of our options are open." We say: "All options except withdrawal are abhorrent." A memorandum prepared by Admiral Thomas Moorer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and released last week by Rep. Michael Harrington (D-Mass.) clari- fies our importance as students opposed to the war. If the United States were re- leased from "domestic restraints," noted the memorandum, it might undertake. amphibious operations against the north or bombing of the irrigation ditches in the quest for victory. CLEARLY, NIXON is not deterred any longer by the risks of confrontation with the Soviet Union. The likelihood of bombing Soviet ships had forestalled the bombing of Haiphong in the past. That risk is now a reality. The only remain- ing restraint is that imposed by the American people. And it is our task as students, who have come this way before, to make sure that domestic restraints re- main firm. The bombing of North Vietnam and the cancellation of the Paris Peace Talks re- turns the war to its pre-1968 character. The ghastly history of the war con- verges on this moment. Joining with oth- er college newspapers we condemn the escalation of the war against the Vietna- mese and support immediate demonstra- tions of protest this week. -THE SENIOR EDITORS WASHINGTON - The Nixon administration came to town on a pledge to restore law and order to a troubled nation. The President promised to crack down on crim- inals. Doubling the conviction rate, he said, is the best way to stoic crime. And he said the courts would stop coddling criminals once he had put some distinguished con- servatives on the Supreme Court. Of all his campaign slogans, the President's "law-and-order" pledge seems most likely to return to haunt him. The conviction rate, which he said he would double, has decreased drastically. Two of his nominees for thetSupreme Court were rejected by the Senate as un- fit. His top crimebuster, Assist- ant Attorney General Will Wilson, was forced to resign because of his cozy ties to a crooked Texas busi- nessman. Now the President's new nomi- nee for Attorney General, Richard Kleindienst, has become an em- barrassment. His confirmation has been held up because of his back- stage role in the administration's anti-trust policy toward the Inter- national Telephone and Telegraph conglomerate. Now it apears the President is in for another law-and-order em- barrassment. A book will shortly be published revealing Mr. Nixon's secret role in forcing former Su- preme Court Justice Abe Fortas to leave the bench. The book, entitled "A Question of Judgment," is by Robert Sho- gan, the respected Washington correspondent of Newsweek. It tells how the President himself quietly informed key members of Congress of a supposedly secret meeting between Attorney Gen- eral John Mitchell and Chief Jus- tice Earl Warren about the Fortas case. Word of the Mitchell-Warren ses- sion was promptly leaked to the press from Capitol Hill. Fortas was forced off the Court by the publicity. The book makes no apol- ogies for Fortas. But it raises still another embarrassing question about President Nixon's adminis- tration of justice. Nixon helps ITT President Nixon dropped a signi- ficant passage out of his latest environmental message to Con- gress. He had intended to forbid the dredging and filling of wet- lands that might spoil the ecology., This would have ruined a vast multimillion-dollar development that ITT is building on Florida's Gr r dJ ACKANDERQ Sparkman is receiving from bank- ers and other friends. Boston bankers, for example, are submitting checks in the amount of $99 each. They carefully keep their donations below $100 so they won't have to be listed in the pub- lic campaign reports. Another who is raking in the green from the bankers is John Tower of Texas, the ranking Re- publican on the Senate &anking Committee. What do the bankers receive for their gifts? Aside from favorable legislation, they get billion! of federal dollars deposited in their banks, for which they pay abso- lutely no interest. The profits on such accounts run into millions of dollars each year. In a Republican administration, most of the interest-free federal gravy goes to GOP bank~s. Until last year, the First City National Bank of New York was headed by one of Vice President Agnew's closest friends, Republican fat cat George Mogre. In 1970, Moore's bank had well over $300 million in federal de- posits. Harold Helm, a big GOP boost- er, is executive committee chair- man of the Chemical Bank in New York City. Last year, Helm's bank had $40 million in Internal Rev- enue Service accounts. And the list goes on. The beleaguered taxpayer some- times has to take out loans to pay his taxes. He borrows his own money, in effect, at the highest interest rates the market will bear. °,.>.. John Sparkman Abe Fortas east coast. An ITT subsidiary, Florida Palm Coast, has bought up 100,000 acres of swampland and scrub timber- land. The bulldozers are already mowing down the trees, and steam shovels and dredgers are building a maze of canals to drain the low- lands. ITT has virtually taken o v e . tiny Flagler County, now a slefpy rural area, and is preparing to turn it into a cosmopolitan city of 750,000 people. Harold Geneen, ITT's high-paid, high-powered president, called on Maurice Stans before he resigned as Secretary of Commerce to raise money for President Nixon's re- election campaign. Geneen easily persuaded Stans that the prohibi- tion against draining natural wet- lands would hurt his development. The Commerce Department im- mediately opposed the drainage prohibition as a hardship on de- velopers, and President N i x o n obligingly dropped it from his en- vironment message. Nixon's disappointment President Nixon is deeply dis- appointed over his failure to per- suade Hanoi, through the Chinese, to call off their offensive. He ad urged Chinese Premier Chou Fn- lai to use his influence in Hanoi to stop the bloodshed. Nixon had argued that now is the best time to work out a peace- ful settlement. After the Ameri- can election in November, ne ar- gued, he would be free of politial pressure and would be inclined to take a tougher position. Before the United States sent B52s to bomb Hanoi, he offered to resume secret negotiations at once to bring peace to Vietnam if the Chinese could arrange it. The President privately believ- es that the North Vietnamese went ahead with the offensive in spite of the advice from Peking. Some insiders believe the President's ar- gument about becoming tougher after November may have helped to stimulate the offensive. Bankers' pay-off I am often asked about the me- chanics of fixes and pay-offs in high places. Many people, it seems, have visions of trench-coat- ed bagmen meeting in parks and John Tower bus terminals and furtively ex- changing identical brief cases. It rarely happens that way. The typical pay-off involves a care- fully concealed campaign contri- bution or similar complicaed fin- ancial arrangement. Most are so complex that the average person might have trouble unscrambling them. For example, here's how the bankers work. Senator John Sparkman, the Ala- bama Democrat, heads the Sen- ate Banking Committee. Three campaign committees have al- ready been set up, in Washington to receive the flood of dollars President Nixon meets Chou En-lai RECORD RECORD Filed 19 J Balot No. Mailed 19 Retumed 19- Clerk. Received Ballots Herein Described 19 _ (Chairman Board of Election inspectors) Filed Ballot No. Mailed 19 19___. Received Ballots Herein Described (Chairman Board of Election inspectors) 4 Returned - "t / (Ward) (Precinct) Clerk. (Word) (Precinct) Application for Absent Voters Ballot FOR THE PRESIDENTIA L PRIMARY ELECTION TO BE HELD ON MAY 16, 1972 , a duly qualified and registered 1 elector of the Ward Precinct of the (Give number of Ward and Precinct if more than one) (Township, Village or City) in the County of and (Nome of Township, Village, or City) State of Michigan, hereby make application for an official ballot, or ballots, to be voted by me at such election. THE'STATUTORY GROUNDS ON WHICH I BASE MY REQUEST ARE: (Check Applicable Reason) [} I expect to be absent from the community in which I am registered for the entire time the polls are open on election day. n I am physically unable to attend the polls without the assistance of another. F I cannot attend the polls because of the tenets of my religion. I' I have been appointed an election precinct inspector in a precinct other than the precinct where I reside. 17 I am 65 years of age or older. Primar elections. Do it absentee THOUSANDS OF University students are registered to vote in Ann Arbor. If you are one of them, and you will be unable to go to the polls for either the May 16 presidential pri- mary or the August 8 primary you can vote by absentee ballot. Candidates for county sheriff, U.S. Senate, Congress, state representative, county commissioners and prosecutor and circuit court judges-they will all be picked on August 8. The rules are strict, but it's still easy. To apply for an absentee ballot for either or both elections fill out one or both forms appearing on this page. Fill in your name, ward and precinct in the middle part of the form and check the reason why you are requesting an absentee ballot., Fill in your summer address and your official voter regis- tration address. Date it and sign it. Don't fill out the very top part and on the bottom part only sign it and fill in your voting address. Cut it out carefully and you're almost home free. TO APPLY for a ballot for the May 16 presidential pri- mary, mail the form to the city clerk and his office will send you an absentee ballot before the election. But to vote in the August primary you can't turn in your application until 75 days before the election. So bring your ,form to The Daily or the Student Government Council offices. It will be stored and then turned in on May 25. The city clerk will mail you a ballot. If you want to vote in the June school board election you have to get another form; it's available at the city clerk's office and at SGC. Application for Absent Voters Ballot FOR THE GENERAL STATE PRIMARY ELECTION TO BE HELD ON AUGUST 8, 1972 1, -_ of in the County of _ and elector of the ___ Ward Precinct of the (Give number of Ward and Precinct if more than one) -a duly qualified and registered (Name of Township, Village or City) State of Michigan, hereby make application for an official ballot, or ballots, to be voted by me at such election. THE STATUTORY GROUNDS ON WHICH I BASE MY REQUEST ARE: (Check Applicable Reason) -1 I expect to be absent from the community in which I am registered for the entire time the polls are open on election day. rF I am physically unable to attend the polls without the assistance of another. F, I cannot attend the polls because of the tenets of my religion. -I I have been appointed on election precinct inspector in a precinct other than the precinct where I reside. Fn I am 65 years of age or older. (Township, Village or City) Send "Absent Voter's Ballot" to me at Send "Absent Voter's Ballot" to me at (Number) Street) (Number) Street) City My registered address is State. Zip City My registered address is State Zip (Number) (Street) (Number) (Street) (I hereby declare the foregoing statements to be true) (I hereby declare the foregoing statements to be true) X_ Date X (Signature of Absent Voter) WARNING: Any person making a false statement in this declaration upon conviction shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. INSTRUCTIONS: You must sign in TWO places (X). Do not detach Poll List Coupon from application. (Signature of Absent Voter) WARNING: Any person making a false statement in this declaration upon conviction shall be guilty of w misdemeanor. INSTRUCTIONS: You must sign in TWO places (X). Do not detach Poll List Coupon from application. =U > >U<=> =>1> ?) ):<= s>0<=>t;O Got)G(> <: 04=>() 04G. " O Application to Vote-Poll List (Absent Voter) DATE OF ELECTION: MAY 16, 1972 Voter No._ Ward_ Precinct Application to Vote-Poll List (Absent Voter) Voter No. Ward Precinct THAT'S IT. Use the power. Vote. DATE OF ELECTION: AUGUST 8, 1972 Ihereby certify that I am a registered and qualified elector in the above ward and precinct and hereby make application to vote at this election. (Write your name here just as it appears in the Registration Book) I hereby certify that I am a registered and qualified elector in the above ward, and precinct and hereby make application to vote at this election. (Write your name here just as it appears in the Registration Book) ~7 U ~ ~