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Good astronauts do not good heroes make
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1971
NIGHT EDITOR: ALAN LENHOFF
Chile: Conflict, over copper
ON THE Latin American political scene,
traditionally characterized by mili-
tary dictatorships and feudal social
structures, guerrilla revolts and palace
coups-all generally beyond the reach of
a disenfranchised populace-Chile's po-
litical system has long stood out as a car-
dinal example of democratic process.
In recent years, the Chilean govern-
ment had been a liberal one, and the
United States could point to Chile to
show that revolution was not the inevit-
able path for Latin America.
But reflecting the rising expectations
of the Chilean people, last year's election
brought Calvador Allende, a Socialist, to
power.
AND NOW our government has been
challenged to clearly define its rela-
tionship to his regime-and has another
chance to choose as its policy priority be-
tween the self-determination of other
nations and the defense of American-
owned enterprises.
Copper is the crucial export product of
the Chilean economy, and it has been
owned and developed by American com-
panies. Under the Christian Democratic
regime which preceded Allende's, the
Chilean government was purchasing a
51 per cent share in the companies'
Chilean properties.
Full nationalization seemed assured
with the accession of a Socialist govern-
ment, but it remained unclear whether
compensation would be paid for the
mines.
Editorial Staff
ROBERT KRAFTOWITZ
Editor
JIM BEATTIE DAVE CHUDWiIN
Executive Editor Managing Editor
STEVE KOPPMAN . .. Editorial Page Editor
RICK PERLOFF .. Associate Editorial Page Editor
PAT MAHONEY ... Assistant Editorial Page Editor
LYNN WEINER .. . Associate Managing Editor
LARRY LEMPERT .. Associate Managing Editor
ANITA CRONE ............. ........ Arts Editor
JIM IRWIN.................Associate Arts Editor
JANET FREY .............Personnel Director
ROBERT CONROW .. ... .. . Books Editor
JIM JUDKIS. ......,......Photography Editor
NIGHT EDITORS: Rose Sue Berstein, Lindsay.
Chaney, Mark Dillen, Sara Fitzgerald, Tammy
Jacobs, Alan Lenhoff, Jonathan Miller, Hester
Pulling, Carla Rapoport, Robert Schreiner, W.E.
Schrock, Geri Sprung.
COPY EDITORS: Art Lerner, Debra Thal.
DAY EDITORS: Pat Bauer, Linda Dreeben, Jim
Irwin, Hannah Morrison, Chris Parks, Gene Robin-
son, Zachary Schiller.
ASSISTANT NIGHT EDITORS: Ric Bohy, Kenneth
Conn, John Mitchell, Beth Oberfelder, Kristin
Ringstrom, Kenneth Schulze, Tony Schwartz, Jay
Sheyevitz, Gloria Jane Smith, Sue Stark, Ted
Stein, Paul Travis, Marcia Zoslaw.
Sports Staff
MORT NOVECK, Sports Editor
JIM KEVRA, Executive Sports Editor
RICK CORNFELD .. Associate Sports Editor
TERRI POUCHEY....... Contributing Sports Editor
BETSY MAHON .. .... Senior Night Editor
SPORTS NIGHT EDITORS: Bill Alterman, Bob An-
drews, Sandi Genis, Joel Greer, Elliot Legow.
John Papanek, Randy Phillips, Al Shackelford.
Business Staff
Last week, Allende indicated his gov-
ernment will not compensate Anaconda
and Kennecott-the two major copper
companies-for their properties.
Allende's rationale is that the profits
the companies garnered over the years
were so exorbitant that they far more
than compensated the value of the
mines.
The rightness of Allende's plans can be
the subject of endless debate with agree-
ment virtually unreachable between
those who hold pro-capitalist and pro-
socialist views.
Even the long-range wisdom of Al-
lende's plans is debatable. The Chilean
government has said it still seeks some
private investment, which it seems un-
likely to receive if investors fear their
properties will be taken over without
compensation.
BUT THE COURSE our government
should take is clear.
There has been talk of a "get tough"
policy against Chile and other govern-
ments who don't pay "fair compensa-
tion" to American companies whose pro-
perties they nationalize.
Economic sanctions by the U.S. against
these countries can have very significant
effects-in cutoffs of aid and loans both
directly from the U.S. and from multi-
national lending agencies in which the
U.S. has major influence, and in future
trade arrangements.
The consequences of U.S. action
against Chile must be carefully examin-
ed. If the U.S. acts against Chile as a
warning to other underdeveloped states
to deal more favorably with American
business holdings, it will be using the
nation's power on behalf of groups of
Americans who invest their money in
underdeveloped countries and reap gen-
erally large profits.
At the, same time, it will be acting
against the principles of -national self-
determination which the U.S. purports
to uphold. Aid it will serve to 'further
alienate the United States from Third
World nations seeking to establish na-
tional identity and economic indepen-
dence.
THE ELECTED GOVERNMENT of the
Chilean people has decided not to
compensate for the copper mines. The
question of compensation should be a
matter between the Chilean government
and those stockholders who own the two
corporations, and should have no ef-
fect on relations between our two na-
tions. International investors can re-
taliate, by refusing to invest in Chile.
But U.S. foreign policy-whose force,
in power and wealth, is drawn from the
manpower and productivity of this entire
nation-must not be used once again to
protect the interests of those Americans
who seek to profit by exploiting the re-
sources of poorer nations.
T HEY WERE trying very hard.
You could tell they were not
professional celebrities like actors
or politicians - their jokes didn't
have the polished timing and they
used words like "anorthosite" and
"breccia" a lot.
They walked out on the s t a g e,
smiling as the crowd of engineer-
ing students and professors ap-
plpuded, but it was unclear whe-
ther the smiles were of genuine
pleasure or the forced grins of
people newly in the limelight.
The three men of Apollo 15 had
come back to the University, a
good quarter of a million miles
from the lunar surface they had
pranced on weeks before. Y e t,
they looked more like young cor-
poration executives than heros or
astronauts (and NASA would have
us believe the two are synony-
mous).
In the early days of project
Mercuryit was easysto remember
their names. Shepard, Grissom,
Glenn, Slayton, Carpenter, Schir-
ra, Cooper - a litany of seven
that most school children knew.
But now there are too many
astronauts to remember and if
you ask the man on the street
who the crew of the Apollo 13
was, or the crew of Apollo 7, or
the crew of Gemini 9, he'll laugh
at you and say a) he doesn't
know, and b) he doesn't care.
SO OUR FACELESS and name-
less astronauts entered Rackham
Aud. and as the program wore on
they began to gain faces and be-
gan to assume names.
There was David Scott, the most
experienced and youngest of the
three.. Although 39 his cherubic
face made him look 10 years
younger and only close up could
you see the crowsfeet of a jet
pilot around his eyes and the
wrinkles that come from e i g h t
years of astronaut training.
The most conservative dresser
of the three, Scott spoke w i t h
expertise on the geological samp-
les he had collected, pacing the
audience with jokes as he proud-
ly spoke of Apollo 15's achieve-
ments.
He had come to the University
and lived in East Quad but soon
left for the Air Force Academy. "I
had the choice of working my
way through school here or get-
ting a free ride from the A i r
Force," he commented - a Michi-
gan man for but one year though
now eagerly claimed by the pub-
obedient, cheerful brave, c 1 e a n
and reverent heroes.
They aren't.
They are among the best t e s t
pilots in the world, they are
among the hardest working peo-
ple you can find, but they are
not supermen, they are not heroes.
If they were not flying in space
they would be flying missions over
Vietnam or trying out new ex-
perimental aircraft - both at a
much higher risk than the rela-
tively saferbusiness of space flight
where every piece of equipment
and procedure has been checked
a hundred times.
IN TRYING to bill them as
heroes, NASA's huge public rela-
tions staff and allies such as Life
Magazine and Walter Cronkite
have done these men a disservice.
They have been painted as cele-
brities, but they are engineers -
test pilots. They can neither
speak, joke nor appear in public
as confidently or as well as cele-
brities and they shouldn't be ex-
pected to.
And if their dialogues from
space are obscure and banal, it
is because they are pilots trying
to accomplish a complex techni-
cal feat and not entertainers for
the masses as the television net-
works would have us believe.
If our astronauts are unnatur-
al it is because they have been
pushed to be heroes - and that
role is difficult to play. A friend
of John Glenn's once said some-
thing to the effect that "even
when John takes, a pee he acts
as if every impressionable young
person in the country is watch-
ing him."
DAVE SCOTT, Al Worden and
Jim Irwin are human beings, and
they are damn good astronauts,
But they are not, and never were,
heroes and it was the people who
expected heroes or celebrities or1
entertainers that were disap-
pointed.
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-Daily-Jim Judkis
licity hounds of a University anx-
ious to impress money-laden
alumni and the taxpaying public.
Jim Irwin had a quietrdignity
about him, With his hair slick-
ed back and a purple tie on a
purple-flowered shirt, his appear-
ance belied a seriousness that be-
came evident as he spoke.
The words came out hesitantly
and the jokesche earnestly tried
to coax fell flat. Bt at a recep-
tion afterwards one could not help
but being impressed with his
friendliness as he formally shook
hands with each of the students
surrounding him.
BESIDES DIGNITY, the other
impression Irwin gave was per-
severance. He told of twice ap-
plying to the astronaut program
and each time being rejected. Fin-
ally, in 1966 he made it on the
third attempt.
The last member of the crew
Alfred Worden, was in many ways
the most likeable of the t h r e e.
Wearing a sharp beige sport coat,
he was the most relaxed and out-
going of the crew. He talked
smoothly of his three days alone
in lunar orbit while Scott and
Irwin were on the moon getting
all the attention.
A native of Jackson, Mich.,
Worden is the Henry Kissinger of
the astronaut set. He was divorced;
from his wife several years ago
and has a penchant for parties
and an active social life.
At the reception afterwards he
didn't mince words either on be-
ing an astronaut or his prediction
of the score of the Michigan-Navy
football game set for the next
day. "It won't even be a contest,"
he explained. "If Michigan doesn't
beat them by a hundred points
they'll be lucky."
OUR THREE ASTRONUATS
had developed names and faces
and in private they were q u i t e
human (the writer was taller than
two of them.) Yet through no
fault of their : own, their grand
return to the University had a
thin layer of plastic over it.
This artificiality comes from the
conscious efforts of the s p a c e
agency since the first astronauts
were named in 1959 to paint them
as trustworthy, loyal, courteous,
Letters to The Daily
Student vote
To The Daily:
IN THE MANY articles The
Daily has published recently on
the "youth vote" or "student
vote", there is one very simple-
minded point that never seems to
get made. Since college students
are bona fide individual people,
like anybody else, they do not
necessarily form any voting bloc
at all, even if registered in a col-
lege town. Maybe that's why so
many choose to identify themselv-
es as Independents - might that
word not mean exactly what it
says?
When I was a student ten years
ago I disagreed violently with
some students, middle-aged men
and white-haired women, a n d
agreed with some other students,
middle-aged men and white-hair-
ed women. We never thought we
could read minds or values from
tangled hair or wrinkled faces. (By
the way, a lot of the hair was very
long and tangled ten years ago
at my college - we were pioneers
in that particular unimportant
fashion, much to our parents' dis-
gust.)
The next time anybody tries
to convince you that electing
younger representatives will guar-
antee better treatment of young-
er people, you might ask him for
a minute about all those old Sena-
tors in Washington - and about
our country's treatment of the
elderly. Maybe breaking people in-
to groups according to age, or sex,
or color is just a little too simple.
I can think of no good reason to
require that my representatives
come from my group of 31-year-
old white housewives. I do require
that they have the drive, skill and1
experience to actually effect soml
of the changes in the world that
I most want to see.
MAY THE NEW and the o1d
voters watch their steps and judge
all politicians by exactly the same
standards, regardless of age or
political identification. May we all
remember that even moral talk is
cheap, and raise our eyebrows at
the rhetoric while we look at what
our would-be leaders can really
do. We can all do our own talking.
We elect legislators to get good
l"gislation through while block-
ing bad legislation. We'd better
judge our candidates on their abil-
ity to do just that. .
Leslie Morris
Sept. 23
Golf course
To The Daily:
THE WEEKEND before last.
The Daily published a letter of
mine deploring, among other
things, the Athletic Department's
use of the golf course as a park-
ing lot. Professor Livesay respond-
ed in the same space this past
weekend with a letter defending
the Department. (Or at least I
think it was a defense. His
tongue was probably in cheek,
but I'm not sure ,which cheek).
I would like to comment on his
response and to urge others to air
their opinions on the general sub-
ject of athletics at the University,
as I think our policies are badly
in need of revision.
First, Livesay professes delight
at the prospect that some cars
might ruin the golf course, and
offers the opinion that he would
like to go spin wheels there him-
self. To each his own, I guess.
Second, he equates football
watchers and golf players as es-
sentially similar fanatics, some-
how missing the point that golfers
are playing a game, while specta-
tors are not. Our recreation ought
to .be arranged so that the great-
est number can participate, not
observe.
Third, he is upset by our poor
facilities for casual swimming,
and expresses the hope that the
Department of Intercollegiate
Athletics will use the profits from
the new parking lot to build a new
pool. I wish they would, too -
either a new pool, or squash and
handball courts, or any of a num-
ber of athletic facilities now lack-
ing on the central campus. But
consider the record-we needed
these things last year, too, and
look, what we got-a new Sports
Services Building for the football
team. My guess is that the park-
ing profits will not go for any of
these generally desirable things,
but will be used to pay for lights
on the Stadium, bringing more
spectators to Ann Arbor and more
money to the Department of Ath-
letics.
-Prof. Steve Easter
Dept. of Zoology
Sept. 27
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Astronauts on parade
A look c
FOR BUSY people, convenience
food can be a help. Some
foods, like frozen orange juice
concentrate, are an excellent con-
venience at a reasonable cost. But
others are not only more expen-
sive and often lower in nutrition
than home-prepared foods, they
may also take more time to pre-
pare than a regular meal.
So to get the most for y o u r
time and money, here are some
some tips on choosing con-
venience foods.
Frozen foods, particularly vege-
tables, can be a bargain if you
buy private, not national brands.
Studies have shown private brands
are at least 15 to 20 percent
cheaper and are as good as the
national labels.
Much of the difference is due to
heavy advertising of national
brands. If the store has its own
brand on sale, it's often a top
bargain. One and a half of 2-
pound bags of vegetables are es-
pecially a good buy when on sale,
plus offerihg you the convenience
of using what your need and re-
closing the bag.
One of the problems with froz-
the
crystals on the outside;
usually mean the packag
been warmed and refrozen
Department of Agriculture
gests you watch for torn,
ed or juice-stained packag
Unfortunately, most tl
damage can't be found un
package is opened. Daman
show up in color change,
peach slices turning brown
ries losing color or green
tables losing their bright
color.
Frozen poultry loses m
and darkens. A large amo
frost in the package is ofte
ther sign of thawing and r
ing. Return any frozen foo
is damaged.
Remember that every exti
added to a food disproporti
raises the price. Let's say
green peas cost 19 cents
ounces. If a butter sauce is
the price might jump to 33
See if the sauce is worthi
plain frozen peas and ad
a stick of butter or mar
yourself.
Breaded foods are anoth
pensive convenience. Fried
quality and
t h e y double the cost of a home-pre- Ste
ge has pared meal. Frozen bean a n d Lib
. The frank dinners seem inexpensive Oth
s u g- at 39 cents for 12 ounces, but they bar
crush- often cointain only 1% ounces of fou
es. franks. cos
.hawing Sidney Margolius, consumer fra
til the specialist, found you could make cos
ge will as good a dinner, in less time, Bu
with by using canned means and add- ou
n, her- ing your own franks. The cost is Po
vege- around 19 cents for 12 ounces, a fra
green savings of 20 cents per person.F
But, if you do use frozen, pre- Ar
oisture pared dinners, comparison shop. cos
unt of In checking beef dinners, , M a r- me
n ano- golius found that Sultana, A&P's pla
efreez- private brand, not only costs much cen
d that less, but yielded more meat and bal
solid food and less gravy than the C
ra item national brands. the
onately If you like pot pies watch the bet
frozen prices. Everybody's Money found an
for 10 that a Swanson 8-ounce pie costs an
added, 27 cents, but the 16-ounce pie and
cents. costs 65 cents. There are no sav- bal
it. Buy ings with the larger size. Pot pies V
d half are usually a bargain only when Ma
rgarine they sell for under 25 cents. bea
by1
ter ex- CANNED CONVENIENCE foods bea
bread- have good and bad points. Can- bea
prices
ew had 48.5 percent sauce and
by's 54.3 percent.
her canned foods are less of a
rgain. For instance, Margolius
and Campbell's Breans & Franks
ts 41 cents for 16 ounces. The
nks weigh only 3 ounces and
st you around $1.49 per pound.
t for only 17 cents for 16
aces, you can buy Campbell's
rk & Beans and add your own
nks.
Franco-American and Chef Boy-
-Dee spaghetti and meatballs
st 39 cents for 15 ounces. The
atballs weigh 3 ounces. Since
in, canned spaghetti costs 20
its for 16 ounces, those meat-
ls run around $1.25 per pound.
Considering the protein value of
food and the cost, the best
is are regular, canned spaghetti
" cheese followed by macaroni
d cheese, macaroni or spaghetti
d beef, and spaghetti and meat-
lls.
With canned bean products,
rgolius says regular pork and
ans are the best buy followed
barbecue beans, beef and beans,
ans and franks, and chili with
ans.
of
food
apple drink "not less than 30 per-
cent apple juice"; and the orange
drink "not less than 10 percent
orange juice." Not only are can-
ned drinks far below the nutri-
tional level of fresh or concen-
trated juice, but a 4-ounce serving
of. for instance, frozen orange
juice costs at least 50 percent less
than a 6-ounce serving of orange
drink. Or to save even more money
and get more nutrition add your
own water and sugar to a fresh
or reconstituted frozen juice.
Other convenience foods a r e
equally costly. Shake 'n Bake
costs 27 cents for 28 ounces or
$1.82 per pound. That's at least
four times more than the cost of
the food it coats. Cool 'n Creamy
as well as the canned pudings are
expensive and offer little con-
venience when you can make your
own pudding for 6 to 8 cents per
serving.
WHEN BUYING convenience
foods, stay with the foods t h a t
don't have added seasoning, ap-
petizers, special additives or boil-
able bags. Rather than precook-
ed buy raw frozen fish, meats or
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