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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1971
NIGHT EDITOR: GERI SPRUNG
The agony of Pakistan
AGAIN, from ten thousand miles away,
we hear cries for help, guns at the
door in the night, people driven in terror
from a blood-soaked land.
The conflict in Pakistan is another be-
tween faraway peoples whose cultures
and national experiences we are unfa-
miliar with. As the crisis there borders
precariously on open warfare, the possi-
bility of battle between India and Paki-
stan may unfortunately overshadow the
origins of the dispute that has caused
nearly ten million Bengalis to flee from
their homes into India.
Tension between the eastern and
western regions of Pakistan has existed
since the Moslem state's inception. The
partnership on which the nation was
based appeared to many Bengalis to be
hopelessly stacked against them.
In terms of priorities for economic de-
velopment and staffing of the national
government, and in other areas, the re-
lationship seemed to many one of ex-
ploitation of the East by the West.
Though Easterners formed a clear ma-
jority of the Pakistani populace, the West
appeared clearly dominant.
The attempts of the people of East
Pakistan to gain relief through demo-
cratic process cannot be erased from
history, despite the Pakistan military re-
Homeeoming
AT THE 1931 homecoming game, Michi-
gan beat Minnesota, Alpha Sigma Phi
took second place in the fraternity deco-
ration contest, while freshmen and soph-
omores battled in a pillow fight and a
flag rush at the stadium.
In tomorrow's homecoming game,
Michigan will beat Indiana, but at the
parade today, Alpha Sigma Phi will have
an anti-war float - and so will the
Ecology Center and the Families for Im-
mediate Relief, while the Friends of
Bangla Desh will present a float display-
ing the repression in Pakistan.
And up until yesterday afternoon,
UAC planned to hold the finals of the
campus yo-yo contest on its float.
-A. L.
-R. P.-
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RICK CORNFELD .. Associate Sports Editor
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SPORTS NIGHT EDITORS: Bill Alterman, Bob An-
drews. Sandi Genis, Joel Greer, Elliot Legow.
John Papanek, Randy Phillips. Al Shackelford.
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gime's efforts to make the international
community forget them.
In the national election last March, the
Awami League -committed to autonomy
for the eastern region, Bangla Desh-won
control of the Pakistani parliament by
winning election to 167 of the 169 seats
elected in the East.
Instead of accepting the election's re-
sults, the West Pakistani leadership used
military force to override the vote and
suppress the Bengalis after brief "nego-
tiations" with Awami League representa-
tives.
Now, after seven months of brutal re-
pression marked by numerous massacres,
nearly ten million Bengalis have fled to
India, where they are threatened with
starvation and cholera.
OUR GOVERNMENT has maintained
what Joan Baez called at her concert
last week the "schizophrenic" stance of
offering emergency relief to East Paki-
stani refugees while continuing military
aid to the Western government.
China, through its backing of the West
Pakistani regime has offered renewed
proof that its' espousal of socialist ideo-
logy no more assures it will support "self-
determination of peoples" than does our
own espousal of democratic ideology as-
sure that we will.
Now Pakistan has called on the UN to
ease the heightened tensions on its bor-
ders with India, where it claims scores
of people have died in the past few days.
The international community should
intervene in the crisis-but not merely to
reduce the immediate possibility of war
between India and Pakistan. For until
Bangala Desh is assured of self-deter-
mination, there will be no real "resolu-
tion" of the crisis.
THE UNITED STATES must immediate-
ly, at very least, sease military aid to
Pakistan pending a solution. The Saxbe-
Church amendment to the Senate for-
eign aid bill would effect such a cutoff.
The House has already voted to cut off
such assistance to Pakistan. Michigan's
Senator Robert Griffin is leading the op-
position to that amendment.
But beyond this, our government
should 'make clear its support for the
democratically expressed will for inde-
pendence by the people of Bangla Desh.
It should indicate its willingness to re-
cognize a Bangla Desh government, and
press Pakistan unremittingly to recognize
Bengali independence. No further assist-
ance of any kind should be available to
the West Pakistani regime as long as it
pursues its present course.
We are responsible for the way our
guns are used., We have responsibilities
to people starving needlessly. We must
take responsibility for seeking an end to
repression by governments we can ac-
tively influence. Bangla Desh needs our
help.
-STEVE KOPPMAN
Editorial Page Editor
I SAW SAM on the Diag yester-
day, and was he ever a sad
sight. He looked like he hadn't
slept or shaved in three days, his
clothes were all rumpled, and he
seemed to be brooding about some-
thing..
"Hi Sam," I said, trying not to
sound particularly happy. "How
are you?"
"Lousy," Sam said. "The ani-
mals kicked me out."
"They kicked you out? What a
bunch of ungrateful beasts."
I SHOULD explain that Sam is.
or was, a democratic farmer. When
Sam bought his farm about five
yearstago, the first thing he did
was to call a meeting of all the
animals and tell them the farm
would be run democratically. Every
policy decision was to be made by
a majority vote of all the farm
inhabitants.
"How did it happen?" I asked.
"I think it's been building up
for quite a while- now, at least
since the summer before last.
That's when I bought my air con-
ditioner."
"What did your air conditioner
have to do with it?"
"Well, afterwI bought the air
conditioner, we were having a
Farm Council meeting, and the
chickens complained that the barn
was too hot."
"Did they want an air condi-
tioner?"
"Yes. They said it was only fair
that we should all be hot or we
should all be cool."
"What did you do?" I asked.
"Irexplained thattthere was a
difference in the type of work
we did. I did all the thinking, so
I neededa cooler environment."
"Did the animals agree w i t h
you?"
"No. They didn't see it my
way. They voted to have me buy
an air conditioner for the barn."
"Did you?"
"No. I convinced them that the
Farm couldn't afford an air con-
ditioner big enough for the barn."
"What did they do then?"
"They decided that since they
couldn't, have an air conditioner, I
couldn't have one either."
"They made you return the air
conditioner?"
"No. I lost the sales receipt, so
they voted to make me store it
in the attic."
"Sounds bad," I observed.
"AND IT GOT worse. At the
end of the summer, they decided
that my land managementpolicy
was all wrong. They voted to turn
a threat to the farm security,
and would have to go unless they
stopped the boycott. The 'o t h e r
animals supported my motion,"
"Did the cows stop?"
"Yes, they finally abandoned'
the boycott."
"Was that the end of y o u r
troubles?"
"NO, THAT WAS just the be-
ginning. Last spring a whole flock
of sparrows came and started liv-
ing in the wheat field. They ate
up nearly everything."
"Couldn't you chase them
away?"
"No, the other animals voted
to let them stay."
"Did you lose a lot of money
on the wheat?"
"Oh, yes. But that's Inot the
worst. When Fall came, the spar-
rows decided to stay on the farm,
and the other animalsi voted for
me to buy bird feed for them."
"That seems about as bad as
you can get," I said.
"BUTIT GOT more bad. Last
week the cows made a motion to
admit the sparrows to the farm
council."
"That's terrible," I said.
"I was against the motion, and
managed 'to get it tabled for one
week."
"Did you get enough supporters
for your side?"
"At firstdI did. But, then, t
the last minute, the dogs went
over to the cows' side, and they
won."
"What did you do?"
"I moved to reconsider the ques-
tion, and said that if the spar-
rows came in, I was going out."
"But the. sparrows still won?"
"That's right. So now I'm out."
"It does seem unfair," I said.
"But the majority rules."
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-Daily-Jim wallace
the corn field into a campground."
"What were they going to do
with a campground?"
"They figured that by charging
people three dollars a night to
camp there, we could make more
money than growing corn."
"Did lots of people camp there?"
"No. By the time they got it
fixed up as a campground it was
almost winter. They put a big sign
out by the highway advertising the
low camping rates, but no one
came."
. "Not many people go camping
in the winter," I observed.
"That's what I tried to tell
them," Sam said. "But the ani-
mals didn't seem to understand.'
"Did they give up the camping
idea?"
"Yes, about January they de-
cided that maybe it would be best
to grow corn in the field. I
thought things were all settled
then."
"But you had more trouble?"
"YES. THE COWS started com-
plaining that it was too cold in
the barn. We voted to put in a
coal stove and everyone was hap-
py - except the cows."
"What did they do?"
"At the next Farm Council
meeting, they made a motion to
get an oil heater for the barn. It
was defeated. Then they moved
to make me live in the barn."
"Did it pass?"
"No. I got a bare majority. But
then the cows said they would
start a milk boycott unless I got
an oil heater.'
"What did you do?"
"After two days of milk boy-
cott, we had a special Council
meeting. and I said the cows were
Letters to the Editor
Orson Welles
To The Daily:
RUMORS OF MY association
with a campus film society are
criminal.
-Orson Welles
To The Daily:
THIS MORNING we were once
again treated to one of Mr. Per-
loff's "quixotic quests" into that
which he knows little about. Mr.
Perloff knows little about arro-
gance - or he would be able to
distinguish it from a new-found
sense of pride. He knows little
about children, for he portrays
them as innocent and pure. He
knows little abouttliterature or he
would know that not all D. H.
Lawrence characters "correctly fit
the submissive female role" of his
time. He knows little about Amer-
ica if he thinks that youth were
the first to detect its ugliness.
Mr. Perloff himself seems blind
to ugliness. It is ugly when a man
still assumes that he should be
giving women his "intuitions and
thoughts" on femininity. It is ugly
when a writer proposes that a
man should talk to women about
femininity instead of the human
matters which they can decide
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he includes getting an abortion
and deciding to go to graduate
school). I respect certain men's
opinions on my humaneness, but
I thought we had all agreed that
masculinity and feminity were
poor measures by which to judge
another human being.
Where's your consciousness, Mr.
Perloff? Where have you been?
Where were you several years ago
when we were still talking gently
and persuasively to the men we
knew? Mr. Perloff seems amazed
that he gets a hostile reception at
women's meetings; he senses that
women "do not trust or accept a
man's comment about a woman's
role in society or her role as a
woman." Arrogance is a misno-
mer; the hostility he experiences
is rightful anger after the years
women have been misused and
misunderstood by fathers, sons,
lovers, and uninformed Daily re-
porters.
-Maryann K. Hoff
Grad.
Oct. 28
To The Daily:
I WISH TO RECORD my pro-
test at the increasingly blatant po-
liticization of University events
and functions. The most recent
example of using. the football
team and marching band to prop-
agandize a captive audience is a
further example of the crass ar-
rogance of a vociferous minority
of University faculty and stu-
dents, If. ind^cd, the football team
itself wishes to bring oolitics into
its operations then I suggest it
adopt new patterns of offensive
and defensive lines (an inverted Y
formation?) which spell out ei-
ther their disavowal of violence or
their concern with the environ-
mental problems of the world, ra-
ther than forcing the expression
of " such attitudes upon the for-
mations of the marching band.
Can we really believe that such
moral and emotional blackmailas
has been employed on- recent oc-
casions will suddenly cease once
some of the limited objectives of
these pressure groups have been
attained? I think not! If the
"organizers' of such political
gatherings b e l i e v e in their
strength and justification, I am
sure that the football stadium will
be available to them for a rally at
such a time that people are free.
to makettheir own choice whether
to attend or not. Perhaps they
doubt their ability to attract an
audienc° at a level based upon the
issues. The real issue here is not
the war but the coercion or free-
dom of the individual.
-Prof. Thomas Dunn
Chemistry Department
Oct. 26
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!izzo: From a cop
-Daily-Jim Judkis
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m ayor?
By WALT HERRING
Daily Guest Writer
PHILADELPHIA IS DEAD.
People throughout the country
have long suspected that Philadel-
phia was merely a figment of W.
C. Field's acid wit and that the
Declaration of Independence was
really signed in Newark, but when
the funeral bier is lit for 2 mil-
lion residents of the "City .of Bro-
therly Love" on November 2, the
nation should not laugh.
November 2 is the day when
Philadelphia will self-destruct. It
will elect a man mayor who has
polarized Philadelphia far worse
than anyone has polarized New-
ark, N.J., or Caro, Ill. That man
is a living legend, Frank Rizzo,
the police commissioner who rose
to fame because he kept t h e
blacks, longhairs and other "un-
desirables" in their place.
THE LEGEND of Frank Rizzo
began 25 years ago when he be-
came a policeman. He pounded a
beat; rose through the ranks and
affectionately became known to
his fans as the "Cisco Kid." Rizzo
loved to relate stories of chasing
maintained that
the man wasto
avoiding arrest and he used only
the minimum force required to
subdue the prisoner.
Rizzo was cast into the s p o t-
light by his appointment, and the
Philadelphia news media helped
to build the legend of F r a 11 k
Rizzo by dutifully reporting as fact
every statement he made - no
matter how ludicrous or outrag-
eous.
RIZZO'S REIGN as police com-
missioner began with a series of
raids on center city coffeehouses.
He and his military-like p o 1 i c e
force harassed the owners of the
coffeehouses until they closed
their doors for good. The "Com-
missioner" then ran the longhairs
out of Rittenhouse Square, a fav-
orite gathering spot for the dis-
enchanted in Billy Penn's town.
The Electric Factory, Philadel-
phia's only outlet for rock con-
certs, was the next target on Riz-
zo's list. He tried to close down
the rock emporium, but a judge
ruled that it could remain open.
At the time of the 1969 Mora-
torium Rizzo revealed that h i s
police force had compiled a list
of 1800 subversives in Philadel-
the neighborhoods. The^ people
in Philadelphia's ethnic neighbor-
hoods began to view Frank Rizzo
as a man who could protect them
from a world which they could'
no longer understand and, which
they believed threatened them
"Frank would keep the niggers
and hippies in their place if he
was in charge," they said.
WHILE THE WHITES prayed
to St. Frank in their neat, crowd-
ed row homes, the black and Span-
ish-speaking communities were un-
der seige from Rizzo's vastly ex-
panded, ultra-modern p o 1 i c e
force. The pressure from t h e
"keepers of the peace" grew so
threatening that several b 1 a c k
groups fifed a federal suit to place
the Philadelphia Police Depart-
ment in receivership. This action
did not faze Rizzo because he nei-
ther sought nor, he felt, needed
their support.
Rizzo once showed up at a rac-
ial disturbance in South Philadel-
phia dressed in a tuxedo. He had
been giving a speech in center city
when he heard of the racial clash,
Rizzo sped to the scene and wad-
ed into the crowd with a night-
University. A week before the
convention a police sergeant w a s
executed in a lonely guard house.
The next night, a Sunday, t w o
more officers were wounded.
Rizzo saw revolutionaries march-
ing down Philadelphia's m a i n
streets in his dreams, and he came
out shouting to the press of re-
volutionary assassins running wild
Rizzo called the Black Panthers
"yellow dogs" and challenged
them to meet him in a shootout, a
la Gary Cooper, at high noon. The
press swamped the people with
Rizzo's good copy, and the threat
of an armed revolution, led by
"them," became very real for
many Philadelphians because of
the newspapers' mad desire for
sensationalism.
Meanwhile, Rizzo's police force
was rounding up any Black with
a natural and raiding Panther
headquarters. At one of the of-
fices, the Panthers were forced
to strip nude in the streets while
photographers snapped away.
Rizzo called the revolutionaries
"imbeciles" and said that t h e
Panthers didn't "look so tough
with their pants down."
The convention came off at
the Democratic nomination for the
upcoming mayoralty race. He
crushed his three liberal oppon-
ents in the March primary. How-
ever, his opponents actually polled
more votes than Rizzo when their
votes were combined, but none
would withdraw from the race so
that Rizzo could be stopped in his
relentless drive to return Philadel-
phia to the good old days - the
days when Blacks said "yassuh"
and kids respected their elders.
Rizzo's warped sense or morality
made the strictest Puritan look like
a libertine.
Rizzo's opponent in the Novem-
ber election is a Princeton-educat-
ed, well-to-do, liberal politician.
Thacher Longstreth would seem-
ingly be the perfect candidate to
defeat a man like Rizzo. He is a
native Philadelphian, and a form-
er football star. Longstreth a l s o
has the backing of most of t h e
local politicians, all of the Blacks
and most of the liberal and radi-
cal voters.
However, Longstreth's campaign
has been a politician's nightmare
- his opponent will not answer
his attacks. Rizzo has made no
statements to the press, which
two tanks for police use shortly af-
ter the Detroit riots.
The one issue that Rizzo has
spoken out on is the Philadelphia
public school system. Rizzo blam-
es all the problems on "liberal
educators who are soft on trouble-
makers." His solution to the prob-
lem - place police in the schools.
THE STRAIN of fighting a
myth is beginning to show on
Longstreth. Each time Longttreth
tries to point out to a crowd that
Rizzo did a poor job as police com-
missioner he gets nowhere. He
could cite figures till he was blue
in the face on the increase in vio-
lent crime in Philadelphia, t h e
epidemic drug problem, and t h e
polarization of the city, but no
one would believe him.
Longstreth recently said, "It's
like fighting a phantom. Frank
Rizzo is not a human to some of
these people anymore. Even Rizzo
has stopped using the word I';
whenever he refers to himself he
says 'Frank Rizzo will do this'
or 'Frank Rizzo will do that.' It's
almost as if he is afraid that he
cannot live up to the legend that
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