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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1974
A women's rights victory
THE SUPREME COURT ruled Monday
that it is unconstitutional for school
boards to set an arbitrary time when
women teachers must give up their jobs,
during pregnancy, on the grounds that
such time requirements violate an indi-
viduals right to due process.
This ruling is gratifying to women's
rights advocates who have long contend-
ed that a woman's reproductive func-
tion should not be arbitrarily used
against her in the . economic market-
place.
The Court held that school boards
could only require that pregnant teach-
ers notify the school boards of their con-
dition.
Because the particular cases under ap-
peal to the Court dealt with school board
rules in Cleveland and Chesterfield
County, Virginia, the decision does not
directly affect similar rules that burden
women in other occupations.
IT IS POSSIBLE however that such
rules in other occupations will begin
to die out as employers note the prece-
dent indirectly set by Monday's ruling.
As a result less tortuous time and money
will have to be spent fighting such rules
in the courts.
Meanwhile, the Court's decision is
hopefully only a prelude to other legisla-
tive and judicial findings that will
make possible even more economic par-
ticipation and self-sufficiency for women.
By KATHLEEN FOJTIK
HERE WE ARE at the first anniversary
(Jan. 22) of the Supreme Court Decision
on Abortion, and unfortunately a backlash
has swept this country like you would not
believe.
Thanks to the activities of the Right-to-
Life groups, any type of legislation dealing
with family planning or health services to
women has been dubbed "permissive legis-
lation."
Therefore, no matter how rational or
necessary, this legislation is being defeat-
ed, ignored, or generally put in jeopardy by
male dominated legislative bodies, and this
is especialy true here in Michigan.
During 1973 in Michigan, Senate Bill 558
which would have allowed licensed physic-
ians to render contraceptive services to
minors upon their request was quickly de-
feated, with little discussion and very little
publicity.
Senate Bill 221 which would allow for
the teaching of birth control information
in sex education classes in public schools
is currently still, caught in the H o u s e
Health and Education Committee, and it
looks destined to die there if more support
does not quickly emerge.
THESE TWO BILLS are examples of pre-
ventive legislation, not permissive. Many
of those that worked for the defeat of these
bills also gathered in Detroit's Kennedy
Square on Sunday to hear our Republican
Lieutenant Governor speak in favor of an
amendment to the U.S. Constitution which
would reverse the Supreme Court Abortion
Decision.
News reports have ittthat 1,000 persons
showed up in the rain at Kennedy Square,
"Much is being done to persuade legislators to oppose "pre-
ventive" legislation which pertains to women and their free-
dom of choice. Those of us that support freedom of choice
must stand up and be counted, no matter how controversial
or unpleasant the issue."
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and others paraded around Washington with
guilt-inducing red roses for the legislators.
These self-proclaimed "righters" are, in-
terestingly enough, according to a recent
poll, 75 per cent in favor of capital punish-
ment, yet their believe in one absolute
- "the right to life" as long as they are
defining who has the right and why does
not.
Unfortunately, preventive education by
trained professionals, both physicians and
teachers, is somehow construed to be "per-
missive" and harmful to our children and
society, and the State Legislature has
chosen to withhold this factual, scientific
data and information from our high school
aged citizens.
Is it democracy when legislative, body
non-medical reasons, to pick and choose
which services they wish to provide, des-
pite the fact that the Supreme Court De-
cision said that abortion services could
not be refused for reason of conscience.
The distinction is that individuals have
the right and freedom to pick and choose
their actions and beliefs according to their
own conscience; however, institutions do not
have consciences, and institutions should not
be encouraged to impose ,their moral inter-
pretation on others.
THIS ARTICLE is meant to remind in-
dividuals that much is being done to per-
suade legislators to oppose "preventive"
(not "permissive") legislation which per-
tains to women and their freedom of choice.
Those of us that, support freedom of choice
must stand up and be counted, no matter
how controversial or unpleasant the issue.
Information and services need to be avail-
able to people, so that they may have the
freedom of choice to absorb the information
and seek the service, or decline the infor-
mation and rfuse the service.
If you agree with any of the above, please
stand up and be counted. Write or call
members of the House Health and Educa-
tion Committee. Write or call the Gover-
nor's office. Write or call me.
Kathleen Fojtic is Washtenaw County
Conmissioner for the Fourteenth District,
and Vice President of the Ann Arbor Chap-
ter of the National Organization for Wo-
men. She, can be contacted at the Washte-
naw County Building in Ann Arbor.
Obviously, emotional hysteria is rampant,
and logic is sparse when these issues
are debated in open forum.
BUT, MOST WILL adhere to -the old
adage that an ounce of prevention is worth
a pound of cure and, hopefully, most will
agree that contraception is the preferred
means of birth control.
With contraception preferred over abor-
tion, it seems logical that it should not
be against the law in Michigan for a teach-
er in public schools to answer questions,
or give out factual information concerning
contraceptive devices.
It also seems logical that physicians
should be allowed to render contraceptive
services to minors without breaking another
law.
withholds access to information from a
given segment of the population?
THIS POLICY is much more harmful to our
children and our society than the preventive
information which would be rendered or
taught if the current laws were reversed
to allow for the teaching of this informa-
tion.
Not only are many persons working for
the defeat of preventive legislation, they are
also supporting highly unconstitutional legis-
lation such as. Senate Bill 156 which Gov-
ernor Milliken recently signed into law,
though he was aware of the unconstitutional
nature of the bill.
This law allows hospitals and other in-
stitutions to refuse to provide abortion ser-
vices. It allows medical institutions, for
Sterilization non-guidelInes
LAST SUMMER two young girls in Ala-
bama were sterilized in a federally-
funded clinic after their illiterate mother
signed ai "X" on a consent form. An in-
vestigation soon made it clear that nei-
ther the parents nor the girls had under-
stood that sterilization was to be per-
formed.
Investigations also showed that nearly
100 poor teen-agers, many illiterate or re-
tarded, were sterilized by federally-fund-
ed family planning clinics throughout the
country in the last year and a half.
Such operations were to be voluntary,
but as was shown, it is easy for officials
to gain consent from those who really
do not understand what is going on.
In light of all this, new guidelines for
such operations on minors and those
judged incompetent have been drawn up,
but they are dangerously inadequate.
All such proposed operations on minors
and incompetents would have to be ap-
proved by a local panel appointed by the
clinic director. Thus the review commit-
tee would probably be inclined to ap-
prove the director's recommendations.
FEW SAFEGUARDS exist against abuse
by people who might arbitrarily de-
cide to bar some citizens from the. right
to reproduce-especially the poor, the
non-white and the retarded.
It is just such people who often use
federally funded clinics, of course. With
publicity of such cases as those last sum-
mer and the lack of stiff regulation,
there is little wonder that some raise the
cryof genocide.
U.S. Intlience: Joke with no humor
Refreshing attitude
ALTHOUGH IT MAY not have much ef-
fect on their political and economie
policies, Japanese Premier Kakuei Tana-
ka's statement that Japanese should
learn from criticism that has been raised
in several South East Asian countries is
refreshing.
Compared to the officials in the Nixon
administration, Tanaka comes off as a
pillar of candor.
Perhaps what Japan is learning is that
economic imperialism has the same ill ef-
fects and produces the same resentments
as colonial imperialism.
Japan has spent much of this century
attempting to promote Japanese econom-
ic hegemony in East Asia, a policy that
has resulted in the riots and burned
Japanese products that greeted Tanaka
TODAY'S STAFF:
News: Dan Biddle, Barbara Cornell, Ted.
Evanoff, Chris Parks, Charles St e i n ,
Ted Stein
Editorial Page: Marnie Heyn, Eric Schoch,
Eric Williams
Arts Page: Diane Levick
Photo Technician: David Morgolick
throughout his recent tour of Southeast
Asia.
The United States has pursued a simi-
lar policy throughout the world and has
reaped simialr results - anti-American
riots and kidnapped corporation offic-
ials.
WHAT IS INTERESTING is the reac-
tion of .Tanaka during his trip. For
example, when That students demon-
strated in Bangkok, Tanaka met with
them and listened to their complaints.
He displayed little of the arrogance that
one often finds in Americans leaders
traveling abroad.
Of course, Tanaka made no specific
promises and Japanese policy may be
little affected, at least not very soon.
But what is important is that Japa-
nese officials appear ready to admit that
they may be wrong and may have some-
thing to learn.
It would be nice to see the same atti-
tude in upper echelon officials of the
United States government, who seem to
spend most of their time trying to con-
vince foreign countries to learn from the
U.S.
By GARY THOMAS
WATERGATE has had one very
beneficial effect on the Amer-
ican public: it has educated them
about that mysterious combine of
organizations known collectively as
the intelligence community.
Anybody watching the Senator
Sam Show this past summer got
a quickie course in the clandestine
operations of the FBI, CIA, Mili-
tary Intelligence and a variety of
other "spook" organizations.
I found this particularly gratify-
ing. Since my discharge from the
ranks of Army Intelligence in 1971,
I had been consistently amazed at
the ignorance of the American peo-
ple as to their domestic and fore-
ign spy apparatus.
This past fall, I spent a d a y
talking with Victor Marchetti and
Jon Marks, two men who have
been under a court order not to
publish their book about the CIA
and the intelligence community.
Marchetti is a former special as-
sistant to Richard Helms, the
former CIA director, and had pre-
viously written a fascinating novz1
on the agency entitled "The Dope
Dancer". Marks is a former State
Department intelligence analyt.
For the record, I am a former in-
telligence coordinator from t h e
Army.
DURING THE course of our con-
versation, I questioned Marchetti
as to the real competence of t h e
agency, since my own experience
with them had been somewhat lUm-
ited.
Marchetti smiled, and replied,
"Let me put it this way: the real
reason the agency doesn't want us
to publish our book is that it world
be very embarrassing. There's
nothing in there that would dam-
age national security. Their real
fear is being laughed at, at losing
that powerful myth of the super
spook that has existed in people's
minds for all' too long."
Marchetti is right. Watergate has
shown the CIA and its c o h o r t s
in the intelligence professian to be
full of incurable romantics like E.
Howard Hunt who really believe
their own myths about themselves.
The agency knows that half their
power lies in the secrets and myths
surrounding them.
THERE ARE a great many bli-
thering incompetents in the intelli-
gence community, not the least cf
whom is the CIA director himself,
William Colby.
Colby was the architect of the
CIA/Army "Phoneix Program,"
whose stated purpose was "neutral-
members in the harmless Marxist
study group, and spent months es-
tablishing his bona fides as a
committed Communist.
But people started droppang out,
until, after a few mon-hs, there
were only six remaining. These,
the agent thought, must be the
h irdcore, and he regularly report-
ed on their activities for a number
of months. Then some sharp mind
did a little checking and found the
entire cell consisted of the FBI,
CIA, local police Red Squad, Army
Intelligence, Air Force hnttli-
gence, and a Treasury Agent.
THE SECOND reason the Labor
Committee's charge is full of holes
is the very nature of the people
who work for it in the intelligence
community. The truth is, they ire
just plain incompetent. Can one
honestly believe a system which
authored such a brilliant fiasco as
the Bay of Pigs really be capable
of a massive brainwashing scheme
with, of all people, the KGB?
Those spooks at Langley live for
"outwitting the opposition," a n d
are frigid lovers to the C 1 Id
War. There's just no way theyd
work with the KGB -- it would go
against the grain of every E. Ilow-
ard Hunt that the system's school
for spies has ever produced.
The intelligence community eats
up the type of paranoid rhetoric
propagated by such groups as the
Labor Committee. It feeds the
clandestine ego and reinforces the
myth of the all powerful secret
cabal of government spies.
There are plenty of government'
spies, to be sure, but their re-
sourcefulness is offset by their
sheer incompetence and bungling.
Watergate was typical of claud..s-
tine operations, and all one can do
is chuckle that they were so in-
competent at such a totally use-
less, not to say, idioic, scheme.
IF WE CONTINUE to reinforce
the myth, then we are respoisible
for the ensuing madness. If, on
the other hand, we are armed with
facts and a sense of humor, then
the clandestine mentality cannot
exist. Hunt and Liddy are really
Laurel and Hardy and I, for one,
refuse to keep feeding their egos.
They are dangerous, to be sure,
- but not so dangerous that they
cannot be ridiculed and laughed
out of existence. The M a x w e 1
Smarts outnumber the James
Bonds and what would hurt the
spooks most to to turn red - a
bright, shiny red blush.
Gary Thomas s a Detroit cor-
respondent for United Press Inter-
national.
'An acute case of inferiority complex. Thinks he's the only
person in town who hasn't been bugged or wiretapped.'
ization of the Viet Cong Infrastrc-
ture." This was supposed to be av-
complished through the use of a
counterterror operation. In fact,
the program did nothing to cut
down the political or military
strength of the National Liberat;-n
Front, but it did kill quite a few.
people in an indiscriminate fash-
ion.
This program came unde- fire
from many members of Congress
here at home through teitimoiny
from former participants in the
program. Colby took the rap for
this particular piece of agency hin
acy, and was rewarded with the
directorship of the CIA. He re-
placed Richard Helms, wno is pre-
sently playing footsie with the
Shah of Iran as the U.S. ambassa-
dor to that country.
There is no doubt the apparatus
is large, and conducts a massive
amount of spying, wiretapping and
other clandestine grames. It should
not be discounted lightly. Water-
gate has already shown that the
spook community is capable of
some pretty outrageous things.
Burglary and wiretapping in the
name of the god National Security
is not funny.
PEOPLE SHOULD not live in
complete fear and paranoia about
them, however. Despite what some
people think about paran)ia being
the highest state of conseousness,
it is like a plague - very unheal-
thy to carry around.
I recently read charges by the
National Caucus of Labor Commit-
tees concerning a massive brain-
washing plot by the CIA in c(1l-
lusion with the Soviet inrelligence
apparatus, the KGB. Anybody hav-
ing any reputable information about
the state of our intellige-ice sys-
tem knows this is a ludicrous
charge.
First of all, the community is
beset by bickering and petty riv-
alries. The various agencies do not
trust each other to the point of
extreme. I remember a story re-
lated to us at Army Intel'igence
-School at Fort Holabird, Maryland,
about how ridiculous the rivalries
can be carried.
It seems the Military Intelli-
gence (a contradiction ri terms,
I assure you) had penetrated a
cell of the American Co'munist
Party with an agent - a pretty
easy exercise. He met all the
Letters:
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HOW GRIEVED I was to witness
the slick selling of the path to pure
consciousness and inner peace. Yet
even more grieved was I to see
people buying it.
Thursday, January 18, SIMS (Stu-
dents International Meditation So-
ciety) of Ann Arbor held an itro-
ductory lecture before a crowd of
200 plus to promote what amounts
to a 6 hour (4 sessions, 1 hours
each) course.
Transcendental Meditatian (TM)
teaches a natural technique that
"can easily be learned by every-
one . . . improves clarity of per-
ception, develops creative intelli-
gence, expands awareness, insures
full development of the individual
in a natural way . . . TM is prac-
promote enthusiasm (and drum up
customers) which last over an hour
each, the grand secret of just how
to contact pure consciousness for
twenty minutes twice a day is not
revealed until the four sessions
(even though the lecturer-teacher
admits most students only need
one) which cost $45 for the college
students and $35 for the more im-
poverished high school student.
SIMPLE arithmetic shows that
if 100 people sign up for the ses-
sions around $4,000 will be received
for what will likely be only 10-20
hours of time for the instructor.
Nor will there be a bad profit mar-
gin if only 50, or even 30, sign
up.
Of course, the lecturer argued
that there is an organization to
They are not primarily interested
in making available the path, but
only in selling their how-to-relax-in-
4-easy-lessons package in places
like Ann Arbor where there is a
market - impressionable students
with money.
A PRETTY CRAFTY scheme in-
deed. These capitalists do not ever
have to produce anything, no labor
problems to worry about. All they
need is a fancy brochure with a
picture of the calm and beautiful
Maharishi, a ban on non-prescrip-
tive drugs, i.e. marajuana ia 1-
though no ban of alcohol) to win
over the right people, and a slick-
talking, coat-and-tied salesman.
I only wish that people would
find a path to buy that is not
with a quotation from John Allen
which is fair neither to Allen nor to
people in the English Department
who teach film.
The quotation, with the fifteen
words preceeding it, has Allen say
that because the English Depart-
ment has an area interest in film,
that interest will be addressed in
a manner that is "exclusively liter-
ary," which is to suggest that peo-
)le teaching in English (or His-
tory, or Psychology, or History of
Art) are narrow creatures cap-
able of 'mastering only one disci-
pline and able to apply to other dis-
ciplines only their own terms.
Thus people in fields o t h e r
than music cannot intelligently re-
3pond to and analyze the use of
music in film .and the sam i tn
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Film Resources Committee, I be-
lieve a film and video program
should be strongly interdisciplin-
ary, drawing upon the talents of
people across the entire range of the
university, and that it should in-
clude instruction in the making of
film and video tape.
I am presently giving a great
deal of my time to the creation of
such a program. What we are try-
ing to do in English is simply to
bring together students and facul-
ty i English who have a strong
interest in film. We are attempting
to do the same with the other spec-
ial areas (fiction, etc.).that a r e
taught by members of our depart-
ment.
-William Alexander
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