Eighty-Six Years of Editorial Freedom Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan ilICENTENNI AL DILEMMA Teach-In:App roaching Friday, October 31, 1975 News Phone: 764-0552 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, Mi. 48104 Ford fiddles, NYC burns PRESIDENT FORD'S continued in- transigence in 'refusing to help New York City climb out of its fi- nancial pit demonstrates once again his ridiculously arcaic fiscal beliefs and a general short sightedness in confronting this major problem. "Why should all the working peo- ple of this country be forced to res- cue those who bankrolled New York City's policies for so long -- the large investors and big banks," Ford asked rhetorically in addressing the Na- tional Press Club. Although Ford has asked Congress to ensure that the Big Apple will con- tinue to have police and fire protec- tion should the municiple govern- ment be forced to declare insolvency, this represents nothing more than a stop-gap approach that will do little good in the long run. For some reason -be it bad advise or just plain stubborness-Ford fails to recognize the importance of New York City's financial well-being to the rest of the country and indeed the rest of the world. WHAT GOES ON in NYC has a "rip- ple effect" on money games played from Peoria to Paris and Perth. Ford, however, has ignored or TODAY'S STAFF, News: Steve Hersh, Lois Josimovich, Ann Marie Lipinski, Ken Parsigian, Curt Smith Editorial Page: Paul Haskins, Annette Higby, Debra Hurwitz, Doc Kralik, John Pansius, Tom Stevens Arts Page: David Blomquist Photo Technician: Scott Eccker rejected that notion - a step taken with potentially grave results. Of course, New Yorc City has once avoided default thanks to an elev- enth-hour commitment from the city's teachers' union but that assist- ance only temporarily bailed out the big town. The basic instability still remains and will undoubtedly come to a head again - quite possibly within several weeks. Unfortunately, Ford has not used this lull in the crisis to reconsider his dangerous policy and recast it as one that better meets the widesweeping nature of the problem. The President should be concerned with developing a battle plan that will allow New York City to continue operating as normally as possible -- not with forcing it to wallow in a fiscal mess as punishment for alleg- edly reckless spending. IN ADDITION, FORD argued that the management in New York is unique in America. If he means that New York is the only commun- ity with a five foot two inch Jewish mayor, he may be right. But money woes are not confined to NYC. Many cities face difficult finan- cial times, and although not now as crucial as New York's, they may be in time. And the president, whoever it may be, in conjunction with the rest of the federal government must be ready. Somehow, it seems Ford's ans- wer just won't do -- and as a result it will be the American people who will have to pay. "There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad."-George Orwell. By MARTY LEE and BARBARA STORPER RANK CHURCH, chairperson of the Senate Select Com- mittee probing the Intelligence Community, said in a recent television interview that the In- telligence Network has the tech- nological capacity to impose "total tyranny". in the United States. Victor Marchetti, the long-time CIA agent who rose to the position of assistant to the deputy director of that or- ganization, claimsthat the pow- er of the intelligence complex is such that in this country 1984 is more reality than a predic- tion. It is the implicit urgency of these two statements that has motivated a group of students at the University of Michigan to organize a large-scale Teach-in entitled "The Bicentennial Di- lemma: Who's In Control?" which will take place Nov. 2, 3 and 4 in Hill Auditorium. In 1969 Jim Garrison, former district attorney from New Or- leans, announced at a press con- ference the results of his invest- igation into the assassination of President Kennedy. The CIA and, organized crime, according to Garrison, were jointly involved in the assassination. The press, not surprisingly, reacted to Garrison's remarks with a jeer- mg disbelief. Few accepted the idea that the CIA was involved in opera- tions directed against targets within the U.S. And to suggest, as Garrison did, that the CIA and the Mafia collaborated on projects of mutual self-interest, was, for many, preposterous. Such were the attitudes of the pre-Watergate era. THE WATERGATE SCANDAL and the recent revelations about the CIA have brought Ameri- cans one step closer to recog- nizing the terrible truth about what happened in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963: that the assassina- tion of John F. Kennedy was not the work of one lone nut, but was a political act withndefinite political consequences. John Kennedy's last executive order as President to withdraw 1,500 of the 4,000 American "advisors" from Vietnam. Kennedy's ex- pressed intention was to have all Americans out of Vietnam by 1965. President Johnson's first order was to reverse Kennedy's policy and to send more troops. Garrison described the Ken- nedy assassination as a coup d'etat. How do we begin to un- derstand what happened? Under the impact of advanced technol- ogy, extra-constitutional institu- tions have altered the funda- mental operation of the govern- ment. These institutions are without public accountability - the multinational corporations, the Intelligence Network, organ- ized crime and crime unions. This "Invisible Government," no longer subject to traditional legal boundaries, has neutered the power of the Presidency, the Congress and the Courts. The assassination of President Ken- nedy can be seen as a symbolic turning point, a metaphor for this transferal of power. MALCOLM DESCRIBED the assassination of President Ken- nedy as an example of "the chickens coming home to roost." Franz Fanon, the great black revolutionary theoretician, spoke about a "final phase" of vio- lence that inevitably accompan- ies the process of de-coloniali- zation; a phase' of violence that occurs when the imperial forces of the Mother country are blunt- ed in the field, as was the case with the United States in Viet- nam. These forces, according to Fanon, would then turn around and run back into the Mother country and create the same structures of violence and op- pression that the Mother country had hoped to export, but whose efforts instead were frustrated by an insurgent people. "Whereas previously the CIA has been en- gaged in covert para- in i l i t a r y operations abroad, the a g e n c y now actively trains do- inestic police forces, including the SWAT units and red squads." Thus, in the United States there has arisen a police-indus- trial complex which stretches all over the globe. The protest- ers during the 60's coined the slogan "Bringing the War back home." The war has now been brought home. It has been brought home in ways more di- rect and powerful than most Americans realize. Whereas previously the CIA has been engaged in covert para-military operations abroad, now the CIA actively trains po- lice forces in the U.S. The SWAT units, Red Squads, Bu- reau of Special Services, or to bring it even closer to home, the Special Anti-Terrorist Unit now operating in southeastern Michigan - all are trained by the CIA; they use methods and tactics perfected by the CIA in the Third World, and are often staffed by ex-CIA person- nel. And we are told that the CIA has terminated all domes- tic operations. EX-CIA agent - turned - exile Philip Agee describes in his book, Inside the Company: CIA Diary, a typical CIA dirty trick maneuver. CIA operatives would bomb a police station in a small Latin American village and then publish a falsified letter signed by local leftist leaders claiming responsibility for the action. A severe crackdown would soon follow. But are these dirty tricks lim- ited to operations abroad? At a press conference on August 22, 1975, FBI agent Wayne Lew- is admitted that he was be- ing groomed by Special FBI Agent Donald Grey (brother of former FBI director L. Patrick Grey) to assume the -position of leader of the SLA, after the police eliminated Donald De- freeze aka "Field Marshall Cin- que"), according to Lewis, was an informant for the Los An- geles police department deem- ed "expendable" by the authori- ties. Having produced FBI docu- ments signed by' director Clar- ence Kelly, Lewis also stated that one of Patty Hearst's kid- nappers, a man named L.R. Moody, was subsequently em- ployed by the FBI in Colorado. THE SLA scenario reeked of something peculiar from the outset. There is much evidence pointing to unusual connections (984 between the intelligence network and terrorism in the United States of which the public is not aware. One purpose of the Teach-In is to go beyond the daily headlines and explore what the established media has not probed. The Teach-In will focus on the theme of technology, re- pression, and resistance to re- pressive techniques. Techno-ty- ranny is overwhelming in its outreach and affliction. A suave technology innoculates human beings against comprehension. Outright violence is not always necessary: the repetitive tech- nique of the 6:30 news engen- ders a pathetic ."quietism" which immobilizes our consci- ence and violates our humanity. Twenty-nine nationally known speakers will examine various aspects of the technique, struc- ture and targets of technofas- cism - the way those in pow- er control and manipulate the population. Areas that will be covered include: physical tech- niques of human control (police repression, surveillance and da- taveillance, assassinations, sub- version of the forces of dissent, corporate manipulation) and psychological techniques of hu- man control (behavior modifica- tion, psychological warfare, ad- vertising, psychosurgery, etc.) THOMAS JEFFERSON said, "Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day." Awareness of our situation is a pre-requisite for action. Hence the Teach-In. Let us come to- gether and experience the fra- ternity of our concern. Marty Lee and Barbara Stor- per are members of the Teach- In Staff. PIRGIM REPORTS Energy figures in cost of appliances TE'E sIDNT W 'h~\\sx\\x\\.x.\.A \\\\\\\x. l .k By RICHARD CONLIN SUPPOSE THAT YOU wanted to buy a refrigerator. You look in the paper, and you see that one costs $150 and anoth- er costs $200. You decided to buy the one that costs $150, right? Quite possibly wrong. There may be some obvious reasons. For example, the sizes may be drastically different. But you won't know which one is the best buy unless you know an important piece of informa- tion: how much energy will the refrigerators use over their lifetime and how much will that energy cost you. The fact is that the cheaper make may be poorly made, in- adequately insulated, or under- powered. So, just as it makes sense to look at the miles per gallon of a car before buying it, it also makes sense to look at the energy consumption of an appliance. BUT HOW CAN you find out? If you go to a store and ex- amine the appliances, you won't have a clueas to how much energy they use. PIRGIM is working to try to solve the problem by supporting a bill in the Michigan legisla- ture to require energy effic- iency labeling of appliances. Voluntary standards are pre- sently being developed by the federal government for energy efficiency labeling. Manufac- turers have been asked to label their appliances as specifica- tions are developed. Obviously, the temptation is to label effic- ient appliances and leave the other ones blank - and we don't think that's adequate. Rep. Edgar A. Geerlings (R- Muskegon) and the Public Ser- vice Commission drew up a bill, later revised by PIRGIM in conjunction with the office of Rep. H. Lynn Jondahl (D-East Lansing), to provide for man- datoryappliance labeling in Michigan. Under the revised bill, as soon as a federal specification is drawn up, all appliances sold in Michigan would be required to conform to it. THUS, WHEN YOU looked at appliances in a store, you could compare them by looking at estimated actual usage as well as a comparative index known as the Energy Efficiency Ra- tion (EER), which rates com- parable appliances. We are hopeful that the pas- sage of such a law in Michigan and in several other states will force manufacturers, in the in- terests of efficiency, to simply label all their appliances at the, factory, or, failing that, to stim- ulate the passage of a manda- tory federal labeling law. Besides the labeling require- ment, the Michigan bill will let the Public Service Commission enforce the law and require utilities to provide more infor- mation about energy costs. The bill passed the house in June by a vote of 95-5 and is now in the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Consumer Affairs; we hope to see it pass the Senate this fall and receive the Governor's signature. The appliance labeling bill is one step toward gaining better control of excessive energy con- sumption. It is designed to let you, the consumer, have a di- rect input on the market sys- tem. BY CHOOSING APPLIANCES which use less energy and use energy more wisely, you will be saving money in the long run for yourself. And at the same time, you will be helping to conserve energy and to di- rect the society's priorities to- wards a more rational, less energy - intensive way of life. is currently supporting to en- courage voluntary consumer ac- tion do not succeed in perma- nently reducing the excessive energy growth rate c& our so- ciety and our wasteful practices, more drastic steps will be in- evitable. These are sure to in- clude legal prohibitions on cer- tain appliances and limits on energy use. WE WOULD LIKE tQ avoid the infringement on choice and the legal bureaucracy that such laws would impose, but to do "If energy and the other energy-saving mea- sures PIRGIM is currently supporting to en- courage voluntary consumer action do not suc- ceed in permanently reducing the excessive growth rate of our society and our wasteful practices, more drastic steps will be inevitable." LU' bureaucracy Stifles students You get the feeling that he's a slow learner?' The following is the schedule for the Teach-In which will take place November 2-4 at Hill Auditorium. The Teach-In is entitled, "The Bicentennial Dilemma: Who's in Control?" Sunday, Nov. 2 Assassinations-7:30 p.m. Mark Lane, director, Citizens' Com- mission of Inquiry. Donald Freed, Campaign for Demo- cratic Freedoms. Robert Katz, Assassination Informa- tion Bureau. Monday, Nov. 3. Corporate Manipulation- 10:00 am Richard Barnet, author of "Global Reach." William Domhoff, author of "Higher Circles." Sidney Lens, editor, "Liberation" magazine. Subversion of the Forces of Dissent-1:30 p.m. Carl Ogelsby, former national presi- dent, SDS. Syd Stapleton, National Secretary, Po- litical Rights Defense Fund. Donald Freed Committee for a Fifth Estate. Jon Frappier, North American Con- gress on Latin America. Regina Brave Dixon, Wounded Knee Legal Defense/Offense Com- mittee. David DuBois Tuesday, Nov. 4 Margaret van Houten, Fifth Estate. Surveillance and Data- veillance-10:00 a.m. Chuck Morgan, Washington Director, ACLU. Frank Donner, ACLU Project on Po- litical Surveillance. Mind Control-1:30 p.m. Blanch Cook, Professor of History, John Jay College of Criminal Jus- tice. Steve Chorover, Professor of Psy- chology, MIT. Dan Georgakas, author, "Violence in the City." Beverly Moore, editor, "Class Action Reports." Looking Towards the By DEBRA GOODMAN I'VE ALWAYS SUSPECTED that certain top officials at this university don't like me. But now that I've met these people in person I'm sure of it. And the only thing that keeps me from feeling terribly hurt when I find myself constantly insulted and humiliated by these people is the understanding that their dislike for me merely re- flects their disregard for the student body in general. Last Thursday, I bumped into LS&A-SG President Amy Berlin and we compared notes on our consecutive meetings with LS&A Dean Billy Frye and his execu- tive committee. I was invited to speak to the Executive Com- mittee along with Professor Ro- senburg on behalf of the LS&A Teach-In mini-course. At the onset of the meeting Dean Frye informed us that the committee would make no decision on the matter because the proposal had not been recommended one way or the other by the Cirriculum Committee. FEELING AS I DID in jun- ior high when trying to answer test questions devised to trick us, I explained that this was not my understanding, and was chided by Dean Frye for "not listening" during our conversa- tion the week before. If such pains were taken to assure that our mini-course pre- sentation would make no more headway than the last gasp pleas of a sinking ship's crew, imagine how the bureaucrats received LSA-SG when they showed up with their many com- plaints and proposals. In that encounter, Amy Ber- make it easy for us to change things at this university. And it's not very likely that they'll turn to us and ask us what we think before they change things around here. At the last SGC meeting, when heated debate threatened to destroy the commitment to common goals that had kept this council working together, Amy Berlin reminded us that deal- ing with people like Billy Frye is frustration enough without the added grief of internal bick- ering. The care LSA offices took to let this mini-course die by frus- tration, rather than simply de- feat it, may be a reflection of their concern that students are getting together on this cam- pus. When the members of SGC can develop a motion that pass- es unanimously after two hours of debate; when real dialogue is developing between the vari- ous school and college govern- ments and SGC. When SGC and LS&A begin to support each oth- er in efforts to secure more real control of university decisions, when university administration begins to hear the student gov- ernments speaking on behalf of all ofathe important student is- sues and organizations - these are visible signs of a change in the shape of student action at the university. AND THIS IS WHEN the usual disregard the administra- tion has for the students turns to concern. More signs could be a big turnout for the mini-course lec- tures and the teach-in, an ef- fective letter writing campaign to the regents to institute the 13Bev Moore: D esigns of a radical capitalist visionar r By DAVID GARFINKLE tan area. The procedure currently used in- volves public hearings and eventual accep- BEVERLY MOORE, a Washington .C.- tance or rejection of proposed sites. based lawyer, will talk at the Ann Arbor "Let them put it right on the balance Teach-in Tuesday afternoon. His topic is "Con- sheet" is Moore's suggestion. He would like tent Analysis of Television Commercials." corporate interests to be held economically Moore graduated from Harvard Law School accountable for environmental damage caused in 1970 and worked from then until 1974 un- by their actions. In the case of the utilities der Ralph Nader on a study titled "Food Ad- company, he suggested that the environmental vertising and Nutrition Projection." Last year, cost might be estimated at $1,000 per year he left Nader and became editor and pub- if the plant were located in the desert, but lisher of "Class Action Reports," a legal peri- $10 'million per year if the plant were lo- - odical which focuses on class action law-suits. cated downtown. It's easy to see how Moore's He is also presently involved in the comple- proposal could restructure corporate thinking. tion of the Nader study and a developing MOORE'S AREA OF EXPERTISE is "class-action" lobbying organization. manufactured food, although here the princi- "I'm going to talk about how advertising ple is more difficult to illustrate. If high- manipulates and encouages people to buy cholesterol, high-sugar foods damage the con- : products that give them less value than other sumer's health, he contends, then this cost products they might buy if they had different should be incorporated into the price of the information," he said. "Advertising is some- food. He would like to see liabilities imposed thing everyone takes for granted, but it's on the industry, pro-rated for each food. The very effective. You're talking about a couple funds acquired might be put into a national hundred billion dollars worth of goods sold health insurance program. every year." Moore was part of the anti-war movement in the 1960's and continues to see himself It requires long - range plan- ning and foresight to spend some extra money now to save money in the future-or on the other end of the spectrum to avoid buying the fanciest ma- chine, which may have much more power than one needs. While we are optimistic that people are willing to take the time and effort to make deci- sions that are both in their in- terests and in the society's, we may be wrong. If energy labeling and other en- ergy-saving measures PIRGIM that requires action by you, the consumer, and laws such as the Appliance Labeling Act to give the consumer needed informa- tion. We're trying to produce good public choices without ex- cessive legal restrictions - but it's up to all of us to make that approach work. Richard Conlin is a PIRGIM staff member. PIRGIM Reports is a column provided to can pus news papers, to inform studet constiltency on the effects of PIRGIM's t eork e t a a