Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of the author. This must be noted in all reprints. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 1972 News Phone: 764-0552 City Council: Reality? "INJECTING A note of reality" into circumloutious debate on an anti-war resolution adopted by City Council Monday night, Mayor Robert Harris asserted that the goal of his resolution was not to exhibit "how the city of Ann Arbor would like to conduct foreign affairs." In- stead, he claimed the resolution was simply a means to get an upcoming national mayors' convention behind the anti-war movement-an occurrence which Harris ad- mitted would be a "miracle." Spectators observing that council's fruitless ruminations could only come to the somewhat disconcerting conclu- sion that council members passed a weak, ambiguous anti-war measure simply because they couldn't agree on anything else. The motion, as originally proposed, and finally passed, urges the U.S. Conference of Mayors to "use its maximum powers ... to have Congress exercise its rightful authority and end all United States military activity-land, air, and sea-in Indochina by Oct. 1, 1972, on the sole condition that United States prisoners of war are returned by that date." After rounds of discussion and a bit of bench-gavelling by the mayor, the council was unable to do anything but prove its general inefficiency by ultimately defeating every move to strengthen or clarify the original resolution. AS APPROVED, six to four, the resolution is nothing more than a token statement of half-hearted opposi- tion to the Indochina war. The council failed to agree on a stronger anti-war stance even though at least six of its members are openly critical of the war-including the two HRP members who voted against the adopted measure. The resolution neither addresses the inexcusable atro- city of continued U.S. bombing of Indochina nor would its congressional enactment explicitly guarantee that U.S. military forces will be out of Southeast Asia by October. Establishing the withdrawal date on the condition that POWs are also released by October is merely a hazy affirmation of present Nixon administration policy. Making withdrawal contingent on prior or simultaneous release of the prisoners ignores the reality that the North Vietnamese will not release the prisoners until after we withdraw. Even if the resolution is designed primarily to have an effect on the council of mayors, we should not be satis- fied with just any anti-war measure. IF THE CITY'S council members do not start addressing themselves to the issues, instead of merely addressing themselves, they may find themselves immersed in a veritable sea of nitwit political featherpicking. -NANCY ROSENBAUM NIGHT EDITOR: LINDA DREEBEN EDITORIAL PAGE EDITOR: ARTHUR LERNER ASSISTANT NIGHT EDITOR: MERYL GORDON PHOTO TECHNICIAN: DENNY GAINER mammemaa-.ma- /iii l~iJ _____ __ ______ _ 1 WASHINGTON --The Brookings Institution, after an exhaustive study, has warned that expendi- tures are outstripping income and that higher taxes will be needed merely to keep up with the pre- sent government program. President Nixon's budget ex- perts have given him the same advice. His chief economic ad- viser, Herbert Stein, has warned that the next budget - for the year beginning July 1st -- must be slashed unless new revenue is raised. In response, President Nixon has told subordinates that he still be- lieves in fiscal responsibility and will return to a tight budget im- mediately after the election. He will begin, he said, by cutting Lyn- don Johnson's Great Society pro- gram. He has already drafted a list of 110 federal programs that he believes should be repealed or at least turned over to local gov- ernments. Washington financial experts pre- dict that Nixon, if reelected, will launch an immediate attack upon Johnson's Great Society. He will charge that the programs were tastily conceived and poorly ad- ministered. He will warn that the Great Society will wind up, in- stead, a chaotic society, w i t h the workers taxed beyond endur- ance. Finally, they predict that the President will get rid of most of Lyndon Johnson's domestic pro- grams or refuse to implement them if Congress won't repeal them. McClellan's Interests John McClellan, the grim 76- year-old crime buster, has been forced into a run-off in Arkansas in his fight to hang on to his Sen- ate seat. We have reported over the years how McClellan has used his Sen- ate position to promote his finan- cial interests. He sits on t h e board, for example, of Little Rock's largest bank, the First Na- tional, and owns stock in another suburban bank. He has been the banking industry's most vigorous champion in the Senate. During the 1960s, the Comptrol- ler of the Currency started break- ing up monopolies in many cities by chartering new banks. McClel- lan soon opened up his Senate ar- tillery upon the Comptroller. He used his Senate investigating com- mittee to hold headline hearings into the failures of three newly- chartered banks. He also appeared before the American Bankers Association con- vention to charge that "too many national banks are being -nwise- ly chartered too fast and too free- ly." What McClellan was really trying to do, of corse, 'w a s to block competition for his o w n banks. One of the charter applica- tions had been submitted by peo- ple who wanted to open a bank in direct competition with McClel- lan's First National Bank. We have also reported on Mc- Clellan's holdings in cable tele- vision and his acquisition of real estate in Arkansas, including one tract near a dam to be built by the U.S. Army Engineers. Mc- Clellan happens to be a member of the Senate Appropriations Com- mittee which votes on all dams. Last February, McClellan wrote an article for the FBI publica- tion, Law Enforcement Bulletin. The story was about a bill Mc- Clellan is sponsoring to compen- sate public safely officials injur- ed in the line of duty. As soon as the article was pub- the first time in 10 years, the two Communist giants have been con- sulting on moving war. supplies across China by rail. The Chinese have agreed to a massive increase in rail shipments. However, they have turned down Soviet requests to open ports in southern China. Intelligence re- ports say the Chinese urged the Soviets, instead, to clear the mines from Haiphong harbor. Meanwhile, freight trains have already been diverted to pick tp the first Soviet arms s hipmenot from Siberia. These are reported to be arms that had been on the way to Haiphong.eThey wt1 now be delivered overland by rail instead of Overseas by ship. The trains, incidentally, probaoly will deliver the arms to North Viet- nam faster than they would have arrived by ship. Nixon in Russia " The Secret Service did its us- ual efficient job of protecting Pres- ident Nixon in Russia. But dur- ing their off hours, the Secret Service men had a glorious vaca- tion. They flew over crates of Scotch, Bourbon, soft drinks, soap and toilet paper. On at least one night, they took over the Hotel Roosia's entire night club in Mos- cow for a private party. * The Soviet secret police round- ed up literally hundreds of known dissidents in Moscow, Leningrad and Kiev before President Nixon's visit. Some were detained, some interned, some actually drafted in- to the armed forces. Clearly, the Soviets wanted to take no chanc- es that dissidents might take ad- vantage of the President's visit to stage some impromptu demon- strations. * Intercepted messages be- tween Moscow and Hanoi reveal that the North Vietnamese made urgent appeals to the Kremlin not to make any deals with President Nixon about Vietnam. The secret messages from Hanoi warned that the United States was trying to divide the Soviet Union and China from North Vietnam. The message stressed that the Presi- dent should not be permitted to settle the Vietnam conflict in Moscow or Peking or anywhere else except through direct nego- tiations with Hanoi. The Soviet leaders gave their assurances to Hanoi that they would not make any agreement with Nixon regard- ing Vietnam. However, the Pres- Jeln McClellan: Rank ers' itan lished, the FBI ran off a thous- and copies and gave thema to Mte- Clellan, free of charge. The sen- ator, in turn, sent them to every fire and police chief in Arkansas. If Senator McClellan loses in November, it won't be the fault of the FBI nor some special in- terest groups. Nevertheless, tge be- lieve that the aging McCtellan uill be edged out of the Democratic run-off and that his Senate seat will be taken by Congressman David Pryor. ident received private assurances Common Cause from party leader Leonid Brez- The mining of Haiphong harbor - hnev that he would encourage the has driven Moscow and Peking North Vietnamese to negotiate. back into one another's arms. For -s1972 by United Feature syndicate, Inc. Letters to The Daily Pols (an pollution To The Daily: IN A LETTER to The Daily June 1), David Paxton deplored the watering down of legislation to restrict air pollution. He c o m- plained that the "upper house of the legislature) would rather hold the hand of the industrial- utilities lobby . . . than look out for the health and safety of the people of Michigan." Mr. Paxton then proposed that Michigan elec- tors remember the "touching con- cern" of the legislators for the people around election time. American voters have been re- mtembering the touching concerns of politicians for the industrialists capitalists) for more than 100 years by regularly dumping one set of "concerned" politicians af- tcr another. Yet, after repeated evidence that one gang of politi- cians is as subject to the dictates of the industrialists as another, Amnericans keep hoping that capi- alism can be retutated in their interests. American colorists fell into a similar trap with respect to the overnment of Enland until they woke up to the fact that their lives and their safety required that they build a society and gov- ernment which would be more in their interests ment of Englan, The industria government out the people and hands of plutoci democracy have this fact. Amer declared their capitalist obliga should have e over the proce and distribution tical and econot an Industrial D the lesson to rs before it is too -Ralph i1 June 2 To The Daily: DURING NI University's me of 1972 graduati Friday, class pr Iis made brie military draft, most disastroti the draft, if it tied, would be the young phy He also ma nouncement of on the grounds than the govern- doctors of their "unique freedom d. to choose where they wish to pric- dl revolution took Lice medicine." of the hands of After putting down socialized placed it in the medicine, Rodis went on to praise rats. The forms of medical students for their involve- tended to conceal ment in the Ann Arbor Free Peo- icans should have ple's Clinic and the Whitmore independesce of a Lake Clinic. Pray tell, what does rchy long ago and Steven Rodis, PhD., M.D., think 'stablished control the Free Clinic is all about? sses of production by replacing poli- In a town that purports to house toic autocracy with the "finest health care resources 'emocracy. That is in the world," (U-M Reporter, emember and teed Nov. 1971) why does the "free late. clioic" have to exist0 Msuney, '23 In general, I was appalled at the lack of perspective presented by this class president on the is- Ib('l t c(Ire? sues involving health care facing our community and our society. If decisions involving the direction S speech at the that health care is moving in ase idietl school Class left to the "Dr. Rodis' " of the on ceremonies lost country, I fear for the very lives esident Steven Ro- of many of our people. f mention te of the idicating that the We arc tired if the 'great tesis .s consequence of sideways" and "great leaps bak- is itndeedl esourn iwia''s that ore cosistenotty itsoe the interruption of in the area of health care. sician's educa'ton. -Nancy Lessin, Coordinator de a blanket de- socialized medicine Free People's Clinic that it would rob June 2 "en "Keep on eye on that one...!