~lg -l I Aw 41 -40 4 Whe Mfrisioan Daiati 420 Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Mich. Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan Editorials orinted in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of the author. This must be noted in all reprints. TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1970 News Phone: 764-0552 Cox leaving FCC with doubts about successor T H E FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (FCC) is about to lose one of its most ablest and earn- est members. After serving his seven year term as FCC commissioner, Kenneth A. Cox will be leaving his posi- tion with a sense of worry over his rumored successor. His successor will reportedly be John Snyder, the In- diana state treasurer. The White House has not denied the report. What worries Cox is Snyder's inexperience. Ever since 1968, Cox, a Democrat, knew that he was not going to be reappointed to his post. He said that'he only had hoped that his successor would have experience and stature. Snyder, however, has neither experience nor stature. His major qualification is that he did President Nixon a political favor by stepping out of the Republican race for a Senate seat in Indiana. To Mr. Cox, the belief that his successor may be chosen for political reasons is appalling. "I'd told people with access to the White House," Cox said in a recent in- terview, "that for the sake of the agency and for the sake of the chairman (Dean Burch, another Nixon ap- pointee) I hoped they'd get a top-flight man here. They're supposed to be a big outfit and have a lot of brains. But this talk about Snyder is distressing." COX HIMSELF did not come to FCC without political credentials. He was special counsel to the Senate Com- merce Committee's television inquiry of 1956 and was con- sidered somewhat of a protege of the committee's chair- man, Senator Warren Magnuson (D-Wash.). But at least he went to the FCC with relevant experience. In the past, Cox was disliked by the broadcasting in- dustry because of his interest in issues affecting program- ming. But the industry is uneasy about the selection of Snyder because of his inexperience and also because he tangled with Indiana broadcasters over political issues. In the future the FCC will have to be a more effective agency than it has been in the past because of the new technology that is invading the broadcasting media. The loss of Commissioner Cox is a shame, but the ap- pointment of John Snyder to replace him is a travesty. -EDWARD ZIMMERMAN NIGHT EDITOR: ANITA WETTERSTROEM I Wednesday, June 17, 1970 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Letters to the Editor Hillage To the Editor: MR. VALLANCE painted a very grim picture of Washtenaw Coun- ty's educational system in the years to come. He felt, rightly so, that for the taxpayers to value ed- ucation less than the few small dollars of increased taxation is criminal. I have two comments: A group of Washtenaw County property owners feel that non- property-owners should not vote on millage and bonding issues. In fact, one Republican lady told me that non-property-owners should not be allowed to vote an any- thing! The arguments for this at- titude are that renters are less stable segments of our society and that they do not pay the taxes that are being levied in such elec- tions. In fact the renters pay tax- es through rent payments. And to the stability argument . . . non- sense! Students, low-income fam- ilies, and people who just don't want the responsibility of owning property should be represented at the polls-on all issues including. the educational systems that will make or break the society of to- morrow! MY SECOND comment concerns the Michigan Daily ,whose editor- ial board is obviously not unaware of the consequences of the millage defeat if Harvard Vallance's edi- torial (Daily, June 9) is any in- dication Had the Daily seen *fit to encourage the students on this campus to vote in the June 8 elec- tion-had the Daily endorsed the millage proposals-it is likely that the younger point of view would have been better represented at the polls, Yes, the press has a role in society other than reporting news (recall Roger Rapoport?). There is still a chance to re- deem the county-another election is coming on Aug. 4 at which these millage and bonding issues will, again be an issue. Washtenaw County's young people need the help of their peers who are old enough to vote. Are you reg- istered? -Michael Liepman, Med. June 13 Middle East To the Editor: THE MIDDLE EAST, with its daily series of crises, is obviously no longer an Israeli or an Arab question; since the United States is unlikely to stand by idly as one side or the other is wiped out; I feel that it is my business to ex- plore what is going on over there. However, certain specific questions pop into the mind of even the most casual observer. With whom should the Israelis negotiate? Nasser, Al Fatah or what? Can the Israelis really be expected to do the Arabs the favor of liquidating themselves? Should the only democratic and socially progressive state that has ever existed in the Middle-Fast sur- render to feudalistic dictators and decadent kings? Sometimes it is said that a new Palestine with Arabs and Israelis living side by side would be a vi- able alternative to throwing the Arabs into the desert or the Is- raelis into the sea. However, I would say that the Arabs have a tremendous public relations prob- lem; rightly or wrongly, they are all too often looked on as bar- barians who lie and cheat and murder babies. Of course, their duplicity in the UN and the rocket lauchers at clearly marked Israeli school buses do not help the mat- ter much. AT ANY RATE, I seriously ques- tion whether anyone, muchless the Israelis, could live success- fully with Moslem Arabs. I am thinking of the something-less- than-successful delicate balance between Christian and Moslem Arabs in Lebanon. I am thinking of the continuing murder of half a million black Christians by Mos- lem Arabs in the Sudan. I am thinking of the orgy of killing several years ago of Buddhist Chi- nese by frenzied Moslem mobs in Indonesia. I am thinking of the