The Words Of Desperate Men

THE SEASON TO BE JOUY!

Israel President EpJrain Katzir says his nation has nuclear potential.

The remark was made to western science writers, but* it was not clear .whether Israel presently possess atomic weapons.

All-in-all Katzir was vague, according to the reports. Asked whether it was a cause for concern he was said to have replied, Why should it worry us? LfOt the world worry.

Pressed further he said, You dont expect that here, in these circumstances, I would give you the date?, meaning of course, the unveiling of an actual atomic weapon.

The comments were later softened but the threat of development of atomic weapons was still there.

It has long been felt that Israel had the scientific potential to develop an atomic explosive device. Its government has always pledged not to be the first to introduce nuclear weapons in the Middle East.

THIS AFTERNOON

Now, however, Israel is becoming a desperate country er^lfed as it is in an Arab world, and that world having the ultimate bargaining weapon in its vast oil supplies. So it would come as no surprise if Israel is developing atomic weapons. Whether they would be used or not is another matter, but it is not beyond imaging the beleagured country deciding that total destruction is preferable to being overrun by Arab troops. We dont think it will happen that way and we pray with all our heart that it wont, but it is not beyond the realm of possibility.

Katzirs reported comments are bound to spur the Arabs toward developing atomic weapons or bargaining for nuclear protection with the Soviets.

It will fall to the United States to persuade Israel that under no circustances will our nation tolerate the introduction of atomic weapons by Israel, even to the point of cutting off all assistance to Israel. To allow Israel to develop nuclear weapons is to invite world disaster. It is a risk that we simply cannot accept.

ReportToShakeEducation

By BILL NOBLITT RALEIGHA lop-to-bot-tom probe of public education in North Carolina is now being pulled together into a report for members of the General Assembly which will,, those involved the study confide, be yiore critical than Complimentary. (

Ordered by the powerful Legislative Services Commission of the General Assembly, the audit of education is scheduled to be ready for delivery to each member of the legislature when the session opens January 16.

This is the first time that a legislative study team has been sent to survey a state agency and report back. Twelve fulltime staff members of the Legislative Fiscal Research Division took part ip the audit.

Not onfy were in-depth questions asked and studies made of records in Raleigh', but investigators traveled thousands of miles across North Carolina visiting more than 50 local school districts, talking to superintendents, teachers, school board mem^rs, and others,J~^

How will this probe likely affect education in the state?

Produce Change?

"If members of the General Assembly read it, the result

will be sweeping, says one member of the survey team.

Broken down into four major areas, the auditors are now pulling together the data gathered and drawing their conclusions.

Primary emphasis was directed at the curriculum, how it is developed, and how it is implemented from the state level to local schools Investigators say they discovered wide variances across the state in quality and quantity of school programs offered, and the local superintendents often simply reject the idea of putting into practice courses which could be available.

"Some school systems have good programs in every areabut they are few and far between, and basically are those urban systems which have sufficient money," one member of the team said. The remainder of the systems simply dont provide the range and scope of experiences necessary to meet the rising expectations of parents toward what their children learn in school

In this area also, the investigation looked strongly at the method used for selecting textbooks and supply materials to local schools, finding that oftentimes categorical programs

restrict flexibility at the local level

Personnel is another key area of the rpobe, an investigators found that

teacher tenure is a "can of worms, as one put it, which is creating a lot of problems. An absence of teacher accountability, and the

disparate performances of students in local schools, are other problem areas likely to be pinpointed

No State Clout

On the management level, investigators found that while much time, money, and effort is spent at the state level formulating programs, there is no "clout" available to make decisions stick locally. There appears to be some sentiment for giving the state more authority in order to more nearly equalize educational offerings and opportunities across the state. Sure to create strong reaction will be some alternative approaches to increasing state control, such as the power to withhold funds.

Also suggested may be some alternative method of selecting top state leadership, such as a superintendent of public instrxKtion appointed by the governor, rather than elected. "If that is suggested, however, we would need to balance it by

having members of the State Board of Education elected rather than appointed, one of those involved said.

Another area of concern is financing, with keen attention going to the present system of having a controller independent of the superintendent. That, the report will likely suggest, is akin to asking the head of a department to operate a program without any budgetary control. The proliferation of local supplements which make it possible for rich local school districts to offer higher salaries and a wider variety of programs than poorer one is also a concern.

The major shortcoming of the public school audit is the brief time in which it was conducted, commissioned by the General Assembly only this summer, say those participating.

The purpose as spelled out in a memorandum authorizing the study was to determine compliance by the department with legislative intent in funding and approving programs. JJ^e Department of Public Instruction was chosen as the focus of this first major probe by the legislature because it is the largest single state agency.

The INSIDE REPORT

Sen. Jackson'sLaborPains

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERTNOVAK WASHINGTON - How much the once-ardent love affair between big labor and Sen. Henry M. Jackson has cooled became clear in a spontaneous outburst triggered by George Meany at the AFL-CIO Executive Councils closed-door meeting here Nov 7 Blunt-spoken Meany was in an ornery mood that day, not feeling up to snuff physically and irritated by importunings from the Jackson camp for labors early presidential endorsement. Angered that Jackson was supporting the labor-opposed foreign trade bdl, Meany snapped' He better endorse us before we endorse him " That set off waves of emphatic agreement from other

council members and not a word of dissent.

This hostile mood is taken seriously by Jacksons advisers. Although big labor certainly has no alternative to him, the determination a few months ago for an early, unequivocal AFL-CIO endorsement of Jackson has vanished. Just as his acceptability within the Democratic partys left wing is rising, Jacksons basic hardcore support has been undercut.

Trouble between Meany and Jackson began last July when the Senator's visit to and praise for Communist China troubled the old anticommunist labor leader. It intensified when Jackson endorsed the trade bill after compromising on his amendment for Jewish

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emigration from the Soviet Union Some labor officials had mistakenly believed Jackson was pressing the amendment only as a cover enabling him to join the AFL-CIO in opposing the trade bill.

Beyond Jackson, top AFL-CIO leaders feel abused and taken for granted generally by the Democratic party. While claiming with considerable justification they paid the bills for the winning Democratic candidates Nov. 5. labor leaders gniiuble that once in Congress they refuse to help labor on such projects as defeating the trade bill.

Meany made precisely these points Nov. 7, evoking a suggestion from Paul Hall of the Seafarers Union that candidates no longer win AFL-CIO endorsement without first agreeing to four or five principal labor goals including its protectionist position on trade. That generated a spontaneous outburst of such ferocity and unanimity that some officials attending the meeting were taken aback As for Jackson, not even his most enthusiastic supporters on the councilFloyd (Red) Smith

of the Machinists Union and Joe Keenan of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) contradicted Meany by saying a word in the Senators defense.

Nor was Jackson helped at AFL-CIO headquarters when he recently named Robert Keefe, executive director at the Democratic National Committee, to run his presidential campaign. The acquisition of the highly regarded Keefe was applauded everywhere except in big labor, which feels Keefe turned against his former colleagues in the labor movement as top aide to Democratic national chairman Robert Strauss.

Although both sides want the Jackson-labor rupture repaired, some AFL-CIO officials see unavoidable trouble if the bill passes and, as they predict, results in exporting still more American jobs In that case, labor will open fire on all supporters of the bill Jackson included.

A footnote; AFL-CIO political operatives are bitter (Coatinued on page 5>

Strength For Today

BRAKES

A friend of mine once had the disconcerting experience of pressing down the brake pedal of his car while riding along the highway only to find that the brakes did not work. Fortunately he escaped a serious accident, but the incident made him devote much more attention to his cars brakes than he had before.

Actually, brakes are as necessary in our moral life as on our cars. The Bible says. "The love of (Christ con-straineth us. whkh means that the Christian man is held

back from doing wrong not just by the law of the land, but much more deeply and significantly by the love of Christ.

o-'We need brakes on our minds when we are tempted to do something which we know to be wrong. We need brakes on our tongues to prevent the utterance of heedless or malicious words which might leave a scar. The persons without such brakes may well wind up in more trouble than the persons without brakes on his car.

By EUsha DMglass

By ART BUCHWALD

Henry's Coming To Town

WASHINGTON-Were having tremendous excitement in the nations cpaital this week. There is a rumor going around that Secretary of State Henry Kissinger may visit Washington, D.C. Officially State Department spokesmen are denying it. One assistant secretary told me, "There would be no reason for Mr. Kissinger to come to the United States at this time. But despite the denials, preparations are going ahead for the secretary of states visit.

A cleaning woman at the State Department told me she had been ordered to take the sheets off in the furniture in Kissingers office, and two of Kissingers secretaries have been seen at the hairdresser.

Painters have been sprucing up government buildings for several, weeks, and Kissingers security men have been checking out the State Department halls for the last four days.

When I confronted the assistant secretary with all these facta, he finally admitted that there was a

possiblity that Kissinger might indeed visit Washington. The reason why we havent publicized it is that Mr. Kissinger might change his mind at the last minute and fly over the city on his way to Paris. Then people would be needlessly disappointed.

ART

Other Editors Say Double Standard

(Jacksonville Daily News)

The double standard is alive and well in the United Nations. Not that there has ever been much doubt about it, but seldom has it been more glaringly apparent than in the debate over the question of expelling the Republic of South Africa because of its racial policies.

Even the conciliatory speech by South Africas ambassador, R F. Botha, in whichhe pledged his country to "do everything in our power to move away from discrimination based on race or color an astounding reversal of South Africas policy of apartheid-^had little effect on black African delegates pressing for a show-down vote on expulsion, blocked in the end only by the Security Council vetoes of the three western powers.

In the meantime, these same delegates continue to ignore far worse violations of human rights in many of their own countries that make South Africa at its worst look positively benevolent

For example, a recent report to the U.N. by the International Commission of Jurists described the situation in Uganda as a "reign of terror." It is estimated that more than 90,0(X) Ugandans have been murdered or executed in the three years since General Idi Amin overthrew the government of Preisennt Obote and instituted a terrorist dictatorship The killing has struck virtually every tribe in the country, including Amins own tribe.

Yet not since the 1972 session, when Britain protested the persecution and expulsion of 60,(X)0 Ugandan Asians, has a voice been raised in the U.N. to condemn Amin or the arming of his regime by the Soviet Union, Libya, Egypt and Algeria. The commissions report has been placed in the U.N.s file-and-forget box.

'The silence of the Western nations in this matter is not surprising. They have nothing to gain by sticking their necks out to protest the oppression of black Africans by black Africans. What is incomprehensiUe is the self-righteous blindness of the black - Africans themselves.

But then, much of what passes for statesmanship in the United Nations is beyond comprehension.

BUCHWALD

The assistant secretary said that they had been making plans for the Kissinger visit for months. ^ "He, of course, will meet with President Ford while hes. here as they have many things of mutual interest to discuss.

After their meeting the President will host a lun-checrti to introduce Mr. Kissinger to other members of his Cabinet. Following the lunch we have arranged a special tour of the State Department for the secretary. Since this is such a special occasion we plan to give State Department employees the afternoon off so they will have an opportunity to see Mr. Kissinger in the flesh. You can imagine the interest here of our people who have read so much aboiit this man but have never seen him.

Mr. Kissinger will then visit his office and have his picture taken seated behind his own desk. (After the photos, a cocktail party will be held where Mr. Kissinger will be introduced to foreign ambassadors stationed in Washington.

Then weve arranged for him to go to the Kennedy . Center because he told one of our people in Peking that if he ever came to Washington he (Continued on page 5)

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Lung

Cancer

By C.G. McDANIEL AP Science Writer

CHICAGO (AP) Cancer of fhe lung is rapidly approaching the dimensions of a national calamity in this country, a medical scientist warns.

He cited an American Cancer Society estimate that 91,000 persons will be stricken with lung cancer in 1975 and that 81,000 will die of the disease during the year.

And he said cigarette smoking is almost entirely responsible for lung cancer.

"A man who smokes two packs a day has about as much chance of surviving as a bull in Spain, said Dr. Bernard Ros-wit of New York. He added that death from lung cancer is rising among women.

Roswit made the comments Tuesday in a report at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America on a study begun in 1958 at Veterans Administration hospitals.

Roswit, a radiologist at the Bronx VA hospital, is chairman of the group of physicians evaluating the use of radiation in the treatment of lung cancer.

He told reporters that he has been giving papers at the societys meetings for 25 years and that "this is the first time Ive felt so deeply depressed.

He said that the majority of lung cancer cases will be too far advanced to benefit from surgery by the time they are diagnosed.

And drugs and radiation offer little hope for either curing the cancer or extending the patients life by very much, he added.

Since 1958, the VA doctors have studied 8,000 patients with lung cancer, using 13 different treatments or combinations of treatment including radiation, drugs and placebos, or sugar pills.

Roswit reported on 1,279 of the 8,000 patients for whom there was some hope of treatment success.

Even so, two years after Continued on page 5)

40 Years Ago To(day

December 4,1934 The Tar River was on a rampage today, and farmers have been urged to get all stock out of the lowlands as quickly as possible.

B. T. Qark, head of the local Weather Bureau, said he was told by the State Bureau today that the river will rise to 19 feet by the end of the week, four feet higher than the flood that did damage two months ago.

The river is expected to reach crest by Friday.

A whiskey distilling plant, a distiller, seven gallons of liquor and about a thousand gallons of beer were seized in a raid near Pactolus yesterday.

The still was going full blast when officers caught the distiller to tell him it was all over.

Susan Price

Discounting Jobless Effects

By JOHN CUNNIFF AP BinM Analyst NEW YORK (AP) - As unemployment heads toward 7 per cent oi the civilian labor force, arguments are being developed by some business researchers to discount what they say are exaggerated claims about its adverse effects.

The viewpoints differ somewhaL but in general the clain^ is made that joblessness today doesnt have nearly the damaging consequences of a decade or more ago because: Benefits are higher and more available.

Much of the unemployment is among teenagers and women, many of whom provide supplemental rather than bask income for the household -The Jobteas rate for married heads of householdi is only a fraction of the over-all rate.

Many of those classified as jobless obtain jobs within a few weeks. Tift jobless figures therefore are not

static, but are made up of different individuals from month to month.

The viewpoint is bound to set off criticism, especially since unemployment, unlike many other indicators, cannot be viewed solely as an economk statistk but must be considered in its human ramificatians.

Albert Cox Jr.. chief economist of Lionel D. Edie Co.. economk consultants, states flatly that "we have got to educate people to the fact that unemployment today means a lot less than in 1961."

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He termed the growing fears about unemployment, "ridiculous not in accord with the facts.

In a Miecial analysis just sent to corporate clients, Cox who was an economk adviser in the Nixon administration, acknowledges that the monthly jobless rate might exceed the poat-Worid War II monthly high of 7.S per cent, reached in 1961. but added;

"The fact is, however, that such a degree of unem

ployment will be far less of a social tragedy than the public will be led to believe ... He then listed his reasons, first of which was the greater availablity of jobless benefits.

A longer analysis is

provided in the Nov. 25 issue of NAM Reports, a publication of the National Association of Manufacturers, which is offering reprints at a nominal cost of 125 per 200

The article was written by Raymond S. Livingstone, described as a retired vice president of TRW, Inc., and visiting professor, Florida Atlantic University. He contends:

Most unemployment is not the result of layoffs or discharges. Nor is of long dura-tkm. Neither is it in most cases necessarily associated with misfortune, despair or privation.

Primary earners are but a small part of the total unemployed. To include teenagers and part-time work seekers, as is done, misleads

the public on the true dimensions of unemployment.

There are more jobs to be done throughout the country than there are people able or willing to do them. This condition should continue.

Asked for comment, Nat Goldfinger, research director for the AFL-CIO, snapped: "Theyre speaking through their hats He added;

"This economic mess is in fact becoming the worst since the 1930s. Anybody who tries to ignore this is blinding himself to the sad realities of the economic situation.

"Regardless of whether dr nal^it is the head of household whos lost his job. it means a sharp drop in family income and that means youve got a drop in buying power."

Goldfinger contends the average weekly benefit on jobless insurance for those covered and he claims less than one-half do receive benefits under state plans is $65.10 a week. "Thats hardly any money now, he said.