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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, APR. 20, 1976
Udall: jobs, jobs, jobs
By DON McLEOD
AP Political Writer
Morris Udall looked straight at his
audience at the Milwaukee Police
Training Center and declared: ‘The
best way we can reduce crime in
Milwaukee and in the nation is to
give people jobs.
“People who have jobs are not the
muggers, burglars and hold-up men
who are causing the national crime
statistics to rise,” Udall said.
It was just one of countless
speeches the Arizona congressman
has made in his quest for the Demo
cratic presidential nomination, but it
provides some important clues to his
campaign.
It wasn’t the most popular line a
politician could take with a police
audience: telling them that condi
tions in society lead to crime and the
best way to fight crime is to fight its
causes.
But Udall also leaned hard on the
need for law and order, a point he
made just as strongly in Harlem a
few days before.
And he told both the New York
ghetto and the Midwestern police
department that there are no easy
answers.
§ listen |Ufr
“The mayors and the police com
missioners have the responsibility to
fight crime, Udall said. “But I can
assist from Washington.”
Udall had been just as frank in
talking about the future of Israel in a.
suburban New York synagogue: “No
one has the solution. The best thing
we can do is to hunker down and just
live it out.”
Another clue to Mo Udall in the
Milwaukee speech is the way he
brought a complex and controversial
issue around to his main theme —
unemployment.
“J-O-B-S. It’s the centerpiece of
the Morris Udall campaign,” said
Tom Kiley, Udall’s national cam
paign director.
“The issue before the voters is
jobs, Udall told a labor convention
in Green Bay, Wis.
Everywhere he goes, Udall talks
about jobs. In the inner cities it’s
high unemployment among
minorities. In the blue collar wards
it’s more work and job security. In
the suburbs it’s higher employment
as the best cure for a lagging
economy.
His reception is generally
friendly, although audiences occa
sionally seem surprised at some of
his frank statements. Other listeners
view his candidacy with a bit of in
credulity.
“He’s too nice, said a woman in
the affluent New York City suburb of
Scarsdale. “He’ll never get in.”
Recently, as the field of Demo
cratic contenders has narrowed,
Udall has turned to attacking his re
maining rivals, particularly as he ap
proached the Wisconsin primary in
which he felt he had to do well to
survive as a candidate. (He came in a
close second to Carter.)
“The first order of busi
ness is to put America to
work.
Even on the attack, Udall employs
humor and the soft approach. In a
pickup basketball game at the Mil
waukee YMCA, he paused, turned
to the spectators and took a shot at
Sen. Henry M. “Scoop Jackson’s
position on defense spending.
“This is the Pentagon scoop shot,”
he said as he sailed the ball toward
the goal. “You give it all vou've got. ”
Generalizations unfair
Editor:
I am writing this letter in reply to
your article in last week’s Battalion
(Wed., April 14) concerning the
housing problems faced by interna
tional students attending Texas
A&M.
It is true that international stu
dents arriving at A&M from all over
the world face problems with hous
ing — just as many Americans also
find difficulties in finding places to
live, and this problem will be greatly
accentuated next fall. In this respect,
the article showed some re
semblance to quality journalism —
“telling it like it is.”
I have been at A&M long enough
to experience generalizations made
by people such as the apartment
owners cited in the article. I have
finally put this down to simple ignor
ance. There exists definite problems
with some internationals concerning
leases and the condition of the
apartment when the tenant vacates.
But, is it not also true that similar
conditions exist with many Ameri
cans —— then why the singling out of
the internationals? I challenge these
apartment owners to cite actual cases
of such abuse, and to refrain from
generalizations. Nothing can be
gained from generalities.
There are real problems — prob
lems we must work with together to
come to a satismctory solution to all
parties. The International Students
Association wol ks closely with the
International Advisors office during
orientation. ^
I hereby extend an invitation to a
representative of the apartment
owners of this community to attend
this orientation session, to discuss
problems concerning housing for
new students.
Understanding can break down
ignorance, so let’s get together.
Anthony Neil
President, International Stu. Assoc.
Discrimination
Editor:
The implications of the story deal
ing with the problems of interna
tional students arriving at TAMU
smack of outright racism. Speaking
as president of the apartment associ
ation Dr. Roy Hann, Jr. listed the
following general problems encoun
tered when leasing an apartment to
some international students:
(1) International students often
have trouble understanding
contracts and rents.
(2) International students some
times vacate without giving
advance notice.
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International students are
often unclean.
International students tend to
overcrowd their apartments.
International students are
often helpless in such matters
as properly operating a dis
hwasher or disposal, or flip
ping a circuit breaker.
Some international students
fail to pay their rent.
If these are grounds for discrimi
nation then surely apartment owners
would be hesitant to rent to a large
percentage of the student body at
any university regardless of race,
creed, or sex. Tin sure that in a mat
ter of a few hours one could easily
locate some good clean American
students who are guilty of many of
these same “offenses ”. IfTAMU is to
truly become a respected university
and center of learning then it will
have to learn to educate people (not
just Americans)! Since I have only
recently come to A&M, I sincerely
hope that the views expressed in the
story are not held by the majority of
the population (and I don’t really
think they are).
Lastly, one apartment owner said
he was going to require larger secu
rity deposits from international stu
dents. I’m no lawyer but the legal
implications of such a policy should
certainly be investigated.
John Hogg
Laundry blues
Editor:
Caution: to all those using the
university laundry service. The
A&M Laundry is literally attempting
to “take the shirt off your back.”
Upon opening my laundry on
April 2, I found the following articles
missing: three dress shirts, four
T-shirts, one pair of pants, two pair
of cutoffs and one pillowcase. After
filing my claim, I waited 13 days, five
days more than the normally re
quired time, before returning to the
laundry. Even after this extended
time, Mr. Williams, the laundry
manager, asked me to wait another
week. Already tired of wearing the
same old shirt for two weeks, I went
to see Colonel Johnson, head of the
Laundry Board. He invited me to
the next Laundry Board (composed
of five students and five staff mem
bers) meeting to be held on April 15.
Upon hearing my story, the board
proceeded to settle my claim using a
standard policy for lost articles.
First, they figured in a depreciation
factor which lowered my original re
placement estimation from approx
imately $80 to $66.70. Next, accord
ing to this policy the following stipu
lations were made. If I find any of the
lost articles, the laundry will reim
burse me only fifty per cent of the
depreciated amount for the remain
ing lost articles. If the laundry finds
any of the lost articles, they will
reimburse one hundred per cent of
the depreciated value minus the re
turned clothing.
And, if this doesn’t make your col
ors run! If none of the articles are
found, the laundry “service” will
reimburse only 75 per cent of the
$66.70. (This 75 per cent is actually
25 per cent higher than the rates set
by the policy. This generosity was
extended by the board because, as
they put it, I seemed sincere.)
Thereby implying that I am 25 per
cent at fault for turning my laundry
in to begin with. Although this may
be a lost cause, I feel it is only fair to
warn present and potential future
users of the “service. After all of this
I would not be surprised to see a
second-hand clothing store opening
on campus.
Scott “Threadbare” Sarine
Rats abound
Editor:
How fortunate for those Univer
sity of Texas athletes that they did
nothing wrong in accepting payment
for work not performed. The fact that
the university carried out its own in
vestigation certainly had no bearing
on the results. Of course not! The
investigating committee (according
to one published report) “labored
mightily and . . . brought forth a
mouse.” Look again, gentlemen. It
was probably a rat.
Again, according to the same pub
lished report, Travis County District
Attorney Robert O. Smith stated
“What is involved here is a bucket of
worms . . . True, Mr. Smith. What
you failed to mention is a second
bucket — the one full of whitewash
used to cover this report.
As a payer of state taxes, I vehe
mently protest the use of one cent of
my tax dollars to pay these athletes.
Further, I also protest use of any of
this money to pay the salary of
Charles Schnabel, now and in the
future.
Too bad Texas A&M was not al
lowed to carry out its own investiga
tion of the allegations against Karl
Godine and Jarvis Williams. Perhaps
these two men would have fared as
well as the Texas athletes. To parap
hrase an old saw — it depends on
whose longhorn is being gored.
Bell Nelkin
Times columnist
receives award
for CIA stories
WASHINGTON (AP) — Seymour
Hersh of The New York Times was
awarded the $5,00(1 Drew Pearson
award for his stories about alleged
domestic surveillance b\ the CIA.
The award, named in honor of the
late columnist, is given for excel
lence in investigative reporting.
H ersh’s stories led to government
investigations of the intelligence
agency.
Maxine Cheshire ofThe Washing
ton Post won honorable mention for
writing about how U.S. leaders kept
valuable gifts from foreign leaders.
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Later he commented, “This is the
detente dribble. It only goes one
way. ”
His criticism on another occasion
was bipartisan. “If President Ford
and Jimmy Carter become the can
didates in the fall and abortion is an
issue, all sides will be represented,”
he says. “There will be Ford in the
middle and Carter on both sides.”
(Carter was criticized after the
Iowa precinct caucuses for allegedly
misleading supporters on abortion.
He said later he thought abortion
was wrong, but did not favor passage
of a constitutional amendment to
prohibit it. Ford favors giving each
state the power to adopt its own reg
ulations through legislation or public
vote.)
The strongest Udall outburst in
quite awhile came in New York as he
described former Georgia Gov.
Jimmy Carter’s position on the jobs
bill. “Fudge, fudge, fudge,” he
shouted.
But the bottom line is always jobs.
When he’s attacking Jackson on
defense spending, it comes down to
jobs.
“We don't need B-l bombers and
Trident submarines,” he said in
Neenah, Wis. “We need more jobs.”
“Defense spending sprees — as
suggested by some in this presiden
tial contest — actually cost jobs,” he
said in Stevens Point.
(Jackson has urged increasing the
size of the Navy from 477 ships to
over 600. He says he is opposed to
the B-l bomber program and would
cut it from the defense budget.)
Environmental protection, Udall
contends, is good for the unem
ployed. “Here in Stevens Point,” he
said, “environmental efforts have
created jobs.”
In Manitowoc the local issue is a
rail ferry service about to be discon
tinued.
“I stand with Mayor Anthony
Dufek of Maintowoc in urging all
possible assistance to preserve Lake
Michigan rail ferry service,” Udall
said. “It means the savings of jobs
that would be lost.”
Udall supports a bill in Congress
sponsored by Sen. Hubert H. Hum
phrey, D-Minn., and Rep. Augustus
Hawking, D-Calif., which proposes
to create five million jobs and bring
the unemployment rate down to
about 3 per cent in 18 months.
Everywhere he goes, Udall makes
a pitch for this bill as the answer to
the jobs problem, which he pictures
as the central problem of the
economy.
“People in America want to
work,” he says at every stop. “The
sun came up this morning and
America went to work today. But
eight million of them wanted to go to
work and there wasn’t any work. The
first order of business on Jan. 20
(presidential inauguration day) is
going to be to put America to work.
The phrasing and emphasis may
change slightly from place to place
and audience to audience. But the
solutions offered are the same.
To the nation’s mayors, meeting in
New York, Udall says the federal
government should protect the
major cities from financial collapse as
it did for New York last winter.
Then he goes into the suburbs and
says the same thing. “And I said it in
George Wallace’s Alabama," he re
minds crowds in upstate New York
and agricultural mid-state Wiscon
sin. “If New York falls, Rochester
might be next, or Milwaukee or
Phoenix.”
Udall also talks about foreign pol
icy, saying he agrees with efforts to
ward detente with the Soviet bloc
but, like other administration critics,
arguing that the United States isn t
getting enough in the bargaining.
He praises the Ford-Kissiii
proach in general terms,k|
says maybe Kissinger shoiil
gotten more in the Sianil
principally Egyptian agree:*
negotiate directly with Israel
As part of his economic jl
Udall hits strongly at thelal
porations which he accuses I
trolling the economy ll
competition-killing monopol
“We’re going to break eml
told an election eve rally I
waukee. “And the higoileoul
too. What we need is some;|
American competition.
L^dall continues to stru|
an identity problem despite
of campaigning. One ol hisail
sitting in the lobby of a Nj
hotel when someone notiJ
campaign entourage passim:]
and asked what all the eon
was about.
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