VOL. VIII NO. 10

MAY 15, 1972 FORUM 25 CENTS

'Unanticipated Hardships" Courts, Congress Ignore Nixon on Busing W ASHIN<;TTON - .~t ~- intervened forcefully ~ t~eir be- stature to support the Administra- mer, the NlXon Administration, ~ should not be surpnsed if noth- tion's bills was, sadly, HEW Sec- throug? the Department of Health, mg happens. (In Detroit, Judge retary Elliot 1. Richardson. Education and Welfare drew up a Stephen J. Roth simply ignored desegregation plan for the metro- Justice's motion for delay, and then Amidst all this anti-busing hoop­ politan Nashville schools, involving denied its request to intervene as la, the Administration finally re­ extensive busing. Last August, the a party to the case.) leased the results of an HEW con­ Nixon Administration, through the Meanwhile, the Administration's tract with the Lambda Corporation same Department of HEW, refused antics generated new unrest in Jus- of Arlington, Virginia, which show­ to permit any of a 75 million dol- tice's Civil Rights Division. Near- ed that most school systems should lar desegregation assistance fund to ly 100 of the Division's attorneys be able to desegregate completely be used by Nashville (or anyone sent a letter to Congressional lead- with, at most, a slight increase in else) to pay the costs of such bus- ers, urging rejection of the Pres- busing. In a "typical urban area," ing. ident's legislative proposals, and the study showed, simply rear­ Nonetheless, Nashville dogged- ten black Justice lawyers signed an ranging present bus routes without ly implemented its desegregation eloquent and far more strident let- any increase in busing could prod­ plan, scheduling buses for as many ter that appeared in the Washing- uce a forty-three percent increase as five trips a day, and even ton Post on April 25th. Six attor- in the degree of desegregation; ef­ managed to make something of a neys quit the Department on May ficiently busing 25 percent of the success of it. So the Nixon Admin- 9, and went to work for George student body (compared to the 22 istration, through the Department McGovern. (A group of black Ad- percent already bused for other of Justice, filed a friend-of-the-court ministration officials also issued a reasons) could result in a system brief in the sixth circuit court of statement opposing the President's which is 70 percent desegregated appeals on April 10, suggesting that new bills.) and busing 30 percent of the stu­ dents could produce an 80 percent the Nash~e p~ be cut back: ~ Legislation Stalled cause of unantlapated hardships. The Nixon measures _ a "mor- level of desegregation. Applica­ tions of the Lambda report to The Nashville brief was the low atorium" on new busing orders and Prince George's County in Mary­ point in the Justice Department's a bill permanently limiting busing land, where school officials had de­ scatter-shot attack on court-ordered and emphasizing compensatory ed- nounced HEW's demands for "ex­ busing, carried out in the wake of ucation - languished in Con- cessive busing," yielded similar re­ President Nixon's March 17 anti- gressional committees without much sults and effectively ended a year of busing proposals. Without apparent hope of ever emerging. The mor- resistance to desegregation. rhyme or reason, Justice also filed atorium was opposed by liberals, briefs in cases affecting Richmond, because of its questionable consti- Rational approaches such as the Detroit, Dallas, Ft. Worth and Ok- tutionality, and by Southerners, be- Lambda report appeared to offer lahoma City. The briefs are short, cause it did little to relieve them a road back to sanity and an end wishy washy in the extreme, and from previously ordered busing. to the national agonies over busing. appear to offer the various courts The second bill, dubbed the Equal But instead of seizing upon such not the barest legal rationale for Opportunities Act, was lost in a an initiative President Nixon let it rolling back the desegregation or- cloud of rhetoric as the Administra- be known during the month that if ders in question. Opponents of de- tion tried vainly to justify its sud- his legislative proposals failed to segregation who have been lead den interest in compensatory ed- pass he would back a constitutional to believe the Administration has ucation. Almost the only person of amendment to end busing. Texas GOP Misses 1972. Opportunity---- AUSTIN - Texas Republicans port from former National Com­ either former Sen. Ralph Yarbor­ are faced with a choice between mitteeman Peter O'Donnell and ough or Barefoot Sanders, an LBJ two extreme conservatives in the State Chairman George Willeford. White House staffer and former gubernatorial run-off primary June By defeating both candidates as­ U.S. Attorney, who unexpectedly 3 - State Sen. Hank Grover, 40, sociated with last year's political forced a run-off. the most conservative and the lead­ scandals - Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes Incumbent Republican Congress­ er in the May 6 primary, and Al­ and Gov. Preston Smith - the man Jim Collins fought off a pri­ bert Fay, 59, a businessman. Democratic voters have made the mary challenge from former Dallas Two moderates, Tom McElroy Grover-Fay winner a sure loser in County GOP chairman Tom Crouch. and David Reagan, finished third November. The likely Democratic But Collins still may face indict­ and fourth. Reagan, a newcomer to candidate is rancher Dolph Briscoe, ment on kickback charges involving elective politics, was supported by who faces State Sen. Frances "Sis­ his Washington office employees. most of the party moderates. He sy" Farenthold in the run-off. One former assistant has been in­ reportedly also received quiet sup- Sen. John Tower will oppose dicted. liam F. Buckley, Jr., implemented by British Prime Minister Edward Heath, and in the form of the "ex­ People in Polities panded ownership" concept, adopted by the President himself...... • Anti-war Naval veteran John Kerry is hoping that • Running for the New York State Assembly from his opponent in his race for Congress in Massachusetts Yonkers is a young progressive Republican, Bruce F. will be Edward W. Cox, the Nader Raider of the Nixon Caputo, 28. Formerly a member of the staff of De­ household. Kerry is challenging for the Democratic fense Secretary Robert McNamara, assigned to Alain nomination to succeed Progressive Republican Con­ Enthoven's systems analysis team, Caputo has since gressionalleader, now U.N. official, F. Bradford Morse, organized the Inner City Fund, a management consult­ in his district stretching from the affluent Concord ing firm active in assisting black enterprise. His original suburbs to the industrial towns of Lawrence and Lowell opponent, veteran Democratic legislator, Thomas Mc­ northwest of Boston. Although the 26 year old Cox Inerny, has just announced his retirement. is rumored to be contemplating entrance into the race, he has not yet offered any evidence of serious political plans. An already announced GOP candidate is Paul Cronin, former aide to Congressman Morse. Political Calendar *' *' *' • Both Human Events (April 22) and the RNC's • MAY Monday (April 17) reprinted portions of Senator 23 RHODE ISLAND PRESIDENTIAL AND James Buckley's April 11 Vietnam speech. Interesting­ OREGON PRESIDENTIAL, CONGRES­ ly enough, Human Events, which backs John Ashbrook SIONAL AND STATE PRIMARIES for President, omitted a phrase that praised Presi­ dent Nixon's stepped up bombing policy as one of "wisdom and one which I wholeheartedly support." • JUNE4-7 Houston, Texas (Shamrock Hilton Hotel): Monday on the other hand omitted Buckley'S mili­ National Governors Conference Annual Meet­ tary proposals, including "appropriate air, naval and ing logistic support" for battalion-sized amphibious assaults 6 CALIFORNIA, NEW JERSEY, NEW MEX­ by South Vietnamese marines along the coast of North ICO, AND SOUTH DAKOTA PRESIDEN­ Vietnam in order to give the Communist leadership TIAL - AND MISSISSIPPI, MONTANA a useful lesson in the fact that North Vietnam will no IOWA - CONGRESSIONAL AND STATE longer be regarded as a "sanctuary from which attacks PRIMARIES can be launched at will." 13 SOUTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA *' *' *' CONGRESSIONAL AND STATE PRIMA­ • State Rep. John McCIaughry of Kirby, vi., a RIES "Jeffersonian Republican" with support from all see­ 18-21 Arlington, Va., (Marymount College): An­ tors of the party, has announced his candidacy for Lt. nual Teen Age Republican Leadership Con­ Governor. His chief obstacle for nomination may be ference the uncertain stance of the incumbent, John Burgess, 19 MAINE STATE PRIMARY once considered a likely gubernatorial choice, now con­ 20 NEW YORK PRESIDENTIAL, CONGRES­ templating an Attorney General race, but still a pos­ SIONAL AND STATE PRIMARY sibility for reelection. 25-28 Lake Tahoe, Nevada ( Sahara-Tahoe Hotel): *' *' *' National Association of Attorneys General • Thomas E. "Tim" Petri of Fond du Lac, former Annual Meeting Executive Director of the Ripon Society, has announced his candidacy for the Wisconsin State Senate from the 25-28 Bismarck, N.D. (Holiday Inn): Midwestern second district. There is no incumbent and Petri is Governors Conference Annual Meeting . favored. 26 (tentative) Meetings of the Committees on Arrangements, Rules, and Contests, 1972 Re­ *' *' *' • L. Keith Bulen, regarded by many as the Indiana publican National Convention GOP's best organization politician, has resigned as 27-28 (tentative) Meeting of the Republican Na­ Marion County chairman, to devote more time to his tional Committee position as Republican National Committeeman. He 29-July 2 Washington, D.C. (Marriott Twin had said privately last fall that he wanted to resign Bridges Hotel) 1972 Candidates Conference, after re-electing Indianapolis Mayor Richard Lugar. sponsored by the National Republican Con­ One of the few people able to deal with most parts of gressional Committee. the state's factionalized party, Bulen and his concilia­ Contributions to the calendar are welcome; please send tory talents will be sorely tried at the June 23 state notices of events to: convention when the gubernatorial nominee will be Glenn Gerstell selected from among at least four serious candidates. Ripon Political Calendar *' *' *' Suite 5-E • Carl Shipley, Republican leader in the District of 355 East 72 Street Columbia for nearly 16 years, on May 2 lost his posi­ New York, NY 10021 tion as National Committeeman to Robert S. Carter, who ran on a pledge to broaden the party base to in­ clude more blacks and young people. In the race for THE RIPON SOCIETY INC.isaRepublicanresearchand • policy organization whose delegate to Congress, Dr. William Chin-Lee lost to City members are young business, academic and professional men and Councilman Jerry Moore by a narrow margin of 44 WOlI!en. It hqs national heaciquarters In Cambridge, Massachusetts, chapters in thirteen cities, National Associate mem.Ders throughout votes which had been tested in a recount. Moore ran the fifty states, and several affiliated groups of subchapter status. with considerable party support, including the endorse­ The SClciety is supported by chapter dues, individUal contribu­ ment of former Council President, Gilbert Hahn, but tions ana revenues from its publications and contract work. THE RIPON FORUM is published semi-montl!!y by the failed to campaign actively. General Hassan Jeru-Ah­ Ripon Society, Inc., 14a Eliot Street, med ran a distant if colorful third. Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138. Second class postage rates paid at Boston, Massachusetts. Contents are copyrighted (C) 1972 by the Ripon Society, Inc. Correspondence addressed to the Editor is *' *' *' welcomed. • Since most of Senator George McGovern's eco­ In publishing this magazine the Ripon Society seeks to provide nomic ideas consist of sky-pie a la mode - to be fi­ a forum for fresh Ideas, well-researched proposci1s and for a spirit of criticism, innovation, and independent thinldng within the Re­ nanced presumably by capitalizing the esthetic value publican Party. Articles do not necessarily represent the opinion of the National Governing Board or the Editorial Board of the of red ink - it is ironic that Republicans have focussed Ripon Society, unless they are explicitly so labelled. their criticism on his most defensible proposal: inher­ SUBSCRIPTION RATES are $10 a year, $5 for students, service­ itance tax reform. McGovern's concept of basing in­ air mail, $10 extra. Advertising rates on request. Please allow five weeks for address changes. heritance levies on the wealth of the recipient rather Editor: George GUder than of the donor would force wider distribution of Contributing Edilorsl CllHord Brown, Glenn GersteU, Howard Reiter. large estates and expand the class of capitalists at a Editorial AssistcmtJ Priscilla Sapienza. time when capitalism is under attack. The idea in es­ Circ:uIatIon Dept.. Judith H. Behn. sence was originated by Louis Kelso, endorsed by Wil- Arb Leslie Morrill, Davld Omar WhIte. • Vietnam Report by Theodore Jacqueney For all its attendant drama President Nixon's soldier is quoted saying: "How can you have fighting sea-and-Iand interdiction of North Vietnamese sup­ spirit when you see all the civilian officials and army plies may not be able to affect the serious - if not officers getting their families out?" desperate - military situation in South Vietnam. Joining Kontum province is the important prov­ "It would take several months" before the Pres­ ince of Binh Dinh, the largest in Vietnam with a pop­ ident's blockade measures "would have any effect" on ulation of more than one million people. Three dis­ the campaign in Vietnam's central highlands, accord­ trict headquarters in this province are reported over­ ing to John Paul Vann, the senior American official run, and all are menaced. in the region. "They have enough in the pipeline," Further south, near Saigon, most of the border Vann said, to settle the outcome of their offensive. province of Binh Long has been occupied by the ad­ While units of the South Vietnamese armed vancing North Vietnamese, and only the surrounded forces are fighting with determination and spirit, most provincial capital of An Loc holds out - a pocket news reports from Vietnam speak of Saigon troops much like Stalingrad, or more to the point, like Dien reacting to military emergencies on a negative range Bien Phu. from apathy to panic. What does all this tell us about "Vietnamization" In the northern-most military region of South - the foundation of the Administration's Vietnam Vietnam hopes are pinned upon a new military com­ policy? Presidential Special Assistant Henry Kissinger mander, Lt. General Ngo Quang Truong, to hold the stated at his May 9 press conference that the Admin­ vital city of Hue. General Truong's respected fighting istration "... perhaps underestimated the massive in­ units - the ARVN First Division and some Viet­ flux of offensive weapons (which) tipped the balance namese Marine units - are said to face at least three in the North Vietnamese direction." It seems fair to of Hanoi's best divisions. According to all observers, conclude that the Vietnamization program assumed • the fall of Quang Tri province, directly north of Hue, that the North Vietnamese would not, at some time, was a "classic rout." Observers in Hue now conclude fight with all the means at their disposal. that there is "scant assurance that the stampede syn­ If present trends continue, the Administration drome gripping the ARVN can be successfully check­ may find itself confronting the dilemma of seeing ed at Hue." Danang or Cam Ranh or even Saigon directly chal­ The lull in the fighting after the fall of Quang Tri lenged; or re-inserting U.S. forces to secure these areas repeated the North Vietnamese pattern in this offen­ and the Americans stationed there. sive of regrouping and preparing for a new assault. One former Marine colonel of long experience Specter of Defeat in Vietnam who returned from this threatened region The specter of defeat may face us in Vietnam - one week ago sums up the situation this way: "The not because we were beaten by our adversaries, but South Vietnamese Rangers have had their morale shat­ rather because we were utterly wrong in our choice tered in the Quang Tri debacle. If the spirit is broken of goals, and allies. On May 8 President Nixon out­ in these ARVN elite soldiers, what hope is there for lined the three "options" he believes he faces in Viet­ the ordinary Vietnamese trooper?" nam - withdrawal, negotiation or escalation. Present The terrain between Communist-occupied Quang military and political realities may require emphasis Tri and Hue consists largely of open, sandy flat lands on a political settlement. -with virtually no geographic obstacles to slow an The Communist position on a political settlement enemy advance. The forces holding Hue, he concludes, has moderated since their two-part "clarification," is­ "are unlikely to stand up against a determined NVA sued in February, 1972, which scaled-down their thrust." previous demands for a new government without any The military situation seems comparable elsewhere top member of the Thieu Administration. Now the in Vietnam. More than 40 ARVN-held firebases have Communists declare that Thieu is the sole indiTidual fallen. In Kontum province in the central highlands unacceptable to them. • reports are that the new military leadership is as in­ President Nixon repeated on May 8 President competent, and the troops perhaps as poor, as those Thieu's offer to resign one month before the prospec­ who gave up Quang Tri. As in the northern corps tive general elections that are central to the peace pack­ area, the old commander, Lt. General Ngo Dzu, has ages presented at Paris by both the Communist side been replaced. Notorious for his venality: Dzu was and our own. A further compromise might be possible. accused in the U.S. Congress last year of being a large­ For example, would both sides accept something like scale heroin dealer. Thieu's resignation six months, rather than one month, The new commander, Maj. General Nguyen Van before an election, if a mutually acceptable interim Toan also celebrated for storied feats of corruption, government to administer the elections could ?e ar­ is as a firm political supporter of President ~own rived at, and if Thieu were permitted to run 1n the Nguyen Van Thieu - apparently his prime qualifica­ new elections? tion. Thieu, it should be noted, now feels his political As the military situation deteriorates and the position - thus far the central stumbling block at the Administration prepares for the worst contingencies in Paris Peace Talks - shaken enough to have ordered Vietnam, Communist proposals at Paris, previously re­ a full battalion of soldiers from the ARVN Eighteenth jected as hopeless compromises of our position, may Division camped right on his palace grounds. now become more acceptable. Observers in precariously-held Kontum report the collapse of "one South Vietnamese position after Mr. !acqueney, a former AID adviser in. Viet­ another." Fleeing remnants of the ARVN 42nd and nam, resigned in February 1971 to become dIrector 47th regiments stationed at the lost fire bases have of the Vietnam elections project, which oppos~d t~6 spread horror stories of North Vi~tn:unese stren~ Administration's tacit support for General T hleu In through the city of Kontum and, 1t 1S rep~rted, a his 1971 'face. wave of demoralization" exists. One South V1etnamese Statewide Aaivity New York Ripon Members Begin Campaigns ALBANY - If a group's suc­ feller's 1968 New York Presiden­ with Royall, Koegel and Wells (the cess can be measured by the num­ tial campaign, is given an even firm of Secretary of State Rogers ber of its members running for pub­ chance of winning his June 20th and of Jack Wells, a long-time top lic office, then the New York Ripon primary against the organization Rockefeller aide), will once again chapter is thriving. candidate of conservative county direct the New York City campaign. In Manhattan, Ripon NGB mem­ leader Joe Margiotta. Also in the City, but in the ber Tanya Melich, who is also Margiotta also figures in another Borough of the Bronx, 21-year old active in the Women's Political development involving a former Ripon member John Mullins is run­ Caucus, has been selected as an Al­ NGB member. White House aide ning for State Senate, but unfortu­ ternate Delegate to the GOP Na­ and Ripon member John R. Price nately has little chance of winning. tional Convention. Another mem­ left Washington to run for Con­ A congressional district that takes ber of the Women's Political Cau­ gress against Rep. Lester Wolf, in part of the Bronx and part of cus, and a member of the Executive only to find that redistricting had Westchester County is the scene of Committee of Ripon-New York, is thrown the city's only Republican a major comeback attempt. Former running as the Republican candi­ Congressman, Seymour Halpern, Representative Richard Ottinger, date for State Assembly: Joyce against Wolf. Since Halpern was who was the Democratic candidate Ahrens is waging an uphill struggle obviously the GOP nominee, Price in 1968 for U.S. Senate against against the liberal Democratic in­ was forced out of the race. How­ Buckley and Goodell, is trying to cumbent, Peter A.A. Berle, and is ever, faced with a hard campaign upset Congressman Pete Peyser, a involving many Ripon members in and poor health due to an auto moderate Republican. Like so many her East Side campaign. accident, Halpern decided in late races, this one will be affected by Also on the East Side, in the April not to seek reelection in the how the top of the ticket fares. area that used to be represented new district which is partly in New The decision of Congressman by a Congressman named John V. York City and partly in Nassau. Lindsay, Ripon member and former Ogden Reid to follow his friend Halpern and local Republican lead­ John Lindsay into the Democratic Lindsay administration official Wil­ ers were agreed on Price as the can­ liam J. Diamond is the GOP can­ party dealt a sharp blow to the pro­ didate, but Margiotta turned thumbs gressive wing of the state GOP. didate in one of the key Assembly down. Price will now direct the races in the state. If President Reid, as the Democratic Congres­ Nixon campaign in Queens, one of sional candidate, will probably be Nixon does moderately well in the the key boroughs in the City. area, Diamond is given a fair chance opposed by the conservative and of ousting the incumbent, who is Nixon Campaign popular District Attorney, Carl A. the first Democrat to hold that seat The Presidential campaign in the Vergari in the nearly 40 percent in 53 years. Diamond's campaign state will be very much a Rockefel­ Italian district. likewise is staffed by many Ripon­ ler effort. The same team that di­ In another area of Westchester, ers and is seen as a crucial race in rected the Governor's 1970 reelec­ Ripon member Assemblyman J. Ed­ the effort to rebuild the liberal wing tion victory will be managing the ward Meyer, will probably face a of the Republican party in the city. Nixon operation. R. Burdell BiXby, stiff campaign but will hopefully Another important contest is chairman of the State Thruway be reelected. Ripon's other member the primary campaign of former Authority and an attorney in the and incumbent, State Senator Roy NGB member Edward (Ned) S. late Governor Dewey's law firm, M. Goodman, is expected to be re­ Cabot in Nassau's 16th Assembly will direct the state campaign; Fio­ elected. Goodman represents Man­ District. Cabot, who was Senator ravante G. Perrotta, who was John hattan's East Side and has been of Jacob Javits' Executive Assistant Lindsay's running mate in 1969 great assistance to the local Ripon and who headed Governor Rocke- for Comptroller and an attorney chapter.

Indiana Primary Remlts Moderate Republicans Face Defeat, Recount INDIANAPOLIS - Two mod­ on Democratic incumbent J. Ed­ garded as the strongest potential erate Republicans lost and a third ward Roush in the 4th District cen­ Republican candidate, did not run. is barely ahead and facing a re­ tering on Ft. Wayne. Burton has asked for a recount, count following Indiana's May 2 In the 11th District, which in­ which probably won't be completed Congressional primaries. cludes most of Marion County (In­ until the end of May. The 11th dianapolis) , William Hudnutt, a District lines have been redrawn to In the northwestern 2nd District minister, has an 81 vote lead after ensure that incumbent Democrat State House Majority Leader Rich­ the official count over conservative Andy Jacobs would be an underdog ard Boehning fell fewer than 3000 former state Senator Dan Burton. to any decent Republican candidate, votes short in his effort to beat in­ Hudnutt was drafted by the county but a Burton candidacy would make cumbent Congressman Earl Land­ organization after Larry Borst, re- it easier for Jacobs. grebe, who had the lowest ranking of all Ripon's 1971 Congressional ratings. William N. Salin, a former sec­ retary of state, was soundly defeat­ Published semi-monthly by the Ripon Society, 14a Eliot Street, Cambridge, ed by conservative State Senator Ma. 02l38. Second class postage paid Alan Bloom for the right to take at Boston, Massachusetts.