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...... ~ ...... "", ...... w,.,... •• JULY 15, 1971 VOL. VII, No. 8 25 CENTS .-... "., After Swann Reagan} Price Nixon's New C'ompromising on CRLA Busing Line WASHINGTON - The latest joke going round the Office of WASHINGTON - The Nixon Economic Opportunity asks "what can you buy for $2.5 million?" administration continues to take a The answer, of course, is "the California Republican delegation." low-profile approach to implementa­ Once again, the White House, seeking to protect its flanks from tion of the Supreme Court's April conservative defections, either at the national convention or in the 20 ruling on busing and school de­ final election, has caved in to pressure from California Governor segregation. In Swann v. Charlotte­ Ronald Reagan at a cost which is no laughing matter for the Ameri­ Mecklenburg Board of Education, can public. the Court held that school districts On June 30 OEO Director Frank with a history of discrimination Carlucci announced his decision, must take all available steps to elim­ after six months of inquiry, to over­ inate segregated schools, including ride Reagan's veto of $2.6 million "bizarre" zoning and pairing where in federal funds for the California necessary, and that busing of stu­ Rural Legal Assistance program dents is a legitimate tool for de­ (CRLA). For months Reagan has segregation. been fuming over a series of suc­ cessful class action suits instigated BUSING IS LEGAL by CRLA in state and federal courts The first test of the Administra­ which blocked cuts in services to tion's intentions came in Austin, the poor. Texas, where a Federal judge had ordered the Department of Health, REAGAN'S PET PROJECT Education and Welfare to submit Instead of being miffed by the a plan to the court. HEW's Office OEO decision, however, Reagan of Education drew up a plan that YR's Fail praised it, perhaps because it con­ paired schools in the black and tained an additional grant of $2.5 Mexican-American ghettoes with To Disband million for "Judicaid", his own others in all-white areas, and re­ state OEO plan for an experimental PHOENIX - Last April's FOR­ legal service program, which Carl­ quired a sizeable increase in busing. UM repoJited the view among Unlike the plans drawn in the pre­ ucci indicated could ultimately ab­ "many Republicans of all philo­ sorb CRLA. "Judicaid" would turn Swann era, the Austin plan, since sophical stripes" that the Young it locked inner-city and outlying poverty clients over to practicing Republican National Federation lawyers who would in turn bill the schools into the desegregation ef­ (YRNF) and the College Repub­ fort, promised stability and an end government directly - assuming of lican National Committee (CRNC) course they would be willing to to the destructive cycle of reseg­ "are not just useless to the GOP, regation. take poverty cases. but rather are damaging their own The program will go into effect Reportedly, the Austin plan had party." in January, just at the time when to survive a confrontation between But as usual, the two Young Re­ CRLA will come up for another HEW Secretary Elliot Richardson publican organizations have failed review under the agreement an­ and Attorney General John Mitchell either to change or to disband. nounced by Carlucci. If Reagan on its way to court. Outsiders can Holding its 17th Biennial Conven­ wants to make trouble again for only deduce from the results - the tion at the end of last month in CRLA, Carlucci certainly left the plan emerged virtually intact - Phoenix, the Federation enacted its door· wide open. that Richardson was tougher in the sixth biennial right wing platform clinches than his predecessor, Rob­ and resolutions and chose between TOTALLY IRRESPONSIBLE ert Finch. two officer slates dominated by right The inquiry commission's final Ironically, Judge Jack B. Roberts wingers. Though the winners all report concluded that "CRLA has rejected the HEW plan for Austin, professed support for the Presi­ been discharging its duty to provide and ordered the Government and dent's renomination, the policy dec­ legal assistance to the poor ... in the school board to seek agreement larations implicitly oppose much of a highly competent, efficient and ex­ on a less radical approach. But on his program, including national emplary manner." Reagan's charges the other side of the ledger, Judge welfare reform, the "full employ­ against the CRLA, the jurists re­ L. Oure Morton upheld a simi­ ment budget," and China policy. ported, "were totally irresponsible lar HEW plan for Nashville and The college YR convention, mean­ and without foundation." Davidson County, Tennessee. while, also in Phoenix but nomi­ Carlucci did not quote a single On other fronts, the Administra­ nally separate, reelected Chairman line of the commission's positive tion has been moving more slow­ Joe Abate of New Jersey, flaunting findings in announcing the CRLA ly. In late June, the Office for Civil red white and blue flag buttons from decision. Instead he said that the continued on page 4 continued on page 4 continued on page 4 People in Polities Kennedy (a Republican) requested the study. "What else is there left to pollute in Eastport? There isn't • President Nixon has appointed a fine young politi­ much left," Kennedy was quoted as saying. cal technician with conservative credentials and a high price to run his youth campaign in 1972. • Quoting Teilhard De Chardin, "To have an effect The new appointee, Kenneth Reitz, 29, of the in one's home, one mllst first live in it," Father John Allison, Treleaven and Reitz political consulting firm, McLaughlin, a liberal Jesuit priest, Senatorial peace will work directly under John Mitchell in an effort to candidate, and one-time classmate of Daniel Berrigan, reach the millions of young voters enfranchised under moved into the White House early this month as a the new voting age law. Presidential speechwriter. As a campaign manager Reitz is credited with McLaughlin, who had run as a Republican in bringing large numbers of young people into William Rhode Island against Senator John Pastore in 1970, Brock's 1970 Senatorial race and into William Mills' said the President had "deeply comforted and im­ recent winning Congressional effort on the Eastern pressed him" with his commitment to a free exchange shore of Maryland. He has close connections with the of ideas within the Executive. conservative leadership of the Young Republicans but McLaughlin's appointment was strongly opposed his willingness or ability to appeal beyond the con­ by Human Events which charged that the father is ventional Republican categories is yet to be demon­ in favor of permissiveness, abortions and the Ripon So­ strated. ciety, and by Senator Pastore, who charged that the To Reitz's credit are reports that he was unhappy father's campaign had shown insufficient reverence for with the bitter right-wing. t~n~r of the Brock campaign. Pastore. The priest's appointment came through with­ out a hitch, however, after a six-week security investi­ • Senator Jack Miller of Iowa has proved just as gation by the FBI. hawkish as he always has been, despite his rather The naming of Father McLaughlin represented dovish proposal in April to set a 12-month deadline a victory for Ray Price, his chief sponsor in the White for withdrawal from Vietnam following release of House. McLaughlin's title is Deputy Special Assistant American prisoners. Miller's office made it clear at to the President. the time that the Senator was "flexible" both on the exact timetable and the form of prisoner agreement. • Those who feared that Dr. John Knowles, the A congratulatory telegram followed from the Ripon volatile head of the Massachusetts General Hospital, office, which was quickly picked up by Clark Mollen­ would be lost to politics after the withdrawal of his hoff of the Des Moines Register. When Republican nomination as HEW Assistant Secretary for Health Senators Cook and Stevens adopted the main intent of underestimated his resourceful ambition to serve the the Miller proposal, however, the senior Senator from people. Iowa (who is up for re-election next year and will Although at the time of his appointment he pur­ probably face a Democratic dove) went down the line ported to be a Republican - and was strongly de­ with the Administration in opposing the measure. fended by Senator Edward Brooke against opposition from Minority Leader Everett Dirksen and the AMA­ • John A. Nevius, unsuc~e~sf~l Republican candidate the Boston Globe now reveals that Knowles had long for D.C. delegate this spring, has been appointed been registered as an "independent." He turned Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community Develop­ Democrat in January 1970 in protest against the Presi­ ment in the Department of Housing and Urban Develop­ dent's withdrawal of his nomination. Nixon, the doctor ment. He will serve under Floyd H. Hyde in the newly charged in a highly emotional statement, was a "captive created Community Development Division which was of the far right" and was motivated by the "Southern set up March 1 to combine seven HUD programs in­ strategy" in abandoning him and naming California cluding Model Cities and urban renewal. Nevius' record liberal Democrat Roger Egeberg to the post. Later, of community involvement and his progressive campaign however, Knowles let it be known he was available drew 30 percent of the two-party vote in a city where to run as a Republican against Senator Kennedy. the GOP lists only 14.4 percent of the two-party regis­ Now Knowles feels called to run for the Senate tration. next year as a Democrat, this time against his old sup­ • Politics of Pollution Department. Republican Gov­ porter, Senator Brooke. In this idealistic pursuit, ernor Russell W. Peterson should be commended for Knowles is being encouraged by Democratic State leading the fight for passage of legislation to bar pol­ Chairman Robert Q. Crane, who might encourage any­ luting heavy industry from Delaware's coast. Peterson one at this point. Crane says the doctor can combine braved concentrated lobbying from the Chamber of the liberal Democratic "switch" vote with the right­ Commerce, industry and the U.S. Departments of Com­ wing "spite" vote. Although we are for Senator Brooke merce and Treasury. against all comers we agree that Dr. Knowles might The law would preclude construction of certain be a worthy recipient of such "spite" and "switch" notorious polluters such as refineries and steel and support. paper mills; other industries would have to apply to the state planner and a ten-man control board. • Notes on the Southern Strategy. Last year, a TV crew filming the political drama "Vanished" was • In Pittsburgh, meanwhile, U.S. Attorney Richard allowed to use the White House lawn for exteriors. L. Thornburgh initiated and won a landmark suit a­ This year, ABC was not allowed on the lawn to film gainst a local chemical company - employing the The Man - a drama about America's first black Pres­ rarely-used Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899. The act ident. prohibits the discharge of any "refuse" (legally defined as any matter whatsoever) into a navigable body of THE RIPON SOCIETY INC. is a. Republica, ",search and , polley organIzation whose water without a permit from the Army Corps of Engi­ m-,mbers are young business, academic and professional men and neers. Under the same law sixty-nine additional crimi­ wcmen. 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Please allow five weeks lor address changes. • On the other side of the smokestack, the Maine Editors: George Gilder, Evelyn Ellis. state legislature reversed itself late last month and Contributing Editor: Howard L. Reiter. Circu1crtion Dept.: Judith H. Behn. ordered a study of the feasibility of constructing an Art: David Omar White. oil depot on the Maine coast. House Speaker David ingly needs progressive Republicans to expand its base and win electoral victories, its nominations are increasingly difficult for progressives to acquire. We are approaching the point where the more likely a Republican candidate is to win, the less likely he is to be nominated. If the trend continues - and the loss of Lindsay would give it considerable impetus NO MENTION OF FAP - the Republicans would risk entering the vicious On June 22, the House passed an omnibus wel­ circle of decline in. which a minority party grows fare bill, including President Nixon's Family Assis­ steadily more exclusive and more minor. tance Plan. Even the New York Times called the None the less we believe the Mayor wiII have vote a "victory for President Nixon" - page one made a profound mistake if he leaves the Republi­ news. But one looks in vain for reference to the wel­ cans. Unlikely to be nominated for anything, even fare reform measure in Monday, the official publica­ vice president by the Democrats, he may find him­ tion of the Republican National Committee. Neither self increasingly tempted by the fourth party route, the June 21, 28 or July 5 issues deigned to comment which in all probability would lead to a few moments on what President Nixon called "the most important of ego-gratification followed by a long period of po­ social legislation in 35 years." litical impotence. For contrary to modish speculation, Monday editor John D. Lofton, Jr. continues to the Republican party is too deeply entrenched to ex­ be listed as an associate editor of New Guard, the pire in most parts of the country; and the Democratic magazine of the Young Americans for Freedom. Y AF party though deeply flawed, will remain too liberal has already endorsed Reagan for 1972. No one on to be massively abandoned in the fashionable suburbs, Monday represents moderate or progressive opinion where the fourth party speculators envisage major within the GOP or touts Mr. Nixon's more progress­ breakthroughs. Under such a challenge, the Repub­ ive policies, yet Monday is increasingly quoted in the lican party will just become worse - less able to press as an official expression of Republican opinion. govern competently; and the Democratic wiII become With Lyn Nofziger as the RNC Communications Di­ more dependent on organized labor. The most proba­ rector, one gets the impression that the National Com­ ble result is a deterioration of our politics whichever mittee's publicity arm is more dedicated to pushing party wins. right-wing ideology than promoting the President's In all likelihood, therefore, Lindsay's defection domestic program. would mean that progressive Republicans who have IF LINDSAY DEFECTS looked to him for national leadership throughout his We have no way to appraise the increasingly in­ career - and who would follow him now if he re­ sistent reports from Democratic sources that John mains a Republican - would find themselves in the Lindsay is contacting them in preparation for a defec­ sad and anomalous position of strongly opposing his tion to the Democrats toward the end of this month. future ambitions. But this a sign of the times. A key Lindsay's departure would deepen the Republi­ test of progressive Republicans today is whether they can crisis. While the party grows weaker and increas- would rather fight than switch.

and are recognized by Garden State politicians as an State by State important cohesive swing group. Minish and Rodino are the state's most popular Italian politicians. With tensions between blacks and NEW HAMPSHIRE Supporters of Congressman Italians aggravated by Newark's 1970 Addonizio-Gibson Paul N. ("Pete") McCloskey's primary campaign were mayoral contest and its recent marathon teachers' encouraged recently by the enactment of a new New strike, the Republicans have decided to let things be Hampshire law that permits persons registered "inde­ rather than risk Italian retribution in the 1971 election. pendent" to vote in the primary of their choice with­ out forfeiting their "independent" status. Since many ARKANSAS A long and complicated hassle over young people register "independent," the ruling is ex­ the reapportionment of the Arkansas legislature has pected to aid the McCloskey effort to have them vote finally ended, with significant damage to the public in the Republican primary. image and black support of Democratic Governor Dale Bumpers. The final decision by the reapportionment NEW JERSEY The New Jersey Legislature has board (made up of three Democrats led by Bumpers) adjourned for this November's state-wide elections was issued five months late after strong urging by the without acting on Congressional reapportionment. An state GOP and a suit filed by Pulaski County Oerk, important reason was reluctance to decide whether to Jerome Climer, a Republican. The long-awaited result create the state's first black congressional district. turned out to be a major setback for the state's black A district which would consist of the predominantly electorate. black cities of Newark and East Orange along with Although Governor Bumpers, a moderate by Ar­ black portions of adjacent Orange is being strongly kansas standards, had been making efforts to woo advocated by Newark Assemblyman George Richardson. black voters away from the state GOP, he created 10 Richardson would be a likely Democratic candidate in multi-member legislative districts that will divide much such a district. of the black vote and make it harder for blacks to Newark has long been split between two suburban­ win. There are no blacks in either house of the Ar­ dominated districts, both represented by amiable and kansas General Assembly, unique among states with diligent Democratic hacks. If the bulk of Essex County's 500,000 or more black citizens. black voters were corraled into a Newark-centered Several blacks ran for the legislature in 1970- district, Congressman Peter Rodino of Newark would be all as Republicans. All were defeated, though several rendered vulnerable to a primary challenge by a black received a substantial number of votes. Bumpers re­ Democrat, and Joseph Minish of West Orange would cently appealed to the top black vote-getter of 1970 be left with the Republican-leaning suburban remains - Sam Sparks - to switch to the Democrats. Sparks of his district and Rodino's. refused. The opportunity to imperil two Democratic in­ Dr. Jerry D. Jewell, president of the Arkansas cumbents while gaining points with the black com­ NAACP, attacked the Bumpers plan and predicted that munity by allowing them their own congressman would most black candidates would be "wiped out" by it. have been irresistible for New Jersey's heavily Republi­ At last report, the Arkansas Republican organiza­ can legislature except for one thing; the Italian vote. tion was planning a law suit to challenge the fairness Italians comprise the largest ethnic bloc in the state of the new plan. continued on page 4 STATE· BY ·STATE from previous page Harris' constituent relationship are legion; for example, only recently did Harris reopen his office in the state's 1 OKLAHOMA Congressman Ed Edmondson of North second largest city, Tulsa. eastern Oklahoma has announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination against incumbent Senator Edmonson already has the endorsement of Congress­ Fred R. Harris. A close race is expected if Harris doesn't man John Jarman, the popular conservative from Okla­ choose to take his campaign elsewhere. Recently Harris homa City and the likely support of Congressman Tom has spoken of dropping out of the Senate race and Steed. running for President. There's a lot of support in the Edmondson's entry shut the door on popular State Oklahoma party for this notion, because it would avoid Treasurer Leo Winters; it is not anticipated that any a bloodbath. other major candidate will enter the primary next year. When elected to the Senate in 1964 (defeating A large number of Republicans are interested in Republican Bud Wilkinson and primary challenger J. the race: former Governor Dewey Bartlett, astronaut Howard Edmondson, the Congressman's brother) Harris' Tom Stafford, Ozark Commission Director and former political philosophy more or less coincided with Ed­ Republican State Chairman Bud Stewart and Republican mondson's. In the interval, however, Harris has moved National Committeeman Bud Wilkinson to name a few. to the left and Edmondson to the right of center. G. T. Blankenship, former Attorney General, has decided Edmondson, whose brother was a controversial gov­ not to run. At present Bartlett would be favored if he ernor and United States senator, has strong political chooses not to wait until the easier race, for Governor tiesi. Tulsa and N.E. Oklahoma. At the present time in 1974. he has few political grudges against him. No change is expected in the congressional line up. Harris would not be in political trouble if he had The Republicans are likely to keep their two seats and taken better care of his constituents. Complaints against the Democrats will hold the other four.

YR's from page 1 ed to Congress. His chief interest, that, while not calling for busing which he maintains is the commit­ and not meeting constitutional stan­ the movie "Joe." Moderates can ment of the entire Sundquist slate, dards, nonetheless taxed the pa­ take heart from the rejection of a is to make the YRs more effective tience of millions of white and proposal to eliminate the New Eng­ everywhere regardless of ideology. black Southerners, both well-mean­ land Region. Otherwise the college ing and otherwise. It is easy to un­ affair was dominated by partying. The platform opposed abortion derstand the Administration's re­ reform ("The proper cure for il­ Anyone who imagines the YRs luctance to tell many of these people legal abortion is . .. to arrest and are on the way out, however, will that the job will have to be done prosecute those who are breaking be discouraged to learn that an once again. the present law"), busing, civil­ estimated $200,000 was spent this ian police review boards, minimum year on the major event: the YRNF CRLA from page 1 wage laws, welfare nationalization, campaigns to decide which young report "forced" him "to the con­ sex education, and ping pong (with cons~rvatives get the offices in clusion that many significant issues the Chinese). Washington. of public policy have been raised The hope is the current YR of­ The prevailing ideological mood by Governor Reagan" - significant ficers don't back the platform, if enough presumably to loosen up is suggested by the fact that the they are serious about expanding chief so-called moderate winner was money for a program Reagan has the party. For like anyone winged always pushed as a substitute for a Buckley associate who worked craft the YRs are in danger of fiy­ in 1970 for Senator Brock: Bob programs like CRLA. ing in steadily smaller circles until Ironically, the Carlucci decision, Scanlan of New York, chosen Vice they crash. Chairman. which was approved but not dic­ tated by the White House, under­ In general, the convention can cut the President's own proposal be seen as a Brock-Buckley-Reagan 1 Schools from page for legal services. The President's Rights asked some 45 districts to festival, conducted behind a fa­ plan, submitted to Congress May cade of support for the President. propose new desegregation steps in 5, would transfer legal services to The new National Chairman is the light of Swann, but the HEW an independent corporation of 11 office has yet to deal with most of Donald Sundquist, 35, a jewelry members all appointed by the Pres­ its toughest "voluntary" customers. executive from Minnesota, whose ident, which he claims would be And the Department of Justice has lavish 35,000 mile national cam­ "immune to political pressure." paign, ostensibly non-ideological, so far filed very few Swann mo­ After the Reagan fiasco, Con­ was managed by Buckley's Admini­ tions, though it bears the respon­ gressmen, particularly if they have strative Assistant David R. Jones sibilty (often shared with private had requests for legal services pro­ of YAF. Sundquist, a Brock as­ plaintiffs) for most of the large grams in their districts turned down sociate, defeated Frank Fahrenkopf urban systems where Swann would "because of lack of funds," will of Reno, Nevada, whose compara­ apply. be suspicious of the President's own bly expensive but less competent ef­ The Administration, as usual immunity from politics in appoint­ fort was run by John Kerwitz, in the field of civil rights, finds ing the board. Many of them will executive director of Citizens for itself in a predicament of its no doubt prefer the rival Mondale­ Reagan in 1968. own making. On the strength of Steiger bill which would limit Pres­ A more interesting winner is President Nixon's transparently idential appointments to six, while the handsome new YR Auditor Jay self-serving "neighborhood school" giving another 13 members seats as Morris of Maryland, who collected treatise of March 1970, the Admin­ representatives of the American Bar enough money in his own public istration negotiated and imposed a Association, poverty lawyers and the fundraising affairs to finance a vig­ lot of "terminal" plans last fall client community. orous campaign, complete with but­ tons, bumper stickers and a sump­ RIPON tuous hospitality suite. If Morris can succeed in hiding FORUM his brains and pragmatism for an­ Published semi-monthly by the Ripon Society, 14a Eliot Street, Cambridge, other two years, he is given a good Ma. 02138. Second class postage paid chance to be elected to higher YR at Boston, Massachusetts. office; otherwise he might be elect-..