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JSheehan blasts
executive power
By MARY SWINT
Neil Sheehan, the New York
Times reporter who obtained
the Pentagon Papers, denoun-
_ ced the growing power of the
executive branch in the U.S.
government and the use of
secrecy in a speech here
Tuesday night
“The state has become the
executive branch, which exists
to serve itself and defines its
own good as the good for the
country,” he said. “It has
become more powerful than
the other branches, the press
and the business community.
"The grand jury has become
a tool of the state, a rubber
stamp body for signing sub
poenas," he added noting the
recent use of contempt cita
tions to obtain information
from reporters.
“We must bring the govern
ment machinery under control.
The war in Indochina is an
example of ‘war by executive
decsion.’ The U.S. did not
stumble into a quagmire; they
made their own quagmire,"
Sheehan said, referring to
secret plans cited in the
Pentagon Papers.
In the executive branch, the
reporter said, "There is an
obsession with secrecy, which
is used to move others.” The
Tonkin Gulf incident in 1964
involved secret plans and news
management, according to the
Sheehan.
Sheehan feels the Watergate
bugging case could have
happened under a Democratic
administration just as easily.
He sees it as an application of
the techniques of espionage
used commonly in foreign
affairs to domestic politics, for
"the subversion of the opposi
tion party."
"Men who live and work in a
climate in which these tools
are very effective in foreign
policy feel these can be used to
perpetuate domestic power,"
he said
The government is staffed
with professional bureaucrats
rather than traditional “tal
ented amateurs," according to
Sheehan. These men "serve
the president as the personal
body of the state and have a
corporate sense of loyalty. We
no longer have a government
of, for and by the people," he
said.
The growth of technology has
enabled the government to
conduct wars under centralized
control without the public
being aware of it, Sheehan
The Red and Black. Thursday, Nc.vember IIO, 1972 Page 7
Business school draws plan for
Stone Mountain and Agrirama
TIMES REPORTER NEIL SHEEHAN
Concerned about growing executive power
said. Public and Congressional
ignorance, he contended, re
moves any checks on executive
power.
Sheehan said “We are
conditioned to a feeling that we
can do anything in Asia and
get away with it. We don’t
value Asian lives as much as
we do Caucasians; this is
reflected in the Pentagon
Papers and our foreign policy.”
Master plans for the devel
opment of two major Georgia
tourist attractions are being
drawn up by the University’s
College of Business Administr-
tion.
The business school’s Divi
sion of Research is preparing
the plans for the Agrirama, to
be built in Tifton. and Stone
Mountain Park, already one of
Georgia’s leading tourist facil
ities.
The Agrirama. which will
trace the early development of
agriculture in South Georgia,
will be on a 48-acre tract off
Interstate 75 in the heart of a
highly productive farming
area. The 1972 General Assem
bly created the Agrirama
Development Authority, which
will oversee construction and
operation of the facility, and
Gov. Jimmy Carter made
money available for the
master plan from his emer
gency fund.
STONE MOUNTAIN, with its
memorial carving, parks,
rides, exhibits and eating
facilities, annually attracts
thousands of visitors. It is
being developed under a
concept prepared several
years ago by the business
school, and the new plan will
provide for further develop
ment in coming years.
Dr. William B. Keeling of the
Division of Research, who is
supervising preparation of the
plans, said that every aspect of
development of the facilities —
physical appearance, objec
tives. themc»s and concepts,
and funding, programs and
administration — will be
covered.
The plans will deal with legal
questions, potential markets
for the facilities and their
impact on other recreational
and tourist attractions. A
detailed ecological analysis
will be made of proposed sites
and architectural, landscaping
and parking guidelines will be
drawn up for each facility.
KEELING SAII) the first
part of the Agrirama plan,
outlining the concept, should
be finished by the end of this
year. If it is approved by the
authority, the rest of the plan
will be completed early next
year, he said.
The expanded concept por
tion of the Stone Mountain plan
will be finished soon after the
first of the year and the
remainder will be completed in
t'ne late spring.
Details ot the plans will not
be public until they have been
approved by the governing
authorities. Keeling said.
Marrieds with higher incomes
have difficulty planning budgets
Four honored as
members of AGHON
By NANCY UN'KLES
‘‘It is the unexpected expend
itures which throw you,” Dr.
Betty Bailey of the School of
Home Economics said in a
lecture on money manage
ment.
She emphasized to a group of
University married students
last week that budgeting can
control mismanaged finances
and people need to plan how to
spend their money.
BAILEY SAID couples with
higher incomes have greater
difficulty in planning than
those with lower incomes. “In
lower income families money
is spent primarily on food;
with a larger budget more
financial decisions must be
made.” Bailey cited a case
where one of her students was
finding it hard to plan on $1500
a month.
A marriage counselor who
attended the discussion agreed
that financing is a major
problem among married stu
dents.
It was noted that other
problems result from misman
aged money. Bailey stated that
the two major causes of
divorce are sex and finance
and most often marital tension
arises because both factors are
involved.
Bailey said that shopping on
weekends will generally curb
food spending. “Buying last
year’s model appliance cuts
costs. Catalog ordering also
saves you.”
“Being a consumer is a full
time job,” a woman who
attended the lecture pointed
out.
Dr. Bailey received the
Master of Science degree in
food and nutrition at the
University and received her
Ph D. in household manage
ment from Cornell University.
Four students have been
tapped for membership in
AGHON, the highest honor
available for agriculture, vet
erinary medicine or forest
resources.
They are Hub Daniel, senior;
Bobby Tankersley. senior;
Russell Brooks, senior; and
Donnie Wilburn, graduate stu
dent
Membership in AGHON is
based on previous records of
campus leadership
Cheney House
has a Christmas gift to suit every
person and every budget.
Featured be low is one of our
many collections
Exotic burners for decoration o
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pottery burners at 50' all thew
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ay
Consumers Union
says legalize pot
Budget ups salaries
of state employees
WASHINGTON (UPI) —
Declaring that marijuana is
here to stay, Consumers Union
has called for complete legal
ization of marijuana to end the
criminalization and alienation
of young people and the
damage done to them by
arrest, conviction and impri
sonment for marijuana offen
ses.
"It's much too late to debate
the issue," the independent,
nonprofit organization said in a
lengthy report. "Marijuana is
here to stay. No conceivable
law enforcement program can
curb its availability.”
Consumers Union said in the
report issued Monday that "we
do not recommend legalization
because we believe that
marijuana is 'safe' or 'harm
less.' Our recommendation
arises out of the conviction
that an orderly system of legal
distribution and ilicit use will
have notable advantages for
both users and non-users over
the present marijuana black
market."
The report said, "It will end
the criminalization and aliena
tion of young people and the
damage done to them by
arrest, conviction and impris
onment for marijuana offen
ses."
It said that opium, morphine
and heroin should be made
available "under medical aus
pices on a carefully planned
experimental basis."
ATLANTA (UPI) - Four
groups of state employes would
get raises under Gov. Jimmy
Carter's spending proposals for
the coming fiscal year.
Included in Carter's record
$1.6 billion budget proposals
announced earlier in the week,
school teachers and members
of the Public Safety Depart
ment would get 5'i per cent
raises and $10 million would go
to raises for state employes.
The proposals also disclose
that $2.84 million is called for
in supplemental funds for th<^
Department of Administrative
Services, hailed last year as a
money saver, and $2.9 million
for the Department of Human
Resources.
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