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His Problem: He Can't Accept Authority
By MARY ELLEN RIDDLE
NEA Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON - (NEA)
—Karl Hess, is a 46-year-old
anarchist. The same Karl
Hess who bestowed the best
lines of the 1964 campaign on
Barry Goldwater.
Hess was the author of
ringing slogans — such as
“Extremism in defense of
liberty is no vice” — while
he was Goldwater’s chief
speechwriter in that cam
paign. Today he is chairman
of a political seminar at the
Institute of Policy Studies, a
New Left research organiza
tion, and a welder of excel
lent metal sculpture. He
dresses like a late-blooming
hippie but his speech is still
laced with phrases that
sound like something out of
Bartlett’s “Familiar Quota
tions.”
“I don’t like state sys
tems,” he said, trying to ex
plain his transformation
from conservative to anarch
ist,” so I like the existing
state systems in direct pro
portion to their lack of power
over the people.
“American conservatism
built up a lot of good rhetoric
about decentralized power,
individualism and communi
ty political action.”
He rejected the Democra
tic party because it was “too
centralized” and he tried the
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Socialists in the early ’4os
but quickly dismissed them
as “jusi another bunch of
bureaucrats.”
“I swear, the most radical
people I could find at that
time were in the Republican
party.”
Hess doesn’t think his po
litical position has changed
much since 1964; he has just
changed the labels. He says
he always believed in bring
ing government authority
down to the community
level, in decentralized power
and the right of the individ
ual to be free from govern
ment control. He thinks the
conservatives are out of
step.
Hess still insists Goldwater
is himself an anarchist. The
split between them was the
result of wha* Hess calls im
perialism and Goldwater
would call anticommunism.
“Everybody on the New
Left is anti-Soviet,” Hess
said. “But the Soviet Union
has isolated itself as an
authoritarian force. It is sur
rounded by libertarian Com
munist countries, but Ameri
can conservatives have too
much invested in anti-com
munism to accept that.”
His emphasis on communi
ty action has made Hess a
great admirer of the Black
Panthers.
“The fact that they have
actually established commu
nity services outside the
state structure is inspiring.
The government considers
them to be a great threat to
its power.” Hess has called
Goldwater a “white pan
ther,” who also advocates
community control.
How does Goldwater feel
about all this?
“We always got along so
well,” Hess said, “I guess he
must be a little sad I am on
the left because he still
thinks he’s on the right.”
Hess was still working for
Goldwater during the Sena
tor’s last campaign for his
Arizona seat.
“I told him I wouldn’t
write anything about law
and order or the war in Viet
nam,” he says. “That’s al
ways been my problem, I
have never been able to ac
cept authority.”
(Newspaper enterprise Assn.)
FALSE ALARM
BASINGSTOKE, England
(UPl)—One of the town res
idents noticed a flickering pink
glow in the bedroom window of
a neighbor’s house and called
the fire department.
Two fire engines and a police
car hurred to the scene.
They discovered a flashing
electric alarm clock which
householder Cyril Crosswell had
forgotten to shut off before
leaving his home.
THE GLOBAL VIEW
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U.S.-China Talks Could Be
Key to Viet, Laos Peace
By LEON DENNEN
NEA Foreign News Analyst
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (NEA)
Renewed diplomatic contact between the United States
and Red China is likely to be the most significant achieve
ment of President Nixon’s pragmatic foreign policy in 1970.
Negotiations with Peking—as with Moscow and Hanoi—
will certainly be protracted and often frustrating. But they
are well worth the effort.
Even Russia-oriented officials in the State Department
now realize there can be no stability in Southeast Asia as
long as a suspicious and isolated China sulks on the side
lines. Peking and not Moscow is the key to peace in Viet
nam and Laos.
There had been no contact between the United States and
China for close to a year, despite persistent efforts by the
Nixon administration, until the Chinese invited resumption
of the negotiations now proceeding in Warsaw.
The reason for their sudden flexibility and new initiative
is not far to seek. Ever tormented by an “encirclement”
complex, Peking’s rulers seem convinced that China is the
object of a conspiracy by world powers eager to crush it.
Premier Chou En-lai said as much when he recently
called on the people of the world to use “revolutionary war
fare” against the United States and Russia if they should
engage in joint aggression.
But he left it to Albania, China’s ally in the West, to spell
out Peking’s fears. According to radio Tirana—derided by
pro-Russian Communists as the “Voice of Peking”—the
Helsinki talks on the limitation of strategic arms are
really a “diabolic conspiracy” by the United States and
Russia against Peking.
Albania also accused Moscow of engaging in talks on
European security to free its hands for an attack on China.
What particularly worries Peking’s rulers is Moscow’s
undisguised efforts to improve Russia’s position in South
east Asia and fill the gaps caused by Nixon’s withdrawal
of American troops from Vietnam.
Thus, while designs on China are a major reason for
Russia’s current peace offensive in the West, fear of Mos
cow has apparently convinced Peking that the time is ripe
for a rapprochement with the United States.
Although they have little love for capitalist America, Mao
Tse-tung and his partisans despise and distrust their
Marxist-Leninist “comrades” in the Kremlin even more.
There is no longer much doubt that early in 1969 the
Russians were ready for a preemptive strike against
China. Diplomacy prevented it at the last moment.
But even the tortuous Soviet-Chinese negotiations about
their disputed borders, already more than two months old,
did not reduce the flow of anti-Russian propaganda from
Peking.
The two Red giants are now so far apart in their ideas
on building communism at home and Communist strategy
abroad that a reconciliation is unthinkable so long as the
same leaders remain in power in both countries.
At best they can agree to avoid a military conflict and
this is what the negotiation in Peking is about.
It is hazardous to make forecasts about Mao Tse-tung
and his entourage. Only three years ago they surprised
the world with an irrational and self-destructive campaign
going under the name of a cultural revolution.
Nevertheless, there is now evidence that the Chinese also
are able to engage in diplomatic negotiations. They are
not running amok. Fear of Russia and a desire to endi
China’s self-isolation are obviously the reasons why Peking
has decided to court not only once-hated “revisionist”
Yugoslavia but also capitalist America.
A U.S.-Chinese rapprochement certainly would open a
new chapter in international relations in 1970.
(Newspaper Enterprise Assn.)
Prison Program
In Hands
Os Legislature
ATLANTA (UPI)-It’s up to
the legislature to decide wheth
er Georgia will have a work re
lease program for prisoners or
keep the old county prison
camp system, says a top prison
official.
Lee Arrendale, chairman of
the State Board of Corrections,
told a Senate committee Mon
day that both kinds of pro
grams use the same kind of
prisoner—the ‘ ‘minimum securi
ty” inmate of which there are
about 2,500 in Georgia—and
neither can flourish while they
both exist.
“Wherever they appropriate
the money is the way we will
go,” said Arrendale.
The legislature has passed
laws to enable the prison
system to set up work release
programs allowing inmates to
work for pay by day and spend
nights in prison. Their pay
would be partly used for offset
ting the cost of keeping them
in prison, partly for supporting
their families, and partly as
savings toward the day they
win their freedom.
The county camps were set
up to provide cheap labor for
building roads. Many of them
have closed for inability to
meet prison standards.
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Slain Officer's Epitaph:
'He Was the Greatest'
By TOM TIEDE
NEA Staff Correspondent
LANDING ZONE IKE,
South Vietnam—(NEA)—His
name was John K. Kauhai
hao. But the men in his
platoon couldn’t pronounce
it. So they just called him
Lieutenant K.
He favored the abbrevia
tion.
IBIE
He said he couldn’t pro
nounce Kauhaihao either.
That’s the way he was.
He wasn’t like other offi
cers in the First Cavalry.
He was more like, well, one
of the rank and file. Not
that he wasn’t a good leader
—they say he was a damn
Atlanta Fire 1
Deliberately Set
ATLANTA (UPI)-Fire Chief
J. I. Gibson said today there
was no doubt that arson was
involved in a six-alarm fire that
gutted an empty building in the
downtown area Monday.
Gibson said fires started in
two separate locations in a
warehouse-type building which
was last used by a tire com
pany.
There were reports that a
“hippie group” had been using
the building for meetings. Gib
son said the Georgia Power
Company at one time had
turned on electricity in the
building for a group that want
ed to start a club.
Nearly 100 firemen battled
the blaze for more than two
hours before bringing it under
control. Three firemen received
minor injuries. There was no
estimate of the monetary loss.
The building was located at
the Techwood and Hunter
Street viaducts.
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good one —but he had this
way of mixing in and be
coming part of his people.
He’d drink their beer.
Laugh at their gags. Suffer
their blqes»~or share their
good times. He wasn’t a
buddy, exactly. But he
understood Gls—and his
men knew he’d never ask
them to go a step farther
than he would go himself.
He never did.
Lieutenant K. was
Hawaiian. From Kono on the
Big Island. He was 28 years
old. Married. And had four
nut-brown kids.
He could have remained
in the sun with his family.
He didn’t have to come to
Vietnam. He had been a re
serve officer in Kono and as
such, free from any active
military obligation. But he
had a strong urge to serve.
His motivation was simple.
He told people he felt the
weight of the war was being
shouldered by too few
Americans. He didn’t like to
sit on his rump while others
sacrificed. He felt he was
needed, wanted—and so he
volunteered.
Politics? Lieutenant K.
never talked about them.
His nation was at war—and
he felt it his duty to help
out.
He was assigned to help
out in the toughest way—as
an infantry leader, in the
heart of the conflict. He was
given charge of First Pla
toon, Bravo Company, 2/Bth
Cavalry, and sent into ac
tion.
Eventually, the action
brought him here, to the
southwestern portion of Viet
nam, near the Cambodian
border, where for past
months the bulk of the war’s
combat has been raging.
The lieutenant was given
simple orders. He was ad
vised that there were un
known numbers of enemy
bunkers hidden in his area.
He was told to find and de
stroy them.
He was willing, ready. He
prefered hand grenades to
rifle fighting, and he had the
fragmentation missiles — at
least 30 in all—fixed on and
over his gear and clothing
like so much olive-drab
armor.
Lieutenant K’s search for
the enemy bunkers was rel
atively short. He and 25 men
of his platoon found a strand
of blue communications wire
in the scrub brush, and they
simply followed it, carefully,
to its source.
Then the battle began.
Fire erupted savagely
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Tuesday, December 30, 1969
from a bunker complex on
the platoon’s flank It was
instantly clear the Gls were
outgunned and outnumbered
—and they could only drop
for cover.
Lieutenant K’s cover was
a mound of dirt, where, rec
ognizing his unit’s subordin
ate position, he began a one
man war.
For all to see, and emu
late, he stood and threw his
hand grenades. One after the
other. Five, 10, 15, 20. When
his own supply dwindled, his
men tossed theirs up to him.
The lieutenant kept grab
bing and tossing. Minute
after minute. Until the bat
tleground was littered with
enemy dead.
They say he might have
kept up his grenade offen
sive all day and all night. Or
at least until every enemy
of his platoon was blown or
chased off the battleground.
But he couldn’t.
Out front like he was, like
he i n s i s t e d on being, he
made a large target. He was
shot, several times, in the
chest.
And died.
After the battle, a news
paperman was talking to
some of the combatants. He
said he had heard about a
John K. Kauhaihao and
wanted to do a story on him.
The men eyed the newsman
curiously. “Oh,” said one,
“you mean Lieutenant K.
Listen, man, you know he
saved our lives out there?
Just say—just say he was
the greatest; that’s all, the
greatest.”
(Newspaper Enterprise Assn.)
Bill PlaniTed
To Up Interest
On Back Taxes
LAKELAND, Ga. (UPI) -
State Rep. Bobby Pafford said
today he will introduce a bill in
the General Assembly to raise
the interest rate on delinquent
taxes.
Pafford said his measure
would hike the rate from the
present 7 per cent to 12 per
cent. He said 12 per cent was
a more realistic figure for pen
alty purposes.
“It is extremely foolish and
unfair to penalize the 95 per
cent of our taxpayers who pay
their taxes on time in such a
manner.
“When this law was put on
the books, 7 per cent was high
but now it is much too low,”
Pafford said.