European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 22, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse                              The stars and stripes Page 9 William f. Buckley or of a Blade there have been lome net. So pleasant remarks made about the Raite in salary Given to or. Nixon a Cool 100 gee. For in stance or. Janies Reston who remarks that Congress gave the president a 100 per cent raise which is slightly above what is left of the wage  to dispose briefly of the Point the last raise the president got was in 1949. I do not know and certainly shall not inquire whether or. Reston a earning twice As much As he did in 1949, but i warrant that he is. He certainly deserves to Don t you think what is More the president s second $100,000 is fully taxable at the highest rate which thanks to the social generosity of con Gress and the preceding presi dents is set at 77 per cent Leav ing or. Nixon with $23,000 More than or. Truman was getting. However inasmuch As Back in 1949, the base 1959 Dollar could be bought for 83,8 cents and in 1968 you had to pay 120.9 cents we note in passing that the after tax after inflation purchasing Power of or. Nixon s $200,000 is less than that of or. Truman s $100,000 salary. And statistics having gotten into our blood this morning let us note that or. Lyndon Johnson in delivering his apologia a few Days before leaving the White House noted proudly that Dur ing his four years in office he had raised nonmilitary Federal spending by 100 per cent. This notwithstanding the critics who railed against his parsimony in dealing with the problems of the cities and the Prairies and the shining seas. By contrast we have been fighting a major War and even so military spending was up by Only 51 per cent. Or. Johnson proceeded to suggest to Congress that it increase the so Cial spending this coming year by another $7.9 billion. Why not Why not by another $79.9 billion or. Johnson who began his term of office by dousing the lights in the White House ends his term of office by racking up a cumulative deficit in excess of $50 billion. Well then we must have higher taxes. That too is implicit in Lyndon Johnson s Pope optic utterances. To begin with higher social Security payments and therefore higher contributions to the social Security fund by both employers and employees. Down goes the take Home pay up goes the Price of bread. And on top of it All Bear this in mind that As we inflate we steeped the progressive feature of the income tax. So that a Man who in 1949 earned let us say $10,000, cannot calculate How much he needs to earn in 1969 in order to have the same purchasing Power As he had then merely by reckoning the inflation of the Dollar and Dou bling the tax. He finds himself suddenly the victim of a Redis Tripoti Niit Blade which was never intended for people with his earning Power. The Secretary who earned $50 a week after world War ii was not thought of by Congress As so ostentatiously Rich that she had to be taxed at above the Basic rate. But nowadays she is faxed at above the Basic rate though with her $100 a week she is not Able to buy More goods and services than she was Able to get with $50 then. If Congress thought it just to stipulate a 20 per cent Basic rate in 1949 rising every $5,000 by say 10 per cent and peaking at 80 per cent Why did t it think to rubberized the standards so As to let them Glide up with inflation these Are questions one Hopes or. Nixon and others will con Sider. The statist is of course there to respond a yes you cannot buy More of the store. But hark when you grow old you will not have to Bank on your savings because the state will pay your doctor s Bills and pay you an annuity. And before you Are old you can experience indirectly All those benefits we Confer upon you such As. Or All those educated children All those Tran a utilized cities the wholesome air and the lambent shadows in the Park cast by the sturdy Oak Trees or. Hickel has saved for us. C Washington Star Syndicate College or settlement House when i left the White House to return to teaching i heaved a great sigh of Relief. No More crises now As the headlines have indicated Brandeis has Sud Denly been confronted with an assault which while hardly a crisis comparable to Pueblo or the Middle East threatens the very fabric of the University. The 50-o d d s e h f John p. Roche styled Blacks who seized the Telephone Exchange building have highlighted the fragility of order have made it Clear How a tiny proportion of the student body can hold the rest for ran som. Sociologists and others have had a Field Day explaining the sources of this behaviour but i do riot believe the problem at bran Deis san Francisco Swarthmore or wherever trouble has erupted is terribly Complex. We created our own difficulties the Day we and i mean Liberal academicians decided that a College or University should double As a settlement House. Once the decision was made that negro or culturally underprivileged youngsters should be admitted to first class colleges without the usual prerequisites the Escala Tion began. The fact is that among extremely Bright White High school graduates not one in 10 applicants can be admitted to Swarthmore Brandeis or compar Able schools. The student body is dazzlingly talented i doubt seriously if i could Ever have been admitted to any College in this league and i was hardly the Village idiot. So into this High powered intellectual universe competing with freshmen who studied Plato in High school and can mov directly into advanced language courses comes the Black contingent. They Are not at All stupid but they Are totally unequipped to compete with highly articulate members of the top 5 per cent of the graduating classes of the nation s Best pub Lic and private schools. The open Law a fretted in he column find cartoon on thu Page re present Thoie of the author and Are in no Impf to be con Eldered at represent Long the Slewa of that it and it rpm Luelf or of the United government. All this special Black admission business has of course been conducted with a brass band As College and University administrators and faculties congratulate themselves on their radicalism on their willingness to Rise above White  in fact what has happened in most instances that have come to my attention is Heerly cosmetic nobody has actually worried about the anguish of the poor negro kids who have been dumped into a competitive situation have been thrown with inadequate preparation into water Well beyond their capacity to swim. Now i am quite aware that special programs have been set up. We have a transitional year arrangement at Brandeis but regrettably these do not get to the heart of the matter the negro youngster s Lack of communion with his or her Peers the White students. God knows the White students try some of them spend half their time Flagel lating and confessing sins they never committed to try to convince the negroes they Are not White racist though it is impossible for them to gear Down their nor Mal level of discourse. The objective Impact of this is an unintended intellectual excommunication of the Blacks. As i said before while the negroes Are not culturally sophisticated they Are plenty smart. They realize that their sur Vival in this High powered atmosphere depends on a Sanctuary a department of Black studies or some variation that will not be subject to Normal academic controls. In other words they want an Island of Black Security run by themselves that will enable them to main Tain their student status. In de sense of this extremely practical survival system they have fired off All sorts of ideological Rock ets denouncing education As racist claiming that their unique experience merits special Aca Demic treatment Etc. Everybody has a right to cherish his own myths but a col lege or University is built around the Core value of academic free Dom. The moment a College be comes a plaything for pressure groups the principle of free in Quiry is the first casualty. C 1969, King features Syndicate but we already know about Bojangles Robinson Butterfly Mcqueen Battle Mcdaniel Stepin fetch it. Kremlin scored big Victory in Mideast Ernest Cuneo far More bold than Stalin a the most magnificent diplomatic chess mind of the Kremlin is aesthetically As Beautiful to be hold As its Vic tories Are Dis Maying to watch. With deep Chagrin it must be conceded that Moscow has exceeded Talleyrand and Metternich at their scheming Best and in deed outclasses even Disraeli s daring As the Viking does the riverboat Captain. Stalin himself was afraid to enter the Mediterranean. He told Tito to liquidate the greek War at once because the United states had no option but to fight for the Mediterranean lifeline and the Middle East. Since Stalin s death the Krem Lin has All but won what he did not even dare attempt. Casting Stalin s cautions to the winds the communists mounted an Arab War against Israel and when the arabs lost the War proceeded to turn the Arab de feat into a smashing red Victory. Today the Arab states for All practical purposes Are soviet dominated. The lifeline is closed at Suez a red naval Squadron is in the Mediterranean and the dominant naval Force in the in Dian Ocean is russian. There is nothing Between Suez and Singapore but open water and Singapore is slated for evacuation in 1971, the crowning blow came this month when the philippine Republic suggested evacuation of the . Bases at Clark Reid and Subic Bay. The capstone of red brilliance is that such drastic Steps by Manila Are actually praised by some of America s leading Dove newspapers notably the new York times. But it it in the Middle East where the Kremlin triumphs Glit Ter most brightly. Russia has trained and equipped Arab guerrilla forces which continually have attacked civilian israelis on israeli soil. These russian coached Arab guerrillas shot up an israeli plane in Athens one life was lost and Only miraculous Good Luck bad aim said the israeli saved scores of people from being burned alive. Upon this outrage the israelis made a dangerous mistake. They destroyed 13 planes in the Beirut Airport. Militarily perfect the Man Euver caused no loss of life which the israelis took great pains to protect but it was a terrible diplomatic Blunder. Now As Prince Talleyrand might have exclaimed with envy note the brilliance of the Krem Lin by outrageous provocation it induced Israel to attack Lebanon least defensible of her neighbors and territory so vital to the United states that president Eisenhower risked War with rus Sia to protect it. It is an axiom of the Diplo Matic intelligence that the perfect crime can be accomplished Only by getting someone else to commit it. The Kremlin not Only succeeded in getting America s ally Israel to drive Lebanon into the Camp of the Kremlin but it simultaneously brought the de Gaulle government Back against Israel the de Gaulle government which the communists deflated and nearly crushed last summer. The action of the Hawks of is Rael furthermore released flocks of isolationist doves in washing ton thus qualifying washing ton s support of Israel. Now with an aplomb and brass which out stains Stalin at his ruthless worst the bloody handed Kremlin blandly offers a four Power police Force in the Middle East to keep the peace which it has destroyed and continues to attack at this very moment. President Nixon assumes Many heavy burdens but the heaviest Are the smug lightweights of the United states Senate foreign relations committee. North american new tap a Alliance