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Monday, March 15, 1971
Tom Gooding, hdilor
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The spring student elections,
despite the ridicule presented by a
handful of students, are a very
important factor in shaping the
direction and image of the student
body.
Some students have charged that
the low-keyed nature of this year's
campaign shows the irrelevance of
Student Government. Most of these
students have made their
proclamations as if they carried the
weight of law and with the
pompous nature that they are the
first to make the discovery.
These students have spoken out
pf ignorance of the past. Students
spoke of the death of Student
Government in the fifties with the
same certainty as some of our
contemporaries.
; There are numerous faults with
Student Government. Many of
these faults will not be corrected
during the next decade much less
by any of the current candidates.
However, most of these faults
have come about because Student
Government has not had enough
EdecaMoeal
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The New University Conference
is offering UNC students a chance
to get a different view of socialism
this week.
The Socialist Liberation Festival
which begins on campus Tuesday
and runs through Friday won't be
the normal leftist festival.
The NUC has lined up an
impressive list of speakers,
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Torn Gooding, Editor
Hod Waldorf Managing Ed.
Mike Paraell News Editor
Rkfc Gray t, . Associate Ed.
Chtfs Cpbfcs : ; 'Sports ECl
Frshk Vanish : , . Feature Editor
Ken Rley . . . National News Ed.
John Gellman ....... Photo Editor
Terry Cheek NjJit Editor
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Gerry Cohen
Campaign GM is a consumer group
trying to work changes at General
motors. Tliis Tuesday students will vote
on whether or not to support Campaign
G$I.
After precious little soul-searching, the
University's Board of Trustees has
decided to support General Motors
management ngain. Weeks of patient
petitioning and meetings with Board
members have failed to convince the
seven-member Finance Committee to
support the proposals of Campaign GM, a
Washington group trying to make GM
management more responsible to both its
stockholders and to society at large.
I Among its large corpdrate holdings,
the University controls a block of 6,100
shares of GM stock, worth $500,000 at
current market prices. This coupled with
several millions of dollars of other stocks
gives the University a large stake in the
corporate system.
The proposals of Campaign GM are
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autonomous power in the past. The
way to help correct that situation
in the future is to elect qualified
individuals to the top student
government posts and to ths
editorship of the DTH.
Last year's election campaign
was far more hectic than this year's.
Of course, this entire year has been
low-key compared to last year.
There are fewer candidates and
issues this year to arouse student
interest.
There have been many other
campaigns in the past that were
low-key and this year's campaign
fits naturally into the mold.
That fact does not in any way
decrease the importance of the
elections tomorrow.
The students elected tomorrow
will speak for the entire student
body throughout the upcoming
year; they will appropriate
$250,000 in student fees and they
will decide what direction students
on this campus will take in solving
problems during the upcoming
year.
chance
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including Dave Maggy esy, the
former pro football player who -wrote
an expose of college and
professional football entitled "Out
of Their League"; Charlene
Mitchell, the national chairwoman t
of the Free Angela Davis
Committee; and James Coleman, a
member of the Gay Liberation
Front.
The speakers, who would
provide an impressive festival alone,
are not the only thing on the NUC
schedule, however. ;
Also on tap are a long list of
films, workshops and discussion
groups and a rock concert Tuesday
night.
The Festival, in the whole, offers
UNC students a chance to learn
much, and it offers that chance
without merely presenting a group
of speakers of impressive
credentials and letting it go at that.
Meggyesy has been making a
national tour, and his book has
received goo reviews from much of
the national press and an outburst
of alarm from the sports world.
Coleman's speech of the Gay
Liberation Movement will be the
first open discussion of that
movements this campus, and the
variety of events offered will let
students pick and choose what they
want to hear.
The NUC has done a good job in
planning the four-day event, and
the students can do well if they will
take advantage of what is being
offered.
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not revolutionary, they represent a logical
extension ot legitimate demands by
consumers and shareholders for control
over the things they buy.
The first Campaign GM proposal
would require management to list
opposition candidates for the Board of
Directors on the management proxy.
Since most corporate decisions are made
by proxies, and since the management
proxy is the real device for control
shareholders should have access to the
proxy. GM mails the proxy to its
1,350,000 shareholders at a cost of
$81,000 in postage alone, at company
expense. It is a financial impossibility for
any consumer group to make such a
distribution on its own, and no challenge
to management can be effectively
mounted if its candidates are not listed
on the management proxy. It will cost
management nothing, and it will take the
votes of a majority of the 284,000,000
shares of outstanding GM stock to elect a
new director. Yet the UNC Board of
Trustees has rejected this proposal.
by Lana Stones
and
Dr. Takey Crist
(Due to the increased attention drawn
to abortion the past few weeks we will
once again deviate from our regular
format. This week we present
information on abortion the figures, the
methods and the history of the laws. )
There are one million criminal and
10,000 legal abortions annually in the
U.S.
Eighty-five per cent of illegal
abortions are performed by doctors, but
the other 15 per cent may be sexual
perverts, alcoholics, drug addicts or
bungling amateurs.
Performed by a licensed physician in
an accredited hospital, an abortion is one
of the safest operations.
The general abortion procedure is a "D
and C" (dilation and curettage) in which
the cervix is widened by the insertion of a
metal dilator and the lining of the uterus
scraped out with a curved blade called a
curette. It takes only about 20 minutes
and a day's stay in the hospital or clinic.
It is a simple, harmless, standard medical
procedure which properly performed will
not affect health or reproductive fertility.
The "D and C" is a safe medical
procedure up until the twelfth week of
pregnancy. After that week the fetus is
too large to be emptied by a simple
dilation of the cervix, " but a salt
procedure may be used.
In the salt procedure, the amniotic
fluids are drained and then replaced by a
hypertonic salt or sugar solution. The
woman, as a result, goes into labor and
passes a dead fetus.
The hypertonic solution technique was
first used in 1934. The exact mechanism
by which these solutions induce
contraction and cervical dilation remains
an enigma.
Another method of abortion, a suction
curettage, involves the insertion of a tube
in the uterus and the fetus and placenta
are extracted by means of a vacuum
pump.
The concept of utilizing suction for
abortions did not arise until 1958 when, a
group of Chinese physicians showed their
method to visiting Russian and Yugoslav
gynecologists:
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The third proposal (skipping number
two because it is more controversial)
would require GM, in its annual report to
stockholders to give data about its efforts
in the anti-pollution and auto-safety
fields, and make public the extent of
minority group employment. Although
GM must make such data available to the
government, it has steadfastly refused to
let its own shareholders know what the
company is doing. GM opposed passage
of the Clean Air Act of 1970 (Senator
Muskie's bill) and is now trying to
sabotage its implantation.
The U.S. Department 0f
Transportation has said one-fourth of all
air-pollution, by tonnage, is caused by
General Motors products.
Only yesterday, the state of Louisiana
(yes, Louisiana) sued GM for "conspiring
during the period 1953 to 1969 to make
anti-pollution devices unavailable ..." a
similar charge has been made by the U.S.
Justice Department.
On the auto-safety front, GM also
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is widely used in Communist countries. In
1964, Czechoslovakia reported no deaths
in 140,000 legal abortions and Hungary
only 2 in 35S,000.
The operation takes only three
minutes and minimizes injury. Anesthesia
(local or spinal), asceptic technique, and
cervical dilation are required as in
curettage. The bluntness of the
instruments and mechanics of aspiring
uterine contents are extremely safe
techniques of uterine evacuation.
A new experimental method which
would eliminate surgical risks, infection
and damage employs prostaglandin F
alpha, a hormone-like substance derived
from semen to induce labor. Experiments
at Kings College Hospital, London, have
used protaglandin to abort women 9 to
22 weeks pregnant.
An abortion is safe if done by a doctor
in a hospital, but in an illegal situation
the odds are drastically changed.
Tragically, the techniques employed for
the vast majority of illegal abortions have
no resemblance to the hospital methods.
A woman stands only a 40 per cent
chance of having a criminal abortion
without infection or pelvic damage. A
criminal abortionist who knows only the
"D and C" method cannot cope with the
size of the fetus after 12 weeks. In
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The Peoples Peace Treaty is a response
to the peace proposal of the Vietnamese
people. On September 17, 1970, Madame
Nguyen Thi Binh of the Provisional
Revolutionary Government (PRG) of
South Vietnam put forward in Paris a
comprehensive eight point proposal for
peace in Vietnam. The PRG proposal
stipulated that if the U.S. government set
a date for total withdrawal of all its
forces, there could be an immediate
cease-fire and an immediate exchange of
prisoners of war. The PRG would accept
a coalition government as long as Thieu,
Ky, and Khiem were not part of it. The
American negotiator in Paris, David
Bruce, joked that this proposal was
merely "old wind in a new bottle."
However, following Madame Bum's
proposal, on September 27, the editor of
Saigon's largest daily newspaper and a
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resists government and consumer pressure
to change. Insurance Industry figures
show that a collision at 10 miles an hour
between two GM cars causes damage of
$255.00 to each car. Methods of making
bumpers that will withstand collisions of
up to 25 miles per hour exist. The only
way GM will install these is by either
governmental regulation or stockholder
action. Our Board of Trustees has
rejected proposal number three.
The second proposal, is, as I have said,
more controversial. It requires a
substantial change in most corporate
thinking. Yet it is in the direct interests
of both stockholders and society to
approve it.
The proposal calls for one member of
the 20 member Board to be reserved for a
GM employee, one for General Motors
Dealers, and a third for owners of GM
automobiles. Constituents of each of
these three groups would nominate
candidates for the Board, but the regular
stockholders would be the only ones
addition, his tools may range from
coathangers to sticks and his "clinic"
from a cheap motel room to a service
station.
These unsanitary conditions and
implements invite infection and
perferation of the uterus. Many women
try to abort themselves by injecting
soapsuds or other chemicals into the
uterus, or probing with coat hangers or
knitting needles.
Criminal abortionists will try to
dislodge the fetus with chemicals such as
douches, soap, or turpentine, but since
there are no blocks in the reproductive
tract, these chemicals are often forced
through the tubes, ovaries and blood
vessels into the peritonurim and cause
chemical peutonites.
Other drugs used to cause labor in
later stages of pregnancy carry the risks
of rupturing the uterus with a titanic
contraction. Abortionists also try to
dislodge the fetus by filling the uterus
with air, but like chemicals air can be
forced into the bloodstream, carried to
the heart and cause fatal air embolism.
But why should a safe, hospital
abortion be so unattainable? The history
of the laws yields some of the answers.
Abortion became a statutory crime in
England in 1803. The U.S. followed the
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Cong Due, announced in Paris the
demand for total, immediate withdrawal
of all U.S. troops, an end to U.S. support
of the Thieru-Ky-Khiem regime and the
creation of a provisional coalition
government which could organize free
election in South Vietnam. The Due
statement was immediately endorsed by
many persons and organizations inside
South Vietnam's cities. The people have
formed the Popular Front for the Defense
of Peace, representing over 1000 national
and regional organizations not affiliated
with the N.L.F. who are now in open
political struggle against the
Thieu-Ky-Khiem government.
This Popular Front includes the
Vietnamese Women's Association, the
Buddhist Women's Federation, the
Committee of Women's Action for the
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voting in the three new elections.
Management could still control the three
seats, but the way would be open for
persons affected by Company policy to
have representation on the GM Board.
Not un-expectedly, the Finance
Committee, composed of Corporation
executives, rejected proposal number
two.
Several weeks ago, an engineering
student from State and I were given the
opportunity to speak before the Finance
Committee. Although several of the
members were genuinely interested, the
majority seemed unaware of the
situation. The three Campaign GM
proposals were supported by the Student
Legislature, and many other students, and
there was not a word of opposition raised
to the proposals by other members of the
University community. Even ECOS, an
environment group, backed the proposals.
The Board rejected them. One member
told me, "It is nice students are interested
in auto-safety devices."
Because of the Board's oppositon, the
model when IHIsqis made abortion before
qukkenir.g Cal in IS 27. The first
therapeutic exception was granted in
1829.
During the ISCOs harsh laws allowed
abortion only to save the life of the
mother. The objective of these laws was
not to protect the rir-.ts of the fetus and
"to prevent the procurrir.g of abortions
so much as to guard the health and life of
the mother against the consequences of
such attempts."
The consequences were the high
medical risks of surgery. At this time,
carrying a pregnancy to terra was safer
than an abortion, but today the reTerse is
true.
In early nineteenth century New York;
for example, the mortality from major
surgery averaged 3S per cent, but only 2
per cent of women died in childbirth. The
situation is different now. There are 20
deaths for every 100,000 live births in
U.S., while only three fa every 100,000
in hospital abortions. A pregnancy, in
other words, carried to term is seven
times as dangerous as a therapeutic
abortion.
(Letters should be addressed to Lana
Starnes and Dr. Takey Crist in care of
Hie Daily Tar Heel, Student Union,
Oiapel Hill. N.C 27514)
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for Self-Determination, the High School
Teachers' Union, the Student Committee
for Human Rights, the Catholic Labor
Youth Movement, the Committee for
Reform of the Prison System, the
National Progressive Force, the
Progressive Labor Liaison Committee,
various trade unions (including
dock-workers, railway workers, civil
servants, vendors, petroleum workers,
market workers and bank clerks), the
Vietnamese Student Association, the
Saigon Student Union, the Buddhist
Student Union and the 1965 Peace
Action Committee. Thus, the Popular
Front is a mass-based organization with
grass-roots support, as opposed to the
isolated, repressive Thieu-Ky-Khiem
regime propped up by U.S. troops and
money. i; . .
A delegation of 16 students prganized
the U.S. National Students Association
trip to Vietnam in November 197$, to
investigate (he feasibility of - framing u a
treaty of peace between the American
and Vietnamese students. Because of. the
Peace initiative of the PRG and the now
mass anti-war movement inside "South
Vietnamese cities, the Vietnamese said
that a separate peace treaty was necessary
not only with American students but
with all people in this country. , They
strongly welcomed this intiative, coming
at this dymnamic moment in their own
history, when American and Vietnamese
co-ordination has the potential of ending
the war.
Despite efforts by the
Thieu-Ky-Khiem government to stop the
student delegation's making contacts in
South Vietnam, one delegate member was
able to slip through Saigon's security net
and engage representatives of non-NLF
student organizations in the drafting of
the treaty. At the same time, student
leaders from the DRV (North Vietnam)
and the NLF developed a treaty with the
U.S. student delegation in Hanoi. The
two documents were formally joined into
one statement in Paris. The final
document represents the hopes and
demands of every respected Vietnamese
leader in North and South Vietnam.
The political struggle in Vietnam is
intensifying-and what we do here in
America can influence the outcome of ,
events. Bypassing Nixon and the Paris
negotiators, negotiating directly with the
Vietnamese people to end the war, will
show American support for the Popular
Front and the PRG peace proposal, as
well as increase pressure on the U.S.
government to end the war. For 25 years
the Vietnamese have been bearing the
weight of war. It is time we shared their
burden by actively supporting the
student government has
shares of GM stock to
bought two
demonstrate
student concern about GM management.
This Tuesday, March 1 6, there will be a
referendum on the regular student,
election ballot, giving support to'
Campaign GM. I would hope that
students who support Campaign GM, who
are in favor of ending pollution as soon as
possible, would go to their polling place
and vote YES on the question which
says: The only course the University
should take concerning its holdings of
General Motors stock is to support the
proposals of Campaign GM." For this IS
the only course the University should
take.
An overshelming vote yes will vote the
Student Government symbolic share c
GM stock in favor of Campaign GM, a-d
will indicate to the Board of Trustees
Campaign GM should be supported by 1
the University.
Six U.S. Senators, 22 Congressnn
and Ralph Nader endorsed Campai GM
The student body should join thernT
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