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William Kunstler
Rebel the Last thursday in the U of W humanities theatre William Kunstler, a controversial lawyer who gained considerable public William Kunstler, well known radical lawyer, waxes eloquent on the hazards of combatting the excesses of attention in recent years for his the American legal structure in the Humanities Theatre last thursday evening. About 400 people attended defense of numerous political the session while 200 or so participated in a less formal gathering later on. radicals charged with conspiracy, addressed a large audience. Kunstler began his speech by recent describing the present threat to erosion, he cited several the anti-war movement are freedom in the United States, examples of legislative moves and “brutalization”, “gassings”, court rulings which restrict conelaborating on the governmental “shooting some students at Kent use of conspiracy trials as in- stitutional rights. He also noted the State” and most important from struments of political repression. implementation of “nearly Kunstler’s viewpoint, the tactic of universal wiretapping” by the U.S. The purpose of the presentation the political conspiracy trial. When which is generally the government is unable to charge seemed to be the expatiation, in a government, mass warm and affectionate fashion, of known to have electronic dissenters with committing a the perspective and position of his surveillance systems in operation. ‘crime’, it can charge them with Kunstler expressed concurrence clientele. “thinking about” committing Kunstler explained that a delay with a speech by U.S. Supreme them. William Douglas, in his arrival stemmed from his Court justice There are several objectives in connection with the Attica prison who warned of the danger to the conspiracy persecutions. One Americans in allowing themselves rioters, whom he counselled during of these is to channel the attention to be conditioned or intimidated “Has the Arts Society collapthe disturbances at the state prison and energy of militant, nonsed? ” This weighty question was last year. He was held over in into becoming an easily controlled, submissive dissidents into the “submissive people”. Observing a courts. Another Kunstler said, is to the focus of a meeting friday afAlbany, New York’s1 state capitol, ternoon between Federation of preponderance of where there is official controversy the initiative from the apathy 7 transfer ignorance, self-interest, and fear Students president Terry Moore as to the nature and causes of that militants to the government in an there seems to and the presidents of the faculty attempt to polarize public opinion riot. Kunstler is expected to be in the populace, student societies. questioned about the disorder at a Kunstler to be a possibility that the against the activists. The overall David Chapley, current Arts investigation. American people will be cowed grand objective, however, is to neutralize 3-w Society president outlined the a “neo-facist”, “slave However, he has announced his into the anti-war movement. background and sources of the intention of refusing to release the society” similar to those described As things turned out, Kunstler present troubles. Briefly stated, information confided in him by his in 1984 and Brave New World. maintained that in none of the Kunstler said that only an these are petty hassling over clients, on the grounds of the trials ,did the government c really adequate understanding of reality succeed in accomplishing its ob- ‘money and a general lack of insanctity of the lawyer-client terested people. can keep the people from being relationship. After all, if clients jectives. To Kunstler, as to many Chapley and the one other conditioned to allow the others, the cumulative effect of the could not trust him to keep their member of the executive were both of physical and-or confidence, he would soon be development preposterous charges pressed by elected by acclamation last spring. without clients. According, to the psychological concentration the government and the subHowever, most of the people who camps. Although these camps do sequent acquittals law of New York state, Kunstler only provided were interested and involved in the said, refusal to testify could be not exist yet for most Americans, the anti-war movement with society last year were in third year the lawyer said, they could become classified as a felony, possibly greater legitimacy and momenand most have graduated and left leading to his being disbarred from reality if people do not learn how to tum. campus. Chapley himself will not cope with threats to their freedom. The way Kunstler described the legal practice. be here. The problem is comHe then proceeded to a details of the five conspiracy cases Kunstler described a trend pounded by the constitutional of government he defended, it seemed clear the toward an authoritarian society in discussion technicality that the council of the of people involved in government fabricated the the United States. To him, the harassment movement. Among Arts Society, elected from the trend seemed to be manifested in the anti-war charges it pressed against his various departments in the faculty the many methods the government clients more for their political the erosion of civil and political technically only serve from ocinterests and involvements than rights supposedly guaranteed by ‘has used in an attempt to nullify tober to march, leaving virtually the bill of rights. As aspects of this the force, contagion, and effect of -continued on page three
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The police were used with the understanding the occupiers would not be considered trespassers, he said. They were simply evicted from the building after sufficient warning had been given. Instead, 19 people were charged with trespassing, although these charges were later dropped at the request of the university. The arrests provoked a second occupation of the administration building by 600 students, who added dropping of the charges to their list of demands. Four persons, however, remain charged with more serious offences of assaulting or obstructing police. Sword recounted that he had ordered campus security officer J.F. Westhead to call police in order to clear the building, but that trespass charges were not to be laid. Westhead, however, testified that when Sword phoned his orders for the evacuation, he made no mention of trespass, gave no explicit instructions that demonstrators not be charged. Instead Sword instructed that police were to enter Simcoe Hall, order the demonstrators to leave, allow a short period for voluntary evacuation, then remove those who remained, arresting resisters, stated Westhead. He interpreted these instructions to mean that all occupiers removed by police from the building shpuld be charged with trespassing. He said there had - TORONTO (CUB)-Conflicts have been a warning to,, demonstrators emerged in the testimonies of* to leave but admitted it might not officials appearing at the trial of have been heard in the noise and Mark Goldblatt, one of four per- confusion. Gordon Huff, U of T chief sons arrested when Toronto police ended an occupation of the security officer, testified he understood that instruction to mean university of Toronto’s adminithat “people who did not leave . stration building last march. were assumed trespassers”, Jack- Sword, U of T acting president at the time, testified contradicting Sword’s intuesday that he authorized the use terpretation of the orders. of metro and campus police to end Huff also conceded that the the occupation, which protested a warning to leave-given only restricted access policy to the seconds before police broke down a stacks in the new campus library. door to the senate chamber where
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for their anti-war actions. Such trials as that of Dr. Benjamin the Chicago 7, the Speck, Harrisburg group, the Catonsville 9 and recent indictments against the Vietnam Veterans against the \ War were described as in-’ struments of political repression to quell involvement in matters of legitimate and momentous concern. In setting up its prosecutions, the government has resorted to many) indeed a devious subterfuge; Kunstler claimed, it fell to the level of criminal corruption on several occasions. Not only have government representatives recruited informants from among individuals convicted of criminal offenses, but they have also beeninvolved in criminal actions against persons who refused such advances. Boyd Doublas, in the words of Kuntsler, was a convicted perjuror offered financial assistance and the opportunity of attending graduate school in return for aiding, abetting and informing on Father Daniel Berrigan. Government agents threatened Alton Vietnam Fauss,,, a crippled veteran, with a drug charge if he did not inform on the Vietnam Veterans against the War. When Fauss refused, FBI agents “kidnapped” him for a period of ten days while they unsuccessfully tried to get him to sign prepared statements. Fauss later attempted suicide. 1
On occasion, Kunstler has himself been party to unorthodox legal tactics. Fearing lack of public attention in one case, perhaps because justice often thrives on anonymity, he invited classes of students to observe a trial as an exercise in civics. The youngsters filed into the court to find that Kunstler and friends had arranged for John Lennon and wife Yoko to appear. When the word got around, he said “You couldn’t even sell tickets” for the court. In another case, a woman was scared off the jury when she was sent a letter reading, “the Panthers are watching you”. He also admitted to encouraging defendents on occassion to- moan and groan in court. , After more than an hour at the podium, Kunstler led his audience to the graduate student lounge where the question and ‘answer period continued in an atmosphere of almost intimate conviviality -over pop and pizza. Perhaps there is a solution to the problem Kunstler poses with the proper government use of the political trial. One source, who requests anonymity has suggested a law be enacted whereby an acquitted defendent would have his legal costs defrayed by the party who pressed charges. The result of such a compensatory enactment could be greater justice for the indigent, greater equality of opportunity and protection under the law and fewer false andbr frivolous charges. The use of the conspiracy trial as an instrument of political repression might thus -be quashed by the better implementation of justice. -robert
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occupiers had barricaded themselves-may not have been heard. When asked whether the police had been peaceful or aggressive in gaining entrance to the occupied quarter,, Huff replied “The police had a duty to perform”. He hadn’t seen any’ excessive use of force because “people were resisting police”. The defence used photographs showing police - manhandling students, pulling their hair, and throwing them bodily out of the building. In further testimony, police inspector David Sproule stated that Westhead had been clear in his request that the occupiers be charged with trespass and that there had been no instructions to give occupiers more than “a few seconds” between the warning and the evacuation. Under defence questionning, Sproule maintained that police had held themselves in check, “guiding” occupiers from the building. Presented with a picture of a man being held by-his hair, Sproule agreed this appeared to be improper police action, but qualified his statement by saying the actions leading up to this violence were unknown. At thursday’s session of the trial university communications secretary Theresa, Falcioni stated that her notes of a conversation between Sword and Westhead ordering the eviction made no mention of trespass charges. However, U of T policewoman Joanne Pug said her notes of the conversation included a directive from Sword that the occupiers were to be advised, -before the they were eviction, that trespassing. The court adjourned until november 12 after a one hour session. Trials of two others facing similar charges are slated to begin this Wednesday. A fourth trial will follow Goldblatt’s.
Law strike gains sUpport MONTREAL (CUP)-Quebec law students may have gained some support in their fight with the provincial bar association. Provincial justice minister Jerome Choquette appeared sympathetic in a meeting with students last monday night. He told the students to go through normal channels in their negotiations, but to return to him if they. failed. The students are protesting bar admittance exams which 58 per cent of the students writing earlier
ment last friday. After waiting 21 weeks for a reply to an appeal- to Mackasey Meszaros decided to come to Canada to fight his case, bring the reasons for the denial into the open, and clear his name. Lawyer ’ Paul Copeland, who successfully fought a case for York history professor Gabriel Kolko in 1970, has taken on the battle to get Meszaros accepted by Canadian immigration authorities. York president David Slater met with Meszaros and Copeland for the first time last tuesday and told them “York intends to support you in all reasonable ,applications and appeals”. Slater has written Mackasey on behalf of York asking for “an urgent and sympathetic review” of the case. The York faculty have established an ad hoc Committee for Freedom to Teach. Faculty from the University of Sussex in England have formed a group to support Meszaros in his fight. Meszaros taught there before resigning to accept the York position. The Canadian Association of University Teachers has also issued a statement supporting Meszaros. CAUT says it appears the professor is being barred entry because of his ideology rather than any criminal or subservive a& tivities. CAUT also says the immigration department must show more substantial grounds for not admitting Meszaros as a landed immigrant than that of ideology. The statement added that idoelogical commitments in no way detract from Meszaros’ competence and his worth as a teacher and scholar. E Although York continues to deposit his more than $28,oOO a year salary in a bank account, Meszaros cannot draw on it as officials could then accuse him of working illegally. The strain is obvious and in an interview earlier this week, the professor appeared tired and nervous. Meszaros says he will fight his case to the end. He -_ _may not have a long-fight as politicians do not , like embarrassing situations dumped on their laps during elections.
MeSlZWOS /will ‘fight DOWNSVIEW‘ (CUP)-Although unable to assume his teaching duties, eminent Marxist scholar Istvan Meszaros has nonetheless established a close liaison with York University since his surprise arrival in Canada last tuesday. Meszaros was hired by York but was refused an entry visa by the Canadian government. He arrived in Canada on a visitor’s visa. His original visa application was reje.cted because immigration termed him a “security risk.” York faculty members sent an open letter to manpower and immigration minister Bryce Mackasey Wednesday asking for a ‘ ‘comprehensive review” of the case. The group cited Meszaros’ anti-Stalinist actions in the 1956 Hungarian uprising and his security clearance by both Italian and British officials subsequent to his leaving Hungary as reasons for the review. Meszaros is presently a legal citizen of the United Kingdom and holds a British passport. Mackasey has promised the case would be reviewed by his depart-
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this year failed. They say the exams are an attempt by the bar association t.o maintain its privileged position as a select professional group. Students must regurgitate their entire law school studies during three intensive days of tests. Fearful their years of study may be in vain, Quebec undergraduate law students and graduates who have not been accepted to the bar sent an ultimatum to the bar association two weeks ago calling for the abolition of bar exams. Jean Moisan, Batonnier (carrier of the big stick) of the bar association, refused to consider the demand. “Law rules and resolutions of the bar oblige us to hold exams,” he stated, “and you must understand that our answer to your request must be negative”. In response, the students passed a resolution thursday asking the National Assembly to pass a private bill doing away with the law. Moisan’s decree was handed down thursday, one day before the latest set of bar exams were to begin. Mcgill graduate students responded by boycotting the midterm tests and setting up pickets outside the Quebec Bar School and the Palais de Justice in Montreal. They were joined by undergraduate law students from the University of Montreal and Mcgill, making a group of over lOQ0 demonstrators. The day before, 700 of the 1800 University of Montreal law students voted almost unanimously to abolish the bar exams and join the picketing. The Mcgill Law Undergraduate Society also voted unanimously to boycott all classes friday (Sept. 22) “to show our support for the action of the bar students.” On monday, three students representing Quebec’s 4500 law students met Choquette and came away saying “the minister was extremely sympathetic to our cause.” Following the meeting, the law students formed a common front, including three members from each law school in the provinceUniversity of Montreal, Mcgill, Sherbrooke, Ottawa and. Lava1 (whose students boycotted all classes indefinitely). There are also three representatives from the bar schools in Montreal, Ottawa and Quebec on the committee. At their first meeting, the front members passes a resolution criticizing the “exorbitant powers and privileges of the bar.” “In the short term,” the resolution stated, “we must abolish the bar examination. In the medium term we. must take measures to put this into effect. In the long term, this implies a step .~ toward the abolition of the exelusive control of the baron the judicial world”.
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which was so predictable I was certain the makers were setting the audience up for a switch. I was disappointed in that expectation. To say the movie contains no intellectual surprises, however, is 1 not to say it has no effect. It is an overpowering experierice in many ways: I found myself genuinely shocked and-yes-offended by several scenes, arid I honestly can’t remember the last time I C’ reacted that way to a motion picture. The animation itself is intriguing, banal and slow in some spots but often surrealistically P brilliant in others. Robert Crumb, on whose underground comix characters the movie is based, has disassociated himself from the movie-( though his name still appears in large letters across the screen during the credits)-and it is easy to see why. The turns of humor in the movie are so black, so ugly, that it is impossible to laugh along with it if you think about what is going on at all. On the other hand, if your idea of a good chuckle is watching chickens being graphically -killed by a moron, then you’ll probably get a big kick from “Fritz.” There were evidently quite a few o,f this bent in attendance the night I saw the film. It’s not possible to talk about the character of “Fritz” himself, because.he has none. He is even,‘ more one-dimensional than the rest of these cartoon characters, simply a device through which the other characters may be paraded onto the screen. As the ad says, “We’re a new breed of cat, baby!” -george
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Bill Mckay McGovern The truth about politics. Illumination for all the naive innocents who still stubbornly cling to the ideals’ of truth, justice and the American (Canadian?) way. The Candidate, now playing at the Fairview Cinema in Kitchener, reveals to the blissfully unaware public the dishonesty of politics and its campaigns. It follows the rise of a young philanthropic lawyer, skilfully manipulated by professional campaign managers into another glib politician. . The corruption of politics is not a startlingly “new” issue, but the film narrows in on the effect of the two facedness on the candidate as an emotional individual as well as an ethical one. It is a personalized treatment of the political race, studying McKay’s slowly dissolving relationship with his wife due to his own self-dissatisfaction, a result of his painfully evident loss of convict ion. The Candidate is not simply relevant, ‘it is also entertaining. There is definitely humour: the easy slapstick of McKay’s opponent who delivers an “I believe in America” sermon accompanied by the resounding chords of processional martial music, and the more perceptive wit of McKay’s failures, his inability to cope, his frustration with the inanity of his oftrepeated speeches. Laughter is good, perception is intellectually satisfying, but those spinetingling rushes really attack the emotions heavy. Patriotism runs rampant in the candidates. There is the absurdly fanatical genre of the God Bless America Republican, the total election-profiteering species of the campaigners, and the well tempered kind dedicatedly expressed by McKay. All these inspire a gut reaction, be it scorn, cynical acceptance or a begrudging thrill. For McKay makes a good hero. Besides having very safe liberal convictions, he rebels against the set conventional format, flabbergasting his opponents and and collegues alike, and if not practising, always exalting honesty. Despite the humour, truth and adulation though, The Candidate can be boring. The plot is basically not an active one as it all leads to one yes or no question: Will McKay be elected senator? There are a few slow spots when McKay hesitates and the burden of his confusion falls heavily on the spectator, a feature that could be reconciled as realistic but comes off as boredom.
The good seems to outweigh the bad, not only in content but in the acting. The earnest and dedicated McKay is ably played by Robert Redford, an actor who has previously done little on film except smile alluringly or twinkle his golden body, and now shows signs of fulfilling his potential for good acting and wit glimpsed in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Peter Boyle, the rather dubious star of Joe, is-the head campaign manager and performs very well as the tense manipulator he must be. Worth mentioning for caricature is Don Porter, who plays McKay’s opponent. Besides fortunately looking the part, his conception of the fiercely conservative senator is simultaneously ridiculous and subtly frightening in its reality. Reality. McKay and his opponent belong to two opposing political parties and therefore should logically have different platforms. Yet their packaging is the same. Both use television advertizing as a major publicity media, both arrive at the scene of a disaster to cash in on its political significance. McKay agrees to run, confident that he can air his comparitively radical views in freedom. His beliefs are based on human rights: Iegalized abortion, poverty and unemployment programs, antiBy the end of the pollution legislation. campaign, his purpose has dissipated and aII but vanished. He is a product of his promoters as much as the incumbent senator. As bland. As meaningless. How meaningful is Senator George McGovern? He has been. praised for his early election promise of ending the war in Viet Nam immediately. But what other course could there be? Many a McGovern supporter has taken the rather negative attitude that: “Sure, McGovern is no hot shit, but I’d rather see him as President than Nixon”. Thank God for small favours? As McKay would say, “There’s got to be a .kim moritsugu
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changing times”. He is not a man of blind up’. Again, when they are forced to leave the villagers sadly and faith but a man of wisdom who has a great their village, humourously sing of yet another journey to respect for his people and heritage. The greater part of the dichotomy beta strange land. ween tradition and reason is played out in But Fiddler on the Roof is a movie the marriages of Tevye’s three eldest depicting dichotomy. And here again the daughters. Most provoking of these scenes theme of change is obscured. If you are not is the marriage of the third youngest to a familiar with Jewish history, you’ll miss the gentile. Tevye is torn between his love for significance of the chassidim who dance his daughter and the threat of a mixed (with bottles on their head) at the wedding. marriage to the Jewish culture. The chassidim were among the Unfortunately, in Fiddler on the Roof, this revisionists in the Jewish faith who theme is not given its proper significance believed that religion was for the common and importance. The community and man. The presence of God was not only friendship experienced in this small achieved through the medium of prayer Russian village grows out of the very and worship, but through work and organization of the Jewish family and its celebration. common history. Tevye’s whole way of life Also, at the wedding, a young Jewish becomes threatened with cultural disinrevolutionary living with Tevye challenges tegration when his daughter marries the custom of segregated dancing. Earlier outside of the Jewish faith. in the movie, he encourages Tevye’s To resolve her marriage with a simple second eldest daughter to think for herself. represents yet another “God be with you” is to ignore the comHis presence plexity of the dichotomy between man and movement within the Jewish religion to act his ever-changing world, the dichotomy of with pride for their heritage and to fight for the Jewish man without a homeland. their rights. But, one must remember, this is a movie However, his revolutionary fervor also of pleasant entertainment and to conreflects the dilemma between tradition and centrate on such a crucial theme would be change. He proposes marriage to Tevye’s obscuring the multitude of themes that second oldest daughter as a have already become by-products of political socio-economic arrangement. In today’s liberalism, i.e. marrying for love and the same breath, he announces his fighting for what one believes in. departure to fight with “Jews and Gentiles It is easy to sit and appreciate a movie alike” against the authorities of the land. that depicts values already accepted by the His radicalism is in keen recognition of the changing of time. It is even more easy to family and its political base for community, pretend through the medium of a movie but he offers little or no alternative to the such as Fiddler on the Roof that such threat of its disintegration. pressures and prejudices as Tevye suffered This is not to say that change is bad but no longer exist. rather an offering that radical change be But then, I’m slipping away from the accompanied by a tolerance and appraise that this movie (as is) truly preciation for things passed. deserves. Fiddler on the Roof invites inAnd here I use radical in not the selective sight into the customs and ceremonies of sense of revolutionary change but also the the Jewish people as a family and as change that is empowered by our own community. We experience a sabbath, a elected representatives in government. wedding, and a celebration accompanied by It is necessary to root out the injustices all the humour and respect these rituals and inadequacies of present and past deserve. And through it all we gain some systems of organization, but with a insight into the joys and follies that tolerance that is sensitive to cultural adhesively group these people together. heritage. A cultural characteristic that couldn’t ~ Fiddler on the Roof comes recommended help but go unnoticed was that of enfor its insight into traditional customs. With durance and humour in the face of adit a personal invitation to you-your inversity-bitter-sweet Jewish humour. volvement. Even a poor milkman can’t When the wedding party was unexpectedly escape the changing times. -Winnie lang violated, Tevye’s response was ‘let’s clean
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Winter survives Trash Get this: The Edgar Winter Group climbs Into the frenzied last lines of “New Orleans.” Winter, screams out a hoarse animal wail which is the last word of the piece, the guitarist bends his body impossibly backward as he hits the final chord-out, the bass man is dancing joyously back and forth. The crowd, on their feet for the past twenty minutes, have jammed to the edge of the stage and are screaming already for more. Flashbulbs are popping off everywhere. The drummer takes the nod from Winter, crashes into the final thundering roar and-are you ready?-jumps up and ecstatically flings his sticks into the audience. The fotir run offstage while “More! everyone is screaming More! More!“, screaming in now, unison and stomping seeming to make the People’s Rock Palace shake with the pure energy of it all. Winter is obviously not coming back; his roadies are already onstage, beginning to dismantle the equipment. But the crowd just grows more insistent, the roar more overwhelming, more feet join the pounding, thundering beat. Someone motions to the roadies to get offstage, feeding the tumult even more. The screaming and stomping has gone on now, unabated, for about five minutes. At last those near the stage see the white hair of Edgar Winter
among the throng near the stage door and an overpowering ovation erupts. They make their way back onto the stage, plug in the equipment and slam into-what else?-“Johnny B. Goode.” The band is obviously very turned on-to the crowd and to each other’s music-and when the guitarist jumps into the solo, he rips off maybe two bars and then jumps off the stage into the middle of the audience jammed at the front. The fans go wild, crushing in to get a look, to touch him as he continues, somehow, to build the screaming solo to a climax without missing even a beat. Winter is kneeling just above him, yelling at him, urging him on, then returns to his piano, making it shriek in agony. As the guitarist leaps back onto the stage, a dozen people try to follow him, some rush to try to touch Winter, but roadies soon have them back into the crowd. As they finish up with another orgasmic crash, the guitarist looks at Winter and motions with his middle finger toward the crowdwhile still holding the chord-then thumbs toward the stage door. Winter nods wearily, holds a hand high in the air and then swings it sharply down as the song finally ends, and they wave happily at the crowd before leaving. This time it is for good and the audience knows it, is satisfied. But still the screaming and stomping goes on for a while, just, out of sheer energy momentum. How long has it been since you’ve been to a concert with that kind of raw, corny response between musician and listener.? With it’s way back to early Ft?edence, or maybe Janis. Not lately. There are a lot of people playing rock today. A few of them are rock st&rs. Fewer still are rock musicians. Edgar Winter proved once again thursday night that he is among them; perhaps even the
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best of them. He began in the background with his brother Johnny-who just happens to be the world’s best rock guitaristand then he went on to establish himself brilliantly with White Trash. When Trash broke up, everyone was asking what Winter would do without them. Thursday night he answered that for Waterloo believers; the question is what will Trash do without Winter? (A partial answer, by the way, is forthcoming on these pages with a review of Jerry La Croix’s new album.) Edgar was his usual frenetic self, moving easily from vocals to a moog-like electric piano to drums to sax, urgi-ng himself, the band and the crowd into a frenzy. His new guitarist has easily accomplished the difficult task of taking Rick Derringer’s place, working with and against Winter as well as Rick ever did. Winter, stalking around stage nervously, exerted the magnetic appeal on the audience which he and Johnny share-it is neither heterosexual nor homosexual, but overwhelmingly sexual without any prefixes. If Johnny ever gets on the track again, and maybe gets together with Edgar, then...no, that’s too much to think about. -george
s. kaufman
BSA stumbles on Sitting in the campus centre a couple of thursdays ago, I began to notice a couple of BSA “rocks off” t-shirts moving sound equipment around the great hall. Expecting to see another mediocre musical fiasco I was pleasantly surprised to see two people playing and combinat Ion of singing a traditional ballads, labour songs and women’s songs. With them were two other people who read small related pieces. It was an original, well-organised program, well presented and well received. I later found out that the musicians, Bev Dobrinsky and David Levine, were to play a week in a campus centre coffee-house. This article is not a review of the music in the coffee-house, rather it is an attempt to describe how Bev and David were thoroughly shafted by the powers that be, as well as the powers that were. On Monday night Bev and David
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came down to the campus centre and were surprised to find that nothing had been set up. There was no advertising, no stage, no microphones-literally nothing had been done. There was no audience because no one was aware of the existence of a coffeehouse except for the performers and the BSA. Up in the federation office, Paul Dube, who was responsible for the affair, apologized profusely and admitted his absent-mindedness. He promised that the publicity would be taken care of as well as all the other necessary arrangements. However, on tuesday the only existing publicity was a lone poster on the coffee house door. The microphones were there, but no coffee and donuts. On top of this, Paul Dube unilaterally made the- decision to eliminate the admission fee. Part of the agreement with the performers was that they would receive 50 percent of the gate. The reason given for Dube’s move was that there would be a larger audience without the admission fee. If the proper publicity had been given there definitely would have been as large an audience, if not a larger one. Thoroughly pissed off at this point, David and Bev spent Wednesday morning putting up their own posters, after having lost all faith in the federation. When they came to play that night, they found that there had been a pub in the afternoon. They were greeted by empty beer bottles, cigarette butts, and plain old garbage. With the aid of a couple of friends, they started to clean up. At 8:30, when the coffee-house should have started, they were still cleaning up. A number of people came and left because nothing was happening. Bev and David managed to start playing by 9 pm, and had a very successful night. As on the previous night, the coffee-house was small and intimate. Rather than sitting behind the microphones, Bev and David chose to sit in a circle with the audience. On both tuesday and Wednesday, they were well received. Despite all the hassles, the coffee-house was beginning to succeed. Then came thursday. A month previously, the Engineering Society had booked the room for that night. No one bothered to inform David or Bev. So when they showed up, they were righteously surprised. The coffee-house had suddenly ceased to exist. There was no one present to explain the situation. The two performers later bumped into Dube, who immediately fled. Finally confronted, the mushrooms in Dube’s head exploded whereupon he began hurling insults and smashing his fists into the wall. Thoroughly disgusted and more than slightly embarrassed, David informed Dube that they were quitting and wanted their money the following day. Dube replied, “Are you asking me or telling me?” and then went into a monologue about how noone tells him what to do. David and Bev received their money the next day, along with the sincere apologies of the federation. -milt
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Domestic international sales corporations
Revising ’ corporate power Last December, when the U.S. congress authorized the use of domestic in1 ternational sales corporations (DISCS) as a tax saving device for exporters, corporations rushed to prepare for this latest gimmick in international trade competition. U.S. corporations have since established more than 3,000 DISCS to handle their export sales, more than double the 1,140 that existed in late march of this year. Essentially the DISC tax shelter plan is prime effort to , 1 the Nixon administration’s stimulate exports by permitting U.S. exporters to defer indefinitely paying taxes on one-half of their profits from exports. This scheme encourages U.S. corporations to serve their foreign (and domestic) markets from their home plants rather than to manufacture more goods in other countries. The majority of DISCS have been formed by large corporations with export volume exceeding $5 million. Consensus is that about 10 per cent of the 3,000-odd DISCS thus far organized are new exporters, and between 20 and 30 per cent are so-called small exporters. Among those revealed so far to have DISCS are: Chrysler, Ford and General Motors, Borg-Warner, Eaton Corp. of Cleveland, Dow Chemical and Monsanto. The secret list of American firms with DISCS has been classified as “confidential taxpayer information”, and is specifically withheld from the Canadian government. The government introduced bill C-196 this spring in order to deal with this problem; it would give the department of industry, trade and commerce the right to take and use information contained in customs declarations, since the new regulations would demand an exporter state whether he is taking advantage of a DISC. U.S. subsidiaries of multi-national companies, based in Japan, France and Switzerland, especially, continue to take advantage of the program. And because of the increasing number of ways DISCS can be used, there is a good chance that they will have a large effect on profits from exports to foreign countries. DISCS, therefore, choke off foreign investment while giving American-produced goods an unfair competitive advantage in world markets. The initial reaction in Canada was that U.S. exporters, in deferring payment of corporate tax indefinitely on 50 per cent of their income from exports, would switch production back to American-based plants-and then sell at reduced costs into Canada. Although that remains a severe problem, a new concern has developed. In sales between parent companies in the United States and subsidiaries in Canada, there will be the almost irresistible temptation to sell at the highest possible price. The Canadian subsidiary would then resell the product almost at cost.
The result would be little or no profit for the subsidiary, and an inflated profit for the parent company. Since the inflated profit would qualify for the tax deferral, Canada would lose both in balance of payments and in lost tax revenues. The scheme clearly makes it more difficult to keep Canadian companies competitive with American producers, and to retain employment and better wages. In the North American context, these price reductions will induce increases in the volume of Canadian imports from the United States and reduce the volume and total value of Canada’s export of goods. Internationally, Canadian exporters will find it harder to compete in third countries against U.S. exporters obtaining tax advantages under DISC. In retaliating to the DISC threat to the Canadian economy, finance minister John Turner this spring reduced corporation income taxes for manufacturers in Canada. It was hoped that this would just about cancel out the advantage to an American company which might set up a DISC to defer taxes on export income. Then last week, at a conference on DISC at the World Trade Centre in New York, a foreign trade expert remarked that, “chances are good (because of lobbying by congressmen) that DISC some U.S. eventually will be modified to allow 75 per cent or 100 per cent tax deferral on inIt was also noted that creased exports.” the AFL-CIO is calling for a revision that will allow campanies to defer taxes on profits from increases in exports. This strengthening of the DISC program would render invalid the Conclusions produced by two university of British Columbia professors in august. John He&well and John Lester, who are also consultants to the Bank of Canada, suggested that, “even on the most conservative assumptions, the DISCS will have only a slight impact on the Canadian economy.” Taken by itselfthat is, without taking account of the Canadian response to the U.S. scheme-the DISC device, according to their study, would enable American exporters to reduce their selling prices by a maximum of 1.9 per cent. “When the effects of the DISCS are combined with those of the corporate tax reduction for ‘Canadian’ manufacturers.... the net results are favourable to the economy. These conclusions do notcome anywhere near fitting the predictions of the U.S. joint committee on internal revenue taxation. The committee estimated that DISC legislation would increase American exports by $100 million in 1972, $170 million in 1973, and $240 million in 1974. They assumed an 8 per cent annual increase in exports, and the respective channelling of 40 per cent, 60 per cent and
75 per cent of exports through DISCS. The Helliwell-Lester study concluded their report by effectively avoiding the prime concern of detrimental effect to the Canadian economy with the following statements: l “Canadian employment, production, and business investment will be higher than would be the case if neither the DISC scheme nor the budget changes had been introduced; ” l “Any Canadian concern about DISC is better directed to the related matters of principle than the likelihood of important adverse consequences for the Canadian economy. ” It appears that a “growth for growth’s sake” belief permeates their analysis, no matter who controls that development. The two authors also emerge as rather unenlightened about the North American economic system, since one of their assumptions in investigating the possible change in selling prices was that tax reductions will be used to reduce prices rather than increase profit. Furthermore, the study did not examine the impact of
DISCS on Canadian-American trade in autos and parts, something which is urgently required since auto industry representatives in Canada believe that the DISC program makes the U.S.-Canadian auto pact worthless. Recent developments, revealing that DISCS are not being used only as corporate entities for the export of products indicate that it would be foolish to dismiss the DISC scheme as a danger safely avoided. There was special interest, for instance, in U.S. treasury department regulations for the use of DISCS by movie distribution companies. Following specific regulations, the income from rentals of U.S. films in Canada and other foreign countries can be treated as export income subject to DISC tax deferral. There are similar regulations for a broad variety of foreign leasing arrangements. In addition, foreign sales companies are also setting up DISCS in order to obtain tax deferrals for income from sales commissions. American banks have been told that they also can set up DISCS for certain activities. -gord
moore
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One twenty-five. really bummed out. the community head cold is creeping into my sinuses. the vets tell me that i can expect to get it in the chest and throat as well. it’s a drag feeling capable of doing the graphics but having my attention constantly focused on the lump of goo that’s creeping through my respiratory system. the forecasts range from three days to a week and a half. a sense of satisfaction is hard to maintain in this place because you put your talent on the line each issue. tuesday’s rush (seeing it “work”), is quickly replaced by Wednesday’s hassle. what we have here tonight is tension. tensionsort of like hearing your parents argue when you’re a kid. the deadline, the cold, and the sunday night rain all get into the act. sort of pissed-off anger. peter and i decided that it would be a gas just to be able to get into a brawl just to work off the aggressive knot of shit that sits in the chest. . ...it”s going to be either more or less dope.. ..some really fresh air... .maybe a good screw....more like scrubbing your brain with comet. too many cigarettes and not enough sleep. that chum-fm is a slippery veneer over today’s whole mess. zap. tomorrow is another day. yet we are left with today’s culprits: ron colpitts, david cubberley, liz willick (and all her delicious fruit fresh from the farm), bob yaffee (thanks again, bob), gord moore, george kaufman, joanne butler, peter warrian, dick mcgill, ellen tolmie, chuck stoody (how many times have you been told that sorting air mail on the campus centre roof would give you a severe cold?), kim moritsugu, dudley Paul, milt davis, kati middleton, tony defranco, Winnie lang, sally peck, ron smith (what ever happened to fall sports this cold, rainy night?), paul stuewe, janet stoody (who told me to mention her for some god-awful reason) and prosaic tom mcdonald’s creeping cold
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