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The man some have called the
"Lone Ranqsr of the civil rights
movement'1 challenged young
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moral force to change the course
of the country.
Dick Gregory spoke to about
750 people in the Nebraska
Union Ballroom Sunday even
lag . He covered a wida ranga of
topics from nutrition to the
Symbionese Liberation Army.
"1976 doesn't seem too far
away but these next years will be
the hardest two years ot this
nation," he said.
Gregory said the government
was formed to "preserve the
money people's position.' '
"If most people knew what
government was up to,
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Nebraska Educational Television Network prior to his speech
in the Nebraska Union Ballroom Sunday evening.
they'd realizo that 1973 is going
to be very hard , " ha t aidLv
Gregory criticized' the Centra!
Intelligence Agency (CIA) which
he catied ;;."cm' of. .tne;.-most
vicious,: degenerate, ; inhuman
groups that ever Mas been put
together In the .history of this
planet." . . . .: ... -
"We can get five 10-yccr-olds
and on& 15-year-old to march
downtown to the Federal Build
ing seeking a cutback in the
defense budget and the CIA will
run dossiers on these 10- and
15-year-clds but they can't run
files and Intimidate Junkies,
dope pushers, whores, prosti
tutes and Mafia syndicates . . .
something's wrong.!' .
Gregory said Watergate, the
Patricia Hearst kidnapping, and
John Kennedy's assassination
are traceable to the CIA.
He said America was "Idoliz
ing the wrong people."
"Although many people in
America have so much admira
tion for Teddy Kennedy, he
knew damn well that the CIA
killed his two brothers. But he
would never tell you because he
puts his family and himself
above his country."
Gregory said the "country
was morally bankrupt on one
side, and nature's closing in on
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the other." Morals have sunk to
new levels of lowness, he said.
, Gregory warned that the
world would soon face a world-
wide food shortage. The Amer
ican people must learn to start
eating for the nutrition of food,
instead of for taste, he said. The
patterns In nature, he said, point
to a worldwide famine which
i began this sum'mer,
: "Ths government knew about
these signs of nature and they
have done nothing to Inform the
American people," he said.
Gregory also said that the
university was formed to serve
the students, not for students to
serve the university. ,
"They should be educating
you, not indoctrinating you," he
said.
"They should teach you how
to live, not how to make a living,
because by the time many of you
graduate, there won't be any
jobs."
Gregroy challenged UNL stu
dents to sacrifice for starving
people in the world.
"If you could find a group that
would be willing to sacrifice one
or two meals a day, and send
that money and, that food around
the wortd to hungry people who
are on the brink of starvation,
you krow what that would do for
America? .
"In 10 years it could mean a
generation of kids would drop
turnips on hungry people in
stead of napalm bombs. Ycu
may not be the number one
football team in the nation, but
you could win the Nobel peace
prize. That's something that no
number one football team cou!d
ever get you."
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By Randy Gordon
Omaha Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D
Mass.) said Saturday the nation faces a
presidential leadership crisis and that
President Gerald R. Ford is running out of
time in his search for solutions to economic
problems.
"I have not to date seen a willingness on
the part of the administration to deal with the
hard decisions President Ford will need to
take it we are going to get a handle on the
economy," Kennedy said.
"I think we shouid give a reasonable
amount of time, but we are not going to give
him until July, 1976, as some of his economic
advisors have suggested," he said.
- Kennedy said Congress is willing to
cooperate with Ford on economic matters "if
he is prepared to give us a program."
Wage and Price Council .
Kennedy was in Omaha Saturday morning
to support the campaign of Dan Lynch,
Democratic candidate for the 2nd Congres
sional District seat In the House of
Fepresenatives. That seat is currently held
by John Y. McColiister. Kennedy spoke
before a group of about 700 at Crelghton
University at 8 a.m. before appearing at a
$50-a-p!ate fund raising breakfast.
He said the Congress has already shown
this willingness by passing a bill establishing
a federal Wage and Price Council and by
'Sennits auiiun wiiichiiaai uui $6.5 biiiiun ffum
federal programs.
The council, which does not have the
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authority to re-impose wage and price
controls, depends on moral suasion, which
Kennedy called jawboning, to persuade
industry and labor officials to hold down
wages and prices.
Kennedy said jawboning has been effec
tive in the past and should be the first step
used In an attempt to control what he called
runaway inflation. -
"If that is not effective, we may come to
wage and price controls, tax reform, a
reduction of taxes for low and middle income
families and public service employment in art
effort to stimulate the economy," Kennedy .
said. " ":'''
Jawboning useful
Ford's success in pressuring General
Motors to roll back auto prices and the
similar rollback of steel and auto prices
during the 1960 show the usefulness iof
jawboning, according to Kennedy. " '
Kennedy, who hasruled out a presidential
bid in 1976, said the Democratic party "will
offer a wide range of different candidates."
" think we've got a number of members of
the Senate who are obvious in their
intentions, as we do in the House and in the
statehouse. I think that after the 1974
campaign we will have an additional roster of
. people. ' .
"I think the Democratic party will have the
candidates. The real challenge will be
whether tha party can develop a program to
deal with the issues.. .the economy being
number one," Kennedy said.
To the Creighton University audience,
Kennedy said "the real challenge is for
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Dyas supports veteran benefits
A Congressional bill asking for increased
veterans' benefits represents an "invest
ment, not a hand-out," 1st congressional
district Democratic candidate Hess Dyas told
student veterans Saturday at a meeting of the
Student Veterans' organization.
The proposed bill provides for a 23 per cent
increase in G.I. bill monthly payments from
to $260. and extends ths period a
veteran may receive G.l. bill support from 38
months to 45 months, according to Red Cook,
regional coordinator of the National Assoc. of
Concerned Veterans.
The bill was approved by a House-Senate
conference committee last week. !t must now
be approved in its new form by the House
and Senate before being sent to rresiaem
Gerald Ford for approval.
Congressman Charles Thone, Dyas' oppo
nent in the November election, has also
announced his support for the bill.
Dyas said the cost of the ' proposed bill
would be $1.5 billion.
"An interesting sidelight," Dyas said, "is
that the cost-overrun on the B-10 bomber is
$1.6 billion."
According to Cook, estimates on the return
of the investment for money provided for G.l.
bill benefits are 300 to GOO per cent.
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young people to make a difference in the
.electoral process.
Young people usually right .
"The lesson of Watergate is that ft was an
aberration of 200 years of American history.
It is the exception, not the rule."
Kennedy said that in his 12 years in the
Senate, he has found that "on most of the
important issues we have been facing in this
country, the young people have usuaHy been
right."
he said such issues indluded school
desegregation and the equal rights move
' ment in the 1960s, the protest againsi
' American involvement in the Vietnam War
and environmental issues.
! Kennedy said his role in the Democratic
"party is now one of making his views known
and "moving the party toward the kind of
goals I have in various issues."
' Kennedy, in an appearance at Southern
Illinois University Friday night, said ne
would not support the Democratic president
ial ticket in 1976 If Alabama Gov. George
WAlisca is en it.
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