Nixon talking

Nixon is of course on the bandwagon but most students here feel that his war on pollution is nothing more than a public relations screen for him: while he pursues the Indo China War abroad and creates the conditions for unemployment at home he can talk conservation. If the Budget were candid the public would see that all the projected spending on welfare and pollution is peanuts compared to military expenditure. Defence still accounts for from a third to a half of total spending. Pollution control, in the budget, is buried in "natural resources" which altogether get one and 2/10ths of every dollar in the consolidated budget; that is one 10th of a cent less than last year! (figures from I.F. Stone.) Nixon's anti-pollution rhetoric is miles from his budgetary realities and no one here seems to be fooled.

In Berkeley, ecological living is regarded as a revolutionary lifestyle. Thousands of volunteers work to protect the Bay from fill and pollution, the Delta from the California Water Plan, the open space from new subdivisions and freeways. They don't expect any help from the Federal Government. They just wait for the revolution.

Janice Marriott

"Laos! Cambodia! Why can't we stay in Vietnam where we belong?"