Banner Graphic, Greencastle, Putnam County, 4 May 1974 — Page 3

Saturday, May 4,1974

Banner-Graphic, GreencastU, Indiana

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Portugal Finds Road Ahead Very Rough

By WILLIAM L-RYAN A P Special Correspondent Portugal is finding out what France and other European nations learned a decade pr more agp. Empire in the modern era costs more in money, blood and political turmoil than the home f ront can afford to pay. The first act of a familiar post-World War II drama has just been played out in Lisbon, where a durable dictatorship has been overthrown because of those factors. Forces long persecuted are becoming legal and active. Political prisoners are being freed. Political exiles are welcomed home. Political parties are beginning to operate. All this probably will make the issue of colonialism more divisive than ever. Portugal’s new military rulers imply that they intend to prosecute the colonial wars in their vast African empire- Mozambique in the southeast and Portuguese Guinea and Aneola

in the west—while trying to reach accomodation with the rebel forces. To the rebels, that suggests half-way freedom—something the French, the Dutch and the Belgians couldn’t make work. The coup in Portugal may encourage the rebels to more intensive effort on the assumption that the momentum now is in their favor. A similar situation in France brought Charles de Gaulle back to power in 1958 after that nation provided the prime example of the untenability of colonialism. Still staggering from the carnage of World War II, France attempted to reassert domination in Indochina, the Southeast Asian arm of the French Empire. She offered Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos autonomy in a French Union, but it was half freedom, and the rebel movements wouldn’t buy it. Indochina bled France severely in manpower and mon-

ey, contributing to the political and economic turmoil that brought down French governments almost weekly. The decisive defeat at Dien Bien Phu, 20 years ago this month, persuaded the French to cut their losses and get out of Indochina. But the French still tried to hold on to Algeria. Once again a guerrilla war had corrosive effects on the home front. It took a leader with overwhelming stature and flair for authoritarianism—De Gaulle—to set Algeria free despite the threat of civil war at home and then dismantle the rest of France’s huge African empire. Belgian and Dutch experiences were similar in many respects. The Netherlands was expelled from the Dutch East Indies after bloody fighting. Belgium was forced to retire from her rich Congo. Britain also had to dismember her mighty empire. But the British moved out with-

Unemployment Rate Drops

B\ ROBERT A- DOBKIN A P Labor Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s unemployment rate edged down from 5.1 per cent to 5 per cent of the work force in April, the government said today. It was the second consecutive month that the unemployment rate had dropped Labor Department analysts considered the two-month decline significant but said it was too early to determine whether it was the beginning of a trend. Unemployment jumped from a 3'/5-year low of 4.6 per cent in October to 5.2 per cent in January, reflecting the downturn in the economy and the spreading effects of the fuel shortage. It remained 5.2 per cent in February before dipping to 5.1 per cent in March. Despite the recent decline, the Nixon administration has said it expects some increases in the unemployment rate later this year, particularly during the summer as more teen-agers enter the work force. According to the Bureau ol LJITior Statistics, about 4.5 million Americans were without

jobs in April. That was about 200,000 fewer than in January and February but still 430.000 higher than in October at the start of the oil embargo. Total employment stood at 85.8 million last month, about the same as in March. After rising rapidly during the previous two years, employment has shown very little growth since October, reflecting the lack of growth of jobs in the blue collar and service occupations, the government said. There also has been little growth in the civilian labor

force, which was seasonally adjusted 90.3 million persons in April, about the same as in March. The labor force includes both employed and unemployed persons. The government said the recall of auto workers laid off during the Arab oil embargo helped manufacturing employment to rebound in April. The transportation equipment industry added 60,000 workers to its payrolls last month following three months of heavy job losses. But in construction, there was a drop of 70,000 jobs.

Failing To Do The Job

INDIANAPOLIS (AP)-ln-diana law schools are flunking out when it comes to their primary duty of "screening poor students who will make poor lawyers,” says the chief justice of the state Supreme Court. Norman F. Arterburn addressed 200 new members of the bar Wednesday. He said most of the 20 to 25 per cent

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out fighting and left behind painstakingly constructed bureaucracies which could take over administrative duties. All this makes it seem that

the era of colonialism at last has died. Portugal, oldest of the modern colonial powers, after 400 years is the last to try to cling to a huge empire.

Wants Indy Stop Retained

INDIANAPOLIS (AP)-ln dianapolis should remain a stop on the Amtrak railroad route between Cincinnati and Kankakee, 111., says the Interstate Commerce Commission’s rail services planning office. A recent report from Washington issued by Transportation Secretary Claude S. Brinnegar recommended as “potentially excess” the Amtrak route between Kankakee and In-

dianapolis.

But George M. Chandler, director of the ICC planning office, recommended the Indianapolis stop be preserved. He noted Amtrak now detours over an alternate route by way of Logansport because of the condition of track between Kan-

kakee and Indianapolis.

In an evaluation. Chandler said, “The DOT report recommends the Chesapeake and Ohio route between Cincinnati and Chicago as the primary route to be considered. Recognizing Indianapolis as an important traffic center, it suggests the association may

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choose the Penn Central line which serves Indianapolis direct. The association should give consideration to Amtrak’s view that the Kankakee Indianapolis route is the better one from a marketing stand-

point."

Don Newman, Indiana liaison representative in Washington, said the report from the ICC implies DOT hurried its report to completion without fully studying the impact of all the route abandonments it recommended. Newman cited lines in Indiana serving coal mines, which would be left virtually isolated without access to rail

transport.

The DOT report urged a total of 2,350 miles of track in Indiana be abandoned, leaving 200 cities and towns with no rail service. Thirty seven per cent of the existing 6,405 mile--of rails in Indiana would be lost

under this plan.

Chandler’s evaluation urges DOT to re-examine the assumptions used in making its report and to seek better information in revising recommendations

who failed the bar exam the last three years “should have been eliminated by the law schools and not stamped with approval by receiving a degree." He disagreed with law school administrators who say the bar exam is a poor test because it is written, “It ill becomes the law schools to use such an argument while they use the depend upon written examinations for grading and graduation,” Arterburn said. “Until a better device is discovered, written examinations will continue to be used." He accused law schools of permitting students to concentrate on “fringe courses related with sociology and philospohy” rather than basic subjects. Arterburn defended the Supreme Court’s rule requiring certain courses, calling them necessary to upgrade the legal profession.

FORT WAYNE i Ind. (APj— The FBI in Fort Wayne said today police in northern Indiana have been alerted to be on the lookout for a man who escaped Tuesday from federal prison in Atlanta, Ga. Authorities believe the man, Scotty Hanks, 41. may be near Wabash, where his ex-wife lives. The FBI said he is believed to have been seen in the Wabash area. The FBI said he kidnaped a motorist in Tennessee and may by THOMAS JOSEPH ACROSS 41. Monster

be driving a green car with Tennessee plates. Authorities also said Hanks warned he wouldn’t be taken alive since he claimed he didn't have long to live. He is believed to be in serious condition and needs medication daily as a result of recent open heart surgery. The FBI said Hanks was sentenced in May 1967 for post office robbery, again in 1968 for bail jumping and escape and in 1972 for perjury.

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