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For information call Pat rick Tyler at 777-8178. 4 more y AN ANALYSIS BY PATRICK TYLER NEWS EDITOR After $3.5 million worth of pomp and splen der, a massive demonstration and with an impending truce in Vietnam, the country is settling down this week to four more years of Richard Nixon. The question in the minds of most govern ment observers is what the next term will bring. The 93rd Congress will certainly be huddling in the coming weeks in hopes that the Democratic controlled body will have something to say about the country's future. But if the ability of the lame-duck 92nd Cong ress to shape American policy, foreign and domestic, is any indication of the policy dispos ition powers of the 93rd, then one can expect to see major policy descisions, as well as legis lation, of the coming term, monopolized by the President. A showdown between the Congress and the President is possible, but if a settlement comes this week in Vietnam, that coupled with the apparent vote of confidence Nixon received in the November election, may give him the edge in any such confrontation. It is likewise doubtful that the United States Supreme Court will step in to make any reaffir mation of the separation of powers doctrine in the Constitution since Nixon has had the opportunity to make several appointments to that court in his administration. Ideally the fact that a president makes appointments to the court should have no bearing on the direc tion of that court's policy, but political sense tells us otherwise. So if we must resign ourselves to a president that seems intent on ruling the country by shear executive determination-what should we expect? For one thing Nixon is not working in the shadow of any more election campaigns so it is likely that the legislation that comes out of his second term, may come with impunity toward those "sacred cows" he has carefully cherished in the past such as the farmers. Indications that the farmers will be expected to share the load in fighting soaring food prices have already come from the White House when cutbacks were announced ree.ently by the U.S. The Gutenberg Experimeni Mike Munc BY HARRY HOPE Dear Diary, What a day! Tom had just gotten almost as tac home from a hard day's work when cterlDez Chuckles Witten called up and said karhdra) ez that Mike Mungo was giving awaykyr. memberships to Coldstream Coun- Anyway, they try Club to members of the legisla- changing of the ture and Chuck wanted to know somethiing. It lot what gave. He said he hadn't gotten bridge of the cas a membership but just about every Witch of the We; senator and representative who of Oz." Tom was helped Mungo get his place on the he remined me Board of Trustees had. Chuckles Lion. The guard said it wasn't fair, and that he had we were driving always wanted an expensive mem- we got in the dra bership in an exclusive club but the front door-we couldn't afford it on his salary the Throne Roo (when Tom told me that, he made looked just like I a big face. Tom can be so ugly when of the Oz. There he wants to be or when he's not on behind flames ai camera.) said "I AM Anyway, Tom thought it would be G RE AT AND P( fun to visit Mike, especially since WHO A RE YOU Mike was up for re-election by the stammering and: General Asse mbly. And besides, the flames roared Tom said, Mike is such a fun guy, tered "We are th what with that diamond stick pin eses, your Mur and all those fancy clothes. He's stepped out fron a home town boy made good. tains and greete4 snazzy, huhh? I hi Well, we cranked up the old Cad of fun with this and it seemed like we drove forever Coldstream, y'all before we came to this big big membership?" wrought iron gate with a sign that because Mungo hi read "AN MJM PRODUCTION." (I him and I starte think that's so tacky - just like his Tom said "Why a diamond stickpin.) I swear it's with the Gnal. ars of... ? Department of Agriculture in the program of paying farmers not to use some of their land for growing crops. This practice of govern ment subsidation to keep crop surpluses off the market has been around since the Agricul tural Adjustment Acts of the New Deal. In a political sense Nixon,would not have dared such a move during his first term out of fear of offending the farm block from which he derives much of his electoral support. In domestic affairs the President laid down the philosophy of his second administration Saturday when he called for a new self-reliance in which the American people should no longer ask what the government can do for them, but what they can do for themselves. Democrats who critisized this speech expressed fear that Nixon is planning to make cuts in domestic programs, and indeed Nixon has already impounded large amounts of money that Cong ress has appropriated for such purposes. In his inaugural address the President went 180 degrees from the foreign policy statement of John Kennedy 12 years ago on the same occassion. "The time has come," Nixon said," to turn away from the condescending policies of paternalism-of Washington knows best." In contrast Kennedy began she decade with "We shall bear any burden, pay any price" to insure freedom around the world. In other words it appears that the United States in the next four years will make no attempts to export democracy to Third World nations, but instead let them determine their own forms of government, even if they conflict with American economic interests. This policy, however, may be a logical dip lomatic move if Nixon received an indication on his visits to China and the Soviet Union that those countries are willing to make similar turn arounds from the policy of Nikita Krushev who 12 years ago committed his country to support ing "wars of national liberation," which may have prodded the Kennedy administration into its fatal stance on Vietnam. So as we move into the next Nixon administ Oration that will end on the 200th anniversary of our country's founding, anticipation is the prevelent mood-anticipation of what degree our present system of government will resem ble that of the original. io's bungo y as the lit tle you know it looks bad in print?-It's I has in his bac- bad public relations." Atter some arguing back and forth, Tom and I left in a huff. Mike t. were having a was getting pretty sore about being guard there or ked like the draw- blessed out and I think he was ready tie of the Wicked to call the guards on us, which would at in the "Wizard have been all right because I had i intimidated and Tom's Tony Tiger Secret Sugar of the Cowardly Frosting Ray gun (free with two let us in because boxtops, batteries not included.) a cadillac. When But we got out OK. wbridge- I mean, On the way home, we stopped by were ushered into K-Mart so Tom could get a cheap m and Diary, it hanging shoe tree he always he Throne Room wanted. But you Tom - he just wan was this big face ders through the store and picks up dths big voice any old thing that catches his eye. )WERFUL, AND He got a real good deal on some ?" Tom started flammable Halloween masks and he [ got nervous and started chuckling about wearing Finally Tom mut- one to the next Board meeting. He e Thomas F. Jon- also got a bottle cutting kit. Now go-ship." Mike we can make drinking glasses out behind the cur- of all those prune juice bottles in 1 us with "Pretty the kitchen he's been saving. He. ave a hell of a lot also got three cheap clip-on bow toy. Welcome to ties. I swear, he's got bow-ties com You want a free ing out of his you-know-what. Fom was miffed ad made a fool of Well, gotta go. Time for tI to get mad too. "Dragnet" and Tom and I always til this politicking watch that together. Assembly? Don't Mary. e