University of Virginia Library

Legal Forum To Sponsor
Rockefeller Appearance

By ROBIN RHODES

New York Governor Nelson
A. Rockefeller will speak
Friday at 8:30 p.m. in Cabell
Hall auditorium in an
appearance sponsored by the
University's Student Legal
Forum.

As the first governor
in New York history to be
elected to four four-year terms,
Mr. Ruckefeller has achieved
national prominence in such
diverse areas as environmental
control, education, crime
control, housing and economic
growth.

At the Governor's request,
an organized crime task force
was created in 1970 to
investigate and prosecute
organized crime that cuts
across county lines.

Mr. Rockefeller has
launched an all-out war on
drug abuse by young people in
the state, establishing local
treatment centers, drug
programs, a massive education
program, a methadone
maintenance program, and an
exhaustive evaluation of drug
laws and the drug culture
recently completed by a state
commission.

Mr. Rockefeller is also
Chairman of the National
Governors' Conference on
Human Resources.

In 1969, President Nixon
appointed Mr. Rockefeller to
the National Foreign
Intelligence Advisory Board.
At the request of the President,
Mr. Rockefeller undertook a
special fact finding mission to
Latin America in the Spring of
1969.

Mr. Rockefeller has been a
frequent supporter of the
Nixon administration's policies
but has parted ways with the
President on a number of
issues.

Mr. Rockefeller backed the
President's decision to mine
Haiphong Harbor in the spring
of 1972 and has made various
speaking tours on behalf of Mr.
Nixon's presidential campaigns.

Recently, however, Mr.
Rockefeller has taken some

stands in direct opposition to
the President. He has vetoed a
bill placing a ban on so-called
"forced racial busing" running
counter to Mr. Nixon's
policies.

He has indicated his
approval of the present
abortion law in New York
State and has vetoed a bill to
repeal the liberal abortion
practices in the state.

He was reportedly incensed
by Mr. Nixon's letter to
Cardinal Cooke, endorsing the
already controversial repeal
campaign.

In support of his views on
the legalization of abortions up
to the eighteenth week of
pregnancy, Mr. Rockefeller has
said, "I can see no justification
for repealing this reform and
thus condemning hundreds of
thousands of women to the
dark ages again."

"I do not believe it right for
one group to impose its vision
of morality on an entire
society. Neither is it just or
practical for the state to
dictate the innermost personal
beliefs and conduct of its
citizens," said the Governor.