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Show Capital Scene mttctia Dedicated to Assassination Committee Has Troubles the Progress And Growth of Central Utah Friday. March 25. 1977. THE HERALD. Provo, Utah-Pa- 21 ge Wary of Socialized Health There can be little doubt that Medicare, the federally operated health insurance program for the elderly and disabled, has been good for what ails people especially people who happen to be members of the medical establishment. The Department of Health, Education and Welfare reports that 1,752 medical groups and clinics, 58 laboratories and 409 "solo practitioners" collected $100,000 or more in Medicare funds during 1975. Three "We just did nothing with the information because I figured even if the FBI had done it, there would be nothing we could prove one way or another, and we'd never find out." Rep. Patricia Schroeder following a statement by former FBI informant Timothy Redfearn that the FBI ordered (D-Colo- .), him to burglarize Mrs. Schroeder's Denver home. "We people know Malta. get annoyed that so many in America don't even there is a place called They seem to think it is something in mythology." Mario Abela, member of the Maltese Community Association in Queens, N.Y. "Detente and the normal conduct of talks presuppose the establishment of trust between the negotiating parties and respect for the laws and traditions of each other, while attempts to exert pressure on us and to bargain for concessions ciples are bringing about an atmosphere of distrust." Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper, warning President Carter that his outspokenness on human rights could damage negotiations. of prin- solo five-mont- $200,000. Total Medicare payments to in- stitutions came to $4.7 billion in the last fiscal year, more than a seven-fol- d increase over the $644 paid out in million 1965 when Medicare was initiated. The department hastens to caution that those receiving large payments have not necessarily been milking Medicare, although a program as large as this one has inevitably had its share of abuses. Fortunately, Medicare seems to be better run than the companion n Medicaid program, which a Senate committee last year found guilty of "abysmal" administration and widespread fraud. Nor, of course, do the figures necessarily represent pure profit to the recipients. If their incomes are large, so are their expenses. But the steady growth in both Medicare and Medicaid ought to prompt taxpayers to view - $15-billio- if- Robert ever-expandi- "I think," said his father, "I would hate to be without my eyes most of all." "Oh, no," said the boy. "Hearing is the most important. You wouldn't want to lose your hearing." But then this gentle child understands this problem best, because he has a hearing loss. He wants his hair worn over his ears so he won't have to answer the "why" and "what" of his hearing aid attachment. And when he goes out on the playground he often takes it off because he doesn't want the delicate instrument knocked to the ground, knowing the handicap he would have if he lost it. "But sometimes," the little boy confesses, "mv friends get angry with me because they think I am not listening to them." And all because this sensitive child does RENEE C. NELSON not hear well. eight-year-ol- d - ABOUT THAT SHINER How does a mild mannered, modest and lovable in all journalist explain away an ever so obvious respects black eye? With pure enjoyment. "Isn't that a shiner?" - - "Yes," "What happened?" "A Provo City Police officer hit me." Everyone in the newsroom turns. If ever of an anyone had the complete attention audience, this journalist did. Remember, these are people who are to unusual highly trained to sniff out the to take the side deal with abuses of power the underprivileged -tof the downtrodden man. he little "Are you kidding me?" "No. was the truthful answer. "What were you doing?" "I was just standing there." "What did he hit you with?" "It was his flesh against my flesh." Then, not wishing to let a chance go by without "I the situation adding a little flavor to was lucky he didn't hit me with a sap." the So far the reaction on the faces around and of a horror, mixture room represent also is some complete amazement. There transfixed on gazes -the disbelief playing but how can they doubt? How can they mistrust this journalist whose life has been dedicated to truthful exposition of serious matters? "When did it happen?" "Last night about 10.45." "Where were you?" playing basketball "In a gymnasium. -JNo one ever lost an audience so quickly. - - - - - ERRY M YOUNG EGOS DEFLATED HERE "This is no business for somebody with a Marion Dunn, genial big ego," commented Herald sports editor In a recent intra office bull session. Marion, who wrote hundreds of words on Uam'i itcllar BYU football during U season, made the remark after one of the office workers asked this week if BYU had had a good or bad football season. Marion, who has been sports editor of The Daily Herald nearly a year, commented that on a recent trip to Salt Lake City he had encountered some sports fans who said, "Gee, Marion, you're doing a great job for the Tribune. We read everything you write!" Others in the newsroom commented on how their friends or neighbors apparently didn't know what they did for a living, and apparently were oblivious of those and columns. After writing numerous articles on one particular topic, it can be discouraging to have somebody exclaim, "Why didn't you let us know this was going on?" But possibly the lowest blow of all comes when you have just completed a period of covering prominent stories and having those stories spread all over the front page. And at that point your doorbell rings, and it is your neighbor of longstanding, who you know is a subscriber, and that neighbor asks, "Do you still work for the JOSEPHINE ZIMMERMAN paper?" TEST YOUR CURRENCY RATING The other day as I was looking through my wallet, I discovered that there were an unusual number of one dollar bills in it. You can probably imagine what really made this unusual the fact that there were any at all. It got me thinking about how many $1 bills I see circulating among my friends and family, so I began to do a little investigating into how many George Washingtons there are floating around. Paul Morley is manager and director of the public relations department of The Salt Lake City branch of the Federal Reserve Bank. When I first spoke with him, he said he didn't know himself just how many bills were - currently in x . li .. ; . .iwr': w- 7, - There is economic sanctions against Rhodesia, Soviet chrome sold strikingly significant at omission in administration gloating over repeal of the Byrd amendment that gave the U.S. free rein to import Rhodesian Sen. Harry Byrd, Ind.-Va- ., persuaded Congress to approve his amendment voiding compliance with the UN ban, the Russian price had zoomed 188 per cent. But with Rhodesian chrome once again being shipped to the U.S., the Soviet price declined markedly until metallurgical chrome. This is the exceedingly moot question just who won what! Examination of what's this glaring silence quickly reveals the stark answer: Far and away the principal gainer is Russia which once again will have a highly as profitable this country's main supplier behind 1974. That year, the Senate, Kissinger, junked the Byrd amendment and it looked as if the House would follow suit. Result: Russia doubled its price to $160 a ton. But the House balked, and the repeal legislation was voted down taking with it essential in the production of missiles, nuclear submarines, key jet aircraft, other e steel weapons and products. At the same time, outstandingly heavy loser will be the American consumer who once again will bear the Test Your Knowledge gouging. The record is irrefutably predictable on that. Before 1966, when the BY WORLD ALMANAC 1. The permanent members of the United Nations Security Council are all of the following except: France, United States, Egypt, China, Soviet Union, United Kingdom. 2 The opera "Boris Godunov" was written by Russian composer (a) Tchaikovsky lb) United Nations, under domination, - African bloc imposed Thoughts So Barnabas went to Tarsus to look for Saul; and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year Rimsky-Korsako- (c v Moussorgskv (di Borodin 3. The U.S. Supreme Court consists of a chief justice of the United States and how they met with the church, and taught a large company of people; and in Antioch the disciples were for the first time Acts called Christians. many associate justices1 ANSWERS: luSid 11:25,26. z ldAii;i 'E(3 in U S ion. Unfortunately, speaking Berry's World $1 6 billion worth of zillion In - TOM HARALDSEN for that satellites with large - scale violations of the Rhodesian sanctions. It is interesting to note that this UN document got short shrift from the media which never pass up a chance to publicize anything critical of the U.S. But somehow, this report was conveniently disregarded. That intriguing indifference has characterized the publicizing of violations of the Rhodesian embargo throughout. Since its imposition in 1966, the UN has recorded around formal complaints. Among those charged with violations are Russia, four Eastern European satellites, Britain, Red China, France, West Germany, and most of the black African countries in the van of denouncers of 75 white - ruled and Rhodesia rigorous 1 peace. It was ludicrous for the I'N to so declare." and other But it did equally asinine, biased and frenetic antics that have cost 1 - U S taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars While the UN castigated for Rhodesia " m i n o r v rule." the characteristically hypocritical world organizat1 ion has yet to criticm- or do anything about outright - 1Q'7 ti SI i in "We want the White House Stall to time a hum-hi- e and austere image, but whtshtsname here is overdoing it!" k that rifle" They could and did. Walter Fauntroy, one of four blacks on the panel, looked at the rifle, picked it up gingerly and held it for the cameras. That was it. The next big event highlighted a "mystery witness," dictatorial rule in the controlling Soviet - Arab African bloc Of the 49 African countries. 15 are military dictatorships and 29 others auithonUnan states iron-fiste- one-part- whose identity was carefully until he strode into the crowded chamber and under the hot television lights. "Who's that'.'" people asked "That's Santo Trafficante, the big crime cheese." the word went around. Trafficante. a nattily dressed, grandfather-lfigure who once was a gambling big shot in Havana, sat down at (he witness table with his lawyer. guarded y d Lighter Side Of Mice And Union and four incidentally, is predominantly black There is no way in the world Rhodesia can be considered a threat to world $1 bills are printed each year. The government figures that the average life of such a bill, due to its circulation, is only 18 months, thus the new printings are done. And so, next tune you open your wallet and find a $1 bill, you are only one in 54.3m.8W.0O0 who could theoretically make the same claim However, take heart, because if you find $54,304,800 in $1 bills in million jour wallet, then yourc one in a one in ten All ol which leaves me about open profiteering to be resumed at the expense of U.S. consumers who will have to pay in higher weapons and steel costs. It will be one more deep notch in the inflation gouge. Grimmest irony of all is that the UN's sanctions have been ignored and violated from the very start. Not only that, but the worst offenders have been the loudest embargo invokers. High on the list are none the other than Russia and East European satellites notably East Germany and with others Czechoslovakia, not far behind. In January of this year, a classified UN report flatly charged the "Rhodesia is a small, with 6 landlocked country million people, virtually no military assets and a police force, that is the mainstay for keeping order. That force, of. Mr. Morely said that wide restrictions against it. "I find it ironic,'' says Sen Byrd, "that countries most vocal against U.S. importation of Rhodesian chrome have been in the front rank of violators of the UN It is these same sanctions countries that in arguing for the impontion of the embargo characterized Rhodesia as a ' 'threat to world peace circulation. currency in cumulatmy circulation s is poor. He said that 55 to 60 percent of that currency consists of $1 bills. Based on the 60 percent figure, that moans for each of the 216 million people in the United States, there are $251,411.11 in $1 bills circulating, if everything was divided equally I have a portion of that, the 11 cents Of course, you must remember that much of that money is tied up in foreign countries. But again, 'these are only $1 bills I'm $90,508,000,000 v demanding Upon some checking, however, he told me that today there is approximately i r the Soviets' vaulting chrome profits. Now of course, the way is Soviet rap for virtually certain rapacious Russian price Moscow - Arab un- der vigorous spurring by former Secretary Henry chrome, metallurgical $27 a ton. By 1971, when ,.?2 i - Allen S. WASHINGTON ? of the Herald Staff By .. ..(. The Chrome Import Ban proposals for comprehensive federal health insurance for all Americans with a high degree of skepticism. Experience shows that programs like these, no matter how modestly begun, have a way of taking on lives of their own. National health insurance may be just what the social doctors order, but even the most cautious estimates of its potential cost and potential scope for waste make the programs we now have look like peanuts. v"". Cft high-grad- arms?" Y having earned more than $300,000 each and 26 others more than Off The Beat WHAT DID YOU SAY? He said, "Daddy, which would you hate to lose most your eyes, your hearing, or your - practitioners were listed as doctors and health care So They Say "- By DANIEL F. GILMORE WASHINGTON il'PIi - The other day a member of the House Assassination Committee asked Chief Counsel Richard Sprague if lie really thought the panel could get out off the Keystone Kops" kirk. He wanted to know when it could get down to serious investigation of the murders of John F Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. "Will the intormatioii be new and not a rehash '" asked committee member Samuel Devine. H Ohio, a former FBI agent. Sprague. whose own tenure on the old panel has had a dash of slapstick, replied in carefully hedged and measured words " The sum total of evidence in each case would he in the nature ot evidence indicating that others may have had knowledge or participated m arranging for the assassinations of Dr king and Kennedy " He explained that this was all uncorroborated, and because of various troubles, the stall had been "unable to do what I consider a thorough check " He couldn't come up with "a smoking gun," he said, before March 31. when the committtee will go out of existence unless us life s extended by the House. In fact, the committee has yet to come up with anything The public so far has been treated to vague promises of big "breakthroughs" and two "media events" crowded, open hearings staged for television and pictures and signifying nothing. On March 11, the committee dramatically brought up by air from Memphis, Tenn., 10 big cartons jammed with evidence gathered m the case against James Earl Ray, the who pleaded guilty to King's murder on April 4, 18. The evidence, watched over by three guards, was presented before a hastily called afternoon open meeting. All the evidence was at least nine years old and a bit dilapidated for all the handling and inspection it has had since then. It included the Remington rifle with telescopic sight said to have been used by Ray, travel brochures, maps, and two cans of Schlitz beer. While panel members solemnly inspected the exhibits, the television people began looking restlessly at their watches. Deadlines were approaching for the prime evening news shows -- couldn't the committee members and get to skip over some of the trickv-trac- Avoirdupois Bv DICK WEST A couple or three ASHINGTON 1 PI decades ago. the classic lament of the times was: "Everything I like is either illegal, immoral or fattening." If updated to include the taboos at work toW i day, that ancient plaint would read: "Everything I like that isn't illegal, immoral or fattening causes cancer in rats." To some extent, the forces of permissiveness have worn down the bars of illegality and immorality Were those the only deterrents to enjoyment, most people probably would go ahead and do it anyway The weakening of those retraints. however, has been more than offset by the ever broadening range of strictures that must be observed to forestall corpulence. The ratio is approximately as follows for every three people who will now do something they didn't used to do because it was illegal or immoral, there are seven more people who have gone on a diet Lately, the mushrooming. list of things that cause people to gain weight including mushrooms, has been matched by the snow balling list of things that cause cancer in rats Including snowballs. Indeed, some scientists are coming around to the conclusion that there is an either-o- r relationship involved here either something will cause you to gain weight or it will cause cancer in rats Certainly it has worked out that way with respect to sweeteners. House health subcommittee began hearings this week on legislation that would permit the Food and Drug Administration to lift its controversial ban on saccharin Being on the skinny side myself, I am not emotionally involved in the issue I do. however, have an intellectual curiosity I would like to see satisfied If you find something you can eat without gaining weight, chances are rats will find it nonfattenmg too. right0 Thereto! e. the question that should be answered is this Did the laboratory rats thai were fed con A (entrated amounts of artificial sweetener develop cancer because ol ceit.tin in gredients in saccharin, or did they develop cancer because they were thin" Putting it another way, it may turn out that slim rats basic dlv are more susceptible to cancer than lat rats are In that event, the laboiatorv tests for saahaim. cyclamates and various other non fattening foodstuff would be subject to somewhat diflercnt inlerpi elation It will, alas lake years to determine w hi ther rodent sleiidei at ion was a factor in the saccharin tests By that time, anything oii like that isn't ll legal, unmoral or laltening will be killed by the freeze, priced out o( sight by Iliailians or subject to an Arab embargo |