Show 2— iNeHerald Journal Login Ufih Monday Ftbruirv li ngn i Gam criticizes Carter’s foreign policy t By Robert Merrill staff writer Sen Jake Gam struck out at President Carter’s national defense and foreign policies at the Cache County Republican Lincoln Day dinner Saturday night "SALT 11 is not verifiable The Soviets have Increased all weaponry especially their nuclear arsenal They have outepent the United States BUitarOy 5195 billion in the last 10 years Carter says he has learned more about the Soviets in the last two or three weeks than he has in his whole life Where has he been? 1 foil to see how he can be surprised at the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan" said Sen Gam "Carter in his tough State of the Union message asked for an increased military budget Yet he has cut SM billion from President Ford’s military budget" added Gan “We do need to build up our military strength and we must be willing to make the necessary committments to do so We still need a manned bomber badly It was a mistake to cancel the B- -l Militarily we are way behind the Soviets in every conventional way except Naval aircraft carriers” Gan continued "We have manpower shortages but I oppose draft registration of both men and women 1 will permanently oppose registration of women Carter’s proposals are superficial and hsve to make sun they don’t replace our embargoed sales The time has come to tell our friends we aren't going to be as generous with all types of aid as we have been in the past if they don’t support our actions against the Soviets" continued Gam allies "At the very least we should get Utah lands hack from the federal government" Gan stressed "We just cannot let the Soviets get away with Afghanistan I’m not afraid they will invade Iran or Pakistan What Pm afraid of is s retun to the policy of detente How many times must the united States tun the cheek before realising something must be done to save the country from the direction tt is heading in Pm not advocating military in tervention but advocate 'waging economic warfare" Gan explained "Economically we an still for superior to the Soviets We can hurt them economically Who does Carter think he is kidding when he institutes only a partial embargo of goods? Does he think goods shipped to East Germany won't in tun he shipped to the Soviets? What we must have is a total ban on all items to all Communist block countries “Some say we most not stop selling them food items I say let the Soviets divert some of - premature "If the draft were to resume today" aaid Gan "the country couldn’t handle the Influx of people The military has inadequate facilities equipment and personnel to train new recruits The president has the cart before the horse "One of the real problems in the military lies with retention of senior officers and ex perienced personnel We must find some way of retaining these individuals" Gan added "Our foreign policy places no penalties on our enemies and gives no rewards to our friends During the three years Carter has been in office foreign poUey has suffered mightily For example the Panama Canal was given away and the country actually ended up paying the Panamanians to take tt We Gan told The Herald Jounal In an in terview that then an really two issues in volving the MX missile system which have been clouded by the Utah media in recent weeks "First the nation must consider whether tt nally needs a new missile I am positive we must have one to safeguard our national defense The Soviet Union has outdeveloped missile-wis- e the the United States fouHo-on- e several mm have few years They past missile systems under research at the present and ban outspent us by $109 billion for strategic weapons In the past 10 yean "In two or three yean the Minuteman Missile will become vulnerable to first-strik- e capability by the Soviets This means they could destroy 9005 percent of this missle system" Mid Gan “The second issue is how best to deploy the new missile considering costs and military their huge military budget to agriculture Let them grow their own food!” Gan stressed "We must also take a tougher stand with our effectiveness Fvo worked closely for fiyC and just yean with the deployment question method don't think the raceOrackdosed-loo- p of deployment is the best option available Pve recently asked the president to have his top defense advlson consider other attenatlves” Gan continued "Hypothetically if the MX is deployed in Utah and Nevada I will Insist local concerns an heard by the military and adhered to I will not let the federal govenment run roughshod over local water and land concerns The govenment will also have to Include local impart eosts in the overall MX system costs and agree to help local govenment supply services to the thousands of people the system would bring into their communities" Gan said he fovon the Olympic boycott “The Intenational Olympic Committee shouldn't have awarded the Soviets the Olympics in the first place The Soviet Union worked very hard and very long in order to get the Olympics The Olympics an very important to them If the United States and other countries fell to appear It will really he a blow to them” Gan concluded Rebel resistance growing By United near the Afghan border Press International Resistance to the Soviet invasion forces in northeastern Afghanistan is growing with Afghan soldiers reportedly tuning on their Russian advisers to join Moslem rebels in liberating their country A spokesman for the HizM Islami or Islamic Front said today rebels have seixed a number of towns in recent battles including Mehterlam the capital of the northeastern province of Laghman In one instance' the guerrillas overran the town of All Shang also In Laghman after Afghan troops killed their Russian overseen and joined in the siege the spokesman said in Peshawar Pakistan soldiers in the northeastern provinces dose to the border with Pakistan But the Soviets appear to have the upper hand overall and continue to prepare for a major offensive in early spring the sources said Soviet military personnel are now being forced to assume Important positions a previously held by Afghan officers He Mid rebels are swooping down on Soviet eonvoys on many major roads including the highway linking Jalalabad to the Afghan capital of Kabul and the road from Kabul to the major western city of Herat u The rebel claims could not be confirmed in Islamabad Pakistan said Sunday they had reliable reports that rebel attacks on the road' has made travel independently Kabul-Jalalaba- bnt diplomats result of desertions and general deterioration of the Afghan army they said Pakistan over the weekend denied It wu allowing Afghan rebels to operate from its territory despite reports that the United States wu supplying small arms to guerrillas in the country as the Soviets have charged d unsafe sources said the Soviet troops in Afghanistan are encountering tough The diplomatic estimated' 90000 resistance from rebel and defected Afghan Court to hear reporters case 9 - WASHINGTON (UPI) Reporters from two Virginia newspapers were ejected from a murder trial In 1975 and Virginia’s supreme court later upheld the aecret criminal trial Chicago's Fire Commissioner Richard Albrecht (in white coat) turned out to assist in fighting a fire Sunday on Chicago's south side along with a volunteer city’jfvorlfericaggY firefighter continued their strike into a fifth day today in spite of heavy fines to the union and threats of mass firings by Mayor Jans Byrne (UPI telephoto) ' -i i! r: 1 f'-i- i- V 4 ' 1 And - Virginia Attorney er§ citation CHICAGO - examinationfiremen today candidates in an ata strike by Nearly 400 (UPI) wen given physical tempt by city officials to break firefighters The strike wu fat its fifth day today with no sign of a negotiated settlement No major fires have occurred since the firemen walked out The decision to start training replacements followed contempt of court citations issued Sunday by a judge who slapped the Fin Fighten Union Local 2 and seven of its leaden with $40000 in fines for each day the strike continued Mayor Jane M Byrne said late Sunday the rookie tinmen hired for temporary duty filling vacancies left by striking firefighters will be given a crash training course The 400 recruits an in addition to 250 permanent jobs authorised by the department lastweek The mayor who has ordered striking finfighters to appear befon the civil service hoard this week indicated she believes some of the recruits will be given uermanent nositions “It would appear at the present time that at least 500 hard-co- n strikers will he fired because they sre not fit to work for the City of Chicago" she said two-we-ek Bush wins big SAN JUAN Rico (UPI) 1 I Puerto Puerto Republicans Rican anxious to back a win- -: ner gave former UN Ambassador George Bush a big victory over t Sen Howard Baker and made him the official - 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The Herald Journal WLVaal In the rice for the GOP presidential nomination Complete nsults of front-runn- er supplied by the island’s Republican Party gave Bush 511 percent of the vote or 123J17 votes to 311 percent or 50752 votes for Baker the only two Republicans to mount roMiomw wmm f Mini Friday and Saadey mnrnlngLa by Fleneer NaaaSladL faJ NOn 99 Will Bfw MRfm HICt ft 4f7 lagan Utah 14)21 POl i Ob 1 wvwiy wvwmn TeNone 792-2- 1 Ih 21 Secend cleye gaeiagd mUMn aaid X USPS 1 141-02- 0 A adit luraaaal OwlaWana IRwTM nwm mvvwrvsMvimnmo NCA NawtSarvka sutsctnioNtAm Ona Maidl Carrier One Year Carrier Ona Year Mad lukKribm 9400 94400 S5700 receiving OTnvwvy wo wmw miwiw jovvvvmn I "Ibetara! pieeie phene pm weak nlgMaerVem Iw OmCIHOUKSi ' 090 am te 9:10 pm weekday 90 am la 1 2 JO pm letar balloting Sunday’s prolonged campaigns for Puerto Rican delegates Former Texas Gov John B Coonally whose campaign remarks landed him in trouble finished third but managed only 1934 votes or 09 percent He was followed by Mexican - American businessman Benjamin Fernandes with 1912 votes former Minnesota Gov Harold Stassen with 013 and Sen Robert who withDole drew in favor of Baker 513 The union Sunday defied a second injunction calling for its members to return to work Circuit Court Judge John F Hechinger after his efforts as a intermediary between union and city negotiators failed to produce an accord assessed fines of $21000 on the union $1000 each on local president Frank Muscare and Michael Lass an official of the International Firefighters Union and $1000 each on five other union officers for each successive day of the strike Muscare who repeated the union’s demand for a contract before returning to work told reporters after the hearing the court order will be defied “We will not pay We might as well go to jail now” Muscare said Tension between striking firefighters and those who chose to remain on the job heightened in the fourth day of the unprecedented walkout An estimated 1700 firefighters attended an afternoon rally in a downtown hotel and another 100 or so gathered outside a South Side fire station to taunt firefighters Inside who refused to leave their posts The onion claims the walkout is being supported by nearly 100 percent of Its 4300 members Depuy Fire Commissioner Charles J Pierce said about 400 firefighters were on the Job Sunday afternoon ( News of record - Jay Preston a Login Feb If a and Feb giriFehll and BIRTHS PmtWbI HANSEN Kim - and girl Carl CORDINGLY and Lela Logan a girl Dennis Logan a HODGES — Todd and Chris Logan a boy Feb 17 15 Farmers stage protest - WASHINGTON (UPI) Bringing only one tractor hundreds of formers arrived in town today seeking higher prices for their crops and permission to distill their own alcohol tor fueL Some set up alcohol stills near the Capitol One tractor — contrasting with thousands that jammed traffic in weeksJong demonstrations in Washington the last two years — was brought as proof that farm machinery can run on gasohol Gasohol is a combination of alcohol and gasoline Crews began setting up portable alcohol distilleries at four sites on the Washington Mall hut delayed production because of freezing weather Some 30 lobbyists visited Capitol hill but found only senators The House was in recess until Tuesday Spokesmen for the form group said some 500 formers would begin lobbying this week Meking better crop prices and permission to help make their own feel for machinery General Marshall Coleman wm defend the ruling that closed the trial on the grounds news accounts might have prejudiced the jury The reporters were ejected in September 1975 from the trial of John Paul Stevenson of Baltimore Md bring tried for the fourth time for the murder of a hotel manager One of his eartier trials ended when a prospective juror admitted he read stories of the killing and told other potential jurors The newspapers appealed Judge Richard the decision of a New York judge to close a pre-trihearing in a cbm involving the death of a former policeman By a one-vomargin the court held that a judge may bar the preps and public from pretrial hearings and perl al te m welL At noon Tuesday the AVA Guild meeting will feature a presentation on "Early Utah Art" given by Tony Christensen and George Wanlass Baby sitter will Logan Lions will not meet at noon Tuesday The Zone B social including Lions and ladies from River Heights Providence Hyrum Paradise The Bahai CUh of USU is sponsoring seventh the lecture in a series of lectures on world religions Wednesday at 5:30 pm in the University Lounge at the Student Center John Lund director of the LDS Institute of Religion will be speaking on the Church of Jmus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints The public is invited Wellsville Mendon and Logan will begin at 5:45 pm Thursday in the Utah State University Taggert Chairman Wes Nielsen asks that elub presidents be present by $:30 pm Thursday u Invited monthly be available Please bring a sack lunch for your child al j Newton animal control officer is holding a male springer and female white poodle They may be claimed by Feb 20 or they win be sod or euthanized Call 73M491 The Richmond City Council will bold the v Court refused to consider New York’s challenge to the automatic revenal of a man’s narcotics conviction because the trial was conducted in secret during testimony of a wltneu In January the court would not grant a Missouri man’s request that the prern aad J public he excluded from his pre-trihearing on murder charges On Tuesday the newspaper's lawyer is expected to say the Virginia Supreme Court mistakenly invoked a state law that allows judges to exclude any persons whose "presence would impair the conduct of a il Almost Immediately trial judges began closing courtroom doors across the country A recent study by the Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press found there have been 155 attempts to dose criminal proceedings in the seven months ending in February Both trials and pre-triproceedings are being closed not only for prejudice to the defendant’s right to obtain an impartial em jury but for such reasons About Cache Student Center Steven BARKER Michelle Hyrum COWLEY Camille 11 Feb girt Tuesday Laurence Tribe lawyer for the Richmond News Leader and the Richmond Times Dispatch win argue before the Supreme Court America haa a tradition of commitment to open trials central to the nation's form of government barrassment to the witnesMS and defendants Since its July decision the Supreme HC Taylor’s decision to Virginia’s top court which in July upheld the trial citing a US Supreme Court decision earlier the Mme month That decision affirmed feirtriaL" And Coleman is expected to say the constitutionality of Virginia's trial closure law was not addressed by lower courts and thus is not an issue ripe for Supreme Court review House will consider draft registration plan - WASHINGTON (UPI) A House committee Tuesday will take a look at the president’s draft registration proposal hut congressional action on registration is still some time away Selective Service chief Bernard Rotsker will testify before the House Armed Services subcommittee as part of that panel's work on an overall defense authorisation MIL However the first congressional action on the registration issue Is not expected until after Feb 21 hearings by a House Appropriations subcommittee on President Carter’s request for $20 million to put the registration of men into action Carter wants to register this year and year-old-s la 1951 and wants the money to put that program into effect Carter also wants to register women hut that issue has been separated from the main registration proposal and 19-a- congressional leaders do not give female registration much hope While Carter has the authority to register men Congress must approve the money to handle the project And he apparently plans to watt until the money is approved before setting the date for young men to appear at post offices to fill out registration cards The Armed Services Committee after Tuesday's hearing may not reach the issue of female registration until Mareh Its top priority is to finish work on the new defense authorization bill Senate committees have not yet scheduled hearings hut are also expected to take up the question soon Armed Services committees in both chambers must decide on the registration of women The appropriation panels will decide whether to authorize the money but could also get into the women's issue |