Show ©g&ett 4A OGDEN E l?ianlmr&-3:xamtn- the people 16 1981 TO RIAL I Decision misread Clearfield To all spouses: Someone has misread the “High court decision on military pensions” last June 26 The US Supreme Court concluded that it was up to Congress — NOT the courts — to decide whether former military spouses are entitled to retirement benefits So start writing your representatives in Congress asking them to contact the Armed Services Committee to support these bills and to schedule hearings: S888 a bill of economic plight of all to regain their benefits HR1296 (J Burton) to restore benefits (medical) to former spouses of military personnel married at least 20 years It needs to be retroactive Also write Sen John Tower of Texas chairman of the Senate Fight over running the Colorado The National Park Service this week resolved through a compromise half of a continuing fight over methods of running the Colorado River from Utah’s Lake Powell through Grand Canyon National Park But the other half of the dispute remains to be settled ex-milita- ry generators are already used for peak hour generating This is done by opening intake gates so more water pours through the plant at the base of the dam from around 6 am to 9 am and again from 6 am to 9 pm When more water is flow- And unless common sense ing the river level downprevails any form of boating stream from Lake Powell to inn the deep twisting colorful Lake Mead rises appreciably historic canyon will be When the flow is reduced durk hours the level ing endangered The Park Service decided drops d Boatmen aren’t happy abrafts will that be permitted on the famed riv- out the present situation Iner except from Sept 15 to Dec creasing the generating 15 of each year During those capacity they contend would three months only aggrevate an already vexing rafts or dorries will be problem allowed to make the run They charge that camping and “white the hazardous rafting along the Colorado through in the Grand Canyon would be water’’ rapids The decision came after two disrupted even more than it is years of debate on alternative now and fish populations — plans for controlling recrea- particularly the trout in the tional traffic on the river En- colder stretches below Lee’s — would be vironmental groups had pushed for a complete ban on all jeopardized d craft Campsites are washed out Still to be decided is a pro- or left high and dry Banks posal by the Bureau of Recla-matio- n and vegetation are eroded by for adding 250 the “power waves” that are megawatts to the hydroelectr- created ex-spous- es off-pea- motor-powere- oar-power- Ferry motor-powere- The boatmen lorriemen Canyon Dam by managing and raft operators have made flow of the Colorado River in a a good case For the Bureau of Reclamaway that would increase flucflow in tion to spend additional milltuations the stream’s The idea is to add more ions and ruin recreation on the generators so additional pow- scenic Colorado would be ill er could be developed during advised The new system would not periods of peak demand over when are the year develop more the hours Those most homes have their stoves power since the river is aland other appliances going to ready fully utilized Only prepare breakfast and in the hours of generation would be evening when air conditioners changed That would be a are at full power dinner is highly questionable achievebeing prepared and television ment for an action that would and stereo sets are blasting be so harmful to the river and the humans and fish who enaway The Glen Canyon Dam joy it N Y JEWJTEAI: PAY CUTS OOULP SBf ed ic generating capacity of Glen 'animals' PAVi COUNTy- CLEKK - OTER A Reagan stalwart's lament WASHINGTON — I am a staunch supporter of Ronald Reagan’s foreign posture Although “foreign policy” has not yet been articulated the Reagan foreign posture is unmistakable: A tough-minde- approach to the d Soviet Union on arms reduction and its sponsorship of terrorism a rejection of Third World demands for psychological and material coddling and the projection of the impression that the US is again a reliable ally At the same time I oppose the Reagan administration’s decision to abrogate past assurances to the Senate and to sell Saudi Arabia equipment that would enable its to bomb Israel combined with F-15- ’s its proposal to sell our most supersecret command and control equipment to a feudal regime in danger of an internal revolt which could lead to a Soviet advantage in reading American defenses Those contrary views — generally for specifically against — leave my head in a state that Prof Leon Festinger once described as “cog- g nitive dissonance” with the part of my brain yelling at the zig-gin- Kai-she- B Tirado ar ’s Layton In August my wife Leona and I were amazed and delighted with the modern technology in the medical profession We accompanied our pregnant daughter to the hospital where her doctor put her on a scanner On a TV screen it showed she is doing to have twins With the technology they have now the doctors are able to detect many things such as will the baby be defective whether it will have all its arms and legs or whether it will be mongoloid or even mentally retarded Now let’s get to Senator Hatch and his stand on abortion I don’t think he ever made a trip to the American Fork facility and saw all the mentally regarded and those crippled in other ways I don’t think he has the slightest conception of the heartache untold anguish and mental distress put on the family especially the mother n to say nothing of the financial on the family and taxpayers Now I’ll bet Senator Hatch’s attitude would change if his wife were pregnant and the doctor put her on the scanner and predicted her baby would be a mongoloid with no arms or legs Yes I think he would wish for an abortion However with the thought in mind that he still wants to stop abortions I wish he had to pay all the bills for the care when there could have been an abortion de-rai- JF F-1- Wise Happy students thumb-in-the-ey- to Israel The way for Reagan not to look bad is not to let his advisers get him into such a mess Los Angeles On Oct 2 I attended the dedication ceremony of the Ogden High School flagpole cour in memory of former principal Maurice R Conroy Anthony Lewis U S put-dow- ns tug-of-w- sale is not a test of strength between president and Congress nor a partisan fight between Democratic doves and Republican hawks but a test of wisdom that supporters of Ronald Reagan must not let him flunk As we now know the combined AWACS and 5 enhancement deal had its genesis in an unauthorized sales pitch by some of our least competent generals It was secretly advanced by the Carter e men as their farewell Virginia Payette nt zagging part to get in line to restore consonance and consistency Many other loyal Republicans conservatives and longtime hawks are going through the same internal Our problem is worsened at the sight of Tip O’Neill gleefully using the AWACS vote to resuscitate his party and strike at Ronald Reagan Worse still for our morale is the spectacle of Walter Mondale who as Jimmy Carter’s vice president twisted Sen Muriel Humphrey’s arm until she voted for the sale of to the Saudis now posing as a great defender of Israel by denouncing Reagan for following Carter’s custom of acceding to Arab wish lists President Reagan has not made it easy for us either by insisting that a vote against him on AWACS would damage the foreign posture of strength and determination that we applaud In such a bind what is F-15- Pearl Medical advances a stalwart to do? We do not strengthen our presidents or help along their ability to conduct foreign policy by acquiescing in blunders The AWACS 30-year-- If you’re hankering for a good them nowhere Chiang Ching-ku- o soap opera tune in to the courtship who became president of Taiwan of the year wherein the communist when his father died in 1975 Romeos in China are wooing the shrugged off the early overtures as nationalists in Taiwan — and get- “another joke” and repeated his vow never to negotiate with Peking ting spurned with every pass It’s got everything More sus- until it abandons communism and more pas- adopts a constitutional governpense than “Dallas” sion than “Days of Our Lives” ment more action than “General HospiA few days later the red Chinese tal” tried again They came up with a The ratings aren’t as good as nine-poiplan that would let they should be and that’s too bad Taiwan “return” to China but Because how this drama plays out keep its economic political and could change the course of history military systems They even danglin a large part of the world ed the offer of a cabinet post or two You know the plot Seventy years Taiwan spurned that suggestion Yat-se- n Sun this month threw with what has to be one of the most ago the last emperor out of China set- wonderful in diplomatic ting the stage for a bloody civil war history: They called it a “peace that started in the 1920s and ended offensive” in 1949 That’s when the communUndaunted our hero came back k who ists defeated Chiang with offer to open up sea and air fled with his nationalists to the links an with the nationalists set up a offshore island of Taiwan service exchange visits by There much to the surprise of postal relatives the rest of the world including the academic and tourists and set up cultural and sports red Chinese he created an indeprograms pendent economy that turned out to The nationalists scorned that apbe a smashing success a model of too “Just more propaganinnovation and that proach enterprise da” in international trade they sniffed “one more trick prospered of the mainon the treacherous Chinese comMeanwhile back land the communists floundered munist front” for 32 years in recurring fiascos Peking persisted with an invitaboth political and economic But tion to Chiang and other nationalist they never gave up their threats to leaders to visit their Chinese home reunite China by “liberalizing” the towns and pay their respects to nationalists — with force if neces- their ancestors Party Chairman Hu Yaobang even suggested that sary Now in true soap-oper- a style Chiang bring his father’s remains they’ve seen the guiding light Sud- back to be buried in the family denly in the last few weeks they- cemetery on the mainland ’ve started romancing Taiwan — Chiang’s response to that was the not with flowers and candy but Chinese equivalent of “no wav with suggestions that both sides Jose” should get together and share ruling powers (United Feature Syndicate) And their sw’eet talk is getting Washington DC 20510 and Rep Melvin Price of Illinolis chairman House Armed Services Committee Washington DC 20515 Identify the bill number in the first line of your letter now reported recovering physically although she is bound to have the mental night- China and Taiwan Armed Services Committee William Safire ing the nun bleeding on the floor they have it now The recent mutilation and nun in mares that all rape victims rape of a the Sisters of Charity convent suffer A neighbor called the attacin East Harlem is an atrocity that should outrage all decent kers “animals” That’s an insult to animals! If this hapAmericans The young woman encoun- pened in Ogden residents tered two men who broke into would demand that police the convent through a door in spare no effort in capturing the roof They raped her the men responsible Reaction carved 27 crude crosses on her should be the same in New body stole $50 and fled leav- - York City MAY GET COUNTY EMPLOYEES PPOMOTTO If residents and officials of Fortunately other sisters in New York City ever needed a the convent found her before good reason to begin a she bled to death and she is crusade against criminals Yoke of v FRIDAY OCT UTAH D Er sets policy by gyration If there is a shrewd professor somewhere writing a book on American foreign policy he has the material at hand for a riveting chapter on What Not to Do His case study would be the record of Middle East policy in the first nine months of the Reagan administration In rapid order the administration has: — Urged Jordan and Saudi Arabia to join a “strategic consensus” including Israel to resist Soviet influence in the area — Agreed to sell AWACS radar planes to the Saudis —Declared a “strategic partnership” with Israel —Sharply criticized Israel for objecting to the AWACS deal —Casually announced a profound American commitment to the defense of the present Saudi regime —Similarly hinted that the United States would act militarily to preserve its role in Egypt — Announced The hour and one half ceremonies included speeches by visiting alumni school officials and class officers There were over 1000 students in attendance I was highly impressed by their polite attention their enthusiastic response to the program and standing ovations for the speakers At a time when our young people back up the military commit- Mubarak will be struggling in the are subject to so much criticism ments If there were an invasion of months ahead to consolidate his due to alleged poor behavior and Saudi Arabia say or the more position and achieve a new sta- thoughtlessness I wanted your likely event of a revolution in one of bility readers to know about the happy What does he most urgently spirited appreciative students of those countries what American forces would deal with the prob- need? Not American flying School lem and how? The commitments by but economic gains at home — Ogden High Gary Conroy Ed D are reminiscent of the exchange in and next door in the Sudan where food shortages underlie much unShakespeare’s “Henry IV”: Glendower: I can call spirits rest Not tough words from Alexan- Good news? from the vasty deep der Haig but enough progress on Hotspur: Why so can I or so can the Palestinian problem to allow Clearfield reconciliation with other moderate any man I don’t think I can take all of this But will they come when you do Arabs especially the Saudis news at once The United States cannot do good call for them? Son of Sam killer getting social But the most striking character- much about the currents of fanatisecurity Those poor congressmen istic of the various initiatives is cism in the Middle East The awful losing their elvator operators who their irrelevance rejoicing at Sadat’s death by his earn an average of $11000 a year The administration has talked critics reminded us that those ele- A $75000 grant to WSC to study how about the' Soviet threat and pro- ments are realities West world affects What we can do — what we must duced fancy ideas to deal with it Then there’s poor Danny Ainge do — is to work at the difficult tasks who made a career from AWACS to strategic consenmistake but sus But not one of the explosive of politics and economics where earns a salary! developments in the Middle East American talents can be effective I be prejudiced but take a since January has involved direct For example we should be urg- poll might Hill AFB and see how many at or as far as we know indirect ing Israel now to make a dramatic airmen and lower NCO’s (not officSoviet action gesture in the autonomy talks such ers) who could and do qualify for The fundamental aim of the Un- as an offer to freeze all West Bank food stamps ited States under President settlement activity in order to I really wonder how many of bring Palestinians into the talks Reagan as under his predecessors those high paid sports players and That would be in keeping with politicians would defend is stability in the region Yet the their commitments Anwar Sadat did: take a country for a what and actions military a $600 month measly undertaken since January have great risk to break through hostili- I as many others have given my risk for time in the military Now with Prebeen mostly irrelevant to the fac- ty — a some tors threatening stability peace sident Sadat killed the tension No one should pretend that perindeed may intensify the threats grows more intense Consider what has happened in suading Israel to make a meaningTake it from one who knows I can’t tell you how or who on to Egypt and what waits in the ful gesture toward the Palestinians wings President Sadat did not lack will be easy The Israelis have real report the news but as Lewis Griz-zar- d for American weapons he had re- concerns and all we can do is says enough is enough I don’t ceived billions in military aid But persuade care where Richard Nixon buys a But it is for such a vital political new house or where he locates his his failure to make any visible Palestion the objective that America’s capital library just so it isn’t with taxpayprogress with Israel in with Israel should be spent not for ers’ money nian question left him friendless the Arab world His failure to pro- irrelevant AWACS The notion that I guess all of these problems duce tangible economic benefits sudden military commitments don’t amount to much but I just hurt him in Egypt And he was here and there can solve the politic- wanted to get it all off my chest murdered we are told by Islamic al problems of the Middle East is Oh almost forgot about those prisfundamentalists who could not im- fantasy: dangerous fantasy on inmates getting social security Get yourself disabled and trv to aginably be moved by US military commitments Times collect! Service) (NY joint military Su- maneuvers with Egypt and the suggesting a new commitment to the Sudanese government It is a record of gyration of in- dan consistency between one move and the next of flailing about The sense of calm and steady purpose that is essential if other countries are to have confidence in American policy has been utterly lacking The sweeping new military commitments in areas where the United States has not had treaty obligations are startling examples of the executive branch acting without consulting Congress What is startling is the seeming rebirth of the Imperial Presidency that was supposedly cut down by Congress after the disastrous presidential commitments in Vietnam Even more noteworthy is the absence of any visible muscle to B-52- ’s six-figu- re self-interest- ed Sadat’s successor Hosni Larry L Kerr |