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Show Global Scene By MARTIN MCREYNOLDS BUENOS AIRES. Argentina Dedicated to the Progrets And Growth of Central Utah , 5, 1975, THE HERALD, Friday, December Provo, Utah-P- iUPI i The Argentine armed forces have launched a tough nationwide campaign against leftist g ?T!llas after sitting back for months and seeing civilian authorities helpless to halt the terrorism Military men handed the government back to elected officials in May. 1973. but the army now is deeply involved in activity it had "left to the civilian ese activities int clude of suspected ; and midnight sympa' am citizens in their 25 age Preserve Records, Photos Sons and daughters of a couple much-revere- d became family history oriented after the parents died. They had their own but memories, of course found few actual records, mostly scratched on backs of envelopes or in the family Bible ... All too frequently, when a person dies, his family can find no up-to-da- photograph newspapers. te for the High school or marrige' graduation pictures simply aren't acceptable for a 0 year old person ... Sometimes when a citizen d dies, the family is to find the essential material for an obituary ... 50-7- hard-presse- often precious Too photography historic and otherwise, are not filed. Relegated to gather dust in attics, keepsake photos ars forgotten as generations change and sometimes are thrown out or burned by new owners of the house, oblivious to the value ... The above are typical situations demonstrating the need in the average family for good recordkeeping. A families great many keep good histories. In fact, partly through the emphasis placed on genealogy in this area, families probably are record better-fixe- d - wise than in most areas. Yet there are problems lack of records, poor filing systems, failure to take care of pictures, failure to record information on vital events, etc. Dr. Earl When C. sleep this week the community quietly lost one of its revered educators. At 72 he was enjoying the rank of professor emeritus in economics at Brigham University, an Young institution he had served as a professor, vice president for 11 years, and acting president for a year. Crockett Dr. was attracted to BYU in 1958 from the University of Colorado where he was chairman of the department of social sciences and assistant to the vice president. Prior to that he was affiliated with a number of institutions and during World War II served as principal economist for the War Production Board in Washington, D.C. & I f 0 The solutions to the above hr safekeeping histories, photographs, documents. - personal therefore legally publishable by any newspaper. If a marriage license is withheld, there must be a very good reason. The fact that publication might cause inconvenience to the parties is usually not sufficient reason. One such exception to our strict rule was this It was the second marriage for both parties, and they had married with the assurance that their divorces had become final Two years later when they were in their neighborhood and the wife was expecting, they learned that one of the attorneys had failed to file the final divorce decree, even though the court had granted the divorce. I'nlortunately, a divorce is not final until the decree is filed The couple therefore obtained another marriage iff and Marriage papers, church records, insurance policies, key transactions, family histories these and other documents should be kept safe from fire and theft, yet readily accessible, with their location known to family members. The wisdom of such practices, we believe, eventually is borne out in most families. As a high point in his BYU career, he served as acting president while President Ernest L. Wilkinson campaigned for the U.S. Senate in 1964. In 1968 Dr. Crockett chose to return to his teaching responsibilities. He had been honored on several occasions by his colleagues for scholarship and served on numerous national and regional educational committees and commissions. In tribute to his memory, his family has established the Earl C. Crockett Student Memorial Fund at BYU. Details of the scholarship fund's use are yet to be decided. The fact that it exists simply perpetuates the personal dedication of a man who will be greatly missed. required And that is why The Daily Herald countv clerk's office b , i - WASHIGTON Pollster of the Week & Space Technology, a bv the Louis Harris said recently that "by a lopsided 71 percent to 23 magazine most Americans complain in hard, clear terms that 'the trouble with most leaders is they treat the public as though it has a mentality, instead of as grown up human beings who can take ' the hard truth on most issues lead editorial, publication's editor Robert Hotz charged that, after six years, the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) have "vastly improved the Soviets' military position in relation to the United States by failing to curtail any of their advanced percent, The gulf between the public and its leadership has rarely been so wide or deep." Nowhere is the evidence of that treatment more glaring or more potentially dangerous than in the crucial area of national security. Examples of the federal government's reluctance to level with the American public on security and defense issues abound. Item: when Schlesinger was Secretary of James fired the Item: Pentagon's of dominance overall West." Thi publish ultimate, over the reporter, was the first to incidentally, the State McGraw document's Department. of State Henry Secretary Kissinger reportedly blamed Schlesinger for declassification of the paper and, not surprisingly, after the Defense chief subsequently was fired, his colleague Lt. Gen. Daniel 0 Graham, director of the DIA. promptly resigned. At a press briefing later. Graham was asked about the release of the Estimate After a long pause, he replied that, in hindsight, it had been a "mistake" to give it to the this is public. And remember a document that is nothing more than a compilation and analysis of what Moscow has been saying publicly about detente. The of our irony government fearing to tell us what Russia is is telling its own people obvious. To such criticism, however. the American Kissinger has godfather of detente appeared oblivious. That is, until recently. In the wake of public Hill. In strategic systems development programs, while eroding key U.S. programs fiscally, politically and technically." More damning yet, Holtz, who is respected around Washington for his savvy in defense matters, said a major factor in the decline of U.S. defense capabilities through SALT has been "a deliberate fxiicy of secrecy and deception Don gross U.S. policy errors that are asteadily building an irreversible Soviet military advantage." Kissinger jumped on the editorial the following day at a press conference in Detroit. Calling Hotz' allegations a "disgrace," the Secretary said, "when there is a report of violation, it is investigated ... there has been no violation that has been reported that has not been brought to the attention of the Soviet Union and has not been energetically pursued ..." He added ihat the Soviet Union is "building up its strategic forces but not on the basis of violations of the agreement, but on the basis of investment in its strategic forces. "I do not believe that the Soviet Union can build an irreversible advantage in strategic forces ... if we are on our toes " The in his Secretary may be right latter appraisal one fervently hopes so. However, the possibility that a potentially hostile Russia is heading for or has already attained a clear nuclear superiority to the U.S. will continue to haunt thinking Americans until the day that Kissinger et al. decide we are mature enough to be told the truth about Moscow's and military capabilities designs. outcry that the firing of accompanied CIA Director and Schlesinger William Colby, Kissinger increasingly has been drawn into the open in defense of his handling of detente. One of the sharpest barbs to v hurled at Kissinger was launched last week bv Aviation Oakley Luckily, We're Poor Liars old "Mission: Impossible" television series, the recorded voice that gave the chief of the team of secret agents his aggisnment of the week always concluded with the warning that, should he or any of his people be captured or killed, "the secretary will disavow all knowledge." Of course. Why tip off the bad guys that the good guys were prepared to use any and all ingenious, if illegal or immoral, means to thwart the forces of from evil wherever found to and entering breaking elaborate electronic bugging, from kidnaping to the use of In the drugs'" Fortunately, such was the skill and timing of the Mission Impossible team that the secretary, whoever he was. was never placed in the of situation embarrassing all to "disavow having mind-alterin- split-secon- " knowledge Unfortunately, if life has a way of imitating art. inthecase fe of certain of America s rea has it intelligence operations done so in a way that would be comical if it were not so disastrous. And any comfort that can be found in the belief that several presidents of the United States over the past 20 vears mav not always have had alleged corruption in her government Talk of a military coup is relatively muted after rising and falling with tidal regularity in recent months. The military men have made it known repeatedly in background talks with reporters that they are primarily interested in eliminating the guerrilla threat. They have ruled out direct intervention in politics except for an extreme rase of danger to the nation or a breakdown of government. The army tried for months to leave work to the police. But soldiers finally went into the mountains of Tucuman lYovince in the northwest last February to fight rural guerrillas of the People's Revolutionary Army, a doctrinaire Marxist group. Mrs. Peron authorized the Tucuman operation in a limited area. While she was on a leave of absence in October to restore her battered nerves, acting President Italo Luder signed decrees extending the jurisdiction of the armed forces to the entire country and placing local police forces under military control. Air force planes have bombed suspected guerrilla hideouts in Tucuman and the navy announced it would send marines to join the soldiers, police and border troops in combat. But the army is calling the shots in raids and roundups of suspects in cities throughout Argentina. In Sierra Grande, 620 miles south of Buenos Aires, police acting under army orders strikebound iron occupied mines and arrested 300 persons accused of taking part in a subversive movement. It was the boldest action to. date against alleged leftist guerrilla activity in factories and mines. Elsewhere, combined patrols of soldiers and police rounded up scores of leftist suspects in any knowledge to disavow is more than offset by the shattering realization that they willingly or unwillingly could have been in such ignorance. only that, but if the current President had his way, all Americans would still be in ignorance of the reprehensible things done, or attempted, in their name. To their credit, television's fictitious agents never actually plotted the assassination of anyone, although at the end of more than one episode viewers were left in no doubt that the thoroughly confused bad guys wx're about to knock off each other. No credit at all is due the Central Intelligence Agency for the fact that numerous plots against the life of Fidel Castro and others were fiascos, or that one of three deaths in which the CIA was involved to some degree, that of Chilean Gen Rem' was the Schneider, inadvertent result of a bungled kidnaping All credit and praise is due those members of the Senate who Intelligence Committee X'rsisted in making public the full story or as full a story as could be pieced together of Not CIA's "Missions: Dishonorable" in the face of the strenuous resistance from the White House and despite objections from some of their own colleagues. As for those senators and President Ford and any other Americans who. while not condoning the murder of foreign leaders of overthrow governments nevertheless we or the foreign don't like fear that the of such exposure attempts will somehow work to the harm of the U.S., one can only ask them this: Where do they and how propose drawing the line for decency and morality'' Or should we just sweep it all under the rug and hope it never happens again" sweeping operations. In Mondoza. near the Chilean border to the west, 17 persons wtre reported seized in their homes last weekend, some in raids by armed men wearing hoods. There was no official report of arrests, but a provincial government official reminded newsmen that detention of subversive suspects had hecome a matter for military authorities and was no longer in civilian hands. pre-daw- n M.!X)N. Dec 11 - The Almanac Bv United 112-1- Berry's World Sirgima Press International is Friday. Dec 5. the .TOth day of l!7.r. with 26 to today follow The moon is Ix'twecn its new phase and first quarter The morning stars are Venus. Mars and Saturn The evening stars are Mer- cury and Jupiter Those Ixirn on this date are under the sign of Sagittarius American movie-makeWalt Disney w as born Dec 5. 1901 On this day in history In 1776. the first scholastic Phi fraternity in America Beta Kappa was organized at Wfcliam and Mary College in r In 1848 President James Polk confirmed the discovery of gold in California, leading to the famed "Gold Hush" of 1818 and '49 In l!).'l'i. liquor imbibition when Utah was alxilished Ixrame the !i()th state to ratify the 21st Amendment to the (oust it ut ion In 1963. former New York Gov and Sen Herbert Lehman died A thought for the day Henry Bnxiks Adams said "Accident counts for much in companionship as in marriage " American historian .ne Commons w idened the growing breech with the colonies bv passing the Prohibitory The Art by a vole of legislation would halt all trade in America f mm overseas Hi ise of Today in History consistently the - part of the Nixon and Ford administrations that has tried desperately to conceal from the U.S. Congress and public the Soviet violations of both the letter and spirit of the SALT agreements and the on the as Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) earlier this fall quietly a document declassified entitled "Detente in Soviet Strategy" which made it clear that threrosy U.S. view of detente was not shared by the U.S.S.R., which views it as a policy "intended to facilitate their attainment published Defense, President Ford repeatedly insisted that the action was not a result of policy differences. has Schlesinger, however, since stated publicly that he was fired for opposing a defense spending cut of nearly $10 billion below an intial White House projection. the license and were remarried. This is an example of a "justifiable reason" for keeping a license out of print, as we see it. It is often difficult to understand why some people are so adamant in their desire for anonymity. Surely it is better to have people know that a legal marriage exists than to risk the assumption that the couple is living together in an unsanctioned union. Without question, some of the people who request that their marriage licenses be withheld from the paper do not understand the principle involved in obtaining a marriage license in the first place. A marriage license is a requirement of civil law, a stipulation placed upon the couple by society. It is a declaration to society that the legal status of the individuals has changed. There are now new legal ties and new legal responsibilities involved which may be of concern to all people who do business with them The type of ceremony which the couple selects to bind the legal contract after the license is obtained, and the personal part of marriage between the two. are indeed private to the individual couple. There remains, however, that change in legal status which society has a right to know about That is precisely why the marriage license is continues to print listings marriage licenses issued by Public Misled on Defense? v- - of a j lee Roderick ' findings, or "estimate." Although the author of the study. Dr. Winifred Joshua, insisted to me that its conclusions were wholely taken from Soviet sources that are publicly available, its release by DIA still caused a furor at Why Publish Them? rmation and So here's to 'growth that is steady and lasting.'" licenses, military discharge financial including investigations records, Marriage Licenses: For many years The Daily Herald has had a "policy of printing all marriage licenses issued, and with very few exceptions, has done just that. The licenses are public info- problems should have places of (he Beaf By JOSEPHINE ZIMMERMAN is Periodically. The Daily Herald approached by a couple requesting that their marriage license be kept out of the paper. While the reasons they present are varied, usually the request comes down to two assertions, that marriage is a private ailair just between the two of them and does not concern anyone else, and that a to newspaper does not have the right their without information such print express consent. lYesident Isabel Peron. who proved unable to wipe out the guerrillas during more than 16 months in office, has been left to wrestle with her political situations seem obvious. Every family should have record keepers ... including each individual family unit. Special effort should be made to have new pictures taken at reguh r intervals in one's life. Records should include the essential information, at fingertips, for use in any emergency. Beyond this, each family Tribute to Earl Crockett Crockett died quietly in his norm--- . "When the Office of Management and Budget can't manage or budget itself. got a feeling " we may be in trouble. Ie |