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Show :4 MoVUY. A, Op inions r Laffertys Nee Thus far, judges have been very tolerant of requests by the Lafferty What should be the U.S. stance on Cuba? i46(u.s.) Try to improve relations X'T Keep the same ft 10 36 brothers to defend (U.S.) (U.S.) J (WS while and y themselves, the process has been fairly routine to date ) Clear regional differences surfaces, with those closer the island nation taking the tougher prosition. that accommodation Take harder line that should continue o o 0 Try to improve relations NEast 42 38 Keep the same 11 9 No opinion answer The survey group was sharply trip to Cuba, with 61 N o 0 o 0 CfnL South 43 35 52 12 10 7 31 10 critical of disappoving seemed reasonable, but it is difficult to believe o 0 o West 44 Infl. 27 41 7 8 41 very long. Both men face very serious charges and since they are held 7 25 without bail on the most serious, they will not be free to gather evidence Jackson's recent while only 29't approved. conducted at Walt Disney World's Epcot Center. Visitors to Epcot are polled daily and their responses are tabulated by computer. The results of the poll are analyzed by the New York research and public opinion polling firm of Allen, ShapInc. iro and Keller-ASK- , LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. A survey on relations (UPI) between Cuba and the United States, and the propriety of Jesse Jackson's visit in June to that country, shows sharp division among Americans. More than 9,200 participated the poll at Walt Disney in World's Epcot Center shortly after Jackson returned to the United States with 48 prisoners 11 " l'JJ J t for their defense. Ron Lafferty says he and his brother are innocent of murder and until proven otherwise, they are. Ron told a newsman in Nevada that he and his brother Dan were drugged and their personal belongings were stolen. The Laffertys apparently plan to raise constitutional issues in their defense. In pre- vious bouts with the law, they have unsuc unss cessfully challenged the jurisdiction of the courts over them. They have also told the news media that they believe they are victims of a plot by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Jay Saints to frame them. With all of those sues at stake, it would seem prudent that they be provided with the most competent defense available, and it is hard to believe they will get that if they are granted is- their wish to be their own counsel. One of a judge's most grave responsibilities is to see a trial is fair, and local judges have earned a reputation for fairness. In this case, loaded as it is with religious over- tones, it would seem vital the Laffertys be given the best possible chance to present their defense, and that means with proper legal Theater Thriving in the Schools Jesse Jackson Trip To Cuba Unapproved Editor's note: The following Epcot Poll was - Page The Herald Comments What should be the United Sutet' stance oa Cuba" la the tke of the release of '. prisoners from Cuban Jails to Jetie Jackton and hints that Fidel Castro might be setting better relations, Epcot Poll participants were asked what the U.S. should do. ..and how they viewed Jackson's mission. Take harder line I Uh. r4$ The Herald, its readers, syndicated columnists and cartoonists discuss ital issues 16FCOT POD. Bbi THL HHP. ALL) Provo. from Cuban jails. Of those surveyed, 51 percent said they disapproved of Jackson's mission, while 29 percent approved. Ten percent had no opinion. When asked what the United States should do about Cuba, 46 percent of those polled said the United States should take a "harder line," with residents of Southern states advocating the toughest position. Ten percent favored no change in relations, and 36 percent said attempts should be made to improve relations. Also in the survey group were 2,073 international participants. Among them, 41 percent said they favored trying to improve relations, while 27 percent stuck with the "hard line" approach. Is Falling" with a reprise at the end. The second grade was well into "Grump, Grump, Watch the Bump" when I turned to Renfrew and said, "It's 10:30. I have to get to my office." "Ursula has seen me," Renfrew whispered. "I can't go now." Whoever thinks the theater is dying in America probably doesn't have any children of school age. The truth is that the class play is still the hottest entertainment around. It is playing to capacity, captive audiences everywhere. It was on m y way to work with my friend Renfrew one morning, and he asked if I would mind stopping by his daughter's school. He had promised to see her in "Hark! Is a That a Snowflake Falling?" play that the eighth grade had been working on for three months. Since Renfrew drives me to work on cold, wet mornings. I didn't have much choice but to say I would. "It won't take but a few minutes," he assured me. We went into the school auditorium, which was rapidly filling up with proud parents, though I noticed most of the fathers were anxiously looking at their watches. A teacher handed us a mimeographed program that I scanned for a few Which one is Ursula?" of the snow-flakes,- " Renfew said. "There are 15 snowflakes." "She's the one who's waving to me." He waved back. "It won't take long." As each child finished the lines in his play, I noticed an anxious father jump up from his seat and dash for the door. After the third, fourth and fifth grades had finished their presentations, the auditorium was I like Renfrew, but I couldn't help wishing he had a child in one of the earlier grades. The sixth grade did a mystery play, and the seventh performed "How They Got the Fir Tree from Maine to Arizona," which required a sequence about each "She's one m Art Ihichuald 1. seconds, and then I said, horrified, "Renfrew, each class has its own play, starting with the kindergarten. "Hark! Is That a is listed as Snowflake Palling the ninth item." "It will go fast." he assured me. "They're very short plays." We waited for the 9 a.m. curtain to go up, but because of some hitch, it didn't go up until 9:35. half-empt- state en route. It was 11:50. Only the parents of the eight graders were still there, and one stranger who, if he had to do it all over again, would have gone to work by taxi. Finally, "Hark! Is That a Snowflake Falling?" was ready to be performed. A hush weent over the audience. "No matter how many times I see her on the stage, I still tense up," Renfrew said. A fairy princess came down the line of snowflakes and held her wand over Ursula's head. "And what do you want to be?" Ursula stood up straight and blurted out, "I want to be the first snowflake this morning that any child will see." The princess moved on. "Okay," Renfrew said, "we can leave now." "You got to be kidding," I said. "We sat here four hours for one line?" Decayed Tree Had To Be Cut Down One Man's Posy Another's Weed No one in his right mind y would take issue with Hugh on anything. But not being of sound mind, I choose to disagree with his displeasure with Provo City over a tree that was cut down in his neighborhood. One of the things Provo takes very seriously is its trees especially the ones growing on city rights-of-waIn fact a citizen group that labors under the august handle of the Urban Forestry Commission sets standards about which trees should come down. The particular tree that drew the Nibley ire was a dangerous The (UPI) I am pleased to note, has expanded by 17 species the list of 76 foreign "noxious" weeds that are subject to import restrictions. The action by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service means that nobody can lawfully bring the weeds into this counWASHINGTON U.S. government, V y. try without getting Robert McDougall HERALD EDITOR weed-fancier- one. Its beauty was undisputed, if didn't have to live under it. But the thing was a "whited sepulcher," nice on the outside but rotten, dead and decayed inside. It was all form and no substance. People living around it were you afraid the dead branches it would shed with the least wind would fall and kill someone. When city crews got checking, the tree was so rotten it posed a genuine danger they took it out. of falling, so They sent me a cross section to show how bad it was. I'm glad it wasn't in my yard. No one likes to see a tree taken down, especially a stately old one we have come to love, but when aesthetics and safety have to be balanced, safety must win. Provo has a fairly aggressive replacement program, however, and plants new trees every year to help replace the ones we lose hopefully they will start a new tree in this ones place. a permit from the Agriculture Department. While it is difficult to imagine the department being so heartless as to deny an import license to noxious I say the move is long overdue. That some travelers to foreign lands will go to any length to enhance their noxious weed collection is apparent to anyone who has spent any time at a port of entry. I've known returning globetrotters to try to fool customs inspectors by pressing noxious weeds in the family Bible between the bride's bouquet that Aunt Mossy Belle caught at Cousin Lobelia's wedding and the carnation Uncle Rimbeau s, The kindergarten did "Up the Chimney," which went for 10 minutes. The first grade did a musical titled "Hark! The Sky top-secr- - memoranA dum on the Persian tough-talkin- Gulf War has some State Department officials alarmed over the prospect of U.S. military involvement in conflict. the four-yeIt describes five "thresholds" that must be crossed before the United States would be drawn into a shooting war with Iran. What alarms the State Department officials is that, in the ar memo's scenario, the United States has already stepped across Threshold No. 3. Two more and the balloon goes up. The memo's author, Adm. John Howe, was head of the State Department's bureau of politico-militar- y affairs until He set down his thoughts on May 22 in a memo intended only for the eyes of a last month. few policy makers. State Department sources have described its contents to my associate Lucette Lagnado. Here are the five thresholds laid out by the admiral: Threshold 1: Iran and Iraq are at war. Other Persian Gulf high-place- d states, though understandably concerned, do not get involved militarily. The United States also keeps hands off. - Threshold 2: The Gulf states start getting involved militarily using their limited such as protectcapabilities ing oil tankers with their own aircraft. The United States monitors the situation, but does not commit its own planes or ships. Threshold 3: The Gulf states feel so threatened by Iran that they call for active U.S. military help. This has already occurred. AWACS surveillance in the region has been beefed up, according to sources, and American aerial tankers have been refueling Saudi fighter planes patrolling the Gulf. Referring to Threshold 3, a State Department source said bluntly, "We are there now." Threshold 4: The United - States becomes actively United States then takes military action against Iran, with "an active use of American forces to take out targets in Iran," according to the sources' The description of Howe's scenario. Although most of the sources believe there is still a good distance between thresholds 3 and 5, others are not so sure. Health Inspection Service regards the former as the prime menace. But I believe the threat to our morals is a greater danger. Oh, I suppose some Americans may be genuinely fond of Rubus moluccanus, a type of wild raspberry that is one of the 17 newly proscribed plants. I'm told that until you've tasted Rubus moluccanus jam s or sipped a bit of Rubus wine, you don't really know what epicurean living is molu-cannu- all about. By the same token, there may clump of Asphodelus fistulous, as onionweed is called, without realizing it could undermine the nation's moral fiber. I rather doubt, however, that the problem would be as acute as it is if the motivation for the importation of noxious weeds was mainly a matter of providing new taste thrills, or asthetic appreciation, or ignorance. Nor are noxious primarily interested in cultivating their trophies for subsequent distribution to friends as souvenirs of their journeys. So many wayfarers wouldn't be trying to outwit home port inspectors if they didn't believe there was money to be made from, say, Opuntia aurantiaca, a jointed prickly pear, or panicoides, as liverseed called in botanical ciris grass cles. The importers, I suspect, are planning to organize a lobby with the aim of persuading Congress to pay them not to grow noxious weeds. weed-fancie- Dick West be citizens who truly regard Nassella trichotoma, a type of serrated tussock, as beautiful. (In the kind of world we live in, there simply is no accounting for taste.) rs Role in Gulf War But one source described the of U.S. military moves against Iran as "absolute, active madness." So far, there is no strong evidence that the policy makers at Foggy Bottom have decided to tread the risky path laid out memoin Howe's randum. possibility Ll In fact, Secretary of State George Shultz last month sent word to his people to find some way of telling Iran that the United States is not "implacably" opposed to its revolutionary Moslem regime. kles over the Tehran hostage seizure nearly five years ago. So while Shultz is suggesting the tentative offer of an olive branch to the Ayatollah Khomeini, the State Department is also considering the possibility of trade sanctions against Iran. There are some in Foggy Bottom who want to make Iran a Although it's not generally known, Iran js still able to buy certain items from American firms, including equipment such as aircraft and boat enthat is technically gines but can easily be converted to military use. The hard-liner- s at State would like to cut off this trade completely. One State Department source described the administration's state policy this way: "It's in a of flux. It is a real conundrum." non-milita- - "One more campaign promise and I'm goin' on the wagon." rT" " 1 The directive reportedly didn't go down well with some circles in the State Department, where hostility to Iran still ran- "pariah" likelibya. in- volved in defense of the Gulf with escort ships, aircraft carriers and fighter patrols. The likeliest possibility of crossing this threshold would be in defense of Saudi or Kuwaiti installations against Iranian attack. Threshold 5: American military personnel involved in the limited action of Threshold 4 are killed by Iranians, either deliberately or inadvertently. sVfcr that the Animal and Plant Memo Hints at Expanding U. WASHINGTON tourists who bring home a dis- guised the contraband as keepsakes, these shifty, albeit artful, tourists then evidentally sow the weeds in my yard. At any rate, I've got all 76 varieties flourishing amid the crabgrass. According to my dictionary, the word "noxious" can mean something is injurious to health or morally harmful. The name of the agency seems to imply church bell, and all she had to say was 'Bong.'" There may even be a few wore to the senior prom. Once they have are safely through customs, having "You're lucky," Renfrew said. "Last year she was a U Jack Anderson I I HEADLINES AND FOOTNOTES: The Pentagon is conducting a quiet "cover" operation on its own grounds. Last year, concrete barriers were placed at approaches to various entrances at the Pentagon to ward off terrorist attacks. These are similar to those at the White House and other key government buildings in Washington. But unlike less imaginative bureaucrats in town, the military bras3 have disguised their barriers as. large king-siz- e flower pots planters that are effecUve but islands of greenery. eye-catchi- |