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Show f The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand Beaufort Sea Oil obert M. Bartell WASHINGTON, D.C., (Lib-ertLobby News Service) -We recently announced the discovery, by a Canadian oil firm, of vast oil m the Beaufort Sea deposits off the north slope of Alaska. The find has now been confirmed, and the $7.2 million we paid Alexander II of Russia for Alaska appears to be a pretty good bargain. The oil in the Beaufort Sea seems to be ignored by the mass media in this couny try, even though there are repeated references to the possibility of an increase in the price of gas and fuel oil, and perhaps another embargo on the 'part of the countries. This is for the vast oil destrange, of the posits icy, shallow waters of the Beaufort Sea appear to match those of the Middle East. The problems in producing the oil are vasuy different from those in the 120 degree Mideast deserts, but represent no real technological problem to modern drillers. As reported in the "Oil and Gas Journal, Beaufort Sea might well be the richest oil formation in the world. The Saddlerochit Sands of Prudhoe Bay, on the north slope of Alaska, is expected to produce wells that will flow at the rate of 40,000 barrels a day, better than any of the big oil fields in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia or Iran. One well, already drilled onshore and with pipe running out to an offshore deposit, is matching anything in the Mideast. Now, there has been prospecting for oil in the north country and in Alaska for many years. The River delta of Canada and the Beaufort Sea are not hospitable in climate, but June 10, 1976 The Utah Independent Page they have long been suspected of having vast oil reserves. It does seem strange that, with all that oil there, we have depended on imported oil for so many years. Obviously, it was more profitable for the oil com- panies to prospect, drill, pay foreign royalties and ship the oil home from other countries than to drill domestic- COMMUNISM'S GROWING POWER America's Future Vol . . ally. Just as obviously, if Vice President Nelson Rockefeller's grandiose scheme to reward the oil companies for drilling $100 with domestically of your tax Dillion money succeeds, they are going to take it. The often heard complaint that the unprecedented profits of the oil companies are going back into the search for new production just doesnt seem to make much sense any more. In the last twoyears, or since the Middle East oil crisis, oil has been discovered in many parts of the world where geologists, and drilling rigs have been a common sight. In the area of Spitzbergen, north of Norway and near the Russian border, another vast oil basin has been found. Rather, it was announced that oil has been discovered . . . matching in size the Middle East deposits. Actually, we said nearly a year ago that oil had been discovered and that Norway and the Soviet Union were practically at war in the area, both states claiming the oil. Oil has been discovered in the South China Seas, offshore in Argentina, in. Angola and in Mexico. Now, oil technology has not changed dramatically in the past two years. So what accounts for the dramatic surge in oil discoveries? Perhaps the answer is that now they are actually looking for it since the profit picture in the Mideast may diminish, at any moment. seis-mograph- ers Mac-Kenz- ie THE Reader's comments are welcome. Please pass along any pointa of view to Liberty lobby, Dept, a28 300 Independence Ave., S.E. Washington, D.C. 20003. ISSUE KISSINGER Continued from page 1 bases in Spain. In that context, the Soviet military base in Cuba is neither an offensive base or a threat to the U.S. despite the fact that the base is inside the U.S. defense system for the Western Hemisphere. If Kissinger took the other view that the Kremlin's objective was to dominate the world and the Western Hemisphere, then it would be intolerable for the U.S. to permit this dagger inside our defense system. Kissinger policy statement also makes it almost impossible for the National Security Council, the government's highest policy making body, to map an intelligent program to meet the Russian's long-rang- e global threat. As one intelligence expert assigned to the NSC put it: "If there is no Soviet grand design for dominating the world, there is no need for a policy to stop it. Aides of former California Governor Ronald Reagan say he plans to increase his attacks on Kis- singer and his foreign policy between now and the opening of the GOP Convention in Kansas Gty in August. In these attacks, Reagan will question the Secretary of State's views on Soviet objectives and how they adversely affect the preparation of a workable U.S. foreign policy and our military preparedness. The latter position is that of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who have the President that the Rus- sians have turned Cuba into an ad- vance, military operational base that can be used against the U.S. and all the Latin American coun- trjes This view of the President's military advisers, however, has been vigorously opposed by Secretary Kissinger, who has privately convinced the President to back his position. HELPING THE KREMLIN THE SURRENDER Kissingers view of discounting Reagan also the historical mission of Moscows SYNDROME communism and the confirming plans to hammer away at what he as Kissingers surrender intelligence has put him in the describes in negotiations with the position of promoting the syndrome Kremlin's main propaganda line. Soviet Union. First raised by Admiral Elmo To have the main foreign former Chief of Naval spokesman for the most Zumwalt, the Kissinger powerful nation in the free world Operations, came to downplaying their threat is one of surrender syndrome" light in a series of private the Kremlins greatest f - one-quart- eyeball-to-eyeba- psychological warfare victgories in recent years. The Not so long ago, it was fashionable in most intellectual circles to laugh off warnings of the communist threat. Only "little old ladies in tennis shoes looking under the bed for communists," was the popular response of the pseudosophisticates. Not so today. The communist threat no longer is a laughing matter. It's all too real. With the communist take- 9 overs in South Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and, most recently, in the former- Portuguese African er colony of Angola, fewer than of the world's population remains free. Put another way, 3 out of every 4 inhabitants on earth live under a system of tyranny. And the fourth inhabitant is under siege with his freedom coming under ever increasing assault ... from within and without. The primary reason is the rise of Soviet military power and the relative decline of Western defensive forces. No longer can the U.S. and its allies prevail as they did in the Middle East in 1967 to keep Soviet influence out. In the 1973 Middle East War, it was the threat of intervention by seven divisions of Soviet paratroops that got the U.S. to pressure the Israelis into backing down. Had there been a "conventional" war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union in the Eastern Mediterranean, says former Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, the U.S. would have lost. Even U.S. warnings of possible reprisals against Cuba if it should stage any new Angola-typ- e adventure have hollow ring. And when U.S. intelligence noted the arrival of just 18 Soviet combat pilots in Cuba, the other day, the alarm bells rang all the way from the Pentagon to State Department and the White House. Historically, the Cuban "missile crisis" of 1962, when President Kennedy faced Nikita Khrushchev ll and Khrushchev blinked first and withdrew his missiles, may have marked the last time the U.S. could determine the course of events ... even in its own backyard. By all measures, American -and Western - influence has been on the downhill ever since. And the decline is accelerating. Not all is due to Soviet Russias growing military might. There has also been a steady, even precipitate erosion of the Free Worlds will conversations the Secretary of State had with the Presidents former naval adviser, now a didate for the U.S. Senate in can-warn- ed . 18-N- IT HEREI to resist and to defend its freedom. After two years of traveling in the West, including several months in the U.S. emigre Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russia's greatest living author, says: 'The greatest danger of all is that you have lost the will to defend yourselves. In a televised interview and radio lecture broadcast from Zurich, Switzerland, over the BBC last month, Solzhenitsyn said he and other . recent arrivals from the Soviet Union are struck by the manner in which Russia's experience seems to be repeating itself in the West. What we see," said Solzhenitsyn, is always the same: Adults deferring to the opinion of their children; the younger generation carried away by shallow, worthless ideas; professors scared of being unfashionable; journalists refusing to take responsibility for the words they squander so profusely; universal sympathy for revolutionary extremists; people with serious objections unable or unwilling to voice them; the majority passively obsessed by a feeling of feeble doom; whose governments; societies defensive reactions have become paralyzed; spiritual confusion leading to political upheaval. " Quite an indictment! Taking note of the many countries that have fallen into slavery over the past few decades, Solzhenitsyn decries the Wests He takes refusal to react. particular issue with our intellectuals who rationalize away the communist gains as "the dawn of a new era." Modem society, he says, "is It is hypnotized by socialism. socialism from seeing prevented by the mortal danger it is in. And one of the greatest dangers of all is that you have lost all sense of danger; you cannot even see where it's coming from as it moves swiftly towards you. Americas Future Vol 18, No. 10 In 1946, a writer named Frank Gervasi wrote an article in the now defunct magazine. Colliers, entitled: 'Red Harvest Over Cuba. The article revealed how the Communist Party of Cuba, generously financed by Soviet funds, was moving to seize control of the Cuban labor movement, and, ultimately, of the entire country. Frank Gervasi was practically laughed out of Havana. SophisAmericans ticated, know-bettand Cubans alike derided his article as scare stuff,' 'yellow journalism, sensationalism. The consensus in the Cuba of 1946 was: It cant .happen here! It was still the consensus in prospering Cuba 13 years later when Fidel Castro, who had been 'sold' to the American government and public as an agrarian reformer, rolled into power in Havana. In the 1 7 years since then, Castro has whipped, beaten and er molded so-poli- down-to-thc-wi- re cy the nine million inhabitants of Cuba into one of the most despotic communist tyrannies on earth. Today in the United States of America now celebrating its 200th anniversary, there are the know-bette- rs who smile indulgently and In say: It cant happen here! America, they say, we are too strong and free to be taken over by the communists. Now and then, however, an occasional voice of warning is ' heard amid the domestic din of bus iness-as-- al ways and politics Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the exiled Russian, author and Nobel laureate, has warned with soulsearing eloquence against what he perceives as the Western world's descent toward totalitarianism as nation after nation succumbs to communist power and tyranny. Now, one of of America's foremost journalists, Reuben e Pulitzer-prizwinner Maury, the fromer Chief Editorial Writer of the New York Daily News, has written for America's Future a pamphlet entitled: Communism: A Plan for World Conquest (25e per copy from Americas Future, 542 Main St., New Rochelle, N.Y. 10801), which provides a clear, factual outline of just how our enemies are going s-usual. It is Maurys belief that Americans can resist the communist advance in all its forms only if they know and understand the nature and strategy of communism itself. And just as Frank Gervasi once warned of communism's inroads in once free Cuba,so Reuben Maury is now telling his fellow Americans that It can happen here...and soon if we do about freedom not act to protect our freedom. 24-pa- ge he destruction our freedom. No one can appreciate the charm of repose unless he has undergone severe exertion. David Livingstone Virginia. Although Kissinger denies the conversations. Admiral Zumwalt contends that the President's chief foreign policy adviser as long ago as 1970 told him that the U.S. had passed its high mark as a great power and was declining and that the historic trend is now with the Soviet Union, Kissingers refusal to accept Admiral Zumwalt's challenge to a joint appearance under oath before an appropriate Congressional Committee to determine who is telling the truth will be highlighted by Reagan and his supporters. These developments and those to come clear ly indicate that the called Kissinger issue" could dominate the closing days of easily the Republican Presidential nomination battle. HAPPEN COULD 10 o, 3 "" Wm Independent Salt Lake City, Utah The Utah Indapandant is publishad by tha Utah Inda pendant aach Tuesday at 57 East Oakland Avenue, Salt Lake City, Utah 84115. Yearly subscription rata is $10.00 by surface mail in tha United States, $15.00 foreign. 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