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Show Page The Utah Independent March 17, 1977 8 RIDICULOUS REPORTS FROM VIETNAM A priest writes: The controls You are becoming unbearable. cannot walk a step but that the authorities know of it. Whoever wants to go anywhere must first ask the leaderofthenesr(a group of 10 families), then the commune leader and finally the district leader. Without the three or four passes that these officials give no undertake even the shortest journey. Nevertheless Ho Chi Minh's slogan is to be seen in large red letters on the walls and facades of all public buildings: Nothing is more precious than independence and freedom. People laugh at it and say: Freedom is too precious; thats why we get so little of it." The Paper That Dares To Take GOOD FOR BECOMES COUNTRY can Rhodesia and the Byrd Amendment Wallace Johnson On January 13, 1976 I received a personally handwritten note from then Presidential Candidate Jimmy Carter: To Wallace Johnson Thank you for the book - and best wishes in your fight to repeal the ridiculous salary bill. Jimmy The by John F. McManus How Belmont, Massachusetts far the United States government will go in its drive to destroy Rhodesia may well be determined by Congressional reaction to the renewed attack on the Byrd Amendment. If Congress refuses to repeal this measure, which allows the U.S. to import Rhodesian chrome, then the dishonorable campaign against Ian Smiths government will have been slowed. 94-8- 2, i ! es The Cabal Against Rhodesia Rhodesia declared itself dependent in 1965. Almost mediately, the blatantly decreed that, as of January 5, 1967, any trade with the new nation would be considered a criminal offense. This move made us almost totally dependent on the U.S.S.R. for chrome, a vital ingredient in the manufacture of defense-oriente- d If a government commission had worked on the horse, you would have had the first horse who knee could operate his joint in both directions. The trouble would have been that he couldnt stand up. -- Peter Drucker we When conquer enemies by kindness and justice, we are more apt to win their submission than by victory in the field. In the one case, they yield only to necessity; in the other, by their own free choice. -- Pubilius Syrus IMUSIC COMPAN' Across from Salt Palsct WE BUY - SELL AND TRADE PIANOS SS Sew Mt Uk WmI tamfi Hmmi City, UN 364-651- 8 Strt 4101 high-performan- ia) i I Rhodesia Target of U.S. Since then, to our shame, the U.S. government has stepped up its drive to destroy the government of Ian Smith. The constant cry is that Rhodesia is run by a white minority regime and that majority rule and one-ma- one-vot- n, Congressional ethics matters. Both Houses of Congress must act affirmatively in order to establish an ethical Code of Public Conduct and there is no guarantee an e will some how bring about heaven on earth. Never mind that except handful for a Black Nationalists, of Rhodesians of all colors want to be left alone. Last year, Henry Kissinger went to Africa and enunciated official U.S. policy when he told Rhodesia to follow the lead of the rest of Africa, which could only mean that the nation would become another Communist puppet. He even pledged millions in U.S. aid for Rhodesias newly Red neighbors. The whole campaign against Rhodesia is an excellent, though horrifying, example of the attitude of our own government. Rhodesia gets the back of our hand, ostensibly because a white minority runs the country. But since 1956 there has not been a single opposition elecparty, let alone a wide-ope- n indeof the newly tion, in any African states that our pendent nation does support. Nor is any mention ever made of the Red minorities that run nation after nation in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. well-publiciz- ed so-call- ed pro-Commun- ist Rhodesians Support Smith Rhodesias blacks overwhelmingly support their government. They know that they enjoy better health, education, housing, and economic conditions than anyone else in Black Africa. The real key to understanding U.S. support for the drive against Rhodesia is the fact that Rhodesias government is imWhen placably the Cuban-backe- d Reds took Angola, the U.S. said little. When the Reds anti-Communi- anti-Commun- st. ist seized anti-Commun- Mozam- ist bique, U.S. aid was pledged to help them destroy Rhodesia. And now, when newer technology has found substitutes for formerly essential chrome, the Carter Administration wants to repeal the Byrd Amendment as a symbol of U.S. opposition to Rhodesias government. Obviously, the Byrd Amendment must not be scuttled. Instead, the campaign to destroy Rhodesia must be stopped forthwith. 1977 The John Birch Society Features Free men can vote themselves into slavery, but slaves cannot vote themselves free. J. Rccsc Hunter Silver and Gold COINS Any Quantity so-call- ed raise in 1975.) I told him that I would agree to join him in support of the pay increase provided he maintained his support, along with me, for the strict ethics requirement that was also recommended by the blue ribbon study commission. And I have received assurance from both the majority leader and the Speaker of the House that they will push hard for and pass if possible strict ethics legislation. So I think that the pay increase is justified in most instances. I haven't studied the details of it and if tied to a comprehensive ethics bill to put restraints on outside earning and perhaps conflict of interest I think overall it would be good for our country. President Carter was asked a question about procedure. Yet his answer failed to take notice of the procedural differences between Congressional salary and ce steels. The Soviets did not cut us off, but they did raise their price enormously. It was even learned that they were buying Rhodesian chrome themselves and reselling it to us at a huge profit. Senator Hariy Byrd then introduced his amendment, which merely, allows citizens of the United States to import from Rhodesia strategic materials such as chrome, if these same materials are also being imported from a Communist nation. The Byrd Amendment passed, and since 1972 Americans have been importing Rhodesian chrome. which place for purely private problems. ist dent Lyndon Johnson made our nation part of the cabal when he asked: present Congress Presidential recommendation by February 20, each member of Congress will get a raise from $44,600 to $57,500. In 1968 these same Congressmen received a salary of $30,000. This 91 percent increase in nine years might properly be termed ridiculous. Yet, in answer to the question as to the procedure for a Congressional pay raise. President Carter responded: President Ford called me before I was inaugurated to ask if I would join him in support of the pay increase blue ribbon that was recommended by the panel. There had not been a pay increase for public officials, judges and the senior grade executive officers, I think, in eight years. And in many instances it was greatly disproportionate. (Editor's note: Members of Congress and certain Federal executive personnel received a pay im- to international peace and security and urged economic boycotts of Rhodesias goods. Presi- nt Do you agree with the procedure under Father Kermarrac, who lived under the new regime for several Congress will get a 29 percent pay increase next week months before being expelled from along with other top Federal officials. The question is of the country, writes: When you have procedure, and secondly, do you think this increase is besieged an office for three days to warranted aside from procedure ? The questioner was apparently one of the few people get a pass to visit your child in this once, in the country who realizes that members of Congress hospital you do then and twice quickly have two, yes two, clever procedures by which they will perhaps come to understand that it is not get repeated automatic raises requiring no affirmative but the that matters you apparatus. action or debate. The question referred to That must function. You are as it Congressional the separate Salary Act law passed in 1967 by which an were in a net. The net thinks and advises the President decides for you. You only have to appointed quadrennial commission each four years, the President then recommends a raise carry out its decision. You have to change your way of thinking, give for members of Congress, and if Congress does nothing up every independent action. And members get a raise. This quadrennial raise is in addition every document signifies a to the annual raises provided by the 1975 law. However, But that is the personal tragedy. procedure for both raise mechanisms is exactly the intention. The the passes same. precisely are a system in which there is no rescinds the Unless one House of in- United Nations labelled the new nation a threat 1 Vice-Preside- Stand The Birch Log OUR ridiculous salary bill was Public Law rushed through Congress in two days of July 1975. It was carefully disguised as an amendment to a postal workers safety bill. This Adjustment Act provides members of by a procedure not Congress annual inflation-pay-raisrequiring a recorded vote or debate in Congress. An appointed pay commission advises the President each September, the President then recommends a raise for members of Congress, and if Congress does nothing members get a raise. Unless this procedure is repealed, each October on into the future. Congress will receive an A teacher from the annual automatic raise. By means of this procedure Montagnards tribe: The school has become a place of executions, with Congress has abdicated its Constitutional pay setting responsibility to the Executive branch and is no longer acbeatings, tortures, condemnings and killings. Our colleague X is countable to the American public. dead, too. We no longer have a Aroused, I had written the first chapter in my book, moment's peace in our village. A Fresh Look at Patriotism on the subject of this Forced labour all the time for these ridiculous salary bill and had sent it to each Presidential foreigners. Our stomachs contract candidate. I also ran for in the February, from day to day for want of food. 1976 New Hampshire Republican primary solely to draw Every evening including Saturdays attention to this issue. The 36,072 New Hampshire votes and Sundays children, young for my repeal candidacy gave evidence that most people and adults up to 30 years of Americans viewed it as a ridiculous salary bill. age have to go to singing practice A year later, February 8, 1977, now President Carter until at least 10 o'clock and often held his first press conference in Washington. He was until late. one A We will trade ONE U.S. SILVER DOLLAR FOR 1 oz. SILVER MONARCH COIN CORPORATION East 3900 South Salt Lake City, Utah 21 Phone 1 262-58- 74 6R0W BOX Grow your own food with a GROW BOX A new concept in home or THE commercial gardening.... Large, perfect crop yields with small investment in time, money, space and water. No bugs or weeds. Call (801) 8 or write 1804 Rozanne Circle, West Jordan, UT 84084 966-572- ethics code will be passed. Neither House of Congress needs to debate nor vote upon a Congressional pay raise the raise is automatic. A procedural is allowed to exist. In January, 1976 then candidate-Carte- r termed as ridiculous the Congressional raise of $2, 100 ($42,500 to $44,600). In February, 1977 now President-Carte- r is able to view a $12,900 Congressional raise as good for our country. What a difference a year makes. -- double-standar- d |
