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Show August 2, 1973 The UTAH Independent Page 13 The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand ANTI Surrender U.N.SIGNS A Lodi mm billboard law does not apply to messages and Dozier agreed. Dozier ruled that Essig was by Strom Thurmond, U.S. his free to right exercising Senator of S. Carolina speech, a right the state One of the tragic and shameful legislature can restrict "only lightly and precisely," in Dozier's acts of international inhumanity Tuesday. has persisted on the Doziers ruling-i- n the case of words. "If the legislature really Subcontinent of Asia for the last Vernon Essig-i- s the first ruling in the state on whether the intended to regulate message 19 months. It involves the imprisonment by California Outdoor Advertising signs, it would not have used a continued of India over 90,000 Pakistani blunderbuss Act applies to approach of war. regulating all signs but a sharp- prisoners messages. Meetings which will be held touched off what shooter approach precisely Essign week between became a battle with the state indicating which regulations this of the two representatives last fall when he affixed to his were intended to apply to nonfor a nations hold the garage building a 22 N. Houston, commercial signs only," the settlement. The prospectsshould problem Lodi, two signs that proclaimed judge declared. resolved be immediately. to passersby on nearby Highway Dozier said the history of the These POWs including 99: Outdoor Advertising Acts and women .children 17,000 Get Us Out of the United formulation and its hold pending the Nations! Inquire Within." administration indicate it never have been of settlement political questions A few days after the signs went was intended to apply to any but the fighting over up, state officials charged Essig commercial signs along following which ended in Bangladesh with violating the California freeways. "The suspicion occurs," December, 1971 Outdoor Advertising Act by In holding these POWs, India having his signs too close Dozier added, "that the anti U.N. has been in gross violation of the together and (erecting them message on Mr. Essigs. sign may 1949 Geneva Convention to without first obtaining permits. have offered some The State Department of administrative worker in the which both India and Pakistan Public Works, charged with vineyard and led to this unusual are signatories. The convention provides that prisoners taken in enforcing the billboard law, attempt to apply the act to a man time of war or armed conflict issued Essig a citation and filed a who chose to communicate his must be returned as soon as the lawsuit, seeking an injunction sentiments by signboards on his stops. Essign's property rather than by handbills fighting against India imposed the First, the streets. on "Advertisements". Pakistan George L. Cory, an attorney requirement that Essig engaged attorney Hugh the nation O. Allen of Sacramento, who for the State Department of formally recognize of and Bangladesh, government filed a demurrer-- a legal Public Works, said his office has as a of Pakistan, previously part decided whether to appeal document claiming there is no not for releasing the basis for a given lawsuit. The Dozier's decision to a higher requirement prisoners. Then, after nearly a demurrer contended the court. year and a half, India in collaboration with Bangladesh said they would lift that WORLD TO SEE RED garage operator's Nations signs are not commercial advertising subject to government regulation but are a Constitutionally-protecte- d exercise of free speech, Superior Court Judge Bill Dozier ruled anti-Unit- non-commerc- ed non-commerc- ial ial unreasonable Its enough to make all the world see Red; the Communists intensifying their ideological struggles while the relax in the mistaken notion that the cold non-Communi- war has ended. DONT HIT US, WELL HIT YOU Really now, how could Mr. Kissinger or anybody else be expected to negotiate a peace with Communists when they always end up insisting everybody play their game of dont hit us, well hit you? J.Kesner Kahn THIS IS THE HOME APPLIANCE YOUVE BEEN WAITING FOR! delicious, 'nutritious ground whole wheat Makes stone bread. Whole grain to hot bread in 80 minutes for only a few cents per loaf. so-call- for Salt Lake City 2842 South 2475 East Phone 466-35- 35 illegal ed Pakistan has been willing to discuss the voluntary exchange of minority groups but could notx agree to a commitment for such H War Crimes Trials in a country it does not even recognize. India has insisted that Pakistan accept the terms in full. Hopefully, the meetings this week will remove this insistence. In the meantime the POWs languish in Indian detention continued The camps. MILL & MIX DISTRIBUTOR BOTH FOR UNDER $300 . and requirement for releasing the POWs, but they imposed other requirements. The new terms for the release of the POWs include an exchange of minority groups which have been stranded in each country. They also require an agreement by Pakistan that some of the POWs would be sent to Bangladesh for prosecution at War Crimes Trials. more than OOO people should raise questions around the world. imprisonment While of political involving problems India, Pakistan and LISTEN TO $ dollar-devaluati- clearcut test either a vendetta or a bargaining Administration supporters tool is contrary to international The easily not to decided fight. law and common humanity. amendment, proposed It is also noteworthy that India passed Sen. Harry F. Byrd, Jr. (Ind.-Va.- ), continues to hold these by banned a transfer of funds, prisoners at a time when food already appropriated for the and other provisions are short in Defense and State Departments, that country. By keeping these to reconstruction aid for Hanoi. people imprisoned, India is The fighting in South Vietnam either denying food to some of continues, the Vietcong and her own people or, it stands to North Vietnamese are still reason, these Pakistani POWs are with military not receiving an adequate diet. supplied by the Soviet Union There have also been reports equipment and Red China, the secret that a number of them have been worked out by killed in prison camp incidents. agreements Henry Kissinger with the The continued imprisonment of Communist governments have these Pakistanis, pending simply resulted in the release of political settlement or some of our POWs for which the submission, certainly aggravates North Vietnamese expect $2.5 persisting tensipns in that' billion dollars. The Nixon populous area of the world. Administration continuesto India, itself, could benefit search for a new to thwart from the release of these the will of the way majority of That needs nation prisoners. Americans and supply the international trade and Communists with these funds. its overcome to cooperation Had U.S. military forces been economic problems and the permitted a victory in Vietnam all would have been different. persistent specter of hunger. As our American POWs came South Vietnam's When home from Southeast Asia President Thieu recently visited following the January 27 ceasethe United States for talks with it left the President Nixon and members of fire agreement, Pakistanis as the only such Congress he informed them that people in the world known to be the Communists are not held by another nation. The honoring the cease fire and are Geneva Convention which both showing no signs of abandoning India and Pakistan signed this objective of subjugating all requires immediate release of of Vietnam. President Nixon's POWs when an armed conflict Peace With Honor would seem without in reality to be "Surrender." preconditions. stops Since April, India has expected Pakistan to volunatrily consent to 195 of the POWs being turned over to Bangladesh for War Crimes Trials by that new nation. No nation should be expected to yield its own sovereignty over some of its citizens in order to Communists are for gain freedom for others. disarming the honest citizen As officials of .India and but not the Communist Pakistan meet this week to Party. When a Latvian discuss the POW repatriation refugee in Oregon was problems, the world should urge interviewed by Henry L. their swift release: Peace and Bottemiller, a member of stability in that heavily populated the National Rifle part of the world are vital and could be enhanced by such a Association, it was pointed move. out that only 5 of the The conflict which produced Russians are Communists. the Pakistani prisoners ended in When he was asked how the December, 1971. In the name of 5 control the other 95, humanity and peace, as" well as his answer to Bottemiller international commitments, was clear and definite: there should be no further delay They have all the. guns. in returning these people to Lenins statement on their homeland. guns speaks for all It is the duty of government to Communist movements: . . .one of the basic not to prevent injustice it. conditions for the victory of promote Socialism the armying of AAAAAttA 5 gjJjxQP 3' the workers and the disarming of the ( Congressional bourgeoisie. Record, 383-384- pp. .) Monday thru Friday KIM 1600 on tho dial ourselves. It should always be understood that when the Tu., Th., Fr. J - Or, as Joseph Stalin put it in blunt terms: If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, 7:00 p.m. we 7:00 shall disarm it Communists bourgeoisie, of they really mean the classes of people in a country who would 9:00 p.m. To Talk With them Call: Local or Toll Free, .speak disarming the BILL MORRISON iKEEl wftiURi and Communist Use of Gun Control LISTEN TO imflfijMBr, on a LARRY WILCOX 5 4:00 y 11 Communist North Vietnam faces tough opposition, was on an amendment tacked on to the bill. It was not Bangladesh remain to be settled, the imprisonment of peopTe as AAA A AAA AArAAAA.A.A:AArAA INTERLAK SAVINGSlEARN Continued from page resist, with arms x necessary. X- - X- - x A if Communist The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own . ignorance. Charles Haddon Spurgeon |