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Show Modw ABDQntt lit? ' J. ( . . E'"T.-i .... . - " " ' "' ' 1 " - i "; WficB WTTDdDn ODtt : A series of summer concerts are being planned for Park West. Who would you like to see perform? Robert Barnum-Reece The Putman Family Band or the Rolling Stones and pre- J.C. Dylan. Page 2 Thursday, June 26, 1980 flMfltaDiriail in , . . Come In, KPCW Relief is just a week and a flick of the wrist away. Next Wednesday we all can turn off the crackle of Salt Lake radio and tune into 91 .9 FM, KPCW. After two years, 300 pages of federal red tape and more than $20,000 in donations, Blair Feulner and friends can take pride in a personal accomplishment and a valuable contribution to the community. Blair likes to keep a low profile, but he deserves a standing 0 for his incredible tenacity and snake-charmer magnetism that has drawn a host of volunteers to the Station Creation. Park City Community Wireless is one of only a handful of stations devoted to serving a rural area, is only the second community station in Utah, and is the first in the nation to license a Class-A station to a town our size. Despite our smallness, the board of trustees has big plans for the station. The city's first means of daily mass communication com-munication will bring to listeners an array of music to please any bent, public affairs programs, talk shows, road and ski reports, live broadcasts of public meetings and sporting events, stock market news, free publicity to nonprofit non-profit groups, health programs, radio drama, a unique opportunity op-portunity to learn about the trade by volunteering as a broadcaster . . . and a host of other possibilities limited only by imagination and manpower. The station was built through the contribution of both time and money by countless numbers of people, is licensed to a non-profit corporation composed of residents, and is 90 percent staffed by volunteer broadcasters. KPCW truly is Park City's radio, and the input and support of the residents will determine its viability. THIS MAN'S WS10NT0 . RAN COST 6I6HTAM6R-KAN 6I6HTAM6R-KAN OUR HOSTAGES, OURALUGSAND WORLD TENSIONS. by Stanley Karnow Himitirpir,itfive IHiepflMPti; Superpower Domination May Be Waning Washington, I). I'. Americans troubled by sings of dissidence within the Atlantic Atlan-tic alliance may derive a measure of consolation from the fact that the Soviet bloc also is beginning to experience growing internal strains. This is not to equate the two camps. Though linked by treaty to the United States, the West European nations are free to pursue their own foreign policies. Eastern Europe, in contrast, is policed by Soviet troops and tightly controlled con-trolled by Kremlin dictates. Nevertheless, the current efforts by countries in both areas to assert their autonomy suggests that the days of superpower domination may be waning. And what could gradually emerge over the long run from the trend are fresh alignments in Europe. Indeed, new relationships between East and West already have taken shape within recent years. As a result, the Iron Curtain that once divided Europe into two hostile sectors now largely is a remnant of the past. Even the notorious Berlin Wall has become more a symbol than real barrier as East and West Germans travel frequently across their borders. This change in conduct as well as attitudes at-titudes in both Western and Eastern Europe has been prompted mainly by security and economic factors. In the first place, Europeans fear that a conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union would devastate them, since much of the war would be fought on their soil. For that reason, they are striving to breathe life back into in-to detente. Moreover, the economies of Western and Eastern Europe have become increasingly in-creasingly interlocked. Thus governments, govern-ments, businessmen and Banks in the two regions are anxious to improve their ties despite political differences. The need to relax tensions is felt THInlAN5 MISSION DIP NOT... MrlOHLLBQ especially by such Soviet satellites as Poland and Hungary, which have gone further than the other states of Eastern Europe in promoting domestic liberalism. Romanians foreign policy also strays from the Moscow line, as it did not long ago when President Nicolae Ceausescu played host to Chinese Communist Party Chairman Hua Guoleng. Leaders in these countries were particularly par-ticularly upset by the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan not only because it dramatized their own vulnerability to Russian aggression, but also because it threatened to damage their dealings with the West. Interestingly, it was Polish Communist Com-munist leader Edward Gierek who arranged the recent controversial meeting between French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing and Soviet Communist boss Leonid Brezhnev in Warsaw. Gierek's motive was to get the East-West dialogue going again. Earlier last month, at a Warsaw Pact summit, the East Europeans apparently apparen-tly persuaded the Russians to accept a restrained final declaration that emphasized em-phasized an end to "all forms of outside interference" in Afghanistan and stress the necessity for talks to "help peace and detente." Underlying moves of this kind by the East Europeans is the realization that, without Western cooperation, their economies would collapse. That eventuality even-tuality could spark popular discontent that might turn into political fermentwhich fer-mentwhich would provide the Soviet Union with a pretext to crack down as it did in Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968. Eastern Europe currently is beset by severe economic difficulties, which ex-' perts believe will worsen during the decade ahead. Inflation, which was masked for a long time by government subsidies of Two fundraising sign-on celebrations are planned for July 2, one at the Car 19 Restaurant, and another later in the evening at the city tent in Prospector Square. Both events offer fans a chance to show their support, congratulate the originators, and listen to the first sounds wafting over the Park City airwaves. While we at The Newspaper look forward to the Occasion with excitement, we realize the radio station represents a turning point for the Park City print media. Residents no longer will have to depend on the Thursday morning paper to learn of top news stories, or to confirm reports that have until then been heard only as rumor; tuning into 91.9 FM will keep listeners up-to-date on the late breaking news . . . on a daily basis. To keep pace with the radio station's capabilities, the focus of The Newspaper will have to shift. Our skills as reporters will have to be sharpened to become more investigative in-vestigative and analytical to provide the in-depth, multi-faceted multi-faceted news that radio broadcasters will not have time to ferret out. A greater emphasis will have to be placed on photography and graphics to give the reader the visual sense of being there that cannot be transmitted through radio. The positive atmosphere of competition will serve not only to broaden our scope, but to encourage both mediums to provide the community with thorough news coverage. We look forward to the challenge and welcome KPCW as an important new source of entertainment and information with the potential of benefitting every member of the community. com-munity. BBM v . INDICISD? consumer goods, now is forcing up prices throughout the area. Hungary, probably the most prosperous country in the region, recently boosted prices for bread, milk, sugar and other staples from 19 percent to 50 percent. Energy costs also are soaring, primarily because the Soviet Union not long ago began to charge Eastern Europe world prices for its oil. Last year, as a consequence, gasoline prices in the area went up from :i7 percent in Poland to 94 percent in Bulgaria, where gas now is $4 per gallon. The East European economies have been eroded as well by widespread absenteeism ab-senteeism as workers perform "underground" "un-derground" jobs for hard currency rather than their official tasks, which are less remunerative. With all this, the economies of Eastern Europe have become reliant on the West. In 1970, for example, the six countries of the region owed $5.8 billion to Western banks. Last year the debt had risen to almost $50 billion. What worries these countries is that political tensions will discourage prospective Western lenders. There are indications, too, that the Soviet Union wants to pacify its satellites. Moscow recently waived three months of Polic-imports Polic-imports so that Poland could sell them to the West and earn the hard currency to service its $15 billion foreign debt. The United States, it seems to me, can contribute to Eastern Europe's slow trend toward autonomy by contributing con-tributing to its economic betterment. Granting most-favored-nation status to Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and East Germany would assist that process. A long-range American objective, therefore, ought to be the avoidance of a polarized Europe even if it means acceptance of a more independent stance by the Western Allies. (Released by The Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1980) Lee Grindinger Groups from in and around Salt Lake like Andy Monaco, Spaces, Stan Smith Memorial Band and nationally I'd like to see the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. f -I .- A 7 Linda Silva I'd like to see EmmyLou Harris, who I hear is scheduled to be here, Judy Collins, Gordon Lightfoot and more folk and bluegrass. 8 . v. i . X " v. yj Weekly Has President Garter Imposed' A News Hush on Iranian Events? Washington It is no accident that the American public doesn't hear as much about the Iranian hostage crisis as it used to. The Carter administration has made a deliberate decision to keep news about the hostages quiet. All President Carter told the public was that the situation is now more manageable. But our confidential sources sourc-es at the Central Intelligence Agency tells us that the crisis hasn't become more manageable at all. Last February, the CIA's secret assessment was that the hostages would be released sometime in late July. But now the timetable has been pushed back. The CIA's current assessment is that the release won't come before the end of the year. President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr was the top authority who wanted to release the hostages and end the standoff. But the CIA has reported, unhappily, that he is fading from power. The situation has become so explosive ex-plosive in Iran, meanwhile, that the CIA would not be surprised to see civil war erupt in the streets. The crimes of the shah are being committed by his successors. A few days ago, an Iranian Jew was executed. Several Bahais a minority religious sect have also been rounded up and shot. Other minorities have been menaced. Now, President Carter contends that it's in the best interests of the hostages to play down the news from Iran. We suspect it's really in Carter's best interest, in-terest, as the news gets worse and the election gets closer. The Kremlin's Choice: Question: Who would Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev vote for in the U.S. presidential presiden-tial race? Answer: Jimmy Carter. Officially, Soviet leaders keep hands The Newspaper Subscription Rates, J6 a year in Summit County, $12 a year outside Summit County Published by Ink, Inc. . ' USPS 378-730 Publisher Jan Wilking Editor Bettina Moench Advertising Sales ". Jan Wilking, Bill Dickson General Manager Terry Hogan Business Manager Rick Lanman Graphics Becky Widenhouse Reporters Rick Brough, David Hampshire Photo Editor. Phyllis Rubenstein Typesetting Kathy Deakin, Dixie Bishop Subscription & Classifieds Ann Kono Entered a second-class matter May 25, 1977, at the post office in Park City, Utah 84060, under the Act of March 3, 1897. 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But occasionally, an unofficial word drifts out of the Kremlin's inner circles. When the race for the White House was just beginning, it seemed as though Republican front-runner Ronald Reagan would get the nod from the Soviet party bosses. After all, President Carter was being accused of sabotaging detente. He ordered a boycott of wheat exports to Russia and pulled the United States out of the Moscow Olympics. More recently, the Russians seem to have changed their tune. President Carter Car-ter is admittedly a puzzle to the Kremlin. He changes his mind so often, they don't know what to expect of him. But the Russians have no doubts about what they might expect from an anti-Soviet anti-Soviet hardliner like Ronald Reagan. So one Russian official recently let slip the bombshell that President Carter Car-ter was back in the Kremlin's favor. The Soviets, incidentally, discount independent John Anderson as a serious presidential candidate. Expensive Error: Pro-oil bureaucrats in the Department of Energy have failed to pursue a promising alternative to oil gasohol. According to an unreleased report by the General Accounting Office, "If a national gasohol program were in place today, annual oil imports, which now total about three billion barrels, could be cut by about 260 millions barrels." The government watchdogs concluded that at the current $32 per barrel price of imported oil, gasohol could save Americans about $8 billion a year. Dress Decree: When you add the hot air of political speeches to the humid summer weather of Washington, it can get mighty stuffy on the floor of the House of Representatives. But Speaker Thomas "Tip" O'Neill won't let ; ' ism If -J ' , Mangione and more Jack Anderson congressmen remove their coats or ties to beat the heat. The reason : Sessions of the House are televised, and O'Neill wants his charges to look respectable. He has vowed to eject any lawmaker who violates the dress code. Moscow Intra murals: Even though U.S. television networks have canceled most of their planned coverage of the Moscow Olympics, American viewers won't be missing much. The Russians will be competing by themselves in women's field hockey. The equestrian events will be held without five of the world's best teams. And the potential confrontation between East and West in swimming will be little more than a Warsaw Pact intramural contest. Thanks, Canada: It costs the Pentagon Pen-tagon $22 million to purchase a single F-18 F-18 jet fighter. Yet the brass hats are considering selling peven of the sophisticated planes to Canada ai a cut-rate cut-rate price $19 million per copy. That is $3 million less than the Defense Department Depart-ment pays for them a total saving to Canada of $21 million. Why? The Pentagon Pen-tagon bosses say they want to waive the cost of research and development thai went into the plane. These costs are usually figured into the purchase price. But our sources say the $21 million waiver is a way of thanking Canada for her support during the Iranian hostage crisis and the Olympic boycott. Headlines and Footnotes: Despite the Russian invasion of Afghanistan and the installation of a puppet government in that country, the U.S. government has not broken diplomatic ties with Kabul. Most of the CIA's Spanish-speaking Spanish-speaking experts have been shipped out to Cuban refugee camps. Said one analyst: "We're hoping nothing big happens in Latin America for a while." Copyright, United Features Syndicate |