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Show SECURITY PARLEY rezhnev preparing for a swan song? By EDWARD NEILAN Copley News Service WASHINGTON - Soviet Communist Party General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev may be preparing for one last major performance on the international interna-tional stage. Evidence is mounting that Brezhnev may choose as his final curtain call the 35-nation Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe which should take place sometime this summer or early fall in Helsinki, Finland. Even before he went on sick leave (either for health or political reasons) last December, it was widely rumored that Brezhnev was due to step down in 1976. He will be 70 next year and the stories persist that he is not a healthy man. The Soviet Communist Party is supposed sup-posed to hold its 25th Congress sometime some-time in 1976 and there is the long-standing Soviet plan for a world Communist conference whose main object would be to embarrass the People's Republic of China and reaffirm Moscow as the capital of world communism. This summer's European Security Conference, with representatives of 35 nations on hand, would give Brezhnev a closer timetable for his swan song, especially es-pecially if his health diminishes chances of staying in a position of authority au-thority for much longer. Brezhnev's health has already been given as a reason for possible "postponement" "post-ponement" of the secretary's scheduled trip to Washington this summer. On the more substantive side, there seems to be a lack of progress on terms of a formal arms-control agreement so that a summer Brezhnev-President Gerald Ford summit might be little more than a public relations gambit. The Helsinki spectacular is much more firm. British Prime Minister Harold Wilson pledged his attendance at the conference when he was in Moscow Mos-cow recently. Brezhnev had earlier extracted ex-tracted favorable responses from West German and French leaders. The CSCE get-together, for all its high-powered list of participants, will probably be longer on hoopla than substance. sub-stance. There are the problems of oil and money preoccupying the Western world these days. The Soviet Union has been trying since the early 1950s to get the situation in Eastern Europe set in concrete; the "inviolability of frontiers" is the language lan-guage which Moscow uses to describe its main aim at the conference. In other words, the Soviet Union wishes to perpetuate the postwar situation situa-tion and rule out forever the possibility of any Eastern bloc nations being subverted sub-verted by the West. The British, West Germans and Dutch have written into the CSCE draft declarations some statements about increasing in-creasing human contact between East and West. These issues are described as being part of the "third basket" (referring (refer-ring to the three divisions of the agenda). At the conclusion of the multilateral preparatory talks (MPT) in which 34 North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Warsaw Pact, neutral and nonaligned countries participated in 1973, the only common ground that could be reached was for an agenda grouping of three "baskets," which were: 1. Questions relating to security in Europe (including principles of relations rela-tions between states and certain military mili-tary aspects of security, such as confidence-building measures). 2. Cooperation in the fields of eco nomics, science and technology, and environment. 3. Cooperation in humanitarian and other fields (including freer human contacts, exchange of information, and more cultural and educational cooperation co-operation and exchanges). Since 1973, working committees have gone into more specifics on each of the baskets and the upcoming conference will supposedly iron out the last details and place a stamp of approval on the whole exercise. The fuzziness of the CSCE proceedings proceed-ings can be clarified somewhat by accepting ac-cepting the fact that, despite statements state-ments of high intent, both the West and the Soviet Union are seeking to exert influence in-fluence on the other side. Moscow wants to come across as non-aggressive non-aggressive and cooperative, thus tempting the West to relax its military guard and to dilute its political wariness wari-ness of the Soviet Union. The U.S. position could be described generally as hoping to bring the Soviet economy more closely to that of the West so that Russia is not so isolated from Western cultural and social interaction. inter-action. That Moscow recognizes the threat of such a subtle invasion of Western ideas is seen in repeated Soviet domestic campaigns against "decadent Western influence" and in Moscow's one-sided preoccupation with "noninterference in internal affairs." A very real indication that there is seepage is the influence of Western opinion on the case of Alexander Solzhenitsyn and on the easing of Jewish Jew-ish emigration. The security conference finale in Helsinki Hel-sinki will bring together more European Euro-pean heads of government than any gathering since the Congress of Vienna in 1815. So, in a symbolic sense, the meeting will be of some importance. If it is to be a Brezhnev farewell party, there will be public relations and show biz aspects. But as for substantive impact, the conference will rate about the same as a run-of-the-mill General Assembly session at the United Nations. LEPA Grant Requested For Crime Prevention 30 MAYTAG WASHXRS 1700 S. 640 E., Orem Holiday Coin Laundry 14 Blk. Eo-it d Hy. 91 on 17 th South Across the nation an increase in every type of serious crime if being noted. Larceny is up 20 ,.burglary-up 17, robbery-up robbery-up 14, forcible rape up 9, aggrevated assault up 9, murder-up 5 , and auto theft up 4. Only two major cities in the United States have experienced a decline in crime. San Francisco and Oakland, California both have recorded a 3 drop in crime in 1974. This decline in crime is directly related to the strong community support of crime prevention pre-vention programs. Such programs as Home Alert, Operation id, and Neighborhood Crime Watch are proving their ability to dispel public apathy and create in its stead a strong commitment by the public to assist in crime prevention. The Orem City Police Department Depart-ment will soon extend its effort to combat crime with the help of a. LEPA grant which has been submitted for approval. The Crime Prevention program pro-gram will be divided into three major areas. I. Training-Provide training for two or three officers in the procedures of an effective crime prevention program at the National Na-tional Crime Prevention Institute. In-stitute. These officers will, upon their return, provide for departmental depart-mental training of other officers. II. Citizen Participation-A Participation-A program designed to get maximum maxi-mum participation from city residents to assist the police department de-partment in reporting possible crimes and being alert to suspicious suspi-cious circumstances which might result in crime. III. 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Second-class postage paid at Orem, Utah. Wilder Promoted WIESBADEN, GERMA NY-Promoted NY-Promoted to sergeant in the U.S. Air Force is Todd A. Wilder, son of Mrs. Louise Wilder of 155 S. 1200th W, Orem. Sergeant Wilder is assigned at Wiesbaden AB, Germany, as a communications wiring specialist. special-ist. He is a member of the U.S. Air Forces in Europe. A 1971 graduate of Lovell (Ore.) High School, Sergeant Wilder attended NorthWestCom-munity NorthWestCom-munity College, Powell, Wyo. His wife, Debra, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Sintek of 50 W. Third St., Lovell. W-i n u t i a . By'Jufh tooise Partridge I went to the Grande Opening of the Mease r Memorial corner stone-box. If the putting in of that box was in 1909 as the VIP's said, then I as there. I was there long before that. Before spade was put to earth up there , the whole school including in-cluding the elementary grades, marched up to Temple hill and grubbed out sagebrush or whatever. what-ever. When the ground was clear all but the ant hills, the whole school formed in a huge "Y" and had their picture taken. Somewhere in this house there's a post-card sized picture of that human Y", with all us young-ones young-ones in front. Well, that was a day. The day the box was opened was a day, too. An Alumni Luncheoncame next for my brother DeAlton, his dear wife Nell Clarke Partridge and I, graduates all. The classes are inducted into the Emeritus Qlub as. .theyv turn fifty year grads. thisyear "'it was the' class of nineteen Twenty-fire. Since I. never do anything th way it should be done, it so happens that I graduated tenyears behind my original class. So, should I claim my original class, and be acquainted with my classmates, class-mates, or the class I actually graduated with and not know anybody any-body I marched with except my brother DeAlton and my sister since we all graduated together? Decisions, Decisions! Maybe I should forget the whole thing. I've got a grumbling knee as a souvenir of the day oftheMeaser cornerstone opening, brought on by tramping around that huge campus, sitting in the cold, but mostly old age. I have a complaint to register. To ease the ache I decided to take an aspirin or two. I had a brand new bottle. So new and improved it was, that I couldin't get the lid off. I bought a new bottle and I didn't leave the drugcounter until the harrassed man behind the counter had opened the new bottle. So, now, I have two bottles of aspirin, and one of them I can open. Progress. Our latest rain saved me from having to drag out a hose and water the yard here at The Last Resort. I'm grateful. The time will come only too soon. Just for fun I'm going to put two tomato plants in the hole Boy dug up in my back yard. He was going to have a garden but after working like a ? --e for three days on a twelve .''a by twelve foot plot, he took off for the Atlantic coast to see the opening of America's . bicentennial bicenten-nial celebration. I do hope he got there in time for the mid-'dit mid-'dit ride of Paul Revere and the rest of it. Me, I'll have to content con-tent myself with reading a four volume life of George Washington, Wash-ington, written by Washington Irving. Ir-ving. And I can tell you of George Washington, there was a MAN. I have a fragment of a quilt said to have belonged to the family of George Washington's mother. Their name was Ball. I wake up to the clank and rattle of the trash collection trucks. That means I must go out and pick up the trash they scattered and left behind. From Recital Is Set For Teri Mcholls Teri Nicholls, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Byron Nicholls of Orem will perform in a piano recital May 23 at the 17-43-54 Ward Chapel, at 1090 North 400 East. The program will commence at 7 p.m. Miss Nicholls is a student of Mrs. Leland Harper. She will play Schumans Piano Concerto in A minor, 1st movement. move-ment. She will also play two Bach 2-part inventions, with Mrs. Harper participating on the second piano. This selection was arranged by John Thomson. Pieces byLaybachandDebussy will also be performed. my upstairs window I can see three enormous bits of litter in just the small space the truck parked in. At that moment,' a car pulled away from my curb and left behind another bit of litter so that means four. I notice that my neighbor across the street also has a litter problem prob-lem Ah, so. Selah and I'm think-lem think-lem Ah, so. Selah and I'm thankful for the trash collection anyhow. Building or Remodeling H0LV1E? 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