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Show Editorial Page Feature Texas Drawl Familiar Sound in Washington Dedicated fo the Progrett And Growth f Central Utah Page HERALD. Provo. 18-- THE lh, Wednesday. December 27. - Truman: Topnotcher Harry the nation's vast, worldwide was over a It quarter- century ago that the heavy mantle cf the presidency fell of unexpectedly influence-peddlin- g just shoulders vice-presiden- foreign aid program. At home, inflation, strikes, upon the of a little-know- already mourning the deaths of thousands of its young men on battlefields around the would still have left an indelible mark on American history. But against all the odds, he won another term almost singlehandedly, with his own patented brand of gut- for the world now grieved and commander-in-chie- f scandals and a Republican Congress gave Harry Truman little rest in office. Had he been retired in 1948, as everyone expected, Truman n nation A t. wondered what the future held. There were few on April 15, the day Franklin D. Roosevelt died, who thought that Harry S Truman, one1945, ll campaigning. ty, Then, in 1949, came the give-'em-he- Berlin blockade, Russia's explosion of its first atomic time captain of artillery, former county U.S. and senator, would judge be little more than a caretaker president. ly stabilized power balance abroad, we can judge the decisions that were made and the actions that were taken and not taken between 1945 and 1953. We can see mistakes, but we can also see triumphs. Not the least triumph was the fact that Harry Truman, East-Wj- st to rise, first, r. life J 1 iuln p. r, if mm vj a Republican-baitinletter-writin- g, piano-playin- whistle-stoppin- g, g, g, peppery S There was Truman. Harry helling-and-damnin- g, little of the ward politician in pugnacious him. But where it counted, behind that lonely desk in the White House where the sign said, "The buck stops here," he ranked with the best of them. always a mm Henry J. Taylor Our Central Intelligence Agency reports that the Kremlin is now feeding the Egyptian armed forces through a cage. Moscow has quietly shut down the supply of spare parts which makes these forces functional. The CIA finds that the Soviet continues navy On 93rd Congress Slate leaders indicate they will follow previous procedure that is, let the House pass the act first and then have the Senate take it up. With no time limitations, it's fe't this format will lead to speedy enactment. Pending further study, the present intent is to push more or less the same bill passed decisively by the House last August but stymied in the Senate by the filibuster. This measure contained four major provisions: (1) Prohibited the use of federal funds to bus students to "attain racial balance." Students in the first six grades could be required to ride buses only to the "closest or next closest" appropriate By ROBERT S. ALLEN Anti-busin- Dec. 28 -FWASHINGTON, ilibustering by a Senate minority is not going to block enactment of legislation in the new (93rd) Congress which convenes next Wednesday. That's what happened last October, law and is the sole reason no was passed. With Congress under heavy pressure to wind up in order to rush home to electioneer, a small clique of militant liberals took advantage cf this situation to thwart Senate consideration of an bill decisively approved by the House in August 282 to 102. Had the Senate been able to vote on the measure, its passage was certain. The whole struggle in the Senate revolved around the ultras' stalling filibuster to deter consideration and efforts to break it. Three showdowns over a period of ten days to shut off debate by invoking anti-busin- g anti-busin- g g ultra-liber- anti-busin- g . school. Students above the sixth grade could be ti'sed further but only as a last resort. Federal court orders requiring such additional busing could be stayed pending appeal. (2) Preserved the sanctity of existing school district boundaries unless they were "drawn" expres-I- y for the purpose or had the effect of segregation. Aim of this provision was to put an end to busing a furious major across district lines issue in a number of areas, notably Detroit and Richmond. (3) Permitted the reopening of scores of previously decided school cases to reduce busing requirements to the limits specified in the measure. This was vigorously urged by President Nixon, and was written into the House bill as an amendment by a 246 to 142 vote after lengthy debate. (4) Earmarked for compensatory education programs $500 million of the $1 billion authorised for aid to desegregating school districts. States would have a major voice in allocating their respective shares of this money which would be targeted on basic courses and services in schools enrolling large numbers of needy children. desegregation eastern as Solium Bill Early to use Mersa Matruh and Mediterranean bases to its own independent benefit. From these it effectively confronts our 6th Fleet elements based in Greece and dependent on Greece. Greece is a strategic imperative to us and we have 12 U.S. installations military there, some of them nuclear. But in the case of Egypt's own forces Moscow is adopting its classic method of Red control equip a country but ration the spare parts. And, behind the scenes, the CIA finds Egyptian President Anwar Sadat caught in the trap. The chief villains in the project are Communist party leader Leonid I. Brezhnev and Red Army Chief of Staff Marshal Matvei Zakharov, the godfather of Egyptian rearmament after the War with Israel. The late President Ganu.1 Abdel Nasser took Sadat with him on his last mission to Moscow before he died. There Sadat courted Brezhnev and Zakharov but, once President, began a private undercover war Six-Da- y with both of them. f Kissinger misses Communist Aims a on North Vietnamese viewed the Henry Kissinger's report the peace talks with Hanoi elections. The thinking in high indicates that, despite his places was that Hanoi would undersdesperately attempt a favorable experience, he does not tand Communist negotiating deal before November for fear Mr. Nixon would insist on much techniques or objectives. terms after harsher For is Kissinger This strange. But the Communists were himself, on several occasions in the past in talking of the Soviet telling their friends they were Union, has described Red pushing a deal before the strategy with precision and un- election because they figured Nixon was so desperate for a derstanding. deal, and so From this reporter's his chances of experience in negotiating with worried about Asian Communists, it is clear winning if a deal were not the North Vietnamese and forthcoming, he would sign Americans have quite different almost anything that looked aims. We negotiate to end a good on the surface. Hanoi was wrong. But so were war. To Communists, as the top party man ui a major Asian the Nixon advisers who thought country told me some years the Communists, in fear of a ago, negotiations are a con- Nixon landslide, would sign a tinuation of war and set the document that barred them from victory. stage for future victories. "You Americans," he said, It is certain the Communists "think of war and peace as have read the U.S. separate operations. To us, congressional elections with peace is a continuation of war. care and that they realize the The terms of any peace treaty collapse of the talks, after so must therefore include points much hope had been generated, which make it possible for will mean a resurgence of the Communists to achieve what antiwar drive on Capitol Hill, was impossible before." bringing new pressures on Mr. The North Vietnamese, in a Nixon to end the war on Hanoi's of number private terms. conversations with foreign associates, have stated that the talks are a means of giving the n has no respect whatever for the Egyptian military structure. By the first in the fronts like War, Egyptian officers as a whole on Six-Da- y the Sinai commandeered any available jeeps, trucks and even ambulances and deserted the troops, fleeing for their own and across the safety to Suez Canal. The CIA finds that Zakharov quips about Egyptian officers "who draw their swords and cut down a side street" and believes the Egyptian soldier is not likely to forget all that. In fact, Zakharov makes no attempt to conceal his contempt for everything Egyptian. Among other affronts, Zakharov's willing to agree, Hilton Hotel. The CIA knew that things then went from bad to worse in Egyptian-Sovie- t relations, a true coup for CIA Director Richard M. Helms. When the disgruntled Sadat ordered the Soviet withdrawal the CIA found that the Soviet had in Egypt 5,000 military advisers and 15,000 regular Red Army officers and troops. There were 200 Russian pilots, 69 jet bombers, 365 jet fighters, including four highly advanced MIG-23- long-rang- and 10 helicopters and 14 10 Sukhoi-ll- s, 104 TU-16- s, s, reconnaissance e aircraft. There were, and remain, 1,500 Russian tanks compared with less than 1,000 before the disastrous War, 570 pieces of heavy Soviet artillery, 1,100 armored personnel carriers and at least 50 Soviet-buiSix-Da- y powers of arrest, inquisition, etc. It is responsible to President Sadat personally. The Mabahes is the secret police and is under the Minister of Interior. It deals with internal security. Both services employ what Egyptians call "The Public Eye": hundreds of thousands of in informers everywhere hotels, in bazaars, in offices, on street corners, in all gatherings, etc. "The Public Eye" performs for bits of bakhsish (bribe money), small favors or whatnot and the Soviet infiltration is everything. By rationing Egypt in the shipment of spare parts on the one hand and this crippling of Egyptian intelligence on the other the Kremlin masters retain their mastery. g BERRY'S In face, such ineffective truce would have a certain value to Hanoi. So long as international truce teams were the final authority on violations, and so long as they were in no position to know what was going on, no one could say with certainty that the cease-fir- e was being broken. There would be endless arguments while truce breaking continued unabated. It would be extremely difficult under such conditions, to use American air power. North Vietnamese strategy of late was aimed at keeping Kissinger believing only a few minor details stood in the way of agreement. Those hopes relaxed the United States. Key areas in North Vietnam were not bombed. Hanoi was given a breathing spell in a crucial period. A North Vietnamese buildup in the South was facilitated. There was misinterpretation in Washington also on how the teams WORLD missile-launchin- bases g with extremely intricate search radar. The CIA located more than 1,000 Soviet SAM missiles. Many are on tracked vehicles and thus mobile. These are now deployed from the port of Alexandria to upper Egypt they protect the $500 Aswan million Russian-buil- t where )) i Dam. This is the most expensive Soviet foreign-aiproject in existence anywhere. But all this Soviet military equipment lives on spare parts on Cairo visits he obtainable only from age-ol- d miniature sleigh powered by eight levitating reindeer. , The First Flight The celebrated first manned sleigh flight took place on Dec. 24, 1822, with Moore's versified report of the achievement being published the following year. This week's Santa Claus 150 landing on a steeply pitched part of the roof known as Taurus-LittroEave was the smoothest of all and was weeks to some take complete, preliminary estimates the stocking deposits were the most valuable ever collected. in the Both the perfection was perway the mission formed, and the record harvest of goodies it produced, added weight to the argument that manned sleigh flights should be continued. It appears certain, however, that at least for the rest of this century, rooftop landings are The Kremlin masters are proving again that there are countless ways they can twist your arm without laying a hand on you. The CIA also finds that in a companion operation the Soviet secret infiltration is crippling unlimited 150-ye- will U S S R., and the CIA finds that through the Kremlin rationing plan the mobile rocket units, trucks, tanks, artillery, etc., are rapidly growing inoperable. (GIA), with almost By DICK WEST WASHINGTON (UPC) no announcement was made in advance, it can now be revealed that the epic voyage of Santa Claus 150 was the last in the current series of manned sleighflights. Thus ends an era a epoch that brought about the fulfillment of man's dream of landing a sleigh and eight reindeer on housetops. But although these Christmas Eve missions, which thrilled and inspired the entire world, have terminated, the controversy they created lingers on. Indeed, 150 more years may pass before the centra! question can be answered by dispassionate historians: Were the gifts found in the stockings that hung by the chimney worth the tremendous expense entailed in putting them there? Some Think It Wasteful Some think the Santa Claus program was sinfully wasteful. They say the vast sums spent on costly toys and luxury appliances should have been devoted to eradicating poverty and improving the environment. Others, particularly those closely associated with the project, insist the missions enriched the lives of everyone by advancing the frontiers of man s imagination and causing him to look beyond himself. They say the rewards, both tangible and psychological, will be evident for years to come. However that may be,, a place in history is secure for Clement C. Moore, the minister-poet whose scientific breakit all possible. made through concept of Although the the delivering gifts down chimney was an ancient one, it was Moore who visualized lifting the packages up to the termed a "spectacular success." Although an exact appraisal the the Egyptian intelligence services. The top apparatus is the or Mnhabbarei General Intelligence Agency Lighter Side of The News housetop by means of lt d Zakharov daylight in Soviet Trap? repeatedly barred all Egyptians within miles of the Heliopolis airport and once arrogantly staged an orgy of antics against the Egyptian onlookers in front of Cairo's Lmher Power Commission. Holcomb and Raymond Telles the Equal on Employment Opportunity Commission, and Wilterd Deason of the Interstate Commerce Commission Ray Cromley same. Sadat Caught Alexandria, ng Services. Among the federal 3gencies, there are Rush Moody and Pinknev Walker on the Federal perfectly challenge of the presidency in a manner that strengthened the entire free world. Truman second-rankin- g providing that nothing practical would be done to enforce the cease-fir- e or to prevent the North Vietnamese from an arms buildup. If the United States requires, for domestic reasons, a truce team to supervise such an arrangement, Hanoi is quite willing to agree, provided only that conditions are set to insure that in practice the teams will be ineffective. If Kissinger is not happy with the wording, Hanoi is agreeable to changing the sentences to so make Americans happy long as the end result is the and, later, to meet the S and is GOP member of Armed United States the fig Itif it requires for getting out of the war. The concept of a cease-firitself, was an effort to arrange something on paper that would meet American requirements for saving face. Hanoi was serving the entire nation with his War Profits Committee Harry Committee e, mm above the Inside Washington anti-busin- g member of the Banking become an able senator $12-billi- legislation by spring. "This is top priority for us," says Sen. Robert Griffin, Mich., Republican Whip leader. "There is no and need for new committee hearings, and the same goes for floor discussion. This problem has been deliberated long enough. The only thing needed is remedial legislation, and it is our determined intention to get it as soon zi possible. It's long overdue." alternates between Senate and House chairmen. In the Senate, John G. Tower, a Republican, is ranking GOP 1884-197- 2 1 machine politics of Missouri to Eastern Europe. Marshall The to rebuild Western Plan Europe was but the beginning anti-busin- g ( 1 had the capacity Americans, had already swallowed comprehensive Truman, Operations, becomes its vice chairman for two years, in the system that the most ordinary of historic decision to use the atomic bomb against Japan. Within a year, a new kind of was a the Cold War war reality. In 1947, Truman announced his Truman Doctrine and sent aid to Greece and Turkey to fight and "contain" communism, which through WW . Potsdam and made the anti-busin- g S Sii prosperity at home and a election to the presidency in his own right and would again find himself leading the nation in war. Within four months after fate thrust him into world leadership, Harry Truman addressed the first meeting of the United Nations in San Francisco, met with Stalin at to 38. In the incoming Congress, the crucial time factor will not be playing in the militants' hands. leaders are To avert that, planning to seek early action on the explosive issue. Their aim is to put te Congressional the military position of economic fair- decisions any president ever had to make, that he would win a surprising two-third- s, In the Capitol, the seniority system has given Tevas some important leverage. George Mahon heads the House ApproCommittee, which priations some call the most important. Mahon also heads the House-SenaCommittee on Reduction of Federal Expenditures. Looking back now from our far-reachi- - cratic party. stalemate that cast a shadow over his last years in office. Americans went back, once more, to "normalcy." Surely there was no one that day who could foresee that the crises that were to came in the next few years would be as grave and as challenging as any in our history, that Harry S Truman would be faced with some of the most difficult and cloture were unavailing. Each test produced a majority favoring cloture, but each was short of the necessary as follows 45 to 37; 49 to 39; 49 of Dallas with the Democrats. Bush was once a House member from Texas and most recently U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Strauss is a former treasurer of the Demo- The House Banking Committee chairman is Rep. Wright Patman. who also has become the dean of the House. Patman has been vice chairman of the Joint Economic Committee and will become its chairman with the new Congress. The House Agriculture Committee is headed by Rep. Bob Poage, and the new chairman of the Science and Astronautics Committee will be Rep. Olin E. Teague. Teague chose that over keeping his vacancy longtime job as head of the House Veterans' Affairs Committee. Teague also is chairman of the House Democratic Caucus. Rep. Jack Brooks, who has headed the Joint Committee on IF born. In 1950: Communist North Korea's invasion of South Korea and Truman's decision to commit American troops. Then, the Chinese intrusion into the war, the clash with MacArthur, projects. Both major national political parties have Texans at their head: (ieorge Bush of Houston at the GOP and Robert Strauss Harry over in China. NATO, the Allied military alliance, was FDR's fourth term while Anti-Busi- If WASHINGTON UPI you scratch official Washington these days, the "ouch" will frequently have a Texas drawl. It's nothing like when LBJ ran the show, but several Texans are in high Washington jobs, particularly on Capitol Hill. Although no Texan holds a job in the traditional Cabinet, President Nixon has named Anne Armstrong a special counsellor in the White House, with Cabinet rank. Mrs. Anrstrong, wife of a Texas rancher, has been of the Republican Party. K:r White House job marks the first time a woman has held Cabinet "Mik since another Texan, publisher Oveta Culp Hobby of Houston, of Health, Education and Welfare under Dwight D. Eisenhower. If Nixon's appointments subject to congressional approval go through, the deputy secretary of defense will be William take- bomb, the Communist The fighting in Europe was almost over; the collapse of Japan could only be a matter of months. Truman would merely preside over the conclusion of a war already won and fill out the remainder of P. Clements, a Dallas oilman. John Connally. Navy secretary under John Kennedy and for a while Treasury secretary under Nixon, remains in a special advisory status with Nixon, and the President says he will be using Conn3lly from time to time for special By WILLIAM CLAYTON 1972 out. iO mi tr nm, Thar's a new talk show record -- 136 'ya knows' minutes!" in fifteen From now on, of primarily will take the form Mothbirthdays, graduations, er's Day, weddings and bar mitzvahs. |