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Show ?- - S&w'r ys& M?4 m nrrf n W s a t& Ut :&&4$e ' Robert 5. Alien McGovern Tries For Another Run WASiUG70N - Thw mastermind sr tt ATI Dfd.:ts?d fa fh Progfssf And Growth ef Central Utah wtM Mav 22. 1975. THE Thursde HERaLD. Provo. Utah-Pa- Adding Up the Viet When they talk about America's "niggardliness' toward South Vietnam following the 1972 Paris and peace agreement some people will refer a!! such complaints to the General Accounting Office. A few weeks back when Congress was mulling over President Ford's request for million in military aid to South Vietnam, on top of $300 some $700 million already authorized for the 1975, government's fiscal submitted an watchdog extremely interesting, and painful, report that should be made part of the public record. As far as GAO in- could vestigators determine, something like $200 million worth of weapons, equipment and supplies sent to South Vietnam in the past two years wound up lost, mislaid, missing, mishandled or in the hands of the enemy. Item: total of 143 small as patrol such vessels, and boats, landing craft, valued at nearly $37 million, simply "disappeared" from A the South Vietnamese navy. Item: A stockpile of ammunition valued at ileal iy P iiwiuwu vyas auitu out of doors without cover allowed to deteriorate. Item: At a depot holding small arms valued at nearly $20 million, mere than flQ million worth was later reported "missing." Item: South Vietnam requested new howitzers, 155-m- armored personnel carriers and 8 medium tanks to replace alleged battlefield losses. The "lost'5 equipment was M-4- actually stored in a warehouse. Item: Gen. Nguyen Vinh Nghi, former commander of South Vietnamese forces in the Mekong Delta, last year pilfered 8,000 radios and 24,000 small arms from U.S. shipments and sold most of them to the Viet Cong. When they talk about the next domino to fall in Southeast Asia because of America's "abandonment" of an ally - and some remind them people will from -- Bill discouraging Communist aggressive designs, the United States has inadvertently made North Vietnam one of the most formidable military powers for its size in the world. Item: American-mad- Thanks President Ford's determination to challenge Congress in the event they scrap his controversial economic program. "Artists are specialized cells in a single, huge : is Asia with hoopla!) appearances in Hanoi, Saigii and Cambodia u they alfow him in. !)resurnably this sortie will be at public expense in his role 3 chairman of the Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs Subcommittee. kGowm is an accomplished hand at making the most of 1,000 aims. large American artillery pjeces; $500 and As Mi fit If Jeeps to fighter-bomberup to $300 million in ammunition; $20 million in ,fuel and lubricants. s; Pentagon estimate, North Vietnam has faiien heir to some $5 billion worth of weapons and supplies. It is not clear whether or not this includes the $1 billion worth abandoned virtually intact by the South Vietnamese army in its headlong flight at the beginning of the V DItrribwid Marcos Walks Tightrope matter? In addition, North Vietnam now owns, of the American taxpayer, one of the finest, deep-watports in the world at Cam Ranh Bay, plus elsewhere in South compliments er Vietnam warehouses, cil tanks, barracks, air fields, hospitals, ad infinitum et nauseum. Without an air force throughout the long war, North Vietnam may also wind up with a sizeable one, depending upon whether the United States can get back the scores of planes flown to Thailand by fleeing South Vietnamese pilots or Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos, walking ? noriifti": Rwi tightrope, has called for new negotiations regarding our vital U.S. bases since the Red conquest of South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. Over the protest of able Sen Harry F. Byrd (I. Va.) and with his Senate resolution coordinated with House bill 12964, we have already given up Okinawa, the largest in the Ryukyu group. On Okinawa, in the terrible battle that iaied 83 days, we suffered 49.141 casualties, killed in Americans 12,521 action, 753 aircraft lost, .16 ships sunk, 369 additional ships damaged. Article 3 of our April 28. 1952. Treaty of Peace with Japan gave the complete States administrative United whether that understandably jittery country turns them over to the !'new government" in South Vietnam, as it has indicated it will. authority over Okinawa and we poured $260 million into our bases there in 1968 alone. It became our most important single military base complex in the entire Fa)- - East now gone with the winds. In short, when they blame We have in the Philippines our immense Clark Air Force Base; the great Sabic Bay Naval Base and a variety of a tardily aroused Congress for the" collapse of South and some poeple Vietnam will they are going to have to ignore an awful lot of history. organism called mankind. Those cells have to behave as they do, just as the cells in our hearts. . .have to behave as they do. Our purpose is to make mankind aware of itself, in all its complexity, and to dream its dreams. We have no choice in the matter." Author Kurt Vonnegut in his latest book, Foma and kr I A. Ttmfi Sywficct Henry J. Taylor but does it indispensible secret installations, including radar, sonar and satellite stations. In total these represent a $2 billion U.S. investment and we maintain on our installations about 20,003 Americans. Originally we leased the bases without rent to the year 2046. This was for 99 years and was part of our 1947 military assitance program, the first anywhere after World War II. But in September, 1966, Prsident Marcos renegotiated the pact and succeeded in reducing the U.S. leases to 25 years. With the Red conquests in Southeast Asia, back he has come again. President Marcos has Reds at home and abroad alike. The attacks, backed by both the Soviet and Red China, finally caused him to declare martial lawonSept.23, 1972. The Philippine forces, totaling 42.000 are scattered through 67 provinces. President Marcos is stil? conducting intense operations against Moslem guerrillas or the Communist New People's Army in southern Mindanao, Lanao del Sur and North Samar Cotabato provinces. Island and elsewhere. They are largely trained, equipped and financed in Sabah, a nearly autonomous state in Borneo, and the forces are frequently combined. Faced with a Red problem similar to what we faced originally in South Vietnam, are also the Communists making it tough for President Marcos in all urban centers and former Sen. Benigno S. Aquino, Marcos' chief political rival, has just embarrassing ended y fought over successively by Portugal, Spain, 3ntain, Holland the Chinese, it had been a Spanish colony for more than 300 years. The Spaniards formally e&abiished Manila in June, 1571. It is the only Catholic country per cent) in Asia. The 32 million Catholics account for of Asia's total. about The United States emerged as a Pacific power on May 1, 1398. with Commodore George Dewey's briliinat Battle of (83 two-thir- Manila Bay victory. Then on Dec. 10, 1898, the Treaty of Paris transfcred sovereignty of the Philippines to the United proclaimed the Philippines a future repubiicon Jan. 3, 1899. Great Genera! Douglas MacArthur liberated the by jrig!it-sexplorer Ferdinand Magellan in 1522, named for Spain's King e By PHIL PASTOR ET One tiling yon caa't do: Tell a Tse-tun- g and apparently-gathere- Accordingly. Marcos The fellow who boasts of having a "hollow leg" for booze has some rooms to rent is tit attic too. announced including the Philippines' as no longer vital to United States interest. Faced by Fed achievements, President Marcos is in effect stating that our gree-- t strategic bases in the Philippines are doomed and that we must go in thi f moment heavy with unanswered questions. prominent old buildings are protected, the new must look worse than the old. The policy is undemocratic for it implies that the only city history worth protecting is that of the elite. It ignores the contributions ordinary people have made," "Sometimes I was so fed up with all the killing and Planning in Orxs?." 3!pichc fey R5 b,3 wth SO.SOO provided by a coterie of millkrwiire lef'ists In mi agitational op, ration is propaganda at retaining the !e!y gimmicks and aimHI procedural contrivances Out erabled kJovern to capture the Wi nomination, manifestly the candidate. As minority lieutenant d right-han- aiiheugh of Jean West&ood. McCovernite national Mrs Baron labored suvnuousiy to prevent her ouster. When that failed, he has alight ever since to keep in effect the McCovernite, device that put him over. Actively working wuh him on that are Mrs. Westwood. now n a t i o i. a i Richard eommitteewoman; H..fcher, militant black maynr of Gary. In ; Barbara . !f!..!.ij . . . : . r u : chairman. Utah limelight amid the swarm of avowed Deomcratic hopefuls. Few are aware of it. but the artful Soutfi Dakota radicai has at hand the key elements of a potent campaign organization starting with a likely manager who is biding his time on the congressional payroll. He is Alan Baron, short, beefy leftist drawing $36,000 a year as "press secretary and assistant in developing issues and iegilsation" according to McGovern in announcing his t appointment. Baron has a different version. He labeled himseif as "executive assistant to the Senator, coordinating national press and scheduling and his political involvement in national affairs." Baron is a and knowledgeable senatorial i) the sole head and council woman; Phyllis Sfgal, ardeii New York women's liber and wife of Eli Segal, supporter; Edward Donahue, official of a small leftist union. This inner party hassle is still going on. Every time it appears atwtt to be concluded. . the McGovernites and assorted militants pull another stalling rabbit out of their apparently inexhaustible hat and once again the fat is in the fire, That happened only a few weeks ago when the new Review Compliance Commission, headed by former New York Mayor Robert Wagner, was about to make a significant ruling and was blocked a by delaying stratagem by Mrs. Westwood. That's why Democrtic iasiders are far from counting McGovern out of the presidential picture despite his effusions tG A fnnl ra r v Among other bases for their skepticism and doubts are : - Reports that the $250,000 house he bought a few months in the swank embassy row area the third valuable property he now owns in or near Washington) is in effect a campaign headquarters, where he has his 1972 campaign files and records, particularly of contributors, who are being circulated and reoutcdlv solicited for funds. As of last December, McGovern was credited as having more than $150,000 left over from his senatorial reelection campaign. In thai race, he spent weii over $500,000, of which some $450,000 was apparently carried over from his disastrous 1972 presidential drive. Remem From the Herald files, as cmip&d ty Lysa Tiltos lt YEARS AGO May 22, 1965 Brigham Young University took second place in the annual WAC track competition to the Lobos from New Mexico who won their second straight title. ( New Mexico compiled 79 points, BYU 56, Arizona 45. Arizona State 39, Wyoming 15, and Utah 12. A record of 52 feet 8'i inches was set by Clarence Robinson of New Mexico in the triple jump. Combat fatalities in Vietnam jumped from 374 since 1961 to 376 at the close of that"weeR7 The total U.S. death to!! was 538 at that time. It was said the McCovernite leading r lien rmeombat deaths came from a tomb explosion that WUkI 27 and injured 99 on Bsen Hoa Air Base 25 YEARS AGO May 22, 1350 County Treasurer Maurice Bird said 2.000 more tax valuuUon notices we.'e mailed in 1950 than in the previous ymr. He said about 35.000 notices were mailed and that studies showed farms were not being subdivided into smaller portions but ground for home, r building was. A garbage truck driver. in England was fired for insulting the queen when he followed a procession recently. He said he was unaware lie was trailing the queen until the motorcade pulled from the route he was following. He was fired after 17 years with the department, and lost his retirement credit. U ' Abner was in Iom with a composite girl and was narrowly escaping injury in h's hrarch for the lovely creature. 40 YEARS AGO J Mdy22,1335 Provo District reduced the mill levy by ore and one-hanulls and the board approved a 5245 515 budget for the next scfmrii year.. Salaries took of iiit budget and Si&.GQO capital outlay was a paltry lf I could not think of leaving my beloved and miserable tend forever. What have we done to deserve so many miseries for such a long Jane Adoams died that day and was returned to lull House where she spent 47 years of her life. According to the report she j died from cancer and aNTiina! obstructions, which taxea her heart tea much. timer Vietnamese journalist Le Kim Din.h upon hi evacuating Saigon under scige by Viet Cong and North Vif tiiatnese trotms. a mechanism Asian Southeast involving countries. He has publicly disclaimed dependence on the United States and insisted we intend in "write off Southeast Asia, The trouble with burying the hatchet is that the other guy usually has a map of just where. President "self-relianc- .'2. undoubtedly wtxild be warmly welcomed in f'auoi and Saigon as he was by Cuba's Communst dictator Castro, with plenty of accompanying TV &,A p'jk'r widely fanfared niwiiaco'.'erags. Wherever posib'e, 'hat's always carefully prearranged for McGovcrn's junkets. Such trips paid off usefully in McGovern's power drive foi , the 197 presidential nomiaatiod, and he now is obviously sorting to a tried and proven tactic It isn't the only string in his bow as a non candidate candidate (the "little man on the stair who wasn t there" ) . But it's highly effective in keeping him in the public eye, and currently that is in his strategy of upper-moin the staying prominently McGovern's Marcos' attractive, consequential and very knowing wife Imelda Romualdez Marcos has visited and Chiang Mao known there, Ching his wife in oddly, as Miss Chiang r. he proclaimed. President Rising cigarette prioes may soon cure a lot of smokers. conflict, experienced manipulator in all these spheres. while on He is also World that the fail of South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia was imminent. Barbs P14 Japan's dove and War II occupation and, on July 4. 1946, Philippine independence was Peking teen-age- after PhilipDines horrible hunger Discovered the Malos immediately States and Constitution an strike on May 12. President Marcos rules a country 7,000 miles from San Francisco that is a vast archipelago with 7,000 isiands. II, Philip "When only the most suffering. Sometimes a vocifeious Vietnam All told, according to one debacle the of 'Democratic . million in spare parts engines for everything from "Wampeters, securely on foreign bayonets (guess whose) and has been since at least 1956. " one in So v is .r.So 1a re Czechoslovakia East those Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia. of Item: The Communists have captured more than Granfailoons." . list junke's ' Southeast - Experience... regime in Hungary, for instance," is resting quite McGovern's additions, North Vietnam can field at five least 1,000 tanks times the number Thailand has and about as many as Great Britain. Jr. modest about their accomplishments , Th e uet grandstanding e Specking From In a pious but remarkably ungloating comment on the fall of Saigon, the official Soviet news agency, Tass, had this to say: "The events in South Vietnam again confirm the truth that in the present time a regime that rests only on foreign bayonets is utterly nonviable." The Soviets are much too m&W::---- ; to Quote and Requite House White spokesman discussing be more of those headline tn&rig fngn juiikets by Sen. i for the George McGovern same purpose They are part of the South Duk'Xan's cannv nuneuvet ing for another try for President Dfcspiut his hollow sounding and ambiguous disavowals, lie is stil! fervently and a perfcot eicctioneering frsjpjfication trf that old axiom, "once bit en. always smitten.' n Reputedly 53 ge Amos Hoopie was wirg ! ruling the Hoopie Minor because of his insistent vf: ft; seems he wanted to raise some r?1 Burma Kaydok chit ker?5 iii the !mi k ard, jz the neighbors tork a dim view of that. troubk feiitt 4$ A. Jftsw-- T v -- v |