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Show Editorial Poge Feature Will U.S. Recognize Panamas Military Junfa? By STEWART HENSLEY WASHINGTON UP-I- Diplomatic sources said today the United States appeared to be moving cautiously toward eventual recognition of the military junta that has seized power in Dedicated to the Progress And Growth of Central Utah WEDNESDAyToCTOBER 16, 1968 Department, they recognition of busted President Arnulfo Arias, who has taken refuge in the U.S. Canal Zone, The United States is consulting with other nations of the Western Hemisphere and undoubtedly will await action by three or four of them before moves customary Washington would announce of relations with suspension Panama, which would have the its effect of ending legal procedure in such cases. The tentative decision that the United States would have to sooner or later do business with Panama. Rationalizing Czech Dilemma It must be rather difficult these days for homegrown Communists and desciples of to tell themselves that communism is the hope of mankind and that Soviet Russia is the guardian of that hope. Here is the pricet he Czechoslovak ian people are going to pay for their brief flirtation with the elementary freedoms Americans and citizens of other "decadent" democracies take for granted : The Communist party muBt resume dominant rule in Czechoslovakia. The party must exercise complete control over the press, radio and television. Liberal Czech leaders must be replaced by orthodox Communists, meaning those who will unquest-ioningl- y toe the Kremlin line. In return for these chains, the Soviet Union promises to begin withdrawing its occupation troops someday. Yes, the mental convolutions Communists must be going through are difficult, but not impossible for men who recovered from the shocks of Hungary and What is surprisinz is that so many ordinary Americans have so easily accepted and so quickly rationalized away Russia's brutal repression of Czechoslovakia. The Russians were merely protecting their legitimate national interests, the argument goes. Their Intervention in Czechoslovakia was really not much different from our intervention in the Dominican Republic or in Vietnam. Indeed, runs the most extreme of these rationalizations, our involvement in Vietnam set an example tLat encouraged the Russians to move into Czechoslovakia. , As if America's failure to oppose the aggressive spread of communism in Southeast Asia (whether or not Vietnam was the wisest choice of time or place to oppose it) would have persuaded the Soviets to allow communism to peacefully recede in Eastern Europe. Yet so weary are we of more than two decades of cold war, so anxious are we to discover any indications of good will and decency Among the rulers of Russia and o inconsequential is little Czech Marxist-Leninis- oslovakia that many of us have bought these arguments. We magnify the motes in our own eyes in hopes it will cause our adversary to recognize the beams in his. We content ourselves with claiming a moral defeat for the Soviets in Czechoslovakia, forgetting that this is th-- kind of "defeat" the Soviets have always willingly accepted in exchange for the practical advantages it gains them. Certainly, Czechoslovakia is not worth a world war. There is nothing we can do for the peoples of the European satellites that they are unable to do for themselves. But if we cannot prevent a Hungary or a Czechoslovakia, neither can we justify these human tragedies under the delusion that there is really no difference between Russian foreign policy and our m So They up to responsible manhood. He likes to think of himself as a nonconformist; but all hippies in their own circles are radically conformist in dress, speech, thought, conduct and odor, and any assecbly of them in the street reminds one of nothing so much as a flock of sheep The worst hypocrisy is the pretense of beirg an apostle of love . . . (but they know nothing of love in its creative, sacrificial and redemptive aspects) . Jesus of Nazareth gave us not flower-powe- r, but the power of the cross, and wore not a wreath of roses, but a crown of thorns. The Rev. Robert E. Fitch, professor of Christian ethics at the Pacific School of Religion in San Francisco, discussing hippies. .... y, there. "No one down here has authority to do anything, or authorize anything. I'm g a little volunteer work, but everything has to be cleared, and there Isn't much enthusiasm. "I think a good campaign exploits tht enthusiasm of campaign workers and accepts the risk of a mistake or two. Otherwise, it seems to me, the whole thing can just run out of (team before do-ln- day." For the record. Charley is about 55, an attorney who has worked for GOP lawmakers and was in the government's executive branch during the Eisenhower Administration. He is one of those shadow officials who will probably be it. government again, on the second or third administrative echelon, if Nixon wins the president, We withhold a more precise identification because of Charley's parting comment: "Say, you won't quote me. of course! They wouldn't like it if they knew 1 wss down here talking to reporters." GHOSTS OF '48 Charley's pretty well define the strategic questions confronting the Nixon high con.mand. Top Nixon aides are. indeed, terribly afraid cf making mistakes. Better than anyone else they know how close Nixon came to victory in I960, and they Q verdict. want to reverse dial They also know that the tui row margin of John F. Kennedy's victory left and quite a many GOP professionals few amateurs bitterly certain of just which mistake cost Nixon the I960 prize. They have had hints of the kind of recriminations which will bt heard If Mxon Mows it again la 1964. - com-min- power sea-lev- Bye Line by Salute to the Brave The State Department Monon the day declined comment Panamanian the of substance affair. Department press Robert J. McCloskey, refused to say whether relations with the country had been suspended. officer ' Mexico City's metropolitan 6 than more of pooulation million grows nearly 7 per cent annually. Jensen A Tale Of A Gal kl'JZ if Putting Up A Front Mi , ... If you're tired of reading about political candidates, the Vietnam war, death on the highways, Provo National Security Seminar, -and other such things, how about something like this: ROSWELL, N.M. Masonic lodge officials are again look, ing for cold and needy old men in Roswell who can vse a " suit of underwtar. They are complying with the terms of a bequest left by Gus Winter. He d'ed 10 years ago and left $105,000, part of it in trust lor the "Winter -underwear fund." Z He asked the lodge to select the recipients and make sure the underwear had long arms and legs, good quality and fit, and a drop seat. Last year, 30 old men were warmed by Mr. Winter's wishes. ( MiwH til H 1? . - "long-handled- !, For heaven's sake do they still make "long-johns- with drop " seats? Here's another story on the lighter side or maybe in this case, the heavier side. It concerns the story of a New York gal named Francine Gottfried who caught the biggest whrrrrrr on Wall Street since IBM. Miss Gottfried, 21, a computer operator for a New York The sight of her strolling through the bank, measures financial district in a snug sweater attracted such crowds that traffic stalled, 10 women lost their shoes, six cars were wrecked, and a pedestrian's gold watch was stolen. "I think they're all crazy," gasped a flabbergasted Miss Gottfried, who fled to her home and hid for several days. But by then she was a national celebrity. Offers of movie, television, and modeling contracts gushed forth. An opinion- survey company reported that two days after Miss Gottfried first hit the newspapers, 88 per cent of Americas males had heard of Miss Gottfried more than were aware of the Pueblo incident when it happened. pretends to be a mature adult, but there is nothing he dreads more than having to grow life-lon- election the He By ROBERT S. ALLEN and JOHN A. GOLDSMITH WASHINGTON "Yeah," said Char-le"the polls are wonderful and thnigi look great for us, but it just isn't my kind of campaign." Reg Knowing Charley to b a Richto views with comparable publican ard Nixon's we had assumed that any promising GOP campaign was his kind. We asked him about that. "This time it's all controlled from New York." he said, "and they art terribly afraid of making mistakes up - of Say Nixon Backers Are Finding Campaign Too Controlled Mr. Allen outcome Ironically, cn the day that Secretary of State Dean Rusk appeared at the United Nations to call Russia to account for its invasion of Czechoslovakia, he was heckled hy a group of young Vietnam war dissenters, about whom the most charitable thing that can be said is that their education is Inside Washington Ml U.S. The struggle in Panama comes at a particularly critical time for the United States, since negotiations are underway between the two governments over the future terms of operation of the canal and the possib'M'.y of digging a new waterway through that country. Panama has been insisting on a watering down of the unlimited U.S. control of the Canal Zone, and more favorable financial terms. The issue has become entangled in the explosive nationalism upsurge in Panama, in which Communist agents are alleged to have had some hand. own. non-Russi- 1 The State said, probably the new regime, headed by provisional President Jose Ma-- , ria Pinilla, was made when it became apparent that Arias did not have enough support to regain power. ts More than a fear of mistakes, however, it is a fear that the campaign will "run out of steam" which really :hews at Nixon strategists. Nixon, himself, has taken the lead in trying to exorcise the ghosts of 1948. He has said repeatedly that he will not lose by inaction as Thomas E. Dewey lost to Harry S. Truman in that campaign upset. The similarities between 1968 and 1948 are well known to the Nixon staff. In the first place. Nixon, like Dewey, is shown far ahead by the polls in a race which is complicated by a third party candidacy. Every major poll and all the experts said Dewey would win too. Even more significant is a similarity between the attitude of voters as they are polled today and the attitudes polled in 1348. Now as in the middle 1948 campaign, voters are saying that it is time for a change in national administrations. FARMER FORGOTTEN Heartening for Nixon strategists, homer, are some of the dissimilarities between the two election years. The Nixon aides remem. ber, while others have forgotten, how Truman won in 1948. For example, political analysts agreed in the wake of the 1948 upset that the - traditionally Republican farm vote had deserted Dewey, the homburg wearing Wall Street lawyer, for the more earthy Truman, who was warning, as he gave 'em hell, of further sags in farm prices. Too little attention to farm problems was one of the major sins attributed by Truman to the "do nothin' 80th Congress" which had been controlled by Republicans. Farmers are unhappy about prices again in 1968, but the Republicans have not controlled Congress this time. Also an important factor In Truman's effec1048 victory was a tive drive by organized labor, like the farm unrest, unhappincss of union members was skillfully exploited by Truman, who urged union members to end GOP control of Congress. Labor leaders are working for the Democrats again this year, but the effectiveness of their activities is in doubt. Polls suggest that rank and file union members feel quite free to vote as they please, ard for many of them tbaltusas -voting for "I Wall at a. , -- -- " J There's only one thing I have to say about the whole Incident Gottfried, your cup runneth over!" . . . "Miss World View Today In Biafran Controversy Drones On-Wh- People Starve ile By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst As federal Nigerian troops tighten a noose about the last major stronghold of rebel Biafra, their top battle commander, Col. Benjamin describes as "humanitarian rubbish" international attempts to bring food relief to starving Biafrans. In Lagon, Nigerian capital, Post speaks the Morning scornfully of the "romanticism international of the relief givers. terror-stricke- officer Nigerian young of a Swiss relief don't you find some white people to feed?" starving And in Geneva, the International Committee of the Red Cross estimates that up to 10,000 Biafrans are starving to "Why death each day. Many Die K the figures can be accepted, it means that for each month the Nigerian civil war is prolanged more than a quarter million people will die as a side effect of a conflict now in its 16th month. It lends tragic emphasis to a declaration made by Biafra's Chief Justice Sir Louis Mbanefo when he walked out of first round peace talks last May 31; "We are totally committed. If extermination is the price we have to pay, then we cannot escape It." It is the commitment of some Quotes In The News - Vice Pres. Humphrey'! campaign manager Larry O'Brien, charging that GOP presidential candidal Richard Nixon is negotiating with George Wallace for Wallace's M. electoral volf.: "While Nixon pretends to make noises against Wallace and refuses ts appear on l debating platform with him, It would appear that Nixon la keeping his options open for an Electoral College deal with the third party candidal." liar-riSF.ARROOK, Tet.-M- ra. Eisele, wife of astronaut Donn Eisele, telling of he? reaction to her husband's space ct flight: "I think greatest.' It's great. eight million Ibo tribesmen who once formed the ba.'ibone of Nigeria's civil service and d controlled most of its business but who now are convinced there is neither opportunity nor place for them in federal Nigeria. It is a commitment born of three hideous waves of killing in n 1956 and a which has yet to see population concrete evidence of government promises of "love and freely accorded opportunities" in a reunited Nigeria. Perhaps the Ibos brought it on themselves through arrogance based on superior Indus, try and education given to them by Christian Missionaries. Death Commonplace Westerners view Perhaps mass starvation through different eyes than do Africans to whom death is commonplace in times of disaster, and, number children among Us earliest victims. Col. Lt. leader Biafran Ojukwu has rejected a land route for relief supplies through d territory tn grounds the food might be poisoned enroute or that lt might open the way to surprise federal attack. Instead he relies on inadequate and irregular relief brought in by night And so the war goes on, to the credit of no one. . demands worker: WASHINGTON Idcnt Hubert II. The Almanac black-owne- Ade-kunl- e, A History Tht federal-controlle- air-bor- BERRY'S WORLD By United Press International Today is Wednesday, Oct. 16, the 290th day of 1968 with 76 to follow. The moon is between its last quarter rnd new phase. The Morning shrs are Mars and Jupiter. The evening stars are Saturn and Venus. On this day in history: In 1846, the first operation with a patient under ether was performed at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. John In 1859, abolitionist Brown staged a raid on Harper's Ferry, Va. He seized a hotel, arsenal, firehouse and 30 townspeople. He was captured two days later. In 1934, Chinese Communists began their long march to the northwest where they esta-- b I i s h e d headquarters and mapped strategy against the Nationalist government (which they overthrew in 1949). In 1939, U.S. Army Chief of Staff, George Marshall, died. A thought for the day: Roman Aurelius, Emperor Marcuswealth or said: "Receive position with arrogance and be ready to let lt go." The eplnlons and statements expressed by Herald columnists are their own and do not necessarily reflect tie views of this news paper. BY TAMES O. PERRY Medical men claim we're taller in the morning than In the Z evening. I haven't noticed how tall I am in the mornings-- all I'va noticed is how short I am at the end of the month. .. Then there's the story of the mother who was showing Junior the family album. When they came to the picture of a handsome young man with a mustache, Junior asked, "Who's that?" "Why that's your father," replied the mother proudly. "Yeah?" said Junior skeptically. "Then who's the baldheaded guy that's been living with us?" , " Speaking of mustaches have you noticed how popular they've become in more recent times? I wonder why. Even some of our, prominent citizens have publicly appeared with a dab of hair' on their lip. Surely they must have some motive for letting bah sprout on their lip. Could it be that they're trying to be a nonconformist?-- or 1st it that it makes them feel manly? In most cases, it looks like," they left their toothbrush in their mouth or someone took a swipe" at them with a shoe polish rag. The Lighter Side Technology Gallops On; Skills Vanish By DICK WEST As WASHINGTON (UPI) technology gallops relentlessly forward, many of the skills that man has acquired over the years are becoming obsolete. - Buttonhooking, for example, has been declining rapidly. Twenty years from now there probably won't be a skilled buttonhooker left in the country. The same is true of ice cream freezer turning, fountain pen filling, inner tube patching and numerous other skills that helped make this nation great. Several governmental and private programs have been set up to help people acquire new skills, but for the most part they are inadequate and unsatisfactory. What is often overlooked is the human element the fact that once a person reaches middle age he simply can't adjust overnight to new ways of doing things. No new skill he might learn is likely to give him the same sense of pride and achievement For the rest of his life he will to some extent be a social misfit I was touched the other day by a letter that I received from Terence McHale of the Flint (Mich.) Journal. He is a typical of the technological victim onrush. In his younger years, by dint work and of patience, hard concentration, he mastered the art of opening beer kegs without sending a geyser of foam gushing over the landscape. It was a rare accomplishment and resulted in a flood of Invitations to events where there was a keg of hoer to be ttpNd. Then, not long ago, hl world Collapwd around him. He wss Invited to a par'y at which lbs i.nst rolled out a new tvpe of k.ot only as McHale, the tol sprayless tapsman, unable demonstrate his skill before an appreciative audience. It was far more humilating than that." The kog was opened by th host's son. And not a drop was lost. "I slinked out the back door, a broken man, and have been avoiding my friends ever, since," McHale wrote. My heart goes out to McHale. but I have no comfort to offer. Being a man who devoted-muc- -- i j h of his youth to learning to strike wooden matches on the seat of his trousers, I was crushed by technology years Chatter On Wall Street NEW YORK HTD-McD- on." nell & Co. says the expected i correction in the market rise i may take the form of "easy ; unsettlement and gradually ; lower prices or It may quicken into sharper but less durable.! attrition." The company sayr; the form "does not really . nutter" since "we are con-- ; fidenl that It will be . . . only a correction not a reversal of , either short or long term trends." Oppptihrimer, Newhorg k Neil the stork market seems to,' have entered a consolidation. H makes the observation thall demnr.d in recent weeks hst been most noticenhle for share s,i.s of woll rstaltl'Mht'd firms which", have been neglected for l lonf lime, and voices the opinion" tlu'M' ussues s! juld continue outperform the market over the next kw months. |