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Show Page HERALD, Provo, Utah, Thursday, October 48-- THE 12. 1978 Global View Washington Window Socialist Party Wins Prestige - A SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (UPI) miniscule Socialist Party is proving that you don't need to turn out the vote to have big political clout. Puerto Rico's Socialist Party is a Marxist Leninist group that only managed to turn out less than 1 percent of the island vote in the 1976 elections, but its influence and pretige go far beyond its numerical strength. In September the party, led by avuncular, Secretary General Juan Mari Bras, engineered two surprise blows against the incumbent government of Gov. Carlos Romero Barcelo. Mari Bras was instrumental in resolution in drafting a the United Nations Decolonization Committee that declared Puerto Rico a colony of the United States. It sailed through the committee unopposed on a 10-- 0 vote with 12 abstentions and 2 absences, embarrassing the U.S. and Puerto Rico governments. d Socialist Party lawyers landed another suprise blow when they won a Puerto Rico Supreme Court verdict prohibiting the use of public funds in holding a Democratic Party primary on the island. A faction, affiliated with Gov. Romero, was expecting public financial support to attract a higher vote turnout to demonstrate island support for the mainland political system. Although weak at the polls, the Socialist Party has heavy influence in key labor unions and student movements. It has ready access to newspapers, radio, and television, and its weekly newspaper Claridad is the only major newspaper in Puerto Rico. The party has a permanent delegate to the Cuban government who resides in Havana. Luis Lausell, leader of a bitter three- - Quiet, Position for Politics in 1 980 Playing - WASHINGTON (UPI) In the book month electrical workers strike early this year, is a member of the Socialist Party central committee, and he sits on its political commission. Carlos Gatlisa, president of the party's central committee, is a legal adviser to the petrochemical workers. Socialist leaders and sympathizers hold key positions in unions representing telephone workers, schoolteachers, water works employees, boilermakers, teamsters, and hotel workers. The party is always dangerous to incumbent politicians as a "spoiler." During the 1976 elections, Mari Bras crusaded against the government-owne- d telephone company, accusing it of Watergate-styl- e wiretapping. The phone company admitted to regular tapings for purposes of "quality control," but the then Gov. Rafael Hernandez Colon was embarrassed by the incident and ordered the tappings ceased. Hernandez Colon narrowly lost his bid in 1976 to the statehood party, and among his difficulties were strikes by students, water works employees, and telephone employees. Socialist leaders were prominent in the three conflicts. Such is the power of the Socialists that established political leaders are sometimes ready to listen to them and bargain. Hernandez Colon, defeated at the polls, negotiated with the Socialist Party this year and gave qualified supd U.N. port to the decolonization Committee resolution in exchange for a clause that recognized associate state status with a lot more autonomy than the present setup. Former Gov. Roberto Sanchez Vilel-la- , who' favors Commonwealth status, is also holding a dialogue with the Socialists: his articles and interviews appear weekly in Claridad. gave a lot of space to Dick "Night Train'' Lane's explanation of how to plav cornerback in professional football If memory serves, the trick was positioning. Lane, a master at his trade, had an instinct for placing himself so that he could be where the football was going in time to stop a completion or better yet, intercept. So it is in presidential politics, especially early in the game. For some potential candidates, it probably is more important to be in a position to run for resident than to be actually campaigning. An example is Sen. Edward Kennedy. It would be foolish for him to be openly running for the Democratic presidential nomination at this time. OPEN DAILY 0; SUNDAY 9--1 MlSMCES )i. , i. I Iff Htttf IWHCllM g, anti-busine- ss regulations or even the elimination of our free enterprise system. 6. Recent reports show that we are giving more financial aid to liberal candidates than we are to conservative ones the people dedicated to the survival of our freedoms and free enterprise system. 7. Too many American businessmen are following the path of Lenin's prediction: "The capitalist's will be so eager to do business with us that they will sell us on credit all the rope we need to hang all the businessmen in the world." Today, some manufacturers of sophisticated computers, machinery and equipment with military applications are eagerly selling their products to the Communists. 8. We are endowing the supporting colleges and universities where the teaching staff is heavily weighted with g professors. 9. We have not carried our story to the public, to our stockholders, to our employees. Surveys show that a higher per cent of high school and even college graduates think that most business concerns enjoy a net profit on sales of 25 to 50. The fact of the matter is that most manufacturers, distributors and A retailers are lucky to net 2 to few well-ru- n companies perhaps net 10, but note that is before taxes. In most cases the tax collector gets far more than the stockholders, who are the ones risking their savings in the business venture. 10. Some of us have become beggars, running to the city, county, state capitol, or to Washington with hat in hand asking for financial help and concessions. 11. Some of us have been guilty of excessive price escalation, providing poor quality products and services, and neglect of envionment and pollution control. Any real or imagined violation becomes an excuse for some to charge that all businessmen are engaged in a conspiracy to get away with murder in these areas. We know that free, honest competition is the best way to control prices and to be assured of ample goods and services for our consumers. 12. Most businessmen have really pursued policies fair to minority groups, to women and to handicapped people. Our prejudice is really directed against low productivity, stealing, absenteeism, ignorance, etc. Most d employers would hire a purple, person if he were capable of doing an outstanding job. Our mam failure in this area has been in our public relations. It takes more sell efforts to convince the employes, customers, and the public that our posture is correct ana fair to all concerned. 13. Many of us have sat around like Neville Chamberlains crying for while our "peace in our time" military posture has deteriorated until we are becoming a second-rat- e power. So will someone ring the bell and wake up our business community owners, management, sales, and advertising people? Freedom and free enterprise may not be long for this world. Her we are heading for a trillion-dolla- r national debt and inflation again perhaps double-dig- it soon with imports widely exceeding exn ports. Without the help of American agriculture, our trade deficits would be running much higher by many billions right now. Yes, let's wake up and show the world that our free enterprise system is still very much alive and that we are not ready to capitulate that, in fact, we have only started to fight for our freedoms and our system. left-win- 4. already is there. Nor does Kennedy have to worry too much about campaign organization for Major brand ALIGNMENT For most U.S. cars. Foreign cars excluded lTest- : I (1 mniottiiMs I I I REGULAR TIRES Slit IK. tlH 147 17tSS C7.)4 1447 21.SS SALE PRICE SALE PRICE ' Plus F.E.T. 1.69 Each Plus F.E.T. 1.80 Each 171.14 1447 21.SS ,M 2,3 71I4 16 47 22SS 1,4 C7I.14 1747 t7.14 161. 15 47 19.SS 171 600.15 1647 20.SS 171 'jj All Each mm mJISS Jp''r.-:a- vf t , ex- I DRIVE I Il2Pc.Set 12.88 Metric or standard. 7 sockets, plug socket, ratchet, more. "7 " 2t.$ 560.15 24.H 1761 V4"&" DR. SOCKET SET 175 19.SS Our Reg. Q96. 16.88 021-Pc- 40' ! 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If there is competition for the presidential nomination, the regular party organizations are not much help to the incumbent. ON SALE THROUGH SATURDAY, OCTOBER - Cuban-sponsore- tion in 1980. This keeps him on the high on the list kept by Morris Udall's wry invention, "The Great Mentioner" of potential presidential candidates. It also keeps some aspirants who would not want to compete with Kennedy out of the field and. without actually soliciting for help, it turns up prospective supporters 10-- 7 fyfV: u&HS $ the time being. One of the reasons it was always assumed that no one could successfully knocn off an incumbent president wis tne myth that the man in office always would have the party professionals and machinery ready to bat down anyone audacious enough to challenge him loyalist. Kennedy clearly is encouraging speculation that he is considering a campaign for the presidential nomina- THE SAVING PLACE V Phase-Busines- smen (Editor's note: Mr. Litrell Is a "farm boy" who worked hit way through the University of Missouri, later serving in the U.S. Army for five yean during World War II. He conducts businen now as a manufacturers' agent, living in Los Angeles. His article, here somewhat condensed, won a 1178 George Washington Honor Medal from Freedoms Foundation.) By RALPH S. LITRELL Today our country and most of the countries in the free world are in deep in economic, moral, and trouble military decline. Freedoms and free enterprise systems are losing ground everywhere. Here at home we have a federal debt alone of some $600 billion. We have upwards of 8 unemployment. We have become a second-rat- e military power. Most crucial votes in the United Nations go against the U.S.A. Communism picks up a new slave state almost every year, and its people are placed in bondage for perhaps the next 10,000 years. Like ancient Rome and modern Britain, many concerned citizens believe we are facing the "Decline and Fall of the U.S.A." People in other free countries feel that when the lamp of freedom goes out in our country, it will soon go out around the world in all countries for centuries. Who has been asleep in the U.S. to permit this deterioration to get started and to persist? In a free enterprise economy, the natural leaders are the owners and managers of small and large businesses. It is apparent that these businessmen are, in fact, so heavily involved in their own business that they are neglecting (mrsuits matters on other fronts, it is my contention that, in fact, many of us who claim to support our free enterprise system are going to sleep on the job and need to wake up for the following reasons and considerations: 1. Perhaps our first mistake has been that we have let our priorities get out of we have concentrated too hard line on efforts and investments which contribute to a good profit or an increase in business for this year and next year and have shown too little concern for what might happen 10 or 20 years hence. 2. We are letting politicians and bureaucrats take over the country at the federal, state and local levels. The attorneys, most of legal profession whom have never had to personally meet a major payroll or run a business provides most of the personnel for top government jobs. 3. We are permitting organized labor to exert far toe much influence on government even though their total membership represents only a fraction of the work force in our country. Labor leaders are busy seeking even more control over government and business. This contributes to the upward swing in inflation and makes us less competitive in the world markets. 4. Too few of our business firms have set up profit-sharinbonus, or employee participation-in-ownershi- p programs. This can be very helpful in stimulating productivity and giving employees pride of ownership in their companies. 5. Instead of sponsoring conservative programs and commentators or advertising in conservative publications, we are placing our advertising budgets with television, radio, newspapers and in magazines which are their outlook, providing super liberal editorials and slanted news to the the public. We are, in fact, supporting more very people who are dedicatedto Even when Jimmy Carter's poll ratings were sinking toward record lows, it would have been very risky for Kennedy or any other Democrat to be publicly seeking 1980 delegates. Camp David and the response of the polls is an example of why; presidents have enormous opportunities to recoup popularity losses. So Kennedy is doing the right thing for a potential Democratic candidate. 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