| Show i 1 1 j©giten J4A0GDEN ©tanharb-Examt- Defense Research Expert Worried On Russ Gains or UTAH TUESDAY EVENING MARCH 9 1976 EDITORIALS The few allies that the United States of America has left around the world must be bewildered by the current American political campaign Foreign policy has become a major issue in the maneuvering now under way in all parties as presidential aspirants try to build their ' Gerald first R Ford our nation’s appointed President is firmly sticking by Secretary of State Henry Kissinger as the chief executive tries for his first elected term ‘ His major Republican opponent Ronald Reagan has already announced that if he wins the GOP nomination and the presidency Dr Kissinger’s out ' The dozen or so Democrats who with varying degrees of intensity are after their party’s No 1 spot on the general election ticket arc unanimous on only one point: They too would change secretaries of state LThe splinter parties’ major appeal s for a change in foreign policy Most of these organizations who are becoming an increasing influence in our nation are in principle and insist the US should never trust Russia in particular Henry Kissinger is fully aware of anti-Com-muni- st House Leaders ' Selection of Rep Roger Rawson as Democratic majority-leadein the Utah House of Representatives is a tribute to the quality of Weber County’s legislators ' Another member of our delegation Rep Ronald L Rencher is the House speaker With Rep Rawson’s selection by the Democratic caucus to succeed Rep Millie 0 Bernard now a member of the Public Service Commission it means Weber lawmakers have the top pair of positions in the House The Legislature is not scheduled to meet again until next January two months after both Speaker Rehcher and Majority Leader Raw-sostand for reelection — with all House members and half of the Senate— at the Nov 2 general election However there are many legislative committees that arc active all year preparing for the actual work of the formal sessions 1 n Leadership influence at these in- - - The cause of American justice is not being served by Howard Hughes in his continual refusal to appear personally lo face litigation The billionaire recluse had been ordered to show up Monday in Washington in connection with a $45 million lawsuit involving sale of Air West one of Utah’s major airlines to a Hughes-cont- r )lled corporation The Securities and Exchange Commission will decide by next week what to do It should treat Hughes no differently than anv other American If the law requires his presence he should be ordered to appear If he fails he should face appropriate penV alties His fortune entitles him to no special treatment Bombards Column Writer By VIRGINIA PAYETTE mond Va I duly noted that Lancaster Pa was rt tops in the department have-a-hea- that 191 families had contributed $24685 to sponsor 205 hungry kids around the world I tipped my hat to the Lancasterans and aimed for the wastebasket Next day there was another one Va was “second most Alexandria with $46397 from 359 compassionate” Based the families press agent exon plained pennies per population I at his smiled dedication and tossed that out too BOULDER NAMED But the next day brought ANOTHER one naming Boulder Colo as the “third most etc” ($24943 from 193 sponsors) and I had the beginnings of a wild hunch that I would be getting seven more letters right on naming seven more cities ” most down to “tenth Sure enough Every day for the next week they came with results all based on computer-cod- e profiles Fourth place went to York Pa fifth to Anchorage Alaska seventh to sixth to Fayetteville NC to Bellevue Wash Harrisburg eighth Pa and ninth to Rochester Minn By this time I was hooked Couldn't WAIT to see what city came in last And when release No 10 was delajed in the night-huntin- at We always air our linen clean or Phantom Hughes mail my impatience was ridiculous I confronted the startled mailman on the front stoop and snatched the letter from his hand And Palo Alto Calif My home state had crashed through The suspense was over now I could get back to Important Things Like Congress and the economy and the candidates But that was not to be Next day there was another one Eleventh place? I couldn’t rip it open fast enough Nope This was a rundown on the “Most compassionate BIG cities” Out of 50 Minneapolis copped top spot And I began to wonder if I was in for 49 more bulletins Could I wait that long to find out who came in 50th? Well I didn’t have to It was all there: St Paul Minn second Rochester NY third Portland Ore fourth Miami Fla and on down to last place: New fifth York City (Where charity begins at home I guess) NEEDY By now I was aware of the Christian Children’s Fund I can tell you In 1976 it collected $23229680 from 171264 “com200000 passionate” Americans to help feed house clothe educate and provide medical care for almost 200000 needy kids And they're in good hands I thought with such an energetic booster I pictured him taking a few days off to rest up He’d earned it But by golly two days ago there was another one: the “most compassionate STATE” For the record it was Alaska Followed by Virginia Colorado Minnesota and Washington Mississippi was last With that I closed the file on the Christian Children’s Fund Too soon Yesterday came the 10 most compassioate “Congressional districts”: headed by Minnesota’s 3rd Ohio’s 11th Washington’s 1st and Pennsylvania’s 16th And today: a story that Fund Director Dr Veent J Mills leaves next month on k tour through East Africa a ir'ia and Asia to find u: “where the children are hungry and hurting” Tom vV)gh ie!i?'- Ho off your computers And save the postage money for rice four-wee- ¥ attack US capability population and military targets self-destructi- on works terim meetings is not only prestigious but important for the constituencies these men represent attack nuclear forces to and NATO big-eye- impossible Still that’s the way America dirty in public And if foreign envoys think they are confused what about the average US citizen? He’s not sure where we’re heading either Chinese and still have a remaining frighten our ladies We trap the little animals and throwweight larger than ours bouncy release them across the river in Beyond 1977 things will get Ole Virginia But this year in a worse” So Dr Currie said glorious early spring that ominously In this wonderful premature brought prematurely the golden daffodils the buttery jonquils springtime when men spare and whistling cardinals and blue innocent wildlife they “gtf jays our squirrel trap has three without the meat and curse the bread” in order to afford the times captured a d weapons of sleepy reproachful possum This top Defense Department In formative years when scientist insisted that he was ? every writer is what R L not making a “prediction” He Stevenson called a sedulous ape I unconscious ly imitated said the Russians might not do Rudyard Kipling and heedlessly all this to the populous g went after the American and Chinese nations if ’coon or because my the US had the nukes and the possum elders did so When you become nerve to frighten the Kremlin out of its scheme for world a man as the Scriptures say domination you put away childish things RUSSIANS READY Today it would be to contemplate But the Department of harming the small friendly Defense professor-bureaucrcreatures of the field who still was not sure that we could inhabit this Potomacside section of the world’s most beautiful or to wreak capital city destruction on the bright and nuclear war to be “unthinkable” delicate flowers whose only or “suicidal” They scatter their purpose is to gladden the heart factories dig bomb shelters lor of man the workers and are prepared to accept casualties on a FACE TO FACE par But recently I crossed the with what they suffered in river to a Pentagon press World War II No sacrifice by Soviet Russia conference and met incredibility too great if it results in exis face to face I may have been the only correspondent present terminating the capitalist imwho not a military perialism of the US A the was specialist so I could have been Russians believe Sitting there hit harder than most in my under the influence of his words I could see no way of reaction Dr Malcolm Currie director of defense research and American survival except to throw a preemptive e engineering was warning the at fellow-being- s our in Russia American people: The Russians will get you if you don’t watch and hope for the best You can pinch yourself and out! say it’s all a nightmare A Dr Currie never told us why and we didn't ask him It must parable might be that the be that we recorders of current squirrels and possums grew and the fangs history have become acclimated poisonous to factual absurdity By conjonquils and forsythia sprouted thorns for centrating their native and toxic man on warfare against imported technology instead of welfare the talented But we are thinking bipeds Russian peoples by next year and we cannot duck the reality could launch a nuclear sneak of the hateful world that attack against the Unites States humans have created side by and still Dr Currie affirmed side with the glories of Nature “absorb a US counterfcrce It is unbelievable yet unresponse and then still have deniable at the same time storm He told interviewers this week that if things get to a point where President Ford feels his effectiveness “was hampered by my presence then there would be no problem about leaving on my side” Until and unless requested to resign Secretary Kissinger is going ahead with his various negotiations — realizing that the foreign nations he visits must wonder whether any Kissinger promises can be met both before and after the election It is unfortunate in a way that foreign policy becomes involved in political campaign Doing business with totalitarian states especially Russia and China is difficult under ordinary conditions When differences are expressed as publicly as they are when votes are at stake diplomacy is just about Christian Children's Fund I thought after all these years behind a typewriter I was immune to any press agent’s pitch for “the 10 best” anythings Unless maybe it was the “10 sexiest men” and even then I’d only check to make sure Paul Newman was numero uno before I tossed it out I fill a lot of wastebaskets that way Check with my trash man But I’ve been blitzed Bombarded by a publicity campaign that stretched out over two weeks (check with my mailman) and had me holding my breath for each next bulletin Never mind about the winner This was a tricky bit of reverse suspense! I was hanging in there to find out who lost It started out the way all press releases do A mimeographed (which usually kills it right there) story about “the most compassionate city in the US” From a child service agency called the Christian Children’s Fund Inc Headquarters Rich- sufficient By HOLMES ALEXANDER WASHINGTON In Foggy Bottom we don’t kill the squirrels which for some reason his status as the eye of the political followings - Alexander US Election Must Bewilder Allies y $9- SCOOP WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUN- D Israel Cannot Expect Easy Win Over Arabs If Fighting Resumes giving them vastly superior firepower The comparative figures are “Secret-Sensitive- ” classified Since the Soviets supplied the equipment they obviously know We the figures therefore believe the American people who may be called upon to of Soviet weapons By JACK ANDERSON WASHINGTON — Israel can never again expect to win an easy victory over the Arabs according to the Pentagon's secret intelligence estimates The Arab nations have amassed tremendous stockpiles latest first-strik- support Isreael are also entitled to the facts The six leading Arab powers — Egypt Syria Jordan Iraq Libya and Saudi Arabia — have a combined strength that is overwhelming Roughly they have a over Israel in superiority combat planes a edge in -l adtrained pilots a in antiaircraft missiles vantage and a superiority in ships and submarines It is the Pentagon’s view nevertheless that Israel would win the next military conflict but that the victory would be on 4-t- 3-t- 19-to- LETTER 3-t- TO THE E D I TO Need Parking Editor Standard-Examine- Open letter Council: r: to Ogden City Gentlemen I think you are doing Roger Grant an injustice by treating him the way you have concerning the proposed downtown shopping mall We do not need a downtown shopping mall nor do we need a shopping mall anywhere built with public funds no matter how the funds are to be repaid The only problem with downtown Ogden is the parking What we really need is adequate free parking without the inconvenience of ticket validation The parking meters probably cost more to maintain than the revenues received from them A mall without completely free parking as found at malls in other cities I have visited will not attract and hold new business People will shop at Salt Lake malls where parking is free which a lot of them are doing now instead of paying here Is the Ogden City Council afraid to ask the public what they want? Do they have selfish interest that will not allow them to represent the people of Ogden as they were elected to do? Would a poll of Ogden residents be unfavorable? Roger Grant represented my view at the recent meeting and I thank him for speaking out in behalf of those opposed to a downtown mall Councilmen consider your responsibility to the public you represent Wayne R Moss As for me I don’t like a lot of things either that we as taxpayers put up with taxes utilities food insurance on cars for sickness and everything that is a must keeps raising and if someone doesn’t let the people we elect know how we feel and just sit on our apathy Well then w’e’re no better than a bunch of sheep And apathy can lead to bad government Also the fall of a nation This is quoted from my new Readers’ Di- Concurring the Central Intelligence Agency estimates that a future Arab-Israe- li outbreak would produce at least 36000 On a casualties would basis this proportionate be equivalent to about 25 million casualties for the United States Here are some highlights from the secret intelligence figures: —The six Arab countires have a combined air strength of 1509 supersonic and subsonic fighter jets Israel has only 426 of which 206 are supersonic The alone have 347 Egyptians supersonic fighters the Syrians another 338 In addition these two Arab nations possess 62 of which the latest Soviet MIG-23- S are superior to any jet plane the United States has yet sent to Israel —Most Arab planes and missiles have been supplied by the Russians since the October 1973 war Syria especially has been loaded down with extremely sophisticated equipment In contrast 220 of Israel’s subsonic planes are Israeli Using Rights Standard-Examine- r: This letter is in regards to four people who have cut me down Look the Pilgrims came to this country in the 16th century to have freedom of speech and freedom of the press and to constitutional establish rights I am going to use these rights Because this is not a Communist country and if you four people don’t like me using my rights that’s too bad Move! US-suppli- Scott Slemp Ogden A-- 4 Skyhawks which models are ed Braden By TOM BRADEN WASHINGTON — In response after-dinnto toast an of State Secretary Henry Kissinger rose on a recent evening and congratulated Rep Jonathan Bingham of New York for having proposed a constitutional amendment which would make it possible for a foreign-bocitizen to become President of the United States It was an attempt at humor — the state of was born in secretary it wasn’t as Germany-b- ut would as have been six it funny months ago Because nobody in this town is talking any more about the phenomenon of Henry The star is in Kissinger descent It happened very quickly One day Dr Kissinger couldn’t walk into a restaurant for a quiet meal without a crowd gathering outside to await his departure Teen-ag- e girls reported to each other that “I touched him” The next day the crowd was gone er m ng NO MORE RABBITS IT MARCH Twenty-seve- n 1956 Boy Scouts made an auto Ranch In to Hardware the trip acLeaders Cache County were the boys companying Robert Froerer Leland Richardson Owen Knight Walter Bingham and Burns Wangsgard Mrs Mark Thackeray of Morgan was reelected vice president of the Utah State Soil Conservation District’s Women’s Auxiliary announced W V Shaw chairman of the Morgan Soil Conservation District from Huntsville N It is as though the great & 50 YEARS AGO 9 C J Olsen regional forester for the Intermountain Region US Forest Service received a distinguished service award from the Utah State Agricultural College in Logan Mr Olsen had been a resident of Ogden since 1936 Carol Trujillo from Hill Field was presented the diamond pin for first place in the Martha E Barnes oratorical contest held at Davis High Glenna Dunn of Layton took second place the interests of the United ' States should not be overlooked or overridden while the country7 is paying attention to an election campaign He wants the Chinese to understand what he is telling the Russians and that he is telling them The Chinese made a bad mistake he thinks in extending their invitation to Richard Nixon but he is inclined to forgive them They ' were overeager They really believed we might be letting down our guard and they hit' upon the Nixon trip as a way to warn us He is concerned lest criticism of the Chinese for inviting Nixon be interpreted by them as reinforcement for the assessment which led them to it ‘ SOFT-PEDA- L So he’d like to NIXON soft-ped- al the Nixon incident It is not important to his sense of the way things are He once quoted Metternich with great approval: “Napoleon and I spent years together as if at a game of chess American public suddenly carefully watching each sensed what Kissinger himself other I to checkmate him he to ” must know to be true: that crush me there are no more rabbits to be Kissinger thought the pulled out of the hat no more quotation symbolic of the issue: secret missions worth making MARCH 9 1926 “The man of will and the man to no more which threats of reason the principle of resign Improvements totaling thousands of dollars will be would seem consequential universality and the sense of made within the next two enough to be gainsaid no new limit the assertion of power initiatives to be advanced At and the claim of legitimacy” months in the Ogden terminal Carl R Gray president of the the height of his power Henry7 The game could not be won he Union Pacific Railroad said on Kissinger was making foreign wrote by pulverizing anybody policy Now he is only watching It had to be won by subtlety his arrival in Ogden over it not by brute strength and “the The Ogen Dental society was Almost every human being longer Napoleon hesitated in forming a study club for dental enjoys a time in the limelight recognizing this truth the more research Dr D N White and Henry Kissinger was no certain his ultimate defeat” newly elected president of the exception Still his friends Kissinger knows that history announced sense that he is not sorry to does organization not exact afford come in out of the glare His Assisting Dr White were Dr E oche must But M Pack and Dr L F Tribe wife is ill his back hurts he is duplicationssee the Kremlin in casionally recovering from the flu and the role of Napoleon and A R The annual G oratorical contest was held in every time he opens his mouth himself in that of Metternich a dozen or more congressmen the Ogden High School or If he so views the scene It senators up for auditorium The contestants seems doubtful that he will and looking for a few lines of were Garff Wilson Davis Camp to choose depart it before his Frank Rose Edwin Hall and type rise to denounce him time Metternich he has opined It doesn’t bother him as much Grant Chamberlain out the game and playe'd as it once did It is as though he played out it “in the face successfully Dr Ira J McKell vice had asked himself a question: of loneliness and of both “Since I’m not important any president of the Utah Chiroand abuse by as the more why should I care what practors’ Association : friend and foe” first Utah man recognized by people say about me?” It would be only human for And so he is trying to pay of the American College attention to more imperial Kissinger to hope hat when Chiropractors Dr McKell also matters He cares a great deal time comes to record his own was admitted to a fellowship in that the Russians understand tenure some historian may say the college clearly that what he regards as the same HAPPENED 2 0 psii Good Family y 36000 CASUALTIES Ogden Ogden Editor Standard-Examine- r: In reading March 4 letter to the editor by Sherry Walters I would like to ask her who she thinks she is setting herself up as a judge of the Slemp family I know the family and the mother comes from a very active Mormon family and was raised a good Mormon and has been active in her church in Washington DC also Denver Colorado where she lived after her marriage to an Air Force young man who served his country eight years I have never heard them downgrade any religion As for Scott Slemp don’t you think you’re making a big to do and of a little crack a young kid nude in haste? The police are on v human beings and are no nore perfect than you are Some ’re iLccnt and some like to lay it on to a young or old citizen to show their authority costly gest Dictionary 1976 So sister look to home You live in a glass house I am sure Mrs Irene Lasater Editor Kissinger Star Is Now Falling With Rapidity on i V |
