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Show A1 ' : ; Dear Esteemed ;V Honorable Colleague A ; . ?A Ky f After You ' ROSCOE DRUMMOND DESERET NEWS SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH Perilous Tox Fight We Stand For The Constitution Of The United States .As Having Been Divinely Inspired EDITORIAL PAGE 14-- WEDNESDAY, - We are seeing poliWASHINGTON tics at its worst in the perilous impasse between the President and Congress over OCTOBER 18, 1967 . Solons' Ethics It is Cod- e- hurt mid-Augu- st everybody, and Means Ways Committee, to quit sparring, to quit playing to the gallery, and to sit down together and find out how best to do what cannot safely be avoided a rise in taxes and a decrease in spending. Right now the politicians on both sides of the issue are playing politics with both hands. Congress is maneuvering to make the President take most of the blame for cut-- Thailand Moves Against Time northeast. grips with the That it has not occurred is due partly to and ROBERT NOVAK the fearful example of South Vietnam, Thailands eastern neighbor across the At long last, the royal BANGKOK in some remote hamelt as in the four narrow strip of southern Laos, to an exgovernment of Thailand is making its influence felt in the backward northeastern previous years and this year the incident traordinary partnership between Thai1966. is as and the U.S. that is now beginning land rate as Communist the of threat where high section, to pay large dividends, and to the new subversion worries the United States as More to the point, a new boldness by much as it does Prime Minister Thanom. political maturity in Bangkok. the insurgents, some of whom trained in After years of promising to produce a But the time is late and the failure of China, has become apparent Today, for the military dictatorship hundreds of villages to share the new constitution, more there are daylight propaexample, runs this that country is now prepared to prosperity of Bangkok and the towns ganda meetings than before. These are threatens the government with an often forcible assemblies in a village, produce one. Moreover, this new constitution will make no sanctimonious preupward-spiralin-g crisis. when Communist political cadres explain to Instant democracy. of The slow beginning Bangkoks good straightfaced that the United States tense of switching conworks is unmistakable. Fly by helicopter wants to make Thailand a state and take To file contrary, it will be strictly servative, embodying one appointed and from the U.S. Air Force and Army base It over lock, stock, and barreL one elected house in the new national asat Korat to the Mekong River border More insurgents are wearing uniforms sembly. town of Nakhon Phanom and the evithan ever before, seemingly less conBut the mere fact that after years of dence is sinead beneath your eyes: cerned about file governments Commutalk a constitution is actually going to be scores of small dams, trapping rainy-seasowater and storing It for the dry nist Suppression Operations Command. adopted (probably late tills year, with This new boldness reached a peak elections late next year) is a political season, irrigation ditches, channeling the landmark. Today the government operwater that lies on the landscape in this recently in Sakon Nakhon province, when an armed propaganda team harangued ates under an edict of martial law. It can wet season like a dripping sponge. an entire village for eight straight hours. - and does close down newspapers that disSpecial Army units, trained by the incident happened only four miles The sent too loudly. It can and does hold pris- are U.S. Armys Special Forces, learning from government - antioners for months without trial. actions, and how to conduct insurgency forces. All told, U.S. experts The new constitution will work some the police are working the countryside count some 1,300 armed cadres in Thaismall changes In these hereditary marks with more skill than before. land today, more than ever before. They of dictatorship. But most important of all But with all this, the evidence of a say privately that if the present rate of are the fundamental changes being more serious insurgency In the northeast, insurgency continues, large areas of the g presence of and down in the Kra Peninsula neck of depressed, northeast may be denied to worked by the file United States. To examine these borsouthern Thailand on the Malaysian Thai fiie government. changes, and how they are affecting not der, alarms U.S. officials here. In 1966,. would already have ocThis as 10 times surely were only Thailands internal politics but the for example, there whole future of Southeast Asia, requires an assassination, a curred were It not for the belated many incidents spurt of the government to come to a further report. food theft, a forcible propaganda meeting By ROWLAND EVANS INSIDE REPORT once-forgott- n Center For Peace? . st In todays Letter To The Editor column, Dr. Hassan Saab, currently a visiting professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Utah, points up the need for better understanding between the U.S. and the Arab ever-growin- world. What better place to undertake such an effort than right here at the University of Utahs Middle East Center, headed by Dr. Khosrow Mostofi, formerly of Tehran, Iran? The Middle East Center is one of the official depositories in the United States for all Arabic works published in the United Arab Republic. It has become a major center for the study of Middle East languages, and conducts programs of public interest on Middle East problems. The Center already has an outstanding collection of books, journals, papyri, and archival materials on the First organized by Professor Emeritus Dr. Aziz Atiya. the - Center has become one of the Universitys foremost research Drive Fails Again Dump-LB- J Mid-Ea- st Actually, though still unreported, the earliest movement was organized in the summer of .63. By August of that grim year its leader Arthur hn NEW YORK dump-Johnso- and service agencies. Following up on Dr. Saabs suggestion, th Middle East relations Center could certainly begin a dialogue on U.S.-Arthat could help promote better understanding. Certainly the U.S. and the Arab nations need less heat and more light in their dealings with each other. ab Schlesinger Jr., had at least eight insiders organ- into a tight, leakproof caucus. The Art Explosion V. It met and planned carefully to jettison the first Mr. Riesel by undermining him with file late President Kennedy and then by mockingly discrediting him According to our detractors, Americans are only crass materialists incapable of appreciating the finer things in life such as the arts. ' Well, maybe this isnt exactly a land of art connoisseurs and cognoscenti. But Americans need, apologize to no one for the level of their tastes. The arts here are flourishing as never before, demonstrating that material abundance need not preclude sensitivity to artisitic creations. These comments are prompted by the announcement this week by the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art of a major new construction program, a $2.5 million project that is the most comprehensive plan for !its growth in the museums history. This program is only one of many efforts that are bringing more art to the appreciative attention of more Americans. When the Mona IJsa appeared at the National Gallery in Washington four years ago, for example, it drew crowds total- ing half a million. Record attendance was repeated when La Joconde moved on to New Yorks Metropolitan Museum. Perhaps the single most impressive phenomenon of the art explosion is the attention being.paid to Andrew Wyeth. His show of 222 temperas, water colors, and drawings drew an average of 3,000 visitors a day when it opened at the Pennsyl- - ., vania Academy of Fine Arts last fall. That was seven times greater than the attendance for any previous show at the ; , academy. Leo Tolstoy probably said it best when he wrote: Art is a human activity having for its purpose- - the transmission to -others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen. Since the arts are flourishing in the U.S. these days, that says a lot for Americans. 07-ye- ar . VICTOR RIESEL n ized The operation was in high gear when it blew a gasket Somehow, - someone got word to Mr. Johnson. Coincidentally a few days later he was invited to make the principal speech at the Oct 15 annual dinner of the Liberal which swings the balance of Party power in this big swing state. Mr. Johnson came and conquered. Most New York progressives expected the Texan to have longhorns or ooze crude petroleum. In his own accent, he talked their own language. some old, some young hopefuls, some already highly placed jurists. What might have been a flash fire rally turned merely into a fireworks display for more spending, say $50 billion, for butter as well as bullets, for ripping out ghettos as well as whipping up guns. No one attacked file fighting. No one demanded withdrawal. No one rose and departed .when hawks were introduced. No doves fluttered. They cheered and -- applauded when speakers called for spending as much money on urban crises as on the military crisis. But they also clapped loudly when Mayor John Lindsay warned that he was neither for isolationism nor for unilateral withdrawal from Vietnam. Yet this was the most massive gather- -' Ing of active and politically successful liberals in recent history. This evening it was to each his own. When a telegram was read from Vice President Hubert Humphrey, the throng barely stopped digging into its fruit sal-anti-Johns- They cheered. He carried the Liberal crowd as he would Johnson City. That evening --r during which he was hailed as the future Democratic presidential nominee in 68, as wen as the 1964 vice dentlal candidate assured his place on the ticket The Schlesinger caucus splintered. Smne of its members attempted to keep Liberal party leader and chief strategist Alex Rose, the political hatter,-fro- V' increase. If Congress is going to cut taxes when it is needed to strengthen the economy as Congress because it is easy to do so and refuse to raise taxes did in 1964 when it is.necessary to restrain the economy because it is painful to raise taxes then we are in" for trouble, bad trouble. . This is exactly the point we have now reached. The most ominous thing is to hear the politicians say they dont dare vote a tax increase because their constituents wont like it. There is a time when Congress had better do whats needed, whats right, not just what is immediately popular. Exactly four years later, the other night in the same grand ballroom, history repeated itself and dumped the r ' r campaign. In that ballroom last Wednesday night d were 2,000 sophisticated, posome new, litically astute liberals n jam-packe- This was a crowd hungry for action on the urban front. It cheered demands for more and more domestic spending.. It heard no outcries for less and less fighting abroad. It applauded and roared apvice president A. Philproval of AFL-CIip Randolphs denunciation of Stokely Carmichael and Rap Brown as dangerous irresponsibles. But even from this veteran Negro leader there were no cries for abandonment of Americas position in Vietnam. On this dais were labor leaders without whom there cannot be any effective campaign. What we had there the other night was an intelligent discussion of the urban dilemma, said one of those labor chiefs around whom the Liberal Party pivots as it expands across intellectual-clas- s lines. Our state chairman, Rev. Donald S. Harrington, said Its a matter of money, not a question of dumping Johnson. junk-Johnso- n Im for our position In Vietnam. Pm for Johnson. But Pm also for solving the urban problems. So let's spend as much on our dties as on the military. There was no attack on our fighting. Didnt John Lindsay say: . . . I believe that this country should continue to help those people who want and need help to achieve a decent living standard and the independence we have so long enjoyed . . letters to the editor luiumimniiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiinimiiiiniiiiniinnninniinininiiiiiiininiiiiimiiiiiiiii Urges U.S.-Ara- Dialogue b I take pleasure in writing to you from the University of Utah, which I joined for the fall quarter of 1967 as a visiting professor of Political Science. All of us, Americans and Arabs, ought to be li deeply concerned with all the aspects of the conflict. We must do our utmost to prevent the resumption of hostilities in the area. We must spare no effort in finding a peaceful and just solution to this tragic conflict. This great country, the United States of America, has every reason and every possibility of building in dignity, freedom, justice and peace, a creative partnership with the whole Arab world from Morocco to Iraq. The Arab world has its weaknesses and shortcomings, but it has also all the thrilling promises of a developing society. The United States has the excesses of affluence, but it has also the resourceful abilities of a developed society. American-Ara- b partnership should be built and patiently for the mutual good of the American and the Arab people. There have been many obstacles which have hampered the emergence of such a partnership. The conflict has been the greatest of these obstacles. Therefore, there is a pressing need for a new constructive approach to tills conflict, which would limit its catastrophic effects on Arab-Israe- compli-mentari- Arab-Israe- Mayor John Lindsay . drew Liberals' applause ' ll Amer-ican-Ar- relations. Under the impact of the Cold War, Americans see the Arabs in fiie shadow of a third party: world communism. Under the impact of three hot wars with Israel, the Arabs see the United States dominated by another third party: world Zionism. To Americans, the Arabs are obsessed only with fiie destruction of Israel. To Arabs, Americans are obsessed only with the destruction of communism. Americans equate Arab nationalism with fanaticism. They mistake Arab socialism for communism. Islam Is judged through the utterances of its reactionary mullahs rather than through the bold achievements of its modernist leaders. The Arabs equate American world leadership with imperialism. They identify American democ- racy with Zionist pressure groups. Americans ignore the Arabs deep urge for a new nationhood built on concrete freedom. This basic mutual misunderstanding deepened during the tragic events of the Fifth of June, which conveyed to the Arabs the impression that Americans were feasting over their military debacle. Technological superiority and swift victory seemed to justify all the unhuman means and effects of this victory. The facts about the crisis, before, durSix Days War, were ing and after the a of information reported by American in an utterly manner, which made every Arab question American objectivity, and led him even to wonder about the American sense of mass-medi- one-side- d While statesmen and diplomats are seeking at fiie United Nations a political settlement of the li conflict, American and Arab thinkers and Intellectuals must attend urgently to the more obvious task of shortening the widening gap between. theAmerican and the Arab mind. American and Arab intellectuals must lead the way in challenging national prejudices. They ought to remind their countrymen that the people of another nationality are men, who may commit the greatest blunders but may also pursue the greatest achievements. They ought to show them how to en- gage in the search for a better future rather than to indulge in recriminations about a vanishing past. An association, a university, a foundation, any responsible institution should immediately take the initiative in bringing together, outside of any governmental Influence, a group of American and Arab thinkers, who may be capable of starting the overdue dialogue between American and Arab thought. - a V V ' Arab-Israe- Apparently the difference settles down to some $50 billion. But there appeared My little country, Lebanon, has, always believed in free and rational dialogue as the no doubt that the broad-baseliberal coproper way for communication between men. Faithful to their role alition, which has helped Democratic as mediators between the Western and the Arab presidents carry New York State for decseeks no political mind, our Intellectuals will be happy to make their ades, dumping humble but active and creative contribution to the grounds. They do talk a fine independent game. But then, these are the men who opening of a new dialogue between American and helpe4 Invent collective bargaining. .... . Arab thinkers. --DR. HASSAN SAAB If there Was any need for it, the 67 Liberal Party banquet assured Lyndon professor of Political Science at the Lebanese University and the Johnsons renomination, as did the 63 Saint Joseph University of Beirut : breadbreaking. i h, itV - - i ly . d fiie White House. dump-Johnso- ads. When a wire was read from Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, the applause was polite, perfunctory and positively brief. self-respe- m ? $ - nniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnniiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiinniiiiiiiiiiiiK ... I ft poli- the especially poor, risks a runaway economy, and invites ' an Intolerable $30 billion deficit in time of great prosperity. It is .irresponsible because failure to pass the tax in-crease rejects half Mr Drnmmond the new econom- y Thus we find Congress eagerly ics. willing to cut taxes when the economy needs a boost and refusing to raise taxes when the economy needs restraint, The end result of such a course is the worst of both worlds: an economy which canis run half Keynesian and half-fre- e not well survive. This is how important it is for President Johnson and Rep. Wilbur Mills, the powerful chairman of the powerful House That was when the cases of Senator Thomas Dodd and Representative Adam Clayton Powell, both accused of unethical conduct, were in the headlines and the public was clamoring for Congress to apply to itself a formal set of ethical standards just as it has required a code for the executive branch. Since then, the House committee has held hearings in in preparation for drawing up an ethics code.. But no such code has yet been forthcoming. Even at that, the House seems to be moving faster than . the Senate in developing an ethics code. The Senate Ethics Committee was authorized in July 1964 but its members were not appointed until a year later. The Dodd case earlier this year was its first and, until then, its only business. Since the more flagrant abuses of congressional propriety re well known and there are plenty of other government ethics codes pn which Congress could pattern its own codes, the delay is hard to understand and raises some serious questions. Is Congress capable of acting with dispatch only when it is faced with an Immediate problem and the public is clamoring for action? Or could it be that Congress is indifferent to its public image? As Robert S. Getz, professor of political science at Kent State University, told the House group: Action by the committee is needed to forestall widespread suspicion of wrongdoing among members of Congress. That goes for the Senate as well as for the House. Among the more common abuses that should be curbed are the expensive trips by lameduck congressmen at taxpayers expense . . . the use of the franking privilege to send d campaign propaganda through the mails, also at taxpayers expense the padding of public payrolls with relatives of congressmen who render little or no service . . . the acceptance of gifts and favors that put lawmakers in the untenable position of serving two masters. Then, too, Congress might do well to adapt to its own use the code of conduct for the executive branch. Among other things, it prohibits outside employment which might result in a conflict of interest . . . bans the holding of any financial interests which might conflict with government duties and the use of inside government information for personal benefit . . . and requires complete disclosure of financial interests. During debate on establishing the Official Conduct Committee, several House members expressed concern that a delay in selecting the new committees 12 members would lessen its effectiveness and cast doubt on the seriousness of the Houses intent to police the conduct of its members. 7 The same doubts and drawbacks, regarding the Senate as well as the House, result from the delays in drawing up their cobrespective ethics codes. Congress should clear away the webs and start acting. ' dangerous and irresponsible , It is dangerous because failure to pass the tax raise abets an inflation which will Six 'months ago the U.S. House of Representatives ' formed an Official Conduct Committee to formulate an ethics code as a guide to proper behavior. Hr tax increase. war-requir- tics. Why The Delays? thinly-disguise- the President , ting federal spending and the wants to pass it back to Congress. The Republicans who want to assert greater congressional control where the President has constitutional primacy shrink from in the conduct of the war taking the initiative where Congress does in have constitutional primacy the of purse. power Many Democratic liberals who attack the President on Vietnam and cite the wars unpopularity oppose the tax increase despite the fact the V.x increase is the best possible method of bringing home to the entire nation the costs of the war, If the Democratic liberals were being logical instead of being political, they would support the tax increase. The tax increase is desirable, is justified, is necessary even without any reduction in the budget. Obviously everybody is not of the same mind, but the most objective and detached economists, in government and out, are agreed that the proposed surcharge is crucially needed at this time to halt an inflation which will cost taxpayers far more than the tax v .L V tJ 1 i. f |