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Show 4A DESERET NEWS, Thursday, Jfnurry 22, 1970 Heedless Food Official laps Consumer Drive WASHINGTON -P(AP) the consumer lan? protect are so complex they may work against the very inter- to ests they are designed to champion, says the spokesman for a significant segment of the food industry. H. Thomas Ausem, chief legal counsel of the National Canriers Association, inidcat ed a basic mistrust of the growing consumer movement in what may have been a preview of industry objections to bills now before Congress, including those of the Nixon Administration. To a great degree, the legal complexity of the pending bills may be a barrier to understanding ready public and afford to their sponsors an opportunity to advance regulatory structures that may trun out to be impracti Incident, Says Solon cal, excessive in cost for what they may achieve and perhaps even destructive of the consumer interests that they promise to protect," he said the NCA's convention at Wednesday, He acknowledged, however, the clair ir for better protection against shoddy products and misleading advertising claims is not likely to be stilled. POWERFUL WAVE The current momentum of consumerism, its direct concern to every citizen, and its demonstrated magnetic political appeal, will in all likelihood, engulf most objectors, and leave them in the posture of a King Canute trying to resist an incoming ocean tide, Austem said. Eut his summary of the found conumer proposals equal fault with those of the Rep ublicar, of administration and those congressional Democrats. Turning to the plan of Sen. to Phillip A. HArt, create an Independent Consumer Council, Austern said such an agency "would indeed be beyond the reach of con-e n1 1o n a1 constitutional checks and balances." AGENCY PROPOSED The Nixon Administration proposals include a consumer affairs office under the president with authority to require unit pricing of goods, to test products, to initiate legal action against producers and to aid in suits by consumers. The proposals are based, Austern said, on the underlying predicate that most conv sumers are being defrauded, deluded, and duped by shoddy goods and unreasonable prices. This had led many producers to fear that "a real danger exists that we may lose the basic legal protections demanded by our American principle of due process of law' in that headlong rush to fejsiclent I . Nixon stresses domestic problems In State of Union address. protect the and supposedly oppressed constantly defrauded American consumer, he said. Nixon Address Pinpoints Crime, Pollution, Inflation Con:ed from First Page clean air and other mounting environmental problems. "Clean air, .clean water, these should opeq spaces once again be the birthright of eveiy American, he said. "If we act now they can be. HIGH PRICE TAG "We still think of air as free.' But clean air is not and neither is clean water. The price tag on pollution control Is high. Through our years of past carelessness, we incurred a debt to nature and nowjthat debt is being called. Ntjron called the crime problem home to Congress by expressing doubt that many House members or senators would dare to leave their car in the Capitol garage and walk home alone tonight." Nixon also listed legislative demands dealing with equal voting rights and greater economic opportunity for Negroes and other minoriwel-far- ej ties.' He spelled out his general goat for the American people in the new. decade by noting that4n the 1960s, the nation enjoyed prosperity but also crime, Inflation, and social unrest. AGE OF REFORM THe said the plan, to be submitted later to Congress, will include a national $10 billion clean waters program to put He President summarized: "As a people, we had too and too little many visions 'nsiqn. Now as we enter the enter 70'ff, we alsoa great age of reform of the institutions of American government. NOcons first State of the Union Message also reported prospects for peace in Vietnam; were "far greater today than- - they were a year ago." Ninon's assessment of the peace outlook for the 70s was He even brighter. said, Anjerica may have the best chance since World War II to enjoy a generation of uninterrupted peace. should BJG EXPECTATIONS In; a largely domestically orieated message in which he foresaw America as a societh ty of large expectations. Presidents cbmirnt subjects appeared to be pollution, cr.me and inflation. pie program I shall propose to Congress will be the most comprehensive and costly ffrogram in this field ever in tne Ration's history." modern municipal waste plants "in every place in America where they are needed. treatment CRIME BATTLE reference to the fight against the growing crime rate, he said: "In referring to budget cuts, there is one area where I have ordered an increase the rather than a cut request of those agencies with the responsibility for law enforcement. Nixon said that would involve doubling in fiscal 1971 the federal expenditures for aiding local law enforcement double the 1970 budget for this purpose. the inflation, Discussing With President declared that "millions of Americans are forced to go into debt today because the federal government decided to go Into debt yesterday. BALANCE BUDGET "We must balance our federal budget so that American families will have a better chance to balance their family budgets," he said. Presenting and remaining within a balanced budget, he added, required "hard decisions. "It means rejecting spend- ing programs which would benefit some of the people when their net effect would result in price increases for all the people. The Presidents speech coming two davs after the anniversary of his first year in was generally directoffice ed at sweeping reforms in the federal establishment and a of national redefinement priorities and goals. AFFECT QUALITY fact the President In thought that particularly in domestic affairs there was need for "a nationa1 growth policy" through which federal, state arJ local governinfluer.ee the ments could cci'ne of urban settlement ari growth so as positively to e"-the qulitv of American ct life. It is no longer enough to live and let live. the President said. Now we must live and help live We a fre-- h climate in America, one m which can breathe nd jperson and freely freedom. breathe tn LATER SPEECH His balanced budget proposals also will be spelled out later, in a message which, under law, must reach Congress by Feb. 2, along with the chief executives annual report on the national econo- my. With these special messages coming along shortly, the President in his State of the Union a document of some concentrated 4,500 words on broad goals. As for this country's international role, he stressed the need for greater participation by other nations in improving the lot of the countries and of moving toward a climate of peace. "We shall be faithful to our treaty commitments, but we shall reduce our involvement and our presence in other nations' affairs." he said. NOT A RETREAT "To insist that other nations play a role is not a retreat but a from responsibility, under-develop- IMAD 0 I villagers. KIDS EXPOSED "But if we have a half million kids in Vietnam being I hJ exposed to this kind of heedlessness toward human life, weve got to be concerned, Van Deerlin told UPI in an interview. The Army assured Van Deerlin earlier this week the Incident is being vigorously interinvestigated through views with both Vietnamese and Americans, here and in South Vietnam. Van Deerlin obtained his information in November from an Army dcctor, Capt. R. L. Sugarman, Los Angeles, now assigned to the U.S. Army Hospital at Fort Ord, Calif. Sugarman was in Vietnam at the time but was not an eyewitness to the incident. He relayed to Van Deerlin details as they were described to him by tvo unidentified medical aide men. Q OPENED FIRE our troops "Apparently opened fire without any evidence of hostility by the villagers, and, as I ght the story, without any previous incidents which would suggest ' that there was anything to fear in Van Deeriin the village, said. ; The congressman described the shooting as "an unprovoked attack and as "target practice." He said that according to one account the company involved was told it had not been getting enough act'on lately" and that it would open fire on the next village reached. ITS UNBELIEVABLE . . . NOW IS THE TIME TO MAKE GREAT SAVINGS !& ON THE WORLDS FINEST SKIS Only the color, decals and lettering will be changed next year. . . the ash core sandwich construction, edges and other fine quality features will be the same! Its your opportunity to own an expensive pair of skis at an unbelievable low price! 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He, himself, indicated in advance that the roes'oge would be weighted on the domestic side. stations. The scientists said that perhaps by the year 2,000, the from the therexhaust monuclear power plant could be in an adjacent refuse The an exhaust, plant. extremely hot gas, would vaporize anything, they s!d. would OM-A-LIFE- M Dong Tan, 37 miles southwest of Saigon, the name of the village itself is not known to Van Deerlin and has not been reported otherwise. requires partnership. be the last to suggest that the road to peace is not difficult and dangerous, but I believe our new policies have contributed to the pros-pec- t that America may have the best chance since World War II to enjoy a generation of uninterrupted peace, he said. Nixon added that this chance for peace would be enhanced by a cooperative relationship between Congress and the executive. "I CHANG Maj. Gen. William A. Beck- first priority must always be peace for America and the world. This, he added, is a great issue which should be above partisanship. His foreign policy views for 1970 will be developed at length in a special message to Congress in early February. sharing Peace NUMBER 1 IN SKIING! WASHINGTON (UPR -Rep. Lionel Van Deerlin, believes the reported use of a Vietnamese village for target practice should be investigated as a case of heedlessness" rather than a bloody massacre. Although the incident as recounted to him involved civilian deaths, presumably including women and children, the information Van Deerlin has gathered so far does not indicate it was in any other way similar to the alleged mass slaughter at My Lai, he said. Instead, the 9th Infantry Division troops involved in the new investigation are said to have stood at distances of 100 yards or more while firing rifles into both the occupied and the unoccupied huts of the er, chief Army liaison officer Nixon said that in speaking of American priorities "the of Salt Lake and Ogden and William C. 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