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Show Our Phone Numbers Fair Enough IHIHIEsTP K! Generally fair tonight and Thursday with high clouds. Daytime highs in the 40s. Lows tonight, in the 20s. Details, weather map on Page 3 7 3 NO. 2 9 524-440- 524-284- 0. 0 Information Sports Scores : Classified Ads Only 3 Editorial Offices 34 E. 1st South; 524-4448- ;- 521-353- B-1- 4. VOL. News Tips Home Delivery SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 5 4 PAGES 1 Oc MOUNTAIN THE WEST'S FIRST NEWSPAPER WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1970: Mrs. Agnew Meets Press The Vice President ' Speaks For Himself By HELEN THOMAS WASHINGTON (UPI) -Mrs. Spiro T. Agnew says her husband speaks for himself in his controversial statements. But, she admits, I usually agree with him. The second lady of the land sat on a green sofa in the Agnews posh apartment in the Sheraton Park Hotel Tuesday afternoon and chatted radiantly with newswomen. In recent months her husband, the vice president, has criticized antiwar demonstrators and the communications industry. And he has reaped plenty of criticism in return. NOT BOTHERED It doesn't bother me one way or another, Mrs. Agnew said. Ive always felt anyone in public life is going to get praised or criticized. Mrs. Agnew, a pert brunette, was dressed in a coral wool dress. A vase of red carnations stood nearby. Though she has had news conferences only rarely, she fielded questions with great skill. Mrs. A g n e ws remarks about the Agnews daughter Kim were poignant. She said the transition from a quiet life in Maryland to Washington officialdom has been toughest on Kim. LITTLE HARDER She's had it a little harder than anyone else in the family, Mrs. Agnew said. She said Kim has no social life and has had to make new friends repeatedly because she has been in three different schools. We try to keep her out of the limelight, Mrs. Agnew said. Last October it was learned that Kim wanted to take part in the antiwar demonstrations but got a parental Mrs. Agnew said she and her husband rarely talk politics. Seldom do they have a quiet evening at home. Often turn-dow- WASHINGTON iff' water pollution. He set up a $359 million program for the next three years to provide government leadership in the pollution control effort and called for all existing federal facilities to comply with his dean air and water order by Dec. 31, " r,: 1972. Nixon said his order will affect buildings and installations, public works, aircraft and vessels and vehicles and property owned by or con- - WASHINGTON (UPI) -SLeader Republican Hugh Scott said today that President Nixon would not reverse the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam as a response to increased enemy enate Mrs. Spiro Agnew . . . expects criticism military pressures. He told tne Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the troop strength reduction process is irreversible. Any retaliatory action to cope with stepped up Communist activity would be through other military means, Scott indicated. He did not elaborate on that. he arrives home about 7:30 p.m., and after dinner, he goes to another room to read official papers. As for whether she would like him to run for president some day, she said: Thats up to him. Ive never counseled him on what to do. Although her own life is pretty busy," she has no special project as first ladies often have. I just want to be a good wife to the vice president, she said. actually conflict, today : 'Over the past several years, the federal government has become one of the nations worst polluters. Clearly the federal government cannot be an effective leader in the battle to save the environment so long as this intolerable situation continues. In move he said was aimed at getting the federal government to sweep its own doorstep clean, Nixon issued a The report said the lottery last Dec 1 which used birth-date- s to determine order of callup did not achieve random selection. of abolish "Instead, the report said, birthdays from the end of the year were disproportionately near the top of the induction order. subcomthe Of necessity, The subcommittee concludmittee report said, the milisuch disparity is ed that operates tary traditionally and significant extremely with less regard for individual must stem from the failure niceties and procedural rights to mix the capsules than we expect and require in properly the binlulates." containing civilian life. As a result, the report recThe report suggested Confuture rangress consider the need for a ommended that dom selection be achieved by selective conscientious objecuse of computers. tor status. state and local quotas, establish a uniform national policy and kick the military out of the Selective Service System. W ARN HANOI Nixon has warned the Hanoi regime on .several occasions that he will take appropriate responses i: Communist offensives jeopardize the safety of U.S. troops during the withdrawal program. Scott told newsmen after testifying at a Foreign Relations hearing on Vietnam: I do not anticipate, barring some catastrophic occurrence the entry of outside nations that the reaction of the President would be in terms of escalating troop in- The report said only hardship and high school deferments should be continued in time of conflict. volvement. BIGHT WAY This process of troop ATLANTA. GA. (AP) -FVico President Hubert H. Humphrey says school be should desegregation enforced nationwide, in the North as well as in the South." Humphrey, in Atlanta for a speech at Tuesday Emory University, said at a news conference he believes de facto segregation is a little more sinister in the North than some open segregation. ormer with- George McGovern, submitted a statement charging the administrations Vietnamization policy was a political hoax. The policy of Vietnamization, McGovern said, is a hoax designed to political screen from the American people the bankruptcy of our needless military involvement in the affairs of the Vietnamese people. deeded Schools: Technology News Education Editor properly supTechnology, and employed, wisely ported could help meet some of the educa- nations most pressing tional needs." the conclusion of the Commission on Instructional Technology which this week a submitted report to F res. Richard M. Nixon and Congress. Dr. Sterling M. McMurrin, dean of the graduate school at the University of Utah, is commission chairman. e commission qbserved Thats type-writte- n e m as used In that technology touches the schools today only a small fraction of inIt is used piecestruction. meal and not as an integrated system. Examining the impact of technology on American education in 1969 is like examining the impact of the automobile on American life when the Model T Ford first came on the market." the commis- states. The further ahead one looks, the more benefits technology seems to have for education, it says. (The report has been ready since August, but ito release sion Train said, for example, the Military Academy at West Point will need about $3.1 million to improve its now inadequate treatment of sewage tween $16 billion and $17 lion. has been held up by the partment of Health, tion and Welfare.) De- Educa- The problems which confront education have no one but learning might solution, be significantly improved if second industrial , the revolution the revolution of information processing and communication could be harnessed to the tasks of instruction, the report states. The commission believes could bring that technology about far more productive use of teachers' and students time. One of technologys greatest boons could be to make edu-- cation more democratic, the commission states. "Through film and other television, forms of telecommunication, the remote rural college and the ghetto school could share the intellectual and esthetic advantages of the See EDUCATION on Page hard-presse- d A-- 6 Todays Thought The first thing to do in life is to do with a purpose u'hat one proposes to do. Pablo Casals said Sen. J. W. of Arkansas, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. I think it is of first importance that we know what it is costing. war, -dent bil- This would compare with unclassified estimates that put war spending at about $23.2 billion for the current year ending June 30. Nixons new budget, which went to Congress this week offered no estimate of the cosi of the war during the year starting next July, and this secrecy has drawn a protest from a ranking Democratic critic of U.S. policy. I can see no justification for classifying the cost of the Soviets Air Fears Of New Crisis By WILLIAM L. RYAN AP Special Correspondent drawal, and subsequent replacement by the South Vietnamese, is a process that has steadily gained momentum. Scott told the committee. It Saying that the 4,000 draft is irreversible. More imporboards have 4,000 policies, the tantly, it is the right way to subcommittee there achieve a real and lasting said peace in Vietnam. uniform should, be simple, Scott urged approval of a national standards and the resolution to affirm the Seabolish administration should for Nixons state and local quota systems. nates support efforts to negotiate peace in Vietnam and urging him to HHH Comments initiate a mutual cease-fire- . Sen. (AP)-Presi- Nixons secret budget for the Vietnam war in the coming fiscal year is estimated by congressional experts at be- The tone of the Kremlins diplomacy suggests that it is frightened by the prospect of a gathering storm over the Middle East. It may mean that Moscow is unwilling at this time to face a new major crisis and is seeking some way to head it off. While its bargaining may be tough. Moscow appears concerned that its whole foreign policy drive may be thrown into a tailspin by the intensifyhostilities. ing In its latest note to Washington. Moscow has threatened to escalate the arms race in the Middle East by sending moje arms to Egypt. Yet the thrust of its diplomatic activity suggests deep worry. The Kremlin has been sending out warnings to the British and Americans, French of rising peril in the Middle East as if the Russians were digging in for a round of Moscows worry about the Middle East seemed to shine through a foreign policy article in Sundays Pravda. This Arab-Israe- horse-tradin- By LAVOR K. CHAFFIN Russell E. Train, Nixon's newly designated chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality, said that the Depart-me- n of Defense is the largest single agency of government involved in pollution problems. that is polluting the Hudson trol funds will not be diverted to other uses. Train said $52 million already is included in the President's budget for fiscal 1971, which begins next July 1, for this project. And the President has directed the Department of Defense to make an River in New York. In addition to this latest directive. President Nixon plans to send a message to Congress on his plans for an environmental quality progiam in the next 10 days, Presidential Press Secretary Ronald I Ziegler said. Nixon said that similar orders have been issued in the past but the requirements were "ambig-o u s 1 y worded, pooriy enforced and generally ineffective. He declared this new order remedies those earlier deficiencies: It sets precise standards, it provides for strict enforcement, and it guarantees that pollution con additional $10 million available for the program in fiscal 1971 for a total of $92 million, Train said. He said one of the key problems of the past has been that allocated funds for such clean-ufreefforts have quently been diverted to other projects. He estimated the government spent $129 million for similar efforts in the three-yea- r period of 1968 and 1970 budgets. u p ESTIMATED AT $6 BILLION WASHINGTON deferments immediately, student deferments of Nixon has proclaimed improvement of the nations environment as a prime priority of the 1970s. And, he said in a statement issued at the White House an executive order requiring that all federal projects or inbe designed, operstallations ated and maintained so as to conform with air and water standards present q u ality and future which are established under federal legislation." War Budget Cuts Seen Pullout, Scott Says :! One committee witness proposed a draftee seeking such status should be required to undergo noncombatant service of comparable risk to that undergone by draftee and if to this were not possible serve for a longer time. in time structed or manufactured for the federal government. Won't Stop A WASHINGTON (AP) has Senate subcommittee called for sweeping executive and legislative changes in the Selective Service System to make the draft fairer and more uniform. headed The, subcommittee, M. Sen. Edward Kennedy, by called on the Nixon administration Tuesday to end occupational -P- Nixon, calling the one of federal government the nations worst polluters, all federal today ordered facilities to eliminate air and Sweeping Draft Reforms Urged By Senate Panel - (AP) resident noted the sharpened conflict and professed to see in it the militahand of an American concerned ry-oil complex about the sale of French warplanes to Libya, which is now in the cmp of Egypts Gamal Abdel Nasser. Thus, Pravda said, Washington is pressured to send new arms to support Israel. The French planes, Pravda added, would not reach Libya while American until 1972-7Phantoms could reach Israel at once. This hinted at a fear that Israel might be in a position for a preventive strike against the Arabs and their new Soviet arsenals. Thu., it justified increased arms for Egyp Ful-brig- Former President. Lyndon B. Johnson had sent Congress his war cost estimate in each of his last three budgets. The Nixon budget said new estimates would offer a tipoff to the size of the timing of future American troop withdrawals. Because of the need to maintain the security of this information certain plan, included in budgets does not appear this year, thg Nixon message said. I dont think he really recent war during the new fiscal year. If everything goes as planned, I would say that is a maximum figure, Aiken said of the Laird estimate. Fulbright said he may call, economists and finance ex- -, ' perts before the Foreign Rela- tions to discuss the cost of the war, not only in budget dol- -' C o ngressional approprialars but in indirect spending. tions experts, basing their esHow in the world can we timates on current spending, make an informed judgment announced U.S. troop withon this if we don't know the drawals, and the likelihood of cost. Fulbright said. further pullbacks later, have But Senate Democratic produced the $16 to $17 billion Leader Mike Mansfield said estimate. he wasnt concerned about; classification of the budget esSecretary of Defense Melvin timate. R. Baird said Jan. 7 he antici; It will come out pated outlays between $17 and he said. $18 billion for conduct of the knows bow much will have to be spent before July 1971," Sen. George D. Aiken of Ver-o n t, senior Republican member of the Foreign Relations Committee, said in an interview. Certainly, he has to have flexibility. Costs have been materially reduced in the past few months." m , anyhow,-somewhere- Market flatly ibbs Combined AP and UPI NEW YORK The stock market began losing ground today following a strong rally Tuesday triggered by a statement of Treasury Secretary David M. Kennedy that interest rates might be lowered sooner than people expected. The Dow Jones industrial which gained 11 average, points Tuesday and was ahead nearly 3 points in earlier trading today, ebbed at noon to 756.67, off 0.79. Whereas analysts saw the remark as encouraging, they added that it might be some time before such credit restraints, long a major market depressant, were eased. Investor worries over a business recession and a drop in corpo- rate earnings they said. still persist, The Treasury secretary said that happy interest when rates day could be lowered may be closer at hand than most people realize. We clearly are beginning to make headway toward the President's objective of curbing inflation . . . Kennedy told the Share in America Tuesday Committee, formed by businessmen to promote the sale of savings bonds. Because of the progress we are now making, that happy day (when interest rates come down) may be closer to hand than most people realize. He also predicted definite improvement in the price situation, but said it would be unreasonable to expect a complete halt in price rises. David M. Kennedy , . . starts mart upswing War Threat Eases, Israelis Say - IsWASHINGTON (AP) raeli military sources claim there is less likelihood of a major Middle East war developing now than last summer when air and land battles broke out along the Suez Canal. These sources regard the Soviet Unions warning to the United States and other Western powers as a ploy designed to back up Arab morale. concerned about Though an additional Russian aid to Egypt, they discount the idea that it would impel the Arabs into any major thrust. They also discount the possibility of any direct Soviet intervention in the war. ot Despite the the Egyptian army and air force and the guidance of about 3.000 Soviet advisers, the Lraelis sold, the battles of ti:e past seven months have demonstrated the Egyptians are not ready to undertake any big offensive. The Israeli military sources claimed the Russians have given Egypt about $2 billion in arms and equipment since the forces of President Gamal Abdel Nasser lost much of their gear in Soviet-provide- the d war of six-da- 19C7. But the Russians haven't yet been able to get the Egyptians to use their weapons and materiel effectively, the Israelis said. They praised the Soviet equipment as first rate. The Israeli military men indicated both sides have learned from the fighting, which lias raged more or less continously since last July, though on a limited scale. But they sounded confident the advantage still is with their pilots and ground fighters by a wide margin. The Israelis said the Russians now do most of the operational planning for the Egyptians, as well as manning cerof the sophisticated tain I equipment. Inside The News SECTION Financial A National. Foreign City, Regional 10. 13 Editorial Pages 14, 15 Do-I- t Man SECTION City, Regional Our Man Jones Comics 9 S. TV Highlights 15 B Obituaries Weather Map Action Ads SECTION 13. 1 C 1, 2, Sports 1, 7. 13, 22 1 .2 SECTION World of Women Entertainment 14 'll 8 D 1-- 3 -- ,7 |