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Show mmznhifiii BMX'i ua nsmuaaniit DESERET NFWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1974 A5 We stand tor the Constitution of the United States vith its thee deportments of government, each fully independent in its own field. Davis vote's a setback, ut won't stop transit plan Now that Davis County has turned tinue through the rest of the fiscal year until June 30. That is because the county has sufficient appropriations from the state liquor fund and matching money to operate the system for that length of time. weeks vote in which only Davis Thai means a decision must be County voters, of the three counties made before next June 30 whether to involved, rejected the transit plan. raise fares, reduce service, or possiV. hiic the voters in Salt Uake and bly make an appropriation from the a measure given little Weber counties approved public fundgeneral fund it would most certainly since chance ing by narrow' margins, Davis County turned down the issue by a sizable incite the wrath of the voters who have margin: 19,693 to 13,313. Voters in all already spoken on the issue. districts, however, gave a substantial Under the original UTA funding e rather than plan, it would be possible for a margin to the plan passenger to ride from the northernUTA is reassessing its policies this most point in the system. North week on what happens now. Two Ogden, to the southernmost, Sandy, things appear certain: The Davis for 60 cents. The area was divided into Coiuity vote will not seriously hamper five zones, and passengers could operation of the transit system in Salt travel anywhere in one zone or from Lake and Weber Counties, but the one zone to an adjacent zone for 15 dow n the sales tax option for mass transit funding, will it seriously hamper Utah Transit Authority operations elsewhere? That question arises after last quarter-cen- t low-far- no-fa- re cents. With Davis County out of the UTA picture, zones will have to be adjusted along with interzonal charges at the north end of the system. How well the system works will concentrate immediately on improv- have a great influence on any future ing bus service in the states two most vote among Davis County residents on populous areas. Fares in Salt Lake, joining. But for the first time in many and Weber counties will go down to 15 years, the bus system at last has a cents base fare and 10 cents for reliable method financing. The students and senior citizens on Jan. 1. burden of proof is now on the Utah As for Davis County, present e Transit Authority to show what it can and fares are expected to con- - do lo improve both buses and service. effect on Davis County cant help but be deleterious. Those who have agreed to pay the subsidy are not going to subsidize those who havent. Thats only lair. The Davis County action, in fact, will allow UTA to long-ter- m Ford asks Greeks to help ailing NATO Bv Howland ser-vie- - WASHINGTON a new AAideast force PLO Arabs reiused to recognize Israel. Now the Arabs are calling for negotiations and the Israelis are refusing to recognize the Palestinians. The Israelis charge there is no to believe the PLO represents reason One important victory will go to the Palestinian the people. Thats true. enemies ol Israel this week when the is no reason to believe there But Palestine Liberation Organization anyone else represents them either. speaks at the United Nations debate And it is hardly the place of Israel on the Middle East. to tell or, for that matter Hie U.S. The PLO is responsible for the the Arabs who their representatives killings at the 1972 Olympic Games, are, for the slaughter of Israeli school Israel is strong enough to ignore children at Maalot and for other the Arab demands to negotiate with atrocities too numerous to recount. the .PLO and risk another war, Yet. with an eye to Arab oil. nations according to Premier Yitzakh Rabin. voted lopsidedly to break precedent That may be true for now , but time and hear the PLO , even though it is not seems to be against the Jews. Arab oil a nation and not a U.N. member. has curtailed their ability to find An even more telling blow was the friends outside the U.S. And the ability recent recognition by the combined of the U.S. to sustain Israel against Arab states of the PLO as the combined Arab and Russian pressure legitimate representative of the Pales- is diminishing. tinian people. For a decade American military has declined relative to Ruspower For its part. Israel refuses even to And Americans have just sias. talk to the PLO. It isnt just the elected a likely to make Congress bloody hands of the terrorists, its and foreign aid defense in cuts that the PLO openly proclaims as its further spending. goal the extinction of Israel. America's position in Europe is After exhausting work, Secretary And Europe is a necesdeteriorating. of State Henry Kissinger thought he U.S. Israel supply line. in the link sary had the combatants headed towards It would be repugnant, to negotiate the conference table at Geneva. The with PLO be terrorists, but Israel may have no Arab insistence that the included and the Israeli refusal to choice. It would not be the first time in recognize the organization could over- international politics that successful murderers became statesmen. throw all Kissingers plans. America should press for a settleThe Arab maneuver has resulted in ment a strange reversal. For decades the quickly. The longer the struggle for called direct negotia- continues, the less influence over Israelis have states the Arab with and the events America is likely to have. tions concentrated Arab diplomatic and political offensive has scored impressive gains against Israel and poses new problems for United States policy in the turbulent Middle East. A -- Presi- dent Ford tried desperately hard last month to subdue strident Greek-American- Constantine Caramanlis won alive1 and Foreign Minister George Mavros 'liberal not to make any announcement before he elections that would portray the U S. as Greeces patron. "Both of them. Messrs Mavros and Caramanlis, do not want us to make any before the announcement elections even if we achieve lavorable concessions for Greece on the part of Turthe Iakovos memo key Archbishop to quotes Kissinger v and Koto ri Novak s lobbying against U.S. aid to dangers s'-- in the Mediterranean. Mr. Ford ap'Obviously, Messrs. praised southern Europe m Laramanlis and Mavros are language usually reserved tor intimate aides. According to the Iakovos memorandum fir translated from the Greek-- , Mr. Ford said : 'Only we can help the Greeks because only we aic to exercise in a posinon pressure on Turkey. I would like to tell vou that we want and we must keep Greece as our friend. Dont you see the situation in the Meditcrra- - , nean? Yesterday Portugal,- -' Italy today, and the day after tomorrow possibly Spain, will put us face to face with the strong presence ot commu- nism in an area which up to " . some time ago we were Archbishop Iakovos controlling with our allies in afraid ot being accused a.--, NATO." of America and then Iriends The precise accuracy of is fear of losing the there those words could not be elections authenticated. But we estabS p e c 1 i c a y . the lished absolutely that Mr. memorandum dispatched lo Ford referred to a pretty in the Caramanlis expresses U.S. dismal picture Mediterranean, adjacent to iear that premature statements could bring election the Mideast "tinder-box.- " gains by leftist leader An"1 do The Archbishop, according dreas Papandreou. to those present, pleaded with repeat that we want to help the President for help to calm Greece and particularly Mr. He comCaramanlis because accordplained that his communi- ing to our information the cants no longer listened to movement around Papanhim and that the past few dreou is strong and disturbmonths had been the first ing," it quotes Kissinger unhappy period during 15 "We do not wish at all to see years as archbishop. His own Papandreou governing memo has him requesting a Greece because this would presidential statement on mean subjecting Greece to Cyprus to help in pacifying Communist power." my flock." While generally confirming memorandum. Iakovos the he had Kissinger replied been asked by Greek coali- - denied to us that Papan-dreou- s name was men1 o n Administration leaders- - Prime Minister tioned source neither confirm nor deny it but do report Kissinger as expressing at the meeting lus interest in pre-entmg a left or Communist Greek government. -- Premier Caramanlis Turkey by warning their spiritual leader, m bluntly undiplomatic language, of NATOs alarming deterioration in the Mediterranean. In a meeting with Archbishop Iakov os in the Oval Office Oct. 7, the President painted growing Communist influence in southern Europe and asked him to support continued military aid to Turkey. But the Archbishop, leader of 3 million Greek Orthodox communicants in North and South America, replied by pleading with Mr Ford to issue a statement revealing some Turkish concession on Cyprus. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger then said top Greek officials had urged him to delay any such statement until after the Nov. 17 a claim Greek elections flatly denied to us by those Greek officials s, 1 the economy, but these explaother govemnent agencies. nations overlook a deeper obEvery congressional server could add a dozen cause. The Republican party, ups and downs. Last weeks titles to that list. The Byrd as a national political party, is failing to pronu m tiers, in themselves, are Amendment. which permits consistently conservaa not so bad us to buy vitally needed vide constructive to the liberalalternative tive Far more depressing, in chrome from Rhodesia, may ism with which the Democrathe voroervatfvc view. U the now fie repealed. In the name tic new substantive prospect for the of tax reform, incentives for identified. of the accumulation capital 94th Congress. Labels and may well be destroyed. NaThis failure L all the more numbers are oot so imporlt insurance lies remarkable when one gives tant. Issues are important. tional Given a lopsided majority of ahead. Industry could be account to the public opinion unpolls Every time the Gallup liberals, regardless wf party saddled with further environfor realistic burdens or Harris polluters study label, tto nort Congress mental improvement. The political attitudes, they find reasonably may be expected old conservative coalition far more conservatives to pass bids that would (1) be mustered in Congress than liberals within the may health national for provide now and then some of electorate. Granted, the insurance, C2) nullify state vetoes will be susFords labels are only generally and k (3) laws, vastly tained but let us face it; not precisely understood. increase costs of public welLiberals will be running the The two party system has fare, (4) make dangerous cuts show. in .Hitiays for national decontributed immensely to the Why did it happen? The stability of American institufense, and (5) create a Consumer Protection Agency standard explanations have tions. To abandon that systo do with Watergate, the tem in favor of the chaotic with sleeping powers of intervention in. the work of Nixon pardon, the the Itatc of conditions one observes in 101 ill 1932, 75 James J. Kilpatrick in 1948, and 47 in 1958. The Democrats have survived their own matching y week after the election, conservatives still are picking their way through the smoking ruins. The palpable fact is that we got clobbered - but the clobbering, as rad' is not the most disturb jug aspect of the vote. A If the clobbering were all one could go that mattered, along with President Fords cheery observation that the GOP has come back from disaster befere. On the historical record, a loss of 45 seats in the House is not a fatal blow . The Republican lost 96 seats m the swing of 1874, 85 in im 5 in tori. n m no-fau- right-to-wor- 1 dead-bo- lt prisoner i used to get locked out ut the huuw? a lot and it was so it a fun Kids would run ui and out ot the garage with ladders.' dogs would climb on the root and bark, neighbors would stop by with coflee and glass cutters . . , and at! thmgs considered it was often the high spot of niv week. Then one day my husband put down his paper and said Did you ever hear the old joke about if you want your garbage picked up. just leave it on the back seat ol your car huh the door, and itll be stolen in five minutes" That - tunny !" 1 roared "ft - no longer funny he continued. Every hour ot ev ery day is crime time. Watch your coat! Lock your car: Know your meter reader! Why 1 read in the paper the other day where a man had his tires stolen while he was attending a funeral Vhnt kind of a person would do a thing like that? . "The same kind who would steal a woman's purse oil he hook ot a restroom door when she is lighting a body suit and panty hose." Exactly," he said. We are getting dead bolt locks on e ery door in this house. I What are dead twit locks" make you safe conscious," he said. "To lock a door irom either the inside or the outside, you must have a key. We are all going to get into the habit of locking the dooi when w'e come in and locking it when we go out." The first morning. I counted the four clicks. Now all 1 had to do to leave was to tind my keys and unlock ijm door Sr u know what it is like to be locked in youf.dvwS Do "They 1 house? 1 could hear sounds trom the street but could Ts make myself heard. The ugly yellow wallpaper closed fn about me. The refrigerator seemed to hum, Clean lfie. Clean me." 1 called my husband and told him I needed lum now. By noon it would be too late. He put me on hold - Knowing the dogs capacity for control was no longer than 3. JO p. m.. I finally unscrewed a storm window' and craw led out the bedroom w indow. As I w as sitting on the roof breathing fresh air, a neighbor yelled, You all right?" Its remarks like that that prompt people to get dead bolt locks. SYDflEY HARRIS Greek-American- s. 1 government Election landslide means bad laws Bv BOmBKK A The CVt 7 meeting was summarized by Iakovos in a memorandum based on notes taken by his aide. Copies of that memo have found their way to the Greek government in Athens and Democratic Congressmen m Washington, creating new U.S. Greek problems and perhaps mad-ertenth making possible leftist gams in the Greek elections which Mr Ford seeks to avoid. Try ing urgently to alert the -- Ivan SRfOR Italy . France, and m Portugal would be utter folly. Yet to defend the system is not to v What may help the Greek left inadvertently is the Archbishops report of iTtaiiiis and Mavros defend its present operation. making backstage deals with . A commitment to ideals is Washington far more important than a Caramanlis has had die commitment to party. The Archbishops report lor nolcs (though Iakovos told us OOP's trouble is not merely mat its image is stained by he did no! senu die Ih ime corruption, or that it is un- Minister a copvi Furtherfairly saddled with blame for more. Elias Demetra-eopoulos- , our economic distress; the the Washington-base- d live trouble is who lobbied that Greek larger party no longer is strongly hard against Turkish aid. last identified with any particular week biieled the House ideas. The party is not un- Foreign Allans Committee principled, in the popular staff on the memorandum. It is Democratic Congressmen view, it is small wonder that the Democritical of Ford's policies will crats have become the first soon be briefed themselves. party in Coruress and in slate This widening distribution of government across the coun- pm ate remarks could influtry. The time may be at hand ence the Greek election, ennot for the formation of a new larging dangers m the third party, twit & : the strategic Mediterranean deemergence of a new second scribed so graphically by the Purulent p the Archbishop party instead. t. u i 4 Hot air reigns Even in Wisconsin which n a lairly dean state, as states go. the politicians talk out of both sides of their mouth at once, and do what they want to do. I saw evidence of this all summer long. There is a current control ersy ui the county seat near w tiich I spend my summers It concerns a new bridge to be built through town. One faction wants it in a certain location: another group wants it in another. There are sonic plausible arguments on both sides. But the State Highway Commission apparently has decided where it ought to be. regardless of the wishes of the voter and property owners, or the objections of the em ironmentalists Anri it looks as if its going to be where tne builders and land promoters v ant it to be. If thats what the voters also want. 1 have no objection. People have the right to be wrong But first they must be giv en all the facts and then freely allowed to express their choice. Neither of these conditions has been fulfilled in the bridge project. There was a phony "referendum vote taken, in which voters were presented with a that is. if you want your bridge, and want it proposition federally funded and approved by the state, this is where it will be. or nowhere. Naturally , most. of them opted for die site chosen by tne officials -- - they shouia call ft Hobson's Bridge Ov ercommg mv natural lethargy in such matters, 1 wrote a letter to the head ot the Wisconsin Highway Commission and to Gov Patrick Lucey about the matter. T)ie Hiuhwjy Commission's reply was smug and smarty. informing me m eftcct that i could take a high div e off the new bridge for ail they cared ; the governors reply was full of grand phrases about serving state and local mterf "ts and evincing crocodile concern about the taxpayers. Neither responded to the point I marie to wit, that the taxpayers were being prodded by politicians to buy a pig m a poke The public rightly feels there is a grow mg gulf between it.; own wishes and needs and what government does. When the demociatic process ceases to be "we and becomes "they," little is left but empty form letters filled with hot air. i , i ' |