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Show VV'e stand for the Constitution of the United States with its three departments of government, each fully independent in its own field. itive issues 1 1 In altering state incomei don't shift burden to poo With the start of the 1975 trie rising costs of government. Legislators are looking for a way to "adjust the income tax to bring its yield up to expectations. session dose upon them, Utahs legislators find the state income tax in disarray. In 1973, the lawmakers tied the Utah income tax to the federal income One proposal that has rightly been rejected by the concerned legislative committees is a return to the old system. That would cost taxpayers not only in money, but also in the time and bother to perform extra computations. tax. The chief object of the change was to make the taxes easier for citizens to pay by allowing the computations for the federal tax form to apply to the state tax form as well. The Legislature intended the new system to collect about the same revenue as the old system. But by last April when the first returns were filed, it was apparent that the Legislature had given the citizens an unexpected tax cut. Although the new forms were supposed to be simpler, some taxpayers found them so difficult that they asked the tax commission for extra time to fill them out. So the complete results of the change were not in until late this year. The new tax will probably generate about $11 million less than expected. Because the returns were late no one knows for sure why revenues fell so far below the estimates. Unlike the past several years, the state is this year to meet hard-presse- Another possible adjustment is to alter tire tax brackets. That would mean the rates would stay the same, gut instead of starting to pay the highest rate at $7,500, for example, couples would start to pay it at $5,000. Altering the rates has the CIA investigations irants advan- tage of being a simple solution to a s complex problem. Put it has the dissdvrngtage of shifting the tax burden from the to the poorer taxpayers. One of the main advantages of the income tax is that it puts the burden on those most able to bear it. The sales tax, in contrast, tends to fall most heavily on the poor and working class. Utah needs more revenue from its income tax. But the adjustments chosen by the Legislature should not shift the brunt, down the income scale. well-to-d- d promised you a rose bowl 1 MBS a o There never was real substance to Johnsons fear of a link to foreign agents, an American intelligence expert told us, and the CIA bitterly resented his order. But in his zealous pursuit of the elusive link, CIAs By Rowland Evans and Robert Novak - WASHINGTON The crisis of the Central Intelligence Agency that may wreck its effectiveness with tragic consequences for the nation can be traced back to a secret, politically inspired command from a troubled President Lyndon B. Johnson Businesses which have best, weathered inflation are those which have been able to increase their efficiency through use of computers and other Newport Beach, Calif., as president of Intermountain Health Care is important to every Utahn who ever has occasion to use a hospitals services. modern methods. Although only 39, Mr. Parker has But there are some businesses unusual qualifications for his post. As specializing in personal services, such administrator of a small hospital in as hospitals, in which automation can Arizona, he found it ir, possible to get be applied only in a limited way. funds to continue operations until he worked out a credit line with Good of to this susceptability Because Samaritan costs are Hospital in Phoenix to start inflation, hospital constantly new construction. to One be in hospital seems antidote rising. multiple-hospita- l From that successful merger, he systems such as Intermountaijn Health Care Inc , the has moved on to others in which he hospital system being divested from sharpened his skill in putting together The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-daformerly separate institutions under a Saints. common ownership. Those skills will be cf particular The administrator of such a system, then, is a key man in any value to all Utahns now that Mr. community effort to keep the lid on Parker is bringing his expertise to health care costs. Thus, the appoint- Utah. The Deseret News wishes him ment this week of Scott S. Parker of well in this most challenging position. in 1 963. Johnsons order to the CIA stemmed from his political dissifear of dents, eroding his presidency and endangering his Vietnam policy. He wanted CIA to establish a link between the Soviet KGB or other Com- munist paratus intelligence ap- and violent anli-Wactivity in the U.S. No link y ar was established, ' but the CIAs legal counterintelligence operations iy overlapped into the forbidden area of internal security. Now that this overlap has Counter-Espionag- gence Watergate (which itself e Angle-to- went to extremes. Known American anti-wa- r agitators, the notorious including Weathermen, were placed under surveillance during contacts with leftist student leaders in Europe and then kept under CIA surveillance when tney returned to the U.S. Much of this stemmed from FBI director J, Edgar Hoovers bitter feud with CIA, choking communications between the two agencies. CIA specialists say there was often no bureaucratic way to turn domestic surveillance over to the FBI once an anti-wa- r activist returned to the U.S. Instead, Angletons counter continued intelligence agents the job started abroad, A full briefing on the Support for Utah fine arts Communist and Israeli Such brilliant exploits tend to be shrugged off today as relics of another world. But intelligence experts here say dismantling the top echelons of Angletons operations alone will prove priceless to the Soviet KGB and immensely costly to the U.S. That, however, is but the first cost of CIAs tragic errors of the late 1980s. CIAs scandal, following a black ened eye from its Chilean operations, now threatens to close off not only foreign As anyone familiar with the quality of Utahs fine arts knows, the state is unusually gifted with a high level of symattainment in many fields phony, ballet, theater, and others. But left to their own devices, these programs are nearly always in a financial crisis. That is. why the 1974 Legislature committed itself to a goal of $1 per capita for the arts by the Bicentennial year, 1976-7- traveling American citizens invaluable the past 20 years. The first results of this will show up early in the new Congress. Efforts that have failed in the past to cut down CIA may now succeed. To a generation which never knew the cold war that will be welcome. In truth, it may cost this country dearly in the grim world of 1975. 7. "One grain or two?" Uncle Ben fumed to me, What4? going on? The jury has arrived at a verdict in the W atergate conspiracy trial.; : zU During the Rose Bowl? They didnt plan to arrive at a verdict during the Rose Bowl, Uncle Ben. It just turned out that way. ;, Weve waited two and a half years for something to happen, Ur.c'ie Ben pouted. They could have w sited : another two hours until the game was over. It will only take a few minutes, Listen, Carl Stem is .? ; reading the verdicts. Stem reported that four out of the five defendants : .7 were found guilty. What happened to the Big Enchilada? Uncle Ben -- 5 wanted to know. H Thats Mitchell. Hes been found guilty. 1 dont mean him. I mean the real Big numero uno The Commander in Chief, the former President of all the people. I guess hes at home watching the Rose Bowl I ikdi-feverybody else. ; 1 What do you think the defendants could get? One to 25 depending on their probation reports "What could Nixon get? A $60,000-g-yea- r pension plus $209,000 for office ' f . "f expenses. How come everyone has to do time except the gay 4 ' who started the whole thing? "Because Gerry Ford pardoned him. No matter what crimes Nixon committed, they cant lay a glove on him. Surely you wouldnt want a former President of the United States tried for conspiracy and obstruction of. Z justice? Z Rose Not if the jury brought in its verdict during the " Bowl game,' Uncle Ben said. Unde Ben, this is the last football game theyll ever interrupt to bring us a bulletin about Watergate. Its over and done with. It's behind us just like Nixon wanted it to ? Z lie two years ago. From now on its going to be nothing but roses for anyone watching the Rose Bowl, hope youre right, Uncle Ben said. It isnt fair ' ZZ tor USC and Ohio State to be mixed up with W atergate. Im certain no one watching will tie in USC and Ohio 1 State with Watergate. After all. Use crimes were ; committed in Washington, and the teams are playing ui Pasadena. What do you think theyll give us for a J ?- : George F. Will WASHINGTON Gut down on the limousines number from about of high 800 currently in One the perquisites government office is the chauffeured use to only 27. As Proxmire points out, hundreds limousine which, by its very nature, of a difficult officials are in daily violation to of U.S. luxury conveys feeling Columof law which bars the use of of the District on even the obtain, to transport them between limousines salaries. bias lofty their homes and offices. Perhaps if more bureaucrats had Proxmires bill appears to be the to drive the family car to and from only way of getting the word through work, like more ordinary folks, the to high officials to cut out extrava-gencfeeling of luxury could be more easily A year ago the Federal Energy dissipated and wouldnt spill over into Office ordered a reduction in the the appropriations process. g cf number of large, Caib g measure, AD that did, says So Senator William Proxnure has chauffeur-drive- n the right idea with his suggestion for Proxmire, is to substitute chauffeur-drivefor Pintos sharply reducing the number of federCadillacs . al officials entitled to chauffeur-driveThats a poor example to show a cars. The Wisconsin Democrat w ith deepening economic woes. lion plans to introduce 2 bill dioppiug tne of e. gas-eatin- fuel-savin- n ' n . - The Vla- divostok strategic arms agreement forces Congress to face a fact: If it wants to make effective stipulations about the details of arms agreements, it must be prepared to pay a price. The most important details of any arms agreement concern three things. One is the number of delivery vehicles (missiles and bombers) each side is permitted. A second is the accuracy of the reentry vehicles (which carry warheads) that each side has to put cn its missiles. The third detail is the throw weight" i basically, the power) of each sides missiles, measured in terms of the. amount of explosive material the missiles can deliver over intercontinental sea-bas- se 3-- 1 : . . I think theyll go back to Cart Stern in front of the federal courthouse for further developments. Why doesn't the USC baud just six-- opt the verdicts on the football field? , inter alia, would not limit the read with this in mind: NumUnited States to levels of bers of delivery vehicles is intercontinental strategic one measure of a nation's forces inferior to the limits strategic strength. provided for the Soviet Bui. numbers of deliverable , Union; warheads is another measCongress recognized the ure. So throwweight must lie considered along with numprinciple equality reflected in the 1972 bers of vehicles w hen detertreaty concerning defensive mining the equivalence of missiles. But Congress care- two strategic arsenals: fully avoided saying that a The Soviet Union has 308 future treaty that provided missiles. The U.S. heavy equality only regarding has none and is permitted ot number otlensive delivery none. When MIRVed. these vehicles, but without referheavy" missiles will help ence to their throwweight, the Soviet Union have a would suffice to ensure that throwweight advantage, and U.S. the would have an offena hence advantage potential sive arsenal equivalent to of deliverable in terms of die that Soviet Union. warheads, unless the U.S. Congress was saying; You expands its strategic arms uival-ence dont determine th programs. of offensive sir .tegic it is arguable that tfiese Is just by counting the number of delivery venielos advantages are not strategically meaningful, given the on each side. existing and foreseeable Proponents of the language military and political relaused to ratify the 1972 Interim tions between the U S. and the Soviet Union. But in any Agreement repeatedly emphasized that it should be case, it also is arguable that W I ... ' r ? ,2 i A Strategic parity will cost more money state-support- 4 -- artist-in-residen- distances. The larger the throwweight. the larger the number of multiple independently targeted reentry vehicles (MIRVs) that a nation can deliver on target in another nation. The 1972 Interim Agreement on offensive weapons consigned the U S. to inferior numbers of land and missiles. It left the Soviet Union with more and larger missiles, and free to MIRV them, which the Sovt Union is now able to do. Congress was unhappy the 1972 agreement permitted the Soviet Union a numerical advantage in missiles. and a throwweight advantage. So in ratifying the Interim Agreement, Congress said . Congress recognizes the principle of United States-Sovie- t equality reflected in the antiballisUc (defensive) missile treaty, and urges and requests the President to seek a future treaty (concerning offensive weapons) that. wmm S agents. intelligence sources but routine information from schools to sponsor Utah and Ballet West tours. And it isnt only the Wasatch Front that benefits its the whole state. This year, for instance, more than 50 percent of the total money for the arts is being spent in outlying areas of the slate. These include increased funding for the Utah Shakespearean Festival in Cedar City, a new summer festival in Logan, a tentative Easter pageant Last years appropriation was in the St. George area, a statewide of raised from 32 cents to 50 cents per Festival Arts for the Young, and an in Cedar City who Division The capita, or about $500,000. work holds shops, seminars, and of Fine Arts, realizing that these are will a sculptor piece of art for the city difficult financial times for the state, is hoping to achieve the $1 goal in park during his residence. As this page pointed out some time stages and consequently is seeking a commitment of 75 cents per capita for ago, Utah taxpayers spend more than $1 per capita a year to subsidize the coming fiscal year. colleges That would amount to $512,000 for athletics at and universities. The state should the Division of Fine Arts plus about make at least a comparable effort $250,000 w hich goes annually to Utahs toward the fine arts. ' tainted the agency) would severely damage the CIA and most particularly its counterintelligence operations. Now, that damage to CIAs credibility and efficiency in the wake of the New York Times expose is in full bloom, ironically abetted by the ous ter of Angleton and the sym pathy resignations of his high command: Ray Roeca, William Hood and N. Scott Miier. Angletons single most valuable post war heist the first Western copy of Khrushchevs historic 1956 attack on Stalinism at the , i 201h So vi et P a rt y Congress resulted directly from his secret contacts with DOUG SflEYD 2 President Nixons favorite spectator sport. I was in my living room with my Uncle Ben when N'BC broke into the Rose Bowl festivities with its bulletin. d ; chief, the James WASHINGTON Even in its final gasp, Wateigule had a touch of irony. The jury's decision was announced just as 60 million people were sifting down to waUn a football game which, as everyone knows, wa-- . former worst case examples of this highly illegal CIA activity was given more than a year ago to congressional watchdogs by William Colby, then newly appointed CIA director. The reason: a CIA scandal in the midst of been revealed, the CIAs ability to fulfil vitally necessary functions in a still dangerous world is deeply compromised. Top man for key hospital job Logishtive issues I never s a Counter-Intelli- 1 Smm the VudivosSok agreement that makes these Smn-- t ad vantages possible is teehm- rally consistent with Coo4 gross's 1972 stipulation. dj That was. remember, a negative stipulation: Con-- " press asked for an agreement JJ taut would not limit the U.S. to inferior levels, interim alia. The Vladivostok agreed ment does not do that It restricts" both sides to high limits of offensive power. 5 limits the U.S. is not yet2j committed to reaching, but limits the Soviet Union seems determined to meet. Congress could give the 2 U.S. rough equivalence, wPh- - out violating any agreement. 2 by paying for construction of the MX missile (a successor to the-- Minuteman. with imt 1, proved t iiomber and Trident sub-marine, up to agre-eupon.6 limits. Congress will do lias 2 if, but only if, it still dtimes 2 equivalence as it did in and is willing to pay Uie pru ejri brow-weigh- 2 01 r.- ? C 'J. v |