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Show LtScKcT NE AS, SALT LAKE OTY, UTAH 'WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1975 the Constitution of the United States with We stones for governments each fj!ly indtpendont A5 three deportments of its in its own field. How the U.S. shouid deal with Cambodia's piracy The tiii king of three Cambodian gunboats by American aircraft brings Uie I S. perilously close to getting iV'Oi solved i.i li Ofuau-sa,t Wdl oi Aoi- Yer ever the US neded to measure Us actions carefully instead of reacting emotionally, its in to Cambodia's seizure of a U S. sfnp and crew. ...4 ?hi Inir " wiv, liatUKlia Uc 'ni 4H.v vessel Muyuuuw and ds crew is not only a highly provocative act, but also a dt iiliei ale one. True, the I S cannot afford a ilalby retponse if its citizens are to remain secure when they go abroad. out the use of U.S. Marines to v 11 z a n iuu, iliio i CpioCMAi. COHgst ttutCS return the captives except as a ia't resort. It theres anything most Americans don't waul, us to ge involved in another land war m Asia. Besides, trie objective should he to retrieve healthy n tiAA. i Less corpses. Instead, there are other alternatives that should be explored first ranging from quiet diplomacy to the blot, kuding oi Cambodia's ports. Besides, even though the seizure of the Mayaguez is depurate ami provocative. some aspects ot the situaC ina.icthn roo.lrlv . Thai' tion seem i. nU. May aguez w as traveling in a standard shipping lane and that the seizure took piace in infeniutnitiai uaiters Via the incident took place eight miles off an isia,id .mimed by tazth ( amfyirlia and Vietnam. Cambodia claims its territorial waters extend 12 miles from .siioie. i lie U S.. in fact, recognizes a limit. But diiboences over where waters end and international waters begin can be settled without resorting to modern-dapiracy as Cambodia did Tbcan m .1 Mibnsj to I,!,., without uniting more of the same. The American iui?ens and property being held by Cambodia must be returned. Then1 must bo no repeat peitonnanees On these points the U S most remain firm Vi test oi the future of U.S. loreism imlicy m Southeast Aua For the pa-- t few weeks. President Ford him been tebingone Asian leader ailCi .tliOiher mzt to HzSV1 faith 111 tllO F S Despite the fall ot Saigon and Phnom Penn, he has been saying, the U.S will stand linn against future aggression. How much the President's words are believed can depend in no small part on how adroitly the L.S. deals with the capture ol the Mayaguez The tirst concern shouid be for the sale release of the captured crewmen - with the emphasis on safe That Concern would seem to rule serious T "Weii, y IS i M SMI accident spawns lerror and confusion. But the potential lor confusion was needlessly Compounded this week billowing the double cave in at toai o. s Deer i reek. Mine near Po,i-txM- tv V Huntington. admim-dralor- pital were s virtually uidiltereut to the public's right to know . The well are of the miners involved in any such mishap always comes tirst. ol course. Hut that obieetiv e isn't incompatible v ilh admitting newsmen to the scene of a mine accident, or w ith being cooperative and helpful in getting out straight imormation. Plenty ot other mine accidents have bon 's i CBr A SHIGTO - When President lord convenes ine NATO summit nieeimg in Brussels May 2', one head of government sitting m ttie inner councils ol the Western W covered intensively without interfering with rescue efiorts. In fact, such coverage Can help dispel rumors Likewise, when reporters are denied access and information, it can give the JlbcixL iitiUed tt bad iflwgi' Tlie lamtlies ot the three men killed in this week's eav have a right to know whether ot not sub tv procedures were being followed at the mme. so docs the rest ot the pubik . Kvenfuallv it will. Federal inspectors are investigating the eav to determine their cause. By law. their findings must be made av ailahie to the public. Meanwhile, all that has been accomplished by this week's exercise at Huntington in withholding access and luloi motion is the lesson it taught in how not to win triends and ml junta the public. dileiw- organization wtll'Tw UsCO IXis SalllOs (ioncaivos, re olut mnary Portugal's pnme minister w ho is w ideiv I r. hue a- - h M.iCsim with intimate tics to (tie Communist party . Thai pro1 peel is now i aus-in- r conet rn at w orbing lev els the Whitt' House and State Department. It confronts Ixnh the President and his Secretaries of State and Defense, Henry Kissinger and Janies Sthlesinger, with this agomzmg dilemma can ieadt rs of the W test s detense and political alliance openly discuss their military and is Instead ot cooperating with news reixirters, law enforcement oil leers, company reprts, ulatives. unJ hos- rET By How land Evans dUu Robert Nov ak Secrecy and mine mishaps Any serious mine in-u- ie e-i- defense strategy with (Ion- MUiii at tlif iauic iu The ansvur. .Almost certainly yes, because liu d; Jib'd hint ol excluding Uon-ca!u would he seized upon by i he jmwerful Portuguese Communist party as new c idem e ol Western attempts to subvert their April l'Cl revolution it would, in short, he used he-by the Communists polilieal power far exceeds the bare 12 5 percent ol the vote they polled in the recent luiisuthtnl usseird'ly election' m the same way the aborted coup d'etat by tin . renior-riji- t Used: m Mutvh to aggrandize their power by charging foreign and counter revohitioliurv in terveniion into Portugal s domestic politics Bvrti if the US. had a workable plan to deal with tins dilemma guaranteed not to boomerang, it is nearly certain thett European members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization would veto it. In Europe, Portugal is still rather well i egarded as a member ol the European family. The overwhelming proba- - DOUG SflEYD Veto the consumer agency bill More than :U htlerul agencies already conduct over I Odd programs oil hehall ot consumers. lederal consumer create a new agency. Evidently a veto is the only way to clear from a poll conducted by Research Corp. whose validity has been verified by another poll taker, the Roper organization. The pull found that: 75 percent of the consumers oppose setting up a new consumer piotection agency. When the 13 percent who favored stop the measure, since the Senate voted Tuesday to kill a tiiibuster which has been blocking the legislation. Passage of the bill is certain. that happens, Congress will be defying not only the public interest, but aNo the public will. That's suiit- If a new agency found it would cost tKIIIH BUiMCesK The kids' warranty bihty, then, is that Mr. Ford '.TO cc.lLuguc, will arid hir finesse i in- - delicate problem of fe!'a!ye listening fo uninhibited security talk by 1IC Mill:. ill t UlitV ceremonial The intimate talks will go on behind the scenes. F.ven so. a horrendous problem i.s posed by the final communique. The question: Could Oneahv s, vv lio has not before officially conduct'd formal part of Porany tugal se foreign policy, sign a communique that Cuuld be interpreted as a wanting or n threat to the Sov let Union and the W araw Fact? -- SHINGTON W There -- . Ciosy liidcbOuUu cr what. Thcrs reason to think that President Ford is no exception shat at some moment m recent weeks tie crossed the fine from being the collegial a friendly nice guy" to a man feeihig oemiembie in the mantle of the Chad Execuive, thus a ; rl pl CAMdC'CSu.Oi V' $dO ftf This week Congress upheld President's Ford veto of an inflationary farm bill. So he should have no qualms about following up with a veto of a costly and unnecessary consumer agency bill. judgments, Watergate two L 4 kH2kk years of and a vengetul , 'What for- Por-'UJa- " ah aged. In fact, however, high here worry deeply about several known facts. from your as prime minister and from at least two to possibly four Communists in the cabinet, the present Portuguese government is musing toward neutralism between the Western and Soviet camps. Such neutralism is antithetical to NATO, which was built for a single purpose: to combine the military power of the West against Moscow Congress He had the problem of Richard AT. Nixon around hi" neck Mr Ford had inflation, the energy a problem, a bad political situation for the Republicans and the chore of taking over n demoralized Administration. That's a messy elo'-e-t of problems all right, and uthers mess. Presisprang from dent Ford learned he couldn't deal with foreign or military policy the way he would like to . . , because of public and congressional restraints. He saw his party lose badly in the tali elections, thus cutting his political strength evn more and making new programs doubtful. Finally, his right wing, Rusuated and angry over Watergate and Fixons throwing the power away , cut lovse at Mr. Ford. He had ;e make presiden tial decisions. He pardoned Nixon, thus cutting his honeymoon short He faib-- to get a handle on the stagflation illness. Tits went permissive on the budget He indulged his S cretary of State a bit too much, mouthing Dr. Kissinger s latest hjtfings and pufd -o fings against Arabs, Israelis and Congress. And he kissed otf the memory of Vietnam too quickly, though aJmira-- . b!y sticking by the evacuation of refugees and his ambassador. Eut really, even a Demo- cratic President couldnt . ' have done any better in this period between the exile to San Clemente and the fall of Saigon. Mr. Ford didn't do well, but he did his bent, and he learned. And, while. I believe the oitice pushes him Into mere job? I've been meaning to talk with you about that. I lost it. V ou owe me $5." "Why siiouid I pay for 55 you lost?" lie paled. "You mean I have to lose my own money ?" Last night I had a dream in which a mugger approached my son and me, held a knife at my throat and said. Your money or jour life. As I helplessly explained I didn't have any monev, my son whispered. II y ou vv ant a bon ow a but k, just say so." I'm worried. I wasn't asleep when I dreamt it part-tim- e SYDflEY HARRIS Czechoslovakia. Romania and Poland all -peak fluent Portuguese (while U.S. Ambassador Frank Carlucci is the from a NATO member who speaks Portuguese!. The Czech ambassador i.s a lormorviee foreign minister, and the Romanian ambassador .spent five years as special assistant to minister n )o - g " How much cun you afford?" he asked. Not much Incidentally, wiiat did you do with the $5 Gon-caiv- In a.sked. How much do y ou need?" short, the Warsaw bloc has by Moscow zeroed in on Lisbon by sending only the highest quality diplomats to work there. Neither Goncalvcs nor his new' foreign minister. Ernesto de Melo Antunes, has given the faintest sign of w anting to take Portugal out of NATO. authoritative moments and To the contrary'. Goncalvcs stances, this man of Congress will probably strengthen Pormaintains his courtesy and tugals NATO credentials by patience. He listens to an pointing to the htgniy sucuncommon amount of adv ice, cessful NATO naval maneuvprobably too much, and is on ers last February, including tfcc phone a great deal with' simulated bombing runs by congressmen. Mr. Ford goes U S. aircraft on targets just 30 miles south of Lisbon. The out of his way in public maneuvers went off without a to settings cempUment people who would relish the hitch torture and executions of any Accordingly, even if NATO and all Republicans within contained the machinery for grabbing distance. Coilegiali-t- y evicting a mcrotxT (which it has not fled him. does not), Portugal remains President Ford can grow in good, forma! standing. The paradox is acute- A more in hi job than Congress neutralist-leaninmember Ccui grow Li its performative. Little by little, it might soak w ith ample potential for turninto peoples minds that this ing against the U.S retains is what is happening, and its seat its the highest councils then Mr. Ford will rise in the of NATO, with the virtual pel! and become an awfully certainty that any secret defense strategy adopted in credible presidesitul candidate. despite the low state of Bi UlbMft.S lii tut7 iUxv UU' back to Moscow. hii party. "With a supermarket on one side and a service station on the other, this is the perfect location for your loan company!" 1 Surprise, no Shock, yes You dont waul to go through the day without a present, do you he asked. ol finals With fellow traveler - It's a surprise For whom? For Mother's Day calm American fears over l. Communist influence' in fearful that the U detente might be dam- Irum it. . t J Lf d UiviiziuUtjt 1 The precise degree of political conneetion between Lisbon and MuoCOW la Hot fcnOVUl here. Soviet diplomats have gone out of their way to In to The slow change in President Ford never ha- - been a man who wasn't changed alter becoming President. That office is so poweiidi and so local Ov't 0 riffo-- lb" ty'e and thinking oi its occupants Vihcthet they be free and There isn't one parent who seems to know at what stage in a child's life you are no longer responsible for (at pails of their body, sb) entertainment, (o food consumption, id'i medical, m) social and t) bud debts All know is ti their warranty doesn't run out piertv soon, my husband r.d I cry going to he independently destitute. During the past week I h.ave paid fur gas tor niv own car that was burnt up before I got a chance to see it recorded on the gas gauge . . . Girl Scout cookies that I nevi r ordered, consumed, or even saw . . movies that I was too young to see . . and cavities m teeth that were turned rotten by forbidden candy that 1 bought. Somehow kids seem to have logic on their side. East Saturday, my son said. I need money. The Soviet ambassador to Lisbon is the most active env oy in Portugal and, at 45, one of Moscow's rising stars. He and the ambassadors million the first three years, many of that group decided they, too, opposed more commanding presence. Despite the great diminution m t y .(wThnntv of the Presidency, people want a Piesident who imparts the notion that he is in charge, is making decisions for the genera! good and has a strong backbone. The difficult economy and peoples' perception of Mr. Ford ao not hav ing come to grips w ith his office have given him unhealthy ratings in the public opinion polls To tairiv assess th- - Ford performance, we have to consider how he started and. what he inherited, Mr. Ford is an undented President, and had to build a constituency. He took over a Presidency weakened by his Do ! nave to buy it unit The fu-- ' t time my child said 1 was shocked. ?" own my money To begin with, the child was two and it was his first complete sentence. Secondly, he was unemployed without a dime in his diaper to rattle. But the phrase persisted and today , as a teenager, n u ikiul an o . cicntly Opinion That iact. laid before the Sait Lake Area Chamber of Commerce this week, is by itseii sufficient reason for President Ford to veto the bill to man!" Portugal tells NATO secrets to Russia ter-nten- - speMc up. A Red study? Suppose I told you about a new poverty study conducted by the Communist Party of the USA, and reported some of iU salient points. That the basic cause ot poverty nere is the erlesmess of ;h,; c ov cr tbetr political and economic institutions That most Americans today can no longer afford an average home. That the richest ft) percent of our population receives the same total income as the bottom 50 percent. -- - That the top one percent of our insulation receives more income than the tmt turn 20 percent. That more than half of all Americans are essentially dependent upon social institutions over which they have no control. That inflation, joblessness and product shortage result from the high concentration of private control of corporate assets, sales and production. pow That the top two percent of American families hold 4' fttvtvr ItUlUo rr ilivt.oV KO UltXOhitXVttV neozvt WiOXVl m vtiuit tVx tV vll Kx4cy i tfl uv percent. Red propaganda," you would probably sneer, dismissal these facts' out of hand as distortions and aspersions upon the state of the nation. But what if this same poverty study, with the same salient points, had been made by an agency of the U S Catholic Church, certainly no friend to communism, socialism, pmkoism, or godless materialism? As indeed it was, last month, by the Roman Catholic church-relate- d Campaign for Human Development, which with million dollars several support has already spent funding self help projects initiated by the poor. The majority of Americans, the report sadly concluded, have only tneir labor as their primary resource. The main benefits from our society's wealth arc not tied to work, but to ownership of productive resources It seems to me, that these facts can provoke only two reactions: either the abolition of capitalism, or the improv.-mv.r0 oopKaltsiu, cither iiixmog us into a nation of Communists, or a nation of capitalists. it |