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Show ,, , , .., :,, ::: .. , 1,,;eWiZ ,. ; ; -s : ,. . - .$ - - .',14$7, 4.7 ; , .. . .. . ' - .. ,- . , . ,' , , ..ter0 . . I oa I i n rt 1 , .., . ,6,.,,,,. 14.9 ....,... ..., ,,,,,,,,,. ,,,,,w,,,,,,ts,,,,,,,k,,,,, THURSDAY , JULY 17 , 975 w,!;-;,- ' 4'7 , 1 ,,,,,, 1,.. tY u,-- - i ,,, , , 1 I! ''.") ,11 "0" Nt 0,th t ' , .7 ..e.,.. '1 NA . I- , Yr.,3 employee unions. In New York City, for example, Mayor Abraham Beame reacted in. a predictable way to the garbage strike: He persuaded the state legislature to empower the city to tax its citizens an additional $330 million so he could promise to rehire some of the garbage collectors , who had been laid off because there was not enough money to pay them. What happened in New York City houtod not be lost en Americans in other cities and states where public employee unions are clamoring for more collective bargaining power, to and including the right to strike. On this point, Calvin Coolidge said it all when -- - after a strike by Boston he policemen was broken in 1919 noted: "There is no right to strike against the public safety - by anybody, anywhere, anytime.If elected officials won't stiffen their spines and resist public employee strikes, the least they should do is see that machinery is available to resolve such labor disputes by binding tmployees. This year, unforttmately, also promises to be a "banner" year for strikes, by public employees against the public interest. : Already there has been the wildcat walkout by 10,000 garbage collectors in New York City to protest the dismisal of 3,000 fellow sanitationtrien. d In Pennsylvania more than of the 120,000 state workers walked off their jobs July 1 demanding pay increases of 10 to 11 percent. The governor offered 3.5 above the annual 5 percent increase most of the union members receive automatically. There also has been a rash of other strikes across the country by transit workers, hospital employees, and other public servants' as local governing bodies tried to keep payroll costs within their budgets for the new fiscal year. arbitration. Strikes by public employees are not Now there is talk of a possible strike by the 280,000 members of the just strikes against the government American Postal Workers Union when but strikes against the American their contract expires next Monday. people and are not to be tolerated. -- '' ,.f ', A rOr '.., st. ..4,' . ' k ' "'',f W ', '''''''.: - - , -- The argument goes that if the U.S. and other western hemispheric nations can do business with Russia and China, we might as Well have similar dealings ,with a Communist country in our own back yard. : more and more OAS members leeling that way, Washington may have little choice except to make the best of a bad situation. : With But if the OAS does insist on lifting the embargo, the U.S. should go along only if Cuba agrees to settle all claims ' . 44 v ' - , -- fi"k 4, : 5 'Z''.'- , ,,; ..A ,,,,,, c!411 ; - ,' iii''''' - ' ,i - !,' ,' k ,. , ,, ''', ' '', ,k ,..,,,,s,,, ' ss's,''':'Ins.$.,-,',46- M,AN,,,.,,- ,C, ''t , 7; ' ',, ,1 ''k,,.,.,, ' 'f,' k,,, f 4-v- !, 't :it 4 .! 1 11 ; '' - ., i ,t,., ; ,' - urged Q r Hus 1.1b: sloll, L a.A. , ,. - Ni ,v ., r, 1c 1 - - By Rowland Evans and Robert Novak ,'"'"'".:-':'-- .. ,,, President Ford's belated, backhanded invitation to Alexan- ' .;: :' ., :. . , :, .. , - . , .,,,;..,,,,- - I, : ,:' ''''iii, - ,:. .' ., , - :',', , ' , .;,., , '::;,.'i' ,..$i ,.: ; ,s;:,. ":- ,:::,.., , P:Eii.J ..... , ,, 4, , --- ,. v., , . ; rejected ), $',, ::,,x-e,,,- . --- - --- - - .7: ' - :,,-- - ', i Republican from North Carolina, next asked the White House to arrange a right-win- g meeting for June 30. Partly because Helms is held in low regard at the White House, the President quickly rejected him. Following Kissinger's advice, the President stayed dinaway from the AFL-CIner, Some administration notables Schlesinger, Secof Labor John Dunlop, retary United Nations ambassador Daniel P. Moynihan, deputy disarmament director John followed their Lehman consciences and attended. Even one or two lower-levState Department officials defied the Kissinger edict. Those who attended, par- ticularly Moynihan, were sharply criticized within the State Department. But the soon faced administration deeper trouble. To the sur: meet the great prise of the White Hous, novelist at some outrage was growing over the White House reception. The President's snub of Solzhenit- converse, by implication: a syn particularly among private Republican conservatives. meeting would not be acceptBelatedly alarmed, senior able. At the same time, the presidential aides discussed State Department quietly Solzhenitsyn daily last week, barred all its officials from finally agreeing last Friday attending the dinner. that Mr. Ford should tell his None of the senior officials Saturday press conference in who would have urged Mr. Chicago he would see Sol- Ford to see the Russian zhenitsyn if the novelist re- Including top White House quested a meeting. When no aide Donald Rumsfeld and reporter asked the proper Secretary of Defense James question the President is was consulted. sued a statement at 6 p.m. Schlesinger Needed: more rail inspectors Must it take a spectacularly devas- - million.. Of that amount, only 46.6 million was for safety enforcement. tating train Wreck to get the Federal ' And it has only 40 inspectors.' Railroad Administration to do the kind of job that should be done to promote' Maybe more inspectors cani, by failroad safety? themselves, make the nation's as safe as they should be. But For the past 15 years the number of roads could 'railroad accidents in this country has more inspectors and inspections create sufficient clamor to focus been steadily rising. national attention on the problemS of In response to that challenge, deteriorating railroad systems. Congress has authorized the FRA to the clamor Which wills it be spend $117.4 million for fiscal 1971 created by a more vigorous job of through 1975 and told the agency to safety inspections, or the clamor vire 350 inspectors. resulting from some really serious $65 the railroad wrecks? Instead, agency spent only el st , - , zv, i '..,, f; ,1 1. A.. I. : ::,06. 7 ,,,,::: ,,, sto f :.';',: .:., ;''!am happy to report, with only a few exceptions, that sas ;: ' most Englishmen have gotten over the American iv. Revolutionary War In a few of the private gentlemen's ,ea ,, ,,,, clubs in London you may still hear someone shout ''We've ; tilt: .. ' got to send more military aid to the Tories in the s . VSO .,,,: Colonies!" tsss But now these men are, thankfully, in the minority; and most of the British people are willing to write off the ::, Revolution as a bad show that George III got them into by ; tf,se duplicity and overconfidence.' t at White's Club told me, "We Still, one hard-line- r se ,,;.. should have never gone in there with the Hessians unless -' LIF'. We expected to win. Our problem was we didn't use .!;'.i:' everything in our arsenal agaihst the revolutionaries. , The only thing those shiltyseyed Colonialists understand ,, ": ' is force. , Ill ; , ' "Do you blame George III for getting you into the war Iss: i :. ,','PL vou couldn't win? , , "I blame the War Office. They never understood the It,. terrain, and they didn't think the insurrectionists would e kt: ': fight. After all. they reasoned, how could a rabble of lts: l : uncivilized frontiersmen face up to the superior quality of . tr.: '':' arms and training of His Majesty's troops? But we still ' ;',1',,, ''''' 4. not could have won if Parliament had bed George III's ' .i: ' ' hands when it came to voting more aid." . ,, - There is also stiU a ; a. great deal of criticism in some tr if circles of the military.. At Boodle's Club a retired major told me, "If Gen. Wolfe had not been killed at Quebec in ;ft: g 1759 we would have never lost. He was the only military leader we had. In London Lord North received so many ' it: optimistic reports from the likes of Gen. Howe and Sir '.47.: fleriry Clinton that we all thought His Majesty's boys would be home by Christmas. We were lulled into a false I Zs rense of security by Gen Cornwallis' extremely inflated body counts., Everyone over there insisted Washington ' itit was finished at Trenton, N.J." . , , Another' Hawk on the Colonies, Col, Blairne, Bet; -I said don't know whether te say this publicly or not , but te.44 V Adm. is we decision not lost the the reason Grave's e navy. to engage the French off the Chesapeake Bay was a ils disaster, I'm still vsaiting for an inqutry, but I doubt if it ;4. t - it will take place. Too many heads would roll." tfl," t'"6 Although the war is still being fought at White's arid - 1 Boodles, the, man in the street rarely thinks about the !e: American Revolution any more The consensus among s',:. most Britishers is that its over and done with and ' :ss: England may be a better place for having given the Colonialists their independence'. "I was for us being there at the beginning,", an old ' et e mad in Hyde Park told me. But then they invented television, and when I saw with my own eyes the frightful 1: t atrocities being committed by British troops I changed li,V le: my mind." An was he American banker said the English glad , war was over because it had been such a drain on the ' t - .': ' , ' sd;y TTT invitation aside halt-heart- , ' - That still leaves the question of why the President would not eagerly greet a legitimate international hero. Background statements of high officials that Solzhenitsyn is a Slavic mystic ' .4(- '.'.... ', ':, .. - . ' explain , nothing. Nor does the theory that Kissinger really feared Russia's most prominent anti- Communist turning up in the Oval office Would wreck detente. Although administrabelieve Kistion hard-liner- s singer thinks detente is much too fragile, the Secretary of State knows better, than any- body else that the Kremlin's grand strategy cannot be aborted by Washington atmospherics Pather, the snub may be explained by the major, still private criticism of Kissinger within the administration: he has become too accustomed to close collaboration with Chairman Leonid Brezhnev and lesser Soviet leaders. To socialize with the Soviet regime's blood enemy would be diseourteous to friendly adversaries. The Solzhenitsyn affair hurts Mr. Ford on the Republican right just when he most wants conservative backing against Reagan, but the mat-ter probably will goon be forgotten. .! ' by saying he ,,,lid not come to America to talk to govern- ment officials. !it - , - : Gerald R. Ford: lack of informed political consultation, gross insensitivity; equivocal explanations, just plain bad manners. The affair seems so out of character for Mr. Ford that it points to pervasive foreign policy influence over the President by Dr. Henry Kissinger, wearing dual hats as Secretary of State and national security adviser. Kissinger's use of that influence to reinforce his often dogmatic concept of detente has now led Mr. Ford into trouble on far larger issues. Kissinger exerted his influence in a persona '. memorandum to the President last month stating it would be politically inadvisable for him to attend the AFL-CIbanquet honoring SolLhenitsyn here June 30. The memo added, however, it would be acceptable for Mr. Ford to ,e, 4 4, : ' Nobel laureate Solzhenits yn The matter was not brought Saturday which was predictof - Solzhenitsyn reflected , up at a National Security ably ignored. On NBC's "Meet the Press" . qualities raore typical of Council meeting. Sen. Jesse Helms, the Solzhenitsyn brushed the Richard M. Nixon than ' O''',o frO, is $ , stiggesting ., - '171 i,?!....; ''!':', '., 7, concludes a dreary sequence of events problems amid today's rosy euphoria at the White House, The President's treatment I IA tt':-'- ,. ,.,,, ,.; . , '''' '' g I :1' $:: ,t, ' ...,., :: ..-- , i, ., .. . , A W. .' ,.," :,,:i,-,,?,z- ::. : 1. c 1, '',: I - II t:',4i ?- '' 'A - - would irofl LONDON -- It seems only fitting that at the beginning of the celebration of our Bicentennial we visit the mother country to whom all of us owe so much. ' ,,,,,ty,: , ,...;.-,,:?- .4,,i'et66414:,''.,'!:.-''.-;!.- ,,, - t , ...:-,,- .:,.-,-- ,.., -A E I ,,..i,, 1 ilk - l, ei 4..;,i:,. - ?.,., ,,,, 1. : ,..' 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Moreover, as long as Russia maintains naval operating facilities in Cuba, the U.S. has an interest in keeping pressure on Havana and trying to force the Soviets to withdra W. the Organization of American States meets in Costa Rica this week, it's no secret that the U.S. is increasingly leaning in the direction of lifting that organization's sanctions against As ': ' .7 : , for U.S. property confiscated when Fidel Castro took over in Havana. It would be folly to buy the claim Should Cuba's 11 years of economic and diplomatic isolation in the 'western hemisphere be ended? ..,, ' with deserved contempt by the Russian Nobel laureate, I , ;t:: ,71' v , I ::,114,-- tt,' A I it41, ';'.:AVG,IP.'7, , : t ' , ? ' ,t.V:1,':2',3.'',,, ' ',,s , .00,0, ;.- - '1,' A k, ,,,,,,,, ., ' ,.,,,'i,,,,t,,, ' .'; ; . , I wor4, , ', k, ':''.ks. - AO' ,.-' 7 ' ,,1'. N.',':::i.,':,Tii',14 . , . 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Those 142 strikes were more than had ' ".':; ..., 1 ic to employees have grown larger, they have become more I' ''..?, .,.. , , As unions of public '':', ,1:'t,,,,' .':. tiAg, , ' 1 , ( ' 4.,"! - ?Li...b!i.i..-0..r.iip.ioyee-tii,k- g,-,-', - - We stcrd for the Coilsrfrtion , , of the United Staies ,ith its three departments of : 9bleminent, 'each fully independent in its own field 1 -- '' ,,,T.t ,,,, -- ,, ' ,, W4Nr';:14:4:77:14:' C. 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Heaven knows how long it would have taken the Colonies to get their economy in order and bring their standard of living up to ous. Besides, you could never trust an American to remain a loyal subject of the crown." t "We never really needed the Coloniea," he said. - 4 Vihy do you say that," I asked him. -Just look at what your people did to Nixon." "I 4 4 :st: let: :11C: t47"1 TA, , , 7; :::potpoto::''4::,...t.R.o'sioii.: tioè:ip.Hsol4lio... Score one for Earl Butz circles it has become fashionable to look upon Secretary Of Agriculture Earl Butz as chronically incpt and Ciinscquently, there's an unfortunate tendency to dismiss the secretary out of hand even when he makes a telling Point. We raise this matter because Mr. Butz made a most pertinent observa- tion recently, that deserves to be -- circulated as widely as possible. Ills point is this : To believe that government can solve all social injustices, all economic ills, or all moral weaknes.es of individuals is dead wrong. r, "To so believe is to potir individual freedoms and personal liberties right down the rathole of totalitarianism, faceism, and toinkunim In some wrong-heade- -- -- , There are charges that fiscal care only about conservatives economics and balance sheets. Nothing could be further from the truth. ':It is the liberal who has so little faith in the , common man that he Nyvnts to tell him how to make and spend his individual income. It's the liberal who believes our country needs more government, more rules, more bureaucrats, more forms to fill out, and more taxes -Let the liberals sell their social themes, their spending orgies. Meantime, let us go down the road that makes more jobs." ? Quite the Inept and for one Score Secretary, contrary. Rutz, And while you're at it, score one for the cause of more accuracy and - ' - rrwl) II, ill, A B3 George I. n ill The WASHINGTON great tknnelia missile controversy, still green in memmy, provided the grandest the political entertainment death throes of a theory slain by facts. opSome congressmen. posed to a U.S. naval facility in the Indian Ocean, latched on to the theory that the ocean is 'a "zone el peace" that watild remain free from great power contamination if the U.S. wmid show restraint. sTbis theory was wrong-headed- honesty in government.b minted by, among others, Indira Gundhi and applauded , by the Soviet Union. Faith in Soviet restraint and truthfulness is the rock. such ac, it is; on which the theory of detente rests. So true believers in detente believed what the Soviet government said about abhorring the very thought of military bases around the &WM. Thus the true believers were understandably nonplussed when Delouse Secretary James Sk.hlesinger provided reconnaissance photographs of large Soviet glitSAC and other facilities in Somalia. There the Red Sea meets the Indian Ocean, on which more than half the woVd:s seaborne oil is in e -- transit at any given time. In what it smilingly calls its news as distinct from opinion columns, the New York 'Ernes counter-attackeThe Times dismissed the photographs as "very grainy," noting that "Mr. Schlesinger said the dots and other things showed the presence of irdsAlles. What looked like "dots" to the Times looked to Schlesinger like, among other things, an airstrip cable of handling the largest Soviet bombers, barracks fActlities for 1,500 Soviet personnel, and the building the Soviet military uses for mis4 site hIndling. The Soviet Union denounced Schlesinger as a odd-shap- ed "liar," Somalia's fercign minister denounced Schlesinger for disseminating propaganda fabricated by international Zionism. The minister of mines and water weighed in with the thought that Schlesinger was guilty "the quintessence of political Zilackmail and dishonesty." Faced with the choice of believing U.S. photographs or the words of Soviet and Somali politicians, Seri. John Culvee suggested agnosticism pending an on site inspection by congressmen. Culver and kindred spirits thereby affirmed the principle that they do not trot, and hence the Soviet Union caa disparage, the aerial reconnaissance riedogy that is our ouly means of a) .. .. 4. .. - of verifying Soviet coatpliance with arms agree- - :44: ments. Rep. Samuel Stratton (D, 44, N.Y.) says the congressmen, were given a hasty and restricted tour, but one sullim:.: dent to establish that, when completed, the Soviet bastreprsent the most corn- prehenalvc naval supiAirt..-:---facility available to the k Soviets anywhere outside the Soviet homeland, including ,:, Cuba." Sen. Dewey Bartlett !:-.) and his aides saw I.40 more, including a missile e, L . r , t rz , crate, missile bunkers;,:, cranes and dollies for bar,01.3.!';:,A ing missiles, sephisticafed communications gear, and other military equirment that "absolutely confirms" Schlesinger, , .- k.t: ,, ' , t"4 , ' - , ' rt7,1; .r . ;:.,.... , |