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Show k coimaDasza DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTMI 5 mONDAY, AUGUST 2 5, 195 ! . - ) ,- A , We stand for the Constitution of the United Stutes with its thre-,- z c4pvirrentS governfrrit, eo,h irxiepende in its own held 1, shouldn't give up Panama Canal During most of this century, Cie Panama Canal has been considered so vital an asset that giving it away was unthinkable The custom of the 1970s, apparently, is to think the unthinkable. So the State Department is pushing for a renegotiated treaty with Panama which UIViSiOnS an eventual Panamanian takeover of all rights to the canal. But when? That is one of three main problems that currently is deadlocking the negotiations. Panama wants the canal within 25 years, which would mean the year 2000 if the treaty were approved today. The U.S. is holdiaz out for 50 years, but the State Department seems more willing to compromise than does the Department of Defense, which is going along but tin ly t; reluctantiv. Panama also is unhappy about its share of the canal's revenues, even though the U.S. pays all operating expenses. Its share is now $2.3 million a year. In fiscal UK says the Wall Street ;journal, total revenues came to $2t6.1 The Central American government also wants to reduce the size and location of land and water areas the U.S. now uses for the canal's operation and defense perng the takeover. The maintains 13 military installations in the Canal Zone, which Panama would like to see substantialU.S. now ly reduced. Reallocating canal revenues may be the easiest compromise of these points. But there is every indication Remember the flap over Congres- sional funding of such scientific inquiries as the smell of Australian aborigines or the sex life af the female screw worm fly? People "back home" have been yelling to their Congressmen as a result of that publicity. And Congressmen have been listening. The result is that an even sillier proposal is being made this year in close supervision of Congress National Science Foundation research awards. The lawmakers already have rejected one such proposal. But the idea of letting a political body hold a scientific body accountable for its research grants and projects is still alive and kicking. Such a course would be unwise for several reasons. First it would add more burdens to Congress at a time when its attention should be on more weighty matters, like the energy problem. More important, Congress lacks the expertise to make intelligent judgments on what is a valid research project and what isn't, Congress would have to go to the scientific community to ask its opinion, when 'oat opinion has already, been tendered in seeking the research money. In addition, such a move would subject science projects even more to the whims of politics. There's too much of that already. And last, the aims of science are too easily misunderstood by both Congress and the lay public. One reason the whole flap came up in the first place was because one Congress- ' - Zsi,,l'.:.N.,,.::, :.. ;,. ",; Cole' .,;,..i.:.-,,,-;,,, .4.4,z4y...,,,,, 4 , ...:.!04. 4--7 ,a,:, ''' .. !tre..4;:ii.:':...' : Ne,lv2. ..,.;-,,:or----- .' ' ::....;,,.:::'':',,,' 7:74t-- i. 71.....1- - ... . ,,''k , How not to run a city - , J' ' - ' Mayor Joseph Allot has done San Francisco no great service by caving in to police and firemen's demands for higher pay totaling $9.8 million a year. 1, -- - ''' viol-coc- liberal" mitt.2. Y.,:zt - , - - - , hrxts gra rot Ito ritkitel. ?alto! toe !4f i9 4'hiack Vkiitrol'' ".itgpi,opn ' rt .. ... , ''... luCgst-44Aerzi4., t alle OW A. 14est'S I ".. , A "4,-- tetaoot pole...?" ,kf.! MAL t( ,"' gAllile :11k t tot ''' iii"......... I (4) AIM ' ', ...9) rle4), Op 11111 itil alb,. lik, e ' )k 9041,Plkoloi , I ap (.3 i Francisco experience. one-tim- -- er Reagan has advantages - McGovern in percent of those arrested for violent crime and Puerto Ricans 15 percent. With these propositions in mind, one can go on to the principal impact of black violence on American society: opposition to integration in schools and housing is to a substantial effect the result of fear of violeuce and not racism. Or, to put the matter differently, racism and fear of violence are ntixed inextricably in America's racial problems. You will not be able to eliminate tbe est effects of racism until you contain the problem of violence. And we do not seem to be doing very well. One out of four American families have been the victiv ni. of crime in the last percent are year. r4rty-frv- e afrc.id to go out at ni;At (as 'Waged to 31 percent seven years ago). Fiftv-si- x percent of those in the big city are afraid of the streets of their neighbothiod are 57 percent of the at ntght er of Americans in large cities are fearful at home At tight se are d of the Viokrdzo 1 b t3CCOriing to the Gallup poll most data rem voted) as the er61tt s!tes wane I's that nu oat yet has any clear idea bow to deal with it. There are a lot of bright answersmore police, eliminavictimless tion of the crimes, massive outlays of funds on inner city "programs," puts reformbut there is no reason to think that any of these measures would help much. 63 1972 won nominations. Regarding primaries, Mr. Ford can hardly afford to lose any, and Reagan can select the ones be wants to make crucial. gmeut of - , the urban of it black but some of it whiteis too dangerous to the rest of uswhite and black aliketo be permitted to go about freely on the streets of our cities. It is at least worth asdn' g whether t'aose who see a ccmnection between urban violence and a welfare policy which drives husbands and fathers away. from their homes might have a pepuiationmuch point ' Urban terror has to go to the very head of the list of national domestic problems. Paradox!. cally, those very 'liberals' who are so loathe to admit that it is a problem era lestPt is terti:ied as anyone elm But they can't talk about honestly. Fur In the tined WildiWas "liberallant," than Is evv. theit termr. ART BUCHWALD i House for rending I ! 1 (Mr. Buchwald has taken a short respite without one i permission. He left behind what he claims is one of hiA ; favorite columns.) i i ' t WASIIINGTON- -A friend of mine rented his houee on t the Long Island shore for the summer while lie wiliq traveling abroad with his family. Then he remembered he had forgotten to tell the man to whon i26 had rented the house that someone was corohig to fix the oil burners; which was in a locked room in the cellar. So he decided to; call his house and tell the man where the workers could f find the key. He said the conversation went something like this. , . "Hello, this is Mr. Mellon," my friend said. "I juat ? 1 wanted to . . ." who of man wife Mr. rented : the Mellon," the ''0 hello, '' the house said. "My husband isn't home how." "That's all right,", Mr. Mellon said "Hew is a' vote-gettin- h Only twice in recent years have incumbent Presidents lost primaries, and neither time was the hicumbent renominated. In - everything?- "Just fine, Mr. Mellon. We're really enjoying the will you stop pulling on those curtains. I'm t dan hefting on the phone. The children love it what are you doing with those scissors . . . Excuse me, Mr. Mellon, it's raining out and the children have to stay t '. indoors. What did you call about, Mr. Mellon?" "I called to tell you some men are going to come to Luc, the oil heater and I wanted you to Imow it was all right to; let them in and to tell you where the key was for the, - 1 cellar." r 1 .. , Wanda, get down off, "Why certainly, Mr. Mellon that coffee table this instant. I don't care what Peter did; this morning, you're not supposed to climb on Mee: Mellon's coffee table . . . Peter, take Wanda into tint kitchen while rm talking on the phone , a, . No, don't use', the scissors, just take her by the hand . . . I'm still here, Mr., Mellon." , Mr. Mellon was eerspiring. 1,niv what did you say, Mr. -1- Mellon" tor the burner "Tee key ... " oil, ! i , , !,, i r "Can you hold on one minute, Mr. Mellon? . .. Ethet i . i get away from the lamp. How many do vou have to venni before you team your lesson? I , ', "You were saying something about the key for the oit 1 hurler?" i "It's in the laundry closet htutging on a naiL" i "Oh, that's what the key was for. Peter found it the t ' first day and we had no idea what it was for. Peter! Peteri t what did you do with that key . . . yea lmow the one yet t had the first day . . ." i i There was a crash and lien silence . i 4 - - 1 i I Mr. Mellon doesn't seem to be enjoying Europe at , much as Mrs. Mellon thought be would and he hasn't thtl ., ' heart to tell her why. ' , t DOUG SnEYD IS 10,11.14Gt 41149 PAW atort ; , 4 4. l' t Z:VE all an accidenPresidee, tal Prealdmt,- can lose prisaaems without loeind his maks' amt. his aura e:ommand rlid-Marnext sear Mr. Ford's earl By could be s tleisg of. shreds and patches, azdl,s:ast of - a 8 ,iA ch ae 4 I here-Wan- In 1906 Lyndon Johnson lost in Wisccesin to Eugene McCarthy. Johnson had announced his withdrawal from the race two days before the primary, moved by the narTVWleSS of hie victory in New Harripsidre, and the tertainty st idlest in Wisconsin. Meanwhile, thvl.ka to llastsv,, clop etiould nett be habla.pd by tla3 I house-Pe- ter, lost in New Harry Hampshire to Tennessee Sen. Estes in Kelauver, part because many people suspected that Trtunan aiready had decided not to seek and liefauver accused Truman of being a stalking horse for the Democratic establiatement. No , 1 Truman 1952 - I, 1 Because he is the most accidental President, never having faced a national consfiMoney, Mr. Ford cannot duck primaries. He g has never had to show ability outside Michigan's Fifth District (1970 population 467,543). Reageen hits won two impressive victories in Calliervia, where approxiof all mately 20 million people --live. Americans one-tent- The simple truth is that for whatever reason a small se- One-quart- non-white- s. ii - ;;; : , 1, ,....,,..', f, .,. Alf The same disservice he has done his own city is reflected in every other big city, because policemen elsewhere will take their cue from the San 0.0':$'10...-:$-10.todo..t.100.- one-thir- ' A , politician deserves, They are true believers with iron in their souls and time on their hands, who show up at precinct caucuses, ''here Barry Goldwater in 1964 and George non-white- s. Ilii, ,Aktw.tiA' .. rk - 4. In substantial part, pa& injutitices have caused a eituaon in which high violence levels perlist in black neighborhoods lo or than they persisted in the neighbaboods of other ethnic newcomers to the large citos, Pat these ISNESCOS are not the "fault" of AIDy0fte today and their evil effeet cannot be willed away either by gailt or moraliaua GE-- sirvie answers. - 5. 1,t1Ls,' ck vioience i3 pot ',Jet the ot poverty; 1st Mrs Yak math -City Patiti lierms tre 15 im3 k444ierls. mi. a! ritt 23; VAN'toxt: vmra :1,H:: AP 1........... - In the Victorian Age you couldn't talk about sex. Today you can't talk about black A magazine writer recently complained that the Chicago neighborhood of Hyde Park had made him a racist because be became afraid of black violence while living in the neighborhood.' The neighborhood apou-ent-ly was responaible for the violence. Even for a "liberal" such contorted thiettn is remarkable. Some , pmpositions must be made clear at the beginning of the discuon: 1. Blacks are more likely to be vicdms of black viohnce than whites. Whether their fear,, al violence et the hands of iriem- hers of, their OWE( race makes them rscists or not oat mwt leave to th4 tW1ice0 of.Ia ' 1 , day-to-da- The "liberal" explanation of violence its the rnsult of economic .azd soda! oppression simply doesn't hold up. If poverty caused violence then all poor people would be violent and only a tiny fraction of the poor are violent. The "liberal" cant which turns criminals into political 'woes may add an extra moved or Justification to the poieutial criminal and hence be itself I Cause of violextes. , ; , - ''' 4 '...:'.iiiii. 'ii..:ii:',...,1.:.:. l':' V : 7: '..'yie."...;:fr ;:.'1:::..,.:;;.:'...f....:':.1.:'...:::1..:..... ( ' , ''' ; ' , 3. ,Ati ' '':N4cs. atf-fa- N, - .,, ed Creeley 3 ft . 4 , J 0 .., Va.. Rev. Arkdrew , s , , at-a-4-th By , .., ; :0,; . -- - I ;.. ) - ,, t; 1, .,..,- if . -- N -, r.- Jke.?''e7 180,000-memb- carried on by a tiny minority of the black populationin the same sense that when one speaks of Italian organized crime one understands that only a tiny fraction of Italians ate involved in the outfit. , : ' . Black viol . , , - evil-remember- ,,.. .:., I:444t-ta That's not just, our opinion, but the e view of Edward Kiernan, the New York City policeman who now sound ridiculous. association heads the Take that female screwvvorm fly, of police unionL He sees numerous for example. That project was vitally. police stikes in the future if Congress important to the livestock industry, fails to pass some type of collective but you wouldn't know it by its bargaining for public employes. WASHINGTON -- - Those who do not learn capsulized scientific description. from the past. like those who do, are doomed While its true policemen and Congress should set the policy and to repeat it. So Mr. Ford's friends should note firemen must have a decent living this: One theme of American y decisions priorities, butt the politics for a and administration Ghould be left to wage, how much is enough? San decade ha a been the underestimation of the National Science Fotuidation. Any Francisco already was paying a basic Ronald Reagan as a political force. Ten years ago California Democrats were greater restrictions could drastically $16,644 per year salary to the average delighted with the thought that California set back the cause of science and the policeman and fireman, plus an additional amount into the pension plan, Republirans might nominate "that actor" advancement of man's knowledge. for governor. But the delight, like the before increasing their pay by nearly , governorship, was Reagan's for eight years. now chief The $2,200, , city's police At the 1968 Republican convention,-.- . earns more than California's governor came nearer than is generally known 00,688 for the chief after the new Reagan seven or eight votes to taking the raise, against the governor's $49,100. Florida and Mississippi delegations (both were unanimous under unofficial auk rules) When Bountiful first installed its in 10 that's truly an emergency, it Aside from the economics of a away from Nixon. That probably would have "911" emergency system about five takes precious time that may cost exstaggering new increase in city produced an years ago, it was bothered by phony someone his life or extensive property penses, there is the bigger question of unraveling of calls, wrong numbers, and other damage from fire when minutes may police and firemen's loyalties. Are Nixon V1.411 B, , to make a difference. sufficient and law court exasperations. the to obey they first-1- : a block George F. Children decisions such as those banning and some adults, too 4.ZIrla But these have'gradually subsided ballot victory, Will over the years until now the system is must be made to understand the strikes by these public safety workers, and would have ik ' dangers in to the take will be or a such with permitted they tampering much more What it was meant to be- -produced a Not only that, such persons law into their own hands by obeying fluid and pasan telephone system. siceate situation favorable to a rhetorically number to call in case of fire, are liable for criminal prosecution. the tmion? 11 and Just two this gifted conservatve like Reagan. month, juveniles, Poksiining, sudden health failure, or Alloto's example will have many 14 years old, were arrested in the At the 1916 convention, about 23 percent of ether emergency. Granger-Kearn- s area for turning in national reverberations in the mouths the delegates nearly half of the 1,270 will be from southern to come after he first declared that - needed to nominate Many of those same problems are false alarms through the 911 system. states. Of course Reagan won't have them be backed would then strikers fired, plaguing Salt Lake County's new 911 With today's sophisticated teledown over the objections of his entire all, but then, Mr. Ford won't have all the emergency system, which went into phone equipment, it's no difficult from his home state of Michigan, Board of Supervisors and granted the delegates effect July 29. In its first three weeks matter to "lock in" on a which distributes delegates proportionally telephone of operation, the hotline has answered even among all candidates who receive at least 5 after the caller has hung up. That raises with amnesty for strikers. about 50,000 calls. Only 4,600 of those of the state primary vote. for those will San harder It also percent be should alone most knowledge frighten w ere bona fide emergencies. One of Reagart's assets is a profaundly pranksters enough to keep them off Francisco supervisors to do their jobs now that their authority has been tmconservative streak in his followers: they The dangers are obvious. If the 911 line and save it for the real invest in him far more ardor than any undercut. operators must ferret out the one call emergencies, 'hotline' i',, ei Panamanians. One of the main reasons for renegotiating the treaty at all is to reduce U.S Panamanian friction over the issue. And, in a larger sense, all Latin American nations are looking to the Panama Canal issue for signs of how far the U.S. is willing to go in fostering a new era of friendship. But the security of the U S. still must be a prime consideration, even overriding better relations with Latin America. Great powers, unfortunately, have to aecept a measure of unpopularity if they are to remain powerful. And lacking any foreseeable alternative to the Panama Canal, the U.S. would be foolish to give up a water link that's vital for reasons of both military security and commerce. man misrepresented the aims of several projects which were described only in capsule form that made them No useless calls on ;'7 ..0,..,,,,,:,.. .,..,,,,,, , .,:- Congress vs science I ,, ,,,,,. -- ' A -- 4 1, .,..,,,,,...,.:, that is not e ugh to satisfy with the tzgotiations , ,,,,,, , A ,,',.:.,;1- ;si -, 4 sn4Tloak it.; tnd k$ wit; bt,,,2!" V. . 8 |
