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Show w mssBsmatei&m t, T- Wc s and for the constitution of the United States with government fuiiy its - - , sasg three departments of independent in its own fieid i. x .. .. wa .vy .i&t rsi? a 'r.t, .Adfc. sv New budget machinery can't replace A $70 billion deficit in the federal budget drains nearly $12 million each year from the state of Utah. That report today from the Utah Foundation should alert Utahns to the need for Congress to tighten the new machinery by which the lawmakers are finally getting around to shaping the budget in light of total spending instead of just making piecemeal appropriations. When federal deficits exert such a great drain on the states economy, it should a ho prod Utahn to insist that tb" lawmakers exercise some to stanch the flow of red ink if this new budgetary machinery wont do the job. One way to tighten the new machinery is to require that federal agencies periodically justify thc-i- entire appropriation request. As it is now, the agencies usually have to justify only the increases they seek above the level of the previous year. This practice tends to perpetuate programs that have outlived their usefulness or whose costs exceed their benefits. Treatmg each appropriation request as if it were a new program could result in substantial savings meaning less of a deficit and, consequently, less of a drain on Utahs economy as well as those of other states. But even when all possible improve rc r County is will-pow- er f.N- ments are made in the way Congress handles appropriations, the budget can still stimulate inflation by running big deficits as long as the lawmakers want it that way. Thats why theres no substiif federal tute for simple spending is to be controlled and fiscal stability maintained. will-pow- er ISM?' This goes for the White House, too. True, the President has had his hands tied by a law which limits his ability to impound funds when Congress goes on a spending spree. One effect of this law is to encourage agencies in the executive branch of government to bypass the Oval Office and deal directly with appropriations committees in Congress. The upshot is an unhealthy imbalance in Cne system of checks and balances between the executive and legislative balances. To correct it, the President ought to be given a freer hand when it comes to impounding approp tatiens. But even if this were done, ther js still no substitute for the desire to keep federal spending IN THE MIND'S EYE past 15 a years the federal budget has been in the black only once. If the budget isnt balanced more often in the next 15 years, new fiscal machinery will be little more than a cosmetic Salt Lake City should not pay a $2,000 The officers were accused of beating up Lynell Parmer, a black transient, in April, 1974. The jury ruled that the police should pay $8,000 for medical bills and other actual damages suffered. And it ruled that each of the two officers should also pay $1 000 in punitive damages. Insurance will pay the $8, IKK). Wed city commissioners are scheduled to decide whether or not the city will pay the punitive damages for nesday, the officers. Public Safety Commissioner Glenn Greener notes there are conflicting stones as to what happened during the incident. And even if the officers were at circumsfault, there are mitigating tances He believes both fairness and good the city should police morale dictate pay. 450-mi- !e race. garbage problems recently. The county lost rights to one dump partly because, despite repeated promises, it failed to keep the dump clean. Another county dump was ordered closed by the State Health Department for fear of water pollution. The county refused to obey the order and is still using the site, supposedly under special precautions that minimize the danger cf pollution. County Commissioner Pete Kutulas, who is in charge of the countys garbage disposal, says the ultimate solution may be a recycling plant. lie may be right. But a recycling plant is years in the future, if one is ever built. In the meantime, better planning and management of landfills by county government is needed to clean up past messes and avoid future garbage multi-million-doll- ar wrote Archibald Mac-- I is the American season. In jxh, turn yellow or brown, leaves the Europe and fall. Here they take fire on the trees and hang there flaming. We think this Irost-fir- e is a portent somehow: a the continent has given that promise us. The autumnal equinox Tuesday marks the official beginning of the fall season. But cooler days and chilly nights already have made their advent. And the Harvest Moon already is hung in the a boon to the' early night sky farmhand. October brings the Hunters Moon, and November the Beaver Moon, when Indians and frontiersmen knew that by then the beavers had made themselves secure against winter. And ahead lie the Cold Full Moon of December and the late-worki- Wolf Moon of January. By Rowland Kvans and Robert Novak - WASHINGTON Rising shock lu Congress uvef what U.S. looks like an open-ta- p commitment to Israels future military, economic and energy demands is leading to a strange alliance of dovish Senators and hard-nose- d pentagon brass deeply troubled fine about the print m Secretary of State Henry Kissingers Sinai now-reveal- In the Senate, liberal Democrats are taking a lead in the same direction. Horrendous blunder, Wisconsin Sen. Gaylord Nelson told us. Nelson, whose mail is against the lunnmg agreement (a ratio widespread on Capitol Hill), is now considering an amendment to the Israeli aid bill to compel separate congressional consideration of the Pershing a weapon specifmissile ically made for nuclear warheads (although the once-secr- et American-Israel- i ag- reement specifies only nonnuclear explosives for agreement. In the Defense Department, high officials without called for a relatively minor Israeli pullback from the Sinai passes and the Abu Rudeis oil fields Accordingly, Kissinger can correctly claim that the U S. has not yet committed itself to the Pershing missile or to most of the other fme-prideals. More important from the vantage pomt of President Ford and Kissinger is their argument that even without the new Sinai agreement the bloc in powerful Congress would have voted huge aid sums for Israel. The May 22 letter to Mr. Ford signed by 76 Senators made that explicitly clear by demanding that the President be responsive to Israels urgent military and economic needs. However persuasive in the White House, such rationalization is not selling well on Capitol Hill where voter discontent over recession and unemployment is subtly modifying traditional sentiment. One . Senator who signed that May 22 letter now says he is very sorry he did nt pro-Isra- el Israel). Another liberal Democrat who is a long-tim- e ally of exception, both civilian and Israel's interests found himmilitary, were agnast when self slightly embarrassed that fine print showed the that the U.S. may now be U.S. pledgmg Israel a symlocked in despite the ampathetic study of high techbiguity of Kissinger's fme nology and sophisticated to giving Israel a so. print Hems, including the Pershing nuclear-capabl- e ground misground-to-groun- d missiles sile. The Pershing, he told us. What this piesages is a . . with the view of giving a is going to cause us all a wide-opepotentially grave positive response. Lttle trouble. congressional debate on the Not a single Pentagon offiDefenders of Kissinger the cial knew m advance that point to the ambiguity as Sinai agreement in which will be administration Ford Kissinger was tossing such been carefully compelled to clarify at least lethal bargaming counters on having stitched in to one implied some of the ambiguities Kisthe Sinai negotiating table. commitment after another. singer has found so useful m Indeed, Secretary of Defense claim that imprecision this and past diplomatic James Schlesmger makes no They was needed to give triumphs. secret m private White House Israeli leaders, parWith Kissinger holding out talks dealing with the ticularly Prime Minister Yitto conIsrael the prospect of the l weapons-for-Israezhak Rabin and Defense troversy that ne is upset. Minister Shimon Peres, polit- Pershing missile in return for defense As one high-levical ammunition to sell the Israeli withdiawal from de-a us: told strategist even though it few kilometers of Smai agreement sen, Congress will insist on knowing what turther payoffs Israel will seek for the incomparably more difficult negotiations involving the Synan Golan Heights, the West Bank of the Jordan and above all, Jerusalem. Giving aid and comfort to this congressional demand is By Ashleigh the Pentagon, which has Bnlliant grown increasingly restive over military deals emerging from Kissingers secret diplomacy. Detense officials are NO. LIFE 1SN T WAT I WANTED by no means trying to kill the overall deal, but they msist hAVEN T YOU GOT AttVTJlINO ELSE? on having a veto over how its military parts arc actually pro-Isra- el n, Its true there is conflicting testimony as to what occurred at the incident. But two separate juries have found for Parmer and against the police. First, a city jury found Parmer innocent of resisting arrest. Then, after listening to eight eyewitnesses, a federal jury unanimously found the police liable and set the damages. As Commissioner Greener says, there are some mitigating circumstances. But the 12 federal jurors found hard-presse- the officers liable for malicious conduct, The officers didnt just make an honest mistake, the jury decided. They purposely beat Parmer up. The jury assessed the $2,000 as punishment. If the taxpayers paid the $2,uu0, it wouldnt be much of a punishment. It would, in effect, be a signal to police officers that the public condones police brutality and is willing to pay any costs. That signal must not be given. Police have a hard job. They deserve citizens support. But police should be subject to the law like everyone else. And that includes paying the penalties imposed by a court. POT HOT earned But of all these, the Harvest Moon is Lest. And the warmth of autumn must be husbanded against the chillness and cold of winter ahead. Afterthoughts . . d el Shine on, harvest moon "Autumn, of understanding. We simply cannot justify the Pershing missile for the Israelis. It would be dangerously destabilizing with its range and would introduce an overall escalation of the Middle East arms improvement. Let police pay for brutality judgment of punitive damages assessed against two policemen recently by a federal jury. is the beginning Did U. S. promise too much to Israel? down in the dumps Salt Lake County is having trouble with its garbage again. A partially abandoned county dump at 6200 S 40th West is emitting nauseating smoke, acrid odors, and hordes of cockroaches. These are invading nearby homes, to the nste nation of residents. Use of a landfill dump requires that the garbage be compacted and covered deeply wuth dirt. This wasnt properly done when the county used the dump years ago for wet garbage. Since then, the county has used the site oniy for dry trash. Two subdivisions were built in the area since the county stopped using the dump for wet garbage. Buyers in the tracts are now' experiencing the results of the countys carelessness. Commissioners recently approved a third subdivision m the area, which could well compound the problem. There' has been a rash of county that there arc many things we don't understand Photo and text by David Bly ! or the Deaeret News under better iwitrol. In the The realization . One of the tragic and problematic conditions of man is that it usually takes a negative to create a positive the presert day unity of the Arab peoples is based almost wholly on common enmity to Israel, and would quickly fail apart without that fierce adhesive. When you consider that there is only one right way to do most things, and a hundred wrong ways, what is surprising is not that the world is so fouled up, but that we have hobbled along as far as we have. Sydney Harris out. ART BUCHUJALD Soldiering in the NFL WASHINGTON My concern is not with the issues of the recent NFL football strike but the ramifications once it is settled. Football, as everyone knows, g is a game; and when two Goliath teams, face each other on grass or Astroturf, theyre out to kill Tthat's what keeps all of us glued to our television sets and forces us to pay $3 to $13 to go to hard-hittin- the stadium. But now because of ail the sympathy strikes the attitude of players may change. This is what could happen if play resumes in the NFL. Let us, tor arguments sake, say that the New England Patriots are playing the Washington Redskins. The Patriots kick off, and the run ping back of the Redskuis line. He starts catches the ball on his five-yar- d running up the field when he is hit by f ur members of the auiClde Squad. The back picks himself up aad says bitterly, Thats no way to treat a brother. oru. of the "What are you talking about? tackiers says. Look, man. when you guys ivere locked up, we voted to go out in sympathy. Is this the kmd ot gratitude you show by knocking me down to the ground? Gee, were sorry. We forgot, one of the suicide squad men says. Youre not sore, are you? Nobody likes to be tackled," the Redskin says After all, were all m the same union. The referee urges the men to line up and start playing. The Patriot defensive line faces the Redskin offensive luie. A Patriot tackle says, On behalf of the team Id like to take this opportunity to thank all of you Redskins for what you did for us when ve walked out. Its this Sand of support that shows how united we are against the unfair labor practices of management. And I speak for all the Patriots when 1 say if there is anything we can do to reciprocate just ask us. The Redskin center says, "Will you let Billy Kilmer complete a pass to Charley Taylor? It would really help the morale of our team at this time. "Sure, the Patriot tackle replies. Its the least we can do for you When the Patriots get possession of tne ball, they tell the Redskuis theyre gomg to send their running back through right guard on a keeper play. "We'd like to score early, the Patriot tight end tells the Redskin linebacker "just to show the owners that m spite of the strike we havent lost our zip. "It makes sense, the Redskin linebacker says But tell your running back not to cut too hard after he plows through the line as the grass there is very slipper v Thanks a million. Well be careful. Is it okay if throw a block at you on this play? Sure, the Redskin linebacker says, "but be careful of my knee. If I get injured they may put me on waivers and then you know what management will do to me under the kozeiie nil? Ill be careful, the tight end assures him. Well, the fna! score is 237 to 234 un spite of no on the Patriot place kicker, he failed to get the ball through the goal posts), and both teams march off the field arm m arm. Brothers, we're sorry we beat you," Kilmer tells the Patriots m tneir locker room, Heck. Randy Vataha says the Patriots Were sorry we didn't give you a better game 1 ru-d- i What happened to Vietnam war? Look through the current editions of news magazines and see if you can fmd any mention of recent hapnenings m Vietnam, Laos, or Cambodia. Try your daily newspapers. Once in a while there will be a report from some person newly arrh ed m other places from Saigon or Phnom Penh with a bit of scrappy infor- - mation about living conditions in that city. But by and large Americas lonKfcat wat has become its most quickly forgotten war. Try a test on yourself, how long ago was it when Nguyen Van Thicu resigned the presidency of South Vietnam? Was :t a year ago? Does it almost seem like something that happened live years ago? , of this Actually he resigned on April 21 very year of 1975 Ihe collapse of his regime, of a his army, and of 10 years of a massive American investment of blood and.treasure m Southeast Asia was the top news stcry of the era at the time. Today it is almost as though that war had never occurred Americans have somehow blocked it out of their consciousness. They dont talk about it They dont talk about the consequences. What are the consequences? How long is it since, you, the reader, have given the matter any thought? Have you wondered what happened to the domino theory Indeed, was mere ever any merit in that theory? We do know a little about what has been happening m that part of the world since the last in American soldiers and diplomats left m a helicopter from the haste roof of the American Embassy in Saigon. What we do know can be summed up as follows There has been no confirmed bloodbath in Vietnam. There was a brutaly forced imgraton of much of the population fio the cities cf Cambodia. Laos fell to the Communists but continues to observe the outward and superficial appearances of being a coalition of pro and anticommunists under the traditional monarchy. No dominos have yet fallen outside of Indochina. The effect of the collapse of the American effort m Indochina on the rest of the world ran be summarized as follows. American energy and interest have been released for other areas, mey are newly focused on the Middle East where American diplomacy is being moderately successful. Chinese energy and interest have been released and allowed to concentrate against Soviet expansionism in any part of Asia. Chinese-Sovirivalry has grown more active and avowed. Does the above indicate that the 10 years of mencan effort In Indochina were founded on a fallacy? et 1 ) |
