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Show i jrW y' .l lx in v? n 4 iNry H lyT A5 We stand for the Constitution of the United States with its three departments of government, each fully independent in its own field. Why S.L. officials should fake over CAP programs To say that the Community Action Program in Salt Lake City is under a cloud is an understatement. The ques tion now is What can be done to improv e such programs9 The Salt Lake City Commission wants to put the presently independent CAP under a joint city co :nty board w ith power to fire and hire the CAP director Theres considerable merit in that proposal, which, in addition to other conbenelits, would further solidation Founded with the most altruistic ol motives, CAP has tailed in many respects to live up to its high expectations Its purpose was to be an advocate for the poor in helping them to recognize their needs and rights, and to communicate those needs to existing organizations, social agencies, and local govern ments which could alienate the situation But as one former CAP worker charged, some Utah centers have accepted such appallingly bad work habits that een alter years ol experience with CAP many ol these woikers were unable to secure employ ment Salt Lake City Finance Commissioner Jennings Phillips criticizes the sloppy way in which CAP handles y city-count- al public funds, pointmg out there is little "Unless we can have accountability he adds. I dont want accountability, of it any part Another point ot contention is CAPs high administrative costs. Last year the including its city received $300,000 for own 20 percent matching grant CAP operations. The two CAP delegate agencies, Nc.mwest Community Council and Central City Community Council got $200,000 for CAP work. As far as 1 can see, says Mr Phillips, "the other $100,000 w'ent into salaries of its budget for administrative costs is outrageously high, whether its masked as salaries, overhead, or whatever And it violates fundamental principles oi sound administration for a community to have little or inadequate controls over how its ow n money is spent There is one drawback in the board idea It would reduce the elieetiveness of the organizations role as a gadlly if the CAP director served at the pleasure ol elected officials It is always more dilficult to tell she doss what hes doing w rong Despite this drawback, if more accountability cant be introduced into the CAP piogiam, the city may have to tonsidei disbanding it One-thir- city-count- d y When doctors strike "Southern California's doctor slowdown is disaster condition . . . nearing a Patients are suffering and are pawns in the malpractice istue." full-sta- ge Los Angeles County Health Director Liston Witherill How not to police elections Is the Federal Election commission to get the lunds and independence it needs to do a good job ol policing the 1976 ( umpuign9 and lesol Resolving that question ving it in lav or ol the commission ought to be among Congress top pi lonties as the lawmakers get back to wot k Monday The bill authorizing lunds to operate the election commission during the 18 months irom July 1, 19 3 to December 11, 1976 has never been put in tmal torm and passed Until that job is done, the commission must operate on inadequate interim funding The danger is that of possibly starving the commission out ol making sure the lair campaign laws are obey ed Then theies the matter oi whether Congress is to police its own campaign actn ties or let the election commission do that job more iairly and objectively In recent years many congressmen otlice accounts led hav e set up by contributions and used lor virtually any puipose "Many ot the uses, according to the citizens lobby Cc mmon gei Nor will the practically Defense Department cooperate in helping to locate such tax delinquents or even tell the states where they are That problem is not confined to Utah of course, and its gaining national recognition now as states seek to close loopholes and collect delinquent tax bills Nationally, its estimated that failure to collect state income taxes due on military pay is costing the states about $100 million a year. Theres a way of correcting the problem Withhold state income taxes at the source Then the states would have a record of which servicemen claim domicile Whether there was an overpayment or an underpayment of taxes, the serviceman would have to file a non-existe- senators term But the House ol is still balking Either chamber can veto a proposed regulation ii om the election commission Yet, w hen the commission was created it was supposed to be independent The current Congress is supposed to be a leform Congress dedicated to legislating greater accountability in government The lawmakers will have to do better by the Federal Election Commission it they are to live up to that billing return In a study done a year ago for the Utah Legislature, the State Tax Commission found 4,158 persons in the military claiming Utah residence But, says Tax Commission Chairman Vernon Holman, only about 1,000 file state tax returns and pay taxes Considering the lack of enforcement procedures, its remarkable that so many servicemen do live up to their obligations Utah can, of course, exempt servicemen from paying state taxes A bill introduced into the 1975 Slate Legislature would have exempted military persons in foreign countries from paying Utah income taxes That seems fair What isnt fair, however, is the inequity of the present system where only the honest pay and the dishonest get away with it Withholding of taxes by the Department of Defense would somi cure liiat problem A solution is long overdue Summer Olympics: $ 7 billion editorial from the Tulsa World What started as an undertaking of modest standards by companson with previous extravaganzas is now beginning to look like an uncontrollable monster as Montreal prepares to host the 1976 Summer Olympics According to "Newsweek magazine, the ongmal budget of $310 million has now ballooned to something over $1 billion and is still growing. Just who is going to pay for the fun and games is a lively subject of debate but in the end it will be the citizens ol Monti eal who will bear the major burden 0 to each other! Why? Why? s Last tall the election commission pioposed that expenditures trom such ottiee accounts be pre mined to be political cunng tne iast two years of a senatois six year term and the last year ot a i epi esentatives two year term These expenditures could men be charged against the limits imposed by the 197-- campaign law. The Senate vetoed this proposal but indicated it might go along with such a restnction on only the last year ol a Close military tax loophole Some Utahns in the military service are cheating the state out of an estimated $400,000 to $450,000 a year because they fail to file and pay state income taxes Not only that, the machinery for collecting taxes from servicemen is 'You're going t' take down our shingle and SPLIT . . .? Cause aie clearly political in nature and give incumbent otfice holders a head st ,u t over their election challen A question of broader proportion that should be asked is why an essentially simple idea must be a quadrennial showcase for the latest architectural innovations that inevitably cost more than original estimates The architectural fees alone foi next summers Olympics started at $4 million and now are up to $40 million Perhaps the best solution would be to have portable facilities that could be shipped Irom one city to another But first it will be Moscows turn in 1980 to show the world that it has some visionary architects too It couldn't happen to a more deserving city "Cryin aduceus! Who can afford those outa-sig- ht malpractice rates?" Secrecy and Secretary Kissinger at a time vv hen the Sov let Union is doing eveiy thing it can to sbittthe All ic an balance ot power in its tavoi Such, at least, were Secretary Kissingeis reasons tor the secret decision to go into Angola The disclosure that the United States was secretly involved in Angola even betore the Russians got there has set the stage lor some tough questions being put to Seuetary Kissinger by newsmen Most ot the questions are d.sceted to tht uic tea iug tenuen cy ot the Imted States to make secret commitments that actually violate the constitutional require ments ot I S ioreign policy In Angola, for example, it is now know n that the L nited States was secretly supplying one side in the Angohau civil wai betore the Russians got into the act Attei Sov let militarv aid began to arnve m substantial quantities Secietaiy Kissinger made a pub lie statement accusing the Bus Mans ot interfering with the rights ot Angolans to sell detei mimtion He called on them He said nothing at to withdraw the time about oui own involve ment Later, when the story came out that the I nited States had also been mtertering witn the right ol the Angolans determination to sell we weie made to look a little silly The reason lleniy Kissinger decided to supply sec let help to Angola was because a pul lie announcement that we intended to become involved would have touched oft all sorts ot negative repercussions The reaction of the Congress and the American people, especially in the light ot letnam w ould hav e been sev ei e ly cntical Next, the effect cn the Africans themselves would have huit the U $ cause throughout the conti went It was chuiged that the Portuguese were attemptuig to retain their hold on their tormer colony Tiue or not, this chnige w as reintorced w hen the I nion ot South Afnca, which is anathema to the world's black population because of its apartheid racial policies, sent its torces to help the anti Communist taction The mo ment South Africa got involved the Communists became heroes It Henry Kissinger had announced publicly at the veiy beginning that we were sending support alongside the I moil ot South Africa, our veiy purpose m Afnca would have been deteated I hat puipose is to letain I S influence on the African contimnt What is most surprising about this decision is that Kissinger thought he could keep it secret here is not that My aigumeut Henry Kissinger made a mistake in not helping Angola openly My aigument is that, it a policy cannot be openly pursued and defended, it ought not be attempt ed in the tirst place The notion that it is possible to conceal things trom the Congress and the Amencan people shows that Henry Kissinger, for all his knowledge of toreign affairs, does not really know his American history or its traditions. For him to suppose that he can initiate and carry out secret commitments without that tact becoming known is to tail to understand how the American system really woi ks In the end, then, the only American foreign policy that can succeed is one hat .eflects to the tullest the historic American com mitment to open and forthright dealings Israel's West Bank puzzle Sigismund Goren Noith Amencan Newspaper Alliance TEL A I Plato, the king of philosophers, used to talk about what he called 'embarassing possessions And that s what Israelis seem to have By today ot the West Bank, captured in the Six Day Wai, without returning to the 1907 benders (once described as Auschwitz bm del s' even by dovish Minister Abba ban is the dik mnia which this government faces As long as Ben Gut ton, a student of Plato, w as the boss he ticquciitly solved thorny problems m houis of snlitarv meditation, (caustically described by cntics as cabinet meetings! Then he would summon his ministers or the army chief and tell them what to do How to June June 17 get nd Develop the economy ot the areas, create a and get the local Arabs uivolved to keep them happy, allow business and human contacts with the East Bank via an ' open bridges policy, put final political plans in cold storage, Israel's reputation ot invincibility and time will solve the problem boom To lett wuigers, this was ' creeping annexation Time has proven the doctrine to be wrong lor the eight year dance around the golden calt did not pm ge the Arabs ot anti Israel hatred. 1 Act the w ai rior prophet, who dominated the local scene is gone Nowadays, every political party md cvcrv taction within it has its doctrine on the tutuic ot the AAest Bank bulge where contiol by hostile Soviet sponsored, forces could spell Israel s doom To the small but influential National Religious Party a membei of the ruling coalition, the West Bank is Judea and Somalia where Hebrew kings ruled built and luugut It Is the biblical land of hence part ot the national heritage Israel, Reestablishment ul Israeli rule there is a religious command evacuation is a heresy The merit of this at least one can doctrine is its simplicity understand it Prior to the 1971 Yom Kippur war, when Golda's kitchen cabinet was largely donn nated by Detense Minister Moishe Dayan, the prevailing tacit philosophy was one of activism immobilism hich could be summarized thus f ontrasting with the vagueness of that policy w as plan, authoied by Gen A igal Alton, now the toreign numstei Inasmuch as is known, it advocated the surrendei to Jordanian civil ad ministration of most of the West Bank, with minor secunty border alterations, a ban on the presence there ot Arab armies, a string ot Israeli settlements along the strategic Joidan valley, to serve as a hairier against an invasion a umlied Jerusalem as lsuel s capital the ' Allon Meanwhile, curiously, Arabs m the West Bans aie getting ready to participate in the Israel sponsored municipal elections, this spring At piesent, municipalities there are lamely controlled by King Husseins men, yet piospective candidates PI O men W llO plan to lliiiltlutc ire smrl in local authorities And active 1'LU groups arc said to be intiiti ated Communists, who have been encouraged attei the recent success ot the Reds in (Israeli) Nazareth Which amounts to a Trojan horse within a Trojan as contenders try to set up their own horse machinery for taking ov er the fortress from w lthm, it mid vv hen the Jew s ui e kic ked out by by Brickman the small society fN - - !k Tfti-zl I i r I Gccx&CY, $ -- Whton Stf syncete c S |