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Show '' DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH WEEKEND OE MAY 8, 1976 t viv? "' i' 'r A5 We stand for the Constitution of the United States with its three departments of each field in its own government, fully independent Let's throw more light on lobbying in Washington F or 30 years Congress has put up with a federal lobbying law that is grossly inadequate m disclosing the pres; ores exerted more, not counting travel expenses, in any quarterly period to lobby. Makes 12 or more oral lobbying communications with Congress in any quarterly period through its paid ollic-crand directors or paid employees Spends $7,500 or more during any quarterly period to solicit others to communicate with Congress. As helpful as such provisions could be, the new' lobby mg bill still needs considerable work if is to be effective. F'irst, the measure is too restrained m that it would require lobbying groups to disclose the identity of only those individuals who contribute over 5 of the organization's budget, and the identity of only those organizations contributing more than 17c. An organization like the National Association of Manufacturers. w ith a budget of $7 million, would be required to report only the identity of indiv idual contributors don at mg $350,000 or more, or corporations donating $70,000 or more. Second, the bill embraces a double standard by applying only to the lobbying of Congress but not to the thousands of lobbyists who try to influence decisions in the executive branch, w hich also involve substantial amounts of federal funds and a broad impact on the public. Lobbying is a bas'c right guaranteed by the Constitution. But the public and government officials alike should have the right to know precisely w hat interest croups are doing to influence decisions that could affect all Americans the nations lawmakers Just how inadequate can lie son from a variety of studies show mg that : Of the 5,000 to 10,000 persons who should register as lobbyists under the present law only 20'7c to 407r actually do Ot the estimated $1 billion spent last year on lobbying, less than 17r of that amount $9 4 million was ever 1940 act. under the reported Yet a tougher lobbying law would help develop public confidence in government, would give Congress as well as the public a bid ter understanding of the pressures being generated by various issues, and would enhance respect for lobbying by removing much of its secrecy The maor defect in the present law is that it requires only those organizations whose principal purpose is lobbying to register and file periodic reports. As a result, many of the most powerful groups simply state that their principal purpose is somehmg other than lobbying something as v ague as pro lding inforrr.ut lull to our members In an effort to plug this gaping loophole, the Senate Government Operations Committee recently reported out a bill that would broaden the definition of lobbyist to include any organization which c IV.s an agent 250 or on x , (.ut-id- No validity all a I : Y a: 4 Heating up GOP race Y r- - . vss jt "Like the cowboy heroes he pot frayed in Hollywood, Ronald Reagan has left President Ford sprawling in the dust . . . after the recent primary elections. " eCySg xx Wi The London Daily Express iw (hfe) W tt.v.rtr 1 it The U S can afford to bo more conciliatory than that, and should be if it schism hopes to avoid an that might prove embarrassing, il not actually harmful to American interests Some concessions are clearly in order Currently, for example, Panama is paid an annua! annuity of about $2 million lor the canal Tolls have never been raised, with much and Panama contends inter-America- greater that higher tolls would permit pay ment But one thing is certain The U S must, for the foreseeable future, maintain both operating control of the canal and its defensive measures That is because the canal is essential tor the concept of a navy. Its even more necessary to commerce, since the trip around the tip of South America would cost about 10 times more than the present cost of transiting the canal That's why control of the Panama Canal must not fall into hostile hands. n Castro, is not the ideal prospect to inherit control It's possible that eventually the Panama Canal may no longer play the vital role it does today Bigger ships already are making the canal at least partially obsolete Many of today's aircraft curriers and larger oil tankers already are too big to navigate the narrow waterway But until that day actually comes, the U.S shouldn't give up control of the Panama Canal to anyone . God could not be everywhere." goes an old Jewish proverb, and therefore he made mol hers There must lie something to that idea Traditionally, Mother's Day ranks somewhere close behind Christmas and Faster as the most hallowed holiday of the year This year, ot course, it might also hack of July tth but onlv because spiritual caresses of a mother's memory are somewhat more subdued than the Bicentennial's fireworks. Like Christmas and some other holidays, Mothers Day is suffering from and too too much commercialization the what of really day little thought means But ovcrcommercialization can lie easily remedied by each family using a little ingenuity in showing Mother that she's No I 1 ake, for instance, the children of one mother w ho w rapped up a large, beat-usuit box and inscribed it Happy Mothers Day, Mother. Inside each child put notes promising to do jobs like "make my bed, don't hit Christine, straighten my room, eat veg soup 01 such memories are Mothers Days made. It doesn't take much reminiscing for cacti oi us to recall special reasons to be thankful to our mothers- For walking the floors with us as squalling babies, sharing our particular grief when something didn't go right and our joy when it did, for lieLieving and loving us, and for teaching us how deeply love can really lx shared For all these things, we need to say God bless you. Mother, and happy Mother's Dav." p - Words for us to ponder 'ditorial from the land (N.J.) 'homas Jefferson authored a The logic is such as to Unfortunately . that think. of us all ;e e today is all but ignored He said the first and I place economy among debt ,t imixirtant virtues, and public be feared to lie greatest of dangers we must preserve our independence, into us perpetual lead rulers our let we must t If we run into such debts, in our drink, and taxed in our meat Times-Journ- n necessities and in our comforts, in our labor and in our amusements If we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will lx1 happy. Jctlcrson died Juiy i 150 years this coming bad that all those men and women in government are not required to memorize this quotation and try to live up to its precepts It is too r The Cbnstiar boeflc Moflrtw could have swore that steer had my brand on it.' Detente: the Soviet definition unless some way can fx- found to deal with basic causes of war The I mted States and the Sovxt Union not can serve their peoples best lust by professing friendship far one another but by working together to create a world order Suc h a world is required to put an end to the arms race, avert world famine, protect the world's resources in the human interest, unde rtake the development ol new forms of energy, and that can compel rcsXct for the genuine right - Certainly Panama strongman Gen Omar Tornjos. considered a Marxist by some and with ties to Cuba's Fidel Mothers' special day time-quotatio- , Jt tw'o-oce- an Canal, and will never give up its oerational rights to the Panama Canal as far as Panama is concerned " The fact is that the For administration is negotiating a treaty with Panama th il could hand over the Canal Zone and all it contains m 25 to 50 years But that dix'snt mean that challenger Honald Ucagan has the proper emphasis when he says "In my opinion, what we should be saying to that tinhorn dictator is, We Ixniglit it, we paid for it, if we built it. it's ours, and we intend to keep -- ... so you got lucky again! Now, put me down and let's get on with it!" Panama Canal giveaway the confused election rhetoric lately about the Panama Canal the record should be set straight on U.S aims m the current administration. There can be no doubt that President Ford is at least partially wrong when he says that the United States will never give up its defense rights to the Panama With "Okay, Reagan i; Norman ( ousins Suvut leaders art-- disturbed about the way detente has suftered in the United States as a result of the residential election campaign Yet not all the obstacles to detente are made in America ( onsider for example, the article by Nikolai Inozentzev, the authoritative So let obseiver, in the English magazine, The Economist Mr In ozentzev writes m support of detente but he thinks the Western wot Id is making a serious mistake it it expei ts the Soviet Fmon to turn i(s hack on pexiple w ho are struggling to lilterute themselves from outside rule lie say s we live m a rcvolutionurv age and that people must be free ' to i hoose the MK ial and political sy s 1cm they consider most appropriate to their aspirations and interests No one can argue with the need to respect the principle of sell Mr Kissinger has deteimination declared the I S government he lieves in the light ot the people to a government ol their own ohosing Mr lnoentzev, however, says no tiling e'xxit Soviet M)pivrt for j Cuban army in Angola Is this what is meart by the right to hoose The Soviet Union cannot have it both wavs It cannot assert that detente is a primary objective 4 its foreign xlioy, yet continue its pursuit ol a world balance of power even though it may rationalize that pursuit as support lor the woild s liberation movement Rv the same token d luinctahoii ol Soviet mteivcntion in Angola more compelling weie A letnam and Chile Detente is in trouble, not because the leaders of Ixith countries were it bul insincere when they advix-ateIxrausc detente requires a change in the way nations hav e traditionalh cxrated They can profess friend ship but it ttievre unwilling to change the way they fxdiave outside their birders, that friendship will lad ami they will nave war on then hands Ieuic tiKiuv lequires moie than lilt- i xpiessiou of a mutual dcsiie to pull bn k trom the brink It ( alls loi tile development of a world older that can keep nations in hoc k and that can prevent them trom tending loi advantage ill the world arena Detente cannot jxissibly wuik - c ol sell det rmmation of all peoples The next time I' S and USSR leaders meet at a summit conference. they can best serve their two count i ies by talking about the conditions that make detente possible, rather than lust reaffirming their devotion to the conciept oi detente Is it far fetched to hope they can devise new xilieies rather than gist new terms to express their desire to avoid a showdown' The tact that il was possible to break from the politics and ol the cold war should encourage them to move in even more fundamental way stewards the building of a genuine peace make a The r'7i presidential campaign provides all candidates with one of the most dram tin opportunities in history to recognize the new realities and lo create the stage for a whole new ei a Challenge on Africa policy By Victor L.asky dost met ion of white-leregimes in Rhodesia and South Africa7 Sure, this nation quite correctly believes m the eventual alxjlitnm ol racist practices in both But these nations are now seeking countries solutions for problems which, as yet, the U S. also has not fullv resolved And who are we tocast stones7 That Rhodesia has emerged as a national issue, as a result of Kissingers blundering, became quite clear in the closing days of the Texas contest As Reagan put it ' A e seem to be embarking on a policy of dictating to the (H'ople of Southern Africa and running the risk of increase'll violence and bUxxished in an area already beset by tremendous antagonism and difficulties Obviously, Kissinger has not thought through the implications of his new position For, if the new IS policy in southini Africa of the prevails, it can only result in a "massacre white people ol Rhodesia as Reagan also noted This event ualitv his troubled oilier observers, George F' Kennan, tor example has taken issac with the Kissinger pronouncement II thei e is not geivx-idthen the in Rhodesia, the former dipiomit argues u go somewhere have lo are displaced going people and it could reasonably he argued that those who call m eitoct for the displacement 'hould he prepared to accept them " the lime has come lor Kissinger to Obviously ' re examine the polk y wluc h Ills Alrican ix'rts have sold him And pel haps President Find should take some tune ol Horn campaigning tor a crash course on d North American Newspaper Alliance In at lea-- t one of his attacks on WASHINGTON Ford Administration foreign policies, challenger Ronald Reagan makes sense Just what in heaven's name was Henry Kissinger doing when, almost overnight, he reversed traditional I S policy m southern .Africa7 The reversal couldnt have come at a worse time for President Ford It came a few days before the weekend Texas primary and Tuesdays three state sweep and Reagan scored heavily when lie called upon the Ford administration to avid impulsive reactions" that could incite bloodshed in southern Africa, particularly in Rhodesia Of course, there were other reasons why Reagan won so overwhelmingly in Texas and carried the day in Indiana, Georgia and Alabama (not lo mention taking the lead in the delegate count' There was the issue of the Panama tanal, for example To Texans, whose port in Houston is one of the maior facilities in the country, the canal is not some vv nterw ay in a distant country It is quite close and constitutes, at least many Texans think so, a maior lifeline lor American shipping To the Southerners m Georgia and Alabama and the V assuce crossovers in Indiana this issue highlighted Reagan's more conservative policies Still the Ford administration could argue a c a so tor some loosening of U S ties to the canal But what exactly is the rationale for suddenly shifting L S poliev in Africa7 How doc's the I S benefit by the T Alrienn louliMi' by Brickman the small society bW, YOU I WANT IT CLZAPLY UU0e6TCOQ x have;. 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