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Show nrittfwi ah isiaMW24B&LSC i Srwiww' Sait lake city, utah DtstRET NCwd, A 5 Wednesday, july 7, 1975 .. f.i the Constitution of the United States with its three departments of We stqnfl fot government, each fully independent in its own held Israel gives an answer to terrorist hijackings Though Ugandas Idi Aman screams loudly to the United Nations and any other organization that may listen, the free world will applaud Israels daring rescue of more than 100 air hijacking hostages this week. Consider these conditions: The hijackers were sequestered with their hostages in what appears to be a fully even to the extent cooperating nation of using soldiers to guard the hostages Moreover, the Palestinian hijackers were demanding not only that Israel release some 40 terrorists from jail in her own country, but to arrange handing over of others from West Germany, France, and Switzerland Even if Israel had been inclined to release the terrorists it held, could it have persuaded the other governments to also give in? And within the deadline before the terrorists had threatened to start killing the mostly Jewish hostages? That was only part of the problem. Had Israel succumbed to this blackmail, it would have been an open invitation for any ether terrorist or malcontent to try the same tactics. And at what price? Sooner or later, some hijacker may panic and kill scores of innocent victims. Lives saved now may have to be paid for dearly at some future date if hijackers 24-ho- ur A job-scho- With an all-tim- deadly game One of the surest w ays to curb such violence is for nations to band together and refuse sanctuary to these air pirates. Yet even that simple solution has failed because too many Arab and nations view these barbarians somehow as brave freedom fighters Their fighting is almost exclusively against unarmed civilians and susceptible airline crews. The Uganda drama also should point up the need for keeping present airline inspection regulations in the U.S. The program has been so effective its hard to remember the last hijacking incident One of the last occurred in 1974 when a man attempted to hijack an Eastern Airlines plane in Boston, using a straight razor, a rusty nail, and a hat' weapon. Thats a far cry from 1970, when there were 80 attempts to seize U.S. airliners, with 53 of them successful. When political terrorism and hijacking are combined, as in the Uganda case, a violent new dimension is injected. There seems only one way to beat such hijackings, by making them as unproas ductive or as possible third-worl- d hit-lik- e counter-producti- high of over 500,000 jxrsons at work and unemployment at a comparatively low 6.1 percent. Utahs labor market is stronger than the labor market in most other places. recent survey of 300 Utah employers showed 43 percent of them are in the market for workers with vocational skills. In contrast, only six percent are looking to hire college graduates. A The employment record of Utahs vocational institutions is excellent. Two years ago, a survey of 1,420 alumni of Utah Technical College showed 86 percent found jobs in their specialties. Another 11 percent found jobs in unrelated fields. That leaves only three ve Can the voters who picked these three as presidential frontrunners expect cutbacks in the federal bureaucracy? does not encourage op- timism Herbert Kaufman, a scholar with the Brookings Institution, studied 175 government agencies operating in 1923. and compared them to similiar agencies in 1973 148 of the agencies were still functioning 50 years later. In addition. 246 now agencies had been He found IUw land E Bv Utah students continue to choose college over vocational education. Only 13 percent of the students enrolled in schools are at technical colleges. One ieasoti for that cuntinuiiig prefer ence may be that vocational schools have been too restricted by legislators and educational leaders. For example, vocational students have not been allowed to participate in mtersehool athletics. Canicula have been too restricted to technical subjects. Plumbers, draftsmen, and mechanics can use a basic understanding of history, literature and civics just as doctors, lawyers or businessmen. Making vocational schools more attractive might encourage more young Utahns to take advantage of them, and help solve the state's mismatch between education and jobs. post-seconda- ry that created in the same policy areas. swelling the total to 39-- government agencies. President Richard Nixon sought to change this trend. In his 1971 State of the Union address, Nixon proposed creating and a consolidation four of the executive branch. But the record shows Nixon created 80 new federal agencies in his first five years in office, more than any other president in a similar time. Walter Shapiro reports in the Washington Monthly Magazine that government employes unions and what he calls the complex" are already girding for battle against reform of the executive branch American voters seem certain to elect a President who has promised them less federal bureaucracy. But against the entrenched power of the bureaucrats, it will require continued pressure and effort by citizens if any of those promise are to lie turned into reality super-agencie- s, poverty-industri- ans and Robert Nov ak far belter than percent unemployed the state or national averages realities. Despite the Old agencies seldom die "When I get to Washington, I'm going to change the federal government drastically. promises presidential hopeful Jimmy Caller. He says he will reduce over 2.000 federal agencies to 200 or so. President Ford also wants to reform the executive branch. Ronald Reagan has been most vociferous of all in arguing for less federal bureaucracy. banquet a the gaudy Colonic Hill inn. here 'which netted over $2xi non Republican operatives here felt the mere fact Sehwenk privately plugged a Ford Connally ticket strongly mi plied that he and six other uncommitted delegates to the Republican national conven lion are locked ud for the President Sehwenk refused to tell us when or how the seven delegates he heads nearly half this states acknowledged uncommitted bloc of delegates would finally make their decision But others among the seven said privately that, burring some totally unexpected development. all would move into the Ford camp en bloc, deny mg Reagan a delegate conquest wiuch would have carried immense rew ards. both arithmetical arid psy etiological Schwenk's appraisal of fund-raisin- job-mark- et Still, many young Utahns are having difficulty finding a job. One cause of the problem is that Utah Higher education is not training students for the jobs that are available. Tlie record If not Reagan, then Conn ally for Veep ? mismatch ol e are allowed to get away with their HALPPAtGE. NY. -- minutes after former Texas Gov John B. Connally laid them m the aides Wednesday evening with a slam-ban- g attack on Jimmy Carter, spiced with uplifting optimism about Republican in November, party leaders m tnis conservative Republican stronghold were quietly promoting a presidential ticket Only y Ford-Connal- ly Calling Connally's obv ious choice if President Ford win tiie presidcnUal nomination Indeed, added Sehwenk. Connally s presumed Southern appeal was by far the best Republican riposte to Carter's own Dixie accent. Thi was true, he said, even if Reagan did not mean what lie said in Mississippi 10 days ago. that there was no way ' lie himself would accept the second spot on a Ford ticket Schwenk's studied en thusiasin for Connally as Mr. lowed running-mat- e the partys POT HOT d Ford-Connal- r anti-Reaga- fol- annual By much-preferre- if Mr. Ford w ins the choice nomination sent a shock of pleasure through Texas Republican state chairman Ray Hutchison, who accompanied Connally here and who has been aggressively promoting a ticket What gives tlie project a solid foundation is Connally 's ;k tepsaiice by most Republican conservatives, including Reaganites. plus Connallys unique assets as a Southern counterpoint to Carter. The and problem is Reagan Connally's political immobility If Reagan loses the presidential nomination, the spot would be his the asking no mutter what Mr Ford or any other n Republicans w anted Far ill' He subtle, however. that Connally is the v s as the Connally pep talk tLe greatest" ever deliv ered in Suffolk County (where Ronald Reagan read his speech last October . Edwin 1. i Buzz Sehwenk. county Republican leader, told us Ford g Ashleigh Brilliant i .2 k fi t. H ft i . . i ft fj f - i Ford-Reaga- banquets? There must bo a point at which the drive for equality of the sexes leaves off from sensible approaches and becomes ridiculous. That point most certainly has been reached in the latest federal pronouncement that public si bools may no longer or mother-daughtsponsor father-soevents. The bureaucrats, it seems, have now decided that such events violate new rules against sex discrimination. According to John Palomina of the San Francisco regional Office for Civil or Rights, "functions such as father-so- n hi' would breakfasts subjecting students to separate treatment and would not be permitted. A spokesman at the Washington headquarters say s that decision applies even if the school offers separate events with equal (acuities for both sexes. And fqr those schools which dare to hold such of fairs? That could lead to a or even cutoff of federal assistance Justice court action by the Department. er n mother-daught- pre-dinn- er ... (a 1973 en- y ' pep-u- p thusiasm of more than 2.00i Republicans here Wednesday-nigh- t a low turnout showed how pathetically eager the Republicans are for some signal somewhere that the 1976 election is not already wrapped up for Jimmy Carter Connallys rhetoric supplied it. Such fervor, absent m the tray pedest nanism of Mr. Fords White House, might rescue a Ford presidential campaign from insufferable boredom To Buzz Sehwenk and some other Republicans hen, that is almost as important as Connally's conservative regionalism And to Connally , it means an unlikely but potentially strategic base in the Northeast for . a possible ticket. - It was rc ported in The 4w.'. WVSIILNGTU.N York Times last week that the Pentagon has one of its highest priorities the sale of C S military equipment to foreign countries Chief sales niaiiagt-- r is Deputy Defense Secretary William P Clements and The Times nported he held a pep talk sale breakfast meeting to tell his people the PentJm sales program was one of the most important missions of the Defense Department 1 wasnt invited to the breakfast but 1 ii5e" think this is how it wild ' Gentlemen, weve moved K billion worth'd arms this year, but I am disappointed in many of ou We were hoping to have a M2 billion year Now. weH-herto speak frankly . Why isnt the stuff mov mg? I can only speak for Africa, sir. and my pciipli-hae done a fine job there. W e sold a squadron nt fighters to Kenya, and tons of stuff to Zaire EtbjQia is talking about buy ing a missile cruiser " V Whats holding up the sale' Sane sites landlocked. sLedocsfl t know wfcjii tO put It." 4 . , sw 1 1 Uou t w ant excuses. Sulcs. 1 our p.f!'. should have figured out some way of jiersuajilu W w Ethiopia that it as essential for a Third odd pew ; to have a missile cruiser whether she was landloSJed or not They have lakes in Ethiopia, dont they ? J? Yet, sir." Then let them keep the cruiser m one of Ciir lakes. All right now. what about the Seycbetk Islands. Why havent they bought any thing fromfi? They only got their independence last vttwk Were waiting for the prime minister to appo;I a v minister of defense. " "What are you pushing? "We thought wed talk them into some airewft carriers, submarine chasers and possible antiaircraft guns. "Thats all? A country has just gaineOts independence, and all youre going to sell themw a couple of lousy earners and a few sub chasers, ftat kind of a salesman are you?" Well, sir, it's a question of money . They wujb put what little money they have into industry owd T agriculture. Your job is to persuade them that deigU'e comes first What good is it to have industry mr.d agneulture if they" cant protect themselves fro in a. n attack by Keny a -- t 7 "Kenya?" "Listen, you tell them we just soid Kn.a a squadron of F-- fighters, and if tlie Seychelles Island don't buy a squadnm of our theyll nevuTn able to repulse an attack " "I got you." "All nght now . what about South America "1 left two samples of Trident missiles 22". Ecuador jut to whet their appetites I told tkiTTl" try them and if they didnt live up to expectation., they wouldnt have to pay for ihenf 5 5 ih: "Thats just a drop in the bucket Why isnt LVr.l ordering cruise missiles Ill tell you why. BetJaa'C you all think like Avon Women You make omTXSic amt believe thats all you have to do Well, let moVl! you, gentlemen, the Pentagon l not going to .sth&iii business unless we sell, SELL SELL I want thcr-- i warehouses emptied by Christmas, and if you pvJfue cant do it 1 11 find geneial and colonels who eair-A- ! right now, take your order book and get out el thsiv The first man who sells a complete nuclear weapon system to a Third World power gets an ail expeiiM " paid trip to Bermuda ! !" "Noweeoe: ' r ; i t The whole matter was best summed up by Arizona Public Instruction Supt. Carolyn Warner, in anticipating the federal ruling: "I suspect someone from the Iumd of Oz is going to say some day that celebrating Father's Day and Mothers Day separately violates equal right. And tlie 13th of June is Children's Day. Isnt that discriminatory?" Afterthought . . . er ? n Thus. Connally maintained strict neutrality at a press conference here, but his praise for Mr. Ford as President very excellent a whale of a record") job seemed downright fulsome compared to Connally's judgment only several months ago Beyond that C'cmnaii;, dare not go. leav mg him in a political posture of suspended animation, dependent on the winds of fortune. Even that posture, however, finds him closer 1o a return to political power than at any time since a federal court dean d him of political bribery charges m The Arms sale EMQL Con-nall- Ford-Connal- No father-so- n Q the problem of Connallv having to remain politically blind, deaf and dumb Con nally must scrupulously preserve his present neutrality m the battle The slightest move toward Mr. Ford, for example, would alienate most Reagan delegates and automatically bar the vice presidential door Likewise, undercover campaigning by Connally for the v nomination conceivable only if Mr would Ford t teats Reagan expose him to similar aliena tion Indeed, to position himself most advantageously would require Connally to ingratiate himself with the Reagan camp by supporting Reagan for the presidential nomma-tion- . But overt support for Reagan might actually help and Reagan beat Mr. Ford at the very least would turn the President against spell-bindm- g al ART BUCHUJflLD frustrations been have may anticipated more than two generations ago by Ilcnri Bergson, when he observed: "The extreme scarcity of political leaders rf any calibre i due to the fact that they are called upon to deride at any moment and in detail, problems which the increased size of societies may well have rendeicd insolu- One of our chief modem Sydney Harris State rules hobble third parties particular interest this year. thing go really badlv If for the Republican, Blackmans manual become a little bible for may y now-oart- now and promoters between 19x0 every indication, our system is in trouble Whatever the reasons may be, a general disenchantment has developed The pollsters findings vary , but roughly 42 percent of the By The way of transgressed' is hard sayelh the Good Book, and the author of Proverbs might hire Leii addressing his wisdom o tlurd-part- y candidates who transy system. Rungress the ning for president as a Democrat or Republican is no easy job. but running as an independent is l.he running inside a potato sack Paul H. Blackman spells out the difficulties lit a little book just published by the Heritage Foundation. "Third Party President?" His comprehensive study of confusing state requirements has a two-part- voters consider two-part- themselves y Democrats and only 18 to 29 percent identify w ith the Republicans The rest are independents, and among voters 18 to 25, more On than half are independent paper, at least, it appears that a time is approaching for some basic realignment. In terms of the presidency (and that is Blackmans only concern in his monograph), this means we must look to slate laws and regulations governing new party at cess to the ballot The Const itu lion provides, with apparent clarity . that the naming of a president is not a national function, but a slate function Each state shat! apiMimt. in such manner as the legislature thereof may direct, a numtier of electors Inti! this fundamental structure is altered by constitutional amer.iment. the power of the states will continue. The effective emergence uf new parties therefore will depend upon the willingness of the 5) state legislatures to attack the problem of ballot access. -- A candidate such as Eugene McCarthy . for example, must master 39 different requirements for the filing of petitions, la some states, the number of signatures is low; in some it is high Here ihe signatures must be notarized; must be eUaiiK-ITcounties or congressional dj' Ids Ftiilu, deadlines Cal' enornuul Filing tec are ,.nd low. State laws on haiiens. are a swamp of amhigr.il PUre ly. each of the states has goiut! own untrammolod wav. Tilt. i constitutional, it is aisucha But it would be a miske rynicaHy to assume had ugh- - ::i legislative hails Without dafujgy to the principle of div ersity the states voluntarilv could Biuve toward greater uniformity ou loi!t!ons, lees, filing deadknes. and the like. The process should not be made too easy; otherwise we would have ballots ciuluspcd with the names of merely ftjjJol-ou- s candidates But the process ought to be simplified Thixix a pregnant time tor the birth oiwvv parties In the name of aTfree society, we ought not to sechem ' strangled in the womb. then- - 1 they 1 1 t t ; I ' c I: |