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Show Fan DESERET NEVS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH DESERET NEWS, TUESDAY, JULY 12, 1977 A 5 We stand for the Constitution of the United States with its three departments of each government, fully independent in its own field. n Yuen-ije- , Red Fan Chinese Yuen-tje- n , Red Chinese defector reading quotations from Taiwan checkbook. defector reading quotations from Chairman Mao. Terrorism in the sky is a weapon two-edg- ed Unless its so primitive that it lacks air service, there isnt a country that is immune from airplane hijacking. That goes not just for open and free societies but also for the most repressive police states where air piracy ought to be most difficult. It goes, too, even for those nations that arc in the business of aiding and abetting terrorism against other countries. this point wasn't clear before, it certainly should be now from the If hijacking this week of a Soviet jetliner, which was diverted during a flight from Petrovskoye to Leningrad and forced to land at Helsinki. Ideally, this episode and a similar one last May in which a Soviet jet vas hijacked to Stockholm ought to prod the Russians into supporting efforts at the United Nations to tighten international controls on air piracy. Rut dont count on it as long as Moscow remains in the business of exporting terrorism in a wide variety of forms. The Central Intelligence Agency recently examined this matter and found several communist countries have to the current directly contributed terrorism. upsurge in which have regularThese nations ly furnished practicing or potential terrorists with funds, arms, training, documentation and other operational are the USSR, Cuba, Comsupport munist China, and North Korea. Hijackers other than terrorists have trans-nation- al largely been brought under control by an international agreement making this crime a common-laoffense rather than a political act entitling the perpetrators to asylum. But efforts in the U.N. to extend similar provisions to terrorists have repeatedly broken down in disputes over the definition of terrorism and efforts by Third World countries to exclude anticolonial terrorists. This despite the fact that the activities of what the Third World calls brave freedom fighters are directed against vulnerable airline crews and unarmed civilians. This, too, despite the fact that even Cuba entered an agreement with the U.S. not out of idealism but simply because Havana discovered that those who pirate airplanes for any reason, personal or political, are anything but desirable residents. The upshot is that there are still some gaps in international efforts to curtail air piracy. Finland, for example, has an k treaty with Russia but Sweg den doesnt. Thats why the two gunmen who hijacked the Aeroflot jet this week tried to go to Sweden, then started casting about for other possible havens when Stockholm wouldnt let them land. Since all countries can be victimized w . anti-hijacki- ng anti-hijac- Russian-speakin- by airplane hijackers, theres no justifi- cation for not coming to a uniform international accord. Airline travel will be much safer once air pirates, including political terrorists, have no more places to hide. More Mansion1 mistakes Utalins havent heard the last of the blunder that was committed with the decision to let Gov. Matheson move into the old governors mansion instead of the new one. That error is still being compounded. Its bad enough that the new mansion never should have been sold because it would have been cheaper to add a new wing of bedrooms than to renovate the old mansion and kick out the State Historical Society. But thats water over the dam. Whats cause for continuing concern is the way this ineptitude is being magnified. When the Legislature authorized this switch, it also should have appropriated funds for a new home for the Historical Society. But the lawmakers didnt take that obvious step. Yet the State Building Board is proceeding on a schedule that would require the Historical Society to be out of the old mansion by next December. Though the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad depot would serve well as a permanent new home for the Historical Society and can be acquired for only $1, it would still take $1.8 million to remodel this facility. Even if funds had been set aside for Meanwhile, theres talk about putting the Historical Society at the Ajax Press property until the depot or some other permanent location for the society can be acquired and prepared. But this option poses some serious problems. The Ajax property is supposed to house not only the Historical Society but also the Liquor Commission and the State Department of Natural Resources. The office building at Ajax contains square feet of floor space, but the Historical Society alone already occupies 14,000 square feet. While another 160.000 square feet of floor- - space is available in a warehouse at Ajax, it would not be suitable for the Historical Society. Thats because the society maintains valuable collections of rare books and manuscripts that require careful humidity and temperature controls as well as tight security. 18.000 Rather than force the Historical Society to move hastily into unsatisfactory temporary quarters, the governor should delay his move into the old mansion and the remodeling this End OPEC oil domination The worlds industrial nations have an enormous stake in a ministerial meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) that opened today in Stockholm. of OPEC, which controls the total world production of petroleum, will talk 'about further increases in the price of their oil, already six times higher than it was just four years ago. Industrial nations literally are at the mercy of OPEC. Their economies run on oil, mostly OPEC oil. Thus whatever' two-thir- decisions OPEC makes in Stockholm will be reflected in factories and living standards around the world. Nevertheless, there are bright spots on an otherwise gloomy horizon. Despite an explosion at a pumping station, crude is expected to start flowing again later this week from Alaskas north slope. Production from Britains North Sea fields is increasing and Mexican oil production is approaching a million barrels a day. These new supplies possibly will soften OPECs disposition to raise prices. e outlook is not Even so, the While new the supplies may good. temporarily loosen OPECs noose around the necks of industrial nations, they will not take it away. Oil analysts say that despite Alaskan oil, the U. S. will become even more dependent on foreign petroleum. However, if the new oil does soften OPECs continuing threat to raise prices, there will be a clear lesson to industrial nations and particularly to the U. S. The only sure and safe way to escape OPECs oil domination is by discovering and developing new domestic sources of oil, or some other form of energy that can substitute for oil. There appears to be no other alternative. While President Carters call for oil conservation will help, it will mean only a drop in the huge oil bucket. The U.S. and other industrial nations must get on with the task of developing new energy sources. Every day of delay means another day of dangling at the end of OPECs oily rope. Its time to escape long-rang- Afterthoughts . . . When a child loses, he blames luck; when he wins, he credits skill; becoming an adult means learning to reverse these judgment s Dramatic versions of "Dr. Jekyll always distort the and Mr. Hyde Stevenson story by turning Hyde into a monster after he takes the potion, when in fact the whole point of the story was that he looked very little different from Dr. Jekyll. How in the name of the Great God Pandemonium can the American welfare system be expected to work even minimally when it is shaped by more than 20 congressional committees, 50 state legislatures, six cabinet departments, fliree federal agencies, 54 state and territorial agencies, and more than 1,500 county welfare departments? Sydney Herns Wn i no o ''J ' Kennedy tax plan hints coming shift . No time for curlers For persons in the 20 percent tax bracket, the deduc- medical deductions should be called the "National Catastion is worth $200 on $1,000 in trophic Health Insurance By mortgage interest and prop- Program for Upper Income George F. erty taxes. For persons in the Homeowners. He would 50 percent bracket, it is worth eliminate medical deductions Will $500. when national health insurance is enacted. Kennedy reasons similarly about deduction of charitable Naturally, Kennedy also WASHINGTON Presi- contributions. In 1971 for lotus last would end write-off- s (the dent Carters references to for which data is availa- eating: No deductions for year the tax system are characbusiness travel first-clable), the 75 percent of taxteristically evangelical, dwel- payers who took the standard and no the unkindest cut ling upon the systems fallen state and promising redemp"Most encouragement goes to the tion. But Sei. Edward Kennedy has stolen the march individual's wealthy; higher on Carter with a tax plan that is intended as a model and tax bracket , the more encouragedoes indicate the shape of ment he receives. " coming changes. Kennedy would reduce the current 14 to 70 percent tax deduction gave charities $3.5 deductions for travel exrates to 10 to 50 percent. But billion, without tax benefit. penses in excess of of one the government would lose no The wealthiest one-ha- lf government per diem for revenues: the rate reduction percent of taxpayers also the area. is designed to recycle re- donated $3.5 billion, but And no deductions for busiof that represented venues raised by the eliminaness lunches. As Kennedy tion of some exemptions and money that otherwise would says, everyone must eat and deductions. have gone to the government it is absurd for government to in taxes. He says that various persubsidize the lunches for gensonal deductions such as The erally affluent Americans Kennedy says: mortgage interest, property charitable contribution de- who contrive to talk taxes and the $750 personal duction is basically a federal business between bites. exemption and exemption for matching grant program. As There is much more to children should be converted with the other itemized deKennedys program. Its gento tax credits. A $750 exemp- ductions, the extent of the eral impulse is redistributive, tion saves $525 for a person in government share is a func- as the impulse of liberalism todays top bracket, only $150 tion of the donors tax brack- generally has been in this for a person in the lowest. et. He would replace that century. Tax credits give the same deduction with a flat tax Conservatives can not prodollar value of relief to all credit of, say, 30 percent of fitably challenge the national is not the value a recipients; any contribution. consensus that supports Kenfunction of the individuals deduction of nedys first principle, which says Kennedy tax bracket. medical expenses constitutes is: People who derive the most monetary benefit from Deductions of mortgage in- an upside down governterest and property taxes ment health program for the social arrangements should only serve the 25 percent of wealthy. Most persons who contribute relatively larger taxpayers who itemize deduc- itemize deductions are those amounts for the conduct of tions. So 75 percent of tax- whose mortgage interest and the government that sustains payers do not benefit from property taxes total more those arrangements. this provision, designed to tnan the standard deduction That is the principle of ($3,200 for a married couple). encourage home ownership. progressivity. The great tax Most encouragement goes But they can only deduct debate now beginning will be, to the wealthy; the higher the large medical expenses (toRil in large measure, about more rigorously the tax individuals tax bracket, the medical bills minus three more encouragement he percent of adjusted gross code should apply that income). So, Kennedy says. FQ, ss the the this purpose, it would still take several months before the Historical Society could make the move. ERmfl BomeecK two-thir- The quickest way I know to be by myself is to walk out of a beauty shop. Here I am my hair a halo of sprayed confection . . . perfectly coiffed and immune to the wind. At the peak of my wonderfulness, the streets look like the quiet before an ambush. There are no all forms of signs or sounds or human activity transportation have ceased. The wind rustles through the emptiness that goes with being alone. Let me step outside of the house with curlers and its like an episode out of This Is Your Life. Old girlfriends of my husband's appear like an So youre Erma. New apparition and say, neighbors introduce themselves and make a quick exit saying, Well call you. Were not in the book." My husband appears during his working hours with a camera and the kids to take the picture for our Christmas card. A boy who was quite serious about me in high school recognizes me and looks relieved when I tell him I found someone else. For the last 30 years or so, I have been searching for that magic moment when you can put your hair up without fear of being discovered. There is no such time. I remember the first time my husband came home and saw me frosting my hair. I was standing over the stove wearing a bathing cap with strands of hair pulled through that had been stripped white and were standing straight out from my head. He steadied himself against the door. Dont tell me! Youve just heard were being audited. Don't be cute, I said. Im frosting my hair. Well, stop it. Youre scaring the children half to death. After awhile I resorted to spot curling putting up only the parts of my hair that I slept on. With one fuzzy side corkscrewed to the side of my head, and the other hanging loosely, I looked like I had been built from spare parts. As I was drying my hair with the sweeper attachment the other night before dinner, my neighbor said, Did you ever hear the joke about the bride who appeared at her own wedding with her hair in brush rollers under her veil? When someone asked why her hair was up she said, Ed and I might go someplace later on." I dont get it. ... SYDflGY HARRIS Killed for witchcraft how-muc- Speech patterns fade home in a tote, he betrays gated eyardbod. a Southwestern upbringing. Cooks in one region boil In potatoes in a pot. another, they use a pan. In its last issue before it folded a week ago, the Na-tional Observer carried a typically interesting piece about the long-pendin- g Linguistic Atlas of the Un- States. The Observer was a fine newspaper and I mark its passing with regret. Those who love the Amen- language, and delight m its richness and variety, will find smother cause for regret in the story of the Linguistic Atlas. This is a monumental labor of both love and scho- larship, launched nearly 50 years ago by Dr. Hails Kurath of the University of The idea is to plot geographically the nuances of speech and colloquialism that once identified Ameri- cans by the regions and communities they grew up in. By way of example: The person who recalls "belly bunting on a sled probably coasted downhill in the snows of Worcester County, Mass., and the upper Connecticut River Valley. Someone who carries potatoes in a is likely from New England. If he takes things "burlap" Virginians, penurious in so many wavs, held an extravagant view of redundancies. A pen was an ink pen. What occasions regret is A pot was a cook pot. families lived off that so many of these linguis- Well-to-d- o tic distinctions seem to be Cary Street Road. Accounts fading. By the time the Atlas were kept in a ledger book. is completed the massive A murder victim was killed interest deh-yusuy 10 The reporter who traveled antjquarians. The msidious egalitarianism of abaout the Saouth 35 years television doubtless provides ago could hear lovely echoes ?? explanation for the van-ite- d of Elizabethan speech in isolshm.S ldlom- increasing lated parts of Virginia, North mobility of our people also Carolina and Appalachia. Paa a part. Political torees Little of this remains. Here slowly impel us away from in the South, you still detect diversity and toward unifor-ca- n the slow' cadence and the mjt.. musical inflections of the When I came to Richmond past; terminal gs and in 1941, fresh caught from the "rs still tend to be casually Midwest, the extended ou" discarded. Down at Burkes diphthong fell upon one's ear Store the other day, I was as sweetly as the sound of delighted to hear a countrycowbells far away. Then a man's boy tell his father maouse ran abaout the where he was. Alim raht ouse. A sulky child would cheer, he said. paout. A drunk was a saouse. For even these vestigial Such phonetic spellings can't remnants, let us be grateful. d convey the And let us remember, as inflection, dearly as we remember old Another regionalism was love affairs, Leo Durocher then in common use. This was predicting the disaster his the soft c in place of the Brooklyn Dodgers were about hard c. Once, as a cub to impose upon their mortal reporter, I had to mail a enemies. An approaching photograph and sought help senes, said the Great One. from Miss Mary- Traylor, the would bt Poil Ilahbuh fuh do newspaper librarian. She was Giiits. Perhaps, under the a Southern lady of a certain beneficient influence of the age "What you need," she Cyartuh fambly, a little pure may yet return said, is a piece of cyorru- d. multi-syllable- - sH-ec- h Things I learned en route to looking up other things: That in the centuries leading up to 1735, as many as nine million people were executed for "witchcraft." (Most were women, and many were healers and midwives.) That the familiar phrase keeping up with thd Joneses originated as the title of a comic strip just before World War I. That in the Arab world, classical Arabic (which is the written language) is sacred, and is almost as distinct from spoken Arabic as French is from Latin. That while virtually no large American cities conlain campgrounds within their limits, they are to be found in most large European cities, such as Paris, Lisbon, Munich, Copenhagen and others. That what is called sea level" is not a constant, measurable quantity, but is higher in the fall than in the spring. That humans and guinea pigs require Vitamin C but most other animals possess the enzymes that transform carbohydrates into that vitamin. That Clemenceau, premier of France and a politician all his long life, nevertheless left among his collected works a medical dissertation on anatomy, a novel, a play, two biographies, and a philosophical testament. (lie also married a girl from Springfield, Mass.) That the cloudy material seen when water boils is not steam, but fine droplets of water. (Steam is a colorless and odorless gas.) That the states west of the Mississippi get twice as much of their water supply from ground water as the states east of the Mississippi, which rely more on surface water. That the story of Cinderella is by far the most ancient, universal and popular tale ever told: there are 500 versions in Europe alone, and its "origins have been traced to Persia, China, Egypt, Africa, Indonesia, and even among the Esquimaux. That the single most abundant organic substance in the world is cellulose. (Its chemical composition is basically the same as starch ) That the fiddler crab has a large daw that is 20 times heavier than the smaller, and accounts for s of the creature's total weight. . tuo-tiurd- f |