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Show a DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 'i' Wv. Nx '. t- A 5 MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1977 ""s' f ' C. Recently the plan was attacked by. David F. Linowes, who was chairman of a federal commission on privacy. The biggest threat to privacy today, says linkLinowes, is age. Computer tapes, he says, provide anyone with a computer terminal instant access to all sorts of private information. computer-to-comput- er That prospect must be particularly appalling to welfare recipients, who have to furnish sensitive personal information in order to qualify for aid. Indeed, Secretary Calif ano has initiated something that could lead to all , phone. With Sports Book, the risks of illegal use of the telephone to pass the point spread could become a thing of the past. Our friendly local bookmaker just needs to tune in his television. More than aiding bookmakers, Sports Book reaches a new level of explicitness in sports gambling on TV. Such snows could spread to the networks and contribute to a general impression of social acceptance of gambling. The Federal Communications Commission has power to force Sports Book off television as gambling information. The agency should use that power. across the nation, not including Salt Lake City. Federal law prohibits using facilities to transmit bets or gambling information in interstate com A blot on Carter that political payola should be shameful enough. But as the Los Angeles Times pointed out recently, the story is worse. Gerald Rafshoon is President Carter's media advisor. Rafshoon also has contracts with shipping interests for $750,000 for advertising and $250,000 for public relations. And Carters pollster Pat Caddell has also been paid for work for the maritime lobby. Rafshoon and Caddell have permanent White House credentials. They often attend staff meetings in the White sleight-of-han- car-buye- - , A 4' , ' . ' ! t 3 i "VS ' j x 1 i " As the mountains hold the snow for next summer's rivers . so should we store todays experience for tomorroios ivisdom. Photo and text by David Bly for the Deseret News no compu'er study made and that there will be live tests of the Tomahawk. But our sources at the Pentagon reaffirmed in detail the story of the cruise missile crisis The Presidents unexl pected decision against production transformed the cruise missile from a theater to a global weapon. The Tomahawk, the only existing cruise missile, was developed as a weapon but eventually will be launched from heavy bombers. As such, it is now a critically important U.S. strategic B-- By Rowland Evans and Robert Novak Secret computer studies show that the existing U.S. cruise missile would not have a chance to penetrate the Soviet Unions sophisticated defense system, a revelation acutely embarrassing to President Carter and threatening to the prospective SALT II agreeWASHINGTON ment. The studies, conducted jointly over the summer by a private contractor and the Pentagon, found that a scheduled live test would result in the Tomahawk cruise missile being shot down by U.S. defenses. Consequently, the Defense Department some two weeks ago cancelled the live test and substituted a dead or simulated test. That was intended to sidestep severe embarrassment for the weapon which became strategically crucial when Mr. Carter shelved the l B-- bomber. But word has filtered out of the Pentagon, giving ammunition to Capitol Hill critics of the Carter defense policy. The new strategic arms limitation agreement (SALT II) being negotiated in Geneva becomes more vulnerable than ever to criticism that it gives the Soviet Union a dangerous advantage. A Defense Department weapon. The Tomahawk was to be tested beginning Dec. 6 at Nellis Air Base in Nevada against the U.S. Hawk air defense system on a live basis the surface-to-ai- r missile actually sent against the cruise missile (which vmuld be launched from a g aircraft). But the computer studies showed that the Hawk radar would locate the Tomahawk and a surface-to-ai- r Hawk missile would slow-flyin- shoot it down. The imput ations are unnerving. The Hawk is similar to the Soviet SA-- 3 system, which the Russians consider obsolete and peddle to their client countries. If the To- mahawk cannot get past the what chance would it have against the far more advanced Soviet SA-1- 0 now guarding the Russian homeland? The decision was made to scrub the live test, firing the Tomahawk but not actually dispatching the Hawk surface-to-air missile thereby saving the glamor weapon the indignity of being shot down. Instead, the test will be simulated via computer in a dead test. SA-- Rep. Jack Kemp of New York, an important Republi tion of there have been precursors of the Tomahawks vulnerability. The radar of the 5 fighter has picked up a Tomahawk In t light. Testing the Tomahawk Actually, F-1- against radar aircraft scheduled through next April at the China Lake and Point Mugu naval test sites in California now becomes the source of apprehension at the Pentagon. Although the cruise missile team has boasted that their weapon presents radar a n the size of a seagull, that may be too big. n Further reducing the or increasing the missiles speed would require major changes. Nor is there room on the cruise missile for anti-radcountermeasures; the miniaturized motor and warhead take up all the limited space. cross-sectio- cross-sectio- Yet, without a l bomber, Soviet superiority in heavy missiles would provide all the B-- more lopsided a strategic advantage if the Cruise missile cannot penetrate Soviet defenses. Therefore, even though it lost the fight for the l, the Air Force ;c desperate for a penetrating bomber and is pushing for a remodeled FB-il- l (the old TFX) as a substitute. B-- In the absence of a penetrating bomber, the Tomahawk s ability to get by even obsolete U.S. defenses is of the most intense interest. If it cannot pass a live test, the credibility of the entire U.S strategic arms policy is That conflict of interest is precisely kind of ethical shoddiness the President as a candidate promised to avoid. Patience in Africa By James J. models, such as automatic transmission or power brakes, now are offered as extra-cooptions. That probably will wipe out the bailyhooed price cut. Kilpatrick st next year the tires, bumpers and steering wheel will cost extra. So the ancient warning, caveat emptor (let the Maybe buyer beware), possibly given to chariot buyers centuries ago, is worth passing on today. In the wake of South Africa's crackdown on persons it terms revolutionaries," we have witnessed great waves of honest protest and great waves of hypocrisy and ignorance also. There are at least two sides to this story. Most Americans have been getting only one. Viewed from the snug towers of academia, or from the marble halls of Capitol Hill, the South African story is one thing. In this view , the closing of two newspapers and the arrest of 50 black leaders was toa brutal, ruthless, an exercise talitarian act in racist tyranny that cannot be excused or explained. The view from Pretoria is something else entirely. In the view of the Vorster government, the jailed leaders are revolutionaries, pure and simple, seeking what revolutionaries always seek the overthrow of established government. Given this conviction m Pretoria, the governments action may still strike us as inexcusable, but the action surely was not inexplicable It is precisely the action the United States government would take if it ever were determined that rebellion and domestic violence threatened our own peace and tranquility We ought to keep our thinking straight on these matters. We have just been through the bicentennial observance of our own American Revolution, and we tend to equate the very word, revolution, with patriots, and powdered wigs, and founding fathers. This is all very well, so far as it goes. When an armed assault against established government succeeds, the leaders are indeed pro- claimed as heroes, and we hang their portraits in our halls of honor. But if the assault fails, the leaders are known as rebels, and we do not hang their portraits. We hang them It is all in one's point of view. It ought to be kept constantly in mind that South Africa is not to be equated with Angola, or Mozambique, or the Congo, or Rhodesia. South Africa is not now, and never has been, any nations When black power became irresistible in Angola colony. and Mozambique, the Portuguese could go back to Portugal. As colonialism ,,as departed the African scene, we have seen Belgians, French and English pack their bags and go home. No such course of action is available to the South Africans-Theare home. And they will fight with total commit Q can voice on defense, plans to take the House floor to accuse the Defense Department of "rigging a test. At the least, experts believe a simulated test always poses the tempta- spokesman told us there was the ART BUCHWRLD US. cruise missile won't hurt Russia House. Tricky auto pricing An editorial from the Des Moines Tribune The big automakers are ushering in the new 1978 models with some old d tricks. Low prices are part of the pitch. should look But would-b- e twice or more at the price listings before signing up for a new buggy. Items that have been standard equipment on some i ' ' . v . IN THE MIND'S EYE buddy merce. number of bookmaking rings, including at least one in Salt Lake City, have been broken up when police intercepted communication of the point spread from Las Vegas over the tele- Sports Book originates in Las Vegas and is available by cable in 65 cities unions and shipping firms by adding hundreds of millions of dollars to Americas oil bills. The maritime interests may have been the largest single financial contributor in the 1S76 political races. They poured millions of dollars into the campaigns of congressmen, and substantial sums into the campaign of candidate Jimmy Carter. The President proved himself duly grateful, and supported cargo preference to repay his benefactors. For a politician who, like President Carter, repeatedly talks about maintaining especially high ethical standards, J' U v V ,! Ww ' j, A spread on professional and college football games. The point spread is the real tiling, used in Las Vegas and elsewhere by bookmakers in their trade. legislation xV : lers as contestants. The gamblers test their skill against the line or point defeated cargo preference ' : d Sports Book is one of this seasons new TV game shows. There is a bright host and an audience which applauds on cue. But instead of waekily greedy housewives, Sports Book features professional gamb- that would have subsidized maritime ' - ' at the sorts of fishing expeditions of expense personal privacy. If private employers are to be furnished welfare records in the name of fighting fraud, whats to keep the government from turning over tax files, Social Security information, health records, and school data including IQ test results in an effort to uncover abuses in these programs? Moreover, once employers start cooperating with such snooping, how can they reasonably keep the government from demanding various companies own personnel records in return? The federal commission on privacy which Linowes headed has a better idea Congress should prohibit disclosure of records about public assistance or social services clients without the clients authorization. Once their privacy is eroded, it becomes easier to snoop into the personal lives of all Americans. That, unhappily, still leaves the nation with a persistent problem in terms of welfare abuse. But some cures are worse than the ailment, and in this case Secretary Califano should look for a new prescription. TV as the bookmaker's In one of its finest hours this session, the House of Representatives soundly ? ,V s' Stamp out welfare fraud without invading privacy That question arises as the result of HEW Secretary Joseph Califanos proposal to make computer tapes of welfare rolls available to private employers. Those tapes would be compared against payroll tapes in an effort to expose cheats who are drawing welfare benefits while they also work. V s' 'V'' We stand for the Constitution of the United States with its three departments of government, each fully independent in its own field Welfare fraud and abuse should be rooted out and eliminated wherever they exist. But arent there better ways of doing the job than by invading the privacy of millions of Americans? ' xx' in doubt. Smoking stinks A news item out ol Chicago WASHINGTON reports that the American Cancer Society has decided to launch a new advertising campaign who entitled, "Smoking Stinks," aimed at teen-ageare buying cigarettes. The campaign will publicize the fact that smoking causes bad breath. The reason for the switch is that studies showed s do not fear death, they that while most are, thanks to TV, frightened silly of bad breath. I believe the Cancer Society is on the right track. Anyone who watches television knows that n in our American death is not the ultimate culture. Teen-ager- s are fed a daily diet of murders and killings on television programs every day, and most of them accept it as one of those things. But they are aware, from watching the commercials, that bad breath is no laughing matter and no matter who you are you could be a victim of it. I know this from personal experience. I was w atching a TV program the other night with some young people in wliich there was a knifing, a rape and a shootout. I lost count after five people were killed. No one in the room except me seemed bothered rs teen-ager- put-dow- by it. The commercials were something else. In one, a young man took his date home and refused to kiss her. She went inside in tears. The two young ladies watching with me were riveted to their seats. Fortunately, the young womans mother was still up and she explained to her daughter what the problem was. It was BAD BREATTL The mother gave her daughter a bottle filled with a green liquid. The daughter protested that she had already used a mouthwash. But the mother said, This one is different. It freshens your mouth ior 24 hours. In the next scene the same boy took the daughter home and kissed her fully on the mouth. Can I see you again? the boy asked. Inside the house the girl rushed into her mothers How was your date? the mother asked. arms. Wonderful," the girl replied. Thanks to you and My two young lady visitors breathed a sigh of relief. They identified with the poor girl and it seemed that the problem had been resolved to everyones satisfaction. A few commercials later it was the boys turn to squirm. The scene took place in a locker room. The star basketball player had just scored the winning play but all his teammates were ignoring him. The young men in my living room stared intently at the screen. Finally, the coach came over to the boy and said, Nice game, and handed the star a can of underarm deodorant. The boy took the can and sprayed it under his arms. In seconds the entire team gathered around him and congratulated him on his game. All right, one of the young men in the Jiving room said, which is, as I understand it, the highest can pay to anyone or compliment a teen-aganything. ment to preserve the values that are precious to them. Let us consider our own history and be humble. Our black slaves were not seen in Unfortunately, the next commercial had to do 1787 as human beings with with constipation. It showed an old man who didnt want to go fishing until his wife gave him a new equal rights. They were three-fifth- s of all d laxative. merely other persons." It was not kids laughed at this one. The until 1870, after a terrible "Whats so funny? I wanted to know. wmr, that they were given a Who ever heard of a guy who wouldnt go fishing right to vote. It was not until just 12 years ago, that until his wife gave him a new laxative? a teen-age- r 15, the black persons right to said vote in America took on It suddenly dawned on me that these kids were in meaning What a presumpa world of their own, and the American Cancer what arrogance! tion it is new bad breath campaign just might work. for our spokesmen now to Societys lecture South Africa in the virtues of participatory democracy and majority rule. Our principal spokesmen, Messrs. Carter, Mondale and Young, would be well advised to lower their voices and to restrain their rhetoric Given a cooiing-of- f period of pat i ence and understanding land given a gratifying outcome in a domestic election), the Vorster government may well relent Some months ago, before our own reckless spokesman began puffing up the fires of Soweto, a few of the more oppressive aspects of apartheid were fading. There were hopeful gestures in more than gestures sports, in employment, in diplomatic customs. If we mind our own business, for a change, perhaps thix move"Is there something you want ment can soon be restored, and the closed newspapers to tell me, Karen?" brougtit back to useful life er mint-flavore- DOUG SflEYD K i |