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Show DESERET They want to give us the AX and a nuclear powered dodo World War III seems less than imminent. Yet this nation is buying awesome weapons on a basis. Are we buying what we need? The Associated Press Special Assignment Team explores that question in this conclusion of a series on defense spending. y ity. The AX is vulnerable to attack from . enemy aircraft and, while it protects ground troops, it needs another aircraft to protect it. So the Air Force is buying the F15 Eagle which, under current plans, will cost $7.8 billion. Some defense experts insist both jobs could be done satisfactorily by the F4 Phantom, an airplane already in the U.S. arsenal. The Navy wants to spend at least $13.5 billion on a new s"bmanne called Trident which would give the United States more nuclear firepower against Russia. Twenty existing submarines with MIRV (multiple) warheads already have the capability of delivering between 3,200 and 4,480 weapons to the Soviet Union. Just one with MIRVed warheads can take out 160 Soviet cities Polans-Puseido- n Poians-Poseido- n Moreover, by 1976, under programs already subfunded, there will be 31 marines able to fire between 4,960 and 6,944 warheads at Russia. Polaris-Poseido- n And the Soviet Union only has about 1,000 cities with a population at or exceeding 20,000. The administration is asking Congress for $657 million- for fiscal 1974 on top of $220 million received last year to build a new nuclear-powereaircraft carrier. Such a ship has no role whatever in strategic defense. The usefulness is limited solely to small wars like Vietnam. d 2 am getting obscene literature in the mail, at my ad-dress but addressed to someone else. The post office said I can't sign a complaint because it's not in my name. They tril me just to throw it away. I object to this. Isnt there something I can do to stop this material from coming to Mrs. K.H., Salt Lake City. my home? I performance advantages over the current But In not sure those Miller said. B52s, performance advantages are good reasons to go ahead with production. A study of the B1 done by the center indicates that, while the B1 can flv higher and faster, and lower and faster, than the B52, the B52 can carry exactly the same weapons as the Bl. In addition, because of the ABM treaty limiting nations missile defenses, the B52 could penetrate Soviet air space as well as the Bl. Each Bl will cost about $45 million enough to the Pentagon. We dont know who told you, but the information you in fact got is wrong. It doesnt matter whose name it is it could just say occupant. Fact is you control the mail received at your address, name or no. Gc to the post office, get a complaint and sign it. Then they will tell the firm involved to take your address off their list. If they dont and you keep getling the objectionable material, the post office can take legal action. Each B52 costs $8 million. The life span of the B52 with the recent modernization is well into the 1980s, Miller said. I just dont think the Bl is that urgently needed. all-o- day. We have to come to the realization that the aircraft carrier is just a big sitting dodo left over from World War II. The fact they're nuclear propelled now doesnt make them any more effective or any less vulnerable. It just makes them more expensive. Col. Edward Miller, a retired Air Force officer, is associate director of the center. He said in an interview he is concerned that the AX is too limited in capabilities and may have hidden costs that will make it prohibitively ex- Control needed on course I own a golf cart The county will allow me to take my golf cart on their courses. The city will, too. But Wasatch State Park will not I would like to know why? 1 pay taxes ; ' and I think that course is partly mine F.F.H., Salt Lake The earner is just a big sitting dodo left over from City. World War II. The fact they're nuclear-propelle- d now' make them any more effective . . just more expensive. . Its designed for close air support of ground troops and that means it will operate from forward airstrips, Miller said. That also means you have to airlift in its fuel, weapons, spare parts and other supplies. It carries so many weapons and so much fuel that its going to require a lot of support flights, and thats expensive. Plus you have the expense of supporting the support aircraft. Millers views of the AX reflect a controversy within the Air Force itself over whether the aircraft is needed. Some officers see the Adm Gene LaRocque. director, Center for Defense Information the service's traditional Robert Anderson, president of Rockwell International, the company which is buildir.g the Bl disagrees. Ths youngest B52 will be 18 to 20 years old when the first Bl goes into use, he said. The oldest one will be close to 30. The plane is tired and worn out. It took a terrible beating in Vietnam. I dont think you want to take a chance on having the B52s or having In addition, some Texas congressional pow nothing. I wasnt suggesting that we abandon the ..o interdiction mission. Miller said. Im just suggesting we Bl, might not need it as urgently as the Air Force says we do. Maybe we should spend a little slower and think a little harder. I guess all were trying to do is get somesaid LaRocbody to ask the right questions, could be a lot of that are There things que, done to save money without endangering the national security. There just arent very many people willing ro look for them. Theyll re-lev- home el My mother purchased a mobile home last fall and she's had several problems. The last week and a half shes tried to get the dealer to come out and level it for her. Besides that, the back door is uneven, theres a crack in the bath tub, the insulation is not installed properly, the skirting is not the quality it should be, there is no back door light, and the drapes in the bedroom are dirty and rainsoaked from flying out the window when it was being moved to her property. Can you help her? K.H., Woods The status quo is too easy. Cross. Still turning to D.C. for hope Harris Although 81 percent of the public is convinced that corruption in Washington today is serious and the number with high respect for the federal government comes to no more than 27 percent, a substantial 64 percent of the American people acknowledge that federal government decisions affect them personally in a very important way. Rarely has faith and confidence in the federal establishment been so low, and yet the peoplje themselves believe deeply that many critical public issues can be decided only in Washington. In many ways, the crisis of the Watergate affair points up a national dilemma: How to get at the roots of official corruption and at the same time preserve an effective national government. Recently, a nationwide cross section of 1,537 households was asked: Many people believe that there are certain policy cisions affecting our lives which should be decided on the federal level, while other derisions should be made on the state level and still other derisions should be made at the local level city, town, or county. For each item on this list (below) tell me if you think the morecisions about it should be made at the federal level in Washington, the state level, or the local level? Where decisions should be made de- New recession inevitable? Our batting average on that in the last decade, econ- By Thomas J. Arrandale Congressional Quarterly omist Arthur M. Okun ruefully admits, is precisely .000. - WASHINGTON The U.S. economy, always resistant to government fine-tunin- A boom by may be booming beyond the Nixon administrations carefully laid 1973 game plan. Unless its reined in, economists are another recession warning, ' may be inevitable. If those warnings come true, the governments ecowill have nomic failed once again to guide a spurting economy onto the policy-make- track of sustainable, ' growth. inflation-fre- e . itself would be welcome. And with jobs, income and consumption all rising, the 8 percent real growth rate the economy chalked up during the first three months of 1973 made the immediate prospects for the American people seem good. In the words of . Herbert Stem, President Nixons Council of Economic Advisers chairman, that is what an economy, is all about, and what an economic system is supposed to deliver' to the people. The problem with a boom is that it cant go on forever. As the economy nears or reaches its capacity for production, a slowdown becomes inevitable. The Nixon administration in fact planned to slow the economys rapid growth during the second half of 1973. After midyear, according to the Council of Economic Advisers 1973 report to Congress, the economy will be significantly closer to the zone of full potential, and it is both proba Mother Goose in the ghetto - The AmeriPHILADELPHIA (AP) can Civil Liberties Union, ACLU, is protesting the ban of a nursery rhyme book from the shelves of Philadelphias public schools. The Inner City Mother Titled Goose, the book by Eve Merriam depicts ghetto life in a series of rhymes and drawings. The school board ordered the book stricken from the shelves last October. , Now,, the ACLU has issued a protest, arguing the action did not follow estab- lished school board procedure for banning books. An example of the books verse, a poem titled Jack Be Nimble, reads: Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, snap the blade and give it a flick. Grab the purse its easily done. Then just for kicks, just for fun, plunge the knife and and run. cut ... ble and desirable that the rate of expansion will and should abate toward its sustainable path. The economys rapid growth, however, long-ru. n ran the administrations jections. The worry, first-quart- er out- pro- Stein later conceded, is that the very speed of the expansion would generate forces which would cause more of a slowdown than we would want. One danger is that the govs ernment thempolicy-maker- selves would for the boom, clamping down too hard on fiscal and monetary restraints. Indeed, ome economists contend that bad timing by the government helped create the boom and may create recession in its wake. In the first half of 1973, such items as tax refunds and improved Social Security benefits are making the (federal) budget almost observed Paul W. Nixons McCracken, first Council of Economic Advisers chairman. This is going to put more pressure on the economy during the rest of 1973 than we ought to have. hyper-expansiv- e, Quarterly Jack Anderson Oar national forWASHINGTON ests, with 92 mil'inn acres of timberland, provide a refuge for a variety of wild creatures and a recreation area for the populace. Americans by the tens of millions roam the federal woods each year. They may be interested in a revealstack of documents, intending, ed for official eyes only. These show that the Nixon Administration is selling off a staggenng 11.8 billion board feet of the taxpayers timber. two-inc- h Yet at the same time, the administration is reducing the money and manpow-- ' f from er needed to prevent the becoming a fire hazard. In the cautious language of bureaucrats, the memos warn that the untreated slash could turn into tinder and create dangers of massive forest fires. cut-of- The Forest Service is trying, Watergate style, to suppress the imnminating memos. An Early Warning Alert has hern circulated, cautioning that the memos are privileged information" ami must be w ithhold from the pubbo. we will publish the Nevertheless, avail highlights and make the full te ' - ' OURAAAN i jones By Harry Jones Deseret News staff writer - m- - The schools are offering summer sessions, and Im about to enroll in a course called working in wood. It refers to building things with lumber and not working in a forest. At my age, it is Something akin to a butterfly learning to build a cocoon. Plus, either due to genetic deficiency or an unfortuante meetings of planets in my sixth house, the capability to use a hammer is t. I still hold the record, a backward success, of taking my sophamore, junior and senior years to complete a bread board. Making it more complicated was the fact that it was supposed to be shaped like a pig with a curly tail. I manual-cum-boa- j1 You could hang it up by the tail. Well, you were sup- posed to be able to hang it up by the tail, but it broke off about midway into my junior year. Figuring cost of the lumber and labor plus the hours of patience spent by Mr. Case, our teacher, that bread board cost $39.42. J I J pig-shap- Timber! for taxpayers' trees In 8 out of the 11 policy areas asked about, the public tends to see the federal responsibility as the primary one. While such matters as national defense and social security a national perhaps could only be answered as demanding have been areas other of the some policy approach, claimed in recent years as major provinces of state or local government. For example, many states have in recent years develdrug reform, prison reform, oped extensive and health insurance programs. Yet the public continues to see these functions as primarily requiring federal decisionmaking if they are to be properly looked after. Taken in the aggregate, those results show that the American people have not ceased to see a need for many in strong federal governmental measures their national life. people say that federal In fact, by a wide margin decisions affect their personal lives more than policies immade at state or local levels. Thus, both in terms of the and the effect of solved be must feel portant questions they those decisions on their own personal lives, the national in the American government emerges as the central pivot federal system. Yet confidence m the central establishment, by nearly all measures, is uniformly low these days Disenchantment with the federal government has been neither precipitous nor sudden. Rather, it has been the which has been taking place pioduct of a steady erosion the since mer a period of years A (Cooright.J3, Chicogo IriBune Dealer says all hell do is relevei your mothers mobile home, although he accepts no responsibility for its being out of kilter. He claims the concrete slab on which the T home sits were not set deep enough so the weight of the Ca home made them sink. The slab settling caused theJ crooked back door and a leak in the roof, and the buckledJ skirting. He said there is nothing in the contract con-- 2 ceming the light and tub, and no mention was ever made: until now, tight months later, of dirty drapes. Some insul- - 2 lation had to be removed to make room for plumbing fixtures and power hookups. So when weather permits, and jT the mud is dry enough, theyll relevel the unit. Thereafter; he says, shell be charged for any repairs. W (c) 1973 Congressional mid-1960- d Economic batting average: Zero SURVEY (64-47- You have the right lo use tHe golf course, but must abide by the rules set up by the operators. The course, has its own carts which are available for rental. Part of the money derived from this rental accrues to the state and is subsequently used for maintenance of the course. The concessionaire must control the type of vehicle allowed on the property because some carts are not standard, improperly maintained or leak gas, or even damage the turf. We understand that some city and county courses will allow the use of privately-ownecarts, but not all. It appears reasonable to us that close control and strict policy on how the course is used makes for a better course, serves everyone equally and thus makes good sense. doesnt pensive. as a threat LINE P.O. clarifies rules on obscene material No one disputes that the B1 has some Take the nuclear aircraft carrier. Aircraft carriers were very effective in World War II. Ask the Navy where theyve been effective since then and theyll tell you in Lebanon and Vietnam. Theyve been of no strategic value. And theyre terribly vulnerable to enemy attack. In war, they wouldnt last a AX OUR READERS' ACTION Aero-p.u- We have to start equating the forces that the Pentagon wants to buy with the job that needs to be done, LaRocque said Instead weve gotten on this syndrome of buying a new shiny thing that goes faster and higher than the old thing, and that has become HRRRiS By Louis mfifi, are pushing to have the A scrapped in favor of continued production of the 7, an e attack plane biail bv LTV Coip . in Texas Mnle Miller sas the Ct filer is not trying to put down all new Pentagon pt meets ho questions whether enough though! was given to the nations bomber force before it.e ir Force began spend. ng what will eventually lie $11 billion for the 244 new El bombei - tion. WASHINGTON (AP) The Air Force wants to spend over $1 billion for an aircraft called the AX, designed to give close air support to ground troops. The AX may never be needed unless this country fights another ground war in Europe, a very remote possibil- DO- - er.--. wont say flatly that there are things we shouldnt be buying, but I don't think anybody has seriously asked if we really need them or not, Adm. Gene LaRocque said in an interview. LaRocque is the former commander of a naval task force that comprised half of the Sixth Fleet and is now director of the Center for Defense Information here. The center is a clearing house for defense informaI non-prof- By Jean Heller Associated Press Writer A3 NEWS, MONDAY, MAY 28, 1973 able to any group interested in saving our forests. The timber toll of 11.8 billion board feet was approved by the Cost of living Council under political pressure from the lumber industry and economic pressure from the construction boom. The suppressed memos promise even "higher output goals in 1974 and 1975. Yet the memos tell how the Forest Service, which is supposed to manage our national forests, is caught in a budget squeeze. Its funds are being slashed e work force by $105 million, its reduced from 20,400 to 18,810. full-tim- Bolstered by the response irom worried regional directors, Forest Service chief John McGuire and his men began drafting some memos of their own. One for the White House, itself, says tentatively that additional funds are needed f is to be prevent. if timber ed " The memo warns the 1475 gnaK cannot be sustained fall-of- wresters tried lo take their complaints up to Capitol Hill. This brought some sharp specific guidance from the White House to the Agr:ulture Some Department, which has jurisdiction over the Forest Service. Nevertheless, McGuire told us honestI cannot legally say to the loggers, here is the National Forest, help yourself. A final decision on the 11.8 billion board feet, meanwhile, awaits White house action. ly: Footnote: The timber barons contributed not only to President Nixons campaign but to serveral congressional campaigns. Democrats and Republicans alike received generous donations. To make it easier to slip money to congressmen, the industry once formed a 99 Club for making $99 donations, just under the legal $100 limit for identifying donors by name. For special friends like House GOP Leader Gerry Ford, the industry once provided him with a company let The National Forest Products Association and three other associated lobbies alao laid out a lavish booze and bulfet reception for Agriculture Secretary Earl But shortly before his However that was years, ago, and I now feel that Im ready. Years and years of home repairs have given me new confidence. j i At first, we resolved the handyman work by moving every few months. This was in our days. Since that time, Ive become expert and bending that copper wire holding the black ball. The one that keeps the water from running over in the commode. ; We have pictures in our house that are hung quite J securely, I might add, with about 150 feet of cellophane' ; tape. You cant even see the tape unless you get within seven feet of the picture. . ' The tuning of the color television is an ffles me. art that ba- - 1 J E t We are still using a toaster we received as a wedding J gift. Ive worked many hours on that appliance. One side ; still toasts bread two ways. One way is too light, and the other is burned. The other side of the toaster hurls a slice a bread across the room like it was a frisbee! , Painting is another project that Ive mastered to some extent. However, to paint our frontroom and dining area takes exactly five gallons plus three more dips of the brush. The trouble is trying to get those three last dips of paint to match the rest! Working in wood is still hack fense will attest. J t J t J J ' ! ! a big mystery to me, as our Its as crooked as Watergate. So if you see me on Indian Hill during the summer quarter, you will know Ive enrolled in going to make a bread board. If sue- cessful. my fad project will be remodling the kitchen eabi- - ; 1 I ! nels anothei Monday has been deieated AITS END: A neighbor of ours is walking on crutch- es Fell off hpr high heeUJ high styled shoes' And. f |