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Show k v 'V DESERET NEWS, THURSDAY, MAY We stand for the Constitution of the United States ' VA H" fiVT "v x & 31, 1973 A5 as having been divinely inspired. How many engineer classes does Utah really need? Even though a state of Utahs sue likeIn seeking to set more clearly defined get along well enough with only roles and boundaries to the engineering d school of engineering, programs of the various schools, the coltoo to tarn the clock back comlate its lege board is simply seeking to do the job pletely. it was created to do put higher education in Utah on a more systematic and But it's not too late to keep costly engiorderly basis. neering classes from proliferating at colleges with only minimal engineering pro the college board is better Its to do than is the Legislature. grams or none at all qualified Nor is it too late to eliminate some Consequently, lets hope Utah isnt treated duplication of effort involving minor fields to a repeat performance of the legislative of engineering where the com para tie intervention that took place recently w hen costs of educating each student are parthe University of Utah was shot down m ticularly hign. its efforts to merge its College of Mines Thats precisely what the State Board with its College of Engineering. of Higher Education is seeking to do with In saying this, we realize it's seldom if its recommendation this week that certain ever easy for any college to restrict or reengineering courses at the University of duce its programs. Prestige and profesUtah and Utah State Uniersity be sional accreditation aie often irvolved. So merged. to win federal grants. Under the proposal to be discussed at is a schools ability So is the ability to attract top students a public hearing June 28, the University and top teachers. of Utah would have exclusive jurisdiction But the changes involved in the engioer chemical engineering, bioengineerconsolidation can be rendered less and materials neering science ing, engineering. For its part. USU would have sole juris- painful if the adjustments are instituted diction oxer industrial teacher education gradually rather than abruptlv. along with industrial and technical educaMoreover. Utahns should know that tion. Both colleges would continue their both engineering schools in Salt Lake City progiams in civil, electrical, and mechan- and Logan have records of academic ex-- , ical engineering. Moreover, industrial encellence. Its a record that should be gineering at the Salt Lake City school and enhanced if the college board succeeds in manufacturing engineering at the Logan its efforts to turn costly competition beinstitution would be demoted to tween schools into systematic ly could one state-supporte- a-j- status. IN THE MINDS EYE Photo and text b Pax id Bly for Deseret News Right to life is being L.A. Times Syndicate - to settle strikes When even short labor tieups occur m basic industries, they can be more than just an inconvenience to both producers and consumers. But what Utah needs to implement in is a prox Lion and machinery its labor law for binding arbitration after voluntary efforts to reach a settlement have been Governor Rampton exercised some exhausted. Given reasonable prudence in choosing statesmanship and leadership in stepping into the threatened strike against Utah's members of the arbitration panel, unions milk producers by the Teamsters Union, should not fear such an arrangement any representing some 800 drivers and plant more than management. w orkers. That is apparent in the recent agreement by the United Steelworkers union The union and producers plan to con10 of the nations major, steel producand tinue negotiations until midnight tonight, ing companies. They agreed to establish the first phase suggested by the governor. final and binding arbitration for voluntary an if Gov. Rampton also suggested that unresolved issues growing out of the any werent reached by then, agreement 1974 contract negotiations. workers should continue work for 30 days Whats good enough for the steelworkwhue negotiations continued, with terms of the final settlement retroacive to June 1. ers should be good enough for others. So A peace-keep- bows out er Canadians have been involved in virtupeace-keepin- g ally every international venture since World War II and are acknowledged experts at it. Consequently, the frustration and disappointment must be particularly acute when a nation so accustomed to dealing with discord finally throws in the towel. That's what Canada did this week in deciding that by July 31 it will leave the International Commission for Control and Supervision (ICCS). Its hard to blame Canada for going. From the outset of the cease-fir- e agreement, it was clear that the organization supposed to police peace in Vietnam would be hamstrung by the membership of Communist Poland and Communist Hungary. Because of such built-i- n weaknesses. Canada was never enthusiastic about participating in the ICCS and did so only on a trial basis. Nothing has happened to make Canada feel more comfortable. Violations of the cease-fir- e take place every day and the ICCS is powerless to report them, let alone stop them. The control commission cant go where it wants to go in Vietnam. So divided is the commission that there have been only two unanimous decisions both of them in supof condemnation of Viet accusations. Cong port If any comfort can be taken from this sad situation, it is that even stronger truce machinery could not keep the North and South Vietnamese from fighting if thats what they insist on. But even weaker machinery would suffice if the strife has finally reached the point where all ' have sickened of it Politics without prejudice City councilman Thomas Bradleys trouncing of Mayor Sam Yorty in Los Angeles mayoralty election this week is a significant signpost that Americans are increasingly looking beyond the color of a mans skin in choosing public servants. Several other large cities, including Cleveland, have elected black mayors in mayors, 790 city councilmen, 132 black elected county officers, two elected state officers, 169 state representatives, and 37 black state senators in the U.S., according to the Joint Center for Political Studies in Washington, D. C. 1965 when Julian was the first Negro since Reconrecent years. struction days to be elected to the Georand then was prevented In fact, as of March 1 of last year gia Legislature from vice two and 86 black for were taking his seat. years there mayors Thats a far cry from Bond ART BUCHUUALD seriously hampered By Nick Thimmesch HoW Where man has walked the earth will never be the same. How long can he walk before he covers the earth with his rusting footsteps? . . . Out in WASHINGTON Detroit there will soon be a powwow which, to my mind, is as important a story as Watergate, only it wont get the same attention. The event is e Conthe National whose participants vention represent all religious faiths (or none), political view s. a ages and eccentricities humanity interested in humanityThey are united m common respect for human life and the right to life for all fellow humans. In this secular, computerized, clinical and seemingly Right-to-Lif- insensitive age, they see for disrespect increasing human life, indeed, new sanitized cruelties which amount to barbarism abortion-on-deman- Depo-Prover- a experimental are used drugs on prisoners, students, mdi- birth-contr- No nonsense on impeachment By Ernest Caneo North American Alliance moral support of the people as Newspaper personnel and institutionalized patients for purposes not currently approved by the Food and Drug Administration. but legal an way Injurious side effects olten result, and there have even been deaths tary No. it's not all over abortion. Though this movement began with Roman Catholic coloration and focused mainly on the issue of it left that religious connection and widened its scope to cover a variety of medical and legal areas Examples which anger -- DES' and LONDON Probably no one has suffered more from the Watergate scandal than the American tourist. Every time a new re. elation conies out. the dullards I attacked by money speculators in Europe, and by the end' I of the day its w orth less than it w as in the morning. The other day I was standing in a London bank trying, to cash a $30 traveler's check. In front of me was an Arab sheik with a porter's trolley on which were 10 large bales'! of American dollars valued at $10 million. a whole, he cannot govern. The only impeachment trial in U.S. history, that of Pres. Andrew demonJohnson, strates the point. For attempting to follow the policies of President Lincoln, President Johnson was nearly turned out of office, missing conviction by only one vote short of the The Watergate incident illustrates the greatest flaw in the U.S. Constitution, namely, that the U.S. government is the prisoner of the calendar. What this means is that, no majority. matter how much the people necessary It is the consensus of histomay change their minds in ry that never did the people the meantime, the government they elect lasts for four make more rabid fools of themselves and never has a years. nation paid a higher price. This is not true under the The fact is that argument parliamentary system. There, and removal by while a government must call by calumny are aspects of vituperation an election at least once U.S. political life which make every five years, it has the other free nations shudder. right to call an election any The abuse which goes with time it feels an issue is so public office in the United great the people ought to have States is unmatched in the the final word on it. North Atlantic countries. This is called going to the Currently, there is considercountry and, if it has marked able talk of impeaching the disadvantages of instability in President, some of which, it a multi-partcountry, it also seems, is designed to accusthas the virtue of remarkable om the public to the idea and mobility in times of crisis. thus overcome one of the emotional barriers against it. By contrast, a president is frozen in for his term; for all There should be no nonsense on this score. The impeachpractical purposes, impeachment and removal from office ment of a president is a fearis a nonexistent remedy. ful thing to contemplate, for next to a general strike, Moreover, it is an undignified one. To be exact, when a hardly anything will paralyze president does not have the this nation more. two-thir- y New In the prestigious England Journal of Medicine, M D., Franz Ingelfmger, recently advocated removing the World Medical Assn.s absolute ban on experimenting with children and mental incompetents and hoped that some broadly based system can be set up to determine under what conditions children or mentally incompetent pern sons can .be used for not primarily designed for their benefit experi-ementatid- ... to alter -"P- sycho-surgery looks like youre going to have a pretty wild I I said, trying to strike up a conversation. ; Oh, no. he said. This is just seme petty cash I found around the house, and I was afraid of being stuck with me, do you think this Watergate business is serious? T'l It weekend, it;-T- One never Knows, I said guardedly. Why do didnt, I have $50 million in the Rolls outside, and I know if this would be the best time to sell them. Actually I hadn't intended to come to the bank today, but then I readj. m the newspapers that John Mitchell said he wouldn't bit', the fall guy in the Watergate. I decided that if he refuseJ to be the fall guy, then President Nixon would have to be the fall guy. and if that happened, heaven knows what will ! happen to the American dollar. do with had Nixon to I'm sure President the nothing scandal, I said, trying to protect my $50 travelers check. I I'm not so sure, the sheik replied. I've been watclF hearings on the BBC, and Ive been very impressed with McCords testimony. One of my wives said to me last- night, 'Abdul I think you should get out of dollars and into' !; something more comfortable. human behavior is performed on hundreds of Americans annually with some advocates even citing the possible role of brain disorders in rioters who engaged in arson, sniping and physical assault. Funding of research or performance of psycho-surger- y has been stopped on the federal and state level, but when the uproar subsides, advocates will seek funds again. A bill to legalize voluntary euthanasia was introduced in Oregon by State Sen. Ted The bill would provide to be perfor euthanasia formed on any person who voluntarily requests it and has or develops an irremedial Thats silly. I said. The Watergate will blow over, and then youll be sorry you sold all those dollars. I thought that way myself imtil I read the John Dean III interview in Newsweek. If he can substantiate his charges, the dollar could go right through the floor. I have 100 million of them in my garage, and I would hate to be saddled w ith them just before I go on summer vacation. The man behind us, who turned out to be the treasurer of a large multinational company, asked, Would you mind moving up? I have to buy 20 million British pounds by noon or my president will have my head. Laboratory experiments to produce human life outside e the womb, babies, continue, and when human embryos are formed, the human life is disposed of by pouring the solution down the sink drain. Whos he? I asked the treasurer. Hes a gnome from Switzerland. Every time theres a new development in the Watergate, he flies over here to buy German marks. With dollars. I asked. Why doesnt he buy them in Switzerland? Hes afraid if he does the Swiss will find out the dollar It isnt farfetched to point out that Hitlers slaughter of an estimated 12 million people can be traced, in large part, to medical expenmentation and mercy-killin- g practices in German institutions on German Germans considered worthless, that is, the ment?lly ill and defective. When Hi'ler subsequently Will ou hold my place in the line? the Arab sheik asked. I think Ill go out to the car and get the other $30 million. Hal-loc- test-tub- found he had millions of ailing slave laborers on his hands, there was medical precedent in Germany execution. ing the Are you buying them with dollars? I asked. Im not buying them with rubles, he said rather huf-fily. I I I X ! The man behind him, who was three feet tall, said in a Swiss accent, Vats mit the talk? Move along. is in trouble. Certainly, I said, but I have a favor to ask of you in return. Im an American tourist and I was wondering if I could buy pounds with my $50 travelers check before you cash in your dollars. Im afraid if you cash in first, I might not be able to pay for my hotel room tonight. The sheik said, Are you crazy? What happens if they devalue the dollar before I get to the cashiers window? ' Nixon wouldnt do that, I said. , 1 about but President what Aha, Agnew? for their mass DOUG SflEYD Watergate inquiry poses test for courts, press Erwin D. Canham The Christian Science Monitor By News Service Three processes are underway simul- beanng taneously on the Watergate situation. Each has its strengths. Each has its dangers. in the hands of the Justice Department and the recently chosen special prosecutor, Archibald Cox. Each of these processes is essential. But they overlap. The problem is that one process, fully legitimate in its own field, should not usurp the safeguarded function of the First is the exposure and other. informational process, in the. No person should be tried media. hands of the news and sentenced in the columns Second is the investigative of the news media nor on the process, largely beanng on air, nor through a Senate the operation of the political committee. The ultimate issue system, in the hands of the se- of due process, cf establishing lect Senate committee. guilt or innocence before the by the And third is the process of law, must be handle The men whose involvement in the whole Watergate business, by which is meant of course the sequence of politi- cal events beginning at least in 1969, are being tried, in a manner of speaking, every day in the newspapers, and even more emotionally on the tube. indictments have and grand juries be busy, the role becomes increasand delicate. difficult ingly That does not mean that the uncovering job the news media has been performirjg Now that been issued continue to of the press indications, there is still much more to be brought to light. But the media should do this as responsibly and dispassionately as possible. The climate must be one in which a fair trial is possible. There must be few who do not have some if not biases about it. The judicial process, like the informational process, will be very much put to the "est. We are all aware of the presumption of innocence, so fundamental to Anglo-Saxo- n justice. How can this presumption be protected by the news every right to know what has been going on, and what kind of cover-umay have been attempted? The press must do it best. p The issues being explored by the Senate committee will inevitably invade much that is coming before the grand jury and will ultimately come out in court. But the Senate Committee might well focus its interest deeply on what has been happemng to the political process. It may be that the events it uncovers will not necessarily concern crimes punish file in court. They may " of standards development which wili save the political process. Every professional politi- member of Congress, every person who ever ran for office, has much at stake. If politics in the U.S., which has been degrvded at tim&s enough many cian, evey throughout history, should become set in the mold, with all the devices of espionage, forgery, and even thought-contro- l through elaborate psychological processes, the nation is in for a bad time. And so is i er i A "Your wife is here fo..see you. She Ion", " - I |