OCR Text |
Show rnririiwnMi ti imntuin milHlTliij. iimininmimi imh nintfiHii fcn 1' rf w u DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH A5 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1973 We stand for the Constitution of the United States with its three departments of government, each fully independent in its own field. Who should have right to send nation to war? The game of power politics isnt dead; iiii, in the Middle East. it's alive and That much is certain after this week's saber-rattlindisplay of In response to what appeared or was a Soviet threat to interpreted as send Russian unilaterally troops to police the Middle East cease-fire- , the U.S. put out a world-wid- e alert to its military forces. big-pow- That is one of the milder wavs in which the U.S. could have responded. That action no doubt was taken into account by Russia when it agreed to the creation of a United Nations peacekeeping force in the Middle East without Soviet or American troops. But the incident raises a far more serious Constitutional question about who has the right to commit the nation to war. That very issue is now before Congress in the matter of President Nisons veto of the war powers resolution. The bill, as passed by Congress, would limit on the Presidents impose a to comm't U.S. combat troops power abroad without Congress approval. Unless Congress acted in that time tc approve the action, the troop action would have to be terminated. Or Congress coyld act on a joint concurrent resolution to halt war action, which would not be subject to a presidential veto. In addition to the limit, the president could extend the time another 30 days only for the safe withdrawal of forces he had already committed. y 60-d- President Nixon, in vetoing the bill, would purport to take contended it a mere by legislative act. authori away, ties which the president has properly exercised under the Constitution for al- I HUM 200 CcUS M But many noted constitutional lawyers among them Racal Berger of the contend that the Harvard Law School vast bulk of the power was entrusted to Congress, not to the president as Commander-in-Chief- . And with very good reason: No single man, the Founders reasoned, should have the power to hurry" us into war. As James Madison noted, the executive had and the a propensity for writers of the Constitution wanted to hobble that propensity. Forgottonia e sympathize with the proposed state area of westof Forgottonia. a ern Illinois which feels ignored by the state and federal government and which seeks to secede. Others of us, too, have come from just home towns such unremembered areas and snubbed be to doomed eternally forgotten. Weve naturally pondered the serious problems of such weve decided they require institutions that automatically memorable solemnly on places, and leaders and make them The acting governor of veteran named Vietnam a is Forgottonia Gamm. That's a fairly good name, but we keep confusing it with similar ones like Dietrich, Grable, Turner, and Monroe. The permanent governor should be a man with a name which no one could possibly forget, like Whatshisname. A cognomen like that would be on everybodys v.V NS war-makin- war-makin- Photo and test by David Blv single-handedl- from Acheson derived his authority the Consftutions designation of th presiBut as Alexdent as Commander-in-Chief- . ander Hamilton was careful to explain, these words merely constituted the presiwho would dent as the first General, lead a war commenced by Congress or by invasion. As Hamilton reasoned, no general can make the political decision to wage war. Rather, his task is to conduct hostilities once the decision is made in the council of the nation to go to war. The war powers resolution is a reasonable method of recognizing modern-da- y exigencies in the frame of Constitutional provisions. Sensibly, the commission has decided to serve primarily as a clearing house for various projects undertaken by local governments or groups of citizens. The most ambitious proposal is a $12 million concert hall to be built near the Salt Palace. It is a worthy concept. The state Legislature, Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County will have to work together to supply the funds. Following the lead of the national American Revolution Bicentennial Com mission, projects will be classified as Heritage, Horizon and Celebration. Heritage projects will revere Americas past. Horizon projects are to build works of lasting value for the future. And celebrations will express joy and national pride in our nations 200th birthday. The plan is open enough for almost any worthwhile undertaking to find a place in the bicentennial activities. lips But 1976 is fast approaching. It is high time for towns, civic grbups, schools, churches and other groups to begin thinkbicening about their participation in the tennial. Finally, if a place really wants to get things done, it must have a catchy slogan. To a deserving would-b- e state with a can we even offer one: road ahead, tough If at first you don't secede, try, try again Many different projects sponsored by a wide variety of groups will be a fitting way to honor America, which after all is the worlds prime example of a melting pot of different peoples pursuing their own goals in freedom. for Deseret New never-endin- Impeachment talk foolish; some needed alternatives By James J. Kilpatrick Washington Star Syndicate Talk of removing Richard Nixon from oftice by impeachment is pure nonsense, but even pure nonsense offers a topic for rational discussion these days. And make no mistake: Impeachment is the talk of this gabby town. Everybody is getting in on the act. The talk is foolish for two reasons. The first is constitutional, the second political. federal Unlike judges, whose good benavior presents a different and an additional question, presidents can be! impeached for only treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors The firing of the special prosecutor may be a blunder. The ouster of an attorney general and his deputy may be a tactiBut these acts cal error simply are not crimes in the constitutional sense. Criminal contempt would be, but Nixon not been found has in s of the contempt. could be Senate never mustered to convict Richard Nixon merely for giving the boot to Archie Cox. Too man senators thought it a splendid idea. Two-third- The constitutional question to one side, it is nonsense to talk of removing the President if his successor would be (a) Ford or (b) Carl Gerald Albert. It is one thing to speak ol confirming Mr. Ford as vice president. By law and custom, the sole duties of a vice president are to preside over the Senate, to raise funds for his party, and on appropriate occasions to praise physical fitness. highway safety, and the rule of law. The gentleman from Michigan is abundantly qualified for these obligations It is another thing altogether for senators to cast a vote for removal, assuming that Mr. Ford has now been contained, that would elevate Arabs can keep oil Jim Fiebig General Features Corp. By As far as I'm concerned, the Arabs can take their nd wells and sit on them Those wonderful lolks who brought us the Middle East war have announced theyll begin cutt ng oil production 5 5 percent percert now more each month thereafter until America modifies its current position of support for Israel It's blackmail - but things aren't all that dark. The United States depends on the Arabs for no more than 6 of its oil. and federal officials say we could offset the cutback by (1) turning our thermostats down 1 degree, and (2) squeezing more production from domestic wells percent Let's start turning and squeezing. What the Arabs are suggesting with their dirty little game is that America's commitments to its friends go no deeper than an oil well That's positively insulting The United States is a countrv that just sacrificed 50.000 lives, billions of dollars and 10 years of potential domestic tranquillity for a tiny Asian nation that could offer us absolutely nothing.. Do the Arabs believe that same United States would sacrifice Israel rather than back its thermostats otf 1 degree? I'm beginning to suspecl it was by divine intent not pure geological accident that the Arab leaders were granted control of GO percent of the world's oil supply. After all, they were shortchanged in so many other areas. North American Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON Stanley Baldwin, the late unlamented Britprime minister of Great '30s ain, declared during the the inform not did he that British people of Kilters forof arms bemidable build-ucause his party would have lost the British elections. - p In fact, neither British party made it an issue. One man did. though: Winston Churchill With painful parallel, neither party has maior gone to the American pimple with the truth As in Great Britain, however, one man Scoop Sen Henry has Jackson of Washington State Amencar It has been said again and again of Jackson that he can't get his message across: neither could Churchill in the 30s. But the Soviet SAM 6 missiles whizzing out of their mobile earners along the Suez have brought home the deadly truth of Senator Jacksons unjust as position, popular Hitlers Luftwaffe delivered the truth of Sir Winston Churchills warning Of course, Jacksons message never got across. A man who offers sweat, taxes and cant compete against the two major parties in a breakneck race to bnng peace in our time," in a wonderful country where everyone has nghts and pnn-legebut r duties s The Israel basic must facts are that be replenished from our existing arsenal already in Europe, or Israel will be worn down. Granting that it has superior personnel, Israel is dismally inferior in Without weapons numbers. which match the sophistication of the Soviet armament m action. Israel, already bleeding profusely, will pass into massive hemorrhage For all practical strategic purposes, the Israeli armies are fighting on the Suez and Golan Heights fronts, the equivalent of the Royal Air Force defense of Great Britain in the Battle of Britain tn 1940. If Israel falls, the eastern Mediterranean becomes a Russian lake, under cover of Soviet air force and-base- planes. Frm Alexander and Julius Caesar t the Great Napoleon and Kilter, it is perfectly obvious that he w ho holds the Mediterranean holds Europe and he who doesn't hold tbn Mediterranean loses it Urael is the nght Hank of NATO It ;s the NATO countries of the center France. West Germany, Italy and Greece which should be standing by ready to help Israel which is defending them. Rut, of course, they are not. When the British stood off Hitler, the world agreed with Churchill when he called upon his countrymen to stand in their adversity, that people for a thousand years would call it their finest hour They did. to their undying glory But consider the heroism oi the Jews; of 15 million people at least six million slaughtered in cold blood by Hilter. Today, some 2.3 million are held captive b Russia. In Urael. an army of 250, COO now faces onslaught by 750,000 m a two part war. Moreover. Israel is assailed by 3.400 tanks; Montgomery at Alemam had only about heroism! 800. Talk The cruelty of this conflict is that the Arabs are engaged in a holy war and so are the Israelis. But Russia is engaged in an unholy war. fanning hate against hate. If nothing else, the guns of war should wake us up As Hitler in "Mein Kampf, lei there be no doubt, for the Kremlin has said it. Israel is todays target, but the deof struction America ohjpctive g ART BUCHUJALD I happen to be one of those people WASHINGTON who believes that the unidentified flying objects which hjive been reported seen whizzing around the United States pre for real. But. like so many people. I have no idea wfcnt , they want from the United States at thus point in time I sought out some of the most learned men in (his i country to find out if they had any theories Prof. Heinrich Applebaum of the Watergate Observ told me, This is just speculation, of course. bi I wouldn't be surprised if theyre trying to make a wHeat deal with the United States. They saw what a gpod contract the Russians made with us and they figure they could do the same thing. But why would they need w heat?" I asked j anonv mous this pleasantly person to the highest ottice m the free world. No wav. For all his sins of omission and as lamentable commission, these are. Nixon does have the experience and the sense oi command that are vital to the exercise of presidential powers. Jerry Ford does not. to-r- v J Alternative (bj is beyond The Senate contemplation. numbers 56 Democrats, 42 Republicans, one Independent, and one Conservative. It is inconceivable that many Ret no mention publicans, Harry Byrd cf Virginia and James Buckley of New York, would cast a vote on impeachment that would elevate Democrat Carl Albert to the power and patronage of the White House. No way. The necess sary majority could not lie mustered for an act of Republican han-ka- If you will look through this telescope you'll see fliat there is not too much growing out thTe You have toas-sumthat whoever they are, they have to import mosi of their wheat They probably were buying their wheat from another planet until they got word that they could get jur e wheat much cheaper." Dr. Fitzhugh Feelinghouse of the Society for the Preservation of High Sulphur Content in Fuel disagreed. I jam under the impression they want to buy oil from us. We have to assume that if theyre from outer space and pan make it all the way here, they are a highly industrialized society. Therefore, they must be short on fuel. I am alnjost certain they've come to discuss the feasibility of buildup a ; pipeline to their planet." But why the United States? I asked. We dont have oil to sell to anyone." j )A11 Dr. said. don't know that. Feelinghouse They theyve seen from their telescopes are our neon signs Exxon, Gulf, Texaco and BP gasoime. They probably figure we have the stuff coming out of our ears." two-third- n Yet the talk of impeachment has its useful aspect. It has made us look critically at tho Twenty-fiftAmendment, and to see that this recent engraftment, dealing with vice presidential nominations, will not do. Until the Agnew resignation on Oct. 10. not one person in a hundred thousand had given more than a moto ments the thought Twenty-fifth- . Now. in its tirst test, the amendment reveals its flaws. h Why U.S. must stay abreast in arms race By Ernest Cuneo Man bridges rivers and canyons with comparative ease ; yet the effort to bridge the chasms between races and between countries is a struggle. IN THE MINDS EYE g executive The idea of powers is, in fact, quite recent in American history. In 1950, Secretary of State Dean Acheson advised President Truman y that Truman had the power to commit the armed forces to battle in Korea. Already ideas are pouring in. An Indian Culture Museum, a railroad depot converted to a museum on railroading, an Ethmc History of Utah, specially commissioned musical works and many other good suggestions have been made to the committee. ;An editorial from The Chicago Tribune ' war-makin- g Planning for the bicentennial Despite a late start relative to some ether states, the Utah Bicentennial Commission Las made commendable S j But ii theyre so sophisticated scientifically. ih would they need oil in the lu si place? Arept there other sources of power available to creatures from outer spacp0" Probably. But if their oil companies are like ours, they've discouraged the use of other fuels. I imagine cVen I in outer space you cant lick the oil companies. a Jeremy Saithervvaite, political scientist qt the Institute of Paianoia is very skeptical about the UFOs coming from another galaxy. j I think Nixon is trying to get our minds off his domestic troubles by whipping up a flying saucer scare." j But how could he swing it? Surely you can't launch a living saucer from somewhere in the United States without someone knowing about it. Ford hails from the Filth District of Michigan. Albert from the Third Distnct ol Oklahoma. These are their only constituencies. They have won no others. Now that we are compelled to examine the possibility that Ford or Albert might be catapulted into the the impossible presidency, becomes situation evident Could the American people accept in peace and obey in commander-m-rhie- t war a who never had submitted himself to the voters as a Why do you think he sent Skvlab for those three astronauts up to 59 days? You mean they were sent Hying saucers from space?" up there to launch the Ycu better behove it, he said Wait a minute. The two Mississippians who were captured described the creatures in the UFO as being green, with no eyes, and a stub in the middle of their faces which could have been a nose. How could they look like that-Have you ever heard of Nixon man from the I960 campaign? The final expert I spoke to was Prof. Charles Simolb. a sociologist, who said. The most interesting thing is that most of the UFO sightings have been in the South " "What are you driving at? I asked Sa'therwaite replied, whole0 make-u- Irving nguished Brant, the disti- historian and biographer of Madison, surely is no fnend to impulsive amendment of the Constitution. Yet he had the wisdom to denounce the Twenty-fiftas a disaster" v.hen it was pending before Congress Now he has proposed a further constitutional amendment to deal with the situation at hand His plan would require a special election at the presidential earliest feasible moment after a vice presided had succeeded to the offwe The plan makes sense p Has it ever occurred to you that all these poor creatures from outer space are trying to do is bus their kids to h a good school0 DOUG Sflt'YD d To be sure, it seems incredible that the Republic ever again would undergo the trau matic experiences we have undergone lately. But as any Washington reporter will tell you, the incredible event has now become the everyday occurrence. A sinking sensation will not go away that the outer limits of incredibility have yet t be reach'd Irving a offers Brant s piopo-prudent safety valve for the uext such explosion, whenever ti rnmM alnno dl j j I don I meon to fell you who to date, Henry, but do you happen to know any nice Arab girls?" |