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Show A5 We stand for the Constitution of the United States with its three departments of government, each fully independent in its own field U. research plan a good start on energy problems There are no quick, easy, or cheap solutions to new energy sources. Thot much is apparent after the University of Utah last week announced a five-yea- r plan aimed at developing the vast energy sources of the Mountain West. The price tag for research alone: $18 million. While the nation is using some i74 million barrels of oil daily, it is producing only about 9 million barrels daily. Yet the Alaska Pipeline wont be completed for 3 to 5 years, and domestic production of oil probably will not be increased substantially for at least 5 years, including the oil snale sources. Even that cost is only a fraction of what' may be spent nationally in research on energy. Add to that the expenses of development and related costs and the sum assumes staggering proportions. The days of cheap energy, it appears, are definitely over. Even the lcgrtics boggle the mind. Dr. Milton Wadsworm, associate dean d the College of Engineering who outlined the problems last week for a meeting of the Research Committee, gave these estimates : To produce one million barrels of oil a day from oil shale will require moving five times as much material as is moved daily at Kennecott Coppers Bingham mine if the mining is dene underground. Open-pi- t mining on a strip ratio would require moving 13 times as much material as the Kennecott operations. Water problems are serious. To produce one million barrels of oil per day from shale would require between 121,000 of water yearly, acand 189,000 acre-fecording to one expert. Coal gasification would require a ton of water to each ton The University of Utah deseives high marks for seeking a concerted Utah frontal attack on the problems, in concert with all state institutions of higher education. But as Dr. Wadsworth has pointed out, the solutions cannot all come from the laboratory; theie must be additional means of putting them into operation, including practical applications, funding, and all the expertise that goes into building a huge and diverse r.ew combination oi industries. University-Government- al two-to-ou- Fortunately, uil and coal are not the only new sources of energy that would be explored if the university receives all the research grants it has applied for or contemplates doing so in the near future. Geothermal, solar, and other sources also are under investigation. What is needed now is to mold this effort into a cohesive, state- - or regionwide organization which can provide not only research tut development plans as well. Those are problems that must be looked into carefully at the highest state levels if Utah is to take its rightful place as one of the leaders in helping to achieve in energy. national e et of coal. The FDA: too much caution? mates, including man. However, dosages administered to the animals were equiva lent to 50 to 100 times the usual human researcher at the When a sharp-eye- d Food and Drug Administration spotted in the some drawbacks tranquilizer thalidomyde several years ago, she earned for the FDA the undying gratitude of the Ameriforeign-manufactur- therapeutic dosage. can public. Thalidomyde, youll remember, was responsible for several thousand birth defects among European children who often were bom with malformed limbs only fish-lik- e flippers. But theres evidence that the FDA can also be too cautious. And that is hurting the development of new drugs that may prove effective in mans long battle against disease and illness. One promising use of DMSO is in treatment of bum victims. Because of its ability to penetrate the skin, reasoned researchers, it should be able to carry other substances into the body to get at d tissue. infections under bum-charre- The experimental drug also has other chiluses: In treating mentally-retarde- d dren, in the therapy of children with Downs syndrome, and in experiments with central nervous system trauma. It is also used in veterinary medicine. Take dimethyl sulfoxide, DMSO, for a A generous amount of caution is only example. As the Medical Tribune newspaper for the medical and drug pro- prudent, of course, in preventing useless fessions pointed out recently, the FDA or dangerous drugs from reaching the is only now relaxing its ban on experi- market. But undue timidity, in which mental uses of DMSO after halting clini- overwhelming proof of safety and efficacy cal testing in 1965. are required, also can keep effective new Reason for the ban was that the drug drugs off the market for long periods of caused unexplained changes in the eyes of time when they could be used to alleviate but not of pri- - human suffering. dogs, rabbits, and pigs Farmers are closing the gap An editorial from the Tulsa Tribune After years of trying to catch up to the natio nal income average, the American farmer is fast closing the gap. Rising food prices had something to do with it, and an 18 percent rise in operational costs has cut into profits, but over all things are getting better down on the farm. Not so much better, however, that farming is likely to become Americas faweek is vorite occupation. The still for city folks, and until somebody invents a method for controlling climate, farming will retain an element of risk. With worldwide demand for U.S. food production increasing, farmers will reap the benefits. But they will earn everything they make. dont tell intensity of Pres. Nixon s hackers Polls By James J. Kilpatrick - It was DAYTON, Ohio one of those television talk shows in which questions are fielded both by telephone and from a live audience in the studio. A pretty young housewife stood up in the back row. This was her question: Why do you newspaper guys keep picking on my President? Her blue eyes were glistening with the first hint of tears, but her voice rang with loyalty and conviction. With a gulp, she said her husband might kill her for speaking out in public, but Nixon was the first President she had ever had a chance to vote for. and she thought he was doing a fine job, especially in foreign affairs Why didn't we wnte about the good things he was doing, and stop harping on the Watergate thing? She didnt care what he might have done everybody else in politics did the 'ame things. She was for him, nght or wrong. About half the studio audience burst into applause. Because it was more of a speech than a question, we let it slide, and the show went on. cal scene to keep this young woman in mmd. Her name is Legion. The Gallup Poll and the Harris Survey doubtless m are correct, statistically mirers. My mail in recent weeks tends to reinforce that impression. A gentleman in Bay Village. Ohio, desenbes himself as 87 years old, married for 62 for his years, concerned Dont you think the public has been d enough? I blame for the Democrats brain-washe- By Nick Thimmesch When Mr. Nixon was working on his political comeback, HINGTON This town iws with many qualities, markedly devoid of oodwill. Washington has been a humanistic power and lion are its tools in but there usually has a ration of civility men (and women) say, between 1966-6- he a new team, one characterized by a spirit of utilized openness, innovation, even generosity. One thinks of Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Leonard Garment, Raymond Price. Robert Ellsworth, Donald Rumsfeld, John Sears, even the feisty Patrick Buchanan. Believe it or not, Mr. Nixon i serve as a lubricant to even became believable in le place going. those days, largely because the cumulative effects Lyndon Johnson and Hubert rigid, impersonal Nixon Humphrey were not. The trouistration, the resultant bled cities and the Vietnamese y against it and, finally, war agonized the Johnson Administration. Most Americans atergate sickness-we- ll, were looking for a way out, es for grimness, left. Mr. without going far-oically, the fortress Nixon managed to ride the Admin-?- n this by ofts one of the very middle mainstream into fice. s venge-xssefrom suffers s it When he arrived here in by the press and here And if President 1969, the press was fau to para-becau- , 4 him, and that was the exact moment for him to work for a sense of engagement with the press and the rest of the community in this town. Not for reasons of boosting his own image, but merely to build a level of acand to allow a ceptance trickle into that goodwill reservoir. opinion-makin- g Unfortunately, the opportua civil nity to develop coexistence was rejected. It was sneered at by Mr. Nixon and H.R. (Bob) Haldeman, and their attitude eventually permeated much of the White House. Others in the Administration, men like Bob Finch, Dr. Henry A Kissinger, Melvin Laud, William Ruckelshaus, Herb Klein and Wally Hickel, even regularly visited or broke bread with the infidels. was There some social Integration, and one rare gentlemens club debate over die Nixon Administrations merits, Leonard Garment featuring vs. (for Nixon) Joseph Calif? no Nixons (against 111., scandals is beyond reproach, and his record in five years of government ot this nation on pnnciples, on and decency constitutionality is the speaking, ir their finding that only 27 to 30 percent of the people still have great confidence in the President. My guess is that the mute figures fail to articulate the passionate, stubborn, unwavering devotion of the Presidents ad- BUCHIURLD writes for her husband as In our ooinion, Presiwell dent Nixons conduct in the It is important to any understanding of the current politi- on finest America's noble history in Memphis, A gentleman Tenn., echoes a refrain that turns up repeatedly in my mail: Even if Mr. Nixon knew about Watergate, that is not half as bad as what Ted Kennedy was involved m and no one even mentioned removing him from office. pro-Nixo- m n My point is this: Something "the neighborhood of 20 voters still love the President. They make up a million sobering political force. And unless members of the House of Representatives proceed with the most scrupulous care in their slow progress toward impeachment, the 20 million will be heard from in ways that will astonish. The polls dont tell all the story. A part of the story comes from the young woman in blue. WASHINGTON We have been warned by everyone that all the people indicted in the Watergate affair must be piesumed innocent until proved guilty, and we concur. But there are enmes they have committed for which they must be presumed guilty until proved innocent. Herea short list: - PURCHASING CHEAP FOR THE PRESIDENT RECORDING EQUIPMENT . This not only has caused Mr. Nixon embareassnunbulr could be responsible for his downfall. By trying to saVeji-- h few bucks on tape machines, the former aides to the frisi-- dent mi it take the blame not only for tapes that dji. nol exist but also for the erased ones that do, SLOPPY FILING METHODS No Administration has had such messy files sincejCmWJ ses S. Grant. Every time the special prosecutor or;ui House Judiciary Committee lawyers ask for a relpv3in paper, no one seems to know where it is. This is even tragic when you consider that everyone around the PreriCr dent looked so neat and clean you just assumed they keep neat files. BAD BOOKKEEPING Before the Watergate scandal, everyone assume! JJiar President Nixon was surrounded by bookkeepers. It turns out that no one had any experience in finance,dmt" large sums of money kept getting lost and being put Jti JurE wrong ledgers. Probably the biggest problem was th8.JC eryone was dealing in cash which is harder to keeplzartC of than checks. KEEPING SECRETS This is one of the most senous charges. As far know everyone kept secrets from everybody else jftltlv White House. No one knew what the other person doing. President Nixon, if we are to believe him, nothing at all. By keeping secrets from each other, fyjfSrZ impossible for the staff to stick to the same story Watergate was uncovered. A OF SECURittC" FALSE SENSE HAVING ABOUT THE FBI AND THE CIA ZTZ' New approach to By Phil Newsom UPI Foreign News Analyst A newly accredited U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union arrived in Moscow the other day after a lapse of 14 months to reassure the Russians and to receive similar assurances in return that agreement to limit the arms race remained at the top of both nations ob- jectives. Walter J. Stoessel Jr. presented his ambassadorial credentials to Soviet President Nikolai V. Podgorny along with a message from President Nixon pledging to spare no effort to achieve that objective this year. The efforts of the two super powers in phases I and II of the SALT talks are the most and ambitious of these paradoxically the ones with perhaps the best chance for success of all. They are the natural culmination of previous agreements reached in the 1960s and 70s, the nuclear test ban, outer space treaty, nonproliferation pact and others. All of these were the direct results of U.S. and Soviet initiatives. The two began their SALT dialogue Strategic Arms Limitation Talks in 1969. Salt I accords were made public during President Nixons visit to Moscow in 1972 and were hailed by Henry A. Kissinger, then the Nixon s Washington devoid of good will Nixon ever gets through this crisis-lade- n mess, and reverts to that masochistic attitude of well then his Presidency will truly deserve rich condemnation. woman in Glenview, A ART policies). The latte',, ent was and there was applauded, healthy goodwill. Back at the White House, the dictum was that Mr. Nixon would never consort with the enemy without. He was too busy, and who needed those liberal elitists, though in truth many whom he and Haldeman considered liberal elitists were close to center themselves. The goodwill reservoir was The several dry. Southeast Asia crises and the relentless attitude of isolation soaked up the last droplet of goodwill. Mr. Nixon could come to magnificent, laudatoaccommodation with ry Moscow and Peking, but not Washington. Going into 1972, he had the grudging respect but also the deep resentment of the Washington press and other power factions here. His campaign was a juggernaut, ruthlessly rolling over the misbegotten McGovern effort. near Resentment here only Then suddenly in 1973, overwhelming scandal, crisis after crisis. Instead of a reservoir of goodwill, there was a mound of parched sand. Mr. Nixons been eating sand ever since. In a word, had Mr. Nixon been careful earlier to at least maintain or perhaps cultivate civil relationships in this town, he wouldnt be suffering the excesses now inflicted on him. He would still be beset with huge trouble, yes, but there would have been a buffer. say all this, not just as understanding for his aggrieved situation but also in appreciation of the travail Watergate gives the American people, and how it jeopardizes good relations among ether nations. Western Europe, in particular, needs a strong, stable United States, not the tom, shaky republic we now are. I I hope that Mr. Nixon has learned a lesson on the value of goodwill in Washington as well as elsewhere. SALT presidential national security adviser, as a first great step in ending the era of nuclear confrontation. They limited the number of antiballistic missiles (ABMS) that each side could deploy and placed ceilings on the and numbers of land-base- d ballistic missiles lowed for each side. sea-base- d Part of that al- agreement which now has come back to haunt the United States gave the Soviet Union a 50 percent numerical advantage m numbers of missiles. The U.S. position at the time was that American technological superiority offset the seeming dis- parity. Also now pressirg negotiators for both sides was agreement placing a temporary limit of offensive missiles launched from sea and land. That agreement is to expire in 1977, presumably to be replaced by a permanent one. Suspicion and mistrust have been the principal shoals upon which previous disarmament attempts have foundered, and they are present now in attempts to reach agreement on phase II of SALT . The Russians are close to catching up to the United States in MIRVS, the multiple can be warheads that launched at separate targets from a single missile but arc unwilling to give up their numerical advantage in missiles. These are among what American officials have desenbed as the 21 outrageous demands by the Soviet Union. They have stalled negotiations for months. Now the United States is advocating a new approach. Secretary of Defense James R. Schlesmger says the United States no longer will insist on absolute panty m all areas of armament. Rather, it will seek over-al- l panty, giving the President defensive options ranging from submannes to missiles to bombers officials-guiltOne of the many crimes of is believing that the FBI and CIA would follow or-- ;! ders of the White House without questioning therm. false faith in these two institutions might have been ibe joe- ginning of their undoing. The tragedy of Watergate is IhiK the FBI and CIA could not be counted on to cover up gobf; in the Administration. HP: BELIEF Z IN THE MANDATE This is not a felony, but a misdemeanor. Every on around the President believed the election results m 1?7C; would guarantee that no one would be interested in how46p won his mandate. Had Nixon aides not been interested! iii winning a mandate, there might never have been a gate. OVERACHIEVING AT FUND RAISING Watr drive was onij o The success of the Nixon the main reasons everything went wrong. Had the Commits tee for the of the President been short.' ofj money, it never would have had the finances to get then) iif so much trouble. When youre broke you have no choice but to put funds into billboards and TV commercials. wfiem, youre flush you have a tendency to hire spies and privliti -detectives to do dirty work fer you. . ; f PLAYING TENNIS WITH EACH OTHER fund-raisin- g X The Nixon people only played tennis with each other;' which kept them from knowing what the rest of the;oouu try was thinking. Had they let outsiders into their garni they might have realized that what they were plotting Tof, the President was wrong. WEARING THE AMERICAN FLAG PIN IN LAPELS It is no enme to wear an American Flag in your lapel.; But it is a crime to believe that by wearing one everything that you tell a grand jury automatically will be believed DOUG SflEYD Personnel "Arid what other experience have you had besides graffiti writing?" |