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Show Joseph Alsop fhe Salt fctfc ffibunr Friday Morning, July 10, 1970 Page Menace to Israelis 20 Increases Hourly WASHINGTON Da by day, the ugly facts come in from the Suez front. Each new fact puts Soiet intentions in the Middle East in an ever-darklight. And each new fact means deeper and deeper peril for beleaguered Israel. Dawdling on the Hill er year ago, when the first session of the 91st Congress arrived at the half-wa- y mark, it wras obvious the record of legislative oi tput would be a poor one. Now the second session is headed in the same A direction. As of July 1, when the new fiscal year began, Congress had not completed action on any of the 14 major appropriations bills. As a result, government departments are being financed by continuing resolution, just as was done in 1969. Since quality is more important than quantity, a low output does not necessarily mean that Congress wasted its time. For example, the 1969 session completed the first thorough overhaul of federal tax laws in a half century. However, if work piles up during the first six months, major legislation is likely to be sidetracked or considered too hastily during the remainder of the session. Most of President Nixon's 1970 legand a few from 1969 islative proposals have yet to be acted upon, as he has been pointing out, with an eye on the No- ember congressional elections. Kis welfare reform bill passed the House but headed for defeat in the Senate. His major crime bills are still pending. His 'omnibus farm bill is blocked in a House 'committee. His plan for emergency aid to school districts planning to desegregate may be rejected by both chambers. But there are a few pluses the voting rights bill, the water quality act, federal aid to elementary and secondary education, the airport and airway development act, a 6 percent federal pay raise, ap-jiea- rs and extension of the hospital construction act Since the last became law over President Nixons veto, he undoubtedly regards it as a minus, not a plus. Part of the delay has been due to protracted Senate debates on the nomination of G. Harrold Carswell for the Supreme Court and the amendment which would restrict the Presidents use of American troops in Cambodia. The Senate also engaged in two undeclared filibusters while aid to elementary and secondary education was being considered. However, neither Democrats nor Republicans can escape responsibility for these delays, though during the election campaigns each side will try to prove the other is wholly to blame. In fact, congres-rionprocrastination is largely due to of the congressional shortcomings system. Senators and representatives, who live near Washington like to get away to visit constituents over the weekend as often as possible. So there is tendency to schedule most legislative business for Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. Also, Senate and House seldom pass up a traditional recess, senators like to discuss everything at length and committee chairmen will sit on legislation they dont like or even pigeonhole it if possible. Congress needs a good shaking up. But it will opt for the status quo unless the voters speak up loudly and clearly. Maybe a second successive session of dawdling will arouse the voters ire. Hill-Burto- Cooper-Churc- n h Latest misunderstandings is objections raised by Sandy and Midvale officials for delaying participation in the metropolitan areas new Utah Transit Authority can be overcome with a sincere effort between all parties. The central concern should be for those Sandy and Midvale residents who rely on bus transportation to maintain essential personal mobility normal gravel to and from work, to and from health facilities, or for visiting friends and relatives. Meeting this need countywide is what prompted a Salt Lake area public transit district formation, a local government rescue for a bus system no longer profitable enough to interest further private investment. The initial intent is to preserve current bus routes with a hope for future improvements. Since Salt Lake City, Sandy, Midvale, South Salt Lake, Murray and Bingham were the chief incorporated areas on existing routes, they were considered primary district participants and voters in every one approved district formation last fall. However, Sandy and Midvale officials have resisted taking the formal action necessary to include their communities in the district. Midvale city councilmen now say they want to know what bus service two-side- d. 1 . One of Salt Lake Citys biggest driving thrills is crossing 2nd Ave. And nowhere is the excitement greater than at 2nd and B St. when traffic is heavy and cars are parked right up to the intersection on the north side of the avenue. Though it has not been officially ed to poor visibility because Visiting Cartoonist tfctj S' of their area will receive. William D. Oswald, district general counsel, answered that Midvales inclusion was based on present bus service. Moreover, he added, other alternatives are negotiable. Sandy city council members, after first objecting that they have too little representation on the proposed district board of directors, more recently posed questions about the districts taxing powers, bond issuing authority and continued need for local government subsidies. Again, Mr. Oswald responded that the district can assume no taxing or bonding obligations without prior approval by district voters. Until some operating experience is acquired, no one can say with assurance how long the subsidy requirement will last. The overriding point is that an attempt is being made to save a collapsing public transportation system that many local residents still depend on for their livelihood and general wellbeing. The effort will go forward even if Sandy and Midvale officials refuse to join in. Only those two areas will lose what bus service they now have. The preference to include Sandy and Midvale is unchanged. Organizers have repeated their willingness to go as far as the law and fair play allows to meet valid Mr. Oswald accounter suggestions knowledged an unfortunate communications gap but there is no reason to persist in deliberate stalling. All will benefit if the communication gap is closed so bus transportation barriers can be opened. parked cars, the collision Tuesday of a Salt Lake City Lines bus and an automoat 2nd Ave. and B St. nevertheless is a spectacular reminder of the many blind intersections in the general area. The bus went on to hit another car and end up in the courtyard of a nearby apartment house where children were accustomed to playing. Something approaching the 2nd Ave. thrill can be had at 6th Ave and E or 6th and B or 6th and I or 2nd Ave. and L Telement of danger, present at any intersection, is heightened at each of these because cars are allowed to park near the corner on at least one side of each street and sometimes on both. Because of the parked cars a motorist crossing 2nd Ave. from north to south on B St. must venture half way into the fast 2nd Ave. traffic to see if moving, the coast is clear. During morning, noon and evening rush periods it seldom is. Parking should be banned on both sides of 2nd Ave. along the entire distance which is Also, parking within 50 or 100 feet of intersections with any through street or avenue should be prohibited. Driving these narrow streets with their many intersections is bad enough under the best of conditions. Because of lax parking restrictions, the best conditions dont even exist at some of the most dangerous intersections. bile - one-wa- y one-wa- 6n9tlhrdt In St. Lou Pest CHspetcti Im worried about the shape Its in." Heavy y. A new samp commemorates the age of reptiles. Does this mean a Republican Administration is receptive to the dinosaur lobby? Ack-Ac- k . . System The first component of the weapons System is an immensely dense deployment of ack-ac- k guns and other antiaircraft weapons. These cover a strip along the Suez Canal and about 15 miles inland. And the deployment has been strengthened by another new missile, the Soviet version of the American Redeye, which is a light ground-to-ai- r weapon with an efficient target-seekin- g device. The second component of the weapons system is the line of SAM2 missiles, emplaced on a line about 15 miles inland from the canal bank. With their range, these improved SAM2s are effective up to the canal itself. Thus any Israeli pilot, going in low to attack a target in the combat zone, meets the fiercest sort of antiaircraft fire. If the pilot goes in at high altitude, he is met with salvos of SAM2s. 20-mi- le I hope their aim doesnt improve before the hunting season The Public Forum Lincolns Legacy For a Real Driving Thrill . m al Try More Transit Talk Obstacles confronting continued public bus service in the Salt Lake County communities of Sandy and Midvale are surmountable if a willingness to clear away Radically improved Soviet SAM2 missiles are responsible for the Israeli Air Force's hitherto unprecedented losses of Phantom fighter-bobeis. In the combat zone along the Suez Canal, the Israelis are fighting for their lives and national future. They must now face, not just the vastly more effective new model SAM2, but an entire, carefully combined weapons svstem. And the new system ominously includes. Soviet SAM3 missiles manned by Soviet troops. Editor, Tribune: I received my delegates copy of the proposed 1970 Utah Republican Party platform. I am unhappy, but not surprised to see that the section on individual rights contains only two perfunctory sentences and is the shortest section while the wordy sections on law and order and economic development dominate the document. I do not deny the need for respect for law and order, but Utah has been little troubled by massive street violence or other civil disturbances,. I fear the short shrift given to individual rights shows the Utah Republican hierarchy is more sympathetic to suppression than to free expression. By its silence, do we understand that the Utah GOP supports continued flaunting of federal law-- by local contractors on federal projects who refuse to hire minority workers? Does the Utah party believe everything has been done to secure equal justice for all? Where are the statements dealing with the in Utah? plight of the Spanish-AmericaWhere is the call for full enforcement of fair housing and fair employment laws? The party of Lincoln should be ashamed to vote for a platform so deficient in a declaration on human rights. We should heed our President, who said in 1966, I am convinced that the future of the Republican Party lies in pressing forward on civil rights. Unless the platform is changed to reflect the needs and aspirations of all Utahns, not class Mormons, I, as just white, upper-middl- e one delegate, will vote no on Saturday. MERRILL R. WEECH s Bugging Out Editor, Tribune: My credulity is strained to the breaking point by some of the evidence given by Joseph Kraft to support his thesis in Nixon Rhetoric Confuses Fact, Tribune editorial page, June 24. For example, Mr. Kraft states, Almost all the best analysts here (in Saigon) are agreed, moreover, that Communist strategy now emphasizes small unit guerrilla action rather than massive attacks . . . and that interpretation is reinforced by the weapons which the Communists took with them from the Cambodian sanctuaries chiefly AK47 rifles as compared with those left behind notably rockets. Suppose for a moment that Mr. Kraft had been a North Vietnamese soldier in a sanctuary just across the Cambodian border at the time of the Allied attack. Knowing that thousands of his enemies, Intent on his destruction, were coming after him, do you wonder, as I do, whether Mr. Kraft would have picked rifle or a rocket and up a launcher as he fled for his life? MAJ. LEE ALLEN U.S. Army human spirit. That it has already altered our attitudes and outlook on many social issues cannot be denied. Nothing inside the home, club or community, is held to be of any lastWhat ing value, and I dont mean I have in mind is the relationship between man and wife, teacher and student, elector and elected. Easy divorce laws make until death us do part" a mockery. Educational TV and paperbacks inundate us with their tapes and throwaway" knowledge, aimed at erasing time, In the process of acquiring an education. Breaking campaign promises is the thing to do, if you would not be considered square. Even organized religious groups are at a loss to combat the debilitating affects on society this philosophy has engendered. However, all is not lost In our heated efforts to forsake the fruits of our accumulated knowledge, let us not discard the dreams and hopes that make it worthwhile to wake up every morning to a new, not just another, day. To do otherwise, would be to hasten the decline of civilization, such as it is. AUBREY F. HOWARD bric-a-bra- c. Park Prisoners Editor, Tribune: Political laws enacted to pleaje a few vocal people affect the majority of the people. The city park curfew law is an example of a political law covering up the lack of enforcement of other laws which affect the normal park user. Another unfortunate thing caused by an unfortunate law is the seriousness of arrest. The past few days have brought on several raids resulting in several arrests. Everyone ovc: 13 was arrested with no regard for their activities in the park, just their presence was all the police needed. Those confronted were not told to leave, but were handcuffed and taken to jail. There they were booked as though they had robbed a store or committed a true crime. Most spent the night In jail, unless a $100 bond could be paid, and appeared the following day before a judge for sentencing. The list of people arrested show most had no previous criminal record and were committing no other crimes while in the park. Now they have a police record and when asked during a job interview they can only answer yes to the question, Do you have a police record? Since we usually associate the seriousness of the crime with the harshness of penalty, sitting enjoying a park at 1:05 a.m. is as serious a crime as smoking pot. So beware, users of the parks, you better not use it too much or you will be arrested. JAY B. BELL 150-pou- Provo Flag User Editor, Tribune: I want to express my appreciation to ZCMI for the full page color flag which was in The Tribune on July 3. We proudly displajed it in our window and hope others also took this same opportunity. Thanks again to ZCMI. MRS. LINDA BROWN Keep Dreams Editor, Tribune: We are living in what may be properly called the "disposable age. Everything, from tissues to automobiles, is thrown away to make way for the new. And the end Is rot in sight. Nobody save string and wrapping paper anymore. Not that this is a virtue; indeed, it could become a ca- tastrophe. We rarely keep anything cufflinks or buildings long enough for it to acquire the charm of antiquity. The fact that this mania contributes to the problems of pollution is nothing to be proud of. What worries me is the influence of this philosophy (if it can be so called) on the As to the weapons systems third compo nent, it consists of at least two and probably three emplacements of SAM3 missiles, complete with Soviet crews. These have now been moved far fonvard to new positions just outside the official combat zone. Here th6 SAM3s can be used to support and protect the line of SAM2s. Soviet Engaged In a very real sense, therefore, Soviet troops are already actively engaged in the great battle for control of the air over the combat zone along the canal. Yet that is by no means the end of this grim story. The evidence, albeit incomplete, is already clear that the entire vast weapons system is row under direct Soviet control. The re. sponses to radar warnings, the management of the electronic counter-measure- s (and counter-counter measures!); the orchestration of the missile salvos and antiaircraft fire all these are now Soviet responsibilities in the canal strip where the Egyptians were recently alleged to be strictly on their own. The effects to date have been desperately grave for the Israelis. The great majority of their aircraft can no longer be used to attack targets much beyond the bank of the Suez Canal itself. Cruel Rate of Loss Before the new weapons system was Installed, these other planes ranged quite freely over the whole combat zone. Now, however, only the Israelis Phantoms can be used to attack targets at any distance from the canal. Considering the tiny stock of Phantoms Israel possesses, three Phantoms downed in a single week add up to a cruelly heavy rate of loss. The Phantoms pilots have scored some successes. Three or four of the SAM2 emplacements have been so heavily damaged that they have been put out of action, at least for a while. This has meant painful losses for both the Egyptians and the Russians, who are also present at the SAM2 sites as advisers but in extra heavy numbers (Soviet dead, by the way, are sent home for burial marked killed in a motor accident!) Even so, the situation is plainly reaching the stage of acute crisis, with Israels whole future ultimately at stake. Equally critical for President Nixon as well as for Israel are the time factors. The new weapons system was obviously put in along the Suez front to coincide with Gamal Abdel Nassers long visit to the Soviet Union. He and his Soviet masters are now assessing the first combat results ; and above all they are assessing the U.S. response to this Soviet move forward. God knows what the next move forward may be, if further dithering is the only real U.S. response! Crystal Gazing Wizards Editor, Tribune: Recall an ageless adage, as irreputable today as when coined: Nothings sure but taxes and death. Mandatory acceptance of the inevitable may impair, without completely destroying, a perverted sense of humor, jn available source of which is the crystal gazing proclivities of eminent financial wizards. "And starting with 1971, America will become a economy," opines J. A. LivJune 28. Long-rang- e ingston, Tribune, but? optimism is temporal encouragement Must we be penalized indefinitely, as helpless victims of the brutal conflict between Inflation and unemployment, before a compulsory decision is reached? MARGARET BURTON The Grant Cartoon re Pul On Editor, Tribune: In the Public Forum" of July 3, the man who signs himself Joe must be putting you on. His letter asks that guns be outlawed. A student of history will immediately recognize that Joe Stalins real name was Joseph Vissarionovich UjugashviUl. REINHOLD K. 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