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Show William F. Buckler. Jr. ) flic fait Sunday Morning, July President Nasser and his Soviet friends left almost everything up in the air in the communique issued after the Egyptian leader ended his visit to .Moscow. The two countiies called for a Hihtical settlement in the Middle East and said that a just and stable eaee can be assured "through urgent measures to end IsiatTs armed aggression against Arab countiies." But they didn't indicate what Ihese measures would be, perhaps because they weie not in complete agreement as to what should be done. The communique .vas unique for other omissions, too. There was no escalation of threats, no suggestions of early offensive action against Israel, no mention of a deadline. But silence is not necessarily golden. If the communique should turn out to be no more than window dressing and Nasser left Moscow with some very definite Soviet promises, the problems of the Middle East are as far from a solution as lk-ila- 19. 1970 f dbunc Page A 1 d y ever. The Soviet has frequently declared in favor of a political settlement. But Soviet ideas of what should be done have been unacceptable to Israel. And the Arabs would certainly resist substantial modification of the Soviet attitude toward the Middle East. latest move, which has Moscow's never been expressed in specific language, reportedly urges a formal state of peace between the Arab states and Israel instead of a declaration of peaceful intentions. The Arabs have favored the latter course. However, we dont see much dif- ference betweer the two approaches providing the aim is meaningful negotiation. An American plan, recently circulated among interested nations, would be placed in operation through acceptance of a 4 ceasefire by the belligerents. And while either plan could open the way to negotiation. the communique's silence on the subject could mean hosts weren't able to get him to go along with them President Nixon has emphasized the danger of a major power- confrontation inherent in the Arab Im aril deadlock. There is also the possibility of i Israel mounting a nuclear attack. Hedrick Smith of the Nw York Times reported last week after talks with reliable sources that for at least two years the United States has been conducting its Middle East policy on the assumption that Israel either possesses an atomic bomb or has component parts available for quick assembly. (The Soviet Union undoubtedly knows as much about Israels capability as the United States.) Israel has always maintained that it is not a nuclear power and has no intention of being the first Middle East nation to use nuclear arms. But if Israel has the capability and feels its very existence threatened, the situation could change with frightening suddenness. For years the Russians have behaved as though they could control events in the Middle East. They have encouraged the Arabs, supplied them with arms and sent Soviet military experts to Egypt. They have also done as little as possible to bring about an agreement. All this has been part of an aggressive policy to make the Soviet Union the dominant power in the area. Nuclear war in the Middle East may not be imminent. But the threat exists. Let us hope the Russians realize the folly of their policies before time runs out and nuclear war in the Middle East becomes a reality. BELFAST The Rev. Ian Paisley is the symbol in North Ireland of Protestant intransigence. The symbol on the other side is Bernadette Devlin'. In fact they are not really complementary. Paisley comes through as the bitter-endewho desires a tightly controlled, London - oriented. Catholic-hatin- g North Ireland: Bernadette Devlin as .he Joan of Arc of Catholic , . emancipation. Soviet-Egyptia- n A beautiful friendship came to an end last week when Strom Thurmond, took the Senate floor to denounce the Nixon Administrations school desegregation efforts. And Sen. Thurmond made his meaning crystal clear when he said such unreasonable policies might lead to Mr. Nixons defeat for rcelection in 1972. The speech could also mark the breakup of the Presidents Southern strategy, At the 1968 Republican National Convention, Sen. Thurmond held Southern delegates in line and helped Mr. Nixon win the nomination. Later he was credited with carrying South Carolina for the Republicans despite the strong bid of George C. Wallace, the third party candidate. As a result, Sen. Thurmond thought he had a lien on the Nixon Administration as far as school desegregation was concerned. For a time, the assumption seemed cor A tell someone he doesn't have the skills needed to make a living at his chosen occupation, but sometimes the protection of the public demands it be done. It appai entlv wasn't done before the bus accident last week near Allentown, Ia.. in which - seven children were killed and .")2 poisons injured. Investigators discovered that the driver of the bus. w!io was among those criti-- ' rally injuicd. has a dri.mg recot d that nine automobile accidents. His license had been suspended five times and he had six convictions for traffic violations. Whether this driver was icsponsiblo for this partieulai accident or whether the blame tests on the rear tires which 'were almost treadless is not germane here. The important point is that the driver should not, in light of his dismal record, have been at the wheel of the bus. New Jeisey officials say the driver was denied a license to drive a school bus. but instead was allowed to drive char- - Thr Holland Cartoon aC Woe ( Aftowro, sweetie Arab-Israe- rect. But Sen. Thurmond became disillusioned when the administration began pressing for school integration in the South and the Internal Revenue Service status of private revoked the schools established to avoid integration. Sen. Thurmond was once a Democrat. But he ran for president on the Dixiecrat ticket in 194S, later switched his allegiance to the Republicans. With that record. his latest shift is not surprising. Where does that leave Sen. Thurmond ? Although he still has a party, he doesnt like its leader. As for President Nixon, while the senators defection may hurt in the South, it might be helpful elsewhere in the country. Sen. Thurmond himself thinks that the President has adopted a instead of a "Northeast philosophy "Southern strategy. tax-exem- court-ordere- d tcred or special buses. The distinction escapes us. The passengers in both cases could be the same, and tragically in the present case wore the same school children. If a slate is going to icstrict the "cargo" a driver may haul, a better distinction would be whether or not it is human. In this day. when nearly all ground transpoitation depends upon some automotive conveyance, the possession of a valid driver lict i,se is a virtual necessity for an individual's economic survival. Thus, it is understandable why employes of a state's licensing agency might be inclined to "lot things slide a bit and giant a marginal driver a license. In this ease it might have been a simple clerical oversight a mistake. Whatever, it should prompt officials of all states to closely examine procedures for checking applicants records before issuing driver license tenewals, particularly those applicants who will be responsible for large numbers of persons. We certainly hope that Utahs drivers license personnel arent letting the wrong people drive either school buses or charter buses. Further, we would expect Utah school districts and charter bus services to critically examine the credentials and abilities of all drivers. Feeling f. et P; iMf would Mr. Buckley dissolve his allegiance to the Queen (he is a moiTibo! of Parliament i in a minute if so he could fashion a viable, independent North Ireland. And Bernadette Devlin or Protescates nothing for Catholicism or the or Parliament (she too tantism, Queen, is a member). She cares for socialism, because it is socialism she profoundly believes that will rescue North Ireland from its quandaries. I say profoundly believes with caution. She is only 23, and every year or so since attaining political consciousness, she has come to believe profoundly in slightly different goals. Not Opposition Leader li Who'll Wc Vietiiamizp Today? Miss Devlin does not, however, picside over the organized opposition. There are others. John Hume is the Catholic reformer who bat Eddie McAteei. the longtime leader of the opposition in North Ireland, in the last election McAteer wants, simply, union wall the Irish Free State. Hume believes that union is unachievable at the moment and wouldn't in and of itself accomplish anything very much. Here he agrees with Bernadette, the residual difference being this, ihat Hume believes that no progress of any sort makes sense which is not evolutionary: which is to say, Whereas Bernadette, although she sometimes exhibits a little caution in speaking about it, more or less gives you to understand that the North Ireland situation is so impossibly ossified that only a good bloody revolution will shake it loose. Miss Devlin is now an international heroine of the revolutionary community. Immediately after her election to Parliament in 1969, she delivered a razzle-dazzl- e speech in the House of Commons which really turned the revolutionary set on. In due course she discovered that she was in fact influencing nothing more tangible than whether a new post-bshould be set up in one of the towns in hr constituency. non-viole- The Public Forum Wartime Prophecy Editor, Tribune: I wonder if anyone else remembers a segment of a March of Time film of about 1940 or early 1941 where a senator from the Midwest stood up and opposed FDR in his determination to get us into the war in Europe. This senator stated a solid conviction that has stayed with me all these years. He was a Robert Taft of a man. I don't lcmember his name, I remember he looked very lonesome. I remember that no one wanted lo believe him. I remember what he stated: "If we go to Europe and Irv to destroy the lotalitarians we shall become more like them lhan they are themselves." Today, with our total government, our bureaucracy, and concern about everything, we have finally made it. low we hate Hitler, Stalin and other dictators but how we worship the ground they stood on. The Gestapo couldnt hold a small candle to our CIA. The Kruppwerke and Houe YonlloUen were mere shadows of our military industrial complex. I do wish that one of our fine local TV stations would bother itself enough to go to the files and dig up that old "March Of Time and let us hear once again that prophetic voice from so long ago. That voice that stated something like, "if we go and destroy them we shall become them. E. D. HARRIS Delta, Utah Con Son Island prison where 10,000 political pri' oncrs are i icerccr :d under : uohuman conditions. After all. you cant run a concentration camp as cheaply as you used to. ED VENDELL, JR. Logan Mail Substitute Editor, Tribune: I read in the paper where the first class postage will be raised to eight cents. I realize there is a deficit in the postal department, but why raise the price of first class mail, which I understand pays its own way? Why not raisp the price on "trash mail"? The corporations that send out this type of mail should be able to afford to pay the full cost of sending it. I, for one, wmild be more 1 Smoke Preference Editor, Tribune: Linda Meyer complained about the smoke from Kennecotts Magna smelter and U.S. Steels smoke in Orem (Forum, July 11). She stated this hides the mountains that she came here to see. These two large industries are our bread and butter. Let's concentrate on keeping these two plants. It is the automobiles that cause the dense fog hiding the mountains from view. 1 have lived in Utah all my yeais and I have always been able to see our mountains. Fui liter, 1 would rather have the smoke and not see the mountains because the mountains do not feed and house my family. U.S. Steel and Kennecott do. If all she wants lo see is mountains, she should go to the Uintas, they are plenty high. Or even Colorado. Lets get rid of the and automobiles, the RUDOLPH R. RACKELE Provo gas-use- smog-maker- s. Advice Ignored Editor. Tribune: President Nixon has again failed to heed the advice of many Americans: There is no military solution to our problems in Southeast Asia. On the contrary, the solution is political in nature and lies in the attainment of a popular, viable South Vietnamese government. The latest such advice was contained in the g congressional report of a committee: In each country of Southeast Asia fiscal strategy more than military strategy may well be the decisive factor in national survival. If inflation is allowed to go unchecked, the governments face financial ruin." Bill NauMian's However, as indicated in the July 7 issue of The Tribune, the Nixon administration has decided to junk requests for political and social reforms and sweeten President Thieu s nest egg by an additional $100 million. The If ou want a good example of what is article continues: Accordirg to U.S. officials decided meant by "low profile," obv cousin Fuse-lovl- e . . . the Nixon administration has President to burden not the of government 2 a.m. sneaking in at Nguyen Van Thieu with demands for severe A frustrated parom and sudden economic reforms during this sighs, "I never stage of the Vietnamization process. Some of thought I would have children stupid enough finals . . . think the administration also to fellow my example.' wants to help Thieu get next fall. Today's oiator must find it fairly easy io One wonders whether any of the extra think up a title for his speech. The first three " $100 million booster shot will be used by the words are automatic: "The crisis in . . . Thieu dictatorship for the maintenance of the Orbiting Paragraphs Milking In dcs-IK'ia- te Tragic Distinction It takes a special breed of person to r, Nas-sei'- a Thurmond Switches Again That Meet Miss Devlin, Puerile Socialist in the Mideast? A-W- ar 3,X)0-wor- akc d 12-m- fact-findin- Foruin Buies Public Forum lettors mutt not bo moro mon 151 words in length, must bo submitted exclusively to The Tribune and bur writer's mil name, sintamrt and address. Names must bo printed on political letters but may bo withheld lor load reasons on others. Writers ore limited to r no letter every ten days Prefer enco will bo divan totters pormittmt use of true name, end la those which are typed (double-spaced- ) and shert. than willing to go without this kind of mail to keep the postage on first class mail down. I cant understand why we should be penalized by having to pay part of the cost of mailing "trash, when we don't want it to start with. It seems funny that the government can afford to build new post office buildings that are neither necessary or wanted (as the one proposed in Evanston, Wyo.). Why not use this money for something that is really needed? Let's have our Post Office Department One way to help achieve this would be for trash mail to pay its own way. MRS. E. BARTSCHI Park Ci'v g. n Bent America's Ear At that point Miss Devlin derided to ventiin the United States, which late her problems she did, appearing on the usual television programs, and receiving the key to the city from Mayor John Lindsay of New York, who gave it to her as automatically as hed have given one to Lady Macbeth if she had represented herself as a dedicated without race, color, or creed. A few months later, she gave Mr. Lindsays key to New York City to a surrogate with instructions to hand it over to the Elack Panthers so as to register her solidarity with the oppressed class of Americans. Her solution for North Ireland is socialist revolution. What socialist revolution has accomplished for anybody, anywhere, she carefully refrains from telling us, pleading her innocence of parliamentary or historical politics. Poor Miss Devlin is in jail at this moment, having incited to riot, or whatever they call it in North Ireland. And, of course, her incarceration was yet another cause for a riot, such riots as have been plaguing a land that should be so sanguine, the Catholic civil rights reforms having got through ; so optimistic about the future, notwithstanding the demagogy of Paisley, or the puerile socialism of the endearing, d Bernadette. high-spirite- Theodore Long Democracy Often Puts Cart Before Horse In the great wars of this century, whenev-e-r a nation has believed conscription necessary for survival, older men have made the decision and younger men have been the first called up. That is, of course, a logical procedure. Young men are in better physical condition and thus better able to withstand hardships. Another explanation could be the fact that young men, who have not yet reached the top in industry, politics or government, are not able to make themselves heard. Unfortunately, conscription seems detrimental both to those whose potential remains largely undeveloped and to society which depends upon an abundant reservoir of talent. Source of Discontent When a war ends, conditions are supposed to return to normal. But this didn't happen in the United States after World War II. The draft is still in force. And agitation against conscription has been one of the chief sources of civil discontent. There are those who claim the draft is a fraud against the young by the old. This is a specious claim, and even if it were true, the fraud would be accidental, not intentional. Others complain that draft procedures are unfair. They are right, as is made abundantly clear by recent efforts to make conscription more equitable. And others believe it is wrong to make them fighj In what they consider an unjust. Immoral war. In an ideal world, such individual decisions would be accepted as a matter of course. But because this is not an ideal world, the individual is subject to num ous restrictions and compulsions. Freedi under law is conditional, not absolute. Goal Never Challenged Most arguments over the individual v sus the state boil dowm to a definition means, not goals. The goal, as set for United States by the authors of the Decla tion of Independence, is government by consent of the governed. Abraham Line saw it as government of. by and for the pi pie. But while the goal is accepted aim unanimously, the means of reaching it are frequent dispute. (If this were not so, the U Supreme Court would have much less wi to do.) In the end, however, although varii proposed means are discarded, this g, remains unchallenged. SST and Environment In other areas, means almost always teive more attention than goals. Take, for example, the case of the p jucted Supersonic Transport. Is constructi of the SST a goal? No. it is a moans to a g perhaps several goals; faster plane trav economic benefits for the airlines, enhanc national prestige. But so far, the goal has i been precisely defined nor has it been co pared with possible alternatives. Instead, t SST deba'e centers on the means; that is, construction. Improvement of the envirc ment is another exampk Here again, the g is imprecise while a multitude of propo? means receive ail the attention. Philosophers and systems a n a 1 y s wouldn't behave that way. But with the pi losophers and analysts usually on the s'c lines when the people of a democracy cc aider public the cart (means) horse (goal), put ahead of , |