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Show William S. White f ijc Salt fab ftfhine Sunday Morning, October 31, 1971 Page U.N. China Vole Close to Suicide 28 A When the cheering ai d WASHINGTON sneering over the smashing defeat of the United States in the United Nations has pre-Re- d the stopped, China forces in this and other countries will find what it is that has been vanquished in fact. What has really been smashingly defeated in the expulsion of the of China and the installation of Red China, Senate Rejection of U.S. Foreign Aid Forces Assistance Concept Review Senate rejection of the administrations foreign aid bill is salt in the wound inflicted earlier last week when the United Nations turned down the U.S. two Chinas concept by seating Communist China and ousting Taiwan. ' It was a badly timed action even if the foreign aid defeat had nothing to do with the U.N. vote, a point emphasized by Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield. Nevertheless Preside' Nixons heated reference to possible - ,n aid cuts after the U.N. vote may have helped assure defeat in the Senate two days later. Disenchanted liberals joined conservatives who opposed foreign aid on principle to kill the Senate bill. With that kind of opposition quick death for the existing program may have been an act of mercy. Foreign aid began in 1948 under the Marshall Plan which helped postwar Europe recover. But in the intervening 23 years and $143 billion the aid concept has broadened, waste and inefficiency have sapped its effectiveness and world conditions have changed markedly. Even before the Senate vote it was clear that the review of foreign aid time for a was at hard. i- full-dre- ss In view of this need the Senate has performed a drastic though clean-cu- t service. By ending foreign aid outrigLt it has cleared the decks for a new program in keeping with todays realities. In the interim some $4 billion already in the aid pipeline will cushion the blow to those activities not carried over in new aid legislation. Sen. Mansfields observation that it was time to put into operation a new foreign aid concept should ease the anxiety of those of us who see foreign aid as a humanitarian, economic and political necessity. Perhaps this is part of the changing situation in the world in the early seventies, the senator said. Perhaps it is time to develop new ideas and get away from old ideas. There is good reason to believe that the majority leader expressed the Senates true feeling. The Senate isnt bent on ending foreign aid forever. But it has finally come to the realization that the multibillion aid program has become unman-agabl- e and not very effective. A new start is called for and the Senate has taken the first step in that direction. ic which made U.N. Through institution is For, mark it down now, that sure had it be to through. Not for years, a fairly useful amounted to much more than forensically forum for the ventilation hostilities. Not even international of only this will it be any more. For the Congress and who have seen this the people of the U.S. lied to by countrys representatives badly have had who powers supposedly friendly out by billions of $143 poured the their share ai have lands to other aid Americans in You know, to necessary compromise have been struck as far as closing a key section of Sait Lake Citys Penrose Dr. is concerned. With a few exceptions, it also appears to be a workable compromise. In satisfying both those who petitioned to close the section between Military Way and Medical Drive and those who opposed the idea, city commissioners voted unanimously to delay the closure until next June 1 and, in the meantime, push widening of 1st South St. east to Medical Dr. This should accommodate campus traffic at the northwest portals while relieving the vehicle loads so annoying to residents along Penrose Dr. As the issue developed, it became evident that traffic currently entering and leaving the university campus via Penrose would certainly traverse other nearby streets if the section in question was vacated. The traffic problem, in other words, would be dumped on other resi seems Editor, Tribune: Closure of Penrose Drive is opposed by over 50 residents on University St., Wolcott, 1st South, Butler, Federal Way and South Temple. All on these streets will suffer because of increased traffic, merely for the satisfaction of a special group in Federal Heights. The city commission is acting capriciously, arbitrarily and with obviour favoritism. Rather than directing the scare,, for a reasonable solution by cooperative action of the city planning office, traffic engineer, it has University of Utah and the residents dents no more eager or able to contend with it. By wide ling 1st South, the diverted vehicle flow may be conveniently channelled without further disruption. But can this be done by June 1? Why set an arbitrary deadline? It would be more sensible to schedule the closure for whenever all details connected with the 1st South widening are complete. That way, the change in driving habits would be accomplished smoothly, in one step. Also, the possibilities for orderly, adequate development of traffic management at the university campus especially at is still in doubt. the riorthwest end While work proceeds on 1st South, a joint study by the univeristy, Salt Lake City and Utah State Highway Departument traffic planners should be made. The 1st South project may not be the complete answer. If not, now is the time to determine what is. Blounfs Burden If retiring Postmaster General Winton Blount Joes the expected and runs for the Senate, voters in his native Alabama will be cnallenged to a display of will power and fairness. By election day 1972, Mr. Blount will have been out of his post office job for a year. But his performance is certain to be an rtsue. More specifically, the performance of the department over the years will be a real, if unspoken issue. Voters rarely get an opportunity to vent dissatisfaction with the mail service. Taking old grievances out on Mr. Blount next November is, of course, irrational. High postal rates, sometimes irregular mail delivery and such have no bearing on Mr. Blount's qualifications as a senator. Reason notwithstanding, it will be interesting to see if Alabama voters make the distinction. M. As usual, a spooky name has been gven to a phenomenon that is feared, because it is not clearly understood. The Great Galactic Ghoul designates a disd tance in space where other rockets have encountered trouble. And not just minor trouble. At least two Soviet space vehicles traveling toward Mars were lost after reaching the ghouls about 130 million miles from vicinity the sun. Mariner 4, the first U.S. spaceshot to Mars, lecorded a bombardment, interpreted as cosmic dust, at about the same distance in March, 1965. And so. as Mariner 9 draws near the critical point, an alert for the ghoul is on. Presumably, an equal concern grips Soviet space technicians, who launched two more explorers also approaching Mars. All three are programmed to reach a Mars orbit early next month. There is more in common than worrying about the Great Galactic Ghoul. Both nations have agreed to exchange instantly information received from their respective capsules, including televised pictures. If, as expected, the Soviet probe attempts as surface landing, the shared information would be made public at an early date an exciting prospect. At any rate, if this cooperative effort succeeds, it could help forge an eventual fullscale space venture. Anbogey-maknown as otherwise other could an be largely adversary, trusting overcome as well. Idlers must nut be more than must be submilled exclusively to The Tribune and bear writer's full name, signature and address. Names must be printed on political letters but may be withheld for good reasons on othprs. ft liters are limited to one letter every 10 days. Preference will be given letters permitting use of trne name, and tc those and short. which are typed (double-spacePublic Forum 250 words in long 111, d) shirked its responsibility by placing the blame on the university and State Road Commission. No solution proposed by the two organizations alone has a chance of acceptance. The university has shown its concern by comformation of a university-communit- y mittee, including representatives of the city traffic engineer's office and the State Road Commission. The complaints are only requesting a delay in the closure of that campus entrance now carrying the lightest (Penrose Drive) traffic load of any until a plan that will be of minimum neighborhood disruption can be proposed and implemented. East 1st South is not and cannot be made to be the solution. A northwest entrance to the campus is absolutely essential. ROBERT L. BLISS Mars-boun- U.S.-Sovi- et n, InliTlandi never looked at it that way before!' Necessary Delay Spook Debunking Season One of the mysteries that space exploration seemed to imply from the beginning has U.S. scientists anxiously watching the latest Mars probe. Mariner 9 is fast approaching the Great Galactic Ghoul. What better time than the Halloween season? 1 long last had enough. No shabbier, no more squalid, performance by this home of the conscience of mankind has ever been seen in any international body anywhere over any issue. This is not said simply because Red China is now in and Nationalist China is now out. This columnist, for one, cares very little whether Red China is in or out. never have allowed such a thing. How can we debate, It is the nature of this justify in our minds this upcoming visit ? the U.N. off finished which has not its g result, It should be remembered that Mao one of a no more represents the huge population of nation, and the this absurdity China than the superintendent at Utah State one vote procedure whereby a country, say, Prison represents the prisoners under his jurisof as few as 100,000 people barely emerged diction. LAUREL C. JORGENSEN from the culture of the jungle is allowed equal voice with one of 200 million people which has from the very beginning carried Lack of Braiuwork the principal burden of the U.N. in both finanEditor, Tribune: Richard P. Kimballs cial and other terms. views on overpopulation (Forum, Oct. 21) are U.S. Humiliated a nerfect example of the lack of brainwork he attributes to world population experts and It is true that the U.S. has been humiliatothers who have the intelligence and imaginin ed the sense that we did not bring off what ation to see the problem in its true perspective, w e had hoped. This was t! 2 admission of Red and the desire to do something about it. No doubt his statements are motivated by China, complete wdth a seat on the powerful religious beliefs which have been drummed Security Council, if accompanied only by the into his head since childhood; propagation is small decency of allowing Nationalist China his church's most effective means of increasto remain at least in the General Assembly. ing its membership rolls, just as it is the For the associates of Communist China Soviets way of producing more Communists. and for the secretary general of the U.N., U How Mr. Kimball can see intellectual selfishness and laziness in those who are conThant of Burma, it wa a famous victory. But cerned enough about future generations to let us wait and see wTho wins and who loses in want to plan now for a better world for them the end. The losers are more than the U.N is beyond my comprehension. The fact the itself. Among the other losers will be those Soviet birthrate has declined despite prizes nations, not excluding our alleged friends, offered for extra babies proves Russian who have done pretty well through our forcouples are reluctant to bring children into the eign aid program and have now managed to world to share their miserable existence. strike it a heavy blow. The parents who continue to have large But the great victim the tragic victim families while the world's resources dwindle will be the concept of internationalism and and pollution increases are the selfish ones. collective security. It is a historic irony that a Those who limit their families to two children the supreme exemplar of body supposedly of their own and then, if they want more, precisely these things has, with parliamentaadopt some of the youngsters abandoned each ry methods that would disgrace a union meel-in- g year by adults who didnt care aout their in a labor hall, struck the blow that display far more strength of character, to kill the most enlightened and in unselfishness and genuine love. the e.id the most generous world policies SALLY SCARBOROUGH JACOBSEN in human histories. The Public Forum Needed Compromise Partial Answer A fut-tur- Orbiting Paragraphs There is a considerable debate about intelligence tests. The pupils have trouble with the questions and the educators dont understand ihe results. So many presidential hopefuls are out looking for money, that we dont imagine many rich men are answering their telephones or doorbells. These move' on television are a forward, step although somewhat conmajor fusing to the iewer who sees the first half of one and the last half of another. Many Russian students, it is reported, ate leni ning English. Big deal. The same thing ;s Sciriest Halloween on record; that FOR KIDS!'' is. true of many American students. Pedestrian signs say walk when they should say "run or maybe even panic. e, Theodore Lon" Reputation Damaged visiEditor, Tribune: As a recent first-tim- e tor to your renowned city, I was astonished to see billowing clouds of noxious smoke coming from the Kennecott facilities near the lake. On inquiring, I was told that these fumes are an everyday occurrence and have been for years. I am astonished. How can a city so pure in purpose and setting permit the financial interest of a few to befoul the lives of so many? At g the very least, such disregard for the of Salt Lake City residents must not enhance the reputation of the city in the eyes of visitors. ROGER M. HFWETT Cincinnati, Ohio well-bein- Unbelievable Tse-tun- Position Editor, Tribune: Mayor J. Bracken Lee, as quoted in The Tribune of Oct. 23, casts a long constitutional shadow on the right of the city commission to close Penrose Dr. If the constitutions of the United States and the State of Utah are dead, as our good mayor opines, then perhaps v . should delete all reference to protectirg and defending them from the oaths of office which our public servants take. What a Way to Select Our Justices! In Richard Nixon's two years and nine months as President, his efforts to remake the U S. Supreme Court In his image have gravely damaged the judiciarys standing as a coequal branch of gov- ernment. Mr. Nixon couldnt undercut the Supreme Courts constitutional position. But he could and did demonstrate a profound contempt for the insti- tution by proposing, or hinting he would pro- could pose, candidates whose qualifications not withstand careful scrutiny. The Haynsworth and Carswell nominations were rejected by the Senate after bruising battles that should have alerted Mr. Nixon to his mistakes. Instead, he preferred I do wish Mayor Lee would take more into believe he was the victim of a wicked antiterest in the problems of citizens and less in conservative, conspiracy. Sevretaliating against bureaucrats, the latter eral months later, with two more vacancies to being advanced as his reason for his unbelievfill, ne sent a list of undistinguished candiable stand on Penrose. dates to the American Bar Assn, for clearHAROLD H. SMITH ance. After the ABA gave them low marks, and the press learned what had happened, Mr. Lnthinkable Nixon sprang another of his famous surprises. And his two latest nominees are likely Editor, Tribune: According to a careful to be accepted by the Senate, in part, perhaps, s,udy done by the American Federation of because they are so much better than anyLabor in 1952, within two years after the Chithing that had been expected. nese Reds had finished taking over the mainWhat a way to select the men (or women) land at the end of 1949, they had deliberately will sit on the nation's highest tribunal! who 14 million demoralmurdered people in order to (The parenthetical qualification is used ize all opposition and consolidate their power. The best estimates are that since then they because w'omon are usually an afterthought ee murdered in cold blood at least 20 million when an important appointment is in the nore. It is also known that they have invented works.) Remains a Hope Deferred and regularly used some 70 new kinds of horrible torture as a means of making their terror This time around, however, there were inmore effective in eliminating even potential redications things would be different. The Pressistance. idents wife was known to favor Ihe appointThis makes Hitler's murder of 6 million ment of a woman. And a woman judge was Jews sound almost insignificant by comparison. among the six jsissibilitios considered by tile It would have been unthinkable to have an bar association at the Presidents request. American president pay homage to Hitler, but But, a dozen headlines later and after a real Nixon is now preparing to do just that with Donnybrook of a rontrovorsy, a woman on Mao Tse-tunThe American people would the court remains a hope deferred. anti-Southe- Bill Vaughan's literal, Mr- - White shooting wrar upon the U.N. itself. the all of is first U.N. in Korea, 1 To hear Mr. Nixon tell it, the bar is to blame. He was willing, as that list shows, but what could he do in the face of the adverse report? Moreover, he seems to imply that a woman didn't have a chance because the bars screening committee consisted entirely of males. The President discussed the situation ai some length at a gathering of Republican women and was roundly applauded he guaranteed that a woman would make it to the Supreme Court one of these days. Promises, promises? Perhaps. At any rate, male chauvinists of the bar wont stand in the way as long as Mr. Nixon is in office. Atty. Gen. John N. Mitchell has just announced the administration will no longer seek the ABA's advice on high court appointments. Who Did the Leaking? The idea, of course, is to prevent leaks damaging to the reputations of possible nominees. But in the present incident, just where and how did the leaks occur? And did the fault lie vilh the ABA or the Nixon administration? Since the President and the attorney general are doing the talking, its easy to guess what they want the public to believe. So, once again, what a way to select members of the nations highest Iribunal! Since a President is the leader of his polit parly, it's obviously impossible to isolate court appointments from polities. It's also obvious that political considerations may influence the actions of senators belonging to the opposition party. And, unfortunately, partisanship sometimes gets out of hand, though when that happens the arguments are usually expressed in a terms horse and buggy court, " law and order, strict constructionism and judicial restraint. Political restraint has been noticeably lacking. Lyndon B. Johnson blundered by trymg to advance Abe Fortas to the chief justiceship three ears ago. Richard Nixon keeps on blundering. When he isn't goading the Senate, lie's arousing antagonism elsewhere b d his attitude toward thp quality of the court and his sniping at the bar al off-han- |