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Show ii An Editor's Notebook The Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, October 31, A 1971 29 Callous U.N. Decision on China Nonetheless Lays a Myth to Rest, Offers Hope The United Nations may never be proud and previously influential United States had been brought to heel. Two of our friends and allies on the Security Council, France and the United Kingdom, voted against us along with Israel, Ireland, Belgium, Portugal and a number of other nations which have at various times benefitted fmm our seem- quite the same again. This is not to say that admission of the People's Re- public of China and expulsion of the Republic of China (Taiwan) will in the long range have a deleterious effect upon Nathe United punish the nations which took a position contrary to our own, the way is at least open to challenge the United Nations' obvious fiscal deficiencies. Resolved One Question What the favorable vote on the Albanian resolution to seat Peking and did accomexpel Formosa (Taiwan) plish was to bury for all timn the myth that the government of Chiang does truly represent the people of China, with only 14 million as against nearly 800 million governed by Communist China. Since both Peking and Taipei insisted there is only one China, the U.N. vole resolved that question by a decisive 76 to 35 count. But 14 million people on Ta'wan were at that moment left without U.N. representation. The Nixon administration had hoped that Taiwan would be allowed to keep its in the Assembly, while representation admitting Peking, until both Chinas could resolve their own relationship. , However, the U.S. position was gradually eroded by president Nixons forth ingly unending generosity. Kai-she- k May tions viability as a force for peace. But things will be different. The United States, which pays more than a third of the United Nations budget, suffered a humiliating defeat in its advoca- Aid e This fact, in itself, has caused the Congi ess to future foreign aid appropriations and be somewhat more chary of requested benefactions. And, undoubtedly, there will be pressures from Congress concerning what are thought to be extravagantly large expenditures for the numerous agencies operating under United Nations auspices. A closer examination of nations in default of their United Nations obligations is certainly in prospect. While it would be inadvisable for the United Stales to retaliate in anger or cy of the policy. The callosity with which this rebuke was administered does little credit to the nations which opposed our position. For it is one thing to vote sincere convictions, quite another for delegates to exult and dance in the aisles because the two-Chi- mer Two Chinas cannot coexist in peace. Taiwan, with its 14 million people, muld then reapply for admission to the United Nations, defense expenditures ana American military assistance might well be reduced and a knotty problem placed on the road to resolution. To be realistic, such an accommodation will require major adjustments in the present attitudes of both Peking and coming visit to Peking, a factor which many nations construed as leaving them tree either to abstain or vote agamst the United States. Scurrying to make friends with Communist China became a pragmatic and appealing thing to do. So w hat of the future? We agree with the New York Times that expulsion of Taiwan was a callous act of appeasement of dubious morality. But the issue is settled, and for the first time the United States has lost a major issue in the United Nations. Realism now dictates that Generalissimo Chiang or his successors, should give up their hopes and aspirations for control of all China and build a future as an independent nation. Taiwan has, with American aid, done well economically. Our defense pacts remain in force. The United States is not about to desert a nation it has nurtured for so many years. On the theory that Peking is presently more interested in expanding its world relationships than in conquering Taiwan by force, there is no reason why the for Taipei. Yet, other than its leaders, the people Taiwan are principally interested in peace and a measure of prosperity. As for the Peking government, there are currently bigger fish to fry than the aged of Kai-she- k, Chiang Kai-she- May Now Exert Influence With Peking being elevated to mem- bership in the United Nations and a permanent seat on the Security Council, perhaps the great powers can be influential, now that the myth has been put to rest, in advocating a reasonable and eminently fair disposition of this a James Ile&ton New York Times Service Patents Govern Market on Prescriptions more than they have been doing in the past but to kill the foreign aid bill after an emotional debate in the Senate with a quarter of the members absent is scarcely the way to do it. ' WASHINGTON The Senate vote to kill the foreign aid bill is more symbolic than real. It will be revived in some other form long before the $5 billion in the pipeline runs out, but it is one more drama- A. C. writes. If I ask my doctor to give me a prescription for Orinase under the generic term, will he do it? Are phar- macists obliged by law to fill a preif the scription generic name is used? More Difficnlt Role fact, as new power centers develbe increasingly difficult for the United States to maintain its influence and defend its interests abroad when it lunges around as it has been doing lately at the U.N., in the economic and financial debates of the world, and in the Senate on foreign aid. Besides, the main consequences of the U.S. import surtax and the killing of the foreign aid bill is not to hurt the nations Washington is angry at Japan and the Common Market countries can take care but to hurt the poor of themselves underdeveloped countries who are likely to be the unintended casualties of the surtax and the foreign aid decision. The gap between the rich and the poor nations of the world is getting wider with every passing year. This is not only a human tragedy, but it is a danger to the peaceful development of the changing In op, it is going to of the quickly is world being how transformed, Orinase 25 years, Washington and Moscow were so strong that the nations allied to them or beholden to them for military and economic security felt obliged to go along with them on major questions of foreign policy often against their better judgment, but this is no longer true. General De Gaulle started the drift away from Washington when he took his naval forces out of the North Atlantic Treaty command, and this trend has continued steadily until the other day when Britain, France and finally the U.N. itself defied Washington by bringing Communist China into the United Nations. Even Romania on the Soviet border does not go along with Moscow's foreign policy line, and while the United States is still the main source of Israel's weapons, the Israeli government follows its own independent policy. It would be wrong to say the old alliances are breaking down, but it is obvious that the old blocs, separate and largely out of touch with one another, are finished. Diplomacy Changes Ten years ago or even five, it would have been unthinkable for a West German chancellor to establish an independent policy with Moscow, or for an American president to launch a secret mission to Peking without advance consultation with Japan, but this crisscross diplomacy is new quite common. For there are noj only two power centers in Washington and Moscow now but three others developing in Japan, China and the new Europe, and we are likely to see much more independent crisscrossing as these new power centers develop. In the light of all this, it is scarcely sm prising that the United States, frustrated abroad and tormented over social and ecor omic problems at home, shoulu revise its programs of aid to foreign nations especially since the other industrial nations are in a position to do No Choice in This Case ' Dont Lock Up Mind an Toss Prison Key Away Washington Post Service WASHINGTON Prisons dont work. Or at any rate they dont do the things we keep saying we want them to do. They dont reform or correct behavior, no matter how much we call them reforma-- t coro r ies 'or institurectional tions. They dont rehabilitate. They d o nt p r e vent crime (except durthe period ing Surveys show that educational TV is d watched by the more affluent, part of the citizenry. Instead of sleeping in front of the set with a can of beer they are dozing there with a bottle of Pouilly Fuisse. when better-educate- The University of Pennsylvania bans water beds from dormitories because of the danger of flooding. The situation may be even worse at schools where rowing is not a major sport. Its always a temptation to blame other people for your mistakes. In the for 'xample, most of vs Game of r claim it was the opposition that drew us e. monetary situation subject for bringing people together. Nothing creates a stronger bond than the sharing of ignorance. The international criminals are actually locked up). crime by They may even exacerbate reca prison more one handicap adding economic, whose to the people ord social, educational and moral handicaps landed them in jail in the first place. Ail they do, in far too may cases, is of punishpunish. And what is the value ment if it does not change behavior? And yet, precious few of us are willhowever ing to abandon punishment of those whose antisocial, ineffectual behavior is such a curse on all of us. What we do instead is to try somehow to make our prisons institutions of botli punishment and rehabilitation. is a wonderful conversational Aurt Bella still thinks a pot party is one of those gatherings where the hostess gets a commission for demonstrating cooking utensils. The purpose of public buildings, as we understand It, is to serve the public by giving them an opportunity to knock the architecture. If the no fault" concept can be made ork in automobile accidents, perhaps it might be tried to collisions of international policies as well. w bigger hit than Tony Bennett's tribute to San Francisco might be Scotty Hestons I left my appendix in the anti imperialist hospital. A -- To boost the sale of the Pentagon papers book maybe it should have a subtitle: What you always wanted to know about Vietnam but were afraid to ask. Split the Functions At least one prison nonauthority has suggested that we ought to separate the two functions. A counselor at the D.C. reformatory in Lorton, Ya., proposes quite unoffirehabilitaat that any attempt cially tion should be postponed until punishment is over. When you get punishment out of the way, she said, at that point you can assume that the debt has been repaid, that the slate is clean. At the very minimum, her clean slate means the elimination of continuing the handicaps (hat make every sentence a denial of citizenship life sentence rights (including the vote), blocks to employment, parole supervision. Shed like it to include expunging of criminal records as well. With the punishment out of the way, rehabilitation can become a realistic possibility, site believes. What should be the aim, she said, "is providing the means whereby a man Goren's Weekly Bridge Q U1Z By C. H. Goren 1 Neither vulnerable, as South you hold : AKQJ43 VK10752 AQ5S , Ycur partner has opened the bidding with one no trump. 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When Upjohns patent expires, other pharmaceutical houses may be able to buy bulk tolbutamide, manufacture the tablets and wholesale them to drug stores. William J. Raspberry Senator Soaper to r the , For is - trade name and generic term for this antidiahetic pill. In this case, i Almost every week now for over a year there has Mr. Reston been some startl- generaing evidence that the post-wa- r domination in the tion of Soviet-U.S- . world is over, and that new centers of power and new relationships between nations are reshaping world politics. In our 'own hemisphere, Prime Minister Trudeau of Canada has taken a more independent line in his policies toward Moscow and Peking, and for the first time in the history of the hemisphere, a Marxist government has been voted into world. office in Chile. For there is now a kind of class war In Europe, Chancellor Willy Brandt of in the world between the rich developing Wcot Germany has established a much nations and the poor nations. And this is 'mote open and friendly relationship with likely to get increasingly worse unless all the Soviet Union, and the other Commuin the industrial northnist nations beyond the Berlin Wall, and the power centers ern hemisphere revise their programs of the British House of Commons has final' aid to the underfed majority of .he ly accepted the principle of joining the below the now human living family European Common Market by a very equator. large vote. (Copyright) No Longer True Q. -- Dr. T. R. Van Dellen Power Pendulum Swings; Aid Vote a Case in Point tic illustration hitherto tortuous controversy. The United Nations was conceived 26 years ago as an instrument of peace. While it has enjoyed some notable accomplishments, mainly when the late Dag Hammarskjold was secretary - general, the organization has in more recent years become flabby and relatively inert with respect to i peace - keeping functions. Since by its own free choice the United Nations has moved to admit Communist China to membership while expelling a smaller member in good standing, it now carries the weighty responsibility of adjudicating such differences as do exist with fairness and justice to all involved. The U.N.s failure to so perform will consign the organization to a future without hope; an admission of failure and a state of moribundity. Thus will great dreams fade away, doomed forever by the contemptibleness and callousness of mankind. John S. Knight Editorial Chairman, Knight Newspapers ' |