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Show rw y-- r 'r-- yi TRB from Washington The Salt Lake Tnbune, Tuesday, June 26, 1972 13 National Pride Can Be a Hazard are having lunch six miles up of popcorn clouds. full Red or sky white? asks the pretty Malaysian hostess in a stunning Oriental dfess. We left the Singapore Hilton at 6 a.m. and will end in Honolulu at some incomprehensible hour, for with this International Date Line you never know whether it is yesterday, today or tomorrow. The captain's oice over the intercom says casually, -On our left the Mekong Delta. The sea is deep blue and some of the beaches of Vietnam below us are yellow sand. Those may fee toy airplanes on that matchbox field. passing on the left the city of Vinh Long, says the captain informatively. Some of us- look down from our pressurized jet.. At 5U0 m.p.h. the tortured laud is soon passed. The lunch with minced pork, wine, Savann aux fruits. We are fighting a depersonalized war down there, to save our national honor. Mr. Nixon has said he isn't going to be the first president to lose a war. The Harris poll says 79 percent want a U.S. pullout but, on the other hand, 45 percent (to 38 percent) would oppose peace by accepting a coalition government that included Communists. So we must fight. We can t let our President down. Senseless Slaughter Any day now the Communists may throw in the sponge and let us end this senseless slaughter. For our boys, fortunately, the actual killing has become increasingly remote. In the bombers, anyway, the soldier is separated from the consequence of his action. The difficulty is that a seismic detector cant always differentiate between a truckload of arms and a school bus. But thats the hazard of war, isnt it? We can be complacent, for our side is free from the fear of retaliation. The fields of Vietnam are being scientifically cratered. Its a small country but even at that Mr. Laird says it will cost us $3 to $5 billion more to do the job. Between 1965 and 1971 bombing dug some 26 million craters with an average depth of 25 feet and diameter of 40 feet. Along with that, herbicide spraying killed perhaps half the hardwood forest west and north of Saigon, and maybe half of all the mangrove forests. We stopped that a We fes M 1 n J year ago after devastating around 5.5 million acres largely because foreign nations were saying nasty things about us. Some of the countries at the Stockholm conference, for example, rejected the U.S. as savior of the environment while practicing ecocide in Indochina. Has Been a Price There has been a price for this at home, of course, of helplessness and frustration. of dejection and despair. Worse still, probably, is the loss of confidence of many people in their institutions and their government. A lot of people have avoided this simply by closing their minds to the war: turning it out.You can numb your mind if you set about it properly. blit it is an art, and some people are better at it than others. On the other hand there is ahvays this uncomfortable question, whether killing women and children in villages is as bad as not caring about killing women and children in vil- - troops in Laos, but the administration flagrantly violates the ban. Congress approved $10 million m humanitarian aid for the Pakistani government whch the General Accounting Oliice r.sw f.nds was diverted into fortifications: a senior otn-cuat the time assured senators that of such irrethere was no evidence il gularities. The Army lies, and Congress is the last to hear about it: New Yoik Times- man Seymour Harsh just reveJd the suppressed secret Army report about the 1968 My Lai massacre; the report found that the coverup was made at every level from bottom to top. You remember the photos of My Lai? They were a pile ultimately evposcd by the press of women and old men shot down in cold blood, with the buttocks of one slain baby showing in the foreground . . . Well, national honor, you know. Must Have Envied Him When Mr. Nixon was in Moscow', Comrade B. izhnev must have envied him his power. Comrade Brezhnev doesnt gc through our election process, but he has to clear a lot of things with others. The American president can order an inva sion of Cambodia on his own. Under a parliamentary democracy, if Heath should fire his foreign secretaiy, Sir Alec Home, the latter would sail have his powerful s at in the Commons. If Mr. N.xon fired Kissinger he would just have .u go back to Harvard. Mr. Nixon is bos'. Franklin Roosev elt had tw o press conMr. Nixon held his last ference ?. formal one June 1. 1971; ves, over a year ago. Jeer if you want at the press, but it is a safeguard of democracy; it links the President with reality. The Nixon administration has deliberately set out to dow n- grade it. Mr. Nixon is the most isolated President since now er. This is the trouble with our system of elected monarchy, particularly when you have a man who is reclusive and introspective, lacking warm and easy with the public. The problem goes deeper than Mr. Nixon, though. We have elevated the symbolic oilice of the presidency so that we leel it must not be tarnished; it must not be diminished by military defeat. We must save face. THE NEW REPUBLIC relation-'shi- (C) 1972, of New Harrison-Blain- p fTGxm. m Cl 1 If S Jersey, Inc. a European security conference Hlto be followed by a formal East-Wefagreement. It is prepared to pay for fthe latter ratifica-M- r. Sulzberger tion of Europes exborders isting by some kind of separate mutual balanced force reduction of the NATO and Warsaw Pact armies. At the same time, western intelligence knows and has confirmed from defectors that the basic Soviet war plan would aim, in case of conflict, on occupying the entire Atlantic and channel coast line of West Europe within two weeks. It would then spend a further two weeks mopping up, assuming all this could be done by conventional weapons plus small tactical nuclear arms and that an holocaust exchange with the United States Could somehow be dodged by the balance of terror. On the one hand, we know that the i ssians have developed and built enormous new supersonic delta-win- g bombers which have been photographed, as well as 8,000 ton (surface weight) atomic submarines, larger than anything in he U.S. Navy. On the other hand we know that the Soviet generals oppose any talk of force reduction but have been overruled by the Kremlin. Reflects Global Problem The apparent dichotomy .implied by all this merely reflects a global problem existing in West as well as East. Both sides want to reduce war dangers and the huge cost of the arms race, but their leaders also are leary about proceeding too fast or unilaterally. As they inch toward detente they wish to keep their powder st all-o- NORTH J73 9AK93 A OKQ63 AKJ WEST A AQ2 ? j One problem for consumer groups must be ir, finding Simon-purenemies. Doesnt everybody consume a little?, e year after Its departure, Mariner 9 And the odd thing it hadnt even occurred to us to ask anybody whatever happened to if. A is sin orbit, eg Mars. re-s- et O J 10 8 4 2 A 10 8 7 SOUTH A K 109 8 S 4 9384 is equivalent reduction in N TO. But the unilaterlatter trend has already set in ally ai d ahead of time. Western Europes income has increased 20 percent during - e Dunagin's People ' of-th- Travelers Get Dysentery From Foods The causes of traveler's diarrhea are because understood more better research along this line is bung conducted. Now that international travel is on ' the increase, w e ' need more informa-- ' tion because tne condition is difflc to avoid, especially Tin certain parts of the w.rld. Those I who doubt the existence of such a disease will be instant converts should they develop dysentery on their next vacation. Travelers diarrhea occurs to people visiting America as well as to Americans going elsewhere. I i India Pepper Theory The most frequently mentioned causes are intemperate habits of eating and drinking. In all probability, the symptoms stem from a diarrhea-producinmicroorganism found in contaminated water or uncooked vegetables and fruits. g A recent causal theory includes viable fecal organisms in pepper imported from India. Careiul stool studies by many authorities have yielded a vanety of microbes, including those responsible for typhoid, cholera, and amebiasis. The critters most commonly found are d microscopic organisms known as Giardia lamblia. Until recently! they were regarded aS harmless intestinal parasites, but several reports have appeared which the organisms have been found in persons with travelers diarrhea. beet-shape- Other Terms Furthermore, Giardia parasites tw'o-ste- - Corea third round was ruffed by South, when West showed out, revealing that Norths long hart was not establishable, declarer was obliged to fall back on the club finesse. A small club was led, and after West played the seven South put in the jack from dummy. Easts queen cf clubs scored the setting trick. Wa dont mind-- ' . 'getting involved was the re- cinch North replied, it was lead not could West profitatrumps that bly himself and if you keep East out at trick one, there will be time for you to trump a club in dummy and make one more trick on the deaL Well, East West NT Pass Pass Pass PasO Opening lead: Jack of O Although South has only nine points in high cards and distribution, he is well within himself in bidding four spades over Norths opening one no trump bid. The latter is known to hold either three trumps or a doubleton headed by at least the ace or queen. Assured of a reasonable fit. South may count extra points for his long trumps assuring the partner ship of at least 28. W'Vi opened the jack of diamonds which was covered by Norths queen and Easts hco. The latter shifted to a trump, South played low, and West took the queen and ace of spades and led a third round" to clear dummys holding. The king of d'amonds was cashed, on which declarer discarded a heart. The ace and king of hearts came next and a , Travelers diarrhea is also known as turista, Montezumas revenge, Delhi and Teheran trots. belly, Aztec Mexicans who visit California and develop the condition call it San Franciscitis. sponse.- North are easily eradicated with quinacrine hydrochloride and the diarrhea promptly subsides shortly after the remedy is started. The only trouble is that Giardia lamblia are not always present nn,- What do you mean?" O 7 AA84 1 guess he 1 his lomb dock!' Bernstein on Words declarer was chalking up profit lor his opponents on the score sheet, North asked simply, I wonder what would have happened if you hadn't covered the jack of diamonds at trick one? The bidding: that the syndicated brains were WTOng about Uife is a short span from the ID card showing' you are old enough to drink to the .ID card proving you are old enough for a cheaper rate on the bus. Beauty lovers tend to object to high-ris- e buildings, bat we are not sure at exactly what floor ughr.es? sets in. The queslkia is act whether we want clean air but how much of it w are willing to pay far: , for the next available flight the past five years. Yet its expenditure on defense, calculated in real terms, has declined 3.6 pel cent during the same period. Statistics Meaningless Anyway This worries NATO's leaders. They already know that 11,000 allied tanks face 17,000 Warsaw Pact tanks in Europe and that within two monllis of any wars start By Theodore M. Bernstein the former figure could be raised only to 13,500 while the later would jump to 1 if VOLTH-YAK- . it be doesnt this: wouldnt The recent student agisurprised 36,01X1. However, if the Soviet war, plan tation at Columbia University brought out ram; just look at those clouds." That is almost as bad as saying, I aint got no mentioned had been successful, these staa few samples of youth-yak- , some new tistics would be meaningless anyway. and some not so new. A bust, as everypencil." The lesson is that the speaker or West and East are edging toward one in the know knows, is a police raid. writer must keep his no's clean and av oid of slowdown in the arms race kind some tied m nots. up But one student counseled qgainst taking gettmg easement of tension. a formalized and A word that CONTENTS NOTED. the bust, meaning he was against a seems to puzzle a lew readers- is con- Yet the pace is nearer the tortoise's than bloody confrontation with the police. Antents. Sam Solomon of Montreal writes to the hare's. Caution is the key word. Joother said that agitators had learned that ask about this sentence: The contents of seph Luas, the immense Dutchman who trashing tends to turn people off. Trashletter heads NATO as secretary general, means it has categorically denied. and a verb your vandalism, ing He wants to know which verb is correct. warns: form, to trash, which, of course, means Contents is a plural noun; therefore the to vandalize. To turn someone off If the NATO countries, in antipica-tio- n means to verb should be plural: are. Confusion hardly a recent expression of mutual balanced force reduction bore him or leave him indifferent. Are arises, perhaps, because the singular should first reduce their own or detente, nom content is used with such relative you turned off? defenses. This would jeopardize the infrequency that some people tend to WORD ODDITIES. Many people have of detente and end the chances think of contents as a singular. The chances difficulty differentiating principal from reduction. of force Why? Simply because meaning of content is. broadly, what is principle, and a rescue operation is about Western decrease in arms unilateral a subMost it often .contained. designates to begin. Lets start out by noting that removes all reason for the Russians io the two words come from the same Latin stance as contrasted with form or manmake concessions of their own. If they of the content The of ner expression: root: pnneeps, meanaig the fust or chief. novel is superb, but the writing is can get something for nothing, why As a noun pnncipal denotes a leader or a reters should they pay for it? top man (or woman). As an adjective it untidy." The plural form, contents, Western Alliance Jittery to the things contained in a letter, a book denotes foremost or chief or highest or western alliance is therefore jitTbs your pocket. ranking. The general idea in both noun tery about how fast and how far to move and adjective is topmost, first-ratAl. toward arms reduction, while its populaHold in mind that Al designation because tions are jittery about failure to move at that's how youre going to remember the all. The voters want comfort more than proper spelling. The word pnncipal' ends . By Ralph Dunagin in al and in print or. typewriting al looks their governments worry protection; ' ' t like Al. Got it? about letting this area gradually become The other word, principle, fracing back Finlandized. hat they mean is to that Latin root meaning first, refers to nuclearization and exposure to Soviet the first or foundation expression of threats. something, a fundamental truth, an eleObviously nothing like that could hapmentary guide. Evn u you- have trouble for years. However, no responsible pen remembering pnnciple, how could you alliance minister wants to risk moving ever forget that the pnncipal is not only unconsciously past a point of no return as a pal but also an Al fellow? detente settles in. One cardinal point has REVERSE ENGLISH. A recent one nevertheless been settled by Nixons columns pointed out how the comrecent Moscow visit. I couldnt care less mon expression This is that both Russia and America has degenerated into the even commoner now legalize espionage by acknowledging I could care less, which, when you stop they can check on each others arms and to think about it, makes no sense. That disarming programs with the cameras of little discussion DromDted Nicholas GDell their space satellite. If they could devise of Westchester, Pa., to take typewriter in of similarly exploring each others means hand to point out another of those nonminds, would that help or hinder peace? sense locutioas. This one is a kind of dou(Copyright) ble negative and an example goes like ment on defense is therefore relatively double Amentas. The burden is heavy and obviously Brezhnev would like to lighten it if there While 910 6 tempt. Everybody lies to Congress. Congress banned use of funds to subsidize foreign is anything v Dr. T. R. Van Dellen . lew York Times Service BRUSSELS Perhaps nothing better symbolizes the cockeyed conditions of our resent world than the following juxtapoU Tflsition of known sllfacts. The Soviet 1 .Union sincerely high-energ- y in the political sense, -1 East, West Move Toward Arms Cuts But Keep Powder Dry ment of the Presidency, and even then saw that the legislature, under the pressure of a economy, was gradually being reduced to argumentation, to investigation and to acquiescence." This reporter sat with majority leader Mike Mansfield at a breakfast the other day, a gentle, likeable man, who A phenomenon, 1- forgot to e Goren on Todays Bridge Hand Senator Soaper I put him on stun C. L. Sulzberger lages? America is in this fix. I think, partly because of our odd form of government. More and more we have been getting aw-afrom shared responsibility in Washington and massing power at the top. largely in the President. The abdication of authority by Congress has been the dry. most conspicuous change of government In some senses Moscow has the adin Washington in 50 years. Congress has Its autocratic governing system vantage. been found an unnecessary element In can make the people pay what their leadcarrying on this war, and so has the ers decide is necessary; not vice versa, press, and so finally has the public. They as in the West Thus Russia spends the all oppose the war but it goes on. The imsame as the United States on its annual portant factors are the Pentagon and the program but it has only half the President They are going to save our na- military U.S. gross national product. Its invest- tional honor and they are going to preserve Mr. Nixon from being the first president, etc. Subordinate to Legislature Curiously enough, the original theory of our government was that the chief executive would be subordinate to the legisBy C. H. lature, but things developed in precisely the opposite direction. Rexford Tugwell Neither vulnerable. North deals. wrote about thi: n 1960. The Enlarge- frankly bemoaned congressional passivity on Vietnam. Well, he is not the type to sound a tocsin. The record of Congress on the war has been contemptible, and the White House has treated it with con- r I If West continues with a second diamond, you put up the queen and then ruff out Easts ace. Now comes a club to the king, back to the ace and then trump the third round with the seven of spades. Lead trumps and give West his two tricks. Your losing heart is discarded later on the king sf diamonds. Even if West shifts at trick tw, you can take a ruffing finesse in diamonds yourself, later, to establish a discard in hearts. The important point was to keep East out of the lead early so that be cannot make the trump shit that prevents your club ruff. "I guess I blew than one, partner, South said as he meekly handed the cards to East for the next deal. Youve probably read or heard stories about people in distress, who didnt want to get unable to obtain aid from passers-binvolved." Its a sad commentary on our society. 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