OCR Text |
Show I . - vj V ,f The Salt Lake Tribune, Meudav, February 12, . 1973 13 , Joseph Alsop U.S. Will Insist Hanoi Keep Vows Los Angeles Times Service On the surface, the WASHINGTON signs in Vietnam are far better than you might suppose from the reports from the scene. Two ironically comic stories and a statistic offer proof this. enough Again, the generals disaDpointment was bitter and obvious, NVA lying to higher headquarters has long been common. So the unit commanders had told their general they still held Tay Ninhs suburbs Instead they were at least 10 miles away in deep jungle. of i Viet- and Viet Cong groups that went from Pans to Saigon made an odd request of the pilot of their special plane when they left Bangkok. En route to Saigon, they asked to fly Tay Ninth, on the South Vietnamese border. Nothing loath, the pilot took them in low over Tay Ninth. low-ove- William S. White Watergate Probe Serves Public United Features Syndicate WASHINGTON Improbable as this may sound, there is a fair chance that the Senates forthcoming investigation of alleged widespread campaign spying by the Republicans in the 1972 presidential contest may serve the public in- terest. This happy result can be reached, granted some preconditions. Firstly, the Democrats must heed the wise and genuineadmonition of party floor ly meant leader Mrike Mansfield to avoid narrow partisan and ideological politicking. Secondly, President Nixon must turn the White House staff loose to testify fully the doctrine of executive privilege not withstanding. Executive privilege, of course, is a to describe phrase any presidents right (and even duty) to maintain the confidecomntiality of certain kinds of munications with his associates, no matter congress may think about it. Technically, to be sure, this privilege can be read to cover almost anything. Irresponsible Disclosure a practical matter, however, it is meant only to prevent irresponsible disAs closure of truly vital W'hite Hcuse matters such, say, as strategic and inconclusive military or foreign policy plans discussed between the President and others where teuing all to Congress would harm the country and help nobody except possibly a foreign enemy. Thirdly, the Senate investigators must and nobody else put upon themselves can or will do it for them a proper sense of restraint and perspective and not reach and proclaim verdicts before the evidence is all in. The truth is that the resolution this authorizing is long, far windily inquiry too d and almost as solemnly open-ende- portentous as though a plot threatening the very life of the republic were involved. One of the dozens of powers handed to the investigating committee, for example, is to search out any fabrication, dissemination or publication of any false charges . . . having the purpose of discrediting any person seeking nomination or election as the candidate of any political party to the office of President of the United States in 1972. In Eye of Beholder Now, every American beyond grade-schoage knows that what is false and what is true" in a political campaign is often in the eye of the beholder or, to use another anatomical metaphor, it all depends on whose ox is being gored. In its proper zeal to protect the civil the bugging of right against bugging Democratic headquarters in the Watergate Hotel in Washington being a prime the Senate must target of inquiry here consider another civil right. This is the ancient right to free (not say at times very, very free) political expression and publication. Heart disease may be more common in the aged, but it is causative in a high percentage of deaths before 65. Cardiovascular diseases (heart and blood vessels) are responsible for 13 of all percent deaths in the 25 to 34 age group. 29 percent m the 35 to 44 group, 42 percent in the 45 to 54 group, and 50 percent in the 55 to 64 age group. We are stressing the under 65 group because it is here that high risk What do you bid now? r Surely you wish to commit this hand to game, even if partner has a very weak takeout. The proper procedure, therefore, is a cue bid of two spades, showing first round control of that suit and demanding a game If has a good hand, this will facilitate the reaching ol a slam. Q. 2 Q. 4 Neither vulnerable, 'IV South A 10 4 The North 2 V 3 NT Both vulnerable, as you hold: VQ10 6 C KJ10 4 AQJ 8 5 bidding has proceeded: East South West Pass 3 V Pass a call is not out prefcience reserve that response lor In this hands distributed case, a alam may be reached in one of your four card suits if partner has four cards facing it. We prefer a temporizing bid ol one spade, but would accept as correct an Immediate entirely jump shift of two spades Valued at a suit, the hand Is worth 19 points Q. 3 dealer As Pass ? WTiat do you bid now? Partner has shown a nand aiues and about with distributed the equivalent in high iard of an opening three no trump bid You, therefore, hase sufficient values to Justifv contracting for a small slam in no trump, and that is our choice ' V Point to Future Violations Furthermore, most of the North Vietnamese armed force has been transferred into the southern Laos panhandle, in a part of the Ho Chi Minh trail from which the II Corps area of South Vietnam can be easily attacked. All hese facts point towards massive future violations of the ceasefire agreement. This will present Hanoi with an acutely painful choice. The key clause in the ceasefire agreement is the one covering Cambodia and Laos, from which all forincluding North Vietnam- eign troops ese are to be withdrawn. For the North Vietnamese, that means no Cambodian bases; no Laotian bases: aoove all, no enormous, manpower-consuminsupply system in Laos to keep the Ho Chi Minh trail in operation. Crucial Assets Without these crucial assets, and with the controlling only 5 percent-plu- s of the South Vietnamese population, Hanoi cannot conceivably sustain a serious struggle in '"uth Vietnam. g On the other side of the balance, there is the prospect of none of the American aid for reconstruction that the North Vietnamese leaders have been loudly boasting about. There is also the of possible pressure from prospect China; for the Chinese more and more If this is the intention, the accord ob- seem to lean toward insisting that Hanoi tained by President Nixon and Dr. 'Henry keep the promises already made. There A. Kissinger is to be treated by Hanoi is even the prospect that President like the accord obtained by President Nixon may once again prove to be cruelKennedy and Gov. Averell Hamman in ly unpredictable. So the betting is even, 1962 as a scrap of paper, to be torn up either way. d FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH Utah's Largest and Finest Health and Athletic Club. fUl InJ factors high blood pressure, cholesterare most important. ol. and smoking Doubles Coronary Chance Any one of these risk factors doubles the chance of coronary artery disease the most important cause of angina and heart attacks. Two or more push up the odds tenfold; those with all three face the chance of dying from heart trouble before reaching retirement age. It is just this simple, and cardiologists believe that many l.ves can be saved if these risk factors are detected and corrected. 30-DA- Y Detection requires an examination to determine the blood pressure and the amount of cholesterol in the blood. 12- - 10 p.m. Membership BRING YGUR HUSBAND OR WIFE ALONG every person who takes a tour of our great facilities, today. To AND SEE OUR EXCLUSIVE CLUB (21 years or older) Fountain teen-ager- Neither vulnerable, as South you hold: AA 952 VK7 4 OAK AAQJ 6 The bidding has proceeded: Q. S iti i This Is Our What do you bid now? A There is no doubt that you should accept the slam invita tion but, as a piecduiionaty measuie. it is suggested that you contract foi six clubs to pro tect the king of hearts from at tack on the opening lead, should it develop that Noith has two small hearts f-- 'RE-GRA- ND A. Soaper Says California and Iowa are two states that are considering adopting the lady bug as the official state insect. Womens rights advocates, however, urge that it be renamed the personbug Q. 6 Both sides vulnerable and as South you hold: AJ10 5 AQ10 4 2 OA83 K2 you hold: ever, a good result wili some times be obtained b opening with one iluh This makes it some what easier for partner to re spend If he happens to have some borderline hand containing diamonds on. -- A. Both vulnerable, part- We quiry, Sen. Sam Ervin of North Carolina, is a distinguished lawyer, a former tnal man all around. judge and a He will need, however, to be constantly vigilant not over his own conduct but rather over the conduct of the staff investigators who will surround him. Such specialists do not enter affairs of this kind with all the objectivity of a Supreme Court justice. Nor do they tradifrom the abstain tionally approach to the evidence which they assemble and present to the senators themselves. Diet Drops Cholesterol Cholesterol levels also are easily lowered via a low-fa- t low cholesterol diet or with drugs such as Atromid-S- . thyroid products, or nicotinic acid. Getting the weight down to normal also helps. Blood pressure and cholesterol leels often drop spontaneously when an obese mdi- idual sheds a few pounds To stop smoking is most difficult, especially for those who acquired the s habit as and become more than one pack a day smokers. These people need help and advice on their addiction, but few have the intelligence or fortitude to quit Therefore, most authorities have turned their efforts to keeping young people from starting to smoke. ner opens one heart and you hold: AAQ62 VK94 OKQ83 AA6 What is your response? A. While the hand comes u'thin the high card limita of a three no trump responie, such full-dre- The shock and disappointment of those who rushed to crane down from the airplane windows, were far too strong to be concealed. The passengers from Pans had of course been told that Tay Ninth, a minor provincial capital, had already been seized by the North Vietnamese, in order to serve as the permanent capital of the Viet Cong government." But there is was, with South Vietanamese government glags flying from almost every house. Popular Uprising One reason Tay Ninth was saved was a popular uprising, as the VC call it but the wrong kind of popular upnsing, in which the people jouied furiously in their towns defense against the North Vietnamese. The failure to take Tay Ninth town must at least have been known to the Viet Cong military repreNorth Vietnamese Lt. Gen. sentative, Tran Van Tra, when he later headed for Saigon. Yet he asked to see Tay Ninth, too. The" American chopper that picked him up the jungle circled low and long Luckily, remedies are available should one or both be elevated. There are many excellent drugs to lower the blood pressure. Many people do not realize that they have hypertension because it rarely causes symptoms. They find out too late, often after they hae suffered a stroke or heart attack. By C. H. Goren as South you hold: AAQ5 TK8 5 OAKJ10 93 8 The bidding has proceeded: North East South West 1 A 1 0 Pass out- m Saigon It is not the last round, however. The intelligence suggests that all the North Vietanamese units now in Cambodia may be thrown into the II Corps area of South Vietnam, to mount a massive attack in a matter of two or three months. Again, infiltration down the Ho Chi Minh trail has apparently ended; but a massie supply movement is still going Deaths Under 65 Run High . 1 if the by the government Dr. T. R. Van Dellen Answers to Weekly Bridge Quiz Q. Too, it will be unfortunate raged howls of the Republicans that they, too, were spied upon, in both 1968 and 1964, are simply shrugged off by the Democrats. If it was a sin in 1972 it was a sin in those earlier years. And, in any case, the only justification for giving this business of the Watergate scandal the dignity of a Senate investigation in the first place is to assure the public of an impartial inquiry determining whether our basic political processes are truly subject to serious perversion. The prospective chairman of the in- of Population As to the statistic, it has been loudly announced from Saigon that the VC and North Vietnamese still hold 34 percent of South Vietnams land area. The more important fact is that they now control barely more than 5 percent of the population. The famous leopard sports" are pretty desolate, in short, and the ceasefire-round of the struggle has been won namese How much will you give me for that? Its called a dollar, and its not worth a damn thing back home? Percent Only 5 The North and tossed away as soon as convenient. But the President is not ready to go through the kind of charade the U.S. government went through in 1962. Demands Compliance of North In handful a 1962, Vietnamese soldiers ostenatatiously parading past a checkpoint, were accepted as proof that Hanoi was keeping the promise to Gov. Hamman to withdraw utterly from Laos. Now, President Nixon is grimly determined to accept nothing less than literal compliance with every promise embodied in the ceasefire agreement. That is the real object of Dr. Kissingers journey to Hanoi, and it is also an important object of his trip to Peking. PEN1N With the air pollution getting worse this may be the last year when the groundhog agrees to come out at all The bow tie is making a comeback and we dropped'by the drug store to pick up a battery for the only one we still passing partner, would be highlv indiscreet Last lias shown length in spade.s and clubs, m.ik ing it probable that he is short be banked m hearts, which ma in tne West hand a hav e J Mankind makes the same miMane o"er and over so many times that we must be practicing to get them perfect 4300 SOUTH 2ND WEST i J r op a , r |