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S'i3fa3t& TrfHhllVIiT" rf 6, 1S75 Sunday Morning, July "e tion y ni 3 i - ab Sfibune j Kilt Qli -- W i oid eii'lend- - m use ol Ini ui(o as a poMtue means nl achieving legislative comjuumi-- e and miprove mint. lx tier legislation motlm winds Well i and no I Bad Taste Led Pace lf 2 To Nixon Fall Star Syndicae Scene The dming room of a former ambax sailor, ami close friend of the former He is the re. with Mrs Nixon Their first night out sine e the beginning of their evile m Sin Clemente V There are 20 or so guests, v- t what carefully sele'cted the jxilemieal press would call lc a ihsts The dinner ha- - been -- ened and the toa-t- s begin 4ji The host spe eks about W LTc.-idc.- nt djanist legislative enc roacliment on tlie ptuogatives ol another branch ol gov u nine t bus Washington vetoed only none two lulls Adams and Jrtlet-o- n Maduon and Monroe vetoed even bills between them but m all but one case ited constitutional gioonds ox then action John Quincy Adam- - didn t Use the v etc at ail '1 hen came Audi w Jack-o- n who hke Piesident Feud, vetoed bid-- 1 12 lH.'caU-- e he jiusonally, took with their The veto, with content or purpo-- e nt I doubt tine that the Fold vetoes jobs and housing legislation - nod tlie government seveial (uihons in cash outlavs And, in the oae ol ji bs and housing the vetoes insulted in sealed down bills vvhuh the IlOsident ejuukiy approved But the same cannot be said It is no bum. tor twice pa .s sod and trip Mr Foul just died hi.s liknal useoi the by ailing that Preside nt Ti liman 210 hills and President vetoed Eisenhower 181 (201 according to the Library of Congress) Mr Ford neglected U) note that of the 250 'Human vetoes in some seven years, 175 were of private tolls of no significance to the country at large Of Mr. Eisenhower's 181 oi 201 vetoes in eight years, 107 were ot private lulls Mr Fold, in office less than a yeai has vetoed 33 pieces of legislation winch exceeds Piesident Kennedy (23 and President Johnson (30) in moie than twice Mr L end s time in office veto i ec , Demount clitics, congressmen, are calling Mi Pends dung ol vetoes tyranny ol the execu five," there is considerable piccedent to ujiport the Piesident's concept ot the mostly Although -- veto power In the beginning the veto was seen as a device to he used raielv and then onh mstiununt 01 -- -- v -- -- ) s -- -- -- The Public Forum jn Kei all ei One example If computers begin to ar.sfer funds, eliminating the need for mailing many of the 10 8 billion checks the Federal Reserve cleaied last year, the Postal Scivue acknowledges it would line! its fust class mail shaiply reduced Xheadv some banks shipping checks hv an fi eight cut- - into those hist class w Duung its first year of operation the annual deficit did shrink, from $175 million to only $12 million But the good news lasted momentarily The deficits $438 million in are growing again tiscal 1974. $Ht)9 million m fiscal 1975 which ended on June 30 (according to preliminary figures) Ana there is eveiy indication it will go higher during the present fiscal year One major factor tending to turn a dieam into a nightmare is the encioach ment of technology, causing postal pat ions to seek out other serv no- - foi getting their messages delivered First is the telephone Many mad officials are coin meed the onvonn ne e ol telephoning has icplaced wilting as a oinmunieatiuii meaiM almo-- t toR.llv ir some cases With the1 advent of mou ophisticated electronic communu atmn v stems there ma tie even gieatti ti tec --- mi o.ids - eijet- The highly t ted United Pared Service has captuicd half of the Postal business Seine s parcel ec these enc loachnumts, new mean- - of communicating and alternative ways of moving bulky items can only serve to reduce still further the Postal Services shnnkmg revenues, injuring if not de stioy ng the dream of self suftuiencv It leaves two choices, a return to the old system of direct, congressionallv appiopiiated subsidies or abandonment altogether ot the concept of a federally system because it has operated become an anachronism, made mcieas ingh obsolete by the inioads of modem -- e n- e ree all l e , ree all of a city official, 50 percent of d the vote is of that eitv , county of fie lal. 501 percent of the registered voters in that 1 ligi-torc- eounrt the legislature 50 percent ol the d voters in that legislative Inthi-wa- y i tc we would know that the un- -t that official major'd who voUd lot or ..I. ui fvo. . f a ( '. itu. fi do ot'u rei ewe'ild me lie e haos Some have -- aid Ih o 0 - urtuallv impossible vote rs to ign logit x pt re cut of dit n fiddle-inIn the case of i ptt.tion member-o- f 1 iegi-leie- y Constitutional cham.es is sui ficienilv viable that it ought te get some e t ions onsidei ation by a lot d ievel headed people to deteinune it it the country eon (UUc lit d live without c i 1 ! SCOTT II GREENE, A1C USAF Keflae tk, Iceland -- 1 N -- Help llrn Wlmi. k- xon ami some o'he i an th nk of I would have d, ivi n .on miles t sign such a a inii I m um ,v - - ii .it of mo-- t of u- - who i iiiui'm .1 die Mr. Buckley the republic is an ambus sadoi The guest of honor uses to respond It is probably the first toast hi has given since the e hieis ot year befoie, when he icgulurly toa-te- d state at the gala elninei s in me Wane House He tin y seldom is given to nonjMTfune torv toa-'- s l.i- -t It s- - than f.ve minute-- , .md sometimes we nt on to ten oi twelve minutes This tmrt around he spoke without an sense of pressuietu move theuowdonoverto the Fast Room of the White House for the fouuu! Si lie took Ills time, and entertainment for the continuing loy altv ct Ins d e thanks cxpies-his Inends and said su, h other tiling- - as one might have expected to laser Horn him on the But he had to end eventually, and he oica-io- n did hv laisiog lus giasx and saying to the Tonight I would like to attentive company make a toast I have not been able to make lot five and one half years I would like to toast the Fresieient of the United States Cieepy Inflection but II was a moment of gieat poignancy mivi'ublv the little crecpv crawly Nixon mllec turn bleaks thiough and there is a shait ut intellectual illumination Though the toast has the air of grace, it sinks, finally, deep onto the ote an floor of graiekssness as one leflects that - it was not really a toast to Gerald F id It was a toast to Richard Nixon It was not so much mtcmled to remind the compinv that another man sits at the Ov al Office in the W bite House, as to lenum! it that for five and one half years, the man now raising Ins glass sat at that august place It is as if at St Helena, Napoleon had risen to toast the king by saying "May he bung Flame to the same gloiies achieved by his pi ede lessen for all the t Hurt to institutionalize tlie piobimis of Richaiel Nixon and analyze the of his downtdl, in the end the key to tlie luti-e- s mv-tlies in Mr Nixons that . liter n.o tumble wit n bail ta-t- e. a elramau-- t once wtole is that it tail lead to niuieler 111 Nixon s it led to hi- - unmaking ea-- e and to derivative instiunnuial Everyone is trying to under-lanmost lue idly and most readably m ment weeks Theodore White, whose volume Bleach ol faith - as one would expect u gronig But which raises at lem- -t as many as it alls aci s quo-lio- I oi d, Felitoi Tribune Japan is the world s biggest whale killer The whaling companies are owned and controlled by the great manufacturing and trading companies that produce and market the va- -t array of Japanese goods sold in America Foi example Nissan Motor Co , the manufacturer of Datsiin cais and trucks, has major interest in whalinu Nissan s insurance affiliate, Fire and M nine Insurance, is the largest stockholder in the worlds biggest whaling company, Nippon Suisan Nissan and the rest of the Japanese business community have done nothing to halt the whale slaughter Russia is the world's second biggest whale-kille- r The Russians whale meat to feed minks and sables, and sperm whale oil is used to lubricate the Soviet intei continental missiles More than 2 million whales have been killed in the j ast 50 years, so many that all 8 species of great whales are in danger of extimtion The blue w hale, the greatest creature ever to live on earth survives in such few numbers that it might he past the point of saving People can help save the whales by refusing to buv an Japanese and Russian products until ox i't Union agrea to halt the ip ir. and the1 wh ilmg Moie information on whaling, bumpei tukirs buttons leaflets and petitions are available fiom Animal Welfare Institute, P O Box Out) W asnmgton, 1) C 20007 CMHERINE LYNCH N.-s.- m litlir- - I o nun 111 nece-sai- -- ol mu Utile- - must lie submitted euliisive h to I he Iribune and bear writers lull mine -- ignaluie and idiliess Samis mu-- 1 be printed on politic a! litters but mav be withheld tor goe.d rtasmis mi tithe rs Writers are limitid to erne le to r everv dais Iri fere m will he given In short tvpewiiiien (double spaced) letters per milling usi f the writers true name Ml Idlers are iilio t to omit - ilion Inis latter possibility, along with am W hat other job m the civilian world sends its employes on TDY with only six hours notice to let him say good bye to his family and pack, not knowing where he is going nor when he will return0 Are there any civilian jobs that pay the average wage that require their employes to be on 24 hour call seven days a week for national dtfen-- e reasons or even for troubles in foreign eoimtnes0 Vnd not pav overtime0 es I'ulilie tec hnologv I have been on artne duty I have yet to weak IcoS than an average of 200 hours a month compared to the lfiO hours the average civilian works smee bn itino (Jiao- - hditor, Tribune L S Brown (Forum, June 2h states that the1 pioposcd recall law plnase Any reason causing voters dissatisfaction with th it public official shall be suffu cent grounds for recall, is most reasonable Is it How many voters0 It is a well known fact that most of our elected officials are voted into office by a very, very small major it It is not unusual for elected off ic lals to recen e 50 1, 50 2 or 50 3 percent of the1 vole which would mean that immediately after the election voters under the proposed l oc all law loud find sufficient ground-fo- r recall I am in favor of a recall law, not only stalewide but nationally However, the minontv of voter- -, m most ca-only a handful, should not be able to eontrol recall When the majority of (he electi rate (as in the case of the Nixon administration where in exce-- s of t8 percent did not agree with administration policies), then and only then should a recall law be available to the voters I propo-- e that we do have a rewall law but bcfoie any elected official can be recalled, at h a- -t ") 1 percent of the voters who voted in that particular election -- ign the petition favoring I al po-t- e e all tilt leader" one? here ha 1 Subsidize It or Junk It? Pour years ago the U S Postal Service as ei eated w ith the intention it would he a self sufficient, quasi governmental bus mess To date that desirable goal is m etty much an illusion Self sufficiency has pi oven slippery and the Postal Service is running in the red, the same as the old Post Office Department Foi a short time aftei its creation it looked as though the deficits would be eliminated igije- -t ot parti- san oolitic s and hom n purely defensive standpoint, an executives most poweitul legislative weapon In addition to kilhn ; othnsive lc m- -l the veto, vvi'h Icoth Jackson and Pcud. became a t hie le to git a parti- - m me- - age to the e'ec tu ate Thus Mi Fold has used hi- - ej(, nv sages to Fongi x to pi es- - home to the public at lai ge the iu ed to cm I) gov ei mm nt spendm ; Art i none ol ix v'Ries tin- - ve.u w luc h hav e been ov el ide n that message should In now have made some1 :inU'-ion o' Cc ugi ess m the chance the law male is liM clout undei stand that the Piesident mean- - business Mr Foi el houlci i c oi t s habit ol telling them to Wood, ovv W lie wanted m legisla what specitieuliv tion pointing out what jn ov Mans must he included mr not include ch to win his app'oval ol a bill Under that kmd o' auangement the President could put the v do and C'mi e gun bac k m the hol-tcould save itsell much wasted tune p l sonal his e twice Jackson, became vt toe mine control legislation Not even a watered down version of that ill staned piojsosal has emerged debt to his of honor who gave him the pnv dege of sei v nig i - I S? -- c o! ii. iDul iUx i rt Lltiaiii President's Defense of Veto Use Backed by Years of Precedent li exult lit r TT--- T u- -e -- ns (me Explanation There is an explanation for this making the iv nu.il l omuls It is raised by the columnist t Iml. is who eats slightly on Hoffman siuniid nous for breakfast The trouble with -of Nixons downfall Whites aiialy-i- .us Hoffman, is that White has to ionic to terms with what he has written befoie about Nixon Indeed, White confesses in his mo- -t recent beMk that away back like eveiy other meiic.m liln lal he began hv loathing Nixon, but that somewhere along the line he develope'd an admiration lor hull In full retreat fiom tin- - admiration, lie wutes now the hook about the Fall of Ruhnrd Nixon But he - unwilling to -- av what Iloftmaii would like' him to -- av that Nixon was alwavs thoioughlv evil Tin re are no amts and no villains m Hodman iuetes ..lute as saying on a television jirogr.im and commuit- Bhul.ng ls the miliar something like that out russme nt ol looking like a lack.1 - because one once . u te lomphmiMiturv smtenees ilnmt Nixon " a -- hi-t- iy 1 tran-eem- White is ol eouise nun h moie neail than Hoftm.ni, who is a eariiatun-- t collect v and-wnt- Im'i.iu-- o column-onl- y lie1 eloc-- di.iw t ii c eartoon-(opynrti- t! -- Victory Oven Smallpox - 1 wen About the same time India - Prime he r Minister Indira (hmdhi w as ane-'m- g Indian the political opponents govern ment announced that the eountiy wa- - at last fiee of smallpox iewcd against the dcttnordUon ol democracy in Indm the smallpox claim seemed pool h timed even cornual But m fact cradle ation of the once diead disease fiom India is an accomplishment f great significance and the m Ind wZ oo one vwek m June u- -t Nav-k- Ih., al known ea-- al m e- I Mm ei edit for contio1 el -- mahpox expectc i to bt ciadieaud bv the e rid of t h.s v mi r ls.inetle Health Oi g.irnat mn WHO) a Ii - h.ted agency ol the liu'td Natmn-fiae- 1 i ation ot smallpox among led.,, s id million jh ojli is fi'iiiigti-tinieui- v th.it the I nitcd Nations sjiee tac ulaf f.i! - a urcs notvvithstanei.n ontinu.ng of ten relief mam of Hu wotld soime affhc turns l c -- - S' ijt f, .r i - o- 4 - ... , -- - --- jt.A,? - ' , - 'A 3- 'f, , r- - ; - - 5 -- 'i-- NX r, A - v, s- ' , -- t Bill - aumi Orbit mm-- . r , x. 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Mwrth.i t m t - Mill; h . mg ant pie.i.ne voe .,1 ih irht ,al- - orv il e q. i aleM ef $1 "y an hoi i .' m! i a -- o pi i (.uti.l ait tildii hxu t -- I -- -- a, sc., T h Ni ssi n sea. and t.- - who h h - mat oi nt i pu -- ki (1 Inn - I in- 3 3 -- d him to at - ol Mr Long blind and inadonal mis tm-- t and ivnii .o thinking h ilnts tin I I. x i ai.-- -- c i oiTli ( po te I d re -- Not an lie s- - .m i c t.u I v mt is I (ovireel -- ! e C Sit halm - it ill' Inst ot.1v parti,.' xpialla u pm b i - see n to i uh t ai h e li.ni Ni i n an othei ii ' Wi.n1 u.iv th n -- r.mni d tin jn oid mi l.ia in i'I . Ih t.o-il.q- , h'owip m i ji mull Nc-s- i oi p- r.' -- .dti Miiad'o siialiii.it n v i to. v In Ml )n t e I 11 t.lk' l .Tiling n nl i n: d r 'he ri po tm s iotiii P ( omi ,1 Tlia'l swum ti - no law -- m hs m utarx h,isn t 11 pre ulent i ..n reve ,d a- - mile m j- - nnuli about affairs tin OvaiOflm though it is ohviou- - that no one as proinux nt a. '"mi B ( oini'liy m up in ..mi out i; ,i.t tl t -re t soon leak'pg out a-- he thoo-e- le -- e e I Bepurters ed Dm mg tlie ist y e ai - of (I e Nixon aduiinist White lhMt up.irtm- i,.pk out the ' r frustrations on Ronald Zieider Now, "I rnond s a!!"r Pie idei d took o,fu e U Set re t n v Ness, n - R,m U't.mse is Bre-- s ! n Brc-Vtu- taiy 1 1 fiu-tiatt- 'd upoucis aii'ermtlv believe h t" m SitNism.Can - lie only a ie dear after m"mg ovm the lti-- i m our th. wav he -- h u'd moie tluma fioi do wh.it he is told Ih I v - too limn., to Pm hi h- -t an i asy one as He lived Piesi di i.t u n 'h ,t e . p o it x hi, I r. agiii d fe i unc month !m aioe l.e was ki pt m (he d.u k ation! the Nison (.o dwo uod f It tha lo - i , doll llty With had lx n hadlv d im u'e (1 the ii i Hoist toruM If m -1 is not a legal doe unit id lx'foic a not.uv public nd time redlining the White House oi the pus- to exjilain whv a puitu u! ir at turn e as One s lot -- -- mi-mf- oi I ed ment- - 'hroimli tne Johnson and Niion veals In Ibex ueie mod, even iiuMd liv -- ciretaueIhu- - Imined ( v ion- i(spi -- id' nt 'lit v aie not about to take tin-Prani im nh nt mi lai'li alom i not appear on the dadv presidi ntp.l if such a met rig.icemepts li- -t When ting had taken plate, Nosse n at first said he dull) t know of one then checked and announced that Comully had seen Piesident lord a tew (lavs lx hue Fitci Nesse n aid that an a ornate had me idiom d tin Uimiudlv sr ssmn hut m h the hu t had slipped In- - mind That was a I utl ng lapse of iui mi y Ne -- sen also got m a w r u.lIo w ith the rejMirter- - m eatlv June when he didn t 'or couldn't' explain whv a see Ron o, Ih. Um ki h Her Uommi ion report dealing w.tli jmrjHirtcd a a m.ition plot- - wa-- n t !ein, re lea- -i d at that time M iv he the pi t -- - oi p- xpu tmg mm e than it is entitled to i cei no A pie uluitial enga 'e e e .1 I halnt ()m explandion might Im 1. Hot -- t now a s, lain ati d e olumm-- t says that most inemiH1- - of the White House Jtisscoips who iix did -- 'i p i 1 lodiv t Pie i h nt i ate- - ve ry m h vulh m pm tus and lit o - l)i ti in Wa hintoi. r. 1 h the prues it) 111 Not 111. t "us are eoninn ary store- - in in tiopuhUii ana a ith h.gh military populat.on-t- e mis to hac an cffiit of kei reng (oinmereial pi n i s lowe r than 'hi v nngl t be otherwise T he-- e die -o i '( Ih ins ! - -- n- -i igil I i ' a-- -- -- ' n ii. n i i ii. rh 1 i i 1.. n t that W Ink House ii portcis don t get Piesident alum miv will with Ron Ncs-c- n oid - pii - -- eeietaiv doesit t mean that the m i r ei al IS mad al pi N bos- e n (J ate the eonl ii v bom all it ports f I uiimi , i , i i . i !mi i i in. i 1 Huge Iheau'horof Iriimne i lirtm ai n Hilary to k p gfMs1- - u prn i d to ilrtact the - i vueni.in ss Thu- saries he ve). ih ci mn uiatv Ih'C jo- -t the G I ( i n, ii hi -- i i,- -e ti 1in that if commissary Purajrrapiu i hi i ' r , i iil.ide (ill T re UiH2 ji i Press Secretary Does as Hes Told milujj-- t t iini an editorial which appeared .r nw pipe i Mav 2s - very me informed oi. Hu- - np rations of mihtaiy cumnii-s- ai ios ( - on- - ue il t to provide in m c loth in, md othi r kood- ,v this - the ! oi. don of b i.i ot j)o- -t ext nanues o t ii v an lit i ut r tie emporium- sa.id True some LkmI item- - are priced ii i ib'y u i th n the -- ame would co-- t in a iiw'.an toie but niu-- i f.M d- - are comparatively pined N i liiii i, saving- - do exi-- t, though The umo pt of piovniu g good- - at prices they could a ' ri on 'heir lower than average silanes is ( n i i i i ( ( -- !) SOPKO c v,. - h the. e r I , wmch entirely i W i c i -- there 1974 iiUctid ix tune Mm Id id In -- e ,,it Rvvit woild Onh two countries b.umlmesh and Lthiopi t ale still threateiie d hx theidte n bit d v ii al disease whie li h is m ai led and hlindtd j eo)!e me e eailiesl muidul .So than e vvoi cases t m t! j) far this vear tin non 17 India WUKl I , II i IIP h iodic - the job lilt I - will Ih' Jh di Rule il hd of pIt si.j ; iM dei , jr h d p i, Slil( lJllt ,jr id vm'leoi Rime to k. e ,mf dl u., p, I HUMS in -- holt Hill sioot ,n I u u 11 ' ' Y 19 |
