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Show TT gait i r 't'ir ,'rr fab tribune Saturday Morning, November 29, Section A -r -r- William Safire Finesse Fades In Shake-u- p Page 22 1975 Presidents N.Y. Aid Plan Offers Chance, Not Rescue Guarantee President Fords support of feder- al assistance for New York City provides a necessary breathing spell. The time thus gained, coupled with actions by numerous if the city and state, is vital the city is to get back on its financial feet someday. But there is no assurance that this will happen. The $2.3 billion federal loan offered by Mr. Ford (with Congressional approval) is a shortterm thing. It addresses a crucial facet of the big towns troubles. However, it does not guarantee that the city is out of default danger. Mr. Ford, in announcing his policy reversal on federal aid gave much credit to state and city officials for bailing themselves out. Even so, the Presidents stern terms for coming to New York Citys rescue were a major factor in adoption of new taxes, cutting of city services and in finding new loan sources in a frantic attempt to reduce the budget deficit to managable levels. Still, the President chose to ignore numerous pitfalls that dog city officials. His rosy assessment is predicted on some fundamen-ta- l ifs. As city officials noted in reacting to the Presidents aid offer, eventual belt-tighteni- of humor sours and the hatchet hand loses its skill. Some examples: t Kissingers helicopter was delayed by weather. Happy to provide an old friend with a souvenir, the President sat ' moratorium on payment of certain m notes and offered to ex- change the notes for bonds issued by the Municipal Assistance Corp. That gambit is now clouded by legal challenges as are other city emergency actions. An unfavorable court ruling in this vital area could undo the efforts. vaunted self-hel- p These and other dangers notwithstanding,' the Presidents willingness to extend hardship aid under stringent loan guidelines is a realistic response. It might not, and probably could not, constitute everything New Yorkers had hoped for. But it should, with luck and continued by local officials, enable the city to escape the fiscal quicksand that almost sucked it under. self-restrai- degree. Curtis P. Harding, Job Service director, confirmed as much, saying recently that the number of non-faropenings filed with his office lately has increased, that Job Service placements have been brisk also and that, significantly, the amount of people drawing unemployment benefits in Utah is declining. Total joblessness has dropped from 7.9 percent during May and June to 7.2 percent last month. Measured by tax collections, the states economy has suffered no major setbacks. Independent analysts, such as Utah Foundation, agree with Capitol Hill officials that state government will conclude the present fiscal year with an unexpectedly large surplus, anywhere from $12 m million to $25 million. Again, some of this reflects persistent inflation, but it also represents solid gains from taxes on rising income and consumer sales. State finances appear so rosy, there is considerable talk about once more cutting taxes, perhaps through an income tax rebate next year. All things considered, Utah can put its problems in the context of a healthy rather than convalescent economy. Another Viewpoint Damage Done Editor, Tribune: With the recent airing of the supposed conditions at the Utah State Training School at American Fork, 1 would like to give a parent's point of view. We were appalled by this. Our daughter has been at the Training School since June 29, 1962. We have never seen any of the conditions as described by KUTV. There has never been a time that we have found our child dirty nor have we seen any others dirty. We spend most of our visit in the hospital building because it is almost impossible to take our child outside, especially when it is cold. With the tender care she receives there, with the addition of speech therapy, physical therapy, dental care, a doctor on call and a registered nurse on duty we know she is receiving better care than we could give her if she were home. If children are abused by anyone, when that person approaches (even a retarded child) they show fear. If the children at the Training School are being abused, according to the report, why do they smile and act excited when a person approached? Why would they take hold of the person and love them and kiss their arms? We have never seen a child with bruises to indicate brutality. We have also fed our daughter ourselves. All the food we have seen has been of good quality. As far as we are concerned, this is a very special group of people who work with these children. How many of us would have the stomach to change a diaper on a teenager let alone an adult? These people are to be commended. KUTV has done a great disservice to these people. There has been a lot of damage done, potentially, to children whose parents were considering letting their child go but because of this report may hold them back, children who could benefit from the school. Any parent who has been there knows the situation and has come to the support of Dr. Paul Sagers and the staff. KRISTY JENSEN Fairview certainty. So it makes sense to start keeping a close watch on all those Democrats campaigning so or soon for a chance to run against Ford Reagan or Connally or whomever. They may be virtual strangers today, but so was John F. Kennedy to most Americans a year before his election. Its arguable that the countrys eagerness for a fresh start in the White House may be at least as strong next year as it was in 1960 and with good reason. It's also predictable that fairly soon now the more significant Democratic contenders will begin to catch the public imagination. Representative Morris Udall of Arizona, for instance, visited Long Island recently to line up endorsements for the state primary next June. Hes from Reagan country, but he doesn't talk about shoving it to New York. His The Grant Cartoon What I could use now is a good mirage. 4 Sky Didn't Fall congressional credentials are impressive; hes a man of reasonable ideas, and on the tube and in the flesh hes a very personable campaigner.' After a regional conference for all the Democratic hopefuls in Minneapolis this September, Udall led a poll taken among rank-and-fi- participants. Former Governor Jimmy Carter of Georgia sounds like an unlikely person to charm effete eastern newspaper owners, but his grasp of affairs and lack of bunkum won the New York State publishers admiration at their convention this fall. By October he was the frontrunner in Iowas delegate contest, the first in the nation next January. Carters demonstrated talents in administration (something most of the contenders lack, being lawmakers) mark him as a special challenger in a year when legislative experience has been anything but a guarantee of leadership. Senators Henry Jackson of Washington and Birch Bayh of Indiana arent exactly new faces in the presidential sweepstakes. Nor are the George Wallace and Hubert Humphrey latter attracting more and more attention as Fords claim on the White House appears less and less secure. Jackson, Bayh and Humphrey all have a potentially broad appeal to Democratic voters. There are, in short, powerful contenders in the field of a dozen or so seeking the Democratic nomination, men quite capable of moving into the gaping hole left in the nation's detour political line by Jerry Fords head-lon- g to the right. As presidential scholar George Reedy noted recently in the Ideas section of Newsday, A number of Presidents have been elected who some with high public enthusiasm possessed far less experience than the current crop of candidates. None of the latter have clinched the title of giant, but they look as good as 90 percent of those who have run for the presidency in my time . . . Reedy, a member of the Lyndon Johnson White House staff and ipso facto a Democrat, was expressing concern over the lack of public interest in the candidates. But that could change rapidly as the primaries approach. A more timely concern should be felt by Republicans. For while Ford is preoccupied looking over his right shoulder at Ronald Reagan, theres a very real chance that one of these Democrats may charge down the middle right past him. Su Ti Editor, Tribune: In the Nov. 7 Forum, Ralph Worthen makes another of his many explanations for rate increases asked by Utah Power and Light Co., apparently convinced that repetition will make us believers. He cites of utilities by the Public the regulation Service Commission, which has to be the joke of the year. Mr. Worthen says manufacturing plants closed, in the Great Depression, because of markets, and warns that paralyzed utilities, unable to supply manufacturers gas or power, could bring about another markets of the depression. The Great Depression were the result of nonexistent money in the pockets of consumers, a problem becoming ever more prevalent. If consumer dollars continue to be drained off by utilities, medical expenses, oil companies and government, Americans will soon decide they dont need second cars, new carpets, family rooms, campers, boats, 'tickets to movies, stadiums, etc. Well oiled and brightly lighted factories full of goodies will remain just that, full. In spite of all the image building, public relations television propaganda, for which we undoubtedly pay a great deal, one question keeps recurring: If, as Mr. Worthen says, we are to pay higher prices' for power for many years to come, to build new plants, why not consumer-owneplants? Its been done, in other times and other places, and the sky didn't M. nt d economic adviser William Seidman next to him for that mornings picture-takinand left word for Kissinger when he claim his seat immediately. When Kissinger arrived and was told the Presidents wish, he brushed presidential aides aside and gruffly told Bill Seidman: Ill take my chair now, Secretary Richardson. Nobody smiled; the President pretended not to notice. Bible on Table Another example of mockery took place at Englands Mendenall airfield, when Fords party took coffee in a small room with Ambassador Elliot Richardson and his wife. Ron Nessen points out that there is a Bible on the coffee table, Mr. President, said Secretary Kissinger loudly. Is there to be a The smiles were forced, those swearing-in- ? present knew that Henry envisioned Richardsons swearing-i- n at State and not at Commerce, and his remark was edged with g, self-pit- The Public Forum Taking a Look at the Democrats From Newsday A couple of months ago the Republican presidential nomination appeared to be Gerald Fords for the asking. Now, what with one thing and another, the President seems to have snatched serious doubt from the jaws of. utter ms "E - e - e - k! nt available here to an encouraging - At the Rambouillet conference, one of the, seats next to President Ford was momentarily! empty when Secretary Another unmentioned threat is that posed by numerous lawsuits attacking one of the key bail out measures which helped elicit presidential praise. As part of the scheme to rescue itself the city declared a Rosy Economic Picture If all the signs can be taken at face value, Utah generally can contemplate winter without too many economic shudders. The outlook has a decided warming aspect. While inflation may continue making its presence felt, recession, at least, seems to be steady receding here. According to the state Job Service (formerly Department of Employment Security), seasonably adjusted unemployment is on a downward trend. And another source reports employment opportunities in Utah are better than practically anywhere around the United States. The job opening news comes from an organization known as The Conference Board, a New York City compiler of information from newspaper Help Wanted listings. Its latest rating puts Salt Lake City, using 1967 as a base, head and shoulders above any other metropolitan area. Last October, The Conference Board found Salt Lake City scored an index number of 247 for job advertisements. Thats against the 1967 base of 100. The national average last October was 83 for the 51 cities surveyed. Only 19 cities scored above 100, with Houston, Tex., second to Salt Lake City with 217. There is work New York Times Service As power ebbs, the sense WASHINGTON recovery is tied directly to New York Citys ability to regain private investor confidence so it can again borrow from private sources. The Ford loan offer is calculated to aid in this critical undertaking but there can be no certainty that this will be the result. long-ter- rrn1 programs and extend them, particularly through the schools. This will raise the general cultural level and broaden the base of support for the arts. But unfortunately, the vast majority of the people lack the money andor the interest to patronize performances by these institutions d and have a felt need for facilities for participation-oriente- d activities which express their more modest cultural and recreational needs. The Tribune published on March 28, 1971, my Common Carrier article advocating the creation in Salt Lake Valley of a great community center to house and facilitate all the popular arts and crafts and including facilities for the professional theater, the ballet and the symphony but with emphasis on participatory activities financed directly from local, state and federal. I wish public funds this concept were basic to the present, proposed venture. If it were, I believe the voters would give overwhelming support to the bond proposal. JOSEPH H. SMART public-supporte- The most obvious examples of the debilitation that sets in as the loss of power looms is in manner Mr. Kissinger has the heavy-hande- d been wielding his bureaucratic hatchet. His campaign to undercut the position of our outspoken Ambassador to the U.N. Pat Moynihan, lacks the surgical skill he used to practice on William Rogers. The finesse is gone. At Rambouillet, he had a private breakfast and other talks with his friend, British Foreign Secretary Callaghan. With uncharacteristic vehemence, British and American spokesmen insist that at no time during those long talks was a single word mentioned about British dissatisfaction with the style or positions of the American U.N. Ambassador. Thats curious; immediately after Rambouillet, the British ambassador to the U .N. Ivor Richard, a Labor party politician anxious to follow Callaghan up the ladder launched into an oblique but savage personal attack on Americas U.N. ambassador. Highly Confrontational Implying archly that much of the fury in New York City at Gen. Idi Amins call for Israels extinction was politician Richard derided Pat Moynihans speeches at the U.N. as a objecting to theological crusade by an avenging angel As an preaching retribution and revenge. argument against confrontation, Richards blast was highly confrontational. Since this denunciation was later described as an informal reflection of official British policy, one might think that a friendly British foreign secretary would have tipped off his American counterpart that an attack of that magnitude was forthcoming. A quick By the way, our chap is clobbering your chap tomorrow, first time this century would be expected between allies. Not so. The British are now claiming, against all logic, that Ivor Richard's blast was a sneak attack. Why? Because Her Majestys government cannot appear to have been manipulated into attacking the American ambassador by his bureaucratic enemy, the American Secretary of State. No collusion, say Henry and Ivor, which is ludicrous: of course there was no overt collusion in the campaign against Pat. It was the atmosphere created by the Kissinger State Department. It was the atmosphere created by the Kissinger State Department that enticed the British into the diatribe against moral stands. For weeks, State Department spokesmen have been giving Moynihan less than lukewarm support; Kissinger even criticized Moynihans position publicly; and the bloated bureaucracy that makes up the permanent U.S. mission to the U.N. took these signals not to dissuade other delegations from attacking our ambassador. No wonder Ivor took advantage of the kick-m- e sign that Henry pinned on Pat. Truckling to General Amin is standard British Labor party procedure; here was a chance for an ambitious politician to become a Third World hero while secretly pleasing his bosss friend, the fading phantom of foggy bottom. Resignation Feared But Henrys hatcheting was all too obvious even Ivors reference to Wyatt Earp carried overtones of the Kissinger lonesome-cowbo- y interview with Oriana Fallacci. When Moynihan made known his intention to resign, he could not afford to be Henry panicked caught with another severed intellectual head in his hands and backtracked furiously. When Moynihan delayed his departure at the request of the White Houses Richard Cheney, Henry passed the word to his coterie that this was Moynihan Salzburg, a phony resignation threat. But Ambassador Moynihan is not playing those games. He is serious about the need to confront unreasoned hatred with rational rhetoric. When he met with President Ford he was supported, and probably reminded that as a member of the Cabinet, the ambassador to the U.N. also reports directly to the President. ' (Copyright) d, Other Intrusions Editor, Tribune : It was indeed interesting to read of the reaction of a journalist who had been victimized by burglars in the recent past. The story was written by Craig Hansen, Tribune staff writer, pertaining to the burglary of his apartment. In this article, Mr. Hansen stressed his concern over the loss of his personal possessions, the effectiveness of the police, the involvement of insurance claims, and the restoration of the materials that had been damaged during the burglary. He indicated that it was not any of these factors that warranted his wrath but that it was the indignation of being helpless against the thief who, tore down my door, marched into !' orum Rules Public Forum letters must be submitted exclusively to The Tribune and bear writers full name, signature and address. Names must be printed on political letters but may be withheld for good reasons on others. Writers arc limited to one letter every 10 days. Preference will be given to short, typewritten (double spaced) letters permitting use of the writer's true name. All letters are subject to condensation. my bedroom, went through several drawers, and carried off my television. He indicated that the final insult was that the burglar, didnt even bother to close the bedroom door. It might be analogous to stress the indignation of being helpless against journalists who, through literary license, attack public officials or through inference and innuendo present data in a distorted manner so as to afford an inaccurate portrayal of a set of events. It may well do for all of those in the news media to consider the long range impact and the futility of those who must endure unsympathetic reporting sometimes resorted to by news reporters. The repercussions of vague data, contained in some stories, is significant to the individual as a social, as a vocational, as a political, and as a family factor. These factors are significant to the individual and to the community. It would be advisable to consider these aspects as a responsible journalist in this area. The frustration of exposure through news articles is every bit as significant as the frustration endured by victims of many crimes. II. W. PATRICK over-zealo- last-minu- The Locher Cartoon fall. JENNIE HOOD 'JV s s A Way to Support Editor, Tribune: I will vote for the bond issue to finance construction of the Salt Lake County, Art Center, but I believe it will be defeated. Most citizens vote their pocket books on public financing measures and their reasoning in the present case is likely to be: "Maybe the bonds can be retired from revenue, but maybe not, in which event we taxpayers would be stuck for the difference. Certainly, our taxes would be increased to pay for operation and maintenance, estimated at half a million dollars annually. And what do out of it? Nothing, I dont patronize the symphony or the ballet. of the Utah I applaud the programs Symphony and Ballet West to popularize their J ' s , ... LIqIp "Do you promise to love, honor and obey and do all in your power to defy the odds of one marriage in four ending in divorce? I 1 |