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Show T W4-- W mw I B The Salt Lake Trfbnne, Sunday, December . 'With a Sunbeam': H, Ri MiikeniP & Irff MrffNpIlyc J3 IS7S f.WRympi w. ;PI iwr yw- United Feature Syndicate Officials Weigh Pot Penalties By John Balzar United Press International A manufacturing plant in Los SACRAMENTO Angeles is getting inquiries from California police scale. about a $2.4'J pocket-size- d In underground publications other firms are of increasing ad campaigns for competing lines scales. In Sacramento, a man flirted with a scheme of selling plans on how to build your own scale The reason behind the boom in scale sales is a new stale law that goes on the books Jan. 1, sharply reducing penalties for possession of marijuana and giving a big legal break to persons caught u'ith an ounce or less Big Difference ounce will determine whether a this Measuring citation and fine i lolator is given a traffic ticket-styl- e up to $100 or, if the amount exceeds the limit, whether be is arrested and charged with a misdemeanor. It promises a whole new meaning for the phrase, "the scales ot justice." After the bill was signed by Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr., law enforcement and court officials busied themselves with the details of enforcing the new statute. A UPI survey showed diversity in what authorities are planning. Los Angeles Police Chief Ed Davis, a vigorous e issue to critic ol the legislation, wants the be settled on the spot. He will arm his officers with miniature models for scales, apparently hand-heleach patrol car. Less Strict In San Diego, the iew is a little less strict. "Unless the guys got a kilo, or its ob iously over an ounce, we dont think that guy belongs in jail, said Jack Doherty of police departments legal staff. M lien in doubt, w rite a ticket." But just to help, ollicers undergo a three-hou- r training class so they can judge what an ounce of pot looks like in its various forms. Marijuana cigarettes are classified into three types for the benefit ol the training: The "slender matchstick" that comes 83 to the ounce, the "bomber that makes 10 to the ounce, and the "intermediate size" which is the equivalent of a regular cigarette and comes 55 to the ounce. one-ounc- d y- - Tax Mailing Biggest Yet U.S. -- Soviet Detente Stumbles to Cold War Again A Chronicle of America -- atw.WWWMI World in Focus Wc Hold These Truths... Alexander Hamilton of New York' The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged from among old or parchments musty records They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by Ihe hand of the divinity itself, and can never he eiased or obscured by mortal power." -- KMtffW,tWW?m'''' 28, 1973 W By William R. Frye In the long view of UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. history, 1975 was the time when relations between two great nuclear superpow ers, the United States and the Soviet Union, veered 90 degrees from detente to restrained hostility, and seemed in the process of turning a full 380 degrees to cold war. The year began with a swilt and catastrophic collapse of American power and influence in Southeast Asia. Defeat was traumatic for many Americans. as they showed when Cambodians seized an Ameri- cau merciant vessel, the Mr Frvc Mayaguez, and it was reco vered in a furious display of force. The Soviet Union sat discreetly on the sidelines during this period, treating American sensibilities w'ith caution. But it was too much to expect that detente would not be damaged. Moscow and Peking had made possible the North Vietnamese victory. In JulyAugust the United States, Canada and 33 European countries joined at Helsinki in a proclamation of eternal peace and friendship. It was an empty exercise. Words could not change the objective trend of events. The West felt cheated at Helsinki; and as months followed, this suspicion solidified into conviction. In Portugal, Communist politicians and military men sought to grab the government of a NATO member state. By extraordinary efforts, Western-styl- e democracy prevailed. But it was a close call, and detente had suffered still another blow. Efforts Sputter, Stall As the year neared its end, a SovietCuban military venture in Angola, a former Portuguese tension. colony, further aggravated great-pow'e- r Moscow seemed to be opening up an African cold-wa- r front. Ellorts to negotiate a new strategic arms-l- i nutation (SALT II) agreement between Washington and Moscow sputtered and stalled, and there were sotto voce charges in Washington that Russia might have violated SALT I. the existing nuclear-arm- s agreement. Negotiations for an East-Wemilitary disengagement in Central Europe were frustrated for months. The Kremlins treatment of Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Andrei Sakharov and other dissidents outraged many in the West. Both the atmospherics and the substance of East-Werelations had been jolted. The Chinese told President Ford as much in Peking, in December; and while he disagreed, it was primarily a disagreement over what to do next. Ford vowed to keep trying lor detente. In the Middle East, Egypt w ithdrew one step from active confrontation with Israel, signing a new disengagement agreement for the Sinai and letting the United States help patrol it. Syria and the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) were furious, charging Egyptian President Sadat with a a separate peace. Moscow, nursing its own sellout grievances against Sadat, echoed the charge. Sadat then visited Washington, seeking weapons and economic help from the West. In efiect, he ollered to change superpower frieno3. The Ford administration was receptive, but Congress was skeptical. As the year ended the thrust of Mideast diplomacy was an effort to bring the PLO into peace negotiations. Israel resisted, but the United States let into itself be dragged willingly or not acquiescence. In the U.N. rich and poor eased their differences over how to slice the global pie. The class war which had previously seemed inevitable now receded. 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