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Show The Public Forum Kevin Tribune Readers' Opinions No Coiie r ati e It is shot king to read that some people view John Anderson H' a glaring innserv ative The lime has come to stale John Anderson's IMisitions on the issues e,irl and de.isivih In many American minds, l'lsii is a critical election year. It is vitally imiwntant that we i house our next president not in the midst of confusion and rhetoric hut on the basis of icason and understanding It bas been well established that John Xndelson enteied Congiess 20 eais ago as a I F many employees shared the belief the job had already been promised I brought these matters to the attention of the superintendent and other hoard members However most board members feel a need to support the siienntondont or replace him. hut to remain aloof from "administrative mat tei s " Some hoard members seem hostile to the idea of hoard members "interfering " IV we want Imard members who keep out of "administrative matters"? Do we want board members who put complete trust m whatever the supeuotendent recommends1 The deci'ion is up to the voters on election day. Nov 4 SUSAN KF.ENF, omill Itlllcs letters must he submitted e liisheh to The Tribune and bear writer's lull name, signature and address. Names must he printed on political letters but may be withheld lor good reasons on others. Writers are limited to one letter every 10 days Ireferenee will he given to short, typewritten 'double spaiedi letters permitting use of the w i iter's true name. All letters are subject to i omlensation Mail to the Publie Forum, The Salt I ake Tribune. Box X67, Salt Fake City, I lah. xll in. staumh conservative However, as a young congressman he wanted to conform to the dictates of his party However, as John Anderson became educated and expeneneed, he realized the wisdom of having a social eonseienee. and the tme needs of the middle-class- . and poor people So hack in June of 1979, John Anderson, with less than one percent of the vote and seeking the republican nomination, announced his plans to run for president. At that time, seeking no liberal democratic constituency. John Anderson announced many of his stands on the issues He has yet to change one position from that period of time. John Anderson's stands on the issues have Election Letters During state and local political campaigns, it is The Salt Lake Tribune policy to publish as many Public Forum letters concerning candi- dates and issues as possible. However, because letter authorship, last minute" letters must be rejected. Consequently, Wednesday, Oct. 29, is the deadline for campaign 19X0 letters submitted to The Tribune. of time needed to verify Moan Truth The media have been raising a hig lately about how mean Jimmy Carter has been Jimmy hasn't been mean, hes been telling the truth about Ronnie and the Republicans think he's mean to-d- o FRANK AHERN Ogden been dear cut. First. I quote from his platform. " We will resist tax cuts, such as the . Reagan Kemp-Rot-h proposal, that give a bonanza to the rich, crumbs to the middle dass. and nothing at all to the poor. Yet, Mr. Carter wants a tax cut that he personally resisted for years. Second, 1 quote again from the platform. "We reaffirm the goals of the s Humphrey-HawkinAct and condemn the President for his failure to consult with Congress this past January before altering the timetables set forth in that Act." Third. 1 again quote from the platform, "an Anderson administration will reform federal financing, and encourage market-orienteincentives in order to reward cost conscious behavior, contain rising health care costs, and respond to real health needs." In addition, how likely is it that Anderson is your basic conservative Republican in view of his recent endorsements by the traditionally liberal weekly The New Republic, New York's resurgent Liberal Party, and Kennedyite Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. BECKY STONESTREET d Untrue Answer Winning is all that matters. Is that why Gov. Mathesons campaign headquarters, speaks with forked tongue? Scott Matheson. Jr. was quoted as saying, "Mathesons reason for not signing the abortion funding cutoff bill was that the State Attorney General's office advised him the bill was unconstitutional That is untrue Must Proposition The Nov 5 passage of Proposition 2 is a must It is one of four state constitutional amendments on the ballot and updates the tax article It does more than improve and make the tax It gives the Legislature flexibility to respond to taxpayer demands and to develop a tax policy in article easier to understand. response to Utahs future needs. Public education faces tremendous future funding challenges in order to maintain our quality of education. Proposition 2 would enable state government to meet the escalating needs. All sectors of public education endorse it. Proposition 2 would enable new power projects, like IPP, to meet the cost of community impacts they create. Presently, we have no way of requiring such projects to pay for municipal services they necessitate. By voting for Proposition 2 we can enable our state, the nations fourth fastest growing, to continue to provide high quality public education and more capably deal with our inevitable growth. Vote for Proposition 2. M.CASSUN Bountiful The Way It Was Here are the briefs of The Salt Lake Tribune from 100, 50 and 25 years ago: October 28. 1880 At the Episcopal convention, NEW YORK a report by Reb. John Cotton Smith, on the subject of polygamy, was presented, and the following resolution adopted: The House of Bishops concurring, that while there are peculiar difficulties in executing the law, owing to religious fanaticism, doubtless often times sincere, by which the institution of polygamy is upheld, it is still the duty of every Christian citizen in this country to use his influence to aid the United States government in bringing about as soon as possible, a merciful but firm enforcement of the law in regard to polygamy and bigamy. October 28, 1930 Salt Lake's plan to combat unemployment this winter will begin to take definite shape Tuesday, when Mayor John F. Bowmans nine subcommittees meet at the city and county huilding to report on their first week of activities. The meeting is scheduled for 3 pm. and all of the 58 business leaders named on the committees are urged to attend. Arrangements have already been made for opening unemployment headquarters, but the location will not be announced until after the conference. October School Decision The annual budget of the Salt City School District is about $6(1 million. The district buys school supplies, vehicles, building materi- als. furniture, and real estate. The purchasing department handles all bidding, warehousing, specifications, delivery, and disposal of surplus items. am concerned about the appointment of the new acting director of purchasing. The recent vacancy was not advertised Only current purchasing agents would be considered, but 1 ntlinm The Washington Post The Soviet Union s future was MOSCOW cast Thursdav when an elderly economic and industrial manager who owes his allegianve to Leonid Brezhnev was installed as head of the Soviet government The elevation of Nikolai A Tikhonov to premier, succeeding ailing Alexei N Kosygin, portends much for the coming decade The - succession's clear principal ragnificancc seems long after Brezhnev eventually leaves the Kremlin for good, his era will linger on as the mayor of Unlike Kosygin, 1cningrad and an important Politburo member long before he became premier in 1964 Tikhonov's own power base is sharply le stneted by his public obscurity and minority Ukrainian nationality Deepening F.conomic Problems Although the country faces a decade of energy, deepening economic problems manpower, and food shortages, slackening replacement and renewal of aging industries, workplace inefficiency and disorder -- - the Tikhonov has pledged absolute fealty to the cumbersome economic system that Brezhnev strengthened throughout his reign at the expense of Kosygin and other reformers. Even if the harbors independent views, the grip of Brezhnev allies at the top is so tight and complete that he could never mount a successful attempt to significantly change the way tjiings are done. No less than 11 of the present 14 Politburo members were brought into the top circle after Brezhnev and Kosygin took over m 1964 from Khrushchev Of thpse 11, all but one. 81 year old Arvid Pelshe, a Latvian, were appointed in the 1970s, when Brezhnev had eclipsed Kosy gin and become undisputed Soviet leader. Closely Identified With Chief Kosygins retirement leaves only Mikhail Suslov, Andrei Kirilenko, and Brezhnev himself as holdovers from the years, and both Suslov and Kirilenko are closely identified with the party chief. This analysis points to part of the truth of the Brezhnev era: that while the inner leadership circle is distinguished by its advanced age, there has been a steady if often unnoticeable process of renewal and replacement as Brezhnev experimented to find a combination of colleagues most congenial to his conservative wavs. His views, by implication, will he perpetuated after he has gone, and the Tikhonov choice reinforces this despite the new premier's age Soviet sources have made clear that the Afghanistan invasion of last December and the management of that crisis since has fallen chiefly on the shoulders of an "inner four": KGB chief Yuri Andropov, Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov, Foreign Minister .Andrei Gromyko, and Kirilenko, with Brezhnevs personal aide, Konstantin Chernenko, and N'nio analy vis rule Andropov a clod liberal intellectually superior to many of bis ol leagues Aside from some 1970s statements supporting detente, there isn't much olid r idem e that the hespeet.u led secunts man is am thing other than a ( tuitions and clever Brezhnev loyalist Farther afield are several senior officials, some with a wealth of experience in party affairs, industry, or administration c Probable Descending Order probable descending order of likely chances to a top post are Moscow party chief Viktor Grishin, Leningrad party chief Grigori Romanov, Ukrainian party elnef Vladimir and Kazakh leader Din Shcherihitsky In 28, 1955 Utah should retain capital punishment for murder, members of the Utah Womens IiCgislative Council decided Friday in an informal vote after hearing pros and cons of the death penalty. Suggesting abolition of the penalty was Attorney General E.R.Callister, who said his recommendation was not based upon the morality of capital punishment but upon its proved failure as a deterrent to crimes of violence. An informal vote of the council showed more than 100 women favoring retaining capital punishment while 12 opposed. candidate Politburo member question of nuclear weapons Keeping his campaign commitment, the new president withdraws the second strategic arms limitation treaty from the Senate He asks Congress fur urgent action to build new American nuclear weapons systems at a cost, he estimates, of $10 billion a lewis year over the next five years President Reagan informs the Soviet Union that he is renouncing Salt II But he also recalls the promise he made in an Oct 19 campaign for speech To "make immediate preparations " negotiations on a Salt III treaty In a message to President Brezhnev, lie suggests a first round of talks in March Vent to Frustration How will the Russians react? They might f of all give vent to frustration at the writing-ofthe years of negotiation on Salt II, and just dismiss the idea of new talks But they do have and its new president to live with America More likely they will find a way to begin talking i The pouei eiualion ill the Bieluu'v Kremlin turns on these dist, uni's from the power rente! tiny sunup of men who have win ked togi'thii (or vent's makes all significant decisions and all others are excluded Rests tame to change which works against all these outsideis works against the svslem as well Imttlmg up talent squandering youth deiivmg expenem e. eashienng the adv entui oils But as the choice ol Tikhonov as piemiei shows this is a price the Brelmev Inhthiiin is foi years to i nine willing to pay ultimutelv No Crime Deterrent War on Heroin Popular But Not Very Effective By Alien Parachini The Los Angeles Times Within the last month, the first strident warnings have been sounded about a new outbreak of heroin use "the early stages of a massive crisis, in the words of Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau. As soon as Morgenthau made an alarmist's case for the possible consequences of the reappearance of white heroin in the East. New Yorks governor, Hugh Carey, embraced one of the most revered cliches of the early 1970s He characterized the situation as a "terrible drug epidemic. Heroin-Crim- e Link officials as far Already, west as Los Angeles are concurring eagerly It a familiar won't be long before people d addicts panic about a new horde of and a new wave of violent crime. No politician has anything to lose by declaring war on heroin. Spending money to enforcement is relatively increase drug-laeasy and has the appearance of being a concrete step to alleviate societal distress. Fighting heroin and fighting crime, the politicians reason, are one and the same. This reinforces the public's idea that there is a direct, absolute, causative link between heroin drug-craze- Reagans Salt II Proposal May Prove V ery Dangerous New York Times .Service It is the last week of January 19X1. and President Reagan is running down the list of his priorities. Near the top is the ( Boris Ponomarev, together with hardline ideologue Suslov as lesser participants. Final decisions rest with Brezhnev. One to Succee d Brezhnev? Thus, foreign analysts here look for Brezhnevs successor to come from that group. Kirilenko, who like other Politburo members has had Brezhnev's confidence for more than four decades (from their days in the Dnepropetrovsk region before the war), has always been supposed to hold the inside track as immediate successor to party chief. With Suslov, who will be 78 next month, Brezhnev has evolved a system of close consultations with different colleagues at different times to keep them divided and jealous. Now, an informed source suggests, he is paying close attention to Chernenko, 69, instead of Kirilenko, 74. "Kirilenko isn't getting the invitations now and Chernenko is," said this source. Running the party is a war and requires great energy. Kirilenko doesnt have it anymore." Even so. the older man is widely knowm to the cadres who run the party from the regional level up. and Chernenko, a full Politburo member for only two years, is thought a long shot. Gromyko, 71. is indispensible to the establishment of Soviet foreign policy, and has been since 1957. Ustinov, 72 next Thursday, has been ill in recent years and is deeply engaged in the Afghan crisis. Helps Crush Hungarian Uprising This leaves Andropov, 66, who first made his mark as Soviet envoy to Hungary in 1956 when he helped crush the Hungarian revolution. Ever since Stalin's Great Terror, the secret police chief has automatically been ruled out as party chief. But East Germanys Erich Honecker and Polands Stanislaw Kania once headed their countries' secret police, and at a time of internal strain here, the party might applaud a similar choice. Ijvi NEW YORK mukh.imcd Kun.ivi'vv But legion. ihsni ot nation. illty hint thnu i I; nn es lYlshe I' too old oid uitii ultur.it Chief Mikh.nl .orh.iehov a piomiMiig new tue i. livid to the 1olithuro Tuesd.iv is v ni pi too new to the le,id rship party-dominate- d KIMBALL L. YOUNG MRS MARGARET Brezhnev Clique Grows Stronger well-know- Ilihlie t'urum BO Kloe again about strategic arms limitation The Reagan administration goes into the talks with a demand for deep cuts in Soviet deployment of weapons that it says menace the nuclear balance. The main focus of that the enormous argument is the 308 Soviet missiles that can potentially carry from 20 to 40 warheads each. (Salt II independently-targetewould have limited the Russians to installing no more than 10 warheads on each missile ) The Soviets listen to the Reagan proposals and then make their own. They have three simple suggestions: 1. The United States must stop the installation of the new Mark 128 war head guidance system on Minuteman II missiles. This improvement, nearing completion, will make Minuteman sufficiently accurate to destroy Soviet missile sites. SS-18- Huge Missile System 2 The MX, the huge missile system planned as the next generation of strategic American weapons, m.ust be abandoned 3. If there are to be deep reductions in strategic systems on both sides, the United States must count on its side all its aircraft based in Euiope that are capable of carrying and all the nuclear weapons to the USSR cruise missiles and Pershing IIs planned for installation in Europe That is not a fanciful imagining of how the Soviets would react to the promised Reagan approach on nuclear weapons It is a conservative guess, based on what they have done consistently in the past. If there is going to be a new game, the Russians would say, we can raise the stakes as freely as you. If you want us to cut back where we are ahead, you will have to call off the developments that you consider critical. You dont get something for nothing. Change the Terms In short, the notion that the United States can unilaterally change the terms of negotiation on strategic arms is childish. Can Ronald Reagan really believe it? Does he understand it? No one can tell, because neither he nor his advisers will explain what they have in mind. If Gov. Reagan is serious about wanting deeper reductions in a third strategic arms agreement, his tactics make no sense. He. or certainly his advisers, must know that the modest limits in Salt II are a necessary step toward any more meaningful treaty. How can it help to renounce what has been agreed? The irony is that the Carter administration was wide open to criticism for delaying arms limitation With the help of the Ineffable Zbigniew Brezezinski, it made a mess of the issues from the beginning in March 1977. w hen it drove the talks off course by asking the Russians to put aside the draft nearly completed with Henry Kissinger and negotiate deep arms reductions. Now Kissinger is so desperate for a job with Reagan that he denounces what was largely his own handiwork and endorses another try at the Carter-B- i zezinski tactic that failed in 1977. There was a revealing distortion in Reagan's Oct 19 speech. He said even Democrats found Salt II "flawed," and he cited Sen. John Glenn of Ohio, "a Marine veteran, and astronaut " But Glenn's doubts do not go to the terms of the treaty, the balance of forces it set, but to whether it can be adequately monitored. He thinks very little of Reagan's approach, as I found when I telephoned him. Too Many Steps "He's trying to take too many steps at once," Glenn said "To think that you're going to leapfrog all the way forward and come up with something brand new is pretty much wishful thinking. "Yes, a president could propose changes in Salt II But the Russians would have theirs, ton, a whole drawer full. "He wants a big building program, and then we'd negotiate. But that's where we started from " Yes, that is where we have always started from; An existing race to build more nuclear weapons And the longer the race goes on. the harder it is to control. That is why Reagan's ladies are so dangerous If he i., president, he w ill have to reckon w .th the consequent es of his folly. So will we all. (Copyright) 'use and heinous, random crime and violence. No sane person would argue that heroin use is socially beneficial or that responsible public officials should not do whatever they reasonably can to limit the availability of the drug. It would he especially beneficial to put out of business the criminals who profit from the manufacture and distribution of heroin But what if the presumed association between heroin use and crime simplv isn't accurate1 What would that do to our emotional perception of dmgs and addiction and to our assumptions about how we should deal with addicts and criminals if they are not alw ays. or even usually, the same people1 A segment of a carefully conducted Rand Corp study and earlier research published and notably ignored by the U.S Department of Justice both suggest that the heroin-crimmyth ought to lie big-tim- e e seriously-questioned- . Interview Felons Rand's findings, part of a larger report that came out last April, was also' financed by a Department of Justice grant. The project was directed hv Mark Peterson and Harriet Braiker In interviews with 624 representative felons serving time m California prisons, Peterson and Rraiker askrd about drug use What they found largely contravenes pre vailing beliefs To begin with, only alxmt 12 percent of the prisoners were drug users before their arrests Although drug users were somewh.it more likely than non users to commit property crimes such as burglary, they were far less likely than non users to be involved in violent murder, rape, armed rohliery and crimes assault "There is no evidence that drug Users commit more violent crimes. Peterson and Biaiker concluded "Drug use is associated with crime, but it does not appear to tie the " major determinant of crime While drug users had a higher talc of involvement in burglary, the property crime most familiar to the general public, drug use still ranke'd a distant second as a factor on the researchers' scale that attempts to link type ot A general personality to type of crime self image of criminality, unrelated to drugs, was the prime factor for people w ho committed property crimes No Single Cause Indeed, the Rand team recognized a depressing reality Criminal behavior is a nebulous, incredibly complex phenomenon, not easilv muc h less sine,!,attributed to any simple cause Blaming heroin for everything th.it contn hutes to rising crime rales is wonderfully simple, easy to put across and likely to find disagreement nowhere But accepting tins enticing myth ignores again, what has been ignored all along: Crime is a complex business, lequinng complex, difficult and often unpopular solutions. Flashy, simplistic crusades against drug devils is A waste of time.' f '1 lives. - ' ' I..! (Copyright) m |