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Show Tbe S,vli like Tribal -- 17 M, 1975 i.mUy, May Dav id Brodvr Fiscal Responsibililies at Stak second phase of the plocess will lie fal tougher This fall Concress must adopt a resolution that reconciles the legis-Ltte and a; pr, pnal..nis actions .J tbs coming months with tne final budget ceiling Hard Choices Whether Congress will have the backbone to make those hard choices remains to be seen The House came within four votes of defeating even the relat.vely painless budget targets" resolution earlv this monin, and avoided that onlv by a concession to the political sensitivities of some sig niheant pressure groups Democratic leaders scrapped the proposed ceilings on cost mg increases in Social Seem ltv and federal retirement benefits in order to scrape together enough votes to save the budget resolu- The Washington Post V ASIIINCTON Congress is receiving some deserved congratulations foi the successful passage ol the first - comprehensive budget resolution this week, but the f , larger problems of rocnnneihla fungi management still f ' -- 1 7 lie ahead , t n x ft The by the House and v 'ft. Senate of o erall spending and revenue tarvets for Mr. Broder fiscal 197G, and of the guidelines oil how the available funds should be apportioned, represents a giant step forward from the scalter-slio- last-minu- -- of-li- v t. piecemeal appropriations process used in past vears id, as an mose involved particu lailv on the House and Senate Budget hav e at know lodged, it is Committees far loo soon to break into cheers The tion other actions in hoth ihe House showed more support for budgetarv restraint, it would be op timistic indeed to assume that Congiess has entirely outgrown its pork barrel approach to fedei al spending That tendency tn lawmakers of both parties is brilliantly dissected til an m tne spring issue of the at tic1 magazine. The Public Interest, bv David A stockman He is on leave as executive director of the House Republican Conference and is a fellow of Harvard s John F Kennedy Institute ol hilt ami Senate aguez Incident Shows Will lo Ac I Janes Uieghart and Frank Jatkman Vw nttrs Vork News VsHINGTON By the tinv ;he Marine had been taken off the taih of tinv Koh Tang Island under mvir of daikness "Ihuisday night, the .io.it international flap ovc r Communist Camliodia s act of pirny" was just atHiut over The loose ends are all tied np The I aied States formally repoiled to the tinted Nations Security Council that it h id resorted to the inherent right of i If defense under Article 51 of live U N ( luoter to retrieve the captured mer etunt 'hip Mavaguez and her 3Vman i ri vv from the Cambodians And President Ford carefully informed Congress of what he had done and whs. in a tonlanee with the V ar Ioweis Vit of -- -- 73 the face of it. the Mavaguez esc ue oiKUation in the Gulf of Thailand a as a classic application of military imce to achieve a limited objective ilieiate the ship, free the crew un hat mod. punish the Khmer Rouge, and ( U ar out On Dims Luster of Exploit fact that the crew had been n moved from Koh Tang long before the Marines landed and that the ship was "novered abandoned, before Navy i oner jets bombed Ream airfield near s h tnouknlle dimmed the luster of the xnliiit somewhat But nothing succeeds kt success even the U S dollar - uh d on the European money markets oid no one of importance w as making niuih of a fuss about it the presumable Except for Khmer Rouge, everyone thought it quite an achievement As is his custom, M notary of State Kissinger even pointed the wav for reporters with a utile disc i eet senior American official backgrounding The ensis sit med to blow up out of nowhore early Monday morning when word reached Washington that vessels identified as Communist Cambodian gunboats had fired on and seized the M UVton container ship May ague?, bound from Hong Kong to Sattahip, Thailand, with a miscellaneous cargo The 31 year-ol- d ship owned and operated by giant Sc a Land Sen ices Corp , Menlo Park NJ, the leading US i .ago carrier in the Indochina area was mi miles off the Cambodian coast at the t me of the seizure, apparentlv well outside territorial waters but near an island claimed by Cambodia 13 v Thursday the crew wo, hick no abo erri the May aguez and the slop The i i l t . I. I!. an Mil I was putteimg down to Flying Cloud Singapore The 2iX plus Marines emplaced in the helicopter assault on Tang Island Pentagon brass called it a were aboard cut, cal envelopment the aircraft earner Coral Sea. and the big Navy task foiee assembled for the otc ration was dispersing As for the Khmer Rouge the mysterious ragtag band of peasant insurgents who emerged from the obscunty of a decade of juagle struggle into the world spotlight only last month they tame out of the operation with their bathtub navy largely sunk, then air force virtually nonexistent and their motives in all this as cloudy as ever The last president of Cambodia Sau Kham Khoy, now a refugee at Comp Pendleton, Calif . probably summed it up as well as anyone Mavbc he said the Communists, seized the May aguez because they needed a boat " .After all ho minted out most of the Cambodian navy sailed away with Lon Nol and his (i lends Understand Only Force The Khmer Rouge, said Khoy, are uneducated, they know little of politics und they are savage They only thing they understand is loree " The United States emerged from the on the surface at least with crisis some of the honor it had lost on the w ay out of Vietnam partially restored President Ford had issued an ultimatum Release the Mavaguez and its crew or suffer the consequences Then he enforced it to the letter It has become clear that, for the Ford administration, the May aguez incident had a much larger sigmficance than the i ecov ery of ar aging cargo ship and its crew Top White House and State Department officials quickly passed the woid that bold and forceful measures had demonstrated to the world, to friend and foe alike, that despite its Indochina humiliation, the United States was a force to be reckoned with, that Ford and the nation had not only the power but the will to act Bright Warning Signal The message to America's friends and alius was that the United States would live up to its commitments To the Soviet potential adversaries Union Communist China, and. most especially Communist North Korea the May aguez incident w as a bright red warning signal to tread lightly and not lo misread post Vietnam agonizing over foreign policy as signs of u resolution or u nkness But as is ofti n the case the message , 11 from Chicago w rites "The oiliest of our txvo children is perfectly noinial. the youngest, bom two years ago is a mon-rc adc r goluid have I, babv Id love to another d hut my and I arc ,J'i hesitant because we do not want another baby with , hus-ban- Sy n- dr,,mc v'"hdt are our chances of having a ncuaial child to do this a specialist can withdraw some of the amnoitic fluid from your uterus and examine it for chromosomal aberrations This test should be done during the first three month,, of pregnancy because if the test proves to lx positive, it is still eaily ehouji fm y mi to c onsider having an abortion Dr. Van Deilen wish you had told me how old you .ue because middle aged women run a Ivhi r than average risk of giving birth In women over 32, to a mongoloid Down s Svndron.e occurs m one out of 'HI births In women who are over 1 50 v i ,u s of age. the ns jumps to one m birth-- . On the other hand women seldom ivc birth to more than one nwmolo.d o child Down's Synd.'otne or mongoloi.i-tstdefect chromosomal to a due is with 17 chromosomes, instead of t'O tl it occurs duiirg the early stares of ceil envision of ti .o rccti.Uy tirtiizcd 1 i ovum you do dec ide to get prt gnant. you would he1 well advised to so k genetic c ouiisi ling More you conceive If you mt Moie you h. e a dance Cl 1! picgn Denounces Recovery belting a few zany reds dunng a engagement on an island at the end of the world will somehow cow the Com- tc e Chinese government, c hanncl of eoinmuiu cation in the bn f diplomatic effort to trie the Mavaguez, denounced the ships recovery as an outright act of Mowcow puaev played the stcuy In Peking the ved as a wine h hi Here are briefs of news in The Salt Lake Tribune 25, 50 and 100 years ago odny May Stockmans critique Quite not a partisan the eoiitraiy, hi analysis demonstrates the high dcgree of sham m much of the rhetoric that alwavs suriounds domestic budget de hates in the Congress Welfare Policy George Wallaces old charge aliout there being not a dime s worth of difference' between the two major parties is not far from the truth in tern. s ol socia' welfare policy," he writes. Conservatives may profess to be vigilantly watching at the gates of the federal treasury, and liberals may P'ofcHS to be striving to insure that America s least adv antaged are giv en their due but m reality neither side is doing very much of either task In fact. Stockman save, loiiHcivativc duplui'v and liberal and deter red aggression when the huge decade long expenditure of men and treasure m letnnin could not do so, these hojHs may well be only a fantasy munists worldwide 1H. 1875 nsporting 18, 1825 Ncarh h.OOO persons, men women and children, representing practically ev ery sec twin of tah and every Gsh and gam pe'ictive asscxialioii within the is i Second narrow targeted pi oernms tend ta In spread around to more people mid communities, diluting their impact but increasing their political support And tlnrd all progiams, even those ostensibly designed for the needy , tend to be converted into subsidies for the niuiilie and upper classes Survive Spasms These grants in aid programs, Stockman says, survive the periodic spasms of eongi essional budget cutting because each of the in becomes an enormous political resource as well as a mechanism for the delivery of govern nient financed services to selected be nefit lanes 1 Republican congressmen he notes may have opposed the progiam's crea turn, but they tend to vote for its later Uncicing, and thev join Uictr Demon colleagues in the wonderful game of grantsmanship, flooding their districts with announcements of federal good.es they putatively have helped secure Siockman is no right wing fanatic, shouting Mop the government I want to get off " But he ha. the evidence on his side when he argues 'hat significant budget pi mnty decisions bv Congress of the scale that would he involved in finding means to finance cither health insurance or income maintenance on a national scale require that this old game of social pork barreling be stopped That test has not yet lxon faced I empress has done wc enough so far m living out its new fiscal teeth But the hullc t has nut I km n bitten 11 Cops lighrt Viet People Facing Some Lean Times Bv I - Martin M ooTidiott he Manchester Guauliaii Even haigon Fairgmund SUGON part of the city delightful botanical is ' libel ated" now Soldiers crowd on to the viewing platform of the wall of death" ( see them defy gravity in their amazing feats. shouts the barker) and wa'ch fascinated as the girl ndcr, her long bl.uk hair streaming, lets go the handlebars of the motorbike and produces from inside her blouse the red, blue, and yellow Viet Cong flag garde ns From the nearby cafes conics the sound of pop music Satisfaction I I Cant Get .No Never Realized What a Ki ss Could Be " Pupped On a Stung." The Viet Cong flag is diaped over the juke bov Celebration Saigon and the rest of South itnam .rc he g.rn.ig day 3 of c cl. ..r for victory and cm Monday, for Ho Chi Minhs birthday North Vietnamese flags and framed pictures of Ho Chi Minh. the late president of North Vietnam are sprouting everywhere In the schools they aie rehearsing lor the parades and learning revolutionary songs The word has gone out that a good time will be had by all But after 'he celebrations the new government of South Vietnam is going to hav e to face up to more difficult tasks than bedecking the city with flags and organizing school children for parades trre Liberation Army, a limited number of Southern caches and part of the old rc gimes civil sen ice It has virtually no police and it should be remembered that the old government has 120 000 policemen and no regular apparatus of justice The loss of control can be seen m small things not only the wave of petty erme m Saigon but, for instance, the encroachment of food stalls into areas w here they were nev er allow ed before Formidable Task Even o garrison the vast network of the foimtr regimes military installations and camps is a formidable task The military management committees running Saigon and other areas have been able to restoie a kind of noimalify The question is what will happen when this society faces more difficult prospects than attending celeb- rations With the departure of the Americans and the end of American aid, the war economy of South Vietnam has lost its even enemies to counterrevolutionary elements more than justified Few Instruments Important, however, is the Mekong Delta, the most productive area in Vietnam. Both gasoline and fertilizer were paid for by the Americans' and the yearly fertilizer bill was enormous The cuts in U S u lhan aid caused considerable dislocation in the delta economy (Copyright) I going to do Urban Population Grows 57-ac- re are rates ta he I? jua idl year present hsrae. For a limited t me, Prowswood is able to assist new residents of Old Farm in selling their present homes by making 8V financing available to prospective buyers If you purchase a condominium in Lexington Village In Old Farm, well provide a commitment 2..s association X d Ia giilUan, vrt an cfcr lew cssftga lotter authorizing the 8V yesterday enjoyed the annual outing of the Salt Lake County Pish and d Open Space Community even Today Old Farm Is truly unique The natural landscaping has been retained enhanced. Tall majestic trees border a private lake. Bridle paths lace the grounds And lily ponds are home for flocks of ducks and geese All In all, Old Farm is still an elegant private estate In addition to the natural amenities, Old Farm offers all the recreational facilities Including indoor tennis and swimming youd expect Visit Old Farm this weekend and experience the very special feeling of this private estate. Prices begin at $55,900. and state Protective Saigon was a city of soldiers, officials and civil servants, and of those who provided them with services But mo-- t of it was paid for with American money directly or indirectly. That money meant that even the poorer classes in Saigon and the other cities used to were in some ways spoiled cheap food a wide range of imported ivc The Hople Estate has long been considered one of the groat showplaces of Salt Lake estate Is called Old Farm, the ultimate Prows-wooValley Today this magnificent Thi lllci't III iileuiUte pi able ill Is tUat the new government has few of the lnstrumcns necessary to run South letnam At the moment it has onlv the Game It is not just a question of the soldiers but of the entire economy of South Vietnam Saigon for instance, is not a pnxiuctive city The urban population of South Vietnam has grown from 15 pc rcent m 19o0 to 45 percent now knacks, cheap c lollies and cosmetics and easy travel The somewhat pampered urban population of South Vietnam still dies-sein smart imported textiles still whizzing around on motor bikes, is dearly m for a shock tn the next few months But it is the real economy that must !x the real worry for the new The coastal low'snds, grossly ovei populated, were a dreadful problem even for the well funded Thieu regime The last figures showed 2 null.on landless, jobless and impoverished people in the strip from Quang Tn down to Qui Nhon Delta Important twisted rationale In the first place, perhaps half a million soldiers are now looking for jobs Some have gone home to their v lllages but many hav e not A former South Vietnamese army officer I met in a park told me 1 just bought two bags of rice yesterday Ifi.OOO piastres There isnt much of our sav ings left After they run out w hat am Now ym can live on one of fits valleys great private estates. r. 2" r - ? All homes financing for you o pass along to your buyer qualify for the up to $2,000 tax rebate. . u here w," Gcnev a, Utah Luke) The Postmaster General, wider au thonty of the act of Congress of June 8th 1x72 has ordered that the rate of United States postage on letters sent to or received from foreign countries, w ith winch different rates have not been established by postal convenMon nr other a rangement, when forwarded by vessels regularly employed m f the mails, be reduced fiom ten to five cents for each half ounce or fraction thereof to take elfect July 1st H.5 May Politics ideology both contribute to the dynamics and dut ability of the social pink band Using familiar nguns on the growth of domestic spending. Oiled eat iter this yur an.l wih less care) by letnmg budget director Roy AMi. Stockman traces the spending bulge to three main causes First old programs tend to be maintained by the congressmen who sponsor them and the bureauci aues that administer them ever when thev have eithi r achieved their objectives r puned their futility Alter the Euphoria, llu Awakening The Way It Was Downs f- I sti .light in dispatches from the official Tass news agency. North Koreas leader, Kim II Sung was attending South Vietnam "liberation" ceremonies tn Hanoi while the Marines were liberating the May aguez. If the American show of force did anything to cool Kim s well known ardor to Korea unite marching south again, it will have mote than served its purpose But perhaps there has Ixon our-- i action to the Mavaguez incident 11 the Ford administration hopes that The problems are enormous, and the military government s rcferen.es to and ' difficulties ' and obstacles Parents Wary of Mongoloid v tame out somewhat garbled in some quarters Once fnondlv Thai'and with a uaiv on the new Communist masters of ictnam and Cambodia, public ly fumed at the use of the big U S air base at Uapao as a staging area for the Marine helicopter assault teams Prime Minister Kukut Pramoj indicated that he might nh od up his earlier V anke-G.gllome demands lo slim dow n further the U S garrison of 27,000 there In the streets of Bangkok hundreds of students demonstrated shout ing Bastard Ford'- Oi May 18, 1950 June, the month of marriages, graduations and schcxil vacations, approach s, the thoughts of oldsters naturally turns to ycnith and its probVs lems In the classification of marriages youth f,c.ni.ra!!y takes ovei with little or no help from older persons, but with giadiiation and summer vacations the young people look to the business world to help them eitncr with temporary vacation jobs or permanent employment for those leaving school to encage m the strugge lor a Uv mg This year the job prospects in either category arc not notably favorable, according to thes who have 'arveyed the situation y?1 4 LeidMissi r in tiJalrarm t3t Sp,w Cofnnfy 4110 South 700 Moaxn open dally from 10 Phone m til 7 p m wsaaar. f s, . wyn'ft.-- sv woo, |
