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Show Washington Window O’Brien Book: Defense of Ethical Politics Dedicated te the Progress And Growth of Central Utah Thursday, October 3, 1974, THE HERALD, Prove, Utah—Paze 39 By ARNOLD &. SAWISLAK WASHINGTON (UPI) —Larry O'Brien has written his second book. The first was a set of inetructions far assembling a Rockefeller’s BYU Visit The reception at the Prove A lot of peopie were Airport was warm.,...but disappointed, of course, that sparse. School children lined President Gerald R_ Ford had the motorcade route at three to cancel his BYU speech Oct. 2 due to the hospitalization of different points. Rockefeller read a brief his wife. message from President Ford But the President sent a expressing regret for the good substitute in the person necessity to cancel his Provo of former New York Governor Nelson A, Rockefeller, vice visit, and commending BYU for its “high standards of presidentia] nominee now scholarship, morality, integriawaiting congressional confirty, and patriotism.” mation, The message continued: President Ford, who as a “As the nation’s largest congressman from Michigan So university addressed a political rally here just before the general prepares for its centennial celebration (the Brigham election ‘two years ago, had Young Academy was found in been scheduled to deliver a major speech to the nation’s 1875} it perpetuates an youth from tie BYU campus. exemplary tradition..."’ Rockefeller spoke on The Rockefeller visit will inflation, the oil price stand out as a memorableocproblem, food shortage, and casion — as have Provo and other economic matters BYU visits of other national America and other free dignitaries through the years nations, he said, face a funIt is hoped thal ihe invitation damental danger as to to President Ford will be ther democracy and free renewed and that de: enterprise can survive during busy schedule he can find time a period of world economic to come here eventually for a turmoil. major address as he had Answering the questions he plained to do before his wife’s posed, he expressed optimism illness, in the future and said the problmes can be solved through reserach and developSo They Say ment as well as dedicated cooperation with other natioris “The idea of getting of the world plus self-sacrifice personally into debt to the exand discipline. tent and with the regularity we Rather than painting a do is a bit appalling to picture of gloom for the young Europeans and Asians.” people, he said: ‘‘America is facing its greatest challenge. I — Sheldon Feldmanof the ihink you're a lucky U.S. Federa ade generation to be living in this Commission's Barean of Consumer Protection in a report time.” Rockefeller was warmly on “credit-happy’’ consumers. welcomed at the BYU “The prospect of cae Marriott Center and more recession and higher than 22,000 students and unemploymentis a frightening townspeople were on hand, in- fact to millions of Americans cluding many state, church, whose only security against civic, political, and university inflation is their jobs. We look dignitaries. There were no to our government for demonstrations, no pickets. protection.” Richard Wilson CIA Favorite Whipping Boy of New,Old Left WASHINGTON, - Is the CIA necessary? Ss St ihing like asking if the Army, Navy and Air Force are necessary, but it underlies muchof the agitation which periodically ensues whenever some facet of the super-spy agency's operations is exposed. ‘Whenthe question is considered apart from a controversial incident, such as the political intervention it Chile, it is easily recognizable as political. Opposition to the CIA unfailingly originates from liberal-Democratic sources. Either the Central Intelligence Agency is wronglyinterfering in other nations business, or it is threatening to extend its tentacles to the domestic scene. ‘The CIAis seen as the working arm of ¢ Cold War, but if so, its recordin the ated so far as it is krown to the public, i Yet the CIAis the favorite whipping ‘boy of the New and Oid Left eee the FBI in this ince the demise of J. Edgar Hoover. Take Chile for example. According to dames Theberge, director of Latin American Studies at Georgetown University and also director of LatinAmerican Projects for Nelson A. Rockefelier's “Commission on Critical Choices for Americans," Russia's KGB atives were in Chile up to their pecks. He wrote: ‘Soviet designsforchile to serve «. the vanguard of the anti-U.S. frout in Latin-America ended in « corapiele fiasec left a deep impression on the ne i-Communist political parties and thc armed forces in the region. It reminded them of the grave risks of entering into an alliance with totalitarian parties. It reinforced suspicions that despite protestations to the contrary, Marxist governments are driven inexorably to violate pledges to uphold the constitution, to destroy the private sector of the ecenomy, and y to install a totalitarian ~ If the C1A helped in the foregoing, then the $8 million confessed to have been ve the anti-Allende press and politics Sapteititn in Chile would seemto have been a preity cheap price. But U.S. Sen. Frank Church (D-Idaho} has said the CIA oughin’t to be doing such things. Por heaven's sake, why not? Is it supposed that it is in theinterests of the United States te have anti- American, Moscow-oriented, Communist governments in the Southern Hemisphere? Does it serve U.S purposes to have, as Thebergestates, Cuba transporting large supplies of Soviet and Czechoslovak weaponsto the through the “40 C secretly to Congress penser * whose vert operations. f a is perfectible, but even Hl never satisfy those who thinkhe CIA 1s not necessary, Finai Victcries. A Life In Politics politica! lights. He alse tells how he organized winning (and some fosing) political campaigns starting with his own successful run for president of the hartender's union in Springfield, Mass. #t tums out to be, just as the O'Brien manual said, a job of nuts-and-bolts organization combined with the factors of good issues and good candidates. “L believe.” O'Brien says. “that effective organization can affect perhaps 3 to 5 per cent of the total vote, enough lo win or lose a closeelection, | believe it made the difference in the O'Brien's autobiography, “No Frem Te John F. Kennedy of congressmen who “You gonna burn the women” What?” Johnson said You said it was a firetrap.” Cooley said. “You gonna burn the women? Johnson sai down, saying “I didn’t know we had Bob Hope in the audience,” is the sense tnat 0}Brien conveys that politics can be 4 rational and henorable calling. There is none of the Chotiner Colson -Segretti type of tactic extolled here, and in fact O'Brien relates that when he and others tried to put together a mock Nixon-McGovern television Gehate in 1972, they leaned so far backwards to selectfilm clips of the former president, that the project had to be abandoned. “When the screening was over. McGovern ordered that the ‘debate’ must never be shown Everyone agreed we had been too fair. Nixon had won.” O'Brien wantshis story to be a objected to Veterans Hospital closings in their disiricts, O’Brien said the President told the group that one of the installations was a small town Texas VA hospital that had become “nothing more than a firetrap.”” To ease economic distress in the town, he said, it would be used in the future as a Women’s Job Corps Center. Rep. Harold Cooley, D-N.C., quickly disabused Johnson of the notion that he had soothed the defense of ethicalpolitics and a spur to reform in the murky fields of campaign financing and political advertising —he damns both some of Nixon's anti-MeGovern and Johnson's aiiti-Goldwatertelevision spots, And he says: “One of the reasons I've written this book is te show whatthe woridof politics is really like, not an underworld of cloak-and-dagger activity, but a vast public arena in which men and ideas do battie and in which delogat achieved.” with the question great deeds can sometimes be Dr. Lawrence Lamb What Causes Sluggishness? DEAR DR. LAMB — What causes sluggishness? Does it occur in everyoneafter 45 years of age? 1s lack of exercise, drinking toolittle water, overeating, being overweight and heavy food part of the problem? DEAR READER — There are many causes, and it most definitely is not necessary Capital Scene The Politics of Inflation By TED KNAP WASHINGTON — (NEA) — Success has many parents: failure is an orphan. That's how it is with today’s economy, especially the double-digit inflation. Ordinarily, the president and his party get the credit or the blame for the state of the economy when voters go to the polls. This year maybe different. President Ford is trying to attribute a substantial share of the responsibility to the Democratic-controlied Congress, and top Democrats acknowledge thathe is succeeding When pointedly rated “that he eee them in response to recommendations by senate Democratic leader Mike Mansfield and a “bipartisan” “Separately we can only make it worse. but together we can beac it ta its “Mr. Ford is shrewd politica! gy, and then some. }t also letter to Editor cover has been blown. This committee, established in 1948, reviews and conveys to the 1962." Some of C'Brien’s stories are newand well-told. Recounting how LBJ was trying to mollify a their Saucepans, The military took over Now, the A elements of Congres! ed over the guarded and possibly deceiving the way Secretary of State Kissinger and former CIA Director Richard Helms informed them of what had gone on in Chile. But the fact remains that the CIA’s intervenwas carried oul in coved way secrets of ‘Watergate _ O'Rrien writes an entertain with andedotes Kennedy ‘Ledge (Senate) race in happens to be the only realistic wayin which the President could hore to inflation under control within a reasonanle sich as sending one million Vietnam or dispatching the marines to Santo Dominge, but the CIA found an easier way in Chile and is getting probably more credit for success than it deserves. The Chileans were fairly active themselves. the Democratic National Commitiiee chairman. This led to a Series of events of seme nations! interest and to the fast chapter of \EM 6400E necessary. The political, economic and desired American poi back his Watergate to bug the phone ana has| i aid pout Salvador Allende Gusseus lost urgiars led jearn Russia's central intelligency agency hislife There are other ways of achievi bungling Liddy simple and successful that the group in Congress He madesure that i ns t to Democratic as well as Republican economists, and to Democratic as well as Republican members of Congress. Repeatedly, Mr. Ford and his spckesmen have said thai solving the problem of inflation will require “joint” and bipartisan action by the administration and is social condition of Chile went to pot so fast under Allende that his Marxist litical base could not hold him up. inflation soared. Productivity fell. Housewives took to the streets beating Se Gordon palitical carmpaign that was se radicalLeft in Chile on the Cubanairline and Cuban merchant ships. At the same time, according to Theberge, Cuba established a guerrilla training base and coordinating center in Chile. All this with the blessing of the Soviet Union. Liaison was maintained through Soviet Intelligence services, and Soviet army personnel heiped train workerrevolutionaries for guerrilla e at a factoryinstalled by the near Valparaiso. Washington w: sed tosit still while this was goi do no more than say “‘tut tit” while Allende, whose political coalition received merely 36.5 percentof the vote, followedthe i ne of It can be questioned whether or not thai $8 million of U.S. CIA money was Committee te ReElect the President thought he must be something back period of time. ‘The President alone cannotget fiscal 1975 spending down below $300 billion so as to avert another sizable deficit that would increase the demand on loan money and aggravateinflation. For starters, he could not save $700 million and set an example by deferring the Oct. i federal pay raise for three months because Congress wouldn't let him. He cannot succeed in jawboning against undue price and wage increases if members of Congress are advocating “catch up” pay hikes and special Wage and Price can val workonlyif it hasthe full public support of both branches of government which established it if Mr. Ford asks for tax adjustments, publie service employment or other programs to help the economy. he obviously will need Congress to enactthem. Democratic National Chairman Robert S. Strauss and Deputy Chairman Mary Lou Burg admit privacely that Mr. Ford has outmaneuyered them on thisissue, at leastfor now. Republican candidates in the November oe do not expect an the ceanay as they would nave if Richard M. Nixon was still presidentor if Mr. Ford had simply announced at takeover that he would continue the ooliciesof his predecessor If he had, he would rot have been given the 71 per cent job approval rating in his first th people of Utah. Nu man could be less representative of the feelin of the people, particularly in the matter of respect for humanlife. doi ars of ockefet! Foundation money have been channeled into the promotion of abortion and way 1 see it, Mr. himself must learn the responsibility for the kiting of Christmas. In the coldof winter, however, if inflation has not subsided and the economy remains stagnant, Jerry Ford may be yearning for the cozy comfort of his days in Songress oras vice president. Today In History The Almanac ByUnited Press International Todayis Thursday, Oct. 3, the 276th dayof 1974 with 89 tofollow, ‘The moon is betweenits full phase andlast quarter. The morning stars are Venus and Saturn. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and Saturn. ‘Those born on this daie are meea of Libra. Oct. 3, 1873. On this day in history In 1922, Mrs. Rebecca Felton, a Georgia Democrat, became the first women to serve in the United States Senate fn 1939,Italian dictator Benito Mussolini launched an attack on Ethiopia. DEAR DR. LAMB — My husband is a diabetic. He takes insulin two times a day and ee tablets to. keep his blood vessels open. They were closing due to diabetes. My questionis, will smoking two packs of cigarettes a day cause him to betired all the time? He is culation? DEAR READER ~ No diabetic should smoke. No one else shouldeither for that matter, A diabetic has an increased likelihood of fattycholesterol depositsin the arteries and changesin the arteries leading to heart attacks, strokes and poor circulation to the legs. This often contributes te gangrene. Tobacco imultiplies the likelihood of problems in both normal people and diabetics. It is plain common sense thatif you have an increased risk to start with that you shouldn't muitiply it. Cigarette smoke causes the smal} platelets in the blood, responsible for the formation of a blood clot, io clump. This may be a factor in increased incidence of heart attacks and vaseulai disease ile oi Whiskey oes notkeep the eiredlation openn. It does nothing beneficial for the circulation. it's only Fosie»eo is as a tranquilizer. For ple who need a Rancaiter, you can get some benefit that way,but usually being dependent on alcoholfor that is a mistake also. In the diabetic it can contribute te liver booke. Fattyliver is often a postion of diabetes so it or \d be used sparingly, if at all, by a diabetic, Diabetes can cause fatigue, but so can many other factors. Send your questions to Dr. Lamb,in careofthis new: ir, P.O. Box 1551, Radio ty tation, New York, N.Y. 10019. For a copy of Dr. Lamb's booklet on losing weight, send 50 cents to the same address and ask for the “Losing Weight” booklet. BerrysWorld President Eisenhows Takes Position Against Rackefeller’s Approval Editor Herald: Tn myyore “kappearanee month's Gallup Poll, since Nixon aad been getting very iow ratings an his handling of the economy. Actually, President Ford has not departed from the Nixon aconomic policy, but is buying ime to decide whatto do. Public willingness to go aiong with him nay last through the November alections, perhaps through just because you are 45. Some of the most alert, active and interested people I know are well over 45. It is often a frame of mind, basivally 4 lack of interest in life and ‘our environment. Oftenit is rem a lack of challenge. Considering all the problems in the world to be tackled, that seemsa bit ridiculous. At about middle-age many people give up their dreams or realize the limited ones they started out with. The kids are raised or off to school, The manis usualiy in a steady job and things settle down to betweenthe peaks of tweedle dee and ho hum. Now you can be tired, or as you Say sluggish,for medicalreasons, too, but in the vast numberof instancesit is related ie boredom and personality sychologicalfactors. Just fod how energetic you get when you get mad. All those other things you mention are important, but they often “low as a result of loss of interest in other things besides food and television. only43 years oid. wil it close vessels? And,will a shot of whiskey help his cir- ted US. spy plane Mee were acts vix soit Foreign Mi ister Andrei Gromyko signed strategic arms jon agreernents puting ictions on the two untold numbersof unborn vabies byhis vete of mill passed by York's liberal ahortion Law. Our mostbasiccivil oe isthe rightof life itself. Wecall our public officials to publicly recognize Mr. Rockefeller as an enemyof the people uf Utah. We call Spon congressmen 1 refrain from handing us the ujtimate insult — the confirmation of Mr. Rockefeller tothevicepi J a United fortLife 756-7355 ‘nuclear weapons, Schopenhauersaid, “The fundamental fault of the female character is that it has no sense of justice.” Matches were Hanchow, Chi $70 and calied sticks". Mareo Polo wit nessed their use during his trip to China in the 13th century. can stop worrying about keeping up wi ine Joneses ~ they've declared bankruptc! |