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Show Foreign News Commentary India Locked in Economic-Political Crisis Dedicated to the Progress And Growth of Central Utch Monday, February11, 1974, THE HERALD, Provo, Utah—Page 11 Keep Controlof Canal For more than ten years now we have been in negotiation with Panama for a new treaty for our use of the Canal Zone and our operation of the Panama Canal. Recently Ambassador-atlarge Ellsworth Bunker has been conducting negotiations with the Panama government on the treaty. These meetings have been conducted in great secrecy. It is feared that they have taken a turn which would see the Canal Zonereturned to the sovereignty of Panama, and the influence of the United States dirinishing. In talking of the canal and the Republic of Panama there are two things which should be remembered. First, there probably would be no Republic of Panamaif it were not for the United States. At the least this country encouraged the break of the isthmus from Colombia, of which it had been a part. In 1903 we recognized the new governmentwithin a few days of the revolution. The country owesits existence to ouraid. Two, there would be no PanamaCanal, if the United States had not built it. Previous attempts hadfailed, and neither Colombia nor the new nation of Panama could have doneit. There would be no canal today,if it were not for the United States. Another point worth establishingis that the canalis outmoded. It is too small for many of the giant tankers which will be needed so badly in the transportation of oil to the world. A new canal will have to be built soon. And the United States will have to build it. We should build it. We should keep control of it. The canal is one of our primary defense resources in this hemisphere. The canal has been the source of much harassmentby the Panamanian government. The conditions of our presence there has been softened over the years, even to the coneession of flying the Panamanian Ficg over the Canal Zone, which is ours to Tule in perpetuity according to the termsof the canal treaty. The present Panamanian governmentis a dictatorship. There is strong indication that they have come under the influence of Red Cuba's leader Castro whois always eagerto foment discord in the Americas. Permissiveness has become one of our national faults. We have been bending over backwards to be “fair and reasonable’”’ for the last two decades. It has gained us no friends. This is one matter which we consider not negotiable. The canal is vital to national defense. Panama and the Canal Zone are our creations. We would be foolsto letit fall into unfriendly hands, as we let Cubafall. When Australia adopted the metric system a few years ago, the changeover was not without its unexpected pitfalls. For example, one irate letter writer complained to an editor: “Since eggs went metric they have been pale in yolk color and lacking in freshness. This clearly shows that (chickens) cannot adjust to laying different-size eggs. “We tamper with nature at our peril.” #] Double Threat to Senate Legal Services Measure WASHINGTON — A Double-barreled threat hangs over that radical Seratepassed so-called “legalservices for the poor” bill: (1) Empbatic word from the White House that this extremist measure will be vetoed by President Nixon unless drastically pruned. That would virtually insure its being junked as it could not muster a two-thirds vote to override his rejection. (2) Strong sentiment in the House Appropriations Committee against granting the $71.5 million proposed for this program this year; $90 million for next year; $100 million for the year following. Key committeemen have told this column they favor limiting funds strictly to this year, and cutting the amountto around $60 million. The Senate measureisslated to go toa House-Seuate conference committee later this month to iron out differences with a morerestricted bill passed by the House last December. What happensinthe secret conference deliberationsis largely dependenton the attitude of the House conferees. From backstageindications that's not very encouraging on nolding the line against the radical Senate measure. Inside reports are that the liberalcontrolled House conferees are prepared to go a long way in accepting the far- reaching Senate provisions. Leaders of the House conference panel supported a much more “liberal” bill than the House finally voted. The measure they tried to put over was sharply curtailed by bippartisan floor amendments. It is conjectural how the House will react in the event the conferees report out “compromise” legislation modeled on the Senate's radical version. Undoubtedly that would provoke a vehementeffort to kill it. In such a fight, the threat of a presidential veto would play an impor- tantrole. While the fate of the legal services legislation is hanging fire, the scandalwracked program is under increasing attack, Howard Phillips, former head of the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), spearheading the drive against continuing the controversialactivity, is brandingit as ‘‘an assault on the family, the community, business and the country. “th a blistering broadside, he declared: And because of the rising oil prices, India may have to spend © per cent its total export earnings this year for oil. This factor alone could wreck India's rams five-year An estimated 80 million employable Indians—more than 14 per cent of the exploding For a nation that has been an international basket case since independence British rule, the future promises more hard times. Ata time whenIndia is short of just about everything but problems, Mrs. Gandhi's stock with the people has nose-dived population—haveno jobs. Voters have rejected candidates Gujarat reached 38. of her ruling Congress party in several recent by-elections and elections in five states two weeks from now pose a furthertest. The most difficult hurdle for Mrs. Gandhi and the Congress party may come in her eae state of Uttar Pradesh, the nation’s largest and one of the most backward. The Congress party is workhard to nail down its traditional support from MosJems and untouchables, but Mrs. Gandhi's critics contendthatthis time that important backing may “So you can't read or write. All you have to do is police the world!” “The fact is that the legal services program, subsidized by OKO and other government agencies, was used to finance a nationwide network of nearly 3,000 legal services attorneys, hundreds of organizations and additional thousands of support personnel who were almosttotally free to establish their own priorities for issues to receive attention and access to legal services resources. They work full time using the judicial system to changepublicpolicy.” Amonglegalservices activities listed by Phillips are “pushing forced busing, student challenges of school discipline, abortion on demand, liberalized drug tion run by an ll-member board of directors appointed by the President and subject to confirmation by the Senate. No morethansixof the directors could belongto onepolitical party, and at least six of them would haveto be attorneys. Rep. John Hunt, R.-N.J., influential member of the Armed Services Committee, vigorously supporting Phillips, brandslegalservices’ record as unsavory and indefensible. “Legal services employes have been defending convicted criminals who created riots and demonstrations,” says Hunt, “and not the poor whorely for help on this program. Thatkind of gross maladministration must stop. To divert money from programs for the poor to group political activities is essentially Stealing fromthe poor.’ The State Department is still pussyfooting about doing anything forceful regarding the eight Arab terrorists who murdered Ambassador Cleo Noel and Charge d-Affaires George Moore in Khartoum, March2, 1973. For the third time Senate Deraocratic Whip Robert Byrd, W.Va., is sharply prodding the Department about this curious procrastination and demanding an explanation, “The cold-blooded murders (of Noel and Moore) shocked the world," Byrd delcared in his latest inquiry, ‘‘but what I find almost equally shockingis that, of ‘this date, the murderers have not been broughtto trial.” unemployment snd food There also is the threatthatthe vigorous campaignii could touch off violence Poe of Uttar Pradesh where the mutual distrust between Hindus and Moslems lies close to the surface Re-elected by a whopping margin in 1971, Mrs. Gandhi's el larity may have at the end of the same an India's victory over year Pakistan. In those days governmentofficials boasted that the “green revolution” had brought India to the brink of self-sufficiency in food production. Then drought struck disastrously, creating food shortages and fueling inflation. Mrs. Gandhi's opponents blamed poor planning, corruption and mismanagementrather than the droughtfor the nation'sills. Some of her sharpest critics, however, doubt that she can be toppled yet because no strong alternative leader has emerged from, the fragmented opposi- tion. Charting Peace Pathin Ireland By DONAL O HIGGINS DUBLIN (UPI) — The nervetingling task of charting a path to peace in violence-ridden Northern, Ireland faces new << a political hazards. Constitution claim sovereignty Paul Harvey Comebackfor Yankee Dollar The Americandollar is again hieae currency in the ey around the edgesasit appears to us homefolks,it’s still a beautiful bill compared to any Looking toward thefuture, the money merchants of the world now can see that we are in a better position than anybody to come out of this energy crunch stronger than before. Forecasting weather, we can be pretty accurate in the short view or the long one. The next or the next 10 years we know about. It’s the five - days from - now forecast which stumps us. Similarly in ¢conomics, the s for the short pull and the long haulare quite reliable. A year from now is a mystery but, because past is prologue, rians and economists can see with amazing clarity what your world will be like 10 years from now. There’s a new magazinecalled The Futurist which seeks to show you now what the 1980 newspapers will have to say. The World Future Society which publishes this magazineis comprised of 10,000 members, many whose names you know: Glenn Seaborg, former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission; Orville Freeman, Letters to Editor Housewife Favors Repeal Of Daylight Saving Time Editor Herald: I would like to express my opinion against daylight saving time in hopes somethingwill still be done aboutit. There once was a kingdom in which the king wanted to save time. money, and energy. He opened the matter 10 the public for suggestions and one day a man came to town with a special clock that would do all those things the king wanted. It ran faster every day so that soon the le would be saving lot of time. Every day, noon came a little earlier, — everyone got up a little earlier, everyone went to bed little earlier, until finally the people were getting up at nightto do their work and going to bed in the daytime.It didn’t take long to realize their anger and discard the whole arhope we can be as smart and discard DST as a failure and a complete hoax on the American people. In the summer my children haye to go to bed when it’s light and in the winter they go to school when there is still a moon out and I am the one thatis having the energy crisis. — 1 AM TIRED! This includes changing schedules of milking cows, nursing babies, construction workers not being able to work until almost noon because it’s still dark, going to bed when you're still awake, waking up when you should be sleeping, eating when you're not hungry, children walking to school in the dark on snowy andslippery roads, and many, many more reasons. For the life of me, I can't understand what good it does to take an hour of darknessoff one fn of the day andtackit on to the otherpart. If I get up an hour before noon, I'd like to have an extra hourbefore noon andnotbe forced to get up an hourearlier and still not have an extra hour. Does it sound confusing? Well that’s whatit is — a confusing, tiring, upsetting situation. If large companies want an extra hour of daylight in the summer, why not go to work at eight instead of nine and getoff at four instead of five and actually have an extra hour instead of just pretending we do? Remember the king who was sold a set of clothesthat really wasn’tthere? ‘There are many more reasons for not having DST than for having it. In my opinion the persons who thought up or voted for DST have reached their level of inenmpetancyandI wouldlike to see them replaced by people with some good traditional common sense. It’s as though they don’t have anything better to do thanto sit around thinking of new laws to pass, most of which we could do without! Sometimes we get so smart we outsmart ourselves. My vote is against DST summer or winter. Let’s stand on our own twofeet and repeal DST! Mrs. W.P. Keith 770 East 2550 North Provo, Utah former top governmentofficial, Carl Madden,chief economist of the U.S. Chamberof Commerce. Sixty of America’s biggest corporationsare participating in this advance partyexplorationof the future Some of what these seers foresee, you andI mightnotlike but our n.ore adaptableoffspring will be less confounded by comparisons. By 1980,prison populationswill be down by40 percent. Wewill sleep less because we will need less sleep. Controlled supereffective relaxation and sleep will make the traditional eight hours unnecessary. Similarly, there will be relatively effective methodsof appetite and weight control. Big hospitals, except for brain surgery and heart transplants, will be phased out — replaced by community clinics linked to regional health centers by telecommunication Improved television teaching and programmed learningwill meanfewerschoolbuildings. With lasers and masers will come profound ¢hanges in communicating, sensing, measuring, cutting, heating, welding, transmitting power, illuminating,destroying. Ground overthe whole island. At talks last December in Sunningdale, England, between government delegates from Dublin, Belfast and London, Faulkner demanded a clearcut recognition of Northern Ireland's status as part of the United He got it from the British ernment. From the Irish Republic he got only a guarantee that the “present status” of North.rn Ireland could not be cones! except by majority oethe pressure is on, both in Belfast and in Dublin,to find out precisely what the government of the raat means by the Tsit * ‘UnitedKingdom statu,,”” as Faulkner demands? Oris it the status given it in the Republic's constitution? On Cosgrave's ability to provide an answer the whole concept of sharing power between the two communities of NorthernIreland maydepend. Former Premier Jack Lynch, a consistent advocate of a peaceful solution in the North, has been spurred by his Fianna Fail party to demand an assurance that the Sunningdale agreement does not interfere with the Republic's constitutional claim to jurisdiction over the north. Faulkner, goaded by cries of “sellout” from militant Protestants, has demanded that Cosgrave give assurance that the northern status is within “the United Xingdom. With the Sunningdale agree- tment due for formalratification soon, time is running out for For Premier Liam Cosgraveof the Irish Republic, a politic: solution means satisfying two diametrically opposite demands. For Brian Faulkner, chief minister of Northern Ireland's new power-sharing executive,it means the preservation of British links within the framework of a joint, cross-border Counci! of Ireland. For both men it means a battle for survival against extremists north and south of the Irish border. The key to the difficulties of both leaders lies in the constitutionalposition of Northem Ireland. Since the Northern state was set up by Britain more than 50 years ago it has been treated as an integralpart of the United Kingdom. Retention of this status has been the bedrock of Northern Ireland Protestantism. ‘The Irish Republic has given de facto but not de jure ition to this status. In fact, Articles 2 and 3 of the Republic's and sex laws,restrictions on localpolice authority, ‘prisoners’ rights, and representation and assistance to such organizations as the Law Students Civil Rights Research Committee, American Indian movement, and Black Panthers.” The radical Senate-passed measure would set up a Legal Services Corpora- be lost because of soaringprices, Shortages. World View Nature's Revolt Inside Washington By ROBERTS. ALLEN By LEON DANIEL NEWDELHI (UPI) — India is locked in the grip of economic and political nie that threatens to crumble foundations of the pret of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. While the nation celebrated its 2th Republic Day last month with a parade promising prosperity, the death toll from food riots in the western state of a clear-cut Cosgrave to put forward a formula acceptable to both Viewpoints. In Belfast, Protestant militants led by the Rey. Ian Paisley, William Craig and Harry West haveinstituted a partial boycott of the infant assembly. In Dublin, the Fianna Fail party is pushing for more radical opposition to the Sunningdale agreement If Faulkner is to hold the influential middle-of-the-road Protestant vote which he needs to survive, he must produce an acceptable solution to the “status” question before he can ratify the agreement If he gets it, Cosgrave could find the powerful Fianna Fail opposition party ready to reject the agreement. Somewhere in the middle peace may lie Today In History By United Press International Todayis Monday, Feb. 11, the 42nd day of 1974 with 323 to follow. The moon is approaching its last quarter. The eveningstaris Venus. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars,Saturn and Jupiter. Those born on this date are under the sign of Aquarius. American inventor Thomas Alva Edison was born Feb. 11, 1847. Onthis dayin history. In 1937, General Motors agreed to recognize the CIO United Auto Workers Unionas the bargaining agentfor GMworkers. In 1945, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet dictator JosefStalin ended a weeklong World War II conferenceat Yalta In 1965, U.S. and South Vietnamese planes staged the first bombing raids on Nurth Vietnam in relation for a Viet Cong attack. In 1968, New York City garbage workers ended an eight-daysirike A thought for the day: American Inventor Thomas Edison said, “There is no substitute for hard work.”’ BEARY'S WORLD transportation vehicles will be moved by electromagnetic devices, jets, turbines, storage batteries and fuel cells Fixed installations will be powered by radioactive sources, solar energy and magnetic-field units. Most clothing will be disposable. And by the year 2000, aging will be postponed, limited rejuvenation practicable. If you are aroundin the year 2000,don’t be astonished if you're still around in the year 2100, BARBS by PHIL PASTORET Knitting is what gives women something to do while they're talking. It took the Arabs to put reverse English on the old adage of pouring troubied waters. oi! on © 1974 by NEA, Inc Cal Got, “It's not MYfault that I'm drivingthis big car, it’s the Cars will be banned from urban areas; public transportationwill be free. system's fault!” |