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Show BruceBicssat The Call of the Open Road Japan: Big Hand In a Stable Asia Dedicated to the Progress And Growth of Central Utah — Friday, April 23, 1971 ‘Page THE HERALD, Provo, Utah SPOING TRAFFIC ) vr World War qn ALCOHOL n should be the chief buildin ergized aspiring Asia Space Shuttle Fight in Offing Many Americans may not like some of the ideas the Danes have comeup with lately but there’s one that deserves copying in this country.’ A well-known Copenhagen restaurateur named Spies has defied the unwritten law that women are supposed to have appetites equal to those of men. He has introduced “mini, mi i and maxi” portions for women in his cllee -hotel, ices graded acco wienot fair that women should pay the same amount as men when they don’t eat as much,” says Spies. American restaurateurs please note. This may be something that women’s lib could really sink its teeth into. or from sales <o foreign nations. An opening gun in the controversy their over-all trade expansion amples: In the 1958-68 decade has been fired by two assistant professors of political science at Columbia University. The defeat of the SST was welcome, says Gordon Adams and Ira Katznelson,butit left intact “the technocratic institutional arrangements and assumptions that sponsored and informed the project.” e space shuttle raises issues of fundamental importance, they say. They cite military-civilian agency relationships (relationships evil by definition), the potential for an accelerated arms race, extel social control possibilities (whatever that means), a distroting economic impact, inegalitarian effects on income and resource allocation (whatever that means) and the nature of closed decisionmaking by technocratic elite (evil by definition). Adams and Katznelson call for a movenow “‘to discussion of the consequencesof the shuttle decision for our pulbic and privatelives.” By all means, the expenditure of upwards of $25 billion demands the fullest public discussion and weightiest congressional deliberation. But if the discussion degenerates into charges that the shuttie is the latest attempt b;iy20 eae technocratic - military - indus' elite to foist another white hast off on a helpless public then little will be served by it. The space shuttle is the next logical step in the - oration and utilization of space. It is the only solution to the enormous expease and waste of spacecraft boosters only once and letting them drop into the ocean. Butif it again becomes a question of waiting until every last problem on earth is solved before we can afford to devote some part of our resources to expanding the frontier of aerospace technol then we had better start thinking about getting out of the space business entirely. Inside Washington Nixon Based Troop Plans WASHINGTON — President Nixon's troop withdrawal announcement was based, in part, on an exhaustive review of the war making resot which can be made available to "North Vietnamese units in Cambodia and South Vietnam in months ‘The three-week review began with an attemptto establish what resources were actually available to the North Vietnamese in the past year. Estimates were included for suppl landed at Sihanoukville and procured locally in Cambodia, as well as those teal owe the Ho Chi Minh trails. ‘Then the ie year’s availabilities were projected, data on supplies and equipment aes by the strikes in Cambodia and Lao: procurement in Cambodia and no materials Teaching Vietnam through the Cambodian port city. ‘Thereview assumied that the Ho Chi Minh trail network will be fully available to Hanoi uatil the end of May (a very generous estimate of the ing of the rainy season), It assumed,also generously, thatthe oil pipelines in the trail area, which were cut duringthe Laosstrike,will be fully available to Hanoi. One finding of this it-Laos review was that North Vietnam have to replace ey thousands of tons of guns and ammunit which had been brought to South Veta through Sihanoukville and additional thousands oftons of food and| other supplies which had been obtained in cs Generally, eereview concluded that, even under the ‘stated assumptions favorabie to North Vietnam, Hanoi can make available only those resources needed to continue a protracted warfare strategy in South Vietnam and Cambodia during the months ahead. HIGHS AND LOWS — Thatdoes not mean, in the view of White House sources, that the North Vietnamese effort will subside into small unit and guerilla tactics. By skimping on supplies for some areas, the ! t One rule of thumb which has proved serviceable in Vietnam is that insurgency operations — operatiuns in which Viet Cong and North Vietnamese live off the land and fade away with daylight — cannot continue effectively when an area is considered 75 per cent or more under governmentcontrol. Most of the provinces in the III and IV Corps areas of South Vietnam,in the southern portion of the country,are nowlisted in the 75 per cent category. So the major effort of the North Vietnamese is e: in the northern part of South Vietnam in the morths ahead. However, another conclusion of the postLaos review is, as noted, Hanoi will not be able to mounta sustained general offensive in those northern provinces this year,as it could have done had there been no drive into Laos. Finally, it was concluded thatif the North Vietnamese wanted to mount a major offensive in 1972 — an offensive which would precede the presidential election here — then pecpecedUSN. Shoe ed redacin gt up its stocks and caches to IN PAST — President Nixon and his advisers are well aware that the resources of the North Vietnamese have often underestimated by U.S. policy makers. The post-Laos review, which contributed to the President's troop withdrawal decision,is not being touted as more than the available judgment. It isbeing privately stressed, however, that the review does represent the best reasoned view of is ahead — based on the best available current estimates. There is good reason to believe that the review was very carefully conducted to avoid the distortions of rose-colored spectacles. Mr. Nixon knows that each withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam leaves a smaller U.S. contingent for use there. With each withdrawal decision there is a greater risk incurred if the abilities of SouthVietnam prove to be overestimated and North Vietnam's are underrated. Mr. Nixon knows that better than anyone, Korea's exports to multiplied 10 times iwan exports to the Jap hailand’s went up sé doubled and so did Malays’ seven times, Indonesia's six, India's and those of the Philippines increased fourtimes As an impor q uside, it should be noted that Au on Asia's fringes, now finds Japanits best cus' 1960, only a quarter of Australia’s trade was with Asia Today the proportion is 50 per cent, and most is with the Japanese (nearly J billion in exports) an’s assistance to outsiders, not only in ‘i America and elsewhere, is unquestionably for resources develo which can feed ‘0 help Japan's own growth. In Australia, for in- , the Japanese arehelping to finance new mining for iron ore they need to support Japan's gr ‘owthin steel Henry J. Taylor White HouseHasJitters As Nixon’s Rating Sags popularity rating hardly turned up at all. President Kennedy’s decline never stopped.It culminated in a downhill slide through the last seven months of his White House tenure and, in fact, reached another new low in the very week before the Dallas horror. In only the first two months of ti polree 1966 President Lyndon B. Johnson's poll rating suddenly Nixon's rating sags and fell from 73 percentto 6¢ percent these are days of White House of the voter approval and jitters. President Nixon once Winston Churchill to me: “Nothing is more dangerous than to live in the tempermental of a Gallup Poll, always taking one’s temperature...There is only one duty, only one safe eeand Nor it is enough for one White House insider to state. “If you haveto take losses like this,it’s better to take them now.” No recovery is ever sure. The highest approval of a President ever given in the Gallup Poll (87 percent) went to President Truman his first weekin the White House, at the moment he took over from FDR, calm and cozy as a muffin. fundamentital had a brief tu:nup immediately following the President’s meeting with Soviet Premier Aleksei N. Kosygin at Glassboro on June 25, 2967. President Johnson’s low came in March, 1968: 35 percent. By March 31, 1968, a. Johnson was saying: “T shall seek, and Iwi not accep, the nomination of my party.” President Nixow’s ear'ylow in popularity was 56 per cent in October, 1969. Then it oan John 's presidential fitness ‘began with a Bay of rege nal pal It also registered in worldwide in the international polls as well. In 1962 “eyeball to eyebali”’ confrontation with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev the the Cuban crisis, usually written about as a victory, the late President’s paquiddick performance, the contrived delays in court hearings, Mr. Kennedy’sfailure to be re-elected in Massachusetts by much less Feels This Is Time To North Vietnamese can generate military high Rane a Opes aCe they are expected to H. E. Nobuhiko Ushiba, predicted The growth of their sales to Japan substantially exceeds Letter to Editor On N. Viet War Supplies By Robert. Allen and John A. Goldsmith ago in San Francisco, Japan's ambassador to the United States, than the intended rehabilitation margin. and his ouster by Senate colleagues as Majority Whip, he is doing well in the Gallup Poll. Accuracy? It’s a popular pastime for most politicians behind in even the best polls to question their accuracy. They usually say it is an unreliabie method, like poison gas, and point way back to the November 3, 1948, election eve Gallup Poll which gave Thomas E. Dewey the Presidency ty a decisive margin. However, in truth, such truly independentpolls as Gallup and Roper are amazinglypeomee when the “undecided’ reasonably ea and felthe required allowance of about five per . This remarkable, considering the problems in political forecastin, 8 In any case, the polls are consequental — probably too consequential today — and at anything like the present level Mr.Nixon’sre-election is clearly threatened. Why do people reply to polls as they do? Well, that is a totally subject from the accuracy and is ac‘uaily the essence of what happens. although scarcely known. Elmo Tipe, who is a ypher as well as a pollstr, id long ago that feelings, not thoughts, dominate the replies. He cited case after case in which voters’ approval of disapproval of a candidate for the Presidency or of a President’s performance is clearly the result of a gallimaufry of emotional reasons, psychological reasons, reasons of personal sympathy or loyalty and other ee unconn¢ r “The one thing the responses Build Good Canyon Road thought. are usually not,and I repeat not, that canyon where people have Editor Herald: While sitting here, Thee eo paces whee recuperating from a heart at- There are tack, pee ee as timeto have . 7a Small Appetites A few weeks that his country’s econc-mic assistance to its Asian neigh bors would be quadrupled to about $4 billion yearly by 1975. That would roughly equal present U.S. foreign ec nomic aid and amount to Pr nt of Japan's GNP As for trade, Japan today is buying more than $5 bil lion in products annually from the Asian nations alone 3 Cut Rates For 4 immensesignificance year for authorization to build four or five shuttles at an estimated cost ranging up to$25 billion, with the Air Force changes adding anotherhalfbillion. Also enlike the SST, the government would not be getting its money back from passenger fares discussed for about a year. Both sides have good points to take into consideration. This same kind of disagreement and bickering took place , Nevada for five or six years over a proposed freeway. Finally, by working are . can’t the same be done in regard to Provo canyon? I haveits here about 50 been scenic value of the canyon to any great extent. There are not too many places where the canyon can be seen from the present highway. During the summer months, the river is dry from the diversion dam to the mouth of the canyon. From there on to Vivian Park the road goes through col tonwood trees. ely acta edt come outinto the open. Thatis at 8 winged craft — a small orbiter riding piggyback on a huge booster. The twin-engined orbiter would be about210 feet long, with a wingspan of 124 feet and a launch weight of about 900,000 pounds. The 12-engined booster would stand 270 feet high on the launch pad, have wings 150 feet long and weigh some 3.7 n:illion pounds at liftoff. Thevehicles have been described as resembling a 747 jumbo jet standing on its tail with a 707 transport on its back. Eachvehicle would be manned by a crew of two and each would land under jet engine power. Thelarger one would return to base in about 90 minutes, after it had hoosted the shuttle toward orbit, and the latter would return to earth as much as a week later. The shuttle could carry space station sections into orbit and a dozen crewmen at a time, to assemblethe station or to man it. It could carry fuel and supplies and relief crews for space stations and serve as a space-rescue vehicle. Unlike the SST, however, the ce shuttle has military applications, and that may be the kiss of death for it as far as many people are concerned. Already the Air Force has repo! pressured the National Aeronautics and Space trade with few n’s advances in ¢ countries, this drawn trom their spectacularly rising Gross National Product NASAplans to ask Congress this E shuttle system would consist of two Now that it is occurring, America preoccupied with Vietna Right now the Japanese are contributing somewhere in the range of $1.5 billion yearly in aid to other Asian H the one shaping up over the projected development of a space shuttle As presently envisioned, the un the supersonic transport, you'll love It didn’t hap ce then. people in paying Administration into changing the design of the orbiter from straightwinged to delta-winger, which would give it much greater ianding range and felxibility. ie Tf you liked the controversy over a good mar es Were say Bridal Veil Falls and it is beautiful. From there on, the scenery is hit and miss. Upper Falls can hardly be seen.Al the way along the canyon there are service stations, stores, mounds of road gravel, big machinery, trailer parks, fruit stands and what have you. There are a few parks through mess. Ihave followed a car at 20 miles per hour from Heber to the mouth of Provo canyon, and up the canyon also, with cars bumper to bumper and no way to pass. This has happened to me many times,and I am sure other 0 experienced the same thing. With the amountof traffic there is coming and going through canyon,a four-way, divided highway is badly needed. ‘There are hundreds of canyons in the west where the seauty has been retained while traffic conditions have been improved, the scenery made more visible to the traveler. If this road proposition is going to turn into a political ick, then we had better forget it and struggle along the waywe havedone for the last 20 years or so, We can’t stop progress no matter how many excuses we can think up. By the time the younger generation gets into power, within the next few years, the freeway will go through anyway, so whynot put a good road through now so it won't have to be changed in a few years, our children twice as much in taxes, and matybe destroying more of the canyon's beauty, than wewill by going ahead with it now. W.Clark Collings 96 NN. 800 W. Orem Yet the benefit to the aided and other lands is major, lifting many toward afairly solid industrial base for the first time. It is estimated that in Korea the Japanese hav invested in the development of more than 100 industrialal plants, inthetextile, electrical, chemical and otherfields A Japanesefirmbuilt in Malaysia the first integrated steel works in Southeast Asia. Japan also has invested heavily in other jointly owned Malaysian enterprises for production of tires, automobiles, metallurgical products, textiles, plywood, sugar and otheritems. Singapore's big shipbuilding and vepair yard is Japanese-built, as is its automobile assemblyplant andits electronics plant. East Pakistan has a Japanese-built petro-chemical works underconstruction. Ceylon’s entire electrical power network was erected and built by Japan. The Jap- aneselikewise have put up major dams and hydroelectric projects in Taiwan, South Vietnam, Burma and Indonesia. The roster of these investment and development projects is very long and still growing. Japan today is not only the world's third largest industrial nation after the United States and Russia, It is THE economicpowerin Asia, a powerful force for useful growth—and forstability. There are, inevitably, dark patches. Japan's dominance over Asia in the World War II era is remembered, and fears of new domination are stirred. Japan seeks te calm them by handling moreofits foreign aid through mullinational agencies. Dr. Lawrence Lamb There’s Hope For Heavy Drinkers Dear Dr. Lamb—Can you tell meif there is anything in the line of medicine orpills I could take? When I don't drink anything with alcohol in it, I almostgo wild. I can get alongfairly well for two days; it seems then I just must have something. I am trying so hard notto drink. Dear Reader—Yes, there is. If you have been drinking a lot, sudden withdrawalof alcohol can cause trouble. g00d exampleis delirium tremens with hallucinations and severe reactions. You will need a doctor's help. Even heavy drinkers can be helped if they really want to quit. If you are drinking a lesser amount it is possible that you are using it as an emotional crutch. In selected cases certain tranquilizer inspired by is a thoughful evaluation,” said Roper. But Mr. ‘Roper and very able petGeorge H. Gallup alike ey thatelections are really drugs have proved to be usewon between the elections. And ful and help people to shake that is why time is running out the alcohol habit. Some people drink because they are on President Nixon. BERRY'S WORLD depressed and they need still other medicines. The important point is that you CAN be helped. Your doctor is the right person to help you. Dear Dr. Lamb—My husband has started waking up at 4 a.m. and having trouble going back to sleep and I would appreciate youtelling me what could be done to help him get a full night's sleep. He is 36 and in good health. He usually has a drink before dinner or wine with dinner and drinks beer later in the evening (in moderation). He is tal! and lean and does not get much exercise but spends most of his time workingathis office as an administrator with the amount of tension that entails. Is his sleeplessness the result of tension or could it have an organic root? Dear Reader—Unless your husband is being awakened by pain which you don’t suggest, it is probably related to anxiety or tension. It is true that job tension, and for that matter home tension, ca:, cause sleeplessness. You might take a vacation and see how he gets along away from the office environment. Regular exercise at the end of the day does wonders for working off the frustrations and anxieties of the office. It is a lot better than alcohol for the health and often aids in getting adequate sleep. Don't overlook the adverse effects of coffee which stimulates nervousness. The same applies to cola drinks, If a few simple changes don't resolve the problem, your husband should seehis doctor and get some helpin coping with his tensions before matters gel Worse, Only 7 percent of the phy. ‘ 119M by NEA, Ine Chee “Our company is structured to attract today's college graduate—weoffer freedom from responsibility, an uninhibited sociallife and we'refororiented!” sicians in the United States are Women, In the U.S.S.R three out of four physicians are women, In England the tatio is one out of six. 1 noted with amusement that ne Chicago lady doctor in the Women’s liberation movementis going to be in a osition to strike a real blow or women. Sheis taking adlitional training to perform vasectomyoperations on ‘nen. & |