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Show Editorial Page Feature ald Trudeau Leaves Some Questions Unanswered By PHIL NEWSOM Dedicated to the Progress And Growth of Central Utah 7 U UPI Foreign News Analyst Prime Minister Pierre Filiott Trugeau of Canada scarcely DAY,APRIL1, 1969 Gloom-Doom Reportfor 1969 Viewing the picture painted by Defense Secretary Melvin Laird before the Senate Armed Services Committee, one is overcome by & feeling of deja vu. We haveseen it all before—more than once Not since the “missile gap” of 1960 has the United States been in such dire peril] on so many fronts. There is no light at the end of the Vietnam tunnel; there is not even an end to the tunnel. There can be no reduction of U.S. troops, said Laird, until all the North Vietnamese go home. In Laos, 40,000 Vietnamese “could probably overrun the nation at will.” In Korea, “peace hangs by a slender thread.” British withdrawal from South Asia makes that area a “povential security problem: The Middle East “verges on an active state of war, with the imminent threat of ex: ansion.” Not only has the Soviet challenge in Europe grown more dangerous, but Russia now kas more ballistic missiles than we do and enhanced his reputation as the swinger from Ottawa during his visit to Washington. It was early to bed and early to rise And he left in Washington the same sense of uncertainity about his future plans as his opposition has been complaining about at home, of Upon arrivalas the first head government to visit the United States in the Nixon Admini n, it was indicated President Nixon to know what Tr his chief interest lay in learning NATOand to ¢ US. misgivings ballisic efforts toward e: plomatic relations « more about the limited antimissile system the President intendedtoinstall. Paricularly he wanted to know if nuclear missiles fired from sites in North Dakota and Montana would over Canada. be exploding wanted to do about Ca! nist China On neither poi t did Nixon get much satisfac As to whether Canada would remain in NATO, was maybe. the answer The Leaning Tower of Spain however. The 6 MONTGOMERY, ALA. (NEA) — Though Ge fensive nuclear weapon would be “a majornational error.” There never was a moregraphic cunfrontation on national policy between two presidential contenders, Nixon vs. Kennedy in ‘72 Kennedy has noj chosen well on Wies- ner and Chayes. Not unless you think that the Salvation Army should have a representative on the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and that a sound way to prevent breaking-and-entering is to leave your front door wide open. I do not hyperbolize. These analogies do not very much distort the qualifications of Wiesner and Chayes to be authorities on national defense, You can tell where Dr. Wiesner’s heart and interesis are by a letter he wrote last June to the N.Y. Times during Dr. <Abernathy'’s Poor People's march. Wiesner noted that “tens of thousands of Americans were massing at the Lincoln Memorial to focus attention on America’s cities and its poor.'’ He thought it “ironic” that at the same time the Senate should concern itself with anti-missile defense of these same cities, these same poor people and their privilege of living in a nation where political protest is tolerated. Not a word in Dr. Wiesner's letter to the Times blamed Sio-Soviet Communism as the cause of the missile-danger; his villain is always the stupid and 4 Wallace has Experienced Alabama observers say sume Wallace political intimates already are pressing him hard — intheir anxiety to get back to the public payroll. At least two of his veteran helpers, Cecil Jackson and Seymore Trammell, have split away, however disagree ment within the Wallace camp on the wisdom o! a ay the Key Wallace aides themselves are not talking former governor's recent surfacing with a sew monthly newslet keeping his has. for the moment, no more specific aim “movement”alive. Yet hard evidence gives the current Wallace endeavor the look and feel of campaign preparation mere inimediate than an- other presidential try in far-off 1972. His “newsletter” staff, led by long-time top associate, Bill Jones, has just moved into new quarters. The first mailing, solicit- ing subscribers at $12 a year (they can give more if they wish), went to one million persons across the country Magazines, including 119 dailies and weeklies in Alabama alone. Wallace is building a file on both Brewer and President Nixon. His Montgomery office svhscribes to 225 newspapers and The Montgomery headquarters newly established contains one (Jame: rl) Ray made so many blunders it hard to believe that there was a mastermind behind the plot or that he had any help in Memphis. —Memphis Police Chief Henry Lux, on the murder of Martin Luther King. All that we have shown is that we can treat 6,000 black people in the Caribbean in a way we would not dare to treat 200,000 white people in Rhodesia. —The Times of London,on Britain’s invasion of Anguilla, It was a conservation Bay of Pigs. — Steward L. Udall, former secretaryof the interior, on the decision to permit oil drilling off the shores of California. money,” he declaied, “to apply to badly ministration to pusti its line that we need some sort of ABM as a “safeguard,” and he's going to cortend that this de- to relieve Canadian concern over the ABM system, he replied that tne new would not be operational anyway until So They Say avaricious Pentagon which demands so much money. “We desperately need Sentinel collection. It will contain papers by practically anyone of note who wants to argue that we shouldn't build a missile-stopper. The senator expects the Nixon ad Tothe charge of his critics at home that he had done nothing Observers guess the letter may pull as many as 100,000 subscribers in Alabama alone, which would give Wallace more than $1 milion from which to draw campaign funds for a 1970 race. Responsible political figures here and in Washington insist he also has on hand a substantial cash reservior left over from his 1968 presidential campaign. Some guesses run high but they are not provable at this point. It is plain, nevertheless, that the Wallace operation is wellupholstered financially and that he is not toying absent-mindedly with the future. Chayes (Harvard U.) are undoubtedly as anthologists for a voluminous anti- plenty of sing a fond adieu to their departing deliverers. But if the backers of this production really wanted to score a box-office smash, they should have written in parts for tenor and a soprano. They'll never make it to Broadway without some love interest. WASHINGTON, D.C. — Professors Jerome Wiesner (MIT) and Abram little over a month later, I'm told by his office that Wiesner-Chayes will act there was assured Alabama Gov. Albert Brewer and many others that he does not intend to run for governor again in 1970, strong expectations exist that close aides may persuade iim to make the race did not report that the skyis falling. Kennedy ChoosesPoorly In Selecting Wiesner, Chayes ator Ted Kennedy will regret he ever engaged them to “prepare a report to me and mycolleagues on all aspects of the Sentinel system.” Kennedydid this in February and, a 1975 and Does Wallace Eye © Top AlabamaPost? ggg secretary ” Holmes Alexander stimulating their students and were kind to their mothers, but I bet Sen- the Canadian Bruce Biossat very system and supermegaton warheads which could “essentially destroy” all our Minuteman missiles in their undergroundsilos without direct hits. Even our Polaris submarine fleet, a surviving fraction of which could obliterate the U.S.S.R., will not be an “adequate” deterrent beyond 1§ for reasons which the secretary did ot wish to go into in public. In sum, “never before have the challenges to our national security exceeded in numberand gravity those which we found upon taking office.” Weshould be grateful for small favors, a, r made it clear anada intended © pursue friendly but dis’ andependent policies relations with the Uni is proceeding with the developmont of a multiple warhead deli- Invasion With Comic Opera Slant “The white men's burden”still weighs heavily on the rulers of the shrunken British empire, at least to the extent of requiring an invasion of the Manhattan-size isJand of Auguilla in the Caribbean in order to save its 6,000 inhabitants from themselves. It reads like the scenario for an improbable musical comedy: A patch of land in the ocean declaring itself independent from a federation with two other patches (St. Kitts and Nevis); a visiting British minister uncermoniously booted off the island; British frigates, helicpoters and paratroopers, vs. Napoleonic-era cannons. Fortunately, in keeping with the happyending traditions of operetta, no shots were fired and no one washurt. Britain, says Britain, has no intention of forcing any government on the Anguillans, It only invaded because the place was in danger of being taken over by gangsterelements who, in cahoots with “American adventurers” (pirates?), want to make the island a base for organized crime and gambling. Weawait ‘he final act when the grateful inhabitants gather to rime mi neglected and mere urgent problems at home.” And ergo, quit spending it for protection “at home?” Surely, Senator Kennedy has retained in Dr. Wiesner, not a weapons-adviser but a weaponsabolitionist. Then, there's Professor Chayes. He was legal adviser to the State Department, 1961-64, and almost everytime he made any news it was anti-anti-Communism news. Mr. Chayes made the basle decision not to withdraw passports from students traveling illegally in Red China. Mr. Chayes was in oa a plan for eliminating loyalty investigations of U.S. citizens to be employed by the UN and its subsidiaries, Mr. Chayes is the subject of numerous references in Congressional hearings where he came down on the side of freedom-of-travel for Communists. He was a central figure in the State De partment’s disgraceful vendetta against Otto Otepka, And Mr. Chayes authored a longish magazine piece in which he seems to propose a “continual surveil- lance of the President's militarypolicy,” which, in context, means the presidentlal responsibility for resisting Communist aggression, I wouldn't go so far against Mr. Chayes as a Congressional report which calls his activity by the name of “policy subversion.” I just say that he's badly chosen company for Ted Kennedy, and a preposterous authority to consult on the subject o fthe Cuamunist armed menace, Dr. Wiesnerjs probably still worse an associate for a young man en route to the presidential contest. For Wiesner, a pessimist on national defense, goes the extra mile erd becomes futilist. Senator Kennedy,it's true, has a saving clause whenever he discusses missile-defense. He’s for “research and de velopment,” but oppoed to deployment. He would serve himself well by some research on Wiesner and Chayes, his researchers, \ Report From Washington ABM System Can Improve American Position in By United Press International Disarmament Negotiations By REP. LAURENCE J. BURTON Volumes could be filled, and filled again, with controversial words stemming from President Nixon’s proposed ABMsystem. Tf public reaction were measured in terms of decibels only, one would conclude that there are many more opponents than proponents of the ABM decision . The fact is, of course, that the screamers and shouters are much more vocal than numerous and constitute a realtievly small group, both on Capito! Hill and elsewhere. Certainly the money which will go into the ABM program could be used elsewhere. There are projects on the domestic shelves which need attention: education, water resources, highways. crime . . . but the defense of some 200 million people noedsa little attention, too. It is pretty much public knowledge that Russia now has almost a thousand ICBMs. The Soviet Union has doubled its bomber strength and built Scores of missile-carryling submarines... and... has 67 ABM sites! Our ABMprogram is a modi- TodayIn History tions with the Reds. They must know we mean business when we protect our main line of defense which could wipe the Soviet Union or Red China off the face of the earth. If the ABM system is enlarg- ed, Utah mayyet be oneof the sites for a Sentinel base. It makes sense that with all the time and money spent on researching the Utah area for a site, that the Pentagon wouldn't want to sepnd still more time and money researching another site. But that’s all in the future and depends, of course, on how the modified version is met by public opinion as well as military support. The ABM decision was the first truly major decision Mr, Nixon has made as President — the first tough decision witih political consequences. Just as Pentagon Chief Mel Laird was raked over the coals recently by the dovish Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the heat isn't off yet. Opponents of stronger defenses will be working hard in the public opinion area to reject the program ad- vanced by Nixon. The struggle to give the American people the protection they need against fled pian. President Nixon's plan is strictly defensive in na- i from won. is far ture .It doesn’t cover major cities, as proposed by the Johnson Administration, but does protect our retaliatory force — BERRY’S WORLD Today is Tuesday, April 1, the Mist day of 1969 with 274 to follow. The moon is approaching its full phase The morning stars are Mercury and Mars. The evening stars are Venus, Jupiter and Saturn. On this dayin history: In 1853 Cincinnati set camouflage. Should Wallace decide to seek the stalehouse again, it would put him into inevitable confrontation with Brewer, who has declared his intent to run next year after having succeeded to the office upon the death in 1968 of Gov. Lurleen Wallace. FewAlabamapolitical figures give Brewer more than anoutside chance in such a test. Wallace is still his state's most powerful politician, Harvey Businessmen Make In 1918 the British Royal Air Mail System Pay Force was founded and two months later began World War I bombing of industrial targets in Germanyfm French bases. Generalissimo Fyancisco Franco, leader of rebel forces, announced the end of the Spanish Civil War. In 16 some 400,000 coal 1 knew Postmaster General Winton M, Blount in the days when we called him “Red Blount” around the golf course miners struck forchigher pay. struction expert of phenomenal efficiency, as postmaster he would purge our chronically constipated Post Office Department if he could. He can’t. A thoughtioe the day: Richard Brinsley Sheridan said, “Tale bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.”” in Montgomery, Ala. Inhibited by Civil A con- Service, there is no way that he can apA mouse and a giraffe have the same number of bones in their necks. —_—________ | The opinions and statements expressed by Herald columnists are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of this news | Paper. BY JAMES O. BERRY ey preciably improve the increa- singly inefficient handling and distribution of mail. Perhaps, it’s time to dump the whole antiquated system and elt businessmen distribute mail in a businesslike manner. It can be done. Private enterprise is present- ly distributing mail in 18 cities in 11 states; it will be in 100 cities by the end of this year. The Independent Postal System of America (ISPA) began distributing second-class or “Occupant” mail last year- This derisively called “junk mail” has been blamed by postal authorities for that department’s mounting deficit; IPSA handles that mail for $25 per 1,000 pieces where the Post Office charges $42 per 1,000 and the IPSA makes a profit! Here’s how it works: IPSA solicits business which handle volume mail; Sears, Montgomery Ward, Rexall Drugs, Indep- emy first strike must be directed against the U.S. capability to retaliate. No rational Red war plan would spare our ICBM and strategic bomber bases The modified ABM sysem, defending our forces, insures that the enemy must launch a much larBer percentage of his missiles against ourstrategic bases, thus Sparing manycities. endent Grovers, J.C. Penney, Firestone, and so forth. The two ABMsites will be in sparsely populated areas, too. Thefirst, in Montana, is placed near Maistrom Air Force Base at Great Falls, which would protect the 200-missile Minuteman silo complex. The other, in North Dakota ,would gaurd the nation’s newest Minuteman base at Grand Forks. And, incidentally, 150 of the latest Minuteman missiles were constructed in Utah. It is myopinion that the Nixon ABMsystem will undoubtedly give us a better position io future disarmament negotia- _ other try fo big casino. But thee is somefee'ing here that this is firemen were paid $60 a year. our ICBMs, Anyfull-scale en- while striking our cities. a precedent by deciding to pay membersof its fire department a regular salary. Ordinary of the most extensive and elaborate files of supporter-contributors in current political times. These records made possible the big newsletter mailing. Persons who fail to respond to the latest appeas are systematically stricken from the lists. If response to the newsletter within Alabama reaches sizable proportions, observers expect Wallace's inner circle to use the returns as proof of support warranting another governorship race. It is considered possibie that these aides with or without his open consent, might get a bumper-sticker campaign going for him this summer to make the case still more persvasive. The newsletter operation is using P.O. Box 1972, hinting at an- that their volume mail can be handled at up to 42 per cent less cost the IPSA way. Every carrier is bonded. Within a city, mailis delivered the sameday. Will yourfirst-classletter ever be delivered by a nongovern- ment carrier? Not soon, Pre sently, it is illegal for anybody except a government mailman to put anything in your mailbox. (ISPA delivers, in a plastic container, are affixed to your doorknob ) In Canada, where a mailbox fs not legally reserved, IPSA is experimenting with home deliveries of first-class mail: In time, with variations, private enterprise perhaps could pro- vide such service. Presently, its greatest usefulnessis in del- ivering second-class mail which the Post Office considers an uneconomic burden. The Independent Postal System of America eventually may encounter problems of bigness: ‘unions, inefficient personnel, in- creasing government snoopervision. Manwhile, however, private enterprise is offering an obviously sensible alternative to a Srotesquely inefficient and in- creasingly costly system which every postmaster general has deplored and none has been able to correct After 130 years of diminishing mail service despite ever-higher costs, a faster, cheaper way is nowavailable. Starting in Oklahoma City in February, 1968, the first con- tract was for 60,000 pieces of advertising literature. Before the month ended, IPSA deliveries hit 300,000. The next month, FORUM RULES The Herala welcomes temters tran: March, 1 million. April, 3 million! ’ This private enterprise postal system is now competing with Uncle Sam in Dallas, Denver, Columbus, Wichita, and so ~~ © 1969 by NEA,Inc. “Swibece do vay want the ABMs?” A — "= forth, and ISPA founder, Thomas M. Murray, reports “re. quests for franchises are coming in faster than we can keep up with thern,”” Businessmen are promised tong. tt Beri eli any cae ent statements der jon se A |