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Switzerian Page Grindiewald W Fair Trading With Soviets One important fact needs to be emphasized in this matter of trade with the Soviet Union What collapsed was not the but the amendment to the trade bill sponsored by Sen Adlai Stevensen fil, (D-Ill) which would have limited subsidi credits to $300 mill idea of trade itself between the United States and the USSR. but U.S -sub: d trade Under the terms of This is a paltry sumfor a nation the size of the Soviet Union and one which it evidently concluded was not worth the price to its the proposed agreement, the United States would have loanedte the Soviet Union at 7 sovereignty of acceding te per cent money that it was US. demands regarding Jewish emigration, even though the deal would have been sweetelied by granting the sametariff treatment to the Soviets that we extend to their trading partners. borrowing at ¥ per cent. We would, in effect, have been paying them to buyfrom us — and the Seviet Union is not exactly your typical struggling underdeveloped nation. It seeins clear now that what killed the deal was net US. insistence on liberalized emigration for Russian Jews Hay, Hay! The phrase, “and that ain't hay.” has long been used to indicate the value of something being talked about, with the implication that hay is oflittle value Not any more. According to the National Hay Assn.. hay has joined the lengthening list of items the world is short of todayand prices have gone up accordingly. In 1973, more than 62-million acres were planted in hay crops. Total production was 135-million tons. with a total value of more than $5 billion That was when hay sold for about $35 a ton, todayit’s shot over $100 in some areas. And that — dast we say it? - ain't peanuts. er the Noniwand and thal is prect Sixty-one mic died trying sc au The Brt ways traps and always chang! Sses, 1eMper able. Any American businessman who wantsto sell to the Soviet Union can do so, and can get the credit he needs from a domestic or international bank. Or, Vanik adds, the Soviets can pay forit. Meanwhile, you are the target of fusillades of falling. bouncing th the Hinterstois named for a Germar of four Blocked Also, the Alps are actually start unheralded schemes arestrictly bipartisan. When it comes to boodle grabbing, there are no partylines. It’s something new for the committee It was never done under the 12-yearrule of former chairman Wilbur Mills, D.-Ark He ran the committee with a tight rein on its purse-strings — firmly holding down thesize of the staff and expenses. $2016 million as againsi $173.6 million Under Mills, not a cent was ever spent for junketing. But Ullman is arguing that’s nowheaded by Rep. Al eB at taxpe all for one, and oneforall Under these plans, the House's budget would be hiked 16 per cent to tor the currentfiscal year, the Senate to $111.5 million from $106.5 milken, Ullman, D.-Ore. S| expense is ary so committee members can ouch with the people. ta know feel about taxes, Social and other cru matters. the committee.” Maybe 0. But veteran committee- 40. ton ae still isn't the whole con- gressional budget pict Actually, the proposed budget for ¢ legislative branch of the government i! startling $881.6 million — 19 per cent tuore than this year’s §743.6 million included in this overall budget are or the Library of Congress, Architect Government General Accounting e and a ane of other OwFnothing shont the innovation:that they weren't consulted abeut it, It'sall news to them. Chairman Ullman’s ingenius boodle grab has to be approved by the. full House. It will be interesting to see what the other bombastic ‘reformers’ will do about il especially the 73 crusading con- gressional adjuncts similar boodle grab is lustily in the Senate — with Strikingly indicative of the magnitude backingof 57 (a majority) of this congressional empire is that it numbers more than 24 0) employees. And it’s literally growing by the day. Industry. construction and business may be inthe doidrums, with millions of workers unemployed. But not Congress it’s thriving — and under its newheftily expanded budget will boom bigger than betare Foie is how and why virtually all H standing” commitiees and score subcommittees are slated to be expanded at a cost of $20.7 million — a stunning 240 per cent zoom over this year’s $8.6 million, This does not inciude another $17.5 mijiion fur special and select committees — a 20 per cent hike abovethe current $146 million dust how these additional millionswill bedivvied up among the committeesis a tightly guarded secret known only to Houseleaders and they are adamantlynot talking But one revealing example is what 1s imthe works tor the “reformed” Ways and Means Committee — which originate all revenuelegislation. Ambitious aim of its new “reform fead is to double the committee s against 30 currently Of the new ar sonnel, i4 would be paid $25,000 ip. other Democratic ‘Republican leadership, and potent members such as Humphrey. D.-Minn., Bentsen, D-Tex Weicker, R.-Conn.. Tower, R-Tex., Hartke, D.-Ind., Thurmond, R.-S.C., NY se, R-NJ, dev. Vai, R J N Sponsor is Mike Gravel, D.Alaska, ranking member of the Joint [ nittee on Congr hal vations. who has quite a spiel in defers of this plan to hike the budget tor Senate committee's personnel by more than $9.64 miilion That's what Gravel claims it will amount to — byan involved process of rationalization and figure juggling However, the suave Alaskan does admit that cost of the contemplated enlargement of committee staffs could actually come to more than $31.681 million — somethree times greater than his deftly contrised originalfigure. One thing is quite certain if these committee expansions are authorized ‘highly likely). the cost ts lar more in to be closerto $31.681 million than $9.84 million Hin monuments to fields. Ultimately vou encounter the fantastic White Spider. This Richard Wilson is an appalling, tremendous overhang curling forwardhke a Evaluating Oil Price Raid giant blister on the face of the Nevertheless, great mountaineers have long Kiger dreamed ofa nonzigzag ascent — And it can be in the momentof complete exhaustion You must VASHINGTON, D.C. — Two points seem to be emerging to alter perceptions about the oil consortium ’s price raid on the industrial Countries. First. the drain off of cash is nowhere near original predictions: and, second. the Arabs are making good useof the money The effect turns out to be something like a value added tax, with one big difference. A value added tax, now widely in use in Britain and Europe. is a kind of sales tax imposed progressit al every stage of the processing of a commodity inti! its final sale to the proceeds of this exaction are tulfions of dollars to their legislative the ‘The Eiger contsins trillions of galions. It seeps down from the perpetual snowcap andfilis the inside. This meansnew rivulets, new spreadings of the wet areas And in a suddencold, the water outcroppings turn to verglas, impossibletocling to. catastrophies There c four designated Boodle Grab Record junkets by the 37-member committee of Traverse, effect on petroleum products The big difference is that the Cost of this ‘refurm™ is upwards of tremendous water reservoirs diefed falling fi weathered ropes s New Congress fo Set $17 million. But that still isn’t all. Also included in the “reform” is another $200,000 for ehmb the discove treacherous narrow ledge a often enough use them unwisely ‘The quintupling of crude oi! to axing potent committee chairmen Although in session only one month as oi teday, both the House and Senate have boodle grabs underway that will add on Hinterstotsser consumer, The proceeds of course, go to governments which each, 12, $27,000, andthe othes,clerical assistants, lesser amounts. boulders andincessant mountain rubble An inexplicable “drying up’ of the North Wall's surtace has been in progress about 33 years The face sheds violently The horrible fusillades are released by the morning sun fromcollection bins high above group (any number) a “rope andthe key io the prices had somewhat the same WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 — The hootin’-tootin’ “reform” Congress is setting another speed record in addition are twice thes Most of our mutual trading interests with the Soviets are in nontariff areas, Vanik points out. “We can buy all the resources they wantto sell. We can sell them all the technology and materials we want to. The only thing we don't have to facilitate this trading is taxpayer subsidized credit.” orms find. the under snow 20 feet deep ‘Thecountless crevasses aré rea “Trade and detente can move forward witliout this irade bill,” insists Democratic Rep. Charles A. Vanik of Ohio, who along with Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash.) has come in tor much criticism because of their co-authorship of the emigration clause Robert S. Allen The staffs of es on your ice Lightning flashing thunder ring these fer over four years. being turned to productive purposes in the economic streams of the industrialized countries. The Moslem countries are also absorbing Western and Japanese consumer products at a higher rate than expected ‘Theyare buying arms,of course. Anda largepiece of the money is going into the government securities of industrialized countries, easing the financial markets in which governments raise money to keep them going ‘The moneyis thus coming back to those from whomit was taken in the form of new capitol formation for productive purposes. loans to governments and cash deposits, The funds aré being disbursed cautiously and with no real prospects that any periticent part of the economicsystemsef the industrialized countries wil! fal under Arab control There are single instances of significantly jarge Arab or Moslem investments in large corporations such as Pan American, Daimler-Benz and Krupp, but neither the banking systems nor the industrial systems of Western countries are being adverselyaffected The moneytaken away from you and me in the fomofact ating ngpi ructive use, in general economic terms and considering what might otherwise have been the case Certainly there is no comfort to be taken from veeuse of this Aney3 €;. eit insofar as it is used for the purchase of Western consumer goods, technological assistance, and capital general fermation, economic climate the is improved. Consequently, the price raid has not becomie the disaster foreseen and the effects of it will diminish as the Wesiern countries find energyalternaives for Arab oil Panic has therefore subsided According to an analysis in the New York Times: ‘Many economists assert that the worse of the problem may be aver by the late 1970s orthe early 1980s because by then members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) will bespending se muchat home it is a characteristic of U.S. that their capacity for investment abroad will be foreign aid, not often enough severely curtailed That is to say pre is no fonger any rational cause for alarm that OPECcan dominate the world’s banking and industrial systems. Instead according to this survery, theoil consortiumnations have acted like conservative investors anywhere, “pumping much of the $60 billion or so in surplus cash thai they could not spend on imports securities into government and interest-paying bank accounts al] over the world,” and withouttrying to buy control of great corporationslike General Motors or IBM One way to view whal has happened is to consider it an enforced increase in foreign aid recognized, that a great deal of the money is spent in the United States for services and commodities which go abroad OPECbyits price raid has taken the money from us and loaned some of it out to developing countries and the World Bank and a very large part of it is coming back here. Nothing herein is intended te underrate the impact of the OPEC acquisition of control over downward on the White Spider's vast. icy underside. if you bear lef too much. as several ou gradually In these as oukeronpines bar American eul de sacs” challenger, John Harlan, 30, of Kanasa City, four Germans and one Scotsman —all impeniied on the 26th day — your seal Buteevenif you avoid the many joined up on the same “rope.” Harlan was killed on the Direttissima’’ route The other you must still battle up the White Spider’s Exit Cracks to the Summit ice Field five succeeded (United Feature Syndicate) The whole White Spider is the horror of upside-downclimbers, but these Exit Cracks themselves are torrential waterfalls. When they freeze, any retreat is impossible. Teday In History You huge surpluses taken awayfrom die on the mountain the industrialized countries. But at the same timeit is nowseen that the effects were in the As if all this were not enough, the summit temperaure can drop and the constructive useof these excess funds wasnotforeseen increases wtihthe altitude. This is therule in the mountains beginning wildly exaggerated a “Direttissima’’ route — onthe North Wall. This remained unachieved until 1966 ciimb suspended By United Press International Todayis Wednesday, Feb. 19, the 50th day of 1875 with 315 to follow. ‘The moonis in its first quarter. The morning stars are Mercuryand Mars to 40 degrees below zero In the Alpine world thewind’s velocity The evening stars are Jupi- ter, Saturn and Venus. ‘Those born on this date are underthe sign of Pisces American movie star Lee Marvin was born Feb. 19, 1924 Tom Tiede Times to Jade Men’s Souls WASHINGTON — (NEA) — Since the middle of the last decade, when plans for the celebration began, there has been nothing so journalistically dull as the story of America’s Bicentennial commemoration This may be changing, however. There are indications now that Bicentennial preparation may be provoking what could be one of the great debates in US. history—many in the nation are choosing sides to argue who we are. where we came from and where we should gofrom here To date, the dialogue is forming along and in response to political ideologies. Media commentators are increasingly taking shots at a radical commemorative group caliedthe Peoples’ Bicentennial Commission Peoples, formed as the anti-establishmentalternative to the official U.S. Bicentenniai Commission, has ruffled tempers dvocating the celebration of a Revolution with a capitol “R,” andthat means a rededication to the founders’ proposals to bust up aristocratic economic power and trim abusive government a at to size. Some dissenters Nel Pau stichintentions atall Who is right? That's what a country argues it. We have to decide again what we really stand for.” Rifkin and the PBC have already decided. flatly. And despite yelps that their view is too militant, they seemto have gotten closer to “first principles” thananygroupsince those which established first principles. Indeed, PBC’s research is often uncomfortably hardnosed: founders opposed the standing militias (America has 2.2 million men under arms), opposed inherited wealth (Nelson Rockefeller is vice president) and opposed centralized nt 'faderal bureaucrats spend nearly one- fourth of the gross national product} Manis the only animal which devours its own, said Tom Jefferson. and “1 can apply no milder term to the general preyof the rich on the poor. There are mullions who would question these thoughts. A pol! in Miami several ye neupIe “would Declaration of pe first in history to recognize the inalienabie, self-evident right : of man. I see this whole issue coming to a head in America in the next six menifis. I hope every school, church and homein the that gned to In 1945, American Marines landed on Iwo Jima tostart one of the bloodiest battles in the Pacific during World WarI thedeceit and corruptionoftheir leaders. A great debate, he adds, isa good step to reorderingright This does not mean,of course, that standing militias should have to go, though some may think so. Times have changed, and needs also. Taking the foundersentirelyal their speech is seldom wise They merely men, fallible. In 1964. Greek Prince Con stantine was named regentof the country as the condition of his father, King Paul, worsened Three years later Constantine was deposed as militaryregime were and In Jefferson, whowroteof equalit king by people, “and kept slaves. What at McClain of the Detroit Tigers thoroughly 1s that with alleged people decide Paine was right when he wre season. that the course ling. The miepensons wasilled ih mid of America 1s A thoughtfor the day British statesman William Gladstone ly care anymore about the causeat all said, “Selfishness is the great est curse of the human race. Berry's World whenever becomes destructive of these ends. it is the right of the people to aiter or abolish it.” Not just in 1774, but . No doubt few care to contemplate this modern, interdependent prospect in America The PBC, however, has contemplated it and believes government has become destructive of first principle ends, No one overthrow but suggests an certainly a continued revolution Government has allowed wealth and power to concentrate. says a 1970, pitcher Dennis hal governments areinstituted government ‘The second theory, which is reactionary raver.” Not at all. It is the work aJefferson and what he wrote, bypeopleto assure the rights of Peoples’ theory.is thalit was an unprecedented revolution, the of forces, it has 1 trust to € grand debate might settle Says ~ it was merely a transfer ot power fromoneestablishment to another, entrenchment One woman refused by explaining “This is the vork of a Jeremy Rifkin, director of the PBC: “There are two theories about the revolution. One, held by many conservatives, and manyfar left Marxists as well. is thatthe revolution didn't happen On this dayin history In 1922,vaudeville and musical comedy star Ed Wynn became the first big name in show hysiness ta sign for a regular Tadio show. Rifkin, it has encouraged the | | || | P | “That's interesting — you're a Marxist-Leninist andima. Im @ Fordist-Rockefellerist!” ¥ ‘ |