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Show y ' T1 1 v I . Jaiuo Hilton ' l i , 'r V - it , i, JK: tf . i f ,v t t f 9 j hr Salt Lake I rihunr. MinL$ Nev. 01 k Times S ue ited States Tovarisch Brezhnev : My mission to Washington as art critic at the opening of the Hermitage collection at the National Gallery here has given me a convenient cover, but has also ( on finned my anxiety about agreeing to a second SALT Jreaty with these very amiable but strange Americans : The USSR, they say, would have to reduce its forces while the Americans could increase theirs The Americans will, under the treaty, have many highly accurate cruise missiles dunng the life of the treaty, and we will have few or none at all Heres How They See It Soviet submarines, they say, are uf lower quality and Soviet access to the high seas is muih more limited than America's. And the Americans have forward bases for their missile submarine's in Europe while we have none They also mint out that they have over 300 r planes, many more than we have, and that we have to worry about four heavy-bombe- have documentary evidence that officials here believe this treaty will !e favorable to the United States and detrimental to the USSK Before it is too late, I urge you to consider hut they think the treaty would do I v M .1 I fv v Vr the U S , China, possible nuclear enemies whereas we are Britain, and France Washingtons sole nuc lear opponent They make, finally, another critical ixunt. nearly three quarters of our warheads are in ballis vulnerable land based tic missiles, while the United States has nearly of its offensive weapons in bombers and submarines that are harder to detect Not to mention that Washington has many hiuidrods of nuclear-capabl- e fighter bombers deployed close to our Soviet tiordi i and military installations three-quarter- ni these capitalists, where would we be a we louldn't cheat' I have mil a ed heie in Washington, however, certain i b.o u tens! u s m American pohlnul life and American life in general that should give us some hope They an mindlessly and selfi-even reekle-sThey cannot control their pi ices or then v .iges or their inflation lemming s h Negotiated First Pact 1 reler you, Tovarisch, to a report icopy attached' which was made by Ambassador Gerard Smith of the United States in New Orleans in the state of Louisiana on 2il April of this year You will remember that he was the principal U S official who negotiated the first SALT agreement Ambassador Smith makes another (Hunt feel we should never forget He notes that, if we sign this treats with Washington, we would not he free to interfere with U S electronic detection systems That is to say, with a treaty they would know what we were doing, but w it limit a treaty we would he free to do what we liked As is well known, Tovarisch. we always keep oar word, hut on the other hand, given the How They Are Failing They insist oil rely me on fifty percent of their oil from the Middle East They have lost their base in Iran, and are losing their influence m Saudi Arabia, while we are gaining all across the Middle East from Syria to Afghanistan and Pakistan, and are now finally beginning to talk to Uhm.i Why should we sign with 1 i now 0 I,ook at Washington. President Garter eon not even control his own partv the Gongress Whatever he pnqvoses, his own Democrats in the Gongress oppose. They are a very peculiar Since 19t.O, they have killed one xsiple president, driven anoth. r to resign, run a thud 111 j 'j:i J, l , Does Russia Really Benefit From a SALT Treaty v WASHINGTON To President Loom J Brezhnev of the Soviet Union from mythical agent, Pavel Nitekoff. Subject: the dangers of signing a strategic arms agreement with the Un- , r r Hardly! out of ofiue ottoi Vietnam and Watergate, rejected President Ford, and are now blaming Garter for everything' from inflation at home to the revolution of Islam in the Middle East. One final point Tov ansch You should not be deceived by all ttu opposition heie to the SALT 11 treaty. Some of it is honest, but most of it is polities, Washington is at the beginning of a presidential elect ion, in which 1 must explain to y mi, they have the odd idea here that the people should decide. In the process, most politicians and presidential candidates are holding back aUmt the SALT treaty, hut in the emi they will finally sign it Ttie mood of this country at the moment is ,mt Sov let. hut the Senate w ill vote for SALT 11 hv a very narrow margin and without conviction on the final tally and without any U ust in the Sov let Union 1. Pavel Nit zekoff. think you should be verv ireful For sixty years we have done very well by opposing the United States How could we do In Her by agreeing w it h Washington now" c iGopv right Iiilrick J. Biirli.uuii Soviet Arms Might Leaves U.S. in Second Position PJH Enterprises. Inc WASHINGTON As the Soviet limm -confronted by an American superiority of 8 to 111 missiles and bombers began disas- 1 sembling their Cuban bases in 12, Deputy Foreign Minister Kuznetsov left this warning: Never will we he caught like this again. Two years later, the adventurer who had brought on the Soviet humiliation was swept fiom lower. He was replaced by Leonid Brezhnev who at once launched the Soviets on the greatest arms buildup in the history of mankind. rule, now Halfway through his ending, Brezhnev signed the SALT I agreements with Richard Nixon in Moscow they ushered in the era of detente. To reassure his nervous Communist allies, fearful of peareful competition with a more productive West. Brezhnev reportedly told them in secret . .come 1985 we will be able to Prague: exert our will wherever we need to. The year 1985 is, coincidentally, the year of expiration of 111 . SALT II. How the Soviets might make good upon Brezhnevs boast is more clear in 1979 than it was in 1972. Since we toasted that "generation of peace," the Russians have spawned a new family of strategic missiles. They include the monster SS-1which can carry 10 huge warheads, the which can carry six, and the light heavy SS-1- 7 which can carry four. The most advanced S SS-1- 9 Senator Soaper Texaco reports an SI percent profit jump in he first quarter. W'e really have to hand those oil it to companies. Ask a jogger how many miles he runs daily and he will stretch the truth farther than any lishorimm ever dared Natural-hor- n less Against NATO and the Sixth and Seventh Fleets, the Soviets have recently deployed a new supersonic Immber, the "Backfire, and a ballistic missiles, force of mobile, the Notiiing comparable to these systems exists in Western arsenals Since 1964, the number of combatant ships based at Vladivostok and and submarines has Murmansk, on the Baltic and Black seas risen to twice the number of warships in the American fleets. The number of young Russians under arms has risen to almost 5 million men. The Soviets have twice as many heavy mortars and armored personnel carriers as the United States, four times the artillery pieces, five times the tanks. The number of Russian tanks is approaching 50,000. To guard the homeland against an aging fleet - only half as large and dwindling three times as old as the one with which we the Soviets confronted Khrushchev in 1902 6 000 radars have 2,000 12.no0 surface-to-ai- r missiles. The-- Ur.it d States dismantled its missile defense and has virtually eliminated its air defense. There is no argument about these numbers. There is no argument that the East bloc's conventional forces are vastly superior to the West's. There is no longer an argument that, by the early '80s, the Russians will acquire the capability to destroy the American land-base- d missile force in its silos. We can present no comparable threat to the Soviet Union. Rattling His Roc kets his rockets, Carter has bragged of Rattling how a single American submarine could destroy 160 Soviet cities. But the claim is worse than exaggerated. Given the Soviet superiority in missile size, number and destructive pow . : , any president who fired a nuclear weaion at a Russian city would lx committing national suicide. So, the question insists: For what purpose this awesome Soviet arsenal? As the Russians are neither fools nor paranoids, there seems to be one logical explanation for their pouring their nations lifeblood into a weapons stockpile in excess of anything needed for deterrence or defense. That is to use this arsenal to realize the imperial ambitions of the burgeoning Russian empire. Given U.S. superiority in technology, Ameti-e- a could, by the heroic exertions of a decade, develop defense weapons which could, conceivably , neutralize the .Soviet strategic force. And. therein, lies the rub. Outstrip Germany Just as Hitler knew that, if the allies recovered their vision and will, they would outstrip Germany in arms production, so the Soviets know that if the Americans awaken from the illusion of detente, and exert as they did in World War II themselves Soviet superiority could be reduced to parity in time, and, eventually, inferiority. I jke Hitler, the Russians are unlikely to wait until the Americans have restored the status quo previous to 1972, let alone 1962. So. it would seem that at the first sign of a when quickening of U.S. resolutions and will the Soviets Russian superiority is at its peak will move to translate military advantage into to become the new political hegemony land-base- a leaders can only lmd them- t destruct-v- d SS-2- 0 C'xvV-- ' 2 fighter-interceptor- Rejection of SALT II w ill be such a signal to the Soviets that the gullible Americans have caught on to the game of detente. That rejection will lie for the West the beginning of the most H'rilous period of the Cold War. selves out front CCopynght Here are the briefs of The Salt Lake Tribune from 100, 50 and 25 years ago. May 13, 1879 Gallagher, PresUtah to amuse an from east come has byterian, interest in the mission stations there. He preached at Spring Street Church yesterday vigorously denouncing Mormonism. He says the principal difficulty in convicting polygamists under the recent decision is proof of there want the marraige. The common law rule of evidence to prevail, which holds that parties living together are acknowledging themselves husband and wife. NEW YORK Rev. May 13, 1929 Due to "market NEW HAVEN. Conn psychology, which is the name for imponderable factors that are not subject to statistical "Hoover stock marreckonings, the ket" has risen above the forecast calculated by the Karsteh Statistical Laboratories of Now lljxen, Conn, by from 12 percent in the election month of last November, to 25 in March, 1929. Judged by the record of similar departures during booms and depressions for the entire the forecast indicates that the period Hoover boom in the stock market has about reached its climax. en-cii- Tribune Readers Opinions tr.itors are also legislative officers competing Time to Vote for budgets, personnel, planning etc. Who can veto the legislative decisions of five department heads? Not the same five who Nearly ail the people we hav e talked to about the upcoming ballot for a mayor-councgovernment for Salt Lake City agree that the thfiige would be a good thing. Sait Lake City is now one of the very few remaining cities of its size to hold to the archaic commission government, a form that has proven unwieldy and easily vulnerable to conflicts of interest, internal rivalries and, as we have so recently seen here, outright corruption. The proposed sy stem would provide separation of powers and better representation for all the areas of the city. No longer euuld ail the city managers reside in the same neighiiorhood, let alone on the same street. Now if every one ev ery citizen of Sait Lake will turn out to vote, City who possibly can the city can acquire an efficient, fair and representative government. But if people stay home, or just dont bother to take the few nunutes required to get to their polling places, the election will be lost by default. And Salt Lake City will continue to limp along with its toward who knows same old commission " to come in the what new sort of fulure" PATRICIA BRIM Utah Common Cause il make them. My experience in government convinces me that seven elected by the people to establish operating policy and to audit the administration of city affairs, would assure improvements over present operations and offer the best hope for effective, responsive and economical city government. LEWIS H LLOYD Chairman Citizens for Effective Government Many Reasons In the Public Forum April 16 John Seyboli, 1h D., stated the reason for a shortage of nurses was bad nurse management. As a working nurse I strongly disagree Many factors contribute to the nurse shortage such as: not enough nursing schools, many women leave to raise families, many move to city-gate- Forum Rule A Growing Awareness I commend to my fellow citizens the merits of the mayor-councplan as a form of government for Salt Lake City. As a student of local government for nearly half a century, I have country-wid- e noted the growing awareness of the need for (1) an elective governing and generbody, responsible for and (2) an al oversight of administration, elected executive with overall responsibility for executive leadership and for administrail policy-makin- g tion awareness has brought about widespread abandonment of the commission form of municipal government. All this has Ixim articulated in current public discussion in this community. A particular point to be stressed here is that the commission form places a commissioner in an ambivalent position in that he or she is committed to a particular area of administration at the same time that meiniser-slnon the commission demands broad perspective of community problems and needs. That is a fatal flaw in the commission plan JEFFERSON B. FOKDH M This Must 1913-192- May 13, 1951 University of Utahs proposed Union Building was bid in at a presumably acceptable price Wednesday at the State Building Boards's second attempt to come within the million av ailable for constniction. Jensen Construction Co., Salt Lake City, wax low with $1,777,640 on the altered specifications, which would eliminate a bay in the south wing and some ornamental features. While the entire offer must be approved by the university board of regents, apparently the new price will permit restoration of the bay and some of the tile work originally contemplated. $1.8 - The Public Forum p The Way It Was W f'r' s, Rome. man looking young is keepin:. his weight down, his hair on and not wearing argyle socks with his eutofls The secret to arries tlllee Minutein.m bombs ' w le Separated My experience in state government, working ith divided responsibilities for administrative decision making, convinces me that Salt Lake City would benefit greatly by establishing a single, undivided administrative arrangement for municipal operations. My experience in government has taught a fundamental lesson of separation of powers. Policy-makinshould be separated from should lie administration. Policy-makin- g and citizen dictated, while administration should lie efficient, economical and removed from special favoritism. Sait Lake C.tys present five and quasi administrative departments cannot achieve a separation of powers with a department head both determining policy and administering it. Unity in administration is impossible when five independent admmis g citizen-oriente- d quasi-legislativ- e Public Forum letters must be submitted exclusively to The Tribune and bear writer's full name, signature and address. Names must be printed on political letters but may be withheld for good reasons on others. Writers are limited to one letter every 10 days. Preference will be given to short, typewritten (double spaced) letters permitting use of the writers true name. All letters are subject to condensation. Mail to the Public Forum, The Salt Lake Tribune, Box 867, Salt Lake C'itv, Utah, Ml 10. other localities, some leave to find more convenient working hours, still others leave to take jobs with higher salaries, and others nu quit because of the emotional drain of being a nurse. To blame the entire nurse shortage on "had management" is like saying only old jH'opIe get sick. Until Dr. Seybolt becomes a nurse and has mi and cap to prove it he should take care of the University management problems and let the nursing professionals decide the reasons for the nurse shortage The nursing profession needs public support not criticism JULIETTE JUDD Sandy Some Clarification After attending one of the district meetings on local government, at which questions from members of the audience were solicited but comments on the presentations not invited, 1 felt frustrated because there was some obvious clarification that could have been made. I am taking this means, therefore, to make those comments. Opponent to the imposed mayor council iorm of government stressed that council members would set their own salaries. It-tremember, please, that fairly recently our present commissioners voted themselves a raise in pay. Much was made hv those favoring the present commission form that commissioners are and have frequent meetings, anil that the number of council meetings suggested and part time service would be insufficient to conduct ritv business No one pointed out that full-tim- e the duties of council members would he legislative in character and not executive; under the proposed plan the mayor would perforin administrative duties on a basis w ith much more efficient coordination of the various departments of government than under the present commission form and its dispersed administration of each department. Gomment was made that certain cities under form have had problems of the mayor-counccorruption because of the power of the mayor; illustrations were Detroit, Oakland. It should have been pointed out that these cities are much larger than ours and very different in hardly a valid compopulation character is as good or of form government Any parison. hud as its elected andor appointed officials. Under the proposed form we, the citizens, will have a much better method of choosing from our respective districts the persons we think nil! best serve our city RUTH S. FROST full-tim- e il Travels Too Much For some time now, President Carter has been telling the American public that they must reduce consumption of fuel, and now has a rationing plan ready for implementation. This may be true and necessary, however the president has just completed a trip across the country and back, resulting in the consumption of thousands of gallons of jet fuel and gasoline The purpose of this trip was strictly political and can in no way be construed as necessary to the countrys health or welfare. In addition, it. seems that every week end he and hix family journey to Plains, Gamp David or other "retreat." while we are told to stay at home s i Tins firings to nnml the old saying lml its I do ' Do as I f , WESLEY ORLOP, Murray Allows layering Having read the written proposal for council-mayo- r form of government 1 have to wonder who came up with this particular proposition and more importantly, why? It proscribes' many important sounding duties and respon-- ' xibilities to council members, such as, pass ordinances, appropriate funds ami review municipal administration. All this would bo done on a part time basis by members who may or may not have any understanding of city government and who will not be required to, meet more than twice a month. Would we not he expecting the imossihle from only two meetings a month and the likelihood of a lack of necessary legislative experience? Could the is mm il tiecomo a rubber stamp? The council mayor form does not necessarily eliminate layers of government but it does, leave the door open for the creation of new layers, and there is no mention made of salaries or the methods of determining .salaries The key to good city government is the men of principle, quality of men we elect men integrity , honesty and common sense who are willing to work and produce. It is not one form versus another. However, the council-mayoform will in truth take government farther away from the people and will become much less responsive. WN1 F. MCDERMOTT r i i |
