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Show 44, fliT vW fWi 3at abf Salt Take Sribtmc & I Fricluy Morning. July 20. s sn 107!) I'jitf,. 22 lion ,J Leave DOE s House Standi inr. Just Paleh Very Leaky Hoof Kiciistat's memo, tor Wilt'll tilt' tabint't and M'nior Wink1 House stall submitk'd tin i r colli'itiv on masse to President all the ol because generated prominence its high prolile author, is but typical ol the barbs stuck into the hide ol DOE. The agencv delimleh. as Ihe has public relations people sa it Caller the lirst speeuLtfion was that among the resignations the president was certain to accept was that of James 1. Schlesinger, liie secretarx ol energy . "image problems." Its critics notwithstanding, the Department ol Energv was thrust into the uncmiohle place ol taking 1.S.7U0 employees lrom a hnndlul ol separate agencies and blending them into a cohesive and coordinated agencv and doing so while attempting to laslnon and light lor major nation al energy policy legislation. n audit ot DOE done by Coopers and Ly brand stall'd the agencv s basic problem "was the simultaneous ellort to create a department and to seek the enactment of a major and eontrov ersial piece ol substantive legislation, the provisions ol which would govern the locus and direction . Schlesinger has been the target ol a chorus ol criticism tliat began to crescendo irtually lrtun the da lie took over Hie t'.cparl ment in Octtiber ol 1077 The secret ar now lias, to some extent, lost his singular attractiw-nes- s as a target. Instead, public' antipathy is sighted on the Depart ment of Knergx , turning mm selec t x e plinking at the man in charge to broad brushing the lari' er antagonist. The result has been that the Department ol Knergj. an amalgam of a half doen or so independent and federal agencies euphorically assembled by Congress less than two years ago under a single tent with the mandaitc to ellieienth manage and cope xvith America's energy problems, concerns and just-lxir- n I i . semi-independe- crises, has become ol "the Super Itowl were being played lule the referees were arguing about and making up the rules and the plovers were still being selected." When the Department of Energy was created. Congress envisioned it as the most promising means ol bringing coordination, cooperation and cohesiveness to America's ener-g.situation. Simply because that promise has only been partially fulfilled during the ensuing 20 months doesn't convincingly suggest it is time to junk the Department ot Energy. as some people now advocate vv most the departmental activities. "It is as if." the report analogized, maligned agency in Washington. And. also, a great part Hi' the rest ol the nation. The harpoons hurled at DDK ha e come lrom all points ol the political, social and economic compass. The agency has incunvd the wrath ot environmentalists, the energy industry. public interest groups, other bureaucrats and private citizens. It has been accused ol creating the current shortage of gasoline and accompanying gas lines, along with failing to anticipate these shortages and take steps to avoid them. Most noteworthy of the critics has been White House domestic allairs adviser Stuart E. Eienstat. He noted in a memo to the president "the continuing problem ol contlicting signals and numbers" I nun DOE. He also found the department was sutler-in"enormous civdibility and management problems." v The promise and prospects ol months ago remain valid. To make those piomises lact requires some time, during whiih massive amounts of corrective arm twisting must be applied. Prudent people don't tear the house down when the roof starts to leak they patch the roof. The roof at the Depart ment ot Energv is leaking verv badlv. But that is all. 20 g Patrick liunaii Him Jimmy Is Persuasive, However PJ B Kill el prises Inc The President s jildiV" AslHNGI'ON on Sendai night was the sirungest, most atfi cling, pel 'uasiv e oration of tils president v But upon relieetion and t ereailmg, I'm and and will onlv Carter cates rather than supplements the protection they receive as'spouses. Another inequity is making sell employed workers pay aO percent more in taxes than salaried emp loyees whim they receive no greater benefits. Some taxpayers complain that they have to pay into the Old Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund although tliev have no survivors in sight and mav never benelit lrom surv ivor prov Orbiting Paragraph: c A u ll is x it nothing else, plulosophj tcai tiers oft the streets i v keeps egotist we know xas that whenever lie Ot tlie Grand Can.ion, tie makes it (eel insignificant. An looks It is disheartening to ieahe tin between our birth announcement obituary is aland two paragraphs dlilereine unci our Tltc'sc an but a few ul the more blatant discriminations. But to eliminate them would cost the protgram billions of dollars which it can ill allord. About the best that can lie expected. barring a complete restructuring ol Social Security, is that Hie most .glaring inequalities will be addressed piec emeal. That is already U'itn; done, partly through administrative initiative and partly as the result ol legal action brought against the Social Security Administration. program so immense and Any . complex is going to slight some of its millions ol participants. The dial lodge is to make Social Security as equitable as possible while preserving the greater good of finani ial stability. It makes no dillereitee Imw lair an income program might be. it is no good ll the checks bounce ( I av id I le-- visional president. I . 'nr The adv milage of being a weather lot i i ustei is volt have .'in oppoi tiiiutv to n deem v mu it e cry 21 hours . Francisco IrcHjo Maii.mos. first announced that he intended to serve out the term of the departed Gen Anastasio Somou Debuv le. which ends ill Mav I'M. overcome, the With such intransigence administration then will move along to its next the durabihti of a provisional major concern government which, though broadly based, was selected by the Saiuhm.xt guerrillas and includes a Sandinisp leader as minister .of the Ulterior I lie larger concern, vv Im ti administration mficl.ds do not express publicly, is tb.it once 'lie S.mdmists are solidlv established, tliej will Km Jit K i.tdi r New spapei s pi "dill el S et Cl .11 king now Reaper to Mine Liquid Ihe hu'li pincess for extrailiilg ml r..m ll lie. a dense sediment. IIV I'm k, lias been know n sun e SO Bill It has uluavs been ( I ' lit i Iiv lai-in- I I ' ohec'tu e together with tile Dominican Republic and Guatemala in a three-natiomediation effort tli.d lasted from fief n. 197S. to hist .Ian n IS. In tile final phase. Ambassador William G Rowdier and Ills Dominican and Guatemalan colleagues tried to persuade Gen Soinoa to submit his political fate to tin internatnmallv administered plebiscite. He refused oil the ground that this would constitute uiiuccoptabli interference in Nicaraguas internal affairs Some State Department officials believe Rowdier might have achieved a peaceful solution at that time had he been authorized to tell Somoa direetlj that the United States tell his departure from office and the country was the imperative first step Some officials also believe tile White House was teluctanl to offer Somoas friends in Congress, purticulurlj Rep .lolm M Moipltv D N V . whose support was ciuil.il for llmi't 111 Washingtons diplomatic' effort, since Sep lemtier thus has had the dual ohlcctlic of in g to persuade Somoa to get iit and trying to insure Hi.it a successor regime would lie In o,i. v based with moderates mitiHimbel mg xt eii ust s w it Ii the Sand mists mg a 'hare r but not the donmiaiit mil ,1.1,11-v 11 h.-.- i i With the blessings hut n. tin illicit im a iv i in. nt ol the ( trgam.it ion ol Ann lean s1 'hi I ni'ed States j.lU'sf'cd 11. a' dual I .. and i aster to ' mine liipu.i pel uI.ki hi (hilling holes into the enniiul pumping Hu clinic lrom tile wells and sending it tl.imi.li pipelines to let merles Now with the wm Id ..b i artel i lh 20 or more a hail el. the pi lit of ml to become cmnpcti pi inliii Hull o shale mi lia live particularlv with Carter's promise ot a s.i pi r h. ii re subside to domestic producers Kveti so. except for a few pilot protects m the West the energv companies together with the government - would have to build a shale-oi- l mdust rj virtuallv from svratch F,Knsive Facilitv line new Ml iion barrel a da taehitv. the government estima'cs. would cost at least '1 billion Fullsc.de shale milling also would ivqutie emisti in mu ol water impoundment protects, pollution mntiol s stents and vvlmli new towns m the .uni Westiin wddcniiss whole most ot the sli.de exists Fveti a clash program Kiiergv Department expert' agl'ei eoiilil take ,l Ii ast tll.e eai s and probahlv Ion 'er in get ntt the 'imiiul i President l atter i aut loind Anieinans not to expci t .iu over mglit lunacies from Ins plan to develop in w sources of eni'I'Li lrom shale, coal and tight rock deposits ol natural gas It is a w, lining that consumers should need At least seven or eight veals probably will elapse before enough ml is wrung from sh.de to have much impact on domestic supplies And ll will take even longer perhaps 10 jears before much liquified coal comes on the market Gas from coal might he possible m a shot ter period, jierhaps in live or six jears Natural gas now linked tti Ihe so culled 'tight sands" of the Rocky Mountains and the dense Devonian shales oi Hie Midwest and 1. j ic h i.i i unlit start to mine on line in significant quantities lit the nnd 1'isns it Asi I ING'I ( IN iCopv right aside the provisional government and an autliui Hunan Marxist regime Administration swi lulists concluded last tail it Sou in a w as the higgi st ol ist aele to end in the war and licginnmg a peaceful evolution to i inline s,.f di let min.it mu and demoeratu rale tcluc Some olticlals ai eepted this t .nit lx Flu x knew that Soinoa bad point fu' Im nds in Congress Thej also knew there mid be no guarantee that Marxist elements in me SiUiihmst movement, backed bv Cuba, i mild not emerge mi tot. m a suceessoi :ov eminent licv were aw. inin sum. tli.it removal ol Somoa m i gilt generate a violet political swing Hum one pole to tile other, a develop would spark a divisive ii it that nievitablj debate in tile United States around the qin stmn Who lost Nicaragua to einmunisiiT' New Energy Sources Will Take Time W fu-s- h b ii. I, ill M ii set impoit quotas' will 'make the im g massive peacetime commit ment of lauds and n sources in our iiistorv to dev i lop America ' own alternative snuriesof fuel." will create an ' Lncrgv Seem its Corporation" and Till' t solar hank" will create an nation's ' Ixiuid" to cut through red niohihation energv tape wrapped around private projects h agencies whose ehairM,i sons weie appointed iiv Jimim C.ii'ter, w dl euat t a "windfall prufits lax" so that Washington, not Houston, will reap the rewards of rising pin es What the president failed to reiogme. or to ( oileede. 1' that Hie nation's crisis of coniideilee is not in itself, but m him And tor all Ills rhetoric about the "moral equivalent of war." easing an energv crunch is not the same t hill-- , as er.idu ntmg tile the Thud Rea h Malta III I lovev - X looked like We told the brides latlu ' million inn ks and he 'aid it w a, i sl.SM (2. not counting the tip lot the m oust pi the To Tillies Sen ice Ablll.NGTON United States poilej on Nicaragua is entering ail uncertain period that Administration officials concede1 could be hazardous both for Central America and tor President Carter on the home front One hazard mimcihuteli appeared, and it 'hocked tile .Administration Nicaraguas pro- ti t helot e iiiioihk i lrom New York I I second theme ileil W . Hie i U.S. Anxiously Sweats Oul Nicaragua Polilieal Deal , K a i Bather than fall back upon our "most skilled work force and innov ative genius." Mr Cartel in the end fell hack upon the verv government he had derided Dreanlj. he called the roll Government wild I Social Security discrimination has been recognized for years. And. with lew exceptions, it has been condoned and tolerated in spite ot the admitted injustice. A iHivverlul counterion e to relorm is cost. Since Social Security's Imancial picture is none too rosy, attempts to eliminate inequities pose the danger of upsetting the delicate balanie ol receipts and pa.vouts It is patently unfair, lor example, to make married women workers pay Social Security taxes for benefits which non working married women can get lree. Because married women cannot receive Imth shuso and worker benefits, the protection they receive as workers olten dupli t But who occupies that 'island'' Who has headed that government lor UP mouths' What political partj controls the legislativ e level s ol power in a government "isolated lrom the mainstream ot our nation's life'" stared into the lamera and quietly repeated the comment of a Southern Mr. Presigoveruoi, dent. you're not leading the nation You're just lie had managing the government.' country m his grasp tie promptly turned it loose with predictable Kafshoonery , quoting, seriatim, a "young Chieano." a ''religious leader." a black woman who happens to lie major ot a small town in Mississippi." Lost His Audience Having lost Ins audieiuo. lie recaptured i! with a passage wortliv of Teddy Roosevelt ' "Bullj Pulpit." touching upon the spiritual crisis of the Lonelj Crowd. "In a nation that was proud of hard work communities and strong families, close-kni- t our laitli ill God. many ol Us now lend to worship sell indulgence and consumption Human identity is no longer defined In what one does but by what one owns "Hut we have discovered thal owning things and consuming things does not satistv our longing for meaning We have learned that goods cannot till the piling up material emptiness ol lives whiih have no confidctuc and purpose " Descending From Pulpit Here. V. r. Carters scalpel was prolong ( losi to the "malaise of the Aftluciit Society which has nothing to do with dollar-- a gallon gas Descending from the pulpit, the president swung into a second speech, evoking anew the themes of his finest hour, the prunurv t ampaign ol '7t "I he sj nipt outs of ibis irisis ol the Aim ' lean i' suggested the Kemiedi brothers and Dr King, r.lu A'letnum War. Watergate "I hose wounds ate 'till verv deep." Ik said Hlej have llcv i been healed But the most ret eiil tin disappearance of the Ntxo.l piesideiuv 111 the Imre of Waltl'.ae in cm red five summers ago How can sue h events explain vcliv President Caller, wil coined into ot fn c with To pi t cent appn.ia. after the In alma veal ot Hie Bn entemilal to a lov.cl level of public (dull ilrine til. in Xixoii in the i hmax ol ills personal ' ( risis t PI .i s the I ause hi Hrmiing tile sl.im , ,( into tile ( on .1 lie president opKirtunistu allv followed the di IllUJoelc line ot the Fleilsl.it Vemorainlmn OPl'.C. lie declared is "the direct cause ol the long lines which have made millions ol von spend aggravating hours waiting for gas It is the talise of the increased nitlatioil and uiiemplov ment we now face Hut the ahov e Is misleading w hell not uni l'ite allocution program of the I icpartim nt ol l'tiei .;v and loiiltois on 'asolme pities created the lines lure that do 'lot exist in i ltd pool l.uiopc And inflation lose li on, t ( cut III ill mouths because ot ellt to 11 si al .aid iiionetatv pnlnics pursued duim1 i . interrupt the crisis of confidence ill the Carter presidency .tinimv di Washington. DC has hcinilii ail t'kind jap tietween our utizens and our govern our people nun! lias never been 'u wide have turned to a federal government and found it isolated from till mainstream of our nation's hie " uncon-wnein- When - lln is it all around us.' spirit are - tone lung on the assassinations Unfair Bui Solvent Linking - W . . . i ti more formula liquefaction poxes technological problems Lacli plant would have to tailor its ext ruction process to tlie kind m i mil it liquefied W ajs would also have to 1h to dispose ol tlie maiij other perleitcd inuii ials, some harmful, thal would Ik east oil as bv products m the hquetaiilum process mil ( bio lln has promised president the cnergj iinluxtrv that the government will help finance the se technologies Ihromii loans and grants if ti1 and assured rnai kets cmnpanii s agree to lorge ahead But several companies Is.ive noted that the ami fill, met. 4 harriers are milj oli.tai les til,! Will have to he tec Imologieal two ol tin1 ov eli mne IMllel ohst. ll les nit lllile Din el tolls env ll on mental concerns that haw been raised alunil the ail and walei potlutloi) ellei Is of extensive mining in ilrv Western i lunate and the Imildm.1 ol toads and pipelines Ihtotigh iiiiuilhcil tlilel ness ,U e.ls vv i 'opv n, hi i i "Sumoa thanks jou for jour suggestions, jour majesty, but sajs its loo late for him, too." passage of legislation toiarrj out tne Ban. mu Canal treatv The Culled States never called puhl.i Iv lor Somoa s nqilat'ement until the S.mdimsts ol'cned a new large scale oflensive Mac 2' and tlieu appointed five members of a provisional limta lor a Govermnint ol National Heioti stl ui lion" oil June 17 i'vcli then, when Secret. uv ol State Cvrus it V.itue addressed an ettletgenej meeting of the t trgamation ot American St tiles, w Inch lie bail requested on June 21. he did not mention Somoa lu name, referimg onlv to Hu necexxitv for replacing "the picxcnt govern ment" and making "a clear break with the past " Ncuibv governments, cspeciullv democrat a ATiieuela and its Amlctin Common Market partners - Bolivia. Colombia Kciiador and Bern shared W asImigtoiTs aim of heading ot. "another Cuba" ill Central America So m private did Mexico and Costa Rica The administration believes the presence in Managua of foreign ministers or high ranking officials froi.l till of these countries during Hie first phase of the new government will lie mi influence for moderation It also believes th u the vast majority of Sundmists and the leader ot the biggest of their three factions arc not Marxists and. although grateful for Cuh.ui help, do not want a Castro stvle government in Nicaragua Administration scpciali Ms believe m short that there is a bailee for a democratic outi iiuic ui Nicaragua ami a emit nhulion l.v tliat eountrv to sl.iinhtv in Central America mfliutuc. bmijit despite strong Sandinist with their blood ' as ,ni oHictal put it. ,un a government that will call ltscll sm mlist .uul mnialigiicil ( "p mill |