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Show gait akf f ribanr Qt)c Monday Morning, December 17, 1979 Vclion Fage 10 Victory in Sagebrush Rebellion Could Cost Utah $63 Million programs and watershed management and rehabilitation. What does this mean in terms of now of not if the all adults, Utahns, potential expenditures by the state?, know the federal government owns the forester asked. If we were to about 68 percent of this state. Promoassume that the state of Utah would ters of the sagebrush rebellion want continue to manage acquired national those lands turned over to the state; forest at about the same level of the idea being that over regulation intensity as the Forest Service, the by federal bureaucrats would be cost would be in the neighborhood of ended. $29 million, Mr. Hamre stated. result of the publicity generated by the sagebrush rebellion is that most One possible so-call- By some twisted logic those advo- cates believe state bureaucrats would be more responsive, or less rigid, than federal bureaucrats. That is not necessarily so. Experience has demonstrated repeatedly that state officials can hide behind the rule book just as tenaciously as any of their federal counterparts. In a talk before the Ogden Kiwanis Club, Vem Hamre, regional forester for the U.S. Forest Service, offered some sound advice to those who might consider supporting the sagebrush rebellion. He said, The public lands questions raised by the sagebrush rebellion will not be resolved over night. It is a complex issue and the pros and cons neeed to be studied very carefully. One set of pros and cons that Mr. Hamre dealt with was the amount of funding Utahns would have to genermillion acres of ate if the national forest land in Utah were to be managed by state bureaucrats instead of federal bureaucrats. Mr. Hamre explained that, Here in Utah we spent over $29 million last year to manage some 8 million acres of national forest. He then detailed where some of that money was spent, such as, The lions share. . .nearly $7 million went for the construction and maintenance of forest roads and trails. . .Over $5 million were expended for administration of developed and dispersed recreations areas. . .with more than 12.5 million recreation visitor days use in the past year. Other expenditures included fire prevention and presuppression work,-rangadiministration and improvements, timber management, wildlife Revenues from He continued, these same lands would range from $2.5 to $3.5 million under current conditions. This would leave a deficit of approximately $25 to $26 million to be assumed by the taxpayers of Utah. Then he reminded his audience that Utah also receives, because of the presence of the national forests, a considerable amount of revenue in the form of direct payments as mandated by several federal laws. This revenue would be lost if the sagebrush rebellion succeeds. When all this is balanced out it would leave, Mr. Hamre finds, approximately $30 million (annually) to be made up by the state of Utah if it were to acquire national forest lands. He calls this, and rightly so, a significant burden to the taxpayers of Utah. But it is not quite half the burden due to be shouldered by Utahns, through locally generated taxes alone, if the states were to acquire ownership of federal lands within their boundaries. To the $30 million dropped on their shoulders by loss of Forest Service revenues and expenditures, there is (he nearly $33.1 million the state, and local governments, receive from, or is spent by the Bureau of Land Management in its administration of some 23 million acres of national resource land under its jurisdiction. When the two figures are totalled Mr. Hamres significant burden" become a staggering load of some $63 million additional tax dollars to be raised by Utahns, without the help of about 220 million other Americans from Maine to California. . Sight for Sore Eyes Arizona, which for years promoted its clean, desert air and all around beauty, finds itself in the odd position of advertising a thick and unhealthy smog invasion. pall hangs over Phoenix. One would think the locals might keep quiet about the dirty stuff and maybe most of them would like to. But not the Arizona Lung Association. A Because of the states longstanding reputation for good air. thousands of Americans with respiratory ailments moved there. They are the ones suffering the most from biting smog. The lung association wants to w am others against coming, coming. William F. Arizona, not used to scaring people take a tip from Oregon. That state, with a soggy climate in the more desirable western portion, is not worried about in influx of asthma suffers. Oregons anxious goal is more xenophobic keep everybody d out except tourists who promise to go home. Phoenix is one of the nations fastest-growinmetropolitan areas. of boosterism a tradition Reversing with even the help of be wont easy for But smog. starters, lets have a full color photo of Camelback Mountain looming out of a sea of grimy particulates and pollen as the centerfold in next months Arizona Highways magazine off, could well-heele- g eye-burnin- g David S. Broder Iran Crisis Helps Carter in Opinion Polls ment to release the hostages. They may feel that time is on their side, while we must know that each passing day makes the hostages situation worse. There is no certainty how long this course of action will be able to contain the growing frustration in the American public, whose nerves are being rubbed raw by constant repetition of provocative and disturbing television scenes of the smug jailers and the tense captives in what was once the American embassy in Tehran. There is a point at which a policy of patience will verge into a failure of will, and self- - The Washington Post There are relatively few matters on which John B. Connally and Edward M. Kennedy agree. But in the space of a few hours, one day last week, they uttered strikingly similar interpretations of President Carters sudden surge in the public opinion polls. In almost identical words, the two men said that the plaudits the president is receiving for his handling of the WASHINGTON Tehran could easily turn to brickbats, once that crisis is resolved. As is his habit, Connally used language that was blunter than need be, calling Carters improvement in the polls an aberration. It is not aberrational. In fact, as both Kennedy and Connally noted in their comments to groups of reporters and editors, international crises particularly those threatening the loss of American life almost always call forth at the outset a feeling of patriotism and a sense of national unity that causes people to rally around the president. Burge of Sentiment Every professional analyst of public opinion has made the point that it is that surge of as much as spontaneous patriotic sentiment Carters own coolness in crisis that has lifted him from the depths of public disapproval in which he has been floundering for months. What both Connally and Kennedy said was that once the hostage situation is resolved, rates and the woes of inflation, the economy will once again be uppermost in peoples minds, and, as Connally put it. "Carters polls may fall as fast as theyve risen." m There is an obvious element of those predictions, because both men are seeking the job Jimmy Carter holds. But the fact that they have their own motives for discounting Carters remarkable resurgence does not, by itself, prove their skepticism is Press Inordinately Fascinated With Kennedy in Blah Land The Washington Post Journalists are forever discovering new "truths" about Sen. Edward WASHINGTON M. Kennedy. A year ago, the reigning discovery was that Kennedy perhaps because of the tragedies associated with his family, perhaps because his heart was no longer in was not inpolitics terested in running for the presidency. Several months ago, when he was tantalizing us with the question of whether he would or wouldnt seek the Democratic nomination, the journalistic truth was that the nomination, and quite possibly the presidency, was his for the asking. Now that he is an active candidate, the prevailing truth is that his campaign is in serious trouble. The real truth, 1 suspect, is that the press is inordinately fascinated with Kennedy and, for that reason, strains too hard to read significance in everything the senator says and the w ay he says it, in every fluctuation in the polls, in ev ery blip on the political radar screen. Endless Speculation MANY followers of newspaper and television reports concluded, for a time, that the press was enamored of Kennedy, that it wanted him to be president. Thus, the endless pieces speculating as to whether he would run or not were seen as essentially unfair to President Carter. The press, it was assumed, was showing its bias. But that was before he decided to run. Since his declaration, it has become clear that the media fascination with Kennedy has nothing to do with any desire to see him in the White st self-intere- To the contrary, there are valid reasons for thinking that time may prove them right Worsen Problems The upheaval taking place in Iran of which does worsen the the hostage situation is part economic problems facing this country and the rest of the industrial world. Oil prices are going up again, and oil supplies can more easily be disrupted. That means more inflation and a greater risk of recession, and those are the forces which were dragging down Carter in the polls. On the issue of his personal leadership, where he has also been vulnerable, Iran has so far worked to Carters advantage. Thus far, he has persuaded the public that the most prudent course is to blend a demonstration of American restraint with orchestrated International pressure for release of the hostages. But it must be observed that thus far this policy has nut achieved its objective. From the viewpoint of the captors, who are employing the 50 Americans to gain leverage on the American government, the American news media and perhaps even on American opinion of past C S policy toward Iran, it is not clear that our patience provides them much induce- - House. Well, just what is the sourve of the fascination 1 really don't know. Part of it. no doubt, has to do with the fact that he is a Kennedy, the last surviving brotlier of a president and of a man who probably would have been president. This is the "Canivlot" Universal Press Syndicate observations: ofessor Arthur Schlesinger has r world by , Kennedy's on the shah an s sur-h- e find-aato- states-p- . j ,V r (IBs previous to Senator y was to the ef-i- t the experience ppaquiddick had d him, much as at xperience had ello brought to Franklin Roosevelt.) The ig is that it is intrinsic to the art of cy that you try to put yourself in the or opponent. neans, in the current situation, that we ow some sympathy for the v lews oi the in general, on i, and indeed of Iranians i. By so doing, Schlesinger reasons, we the two questions- a the hostages and ise r syndrome, which has Americans yearning for a return of the good old days of JFK. But, then, how explain the support for the man among Americans who are too young to have much memory of JFK? Part of the fascination may be a morbid fascination with the familys tragic history. Lewis H. Lapham, editor of Harper's magazine, thinks that Ted Kennedys candidacy permits us "to enjoy the guilty pleasure of guessing at his chance of being murdered a sort of modern-daequivalent of a gladiatorial y show. "No matter what issues the candidates discuss, whether they choose to talk about agreements or the care of the nations children, the public mind will remain fixed on the promise of spectacle, Lapham wrote in his magazines December issue. Prospective Killing Ground "Every airport, every shopping center and hotel lobby, every banquet hall through which Sen. Kennedy passes on his perilous journey will be suffused in the flat and lurid light of a prospective killing ground. Laphams theory looked very good when, shortly after the magazine was on the newsstands, a woman entered the senators office apparently intent on knifing him to death. But the abortive attack failed to capture the imagination of the press, and in a few days it was mostly forgotten. There werent even the y recapitulations of the assassinations and other assorted tragedies that have plagued the Kennedy family. It must be something else that accounts for the extraordinary interest of the press in Ted Kennedy. Perhaps it is the media's assumption that Kennedys would be an exciting, dynamic administration, a presidency that would get the country out of the doldrums? But most of the journalists who cover the senator don't seem to think he is particilarly inspiring, or a particularly gifted leader, or even particularly smart. They grant his ability to attract super-brigh- t people to work for him. But they dont see him as all that bright himself. arms-limitati- blood-staine- d almost-obligator- (Copyright) But-klc- iTning Iran, a few meditations on other ce (Copyright) William Raspberry Reaction to How Others Observe and Solve the Iranian-U.- high a confession of impotence. This crossover point may be weeks away or only days. But it is particularly perilous for a President like Jimmy Carter, who has been seen, far too often in the last three years, as a men of good intentions, incapable of achieving important objectives. Finally, even if the hostages are released. Carter will almost certainly face policy choices which are acutely painful and politically difficult for him. in hostage situation high-intere- restraint will be perceived as their illegal seizure and b) the official attitude of the United States toward the shah. But if the U S. were to take officially a hostile position toward the shah (actually, we didnt take any official position on him : we extended to him the use of our medical facilities), we will have paid a price to the fanatics as dishonorable as deserting the hostages, or returning the shah Judicial Judgment It should be redundantly clear that the United States does hot approve torture or corruption. It should be as clear that we are powerless to extirpate evil from this world !t should be equally clear that the United States is not prepared to pass judicial judgment on a career of a chief of state at the prodding of a jacobinical mob. 2, Carl Rowan is upset that so many observ ers tend to think of Inin as a Third World country, und he is partly right The high per capita income of Iran moves it over the line from the poor countries to the wealthier countries Th.it distinction was earned by the discovery and development of Iran's ml resource's, primarily due to British enterprise; and to the industrialization of Iran, primarily N due to the shah, and to the libeTalization of many Persian institutions, substantially due to pressure by the United State's on the shah. Third World Image convulsive recidivism of the the However, ayatollahs Iran brings back to mm.i the Third World image of a country in which anarchy reigns, in which a sectanan religious ferocity recalling another epoch nocks the notion of the advent of civilization. A lesser developed country is not necessarily one to which one is entitled to condescend. But a country that tolerutes mob rule under a self hypnotized whose ideals include the reenslavement of all women is. by common acknowledgment, a lesser developed c wintry hute-mercha- 3. Jam.. Heston echoes the plea (made a month ago by me) that more be' done to mobilize Islamic sentiment against the n.vnto! lah Reston shares with others the fear that the disciples of the Lord will, in His name continue to give Hun a bad name the kind f tiling the Inquisition did to the reputation of the Clin-ti.i- ii religion The Koran recommends, ; s tlm old Teslamcd a.'es ...H i i nv' "i m r.me . ' remedies. But its spint, and some of its concrete prov isions, are quite simply incompatible with the temperament and the prescriptions of the Shiite spokesman of Islam in Iran The broader Islamic community has here and there spoken, but what is needed is a central switchboard to beam the message loud and clear: the ayatollah is contradicting the dear commandments of Islam. It is united on this one occasion only because of the coriwiral fears of its members that one day they too might be seized as hostages. The same body that refused to hear the case against Pol Pot in behalf of the two or three million Cambodians he was torturing Is not sincerely concerned about the fate of 50 Americans. A Jubilantly Hopeful The distinguished publisher of the Nashville Tennessean, John Seigenthaler, is jubilantly hiqiefu! that the denunciation of the aviitollah's deed bv the Secunty Council of the United Nations will dilute his bloodlust Do not fount on it. for the following reasons ai The U.N. has already been denounced by the ayatollah as the instrument of the United States, which will come as a great surprise to every US ambassador to the U.N since the late "ZK And b1 the ayatollah, though his isimi s weak to dist. notions, cannot tie so blind ,i' lo have i. idl'd to notice th it lllcali lesi el't In bl that shines from the United Nations nia'Kun' d as the center of gravity of world mu i Relevant Point As so often is the case, a professor-columniJohn Roche makes the relevant point most lucidly. We simply have no alternative than to reorder our priorities and do so instantly. Our priority is the entrance to the Strait of Hormuz. Incredibly, the $125 billion we spend per year for defense has not provided for a definitive force to guard that tiny, delicate capillary through which the blood of the industrial free world flows. Happily, Oman is well disposed to us, and the Saudis could not conceivably object to massive U.S fortificar tions in Hormuz, a kind of for the hearts of Japan, West Germany, France. Great and the United States. The RepubliBritain can candidates are Ideally situated to make this demand on the commander in chief. And 4 ) Crisis S. 5. pace-make- tCopv right 4 i t |