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Show I Soviet Missile Tests Confirm Nuclear Anns Race Surge t Disclosure that the Soviet Union may be testing a new intercontinental ballistic missile, possibly in violation of the SALT II treaty, should come as no surprise. Despite the Reagan administration insistence that the Soviets have attained nuclear missile superiority over the United States, there are newly emerging reasons to believe that the Soviets are, or soon will be, trailing once again in the wake of superior American missile technology. In a determined effort to stay even or surge ahead, the other side might well be tempted to cut corners on treaty observance. 1 j For the record, it must be noted that while SALT II was signed by former President Carter and the late Soviet leader, Leonid Brezhnev, it was never ratified by the U. S. Senate. However, both countries have signified their intention of abiding by its terms so long as the other does the same. The treaty permits testing of one new ICBM by each but American intelligence officials seem to think the latest test flight is of a second, not a first, new weapon. This would be in violation. On the same day the Soviet test was reported publicly, the White House announced that Mr. Reagan plans to seek development of more sophisticated, cruise missiles. Also, it was week that the latest test this reported of the Pershing II intermediate range radar-resista- missile had been nt extremely successful." What was not confirmed about the Pershing II, but is widely regarded as fact, is that the weapon is soon to be equipped with maneuverable warheads designed either to dodge enemy defenses or hit a target with heretofore unobtainable accuracy. The implications of such weapons for arms control and for offensive power are profound. They could usher in a new era of nuclear terror. hardware, the the that report presidents Commission on Strategic Forces is seriously considering switching to a small, moAdd to all this new bile and deadly accurate ICBM to red place or augment the MX. In sum you have an impressive array of new missiles which the Soviets will have to counter. Reports of clandestine Soviet testing are not, therefore, hard to believe. star-crosse- There is a kind of reflex comfort in the supposition that the United States is still capable of coming up with a better weapon than the potential enemy. But any satisfaction is quickly nullified by realization that this oneupmanship in nuclear missiles is but another dreadful lap in the distressing arms race that began shortly after World War II. In virtually every escalation, the United States led off with something new and the Soviets quickly matched the ante. effort to and themselves from Utahns protect each other, the Legislature has somehow left one culpable stone unturned. So far, it has not lifted a statutory finger to regulate, tax, confiscate, bug, bother, harass, discriminate against or otherwise discourage the dismaying practice of jogging. Numerous debilitating injuries and even deaths are clearly tracable to this rising menace. And innocent, drivers, in addition to a keeping bleary eye peeled for motorized drunks, are increasingly pressed to 3(10 degree vigilance lest a fashionably frocked runner stoned on adrenaline lurch into range and refuse to yield, as some are wont to do. Motorists need and deserve legal non-joggi- protection from this prancing menace. The legislative solution is easy. Some of the same shackles and conscience-salvin- g posturing already directed at other transgressors might be applied to errant runners on Others Will Go On Trial With Barbie Newhouse News Service WASHINGTON Secrets have a way of popping out at the worst times. If you have secretly done something shameful and have carried the burden of that shame silently for decades, you will still be lucky if the secret dies with you. Secrets have lives ol their own. name in George Bush is a America. He has just completed a successful damage control mission to Europe, speaking with his scoutmaster sincerity and openness of Americas genuine interest in disarmament. He did some good in lessening the ad- vantage the Soviets have gained through their massive public relations campaign on the same subject. Erhard Dabringhaus is not a name in America. Outside of Wayne State University in Detroit, where he teaches German history, it has been a name unknown in America. But Erhard Dabringhaus was possessed of a secret. Last week he popped it out, and Erhard Dabringhaus secret may overshadow whatever good George Bushs mission to Europe accomplished. Erhard Dabringhaus secret was this: He was one of the U.S. military intelligence officers who protected a Nazi war criminal from trial and execution for his crimes after World War II. Why did he blow his secret now? Because, 35 years after they first tried to catch him. the French finally caught the Nazi war criminal. The secret was leaking and was going to get'out. Better it come from a professor of German history in the United States than a Nazi war criminal awaiting trial in France for crimes against humanity. That is putting the best possible face on the shameful secret. The Nazi war criminal is Klaus Barbie, alias Klaus Altmann. As Gestapo chief in the Lyons region of France, he is charged with responsibility for having tortured and executed thousands of French Resistance fighters and Jews. The French call him the butcher of Lyons and they wanted him desperately. The United States protected the Nazi war criminal, housed him, provided him with false identity papers, transported him, and even paid him $1,700 a month. All of this Erhard Dabringhaus has admitted. What did the United States get for protecting the butcher of Lyons? More secrets. In 1948 Altmann-Barbi- e had been hiding for three years. He approached someone up the line in our apparatus, Dabringhaus says, "and claimed that he still had many infor- well-know- n well-know- n Almost four decades after the William Raspberry competition began, neither nation is as secure as it was. New, more accurate and more deadly weapons may for a time cow an attacker, but they dont provide any assurance that peace can be maintained. If that glorious prospect is ever attainted it will be through realistically phased destruction of existing nuclear warheads and the missiles that carry them. On that front, neither the UnitThe Washington Post ed States nor the Soviet Union seems WASHINGTON President Reagan: to be testing new models. There's a California man named Harvey Marriotts Bill Makes Sense For Taxation - Protect Joggers, Too In its Otis Piku cation of property used in commission of the said offense. A runner pulled over by a policeman would be required to submit to an adrenaline level test which would consist of lifting cleverly calibrated weights which would instantly disclose whether the culprit was in fact in a state of runners ecstasy, a condition some practitioners liken to being high on day-olchampagne. There would, of course, have to be other tests. If, for example, a panting suspect could not wipe the pained look (dc rigucur for true devotees) off his or her contorted face in 30 seconds while at the same time trying to turn the regulation headband inside out with one hand, that would be prima facie evidence of guilt. Under such lamentable circumstances the pretty running shoes and. in more severe infractions, the stylish jogging suit would have to be impounded. Judges would later determine whether the offending gear should bo sold to raise funds for regulation and rehabilitation of arrogant or careless runners and educating kids about the dangers of over exercising Mind you, these fiats are not directed against the proclivities of Utahns who, for whatever strange reasons, get thier kicks from running in the street and also happen to be in the minority (praise the Lord) The proposed statutes are offered solely to further public safety and reduce loss of life and property. The message is simple': If you run. the premise that a defiant jogger in the road constitutes as much a danger to his or her si If and. worse yet. to the composure of innocent motorists. So, the desired statute must decree that any runnor (Jogs, cats and small children exempted! so disdainful of public order as to stray within three yards of the pavement on any city, county, state or federal street or highway shall, without furtler judicial adoo, be foil h wit h dared m jeopardv of losing not only person freedom and rash money but Miller the additional pain of possil e confis do d anti-jogg- it at tin- YMC.-- Goldstein who would like to talk to you about your tax program. You may have heard the name; he's the guy you appointed to your National Productivity Advisory Committee. he Anyway, thinks your tax program has come a cropper and he wants to help you. The trouble with your approach, he says, is that to the extent that it reduces personal taxes, it takes money out of the Treasury without guaranteeing that it will be used in economically helpful ways. And the part of your package that helps big business is used most notably to acquire other businesses. In neither case does it generate new business and new jobs, which is what notion was all about in Ihe your supply-sid- e first place. Goldstein, a Los Angeles certified public accountant, has a better idea. He wants to amend the lax code to allow individuals to claim deductions of up to $15,000 (.$30,000 on a joint return) for cash investments in small ns husincsses-operatiowith no more than 25 employees That, shorn of the legislative safeguards against various foims of abuse, is it lie thinks you'll like it You already know the two critical factors behind his plan On the one hand, small entrepreneurs and would-bentrepreneurs suffer a chronic inability to raise sufficient operating capital They oflen can't get bank loans, and private loans to small businesses arc treated for tax purloans The capital poses as crunch is one of Ihe reasons so many small businesses fail On the other hand, small businesses are the critical source of new jobs Look at a couple of fads Well over half the net new jobs in America are generated by small and new businesses Yet. according Y ). the Fortum1 500 to Rep .Jack Kemp iR-have cre.iTd no ml new jobs in Ihe last decade You sec why Goldstein wants to talk to you about his plan II will cost money, and he is (rank to say he doesn't know how much "Somi body told me the other day that they had talked to the Joint romm.ltee on Taxation and been told Ih it the cost was negligible," Goldstein told me I ran my own guesstimate and fame up with around $050 million Rut that's just a guess. I assume that the businesses ci rated under the proposal would employ a lot of the idea to begin with so people-tha- ts there would be a recovery of some of the " outlay through inoutne taxi's One reason Goldstein can't figure the cost of his package is that no one knows how much of the money new drained from the Tirasury under current IRS provisions that e encourage investment in economically worthless lax shelters would fie attracted to small businesses Goldstein, managing partner in Ihe Los Angeles acioiiiiling tirm of Goldstein, Singer. Lew 'k. Greenluum thinks quite .i bil As all ai cuiinlunt, I spend a lot of rnv time with people wlm have a lot of money 'I wng to hint jdaies to put it so lhe ran a r out pay mg im on ic taxes Tome Ihe most productive plate to pul il would lie into a hilsilU" ,r e posed to some ronploiliu live investment thrv ouhl go into to gel a tax w r lie o Thai s w liv I created il ( a op i mill i mants in the field throughout Europe, from Lisbon to Moscow, and that was impressive to whomever he approached." would turn Once a week, Altmann-Barbi- e in secret reports on Soviet activities The Soviets had been our allies. We lied to Hie French, who are still our allies, in order to protect the Nazi war criminal. Dabringhaus twice told officers of the French Secret Service that we had no idea where Altmann-Barbi- e was hiding. We knew exactly where Altmann-Barbie was hiding. We had provided the house. The French told Dabringhaus that they had found several mass graves for wind) was responsithey thought Altmann-Barbi- e ble. I felt very nauseated." said Dabringhaus. But orders are orders " I was only carrying out my orders" rang steadily through the trials ol all the Nazi war criminals. It will he heard at the trial of Klaus Altmann-Barbie- . Those who prosecute crimes against humanity have never accepted it as justification for those crimes The Pentagon, in a waffle-worde- d statement, alleges that it is looking for blither documentation of any US connection with the Nazi war criminal Unless pressed llicv will happily forget it They must ho pressed Think what a field day the Riism ins are having. In order to spy on them, Ihe United States lied to its allies and protected the butcher of Lyons. Think a layer deeper. Of course we are against communism, but what on earth ate we for? If. in order to fight communism, wc ally ourselves with the scum of the earth, haven't we already lost? Who made the decision that Klaus Altmann-Barbie was worth more to us tiian our French allies were? Who originated the order to Dabringhaus to protect Altmann-Bar-biconceal him, transport him. pay him. lie about him? The questions scream tor answers. As Altmann-Barbi- e goes on trial in France, we go on trial too. (Copyright) Mary MeGrory The Latest Turmoil In EPA Is Reminder of Watergate Universal Press Syndicate The shredders at the Environmental Protection Agency tore it. of course, but even before they were discovered, the conduct of the Reagan administration in the matter of the House of Representatives vs. ERA Administrator Anne Gorsuch was WASHINGTON - the strain of it all. Then word riinr tli.it she was going to he married. It seemed they were trying to make unthinkable the idea of sending to jail a little lady who was not only sick but in love. But none of this was as frivolous as die lawsuit the Justice Department tiled against the House, a bizarre exert ise in which government lawyers argued that the House had no business trying to coerce a member of the executive department into giving information that might be embarrassing to the off strong president. giving fumes of Watergate. House Speaker Thomas P. U Neill wrote Ever since it bea letter to IJ S. Attorney Stanley Han is ingan. with the citing of quiring about the progress of the affair. He Ms. Gorsuch for contempt by the House on got back an insulting reply in which Hams Dec. 16, the Reagamtes have acted as if coverinformed him that the House was doing -up and claims of executive privelege. things outside the legislative sphere." Richard Nixons famous failed strategy, But a district judge Ihtew out the lawweie the only means of dealing with Consuit, and the White House' suddenly became gress in a crisis over Ihe withholding of aware of the urgent need for "damage condocuments trol." Last Wednesday night, after the deciRight up to Ihe minute of the unprecesion came down. James Raker III. Reagans dented vote, House loaders and lawyers most skilled political opcialnc. ealli d Levi were attempting, under Ihe auspices of tas to ri'open negotiations House Republican loader Robert Michel, to By then, it was too late The da In lore negotiate a compromise with White House on a tip from inside (hot ,q;!u agents They readied a written agreement acting counsel Jai k O'Hara il.sp, itched Committee with Rep Elliott Levilas, chairman two investigators to an oftiee ,ui,ieeul to of the Public Works Oversight Subcommitof Rita Lavello, the Super fund administhat tee, who has been trying since March to trator who was fired by the president last wring from Ms. Gorsuch information about week There they found two slu editors, the walkings of the toxic waste superfund which by all accounts have been us busy ol Lcvitas was so willing to compromise that late as the CREEP shredder s on the mm mug he agreed to permit only subcommittee llie Watergate break-il- l after members to view the disputed documents at It isn't as if Reagan weie not suri minded ERA At the last moment, Ihe White House dc( lared the arrangment "unacceptable. by Watergate alumni who can It II him al first h.ind of the polluting elicits ol stoneAnd within one minute of the and slu editing Baker's aide, Kit haul walling 10 01 vole, at pm. the Justice Department filed a suit against the House, calling the Darman. saw it all limn the light hand ol Elliot Richardson White House Counsel contempt charge "unronsiitutional and " Fred Fielding was John Dean s deputy Rea unseemly communications dueelm. David Get gans The While House, which had directed Ms. was a Nixon specchwrller Gorsudi not to lurk over the documents, gen. In the summer o iti't. wuh seemed amused hv the House piesurnptions impeat h ment Us numerous looming. Gmgon wrote a union to publieists did not trouble address the issue, winch is wliethcl polluting Chief of Stall Alexander ll.ug llisiuiiowo bills, faced ii)) to the tael that this opei tl ion corporations are paying their clean-ubill set .tin ml out wolk is a full time task It rail no Imigei lie House to the shame living done with Ihe lift hand' May lie Gmgen of .tu diust ic at turn .should write it again Ms Got siu h was to one at point tepoMed inllii hospital supposedly dnvci there bv Uopv i ight H. a 259-10- l 5 i |