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Show WESTERN AMERICA,'; BREITLING'S WASATCH FRONT REGIONAL CpUNCJJ. ""Jfli Dedi cafed To The Constitution, Vol. 6, No. 40 Liberty, Morality, and Trlith of production, improvement processing and marketing of food and all products of the land for the betterment of all mankind around the world. President Benson, in his response said. "There is no pursuit more worthy, no profession than the labor of one morenoblc, who provides food and clothing for his fellowman." said, "The "President Benson world looks Tuesday evening at a banquet for hundreds of people held at the BYU Farm, 800 East 8800 South, Spanish Fork, Utah, there was an- nounced to the Church and to the World, the organization of the The as they teeming Too often we, as populations. benevolent Americans, have given them food instead of teaching them how to produce food." He was as- sured the new Agriculture and Food would Institute be internationally oriented. as Secretary of Agriculture of the United States, he drafted a general Before taking office policy, ioned by President Benson. He also stressed the need for economic freedom in solving farm problems, that "Farmers should not be placed in a position of working for Government bounty." Inefficiency should not be subs- idized in agriculture or any other segment of our economy. "The most important method of promoting long-tim- e welfare of farm people and the nation is support of adequate programs of Continued on page 4 Phyllis Schla fly Report Mischief in and Colleges Sexist Schools When Congress government agricultural or other, should be 'How will it affect the character, morale, and well-bein- g of our " people? We need a strong America in the years ahead. We need to improve the productivity of basic land resources, the reward will be a higher standard of living for our farmers, were other, items ment- American to agriculture for a pattern struggle to feed their Pres. Ezra Tafc Benson statement on agriculture. Here is a brief excerpt: "The supreme test of any passed the Education Amendments of 1972, the purpose of Title IX was to ensure educational opportunities for both sexes. The Act authorized the Department of Health, Education Welfare to develop a regulation implementing this law discrimination on the basis of sex." Tnis HEW against Regulation went into effect on July 18, 1975, and now equal and governs 16,000 school UTAH INDEPENDENT 57 Oakland Avenue Salt Lake City, Utah 84115 Second diss Postage Paid H at 8art Uka Oty, Utah : districts and 2,700 universities. It is so broad and sweeping it bears little resemblance to the law at colleges and in nature that all, and obvio- far beyond the intent of Congress. To remedy the problems caused by the usly goes HEW Regula2146: the tion, Educational Equal Opportunity Amendments of 1975. Passage of this bill would correct most of the mischief Senator Jesse Helms has introduced S. in the HEW Regulation. Please contact your U.S. Senators and Representatives at once and urge to S. 2146. support The following is Phyllis Schlafly's analysis HEW Regulation which is already in effect. analysis was placed in the Congressional Record by Senator Jesse Helms on July 10, 1975. them of the This The Theory Regulation is based on the "gender-free- " approach demanded by the women's lib militants. It is dogma of the women's lib radicals that there really is no difference between men and women (except the sex organs), and they demand that everything touched by Federal and state law, bureaucratic regulation, the educational system, and public funding be absso that males and females have olutely "gender-free-" treated as a "suspect" classification, just as race is now treated so that the burden of proof is on the government (or on the school, or the industry, etc.) to justify any difference of treatment between fit M that sex be the sexes at any time. approach. We We reject the "gender-free- " that there are many believe and differences between male Continued on page 6 October 2, 1975 ANTI-ABORTI- ON MOVEMENT AT TURNING POINT liv Paul Scott committee after its members had studied the measures for a year and Washington: The nation-wid- e campaign to protect the right to life of the unborn child has reached a critical turning point. Leaders of the pro-lif- e movement have begun discussing whether to take more militant action to support their lobbying for a Constitutional Amendment to upset the 1972 Supreme Court decision which has paved the way for abortion on demand. The decision is being forced on the pro-lif- e movement by two separate but equally important developments in the controversial fight over abortion. The first is the failure of the pro-lif- e group to obtain a full Senate vote on a Constitutional a half. The adverse vote which came last week was the most serious setback suffered by the pro-lif- e movement since the 1972 Supreme Court decision. Its leaders had counted pro-lif- designed to upset the high court's ruling and to protect the right to life of the unborn. Sponsored by Senators Jesse .) and Senator Helms 1 (R.-N.C- (R.-N.Y- .), of the one Amendments being sent to the Senate floor were all members would have had to take a public stand on the abortion issue before the 1976 Presidential and Congressional elections. The second development is the e rise of small groups within the movement whose members favor more militant action to dramatize the need to stop the massive killing of the unborn, now totaling more than .200.000 each year in the U.S. A graphic example of these new militant groups is a Maryland pro-iif- e organization which has been picketing an abortion clinic Amendment James Buckley Constitutional Amendments on the were killed by a Senate Judiciary Sub Continued on page 10 Kissinger Wants Reprinted IROM LIJDvli I Communist Portugal Observer From The Washington s Portuguese anti-Commun- ist strive to shake off their I IMif AflF military dictatorship, Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger would rather have a Communist Portugal than a neutral or neutralist one, foreign diplomatic sources in Washington state. They cite the following recent pro-Sovi- et IllAUt developments as proof: Dr. Kissinger and Defense Secretary James R. Schlesinger have been pressing the Allied Governments in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to oust the Portuguese representatives from the NATO Planning Group. Both Kissinger and Schlesinger have told the NATO governments of the need to freeze the Portuguese out of NATO meetings because the Leftist Libson regime might pass on to the Soviets some NATO secrets. But Allied officials say neither Kissinger nor Schlesinger advised them what Allied military information is still secret to the Soviets and what n they learned in the course of the secret talks on disarmament and detente. Allied officials think that this query must have hit a raw in Washington, nerve among the policy-makeinasmuch as the Kremlin is adamant that the United States not reveal to anybody the substance n of the secret negotiations. Soviet-America- 1. The HEW identical treatment. This dogma demands also, 25C rtaore Pres. Ezra Taft Benson "Ezra Taft Benson Agriculture and Food Institute", its goal being the n d e p e n c3 e ri t Utah 84115 Salt Lake City, PAGE 3 rs Soviet-America- The Allies regard Kissingers tactics as a ploy to use the Soviet takeover in Lisbon to terrify the Allied Governments into compliance as part of an over-astrategy to gain control of the Allied defense, economic and foreign policies, which Kissinger wants. They believe Kissinger calculates that a Communist triumph in Portugal will shock the Allies into accepting "coordination" of the ll Continued on page 5 |