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Show Page 4 The Utah Independent January 6, 1976 The Paper SOCIALISM The words pile up on my doorstep: the morning paper, the evening paper, weekly news magazines, - and, long monthly ones before there is time to read them all, its Sunday, and time for a ton of newsprint. When the eyes get tired, the television sets and radios of the land blare on and on. Surely we must be the people in history. Or are we? What is news, anyway? And who decides what will be headlined on the front page and what will be relegated best-inform- ed to page eighty-five- ? Certainly not those of us who rely on the media for what we consider to be facts. Anthony Harrigan, the executive Vice President of the United States Industrial Council, delved into these subjects on a Manion Forum radio program. Said he: In effect, the news is managed to reflect prominently and favorably on that which will support views held by the dominant liberal media and to omit, obscure, or distort that which favor might a contrary position. Harrigan noted one example of the double standard that necessarily accompanies the policy noted above: The Ghilean government that ousted the Allende revolutionary regime, and the late Greek military regime were both which is a called juntas - with word connotation. But wasn't adjective describe bad a used the that to Marxist military clique in Portugal. Observed The Harrigan: liberal-le- ft in America group sees no evil, hears no evil when totalitarianism is of the anti-America- Marxist n, variety. think that the media elements that resort to these I methods are engaged in artful disinformation. The American people need to understand the concept of disinformation international in political warfare. Disinformation is a concept and technique developed by the Communists and utilized to make events into into and to turn events. In the Soviet world, an entire directorate of the KGB, the agency, is concerned with non-even- ts non-even- ts Soviet-espionag- e The Russian bear is always most dangerous when its arms are outstretched in a gesture of Richard seeming friendship. 1963 Nixon, - the fabrication and distribution of disinformation. In the Free the liberal-lef- t have also mastered groups World, disinformation. If you really want an example of how the media orients the thinking of the American public, says Harrigan, take the case of the war in Vietnam. It was won, he says, inside the U.S. through the means of countless demonstrations, speeches, agitation and articles by academics, students,and radical entertainers, politicians - all being persuaded to echo correct the revolutionary line. The presentation of an Academy Award to the propaganda film Hearts and Minds, mislabeled a documentary, is perhaps the best example. Hempstone, Smith writing in the Va. Richmond, described , Times-Dispatc- h, this political propaganda film with great accuracy and insight. He said: Through a skillful montage of interviews, cuttings from newsreels, scenes from some of the sillier aspects of American life TOUGHER funtinurd on page 3 poraries one with a faith in the wonders that can be wrought by men when free saying, 1 do not believe that shoes and stockings for MANAGED NEWS and footage, combat America film is as a fundament- portrayed ally racist, fascist, insanely competitive society fired by an that is anti-Communi- both hysterical and mindless. The 2.6 million Americans who served in Vietnam are pictured as out sized neo-Naz- is who spent their time frequenting Vietnamese whorehouses, bullying terrified villagers and pouring bombs on defenseless cities. When the of this film showed up in Hollywood to receive an award from the Academy, he hailed the political triumph of North Vietnam and read a congratulatory telegram from the Viet Cong. Think about that when you prepare to digest your morning paper with breakfast, or tune in on the late news before you retire. American Way Features Reader's comments and questions are welcome. The Please write us at American Way Features, Box 1 098, Pigeon Forge, Tenn. 37863. Let us live as people who are prepared to die, and die as people who are prepared to live. - James Stewart kids should be a government responsibility. Properly, that is a responsibility of the family. This activity should never have been socialized. It is appropriately a free market activity. under What, these circumstances, would be the response to such a stated belief? Based on what we hear on every hand, once an activity has been socialized for a short time, the common chant would go like this. Ah, but you would let the poor children go unshod. However, in this instance, where the activity has not yet been socialized, we are able to point out that the poor children are better shod in countries where shoes and stockings are a family responsibility than in countries where they are a government resWe are able to ponsibility. demonstrate that the poor children are better shod in countries that are more free than in countries that are less free. True, the free market ignores the poor precisely as it does not recognize the wealthy it is no It is an respecter of persons. organizational way of doing things, featuring openness, which enables millions of people to cooperate and compete without demand ing a preliminary clearance of pedigree, nationality, color, It race, religion, or wealth. demands only that each person abide by voluntary principles, that is, by fair play. The free market means willing exchange; it is impersonal justice in the economic sphere and excludes coercion, plunder, theft, protectionism, and other anti-fre- e market ways by which goods and services change It opens the way for hands. mortals to act morally because they are free to act morally. Admittedly, human nature is defective, and its imperfections will be reflected in the market. But the free market opens the way for men to operate at their moral best, and all observation confirms that the poor fare better under these circumstances than w hen the way is closed, as it is under socialism. Leonard E. Read Old And New Farewell, Old Year! With goodness crowned A hand divine hath set thy bound. .. Welcome, New Year, Which shall bring Fresh blessings from my God and King! The old we leave without a tear, The new we hail without a fear. Because, REPORT know that o'er it all Rules lie who notes the fall. Author Unknown By Paul Scott Washington: A resolution introduced in the Senate by Senator Adlai Stevenson, HI, little-notic- ed (D. 111.) during the debate over barring U.S. aid to forces in Angola could become the catalyst for a tougher U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union and Cuba. Known as Senate Resolution 333, the Stevenson proposal would pre-holid- ay anti-Sovi- et put the Senate on record as supporting the use of strong U.S. and diplomatic measures to force Russia and Cuba to end their military intervention in Angola. resolution, The which has gained strong bipartisan support from Senate Democratic Whip Robert Byrd (D. W.Va.) and Senator Barry Goldwater (R. Ariz.) is expected to be voted on when the Senate reconvenes in January and debates U.S. involvement in Angola. In addition to supporting the imposition of economic sanctions against Russia and Cuba unless they discontinue their military intervention in Angola, the Stevenson resolution calls on the President to seek U.N. condemnation of all countries intervening ev-nom- ic far-rangi- ng in Angola. The resolution also urges the President to work with the Organization of African Unity, which is scheduled to take up the Angola crisis on January 8, to seek an end of all outside military aid to the three warring factions. Despite his tough public statements opposing Soviet and Cuban intervention, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger so far has privately opposed the resolution on the grounds it might endanger detente by forcing a direct confrontation between RusU.S.-Sovi- et sia and the U.S. over Angola. The Ford Administration policy for Angola, drafted by Kissinger, is designed to seek a military stalemate in Angola by providing U.S. covert aid to the factions in that two anti-Sovi- et strategic African nation. Since this policy was overwhelmingly repudiated by a 52 to 22 vote in the Senate before the holidays. Stevenson now believes Senate approval of his resolution could force the Ford Administration to adopt a more sensible and workable policy. detente By linking U.S.-Sovito the Angola crisis, Senator Stevenson hopes to force the Ford Administration and his colleagues in the Senate to face up to the central foreign policy issue now troubling Americans: Have we been so traumatized by the tragic American adventure in Vietnam that henceforth We are to accept Soviet military intervention and aggression wherever it Ileher J. Grant Not failure but low aim is crime. James Russell Lowell cording to Stevenson. In lining up support for his resolution. Stevenson takes the position that the U.S. must directly confront the Soviet Union since without its military involvement there would be no crisis in Angola. Since Soviet arms on a massive scale and Cuban expeditionary forces have landed on the shores of a newly independent African state in naked pursuit of strategic advantage," states Stevenson, the Angola crisis goes to the heart of detente and whether the U.S. is going to stand for the Russian exploitation of it. It is Stevensons contention that if the Soviet Union is to enjoy the benefits of trade in commodities which are valuable to the improvement of its standard of living, and other advantages of detente, then it must also meet certain standards of civilized international behavior. As a starter, Stevenson believes the adoption of his resolution would put pressure on the President to use the most formidable weapon the U.S. has its massive supply of food to force the Russians to withdraw its military help from U.S.-Sovi- et non-milita- ry Angola. If the Soviets continue their intervention in Angola, Stevenson argues the U.S. has every, right to cut off U.S. grain shipments and to abrogate the massive grain deal recently signed with the Russix-ye- ar sians. LIBERAL SUPPOR- T- The Stevenson resolution already has attracted support from several of his liberal Democratic colleagues in the Senate who voted to bar et further U.S. covert aid to forces in Angola. These Senators include Hubert Humphrey (D. Minn.) and Edmund Muskie(D. Me.), who are now concerned that their original vote to bar U.S. covert aid might be taken as sanctioning Soviet intervention in Angola. With President Ford now reported to be seeking out Senator Humphrey to help him work out a compromise policy toward Angola that Congress will support, the Stevenson resolution could be framework for the new policy and one that would mean a tougher approach toward the Russians. anti-Sovi- et shows its head? POLICY ANGOLA FALLOUT Fighting is stalemated in Angola by heavy rains that are expected to go on for another two months. The U.S. still has more than $7 million in the pipeline that can be used to continue supplying arms and et equipment to the two factions in Angola. If the U.S. is to continue covert aid past February, anti-Sovi- additional funds will be needed. ...The two pro-U.Angolan groups, Jonas Savimbi's UNITA and the National Front of Holden Roberto want the U.S. to exert maximum pressure on the Soviet Union, including a threat to halt grain shipments, to end the S. CHANGE NEEDED Neither the Ford Administration by seeking a military in Angola nor the stalemate Senate by barring further U.S. et factions covert aid to there have come up with an acceptable answer to this question, ac- anti-Sovi- have a pride in doing their full share and never want to lie iaid for that which they have not earned. Mi: n POLICY tOWARD RUSSIA I sparrows Dares To Take A Stand THE SCOTT CLICHES OF MARILYN MANION Tl iat dedicate myself... ...not only to strive For the goals I have set But to meet them and set even more... Soviet military Angola. involvement in I God had a purpose in mind when He made the mouth to close, and the ears to always remain open! - Youth r Living Ideals |