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Show WESTERN AMERICANA TOM BREITLINGS COUNTY SPECIAL SERVICE DISTRICTS CAUSED BY METRO PAGE 3 IctrklctKlcklrklctrk'kitictc'tctctrk'k'k'tctK'kicicklKiicAictcickictctck'fctckicictrtK (Independent Constitution, Liberty, Morality, and Truth r &b&&&'irirtrk'te'tr'trtc-tc'tcirirtr'tc'tr'trtrir'ic'iririr'r'rlr'ir'ir'tr'ir-ir'ir'trirtrir1t'i- 25C Salt Lake City, Utah 84115 wm August 19, 1976 4 7 St' v a, N. Susan L.M. Huck is a graduate of Syracuse University and efrfned her Masters at Michigan. Professor Huck holds a Doctorate from Clark University and has lectured before distinguished academic audiences on four continents. D We have our traditional two major parties, and historically there have been a series of ephemeral alternative parties. Our problems stem not from any third, fourth, or other parties, but from the two major ones, which are all too cozily intertwined at the top, both ideologically and financially. The result is a de facto one-parsystem, created by conspiracy at the top, which is made to look like a two-part- y system. Typical is the bankrolling of the radical Freshman Democratic Caucus of 1974 by Rockefeller-Republica- n J. Irwin Miller of Cummins Engine. When questioned about it, the reply was that radical Republicans would be sought in the 1976 primaries to do the same thing to the Republican Party. The business of selecting the candidates before they ever come to public attention is part of the game. It is a form of censorship, a kind of veto power, and it is no longer the realm of mere party bosses. The ideological examination of many hundreds of Liberal Congressmen ty tmiw UTAH INDEPENDENT 57 Oakland Avenue Salt Lake City, Utah 84115 8ceond Cbss Postage Pddat Cdt Ida CNy, Utah Washington: The little-knorole of one of Jimmy Carter's key foreign policy advisers in the tf overthrow of the late President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam could become a major campaign issue this fall. The adviser is George Ball, former Under Secretary of State in the Kennedy Administration and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations during the Johnson Ad- I ministration, now the Democratic Presidential nominees chief adviser on Africa and the Middle East. The records of the House International Affairs Committee show that Ball, acting as Secretary of State during the Kennedy Ad- ca CO and u 3 ministration, g'ot President Kennedy on August 23, 1963 to approve the highly questionable 377 CQ HI policy. DEPT Cl H 9 rl 4 r-- Cm ORDER O M H 00 SB S. OB ERIALS fcJ O M tJi 9 Details of the anti-Diepolicy were outlined in a cable Ball sent on the same day to U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge in Saigon ordering him to bring about the overthrow of the pro-U.South Vietnamese President. Ball's role in the policy is considered important now because of his position as Carter's chief adviser on Africa, where the Democratic Presidential nominee m I CO tive Congress (N.C.E.C.). It is a small organization, representing a small group of very wealthy people, and for twenty-eigyears it has screened candidates for Congress, nationwide, to see whether they think right (in this case, Left) before arranging substantial Establishment support ht for them. The same thing, doubled in spades, happens with regard to Big Labor. Here, again, what the voters of a District want is regarded as quite immaterial. The union bosses know which is political what they want and by providing workers power and large, sums of money they can get - it through turning thumbs up or thumbs down on congressional candidates. Thumbs up means the candidate will receive large checks, plus the invaluable services of anything from professional political services who push door- to the foot-slogge- favors changes in such pro-U.- S. governments as Rhodesia and South Africa. Testimony given by Ball to the House lawmakers details his role in the formation and carrying out of the policy along with former U.S. Ambassador Averell Harriman, now one of Carter's financial supporters. What is extremely interesting about Balls present position is that he still defends the policy and cable he sent to Lodge while the latter denounces it as being insane and recalls how he fought to have the policy reversed while Ambassador in Siagon. In his testimony, now being sutdied closely by GOP members of the Committee, Ball explained that he had to make the decision on sending the cable to Lodge since then Secretary of State Dean Rusk was absent from Washington, and 1m was acting Secretary. After relating how Ambassador Harriman and Roger Hillsman, then Assistant Secretary of State for the Far East, had drafted the proposed message to Lodge, he reported: rs Continued on page 6 rn livu VI ivu wn By Paul Scott has been conducted for the Eastern Liberal Establishment by a duplicitous radical organization called the National Committee for an Effec- thing to do, go ahead," Ball told the committee. I called Rusk in New York, and he wasn't too enthusiastic, but he agreed." This account of the involvement of President Kennedy and Ball in the message to Lodge corresponds to the account of the event written by the anonymous author of the Pentagon papers study of the overthrow of Diem. KENNEDY CHANGES MIND The congressional records indicate that President Kennedy after authorizing the cable had second thoughts about the policy when Lodge complained directly to the White House about the message from Ball. The lawmakers were told by Lodge that President Kennedy countermanded the instructions eight days later. While both Ball and Lodge took the position in their testimony that the cable was unrelated to the coup against Diem which came less than two and one half months later, government insiders say the abortive policy laid the ground work for the move against Diem from within his own military. I telephoned President Copies of the cable to Lodge Kennedy in Hyannisport (Mass.) was circulated among key South and he told me 'If you and Vietnamese military officers. This Secretary Rusk think it's the right convinced them that the Kennedy Administration including the President and the Secretary of State favored the removal of Diem. The late President Diem was ousted and then assassinated on November 1, 1963. Lodge admitted that the overthrow of Diem was a mistake but contended that there was never any instructions that Diem should be killed. Other State and Defense Departments records clearly show that Ball favored the overthrow of the pro-U.- S. South Vietnamese President and helped formulate the policy. These records along with Balls most recent defense of his 1963 action raises the question of whether the former State Department official would now encourage Carter to support the violent overthrow of the present governments in Rhodesia and South Africa. CARTER FAVORS In his foreign policy CHANGE statements on Africa, Carter has announced his support for changing the present governments in both of these southern Africa nations but he has stopped short of saying how he would bring this about. Since the question of whether Continued on page 9 |