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Show 't ! . i I . The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand December 2, 1976 The Utah Independent Page Continued from page 8 of a former congressman. The implication of the . REPORT story was that 9 0 congressmen were PROTECTING OUR MISSILES Bv Paul Scott Washington: .A multi-billio- n dollar plan providing for a new system of deploying U.S. land-basmissiles is being prepared for ed President-elec- Carters t con- sideration when he takes office. Designed to meet the growing Soviet threat to our ICBMs, the proposal calls for the construction of several thousand additional and alternate shelter launching of such a system would be to construct a large number of shelter installations, so that the smaller number of actual missile launchers could be readily moved and deployed among these installations on a random pattern deliberately varied at adequate intervals of time." PLENTY OF SITE- S- According to Nitze's proposal, the ingredients for such a system are already in existence, notably through the availability of sufficiently large areas of western desert land now owned by the Department of Defense." On this land there would be built a large number of hardened shelters, or alternatively the missiles themselves would be encased in hardened capsules redeployable among a large number of soft shelters", Nitze reports. Preliminary study prepared by the Nitze group indicates that the research, development and procurement costs of a system along the above lines would average approximately $ 1 .5 billion a year in 975 dollars over the next eight to ten years. The main objective of creating such a new system of deployment would be to greatly increase the throw-weigcosts to the Soviets a of destroying substantial portion of U.S. deterrent forces. As outlined in the Nitze plan, this is achieved since in order to destroy the missiles virtually all of the relevant shelter installations would need to be hit by the Russians. In other words, there would be many more hardened shelters than the present number of fixed missile installations, so that the Soviets would be required to commit a larger portion of their throw-weigto this task than they would be to the task of attacking the installations throughout the country. Under this missile survival plan, the smaller number of actual ICBMs would be readily moved and deployed at these installations on a random pattern deliberately varied at adequate intervals of time." controversial The highly proposal is being pushed by Paul H. Nitze, former Assistant Secretary of Defense during the Kennedy-Johnso- n administrations and now a foreign policy-defenadviser of Carter. The plan is being proposed as a compromise between proposals for vastly increasing the number of U.S. ICBMs to meet the Soviet threat and the phasing out of the ICBM installations on the grounds that the Russians will soon have the capability to neutralize them with a first strike force. The Nitze compromise plan is called this multiple launch-poisystem" by its backers and the missile shell game" by its military and defense opponents. Both labels come from the fact that the ICBMs would be constantly moved from site to site. By this changing deployment, supporters argue, the Russians would never know which missile launching complexes to hit. Highlights of the missile survival plan as outlined in a recent article by Nitze now being circulated among key congressional leaders and top government officials are as follows: smaller number of fixed installations. The most vulnerable U.S. Military experts, who is our that of delivery system today vigorously oppose the Nitze plan as fixed and hardened ICBM being unworkable, contend that installations, including the Russians by using their satellite MINUTEMAN silos. Under surveillance techniques would be is present trends, it only a question able to keep track of the of time until a combination of the whereabouts of all U.S. ICBMs available to the large throw-weigdespite the changing deployment Soviets and improved accuracy system. will threaten the destruction of a MISSILES MORE se 1 ht nt ht beneficiaries of Mr. Parks largesse, but it was clear that The Times had no evidence of this. When we asked The Times last year about the failure to report on the KGB charges we were told that they would do so if any information on the subject was released by an official government agency. But in the Korean case, the papers have not hesitated to publish rumors, speculation and innuendo. of these NEEDED percentage What is really needed installations so today there is to meet the growing Soviet threat, considerable talk in some quarters these opponents argue, is for the of actually phasing out U.S. ICBM U.S. to either increase the number installations. d ICBMs or force the of It is entirely feasible, at not Russians to cut down on their overexcessive cost, to adopt a new all nuclear strike force. Persons close to Presidentsystem of deployment that would not only permit the retention of our elect Carter say privately that he is in the Nitze interested ICBMs which contribute heavily very to the total U.S. throw-weig- ht proposal" since it appears to offer but would actually make something to both the hard and these more critical and effective soft line defense advocates.' As one aide puts it: components of the U.S. strike Carter This is the type of plan that force. The system that would ac- Carter believes he could sell to both complish these ends would be a those wanting to limit the number shelters of U.S. ICBMs and those seeking proliferation of low-cofor what is called a multiple to make our ICBMs more effective launch-poisystem. The essence as a nuclear war deterrent." land-base- . A CORNER ON EDUCATION Bv Erma J. Christensen As this column is being it is the Thanksgiving week. written A story in The From now until January 2 it will be Washington Post on October a time of rejoicing and family 29 said that whether proved or not , the togetherness. thisWith a spirit of thankfulness writer presents allegations hold grave and One is from a two subjects. embarrassing implications for President Park. publication, -- Behavior Institute, BYU", and the other from a -- Reed Irvine booklet, The Students' Right to In Media Accuracy Read", edited by the National Council of Teachers of English. TURNING SUCCESS INTO Paraphrasing the former, FAILURE under the title, Seeks to Blend A bell boy in a large hotel, Religion, Secularism, let us read on. because of his friendly and helpful ...Explaining human manners and appreciative resbehavior without reference to God ponses, so the story goes, got tips or traditional belief is the secular two or three times bigger than the trend these days....BYU is meeting other bell boys. He was a saver and this trend head-o- n, establishing a soon became rich. Certainly he new campus institute, called the didnt do it at the expense of the Institute for Studies in Values and other bell boys, and since the tips Human Behavior, the new were freely given he didnt exploit organization approved recently by the guests. the Board of Trustees. Dr. Allen F. But when businesses big or Gergin was named director of the small, nations big or small, in like Institute. (This writer heard Dr. manner become rich the charge is Bergin lecture three weeks ago always made that they did it at the while attending some seminars at expense of others. And then it is BYU. Needless to say, I was indeed said that they should be penalized and surprised to hear this for doing so well in order to reward grateful distinguished Ph.D. say that those who did less well. Transactional Analysis and other But this amounts to penalizing behavior modification programs those who succeed by serving best now being used in education were and subsidizing those whose merely experimental, and were services and products are least to be ineffective over the Since there willl judged satisfactory. term implementation.) than long always be more ...Dr. Gergin is one of the successes, the politicians will Nations leading clinical always seek to serve the many and psychologists, and he outlined the government ends up instituting of the Institute... We shall as a way of life and goals attempt to harmonize professional becomes a controlling factor in concepts with a RELIGIOUS everyones life. We should know, human to because thats where we now are, approach program will problems....The complaining about the way things involve construction, theory are done, hostile towards successes with the SCRIPTURES beginning and encouraging as a BASIS FRAME OF - non-succe- ss non-succe- ss non-succe- ss. Some of the late night movies on TV are so old they shouldnt be up that REFERENCE....Work is already started on the Institutes first project which will be to state as clearly as possible to the behavioral scientists what JESUS CHRIST teaches in PRINCIPLES OF late. BEHABIOR....The J. Kesner Kahn ht high Erma J. Christensen . I Cynical husband: never appreciated real happiness until I got married then it was too late. -- Record, Columbia, S.C. Any time you feel you would like to be young again, just think of Algebra. - Tribune, Des Moines behavior EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY on therapists and counselors. Other areas the Institute will study include the effects of LACK OF BELIEF on human behavior, the role of the FATHER in CHILD REARING especially in terms of what fathers DO and DON'T DO, and find a way in the study of man which takes into account that he is an OFFSPRING OF GOD. Emphasis will be placed on studying the total personality rather than just portions. We cannot have a complete study of man unless we include the DIVINE apsects of MAN. The Institute will accepts contracts from the LDS Church's Social Services and will research social and emotional problems within the LDS VALUE SYSTEM." It sounds almost too good to be true, after all we have read about secular humanist beliefs, and their control over our educational system. For too long have the children of this and other states been exposed to classes in life adjustment", group therapy", no absolutes", family life education", values clarification", on and on, ad nauseum. This writer is cautiously jubilant, hoping the humanists in our society will lend an ear to what BYU is doing, and revise some of their programs. For a sharp contrast, read from Students Right to Read." ...In selecting books for reading by young people teachers of consider English the contribution which each work may make to the education of the reader, its esthetic value, its appropriateness to the curriculum, and its readability, both in structure and content for a particular group of students. Many works of literature important in our culture contain isolated elements to which some individuals may object. ...In honestly for meanings behind reality, the artist strives to achieve a work of art which is always BASICALLY MORAL, seeking not although . necessarily CONVENTIONALLY MORAL....Good taste, common sense, and professional responsibility to students and to HUMANISTIC the tradition in the teacher guide making wise selections. The community that entrusts a classroom of students to the care of an English teacher should also trust that teacher to exercise a reasonable judgment in books for student selecting use....Many persons wish to restrict school reading to books that do not mention unsavory aspects of our society. They argue that children must not be exposed to books in which people drink or swear or do many of the things commonly featured in daily newspapers, on television, or in motion pictures...." (To this writer, and her knowledge of some of the textbooks in use, some of them are too unsavory" for any of the communications media to feature but not for the children!) well-meani- ng approach to human needs has become a new form of religion a substitute for GODs way, he explained....we want to emphasize approaches to change in a person's SELF- life that promote as opposed to RELIANCE EVERYBODYS MONEY IS GOING DOWN The British pound, the U.S. dollar, the Mexican peso, the West German mark, the Swiss and French francs bouncing up and down; really are like balls bouncing up and down in a descending elevator as inflation in all these countries is constantly bringing down the values of all their currencies. SOVIET MILITARY OVER-SPENDIN- G st nt Free men can vole themselves into slavery, but slaves cannot vote themselves free. .1. Kccsc Hunter Inflation is because taxes are not high enough to cover expenditures. Recession is because taxes are so high not enough is left after taxes to keep the economy going. 9 Doesn't. it seem strange that while France spends only three percent of its gross national product on its military budget, Great Britain spends four percent, the United States six percent; and the Soviet Union that nobody has any intention of attacking is spending eleven and thirteen percent of its gross national product on its military budget? |