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Show The Paper That Dares To Take A CLASSIFIED THE SCOTT REPORT ADVERTISING 8 acre farmsite, water February 3, 1977 The Utah Independent Page 9 Stand & power, near Fairview. Utah. Easy 7 terms. Phone (KOI) 571-430- LIMITING - WHY INFLATION AHEAD? By Paul Scott is Concern Washington: growing among top U.S. military officers and conservative lawmakers that Secretary of State Cyrus Vance is quietly setting the stage for a dramatic policy change barring any first use of nuclear weapons. At issue in the proposed To understand what is change is this countrys happening in the economy we have to look at the facts order of battle for defending western Europe and South Korea rather than any ideology. a massive surprise attack by from And the fact is, whether Russia and North Korea. you like it or not, that the Under the strategy of past best way the bankers and the politicians have found Republican and Democratic administrations. the U.S. has kept to keep up spending, and to open the option of using tactical keep up employment is war, nuclear weapons against any large-sca- le war and war. In fact, massive conventional attack everyone knows that war is that the communists might launch good business, that it brings in either region. jobs and high wages. Should the use of the small The actual economic tactical nuclear weapons become system in American today is necessary to keep nations of not something called free western Europe and South Korea enterprise. Our economic from being overrun, the policy' calls like our system, just for their use even if the enemy had political system, is part restrained from doing so. socialist, part fascist, mostly To back up this nuclear oligarchic and, yes, part free defense policy, the U.S. over the enterprise. We have a years has stockpiled several government by pressure thousand tactical nuclear weapons in America. It is group in western Europe, Great Britain, certainly not a republic, not South Korea, and aboard U.S. a democracy. Most certainly warships in these areas. not a democracy, since The alarming word now some 80 of the public circulating at the highest levels of oppose foreign aid, busing government is that Secretary and the Vice Presidency of Vance is now preparing a foreign Nelson Rockefeller. Because policy pronouncement in which we have this patchwork President Carter would pledge no the whole system, use of nuclear weapons under first political-economsystem any circumstances. can work no better than its The which is proposal, most part, being expected to be vigorously opposed the by programmed financial-monetar- y by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is summit1 going to be ready for a decision by to serve the interests of the President Carter before the end of super-ric- h plutocrats, who, the month. While the president is in the last analysis, put the known to have discussed the issue pieces together to shape in a general way with Vance, aides things the way they want say he wont make a decision until them. In other words, what he sees the proposal in final form economic and political and listens to the military oppolicies we have now are position. to serve the designed One of the most recent hints interests of the that Vance favored a no first use the pressure group policy came in the circulation of a super-ric- h parasitical, transcript of secret talks that the whose internationalists Secretary of State, then a private interests are served directly citizen, had with Chinese Comby exploiting and despoiling munist leaders in October, 1975. class middle of the The transcript of the Peking producers and taxpayers in talks were prepared by the every way conceivable. Rockefeller Foundation, of which - W.A. Car to Vance was a director at the time. The record reveals that Teng The real democratic American Hsiao-pinthe former Deputy idea is, not that every man shall be Primer Minister and twice purged on a level with every other, but that leader who now appears to be have shall one liberty, every staging another comback, raised without hindrance, to be what God the issue after Vance had quesmade him. tioned him about China's refusal to Henry Ward Beecher sign the nuclear long-standi- ng ic ill-fitti- ng pre-emine- nt - g, non-proliferati- on Politicians wouldnt be so cocky if they only realized that todays president is tomorrows three-ccn- t stamp! NUCLEAR RESPONSE Estate Liquidation Small farm Lind of with water parcels 75 miles to Salt Lake City shares Terms (801)466962. treatv. THE HIGHLIGHTS Because of the significance of the - heretofore highlights secret of the talks, Vance-Tcn- g the exchange are as follows: TENG: Such a statement Our (treaty) would be useless. We do not enpositions are: (1) courage or use nuclear weapons; and (2) we arc not afraid of nuclear weapons. VANCE: The hazards of accidental launch are real and could have devastating effects if one didn't know where the weapon was launched from.... TENG: Only two countries could launch an attack, your country, and the Soviet Union.... VANCE: Accidental launching will become more likely with the indiscriminate spread of nuclear weapons. TENG (Waving finger: It wont be so easy, if India, or other countries, does it. It could signify its defeat and even destruction. As for other things, the U.S. and the USSR think they are in a position to prevent other countries from developing weapons. Our position is they have a right. France, China, India, and so on. The most important thing is to encourage yourselves, and the Soviet Union that you would not be the first to use nuclear weapons, second to reduce the number, and third, to do away with them all. VANCE: My personal view is that 'nofirst use' is very important. TENG: We two persons agree at least (laughter). Can we enlarge this and have the U.S. and Chinese governments talk to the Soviets? France would join and all say, 'no first use'. We should include in such a discussion the final destruction of all nuclear weapons. INTERESTING TIMING What is the most interesting part of the transcript is that Vance authorized its circulation ou the eve of his takeover of the State Department. The action by Vance was described by one government insider as a move by the Secretary of State to help build up support among foreign policy pressure groups for the no first use" policy. Vance also indirectly hinted at the policy change during his recent At one confirmation hearings. point in the hearings, Vance told the senators that neither he nor the new president had any plans to base this countrys foreign policy on the first use of tactical nuclear weapons. The new Secretary of State also expressed the belief that once the smaller nuclear weapons were used in a conflict that it would be impossible to limit the nuclear exchange. Whether President Carter accepts this view is expected to on how convincing depend is Vance the policy that Secretary change wont invite new Communist aggression in these strategic areas of the world. The presidents military advisers believe it will. CANT WIN FOR LOSING The trouble is that the more rights we have to welfare benefits the less rights we have to our own individual earnings STOP ABORTION I M TOO YOUNG TO DIE! MARILYN MANION and savings, and this is simply because it is our earnings and savings that must be taken from us by taxation and inflation in order to provide those welfare benefits we have rights to. BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY PAY NO TAXES! The high cost of living is a thorn in the side of every American. And it doesnt take any high living to incur the load of higher prices; the basics of food, clothing and shelter strain most of our budgets to the breaking point. Our reaction to having to pay exorbitant prices is a mixture of resignation, and frustration, anger. Income may rise, but prices rise faster. Breadwinners feel as if they are on v treadmill leading nowhere. So it is not surprising that the average American listens attentively to the populist rhetoric against the rich corporations who grow fat and glossy at our expense. ever-increasi- ng Robert J. Stein, of the Corporation, talked about business, taxes, prices, and inflation on the M anion Forum radio program. Here are some of Vice-Preside- nt Flick-Reed- y the things he said: Business and industry do not really pay taxes. They merely act as a middle man, so to speak, to collect the taxes from the final buyer. This is in the form of increased cost of the product andor services nd they finally turn those monies over to the Federal, state and local governments. For you see, taxes are a significant tremendously part of the cost of every product or service you buy only you dont see this increased cost as a tax. I read in a magazine article recently that the actual tax burden borne by products and services comes very close to 40 percent of the total cost of the things that we buy. We dont see it as taxes. - Another effect those taxes have is that foreign manufacturers, who pay less taxes, gain an advantage I over U.S. companies. would suspect that there are a whale of a lot of jobs in the United States that have been lost because you and I - the final buyers, find so many foreign products to be a real good buy good on quality, good on price. Just off the top of my head, I would guess that between a half million to perhaps as many as a million U.S. jobs have been lost in the last 30 years to workers - in Germany, Japan, Italy, and quite a few other countries. That number of jobs would surely put a big dent in our unemployment total, wouldnt it? So, taxes raise the price of to the products consumer. But inflation raises prices, too. And government causes inflation. As long as the various local, and state Federal governments keep spending as much money as they have been, they have to get the from somewhere money They dont dare raise the direct taxes on the people very much more. If they did, history shows that, the people would revolt. But. you say. the is government trying to stop know that is inflation. what they say, but their actions give the lie to their on words. They keep spending more and more every year. The national debt keeps rising and rising, and inflation, although it may have slowed down a bit. is ready to pick up speed again." 1 American lltfv Features Readers' comments and are welcome. questions Please write us at The A m erican Features ' ', liVzy P.O. Box 990, Pigeon Forge, Tennessee 37863. NO WINNERS WITHOUT LOSERS Arms races like wars are usually won, not so much by the successes of the winners as they are by the failures of the losers. O PROFITABLE ADVERTISING WE BUY SILVER COINS TOP MARKET PRICES A & A Trading 227 West 600 South Salt Lake City, Utah 84101 Phone (801) 531-6457 is our business. You ought to make it yours. JOHN T. WILLIAMS Advertising Manager THE UTAH INDEPENDENT IMUSIC COMPANY Across from Salt Palace WE BUY - SELL AND TRADE PIANOS 57 East Oakland Avenue Salt Lake City, Utah 84115 3 Phone (801) 466-191- aS SmHi WhI Twwph Sfraat Saif Uka City. Ufa M101 Htanai 344-45- 1 |