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Show The Paper That Dares To Take A March 17, 1977 The Utah Independent Stand VIETNAMS MIRROR Social Justice Review St. Louis. Missouri 63108 From a missionary's New Year letter to his parents: Si nee the revolution much has changed here. If all those who have worked here were to come back they would not What has recognie Vietnam. is here happened simply the story of a noble, happy people that fell victim in the briefest time to inhuman slavery. Eight months of communist domination have shown that Communism is clearly only lies, slander, revenge and hate. A man is no longer a man but a skive, who is treated worse than an animal. Many see no further point in life and commit suicide. LINOWITZS PANAMA CONNECTION Washington: Jimmy Carte President rs use of Sol Li nowitz in the Panama as a Canal treaty talks now underway raises a serious conflict of interest question. At issue is Linowitz's documented connections with an international bank and airways tor doing business government with the of Panama's dictator, Omar Torrijos. of interest The conflict charges against Linowitzare being a Sometimes whole pressed with the White House and family father, mother and in the Senate by Senator Jesse children take poison. They go so Helms a leader of the far as to ask in the confessional Senate group opposing the turning (R-NC- ), whether it is a sin to kill a of the strategic waterway over to communist or commit suicide, Panama. because life has become In demanding that President week last ten impossible. Only Carter replace Linowitz, a bonzes burnt themselves alive to businessman and lawyer sworn in protest against the regime. This on February 9 as special represenhappened in Can Tho. Probably tative of the president with the this is all being buried in silence by personal rank of ambassador, as the international press. The West the of the proposed wanted nothing more than for Panama Canal Treaty, Senator Vietnam to fall into the hands of Helms has called to the attention of the communists. That is the w'ay it the White House Linowitzs role as has gone. So be it. But the directors of Marine Midland Vietnamese did not deserve this Banks. Inc., and Pan American fate. They are a wonderful people. Airways, Inc. Both of these institutions have a direct financial interest in the suport of the Torrijos regime From a letter written at the because of the ir activities there and end of May, 1976: We now have their close relationship with the further news about the fifteen favor of the Panamanian hundred refugees who returned to government. Helms recently told Vietnam from Guam. When the the senate. Indeed, Marine ship laid up at Nhatrang the Midland has made risky loans passengers had to leave all their directly to the Republic of luggage behind and disembark in Panama.'1 small boats, w hich set them ashore In developing the chain of a good distance from the town. his between Linowitz, links The men and women were at once business interests, the Torrijos separated from one another. The government, and the proposed women were subjected to four Canal treaty. Helms reported: months of None of The proposed treaty, which their belongings were restored to Linowitz has long advocated and is them. Even the dollars they were now negotiating for the U.S., carrying were taken from them. Now that they have been released would give away billions of dollars from the camp they are saying of U.S. investments in the Canal Zone, vastly increase payments to everywhere that they were misled the Republic of Panama, and by communist propaganda, which made out that there was perfect strengthen the Torrijos regime, freedom in Vietnam. The men are which is tottering both financially and politically. still being They had There is no indication that come back in order to live with who was not contheir wives and children who had Mr. Linowitz, has taken remained in South Vietnam. It is firmed by the Senate, the appearance of not known when they will be steps to avoid of interest by resigning his released. The same goes for most conflict business officers and officials. Many will directorships or private is this Until matter associations. probably not return home. clarified, Mr. Linowitz should step aside; he may already have After a thousand difficulties tainted any treaty Mrs. X was able to visit her irrevocably which is the production of his husband, a former lieutenant who in a camp near negotiations. is being Tra-Vin- h. She now cries day and DOCUMENTING THE is so husband her In documenting his CHARGE night because emaciated and at the end of his conflict of interest charge. Helms strength. He has to work like a noted that Pan American has an slave. Although she had paid a office in Panama and uses Panama heavy sum in bribes she was only City as a convenient midway stop able to sec him for a few minutes on its Caribbean and South and was not allowed to give him American flights. It is of both logistical and anything, not even the medicines he urgently needs. The conditions financial interest to Pan American in the camps are still as bad as at to maintain land landing rights in the beginning, with the possible Panama, which is seeking to business exception of the camp atTay-Nin- h develop its tourist and the camp for former generals, further,1 states Helms. But it is linowitzs connecwho arc not treated too badly to tion with Marine Midland and the because they arc presented banks links with Panama that disforeign journalists. turbs Heims. In pointing out that ted Africa Progresses Backwards? Bv Paul Scott Linowitz serves not only on the board of directors of Marine Midland Banks, but also on its executive committee which approves major loans", he reports: Marine Midland has over the past few years participated in a number of loans to the government of Panamas dictator Omar Torrijos and has opened offices in Panama. THE BIG LOANS -- One of the transactions cited by Helms in-vol- Marine Midlands participation with a group of other U.S. banks in a $1 15.000,000 loan to Panama. At least, 54,500,000 of the banks money has gone into other loans to Panama. Noting that the Panamanian government is presently in a deep financial crisis as a result of its own mismanagement". Helms warned that the international banking community has grave doubts whether the outstanding indebtedness incurred by Torrijos can be paid." If the Torrijos government fails because of its financial crisis", Helms stresses, it could wrell mean the end of the bankers paradise created by Torrijos which provides U.S. and other banks with a tax haven for international financial transactions outside the U.S. Picturing a banking office in Panama as like the flag of convenience which Panama offers to the world merchant marine, Helms described Torrijoss new banking paradise as follows: When Omar Torrijos took over Panama in a military coup, he reorganized the banking law of the country in 1970, following the advice of the New York banking community. The new laws were so favorable that the banking industry in Panama went through a startling expansion from what then was a few banks with assets of a few millions of dollars serving only Panamas small economy. Today, only six years later, there are 73 banks in Panama with assets of 58.6 billion involved in transactions throughout the world. Marine Midland is among those banks which take advantage of those transactions with an office in Panama. ...The indebtedness of the Republic of Panama has risen from some 5167 million when Torrijos took over to an estimated 51.5 billion today. ..with half the debt held by U.S. commercial banks." THE CRUCIAL QUESTION In presenting these facts to the White House and Senate. Senator Helms has asked: Is it beyond reason that the members of the banking fraternity involved in Panama are looking to the proposed surrender of U.S. sovereignty and territory in the Canal Zone as a way of propping up the Torrijos regime and providing increased revenues to his government? If President Carter is to keep his administration from becoming tainted by its first major conflict of interest case, he should answer that question and the serious charges involving Linowitz and his links to firms doing business with the Panama government. Bv Robert M. Bartell WASHINGTON, D.C. (Liberty Lobby News Service) Amin Idi has again grabbed the limelight of world attention. Rut Uganda is merely the center of a multi-ring circus. Its been said that the revolt American colonies served Great Britain against to inspire the French Revolution a few years afterward. Both actions have been held up ever since as models for oppressed peoples throughout the world. To our credit, with a minimum of pressure and guilt feelings the U.S. agreed in 1934 to free the Philippine Islands later driving out the Japanese to do so. Colonial powers have undergone a long erosion of their spirit to explore, manage, develop and occasionChristianize terrially tories. This erosion is commonly attributed to the world depression in the 1930s and budding aspirations for freedom as consequences of World Wars I and II. But since the wars and depression were to a considerable extent artificially instigated, historians should look elsewhere. Thirty years ago began a headlong rush to liquidate the empires of Great Britain, France, Holland and Belgium, accompanied by ap- from Americas jlause witworld the But eaders. nessed a peculiar phenomenon: former white masters colonies the departed, became "developing natotalitarian tions then dictatorships sprang up to lead the "liberated people. The doctrine of "biological exwas determinism" Leopold pounded by George Cuvier, a naturalist who was president of the Academy of Sciences of France. He is famed for his "Law of the and "Law of Species . THE PIG AND THE COW rich man once said to a friend, Why is it everybody is always criticizing me for when being miserly I have knows everyone made provisions to leave I everything possess to I charity when die? A "Well, said the friend, let me tell you about the pig and the cow. The pig was lamenting to one day the about cow how unpopular he was. People are always talking about your gentleness and your kind eyes, said the pig. and I more. even cream, but give I give bacon, ham, and I give bristles, and they even pickle my feet! Still nobody likes me! Why this? The cow thought for a minute, and then said, Well, maybe its because I give while Im still living. Sure, you give milk WE BUY SILVER COINS TOP MARKET PRICES A & A Trading 227 West 600 South Salt Lake City, Utah 84101 Phone (801) 531-6457 Page 5 Traits. of Correlation Cuvier held it to be axiomatic that the species and races had a built-i- n compulsion to repeat the behavior engraved in their instinct through atavism or ancestral recollection. Cuviers teachings were eradicated systematically from U.S. textbooks beginning with the Franklin Roosevelt era. The "emerging nations of Africa are currently providing a remarkable illustration of what Cuvier tried to tell his colleagues. Recently Angola and Mozambique have been "liberated into Marxist hands and now are havens for guerrillas making targets of Rhodesia. Years earlier Katanga wanted to be as separate from the Congo after Belgian liberation as it had been before World War II. A U.S. aided U.N. army preserved unity by vicious -- force. Jomo Kenyatta once led brutal the unspeakably Mau Mau, until England (pressured by the Eisen-howAdministration ensconced him in power. d Hastings Banda rules Malawi and holds 5000 residents in putrid jails and camps. Dr. Kenneth Kaunda, n a CIA protege, has rule in Zambia and detains 8000 "politically citizens. unreliable In Sudan, troops of Jamar Nimeiri slaughtered 500,000 tribesmen who objected to enslavement. Francisco Macias Nguema is unchallenged boss of the former Guinea. Spanish He has 50,000 political enemies, including his original high officials. 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