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Show Page The Paper That Dares To Take The Utah Independent April 28, 1977 8 classes. They had been promised exemption from the military draft. But Czar Alexander III and his son Nicholas II largely followed the original agreement of Catherine the Great. During World War I, the Russian Germans fought loyally for OUR CAMBODIAN Your Man FRIENDS WE LEFT In Washington TO DIE Have By U.S. Senator Orrin G. Hatch Youth Unemployment: A National Disgrace One of the greatest problems reported in the media recently is the high level of unemployment among Americas young people. Nationally, the average rate for the past three years has exceeded Even in Utah, where the per capita rate of working young people is considerably higher than the national average, the rate of youth unemployment is 16.5, three times the total Utah unemploy- 15. ment rate. National statistics show youth unemployment almost overall double the 7.7 unemployment average. Senator Hubert II . Humphrey, while serving as chairman of the Joint Economic addition, these young people will be untrained in the basic skills of finding and keeping a job skills most workers learn as youth, in and summer part-tim- e employment. The excessive costs and human tragedy that will result from this disgraceful unemployment - cannot be overemphasized. Consider the further education that cannot be paid for, the goods and services that cannot be purchased, the quality of life that . cannot be achieved, and the frustration for want of material things that can lead to crime. The repercussions of this national disgrace" will be felt by even-America- Committee, said, This is a national disgrace. I believe that it is incredible that a government will sit around paralyzed in its own indifference with a national unemployment of 3.5 million young workers age 25 or under." These 3.5 million young people constitute nearly half of this nations unemployed. national This will have a serious effect on the nation five to ten years down the road when these youngsters enter the job market as adults, having been deprived of the opportunity to develop job skills and of the feelings that come from earning an honest dollar for their labor. In disgrace" Congress is aware of this need. There are many bills with different approaches to the problem. The questions now are how long will it be until legislation is enacted, who will it help, and will it do enough soon enough. There are many bestatistics discouraging ing reported these days the high cost of living, the price of gas and energy, skyrocketing inflation, the gross national product, and the consumer price index. However, the most depressing statistic and the one that demands immediate action is the rate of unemmployment among our young people. BUY AND DISTRIBUTE EXTRA COPIES OF THE UTAH INDEPENDENT 25C Dozen 1 assorted copies older than 2 months $1.00 12 each for $2.75 25 for $5.00 50 for $9.00 100 for $17.50 Price includes postage and handling. you heard about and Cambodia the that started happenings 17, l75? The April government collapsed and the last American diplomat tied. The soldiers" came and immediately started taking cars, trucks, bicycles, and other form of any transportation, for their own use. All the people were ordered out into the street and out of town. This put hundreds of thousands of milling people into the streets walking out of town. If anyone tried to argue they were shot on the spot. Soon the people realized they had to go and leave everything. The old, the sick, the crippled, the young, everyone had to go. The hospitals were emptied. The patients put in the street to die. Those that died were left to rot. The three and one half million people of Phnom Penh, the capital, were out on the road leaving the city lifeless. They had no food or water and moved slowly. One girl said it took her three days to walk 2' i miles because of the crowd. Dead bodies lined the of Some died road. exposure. Many were shot by soldiers." The stench, the crying, the hoplessness w7as everywhere. This same procedure was carried on in city after city. By 1 l7f the order came for them to kill all civil servants, teachers, foresters, public health officials and their families, lip until that time the slaughter had been confined to officers and senior civil servants. They strove to obliterate every human trace of the old government by the first anniversary of its victory. One of the bosses. leng Sarv. flew to a special session of the Tnitcd Nations Cieneral Assembly. He left behind a country without universities, commerce. art. music, literature, science, or hope. Upon landing in New York he - boasted. The towns have been cleaned. When he appeared at the United Nations he was warmly ISSUE DESIRED applauded by delegates around the world. Why? The world has largely NAME remained ADDRESS outraged student protest, no great outcry in Congress, no CITY & STATE Enclosed $ ZIP Total amount 57 East Oakland Avenue Salt Lake City, Utah 841 15 silent. demonstrations Pennsylvania Avenue, No on and about what has brought to nothing said peace Cambodia. In the jungles, in the villages, under the guns of A n g k j l.om" Continued on page 9 Stand A their Czar. Germans Sec Red Bv Robert M. Bartell WASHINGTON, D.C. (Liberty Lobby News Service) We have heard much about Russian Jews who want to leave the Soviet Union for Israel, and Rus- sian intellectuals who wish to emigrate for ideological or rebels like reasons, who were Solzhenitsyn what But actually expelled. the about the the ordinary folk of Russia who also want out? We've heard little of them until now. Recently the of StockNyheter, holm. Sweden, reported, Ten Soviet citizens of German origin held a demonstration on the Red Square in Moscow on Tuesday morning, brandishing posters where they demanded a great numto emigrate ber of tourists saw the demonstration. The Soviet police seized a number of Western newsmen who had the event photographed . . . the ten demonstrators were arrested, of course, and so far as is known, are still being detained by the Soviet police. They had to emigrate to long sought West Germany. The story of Germans in the Soviet Union began in 1764 when Catherine the Great of Russia (born a German princess) invited farmers to homestead along the lower Volga River and other eastern frontier agriThat land cultural lands. rush rivaled some in North America. Later, thousands merbecame prosperous craftsmen and chants not-so-famo- us, non-Jew- s, Da-ge- ns ... in St. Petersburg, the capi- tal. But in 1917 the Bolshevik Revolution led to seizure and collectivization of private farms. These Germans became government employes. Their Volga area was renamed the Volga German Nazi When Republic. in attacked Russia Germany 1941, the Volga Germans were forcibly deported to central Asia, where 2,000-00- 0 remain. They have since been forced to adapt nominally to communism, but were never allowed to return to their former homesteads. In the 1970 census 66 of them listed German as their primary language. Many struggle to keep alive their heritage of Christianity. Since 1970 some 30,000 were allowed to emigrate, sponsored by relatives in West Germany. According to our sources, 40,000 more wish to leave Russia. They feel certain provisions of the Helsinki Pact apply to them. Many have relatives in the North American prairie: the Nebraska, Dakotas, Colorado and Kansas, Canada. Church groups Lutheran, Catholic, Baptist etc. could sponsor others, as they did so many refugees from Indochina in 1975. This emigration to freedom may yet occur, if two unofficial but apparently are strong overcome. First, our mass media must publicize the plight of all groups of oppressed Soviet citizens, instead of playing favorites as now. Second, the Carter Administration must really mean its attention-gettin- g statements on human rights. If that leads to scrapping y street known the as detente with the Soviet government, let the chips fall where they may. pre-conditio- ns one-wa- To be sure, there were legal difficulties with the The Czarist government. movement sought to force the children to atPan-Slav- ic tend Russian-speakin- g Reader's comments are welcome. Please pass along any points of view to Liberty Lobby. Dept. 4 '15. 300 Independence Ave., S.K., Washington. D.C. 20003 WE BUY SILVER COINS TOP MARKET PRICES A & A STOP ABORTION I If M Trading 227 West 600 South Salt Lake City. 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