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Show Page 8 The Utah Independent June 30, 1977 The Paper That Dares To Take . READERS THE SCOTT REPORT OUTLOOK THE NEW CHINA BOMBSHELL Continued from page 2 By Paul Scott is a be interpreted in Peking as a sign Washington: There growing belief in congressional and diplomatic circles here that the Carter administration is about to make a major move toward recognition of Communist China as the sole legitimate government of China. State Department officials are saying privately that Secretary of State Vance plans to outline the administrations new Asian policy in a major speech in New York on June 29 and that it will deal mainly with Communist China. Involved in the new policy to State change, according Department insiders who have had access to copies of working papers being used to prepare Vances bombshell, are the three conditions proposed by Communist China for the establishment of that the fulfillment U.S. is of its normalizing relations mainland. For the same deferring of. with the goal diplomatic relations, namely: of diplomatic (1) A break-of- f relations with the Republic of Free China on Taiwan; (2). unilateral abrogation of the mutual defense treaty with the Republic of China; human and (3) the withdrawal of all U.S. stressing rights, Vance Taiwan has privately forces from (this Secretary military will be accompanied by a unilateral urged the President to make a bold U.S. statement expressing foreign policy move toward continued concern over the Peking: Since the Peking government security of people in Taiwan). The groundwork for this has taken the position that there policy change was laid by President can be no normal relations with the Carter in his recent foreign policy U.S. unless it has a free hand to speech at Notre Dame University, take over Taiwan, Carter is being In discussing U.S. relations with advised by Vance to begin breaking the unstable Peking regime. Carter all ties with the Republic of Free China. stated: How far Carter plans to go at It is important that we make toward normalizing this time should become clear in progress relations with the People's Vances coming New York speech. Republic of China. We see the With the Republic of Free China American-Chines- e relationship as having strong support in congress, a central element of our global the big question facing the policy, and China as akey force for President is whether he is ready to Wt wish to risk another big foreign policy global peace. cooperate closely with the creative battle in which he could be Chinese people on the problems defeated, In the past week the senate has that confront all mankind. We hope to find a formula which can served notice on the President that bridge some of the difficulties that he should go slow in making any drastic changes in present U.S. still separate us. Asian diplomats have taken policy toward Vietnam, Cuba, and Carters speech as indicating that South Korea, These senate votes normally the U.S. plans to establish full diplomatic relations with Peking in would be taken by a President as the very near future. To support signs that there should be no this contention, these diplomats cutting our ties to the Republic of stress that Secretary Vances first Free China. But these are not official trip to China is now normal times and President Carter for August three appears to have decided to scheduled months earlier than originally normalize relations with China Communist despite the huge planned. cost. THE COLD SHOULDER Note. In order to cope with In sharp contrast. Secretary Vance has flatly refused to even grant Soviet encirclement. Communist Ambassador James Shen of the China will seize T aiwan if they see Republic of Free China an the U.S. being less than constant in audience while meeting several its support of the Taiwan defense times with Huang Chen, the head treaty. This is the warning being of Communist Chinas liaison given lawmakers by Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, the retired former office here. Ambassador Shen has sought Chief of Naval Operations. He an audience with Secretary Vance adds: It is almost without to discuss his government's question that the severance of the proposed appointment of a new alliance with the Republic of Free ambassador from Taiwan. The China would have a seriously message relayed to the Republic of jarring effect, at least, upon our Free China through other sources worldwide alliance relationships, the And from the military point of is that Vance opposes appointment of any new view, we would lose the capability ambassador. The reason: it could to have, as a deterrent, a forward . our liquidated, Communist enemies treated as harmless assets to be built up. Americans dont like what they have to pay for the social security, the welfare, the federal funding that politicians in government had told us would cost little or was free. Americans don't like the way reason. President Carter has decided not to replace career diplomat Leonard Unger, U.S. Ambassador in Taipei since 1974. Ambassador Shen has represented the Republic of Free China in Washington since 1971. He is considered one of the most popular and able ambassadors in Washington. An outstanding public Shen has speaker, the used this power to help create a favorable climate of public opinion for his nation of 16,000,000. Public opinion polls indicate strong U.S. opposition to normalized ties with Communist China if such a move jeopardizes Taiwans security. THE HUMAN RIGHTS With U.S. relations with ISSUE Soviet Union beginning to bog the down in the fallout caused by President Carters policy of full Americans dont like seeing their government treating our friends and allies as liabilities to be that bureaucrats are running their lives, telling them what they must or must no do. Maybe other people have more reasons for liking their government even less, but that is no reason why we should be allowing our government to change so that we like it less and less. We need to be ever more alert, considering the consequences- of changes in our Constitution and government, changes that would give the federal government more powers and controls over us, that would take . from us and spend for us more of our money, changes that would bring us closer to our Communist enemies and separate us from our free world friends and allies. Sincerely, J. Kesner Kahn Chicago, III. 60649 - . ' Middle-of-the-road- er Norman Thomas once said that TV A made a 'Garden of Eden out of a desolate and destitute valley. Just shows you what God could have done if Hed had the money. -- Tom Anderson Down on the Farm WASHINGTON, D.C. (Liberty Lobby News Service) The Soviet government has just come up with an answer to the old World War I question, "How you gonna em down on the keep farm? The problem, which has worried country families ever since American servicemen saw "Paree then, has now been solved with one stroke of the pen by Kremlin solution? leaders. Their An injection of additional forced labor to boost the manpower on the collective farms and state farms of Russia. Listeners to this program have heard us tell about the real Achilles heel of the communist system: the failure of regimentation in farming. peons of the Soviet agricultural system, whose families had been independent landowning villagers in the days of the czars but whose land has noW been collectivized. Now they must exist as hired means have included a attitude general on the part of the farm workers, plus a thousand and one devices to disable farm machinery and scatter or ruin crops. They ' do this in spite of all the measures the Soviet system has taken their grassroots against resistance, including the death penalty for "sabotage in cases of unskilled handling of farm machinery. Nothing has seemed to help, however. The trouble all along has been the low go-slo- w purchasing power of Soviet wages both on the collective farms and in the indus- trial factories. Back in 1913, when Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra were on the throne, a woman who hired herself out with her sickle to help gather crops which men couldnt mow by scythe, could buy four pounds of rye bread with one hours wages. Today, under Comrade Brezhnev, the Russian industrial worker can buy 1V pounds of the same bread with one hour of his farm hand' wages. And-thmust invest, on the average, 1 V hours of his toil for one pound of rye bread the same commodity his grandmother and great ' grandmother bought for 15 minutes work in the "bad-day- s of the czar. It's a galling situation for the Soviet leaders, especially since they perceive the trend among the Soviet workers to take major risks to end their slavery. Several times this unruly attitude of the Russian masses has forced Soviet leaders to run, hat in hand, to Washington and beseech our leaders to save them with grain sales on the cuff. It's been humilia-- . ting for the Soviets, not at all in conformity with their claims of being a super power, of asserting an equal status with the U.S.A. in world affairs. e Weve also discussed the hands of the Soviet state Stand - By Robert M. Bartell a condition they dont relish and try to fight with their limited means. Over the years, such A . the Soviet Now govern- ment has taken its most drastic step since the Stalin regime to make collective farms work. Since April 1, 1977, by Soviet decree, forced labor, obtained from city jails, is being infused into the Soviet farm system. Thats slave labor, by any criteria. Its guaranteed to help the Soviet system work. Thats how theyre gonna keep em "down on the in the Soviet farm . . ... Union. Reader's comments are welcome. Please paaa along any points of view to 300 IndepenLiberty Lobby, Dept. dence Ave., S.E., Washir.gtoa.D.C. 20003 GET IDEAS FROM TV Police shows on television often give convicts ideas for future crimes, according to a three-mont- h survey at maxi- - Michigans penitentiary of Marquette. The study was done by a 31 year-old inmate who has served five years of a life term. He said he was really surprised by the results. I didnt think mum-securi- ty -- television Planning was that educational in terms of crime. 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