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Show The Paper That Daree To Take A Stand July 14, 1977 The Utah Independent Page 11 SINO-AMERICA-N RELATIONS ADVISING THE PRESIDENT By Clyde A. Farnsworth Los Angeles President Carter, heir to President Nixon's China policy, has made it almost perfectly clear that any plausible nt Peking pledge of a Taiwan takeover can swiftly bring normalization of relationships" with Washington. Carter attached this as a rider recent to firming of his choice of Leonard Woodcock, president of the United Auto Workers, to be ambassador to the disorder-ridde-n Peoples Republic of China. The Taiwan-base- d Republic ofChina, recognized by the U.S. as the legal government of China, though it . occupies only some insular parts of Chinese territory. These are mainly Taiwan, a hundred miles' or so off the non-viole- Communist-rule- d coast. . - the withdrawal of all U.S. forces and military installations from Taiwan." Meanwhile these were to be progressively" reduced as tension in the area diminishes." So enough of backgrounding. 'The one obstacle, major obstacle, obviously is the relationship we have always had with Taiwan," Carter was quoted We dont out of Washington. want to see the Taiwanese people punished or attacked. And if we can resolve that major difficulty, I would move expeditiously normalize to relationships with China. But I cant put a time limit on it." He told the same news conference that his administration had moved to strengthen ties with. Red China, including a discussion of financial claims on both sides. Implicitly this concerns about 10 million U.S. dollars worth of blocked Chinese assets, mostly in American banks, and about $190 Industrious Taiwan is peopled with somewhat more than 14 million Chinese who were born there, plus another couple of million, most of whom refuged from the mainland in 1949 and later. million in American assets confiscated when the Communists of Strong remnants Kai-sheseized power in China, Generalissimo Chiang In his Notre Dame address land, air and naval forces, over with Carter , signaled Peking his recruiting replenished the years, turned Taiwan and its eagerness to find a formula for some of the difficulties that still outposts into strong defensive face of separate us." positions, sometimes in the As a footnote to the distracted Communist artillery fire from mood in mainland China of late a mainland shore positions. One of the greatest of defense report by Shirley Temple Black, advantages on the Nationalist, or recently returned from a side, was (still is) a week visit to China and testified at mutual military assistance pact a San Francisco club luncheon that with the United States, fruit of the a drumfire" of bitter invectives Korean war of 1950. The pact against the United States still pours seems doomed to denunciation by from inescapable Peking's the U.S. . as condition of the loudspeakers. The. Communique, Shanghai called agreement". It diplomat, last serving President was signed at Shanghai in 1972 by Ford as U.S. chief of protocol, said the theme of every conversation Nixon and the late Chou En-la- i. is the she had with mainland officials was . ..The Taiwan question crucial question obstructing the the desire for friendship with the normalization of relations between U.S. China and the United States," Yet a very different song came from clusters of loudspeakers Communist side, declared the. The government of the Peoples mounted on poles out in the rice Republic of China is the sole legal paddies, on train radios whose . government of China. Taiwan is a volume could not be reduced and province of China....No other at the factory workbench. Communist Chinese countiy has the right to interfere . (and) all U.S. forces and military propaganda persists in lumping installations must be withdrawn , United States imperialism with the social imperialism" of tire from Taiwan...." , It sufficed for Nixon Soviet Union as the most sinister essentially (1) to agree that there is forces at large in the revolutionary only one China and Taiwan is part reach of Maoism, It was schoolroom rote, Mrs. of it, (2) to reaffirm that U.S. interest in a peaceful settlement of Black added, for English language the Taiwan question by the students to parrot like Mao, The Chinese themselves," and (3) United States and all imperialists declare as an ultimate objective are paper tigers. Bv Paul Scott Washington: Although it has received little public attention. President Jimmy Carter has received some very worthwhile but unsolicited advice concerning the strategic Panama Canal from four - former Chiefs of Naval Operations, who are concerned about the way the current negotiations with Panama are going over a new treaty. The military experts described as among the greatest living naval strategists today, both in terms of experience and judgment" urged the President to shelve any plans to give up U.S. sovereignty over this vital waterway. Signed by Retired Admirals Robert B. Carney, Arleigh A. Meanwhile, the hundreds of combatants, from submarines to cruisers, can be funneled through the transit as can the vital fleet train needed to sustain the combatants. In the years ahead, as carriers become smaller or as the Canal is modernized, this problem will no longer exist. , CANALS THE AMERICAN WAY Food, clothes, work in these matters Americans prefer individual choice. Many Americans exercise' their choice only in personal matters. They enjoy the rights and ignore the duties Our of citizenship. government is the peoples household and workshop. Because of its democratic nature, we, the people, must exercise our choice in and material, political, cultural fare. Those who fail to vote because it is too much trouble" must be shown that votes largely decide how we shall live and work. Let us vote but let us think first. By our ballots, let us. strive to insure for our children The American Way. - ng SOCIAL UNREST RECOGNIZED We recognize that a certain amount of social unrest is generated by the contrast in living standards between VALUE Our experience has PROVEN been that as each crisis developed during our active service World War II, Korea, Vietnam and the Cuban missile crisis the value of the Canal was forcefully emphasized by emergency transits Qf our naval units 'and massive logistic support for the Armed The Canal provided Forces. operational flexibility and rapid mobility. In addition, there are the psychological advantages of this power potential. As Commander- you will find the ownership and sovereign control of the Canal indispensable during periods of tension and conflict. As long as most of the sovereignty is guaranteed, might benefit the entire Panamanian economy, and especially areas near the U.S. Zone, The worldd . considered jurisdiction over the Canal Zone Jesse Helms Byrdi Jr. (Ind-VA- ), (R.-Nand Strom Thurmond (R- The senators are now SC). circulating the letter of the four, former militaiy advisers to four different Presidents to their C), to present U.S. security, the four admirals joined with t the four senators to draft the emergency letter and dispatch it to the White House. THE ADMIRALS LETTER As former Chief of Naval Operations, fleet commanders and naval advisers to previous Presidents, we believe we have an . offer our combined judgment on the strategic value of the Panama Canal to the U.S. Contrary to what we read about the declining strategic and value of the Canal, the truth is that this waterway is as important, if not more so, to the U.S. than ever. The Panama Canal enables the U.S. to transfer its naval forces .and commercial units from ocean to ocean as the need arises. This inter-ocean- ic is and Canal offer the opportunity to use the waterway or to deny its use, to others in wartime. ' This authority was especially, helpful during World War II and1 also Vietnam. Under the control of a potential adversary, the Panama Canal would become an immediate ' crucial problem and prove a WE GET WHAT WE VOTE FOR serious weakness in the overall AND DONT VOTE AGAINST U.S. defense capability, with if the American people, the enormous potential consequence majority of them, knew what they for evil. were doing when they voted, would CAPABILITIES NAVAL they have voted for the people who "Mr. gave us inflation, defeat in Vietnam CHALLENGED President, you have become our after sacrificing 50,000 Americans leader at a time when tkie adequacy to No-wi- n and to Detente, and who 0f our naval capabilities is being show hostility and duplicity seriously challenged. The existing towards our freedom-lovin- g maritime threat to us is friends and allies abroad while compounded by the possibility that giving trade and credit with the Canal under Panamanian commodation to our Red enemies? sovereignty could be neutralized or pjd the American voters even lost, depending on that realize they were voting for other government's relationship with than a president? Did they know other nations. We note that the what they were voting for when present Panamanian government they voted for senators, represen-econom- ic has close ties with the present tatives and state and local officials? Cuban government which in turn is Of course the people didnt Soviet Union, the tied to know closely they were voting for what Loss of the Panama Canal,' which they got, which is bad enough; but would be a serious setback in war, if they dont know any better in this would contribute to the election well get even worse, encirclement of the U.S. by hostile naval forces, and threaten our ability to survive, For meeting the current situation, you have the well-knoprecedent of former distinguished Secretary of State (later Chief Justice) Charles Evans Hughes, ion to you and the nation to capability increasingly important now in view of the reduced size of the U.S. Atlantic and Pacific fleets. We recognize that the Navys largest aircraft carriers and some of are too who, when faced with a the worlds super-tank- s wide to transit the Canal as it exists comparable situation in 1923, The super-tanke- rs declared, to' the Panamanian today. of a small but percentage government that it was an 'absolute represent the world's commercial fleets, futility for it to expect an no From a strategic viewpoint, the American administration, be can matter what it was, any President Navys largest carriers and as or any Secretary of State, ever to pressures wisely positioned tensions build in any kind of a surrender any part of (the) rights short-ranglimited situation. which the 1LB, had acquired under wn . e, and Operations to the President, Senators McClellan, Byrd, Helms and Thurmond wrote: We think you will agree that these four men are among the greatest living naval strategists today, both in terms of experience and judgment.. ..We concur intheir judgment and trust you will find such action wholly consistent with our national interest and will act accordingly." and sovereignty individual existing treaty." Note. In forwarding the letter of the four former Chiefs of Naval commercial tonnage can transit through the Canal, it offers inestimable strategic advantages to the U.S., giving us maximum strength at .miminum cost, Moreover, Canal combined judgment that you should instruct our negotiators to retain full sovereign control for the U.S. over both the Panama Canal and its protective frame, the U.S. Canal Zone as provided in the and combatant Panama those represents a vital portion of our U.S. naval and maritime assets, all of which are absolutely essential for free world security. It is our in-Chi- ef, ks three-Kuominta- the Treaty of 1903'. (House Document No. 474, 89th Congress, p. 154) |