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Show The Paper That Dares To Take Stand A September 29, .1977 The Utah Independent Page 3 BAN SACCHARIN SILENCING ENERGY DISSENT DELAY ON COURSE Continued from page Idaho's U.S. Washington: Senator Jim McClure reported that the ban on saccharin will be postponed for 8 months as a result of legislation passed in the Senate. This bill now goes to the House for This is an almost in- comprehensively large number, Even the bottom of the range represents about ten times the energy value of all oil, gas and coal reserves of the U.S. combined. consideration. It was challenges like this to McClure said that the bill will the administrations energy as- delay the ban on saccharin in order that led to McKelveys that additional studies may be con- sumptions dismissal by Interior Secretary ducted to evaluate the risks and to Cecil Andrus, according benefits of the sugar substitute. Representative James F. Kemp(R- "I suspect that saccharin's who has been quietly looking health benefits may well outweigh NY), the forced resignation. He the health risks of not using it." the states: Republican Senator contended. Dr. McKelvey has been This bill gives us an opportunity his post because of to make a proper judgment forced to resign his optimistic view of our energy without depriving it. in the meansituation a view that runs counter time, to those who depend upon it Malthusian pessimism of for health reasons. Since saccharin to the President Carter, Secretary An- i s the sweet ner only on the U.S. market, the choices drus. and Dr. James Schlesinger, the administrations Energy czar, aren't very broad. 1 do not believe it is a coin- Recent findings have conforced cluded that the saccharin used in cidence that McKelvey's from his post as Director the Canadian experiments was removal U.S. the Geological Survey, contaminated. This fact makes is which ' unprecedented in its his- me wonder if there is enough heels evidence to ban the use of the tory, followed closely on the McClure of an important speech given by artificial sweetener, him in Boston on June 13. said. Maybe it was the conIn seeking a congressional tamination that caused the cancer of McKelveys firing, in the rats and not the saccharin Kemp warns that itself. For this reason and others, several senators called for an the Carter administrations is extended time of review before the treatment of the scientist part of a larger pattern of suppressing ban goes into effect. dissent on the energy issue, stating: McClure, who Earlier there was the similar legislation to extend the which concluded that time for review, was pleased with energy study at a price of $2.24 per MCF the the vote in favor of the legislation. nation would be awash with natural gas. At a price of between $2.50 and $3 we would be engulfed You may light anothers in it. But because this conclusion candle at your own. without.; ran cotuiter to the official line, as ... laid down by James Schlesinger and his mentorS. David Freeman, the 1 Bv Capt. Joe . Ferguson SALARY SITUATION AT THE U.N. Joe By Captain . Ferguson U.N. BUREAUCRATS A national news magazine recently described in some United detail the salary situation at the Nations. The U.N. Secretariat, alone, has doubled to more than 18,000 members in the last ten years, with over one-thiof that number classified as professional and staff. More than 1,000 of these U.N. higher-levbureaucrats are paid more than the $66,000 yearly amount which U.S. Cabinet members receive. Another thousand are paid more than $40,000 a year. American of these salary costs. taxpayers foot the bill for A recent State Department report noted that pay for the U.N. staff (including employee contributions to health insurance and retirement) exceeds the United States average by 45 to 73 percent. U.N. pensions surpass U.S. pensions by 23 to 73 percent. U.N. annual leave exceeds U.S. annual leave by 15 to 131 percent. And U.N. sick pay, on a yearly basis, exceeds U.S. sick pay by an anti-Americ- an rd el one-four- th overwhelming 1,400 to 1,900 percent! NAZI FOOT SOLDIER The U.N.s top man, former Nazi foot soldier Kurt Waldheim, is paid $110,650 a year. In addition, he receives a post adjustment allowance of $11,520 to compensate for New Yorks outrageously high living costs. Waldheims net pay is nearly $70,0(00 phis $22,500 lives for entertainment expenses, the Secretary-Genery in a rent-freManhattan mansion and is provided a limousine, large staff, and various housekeeping and travel allowances. In addition, the pays substantial amounts to run the household and provide security. Adi of tfrrsfor an international socialist dedicated to promoting, right within our own borders, a collectivist system totally opposed to the economic and political principles expounded in the U.S. Constitution. four-stor- e, U.-JV- to of its undisputed is the prowess, . v r r. , gathering factual data in the politically charged areas of energy, water and mineral resources, If congress and the public are to have access to accurate in-formation especially on energy matters. Representative Kemp believes the head of that agency must have the freedom to publicly present his findings even when they contradict the preconceived sumptions on which the ministration now bases its $72 billion a year energy program, Like Bert Lance, the Director of the Office of Budget and Management, Director McKelvey should be given a congressional forum with full national TV, radio and press coverage to tell his story, The hearings and its findings could turn out to be even more important to the American people and the country than those involving . Lance. r - ; V' of - , - scientific principle instrument for government ill-fat- ed al and Research Energy Development Agency quickly rashed out to do another study to contradict the first. The director of the first study. Dr. Christian Knudsen, was fired." THE BREWING SCANDAL h is Representative Kemps contention that this kind of treatment of government officials, who deviate from official ad-inministration line that the U.S. is on the brink of running out of energy, is a major scandal and should be fully probed by congress, The Geological Survey, for all ve non-nutritati- 1 . : 0 ' AS THE KREMLIN ORDERS? one-wor- ld Christ is not valued at all unless He be valued above all.' WHO PAYS THE TAXES? Since most U.N. employees come from countries which levy no income taes on U.fl. earnings, a tax scheme lias' been established to withhold equalization from U.N. Paychecks an amount roughly equivalent to the average national income tax. Americans and others who actually pay income taxes on their U.N. salaries are then reimbursed equalization fund.; In other words', U.S. citizens who work for the subversive United Nations do not, in essence, pay federal income tax on their earnings. Their tax burden is reimbursed by the world body. It is something you will want to keep in mind as your own paychecks are stripped of their unreimbursed contributions to the Internal Revenue Service. WE NEED TO KNOW The Con munist Party is the only political party now allow'ed to exist in Panama, which means that President Carter and his treaty-pusheare trying to give our canal to these Communists and their Soviet Cuban supporters and they are not telling us why. - - If DONT HURT ANYBODY was posted around lor everybody to see, more people would get the message, fewer people would get hurt. CARTERS SECRET DIPLOMACY Why should we trust the Panama (anal treaty pushers" when t hey wont even trust us or Congress now with the full text ol the treaty they want ratified? And. when they are feeding us more misinformation than information? - r 2 When v - : ' the capitalist world starts to trade with us, on that day they will begin to finance their own BUY AND DISTRIBUTE EXTRA COPIES OF THE UTAH INDEPENDENT destruction. -- Attributed to V. I. Lenin It is one thing to know there is a God; its another 1 Dozen assorted copies older than 2 months $1.00 thing to know the God that is. -- Bob rs COULDNT HURT TO TRY IT -- Augustine So far as this world is 'j concerned,- a- little.' Child is the biggest thing Cbd-eveput in it. have been told that President Carter got an urgent message from U.S.S.R. President Brezhnev indicating that he was to. stop, the suspected testingof nuclear weapons by the Union of South Africa. As if he had been ordered. President Carter went to great lenghts to block the test, enlisting or mobilizing other governments and public opinion to comply with President - v . Brezhnevs urgent message. What word can you use to' describe such submissivenessto the Kremlin? Some call it Detente. ' Do similar orders lead Carter to insist that we must give them our canal in Panama? We Jones, Sr. 25$ each 12 for $2.75 25 for $5.00 50 for $9.00 100 for $17.50 Price includes postage and handling. 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