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Show ... , , . The Paper That Dares To Take 9 , , 1 February 4, 1980 The Utah Independent Page 3 A Stand Runways of two airfields in Cuba have been READERS and lengthened strengthened to handle the Backfire and bombers storage facilities for nuclear bombs for the aircraft which have been built and are now ready for use. Whether the nuclear bombs already are in Cuba and are stored in areas guarded by elements of the Soviet combat brigades is the issue being debated now in U.S. intelligence circles. The only way that these nuclear bombs can be detected is by overflights of SRp71s carrying special CARTER PILL HARD TO THE AMBIGUOUS President Carter so far to has flatly refused such authorize flights been have although they requested numerous times by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and top officials in the intelligence community. officials, the continuing Soviet military buildup in. Cuba is an integral part of the Kremlins grand strategy of its forward positioning forces to control the strategic waterways of the world and thus change the balance of power in their favor. The Soviet's swift move to take over Afghanistan is a key part of that strategy, as it will bring Soviet military might nearer the strategic Strait, of Hormuz, through which 60 percent of the oil to the West now passes. Russians' Under the grand design, control of this strategic waterway along with the Caribbean region will put Soviet leaders in a position to cut off oil supplies to U.S., Western Europe, and Japan from the Middle . East, Africa, and Latin America. In the Caribbean, for example, there 'were 42 one in. Puerto refineries Rico that was ' destroyed early in December, that handled 3,055,000 barrels of exportable oil per day in 1979. For' the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 1979, barrels of 113,594,000 Alaskan oil came through the Panama Canal. Fidel Castro has been given the mission of denying this supply of oil to the U.S. by destroying or forcing a shutdown refineries. It of these is increasingly apparent that the Soviet military buildup in Cuba is to help Castro carry out his mission for the Kremlin. This is why many here consider the link between Afghanistan, and Cuba as most Carter's President pressing problem and one he cant avoid without great peril - to this country's national security. WAR in Dear Editor: Ronald Reagan called on the United States recently to send weapons to the Afghan rebels who are fighting the Russian troops. more - Webster's Dictionary. to. detect fissionable material. intelligence TO Capable of being understood senses than one . 2. Doubtful or uncertain, Ambiguous. equipment Changing Balance of Power U.S. to According I. ROAD OUTLOOK SWALLOW - In the CBS televised newscast shortly before Jimmy Carter was to deliver his State of the Union address, the White House correspondent concluded a preview of the upcoming event with these words: "But, Mr. Carter does not want to open his paper tomorrow and discover that he has delivered an ambiguous message." After listening to the message, we are sure the reporter was wrong. We can but conclude that Carter intended to deliver an ambiguous message, a message that could be taken more than one way, one that left people doubtful, and uncertain. His very first sentence betrayed that ambiguity. He said; "The state of our union depends on the state of the world." Such a statement could mean almost anything, or almost nothing at all. Every statement after that seemed to have an "iffy" character. If the government of Iran surrendered those fifty American prisoners of war, then we'd be willing to soak the American taxpayers and give Iran both economic and military aid. If the Arabic and Islamic countries near the Persian Gulf will agree we'll fornfan ambiguous kind of "security relationship" with them. Not a relationship like NATO, but a kind of loose partnership with us instead of with the Russians. If the Soviet would stop threatening its neighbors, then we'd like to restore the'spirit of detente and sign the SALT II Treaty. If it seems necessary at some future date, he'll ask Congress to reinstate the draft. Meanwhile he'd ask Congress to pass a bill calling for the registration of those between 'the ages of 18 and 26. But he wasn't sure whether that should include women as well as men. An aide said he'd make up his mind later and let us know. Reagan arms:uThat would include those shoulder-launche- this. nation needs leadership, needs to know what we are supposed to do as a nation, and why we are supposed to be doing it, we are burdened with a President who tells other nations, "If you do this, we'll do that." And if the Iowa caucuses mean anything, we'll continue to be burdened with a President of this kind for another term - whether the name be Carter or Bush since they are both Trilateralist Commission alumni. When Carter says that the state of our union depends on the state of the world he probably means that our foreign policy whill determine our domestic policy. The late Senator Robert Taft (not to be confused with a son by the same name) put this in proper perspective when, at a previous critical time in our history , he said: "We cannot clean up the mess in Washington, balance the budget, reduce taxes, check creeping Socialism, or purge subversives from our State Department unless we come to grips with our foreign policy." Then he added, eliminating all ambiguity: "The purpose of American foreign policy should be to maintain the freedom of the people of this country and, insofar as consistent with that purpose, to keep this country at peace." Only this and nothing more. American. foreign policy should have no other purpose. . In almost diametric contrast, the purpose of our foreign policy has not been to keep us free, but to make us a part of a new world order in which we would surrender our sovereignty, lay down our arms, accept' a new kind of regional world government with a new set of morals, a new religion, new laws and new subservience to a kind of Big Brother. Also, throughout the years, ever since the Power Brokers financed the down-fa- ll of the Czarist regime and the imposition of the Bolshevik dictatorship in Russia, there has been a kind of relationship between our and Tom the Communist governments. As Anderson remarked in a government recent editorial: "On which side were our political leaders who made the 'mistakes' which lost China, Laos, Korea, Vietnam, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Poland, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Albania, Ethiopia, Angola, Iraq, Afghanistan. . .Nicaragua, Cuba, Iran. . .and there are more. . . to the most diabolical anti-Gtyranny in human history? Mostly under Demin our State Department helped force ocratic regimes, our the Dutch out of the East Indies, the British out of India, the Belgians out of out of China, Eisenhower out of East Germany, the Congo, Chiang Kai-sh- ek Somoza out of Nicaragua, the Shah out of Iran. ..the list is almost endless." so-cal- led od sts' there has been a turnabout. The time has come for an Orwellian "newspeak," a "truth revision." A month ago the Iranian government was our principal enemy and our government spoke of sanctions of embargoes, of an alliance against Iran. But now our President offers Iran economic and military aid,' and friendly alliance. Also, a month ago Russia was at least officially a friend. Today she has become an enemy and embargoes are declared, the Olympic Games are boycotted, war threatens. And we suddenly have a favorite nation trade agreement with Totalitarian China. Secretary of Defense Brown goes to China, talks of arranging a military alliance with Red China -obviously against Red Russia. Said the New York Times of January 10: "The United States and China have laid the groundwork for greater cooperation in defense matters, Secretary of Defense Brown said today after concluding four g using against them.' The general public is not informed that the Baltic peoples, the Lithuanians, Latvians and Estonians. waged a large-scal- e guerrilla war against the Russian troops in the Baltic States from 1944 to 1952 without any support from the democracies of the West. Those Baltic peoples succeeded in capturing the weapons and ammunitions from the German depots after the in Western Latvia of Germany. capitulation Therefore, the sending of the American weapons to Afghanistan could be the only means to check the Russian aggression in Asia. President Jimmy Carter failed to use any satisfactory measures to help the Afghan rebels to fight the Russians. The Afghanistan issue shows that President Carter lacks ability to exercise any leadership of the free world in case of crisis. His failure to check the Russian aggression is scandalous, especially for the reason that Afghanistan did not belong to the countries of the sphere of influence of the Soviet Union. The Russian communist leaders cannot care less about Carters appeal to the opinion of the world and any resolutions passed by the United Nations. Reagan is the only presidential candidate of both parties who realizes that the government of the Soviet Union respect only force and strong retaliatory measures. Dr. Alexander V. Berkis Farmville, Virginia womb-to-to- mb But now, suddenly, heat-seekin- d, missiles that could knock down a helicopter gunship the Soviets are At a time when 'anti-coloniali- those described ' Dear Editor: The West is on the verge of a collapse by its own Aleksandr . says hands, Solzhenitsyn, a man ;who spent 11 years in Siberian prison camps for making remarks "unflattering Dr. D. And about Stalin. James Kennedy, author of America at the Brink, tells us that 2 years ago the West was far stronger than Russia, but that the balance has changed, so that today the Soviets care little about what the West has to say about their actions. . to Referring statement Solzhenitsyn's about the precipitious collapse of the West, Dr. Kennedy feels that this is not only possible, but quite probable. Someone said to me, he stated, You don't really .think that God would let that happen to America, do you? Kennedy replied: |