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Show WESTERN AMERICANA Our States Are Being Abolished (See Page 6) Dedicated To The Constitution, Liberty, Morality, and Truth 250 Salt Lake City, Utah 84106 Volume 2 No. 11 June 25, 1971 m COURT AND RACIAL HI 4 balance, must be just as legal and desirable a goal from State to State or section to section as it is from school to school or across town. Any other conclusion would not be logical or in keeping with the equal protection provision of die U.S. Constitution. The Supreme Court Building By Reed Benson and Robert Lee achieve the racial whims of the Supreme Gmrt.Such speculation g decision renThe dered by the Supreme Court on April 20, 1971, has stirred a pro-busin- hornets nest of public concern. to wonder if the busing of school children from one district to another because of their race may not be the start of a totalitarian toboggan ride that will eventuate in entire families being forcibly uprooted and moved in order to Many citizens are beginning is not as far-fetch- ed as it might seem at first glance, for as Congress m a n John Rarick observed to tin House on April twentieth: (D.-Louisia- If we are now to consider that racial balance is a constitutional goal, duty, and right, then distance must not be considered a legal factor. The attaining of true social justice, by pure racial An interesting and signi (leant aspect of this latest busing case, as .S' ;r n n n v . CliarloUr-MnklrnhurHoard of known fi Education , of busing to achieve racial balance. Yet that Act as a whole. use illu- sions. Advocates of trade seem to believe that small relationships with the Chinese communist regime will eventually grow into more permanent and stable relationships. But the real question is whether it is in the U.S. interest to maintain a sustained relationship with a totalitarian regime which seeks to destroy our influence and leadership. There is nothing healthy or normal about Some people are optimistic that a weakening of U.S. policy on trade with the communists in Red China will lead to a so-call- ed normalization of relations between these major powers. Others feel that Red China offers an untapped marked which will earn big profits for American . half of Europe, and in the outright division of several nations. Our blindness to communism led to the covert siqqiort of the Chinese communists by sympathetic elements in the State Department. This fact was documented last year by the publication of the famous Amerasia Papers by the Senate Internal We have before us the example of our relationship with the Soviet Union. Our recognition of the Soviet Union lias brought us a partnership filled with grief and trouble. Because we began to think of the Soviet Union as an ally and friend, we joined with her in an unholy alliance in World War II. We acquiesced in the imposition of communist governments on Security Subcommittee. Some of the same groups which partici-pate- d in the betrayal of China a quarter of a century' ago are now presented as the experts supporting the normalization of relations with an abnormal rigimc. Great Britain normalized relations, and the British Ambassador was unceremoniously kicked out of Peking. France normalized relations, and the Maoists helped engineer the riots which led to the downfall of President Charles de Gaulle. to - a as Minleri odTix Conslilu tfeial authorities Including I at the taxpayers' expense to no jmt lieve presidents of I hr mrriran liar ss(tcialioii) at the lime it was being considered, is nothing more than a means of achiev ing massive federal interference in areas the Constitution precludes the' government from entering. fid-er- The a! provisions were added to quiet some of the opposition to the Civil Rights Act. During Senate debate on June 4, 1964, for instance. Senator Robert C. Ryrtl (l).-YiVirginia) asked Senator Hubert the Humphrey following question: Can the Senator from Minnesota assure the Senator from West Virginia that under Title VI of thr .let school children mav not be busid from one end of the community to another end of the community anti-busin- g sl (l).-Minneso- re- racial imbalance in so-call- ed the schools?" Senator Humphrey, the bill's Senate floor manager, replied with simple candor: 1 do. And thus in the Act's definition of dcKcgrcgalionil is form4 ally specified that desegregation' shall not mean the assign- ment of students to public schools in order to overcome racial imbalance. Other legislation which has concluded Congressional hostility to such busing includes the Fleincnlary and Secondary l1' ducal ion Act of 1965, as amended in 1966 (which forbids any department , agency, officer, or employee of the Unified States. . . to require the assignment or transportation of students or Continued On Page 4 Chiimo 1 traders. Both of these goals arc By Senator Strom Thurmond that much of the opM)silion to the Court's decision has been predicated on various laws and prior Court decisions which an themselves of tin most dubious Constitutionality. For example, it has been correctly stressed that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 precludes the Trade such a relationship. is iJ cw f Canada normalized relations, and Peking sent as its Ambassador a man who is an open supiorler of the Quebec 1 liberation Front. If the United Slates normalizes relations, it will be a slap in the face to millions of Chinese, people under subjugation. Our diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union have not proven led the Soviets from building up the largest strategic nuclear striking force known to man. Our diplomacy has not succeeded in getting the Soviet Union to draw back from one single country in the communist bloc of socialist nations. Nor has the Soviet Union dropped its aggressive plans to dominate the world. Little is to be gained and much lost in the long run, then, from so-call- ed normal" relations with our enemies. There is even little hope of short-terfinancial profit from the weakening of trade restric self-declar- ed m tions. The communist Chinese simply do not have the money for a significant amount of trade with the United States. In 1970 Peking's foreign trade was $4.4 billion, worldwide. The communists imported mainly foodstuffs, fertilizer, rubber, cotton, iron and steel, and tools. They have for sale mainly textiles, shoes, soybeans, and Chinese vegetables, all of which have very little acceptability on the American market. The communists, therefore, have no way to gain dollar exchange to si'll their goods. Therefore, it is not surprising that the most optimistic projection of U.S. Red China trade shows a total volume of $1.2 billion even by 1980. Such a figure would amount to less than one-haof one percent of total U.S. foreign trade. It is significant that our total trade today with lf Continued On Page 10 THEUIftH INUtHtNDENT Second P.O. Box 6274 Sait Lake dty. 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