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Show on More J1ageT Watergate Dndependlenf Dedicated To The Constitution, Liberty, Morality, and Truth it ft AAA Vol. 4 No. 33 AA-A-A-A-- A A A A A AA AA 254 Salt Lake City, Utah 84115 August 16, 1973 Piracy by Congressman John R. Rarick The biggest international power-gra- b in the history of the United Nations is being pulled off with the approval and support of the President of the United States and with the advice and consent of both Houses of 27-ye- ar Congress. so gigantic as to It is a power-gra- b dollars millions of annually into pour the United Nations treasury and to bring seventy percent of the earths surface under the complete control of an international regime run by the United Nations. that will give the It is a power-gra- b U.N. economic control over the largest deposits of strategic minerals in the world. It is a that will concentrate control of the production of advanced nations in the hands of a few countries in the name of preserving the environment. And it is a power-gra- b that will skim off the revenue produced' by respected United States companies and under-develop- The.U.N. grabs for control of undersea minerals worth billions of dollars to finance its authority and operations as a World Government y . power-gra- b ed to Aod No. 88 those last days of the compact, the Indian Prime Minister would be recuperating from an attack of the flu. Her counterpart, Mr. Nixon, would soon check into a hospital with viral pneumonia and a constant headache known as Watergate. Some said he didnt have viral pneumonia at all, but a new strain of Staff disease. In socialist more was always preserve. Service M nr Is ffl H O-l M rA r- 00 much-malign- H U H QH t PS OHM M pt: 4 w w BBS M K ta o w at his ed to India H D Q D fc, sat typewriter to describe what he alleges is the end of US aid to India. In the next couple of days, as soon as Prime Minister Indira Gandhi gets over a case of flu, US Daniel Ambassador Patrick will call her on and Moynihan close out an era. The ambassador will inform the prime minister that the US.aid program o Ctf American-lndia- n relations were supposed to have been tranquilized with US dollars. It just didn't work out that way. Sometime in July, Lewis M. Simons of the Washington Post Foreign 93 opportunist, playing Communist off against Capitalist. The Russians have access to Indian ports and the Indian Ocean is a Russian UTAH INDEPENDENT 2459 Major Street Salt Lake City, Utah 84115 Second Class Postage Paid at Salt lalie City, Utah crt ever. than Whatever the Indian was at anyone ti me, government it . is -- twenty-fift- h. officially ended, at her government's insistence. Moynihan will also present Mrs. Gandhi with a proposal for disposing of $840 million in Indian rupees held by the United States as a result of Indian payments for American grain supplied during the famine years of the 1960s under the Food for Peace program. so-call- infixes Moynihan will turn over to the prime minister a $6 million complex of luxury buildings occupied by the US International agency for Development (AID) in New Delhi. The complex was completed just two years ago. So far as the Indians are concerned, the most important of the three components of the package will be Moynihan's proposition regarding the US rupee holdings. These rupees are held in the Reserve Bank of India and they represent a drain on the Indian economy because of the enormous interest the account commands interest that is piling up faster than the rupees themselves can possibly be spent. The ambassador, who recently returned from consultations with President Nixon; refuses to reveal details fo the plan until he. has seen Mrs. Gandhi. He said1 only that the proposal falls somewhere between zero and infinity. In other words, it will not insist that the mammoth account remain in the Indian bank, nor will it write off the entire matter, as the Indians would like. Sources familiar with the proposal say it is a good one from Indias viewpoint. Mrs. Gandhis reason for rejecting it, the source speculate, would be political, not economic. The prime minister and members of her government periodically trot out the rupee problem when they want to accuse the United States of worming its way into the Indian economy. But the United States Finally, ronmental crowd. Protection from ocean pollution and conservation and protection of living resources were spelled out as goals of the treaty. Such bait should have alerted the game fish of American business to the restrictions that will be imposed should the scheme be enacted into international law. But the bait hid the hook. for navigaFreedom of the seas tion, commerce, transportation, communication, and scientific research, and free transit through and over international straits were also included to attract the unwary. These latter provisions diverted atinternatention from the tional interests, which were dted as substantial sharing of revenues derived from exploitation of the seabed, particularly for economic assistance to developing countries." depth, but the pant opinion makers in the media have seen fit largely to ignore the topic. Nonetheless, backed by the support of Congress, the President is rushing headlong into treaty negotiations. And ... -- The goals that Congress so enthusiastically endorsed included a number of politically popular items as well as some lip service to aspirations of free enterprise. The popular chant that we must save the earth from ecological doom was used to attract the envi- - OirDdioa And in this melancholy atmosphere, the US aid program would come to an end. Giver was never happy and taker was ever fretful and fickle. An affair of state was ending after 22 years and $10 billion. This foreign aid program had turned out as badly as its detractors had predicted. The Indian government is Reprinted from Life Lines, Vol 15, channel a high percentage of the profits into the treasuries of emerging nations. Few Americans know of the Seabed .Treaty and the threat it poses. This is 0ue in part to the virtual blackout of news on the subject by the mass media. A few limited circulation publications have discussed the proposals in dorsing the objectives of the Presidents ocean policy statement. On April second, by a roll call vote of 303 to 52, the House encouraged the Seabed Committee preparing for the Law of the Sea Conference to continue to work diligently for early agreement on the ocean treaty embodying the goals stated herein." A similar Resolution was reported favorably by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on June to sunt may not spend any of its rupee holdings without Indias express consent. Moynihan hopes his plan will be the first important step toward putting n relations on a normal Indian-Americ- an nation-to-natio- basis. ' As much as ideological variants and military alliances,-th- e donor-debtrelationship has helped sour India on the United States and vice versa. The Prime Ministers attitude makes clear that there is no point to the old kind of relationship for either side. Knowing this, Moynihan is eager to clear the decks before his stewardship moves into full gear. He views the transfer of the US AID complex of buildings to the government of India as symbolizing an end to one era and the start of another. The collection of white brick buildings sticks up from the desert on the south edge of New Delhi like a sore thumb. And like a sore thumb, it has been an irritant ever since it was built. The decision to build the complex, with food for peace rupees, was made in 1969, when AID had 260 Americans working in India and the United States or was spending what was considered funny money on anything it could think of, just to get rid of some of it. As one AID insider put it, The way we were buying and spending in those days would make your hair curl. Anything anybody wanted was okay. The south block concept fit in perfectly with that kind of mentality. After all, the reasoning went, India is a hard the official U.S. position is to renounce all national claims to natural resources of the seabed beyond a point where the high seas reach a depth of 200 meters (218.8 yards) and would agree to regard these resources as the common heritage of mankind. (Emphasis added.) This is a position the UJS. has taken since 1970, when President Nixon embarked on what is certainly the greatest international giveaway scheme the world has ever seen. It was in 1970 that the President outlined the new seabed policy that was to guide the United States delegation to the Seabed Committee for the U.N.s Law of the Sea Conference. At that time, Mr. Nixon stated: The treaty should establish an international regime for the exploration of seabed resources beyond this limit (200 meter depth). The regime should provide for the collection of substantial mineral royalties to be used for international commit- - Continued on page 8 midi live in. place for Americans to The weather is miserably hot at d least half of the year, and all in some parts; you cannot drink the water without boiling it; you cannot buy a steak; outside the big cities theres no place to swim, etc., etc. In short, wouldnt it be nice to have a place where we could get away from India, even for just a little while. The south block is just such a An ostentatious place, American ghetto, but the best damned oasis in the Indian desert, as one AID staffer put it. The complex consists of a clustered building - and two30 roomy containing apartments; a hotel with 18 double rooms as well as a dining room, cocktail lounge, reception room, library, four-lan- e bowling alley and swimming pool. The whole thing is swathed in tinted glass, lined with carpeting, year-roun- six-sto- ry three-bedroo- m wall-to-w- all cooled with central air sweetened with stereo music and piped-ilubricated with pure drinking water right from the taps. In addition to these living and playing facilities, the complex has a sprawling, office block, a giant warehouse and a covered garage. These buildings have already been turned over to India which has installed members of its science and technology ministry in them. The rest of the buildings will be turned over by the end of September. Such a transfer was envisaged in 1969. The agreement signed by AID and the Indian government then said conditioning, n low-slu- ng India would receive the Continued on page 14 |