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Show nji'ini si" n mm r gi rp-- j- Marquis Childs .. riiun Monday, August Heres a Lesson In Coexistence M-:-? Pag. 10 G, 1973 Review of Kent State Shootings Should Set the Record Straight It might be argued that nothing is to be gained by reopening old controversies long after public attention has shifted to other, more pressing matters. But in the case of the Ken State shootings on May 4, 1970, that kind of reasoning does not apply. In light of testimony before the Senate select committee investigating the Watergate affair, several incidents in which then Atty. Gen. John N. Mitchell made crucial decisions are logical candidates for review. Atty. Gen. Elliot L. Richardson said the new inquiry should not be taken to mean that we have reason to believe that the prior decision to discontinue active investigation was wrong or made for improper reasons, nor does it mean that we think the additional inquiry is likely to lead to a different prosecuAll the same the attorney tive judgment. generals statement is a clear indication that some people in the Justice Department as well as many private citizens feel that responsibility for the killing of four Kent State University students bv the Ohio National Guard was not properly weighed in earlier investigations. Watergate disclosures w hich cast doubt on some of Mr. Mitchells sworn statements regarding other matters, raise the obvious question of his credibility in declining to press charges in the Kent State shootings. United Feature Syndicate That slightly absuid SPRINGFIELD. VT. connotes the corordinarily affairs, term, foreign and ministers of ridors of power in .orld capitals summit to state flying off meetings. Here in the green hills of Vermont is a working example of what foreign relations can mean when practical men come together for a common good. Springfield has long been the center of a machine-too- l 15 industry that docs about businations of the percent ness. The three principal advanced technology that is companies have the one reason for Amenta's great productivity. They for have now contracts with the Soviet Union machines that increase their total output and employment by a substantial margin. - Those doubts should be removed once and for all or remedied by a r.ew decision to prosecute if the evidence seems to justify such action. An Ohio grand jury guardsmen who fired exonerated the Ohio at a crowd of pro- testing Kent State students, killing four persons who had not participated in the demonstration. But it was subsequently revealed that the grand jury was never shown a Justice Department summary of FBI investigative reports The reports showed that poorly trained young guardsmen had fired in a disorganized fashion, without warning to the students gathered some 60 feet away. The FBI also found thre had been no sniper fire to warrant a response by the soldiers as guard officials had claimed. The summary further suggested that there may have been an organized effort among the guardsmen to obstruct investigation of the event. None of these findings were shown to the Ohio grand jury. g For a reporter who spends a great deal of time interv iewing solemn diplomats in the corridors of to talk to men w ho. pow er, it is a welcome change with their advanced technology, have forged a small but significant link with another world. They have discovered in going back and forth between Moscow and Springfield how different the two worlds are and yet how much they have in common in technology and the problems of production. -- The new review does not promise that a different conclusion will ensue. But Mr. Richardson has performed a significant service by reopening this tragic case in an effort to put to rest lingering suspicions that justice was not served three years ago. A vigorous, impartial reevaluation should set the record straight. Ends in Bulky Contract eli.u4 . . CUPs Up Again Finally, almost a year after the draft copy was released for public comment, a formal environmental impact report has been filed on the Central Utah Projects Bonneville Unit. And if it hadnt been for prodding from Utahs elected officials, the document might still be languishing. Constantly fighting for funds, like any reclamation project, the Bonneville Unit has had the additional problem of moving past the new requirement of an environmental impact review. While preliminary information on the subject was available for a public hearing held in Orem late last September, ultimate findings disappeared on the federal bureaucracys treadmill of delay. A rescue effort had to be mobilized. The CUP generally and its Bonneville Unit particularly carry the water needs of Utah's future. This fact was long ago recognized and given official status, with congressional authorization and funding for construction. Determining project influence on the surrounding environment didnt seem an insurmountable hurdle until the process itself, rather than its findings, started being used to stall Bonneveille Unit progress. Now, the impact report is in, submitted to the project until the environmental statement has been cleared. Considering the still rising construction costs and as well as the undiminished water requirements, no more contrived delays are tolerable. This could mean continued alertness by Utah spokesmen. When the impact study appeared bogged down, Gov. Rampton, joined by members of the Utah delegation in Washington, as well as local water authorities, pestered the Interior Department until the report eventually suris among a public faced. Such chief responsibilities. representatives The Central Utah Project, its Bonneville Unit and the essential water supplements involved are still far from guaranteed. Anemic construction budgeting is as imposing a threat as needless environmental study delays. But with the resourcefulness and determination recently shown, both can be overcome. bird-doggin- g William F. Buckley Jr. Its Long Day in Mexico for Writer The plane was late taking off from Mexico City, so the latest edition of the paper was on board. The headlines stretching across eight col-um- read: LOS BOUND ANGELES jET CRASHES. ALL KILLED. It occurred to me on reading it that 1 was at that moment on a Los Angeles-bounjet and thus far unkilled, though 1 suffered from a Mexican stomach (Lomotil, two immediately, then one every four hours). "- - d The crash, it transpired, was off Tahiti, and when a few hours later the captain intoned over the loudspeaker that there would be no delay in landing in Los Angeles, my son, mimicking the voice from the cockpit, added because of diminished traffic coming in from Tahiti." I reminded him that the tragedies aside, plane travel still gets safer and safer every year, and he said yeah, so do the moon shots. Autonomous University It had been a long day. beginning with the seizure at 3 a m. at Guadalajara, whose Mtomach Autonomous University is a great venture in nonradical education, where they occasionally mount guards with machine guns at the gates to discourage marauding bands from the neighborhood university and, while they are at it. to regulate the length of the students' hair, which is Regulation 1950s. The occasion was a convention of journalists and educators to ruminate on the theme of educative journalism. 1 began my lecture with a jocular reference to father's having been exiled from Mexico in my the early 1920s for having involved" himself in But 1 said, ho ho, nonMexican affairs. involvement can be overdone. For instance, there was the professor in Czechoslovakia last summer who said that Czechoslovakia is the most nonWe dont even in volved country in the world: involve ourselves in Czechoslovakian affairs." I broke up. Unfortunately, nobody else did. The rumor went about that I was sicker than 1 really looked. I asked my son how did I sound on the simultaneous translation earphones they were mostLike Donald Duck. he said. I comly wearing. forted my:?lf by recalling that someone said that Walt Disney has been the best instrument of understanding in this century. n Strange Geography We rushed to catch the plane, Guadalajara to Mexico City, so as to catch the plane from Mexico City to Los Angeles. At the airport I focused on the geography, and realized that it was like rushing to catrh a plane from Washington to Boston so as to catch the plane from Boston to Miami. Nobody had told me you could fly from Guadalajara to Los Angeles. dont they The plane was late. Why why? give you the reason? More and more the American airlines do. But I do not think it has ever occurred to Aereo Mexicana to do so though it would be more appropriate in their case to apologize for punctuality, than for lateness. I was in one of those moods, so I actually asked the ticket clerk why the plane w as late. I know now the expression on the Beadles face when Oliver Twist approached him and asked for more. Stupefaction, graduating to hostility, graduating to a resolve to seek revenge. I trieu giving him a helpful hint, a sor of verbal check one. Had they run out of multiple-choicWas the plane gas? hijacked? Had the pilot forgotten to put his watch on daylight savings time? The clerk retaliated by painstakingly scrutinizing my ticket, as though it might somehow betray my imposture, or contain in the fine print something about the plane's being late good-size- Careful, Pete. Somebodys tappin us. The Public Forum the Council on Environmental Quality last Thursday. The council has 30 days to write its recommendations. Thats plenty of time. As Sen. Wallace F. Bennett, pointed out when the report had finally been submitted, no new contracts can be issued on specialdelegation of Russian machine-too- l ists came to Springfield two years ago after they had seen the products of the Jones and Lamson Co., a subsidiary of Textron, at a machine-too- l show in Chicago. That was the start of long and detailed negotiations, ending with a contract as thick as a telephone book. A Keep Worship Loeal Limit Lditor. Tribune: I read in the July 29 Tribune that some Ogden residents have endorsed a Utah crusade by Billy Graham and have decided to ask Gov. Rampton to extend an invitation to him to co" ; here. 1 sincerely hope the governor will thinK carefully before doing so. Respect is due Mr. Graham as a famed preachhowever, these crusades w ilh a great deal of money which should be used for our local churches. er and evangelist move in, then depart To be a Christian involves more than being converted by a revivalist, it means supporting the church of your choice physically, financially and morally with all the faith youve got in you at all stand in times. It has to be more than a a circus-likatmosphere of entertainers, crowds and floodlight. one-nig- e To avoid misunderstanding. I feel I should identify myself as a member of the First Congregational Church of Salt Lake City. MARY PACE Non-Travele- rs Editor, Tribune: There is perverse inconsistency to be found in the contents of your editorial of July 3 part of problem' at Salt Lake International) and an announcement on Page l of your July 14 edition informing the general public of the specific arrival times of not one, but three flights of returning members of the University of Utahs a Cappella Choir from Europe. Speaking as an individual who uses the cramped and crowded lobbies, corridors, security areas and parking and terminal facilities at your airport two or three times a week (I live in Denver and work in Salt Lake City) I applaud the gt.i-ertenor of your editorial: Salt Lake International has to. be one of the most prolific reunion and departing sites in America. (non-travele- B-- You named them all clattering Little Leaguers. bawling toddlers, wandering teens, maudlin Forum Rules Wrong State would like to be among Editor, Tribune: those to discourage George Romneys moving back to Utah for the senatorial race. There is no doubt Utah can produce a qualified Republican for the ticket sans Mr. Nixons member. Rather, it would be my suggestion Mr. Romney move to the flooded area in the state of Pennsylvania where about a year ago the TV news gave him a lot of coverage on his disputes with the flood victims seeking his help, and run for some office or whatever there. ORA TALCOTT Ogden Lets Get to the Heart Editor, Tribune: In the fable, for each serpent slashed from the head of Medusa, two grew in its place. Which likens to the advocates of porno w.io redouble their efforts each time they are thwarted. using the same false concepts and reasonings that have been discredited time and again. public Forum letters must be submitted exclusively to The Tribune and bear writers full name, signature and address. Names must be printed on political letters but may be withheld for good reasons on others. Writers are limited to one letter every 10 days. Preference will be given to short, typewritten (double spaced) letters permitting use of the wTiters true name. All letters are subject to condensation. buddies, friends and parents of missionaires.' and the usual milieu of curiosity seekers who apparently get some vicarious thrill by coming to an airport and going no place. Commuting 2,000 miles each week is an unpleasant enough experience. Your editorial expressed very succinctly the solution to resolving half that misery: the time has come to . . prohibit these at the airpori gates. traffic jams of GAYLE E. NORTON Arvada, Colo. . Which is a further indication that porno is a target beachhead of forces that would destroy the foundations of our society We need a Perseus who will perceive the necessity and drive the sword into the heart of Medusa herself. CHARLOTTE M. GUEYARRA Racial Critic Owes It to Public Editor, Tribune: Mr. Nixon claims that providing Congress with Watergate materials would establish an undesirable precedent of presidential accountability to Congress, thus upsetting the doctrine. If Mr. Nixon is innocent it would be to his admaterials vantage to make Watergate-relateavailable to some public, group, e g., the American Bar Assn., the ACLU, etc., and to special investigator Cox, who is in Mr. Nixon's own executive branch. d n Editor, Tribune: In the interest of truth, important to all. The Tribune editor must offer impartial selections of material based on facts. For instance, the matter of racism, already so costly to our nation, has to be treated with utmost equity. Contributions like Common Carrier of July 15, and Forum Letter of July 22, were onesided, uncharitable and at variance with facts. A single Bible reference out of historical context that "the priesthood was reserved for sons of Aaron does not permit an inference of priesthood denial to people of different color or race, piously deriving their inferiority. When the land Canaan was divided among the 12 tribes according to their preference as farmers, herders, seafarers, merchants the tribe of Levy (to which Aaron, to Moses black wife, belonged) did not receive land or commercial resources but a pledge of tithing for their upkeep, so that they could concentrate on church work and administration. brother-in-la- The priesthood of God was, and is available to all Israelites (and all men) regardless of their skin color. Any discrimination as to physical distinctions (racism) is unscientific, undemocratic and ungodly among men. This ought to be clearly stated, and we should courteously grant others the right to point at our shortcomings and express themselves, especially if they are our visitors. It of our defeats our owti value and the community if we twist the opponents words and try to justify our wrongs. well-bein- g HERBERT RONA Mr. Nixon may not feel accountability to Congress but he is accountable to the people. DAVID J. BUkTON d The principal machine the company is selling the Russians is, to one who knows next to nothing about machine tools, a marvel of advanced technology. A cylinder of unprocessed steel is put in. buttons are pushed and the operation is carried on by a tape previously programmed by computer. In a matter of minutes, as the tape ends, the crude steel has been transformed into a handwith somely forged machine part complete grooves for ball bearings and accurate to a thousandth of an inch. The machines sold by Jones and Lamson will be installed in a tractor plant at Kharkov in the Soviet Union. They will turn out 72 pieces an hour. The cost of each machine is $165 'Mi) (or a contract total of roughly $5.5 million Almost as Important What the Americans have learned about the Russians and presumably the learning process has worked the other way, too is almost as im- portrnt as the end result. John L. Jensen, chief ot engineering in the Jones and Lamson plant, has made 10 trips to Moscow to work out the deal. He found his opposite numbers very knowing about machine tools, shrewd vet friendly. Once they had been convinced by watching a demonstration in Springfield of the machines capability, the negotiations could begin. The Russians wanted certain guarantees which the company could not give, since when the machines were installed their operation was no longer under the control of the men who devised and produced them. Once this hurdle was over, the deal moved forward rapidly. In the different approach to production problems that Jensen observed, one was conspicuous. The Soviets wanted a complete layout so that machines would move the parts on the production floor from start to finish. No American company would make that sizable an investment, since it could not be justified by a saving in labor costs. Specifies Complete Operation Under the Soviet system it is not the outright cost of, say, $100 a month for each worker, but the social cost in housing, education, entertainment. etc., that the state provides the worker. The company replied that their best performance was in making a single machine, but if that was what Kharkov wanted, then okay, and the contract specifies the complete operation. This is very small compared with some of the deals for Soviet natural gas and oil trumpeted by demonstration d of how, promoters. But it is that in much-abuse- a d e phrase, understanding can mean practical achievement. And to one escaping briefly from the furor of Washington it is good to see people-to-peopl- men like Robert S. Jones, head of the plant who worked up from machine operator and who has been twice in Moscow, directing the kind of production that has made the nation strong. Slowly, understanding can grow. It can mean peaceful competition coexistence, a phrase so often invoked. That is the reality, rather than the loud p .tical rhetoric of the politicians. Intcrlaiuli Public Wants Limits Editor, Tribune: On July 16, Richard Richards, chairman of Utah's campaign for the Committee to the President, was quoted as saying, One could limit the size of contributions, but Im not sure the public wants that. Re-ele- the public does want that. The June 24, Gallup Poll shows that "for the first time a clear majority (58 percent) of the American people favor the use of federal funds to pay election campaign costs of candidates for the presidency and for Congress. At the same time, the public facontributions from private vors prohibiting sources. Well, 1973, The American public is growing tired of paying outrageous amounts of money for such commodities as milk and gas, whose high prices have been determined in part by the special interests who Nixons gontributed heavily to President effort. With public financing of elections, there will no longer be the temptation for elected officials to be influenced by their large contributors. IRENE SAUNDERS One 1 good thing about the Watergate hearings m learning about my Constitutional rights! |