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Show The Salt Lake Tribune. Thursday. August William V. Shannon A 2IS 16. 197 3 Shadow of Indochina Wont Leave Military Without Impartial Probe New York Times Sen te ervoir of bravery, talei.t and dedication as they ever vere In the light context, they could serve the country as well as they did in World Wat II or Korea Moreover, their services aie indispensable WASHINGTON This country's professional military men are going through a hard tini The Senate Armed Services has shnwn Committee that, the Air Force bombe Laos secretly amf Cambodia when both were neutral countries. the Marines Similarly, crossed the border into Lacs m early 1969 and Vet it is also true that a demoeraev dure not risk a military system that is out of control or habituated to the practice of deceit Who is icsponsible for the military s integnty compromising and good name .JTC7 engaged m secret, heavy fighting there An lareer Officers Itespoftsible The cateer otficers themselves and particularly the general at the tup can be blamed for recommending ruthle-policies and for complying with political directives which they Knew to be wrong They are also responsible for penalizing the dissenters in their own ranks elaborate system of dual reporting was de- vised to conceal the secret bombing This deception, coming after the Armys attempted coverup of My Lai and other massacres in letnam. has damaged the honor and undermined of the fighting forces the Military' off. 'ers offer a seemingly endless round of explanations and rationalizations s has to be recognved that the hierarchy of values which the military But it physical courage, duty to country. obedience to the chain of command, are deep loyalty to on" s comrades not the same as the l.beral values which of civilians ehensh independence nund, skepticism, tolerance for disagreement. An open society is in deep trouble if it looks to its military men to be the only defenders within the government of values that its civilian leaders are supposed to practice and defend The military are analogous to the police. Society gives them a tough job If society wants the job done only by certain methods and within certain limits, then it is up to society to enforce these methods and limits. That is why the courts enforce the restraints of due process on the police. That is why civilians are m command of the mditary. Leaders Found In the emergency of war, the small regular Army and Navy, largely ignored Eisenm peacetime, cast up leaders Nimitz, Halsey hower, Bradley, Patton, of astonishingly high quality In his dignity and simplicity, George C. Maran earlier Virginian. shall recalled George Washington This sense of total identity between the country and its armed forces persisted through the Korean War Who can forget the thnll of the Inchon landings or the heroic bravery of the soldiers and Marines who fought off the Chinese in the bitter winter of Civilians Also to Blame Yet it was Nixon, and not instructed the crecy and to misleading I he 1950-51- ? These events from the recent past are worth recalling because they place m perspective the plight of the armed forces caught, as they are, m the lies, evasions. cruel excesses and moral cornu Sinn of the Indochina wars. The professional military today are as great a res Presidents Johnson and anyone in a uniform, who mditary to proceed in secooperate m deliberately press and the people con- &P :V. .j , 4 'i 0 nawi 'Spiro, how would ou v let pre William Raspberry Enforced Malnutrition: Better Answer Needed U Its We started budget of $116 8 87 per- her list at three pounds for $' In the store, it was 48 cents a pound But lettuce was 49 cents a head, down from 69 in June off with a monthly food which is the amount of stamps that a family of four is permitted to purchase (For the $116 worth s The net result even with beef at 49 cents a pound instead of 74 cents we had expected to pay was a $3 71 overrun Projecting an equivalent overrun for the month, the family would wind up $10 29 short food I unlikely, Few of us have the skill to work out the optimum balance between nutritional requirements and limited finances Almost none of us has the discipline to stick with our best judgment and forego an occasional purchase of junk But is it possible? Can a disciplined and intelligent shopper adequately feed a family on what welfare provides' know neck-bone- of food stamps, the family actually pays anywhere from zero to $92 cash, depending on gross income; the maximum income for food stamp eligibility is $987 a month for a family of four) No Room to Trim Mrs Yager already hud worked out a menu that provided three nutritional (if less than bountiful) meals a day Our shopping was the first week of a month of the and ran to more than months outlay because of the heavy purchase of staples Meals Not Bad It's extremely difficult to see how to trim the $10.29 out of Mrs Yagers budget Perhaps by cutting out such "frills as ice cream (69 cents), radishes (a dime), oranges $1 58 a dozen instead of the expected 89 cents) or coffee (85 cents a pound) h The answer, despite the best efforts of two members of the District of Columbia Social Rehabilitation (welfare) Agency to prove otherwise, seems to be no officials who were willdeceptions ing participants m those should be retired But what would benefit the nation is not a hunt for scapegoats a little over two hours in the Safeway Store in Washington We also .spent $45 50 instead of the $41 79 allotted for our week's groceries for a I went shopping the an uveirun of family of four cent aslungton Post WASHINGTON The question tu my mind was this: Is it possible for a family on public assistance to eat decently? .The Mildred Brooks, chief economist for the agency, and Muriel Yager, a home economist on her staff other day with Cost Overrun We spent And dont think you can save much by certainly not perishbuying m bulk ables Not many welfare families have A good freezers m iheir basements. those have only many tiny refrigerator freezers and often a couple of families may share a All things considered, the meals didn't sound bad A pound of bacon (approximately 16 slices) would furnish two slices per person for two breakfasts Beef goulash assumed that there would be ample leftovers from a chuck roast of a few days earlier The green salads would use the cheapest greens avadable. and the pancake syrup would be homemade from sugar, water and maple flavoring Nor would there be seconds for anyone But it would be balanced and nutritious single refrigerator. The comparison shopping that the home economists always urge assumes the availability of transportation and more flexibility of budget than welfare families generally have But Mrs. Yager planned her menu in June Price fluctuations since then left it slightly out of date. Chicory appeared on How many parents re strong enough (one almost wants to say cruel enough) to deny their children some treat unjustified by nut nl ion The only concession Mrs Yagers menu makes to the young ones is a box of ginger snaps no soft dunks, candy, potaother junk two-poun- (69 cents) to chips or Not Real Months That's not all. Mrs. Yagers budget is based on a month of four weeks, 28 days. The welfare checks and food stamps allotments are based on "real months that average a bit more than 30 days, no trivial consideration when youre cutting coiners as closely as welfare recipients have to Nor may the food stamps be used for anything except food- No bug killer or knives or toilet paper. or soap panng Those items come cut of the rest of your welfare grant, which, as I recall, is computed at 85 percent of what it costs a in February, 1970. family to live It all sounds innocuously theoretical when you talk about the arithmetic of welfare. But what it comes down to is malnutrition government-enforced Its true that malnutrition is better than no food at all. but when we know the bad results of malnutrition inadedislessened to resistance quate energy, ease. arrested intellectual development and a bast of othprs we have to come up with a better answer than that. European Drug Not Very Useful In Bringing About Weight Loss ts an official who, although he cant do anything about getting beef to the public, makes sure every beef is gotten from the public. An ombudsman mans campaign contributions is going to mean that some foreign countries are Fenfluramine has been widely used m Europe for years in the treatment of obesity. At this writing, the Food and Admmistra- Drug tion has not approved it for dieting in the United States. Is it another crutch or does it going to end up with the cheapest American ambassadors m their history Researchers . One gets the impression that we give our presidents beautiful limousines and s places to live but don't provide them with very good lawyers first-clas- one really work?i from i the University Pennsylvania its pared Dr. Van Delien with amphetamines and a placebo. Weight loss occurs, but the drugs efficacy clearly is limited gether. What the investigators mean is that the users did not lose enougi. weight (less assume , we The president's dog. than a pound a week) to justify its use. to wears a flea collar, but it doesn't seem vithe in Furthermore, there was a high frebe effective against other bugs quency (89 percent) of side effects folcinity lowing the use of fenfluramine ' Common Side Effect If it should turn out that the tip of the and orator Drowsiness was the most common iceberg is all there is, every editorial writer in the country will have side effect, followed by gastrointestinal to be retrained symptoms. All of the patients were given general advice on eating, but no diets As far as average wind velocity is were prescribed. The investigators did concerned, Chicago ranks only 16th. Of this because they wanted to determine course, when it won the title of the windy what medicine alone could do. Incidental15 ly, those on amphetamines lost as much city, there werent cities in those other weight and had fewer side reactions places. The government Save gasoline, like if Ehrlichman lived in hood they could ride wftf Dr. T. R. Van Delien Senator Soaper lid of $6,000 on T No suvh inquiry can be undertaken however, as long as President Nixon and his civilian appointees insist that no errors were committed and that they were nh,it to tell lies Until the nations civilian leaders withdraw their compromising embrace, the military men cannot readily move out of the whadow of Indochina (Copyright) cerning major military operations. High civilian officials such as Deputy Secretary of Defense William Clements still defend those deceptions, defiantly bellowing, I dont ihink anybody has anything to apologize about. High-rankin- g 'f r post-mo- live by This is not how military people like to think of themselves or how most Americans are accustomed to thinking of their military. Those of us old enough to remember World War II can recall the pnde which everyone felt m the armed forces. There was awe and gratitude for the Marines who stormed the beaches of Tarawa and for the soldiers who fought The pilots for Omaha Beach on and their crews who nightly bombed the factories, supply lines and. yes, the cities of Germany were unquestioned heroes Tne proposed search for wisdom There is need for an impartial, dispassionate teview of the military conduct of the war m Viett nam over the last 10 years A teni. if conducted by someone suvli as Gen Mathew Ridgwav in whom both the country and the military ptofesston have coptidence. could well draw useful lessons about vv lint to do and what to avoid in futurv wars but a urges car pools to Sam Dash and John the same neighborto the hearings to- If fenfluramine had been used in conjunction with a low ealone diet, more weig t might have been lost. This drug is an amphetamine derivative, but lacks the usual central stimulating effects of amphetamines As we said, it has just the opposite effect Other appetite-suppressa- the market are Tenuate and Mast of them are used to weight loss during the early dieting. 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Vi If S ' x r - " ,, time Burns Up Own Fat Most people can lose weight by eating less food then they require for their daily energy needs. This is the purpose of a low ealone diet. On these regimens, the body gets so few calories that it must bum up its own fatty deposits. The fat is changed into carbon dioxide which is exhaled and into water that i-- -- Uminated by the kidneys Many physicians veil dieters to use less salt because it tends to hold water in the tissues Dieting works Lke this: A pound of fatty tissue is the energy equivalent of 3,500 calories. Everytime you eat 3,500 less calories than you use up, you snould lose a pound. A deficit of 500 calones a day means loss of one pound a week or 52 pounds a year p , v - A' Goren on Todays Bridge Hand j ByC. H. Goren Both vulnerable. South deals. NORTH Junior 4 J9 64J OQ 4 10 3 2 east west 415 4K A1065 OS OAJ9741! 4A87SS4 4QJ9 298 SOUTH 4 AQ107J KJJ3 O Championship for players under 25, and last year 19 coui,.ries entered this event. tfQH K bridge is an accredited course. There is a European KH'SS 4 Void The bidding: Opeiiing lead: Ace of C Ewope is the worlds most active area in promoting bridge for young players. In many schools and colleges, The hand above was played in a match between the juniors of Turkey and Spain. When Turkey held the North South hands, players reached six spades on the auction shown. Tho missing three aces and the king of trumps, declarer in making the succeeded their -- contract. Norths raise of his partners one spade opening to four spades is largely preemptive. South decided to gamble that his partner held a red ace, and leaped to slam. It would have been wiser to check on that by five clubs giving cue-biddi- partner the room to show either the ace of hearts or the ace of diamonds the Blackwood convention is not suited to this hand, for if North does show an ace South cannot be sure that it is not the act of clubs. West was wise not to double on Declarer ruffed and saw a chance to get home. Fearing that West might have a singleton heart, he spurned crossing to the queen of hearts to take a trump finesse in favor of leading the ace of spades. When the king dropped, all declarer had to do was to draw the the strength of his two aces but the temptation might have proved irresistible had he suspected that his partner also had an ace. tricks. West made the normal lead of the ace of his shorter suit. Unfortunately, that proved tu be the only card that gave South a chance. As West couldnt believe that anyone could bid a slam missing three aces, he shifted b the ace of clubs at trick two. 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