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Show 4 Joseph Kraft Five Presidents Must Take Blame For Bloody, Expensive Indo War Publmhers-Hwl- l proper because, while presidents waged the war. Congress was permissive and the public as a whole acquiesced. SvrutK-at- Amencan fighting in Indochina has come to a fit end. Bombing of Cambodia ceases not by presidential fiat after a settlenegotiated ment. nor by withdrawal under irre- This is not to say that individual presidential action counts for little in the horrors and follies of the Vietnam war. President Nixon continued Amencan participation in the war for four years, five months and la days after coming to office. Hundreds of thousands of innocent peorte were killed in the process, lie expanded the war into Cambodia, extended massive bombing to that country and North Vietnam, and practiced systematic lying to the American people. sistible pressure from the Communists in Vietnam or the antiwar minority in this country. The end comes through restraints deliberately im- Peace the upon posed President by the Congress in obedience to overwhelming public feeling. That is for all this was justification peace with honor. It is true that early this year Hanoi agreed to something u had never previously accepted a ceasefire that implied at least a temporary continuation of the South Vietnamese regime. Familv Law or Deed Problem; Law Can't Always Assist By Will Bernard American Bar Assn. Developers of a new suburban neighborhood thought it would look nice if all the houses were painted yellow. Accordingly. in selling lots, they included a yellow only requirement in each deed. But after a number of homes had gone up. one incoming family decided they liked green better. The developer refused to allow any deviation, and. in the dispute landed in the courtroom. This kind of restriction." the family argued, is an unlawful interference with our personal liberty. We hae a right to follow our own tastes." However, the court held they would have to stay with yellow whether they liked it or not. The court said the requirement was a reasonable means to a reato benelit the community sonable end as a whoie. It is common, in developing a neighborhood, to impose deed restrictions of one kind or another. They may cover anv thing from the size ol houses to the height of hedges, from the style of architecture to the type of fencing. And, by and large, the law will enforce these restrictions. Although they reduce the rights of the purchaser, they do so on the basis of a lawful contract, free-ientered into, at the tune o" original sale. True, some restrictions may be unenforceable for reasons of overriding public policy. The leading example is the racial restriction, now outlawed everywhere. Furthermore, a restriction valid at first may gradually lose its validity as the neighborhood changes. Say a dozen home owners in the yellow only neighborhood had been allowed to get away with different colors. At that point, even if the developers suddenly decided to crack down, a court would probably refuse to enforce the restriction. As one y judge put it : will nut be enforced Restrictions where the character of the neighborhood has so changed as to defeat the original purpose of the plan. With Honor His But the North Vietnamese reserved the right to keep troops in ietnam. They maintained influence in I.aos and (we now see) increased their power in Cambodia. They are now in position to take over Cambodia and put very great pressure on South Vietnam. The foreign policy rationale advanced by President Nixon for continuing the war has already-beevirtually wiped out. President Johnson bears even greater blame. He took the one truly irreversible the leap in the dark that made a step minor guerrilla struggle into a major war. He ordered the bombing of North Vietnam. That stop resulted in a major increase of the Communist effort. It entailed, in order to protect air bases, massive dispatch of American ground troops. It compromised the president's domestic program and split his party. It was one e of the colossal blunders of recent American history. Presidents Kennedy, Eisenhower and Truman are also not exempt from blame. President Kennedy sent the first ground troops to Vietnam, and he was clearly prepared to dissemble his purPresident Eisenhower made poses. commitments to a corrupt and weak Saigon regime. President Truman extended the American strategic umbrella to include Indochina. But if presidents made grievous misin Indochina, they did not act in a vacuum. Few complaints are less valid than the constant bleat of senators and congressmen that they were deceived by the White House. takes Secret Bombing The Congiess was deceived because it wanted to have the wool pulled over its eyes. A nice ease in point comes from the recent discovery by the Senates Armed Services Committee that there was secret bombing of Cambodia, replete with a false public reporting system, for nearly a year in 1969 and 1970. But that was in fact made known at the time in press accounts. If the legislators had really wanted to know, they had only to once and read the papers carefully-fofollow up. Vvg'xrisjv We have pushed onto the president's desk responsibility for almost everything that happens abn ad. The recovery of Europe and the rebirth of Japan were made his business So was holding the line against Russia and then China So was the Near East and Latin America and Africa and Southeast Asia It got so bad that President policy Nixon could fed he might be held responsible for .something that happened in of all crazy, remote, uncontrollable Cambodia. places Against this background, the way the Cambodian bombing was halted by action of the country and the Congress which then curtailed the president is a case of poetic justice. It is what should have been happening all along. For honest government in ashington and a helpful American role in the world can only be vhieved if the great majority stop piling insoluble problems on the desk of the president Marx I McBroix President Nixon: A Man Without a Scapegoat Washington St Syndicate WASHINGTON Richard Nixons speech from the dock was the tirst of his long life in politics that probably pleased his enemies more than his friends. - was a tacit admission that he understands that he is a citizen of a reIt public not peopled exclusively by backward children, football fans and Americans scared MissMcCrory out ol their wits by di monstraturs. and Communists, hippies wife by his side, no pels to lie whistled up for .sentimental defense , lie was without loo. He was oddly detached, lie did not speak as the chief executive of the world's greatest democrat. v, but rather m the objective tones ol an outside e'ert. say a assessor, who had been called in to size up the situation. His verdict: hopeless sell-piiv- flood-damag- e Gone was the smirking contention ol April 311 that even body does it" in politics. This has been a particularly burdensome theme for lus fellow Republicans Instead, lie invited lus countrymen to dejdore with him the outrages commuted in lus name and to slum the cvnicisin they engendered Nixon Bested It was also a tacit admission that the Senate Watergate committee, that imperfect. exhausting and sometimes incoherent expression of democracy . had somehow bested him in tile contest tor the minds and hearts ol the country. was the was the backlash a heavy. It Enin, a tacit admission that Sam garrulous constitutionalist who old bully of the "committee advocates, would not serve as was a tacit admission that if he did watch the hearings his press he spokesmen insisted on the point had all the same heard them, and could not answer them. It not He was a man without a scapegoat, a man overcome by facts. John W. Dean III floated through the early pages as a lying scoundrel. But he is not serviceable. A master negotiator. vio has successfully grappled with the lords of communism, cannot afford to picture himself as the dupe of a careerist. r The reason the Senate and House took great pains not to know lies with the vast majority of citizens? Ever since World War II we have been asserting the total primacy of the president in foreign j, ?. No Props It was a Richard Nixon no one had ever seen since he first launched that bumpy flight to glory 27 years ago. no bust of LinThere were no props coln, no family picture, no entranced The limits hud been exceeded, lie indiin view of the caucus room disclosures by the men whom lie had employed and trusted who had burned and forged documents, dropped liusli money, bribed judges and outwitted the law cated, belatedly There was a Picker ol the old vindictiveness as he tried to linger the shop-rooculprits. It was a shadow ol the ol Job Magruder. who swore that he had been corrupted by drult card burners Sign of Times We must recognize that one excess begets another, and that the extremes ol violence and discord in the lOtiils contributed to the extremes of Watergate. the President said. He knows that it wouldnt work even with Middle America. It is the polls that have instructed and polls have said that 71 percent of his countrymen do no be- chastened him. The lieve his protests of innocence. They have now retroactively snipped him of the mandate that was his ultimate shield. Previously lie has been comforted by results that showed that even had they known of the squalors of Watergate the voters would have preferred him to George McGovern. But in a taken last week. McGovern wins by two points. re-ru- Smith Ilempstone Remember Red Savagery, Freedom Lovers! Washington Star-New- s - In November l'J.jfi, WASHINGTON Russia'n tanks shot their way into Budapest and crushed the Hungarian revolutionary regime of Imre Nagv. The West, distracted by the Suez adventure, did nothing. Five Monday, years ago on Aug. 1968. Russian tanks rumbled into 20, Prague and crushed the Czechoslovakian revolu- tionary regime of Alexander Dubcek. The West, embroiled in Southeast Asia, did nothing. That the Russians should suppress liberty with such savagery was hardly surprising. What was surprising was that the Hungarian and Czechoslovakian people, having been denied il for so long, should retain the dream of freedom. Short, Bloody, Decisive thing was short, Hungarian bloody and decisive. I was in Vienna when the Hungarian refugees streamed across the Austrian border in their thousands, and Radio Budapest, with Russian shells flamming into its studio, signed off with the words: Do not forget us. The Russians executed Nagy and army commander Pal Maleter, Jozsef Cardinal Mindszenty took refuge in the American embassy in Budapest and the New York Giants went on to beat the Chicago Bears for the NFL title. The Czechoslovakia was far less bloody, but in its own way more cruel. It was more cruel because from January to August of 1968 the Czechs and Slovaks had enjoyed a measure of freedom, there was the promise of more and no one who was witr-s- s to those events will ever for- get them. Forced From Office Novotny, the detested Communist Party boss, had been forced out of office in favor of Dubcek. the reformist Slovak. Dubcek was a Marx:st and his goals were modest: The release and of rehabilitation political , prisoners wrongly convicted of spurious crimes against the state, the remaking of the Communist Party into a more responsive the lifting of the ban organization, against at least some of the Antonin parties. Each afternoon the newspapers were snatched from kiosks for news of further reforms. Votive candles flickered around the state of Jan Huss,. the Bohemian martyr, and the portraits of Thomas Masaryk came out of their places of hiding and into the store windows. In the evenings, in the dimly lighted cafes of Pragues Old Town, the people sang their joy and the word svobnda (freedom) was on every mans lips. Helpless Giant Nixon has become the "pitiful helpless giant of Ills overblown rhetoric of the Cambodian invasion. All that stands between lam and resignation, it seem. i Hie .shaming knowledge that the man lie chose for v ice president is under criminal investigation nd so he pleaded nolo eontendre cannot disimte the facts " , lie did not ask for forgiveness lias not come that far vet. lie asked he for- get fulness about Watergate. For a man who has refused amnesty to even one was a way of saying that for the else. lus! time, in a supremely inventive life, lie has nothing lo say. 1 Mm Dr. T. R. Van Lap. Diagonal Belts Hold Car Safety Reputation the chances of survival. When these deuces are worn, there is a reduction in severe spinal injuries and fewer facial and chest injuries. Deaths and injuries trom highway accidents have increased in nearly all deAccording to the veloped countries. World Health Organization. the worldwide annual number of deaths from road accidents will soon reach a quarter of a million; injuries will exceed 1U million 1 n m a n Other Preventive Measures The seventy of these injuries has also been lessened by modifying the cars internal and external design, the use of crash helmets by cyclists, removing dangerous objects from highways and providing crash harriers. v countries, road Dr. Van Dcllen cidents account for 411 to 30 percent of all deaths among young males (ages 13 to 24). Since accident rates are highest in young men m this age group, they stand a ch; ce of dying as a result of crash-rela- t injuries. Oil the other hand, although many of our young drivers are injured, youthful resiliency gives them a better chance of surviving serious injuries. Drivers who are older do not fare so ac- - 1 well .'lure Lethal in Europe According to Dr. J. D. J. Ilavard. an olficial of the British Medical Associain European countries tion, accidents have become more severe and lethal. A few years ago. two to three times as many pedestrians were killed. The trend now is reversed m that more occupants of vehicles are killed. Many European countries have narrow roads and highways ami Im surprised that pedestrians manage as well as they do. Dr. Ilavard also found that proper use of lap and diagonal safety belts is the single most important factor in reducing the severity of injuries and improving European countries have the same problems as we do with drinking and driving. Dr. Ilavard agrees that traffic accidents cannot be compared with industrial accidents. Most road accidents are too complex to analyze because there are so many unknown factors. A notable exception is the study of blood or expired air for alcohol. High readings occur with intoxication. Existing traffic laws must be rigidly enforced. In addition. judges should withdraw the right to drive following certain traffic offenses. Senator Soaper There is a new commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service and an average taxpayer who has never known any of these officials personally still points with some pride to the number of them he has outlasted. The fiance of Britains Princess Anne lias been arrested on a traffic charge. The kids already beginning to fit into the family. sounds like a wonderful sport, although after a certain age it conjures up images of a hot water bottle applied to the sacroiliac. Back-packin- a human face were throw n out of ofiice and replaced by Russian stooges. The nmn in the Kremlin bank on our memories being short and they are right: Here we are, five years later, giving inem trade on terms which amount to aid and preparing to sign treaties regularizing their World War II conquests. Nobody asks embarrassing questions about Czecho..)vakia anymore; indeed, Secretary of State William Rogers paid a visit to Prague the other day. thus earning the dubious distinction of being the first Western foreign minister to visit there since the suppression of Czechoslovakias freedom. Do Not Forget IV "Do not forget us." implored that final radio transmission from Budapest in 1936. And it is right, too. that the names of those who tned in 19tiS to restore a measure of freedom to Czechoslovakia should not be forgotten: Alexander Dubcek. Jiri liajek, Josef Spacek, Ccstmir Cisar, Frantisek Vodslon, Josef Pavel, Emile Zatopek, Frantisek Kriegel. All praise to them. Duhcek's task was a dfficult perThis is an age in which young Amerione. He had, on the cans haps impossible grow disillusioned and the old deone hand, to respond to his peoples irrespairing when ancient values totter and pressible demand for more reforms, and faith is weak. Perhaps it is because we on the other to persuade the Russians still have our freedom that we seem to that this freedom posed no ihreat to value so little. It is well to remember them. But liberty is contagious and the that ail over the Slave world, the spark Russians realized that if Czechoslovakof freedom still burns m the breasts of ians became free, the Hungarians, Poles those who have never known what it is and other subject peoples including1 to be free. And that despite Vietnam and would not be content to Watergate and the distortion of our own ir own remain slaves. vision of America, whose men who have so little and risk so much look to this Over In Days land as promised and to this people as So the Russian army rolled and it was blessed. all over in a couple of days. A few To forget the Nagvs and the Dubceks Czechs were killed throwing rocks at all the gallant, faceless thousands and a student Russian tanks, named Jan Palach burned himself to death in prostruggled to make men free would test against h;s countrys loss of freedom be the ultimate obscenity, a betrayal not and the men who tried to give socialism only to them but of ourselves. "KID'S STUFF... VI ...thats easy back to school shopping at Fashion Place! 73 of your favorite stores and over 5000 free parking spaces. Back to school? Back to Fashion Place! Great indoor shopping. UNFINISHED FURNITURE in our LUMBER DEPT. REICH'S SAIT I A K f OGD1N QKLmjsloce 6200 So. State n --- - -- ithi mm SALT LAKE OGDEN lu.m a 1 iv lO-- V w A H J |