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Show -'- ny i Hj t jBTHp i hht Cl I DESERET NEWS Nixon's Diplomats: Promises And Problems B pored into acceptance, if not enthusiasm. Armin Henry Meier was received cooly in Japan because of his lack of experi-em- e with the Japai (though b is a professional diplomat). But his 43 Administration Johnson allowed holdovers to retain their posts. Sargent Shriver, who could hardly be called Mr. Republican, is still it Pans and Ellsworth Bunker, a lifelong Dcmociat, holds down the fort in Saigon. PETER BENCHLEY li London, the new U.S. amba sador to the Court of St. James is refen ed to and inept in everything as graceless he does. In Tokyo. Japanese dignitaties nave fumed that the new U.S. ambassador has had no experience in Japanese affairs. In Trinidad and Tobago, officials wonder where they stand with the U.S. when they are sent as ambassador an r who ran for Conoutspoken gress four times and lost four times. Some foreigners have hinted that they would rather have been neglected than to have the new U.S. envoys foisted off on them. The prime diplomatic target is Waiter H. Annenberg. the Nixon whom publisher Philadelphia appointed ambassador to Great Britain. right-winge- If the three men do not represent an overall picture of what is happening these days in the U.S. State Department, they do symbolize the difficulty Richard Nixon has been having in fulfilling one of his more ambitious campaign promises. The British press has attacked him mercilessly for being gauche, witless and politiea'ly immature. Against the advice of his staff, Annenberg has chosen ceremonial (ard traditioiiav noncontrover-sial- ) functions as forum.; at which to blare out his conservative opinions on such extracurricular matters as student disorders. We're going to clean house up there. he vowed in referoing to State It's going to be a during the campaign. new look. Were going to reassign the routine men who have been the areni-tect- s of the past they will have other assignments and we are going to bring in new men with a fresh approach. And a few cf Nixon's appointments have been gieolr' vitli true applause. Jacob Beam, a t ,agh and capable negotiator who dealt with the Red Chinese in Warsaw and supervised the evacuation of 5.0C0 American tourists from Prague after the Russians invaded Czechoslovakia last year, is considered a per'.-- ct choice for the Moscow post. Others who hove drawn criticism aie: Ambassador to Canada Adolph Schmidt, a banker whose age and background don't make him exactly compatible witli Canada's swinging prime minister, Pierre Elliott Trudeau; J. WilPerhaps he hasn't found enough capaliam Middendorf II, an outspoken ble men with the proper Nixon orientawho represents the U.S. in The tion. But whatever the reason, the President has yet to make good on his word 'Hague; J. Fife Symington Jr., the archconservative envoy to the black nation of after almost eight months in office. Trinidad and Tobago; and John Davis Mr. Nixon has found the process of Lodge, who is now in Argentina after a filling the nations 1C8 ambassadorships lackadaisical te..n as ambassador to agonizing and frustrating. Fewer than 30 Spain. e, of the posts were occupied by Nixon appointees after the first 100 days of his Administration. He has since named some 30 more. But seven U.S. embassies abroad are still without any ambassador at all. Some countries, notaty lorr.e sensitive ones like Sweden ar.d Tanzania, are smarting under what they regard as a deliberate affront by the President. Armin H. Meyer, ambassador to Japan, is one of few Nixon appointees who has stirred enthusiasm abroad. Y tUR HCALTH Own Shadow By GEORGE C. THOSTESON, M.D. Dear Dr. Thosteson: My daughter has just discovered that she has a shadow and is terrified. My husband and I tried to explain that everyone has one, even her puppy, but she still thinks it is going to hurt her. She will not walk. She just stands and quivers all over. She just noticed it last night and started screaming. Mrs. J.C. Answer: Theres no accounting for the odd notions that pop into children's minds. I have no ready answer for this one, although I suspect the trouble will be over by the time you read this. It's not easy to explain things to a child so young, but you ran make light of the problem. (No, that wasnt, an intentional pun.) Make a game of creating shadows on the wall with your hands. Or divert the youngster's attention to something else. Arguing too much that even the puppy has a shadow may only fix the shadow-fea- r in her mind. If you croon well, you might try singing Me and My Shadow. But also keep in mind that discovering ones shadow is something that children are bound to do sometime. Fear isnt often the response. Usually its more like the rhyme that Robert Louis Stevenson wrote: By JACK ANDERSON WASHINGTON sd n- - it !S. nd- - in :s, ns re in- in- - rt. it, ?s, to so Both my husband and I have been troubled with strop infection for months. Can a prepared solution be bought to counteract the germs on my lawn. V.W.M. Dear Dr. Thosteson : How does a physician determine whether edema (swelling) of the legs is due to heart or kidney disease or to another cause? Mrs. M.P. Answer: By kidney function tests and by the various methods of examining the heart. If both organs are in good working order, then a physician investigates the adequacy of circulation in the legs, particularly the veins, hormonal balance and so on. ie, ;nt on in on ng ay he ed lif-'h- nd ng. aid 'he ;ed ley ted uld piy ec- - RY St. ' Answer: I've mentioned this before, and also a cookbook produced by the association. They are excellent, sound, helpful, and I am happy to print your letter. ti programs. In a confidential memorandum to his regional directors, Rumsfeld has outlined his plans. The document is heavy with rhetoric about "new directions and states in the ponderous language of government: The exciting moments of choice performances were frequent throughout the r recital. And, fortunately, the moments were few of anxiety that resulted in finger and memory slips, poor intonation, rhythmic problems, and visible stage fright. Categories in the State Fair Competition are set by age. and because of her age, Christy Childs of Springvill'e, was declared the winner of the elementary piano group (14 and under). But there was nothing elementary about Christys performance of the finale of Saint Saens Concerto for Pian-- No. 4. two-hou- 1 James Brimhall of Smithficld, inter selected mediate piano winner, (15-18- the final movement of the Liszt Concerto for Piano No. 1, and he elicited an This will require, among other actions, selective cuts in some local initia- -' tive programs in order to free up funds now allocated to less effective programs into an opportunity reserve for these new initiatives. disdaining congressional 9 Although opinion, Rumsfeld has carefully chosen Washington, the city with the highest proportion of blacks and the only city in America without a voice in Congress, to demonstrate his heavy hand on the budget. One vulnerable program for Washinga credit union, which has tons poor is been .unusually successful. The credit union has helped poverty mothers pool 51 MUSICAL WHIRL At least four months before Sen. Everett Dirksens fatal cardiac attack, both Senators Roman Hruska of Nebraska and Howard Baker of Tennessee made their first discreet moves to step into the old mans shoes. Hruska was Dirksen's chief political Old Ev henchman. Baker his had confided to both of them that he would probably step down next year as Senate Republican leader. With this inside information, both senators began maneuvering behind the scenes to take over the leadership. They confided their plans to a few intimates and began to line up support. Dirksen died on Sept. 7. a Sunday. The following moming at 9 o'clock a Baker aide showed up in the office of Oregon Sen. Robert Packwood and asked him to run Bakers campaign for the Republican leadership. Hruska also came out in the open. However, Pennsylvania Sen. Hugh Scott, who as the GOP Whip was next in line for Dirksens post, has outmaneu-vere- d both rivals in the Senate cloakrooms. He now appears likely to win the leadership on the first ballot. Ray Smith, winror ment that he brings to all his music whether performing, composing, or leading his own ensemble. Victoria Whipple of Bountiful, medium vocai winner, gave her solos by Tchaikovsky and Puccini an impact that was gentle and subtle. The performance by Ler.ora Ford of Clearfield, advanced piano winner, of the first movement of Beethovens monumental Appassionata Sonata is bound to be one of the student events of the was played year. This real with tremendous fire and vigor and with a flash and drive straight out of concert stage artistry. amazingly full sound with his sparkling finger dexterity. One finds it difficult to believe that Dana Maiben is only 13 with her refined Chaconne, pertormance of Vitalis which she played to win the elementary string group first prize. Had the piano not covered her final climax, her musical exuberance would have glistened more convincingly in contrast to the earlier part of the work. Sylvia Mitchell, intermediate strings winner, dashed crisply and impressively in the first part of the rhythmically comAlle- plex and technically formidable movement of the Khachaturian gro Concerto for Violin. With a little more head of steam, she would have carried the excitement to the last note. The multi-talente- d of the medium winds on flute, brought to the Rondo of Mozarts Concerto for Flute the facile tone, the surging excite- -- Giovanni. by Brickman how I pea Diufive ir AM&WH&M a FISHMAN cowe p&TeM:m&P To P3 6o,VesTHiN&? VkfaoNtafMM tiflr vmlleet In? By HARRY ERNEST CUNEO Swamps Must Give Way To New Cities - Few would WASHINGTON (NANA) should resources the nations that deny be conserved and its places of exceptional beauty be preserved. Fewer still would deny that the conservationists perform valuable public service by bringing to public notice the possible destruction of places which should be saved as part of the nations heritage. - The conservationists, liowever, at times appear to proceed as all but a religious group whose crusading zeal tends to overlook that among the animals to be preserved is the human species. The current bruhana to save the Everglades from a jetport is a case in point. It is alleged that the developers will destroy the wildlife and disturb the delicate balance of nature in their untouched JONES Don, r member of the DAV, thought a up the idea of handing out flags over from the Memorial left iurplus Day ... of decorating veteran's raves. Then there is William F. X. McConnell, who works over in the Federal Building. Hes a photo buff, and a good one. lie entered ses eral of his best pictures in Ihe State Fair. McConTheresa nell. Bill's visited the fair and reMr. Jones ported her findings to her mother: dishonorable Daddy didn't even get mention! program seven-year-ol- CMJ The word around San Francisco is that the driver of a huge cement truck went by his house en route to a delivery. was visiting his wife, so the A friend truck driver emptied the yards and into the fellows auto. , yards of ready-miThe story made at least one of the Bay Area papers. That story is folklore as old as cement itself. It wouldn't be so. bad except the columnist who used the x bit thinks Salt Lakers are country bump-kins- , ! It's back to the drawing board and the work shop for Fred Harrison oi Bountiful. Hes rebuilding a successful automobile eater! What really happened was that Fred bad gone to a lot of trouble to get an airHe plane which had crashed in Nevada. home it i gathered it up and brought at least most of it. . . . The parts that . could be found. For a long, long time he and a partner have worked harder than . , ... -- the kings men did with old Hum ply to , get it back together again. (Thats Dumpty, not Humpty Actually, the founding fathers w'ere developers. Everyone from George Washington to Benjamin Franklin was a participant in companies designed to develop the vast acreages of wilderness. This is also the general verdict of history. Half of Hollands people today live on land recovered from the marshes and the sea. Actually, the delicate balance of the swamps has already been disturbed. When Waiter Reed discovered the malarial mosquito was the cause of yellow fever, unfeeling scientists eliminated that mosquito. Whatever else happened, the Caribbean, once a death hole, became the healthiest place in the world when the yellow jack fluttered down. Come to think of it, Washington, D.C., itself was redeemed from a malarial swamp. It is one thing to argue preservation for use, relaxation and appreciation by the public. Certainly, the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, the Great Smokies end a thousand other wonders of nature should be reserved for the generations to come. But there appears to be a vast difference between generations of American citizens and generations of muskrats and water mocassins. To the extent that the preservation of wildlife is given precedence over the extension of human life, the weight of history and of common sense appears to be against the conservationist zealots who insist that herons come before humans. A commonsense approach, based on the lessons and' mistakes of the past, seems highly in order. The cities are coming to south Florida as certainly as they came to the Midwest. The problem is more the creation of new and beautiful cities than the preservation of swamps. Further, extension of the cities does not necessarily mean destruction of natural wildlife areas; the Hackensack Meadows are and have been between New York City and Newark, the densest population areas in the United States. ) Humpty.,-Humphries.- Finally the big day came. It meant as much to Fred that day as Dec, 17, 1903 meant to the Wright Brothers down in ' ' Kitty Hawk. like a And the Cessna 205 handled beautiful bird. r ' Fred went on vacation right after that. And while he was gone, someone was ' " fooling around . . . revved the engine. The plane jumped the blocks, and turned from a beautiful bird into a hungry vulture. It nibbled its way into a hangar and ' chewed the top off an auto. And like the tape at the beginning of the plane was Mission Impossible, Wit's End The president of our investment club has suggested that we put our money into taxes . . . they are always going up! BIG TALK ' v - .y Vi, & eft v ; vy f w : 'L& VT r - v,y " . ought to clarify their terms. One may wring ones hands about the disappearance of the 20 million buffaloes, but the cities which rose where the deer and the antelope roamed Minneapolis, St. Paul, Omaha. St. Louis, in blunt terms Tulsa, to name a few weie worth the price of changing nature. The citizens of Florida, like the denizens of the Everglades, also have to make a living, and most of them make it in ways far less brutal than the laws of fang, claw and ponon as practiced by the pre-.eoccupants of the Florida "Last night I dreamed that in 1970 Jackie would make her old stuff do another year, and spend the $1,250,000 on starving children. It made such a lousy human interest story, woke up." I From pholos takon for th daily Birthday foatura. Deseret News popular liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiii;ili:iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii:iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinii I . -- lands. swamps. v Some jieople .lie thoughtlul. Take Don Reaveley from El Paso Gas, lor ip tance. When the 25lJth Quaitpimas-le- r Battalion returned home from the war the other day, family and friends weie on hand to gieet them at the Salt Lake International Aiipoit. Most o( the welcoming crowd were waving small flags as the 27 men walked down the ramp to loved ones. For example, one favorite line on the capital dinner circuit in recent weeks With John Lodge in Argentina goes: and Bill Middendoif in The Netherlands, the problem will be to keep the two countries from going to war. The conservationists HAVE YaU ANY Oddities Mill That may be just as well, considering the repute in which some of the diplomatic corps is held in Washington. Inside Information Barbara Ann Sudweeks musical control and perception and projection of the first movement of the Mendelssohn Concerto for Violin was awesome. Her full, resonant tone is coupled with a technique that permits her to roam through the challenges of distinguished violin playing with aplomb. Little wonder that she won the advanced strings and the Utah State Fair Young Musician of Groat Promise award. Jo Raquel Townsend made it immediately clear why she had been awarded first place in the advanced winds with her perceptive performance of Martin's Ballade for Flute and Orciiestr? The excitement of this modern work was professionally projected. First place winner of the advanced vocalists, Terry McCombs. BYU tenor, generated a kind of excitement dressed in an appealing pungent style in his singing of the Schumann Diehtertiebe and II mio Tesoro from Mozarts Don the small society Dear Dr. Thosteson : I find your booklet, Diabetes, the Sneaky Disease, most valuable as a basic reference. Would it not be helpful to call attention to Forecast, an official publication of the American Diabetes Association? It contains articles, recipes, etc., and is a magazine published every wo months at '2 a year by the American Diabetes Association. Inc., 18 East 48th St., New York, N.Y. 10017.-F- .M. e a Despite these expenses for his own comfort, he can show a neat savings on his operations. This has been accomselective cuts in local plished with By HAROLD LUNDSTROM Deseret News Music Critic Under the direction of Betty Jeanne Chipman, chairman of the Mu Phi Epsilon recital committee, and Prof. Louis Booth, director of the State Fair Music Competition, everything was done to provide the performers with excellent performing facilities. . Answer: Many germs besides the two groups you mentioned can be carried in such drainage. Possibly not "carried through the air, these germs can spread vi? seepage of ground water, be picked np on shoes, or a lawn mower, or grass cuttings, or In many ways. There is no way to treat your lawn; the problem is one of basic public health, and I advise you to report it to the Health Depaitment without further delay. a ultimate in executive status symbols: private bathroom. From The The extraordinary competence of the staff at State has led many Washington hands to observe that it doesnt matter a fig who represents the U.S. in the field. Indeed, with the advances in communications and .he recent preference for summit diplomacy, the role of the U.S. ambassador has declined. million in nickels and dimes, and has showed them how to avoid the loan There Was Some Extraordinary Playing w'ith neighbors draining liquid waste from a cesspool to my front lawn. Can a strep or staph germ be carried in the air from this? sure, some of the initial resei ve about Nixons appointees has been tern- To be first-clas- sharks. The stark photographs of poverty are gone from the walls, replaced by pastoral scenes. And as evidence of his new Cabinet rank, Rumsfeld has added the There is little doubt that the eight mu-- , sicians and two vocalists who were presented in the annual Winners Recital by the alumni chapter of Mu Phi Epsilon Sunday are among the best in the state. Dear Dr. Thosteson: I have a problem the definition of the President has to muddle MERRY-GO-ROUN- D czar y Donald Rumsfeld has fearlessly wielded an economy ax on programs for, the shutting poor, down the program in Minneapolis and lopping J1 million off the poverty budget for Wash-- i n g t o n, telling aides: You worry too much about what Congress might say. He has used some of the savings to give his own executive suite a more luxurious look, thus reducing the poverty in his immediate surroundings. Under Sargent Shriver, the. antipoverty directors office was unique in government. There were no carpets, and the furnishings were prim. Rumsfeld has now added improvements. To be prepared should his budgetcutting efforts prove tiresome, he has added a- bedroom to his executive suite. Expensive lamps now give a soft, restful glow to the walls that were once lit by fluorescent tubes. , I have a little shadow That goes in and out with me And what can Joe the use of him Is more than I can see. as if Even when he lias tried to avoid blatant politics in his ambassadorial selections, Nixon has had trouble finding competent men. The fact is. says one State the nationally Department veteran, known professors, commentators and writers on foreign affairs outside the Foreign Service are mostly Democrats. That tribe is not going to work for Richard Nixon. If Nixon's amba'isadois aie a mixed bag. his choices for the legional assistant secretaries of state aie thought 10 be all The to'U are relatively young, knowledgeable and widely respected: Joseph J. Sisco, 49, lor the Mideast and South Asia; Martin J. Hilienbrand, 53, for Europe; Marshall Green, 53, for East Asia, and David Newsom, 51, for Africa. Poverty Czar Cuts Aid To Poor Baby Screams At Her And Bits Of Chaff hae gnen Beam's replacement in Plague. Malcolm Toon, and ambassador to Hungaty Alfred Pulian aie other smooth and savvy veteians. 22, 1969 OUR MAM JONES sea-on- overall calm and expertise the Japanese second thoughts. 19 A Monday, September i ' |