Thursday, September 21, 1967

Trusting Moscow, But Not Peking

There can be little doubt that the change in basic strategy of American defenses will have its effect upon U. S.'^oviet relations. In so many words, the new policy says we trust the Soviets not to launch a nuclear attack, but we do not trust the Chinese Reds. It reflects what has been a growing tendency in U. S. policy to deal with communist nations individually rather that parts of a united international conspiracy.

Defense Secretary McNamaras announcement of an antimissle defense system to be constructed in the United States is a radical departure from the previous policy of the nations defense organization.

While this new system is termed a limited program designed only to deal with a possible attack from Red China within the next decade, the decision recognizes that the threat of nuclear retaliation in itself is not a guarantee against nuclear

place itself in a position to prevent damage from her missies even though the United States will be able to deliver a devastating retaliatory attack should Red China strike first.

The Pentagon announcement also suggests that Secretary McNamara continues to cling to his previous position that no such defense is necessary against a possible Soviet missle attack. He obviously holds the conviction that the threat of counterat tack will prevent a Soviet missile attack upon the United States. Even so, he acknowledged that the Umted States is spending billions to advance its Minuteman and sea-based Poseidon missiles to make sure they can penetrate the antimissile defense system which has been constructed in the Soviet Union.

Secretary McNamara appears to have given approval to the limited antimissile defense program reluctantly. Already he has expressed the fear that this limited system will increase pressure for con-

attack. In the case of China, the United States must struction of a much broader system to provide defense against possible Soviet attack ... an expen-

Many Problems

diture he feels is unnecessary.

Confront LRC

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES Reflector Raleigh Burean

RALEIGHThe list of matters assigned to the 1967-69 Legislative Research Commission for study is not a particularly long one but the items cover a wide range both siri[>Jects and thorny problems.

R actually is faced with fewer than a dozen specifically assigned fields for study and drafting of recomm^dations tor the 1969 General Assembly.

Of course, the LRC may and probably will initiate studies into such other matters as it deems appropriate and necessary. In fact it already has decided to take a look at posaible streamlining of the states traditional and in some ways archaic kgisla-ttve process.

Accordiiig to its coKihair-men, House Speaker Earl Vau^ and Senate president pro tem Hennan Moore, it has been assigned certainly enough matters to keep us busy and working. But it is not likely to shy away from tackling other things that may arise and appear to require attention.

Assigned Studies LRCs assigned studies, those called for by legislative act or resolution in the 1967 session, range from recoti-cation of the states alcoholic beverage control (ABC) laws, updating of water resources laws and studies relating to lending and credit and how to provide more medical doctors for small towns and the states rural areas.

One study will concern whe-tter it is advisable to create a new Department of Public Safety which would bring all w most of the states law en-fwcement activities under a single d^artment for better tomtfination.

Another will look into certain aspects of the public welfare program wUcfa many feel need everhanling and updating. And still another involves the problem of providing adequate fire fflid extended coverage insurance on beach property and coastal dwellings and other facilities.

Also, the LRC has been in-structed to nail down the matter of compensation for employes of the General Assem

bly anijl to determine what positions, classifications and qualifications may be needed adong with setting maximum and minimum ages and salary ranges by position.

Background In Each

There is a bit of interesting background about each of the assigned LRC studies.

'That on compensation of legislative employes resulted from an amendment by State Sen. Sam Whitehurst of Craven to a bill last Spring to grant retroactive pay increases to l^slative workers.

Whitehurst called it a bonus over and above the compensation for which the affected employes agreed to when they were employed. However, tiie pay raise bill was passed with Whitehursts amendment

Major Breakthrough In Industrial Efforts

WILLIAM

SHIRES

A new $32 milliun, fertilizer manufacturins^ plant in Hertford County represents another major breakthrough for the industrial development of this section of North Carolina.

Although there are a number of Traditional' fertilizer plants in this agricultural section, th# new facility to be constructed near Ahoskie represents a new phase of the chemical industrys development in this part of North Carolina. The new plant, which will employ some 160 skilled workers, technicians and engineers, will use natural gas, air and water as its basic materials.

Also significant to the area as a whole, in our judgment, is the role played by the Development Institute of East Carolina University in helping to locate the new industry. The Institute, according to the announcement, made arrangements for purchase of the 1,100 acre site on the Chowan River for the new mdustry. It was one of the first potential industrial sites developed by the Institute.

The new industry adds diversification to the economic development of this part of North Caro- By JAMES KILPATRICK Una. The fact that the area has in its midst a facility such as the ECU Development Institute to assist with such important undertakings is also significant for the continued economic progress for Eastern North Carolina.

Rising

Threat

By VC

Perennial Phoenix

Wholly Pragmatic View

Still

'The State ABC director, Ray Brady, pleaded with the 1967 session to recodify the states scattered, sometimes cocfus-ing ABC laws but to no avail

After finally enacting a brown bagging law, which required quite a few weeks of legislative skipping and jumping last Spring, the lawmakers were in no mood to do anything else about the ABC laws.

Instead, they turned over the task to the Research Commission.

In a sense, the LRC might feel it is a sort of dumping ground for problems which the states legislators, while in ses^n, believe it either too hot or too complicated to handle.

Sen. Hector McGcachy of Fayetteville, an LRC member, said however be feeli this points up the importance of the Research Commission and makes its work even more important and slgnificant. When the legislature is in session, he said, there just is not t i m e to spend weeks and months studying a problem.

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP)-Just a little over 22 years ago the United Nations was born in San Francisco. For a moment, with the anguish of the big war ending, it seemed this might be the beginning of a new world.

Capitalists and Communists cheered and old animosities were almost invisible, for a while.

Anyone who was there had lived through the years of war, worse than anything in history, and he knew mankind, If sensible enough, could forge out of the fires of agony a peaceful way of life.

The machinery for quiet settlement of diq?utes, both new and ancient, was the foundation stone of this new United Nati(s, its primary purpose.

Even so, anyone there with his wits about him and a knowledge of history had to be skeptical. He could hope man at last had learned to live intelligently but history told him it was unlikely.

He knew man was still primitive, as World War II had just demonstrated, which meant that if now the nations seeizied eager to eliminate conflict it was only because they were exhausted.

They needed time to catch their breath, like a professional fighter vdio is knocked flat on his back and then gets up off the floor again, shaking the fuzz out of his head, until he is ready to go again.

Nevertheless, as the delegates at San Francisco finished their work, the whole non-Fascist world tingled a bit at the thought that here at last man had a chance to change his ways.

The tingle didnt last long, and there wasnt much reason fw it. At the very moment of birtii distrust and suspicion were written into the U. N. charter when the United States and Soviet Union insisted upon reserving the power to veto each other.

The United Nations had 51 members starting out and has 122 now. But it is in debt perhaps as much as $60 million because not all the members will pay what they owe.

And it didnt end war, after all. In some cases it has helped, as in Korea. In some it has been helpless, as in Vietnam. It has been criticized on all sides.

French President Charles DeGaulle called it the Leaning Tower of Babel. Nikita Khrushchev called it the tool of colonial powers. A critic in

the United States described it as a Communist-dominat e d rats nest.

It can help, sometimes, smother war fires m small nations. But it can do nothing if the big ones, like the United States and Soviet Union want to perform.

Nothkig shows better its dilapidated condition as t h e worlds peacekeeper than what happened to it, and what it did, when the Aiaim were ready to make war on Israel last June.

When U.N. troops, stationed a decade wi Egyptian land as a buffer between Israel and Egypt, were told to git by Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser they were withdrawn in a hurry by U. N. SecretaryGeneral U Thant.

Whether one likes or dislikes Richard Nixonand the gentlemans popularity is not the theme of this piece there is little disagreemoit on one point; The former Vice President is by far the most expalenced of the Rq}ubll-can contenders in tiie field of foreign affairs. His views on Vietnam are hardening. His oi^siticm to unrequited bfidge building is growing He ought to be heard.

In a long interview at his law office in New York, Nixon this week spoke more decisively than he ever has i^ken before on the need, as he sees it, for bold and massive strokes in the war. On the wall, a few feet away, was a scarlet lacquered landscape, tte gift of \fietnams

late President Diem. Scattered about the room were other reminders of his many visits to Southeast Asia. Nixon toyed with on ivory^iand-led kris, a souvoiir from Malaysia, as be developed his thc^hts. He ranks as an old Asian hand.

There is not the slightest question in Nixons mind of the validity of the U. S. ccan-jmitment in Vietnam. He does not rely upon the Southeast Asia Treaty. He is almost indifferent to the Senates Gulf of Tonkin resolution. Neith* does he premise his position upon high-flown consiiterations of freedom and democracy. It is just not true, he remarks, that we are fighting for free electi(ms in Vietnam.

?orty Years Ago

Strength For Today

By Foy H. Duncan Sept. 21, 1927

State Shows a Big Balance Raleigh, Sept 21The State cash balance of August 31 says the combined statement of the auditor and treasurer, issued today was $17,561,710.54......

By EARL L. DOUGLASS

Herbert l^encer, the English sciitist and agnostic, went one time to take up his residence in a new house. When it became necessary to choose flowers which would harmonize with the background, Spencer insisted on having artificial flowers in his vases because they would require no replenishing. His friends remonstrated saying that no one could imagine Spencer suirounded by anything artificial. But the great men pushed their protests aside. Artificial flowers, he said, were so skillfully made that visitors to his home would think them real and admire them as such.

Someone has declared that Spencers choice was characteristic of his whole philosophy and of the entire school of secular moralists from religious faith but from expediency. It was a singular fact that the philosopher who tried to persuade men everywhere that they could be good without relating their goodness to God naively believed that be could have artificial flowers In his house and no one would be able to tell them from the real thing.

) Morality apart from a deep faith in such a God as thel Bible sets forth is not the real thing. It is a wish-washy philosophy of life that will not enable a man to stand strong in the day of temptation.

All true goodness is rooted in God because all true goodness comes from God

ABOUT TOWN TTie object of the Rotary

Commerce. A Chamber of Commerce performs a certain distinct service for the community no other organiz-atioo can possibly hope to. It has been my observation that towns and cities with active Chambers of Commerce grow and expand more rapidly than otiier towns.....

Club in holding a meeting in Fountain two weeks from Monday night is to establish more friendly relations between the residents of the two Pitt CJounfy towns, Julian White, junior member of the firm of H. A. White & Sons, state today . . .

There are a lot of organizations working for the civic improvement of Greenville, one of our leading business men remarked tods/, but they cannot hope to perform the mission of a Chamber of

Misses Jane Hadley and Marie Hardee left yesterday for Randolph Macon College, Lynchburg, Va.

Zeno Brown left yesterday m(n*ning for Harvard University he will enter the

graduate school for business administration.

Marvin and Archie Sugg, Fred Jones, Harry Brown, Charles Woodard, Van Straton, Julian Perkins and Frank Wilson left yesterday for Chapel Hill where they will attend the University of North Carolina.

Nixon is wholly pragmatic: The war in Vietnam is a war for survival of Western influence in the Pacific. It is a war in support of our own national interests. If the war is not understood on these grounds, It Is not understood at alland the administration has failed utterly in explaining this truth to the people.

But the administrations failure, in Nixons view, is twofold: Gradual escalation hasnt worked. It could not possibly have worked. By increasing allied pressure just a little at a time, the enemy has been permitted to adjust his own responses, a little at a time. As a consequence, a war that might have b^n ended by massive pressure, massively applied, has turned into a prolonged and grinding conflict.

Certainly there are risks in acting boldlyrisks of heavy casualties, risks of direct Russian and Chinese involvement. But these risks are infinitely less than the risks doing what we arc doing now. The greatest risk lies in letting this war drag on for another two or three years, to a time when Communist China has perfected the capability for nuclear war.

As his pace of pre-canH>3ign appearances picks up, Nixon intends to advance some specific ideas. Intensified bombing, in his view, is not the answer, but more effective bombing is part of an answer. In some fashion, the use of the port of Haiphong must be denied the enemy. The campai^ for pacification in South Vietnam must be pressed relentlessly. Nixons theme is acceleration sudden, sharp, stunning.

Simultaneously, the former

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By ROWLAND EVANS aiM ROBERT NOVAK DANANG, South Vietnam-The U. S. positlcm here in the critical northern provinces of South Vietnam is deteriorating as the Commimists press their remorseless campaign of attack, parry, and retreat ^Wltii the rainy season beginning to shroud the land under a cover of dark clouds, reducing U. S. Air support, the odds rise for a lightning enemy tiirust in regimental strength to capture and hold for at least a few hours a provincial or distrid capital Quang Tri, perhaps, which lies few miles sooth of the txH-der, or Hoi An, south of the marine bastion here at Danang.

While success of such a bold and ambitious plan would have little military influence on the war, its psychological impact could scarcely be exaggerated.

OiH* purpose, said North Vietnamese Premier Pham Van Dong, is through a program of all - out attacks, to cause many casualties and so to erode the U. S. will that the anti - war influence will gain decisive strength.

That friendly little pledge hangs in a frame on the <^ice wall of Lt Gen. Robert Cushman, the First Corps Commander, a cool - headed marine who takes it very seriously indeed. And if one considers what is really happening in this northern quadrant that pushes up to the Demilitarized Zone, and shuts his ears to the optimism blarii^ from the U. S. trumpets in l^gon, the foresight of Pham Van Dong comes into clear perspective.

Marine casualties in the seven months up to Sept. 1 total 5,926, including 728 dead Considering that roughly seven times that many regular North Vietnamese troops were also killed and wounded, the marine - enemy ratio is high in our favor.

The trouble is that the enemy can replace his casualties from a reservoir of manpower now estimated at the better part of three divlsioos on or just north of the DMZ and another two divisions held in reserve in the southern portion of North Vietnam. The marines do not have that luxury without detaching essential units from elsevdiere in the First Corps area.

Thats why the district capital ot Hoi An and the provincial capital of Quang Tri are more vulnerable today than at any time in the last six months.

Quang Tri is hanging by a thread, a war - wise U. S. official told us here. As f 0 r Hoi An, the Vietcong guerrillas are skillfully exploiting the shortage of U. S. and South Vietnamese forces by gradual expansion of their large holdings in the countryside a reverse application of the oil slick theory by which our side had hop^d to pacify the countryside in ever-expanding concentric cir- cles.

But that is only half the story. The vast and crucial Danang Air Base, now one of the busiest airfieldi in the v world, is actually mcae vul- ^ nerable today than six months ago. The reason is the 122-mm. enemy rocket, first used last May. This i^le 910b-ile weapon (it weighs in toto only 238 pounds, including fts remote - firing device) has a range of seven miles, almost one mile further than toe older 140 mm. rocket.

Consider what this means to the defense of Danang Air Base. That extra mile of ran-(Continued on Page 6)

Anothers View Of Year 2,000

By ELMER ROESSNER Lets see if we can outguess the CPAs.

Changes in American society by the year 2000 will be discussed by members of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants at their 80th annual meeting next week at Portland, Ore.

The CPAs will probably be concerned with talk about computers which will do all their work. All that will be necessary will be to feed in the data and in seconds out will come a complete balance sheets and the name of the employee who has been dipping into petty cash. But here are some things the CPAs overlook:

The dollar will be worth about one cent in 1967 purchasing power. There rvill be talk about a new hard dollar, to be exchanged for 100 of the soft dollars, but nothing

will be done about it.

On Prices, Television Prices will be fantastically high. A good cigar, obtainable only firom bootleggers because tobacco will be ver-footen, will cost $125. A glass of draft beer, which will come in a plastic container and contain neither carbohydrates, alcohol nor bubbles, all bad for the drinker, will cost $165. Gum will be $1 a stick. ,

All television reception will be in full color and three dimensional. However, despite Ray Bradburys prediction, it will not be possible for the viewer to talk to the actors or participate in the show. However, by pressing one button, the viewer may get a happy ending to a movie instead of the unhappy one; pressing another button may cause a comic to repeat a punch line that

All meat will be pulverized and pressed into solid form resembling bologna. By law it will contain minerals, vitamins, antibiotics and tranquilizers. However, it wont be bad since it will be flavored to taste like Black Angus steer beef, Australian lamb, Smitb-field ham or Alaskan caribou. Spam, canned in 1968, will be a collectors item and what little is left will be sold to gourmets at $5,000 a tin.

That Younger Generation!

There will great concern over the younger generation, especially those bom in the 1981-1985 period. Their disrespect for their parents, their addiciton to strange dances, such as those done on ceilings, and their trance parties at which everyone remains in a h3^notic state for a week will be roundly (and squarely) de-

The younger generation will run a l&-year-old girl for President in the year 2000 but on election day on Nov. 6, a 33-year-old named Patrick Lyndon N(^cnt will beat her.

AH citizens will get regular mwithly payments from the government, although the piy-

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ROESSNER

was drowned out by the studio nnounced by the older genera-audience. tion.

ments to those under 5 will go to their parents. Payments will average $50,000 a month. However, all income earned by individuals will be paid direct to the federal government Rnder the 100 per cent witholding plan.