Weapon In The War Of Words

WHEN PEOPLE START ANGLING

We dont believe it!

The Kremlin, masters of code words and phrases that identified the Soviet Union as the source of all freedoms and ri^ts of the workers, really fumbled the ball. They couldnt stomach the United States insistance on human rights. (Apparently workers rights and human ri^ts have divergent definitions in the Communist lexicon.)

Today, willy-nilly, they of the Kremlin are allign-ed with other dictatorships that cannot tolerate

human rights. This unwanted position hurts.

The Soviet Union has been entrapped by a simple phrase that is all-important to people deprived of simple liberties all over the world.

In the unending propaganda conflict the United States today has a wedge that peels away the hypocrisy of Communist claims and their harsh policies are bared for all to see.

Its a turning point if the Free World can capitalize on this most beneficent blooper.

Testing The New U.S. Administration

We can be sure that the testing phase is in full swing between the United Statess new Carter administration and the Soviet leadership.

President Carter has made blunt statements about human rights in the Soviet Union and the Soviets have turned down U. S. proposals on nuclear arms limits.

The war of words even included a televised news

THIS AFTERNOON

conference for Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko in which he said, "One cannot talk about stability when a new leadership arrives and crosses out all that has been achieved before.

We can expect this testing phase to continue until the leaders have sized each other up. Only then will we get down to serious negotiation.

'Sunset' Bill Sets Stage

ByBILLNOBLITT RALEIGH - State Senator Willis P. Whichards sunset proposal for North Carolina State (Jovemment does not set the sun completelynor nearly so far as many have wished.

But to move too far too fast would have been unwise, the Durham Democrat feels.

Still, the Whichard legislative proposal now under study in the (Jeneral Assembly does set the stage for careful termination of some activitiesand close scrutiny of others.

The proposal has some little noticed provisions for a look at state governmental activities generally, not only the certain licensing and regulatory agencies mentioned in the title.

End Some Sunset legislation, being experimented with in several states and made popular by the recent election of President Jimmy Carter who had initiated aht approach while governor of (eorgia, has a simple premise at its foundation; that governmental functions have a terminating date on which funding stops and activity ceases unless the program can be solidly justified in terms of performance and service.

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There are those who would propose that sunset apply to all governmental activities. Whichard is not among them. It would discredit the whole concept of sunset legislation if you just abolished government ever so often.

Some envision that . . . that is totally unrealistic. You could have a law saying that the Department of Human Resources is abolished in 1581. but you know very well that could not be done.

You could set up the termination of the Department of Public Education, but you know that could not be done.

You could make the whole thing look foolish . . . create anarchy... and create such a large staff to handle the sunset operation by going into all phases of state government at once that you would have to build an entirely new, expensive and unwieldy bureaucracy, Whichard said.

What he is doing is trying out the concert on the licensing and regulatory agencies ... to gain experience and ideas from the process then carefully extend it to other areas."

Whichard acknowledges that within the major departments where it would be unrealistic to talk about

sunset, there are individual divisions and agencies which do need attention.

Hunt More

Whichards legislative proposal covers that; It establishes a fishing license. The commission may investigate any programs or functions even thou^ not scheduled in the law, and may suggest other terminations. But the goal right

now is to give sunset a limited focus that is achievable, and while into this activity, to find others which need attention. The commission would be empowered (investigative staff, subpoena power, hearings) to do that.

An independent commission is proposed with a fulltime staff to handle daily routine. The focus is on licensing and regulatory programs as the first step, with background already built in a report from the Attorney Generals office suggesting a moratorium on new licensing activities, and an eye to ending some. That

report classified many such agencies as selfserving and industry donoinated, tending to function more to keep prices up and competition down thi in protecting the public.

The prt^)osal now under consideration simply terminates all such licensing boards (some 35 of them), and about 70 state laws governing business and trade activities. A staggered schedule is set for ending the programs, and a Governmental Evaluation Commission would recommend to the General Assembly whether to keep, change, or do away with the various activities.

Whichard said he introduced the measure to give sunset a start. But it is major legislation, and will likely be amended heavily in further study. Thats all right. Im not wedded to this approach. . . I just feel this need to be considered and we need to get started in %me way.

He thinks few could argue with the opening statement on his. bill: State government actions have produced a substantial increase in numbers of agencies, growth of programs, and proliferation of rules and regulations...

Wall St, Loathes Lance

By ROWLAND EVANS

and ROBERT NOVAK

NEW YORK - Thomas Bertram b Lance out of Calhoun, Ga., confronted the barracudas of Wall Street here last Wednesday night and asked what more the Carter administration could possibly do to earn their confidence and simport. 'The hostile answer nothing clearly rejected Washingtons offer of love.

Lance, President Carter!s budget director and envoy to the world of finance, fielded tou^ questions for two hours from 28 representatives of financial institutions aggregating $100 billion in investment power. The remarkable private exchange, conducted in an elegant brownstone on the Upper East Side, confirmed todays biggest unspoken economic worry: a capital strike.

That is the alarming description of sluggish coital investment that bolds back economic recovery.

Since this strike is bred essentially by fear of the new administration, much of it unthinking, Lance is attempting to reassure the financial community. What happened here last Wednesday ni^t not oidy shows how tough his job is, but also points up the serious adverse impact on the economy of the pervasive fear.

Wall Street is on strike because it believes profitability is restricted by the tax structure, government regulation and the new administrations attitude toward business. A symptom was last weeks reported reduction of capital appropriations by the utility industry.

Mr.. Carters principal strike-breaking weapon, has been Lances conservative-tinctured reassurances. Pursuing this campaign, 28 officials of prestigious financial ii^itu-tions (Morgan Gur^nty Trust, Manufacturers Hanover Trust, Lazard

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FTeres Lehman Brothers, the Oppenheimer Fund, among others) were invited to a sit-down dinner at the Manhattan townhouse of Lances friend, economic consultant Eliot Janeway.

Lances riietoric was as impeccably orthodox as William Simons, if not Andrew Mellons: the Carter ad-ministratiim sees the route to recovery led by investors, not cmisumers. It feels the worst problem is government both generating inflation and harassing business. Hence, the goal is balancing budgets eliminating paperwork and establishing predictability for business.

In response, the barracudas grumbled.

Grumble No. I: The $50 tax rebate pending in Congress has become an economic albatross around Mr. Carters neck, an $11 billton indication to financiers that he really wants a consumer-led, not an investment-led, recovery.

Grumble No. 2: Althou^ the financiers regard exbanker Lance as a friend, they also regard him as a shield to hide leftish policymakers in Washington. This usually refers to middle-level appointments, but one investment banker Wednesday night pompously asked Lance how Wall Street could trust the President \riiile

Vice President Walter Mndale emerges as his closest adviser.

Grumble No. 3: Debite constantly reiterated promises of no incomes policy (wage-price controls), the financiers will not accq>t the promise. One told Lance he had it on good authority that Criarles Schultze, the Presidents chief economic adviser, had doubled his staff in prq)aration for administering controls.

At that, even the affable Lance bridled, wondering how a reasonable man could come to such an errtmeous conclusion based on unverified gossip. In truth, the problem of dealing with Wall Street means cutting throu^ gossip, naivete and prejudice.

One financier, in questioning Lance, naivety compared the traditionally distorted budget estimates of the outgoing Ford administration with the present growing deficit to demonstrate Carter profligacy. When Lance suggested that your crowd (the Nixon-Ford administration) messed up the economy during eight years of deq;>en-ing stagflation, a voice from the rear responded that things were turning around just \n1ien President Ford was defeated.

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HIDDEN SPRINGS Have you ever wondered as you look across a broad and deep river where all the water comes from? In a season of drou^t only the little streams disappears. The great rivers and lakes may reach new lows, but they never dry up.

Why? Because over a vast area millions of springs are feeding them. Most of the springs are hidden. Their contribution to the great stream trickles unseen into a channel which finally reaches lake, then river, then ocean. Hiddoi springs and unseen

By JAMES J. KILPATRICK

Absurd Ethics Gesture

r^rvolrs are surpassingly Important iK>t only in the physical realm but also in the mental and spiritual realm. Many people who have been overwhelmed with sorrow and overrun with calamity have found that it was the hidden springs of a comforting faith which made the difference between despair and triumph. '

Jesus had hidden springs in t ^mlnd when he said, The '^water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water, i^ringlng up unto everlasting life.

-by Elisha Dou^ass

hie Senate got around to adopting an ethics code the other day. The vote was 86 to 9. So lopsided a margin mi^it indicate that an overwhelming majority of the Soiate regarded the code as both necessary and wise, but such was not the case.

Majority Leader Robert Byrd said the whole thing was absurd, and Mr. Byrd was right.

Mr. Byrd, of course, was among the 86 who voted in favor of this foolishness. He felt that nothing less than this bristling codification of

Public Forum

Letters submitted for Public Forum must be limited to 300 words.

To the editor:

Recoitly there have been letters, an editorial and a survey, all commenting on Pitt Technical Institutes becoming a community college.

On the exodus of Pitt students to adjoining counties; Had the writers d(Mie their h(nework, they would know that in summer, 1976 Lenoir Community (Allege registered 23 in the college program and 60 in the technical program. Martin (immunity College in summer, 1976 registered one in the ccdlege program and five in the technical program. In fall, Lenoir registered 32 Pitt Countians in the college prt^am and 84 in the technical program. Martin enrolled one in the college program and six in the technical program. There is no appreciable increase or decrease for winter quarter. So this great number of students leaving Pitt County and spending tuition money in other counties amount to 123 students, of which 90 are enrolled in technical programs.

Another letter commented (hi the FREE mimey to be granted to the community college. It is all TAXPAYERS MONEY.

The editorial admonished the County Commissioners for not stuping out boldly and granting community college status. The three commissioners who voted against that proposal should have been congratulated for taking the position that the voters took in the last referendum.

Now the recent survey: This so-called survey was made by a group from Ralei^. They say they contacted 759 people in Pitt County and that 71 per cent were in favor of a community college. Hiere are about 26,000 registered voters in Pitt County. So 759 is less than three per cent of the voters, assuming they are all voters.

The most appalling thing is that 50 per cent of our higi school graduates cannot read on the seventh grade level. We need to ^nd our tax dollar to remedy this situation and to upgrade our technical institute to prepare <Mir young peale for jobs that will be available throu^ our growth in industry, agriculture and ^lecial technical importunities.

Howard N. Wilson Greenville

To the editor:

I would like to thank you for your editorial last week in support of a city ordinance to require new industrial and commercial devel(mers to plant and maintain trees and/or vegetation in any parking areas ccxinected with the construction.

I would also like to commend more businesses who have doie this viriuntarily. You only have to drive between Memorial Drive and Charles Street on the Bypass to be able to see the difference between those \riio have done some planting and those who have parking areas with no relief from large black-top expanses.

This ordinance is to be considered by the City Council in its meeting Apr. 7 and I would h<me there udll be strong citizen support in favor of it.

Marian Moeller

possible misconduct would restore public confidence in the integrity of the Senate. Mr. Byrd, I believe, is mistaken. Those voters who look at the code are more likely to suspect that the Senate must be composed of crooks if it takes so formidable a document to restrain them.

The code runs on to 55 pages, with 25 printed lines to the page. It is accompanied by an explanatory committee rqwrt. This runs on to 91 pages, with 52 printed lines to the page. All these thousands of words these innumerable rules* restrictions, exceptions and requirements are intended to keep senators honest. In the end, a truism makes it all immaterial: Good soiators wont need a code, and bad senators wont live up to it anyhow.

This is the kind of thing that evolves when political lawyers put their heads together. A typical provisioh of the code says that a senator shall not accept gifts having a value of more than $100 from any one po^n during a calendar year, but the rule is not to apply to gifts from a relative.

It occurred to the lawyerly authors, as they considered their colleagues devious talents, that the word relative had better be carefully defined. Otherwise, some slick senator would wiggle out of the ethical net. Thus the drafters of the code inserted in Rule XLII a subsection 7 (j), as follows: The term relative means ... an individual who is related to the person as father^ mother, son, daughter, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, great uncle, great aunt, first cousin, nephew, niece, husband, wife, grandfather, grandmother, father-in-law, mother-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, stepfather, st^mother, st^son, stepdaughter, stepbrother, stepsister, half brother, half sister, or uiio is the grandfather or grandmother of the q;>ouse of the person reporting.

Humbug! The code is not entirely silly. For the first

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Syria

Taking

Chance

By GEORGE A. KRDiSKY AModAted PraM Writer

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -The worst aspect of the war in southern Lebanon is not what It is but what it could turn into.

On the surface it Is a series of flrefl^U - with relatively light casualties - for control of farm villas and narrow roads in rocky hill country. But the skirmishing could lead to a confrontation between Israel and Syria.

At the heart of the conflict is the return of Palestinian guerrillas to the Lebanese-Is-raell border region, which was teeming with them before most of them moved north to fight in the Lebaiwse civil war.

After the Arab League imposed a cease-fire last November, the Syrian peacekeeping forces let the guerrillas filter back into the south. Israel had already served notice it would not aUow them to use southern Lebanon again as a base for raids across the border. The Christians also wanted the Palestinians neutralized and grabbed coitrol of villages in the former Palestinian stnm^id.

The war erupted again.

The Christian forces are getting material and artillery support from Israel, and the Palestinians say they are the fingers in an Israeli glove reaching into Lebanon.

The Syrians, who sent their army into Lebanon last June to help the (3iristians in the civil war, now are pulling the strings the other way. A1 Baath, the newspaper of Syrias ruling Baath Socialist party, said Israel was trying to undermine the guerrilla movement and create a security bdt in south Lebanon with the hdp of certain local forces, ... but Syria will not allow this situation to continue.

The Syrians are still keying their troops out of the border area because of Israeli threats of military action. But this week they allowed the Saiqa Palestinians whom they c<mtrol (C<mtinued on page 5)

40 Years Ago Today

Apr07,19a7

Renewed Spanish insurgent bombing of British warships and charges by Italy of Franco-Soviet violations of the hands off Spain agreement threatened serious international reverberations today.

Opposing Spanish armies clashed in two of the bloodiest battles of the civil war.

Great Britain demanded a quick and satisfactory explanation from insurgents for two aerial attacks on her destroyer Gallant off the east coast of Spain.

She sent the destroyer Garland to Palma Mallora, held by insurgents, to back up her warning she will not tolerate interference with her shipping. The Gallant was bombed twice yesterday, but was not hit.

Labors brif^itest picture in many weeks was painted today as 85,000 workers directly and indirectly affected by the month-old Cosier corporation strike stood ready to march back to their jobs.

An agreement between Chrysler and the U.A.W. was signed at Lansing, Mich., last ni{^t.

Barbara Mathews

Baseball 'Financially Unsound'

ByJOHNCUNNIFF AP Business Analyst

NEW YORK (AP) - The sclwlars at the University of Pennsylvanias Wharton Applied Research Center, who usually concern themselves with studying the proUems of business, are worried about baseball.

Professional baseball, they say, has become financially unsound busino. What with free agents, expansion of the leagues and inflation in general, the future of the big league game is in doubt.

Think of it, the PhUlies Med 2.2 million tlcketbuyers just to break even, said Chris Ritz, a senior researcher who used to concern hlmseU mainly with such statistics as Mike Schmidts RBIs.

A few years a^ a club needed only about 850,000 paid admissions to break even. By 1976 it is estimated

that clubs needed an average of 1.5 million fans to meet payrolls. But average home attendance was only 1.25 million.

Ritz and Jim Emshoff, director of the center and associate professor at the Wharton School, one of the nations top sources of management talent, want to see the big league continue, so they agreed to work on some strategies.

And they ask your help by marking a ballot and mailing it to; James Emshoff, Wharton Applied Research Center, 418 Vance Hall, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. 19104.

As they view the situation, the Important new ingredients in the baseball picture are hlf^r salaries and expansion of teams into cities that might not be able to support them.

As a share of team

revenues in 1970, salaries were only 18 per coit, compared with footballs 29, hockeys 40 and basketballs 50. But now salaries are rising swiftly and hugely in baseball. Can baseball afford them?

In most otter qiorts the players come to the high professional ranks already trained, often by colleges. But baseball traditionally has trained its own in minor leagues, spending perhaps $750,000 to (ievel(^ (me major leaguer, the two researchers say.

Many owners are said to be thinking of cutting back (m minor league ei^endltures but, saty Emshoff and Ritz, the very real itMem Uils presents is a talent drought. Multitalented individuals mi^t opt for other spiHls.

Compounding the problem will be the tendency of free agents to relocate to the rich.

glamorous cities capable of attracting big attendances and thereby capable of paying bigger salaries.

Who will make iq> the discrepancy between income and expenditures? Ite fan, of course. His or her favorite box seat will be priced high as a dinner for two at an elegant restaurant. But will fans pay? BlgqiKstlon.

To aid baseball in working out its problems, Emshoff and Ritz, scholars and fans, developed eight possible alternatives, on which they ask fans to vote. They will tabulate results and send them to the baseball commissioner.

1. Hi^er ticket prices. Moderate Increases wtmld probably not keep pecq;>le away. The extra revenue could keep and pay quality players.

2. Equalize the split of (CooUoiedoapageS)