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All EDinnwa The Arizona Republic As I See It Whatever Happened To That World 1'rohloiiis Soviets Used Lie Tax Loopholes Page 6 Thursday, Aug. 21, 1969 TO Criisll CzedlS By Reg Manning Arizona Republic Staff Artist To Close Slowly i THOUGHT IT Where The Spirit Of The Lord Is, There Is Liberty I II Corinthians 3:17 Published Every Morning by PHOENIX NEWSPAPERS, INC. 120 E. Van Buren, Phoenix, Arizona 85004 By HOLMES ALEXANDER WASHINGTON, D.C. Millionaires are human beings too, but it's not standard political practice to treat them openly as such.

By MICHAEL PADEV Foreign Editor, The Arizona Republic WASHINGTON The Czechoslovak nation is observing today the first anniversary of "the day of shame." One WAS OPPOSED HMO! BUT NEED SOMETHING EUGENE C. PULLIAM. Publisher fjg 0PAy4TRENy Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because, many false prophets are gone out into the tcorld. John-1; The great game of soak the rich with taxation became popularized in the regime of Franklin Roosevelt. "They have met their master," he once boasted in a fireside radio chat.

The game is continued by the Nixon administration, but with a difference. year ago, on Aug. 21, Soviet armed forces, including units of several Soviet satellite states, invaded Czechoslovakia and established full control over most Czech and Slovak main cities. Soviet police units blasted their way into Prague's government buildings and kidnap PADEV Judicial Moderate ALEXANDER (nest Editorial In closing loopholes on wealthy tax-dodgers, Mr. Nixon tends to be almost as humane toward the rich as he was in providing loopholes for the poor.

The President's loophole man is Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy Edwin S. Cohen, a personable Virginian who once made big money by showing wealthy clients how to avoid taxes within the law. HIS PRESENT capacity, Cohen worked out the Low Income Allowance giving loopholes to about 13 million poor folks, but he has also worked out a Limit on Tax Preferences which forces the rich to pay up. However, Cohen performed this second feat with as gentle a touch as he performed the first. For instance, he speaks kindly of the legal tax-dodgers.

"They support, in some degree, important segments of our business community," he told Congress last April in presenting the Nixon tax package. "We are not," he insisted, "taking away the (tax) preferences as such. We are curbing their excessive use by any individual taxpayer." THE NIXON ADMINISTRATION, as Cohen explained, did not intend to be vindictive toward wealthy tax-jugglers who, in protecting their own pockets, also aided "charitable educational institutions" in the process. Rather, the administration would plug the familiar loopholes as painlessly as is possible by doing it as slowly as is feasible. If the President's proposals get by Congress, it would be 20 years before tax-dodges on stock dividends become fully effective, 10 years before loopholes on municipal bonds are fully plugged, eight years before multiple exemptions are ended, five years before a rich man has to stop saving money excessively, by giving it away to charity.

Tlic Political Scene Why Presidents v' Like To Get Away By DAVID LAWRENCE WASHINGTON The "Western White House" in San Clemente, is in the news these days. It is novel only in a geographical sense, as the "summer White House" idea has been adopted by Critics Fail To Realize The Benefits To Man's Welfare In Space Science President Nixon has wiped out the traditional "Jewish seat" in the U.S. Supreme Court by nominating Clement Haynsworth to fill the post vacated by Associate Justice Abe Fortas. He also has raised a storm of opposition from civil rights groups, and possibly from organized labor. Nonetheless we think it's a good appointment, and we believe the Senate will confirm it without too much opposition.

The issue of racial and religious balance on the Supreme Court is not an open and shut case. It would be a mistake to have nothing but white, Anglo-Saxon Protestants on the Supreme Court. But wc think it also would be a mistake to have one seat reserved for a Jew, one for a pro-labor man, one for a woman, one for a Negro, and one for big business. President Nixon announced sorrte time ago that he would not allow special interests to influence his choices to the high court. With the selection of Judge Haynsworth coming on the heels of the appointment of Warren Burger as chief justice, it is obvious that the President has kept his word.

THAT DOESN'T MEAN, of course, that Judge Haynsworth won't have any trouble with the Senate on the issue of confirmation. As chief judge of the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, Haynsworth has joined in decisions in four specific cases according to Roy Wil-kins of the NAACP supporting racial segregation. Most legal experts, however, say that Haynsworth's stand is due to his belief that the Supreme Court's desegregation decision is not a mandate for forced integration by busing or other means. It's one thing to say that a public school must accept any student in the district regardless of color, according to Haynsworth, but it's another to say the district must achieve some particular mix of blacks and whites in each school.

If Mr. Wilkins' criticism of Judge Haynsworth is valid, the judge could well reply that he is in fact following public opinion. A recent Gallup poll showed that 44 per cent of the people in the country think racial integration in schools is proceeding too fast; 22 per cent think it is not proceeding fast enough; 25 per cent think the present pace is about right. However, the Supreme Court should not be a slave to public opinion, and Judge Haynsworth demonstrated his own independence in a decision favoring H. Rap Brown, the black militant leader.

THE LABOR ISSUE is a different matter. In 1963. the Textile Workers Union accused Haynsworth of a conflict of interest in a decision he rendered in a National Labor Relations Board case. Union leaders later repudiated the charges as inaccurate and Atty. Gen.

Robert Kennedy found them "without foundation." The Supreme Court changes men in many ways. On present findings we would say that Judge Haynsworth is a conservative moderate. How his decisions will go, if he gets on the court, is anyone's guess. Associate Jus tice Hugo Black, confirmed despite a Ku Klux Klan background, was a determined liberal early in his long career, but many of his recent decisions have given encouragement to conservatives. Perhaps the best description of Judge Haynsworth came from President Nixon in announcing the appointment through his press secretary.

He said the judge had demonstrated "judicial temperament, balance, impartiality and fairness." On top of that, he knows the law. One could hardly ask for anything more. ped nearly all leading members of the Czechoslovak government, including the secretary general of the Communist Party. Alexander Dubcek. The Czech president, Ludwig Svoboda, was placed under house arrest in the presidential palace.

Tlie Soviet invasion was "explained" by Moscow, in an official communique, which claimed that "party and state leaders of the Czechoslovaks have requested the Soviet Union and other allied states to give the fraternal Czechoslovak people immediate assistance, including assistance with armed forces." This was, of course, a shameless lie. Neither the Soviets, nor any of their agents in Prague, have yet been able to find the names of the "party and state leaders" who supposedly asked for Soviet assistance. Nor is there any trace of any document which would suggest that anybody in Czechoslovakia wanted the Soviets in. IN THE COURSE of the year, the Soviets have managed to depose Alexander Dubcek from his position of leadership. They have installed several pro-Soviet politicians in leading state and party posts.

They have muzzled the press. But they have been unable to produce any Prague official who would admit that he had asked for Soviet "help." Even Communists who now follow the Soviet line completely have not sunk so low as to say that they welcomed in any direct or indirect way the Soviet occupation of August 1968! This fact is not only a clear indication of what all Czechs and Slovaks, including all Communists, think and feel about the Soviet occupation. It is also striking proof of Soviet mendacity. Contemporary European history is full of cruel examples of big and strong powers invading small and weak neighbors. Usually the invader would try to produce some "evidence" of some "provocation," supposedly coming from his defenseless victim.

But never has any aggressor claimed that his victim actually asked to be invaded. Not even the bestial Nazi war lord, Adolf Hitler, who, during World War If, invaded most of his neighbors, had ever claimed that his conquering armies were marching forward at the invitation of their victims! IT'S VERY IMPORTANT to remember all this, because in our era of East-West negotiations, we are, after all, dealing almost daily with the same peoplethe leaders of Soviet Russia. Whether we discuss disarmament problems, or the Vietnam war, or questions of space co-operation, let us never forget that the people we are negotiating with are the same people who invaded Czechoslovakia and told the world that the Czechs had themselves asked them to do so! Moreover, let us also remember, Czechoslovakia was a very small and a very weak country, in comparison to Russia. The Czechs and Slovaks could in no conceivable way endanger Russia's security or jeopardize Soviet interests. I am not saying that we should not negotiate with Russia's present rulers.

As long as they remain the masters of Russia, we have no choice. But, while negotiating, we should never forget that they are not normal people. Indeed, people capable of planning, organizing and carrying out the invasion of Czechoslovakia cannot and should not be considered normal, in any accepted sense of the word. If we remember this, and if we keep reminding our foreign policymakers and our diplomats about it, the lessons of Czechoslovakia's "day of shame" will not be lost on us. They are now beginning to apply these techniques all across the educational from pre-school programs, to training the hardcore unemployed, to the development of the most sophisticated skills.

Cheaper and more effective medical care is already in view as a result of the space program. Miniature, self-transmitting devices have been developed which provide doctors with information not available to them before. THE SAME techniques now make possible automated hospital systems that enable a nurse to care for 25 patients. The medical spin-off has been so impressive that NASA now has special teams briefing research institutes and universities on the possibilities. We hear a great deal about pollution of the environment; but space research on the disposal of waste has produced new techniques that are applicable to earth.

A NEW FILTER technology is developing. Waste is separated into its reusable elements and the residue is disposed of without reliance on the sort of sewer systems that now cause so much pollution in the urban environment. And these are just a sample of the new possibilities, all of them so generally ignored by men whose only concern for the aerospace industry is to denounce it as a money-squandering component of the military-industrial complex. It's time our liberals entered the 20th century. avoid them, reduce them or ignore them.

"There may be all sorts of ways of dealing with them and getting out of them, but there is no demonstrably correct way The vicar may advise his parishioners as to their matrimonial difficulties, but he cannot do their difficulties for them as he can do their crossword puzzles." TO USE Welcon's terminology, some human difficulties can in fact be broken down entirely or in part into problems, and these problems solved: rapid urban transit, as Tokyo demonstrates, may be an example. But others are intractable, do not seem separable into solvable components. Racial prejudice and war are properly "difficulties," and very little in human history suggests that they are going to evanesce. BUT THOUGH the relationship between scientific progress and social history is not, contrary to the progressive assumption, an analogical one, scientific developments assuredly can be used effectively in dealing with social difficulties. When Senators Kennedy and Mansfield and the Rev.

Ralph Abernathy grouse about the money "diverted" into the space program, they reveal an appalling ignorance and confusion. The technological "spinoff" from the space program has immediate social application. AEROSPACE firms have developed highly effective methods of training people to perform complex tasks in relatively short periods. Today's Postcard presidents for more than a half-century. And it isn't just the climate which causes the chief executive to pick a place away from the national capital, for, at times, Washington has provided better weather than other locations chosen.

(Reprinted from National Review) With depressing regularity, comment on the feats of Apollo 11 has stressed two themes: (a) that since we succeeded in this stupendous venture, surely now we can succeed in abolishing poverty, hunger, racism, injustice and war; and (b) that we should now spend our money on earthly problems rather than on space technology. Both themes reflect fallacious assumptions, and are, in fact, remarkably old-fashioned. THE FACT that the first theme is articulated so often, and as a matter of course, demonstrates the pervasiveness of what Michael Oakeshott calls the "rationalist" fallacy. Faith in moral and social progress, surely the dominating faith of the modern era, was born out of a false analogy: between the cumulative, progressive development of science and technology and man's civiliza tional development. History generally, so it has been felt, may be expected to show the same sort of progress as the sciences.

RATIONALIST, of course, is constantly chagrined by the "lag" he discerns between man's control over nature and his ability to manage his social and poliical affairs. But the "lag," he thinks, is due to atavistic factors, and, once these are overcome, our palpable imperfections will prove evanescent. The fact that the rationalist speaks so naturally of "social problems" is itself deeply significant, for the phrase embodies a sort of concealed analogy. The word "problem" (as in mathematics) implies the existence of a "solution." But the analogy is a misleading one. IN HIS BOOK, The Vocabulary of Politics, the British philosopher T.

D. Weldon makes a useful distinction between "problems" and "difficulties." These, says Weldon, "are quite another matter. We do not solve them we surmount -them, LAWRENCE The real reason for a separate abode Home Of The Moule By STAN DELAPLANE Learning To Eat President Nixon's promise "to put an end to hunger In America for all time," is an" encouraging one, and one that undoubtedly the President will bend every effort to fulfill. But humane and forward-looking though it is, the bringing of that promise to fruition, may not be the unmixed blessing it appears to be, because ending hunger is one thing, but doing so through proper nutrition is another. According to such nutritionists as Harvard's Dr.

Jean Mayer, Dr. George M. Briggs, chairman of the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of California at Berkeley, and Dr. Elmer L. Severinghaus, former Columbia University professor of Public Health Nutrition, and others, the satiation of hunger is not necessarily equated with good nutrition.

In fact, national surveys have shown that too many housewives haven't the faintest idea of what constitutes good nutrition. In addition, although their numbers fortunately are less, there are large numbers of persons in the United States who regularly eat dirt, clay, coal, or laundry starch, among other examples of geophagia, in a superstitious belief of their nutritive value. Additionally, most Americans unfortunately base their dietary preferences on taste alone rather than also taking into consideration the body's requirements for basic nutrients. For these reasons, among others, not the least of which is the minimizing of the risk of coronary heart disease, a nationwide public education campaign in the basic requirements of good nutrition, rises as a necessary adjunct to Mr. Nixon's laudable war against hunger.

Such a campaign need not necessarily be federally financed. In fact, it would be a better example of true public service if such a campaign were carried by community voluntary health agencies, universities having schools of nutrition, or medical schools, and the nation's primary and secondary schools. It is no secret that many of today's ills, including some of mental retardation, are the result of poor nutrition. Also, it is no secret that a person whose stomach may be full, but whose nutrition is poor, cannot successfully compete in the work-a-day world. He tires easily, his attention-span is short, and his spirit of motivation -leaves much to be desired.

These drawbacks are as costly to business and industry as they are to the health of the individual. V1LLERVILLE The resort town of Villerville is on the Cote Fleurie. The flowery coast of Normandy, Department of Calvados. It is a small, gray town of narrow streets. A bar on one corner where workmen come in the morning for coffee and a warming glass of calva- is that the White House is not a comfortable dwelling for family life.

THEN THERE ARE the pressures from officialdom. A president's absence at a vacation spot, however, is usually respected. Mr. Nixon may find the need for important conferences not much less in California than in Washington. But any vacation home is a vast improvement over life in the White House where the rooms are large and more adapted to ceremonials than to restful seclusion.

A PRESIDENT doesn't cease to be a human being when he takes up residence in the White House, and he wants informality and a lawn outside where he and his wife can walk without intrusion by crowds. The tasks of a chief executive have increased considerably, so President Nixon persuaded some of his cabinet officers, to rent homes near the Western White House in- California. This is an innovation, but, considering the world situation and the need for intimate talks on domestic matters, the idea is a good one. PERHAPS THE LUCKIEST president so far as vacation spots are concerned was Lyndon Johnson, who used his big ranch in Texas as a place to see important persons from abroad as well as from our own country. Most of the guests liked it.

Not all presidents are fortunate enough to own big ranches, but Mr. Nixon has managed to set up an equivalent summer White House in California along the Pacific Ocean and a winter home in Florida along the Atlantic Ocean. Why so much time for 'rest? The truth is a president is busy every day no matter where he is. But at a vacation home he does get a chance to think alone and'he has less opportunity in the edifice known as the White House than at a coast resort where he can stroll along the seashore and meditate. .3 dos, the Normandy apple brandy.

There is a small restaurant. A sign says mussels are ready at all times. In the evening we go up the coast of Honfleur where there is a one-star Michelin restaurant. Eating for the French is serious business. This part of Normandy, is the home of the moule the black mussel with golden meat is raked up when the tide is out.

No Frenchman would think of starting a dinner without a great steaming pot of moules a la creme. The head chef said: "They must be steamed open in their own juice. Add butter, chopped onion, parsley, white wine and cream." We drink a fragrant Muscad-et with this. You finish with a small black coffee. And, of course, another calvados.

As to those 100 year-old marks on bottles, forget it, It doesn't change after it leaves the wooden cask. "The' bottle is the grave of the brandy," the French say. Public education" already has made' some inroads against cancer, heart disease, tuberculosis sod other killers. Tha sarsie can ba done against poor nutrition, Shfch also kills by shortening lives. lsfefflrtnitt.Twr-.