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IDAHO Page 4 Section A POCATM.U). JOURNAL IDAHO, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1975 fit BUZZ OF THE BURG TIP OF THE ICEBERG Signed columns are the opinions ol their unsigned editorials are the Journal's A Scenario for Church All indications are that Idaho Senator Frank Church will land running when his Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Activities concludes its hearings early next year, and that his name will be entered in the Massachusetts primary as a presidential candidate in April. THE IDAHO SENATOK'S formidable fund-raising machine is grinding slowly into motion, and it appears he will have little trouble raising the money in the requisite number or states necessary to get matching federal funds--an indispensible necessity for presidential cancliales nowadays--and he is getting it in amounts which indicate his primary support is on the Eastern seaboard and from that segment of organized labor that regards Church a golden mean between Sen. Henry Jackson, D-Wash. and former Sen.

Fred Harris. But even in that select middle ground, Church has important competition. His performance in Massachusetts will determine how long he holds that position. The Massachusetts delegation obviously belongs to Sen. Edward Kennedy, audit may be that Kennedy wishes to keep the delegation uncommitted for a possible presidential race himself or that he will sew it up for brother-in-law Sargent Shriver, also an announced candidate.

A third alternative might be that Kennedy will stay completely neutral, trying to determine where the strength lies among the crowded pack of Democratic contenders in the first important primary in a liberal, largely blue-collar and solidly Democratic state. Church is on better terms with Kennedy than his primary revivals for the big labor and liberal support, Sen. Birch Bayh, D-lnd. and Rep. Morris Udall, D-Ariz.

Bayh is "Hoosier commoner, and (Jdall an upstart backbencher--Church has the foreign policy credentials, the intellectual appeal and the class requisite for politicians in Massachusetts, and perhaps enough name identification to lead the liberal pack. INSIDE REPORT The real question is whether a liberal can at ail in Massachusetts this year. School busing has turned the Kennedy image somewhat sour, and too much association with Teddy could be a liability in the important working class precincts of Boston, Quincy. Lowell, Worcester and Dorcester where the winner will be decided. Church is Harvard, but he's also an establishment figure in the Senate not readily distinguishable in a region which produces establishment liberals with profligacy.

YET THE IDAHO SENATOR really doesn't have to finish first to win. If he makes a surprisingly good showing against Shriver and the other candidates of the left, it could be enough to carry him into the New York, New Jersey, Wisconsin and Illinois primaries with a measure of support. If he can collect a handful of delegates in each of the major industrial strles he will be in a good position to collect the bulk of the liberal Democratic vote in the nine presidential primaries of the 13 Western states, setting up a possibility of climactic confrontation with Jackson, Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, D-Texas. or former Georgia governor Jimmy Carter in California.

Yet if Church does badly in Massachusetts, his presidential quest will be over and he may have lost the chance of a possible vice-presidential bid. A liberal nominee from a large state isn't likely to want a liberal running mate from a small one, and Wallace, Bentsen, Jackson or Carter would almost be forced to look to the Northeast for vice presidential timber. If Church ends his CIA investigation above politics, however, his stature may be sufficiently high to make him an attractive vice-presidential possibility. Frank Church has the distinct advantage of being everything all the other liberal candidates in the Democratic presidential derby wish they were. It remains for speculation whether that would be a boon or bust in a race again a Gerald Ford or a Ronald Reagan.

Little Jimmy By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK ORLANDO, prospect of little Jimmy Carter, the former governor of Georgia, being transformed into the giant- killer who humiliates George Wallace in the Florida presidential primary is preposterous--but not quite so preposterous as it was early this year. INDEED, even though no sane Democrat would bet a plugged nickel on Carter's humiliation of "Wallace in the March 9 Democratic primary election here, events seem to be conspiring in such a way as to deliver maximum political dividends for Carter. Most important is the fact that no other Democrat--with the inconspicuous exception of Pennsylvania Gov. Milton Shapp, an almost invisible dark horse--has shown the slightest interest in a statewide race against Gov. Wallace of Alabama here.

To the contrary, even Sen. Henry M. Jackson of Washington, who is expected to run delegates in selected congressional districts--mainly Miami with its large pro-Jackson American- Jewish community--is not yet regarded as a serious factor except in Miami's Dade County. Thus, almost by luck of the draw. Carter has a favored track position which other Democratic presidential candidates in years past have often striven for but seldom achieved: a virtual two-man race against Wallace and his hard-core but quite inelastic force of supporters.

In 1972 winner Wallace got less than 42 per cent of the vote in the presidential primary here, despite the highly emotional pull of an anti-busing provision on the ballot. Most Democrats and many Republican leaders here perceive Wallace best as holding onto just about that same strength next March, with no sure way to measure whether his paralysis will hurt or help him politically. Another 42 per cent of that 1972 vote was distributed among three other candidates, each of them to the left of George Wallace: Hubert Humphrey, Jackson and Edmund Muskie. ON THE FAR LEFT, the strongest showing was made by Sen. George McGovern with a meager six per cent of the total vote cast.

Neutral Democrats doubt that Wallace will be able to pick up more than scattered votes from among the 1972 non-Wallace voters, if true, and if these same non-Wallace voters of 1972 actually go to the polls, they may well vote for the candidate who has campaigned tirelessly (or their support- Jimmy Carter. That theory is no means ironclad. Under Florida's presidential primary election law, Secretary of State Bruce Smathers must place every probable 1976 presidential candidate on the brtlot unless an affidavit of non-candidacy is filed. That means the huge bloc of non-Wallace voters could vote for any of the 1976 candidates on the ballot, including Jackson. But since Jackson got only 13.5 per cent of the vote in 1972 despite a major campaign, it is unlikely he would get many more votes in March without a full-fledged effort.

THAT EXPLAINS why Carter's relentless campaign here (he has been in the state 22 separate times since last Jan. 20) may pay rich dividends and why he ran away with 70 per cent of the straw vote taken last weekend at the first state convention of the long- decrepit Democratic party in 75 years. Carter's other asset is the proximity of his home state, running some 200 miles along the north Florida border. Postwar Georgia peanut farmer Carter talks the same language as the conservative farmers of north Florida. No Democrat in the swollen presidential field is so low-key as Jimmy Carter, who wears a perpetual half-smile and predicts that the 1976 nominee will emerge from the primaries and not from any deadlock convention in New York City next summer.

At a coffee-and-doughnut rally in Lakeland early one morning last week, 150 local Democrats heard Carter's soft-voiced political pitch, which defies precise ideological definition. Carter combines a liberal idiom with some hard-line positions that are anathema to the left, including denial of the right to strike for public employe unions, and the death penally for certain capital crimes. HE IS CAMPAIGNING TO WIN here- although he won't admit to being an "anti- Wallace" candidate--in a two-step campaign he thinks will decide the democratic nominee next summer: first, beat Wallace in this Iwad- lo-head contest; second, win in an early non- Southern state against liberal opposition. If Carter succeeds in step one in Florida's third-in-the-nation primary, step two will look possible, despite Carter's shadowy standing with the controlling liberal Democrats who remember him as the man who nominated Jackson for President in 1972 and who courted Wallace in 1970. By The Associated Press Today is Sunday, Nov.

23, the 327th day of 1975. There are 38 days left in the year. Today's highlight in history: On this date in 1890, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg was separated from the Netherlands. On this date: In 1765, the British Stamp Act was first repudiated in the American colonies, by the court of Frederick County. Md.

In 1804, the 14th American president, Franklin Pierce, was born in Hillshorough, N.H. In 1863, the Civil War Battle of Lookout Mountain began in Tennessee. In 1943, in the Pacific War, U.S. Marines seized the island of Tarawa from the Japanese in fierce fighting in the Gilberts. In 1945, the United States ended wartime food rationing.

In 1970, a U.S. helicopter force landed at a prisoner of war camp in North Vietnam but did not find the American prisoners they were hoping to rescue. Ten years ago: The Political Committee of the U.N. General Assembly called for a world disarmament conference that THE NEWS AND THE The Good News: There is no slack season here. The Bad News: I didn't know I was going to a nudist camp.

would include Communist China. Five years ago: Pope Paul VI ruled that cardinals over 80 years of age could not vote on Popes or hold a Vatican office. One year ago: President Ford and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev conferred for seven at the Soviet port of Vladivostok. Today's birthdays: Former Assistant Secretary of State Roger Hilsman is 56. Thought for today: The worth of a state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it John Stuart Mill, English philosopher and economist, 1800-1873.

Bicentennial footnote: Two hundred years ago today, British forces claimed they were in complete control of Norfolk, Virginia but American forces were gathering about ten miles from the city. EDITOR'S NOTE: The Journal invites letters to the editor for publication. They should be of reasonable length, iri UMCH! taste and not libelous. All letters must be signed, although signatures Hill be withheld fur gaod reason. They may be mailed to the Editor.

Idaho State Journal, Focatello. or brought to the Journal office. Sir, HAYING READ the article on abortion published in the Idaho State Journal Wednesday, Nov. 12,1975,1 would like to submit the following article written by my father, Dr. Dale R.

Metcalf, Dept. of Nuclear Engineering, University of Virginia. Mrs. Anna Sleeker A VIEW OF ABORTION By Dr. Dale R.

Metcalf In ihe United States today almost 1 million unborn children are destroyed each year through abortion. Some would argue that the fetus early in pregnancy is not an unborn child but there is obviously life in the very beginning because it possesses one important token of life which is the ability to grow and develop. The majority may say it is right and proper to destroy life but from Judo-Christian teachings it is manifestly wrong. The Supreme Court of the United States ruled that it is only a theory that human life is present from conception but from logic, it must be true thai God certainly intended to create a human being. Dr.

Bernard N. Nathanson recenlly made an about face in abortion. He previously was one of the strongesl proponents of legalized abortion. He helped set up and direct the first and largesl aborlion clinic in Ihe western world. Upon the completion of some 60,000 abortions, Dr.

Nathanson resigned as director. He said "1 am deeply troubled by my own increasing certainly that I had in fact presided over 60,000 deaths. There is no longer serious doubt in my mind that human life exists within the womb from the very onset of pregnancy." (New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 291, No. 22, p.

1189). TODAY WE CONTINUE to give medals and awards to Boy Scouts and others who save another life; yet many condone the taking of life of the unborn human child even for non-medical reasons such as to save embarrassment, to save face or for comfort. It has become tolerated, made legal and then widely accepted in many countries of the world. Nevertheless, it is wrong and in the sight of God is a most despicable sin. The physician does conspire with the citizen to turn a fragile, living object of simple innocence and complex wonder into a pathetic pulp and consign it to the furnace or sewer--unknown, unwanted and undefended.

(Dr. Henry G. Armitage, The Death of Innocence.) Some use the false rationalization that the child should be aborled because of the exposure to drugs or disease or possible birth defects. But where is the mentally and chvsicallv perfect human being. In Shakespeare's words, "They say best men are molded out of faults.

And for the most, become much more the belter for being a little bad" in the physical sense. Further Pearl S. Buck said, "A retarded child, a handicapped person, brings its own gift to life, even to the life of normal human beings." How many Helen Kellers, Albert Einsteins and Abraham Lincolns have been killed this past year? FINALLY, THE QUESTION that the reader might consider: "What if your Mother had aborted you?" The diary of the unborn child as first published in Christian News titled "Mother, can you hear my tiny heart beating" presents a message to all. Ocl. 5: Today my life began.

My parents do not know it yet. I am so small as the pollen of a flower, but il is I already. I will be a will have blonde hair and blue eyes. Nearly everything is settled already, even that I shall love flowers. Oct.

19:1 have grown a little, but I am still too small to do anything for myself. My mother does almost everything for me, Ihough she does nol know that she is carrying me under her heart. But is it true that I am not a real person? That only my mother exists? I am a real person, just as a small crumb of bread is still bread. My mother is, and I am. Oct.

23: My mouth is beginning to open. Just think, in a year or so I'll be laughing; later I'll start to talk. My first word will be "Mama." NOV. 2: TODAY MY HEART began to beat. It will beat softly for the rest of my life.

After many years it will tire and stop and I shall die. My arms and legs are taking shape, but I must wait a long time before these tiny legs will raise me to my mother's arms; before these litlle arms can conquer the earth and befriend people. Nov. 12: Tiny fingers are forming. How small they are.

One day I'll stroke my mother's hair with them. Nov. 20: Only today the doctor told my mother that I am living under her heart. How happy she must be. Are you happy, Mother? Nov.

25: My mother and father are probably thinking about a name for me. They don't know that I'm a girl so they will probably call me "Andy." But I want to be called Barbara. I am growing so big. Dec. 10: My hair is growing; it is as bright and shiny as the sun.

I wonder what kind of hair my mother has? Dec. 13: I can almost see, though it is night around me. When mother brings me into the world, it will be full of sunshine and flowers. More than anything, I want to see my molher. How do you look, Mother? Dec.

24:1 wonder if mother heard the delicate beat of my heart? Some children are born with sickly hearts, but mine is healthy. It beats so evenly--tup-tup, tup-tup; you shall have a healthy lillle daughler, Mother. Dec. 28: Today, my mother killed me! The Ten Commandments are as valid and important in our day as they were when given on Ml. Sinai.

One of Ihose commandments is "Thou Shalt not Kill." Editor, the Journal, On behalf of the Associated Students of ISU and the ASISU Stucienl Senale we would like to thank you for the fantastic section on ISU in Monday's paper. We are convinced that ISU is one of the best institutions in the west and your articles and photographs support us in that belief. We are indeed grateful for all the time and hard work that was obviously spent in publishing the "ISU and are pleased that ISU continues to maintain such a good relationship with our local newspaper. Again, thank you for letting others know of the good things at ISU. We appreciate your thoughtfulness, and remain: Sincerely yours, Pat Anderson, President Don Burdick, Vice President Larry Myers, Pro-Tempore IDAHO STATE JOURNAt Published daily except Saturday and continuing with the Idaho Sunday Journal every Sunday by Idaho State Journal.

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Mail subscriptions must be paid in advance. This newspaper reserves the right to alter Ihe expiration of any paid in advance subscription, there be on adjustment in subscription rates. ART BUCHWALD WRITES Late, Honey WASHINGTON-Two new books have come out concerning Watergate. One is titled "The Women of Watergate" by Madeleine Edmondson and Alden Duer Cohen and the other is "Mo" by Maureen Dean with Hays Gorey. The thrust of both books is that if the wives of the conspirators had only known what their husbands were doing, Watergate may never have gotten out of hand.

ANYONE WHO BELIEVES that doesn't know how people live in Washington. This is what would and probably did happen. "Hello, dear. Wow, what a day at the White House. I just had to persuade three people to lie to the FBI." "The toilet's broken again.Every time I call the plumber he doesn't pay any attention to me.

If you would call just once maybe we'd get some action around here." "Listen, I need a drink real bad. I had to fill the President in on some stupid break-in at the Watergate and he was steaming mad. He told me to see that no one about it even if I had to use every organization in the country including the CIA." I'LL TELL YOU who else is steaming mad--Sears Roebuck. They called up and said we hadn't paid their bill for three months. I thought you told me you were going to send them a check." "I was, but it slipped my mind.

You see some jerks over at the Committee to Re- Elech the Presidentcommitteda burglary and seven were arrested. It turns out two of them were members of a secret outfit we have in the White House called 'the plumbers' who were up their eyeballs in illegal activities. Now the press is-on to it and they've called a special grand jury. I'm going to have to perjure myself in front of the grand jury to save the President" "Well, when will you send the check to Sears Roebuck?" "Will you stop talking about Sears Roebuck? If this thing gets out in the open it will blow the Administration sky-high. My clothes are filthy from destroying evidence we found in one of the plumbers' safes." "ISN'T THAT ILLEGAL to destroy evidence?" "Of course, it's illegal, but it had to be done.

In fact I'm going back tonight to burn some more files." "Then that means you can't go the Greens' for dinner?" "No way. The President doesn't warn unc piece of paper linked to him." "This is the third time we've canceled on the Greens. You should be ashamed of yourself." "I CAN'T HELP IT. After I destroy the evidence I have to meet several members of the Committee to Re-Elect the President. They're getting chicken about the investigation and I'm going to have to lean on them pretty 6 SUre hey stick to the pnony siuiy sure have to bribe them." "And what am I supposed to do while you're having a good time? Watch television?" "Dearest, don't you understand? If this thing doesn't work out the way we want it to, I could go to jail for years." "That reminds me.

Your mother called and wants to know when your Aunt Katherine and Uncle Phil can visit the White House. You promised they wouldn't have to stand in line with the rest of the tourists." "I HAVE TO TELL you this in strictest confidence. The President has tape recordings of every conversation he had in' his office. We have to listen to these tapes and erase anything that could incriminate him." "Did you know that Johnny came in at one o'clock last night? If he had a father who kept decent hours, he wouldn't try to get away with things like that." "Will you stop bothering me with all this smajl talk? There's a smoking pistol out there somewhere and we have to deep-six it." "Which means you're not going to call the plumber?" "LET ME ASK one question. Knowing what you know now about my involvement in this Watergate mess, do you think I've done the right thing?" "How should I know? I haven't been out of this house in a week." AS OTHERS SEE 17 Some Restraint on Phosphate The potential damage to the "quality of life" in Southeastern Idaho resulting from proposed phosphate mining expansion is enormous.

As Governor Andrus has requested in a sharply worded letter to a federal agency task force, much more complete and detailed analysis of the impact is needed. His letter complained of the pressure for quick action in the Interior Department task force timetable. He also complained that a draft environmental impact statement suggests an "all or nothing" approach to phosphate expansion. A tripling of present output is proposed by 1980. There are 16 proposed new mining operations.

The Fish and Game Department has a a and described potential immense losses of big game, of game birds, of other wildlife, and of fisheries. This area has some of the best game hunting in the state, as well as quality streams with outstanding fisheries. Because it called public attention to the potential losses, the Fish and Game Department has already been threatened by mining industry spokesmen with retaliation in the next session of the legislature. The department should be commended for helping to let Idahoans know what is at stake for fish and wildlife. The impact would be felt not only in Southeast Idaho, but in ii creased people pressure in other parts of the state.

Most of the phosphate would be used for fertilizer, which is important in a world where total population could double in the next 30 years (from four billion to eight billion people). Ultimately, of course, increasing world dependence on chemical fertilizers will prove to be a dead-end road. It will eventually be necessary to shift to a a fertilizers as phosphate supplies are exhausted. What is proposed in Southeast Idaho seems to be a very rapid expansion of phosphate mining, which is done with big open pits. The Game Department says the resource could be' exhausted in 25 years, but the damage to wildlife would linger on.

Boom and bust cycles aren't' healthy for any area. Idaho would be better off with a more deliberate development of phosphate. Mining should be ruled out in locations where damage would be particularly severe. There should be light control by state and federal agencies. The cost of too rapid growth wouldn't be limited to losses of fish and wildlife habitat.

Residents of the area would see a rapid rise in taxes to pay for expansion of schools and other services. The heavy requirements for electricity would mean a rapid increase in power rates. All of these impacts need to be carefully evaluated, as suggested by the governor in his letter. Since other parts of the notably Morocco, have large phosphate reserves, the wisdom of a "drain America first" approach should be considered. Idahoans have much to lose if phosphate mining expansion is not carefully planned and carefully Idaho Statesman.

Hold News Conference Prof. Konstantin D. Bushuyev, Russian technical director of the first manned international space mission, says the mission confirms international cooperation is possible and valuable. "For the public, the docking and technical matters were not so important as showing that two great nations can cooperate," Bushuyev said. He and Glynn S.

Lunney, U.S. technical director of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, held a news conference Thursday..