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Holmes Alexander Reno Evening Gazette A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Wednesday, July 5, 1972 Four Arms agreement weighted to advantage of Moscow Editorials Special person WASHINGTON, D.C. "Oh, for the gift of foresight," exclaimed the Returning Traveler who'd been away for a while. "If I could Just see Into the year of 1977, when the Moscow treaty expires, I might stop wop rying about what this arms limitation agreement will do to the United Well, for one thing, he was told, the Soviet Union is permitted to have 62 modern nuclear submarines "at sea," but the agreement doesn't say how many "replacements" they can have in their shipyards. A fellow like Scoop Jackson, who claims the gift of informed foresight, estimates that with 26 boats under construction and the capacity of nine per year, the Russians will probably have a total fleet of over 80 nuke-subs at sea or in their pens. That's what they planned to have without the agreement.

"Oh, cried the Returning Traveler, "it's mighty lucky that Defense Secretary Laird and Admiral Moorer have got. that Trident program for super-subs. I know they'll cost $l-billion a copy, but that's cheap at the price of maintaining American seapower. Everybody around the White House says that U.S. quality offsets USSR numbers." He was told that if the future of America in 77 is shaped by feUows like BUI Fulbright, there won't be any Trident program.

"I still take comfort," declared the Returning Traveler, "in the celebrated American know-how. Anything they can do, we can do better" He was reminded of the Soviet Sputnik in the 1950s. In a closed society like Russia, the rest of the world never knows what scientific breakthrough is cook ing. However, the Russian military industry probably is from three to five years behind us. They expect to catch up by '77, and that's why they signed the agreement, "Pardon my quaking knees," the Returning Traveler gasped.

"But thank goodness we have all those Minute Men missiles with the multlple-independently-targeted warhead, vehicles called MIRVs. The enemy wouldn't dare attack us while we possess this deterrent of their assured destruction." That might be all very well, he was reminded, if we went ahead and built six or eight anti-ballistics missile sites called ABMs. The Russians were afraid we would. Their first proposition on mutual disarmament was to limit those so-called defensive installations. With each nation held by the agreement to only two ABMs, the offensive weapons are half-naked to attack.

The only way we can clothe them with armament is to harden the sites, but Scoop Jackson's future piercing eye perceives that the Soviets outfoxed us there. The agreement allows them to "refit" their missiles, and that's what they're doing. The senator sees them turning their mammoth SS-9s into SS-16s, powerful enough to bust our most extra-hard missile-sites. "Anyhow," said the Returning Traveler bravely, "nothing can stop the U.S. Air Force.

The B-52s will get through, and pretty soon we may have the even more advanced B-ls, or else Mel Laird will quit" When Scoop Jackson is viewing the future, the Traveler was told, he foresees the Russians using their inferior fleet of war-planes to make one-way missions like the DoolitUe Raiders over Tokyo. Doolittle's boys landed or bailed, out. in what was then a friendly Mainland China, and the Russian raiders could do the same in Cuba. "But if Russia threatens or starts to strike," pursued the Traveler, "whoever President can push a button and annihilate them by the hundreds of thousands." Yes, the Traveler was told, but the Russians would shoot the works with whatever weapons remained. In Scoop Jackson's office' they have a phrase which says that any President would hesitate "for humanitarian or prudent reasons, and thus would be a candidate for black JPbMmeW itfcibutod by 1 A time Syndicate Henry J.

Taylor Europeans speak kindly of President Nixon mail. Sure, the agreement has a cancellation clause, but you can Imagine the panic If any President Invoked it, "Maybe I shouldn't have begun this conversation," groaned the Returning Traveler. "Despite the Moscow agreement, the future sounds like somewhere we've been before." President by a margin of 15 per cent in Sweden, 11 per cent in Britain, 10 per cent in West Germany, etc. Europeans as a whole seem pleased (and some are astonished) by the Nixon performance to date. Their officials, do not find the American President one of those people who is always "If you only knew what I know." He does not lecture them.

He really listens. In addition, he has most certainly succeeded in softening the impression of Uncle Sam, the big boy. This is important. Yet he has what the French call "du cran" what we call guts. In this election year it may develop that Preldent Nixon is plagued by a Mont Blanc of distortions.

But Europeans know that election time anywhere is a season to be nasty and widely assume that the U.S. President's rivals may be doing what comes naturally. Carl T. Rowan McGovern name mud since tantrum EVERY PROFESSIONAL person has had many occasions to help his fellow man during his career. It's the nature of professions that they deal with people who are in need of assistance.

No profession influences so many lives for the better, though, and in so many ways, than the educational profession. Everyone's life, it's probably safe to say, has been improved in some way by his teachers. Many a citizen can thank them for keeping him on the straight way when a bad family life or social pressures might have caused him to go bad as a youngster. Many more can credit their teachers for helping them reach potentials they might never have realized otherwise. And when one thinks of those from whom he's received comfort and encouragement, it's often the teacher that comes to mind.

So when a school teacher retires, it's a very special occasion, and when one has been at her work as long as Mrs. Rubel David of Reno, it becomes doubly so. It was 47 vears ara that Mrs. David began teaching in a little country school in the Truckee Meadows and she's been in the Washoe County schools ever since. This fall will be the first time in nearly half a century she won't be returning to the classroom.

Though it's always a bit saddening to see a good teacher leave the schools, no one deserves a rest more than Mrs. David. Thousands of Reno residents, past and present, will remember her for what she did for them and will be wishing her a long and happy retirement. That time, again FEW NEVADANS will need a reminder that the fire season is upon us, again. The spring was a dry one, they've noted, and the summer has hit early and hard.

It wouldn't take much, now, to set the rangelands a-blazing. In fact, that's what happened on Sunday in the hills northwest of Pyramid Lake where a spark from a railroad train, it's surmised touched off the fuel along the tracks and blackened 10,000 acres before it was controlled. It was nothing but grass and brushland, to be sure, but that's more valuable than some people think. It serves not only as watershed but as the forage and habitat of game birds and animals. Cost of control is another big expense, and it's passed straight on to the public in most cases.

Scores of men, five aircraft and 10 trucks were employed in fighting the Pyramid fire. That's reason 1 enough to make anyone think twice when lighting a cigarette or a campfire in the desert. Poor performance AMERICAN CHESS master Bobby Fischer has a reputation as a feisty, immature and self-centered person. Fischer is living up to that image as he prepares to meet Boris Spassky in Iceland in an attempt to wrest the world championship away from the Russian. The match had been scheduled to open Sunday, but Fischer refused to board an airplane for Iceland until the sponsor there offered him more money.

The ensuing uproar threatened to cancel the long-awaited meeting altogether as an angry Spassky complained that he had not agreed to a postponement. Chances are the match will go on, even if some time off schedule. The meeting has attracted an unusual amount of interest in a rather obscure pursuit. To back out now will be to disgrace the defaulting participant in the eyes of the watching world. That can't undo the unhappy effects of Fischer's mercenary performance, however.

One can't fault Fischer, perhaps, for seeking all the compensation he can get. His is an extraordinary talent in a highly sophisticated game, and the match with the Russian might be compared to a heavyweight fight-of-the-century in the boxing world. But, for the sake of appearance at least, Fischer should have settled the preliminary arrangements months ago. His last-minute grandstand play discredits himself and, to some extent, his nation. shipped off the money to Cleveland.

This kind of support, directed by Humphrey, was crucial to the first six months of the mayoralties of both Stokes and from hard line to soft line to gain immediate Soviet objectives and comfort anti-Communist opponents. They know the purpose is to soften them up internally and externally. PROVEN ENEMY The Soviet has shown itself to be the enemy of any and every country that did not follow its style of politics. Europeans remember that it smashed nation after nation and crushed the free soul of people after people. Fewer and fewer seem influenced by the Kremlin men singing their siren songs.

On the other hand, as you move around over here it is likewise apparent that much of the free European world is not emotionally, politically or economically capable of taking our side against the Sino-Soviets and, with this, the trust in some magic peace formula and hocus-pocus abounds. Beyond these there are also millions who equate the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A. as just two big monsters with little choice between their methods or purposes, two powerful for anybody else's good. This is a comforting philosophy that rids them of any feeling of moral obligation or of commitment, or even to study the glaring facts of history.

A kind of lethargy owns them. Unfortunately (and danger-. ously), this is reflected in NATO. Fear is the cement which has bound it together. Today NATO's only look is not of dynamism but of division, desuetude and decay.

At the personal level involving Mr. Nixon, his good standing over here is not new, although it seems to have been masked from us at home. On the eve of Mr. Nixon's 1968 election a trans-European poll by the same Institute of Public Opinion showed Mr. Nixon preferred as PARIS Surprisingly good things are being said about President Nixon over here.

The atmospherics around him have grown excellent. Paris' Le Monde is the most influential newspaper on the continent. It often acts like a busy sheep dog barking the animals back into line. But this and other opinion-making papers, such as Zurich's Neue Zur-cher Zeitung, The Times of London, the Frankfurter Allge-meine, II Corriere Delia Sera in Rome, are giving a good press to the U.S. President.

Actually, in many European countries the people seem to have more confidence in the United States than in their own governments. France under President Georges Pompidou, Premier Jacques Chabon-Delmas and Foreign Minister Mauruce Schumann is leading the atmospherics parade, at least for the time being. All are strongly pro-American Chabon-Delmas ever since he fought side by side with Gen. George Patton's troops in the French Resistance. RELATIONS IMPROVE We've come a long way in this country since French militants, reflecting De Gaulle's "Americans, go home" propaganda, tore the American flag from the American Cathedral on April 7, 1067, and burned it in the streets of Paris.

In fact, a French Institute of Public Opinion (Gallup) poll shows our country at the top of the French people's list of favorite nations. The United States leads all other countries in their affections by more than two to one. Canada is the runner-up. Belgium comes third. Russia runs a poor fourth.

Millions abroad know that Communist Russia pursues a strategy that operates on alternating current: the Soviet velvet glove-iron fist diplomacy. They see through Moscow's technique, with its sudden shifts ruling came hard on the heels of a deal McGovern had made with three black politicians that a couple of other presidential candidates have described in the same caustic terms used, by McGovern to characterize the California deal. Few things better illustrate the hard, unsentimental nature of bigtime politics than that deal in which Rep. Louis Stokes of Ohio delivered to McGovern eight black delegates who had been pledged initially to the "favorite son" candidacy of his brother Carl Stokes. Carl Stokes admits unhesitatingly that Humphrey was extremely helpful in uncovering money for his 1967 campaign for mayor of Cleveland.

After Stokes won, achieving national acclaim as a first black chief executive of a major city, Humphrey brought him to Washington and gave him a Richard Hatcher in Gary, for neither man had had any experience at getting funds or administering the affairs of a city. Yet, last week when it appeared that McGovern had the nomination wrapped up, Louis Stokes abandoned Humphrey and pledged the Ohio delegates to McGovern. Louis Stokes says flatly, "I gave Humphrey the state of Ohio in the primaries by delivering my district to him," adding that he felt a clear right and obligation to deliver those delegates to McGovern in the interest of helping black people. So McGovern and his key advisers have known a long time that presidential politics is a ruthless game. It lends itself to plenty of resentment and revenge.

But the system is usually pretty hard on the players who declare, that if they don't win, they'll take ball and glove and go home. crash course In how to get money out of the federal government. The truth is that, on Humphrey's orders, federal officials literally drafted Cleveland's applications for money, the same officials approved the applications, and the same officials if they don't get it they say" they threaten to bolt the party." Asked if that made McGovern's supporters extremists, Humphrey replied: "It makes them impractical, and it makes them what I would call people that would either rule or ruin, and I do not believe that the Democratic party can afford that." It is understandable that McGovern would be angered by the challenge to California's winner take-all system. He knows that every candidate knew the rules long before the primary was held. It is not surprising that McGovern would regard the Credentials Committee ruling as "corrupt," "cynical," "an incredible, rotten, stinking political steal," "smelly," "rigged," "spiteful" and all the other adjectives and expletives he threw forth in his moments of fury.

SHATTERS IMAGE But McGovern was thought to be too cool a customer to portray himself as leader of a rule-or-ruin clique especially when the California issue was still in doubt. He burned a few political bridges that he surely will need to recross before November presuming he has not given the stop-Mc-Govern forces enough leverage to succeed. McGovern's outburst tarnished one of the brightest things about his image the aura of honesty and morality. He knows that if winner-take-all, was bad politics in 1968 when Sen. Robert F.

Kennedy took the whole California delegation although he beat Sen. Eugene McCarthy by only small margin, it is still bad politics In 1972. So he protesteth a bit too much. There is irony in the fact that McGovern's erstwhile ally, McCarthy, is one of his challengers regarding the California delegation and that McCarthy was smiling his way around Washington after the 151 votes were taken from McGovern, exclaiming that "morality in the Democratic party is at an all-time high." Clearly, one man's "smelly is another man's morality. McGovern is a fine man who manifests the most decent of instincts, but he strains credibility a bit when he gives off wounded cries that suggest he learned only last Thursday that politics is a mean, sometimes dirty business.

The Credentials Committee WASHINGTON Sen. George McGovern surely will rue the day he let loose that verbose outburst of temper after the Democratic Credentials Committee stripped him of 151 California delegates. With his angry threat to bolt the party if the full convention backs the Credentials Committee, McGovern played right into the hands of Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey and others who claim he is surrounded by extremists who want to ruin the Democratic party if they can't rule it.

McGovern's angry if-I-don't-win-count-me-out attitude is bound to intensify the "stop McGovern" efforts of powerful forces in the party. Even if, by court ruling or some other means, he gets back those 151 delegates and wins the nomination, he has dealt a severe blow to chances that even a halfway united Democratic party can push him into the White House. Humphrey had just gone on CBS's "Face the Nation" to charge that a "narrow, ideological elite" around McGovern was in danger of wrecking the Democratic party when the Credentials Committee began its deliberations. MAKES COMPARISON Pressed as to whom he referred to, the Minnesota senator likened some of McGovern's supporters to "what I call the Dixiecrats, the segregationists, the hard-liners, the White Citizens Council. There was a group that wanted to have their way; they didn't get it.

Now there's another group that is going to have their way, and In old Nevada 9U years ago Reno druggist R. E. Queen received an order for goods to be shipped all the way to Sweden. 40 years ago Reno's post office received several thousand new stamps to sell as the postage rate climbed to three cents. 25 years ago The Carson Tahoe Hospital Association reported its 80,000 goal had been reached and said construction of a hospital facility in Nevada's capital city was "virtually assured." Letters to the editor which costs us more lives each day than the Vietnam War.

LOUIS FRANK Words, wit and wisdom Thoughts According to' the commission of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and another man is building upon it. Let each man take care how he builds upon it. I Cor. 3:10. It Is not what he has, not even what he does, which direct! expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Henri Frederic Amiel, Swiss philosopher. Justice ruled put EDITOR, the Gazette: Yesterday, they prepared to take my handgun away. Today they rule out the death penalty for murderers of the worst possible type. The millions and millions of dollars spent to convict and to confine those nuts is now down the drain. Justice has been ruled out in this country, and violence is the name of the game.

For those too weak to defend themselves, the law of our jungle will be their death knell unless those in the Supreme Court come to their senses. DANZIL F. SAYERS Worse than war EDITOR, The Gazette: Dear fellow Americans, you are being deceived by an organized gang of left-wing radicals with their pious propaganda about, stopping the Vietnam War regardless of freeing our prisoners of war. The main issue should have been as Gov. Wallace said-stopping crime here at home (b) method of cell division; (c) doctrine of eternal life.

6 Multiparous: (a) prepared for all emergencies; (b) having several offspring at the same time; (c) doctrine of eternal 7 Mundane: (a) pleasant-sounding; (b) worldly; (c) occurring on Mondays. 8 Naive: (a) innocent; "(b) unclad; (c) without conscious plan. 9 Oblate: (a) dedicated to religious life; (b) never on time; (c) square-shaped. 10 Obsolescence: (a) break- ing into bits; (b) very stubborn; (c) becoming out of date. ANSWERS: 1-C (im-PAL-puh- b'l); 2-B (IM-muh-nent); 3-A (LAN-gwid); 4-C (MOR-ih-bund); 5B (my-TOH-sis); 6-B (mul-TIP-uh-rus); 7-B (mun-DAYN); 8-A (nah-EEV); 9-A (OB-layt); 10-C WILLIAM and MARY MORRIS Do you enjoy word games? Most people do, finding them both fun and a challenge.

But even if your attitude is that you can take them or leave them, here's a word game that should catch your fancy. It's made up of fairly simple-looking words, but watch out! There are quite a few tricky ones among them. Try to match the numbered work with the lettered word closest in meaning. You'll find the answers with pronunciations down below. But no peeking! 1 Impalpable: (a) not breathing; (b) beyond belief; (c) unable to be felt.

2 Immanent: (a) impending; (b) inherent; (c) without sin. 3 Languid: (a) sluggish; (b) tall and lean; (c) greasy. 4 Moribund: (a) German political party; (b) waistcoat of many colors; (c) coming to an end. 5 Mitosis: (a) bad breath; Quotes Olin Miller comments Parts of the Lyndon B. Johnson Library (Austin, Tex.) are cracking and falling to pieces only 11 months after it was constructed.

In recent years, hundreds of thousands of buildings have been built by Jerry. A certain married couple you may know have quit quarreling. When they get mad with each other now, they fight The basic problem with nursing hrmes is our "no deposit, no return" feeling about old people. -Dr. Carl Eisdorfer, director of Duke University's Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development..