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Marquis Childs SeArisimft llatlii Star Rhetoric STAR PUBLISHING COMPANY PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING OF THE YEAR Michael E. Pulitzer, Editor and Publisher P.O. Box 5846 TUCSON. ARIZONA 85703 The Crowd Little But CacvrigM l7J MIAMI BEACH The turmoil of this national convention of one of the two great political parties has so little other than rhetoric to offer for the fundamental ills besetting the nation. The tragic symbol of this irrelevance is George Coiiey Wallace.

In his wheel chair, paralyzed from the waist down, waves of sentimentality break over him. His press agents have kept alive the illusion of his candidacy and the implied threat of a third party Wallace ticket. The realists joining in the cheering know that his condition will make any active campaigning next to impossible. The optimism of this entourage at the hospital belies the fact that he has no control over his bodily functions with only a slight chance of improvement. Wallace has a bargaining counter in his 370 delegates.

And he can lead his forces out of the Democratic party and eventually into the Nixon camp. As he keeps a strict strategic silence on his plans in the opening round the best guessing here is that he will do just that. Wallace was shot just after he stepped from behind his bullet-proof podium at a Laurel, rally. In a speech a few days before he had opposed gun control at any level, state or national. His spokesmen let it be known as he awaited surgery for the removal of a bullet from his spinal column that he continued to oppose any control.

His assailant used one of the "Saturday night specials" that can be bought for as little as $15 by anyone, drunk, drugged or sober, who flashes some kind of identification. The Democratic platform calls for a gun-control law which "must include a ban on the sale of hand guns known as Saturday night specials which are unsuitable for sporting purposes." This matches the language in Sen. Birch Bayh's bill that finally has jimmied out of the Senate judiciary committee and will presumably be moved onto the floor when committee members have turned in their lengthy reports. The Wallace forces put in a minority gun-control plank that will come before the convention for 20 minutes of debate along with the Anthony Lewis Back To The 1972 New York Times News Service The United States has used great restraint in its bombing policy. Richard Nixon, June 29 LONDON The reconnaissance techniques developed by the United States in Vietnam are especially remarkable in their selective capacity.

They can count the number of furnances in a steel mill hit by American planes, but they do not see bombed hospitals or schools or houses. Thus, in the same week that President Nixon said he would allow bombing only of military targets in North Vietnam, correspondents in Hanoi saw the damage done to the Bach Mai Hospital a large hospital about a mile from the center of Hanoi. The Agence France Presse correspondent WTote: "About 30 bombs fell right on the hospital shortly before 9 a.m. One weighing approximately 1 ton, dug a crater of a circumference of 40 feet. Beds and wheelchairs were broken, operating rooms damaged, electronic control equipment in shambles, and everywhere glass splinters and heaps of plaster." The President also gave assurances at his press conference that he had given orders not to hit the dikes of North Vietnam.

The next day the A.F.P. correspondent visited Phuly, 40 miles south of Hanoi, and reported that a dike there had been demolished by American aircraft. He said he saw destroyed sluice-gates, houses bombed nearby and bomb craters being filled by women with their hands. Civilian damage of that kind may of course be accidental. What is so chilling is the cynicism of American officials in refusing to recognize that it happens for whatever reason.

That is a pose, it should be said, that has been maintained through both the Johnson and Nixon Administrations. But it is not even necessary to weigh the damage to hospitals and dikes and other particular civilian targets in order to form a conclusion about the nature and effect of the bombing in North Vietnam. The official destruction claims by the U.S. command in Saigon say quite enough. One day a spokesman says that the bombers have destroyed North Vietnam's entire steel-making capacity.

Another day a colonel says that U.S. bombs have wrecked three-quarters of the country's electric power potential; according to Reuters, the colonel cites the bombing techniques used against that power plant as bringing the science of destruction to a new peak of refinement. Those two examples illustrate what is now the stated bombing policy of the United States: to hit broadly-defined industrial as well as direct military targets in North Vietnam. The bombs and naval shelling have accordingly destroyed textile mills and coal mines and fac- EDITORIAL PAGE The Only The persecution and prosecution of Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo, key figures in the Pentagon Papers issue of a year ago, has gone too far. It was clear July 1, 1971, when the U.S.

Supreme Court struck down government restraints against publication of the papers, that further proceedings against individuals involved in the case would exceed any legitimate government interest in national security or welfare. But proceed they did. The Justice Department secured indictments against Ellsberg and Russo, and against newsmen who wrote stories based upon material from them. Now Ellsberg and Russo are on trial in Los Angeles for espionage. Ellsberg admits he took the 47-volume Vietnam study and "leaked" it to newsmen.

Russo admits he helped Ellsberg copy 6th Judge Judge James A. Walsh deserves the support of the entire state in his recommendation that a sixth federal judgeship be authorized by Congress for Arizona. The senior judge of the five now sitting in this district, Walsh knows by tough experience that there are too many cases to be handled in the most efficient manner under existing circumstances. Congress should consider carefully that Arizona ranks next to the San Diego district as the busiest of the nation's 96 federal district courts, and that the Tucson court handles the greatest number of Arizona criminal cases, a fact due to the drug traffic and proximity to the Mexican border. Of the 798 criminal cases handled by the five existing judges and two magis Time To Try Tucson officials, with an assist from the federal government, are in the process of instituting the most complete public transportation system that has been available here since World War II.

Its success or failure depends, not upon those who have no other transportation, but upon those who are willing to forego use of their own cars between home and work. The city has added 11 new, modern, air-conditioned buses to its fleet and is putting into effect schedules that should meet the needs of a vast majority of the public. Frequency of service has been upped to 20 and 30 minutes in many instances. There is better cross-town service, and, starting Sept. buses will run on Sundays and holidays, with some free service for the elderly and the poor.

It is the obvious duty of government, Democratic The 19-hour Democratic Party telethon last weekend was monetarily mediocre at best, primarily because the timing was bad. Currently, everybody is excited about the 1972 presidential campaigns. Who wants to be socked in the pocket-book now for a $9.3 million party debt that was left hanging since 1968? It might have been a wiser idea to have held the debt-payment telethon last year. Persons desiring to contribute monsy this year are more likely to give it directly to the campaign of the party's presidential nominee than to a four-year-old nightmare debt. Cost of producing the telethon alone was about $1.6 million.

Proceeds from the star-studded show, estimated at ESTABLISHED 1877 WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1972 Fair Trial the papers. This they admit, but they do not admit to having committed a crime. They contend that the documents should not have been classified, that the information was disclosed in the public interest, and that there was no treasonous motive nor harmful result. At issue then should be the espionage law under which they are being tried, and, by implication, government policy and practice in keeping facts secret through document classification. Ellsberg and Russo will probably be judged in Los Angeles, solely upon the language of the existing statute.

The statute itself should be judged by a higher court. But as to Ellsbe and Russo themselves, the only fair trial, as Angela Davis said of her own trial and acquittal, would have been no trial at all. Is Needed trates, 466 cases were heard in Tucson. There also has been a 13 per cent increase in civil cases in the Tucson court. Insofar as Judge Walsh is concerned, he handled most of the cases in the Tucson court until a little more than one year ago, when Judge William C.

Frey, then a superior court judge, was appointed. Once the court is authorized by Congress it would be most gratifying to see another Tucsonan appointed to it. Appointments to federal district courts are made by the President on recommendation of the senior senator of the district. Frey is the first Tucsonan appointed to the Tucson district in more than 40 years. The Buses at least on the local level, to provide adequate service for those without cars or who are unable to operate them.

There is no excuse, either from the standpoint of convenience or expense, for continued use of automobiles by those with regular hours employed at a single location. They can ride the buses more cheaply and with much greater safety than they can drive their own cars. And they can lessen the traffic that threatens to clog the streets to the point of 10-mile speeds during rush hours. Compulsory use of mass transportation threatens the cities of this and other countries within the remainder of this century. Voluntary use of mass transportation can delay substantially the time when use of the streets by private vehicles may be forbidden.

Telethon about $4.5 million, will go first to pay that bill. Anything left over will go toward the 1968 debt. The plan was to give everything remaining beyond that to the 1972 campaign. Apparently, this year's effort will not benefit from the telethon. There has been much discussion about how unfortunate it is in these modern times that the presidency can seemingly be bought with money.

There is a lot of work that can be done with little cost in a presidential campaign by the party's grassroots workers. This type of work may be the Democratic Party's biggest weapon this year. President Nixon, meanwhile, is warming up his campaign with a $40 million bankroll. Barry Goodman, 39, a committee member, said, "I called up a friend at City Hall and told him I'd like to get my niece appointed. I said she was very active in the community and could bring some life to the committee." Angel Goodman is a seven-month-old female poodle.

other 19 minority proposals. Stern stuff, It reads as follows: "The constitutional right of the people to keep and bear arms must remain inviolate. A disarmed citizenry would soon lose Its liberty and freedom. But persons who use guns in the commission of crimes should be punished." The tragedy to Wallace growing out of the gun barrel of a Saturday night special to one side, his use of the busing issue was far more damaging and divisive. Busing with its emotional overtones is the kind of swamp of Irrelevancy in which American politics so often bogs down.

In any rational view busing could be at best only a temporary expedient pending a massive attack on the terrible inequities of ghetto life and ghetto education. The busing of black pupils into white suburban schools and white pupils into black ghetto schools was certain to arouse the fiercest hostility and the benefits to flow from it in integration were doubtful to say the least. This was what Wallace exploited and it paid off in state after state. Here in Florida he got 41 per cent of the primary vote which meant 75 out of 81 delegates. In Michigan where anti-busing rages like a prairie fire Wallace drew 51 per cent of the Democratic vote.

The fight over the busing plank will be the most explosive of all the platform hassles. Wallace's contribution to the Nixon strategists is to make busing a springboard for the President in the coming campaign. That he intends to use it to the utmost he made clear in a message when he signed a federal aid to higher education bill. In failing to match his call for strict and uniform hmits on busing the President said Congress had retreated "from an urgent call for responsibility." His domestic counsellor John D. Ehrlichman told reporters that if Congress does not act the President will go "to the people" with the intimation he will seek a constitutional amendment on buring.

The traditional Democratic stand on civil rights, with moderate approval of busing as a temporary expedient, gives the Republicans a vulnerable target in the months ahead. Stone Age tories of all kinds as well as most of the bridges and railways and storage depots of the country- In short, it is strategic bombing of a most thorough and intense kind. Strategic bombing is supposedly designed for use against an industrial power, such as Germany in World War II. What makes it so noteworthy now is that it is being used against a largely peasant country with the barest beginnings of industrial development. Most Americans thought it grotesque and horrifying when Gen.

Curtis Lemay spoke in 1965 of bombing the North Vietnamese "back into the stone age." But something very like that is happening right now. Three weeks ago it was said that 60 per cent of North Vietnam's industry, such as it was, had been knocked out. Except perhaps in the center of Hanoi, urban and industrial targets above ground must be just about exhausted. Le Monde's highly respected correspondent in Saigon, Jean-Claude Pomonti, wrote recently: "North Vietnam is returning to the stone age at a gallop." To all appearances, most Americans are now indifferent to our destruction of North Vietnam. In a way that indifference is worse than the damage itself, worse even than the official cynicism about it.

How can Americans, who were always the most generous and sympathetic of people, close their eyes to their own government's methodical, remorseless ravaging of a small country's economy and life? The answer must lie not only in weariness with this war but in an inability to understand what bombing and shelling mean. American civilians have never had to live under bombardment. A month of life as the North Vietnamese live it, even a few days, would make remoteness impossible. In the long run Americans will not be able to keep the facts at arm's length. History will remember.

In due course our children will ask, as German children did: What was the reason for the terror? What did America expect to gain? Where were you? M. R. Williams The Justice Said The year is 1969. The U.S. Supreme Court reviews the criminal conviction of a citizen.

Under a warrant, policemen searched his home for particular things which they failed to find. They then searched further around the home and discovered small films which a policeman decided to be obscene. Were the search and the seizure of the three films valid? No, holds the Court. Mr. Justice Stewart agreeing separately, said: "The controlling constitutional principle was stated in two sentences by this Court more than 40 years ago: 'The requirement that warrants shall particularly describe the things to be seized makes general searches under them impossible and prevents the seizure of one thing under a warrant describing another.

As to what is to be taken, nothing is left to the discretion of the officer executing the warrant. This record presents a bald violation of that basic constitutional rule. To condone what happened here is to invite a government official to use a seemingly precise and legal warrant only as a ticket to get into' a man's home, and, once inside, to launch forth upon unconfined searches and indiscriminate seizures as if armed with all the unbridled and illegal power of a general warrant." (Stanley v. Georgia, 22 L.Ed. 2d.

542) The Editor rate Is very slow (bradycardia). The sudden change in heart rate is the usual aftermath of a heart attack and this is the most common cause of death. The use of the cardiac defibrillator will also help the heart attack patient by converting his cardiac rhythm to normal. Unfortunately, some will die in spite of all heroic measures including speedy, on-the-spot treatment. The cause of death due to acute cardiogenic shock following a myocardial infarction is the most serious complication and there is no satisfactory treatment President Nasser of Egypt died of cardiogenic shock following a heart attack and there were seven doctors in attendance.

EDWARD C. WONG. M.D. 2225 S. 6th Ave.

Teacher Licensing Editor the Star: Your article "Teacher Licensing to be Based on Performance" deserves a few comments. In Arizona a teacher must undergo a three year probationary period after being certificated to teach. During this time, it is the responsibility of school boards to determine the competency of the teacher for further employment. Then the teacher is required to finish a fifth year of college. After that the certificate must be renewed every six years.

Dr. Shof-tall's proposal would reduce this to three years. This doubles the fee ($5 initial charge, $3 renewal) a teacher must pay to continue teaching. It would make more sense to issue a permanent teaching license after completion of the probationary period, and the master's de-gree which would be in effect as long as the teacher practices his profession. This would not guarantee the teacher a job, but would give the state's recognition that he is qualified to practice the profession.

Employment still would be controlled by the local district. Under the proposals of Dr. Shofstall, each district would establish a performance criteria that would not only determine if that teacher is desirable by that particular district, but whether he is qualified to teach within the state. Yet, each district must set up its own criteria, and what may be acceptable in one district, in another district may cause a teacher to lose his certificate to teach elsewhere in the state. Presumably the alternative is state performance criteria, and one more step in the erosion of local control of school districts.

Arizona now spends less money per child than the national average for the education of its children. This is reflected in class sizes that are larger than national averages. How can teachers be evaluated objectively on perfor-ance under teaching conditions that are beyond their control? HOWARD A. WILLIAMSON President, Tucson Education Assn. A Face In Lefters To Bobby's Antics Editor the Star: We were amused to read your recent editorial deploring the antics of Mr.

Robert Fischer on the eve of his epic battle for the world chess championship. Perhaps to an outsider, Bobby's conduct appears inexcusably coarse and unsportsmanlike, but it is this same highhanded arrogance which has catapulted him to within a hairsbreadth of breaking the 25-year long Russian stranglehold on world chess. During a 16-year "checkered" career, Bobby has not only bested an impressive array of international grandmasters in dazzling over-the-board play, but as a young boy, he weathered the sordid smoke-filled atmosphere of all-night chess emporia, withstood physical brutality at the hands of "sore-losers" seeking revenge, and yet mustered the courage to expose corrupt and unfair practices commonplace at chess competitions here and abroad. The chess world's "enfant terrible" has accomplished singlehanded what all others failed to do -namely, to challenge and excel against the Soviet conglomerate at their own national pastime. Bobby Fischer is not in Iceland as a representative of this country, but rather as a singular chess talent.

Where were all his critics when Bobby, abandoned and alone, was barely ekeing out a hand-to-mouth existence building this talent? And we wonder how much national interest would be focused on Bobby's "manners" if he were playing a Frenchman instead of a Russian! CHARLES L. WHITE MARLYS HEARST WITTE 2310 E. Seneca St. Cardiac Care Unit Editor the Star: Your recent editorial, "The Saving of Lives" on July 1, is very appropriate and deserves additional comment. The city council should be congratulated on their foresight for providing the $179,000 for the establishment of a mobile cardiac care unit to provide for on-the-spot treatment of heart attack victims.

In spite of all our medical knowledge and advancement, heart disease, and in particular heart attacks, is still the number one killer of all diseases. It is estimated that 50 per cent of all heart attack victims died before they ever reached the hospital or the coronary care units. Death can occur very soon following a heart attack (acute myocardial infarction). But with the mobile cardiac care unit, if these patients can be reached within a matter of minutes many can be saved by a bolus injection of Xylocaine if there is an tachyarrhythmia (rapid irregular heart beat) or injection of Atropine if the heart Berry At The Convention 1 1 I Progressive L.A. Carl Riblet Jr.

Isn't It The Truth! A woman usually kisses with her eyes closed because she would rather, pretend to herself that the other kisser is her dream come true. A man kisses with his eyes open because he wants to see whether she's peeking, and if she is then he suspects that she will be a problem that is, a realist. "I wonder what genius it was who invented kissing." A switch on Jonathan Swift CowrtoM xm The City of Los Angeles sincerely believes that the secret to good government is involvement by everybody and everything. Newest member of Mayor Sam Yor-ty's Community Advisory Committee is Miss Angel Goodman. She was ap-poiuted as the result of a $25 bet.

Some people who live near Flamingo park are angry maybe, because they were not invited to hear Allen Ginsberg chant 'Ahhh!.