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THENEW 4WIM fit Witt Disguised Cars Stump Lawy N.M. Great Void on Santa Fe Scene Santa Fe is noted the world over for its traditional Spanish and Indian heritage and as a cultural center of the Southwest. Thousand? of visitors Hock here annually because of these historical t-aditicns and culture. Artists and writers come here to work for these same reasons. Our cultural heritage has been maintained primarily through endless efforts of citizen? like Mrs Ina Sizer Cassidy.

who died T-'jrsday 3-. the age of Mrs. Cassidy her mark on the Csty Different as a prime mover in heritage and culture. Her death leave? a great an the Santa Fe that car.r.rt be She earn? to Sjr.t-j IS12 fo her marriage to Gerald Cassidy in CV.o-a-dh a you" bride she soon became a rn.ov.n? pr.ts—.ct.r.g tura! heritage as a and Her husbarx! la'er became a vJorid famed artist Mr? Cassidy took an active role many aimed t.r*ard maintaining our Her many activities included of t-e Old Santa Fe rrary yea-? and of the Federal Writer'? ec: participated in the New Mexico Assoc.ation on Indian Affairs, Mayflower Club. Daughters of the American Revolution, the Sants Fe Carder, C.jb.

Nationa' Press Women's Association. New Mexico and Folklore Associations and the Spanish Colonial Arts Society. No one has don? more than Miss Cassidy in boost- Ing Santa Fe and Northern New Mexico. She be sorely missed by people thrcjghoj: the area for many many years. Moscow Soviet authorities have informed the United States Embassy that plans to stage the Broadway musical hit, "Hello, Dolly!" in Moscow have been indefinitely st poned.

In diplomatic terms, this is about equivalent, to taying. "Don't call us: we'll call you." In short. Dolly's visit to Moscow has been canceled. This episode illustrates once again that the ways of diplomacy are not only mysterious but often quite irrational. Cancellation of the musical's scheduled appearance is said to be part of the Soviet government's current policy of delays and harassment in the cultural exchange program.

Probably so. But who is the loser? TheRussian people, surely. They will miss a lively, ingratiating show. Aho, gains made through the cultural it contributes to dulling the daggers the two great powers hold at each other's throats reduced, much to the detriment of both countries. It is no news governments often behave stupidly.

The bosses in the Kremlin have proved it again. Mr. Citizen-What He Thinks to this column should be limited to natal? SO words and the author mint include both name and address. Unsigned tetters will not be published and the editor will exercise the right to edit in the Interest of brevity and cood tasuo Cut Exemption of Other Groups Editor: One important, qualification needs to be made to your editorial comment (Aug. that "If the Harj-is' Christian Crusade loces tax exempt that will be no more than fair." It will be no more than fair provided the administration to remove tax exempt status from all other "educational," religious and labor groups presently engaging In politics while enjoying such status.

For an of (these activities I refer you to an article "Politics in the Pulpit" in Time magazine for Oct. 9. 1964, Page 83. ThU doen not deal with the church's involvement In civil rights, which might be a moral rather than a political Uiue, despite political consequences. It refers to active participation of these groups in election campaigns on a partisan Controversial right-to-work legislation wi'h, lo quote Time, "a rancor that is political rather than morally pamiasive." In Harper's mrisazme for July.

IMS, "A Professional Radical Moves in on Rochester," the professional radical, Saul Alinsky, "Today they (the churchesj have moved into the social arena, the political arena." He further states that his campaign Of agitation in Kansas Citv, "was financed, sponsored, and underwritten" by three leading national church denominations, Which he names. The fact that these tax-exempt labor and church groups ma be a political philosophy congen'al to one's own viewpoint does not seem me to const tute a fair and valid for trying to silence an opposing philosophy, no matter how "ultra," by removing its tax exemption. Mrs. Gene S. Dickson 1013 San Acacio St.

Lubel on Inttlu Editor: Under the column "World's Week" in Uie Sunday New Mex- lean dated Sept. 5, 1905, 1 read an article on the Kashmir conflict Jptwcen India and Pakistan. The second paragraph started thui: "Hindu India and Moslem Pakistan have feuded I am a from India and have lived there since my JWrth UU 1962 and have never experienced any discrimination If any kind. AIM) I have never heard anybody, even a Hindu, India Hindu India. The present vice president of India ji a Moilem and has a possibility of becoming the future Pres- iltnt oT India.

Again tbtrt are about SO million Muslims living in India, HIM them holdini high governmental pcwiUoiu both in the antral aovernonNM ftod the bUte India claims i neater country and it £aj livtd up to coiutitu- I UMlfl. To Wd my friends, it Menu aj discouraging fc mm el toe United StatM if die wtn termed as "Anglo United States." Any. On. Boston Win has been straining for two weeks to find tegai justification for the operation of unmarked state can and the use of private license plates on such cars. There is no specific legai authority for disguising state- owned vehicles to took like pri- vateiy owned vehicles but the lawyer thinks he has spotted a glimmer of authority in an ancier.t law that gives the state highway engineer the responsibility of rezuiatsne the use of state cars.

a co-seemed with pro- the nght of state law enforcement official? to sneak up on suspects in what look prrvate automobiles, and rrotebiy nave Highway En- T. wjiite drawee a the prac- AC- was put on spo! of state iy Jose Ortiz of Santa Fe asked for after was dis- Revenue MST Gorges and Ocrr.rn.ss'on*: Jerr. Brown ire re drv --z state car; without or of'icia! The men said cars offjcial vehicles when they investiga- the field ve work. The veh de- wrtmenr issues than "cover" pistes each vear to law enforcement azencier rans- ing from die Oentftl fntefli- fence Agency and fte FBI to county tiierifls and village police. They also go to a number of state agencies engaged in tax collection regulations work and law enforcement.

The cover plates on unmarked can have been used by state officials and employes simply to hide the fact that they were operating state automobiles for their personal use. As the law stands it is illegal for even state police or the attorney general's investigators to use cover plates or unmarked cars. Only the governor is excepted by the law. Roswell friends of State Sen. Penrod Toles have introduced him as a prospect for governor with "Toles for Governor" bumper stickers.

Toles told the Roswell Record that he had no intention of running "at this time." That phrase is a wonderful device for politicians who can't make up thesr minds. Toles, Rep. Austin Roberts of Farmington, Calvin Horn of Albuquerque. State Rep. Bobbv Mayfield of Las Graces and eighty or ninety others are standing by in the event the Democratic leaders fSens.

Clint Anderson and Joe Montoya) deadlock on John Burroughs of Portates and Gene Lusk of Carlsbad. Politicians have recently dropped Speaker Brace King of er SeUta Ft IPWI QWlf and it doesn't matte King it termer Santa ft A county cnomitMoner, tegistetar and highly speaker. He has been a party regular to the extent that be could do and keep his eelf respect. He was prominent in Jack Campbell's first primary campaign TOT fWveYnor. At 41 he is substantially tuc- cessful in ranching and business enterprises, has established a progressive and sound legislative record and demonstrated effective leadership as speaker in four legislative sessions.

King is a native New Mexican, highly respected, clean, war veteran, extremely personable and a big, good tooting fellow who has seen more people In his quest for the nomination tor governor than all the other candidates together, but Is being pushed aside by a few articulate immigrants who thmk a Madison Avenue type is needed for the Santa Fe job. The onlv objection that is ever cited to King is his earthy, cowboy speech and manner which is a strange objection to a New Mexico candidate for governor. His bankers don't obiect to his talk or boots and neither d-d the big house maforitv that followed his lead in die legislature. in the governor's office would be a whn'esome experience for New Mexico, but seems he doesn't wear the right kind of collars and shoes to qualify. (ttcrbloek It Russell Baker Observer: Dolly On The Escalator WASHINGTON Moscow's abrupt decision to keep "Hello Dolly!" off the boards in Russia is bad news.

The official interpretation that the show was banned in retaliation against United States war policy in Viet Nam is not taken seriously by people who understand relations between modern super- states. These people find it laughable to suggest that Moscow thinks it can give American bombers tit-for-tat by cutting off David Merrick's rubles. (Merrick is show's producer.) The "Hello Dolly!" Crisis, they agree, is retaliation all right, but not against anything that is happening in Asia. In the words of one war-room thinker, "What we are faced with is the danger of total cultural warfare." In striking against Broadway's most successful musical, Moscow is over-reacting in an escalation out of all proportion to the original American thrust. The crisis was begun quietly enough last month when Soviet photographic planes flying over Cuba recorded the absence of Bobby Fischer from the Capablanca chess tournament.

Scanning newspaper cuttings in the ministry of cultural warfare, several reported simultaneously that Fischer, the American chess champion, had been denied American passport permission to attend the tournament. Here, it seemed, was a quiet, concealed move bv the United State-, to strike a sneak blow aaainst Communist culture. This suspicion may have been heightened by the negligible coverage given to the United States' Fischer gambit in the American press. The state department's motives are obscure. The Fischer affair may have been merely a case of bureaucratic bumbling, or it may have been a small probe by the C.I.A.

designed to test Communist cultural defenses. Whatever the case, no one anticipated a violent Communist response. Compared to "Hello Dolly!" Fischer is scarcely more than a popgun in the American cultural arsenal. At most, the Soviets were expected to hit back by throwing a couple of touring American engineers out of Dnieperpetrovsk. In Banning "Hello Dolly!" Moscow abruptly confronted Washington with a cultural challenge of the deepest gravity.

The men here who favor lobbing one into the men's room of the Kremlin are already urging a five-year prohibition against the Bolshoi Ballet, and Sol Hurok has been warned that "we're eyeball to eyeball under complexion bulbs." The voice of sanity behind the scenes belongs to Dr. Hugo Hans, whose seminar work, "culture can turn the tide," defines 93 brilliantly thought out steps up the escalation ladder which precede the dreadful step 94, univeral cultural war. (Banning pre-dawn Russian classes on educational TV, permitting unlimited export of movie magazines to the Soviet Union, etc.) Dr. Hans points out that in refusing to let Fischer go to Cuba to play chess, the United States, unwittingly perhaps, was escalating to step 22. the enemy'i A reasoned response by the Russians would have been a long article in Pravda denouncing baseball as hooliganism.

This, he notes, was impossible for a number of reasons. For another, the Russians hadn't read his book and hence did not know the proper response. Instead, they escalated immediately to step 67. the enemy's road Even at this level. Dr.

Hans points out, effective cultural warfare can be waged without intense danger of wiping out all culture. To ban further tours by the Bolshoi, for example, would invite further escalation by the Russians The reasoned response would be to bed the troupe in sheets full of cracker crumbs, house them in hotel-rooms next to convention parties, and steer them through a program of rigorously planned activity such as Doris Day movies, visits to the Senate and afternoon TV game shows. Dr. Hans's critics have vilified him for daring to think about ways of making culture an effective weapon of the state. As the Russians have shown again, however, culture in the era of the superstate Is as much an instrument of policy as the I.C.B.M.

and the secret agent. As Dr. Hans puts it, "you can't make an omelet without cracking a few eggheads." James Reston Economic War Critical In Viet Nam Wf kiff cal1 cal1 1300 Grind MI, Albuquerque Ate, SethJ, ft, N. WPP (c) NY Tlrrm Ntwi SAIGON, SOUTH VIET NAM economic war in Viet Nam is almost as critical and savage as the military war, and its casualties are all over the place. The railroad in Saigon is open for business, but there is one problem: No business.

It is a station with a stationmaster and staff and troops to guard them but no trains. Six of the biggest French rubber plantations have recently been knocked out of action, not by toe Viet Cong but by Americans bombing the Viet Cong on the premises. The Americans landed 10,000 tons of rice from California here this week to help make up the deficit of a country that usually exports rice, and rice costs three times as much in Pieiku as it does In Saigon. The Plastra ii in bad shape too. The South Vietnamese government has a money supply now of billion plMtras and it will have a deficit thU year of between 15 billion and 30 billion piaatraf.

Meanwhile the price index has gone up 40 per cent in the u4 fta etift od from 27 billion piastras to 45 billion. It is the old story of the disruption and inflation of war. The South Vietnamese have over a half million men in the armed forces. The U.S. has brought in so far about 100,000.

The Viet Cong are blowing up the economy with dynamite and the Americans are patching it up and inflating it in the process, with goods and dollars. Probably the rate of Viat Cong destruction is faster than the rate of American restorations, since destruction it easier and quicker. But between them they are creating a new pauper class, and an even wealthier merchant class, and producing a swollen economy Viet Nam has never known before and is not likely to be able to maintain in the future. The main battleground at the moment Is transportation. There is no dependable nortlnwuth road and rail system la this country, from Saigon north to the 17th parallel.

This ii a distance by surface traiwoortatton of 700 miles. The Viat Cong blow it up and mine it faatir than the allias can repair It. Tto MiMi ratf from the sea to the central highlands is a little better. An effort is being made to Highway 19, from Qulnhon to Pleiku, and Highway 21, from Nhatrang to Banmethout, open for limited traffic, but meanwhile the U.S. and the South Vietnamese are in the process of creating a whole system of transportation by sea and air to supply this entire area north of the capital.

The American In charge of dealing with thU formidable problem at the moment is Laroy S. Wehrle, a eerious and resourceful 33-year-old Yale economist from Belleville, 111. He worked for a time with the council of economic advisers in Washington, then went to Uos with the U.S. economic mission there and is now deputy director of the U.S. operations mission to Viat Nam, He has established an gency transportation to serve the itrandad towns and provincial north of Sal- ion.

Tfet notary fly 80 tom of suppMM day to ttaM com- muoitiee in helicopters and planer An American coxnmer. cial air company hit been hired taw i dT J. Rossant New International Money System Nrw Tlmtt NEW new and important plaji for reforming the international monetary system was publicly unveiled Tuesday. It is the Roosa Plan, named after Robert V. Roosa, former United States under secretary of the treasury lor monetary affairs and one of the chief architects of the existing monetary mechanism.

In its broad outlines Roosa's blueprint appears moderate version of other more radical plans. While he sees no immediate danger of a shortage in funds available for world trade and investment, he calls for a rvew international currency to supplement the dollar and gold in order to assure future expansion. He also recommends new long-term credits to assist individual countries suffering from balance of payments deficits. Its very moderation Is one factor contributing to the plan's importance. The other is Roosa's close ties with the Johnson Administration.

Although he is now a partner in Brown Brothers Harriman and Company, he has been appointed a member of the president's advisory committee studying reform before international negotiations begin. The betting in informed circles Is that the committee will out its seal of approval on the Roosa Plan. Roosa himself termed his plan a "personal effort" that did not have the administration's backing. In New York Tuesday, he said he hoped that it would be useful in negotiations but that he did not expect Washington to put its weight behind any precise formula. But the plan, which is published in the form of a book entitled "Monetary Reform for the World Economy." has been circulating in Europe in advance of its distribution here.

And It has obviously been designed to attract foreign as well as U.S. support. The compromise nature of Roosa's approach is understandable. As a monetary theoretician who has seen service on the actual firing line, he puts more emphasis on what Is likely to be most acceptable than on what may be most desirable. Thus he rules out either a return to the old gold standard or a decisive break with gold.

His plan would maintain the present $35 an ounce gold price and preserve the key role of the dollar in international trade. The new currency unit he envisions would be tied to gold, which is what France wants, but It would require countries to buy as well as sell gold, which would relieve the strain on the U.S. gold stock. And though the units would be issued by the International monetary fund, which is the forum favored by Washington, London and the developing countries, initiation and effective control over the units would rest with the countries whose currencies are uaed in the "fund unit," which li a condition Insisted on by the Europeans. Roosa admitted that he had tried to reconcile opposing views and that he borrowed freely in order to do so.

For example, his new currency, which would be used only in official between countries, Is modeled on the collective currency by Edward M. Bernstein, a U.S. monetary expert, and advocated by the French. And his plan for transforming the I.M.F. into a central bank with issuing authority follows a plan first advanced by Robert Triffin of Yale University.

But Roosa has tried to break new ground in order to get negotiations started. As he pointed out, the crusa (which he defined as standing for "compatibility" with the present monetary system, "responsibility" on the part of contributing nations, "universality" of the unit, "sovereignty" remaining with each country and would require countries to pay a price of admission to participate and would obligate them to sell gold on occasion. These conditions, he feels, will encourage discipline and ready acceptance. Roosa also differs in his stout defense of the present system, which he thinks has created ample liquidity and is capable of doing much more. This too is understandable.

Roosa takes justifiable pride in the arrangements now available because he had such a big hand In constructing them. But his iasistence on "orderly change" that does not involve scrapping the present machinery is also based on his belief that radical reform would shake confidence. So hft is for building on whal is now In operation 'because "confidence Id essential for the survival of any monetary system." The reason he Is for reform that confidence in the present system not nil could be. It his own view that there would be no need for new currency unit except for the "uncertainties about the future of the present system." Roosa observed that uncertainty can be removed through agreement and acceptance of a new currency unit. But before this could be achieved, he thought It would be necessary to remove the "uncertainties" about sterling, which he termed the "biggest deterrent" to reform.

He would aid sterling by multilateral long-term credits to Britain that would enable her to repay her present debts and give her time to reorganize her economy. Whether European countries would contribute is still in doubt, but Roosa said that the sterling problem must be resolved before international reform can be tackled. Despite his stress on conserving "monetary discipline," "national sovereignty," and other features of the present system and his recommendation of essential moderate reform, Roosa's plan would mean big changes. Most important, it would mean that the U.S., while still having a major influence in determining International monetary arrangement, would have to share responsibilities and its privileges with other industrial countries. To get agreement Roosa is prepared to meet Europe halfway.

The Johnson Administration may have to make a similar accomodrtlon to win European agreement to negotiate. THE NEW MEXICAN gat- INI.