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BKUWNSV1LLE HKKALD-TuMday, October 29. 1974 Britain's Election Far From A Mandate Prime Minister WUson narrowly won his gamble that a second British election in less than a year would bring his Labor party clearcut control of the government. But with a parliamentary majority of three, perhaps four members. the prime minister hardly has an overwhelming mandate for remolding Britain's economic structure. The fact that one party now has a clear-- though narrow-- majority should contribute in a small degree to political stability in Britain, al least by avoiding a coalition in which minority parties hold a balance of power It is almost an understatement to say that Great Britain has massive problems.

They include a 17 per cent annual inflation rate, a depressed economy, an expiring coal contract, severe labor unrest and an empty treasury. Mr. Wilson's party believes that taxation must be used to uchiev a major redistribution of both wealth and income. However, it also admits that industrial invest- incnt is critical to put England back on its feet. The investment will be impossible if the Labor Party's "soak the rich" program becomes a reality.

Nevertheless, Mr. Wilson shows no intention of reneging on those plans. Another key to Britain's battle against inflation will be the enforcement of a Social Contract that the Labor party signed with the 10 million-member Trade Union Congress. Under this agreement, the trade unions promise to moderate their wage demands as long as government keeps prices down-- by no means an easy task. More trouble is expected because the Wilson government is committed to a public referendum on whether Britain should continue her membership in the European (Vnmon Market.

Labor leaders oppose the ECM, but mi economists, including some in the Labor govern- believe Common Market membership is essential to i a i economic recovery. In due time North Sea oil should help give Britain a favorable trade balance and restore some of its internal economic vitality, but large-scale technical problems still may substantially delay this much-needed development. Britons were destined to see things get worse before they got better regardless of who won the election. Because of organized labor's extraordinary demands and its power over the party that carries the same name the question is whether things will instead go from worse Wworser." II. HOT The jjreat Russian author A a i appalled the free world with his magnificent account of the sufferings of Soviet prisoners and the inmates of the Siberian concentration camps in "The Gulag Archipelago." But.

in spite of that, there may still be good and reasonable men in the free world who think this phase of Soviet history is over. SolzL-hnitsyn is reported to be writing another book to bring "Trie Gulag Archipelago" right down to tiie present. But we do not need to wait to know the truth. We have the testimony Eiven last year, but almost ignored by the mass media, to the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee by Avraham Shifrin. who grew up in Russia find IHV.V lives in Israel.

For 10 ware Shifrin was in Siberian concentration camps. and then was kept in exile in Siberia for four years more. Finally, in 1970, he was allowed to leave the Soviet Union. Since then he has kept in close contact with other refugees and new exiles from Russia who keep him informed about the Soviet prison camps. Inmates, Shifrin tesUfied, are forced to work 10 hours a day, in sub-zero cold with only 1,700 calories of food a day.

Thirty to 40 prisoners die each night. Their bodies are dumped in the forest and eaten by wild beasts. Many of these beasts are later 'trapped and their fur sold in Western countries. Soviet timber and wood products sold in the West are also largely produced by slave labor. Wherever communists rule there will always be many human beings suffering in concentration camps.

Tempers Cool Now a tempers are cooling in the Boston school integration situation, the stage seems set for a permanent solution to the distruptions and violence that have sundered the L'ity for nearly a month. No doubt the presence of 450 riot-trained state and metropolitan district police helped discourage the militancy Not as encouraging is the demand of Kevin White, the city's that the federal government take over the task of enforcing Boston's integration plan. President Ford's response is quite correct. He declined to order federal troops to Boston, but assigned U.S. attorneys to assist the city in prosecuting those who violate federal equal rights laws.

Boston's school integration problem is, after all, a local one. and it can best be resolved through local efforts. Local leadership surely can defuse the volatile situation through compromise and negotiation. The challenge really is squarely before Mayor White. His task is to enlist the entire Boston community in the pursuit of a peaceful and permanent solution.

(The An Independent Freedom Newspaper Published every afternoon (except Saturday) and Sunday morning by Freedom Newspapers 1135 E. VanBurenSt. Brownsville, exas 78520 542-4331 ANTHONY HARRIGAN J(JHN CHAMBERIAIN Kevin Phillips Ronald Reagan And Goe. Wallace In 76? WASHINGTON California Gov. Ronald Reagan has admitted that he might choose to run as a third party candidate for President in 1976, and he is showing new interest in an alliance with Alabama Gov.

George Wallace. Thus, some observers have been tempted to speculate on the possibility--admittedly still quite remote that Reagan and Wallace might join forces on an independent conservative Presidential ticket in 1976. To test the logic of this idea, I have fed the proposition through my Florentine Machiavelli "1400" political computer, nicknamed "Nicolo" after the master strategist of Renaissance Italy. This machine's great merit lies in eschewing League of Women Voter's do-goodism for backroom realpolitik. Herewith Nicolo's assessment of the Reagan-Wallace possibility: Is Ronald Reagan running Mr President? NICOLO: Publicly, he's still being coy.

Privately, his people are drawing up assorted blueprints and option papers. Will Reagan run as a Republican or independent? Nicolo: With Ford so weak, most Reagan supporters think that their man can win the GOP nomination, even if that means fighting the President in the primaries. But other Reagan advisers feel that the GOP nomination wouldn't be worth much after bloody primaries, Watergate and the deepening economic recession, so they favor running him as an independent conservative. Will Wallace run as an independent or Democrat? Nicolo: Wallace will probably run in the Democratic primaries, but no matter how well he does, he can't get on the national ticket because that would split the party in two. So if he wants to run, it will have to be as an independent.

Can Reagan be elected if he runs as a Republican? Nicolo: Probably not, especially after bitter party primary divisions and all the GOP's other problems. First, GOP moderates would bolt. Second, Reagan by himself doesn't have enough working-class appeal, especially after a recession that blue-collar voters will link to the Republicans. Besides which, if Reagan were the GOP nominee and Wallace ran as an independent, the conservative split would make liberal Democratic victory nearly inevitable. Can Wallace alone be elected as an independent? Nicolo: No.

In 1968, he got 13 per cent of the national vote. This time, he might get 15 to 20 per cent. But he can't win against Democratic and Republican nominees without a bipartisan coalition, and he can't build that without conservative Republicans. Can a Reagan-Wallace independent conservative ticket win in 1976? Nicolo: Quite conceivably. Each man brings with him a constituency the second man can't get otherwise.

Reagan would bring large chunks of business and middle-class GOP conservatives who wouldn't back Wallace by himself. Wallace would bring about a quarter of the Democratic Party, including many bluecollar workers who wouldn't back Reagan alone. Most important, an independent Reagan candidacy would pull away conservatives numbering 40 to 50 per cent of the GOP electorate, which would make party labels obsolete. An estimate: A Reagan-Wallace ticket (Reagan for President, Wallace for Vice President because of his disability) could draw 35 to 40 per cent of the national vote, enough to win a three-way race. But they need to run as independents because they need two major-party candidates dividing the moderates and liberal opposition.

Give me some trial heat print-outs. Nicolo: If Reagan and Wallace run as an independent ticket, the Democrats are almost sure to go for a liberal able to mobilize most of the 38 per cent McGovern constituency. For example, in a race matching Reagan-Wallace against Minnesota's Democratic Senator Walter Mondale and President Ford, you could see a tight three-way split. Meanwhile, it wouldn't make sense for the Democrats to nominate Senator Henry Jackson, because he would trigger a liberal fourth splinter candidacy. But then there's the possibility that Nelson Rockefeller would be the Republican nominee.

That's the best Reagan-Wallace opportunity. Rockefeller would provoke a mass GOP conservative exodus to Reagan-Wallace while taking away liberal votes from the Democrats. Would a Reagan-Wallace candidacy create a new U.S. party system and ideological alignment? Nicolo: Affirmative. Until Gerald Ford's rise to power, was the 1976 Republican frontrunner.

And as of September, 1974, Wallace is 'he Democratic frontrunner. Put them together on one ticket, and you get a fusion of historic proportions, much like the first emergence of the Republican Party in the 1850s. The old coalitions--Democratic and Republican--would be greatly changed or destroyed, and there would be a new Presidential-level party system. CONGRESSIONAL QUARTERLY EPA Tries To Force Joining Car Pools This newspaper is dedicated to furnishing information to our renders so thai they can better promote and preserve tiieir own freedom and encourage others to see its blessing. For onlv when man understands freedom and is free to control himself and all he produces can he develop to his utmost capabilities.

We believe that all men are equally endowed by their Orator and not by a government, with the right (o take moral to preserve their life and property and secure more freedom and keep it for themselves and others. Freedom is self-control no more, no less. To discharge this responsibility, free men, to the best of Iheir ability, must understand and apply to daily living the greal moral guide expressed in the Coveting Commandment. Subscription rates: By carrier in Brownsville $3.10 per miintiip'ltaWic; State Sales Tax, in advance. By motor route carrier in Brownsville and month plus06c: st-ilc Dili's tax Hetail trade zone $3.10 per month plus 06c: i i i i state sales tax.

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In Houston, Texas, and elsewhere it has endeavored to force commuters to join in car pools or ride the bus instead of driving their own vehicles. An elaborate system of fines has been devised by EPA for those who don't do what Big Brother wants. The agency's stated goal is a reduction of air pollution. But even if the agency's goal makes sense reducing the number of automobiles on highways, the methods employed to attain that goal smack of a totalitarian regime. An American has the right to choose the form of transportation he prefers.

He Is under no obligation to join a car pool simply because Washington bureaucrats decide that's the thing for him to do. Moreover, if parking is to be reduced in a community, the only level of government with a right to do that is local government. When the Congress passed ihe law establishing the Environmental Protection Agency, it certainly didn't have any intention of giving the EPA authority to determine how many cars could park on Main Street, USA. Such matters are properly determined by city officials, not fede al employes half a continent away. Let's hope that the bill approved by the House Appropriations Committee will get wide public attention and approval and that it will become law.

It is time to curb EPA's appetite for power. U. S. Rep. Philip M.

Crane commented on this in a recent speech. "Congress," he said, "has given governmental agencies broad grants of authority, grants which have often been used in an autocratic and arbitrary manner." He observed that "in creating the Environmental Protection Agency, Congress has once again acted in this manner, abdicating its own authority to non-elected bureaucrats. The results, which we are only now beginning to understand, have been disastrous." In part, the problem lies with the readiness of Congres? to allow federal agencies to make rules li carry out the congressional mandate. This rule-making power is cruelly abused by many agencies. The agencies go far beyond the letter of the law or the Intent of Congress.

Wyoming May Be Saviour CASPER, Wyoming If Americans are to escape a severe energy pinch in the late 1970s, it will be in good measure because of the State of Wyoming--a state easterners associate almost completely with ranches and cowboys. This is the Cowboy State, but it also is a tremendous energy producing state. What's more important for people other regions, Wyoming is a net exporter of all types of energy. In 1973, for example, Wyoming used only 11 per cent of the crude oil produced in the state. Wyoming is either first or second in uranium production, depending on the year.

New Mexico is the other big uranium producer. Wyoming ranks fifth in domestic oil production, seventh in natural gas production, and ninth in coal production. Roughly 10 per cent of the drilling rigs in the country are in Wyoming. It is in coal production that changes will be truly spec. tacular.

In 1973,14 million tons of coal were mined in Wyoming. On the basis of existing contracts, 98 million tons will be mined in 1980. By 1985, coal production will rise to 141 million tons. The bulk of the coal mined in Wyoming will come from the southwest area and the Powder River Basin. These figures indicate the capacity of Wyoming (with a population under 350,000) for helping the nation attain the goal of energy sufficiency.

If America doesn't attain that goal, if it doesn't strive to do so, untold billions of dollars will be transfered to the Arab oil-producing nations. Moreover, the Arab countries, with their new financial power, may be able to bend U.S. foreign policy as they please. Unfortunately, United States is not pressing forward vigorously with Project Independence, the energy self-sufficiency goal. After a strong start last winter, government officials are getting accustomed to the idea of dependence on Arab oil for at least a quarter of our country's needs.

That is a very dangerous degree of dependence. The United States can meet its energy needs, providing incentives exist. If government would scrap its price controls on oil, drilling would be increased very rapidly. But the bureaucrats persist in thinking it is smart to pay U.S. oilmen less for their product than is paid to the Arab state oil monopolies.

Furthermore, the Federal Energy Administration seems more interested in devising cumbersome regulations than in spurring production. Today, i a regulations cover oilmen, governing to whom they can sell, kow much they can charge, and so forth. The states are deeply involved in the fuel allocation process. The super-regulators in Washington want to split up the big oil companies, divorcing their production, refining and marketing functions, though they are inter-related in vital ways. Service station owners have been told they are required to sell no-lead gas.

They see the day coming when government will tell them exactly what they will sell and to whom and in what amounts. All of these regulations are in violation of the free market principles which this country operated on in the past and which made the nation prosperous. The United States doesn't a regulations, more government or state agencies. It needs all types of fuel-oil, gas, coal and nuclear. Resource Management Is Name Of New Game The name of the only promising new game in town in this era of raw material supply difficulties is "resource management." It is being played by private industry in order to assure its future-and the future of the country-despite the do-nothing policies followed by both the executive and legislative branches of the U.S.

If anyone can best the Arab-Iran-Venezuela energy cartel, which bids fair to bankrupt the entire West, it will be our resource management people, net anybody in Jerry Ford's Washington. Not too long ago the U.S. steel industry was looking into the bottom of the pit both metaphorically and actually. The big open cut iron ore deposits of the Mesabi range in Minnesota were being depleted. The United States Steel Company, Republic and others were looking to Venezuelan and Canadian ore deposits to keep their furnaces going, which meant that we were dependent on foreigners for steel basics.

But resource management, with technology at its fingertips, put together steel company consortiums capable of assembling the capital investment needed to develop the process of pelletizing usable iron from the low-grade (aconite deposits of northern Michigan and Minnesota. The Hanna Mining Company and the Pickan- ds Mather Company were among those that specialized in resource discovery and development and the management of consortiums. Pickands Mather managed Erie Mining, a company owned by Bethlehem, Youngstown, Interlake and the Steel Company of Canada. Erie Mining's low-grade ore pelletizing venture in Minnesota is almost as much a wonder of the world as the Mesabi range itself was a couple of generations ago. The revived self-sufficiency of the U.S.

in iron is what keeps the world honest in the prices it charges for iron ore. Paradoxically, it is national self-sufficiency that enables the U.S. to get its share of the profits from cheap ore developments abroad. Pickands Mather has taken its low-grade ore expertise to the Ivory Coast in Africa, to Canada and to Tasmania, sometimes teaming up with domestic steel companies, sometimes with European, Japanese or Australian companies. It is also in the business of developing coal properties, zinc and silver, often in foreign settings.

Resource management, extended overseas, needs shipping, so enter the Moore-McCormack Company, struggled for years trying to offset the losses it incurred in the ship passenger-carrying business. With red ink threatening to bankrupt his company, Jim Barker president of Moore-McCormack, decided to get out of the passenger trade. But, as a former employe of Pickands Mather, he had more in mind than mere freight carrying across the oceans. What he did was to restructure his company into Moore-McCormack Resources, beginning with the acquisition of Pickands Mather itself. It is a complementary business he has developed, not a conglomerate What interested me particularly in an extensive interview with Jim Barker was in sounding out the possibilities of doing for a primary energy source what taconite expertise had for the supply of iron ore.

Barker's answer was optimistic. The U.S. has great untapped deposits of lignite coal in Montana, the Dakotas, New Mexico and other primarily Western states. Lignite is low-grade coal, a "young" coal that contains an excess amount of moisture and a high-ash content. It cannot compete at the moment with better grades of coal.

But the same technological ingenuity that turned low-grade taconite iron into a competitor with high-grade ore from Venezuela or Australia will, so Mr. Barker insists, move in on lignite once the impossibility of paying billions to the Arab oil cartel for the decade to come finally dawns on the economic illiterates of the U.S. Congress. (Note to the reader: It is this column, not Mr. Barker, who is pejoratively describing the average U.S.

legislator, a creature who is too timorous to put our phony ecologists in their place when it comes to enabling us to utilize our coal resources, both high-grade bituminous and low-grade lignite. I Resource management, applied to the business of making the U.S. self-sufficient for basic energy, would soon bring the Arab oil prices into line. Then resource management could move into the total world energy picture, with oil, coal, lignite, water power and uranium all competing with each other at the level of a non-cartelized market. All that is required to put King Faisal of Saudi Arabia-in his place is for government to get off the backs of the so-called private sector.

BOB CONSWINE Well Whaddya Know! Somebody Likes Us NEW Somebody loves us. His name is Carlos Romulo, Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines. Speaking at the MacArthur Memorial in Norfolk, on the 30th anniversary of the rough and tumble return (at Leyte) of MacArthur and his forces, Romulo said some things about us that turned his audience pink with pleasure. We don't hear much praise or simple gratitude any more. "Wnat meaning is there lelt in that old battle when enemies have become allies, and old allies antagonists, when the bombers and fighters of another era have been left behind by missiles of incredible range, speed and power, when the gallant old battleships that won what was perhaps the greatest and surely the last naval battle in history, have ended in mothballs or as targets for nuclear tests? General has not lacked critics.

It is said that personal vanity dictated his determination to redeem his famous pledge to return to the Philippines, where he had suffered a humiliating defeat. His appeal to 'American honor' pretended, it is said, to place moral obligations over basic strategic considerations. "Yet it is precisely for this that Leyte is still remembered. In returning to the Philippines, Douglas MacArthur kept the faith reposed in him by my people; he knew, as President Franklin Roosevelt knew, that American honor and America's ''moral obligations' were" treasured by the American people more highly than debatable shorcuts to victory. return to the Philippines proved that America keeps her word, that America keeps faith with her friends, no matter what their breed, in fair weather and in times of storm, wherever her sacred honor is pledged.

Douglas MacArthur and the United States of America returned to the Philippines at Leyte only to withdraw. One of the first acts of the victorious commander was to return authority and power to the legitimate government of the Common- wealth. And the last act of the United States was to return to the Filipino people their sovereignty and independence, thus restoring the first Republic in Asia. "Douglas MacArthur was my friend. He was a friend of the Filipino people, and the Filipinos were his friends, as they were and are the friends of America.

But when we honor his memory here we honor more than a friend; we honor the conscience, the spirit, the essential spirit, of America." Speeches like Romulo's tend to remind us that, contrary to accumulating charges, we may not be ALL bad. The Melbourne, Australia, correspondent of the good gray Times of London reports on a sticky bugging wicket: "Mr. Anthony Eggleston, the former press secretary and confidant of Sr. Robert Menzies, Mr. Harold Hold and Mr.

John Gorton when they were Prime Minister, said today that he was responsible for putting a 'bugging' device in the Prime Minister's office in Canberra." Alas, things didn't go too well during the regime of Mr. Holt. "The commercial firm we called in during the middle of 1966 suggested a different type of bugging device so that Harold would not have his desk cluttered up with a microphone," Australia's answer to Ron Ziegler told reporters. "The device installed was a pen set with a 'bug' inside each false pen and two tape record- ders on a shelf in the private secretary's office next door. "The 'bugs' proved a disaster.

Harold never could get used to things. It was so realistic looking as a pen set that Harold kept ripping the pens out of their sockets to sign documents, forgetting they were microphones, not pens. It was so much trouble having them fixed up all the time that eventually we had a plug-in microphone installed in their place." Rotten luck, wot? If the government would only encourage self-sufficiency and get off UK businessman's back, the American people would have the fuel they need for their automobiles, homes and factories. The Arab oil blackmail wouldn't work. Unfortunately, the regulators and would-be rationalizers are as much of a threat as the Arabs who price oil on a political basis.

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