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G1jt FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1972 "PAGET4" In Washington William 5. White Lend-Lease Key To Trade Nick Thimmesch Established 1828 GUYTON PARKS General Manager BEN R. DAVIS Managing Editor Of Air Piracy MW WASHINGTON The first-ballot presidential nomination for Sen. George McGovern, so long and so triumphantly claimed, looks to be gone with the wind, and. there is even some question now that any number of ballots will win the game for him.

There is an even larger question of the ultimate value of the nomination on election day, whoever may get It but that part of the story is for the future to In short, the McGovern revolution and the profound resistance to it of the older, and more moderate Democrats including a vast majority of elected Democratic officials have built up a deadlock from which it is difficult to see how any candidate could emerge a real-winner in November. The ostensible cause of all this is the. decision of the Democratic Credentials; Committee, meeting here in advance of the convention in Miami Beach, to strip McGovern of 151 of the 271 delegate votes which he seized in a winner-take-all-primary in California. I Since he won only 44 per cent of the totaL popular vote, as against 39 per cent for Hubert Humphrey, the effect is to give Humphrey and others their proportionate1 shares of the delegation. Proportional representation and an end-to the winner-take-all concept of the were precisely what McGovern' himself had long demanded except in the case of California, where winner-take-all would serve his own purpose.

THE words "ostensible cause," in connection with -the Credentials Committee's action, are at the heart of the matter. For it is more a symptom than a cause. What it really amounts to is simply that the heretofore unorganized anti-McGovern forces, which are motivated largely by the simple belief that he could never defeat President Nixon in November, at long last have found a means to coalesce It is in the nature of politics that, having' found such a means, they can find it again, and this reality illustrates the clear and, present danger to a McGovern nomination. The McGovern people, having heretofore'; had things pretty well their own way, are immeasurably bitter at what he calls a stinking political deal from committee which they themselves earlier boasted of controlling. If they mean what they say, they and McGovern, too may bolt the convention or even the party itself if they do not win aC Miami Beach.

Ordinarily, it would be fairly safe to put-this down to standard operating procedure you love a big one and you threaten the other side with dire consequences in the'1 hope that it will be frightened enough to let you win the next big one. BUT THE whole point is that the McGovern drive is novel in the extreme.v. His followers are almost religiously "committed," largely inexperienced and dedicated to all-or-nothing. One of his young delegates, for' illustration, shouted to the Credentials -Committee that if McGovern was not chosen at Miami Beach "we are going to disenfranchise the Democratic party." So it is that the immovable object that McGovern "nominate me or break up the party" meets the irresisible force of an opposition that says: "No, you can't win In November anyhow." The older and far more tolerant anti-McGovernites will not threaten walkout. They are, however, deeply put off bj McGovern's intemperate reaction to aT perfectly normal power play no different lit meaning from the power plays operated; earlier by the McGovern people all over the country.

The consequence is immensely to the McGovern opposition before the-convention meets and to raise thet probability that a critical mass of; Democrats would give him only lip service; in the fall campaign. if His violent reaction at his first setback; may turn out to have been as pushing to; him as was the weeping episode inrNew. Hampshire to the one-time front-runner who was Sen. Edmund Muskie. HAROLD E.

MARTIN Editor and Publisher wileiam h. Mcdonald Editorial Page Editor The Crisis IF YOU think getting into the gold vault at Fort Knox is chancy, wait until the newest anti-hijacking measures go into 'operation on commercial aircraft. It took the 24-hour pilots strike last month to do it, but now both government and industry are busy making plans to stop air piracy. The pilots have not been too happy with past efforts to halt hijackings and have complained that countries such as Algeria and Cuba have harbored hijackers with impunity. This week's shoot-out in San Francisco would indicate that authorities have had enough and intend to shoot first and ask questions later.

In the gun battle between FBI agents and would-be hijackers, the two bandits were shot to death instead of being catered to as in the past. Unfortunately, one passenger was killed and two others wounded in the exchange of gunfire. An airline official said later he was not pleased that the passengers were shot but, "We wanted to stop the hijacking and stop it we did." An earlier attempt by an Asian to commandeer a Pan Am 747 en route from Manilla to Saigon illustrated another grievance of pilots. A passenger shot and killed the man while the pilot grappled with him on the floor of the plane. The pilot said afterward he was sorry that the hijacking "proceeded in this ungodly way" Two Experts RICHARD M.

Scammon, the noted elections analyst, says there is virtually no way of preventing the Democratic presidential nomination of Sen. McGovern. If McGovern is somehow denied the nomination in Miami Beach next week, Scammon says, "It would be a much greater upset than Truman's election in 1948." But beyond the expected nomination? McGovern is in trouble, Scammon believes, because of the disaffection of many traditionally Democratic supporters: Catholics, who are more troubled by social problems tax burdens, school busing, etc. than any religious misgivings; Jews, who don't trust McGovern's views on Israel; blue-collar workers, who are also greatly disturbed by busing and other issues; and so on. McGovern's best chance against President Nixon would be in getting Teddy Kennedy to run for the vice presidency, and a severe economic downturn, Scammon believes.

But even this would not relieve one of the Senator's most serious handicaps, in Scammon's estimation: his pro-busing stance. Another expert in another field has been working on McGovern's WASHINGTON Peter George Peterson, our secretary of Commerpe who is blessed with a truly Euperior mind, leaves soon for Moscow to begin the long process of increasing trade between the United States and the Soviet Union. It won't be an easy go. The doves of peace are flying for the moment, but negotiating for liberalized trade which Peterson strongly favors-is a tedious chore. The foundation is small.

Less than $1 billion of the $90 billion the United States does in foreign trade is with the USSR and the other eastern European communist nations. There is more impulse than action. The most talked about stumbling block between the US and the Soviets is settlement of the lend-lease bill of World War II which we claim comes to $800,000,000 plus interest; Soviet arithmetic calls for a $300,000,000 repayment. But lend-lease could be settled once progress is made on other aspects of the trade problem. The key factor is financing.

The Soviets like long-term, low-interest credit, and since the USSR doesn't participate In the Export-Import Bank, that means credit might have to come from the private sector. So far, American banks show only cautious curiosity. The USSR and other communist countries have only small amounts of "hard" western currency, and this Is a problem they like to resolve through the barter system. The Soviets have enormous raw-material resources which they plain like to swap for imports. Western European firms are learning to live with the "swap" mentality, but it confounds Americans.

ALLOWING more communist countries into the Export-Import Bank (Romania and Yugoslavia are In) simplifies the exchange problem, but Congress isn't likely to let them in until the lend-lease bill and other debts are settled. US controls over what can be exported is a problem partly remedied by the new 1969 law, but Congress is still reluctant to let the Soviets have everything they want particularly in the area of sophisticated equipment which could have military applications. Memory-core computers, infrared film, gyrocompasses and sonar systems are among items denied export to the USSR and other communist countries in 1971. But the US did allow shipment of nearly $1 billion in equipment in 1971 for the Soviets to build a new truck plant on the 'Kama River, and allowed other advanced machine tools to be exported to communist The US also did a good business in air-conditioning equipment with the communists. Being given "most favored nation" treatment (Poland and Yugoslavia enjoy this) cuts tariffs by 50 per cent, making it easier for communist countries to compete in the US market.

Again, Congress is slow to respond. The Democratic Party platform written last week reflects the new wave of protectionism, and there is a historic aversion in the US to buying products from communist nations. We buy raw materials, but don't see them in finished goods. Yet another factor is the monolithic nature of communist states. Only two U.S.

firms have offices in Moscow Pan American Air Lines and American Express both needed for tourism. The Soviets hardly employ a chamber of commerce approach in attracting businessmen. This is less true in other eastern European countries, but the west European or US businessman eventually has to sit down with the socialist minister of production or foreign trade or whatever, and the visitor usually is talked at, rather than talked with. Great distances between mentalities and also great distances in miles means transportation costs. Language is also a serious problem.

There aren't that many communist officials who speak English, and it's hard to find American businessmen who have brushed up on their Russian, Polish, Hungarian, and Romanian. JOINT ventures between U.S. firms and communist governments are the most promising aspect of this story. Western European firms have located many plants in the eastern European countries, particularly automobile plants, and the profit picture is good. Romania allows up to 49 per cent ownership by outsiders, and Hungary indicates it will liberalize its regulations.

Multinational corporations seem well suited to this kind of enterprise. They can import components from their home nations (thus providing employment back home) which go into manufacture of products sold in the communist nations (thus responding to great consumer demand). There are selfish reasons for the US to expand its trade with the Soviets and other communist nations. One is that the United States has an enormous energy shortage, and the Soviets are rich in gas and oil supplies. Another is that western European and Japanese companies are way ahead of us in penetrating this growing market, and one day we might be sorry.

Yet another is that our trade balance with the communist countries is in our favor. The projected trade deficit for the United States for 1972 is $6.5 billion, yet in the first five months of 1972, our exports to communist countries exceeded imports by $325,000,000. The experts at the Department of Commerce characterize the trade situation with communist nations as slow, erratic, but on the way up. Peterson, who must mull all the factors going into the talks with the Soviets in mid-July, only says: "These arc the most complex, interrelated sets of negotiations that I have ever worked in." but he was thankful the man was dead. "If he had been returned to the U.S.

for trial he would have been given a free ride through our court system," said the pilot. The stepped-up efforts being taken now are aimed at prevention but plans to thwart attempted takeovers are also under study. Within a short time air line officials expect to substantially increase the number of metal detection devices in air terminals. Other sophisticated searching devices are under study which will be used on both the passenger as well as his baggage. Even with present detection sky marshals and other security measures, hijackings continue.

While some of the air pirates are crackpots, others are ingenious. Clever enough to figure out ways to circumvent the new detection devices, hijack the aircraft and make their way to a safe haven country where they may be assured of asylum. In the days of the old West, there were many train robberies and bank hold-ups. But horse stealing was an offense that most wrongdoers thought twice about. For the penalty for this crime was death usually administered quite soon after the apprehension of the criminal.

The penalty for hijacking should be commensurate with the crime and all nations should bend their efforts towards eliminating this grave menace to society. On McGovern economic program. Michael K. Evans, president of Chase Econometric Associates and regarded as one of the country's leading economists, has concluded that McGovern's economic reform plans, at least in the form most likely to pass Congress, would lead to a recession in 1974 and an unemployment rate of 7 per cent. Evans based this conclusion on a computer analysis of the Senator's proposals on taxation and government spending.

Using a large-scale "model" of the national economy, which he used to simulate future business conditions, Evans said that the drastic reduction of defense spending, higher corporate taxes and reduced investment incentives proposed by McGovern would retard economic activity much more than sharply increased redistribution of income to the poor would stimulate it. In short, Evans predicts that McGovern, as President, would produce a "real recession," even allowing for the modifications by Congress. But, if current polls are reasonably close on how McGovern would be swamped by Nixon, this eventuality is not something we have to worry about at least not now. computers play "very bad" chess. In any case, the impasse, while it lasted, gave the world an insight into the difficulties arising between competing individuals and thus between nations with conflicting interests on a far larger scale.

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v- (Smnfcroa given on letter We reserve the please Repeat: No letter will be wrote it. judgment of these officials to handle our foreign as well as local matters. Why chant and jeer so when by a treacherous act of stealing, these papers were released to a senator and newspaper, both of whom are critical of our American way of life. The question I ask is, what good did the release of these papers serve? Is America better? Have world relations been enhanced? Has our defense posture been improved? My deep concern is that we have people with access to classified information that possess so little honor, loyalty and integrity that they will steal and divulge such information, and newspapers that will stoop to publish it. There was a time in history when such were called and dealt with as traitors.

Our classification system can stand some improvement but I am convinced it is not so deplorably bad as some senators and news agencies would have us believe. I am sure President Nixon will take cautious steps to make any needed changes. B.C. MANN Alexander City, Ala. Thugs And Thugged Editor, The Advertiser: It has been often said that genius is nourished by adversity; consequently the obverse is obvious.

Now in the superior comforts of your new quarters, Grandma's powers of reasoning appear to have diminished seriously as shown by the editorial on crime in Babel-on-the-Hudson, known as Noo Yawk City. You say that the NYC populace is divided into two classes: those who have been robbed and those expecting to be. Surely that escapes logic, for there must be the third class of those who do the robbing. Clearly it is THIS class that has been increasing in recent years, and hardly the other two. As with any third class, the robber category (loosely used) cannot expand indefinitely for, surely, there is a point of diminishing returns in this matter.

There must be a point at which the thugs outnumber the thugged and the whole thing comes to a screeching halt, just as in NYC there is now one recipient of public welfare for 6.7 workers with the latter figure shrinking year by year. Surely the time will come when this will reach unity (parity?) and the whole thing will collapse of its own contradiction. Sounds a bit like Marx. G.M. KOSOLAPOFF Auburn, Ala.

Prayer Collection Editor, The Advertiser: The prayers that are now appearing on your front page are excellent. I commend you for printing these. My hope is you will print all of theni in a booklet at some future date. I would like to purchase such a collection. MRS.

RUSSELL L. JENKINS Montgomery From Advertiser Files On this date: 100 YEARS AGO (1872) We are informed that 11 bailiffs are requisite to run the Circuit Court of this county, drawing $2 each per day, costing the county $165 per week. 50 YEARS AGO (1922) The property at the corner of Montgomery and Molton Streets was sold to Mose Stuart. Later, on the same day, Mr. Stuart sold it to Walter L.

Shepherd. The site includes that of the old Thompson Hotel. 25 YEARS AGO (1947) Dr. D.M. Rivers, paster of the First Baptist Church, Gaffney, S.C., has accepted the call to the First Baptist Church of Montgomery, according to Noble Seay, chairman of the Board of Deacons.

Tell It To Old Your name and address must be right to shorten letters No poetry printed unless Editor knows who Askcw's Views Editor, The Advertiser: Florida's Gov. Askew has been chosen by the national leadership of the Democratic Party to deliver the keynote address to the convention at Miami. Alabamians, especially delegates to the convention, may be interested in some of the Governor's views. Askew has said: "I am against the position on busing taken not only by Mr. Wallace but by the President and all the others.

I'm in open opposition on the busing issue to anyone who thinks the United States Constitution should be amended and who feels the court should be deprived of this tool." Askew recently addressed a national convention of a sectarian group, being a leader in that sect. He called for a discussion on school busing in order to establish "realistic guidelines" for its use. That convention, without any apparent dissent from Askew, approved the grant of $10,000 to the legal defense fund for Angela Davis, admitted communist; urged "an escalation of the conscientious protest" against the war in Vietnam with church support for civil disobedience; and the abolition of all prisons. There are rumors here that a consider able number of delegates plan to stretch their legs and catch a breath of fresh air during the Governor's keynote ad- dreSS" ALBERT W. FOSTER Fort Myers, Fla.

Defending Classification Editor, The Advertiser: Your editorial June 9 pertaining to government classified documents leads me to comment and express opinions. May I say that prior to my retirement 18 months ago, I worked in federal agencies involved with national defense for almost 30 years. At one time or another, I held Top Secret security clearance with the Army, the Navy and the Air Force. Hundreds of classified documents came over my desk for study, action or concurrence. I have seen classified documents that in my opinion were over-classified, even some that should not have been classified.

I have seen others that bore no classification that should have. Documents are frequently over-classified, for the system leads to overclassification. But this does not mean the masses are deprived of their rightful knowledge of news. As a matter of fact, the general public is not interested in most information that is classified and would not understand it if released. Even those possessing security clearance are allowed access to classified information only when they "have a need to know." All documents are screened at designated intervals for downgrading, and they are downgraded as conditions warrant.

This makes for early public release of such information. Furthermore, I never knew of a low-level irresponsible clerk classifying documents as is so often stated. I am a firm believer in the classification system, its purpose and that it works in the national interest. Its purpose is to safeguard information from potential and real enemies that could have an adverse effect on our relations with other countries. The withholding of many policy matters, scientific breakthroughs and technological weapons development data is essential to our national security.

We cannot jeopardize the security of our nation by releasing this to satisfy some blatant senator or news agency. It is to be remembered with regret that failure to properly safeguard technological weapons development data enabled Russia to obtain the stferets of our nuclear weapons, radar, space station, etc. One case frequently cited in criticizing governmental agencies classification documents is the "Pentagon Papers." Information contained in these papers may or may not have been properly classified. Certainly it must have been deemed proper by or with the approval of officers duly elected by the people. We trusted the The Chess War LIVING TODAY Arlie B.

Davidson Shifting The Blame 5 WHY blame others for everything goes wrong? This habit has been a method of the weak and an excuse for every kind of trickery! and injustice against man. This habit of blaming others itself most completely in time of war, wheal one nation is aligned against another. Nazi Germany blamed many of their troubles on the Jews and others they wanted to eliminate. I The Russian communists have blamed many of the world difficulties on and capitalism. But other peoples blamed arrogantj German leaders and unjustified attacks on neighboring peoples for events culminating! in a world war.

Similarly, peoples have blamed troubles-: of the world upon the communists'J disregard for basic human rights. The habit of shifting the blame on others; may have some factual basis, but for the, individual it may destroy initiative and thet will to make something out of life in spite of set-backs. Blame yourself for your failures first. I Then you may look elsewhere for some og the blame. The habit of shifting the blame is a cause of setting aside your own self-analysis.

It causes you to take life easy as yor nourish your self-satisfaction by criticizing others. It is a handicap to personal improvement and progress. IN THE LONG cold war between American chess player Bobby Fischer and defending champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union, the world has seen in microcosm just how difficult international diplomacy is. There have been charges of capitalistic chicanery against Fischer, wounded pride on both sides, silly arguments, disputes over protocol and agenda, boycotts, etc. The funniest aspect of the imbroglio was the charge in Moscow that a group of Americans had setup a computer in New York to assist the 24-year-old U.S.

star. There was no explanation as to how this would be accomplished, except that the American secret weapon would somehow be fed each move, analyze the situation and relay advice back to Fischer by some mysterious means. The charge brought hysterical laughter among the chess experts in Iceland, including the referee of the match, Lothar Schmid, who said "that's nonsense." a member of Spassky's entourage, laughing with the rest, doubted that the system would work even if it did exist, since.