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WiscoflsioState Journal A f-tfte SIEGE OVX I fWvA AN-N I aegS Pa. mum rwMB PACE 8, SECTION 1 TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1972 WITH CHINA AND RUSSIA Hopeful Trade Agreements be the first of significant size after more than 20 years of no trading between the U. S. and mainland China. The grain deal was described as the largest in history between any two nations of the world.

Both deals could be the first of much increased U. S. trade with the Communist giants. China Is Interested in both American technology and products as it seeks to develop its factories and farms. And Russia's not wanting China to catch up, the stage is set for Secretary of Commerce Peter G.

Peterson to negotiate settlement of the Soviet's World War II debt, amarltlme agreement, credit, and additional trade agreements. With both nations seeking increased trading with the U. it permits the Nixon Administration to push for lessening world tensions and bringing an end to the fighting in Vietnam. The President has made it clear that the U. S.

will cooperate tradewise with any nation which responds to his peace goals, but not otherwise. Hopefully, Mr. Nixon's trade strategy Is starting to pay off. There were two promising international trade developments last week involving the United States, one with Communist China and the other with the Soviet Union. Thursday the Commerce Department announced that it had granted a $150 million export license which would permit the sale of Boeing 707 commercial jets to China.

If the sale is completed, it would be the start of a Chinese government air fleet flying world routes, an operation which would result In Chinese reliance on tlie U. S. for additional planes, spare parts, and technical assistance. And then Saturday the White House announced a three-year agreement to sell at least $750 million of American wheat, corn, and other grains to Russia. The grain agreement, by increasing U.

S. farm exports by 17 per cent over the next three years, will have great impact in such agricultural states as Wisconsin. These trade developments result directly from President Nixon's summit trips to China and Russia and are cornerstones in his strategy for world peace. The jet deal would NEED FOR APPELLATE COURT Backlog in State Courts By C. L.

SULZBERGER (c) N.Y. Times News Service LONDON Sometimes a nation is like its prophets who, the new testament contends, are not without honor save in their own country. It is comforting to learn tfctere are some people here who find moral value in the United States and rather more, indeed, than many Americans find. Last month Bernard Levin, a thoughtful columnist for the Times of London, developed July Fourth -Plus One Week 4. Jj Wisconsin have intermediate appeals courts between the trial court and supreme court levels.

The only exceptions are Massachusetts and Virginia. Maybe the time has come for Wisconsin to join the majority. The Citizens Study Committee on Judicial Organization, one of the some 29 task forces launched by Gov. Patrick Lucey, is now examining the desirability of creating an intermediate appellate court and its report on the whole court system is expected late this year. Justice delayed is justice denied.

Chief Justice Hallows' observation that the high court in handling its increased a is "progressively going backward" speaks for itself. Chief Justice Harold E. Hallows makes a strong case for the establishment of an intermediate appellate court when he revealed that the Wisconsin Supreme Court "is roughly one year behind in its work." The high court term ended last week with 267 cases carried over to the new term starting in September. This is enough work to keep the jus-t i busy for the next 10-month term without even considering new cases, Hallows said. With 267 cases left over, the court will have to devote virtually all of its time just trying to clean up that calendar next year, the chief justice explained.

Almost all states as populous as ri r'ritrfK'A i ill -r i I I JA. I 1 lb ANGELA DAVIS As a follow-up to the double report on dissent in Russia and America which was published last week, today's Page of Opinion features two articles on justice in the USSR and U.S. supported him during all these years; he has been training as is done in Russia. It is also possible that Bobby Fisher is repaying some of the humiliation which has been dealt to him by the Russians in the past. Where was The State Journal over the years when the Russians were cheating Bobby Fisher out of tournament championships by the -State Journal Pictorial Editorial by Edwin Stein Better Attitudes Make Biking Safer gressive and want to crowd the cyclist off the street.

Such attitudes result in tragedy and sorrow for both rider and driver. "Better Biking, Better Driving" means that everyone obeys all of the traffic laws and safety rules, both the cyclist and the motorist. It is not enough for the bike rider to say that he has free run of the road and that the motorist is obligated to clear the way. And it is not right for the car driver to get ag The Dancing Judge Sirs No wonder crime and delinquency is on the rise in Dane County, When Judge Bruner should be combating the problem and conducting juvenile hearings he is on the State Capitol lawn kicking up his heels to a country tune. Tbad Ward, Madison, Wis.

Chess Match Merits Front-Page Coverage Sirs Recent ly I have overheard criticism of The Wisconsin State Journal for giving front-page coverage to the Bobby Fischer affair. I am glad to see chess at last receiving the attention it deserves. It is not unusual for the Olympics or the World Series to receive front-page treatment. No one argued that the Supreme Court anti-trust decision about baseball should have been consigned to the back pages. If any sporting event ever merits such treatment, then the world championship of chess does now.

Chess is a difficult and demanding game, and America has a golden opportunity to capture, through Fischer, the world championship. In the Soviet Union chess champions are revered as national heroes. Congratulations to The State Journal and the rest of the media for at last giving Fischer and chess a 1 1 -d prominence in the news. Martin H. Dickinson, 14S3 Carver Madison, Wis.

He Objects to Journal's Support of Spassky Sirs I am happy to see that The Wisconsin State Journal has decided to back Boris Spassky in the up-coming chess match of the century. I was becoming worried that I might agree with something the Journal supported. It is evident that you fail to realize tht chess is and always has been Bobby Fisher's (sic) profession, and that only he can judge how much this tournament is worth to him. After all, the United States has not the idea of comparative national morlity in a provoative column on the recent acquittal of Angela Davis. THE BRILLIANT Miss Davis is a proclaimed Communist as well as black and therefore (according to the president of Yale University) ineligible for justice because it is "impossible" for any Negro to get a fair trial in the U.S.

Levin, recalling the situation of Soviet dissidents who are neither given fair trials nor allowed to air their views in the local media, goes on: "It is no use saying to me that the standards of Russian justice are irrelevant to a consideration of the American kind. "In the first place, those who declare that America is a tyranny ought to be continually reminded what a tyranny actually is, with particular examples, and in the second place it is the standards of Russian justice that Miss Davis, who proudly proclaims herself a Communist, wishes to see prevail in America." In her acquittal by a jury which disliked the quality of evidence produced, Levin sees vindication of "the truth that American justice, whatever its faults, remains genuine justice." He urges her sup- Indochina and Algeria, staged an armed insurrection against the government. The U.S. remains in plenty of trouble both at home and abroad. Yet I never expect to see Secretary of State Rogers distributing small arms to ardent Republicans in the heart of foggy bottom as I saw Andre Malraux doing in the Interior Ministry's courtyard 11 years ago when civil war was feared.

AND I NEVER expect to learn that my friend and colleague Tom Wicker has been locked up and banned from disseminating his views because the Administration dislikes them as much as the Kremlin detested those of Andrei Amalrik. Nor do I anticipate reading that Pyotr Yakir, after a jury trial reported in Izvestia, was freed for lack of evidence. In this respect the case of Gen. Lavelle, the Air Force commander in Vietnam who exceeded his specific orders in his ardor to press the war, is interesting to a 1 e. Lavelle should have been punished for this transgression and, indeed, he was.

Whether the punishment was adequate is doubtful. It probably wasn't, yet he did not escape scot-free. I think he should be tried by court-martial. Nevertheless, whether the U.S. is hard enough on super-hawks in uniform and whether it is hard enough on superdoves who avoid uniform is a matter of degree and also probably of emotion.

The primordial fact remains that the legal system continues essentially to apply. ON THE WHOLE it is remarkable that the U.S. has been simultaneously facing a disagreeable and highly unpopular war and an overdue and much needed racial revolution without coming apart at the seams. The widespread Black protest at unfair inequalities has begun to channel its energise increasingly into political expression. And, despite the strains of the Vietnam conflict which have imposed a burden on those fighting it, the armed forces remain firmly under civilian authority.

There are, of course, occasional blazing exceptions: race violence, military insubordination, cruelty, and heartlessness. However, the U.S. appears to have escaped the kind of desperate solution attempted but a few years ago in France when regular officers, enraged with the French civilian attitude it held responsible for the loss of porters to compare the justice America meted out to her with the type she would install in a different American system. IT IS APPALLING to hear the clamor of New Left sympathizers with Miss Davis and other protesters against evident faults in contemporary U.S. society and to compare it with the deafening silence on such subjects as the fate of Soviet dissidents recently locked up without the slightest respect for rights accorded them in theory by the Soviet constitution.

The American system has considerable tolerance for its own intolerants. The persevering determination of its judicial processes and of its press to root out injustice is too often forgotten among those who carp against the state simply because it is a state. underhanded cheating between comrades? It was this cheating which almost forced Bobby Fisher to quit chess altogether. It is also possible that this whole affair is just part of the pre-tournament "psyching out" between players, but, of course, your editor doesn't understand that. Why doesn't The State Journal stick to the reporting of important news such as Gov.

Lucey's son's trip from Vermont and leave the unimportant stuff, such as the breaking and entering of the Democratic Convention and the world chess championship, to interested newspapers? John S. Daniel, 2501 Fremont Madison, Wis. Editor's Note Since our editorial, it was heartening to learn of the gentlemanly way Fischer apologized to Spassky in an effort to get the match started. We're still for Boris but may the better chess player win. Nixon Really Isn't Winding Down the War Sirs With the papers printing Pentagon statements about troop reduction, I hope that the citizens of this country are not so gullible to believe that President Nixon is actually winding the war down.

To the contrary, the murder and destruction in Vietnam is as great as at any time in recent years. President Nixon has merely substituted bombers for foot soldiers to do his facesaving. Simply because the box score figures of U.S. casualties is down does not mean that we are any closer to a "just and lasting peace." The eyewitness accounts of destruction to civilian centers testify to the fact that Mr. Nixon still intends to win this lasting peace over the dead bodies of any who oppose him.

The American people should not be duped into thinking the war is not their concern because Vietnamese are dying needlessly instead of Americans. It is important that the voters of this country keep informed on the issue of Vietnam. Its cost to us in taxes is as high as ever. The killing and destruction is as great as ever. And the man who said he had a plan to end this war is deceiving us as much as ever.

Mark E. Donnan, 3009 University Ave. viet Justice Roman "Wisconsin A State Journal An Independent lee Newspoper J. Martin Wolman Publisher H. Fitzpatrkk Executive Editor W.C.

Bobbins Managing Editor Helen Motheson Asst. Man. Editor William M. Brissee City Editor Joseph Ccpossela News Editor Steven E. Hopkins.

Stats Editor Glenn Miller Sports Editor Donald Davies Sunsay Editor Robert Bjorklund Farr- Ediio- Edwin Stein Photography Director-Editorial Board L. H.Fitzpatrick, Chairman W. Robbins, Helen Motheson, Fred J. Curran, John Newhouse, Robert Bjorklund, Steven M.Barney who were born and grew up under Soviet rule and have no memories of an independent Lithuanian state. The first Lithuanian to burn himself alive was a young worker, Roman Kalanta.

His personal sacrifice in May ignited several days of massive riots during which thousands of young Lithuanians fought the police and troops in the streets of Kaunas. SO LONG as the Lithuani-aas protest alone, of course, Moscow has more than enough force to repress their discontent. But there is every reason to suppose that there is similar nationalist passion in the Ukraine, Georgia, Azer-baidzan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and other non-Russian republics, not to mention the other two Baltic states of Latvia and Estonia. If the non-Russian minorities were ever able to integrate their activities and present a united front against russification, Moscow would have a major challenge on its hands. that have been smuggled out of Lithuania suggest that Lithuanians believe that Moscow wishes to extirpate both the Catholic religion and Lithuanian language and culture.

The purpose would of course be forcibly to assimilate the tiny Lithuanian nation into the vast sea of Russians a practice known in Czarist days simply as "russification." WHAT IS most remarkable about the recent outburst of overt Lithuanian resistance is the role of the young, of those IT IS A measure of the desperation many Lithuanians feel that three in the last several weeks have chosen self-immolation as a means of calling world attention to their plight. The Catholic religion and Lithuanian nationalism are so intertwined that there is no point in debating whether it is religious or national oppression that is at the root of the current discontent. Rather, the protest petitions and other appeals for help By the New York Times Another Lithuanian has burned himself to death to protest Soviet occupation of his country, it is reported from Moscow. This is the latest sobering reminder of the wave of discontent that has broken out this year in the tiny Baltic country whose independence, along with that of her two neighbors, was extinguished by Stalin more than three decades ago as one of the side dividends of the Soviet-Nazi pad..