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Lingering Clouds PAGE 4 VINCENNES SUN-COMMERCIAL, THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1976 Vincennes Sun-Commercial "When the spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty" -II Cor. 3-17 A WORD EDGEWISE By John P. Roche Eugene C. PullUtm (1889-1975) Publisher (1930-1975) William E. Brooks, Publisher "Let the people the country will know the facts and be saved." Abraham Lincoln The Great Emancipator First Saw A Free Press At The Western Sun In Vincennes In 1830.

Forgive this belated coverage of the Italian general election of June 20-21, but I refuse to discuss anything untd there is first-hand evidence in hand. Maybe you didn't notice it, but no early media coverage of what was alleged to be the event of the year provided any statistics. (Indeed, only a call to the Italian embassy in Washington supplied the necessary data. The headlines suggested a great political shift, but the more one explores the figures, the more it becomes apparent that the Italian electorate voted for a continued stalemate. A friend suggests that the Italians, like the Irish, are anarchists at heart, that had there been a line on the ballot for "No Government," it would have won in a walk.

Before examining who did what to whom, it should pe noted that the Italians have a system of proportional representation which defies simple explication. To take an extreme example, in the general election of 1972 (which is the only sound basis for comparison the intervening regional and municipal elections did not include several important areas), the "Manifesto" group of far leftists, a strange amalgam of Maoists and Trotskyites, got 1.3 per cent of the votes but no seats in the Chamber of Deputies. This time it got 1.5 and 6 seats. The Republicans in contrast dropped 0.2 per cent, but retained 14 seats. The German separatists in the border country next to Austria received 0.5 per cent and 3 seats in both elections.

The hie winner was the Italian Communist Party (PCI) Teamster Power which Jumped from 29.1 per cent in 1972 to 34.4 and picked up 48 seats (227). The big losers were the proto-fascist Italian; Social Movement (MSI) and the Liberals, each losing 2.6 per cent; this cost the MSI 21 seats and the Liberals 16. The big party, the Christian Democrats (DC), despite all the ominous pre- riiftinna nf its imminent demise, lost Onlv 0.1 Der Cent (38.8 in 1972; 38.7 in 1976), but this cost the DC 4 seats in the Chamber. In contrast the Socialist Party was steady with 9.6 per cent, losing 4 seats, while the Social Democrats dropped 1.7 per cent and 14 Deputies. For perfectionist readers, it might be added that a new group, the Radicals (apparently Mew Voice Box Improves Talk form this union, who say it is time for the officers to stop selling out the members, I say to them: 'Go to A government witness in a criminal case charging conspiracy to defraud the pension fund was shot to death by a trio of marked gunmen in his office building.

How about the Labor Department? Will it clean up the mess or take over the pension fund? It has the power if corruption is confirmed. Listen to this. When new Labor Secretary W.J. Usery began his spew to the convention he said: "1 belong to this club because I believe in it Fitz is my friend." How about the Senate Can the teamster rebels" count on any help from them? The answer: This is an election year. Then, there's the Justice Department.

How's their record with teamster corruption and crime? Well, Anthony Provenzano and Salvatore Briguglio were indicted last week on charges of kidnapping and murdering a New Jersey Teamster Union official in 1961. Yes, 1961 that's only 15 years ago. A Federal informant, Ralph Picar-do, told a grand jury that Briguglio, his brother Salvatore and Thomas Andret-ta kidnapped and killed Teamster President Jimmy Hoffa last July 30. So far no indictments have been rendered. You have here only a part of the record indicating the power of the teamsters and the impotence of those who should be dealing with them.

The Department of Labor has concluded, after extensive investigation, that there is something rotten in the Central States Pension Fund maintained by the Teamster's Union. For months the word has been passing among numerous informed sources, including a dissident group of the union itself, that there are serious deficiencies in the fund. This is the $1.4 billion fund which takes in around $400 million a year from its members. The Labor Department's bill of particulars is interesting in that it is almost a verbatim repetition of facts revealed in several journalistic exposes, including one in The News, published a year ago. On July 1 The Senate Labor Committee will begin hearings on the case.

There's hardly any kind of conventional malfeasance missing in the allegations. Union members, report they have been cheated out of their pensions; Around $700 million is unaccounted for. Loans have been made to questionable enterprises, including special projects operated by or for union leaders. Loans have become delinquent and allowed to become "gifts." Loans have been made to Mafia-connected companies. The list goes on.

What are the prospects that legal action and proper punishment will be administered? Not much. First, within the union itself, at the recent teamster convention the dissident members tried to make themselves heard. President Frank Fitz-simmons shoved them around and delivered himself of the following: "For those who say it is time we re a iciuoi Djmi-un it win uiv uiwunwr and the one Deputy unaccounted for seems to be a Sardinian nationalist who got 0.3 of the vote. As you can see, there is no necessary correlation between percentages and deputies. The Germans are highly concentrated in Alto Adige; hence their 3 representatives.

The DC could drop one-tenth of a point and lose 4 seats; the Republicans gain two-tenths and no deputies. But despite this statistical skewing the election does provide a general reading of the Italian political mentality. The French political scientist, Fran cois uoguei, suggested many years ago mat rencn poiuica since the Revolution of 1789 was the history of an inconclusive between the parties of "order" and the parties of "movement." If we assume this set of categories are valid in the Italian context, and arbitrarily (despite their internal differences) put the Maoists, the PCI, the Socialists and the new Radicals of these later learn what is called esophogeal speech, which is created by swallowing air and forcing it out in something resembling a speech pattern. This takes months, if accomplished at all, and is difficult for many patients because can cer of the larynx tends to develop late in life. Another 5 per cent use artificial devices, which, like esophogeal speech, is sometimes difficult to understand.

The rest must communicate by writing or in some other way. The larynx sits atop the windpipe. When it is removed in the new procedure, the windpipe is then pulled upward from the chest and joined to the base of the tongue. This position prevents food from going down the windpipe. Sisson explained that the soft folds of muscle which remain after the voice box is removed serve as a vibrating mechanism somewhat the way the larynx vibrates.

One patient talked six days following surgery, "which I would not have believed," said Sisson, who pointed out that the neck and throat are still swollen and sore from the operation at that time. The new operation must be performed in conjunction with the laryngectomy and cannot be done on patients who lost their voices earlier. Sisson pointed out also that not all persons who have laryngectomies can also have the new procedure, because their disease often requires removal of too much tissue. But, he said, a significant percentage of them could benefit if the procedure were widely adopted. (who seem to be Italian McGoveriutes) into the party of "movement," we get a total of 46.6 per cent as opposed to 40 in 1972.

Similarly the party of "order" dropped to 53.4 per cent in 1972. However, French politics have always been somewhat more rational than Italian. Changes Aren't Expected In Democratic Delegation CHHsAUO (AP) An operation developed in Italy to permit some patients who have lost tiieir voice boxes because of cancel to speak almost naturally has been in troduced by Northwestern University medical school. Dr. George Sisson, chairman of the school's department of otolaryngology and maxillofacial surgery, said in an interview Tuesday that the procedure is something American doctors "are way behind the times on." It involves the repositioning of the windpipe, or trachea, after the larynx is removed.

The procedure was developed by Dr. Italo Serafini and others in Padua a few years ago. Since then more than 100 of the operations have been performed in Italy and Spain, Sisson said. Three have been done at Northwestern this year, and a fourth has been done in Dayton, Ohio, by a military doctor, Maj. Fred McConnel, who was trained at Northwestern.

All of the patients have been able to speak almost normally, including original accents, within days after surgery, the surgeon reported. Sisson said there are about 5,000 new cases of cancer of the larynx in the United States annually. In early stages, the disease can be treated with radiation. If the disease is not detected until it is well developed, surgical procedures are required. An estimated 2,000 to 2,500 a year must have complete laryngectomy removal of the larynx, or voice box, which is surrounded by the "Adam's apple." An estimated 65 per cent or example, ao the fascists (MSI) belong in tne party of Their monarchist component, which probably deserted to the DC in this election, surely does.

But in both Nazi Germany and Mussolini's Italy unskilled workers in Marx's word) thronged from the Communist to the fascist movements. (Indeed, for a brief period the German Communist Party flirted with a quasi-Nazi notion of "National Bolshevism." In other words, could the PCI and the DC have shared the MSI defections? We still have no statistics on where the PCI picked up its new support Which brings us to the ambiguous position of the "Saragatini," the Social Democrats led by former President Saragat until his post-election resignation. They have been essentially at the balance point between "movement" and "order," both anti-Communist and anti-Christian Democratic. Victims of polarization (their deserters probably voted Socialist; the Socialist defectors, Communist their Deputies will still be crucial to any government. What lessons they draw from their defeat remain to be seen.

Ford Uses Political Clout In Announcing Programs A Thought For Today Ecclesiastes 3:17 1 said in mine heart, God shall Judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work. and had the State Carter's banner been assured by Our yesterdays follow us; they constitute our life, and they give character and force and meaning to our present deeds. Joseph Parker Crossword By Eugene Sheffer chairman that they were Carter's choices for convention delegates. Only Goodall protested, however, when the unseating ruling was handed down. He drove with his wife all night in a pickup truck to present his case Wednesday morning before the credentials committee.

The committee ultimately rejected his bid to be returned to the delegate slate but reprimanded the state chairman and told him to do a better job of interpreting party rules the next time. It was after this ruling that Firth worked out the informal compromise that he said would practically insure Goodall an alternate seat at the convention. saw the most bitter intra-party struggles focused on those rules, also were to be credited, Cranston said. Carter's representative at the committee sessions, Robert Firth, said his campaign was "very happy with the results. No minority reports are going to the convention.

Firth helped avert the only possible appeal to the convention by arranging for Muncie, fireman Hurley C. Goodall to be given prime consideration for an alternate slot on the Indiana delegation. Goodall, a longtime Democratic party worker who had worked for Carter in Indiana, had won the most votes in his area for convention delegate but because of a mix-up involving the state party chairman he was not designated as the Carter choice for delegate. Neither were 17 other delegates who had run under WASHINGTON (AP) For the first time in recent history there apparently will be no challenges to. the credentials of delegates attending the Democratic National Convention.

At the conclusion of a three-day Credentials Committee session marked by unity and an eagerness to compromise, 50 challenges from 22 states were reconciled without any indication of appeals to the full convention in New York City July 11 Sen. Alan Cranston, the committee chairman, said this was "certainly the first time in modern history that no challenges have gone to the convention." He said the harmony was partly because of the consolidation of most Democrats behind the candidacy of Jimmy Carter. But party rules that have been refined over 12 years, including some that 2 Old Norse, poetry 3 Kind of lighting 4 King Arthur's court 5 Money of account Gain 7 Comedian: Bert 8 The great Mickey I Final point 19 Spike 22 Eskimo carved knives 23 Copy closely 25 Polynesian cloth 26 Biblical name 27 Steeps, as flax 28 Growth on rocks 29 Region 44 Thing (Law) 46 Suppose 50 Sharks, for one 55 Barrier 56 Auspices 57 Chills and fever 66 Egg: comb, form 59 Narrow border -(Her.) 60 Link 61 Permit DOWN 1 Thailand 10 Note of the 30 Certain MILWAUKEE (AP)-It took five days but the Ford administration finally brought out its big gun at the U.S. Mayors Conference here the political power of the incumbency. The mayors wind up their six-day meeting today with consideration of resolutions ranging from a basic "guns or butter" priorities issue, to a Democratic effort to endorse full-employment legislation.

Ford administration officials attempting to demonstrate that while Jimmy Carter may promise help for the cities, only President Gerald R. Ford can deliver now announced on Wednesday three programs for cities. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Carla Hills said President Ford has appointed a Cabinet-level committee to deal with urban development poll- The Labor Department reported the allocation of S35 million to fund summer jobs for another 60,000 unemployed youths living in 45 large cities. HUD said six cities Jersey City, N.J.; Louisville, New Orleans; Rochester, N.Y.; New Haven, Cona; and Oklahoma City will receive $21.4 million for a tenants' training program Though the politics involved in releasing word of the programs here were apparent, the Democratic majority of the mayors' confer-ence seemed pleased with the attention. ACROSS 1 Oriental coin 4 Actress: Jane I Middle: comb, form 12 Chemical suffix 13 Melody 14 Presently 15 Fuss II Treat roughly Animal's skin disease Stool pigeon 21 An astringent 24 Communion table 21 Kind of lute 32 Comfort 33 Mouths 34 A neoplasm 36 Fondle 37 One of a Slavic people 31 Brandy cocktails 41 Egypt's Anwar 43 An onion scale 11 Single unit 17 Auto org.

plant ointment 31 Knot or knob Fireman Is Praised For Seeking Delegate Spot Avg. solution time: 23 min. Sfafe Records Are Ruined INDIANAPOLIS (AP) A State Board of Accounts audit says State Office Building construction records have been destroyed and the only remaining copies are locked in a time capsule. The audit was released Wednesday at a meeting of the State Office Building Commission. A spokesman for Gov.

Otis R. Bowen said there will be no more meetings until the 1977 legislature convenes and considers plans for a proposed new office building. Bowen is commission chairman. 35 Rested 38 Merest 40 Surpass 42 Suchong or jasmine 45 Sudden pain 47 Image 48 Main part of a church 49 Discharge 50 Cry, as a cat 51 Era 52 Nothing 53 The Id i.mp MQEiJ ell npn) Iefihecit B.R.1U TDU AlRffe M5e rep Tybcpl Ui AT ifflA iffim ARN IRIESUmTeTrTe LllNIFp HAZEL Answer to yesterday's puzzle. Goodall was not on Carter's approved list.

According to testimony, Trisler chose to ignore the Carter list and put up delegates of his own, including Goodall. A hearing officer ruled against Goodall and 17 others" elected as delegates but not on Carter's list. Goodall was the only one who came to Washington to appeal. "I felt a principle was Involved," he said. "I fought long and hard for the party.

I was duly elected. My only crime seems to be that I was not anointed from on high." There still is a chance Goodall will be at Madison Square Garden later this month. A possible compromise is being worked on among Indiana delegates to allow him to go as an alternate. 1 VINCENNES I VIGNETTE 3 Sixty-nine years ago The Western Sun reported that while fishing in the White River at Decker, W.A. Miller caught a large catfish weighing 60 WASHING fON (AP) -Hurley C.

Goodall won't be a regular with Indiana's delegation to the Democratic National Convention, but he' has won praise from national leaders for his effort to be a delegate. The 49-year-old Muncie fireman drove from Indiana to Washington to ask the party's credentials committee to allow him to attend the New York convention as a delegate for Jimmy Carter. The committee ruled against him Wednesday, but Chairman Alan Cranston said, "You've won the hearts and admiration of the committee." The committee reprimanded Indiana Democratic Chairman Bill K. Trisler and told him to a better Job next time of following party guidelines. Goodall was chosen a delegate at a 10th District "I know not what course ethers mav take h.

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He jj: will move Ms family into his new home as soon as the present occupants, the Dr. "Tj. oL Goodall drove all night In caucus, receiving more votes 'his pickup truck, 650 miles to man anyone eise. However, Washington. He told the com John Andersons, vacate.

Prof. W.H. Bryant will have in few days to Join concert band that Is touring the United States. He draws a handsome I salary. the party has a rule this year that a presidential candidate has the right to approve or reject delegates pledged to him.

mil tee Wednesday he is not a member of any "power bloc" but has been a "rank and file" Democratic worker 25 years. However there a THIRD course.".