Daily News from New York, New York • 302

'DAILY' NEWS -SCXDAY. JULY 15. 1979 17 Be a high scorer We want you TEN YEARS AGO THIS WEEK AMERICA landed a man on the moon a cosmic achievement by any standard, This week wa New Yorkers have a more modest goal we want to get our streets cleaned and keep them that way. Oddly, it may be a more difficult goal if the past is any 0 1 guide, but we don need space age technology to do the job. We need only the kind of enthusiasm and determination and drive that Mayor Koch expressed when ha proclaimed this week Im an Apple Polisher For several days we've seen momentum building for the big push among the little New Yor kers, homeowners, shopkeepers, kids and teenagers who hava shown that they care about a clean New York.

Now as Uncle Sam used to say in those old VOICE OF THE PEOPLE Army posters we wantyou. Join the army of apple polishers. Join the swelling ranks of embarrassed New Yorkers who are growing damn tired of apologizing to visitors about the condition of our streets. We represent the center of culture and commerce In this country. Should we not also be the center of a clean civilization? Dirt breeds dirt.

If we cannot keep the trash and litter out of the gutters and streets in the Times Square area, can we make much of a hue and cry about the porn parlors and massage emporiums that degrade the area? Would the landscape of the South Bronx be quite so bleak If it were not also so littered with refuse? In our call to arms (and brooms and shovels and buckets) this week we include The front-line troops In the Sanitation Department Its ranks are shrunken by fiscal austerity and its equipment creaks and groans, but if 7 million New Yorkers lend a helping hand, the 8.000 sanitationmen. we are confident will see their dutv and da quor, see certain movies or even have their ears pierced, but to the Supreme Court' recent ruling they will now have the right to take a life. Mrs. ALFRED SIGLER DOES XT MAKE SENSE Park. EL: I'm mystified.

Ten years ago, Cuban defector Eduardo Jimenet flew his Mig jet fighter to a U.S. Air Force base in Florida: today he sits in a Cuban jail, charged by the FBI with hijacking a Delta Airlines jetliner back to Havana. Why In heaven's name would he rede-f ect? A Cuban jail equipped with Fidel Castro's DGI torturers is just no trade for double-thick shakes in the land of the free. I think those Caribbean Commies must have done something te blackmail fchn back; maybe he has loved ones there. CONRAD CIIYATTE ONE FOR JIMMY Queens: Is anyone else getting sick and tired of hearing what a lousy leader and President we hare in Jimmy Carter? Welt folks, he's the only President we have, and be could probably function a lot better if he had more support from the prt-s and those of ks who call ourselves Americans.

Where else in the world do people tear apart their leaders like road dogs? TRISTAN G. DUPRE THE BIG DIFFERENCE Cardile, Italy: It's amazir-g how we Americans are so caie about prices: we denounce the U-S. and shout that the grass greener on the ether side of he hilL WelL Pra on the other side of the hill so ni shed some on this myth. Right now is Italy, a gallon of gas costs the equn e-lent of two dollars. A piece of beef is $12 per kilogram, which is about two pounds, asd the Italian coffee is running at $13 a kilogram.

The average factory worker here makes about S2U a day. la Italy, many of the luxuries we take for granted in the U-S. are simply unavailable. So, we Americans ought to remember tho saying: I felt sorry for myself because I had co shoes until I saw a man who had 'L JOHN D1GENIQ (Please include rss.e tud i-dress ariiJ, letter. trill nth-hold bfrffe on request Sl'PKEME COUBT Queens: Your editorial Behind closed doors," attacking the Supreme Court for its ruling barring the press from any trial in which the defendant, prosecutor and judge so desire, established the urgent need for prompt performance of its sworn duty by the Senate.

The term of office of all federal Judges is mandated by the Constitution at being during good behavior. All presidential appointees hold office with the advice and consent of the Senate. I believe it' is now the duty of the Senate to withdraw its confirmation of those Judges on the Supreme Court who undertook to nullify the Sixth Amendment E.F.W. WILDEBMUTH Queens: In my opinion, the Supreme Court should be completely overhauled. For this country to survive as a great nation, its families must remain Intact under the authorship of Cod.

No child under a parent's authority should have the right to decide whether or not she should have an abortion. Funny how children cannot decide when they can legally drink li Craw buck Hayaes THE QUESTION Do yea ge along with President Carter's decision te freeae eQ tmperts throng 1985 at their carrent levels? THE ANSWERS Charles Crawbuek, executive chauffeur: -Yes. What his decision will do is force Americans to tighten their belts because oil will continue to be in short supply. This fact will be brought borne to us while the government tries to develop substitutes for OiL" Mrs. Stella Haynes.

fund raiser: "Absolutely. Something like this bed to be done. Our oil imports are rising every year and we're eceraing rndre and" more dependent on OPEC oiL 1 st-Vv i 4 The Inquiring Photographer By JOHN STAPLETON it. But they need a lot of help from the homeowner or apartment super exercising care In the placement of waste containers, from the small shopkeeper willing to pay for private carting service and using it properly and from the big building owner, commercial or residential, willing to take the time and make the effort to clean regularly from building line to curb. For everyone, you know, this Is the law, and it may yet be that only a tougher, more strictly enforced with heavier penalties for violators, will do the job of keeping New York clean.

We hope not We would much rather give everyone a pat on the back for a job well done than a kick in the tail for shirking the effort. An old, strong friendship Six months after mobs stoned the U.S. Embassy in the capital of Taiwan in a rage over Washington's plan to recognize Peking, America's now unofficial relations with the Republic of China on Taiwan are active and economically healthy, with few traces of bitterness. Trade between the U.S. and the economically feeble Chinese Communist colossus is insignificant compared with the flourishing trade between America and Taiwan.

And normalization of relations with Peking has done nothing to dampen that growth. Indeed, trade between the U.S. and Taiwan has grown 37 in this year alone! While Nationalist Chinese leaders remain officially dissatisfied with the present arrangements, many American observers believe that congressional legislation covering our new relations with an old ally In some way offers stronger guarantees to the island's future. To underscore the point, they recall that the U.S. Export-Import Bank and a consortium of private American banks so far this year have invested almost 5200 million in Taiwan, While the two governments officially aren't talking to one another, the people certainly are.

Requests by Taiwan ese for tourist visas to the U.S. are up 30 so far this year, and the island nation remains a magnet for American businessmen. Cearly, the shock of American recognition of Peking has been absorbed and the resilient Taiwanese have emerged upright We see no reason why they should not remain that way under the new arrangements. -i -v? jr I trv -J Waraer McKeaaa Oil price increases are squeezing the middle class to death." Rupert Warner, postal supervisor: -I don't The U.S. Is short of oil right now.

By freezing oil imports at the present level, there wont be any economic growth. Instead, there will be chronic shortages of gasoline and heating oiL" John McKenna, letter carrier: "I think this step should be taken only when we develop alternative sources of energy. If we are going te be continually short of oU. it's going to hurt the economy and might even cause a recession. Until we develop sub-stitjtes, w- wa wij more oU imports." Carlaad Coaltea Mrs.

Olive Garland, fund raiser: "I'm in favor because we've got to begin to live within current oil supplies. Once find other energy sources. can turn around and begin to reduce our oil Imports and our dependence OB the OPEC countries." Vincent Coullon. au.w2:t dial service supenrisar. "No.

Forcing the U-S. to maltetio with the imports we get now on online done at the expense of indus try and our economy. We have more to lose than to gain if we freeze oil Imports before we develop substitutes." TW STnr wUT pay Jr mi ft mmmttd for thit teSumm. Infat i anrdfM) K. Tmiui Umri Cetrt, Strnrj Flint, DAILYNEWS Wi ow ici MtwmmMM 29 E.424 St.

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