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4-A THE REGISTER-NEWS MT. VERNON. ILLINOIS FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 3969 editorial Roll-With Punch ABM Decision COWK-CAN FAR BEHIND? by NEA, Inc. MT. VERNON REGISTER-NEWS 118 North Ninth Street, Mt.

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i Today In History By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Today is Friday, March 21, die 80th day of 1969. There are 285 days left in the year. Today's highlight in history: On this date in 1829, an earth- Quake in Spain killed 6,000 persons. On this In .1685, composer Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Germany. 1790, Thomas Jefferson became the first U.S.

secretary of stale. In 1891, a marriage in Kentucky ended the feud between the Hatfields and McCoys. In 1918, during World War German guns bombarded Paris froir 75 miles away. in 1946, the United Nations moved into temporary quarters at Hunter College in New York City. In 1965, the Rev.

Martin Luther King led a march of Negro and white civil rights demonstrators out of Selma, ward the state capital, Montgomery. Ten years Prime Mlnsiter Harold MacMillan was in Washington for talks with Dwlght D. Eisenhower. Five years United States and South Vietnam apologized to Cambodia after a border attack by American-supported Vietnamese forces. One year ago New York Nelson Rockefeller declared that he was not a candidate for the Republican nomination for president.

CROM THE CYNICS-EYE VIEW, President Nixon's decision in the matter of the anti-ballistic first major de- decision of his a stroke of political genius. It satisfies no one; yet neither has it entirely alrenated any one. There is in It something for everyone. The complex" is promised a new injection of as much as it would like but with the prospect that the program could balloon into the tens of billions of dollars. The opponents of the ABM have been mollified to the extent that missiles will not be deployed around the nation's cities, where they would not only afford dubious protection but constitute a provocative escalation of the arms race.

Instead, they will be limited initially to two Minuteman sites, and eventually to 10 other nuclear missile sites, in order to protect this country's second strike or deterrent capability. The word is The initial outlay will be modest, at least in Defense Department to $900 million, chiefly to continue research into the ABM. This is about half the first-year amount requested by President Johnson for a system of 15 to 20 antimissile sites near large population centers. The final decision, of course, rests with Congress, where strong and impassioned opposition to any kind of ABM deployment remains, though now with some of its sharpest points effectively blunted. Given the schizophrenic world as it exists today, however, it is difficult to see how the President could have made any other decision.

For what the mind of man can imagine, his science ultimately attempts. In most areas of life, this Is laudable; in the art of weaponry, it is lamentable. No man, charged with the awesome responsibility "to preserve, protect and defend" a nation of 200 millions, could easily order the abandonment of research into and development of any kind of weapon or anti-weapon which carries the remotest prom' ise of strengthening national or world security. If scientists themselves disagree as to the feasibility or de sirability of the ABM, had the President any choice but to choose the course of caution? The most significant and most hopeful thilng about the decision is this very caution, its open-endedness and flexibility. Each phase of deployment, the President emphasized, will be under review, and the program could be reduced or expanded depending on technological changes, intelligence estimats of the extent of enemy threats and the progress of disarmament talks.

Here is where history will take the real measure of Richard degree of success or failure with which he promotes arms limitation talKS with the Societ Union. The ABM decision, whatever else it may be, is a plea to the Russians to join with us in a mutual de-escalation of the balance of terror. The President has said to them, in effect, that this is what we feel we must now do to safeguard our security. We take the step tentatively, reluctantly. Show us how we may stop.

Let us'talk about how we may stop forcing eath other to do these expensive, wasteful things. Communications "2723 Lawndale Ave. Rockford, IH. March, 19th, '69" 'Mr. J.

Reckaway Sports Editor: "As I was a member of the State Tourney B. B. Team 60 yrs. ago I am very much interested in the special edition of The Register-News dated Tuesday, March 18th. The things mentioned in this article are well remembered by me.

"I spent thirty-seven years in the teaching and coaching business in Illinois. Your mother was in my 8th grade class at the Franklin school. I coached athletics in the following high schools in Mascoutah; Venice; Palestine; Herrin; Villa Grove; East Peoria, also in other junior high schools. "You may easily realize why I am' interested in athletics. I am pulling for Mt.

V. Rams at Champaign. I would like very much that you mail me 6 copies of the March 18th issue." "Sincerely yours, "George E. Pulliam" The Mouse That Roars Like a Lion Save Or Save Heads? NEWS BRIEFS UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP) South Africa indicated Thursday night it would pay no more attention to a U.N.

Security Council resolution calling for it to withdraw from South-West Africa than it has to a similar demand from the General Assembly. The council called for the withdrawal in a resolution adopted 13-0, with Britain and France abstaining. "I can't see that this resolution has any meaning," South African Ambassador Matthys f. Botha said. His government holds that the.

General Assembly acted illegally Oct. 27, 1966, when it declared that South Africa's League of Nations mandate over the big territory had been terminated. The council resolution asks Secretary-General Thant to report as soon as possible on implementation of the assembly resolution. This is expected to take three months. Then consultations will begin about another council meeting "to determine upon necessary steps or measures," according to the council resolution.

The United States has favored consultations with South Africa in an effort to get it to leave the territory it seized from Germany during World War I. But black African members felt U.S. support of the resolution would make the United States more susceptible to pressure for forceful action against South Africa. Let's Dance! Answer to Previous 4 Tavern brew 5 God of Islam 6 British vehicle 7 Irritate 8 Arab country Italian folk dance (ab.) 12 Water phenomenon 13 Orient 17 Man's name 19 Boat paddles 20 On the performance 23 Preposition 26 Bodies of water 28 North Sea ACROSS 1 Brazilian dance 6 Fox-10 window 11 Highest-. ranking bishop nce 14 Asian pepper 11 Aftemoon plant 15 Infectious disease 16 Uncooked 18 Bacchantes ible grain 22 Head covering 24 Seine 25 Exclamation of sorrow 27 Winged insect 31 Iterate 33 Willows 38 Quiet 37 Intricate group 38 Of stars 40 Modem 43 Morning 45 High mountain 46 Medical man 50 Droop 62 Flyer 54 South American animal 58 Brief reference 99 Melodies fO Adventure 51 Gustos Doim 1 Cry loudly IfJnwlMB 47 London gallery 48 American inventor 49 Tree part fishing boats 29 American monogram 30 Fabric 32 Lawyer (ab.) sheltered side 34 Scottish dance 51 Viscous liquid 21 Pedal 35 Pace 53 Registered 39 Paid notice (ab.) 41 First man 55 Reply (ab.) 42 Interlaced 56 Encountered 44 Ballroom 57 Beast of dance burden i 8 7 7" 4 1 id 11 ir 16 18 17 18 mmmm fill mmmmmmi 31 32 33 34 35 38 37 39 40 5T (2.

43 44 45 5T (2. 48 80 631 54 68 66 67 54 60 61 LAGOS (AP) A Biafran spokesman, today ruled out the possibility of a meeting between British Prime Minister Harold Wilson and Biafran chief of state Odumegwu Ojukwu. Wilson told the house of Commons Thursday such a meeting "would not be ruled out if circumstances appeared to be favorable" when he visits Nigeria next week. But Ifeagu Eke, information commissioner of secessionist Biafra, called any suggestion of a meeting nonsense, adding: "Wilson can't ever be a mediator. How can you have the enemy coming to mediate?" Wilson is arriving in Nigeria Thursday for talks with Maj.

Gen. Yakubu Gowan, head of the federal state, and there have been reports he secretly had been checking chances of a meeting with Ojukwu. The reports indicated Wilson's efforts to meet with the rebel leader had Gowon's approval. MANILA (AP) Departing U.S. Ambassador G.

Mermen Williams has asked the Philippine government to name a panel to determine whether he and his wife are trying to loot the country of rare artifacts. The Foreign Office said today the request had been turned over to the National Museum for study. After a newspaper campaign, the museum Gemma Araneta, had Warned Williams and his wife not to disregard a law that states items classed as national treasures cannot be exported. The U.S. Embassy has re fused to comment on the controversy stemming from charges by a columnist for the Manila Chronicle that the wealthy ambassador and his wife were buying up cultural treasures to take home with them.

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LION 9:20 FORGET THE MEDALS, THROW AWAY THE RULE BOOK IF YOU WANT TO PIAYDIR1Y SALTZMAN I presents Play titty PANMISION United Artists 2nd Feature StLKlf! MlllcH nev ER LION United Artists SPRINGFIELD, 111. (AP) A repealer of a requirement that motorcyclists wear helmets passed out of the Illinois Senate Highway Committee Wednesday, 9 to 4. The bill goes to the Senate floor. The committee overrode objections of the Illinois Highway Division that repeal would mean regression from federal highway safety standards and a possible loss of $25 million a year in grants. Sen.

Robert Mitchler, R-Oswego, author of the full package of motorcycle safety laws in 1967, including the mandatory helmet, replied in defense of his repealer: "We've never lost federal funds yet. This is legislation by federal purse strings." Mitchler asserted the philosophic base for repeal in an exchange with Sen. Ronald Swanson, R-Chicago. In reply to the idea that a he.met would crush the hairdo of a woman who rode as a passenger to a beauty parlor, Swan- son asked Mitchler: "Would it be better to crush he hairdo or her head?" "That's her decision," Mitchler said. number of artifacts at a public bazaar held at the embassy residence.

GENEVA (AP) America's youth is spearheading their country's quest for racial equality, the chief U.S. delegate to the United Nations Human Rights Commission said today. "The young of America have truly led the nation in this quest, making the older generation rethink values, attitudes and a way of life," Rita E. Hausser declared. It was most encouraging Mrs.

Hausser said, that the "youth of all countries are united in spirit and motive, based on their sense of shared humanity." VThis unity of young men and women shall probably, in the end, be the greatest force we shall witness for the elimination of racism," she told a special commission meeting. "The young of the world have assumed the burden of redressing the practices of the past." The meeting was held on the U.N. international day for the elimination of racial discrimination, commemorating the victims of the Sharpeville Massacre in South Africa in 1960. 'The Responsible Society" Dirksen Heaps Praise On Nixon's Job Thus Far By ROBERT T. GRAY Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Senate Republican Leader Everett M.

Dirksen suggested Thursday the Nixon presidency be christened "The Responsible Society" in keeping with the practice of tagging administrations with their stated goals. The Illinois senator, in a floor speech reviewing the first -60 days of President Nixon's term, proposed that description as the latest addition to a line that has included The Great Society, The New Frontier, The Fair Deal and the New Deal. "This administration.will take no action for which it will not willingly be responsible-action based on reason, humanity and justice," Dirksen said. His appraisal of the Nixon performance was expectedly a glowing endorsement, without reservation, of the new President's actions thus far. The minority Senate leader set the stage by relating developments at hpme and abroad during the Democratic admnis- trations of Presidents Kennedy and Johnson.

Dirksen cited the Vietnam war, crime, inflation, heavy tax burdens, and sharply rising federal spending and deficits. He said there had been a decline in world confidence in this nation and an erosion of U.S. military superiority. "This, then, was the patrimony left Richard Nixon on the assumption of office," Dirksen said. "Few administrations have accomplished so much in their first 60 days in office," Dirksen said.

The President, the minority leader told the Senate, has reorganized the decision making machinery "to shift' emphasis from crisis management to' crisis prevention." Nixon's decision to deploy a modified antimissile system was listed by Driksen as a major accomplishment in national security. Law For Today MOTORIST MAY TAKE LIQUOR OUT OF STATE Q. Will I be in any trouble with the law if I buy liquor in Illinois and carry it in my ear to another state? A. Under both Illinois and federal an Illinois resident may legally transport liquor out of the state if it is in the. original package and the seal is unbroken and he is not planning to sell it.

State Bar, Associatori TRUMAN TO FLORIDA KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) President Harry S. Truman, rebounding at 84 from a bout with the. flu, will arrive Saturday for two weeks of rest and relaxation on his favorite island in the sun. John Spotswood, former state senator and longtime friend, said Truman and his wife Bess will arrive by Air Force jet at Boca Chica Naval Air Station.

"He's feeling a lot better than he did a year ago," Spotswood said. "When he came down last year he wasn't taking his usual morning walk, but he is now." Truman, who has stayed with Spotswood during most of his Key West visits since leaving the presidency in 1952, will repeat last year's pattern by staying in a villa at the Casa Marina Hotel. TIZZY by Kate Osann NOW SHOWING A FILM THE CHARGE; OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE A TONY RICHARDSON FILM 1 BMUVISION'COLOR United Artltlt 7:30 -M: Mature Audience Trevor Howard, Vanessa Redgrave, John Gielgud, Harry Andrews, Jill Bennett and David Hemmlngs PLUS SECOND BIG FEATURE THE MIRISCH CORPORATION pniMIt A BLAKE EDWARDS PRODUCTION COLOR kj (Mm 9:40 PJM. THEPAKTy Starts March 26th MGM mx.u* STANLEY KUBRICK PRODUCTION 2001 aspaceodyssey SUPEK METR0C0L0R I ltW kj MA, IK miui.ua.ht OH, been very good so far. I juet hope we don't run out of situation comedies!" ENDS SATURDAY "May Prove To Be The Year's Most Enjoyable Comedy" A Shook-Up Story Of The Up-Tight Generation! ana Feature CCNTWV-IU p.

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