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Friday, July 23, 1971 Labor A Misstep Could Be Quite A Problem! Swedish Government Financing Viet Cong grbaitou Pails Ifrtog HF.NBY L. WILDER. Publisner, Published Daily Except Sunday By LEBANON HEWS PUBLISHING COMPANY South Kh Poplar Streets, Lebanon, Pa. 17M2 Phone Lebanon 2725611 JOSEPH ANSON ADAM S. WILDER E-y.

Mental rm Edi Hr. CFu arbely.n wilder sansqne PrMldcrt na Edtef JACK SCHROPP Vlf-Pmiatnt ind Gerl SMiwwf MARY JANE WILDER hcrfiTr ROSEMARY L. SCHROPP Trsurr SAMUEL D. EVANS AdvtftisifOictof Second Cl Pcs9t LePanof crt Lt6non Da anvrd tknr QI.OO nwny; fry Q1 00 UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL SERVICE MEMBER OF THc ASvCtATEO Tht Aueeiawd Pr axcimiv rtpooi Prina 1,1 tl1 Kevin P. Phillips Nixon Plays A Trump Politics In County, State and Nation tAY SHAFER isnt faring so well in the political pastures now that he is no longer the states chief executive.

True it is that he is chairman of the National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse, but while there may be money in the job his prestige reportedly isnt very good. A Washington newspaper columnist says hes been treated like a dog by President Nixon who made the appointment. Additionally, it would appear that Shafers desire for an ap-pointment as a judge of the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals Isnt going to materialize. It seems that the American Bar Association has shown reluctance to endorse the states erstwhile governor for the high court post.

It has been reported that the bar group has told Attorney General John Mitchell that it will not recommend Shafer because he lacks what it terms judicial temperament and that he has had no prior judicial experience. INCIDENTALLY, we have here in Lebanon County a man who is more than amply quali-fied for this court post. We speak, of course, of Judge G. Thomas Gates. U.

S. Senators Hugh Scott and Richard Schweiker would do well to pass along the name of Judge Gates to the powers that be for the circuit job. TO GET BACK to Ray Shafer and his problems: According to the Washington columnist, Marianne Means, the Drug Commission headed by Shafer has been both insulted and ignored by Nixon who established it It is said that the President has promised to ig-nore the commission if it recommends the legalization of marijuana which there have been rumors it will do. Nixon reportedly plans to set up a new office within the White House to deal with the drug-abuse problem. The column by Marianne Means also says a Senate subcommittee investigating the value of Presidential blue-ribbon commissions has promised to turn its attention soon to the Shafer Commission.

Shafer is outwardly unperturbed by the way the political winds are blowing. He is, of course, still hopeful that the court appointment will come his way. Normally, however, when a bar association opposes a nominee that individual doesnt get the job. Shafers troubles in part might well stem from a mistake of judgment he made back at the 1968 GOP convention. At that time he seconded the Presidential nomination of Gov.

Nelson Rockefeller. The Third Circuit Court of Appeals encompasses New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and the Virgin Islands. the labor-dominated Social Democrat Party, broke with Israels labor government dvring the Helsinki conference. And so there is strong talk at the longshoremens convention here of rehewed boycotts of Swedish freighters and cruise ships. There will be pained outcries just as there were the other day when Baltimore 1 g-shoremen refused to load some arms for the brutal Pakistan government which has slaughtered tens of thousands of women, young children and students.

There will be criticism from Sweden by the very same labor leaders who are approviug (Continued mi Fin Nino) month. There will be more money not only for the field forces of the Viet Cong, but for guerrilla forces battling American allies in Laos and Cambodia respectively, the Pathet Lao and the Cambodian Popular Liberation Front. These forces, which have not even the status of organized governmental standing except in a few Communist nations, are the killer bands. They are being subsidized by the Swedish government in addition to the granting by the Stockholm Rik-stag of (45 million to the official government in Hanoi which Mr. Palme says gives him greater comfort and in which he has greater confidence than he has in the U.S.

THE (45 MILLION began flowing to Hanoi in globs of (15 million annually beginning July 1, 1970. Thus at least (30 million has been delivered by Mr. Palme and his erstwhile Foreign Secretary Torsten Nilsson. News of Swedens subsidy to the Viet Cong in Southeast Asia has been matched with reports of Stockholms aid to Fidel Castro some 90 miles across the waters here. Because America is the Swedish shipping industrys biggest customer, and because Sweden sells tens of millions of dollars worth of small cars in the U.S., the longshoremens union from time to time has refused to unload Stockholms craft in East Coast and Gulf ports.

Intervention of the State Dept, and warnings that the ILA must not make foreign policy for the U.S. government always have sent the pier workers back to the Swedish holds. It should be noted that when the American dockers boycott the ships of the pro-Hanoi, pro-Viet Cong, pro-Pathet Lao, pro-Castro, pro-Cambodian liberation front Swedish government, the longshoremen lose pay. But though they have been attacked by such men as Victor Reuther as unthinking hard hat types, and though the Teamsters and the United Auto Workers have supported the Swedish governments multi-million dollar grant to Hanoi, the dockers have run their boycott from time to time. Now these men, sneered at by academe, have been enraged by reports of the new subsidy to the Viet Cong which the longshoremen see as a subsidy of those murdering their sons and brothers in the battlefields.

They also have been infuriated by report from their international observers that Sweden has been anti-Israel a tiny land which the dockwallopers respect though there havent been many Jewish I shoremen since the end of the 19th century. These reports disclose that the Swedish delegation to the International Socialist Congress in HelsinJ, May 25 to May 27, in effect voted against support to Israel in its conflict with its Arab enemies. The Helsinki delegation was the only one to vote against the resolution. Sweden was the only national party to abstain. Willy Brandt, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, voted for Israel enthusiastically and has said that Germanys 1 1 1 i (accommodation with the Soviet Union) will not be conducted at the expense of Israel regardless of any pressures.

Yet Sweden, governed by Nixon's China "Coup" Having accepted Chinese Premier Chou En Lais invitation to visit mainland China, President Nixon has begun the formidable task of selling the idea to Congress and the American people. It is not going to be easy despite the huzzahs of the liberals in and out of Congress. First, there is the opposition of such stalwarts as Senator John G. Tower of Texas, of Senator Peter H. Dominick of Colorado and Senator John D.

Buckley of New York, all Republicans, and like-minded members of both parties in Congress. Then, the numberless shocked and outraged millions among Nixons own constituency, who are asking, along with number, less others, why did America sacrifice men if we are to toady up to mainland China, which has been the main supplier of the lethal weapons with which they were killed? Political commentators immediately hailed the visit as assuring Nixons re-elec- tion, because they saw it as hastening the end of the war in Vietnam. Did they count the votes of those who see it as a betrayal of Taiwan and Chinas millions who now will lose hope of ever being free? And a betrayal of all Southeast Asias countries, who will never trust us again? The President said, from the time of his inauguration, that there can be no peace without representation of the 750 million people of China in the councils of the peoples of the world. But will Communist China speak for its 750 million people, or are they as captive as the 2 million people in Tibet, whose nation was forcefully seized and annexed to China? The roost frequent reason given now for talking to Mao and Chou En Lai is that they can help bring the Vietnam war to an abrupt close, something that is doubtful, given the fact that Hanoi has successfully played Moscow and Peking against each other for its own benefit; and the traditional enmity between Hanoi and Peking stemming from the 1000-year occupation of Vietnam by the Chinese. That leaves only one other possible excuse, that Nixon knows our backs are against the wall due to Soviet deployment of vastly superior arms.

In that case, he owes it to the country to tell us the danger, not to try to conspire with China to offset the Soviets. WHATEVER their foreign con- sequences, President Nixons Chinese trump cards should also serve him well in the game of U.S. domestic politics. Mr. Nixon has now improved his ability to dispose of (1) the renomination of Vice President Agnew; (2) the Presidential primary challenge of Paul McCloskey, the liberal GOP Congressman; (3) the anti-White House revolt of a growing number of conservatives, and (4) the Presidential candidacies of such Democrats as Edmund Muskie, Edward Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey.

SPIRO AONEW PAUL MCCLOSKEY Lets start with Spiro T. Ag Holmes Alexander By VICTOR RIESEL TITI AMI There is gruesome A evidence here to prove there is more international diplomatic expertise and instinct among Americas dockwallopers than there is among Americas professional diplomats. The longshoremen, who have been in their 42nd national convention here, never did trust the Swedish government. The State Dept. does.

Whenever Teddy Gleasons International Longshoremens Assn. (ILA) (AFL-CIO) threatened to boycott Swedish shipping by refusing to load or unload Stockholms freighters and luxury liners, there have been frenzied phone calls and pressure from the U.S. State Dept.s European or Swedish desks. Yet, here I learn from ILA leaders such as President Gleason and Executive Vice President Johnny Bowers that the Swedish government has been, and is, financing the Viet Cong. Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, who at 43 believes he is losing his youthful following, has approved 5580,000 (and lots more to come) for direct help to the field forces now shooting down American soldiers.

The money began flowing into the jungle government early last the British people cheered Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain when he returned from Munich in 1938. In the wake of President Nixons July 15 announcement, many of the capitals liberal Democrats saw their 19 7 2 Presidential hopes slithering down the drain. That is certainly premature, because Akron and Muskogee are concerned about jobs and the economy, rather than the knee-jerk social and foreign policy issues that pre-occupy Washingtons salon liberals. Still, a springtime 1972 peace coup would be of great assistance to the President, and even the inevitable bustle of high-level foreign affairs and diplomacy will stand him in, good stead. PRESIDENT Nixon should profit simply by comparison with his Democratic opponents.

Edmund Muskie was just placed on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in January in order to give him a fast make-up job in foreign affairs, about which even his admirers admit he knows little. Hubert Humphrey is the apologetic former second-fiddler of Lyndon Johnsons disastrous war policy. And as for Edward Kennedy, suffice it to say that cabarets and discotheques mark the perimeters of his knowledge of foreign policy. Politically, Mr. Nixon appears to have scored a coup.

CLIFFORD CASE Wilbur Mills or Harley Staggers dont do something that the Executive Branch used to do for itself. It would be a case of Good Night, Nurse, if the Foreign Relations Committee ever got to running the U.S. foreign relations. Whats Right Whats Wrong AN EXECUTIVE had hired a new secretary. Upon being called out of town suddenly, he told her to write Allis-Chalmers in Milwaukee and inform them that he wouldnt be able to keep their appointment When he returned to his office four days later he found this carbon copy: Alice Chalmers, Milwaukee, Wis.

Dear Alice: Im off for Texas and cant keep our date. Horrified, immediately phoned Allis-Cbalmers. I hope you havent received a certain letter Received it? was the reply. Its been on the bulletin board for three days. IS EDS dog a setter or a pointer? Neither.

Hes an upsetter and a disappointer. 3 Preposterous Senators new, whom many Nixon advisers want replaced in 1972. Agnew doesnt like the Presidents China policy. This spring, he went out of his way, at the Governors Conference in Williamsburg, to make a quasi-public attack on what was then just Ping-Pong diplomacy. The President did a slow bum.

He asked Southern GOP politicians whether Dixie would accept Agnews being dumped. Never before had he communicated such sentiments to middle-level officials. TODAY, China diplomacy it the major weapon in the President! re-election arsenal, and Vice President Agnew was sent out of the country almost during the period of final policy evolution and announcement. Mr. Nixon may have been trying to avoid another Williamsburg.

Given the centrality of Ping-Pong politics to the Presidents 1972 plans (and presumably to his post-1972 hopes), Mr. Nixon now has a reason for wanting to replace the Vice President that any working politician, x-ecutive or officer must respect: the Vice Presidents obvious in-compatability, as a subordinate, with significant decisions and goals of the President The President may or may not want to replace Agnew, but unluckily for the Vice President, the issue on which he has given Mr. Nixon cause has turned out to be the policy keystone of EDMUND MUSKIE in Russian nuclear supremacy since the two nations are scorpions in a bottle. DAVE PACKARD, a tough hombre, bore up very well under the caustic and sarcastic treatment which is the fare now usually offered to any person who supports American security. The Deputy Secretary went through the A-B-Cs of international negotiating, showing that its no good going to the SALT meetings with empty hands.

Bargaining chips are the weapons there. When the President announced two years ago his intention to go ahead with the ABM Safeguard system, the Russians showed a willingness to give up some of their own weapons if we would give up Safeguard. More recently, the American decision to press on with the MIRVs, the multiple-warhead missiles, has kept the bargaining sessions going. I DONT think the Senators were listening, but Packard was saying that contrary to ignorant opinion the MIRVed weapons are more effective, but less destructive, than the pre-MIRV weapons. The MIRV-ing of submarine-borne missiles has raised their destructiveness to 106 per cent, but the MIRV-ing of the land-based Minutemen 1971-1972.

REP. Paul McCloskey, who plans to challenge the President in next years New Hampshire and California primaries, may have to call off his candidacy. With the Peking visit and peace in Southeast Asia in the works, McCloskeys prospects are so hazy that he can expect little financial support and even less party support. As promised, Mr. Nixon is pulling the rug out from under McCloskey and the other anti-war critics.

At first blush. President Nixon would seem to be in greater trouble with conservatives than he was before his a n-nouncement Quite a few foreign policy conservatives had been hanging fire, believing that however bad White House domestic policies, Mr. Nixon was doing a more appealing job in international affairs. Now many are angry over China. BUT IF the conservatives use Mr.

Nixons China diplomacy as their big Issue, they will be making a mistake. The American people like the Presidents bold gesture, and very few of them will lose much sleep over Taiwan, or over giving Red China some new prestige in order to extricate ourselves from the morass of Vietnam. Even if the President gives China and North Vietnam dangerous concessions to win peace in our time, public opinion will probably go along. Remember that WILLIAM FULSRIGHT has made them only 63.9 per cent as destructive It averages out to be a reduction of nuclear bang. This may indicate the direction of sophisticated weaponry.

The more we improve and modernize, the better the accuracy, but the smaller the megatonnage. PERVERSELY enough, Muskie, Fulbright and Case dont want to hear this. They wont listen to anything good about weapons. They would rather believe that all arms are bad arms, and that any kind of a disarmament arrangement is a good arrangement But a lot of people in Poland, Muskies ancestral country, would like enough guns to liberate themselves. When Case said wed all be better off without gunpowder, he must have forgotten that America won her independence on ammunition shipped in by France.

The sword traditionally is not just a throat-cutting knife, but a symbol of freedom and gallantry. Fulbrights committee needs somebody to say a good word about weapons. AND THAT committee is one which should cause American knees to knock when you pause to consider that power is passing from the presidency to the Congress. Hardly a day. passes but Mike Mansfield, Japan's Coming Role A detente between the United States and China must be viewed with mixed feelings in Japan.

Her dynamic recovery from a war that saw her prostrate has once again aroused suspicion among her Asian neighbors, not the least of which is mainland China, a traditional enemy that Japan must be wary of now. For Japan is the one country in this century that has occupied parts of China and China has a long memory a3 well as nuclear ability. So long as Japan was under the American nuclear defense umbrella, she could create an economy whose growth has astonished the world. Japan did not need to put much money into defense and could concentrate on her domestic economy. A U.S.-China detente leaves her bitter and opens the old wounds of humiliation over the U.S.

World War victory. A Sino-American understanding means Japan will be spurred to create her own nuclear armament to offset Chinas across a narrow sea. A warlike Japan is the last thing we should want again. Withdrawing from Asia, the adminis. tration may think it can look with equanimity on growing Japanese-Chinese rivalry, which may expand into a nuclear statement, as the best guarantee of Asian peace.

It may see the small Asian countries scurrying for protection under Chinese or Japanese umbrellas, not ours. But it may not be all that simple. When neighbors fight in your yard, your own windows may get broken. Turning Back 20 YEARS AGO July 23, 1951 Successful Republican candidates in the seven-way scrap for the county commissioner nomination were George T. Tucker of Lebanon and Paul E.

Sanger, Jackson Township. Tucker led all the way, while Sanger battled it out with incumbent Christian A. Frick and Henry S. Weiss in a three-way tussle for the second spot. Judge A.

H. Ehrgood made good on his bid to remain on the bench of the Lebanon County PLEASE, NOT The Pages courts for his second ten-year term as he narrowly bested L. E. Meyer for both the Republican and Democratic' nominations, according to unofficial returns of the primary election balloting. 40 YEARS AGO July 23, 1931 Although Eddie Brown struck out 16 batters, the Reading Legion Juniors defeated Lebanon, 10-7, to win he Cantral Pennsylvania championship.

TOO MANY! 7D MUSKIE is absolutely certain that wed be safer if we were militarily weaker. Bill Fulbright is convinced that Mao Tse-tung and the late Ho Chi Minh wanted to be friendly with us in the past, and that from Harry Truman onward our Presidents have misread Communist intentions. Clifford Case believed there is no reason to be concerned just because Russia is ahead of us in nuclear striking power. SO HELP me. Its the solemn truth that these three U.S.

Senators made those e-posterous statements when they had Deputy Defense Secretary David Packard on the grill before the Foreign Relations Committee. When Gail McGee (D. Wyo.) and Hugh Scott Pa.) arent there, this whole committee seems to walk around with hands in the air and gripping white flags of surrender. Some of its senior members, as those named, talk like men whove been scared out of their wits. MUSKIE argues that its dangerous for us to arm ourselves because that makes the Russians nervous, trigger-happy and causes them to speed up the arms race.

This man most likely to be the next Democratic candidate reasons like a jealous woman: its all our fault the Russians have all those SS-9s; they were just imitating us. Fulbright is willing to discount all the anti-capitalist, anti-American literature by Chairman Mao, and to believe that Red China means us no ham. Hes dead set against moving our nuclear weapons from Okinawa to Taiwan in order to keep them pointed at the Mainland. Case is married to the simplistic theory of overkill, and he cant see any harm Martha's London Tea The invitation said, English afternoon tea, 27th floor London Hilton, 4 p.m. It brought the biggest turnout of journalists of the events at the American Bar Association convention in London to Martha Mitchells party.

The talk-prone wife of the U.S. Attorney General was a hit. Asked why she spoke out so much, she said, I believe the public has a right to know what politicians and their wives are thinking Not bad. A Bible Thought For Today I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. Mark 2:17.

Hearing Gods voice is dependent upon our hearts condition not our bodJy position..