Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • 14

TH1 TWILIGHT J30NE IkTviiim Siittuml Statement by Rogers Needs Elaboration HOME) OWNED, CONTROLLED, EDITED 14 THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1969 By ROSCOE lind GEOFFREY DRUMMOND Editors Noli) The following that the United States feels it -t Lav Day: A Quaint Relic? cannot respond with force- to -such illegal acts as the seizure of the Pueblo and the downing of the reconnaissance plane because the powerful must, be restrained while the Soviet Union totally -rejects the idea that the powerful must be restrained and does as it wishes. The evidence, that the So- viets are not restrained by 'vitws at i that af tkt autkors and art prtstnttd ktrt ta glvt rtadtrs a varitty af viewpoints. Tkt Trfbnnt't opinions art tf Prtsstd only its tditarlals. WASHINGTON Secretary of State William Rogers recently gave out a half-truth which sounds Innocent but is very misleading: weak can be rash. The powerful must be restrained.

He said this to the Ameril cap Society of Newspaper Ed- Writers after North Korea shot down an unarmed Navy EC-121, reconnaissance plane in international airspace ver, the Sea of Japan. So far no one" has publicly questioned Rogers seeming truism. It needs to be questioned. It isnt a truism; it is only a half-truism and therefore meeds to be examined closely before it becomes accepted as some kind of certain -verity in aquncertain world. Here is thenaccuracy: It seems an almost unnecessary exercise in extravagance to note the observance of Law Day throughout the land today.

The need to remind citizens of the vital place of law in our American so- ciety has just about become a superfluous relic of an innocent, perhaps even quaint, past. For the incessant assault? upon the laws which hold our free socfetyogeth--er have become so common, Jiave indeed spread so much confusion and fear, that the issue of law and ordei; has become foremost in the American 1 We have come to live in a society where our political and spiritual have been brutally assassinated; in a society sickeningly burdehed by drugs and pornography; a society where organized crime seems virtually immune from prosecution; society -where the fear of urban crime has driv- en many Americans from their streets after, dark; a society where our cam-, puses are threatened with outright destruction by the insatiable demands and insolence of student revolutiona- questlon today has become not whether the general public will respect and understand this guarantee, but instead whether those elements who refuse to abide by the law are winning the battle against established law. If those who disdain the lawr whether through individual greed or moral shortcoming, or, in the pursuit of some real or imagined social cause -are winning the battle, then the threat to our society is a mortal one. For it is a foundation of law, based upon centuries of experience, upon which our free society is built. If our nation as we knotf it is" to this foundation of time-tested lawand rea-1 sonable limitation upon the activities of the citizen must suryive.

The alternative is either anarchy or the substitution of some other form of society. Many of those responsible for in-creasing lawlessness today would clearly prefer either anarchy, the law of the jungle, or the imposition of some other form of social order upon our nation. It is our obligation to the free and orderly I The weaTcan be rash f010 conuct nuclear testing thats true in the atmosphere and did: Ko not hesitate to blandly an-: The powerful must be re- it StSnei T.tliau untrue worldwide conference of neu- The mith Is that one power-, tral nations which Moscow ful nation, United States, iong teen courting. When -is almost always restrained world opinion gets in the and that another powerful na- 0f soviet interests, world opirj- tion, the Soviet Union, is ah jon gets rejected most always unrestrained. Soviet Unl(in ow'ei'! Since-there are-only two no concernTor The peacebr really powerful nattons in the the -world when it provided 1 world, Rogers apparent veri- enough arms to encourage ty applies to only half of the Egypt to feel it could threaten Free World Israel; and after Egypt lost, and does not apply to the oth- the Soviets started to pour iq, er half, the Communist world, large quantities of new arms.

-Thats quite a discrepancy. the Soviets did not" ries; a society where it is. often more fashionable loHbelittle police "than to- only identify and isolate those who condemn the lawbreaker; and, indeed, would destroy it, but also to. mount an equally effective counter-offensive society most of us cherish to not" world opinion, by non-Soviet Communist opinion or by any self-imposed restraint oiit of deference to the risk of a larg-- er war, is considerable When the Kremlin felts that the will to freedom was. getting out of hand in Hun-, gary in 1956, Red army troops.

were massed in they killed of Hungarians and shot the Hungari-r an premier, Imre Nagy, 1 After long and mounting! pleas' from the non-nuclear) -powers, the Soviet Union vio-. lated its own voluntary pledge like the waythe Czechs were managing their own Commu- nist regime, they sent troops across the frontier, occupied; the capital, deposed the elect-y ed leaders and warned that war repression would follow if heeded. And what do you think the CcnrlaM IM, Ln Awwlw Thn LETTERS TO THE that we honor guarantee of protection And, if this guarantee is there can be no toleration compromise with, those who courts are often more solicitous of the 1 rights of the criminal than of the publics right to protection from that crimi-nal. Our Constitution guarantees protec-tion under the law to our citizens. The disdain our law.

It is imperative Constitutions under the law. to be honored, of, or 1 Jrfs. FORUM Hurts Top Much brought to our attention that the property being used for Turnkey Housing Projects in cur city will" be taken off of be.tax rolls. As worthy a project "as this housing is to the underprivileged citizens of our city, it seems unfair that the property owner-taxpayers of the city not only have to pay for the construc Cheers for Laomia capacity to intercept unintentional nuclear devices, then a nation with nuclear missiles" would be less likely to devote more time and money to building stronger safeguard- systems, and much more likely tertievote increasing in- terest and wealth to missile systems that would be 'able to penetrate the anti-bal-listic missile ghield. The results: Again stalemate, and a useless waste of time, labor and resources.

1 JERRY L. MILLER, Concord. On the basis of that set of rules, were cheering with special enthusiasm for Laomia McCoy. Crowne'd Miss Oak- of the Miss. America Pageant that each September attracts the nations" attention to Atlantic City, N.

have increasingly emphasized that tal- ent weighs heavy as the land of 1969 final basis for competition, in the toughest type the. Mississippi National she garnered many of theS uard to put one black student, James Meredith, in the None of this is to' suggest that Secretary Rogers would ts wrong If he had said the powerful ought to be restrained In their actions. None of this is to suggest President Nixon and Secretary Rogers were wrong in the restraint they exercised in responding double standard of conduct judges votes with her good looks, her poise and her relaxed but sincere manner. She -won the Miss Oakland crown, however, with a most professional and crowd-pleasing performance of My Mans Gone Now, a fine but oft- to North Koreas extreme pro- vocation ta the incident of the -Romania or Austria or of these projects and the --EC 121- The United States act- gjum shot down a Soviet of this property, but notable care and pru- connaissance plane? dence, and there is a great difference between counseling that the powerful ought to ttf ButBosers-StSJirt' sfrainM when the SoWet Uo ton docs not hot ns. though It! has to ho restratoed nt all that it applies to any more.

This is an odd and perverse than half of the world. now be given a tax burden, because win be. less and. Jess owners to pay taxes. governor said, Taxes hurt, but the property in our area say, It is too much.

PAUL VINELLA, Soviets would do if Finland or judgment. Equally, in order to send eastward the candidate with the best chance of winning the Miss America crown, the Miss California pageant gives sufficient points for once-vital considerations like bust poise, diction. and then bestows its top honors, on forgotten song from George Gershwins -J Dirmr and Roe i. Porgy and None of the judges In Santa Cruz should fault Laomias 36-24-37 measurements, nor any of her other' applauds able attributes, but wait til they hear her voice! WeU be watching closely, and cheering vociferously. the lass judged most-talented.

It follows, then, that as the local contests qualify the beauties for the finals in Santa Cruz in June, they give high marks to those attractive young ladies whose talents most closely match (or even exceed) those of renowned professionals. greater there property Our should -owners hurting President, Dteuod Improvment Assodattoa. Faith at Work EDITOR: Your Jetter (forum, April 18) from Dr. Porter McKeeban, about the lovely old Episcopal church of St James at 12th SL aid 13th Oakland, deserves sec-, Our family comes from Castro Valley to attend SL James because here is'a parish where spiritual faith is put to work. All the verbiage and fanfare in high places and low about how the Church is failing the poor, the minorities, the young, the middle, class, ad museum, is laid to rest by Mayors Want Mayors; To Handle Money God Bless EDITOR: Tonight about 8:30 p.m.

my car stopped at Webster and 40th St A white man and bis wife pulled alongside, offered to call, or send someone to help me. Then a white man with his lovely family in his car pushed me to the curb. By that time two 1 policemen (hi their motor bikes stopped to ask the trouble. One policeman called the AAA truck for me. While wait-teg a Negro man pulled to the curb and waited until the truck arrived and started my car.

To all of them please give my thanks. I was so very touched by their kindness in these times of so much hate and strife. I want to express my thanks for such kind people. May God bless us all to feel each other care. RUBY TURNER, Oakland.

INSIDE WASHINGTON Editor's Nats: Tkt fallowing vitws art tkost of tkt author and art prtstnlti ktrt to glvt rttdtrt a varitty tf vitwpoints. Tkt Tribunts apinious art if-Prtsstd ta ly its tdittrials. By WILLIAM Intelligence Warns on S. WHITE cisely In the mayoral offices where he has very few. Thus the White House) speaking, through Vice President Spiro Agnew, Whose Laws for All EDITOR: In 1957, President Eisenhower sent 1200 federal troops to Little Rock to protect nine black students who were integrating Central High School to 1962, the Ken- nedy Administration sent thousands of military troops and federal marshals into Oxford.

and federal- University of Mississippi in a NAACP confrontation with the state officials. The Federal Government then spent sizable sum of tax money to protect Meredith while he attended that school. Since then, the government has never hesitated to withhold federal funds from any school in the South which did not meet HEWs guidelines for Integra-, tion. Now that the Black Students Union; the Black Panthers; the Mexican-American Third World Liberation Front; the radical (mis-named) Students for st Democratic Society (SDS); the Communists; and a variety of other revolutionaries and criminal anarchists from the New Left are moving across the country trying to destroy first, the whole educational system and, ultimately, the- United States Government, where are those federal troops? Finch has not intervened, to withhold federal funds from these students, nor from the schools which allow their in-structor to leave their-classes and join strikes and MRS. J.

R. NORQUIST, Concord. Limited Foresight EDITORr. Recently Presi dent Nixoirann5jnced his- decision to -deploy an Anti-Ballistic Missile System that would protect the large land based silos from destruction. He-has indicated that he SeTS intercept instead of destruct missiles.

My concern With the Presidents plan is that the philosophy behind his decision unfortunately exhibits limited foresight. Any country that maintains nuclear weapons must also maintain safeguards against thejr accidental deployment. If a nation realizes that any release of nuclear devices constitutes mutual destruction, then the country would be excessively cautious in its handling of nuclear weapons. If, as President Nixon proposes, a nation possesed the By ROBERT ALLEN and JOHN GOLDSMITH Editors Notts Tkt foilowwg Polaris construction is raid-70 threat which can be vitws art tktst tf tkt autkors now planned, but 31 of the Po- directed' at Polaris as well as ag' agiJKo01erO.S.SubS. The Tribunes opinions art withthelarger Poseldonmis- nmw tho Rncdanc prtsstd only in editorialu sile, which, by the mid-1970s numDers rtne Kussians, is to be fitted with the multi- with 350 submarines, have lewarhead MIRV? WASHINGTON President 5 Nixon is being whipsawed between the deep and pervasive reality of un-theecamnie ofTather Fred-controllei inflation, whic Wyors on the question of erick a 1 1 1 re tnSgearly calls for reductions te jw congregation." This man is federal spending, and the si-t arefrankbut real His energies are inex- multaneously nsmg demands not nice.

of the big-city mayors for As Is hardly surprising, the more and more federal mon- mayors want mayors to han- ey. The resultant political dilemma is in some senses the most acute, in domestic terms, to face any administration in decades. Everywhere the Presidents haustible. He cultivates the grounds, paints the woodwork and washes the. sidewalks of Lis church.

He visits the sick, not once in a while but daily. He takes youngsters to his own cabin in Ben Lomond where he and Mrs. Lattimore die the money, with no nonsense about intervention from the statehouse, so as to come the visible founts of tilings. As is no less surprising, the Nixon Jhankless job it is primarily to carry the can in this controversy, is now compelled to concede that exchanges with the mayors on the question of longtime outdistancedthe 1 1 a strange Each 1 a i submarine United States. The sense of values! Are the mi-carries 16 missiles-, and com- plans an attack submarine norities the only eitizens who parative listings of U.S.

and force of 105 subs 69 of them have the right to protection? hold three summer, camps a year. Once a year he takes a group to Disneyland. He works with boys and girls of all ages, teaching and giving them a part in the beautiful EptocoChurcto finds be-! all-good administra-worried economic and polit-- tion wants the. governors to teal lieutenants may turn, in- fulfill this function, in part bey-deed, they confront mutually cause the governors usually exclusive alternatives. are less liberal in spending biggest rise in living costs in and in part because they are.

18 years occurred last month, in fact less hostile to the tsTtfnr newrfederal statfsttesWhite show, and this demonstrably caseowever. the problem here) whileWfrom inconsiderable, only reflects a far der one lyteg just below. For even if the President is able eventually to sort nut and calm' down this state-city rivalry, the fundamental difficulty vrill yet remain. Soviet strategic strength cred-i it Polaris with 656 missiles. Those comparisons are some-what misleading, however, since some Polaris submarines are unaergoing repairs and replenishment at any giv- entime.

With enough killer submarines Pentagon planners assume that the Soviets could trail Jhose Polaris subs, actu-patrol, number missiles if a first Strike were to be ordered against the United States. Consequently Laird has said he is sure the Polaris fleet will remain free from attack only through 1972. If you go beyond in the time period, I would have to seriously question that, the secretary said in congression- lsrge Citizens' Revolt EDITOR: The taxpayers revolt against the school -bonds is a serious matter that some educators seem -not to understand. We, the taxpayers, have had no confidence in public education since the Supreme Court took God out of the schools. We believe that ten command- ments are still the best basis for social studies.

We believe that history shows plain- ly that human nature has made no progress apart from realization, self-gratification, etc. can only lead to frustration, bitterness and violence, such as is seen on our streets and campuses Furthermore we believe that the stress put on material values by school boards which build luxury equipment for school children is directly responsible for the false sense of values shown in disregard for the rights of others by protestors who destroy property. Schoql bonds will be unpopular so long as schools teach the wrong things! MRS. FRANK J. McSHERRY, Dlabo.

He work for the poor so that they may help themselves and live with self re- sped. He has time and under- that elected Mr. Nixdn in the standing for all who need him. "first place. MARY M.

CASTLE, D.DJS., At the same time, if the Ad- dastro Valley, ministration has a single over-- mastering political necessity, raises the specter of a house- wives rebellion precisely among the middle-class group Russ-Subs with nuclear power plants, The security of the Polaris fleet is an important side-issue in the debate over the. anti-ballistic mis'sile. Laird first raised the question of Polaris vulnerability in supporting President Nixons Safeguard ABM system as protection for other strategic mis- siles. Jntheir subsequent; com 1 nt plan have token somewhat different positions on the threat to Polaris. Even if they share Lairds concern about attacks on the U.S.

Polaris force, however, ABM critics have urged countermoves other than the Safeguard system. For example, Dr. Herbert R. York, the physics professor who was Pentagon research chief under President Eisenhower, sees no serious threat to the invulnerability of Polaris. If Laird is right about it, York would respond with-more U.S.

attack submarines. MIT professor George Rath-jens, another ABM critic, thinks the threat of Soviet attack submarines is quantita- shipyard capacity to expand its Polaris fleet The Navy is looking down that road. Already on the drawing board is a new submarine-launched missile system called The Navy hopes ULMS submarines will join the fleeUnhe late 1970s. Supporters of the ABM sysv. tern heaMhat more data on Russias wbapOns buildup will be -made public before the House and Senate vote on the Safeguard plan.

Some time la the mid-1970s I a i ttriii nevA nnniirrn Russia-will have enough high-performance killer submarines to assign Soviet shadows to each of qur missile-firing Polaris subs. That is the substance of classified intelligence estimates which are disturbing Pentagon planners. It accounts for the statement by Secretary of Defense Melvig, R. Laird that the supposedly invulnerable Polaris deterrent may be subject to attack after 1972. It Tneans thallmM'S controyersial warning of a So- Viet first strike, force was based on the assumption that a preemptive Russian strike in the middle' 70s might include the- destruction of patrolling Polaris subs by shadowing anti-sub submarines.

The U.S. Polaris fleet -includes 41 submarines. No fur- HERE ARE ADDRESSES OF NATIONAL AND STATE LEGISLATORS U.S. Senator Senate Ins, Wa-hlnsten, O.C, 20STo. Sen.

George Murphy, San. Alan Craru-ton. ConorMwnen f- Hama Office uM-Ins, Wathinston, O.C4 20SIS. Reo. Jeffery Ceheian, 7th Ditto let, repretenfrfi Albany, Barfceley.

Emeryville, Piedmont, North Oakland. Central Otfc'Bnd, and part East Oakland; Rm. Gaorga P. Millar, Itti, raoratent-Ing part at Eaat Oakland, Alamada, San iwm esbi veAwiBt nitfTwvei ven cm end part 9f Hayward; Rap. Don Edwards, 9tti, raprasentinp part of May-ward, Fnamont, Union City.

Newark tha northern part el Santa Cara Countve Rep. Jerome Waldle, 14th, reo-Contra-Costa County, suiid- The Time Is Now EDITOR; Far too many, school administrators are 1 weak, vacillating, and just plain running scared. I am very sorry for this; for if we ever needed courageous leadership, the time is now! MRS. EDNA SNYDER, Alameda. by Brickman A little more than a year ago Vice Adm.

H. G. Rickover warned that Russia was moving ahead in the field of nuclear submarines which he had pioneered. He predicted that the United States would lose its qualitative superiority. -I think it is probably too late even now.

I think if we hdpn whom the money may he channeled downward, even to This Is, simply, that is quite impossible in any event in the-present economic cli- begin to satisfy the thirst of the cities without contributing to an inflationary spiral which already is becoming politically intolerable. How doei one cut federal outlays and reduce the flow of hot money if one is at the same time to increase federal contributions to urban it is that of making Itself and the Republican party generally at least relatively acceptable among the urban-masses which were so notably cool to hoth President and ntirtv in KirSSi- the 1968 elections. i The urban voters and their majors, whether Democratic or Republican, plainly are in mood to listen to talk of spending retrenchments, even in the face of an inflationary movement that hits them, too. do they harkeniojiQtions of the need for austerity budgets, So far aS their own Heeds are concerned. They simply want Washing- 4 the small society work hard, we can try to tively -important He con-catch up, the admiral de- eludes that.

the United States dared in Senate testimony should, make sure it has the UflivU Ju UCUCUU KgUIUwiij ipuvuiu limit out i uqo ijiv uzmt, IF VoUSoTTHB' HcHbYYoO ctonpd to deStrOV Other Sub-and S16neu 'u Ucouuy uwei ouu- marines, Hcto-gaVHIXoN RasMPOlSsPiB ANPALPEAPYN He PtANMlN BAST- which focused on attack sub-- undersea-craft de- That catdl Up effort is in progress. Spurred Jby Rickov- er, Congress voted funds last year to speed development of fasten attack submarines. Fi- nascing was also provided for a super-quiet nuclear submarine using dectric drive. Present estimates are, how- ever, that the performance and production of the Russian Nor is this the end of the complexities. For the very aw fA Mn CAmwtWnw fCt NiXOn iS a Re- PIican Pute Wm in a box.

their endless Ulsrfrom smog- OIitical foiye has it ttat Publicans are inevitably forms, And cy want this better at money management something to be done, more-tban Democrats. ADeteocrat-0 1 Jr 2, 1 President can more hearty. g6t aWay 3Ctual 0r seem governments and riot through ing ineffectualness here, if bniy because everybody Iiad te the Btatehouses where Mr. assgd along that ltd Mxon has most of his real po- waJ Bot atnmg salt friends, -and it is pre- State Senators and Assemblymen Thfito andVVh trirtTcthi SSVntoi Simof SSto SWS! ceot Castro Valley, Uvarmora, and Pleasanton. Those eommuntias and a large section of Santa Clara County are represented By Bradley.

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