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Defy Mtpublkan Newspaper Published By The Lexington Herald-Leader Co 229-239 West Short Street Lexington Kentucky 40507 FRED WACHS Editor and General Manager John Stoll Publisher 1914-1959 Thomas Adams Assistant General Manager Henry Hornsby Executive Editor Edward Moores Advertising Manager William Hanna City Editor William Watts Circulation Manager Stephen Palmer Assistant Editor Thomas Buckner Promotion Manager Labor Day uj Between Mao Army 'M I vV1 is -Si By BRUCE BIOSSAT The Japanese government Is deeply worried over the continuing huge trade imbalance between Itself end the United States It fears new US trade retrictions may come soon if ways are not found to narrow the gap a A high Japanese official says that most hops la placed In the idea of increasing imports from America since that country's exports to us have remained high despite substantial changea in the currency exchange rate and consequent price increases Amicable negotiations with US officials go on steadily but nothing has yet been worked out The Japanese are even considering buying more American raw materials than they presently need end stockpiling them here against future use Hie Japanese government is said to feel that wider front" consumption of US products is necessary step but it is concerned at what it believes will be the inevitable slowness of such a move Though Japan has made progress in lowering tariff barriers some still remain And their reduction or removal is tightly entangled in internal Japanese politics The intensity of Japan's fears is related directly to official conviction that President Nixon may feel compelled to move before the fall election to try to squeeze down the embarrassing US world trade deficit Yet while it Is afraid the United States will drop the other shoe Tokjfb does not think any new American restrictions would have the harsh almost hostile sounds it ascribed to our stiff trade curbs imposed in 197L Hie Japanese believe they have given strong proofs of an understanding of our trade difficulties and of a willingness to co-operate in solving them They think they gained basic points with us when they tided with our representatives last October in the effort to keep Taiwan (the Republic of China) in the United Nationa They also think that US-Japanese relations were improved by their gulping down tough restrictions on textile imports here and accepting sharp upward revaluation of their currency What shows through in all this la the same unshakable element I found in my visit to Japan last fall The Japanese devoutly feel that their links to the United States and to other nations in the free western world axe truly their lifeline It never occurs to responsible Japanese officials to take any course which would imperil that indispensable connection This does not mean Japan is not looking about with a fresh eye High circles suggest that not too long after a new government replaces Prime Minister Sato this July Japan's own overtures to mainland China may be expected Possibly more Important still the Japanese currently are involved in negotiations with the Soviet Union over a proposed collaborative undertaking to construct an incredible oil pipeline from Siberia to Russia's Pacific port of Vladivostok The distance to be covered is nearly 5000 miles If the deal is made Japan would supply materials and credit It would be a real icebreaker in the long chilly Tokyo-Moscow relationship But say key Japanese authorities it would not in any way alter Japan's fundamental reliance upon the United Statei She TFas Hundred Years Ago By DAVID POLING Every national church assembly this year is nodding toward women's liberation Major programs are getting overhauled New recognition snd larger assignments are being offered The visibility and audibility of women in leadership is most apparent Yet history reveals that this is not the first decade to recognize the special talents and skills of women in the church The late 1900s and early 20th century years saw some mejor personalities giving leadership within the Christian community and even establishing denominations No not referring this time to Mary Baker Eddy and Christian Science Nor to Amy Semple McPherson and the Four Square Gospel Church But the amazing unique ministry of Ellen White and the founding with her husband of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church In the new book White Prophet of Destiny" (Keats Publishing Inc $695) we have the most recent look at a woman who employed real gifts of prophecy to chape the lives of millions of people The clue to the success of this quiet self-educated lady from Portland Maine is summed up in her own words: time I am carried far ahead into the future snd shown what is to take place Then again I am shown things as they have occurred in the past Why have I not claimed to be a prophet? It is because In these days many who boldly claim that they are prophets are a reproach to the cause of Christ Of course sn earlier group of Adventists (choosing Saturday as the Sabbath and rightul day of worship not Sunday) made the most glaring gaff by predicting the end of the world for 1843 so asserted by William Miller When that date dime and went they took a crack at 1845 but the vision was blurred Following this episode Ellen White and her husband James ardent followers of Miller began their own evangelistic outreach Ellen White was believed to have psychic powers and related some 2000 visions to her followers Much of this appeared in book form (although she was an able public speaker) where she penned some 37 volumes writing until her death at 88! Much that Mrs White and her followers teach is not accepted by all Christians and that is what makes for denominations and division Yet many of her and visions have a surprising relevance for today She taught that tobacco was a malignant oison She questioned the use of riy and '1 that overuse could be deadly Directing her people toward the benefits of -nutrition and natural foods she must have been one of the first to sound the alarm over consumption of fetty food and refined sugar Concerning urban life in 1890 she wrote with a cutting edge: the future the condition of things in the cities will grow more and more objectionable from the standpoint et health The smoke and dust of the cities are very objectionable The constant liability to contact with disease -the prevalence of foul eir Impure water im food are some of the many evils to be met" Ellen White now has a global following and In the day when women's lib is rising in the church it might be helpful to see the trail carved out by Individuals who were doing their thing a century ago Every Day Is IN OXNARD Calif where the welfare rolls have been increased by layoffs in the aerospace industry the city has tried with little success so far to establish a work-or-else program for the able-bodied the Community Work Ex- Called perience Program it is designed to require able-bodied men to spend 80 hours a month working at an assigned private or government job or learning a new job skill The else" part of the program refers to the right of welfare to refuse payments to those who will not take part It is a commendable idea but it apparently working for a number of reasons most of which reflect upon present-day attitudes toward work and welfare Obviously the dignity of work has been degraded by the technological age in which we live People with highly specialized skills in one area seem to think it degrading to work in other areas We have a tendency to refuse work which we consider to be below our status Many of the people who presently hold Jobs in California and in Lexington go Gan Bobby CHAMPIONSHIP CHESS is a contest that calls for prodigious amounts of physical as well as mental exertion To determine how much energy is actually expended by a chess player in a tournament game a bio-kinetic experiment was conducted at Temple University in 1970 Pulse heartbeat and other physiological measurements were taken on 12 volunteers during play The surprising result: Chess is as physically taxing as a strenuous session of boxing or football Thus both Bobby Fischer of the United States and Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union are keeping their bodies in fighting trim as they prepare for their world championship chess match in Reykjavik Iceland starting July 2 The close-lipped Spassky has declined to reveal details of his training program although it is known he likes to play tennis daily regimen includes morning calisthenics in front of his television set followed by swimming tennis and bowling By the same token professional football players find that chess sharpens their mental agility on the field Ron Johnson and Bob Tucker both of the New York Giants are engaged in a marathon match that has been in progress for several years But Harold Schonberg argues in that chess brings greater rewards: is an affirmation of personality The game requires Imagination and the ability to see or sense possibilities hidden to less refined minds Despile the need for brawn as well as brain chess is regarded with in Ready To Pull From By JOHN Today In 1962 The Fayette County Board of Education voted to move quickly as possible" on school construction projects totaling tU million Fernandes a Cuban refuses had ft viuceaMAWay VHinitt a 1 brousht his family to Lexington where relatives lived to try to establish a new life Today In 1917 A Sl-year-old Williamsburg physician Dr Lee Rom was shot to by cattle the Whitley County sheriff reported McGurk Lexington druggist was appointed Fayette County campaign chairman for Congressman Earle Clements candidate for Der too Democratic nomination for governor to about them only in a half-hearted way Work which brought dignity and respect an earlier generation now provides only a means to earning money so that we can buy the things wq have been unable to find in our work security pleasure fulfillment and a sense of accomplishment Critics of the California work-or-else program oppose it on the ground that in the words of one militant is slave labor with no Incentive for recipients to find real What are real jobs? High salaries plush offices mini skirted secretaries piped-in-music carpets on the floor executive washrooms? No real jobs are those which involve real work It can be in an office or a corporation building It can be on a factory assembly line or out of doors picking up trash and garbage digging foundations trucking goods from one place to another Each job has its dignity each serves the worker as well as the customer It's too bad so many Americans have forgotten or never really understood the dignity of work all work Beat Boris? difference at best by most Americans The game is thought of as boring and strictly for the cerebral elite As a result the United States ranks about as poorly in world chess circles as it does in international Ping Pong competition The Soviet Union has around four million chess players who compete in tournaments the United States only about 25000 Still the unofficial world champion of chess in the mid-19th century was Paul Morphy of New Orleans Since organized international competition began in 1948 the Russians have had a monopoly on the title Not only that all challengers in the final rounds have been Russians too Now Fischer is given a slightly better than even chance of dethroning Spassky But skeptics point out that Spassky has beaten Fischer in all five of their previous meetings Iceland may seem an odd choice for a championship sporting event of any kind But as chess columnist Harry Golombek of The Times of London pointed out is a long tradition of the popularity of chess in that country going right back almost to the beginning' of the game in The oldest known Europe set of chessmen now on display in the British Museum is believed to have been made in Iceland in the 12th century Many other countries including India China and Spain also have contributed to the lore of chess The word checkmate signaling the end of a game comes from the Persian phrase shahmat Appropriately enough it means king is The Switch? Our Files MARTIN Today In 1937 Paul Morton former Lexington city manager resigned aa city manager of Trenton NJ nut said hs would reconsider if ho received a vota of confidence from all nine city coundlmen Three members of the council opposed him Police Chief Austin Price issued general order to enforce the ordinance prohibiting sale of fireworks in Lexington Today In 1922 Tribute to Henry Watterson dean of Kentucky journalists who dird In Florida was paid et the annual midsummer meeting of the Kentucky Press Association was ousted remains strong in some quarters to this day But this is a far different thing from predicting the army will revolt The Soviet broadcasts aimed at creating dissention in China in fact shift and turn erratically They seem poorly planned and not capable of producing action in any event The indications are that the Soviet Union like the rest of the world is so confused at what is happening internally in China that iti propaganda men are playing by ear and poorly Some China watchers in Hong Kong believe therefore the major Soviet obective is simply to muddy the waters a little and put doubt about the future in people's minds The Russians may be attempting to curry favor with opponents in case the outs come to power Whatever Moscow's objective cne thing is quite clear to some of the analysts who watch the ins and outs of Soviet policy: The heavy handed Russian attempts at interference in Chinese domestic policies indicates strongly the Russians have given up hope of any rapproachment with China so long as Mao is the head of the Peking government This would be a decision of the greatest importance to the United States For if true it would mean that Moscow and Peking are not likely to come to terms sufficiently to up" militarily or politically on the United States in the years just ahead in a way which could seriously endanger US security Are Together return our calls Kleindienst told my associate Les Whitten that he had recollection" of the case Washington Whirl Spirit of 76 Jack LeVant the venereble executive director of the American Revolution Bicentennial Commission has found an ideal spot to reflect upon the hardships of Valley Forge and the frigid Delaware crossing He chose the sunny beaches of Jamacia where he contemplated the rigors of 1776 in splendid luxury The cost to the taxpayers: $121 a day All told LeVant has run up $8450 in travel bills in his efforts to revive the Spirit of 76 Reached in a hospital where he is recovering from a back problem he grumped that our questions about travels were Then he clammed up citing Cover Up When we told how two high Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) officials had received favors from sn FAA contractor the FAA should have started reforming Instead FAA Associate Administrator Gustav Lundquist immediately ordered FAA personnel to stop talking directly to the press His aim apparently is to paper over not to root out corrupt ways Drug Story We recently reported that the Record Club of America the nation'! largest disc club was marketing marijuana aids and other drug paraphernalia along with its records and tapes The moment Vice President George Port learned of our story he conferred with his aides by telephone at am re-evaluated the drug oriented catalogue and decided the Record Club would drop it completely wcomit ted delegate cxQ wk is uvlecifei CwtolgW3Kt5 AO will Kremlin Seeks Rift By RAT CROMLET The Soviet Union has begun a campaign to separate the Chines Red army from Mao Tie-tung and to stir up Mid's opponents to take action against him Whatever Soviet underground agents may be doing secretly the Moscow radio Is openly beaming broadcasts to China some of which in effect seek to incite the srmy to revolt Some broadcasts play to the fears of China's army officers They assert Mao's army purges will not stop with the top men They predict hundreds of thousands of and middle ranking commanders" will be replaced or persecuted Some appeal to the patriotism These broadcasts assert that Mao is causing disunity within China that policies are a direct threat to the country and that therefore Mao must be stopped Now It is certainly true that Mao is already having some difficulties with his army Reports from China out of Hong Kong indicate some serious difficulties between the army local party officials and the people in quite a number of localities Apparently there is considerable uneasiness among army officers in one province and another over the seemingly arbitrary removal of Lin Piao as there was when Peng Teh-huai was ousted as head of the army to make room for Un Piao In fact the dissatisfaction over the manner in which Peng Drugs And Justice By JACK ANDERSON The Justice Department is quietly preparing to settle another multimillion dollar antitrust case which like the celebrated ITT case will benefit contributors to the Republican cause ITT got a favorable settlement from the Justice Department after offering to help finance the Republican convention Now the department ii about to let five big drug firms Pfizer American Cyanamid Bristol Meyers Squibb and Upjohn off the antitrust hook Their corporate officers have filled the Nixon campaign chests with thouaands and thousands of dollars The losers as usual will be the ordinary taxpayer! who cant afford $1000 political gifts or $100 a plate tables at sumptuous fund-raising dinners They stand to loose hundreds of millions in overcharges for the lifesaving drug tetracycline The Justice Department in 1969 charged Pfizer with in obtaining its tetracycline patent The other pharmaceutical firms were accused in a civil suit of unethical practices and conspiracies" in selling the antibiotic If the fraud charge can he proved the drug firms could be forced to pay back huge sums to consumers medical groups states and even foreign governments But a few months ego whispers of a settlement reached the ears of Federal Judge Miles Lord the earnest St Paul Minn jurist hearing the case Disturbed he took the extraordinary stop of speaking personally with Richard McLaren then the Justice Department antitrust chief about the rumors Strange Understanding Judge Lord's concern turned out to be well founded Not long afterward Lewis Bernstein the Justice attorney in charge of the case was ordered to inform the judge that a understanding" had been reached to settle Judge Lord listened dumbfounded to the Justice Department's proposal Prosecution would be dropped Bernstein reported in return for a $141 million payment by the drug firms The money would go to the Treasury the overcharged customers would get nothing Under this arrangement not only would the patent fraud case be dropped but the drug firms would be fined only a fraction of what they would risk losing in court Judge Lord hardly believing his ears replied: stings me just little bit when the rug Is pulled out from under me He indicated that the settlement would make It next to impossible for the victims to reclaim the millions they overpaid for tetracycline From competent sources we have learned that the orders for a settlement came from then Attorney General John Mitchell who is now President campaign manager Richard Kleindienst the new attorney general had nothing to do with ordering the settlement But the compromise yet reached the state of a final formal announcement Final approval would now be up to Kleindienst A federal criminal case against Pfizer meanwhile is still pending after a conviction was reversed on technical grounds Some consumer men are worried the Justice Department will try to kill these charges too Footnote: Mitchell and McLaren failed to 9 3.