Richmond Times-Dispatch from Richmond, Virginia • 12

Sicljnumi) Sintcs-iDtepaldj David Txnnamt Brtam Chairman end Publisher Alan Domnahoo President and Associate Publisher John Liaiid Executive Editor Alt Gooptkoomtx Managing Editor Edwau Cbkiut Editor qf the Editorial Ftap The Blob Marches On Boscoe Drummond at lat 4 Debunking Debunkers WASHINGTON It's time to stop' playing hide-and-seek with the facta about unidentified flying objects of the debunkers who have so long been Intent upon keeping the truth about UFOs from the American publlCit Saturday December 21 1V71 WWW i-iiui Major Key hoe's disclosures are impressive When Lt Gen Nathan Twinlhg later to become Air Force chief of staff was commander of thr Air Materiel Command he wrote a report which stated unqualifiedly: 1 That the reported phenomenon of unidentified flying something real and not vislonary-or -T That the "operating of the UFOs belief to the possibility that some of the objects are controlled either manually automatically or This Twining evaluation was written 20 years ago and has been kept secret ever since Following General Twlnlhg's report the Air Force undertook amln vestigatlon by leading scientists engineers and Air Force technical intelligence officers and Major Keyhoe discloses It unanimously concluded that reported UFOs were spacecraft from another world am-trolled by unknown beings observing the earth for an unknown Gallup reports that today more than half of the public (51 per cent) believes that UFOs are real not figments of hallucination this despite propaganda efforts to persuade us otherwise Major Keyhoe's latest work does all that is needed to debunk the debunkers Chance especially those with vulnerableoil arefearful of violent reprisals by radical elements if they move against Arab terrorists There is a certain logic to the PLO prosecuting the if in fact they are because the recent Algiers summit of Arab heads of state conferred a measure of international recognition on the PLO by recognizing it as the representative" of the Palestinian people Never before have any Arab terrorists who gained refuge in an Arab country been tried and convicted for their actions If the PLO brings these terrorists to account as some of the PLO commanders have hinted will be done the wrong of letting terrorists off scot-free in the past be automatically erased But the PLO will have taken a big step toward showing the world that it is gaining a new maturity and sense of responsibility that would do far more to promote the cause of people who consider themselves Palestinians than any kind of guerrilla operation The world will be watching This is a big chance for the PLO leaders May they not blow it The PLO Kuwait apparently has handed aver to the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) the five Palestinian terrorists who murdered 32 persons including 14 Americans at the Rome airport JJhst month Yasir Arafat head of the PLO the umbrella organization for five Eperrilla groups has said that the filings were odious outrage that hurts the Palestinian cause" to The time is right for the PLO tc Remonstrate that the Rome massacre was not only an embarrassment to the Arabs coming Rut five days before the current Emeva peace conference opened also an against the fiiost rudimentary standards of gvilization The time is right for the PLO to show indeed that it is prepared to Join the civilized fiorld The time is right for the PLO mete out a punishment that fits crime of indiscriminately Slaughtering innocent helpless in-Jproational travelers 2 Kuwait is open to criticism for filming its prisoners over to an ex-galegal group such as the PLO in-Mead of giving them to Italy which has requested their extradiction fiut the established Arab govern- UFOs are real The objective evidence Is becoming conclusive It will be better and safer for the government and the American people If those who know the facts particularly the US Air Force would quit trying to shield the rest of us from the truth Too many UFOs have been sighted and verified by reliable competent witnesses to bq dismissed any longer as hoax or delusion and I believe the Air Force will be wise to end Its Ill-conceived scare the public tactic of concealment and secrecy It just won'tgo down any and shouldn't WWW QUITE APART FROM sightings in other countries how many Americans have witnessed unidentified flying objects and have for the most part calmly accepted them as real not fictitious? A few hundred? A few thousand? A few hundred thousand? Here is the finding of the latest Gallup Poll: astonishing 11 per cent of the adult population or more than 15 million Americans have seen a UFO double the percentage recorded in the previous survey on the subject in Fifteen million Americans can't all be crackpots or jokesters They are not at all prepared to accept the debunking ploy of the military who have been trying to persuade the public that all it has been seeing- are sea gulls falling meteors wayward planets or swamp gas The millions who have both seen and accepted the sightings as real are wiser than those who have been trying to coach them Into believing the sightings are illusions WWW NO ONE HAS DONE as much as Maj Donald Key hoe a retired Marine Corps officer to bring the truth about UFOs from behind the screen of official secrecy In his research his wide-ranging investigations and his writings he has been piercing the screen of concealment His latest book Aliens From Space The Real Story of Unidentified Flying Objects (Doubleday) assembles so many verifiable facts as to put the skeptics on the defensive His book is carefully documented it is fact-oriented I think it succeeds in dispelling the patronizing atmosphere Thoughts Of Man William White Will the World Get the Message Behind the Oil Price Increase? Poet in a Black Robe LOVE OF bustle is not in-' dustry SENECA" A is what they Rail one who hands out extremely Jough sentences If he issues any more opinions like the one in 'ifackensworth American Trading Transportation Co the Hon Edward Becker may become famous (or notorious) as She The issue in the case was one of jurisdiction and Judge Becker who presides over theUS District Court for Eastern Pennsylvania Concluded: Ship's single visit to Pennsylvania port Subjects owner to that federal court The jurist was led to produce his entire opinion in verse because opposing counsel in the case had set tie precedent He explained: Smith Hempstone Kissinger expects Iran to join it with the economic help mainly of the United States He knows that totally reckless Middle Eastern oil policies such as embargoes and the like could set off a world depression he says have no interest in hoarding paper money in banks if inflation makes it WWW IN SHORT deep within all this business is the fine Persian hand of a moderate ruler who is trying to relieve ali nations including his own from undue and dangerous dependence on oil relieve other countries in the sense that they now must have it to live economically and relieve his own country in the sense that to live now Iran must sell it while it lasts which won't be all that long If this new great price increase has done nothing else it ought to convince the United States including our great and Indispensable oil companies that we have simply got to have a crash program to find and to exploit new energy sources Exxon clearly gets this message and so do others of the big firms sian Gulf governments is to be only 17 a barrel the companies choose to sell oil to the consumer for more meaning for more than $712 that is something the consumers will have to take up with the oil he observes His finance minister adds that this new rise in the real price of oil from six Persian Gulf states to 17 a barrel from $300 isn't so bad after all when in a presently chaotic world market major Western oil companies have in some cases been offering $11 a barrel and upward THE REAL MEAT in this coconut however is something else The shah who is against the Arab oil embargo partly because he is hostile to and not subservient to the Soviet Union and partly because he is a sensible man really wants to force the development of alternative sources of energy worldwide He knows that Arabian oil cannot last forever and he wants his own country to become a part of that same industrialized world whose tail he is now twisting He doesn't wish permanently to harm that yrorld for the very good reason that he downward (poetically not judicially) with such versifying as Andwe hold that the recent visit of ship to Philadelphia's port Is doing business enough to bring it before this Court We note however that the amended grammar Is enough to make any thoughtful lawyer stammer As to legal precedent concerning the issues involved the judge wrote: And wefoundonewrittenin by three big wheels On the Third Circuit Court of Appeals In the belief that anything a Pennsylvania court does a Virginia court can do better we asked District Judge Robert Merhige Jr if he had ever written or planned to write an opinion in verse He replied that he was busy enough putting opinions into prose without struggling to make them rhyme We are intrigued to await the decision of the federal appeals court when and if it deals with the case disposed of in verse by Judge Becker Surely that tribunal will have no choice now that a precedent has been set but to continue settling the issues in this particular controversy in poetic style And then we will look forward with much anticipation to the final versifying on the subject by the nine learned justices of the Supreme Court However if their meter shows no improvement over that of the district judge the opinion will hardly qualify for a Pulitzer Prize sound law as it may be WASHINGTON The new and huge price increase in oil proclaimed by the Persian Gulf states with the shah of Iran as their leader should be seen as primarily an effort to begin a worldwide 1 Industrial revolution Though It may help to serve the attempt of the Arab extremist states to force the United States to abandon Israel to them this is neither its purpose nor its ultimate meaning Simplifying a bit the shah is a as distinguished from a guy and a good ally of the United States in the Middle East It isnotafactof small consequence for illustration that the present United States am- bassador to Iran was only lately the head of the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States President Nixon did not send Richard Helms out there to deal with an enemy and the shah did not accept this emissary with the idea that he would have to be bugged every hour on the hour WWW THOUGH IT IS ALL bad news for the consumer whether person or nation and though only the most naive could suppose that the Persian Gulf producers are not out to get all they can get while the getting is good there is a harsh rationality behind what the shah and his associates have done here What they have in mind are two ultimate objectives The first is to clip the wings of the Anglo-American oil companies operating in the area of the Persian Gulf by seeking to force over their heads a pricing system devised directly between the producing and the consuming nations themselves This does not mean the expropriation of American and British properties as such It does mean a much-reduced role for private companies and it does hold their feet to the fire as to their own customers the motorist and so on For the shah asserts that the actual production cost of a barrel of oil is only 12 cents and adds that the of the Per Plaintiffs counsel whosename Ip Harry Lore Read brief and found it a bore Instead of a reply brief he acted Pretty quick And responded with a clever Umerick Not to be outdone the defense Ppok the time To reply with their own clever thyme Obviously a distinguished occupant of the federal bench could not pe upstaged by two lawyers So: WASHINGTON It is ironic that Carl file in the morgue of The Washington Star-News contains precisely four short newspaper clippings For Marcythe60-year-old chief of staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has for the past 18 years been one of the most powerful men in Washington in the field of foreign affairs Marcy a mustachioed Oregonian who holds doctorates in both law and philosophy from Columbia spenteight years at the State Department before joining the committee in 1950 He became chief of staff five years later replacing Francis 0 Wilcox Under the late Senators Vandenberg of Michigan and George of Georgia the Senate Forlegn Relations Committee performed an essentially supportive role to the White House in the formulation of American foreign policy But beginning with the American intervention in the Dominican Republic in 1965 and continuing throughout the later stages of the Vietnam war the committee under Sen William Fulbright the maverick Democrat from Arkansas and Marcy has been a thorn in the sides of Presidents Johnson and Nixon WWW FOR THE SAME REASON that his biographical file is so thin it is difficult to say to what extent Marcy has been a formulator of foreign policy rather than just a mirror of will But those who know hftn do not doubt that the man who directs the staff which serves 15 busy senators wields real power if only because he acts as a sieve through which information reaches the senators Overwhelmed by this outburst pure creativity We determined to show unequal proclivity Hence this opinion in the form of terse Even if not of the calibre of Oaint-John Perse JJ From this point theopinion went Says one acquaintance of the senators on the committee are dilettantes Even Fulbright as intelligent and well-informed as he is has only a few basic premises upon which he acts Marcy has an eclectic mind and the senators rely on him to present their options to His talent for anonymity has served Marcy well in a world of well-inflated senatorial egos Fulbright has taken the bows and the brickbats while Marcy has been content to work inf the shadows Which is not to say that Marcy is a modest man he Is not His is an arrogance so complete it does not require public burnishing except on an occasional trip abroad when he expects (and gets) red-carpet treatment from trembling ambassadors WWW AS FULBRIGHT'S Kissinger Marcy has used a well-honed sense of political strategy a sense of the spint of the times to stay a stepor two ahead of things He has known intuitivelyliow to package foreign policy proposals when to push and when to hold back where to find the line of least resistance Since Marcy like Fulbright lsr a liberal Democrat he has been ablejo serve the and the committee well Whether he has served the nation well is a matter of opinion and the answer depends largely on your own perception of world events Marcy and his principal deputy Pat Holt certainly were instrumental in brain-trusting the committee's quarrel with President Johnson over the Dominican intervention And Marcy played a key role through his direction of public hearings legislative proposals and background studies in mounting opposition to the Vietnam war WWW SOME WOULD SAY then that Marcy played a responsible role in ending what to them was an unjusrand perhaps illegal war Others would maintain with equal vehemence that he encouraged domestic discord and defeatism at a time when national unity and dedication were essential to the successful conduct of American foreign policy But few would suggest that Marcy's role had been unimportant After more than 30 years of government service Marcy on Sunday will leave the Senate corridors and cloakrooms where he has maneuvered so effectively and so invisibly for so tong He will be succeeded by Holt a rail-thin 53-vear-oid Phi Beta Kappa from Texas another liberal Democrat with a background in journalism whose specialty is Latin American affairs The Star-News morgue contains not a single clipping under the nameofPat Mayo Holt Which makes you wonder what all of our ace newsmen the fellows who know where the power lies spend their time writing about John Chamberlain An Idea Whose Time Has Come Again oil the favorite lubricant Since alcohol burns clean there was no emission problem and since it is not highly explosive there were few of the horribly destructive fires that are now commonplace on that old track Odd isn't it that facts so convincingly demonstrated and so widely known only a generation ago should be so completely forgotten in so short a time" WWW CHRISTY BORTH writing from memory of what poet John Masefield called the forgotten years" wonders why the word has disappeared from the dictionaries Webster may Ignore it but the chemurgic movement still maintains a headquarters Not looking ago I talked with Charles Taquey of Washington DC who keeps the flame of the chemurgic idea burning The chemurgists can presumably tell us whatever happened to Dr Christiansen's Atchison pilot plant where the energygiving properties of power alcohol were first explored If Christy who used to write about automobiles for the Luce publications knows how to keep cars on the road without benefit of Arab oil Detroit ought to be IN THE LATE 1930s I wrote a number of articles on the chemurgic movement The chemurgists were thick in the forefront of a science that with the development of synthetics insisted that materials could be transmogrified to become useful in alternative forms It sounded like alchemy but it was hardly as mysterious as ail that My friend Christy Borth a co-worker with me on the Luce publications was one of the early chemurgists He wrote a book Pioneers of Plenty which I hailed in Harper's magazine early in 1940 The book not extensively reviewed elsewhere subsequently sold 300000 copies many of them in an edition retitled Modem Chemists and Their The chermurgic gospel was popular for the period of World War II shortages then it was almost forgotten WWW I USED TO HEAR FROM Borth on occasion hen he was working for George Romney at the Automotive Council for War Production But after the war I lost track of him: and I supposed that he was dead It turns out that he is still alive at the age of 78 though he has been in and out of hospitals for four years I have just had a most exciting letter from him that is as relevant to the energy-short present as that last gallon of gasoline in your automobile tank on a Sunday morning Christy recalls his talk in 1940 about our dependence on other lands for what Charles Franklin Kettering General Motors' famous Ket" called solar energy" Says Christy in his letter: thought of writing to you occurred when I heard President Nixon warn that we must correct this alarming mistake and that even our dependence upon Venezuela for petroleum should be re-examined in light of what the Arabs are doing in the present energy crisis I've noticed that in all the exciting jabber about the crisis nobody seems to remember what Dr Leo Christiansen proved in his pilot plant in Atchison Kan: that power-alcohol cheaply produced from agricultural waste (or from anything fermentable) is a superior motor fuel that matter none of the pundits pontificating about coal and shale and offshore drilling seems to recall that damned little petroleum was used at the Indianapolis Speedway In the yean before the Second World War The racers In those yean used their secret blends which were mostly anhydrous (200-proof) alcohol with castor.