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Nuclear Weapons
Now Passing Fad
WASHINGTON (NEA) — Psychologically, < thq
UniteiStates and its allies are growing more and more
dependent upon 7,000 taetical nuclear weapons for the
defense of West Europe.
YetHhe U.S. military has no doctrine covering the
use of such weapons Bluntly put, no one has thought
out how to fight a tactical nuclear war.
Most of the missile, artillery and airborne nuclear
weapons are virtually useless. They are so powerful
they would kill more allied troops and friendly civilians
than enemy invaders. Even under the most favorable
circumstances it is estimated that between two million
and 20 million Europeans would be killed in a limited
tactical nuclear war in Western Europe.
There would be a high risk of tens of millions •
civilians dying. Studies show the first-stage destruc-
tion in a tacticalnuclear conflict would concentrate on
airfields, communications and logistic centers, which
are normally near cities. The yield of these nuclear
, weapons, which raftge from less than a kiloton to'
hundreds of kilotons, insures that the civilian toll would
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The United States has done no political or military
planning on how to prevent local tactical,nuclear war
from escalating into an all*out'atwnie eon fliotr
The tactical weapons are positioned in Western Eu-
rope primarily to frighten off the Russians.
Dollar for dollar and man for man, such unglamor-
ous down-to-earth items as conventional “smart
bombs,” modern antitank weapons, bomb-resistant
aircraft shelters and improvements in emergency run-,
way repair capabilities would be more effective in
fighting off an invasion by the Russians than many of
the 7,000 nuclear weapons now stationed on the con-
tinent
The smart bombs proved their worth in the last
stages of the Vietnam war. Their accuracy wassuperb.
TTiey were able to limit damage to their targets and to
a remarkably small surrounding area, virtually im-
possible with nuclear weapons.
The new antitank weapons and bomb-resistant air-
plane shelters proved themselves in the October
Israeli-Arab war. _ "
Like streakers, goldfish swallowers, panty raiders,
flagpole sitters, bankers, doctors and scientists,
American’s top military strategists are subject to fads.
Nuclear weapons are one such fed.
Make no mistake, Nuclear weapons are essential for
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Jack Andersbn Says -
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Postal Service Help
To Nixon, Checked
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“Just like it says on TV - delicious!"
I MEMO:
Prom The News Desk
the defense of ths country’ and Europe, just ascofc.
puters are essential for modern business. But tlur*
worship of computers has become so great that .
numbers of businesses have gone broke because they
“computerized” where they should nof have. Today,
because of the mystique surrounding nuclear weapons,
they have at times been installed in tactical defensive
roles for which they are not suited, to the detriment of
' our security and that of our allies. •
Nuclear weapons in the right place to do the right job
are needed in Europe along with conventional forces.
'^But today the balance is all wrong.
... . . •>
Statistics are usually (lull,
but I ran across a group the
other day that I enjoyed
reading. They •were contained
in short-short stories that
made them less dull, so I’m
r going to pass some of them on-
to you. •
The first sale,of an American
automobile was made in IC8,
The car, a Duryea, the nation’s
first gasoline-powered vehicle,
was bought from Duryea
Motor Wagon Co, by George H.
Morrill Jr. of Norwood, Mass.'
It was a conditional sale,
however. Before taking
possession, Morrill had to
By PRESTON PENDERGRASS
Opened for ventillation. —-drivers/seldom used.
Taxicabs made their first
appearance in this country as
electric vehicles "before 1900.
But most records indicate the
first gasolihe-powered,
taximeter-equipped cab put in
U S. service was a French
I REMEMBER THE first
Dodge touring car that arrived
in the neighborhood where I
grew up. It must have been
about tH? mid-thirties. It was
unlikely that any family in that
,• neighborhood would have been
Darracq which appeared in* *■
New York in October, 1907. w-
The French were far ad- ;
vanced in the cab business and $
it was from, them that U.S.
operators adbpted the fare1
calculating taximeter.
Auto shows have become
DR LAWRENCE E. LAMB,
Riding exercise
and varicose veins
DEAR DR. LAMB-I have
always wanted to buy a home
bicycle exerciser This
thought is always up there m
my head. But. I don t know if
it is beneficial or harmful to
me. I have the puffy varicose
veins on my legs. They are
the superficial kind you can
see and are not really bad. I
don’t have pain with them.
■-Gan a home bicycle exerciser.
You should think of it as
having the same effects as
walking or jogging. Its effect
on getting rid of fat is mostly
on the total picture of using
calories. It has no slimming
effect on any partieulay part-
of your body, put it has a gen- .
era! effect Also, it has good
effects in helping to promote
the circulation and when
used properly and regularly
ve some benefit in
prevent "BearTif- ~ "
it mi
helping
tacks:
A. good place to use the in-
door bicycle is right in front
of the television set. You can
peddle while watefling your
favorite program.. That way
the television time can be
Converted to an exercise
! qr period and believe me a lot of
oWN people need to make that
in- Nfhange. \
You have to use the station-.
be harmful to someone who
has varicose vein* such as I
" have? What benefits to help
>• keep trim on what part of the
body can 1 expect? I never go
a day without my support
hose.
DEAR READER -A bomiC
bicycle exerciser should not
be as harmful as standing
' walking. The veins stand c
in the leg because of the in-
fluence of. gravity. As you
■bwe-aefieed- t he v-disappear.......arxJueY.de sensibly lust as
when you lie down dr elevate you do other forms of exer-
your legs enough. cise. That means you start ai
------------While oe4dliag.tbe.bjcv.cle. . .a low level and then slowly?
you actually'shorten the dis- increase the amount you do.
tance between the ankle and You can also gradually in-
the heart with each cycle, crease the, tension on the
, And, the leg. is sot straight wheel to increase the work
dovjn as if is in walking. H you do. The stronger the ten-1
you wear your support nose sion, though the more you
when cycling you may eyen will be inclined to develop
get some pumping action or large thigh muscles. In gen-
massage effect to move the era! I beiieye it is better to
blood out of the veins and to-
ward the heart. So, .1 would
think a person with the
limited problem you describe
could use a bicycle exerciser
. 1 without any difficulty. *-
A home bicycle exercise r
of stationary, bicycle can be
rery effectively to pro-
agree to permit his new car to
be entered in the first track
race for motor carriages at
Narfagansett Park, R.I., in
September, 1896.. ~
The windshield, or “glass
front,” as it was then called,
gan appearing as an acces-
r on American-built motor-
cars in 1903, with the Northern
Runabout one of the first to be
equipped.
The windshield’s’ mg in ad-
vantage was to keep mud and
rain off the driver because low
speed of early cars presented
few wind problems and
goggles sufficed for most
motorists. \
Windshields became sfahd-
ard equipment on U.S: -cars ,
about 1910 These were usually
flat expanses of plate glass
mounted so they could be
most American cities, but the
first to be billed as a national
show was held in November,
1900, in New York’s Madison
■ Square Garden. - " ‘
A popular attraction at the
show, where some 300 vehicles
were displayed, was a barrel-
* and-wood-ramp obstacle
course • designed to demon-
Istrate the maneuverability of
C->the horseless carriage.
able to afford one of those fine
cars on wages paid by public
works in those days. '
I don’t recall how much he
paid for the car, but I believe it
was about $750.1 do recall that
people came to hear the car
start by itself. It had one of the
first self-starters, which was
d! a mechanical
marvel.
r“"'WASHINGTON (Sp) - The
Postal Service apparently
provided President Nixon with -
a confidential count of the
volume of mall going into the
headquarters of his Democra-
tic opponent, Sen. George
McGovern, during the last two
months of the 1972 campaign.
With these figures, a direct
mail expert could determine
die'response, and even esti-
r . mate the dollar figure
McGovern was getting from
his fund-raising drive.
The Democratic presidential
candidate raised most of his
campaign funds through mail
solicitation. The contributions
went through Washington’s
20th Street post office.
We have now learned that
the Postal Service on SepC. 5,
1972, began tabulating the
volume of-m#i] moving
th« Mat office to
McGovern’s headquarters.
This unusual mail count
continued until Nov. .9, two
days after tile election-
The President appeared to
be asking about this mail count
on Sept. 15,1972, according to
the White House transcripts.
He asked his counsel John
Dean about ^‘watching ...
McGovern contributors.”
Dean assured the President '
that “we’ve got a hawk’s eye
on that.”;
A moment later, the Presi-
dnet mused: “I don’t think he
is getting a hell of a lot of small
money. I don’t think so. I don’t
’, believe this crap.” Then he
' turned to his staff chief H. R.
Haldeman. “Have you had this
post office check yet?” Nixon
inquired.
“That John was going to do,”
Haldeman replied. -“I don’t
know.”'
The transcript doesn’t show
-whether the President ever,
received this report on
McGovern’s mail. We have
established only that a Count
was made.
suggest, however, this may
have been a camouflage. If
only McGovern’s mail had
"been counted^ the sources
■pointed out, postal workers
sympathetic to McGovern
might have become suspicious
and tipped off McGovern about
the meddling with his mail.
A supervisor of the 20th
Street station gave a lame
explanation of the mail volume
checks. He kept track of the
campaign mail, he said, so he
could plot future manpower
needs: But the volume of mail
generated by a presidential
campaign, of course, wouldn’t
be duplicated for another four
years. .
The present 20th Street post-
master offered a conflicting
but more plausible excuse. He
said the volume figures were
kept to protect the Postal Serv-
andersoN .
%ice from possible complaints.
The IHiite House did not
respond to our requests for
comment.
Meanwhile, Senator McGov-
ern Is encountering echoes of
1972 in his fight for reelection
to the Senate. The same false
charges' of Cowardice that
McGovern thought were, laid to
rest in 1972 have now-been
revived in his Senate cam-
paign.
His opponent is a conserva-
tive former Air Force lieuten-
ant colonel and Vietnam^
prisoner named Leo Thors-
ness. One of his first moves
was to bring in an out-of-state
consultant, Lyn Nofziger, who
was a member of the White
House dirty tricks team in
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What people
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Mary Tyler Moore
THE POSTAL Service also
kept count.of the mail goijig to
President Nixon’s campaign
two-month period. Our sources
Headlight dimmer foot
switches are sujji common
driving assists now that few
people stop to realize the
major advance in motoring
safety they signified when they
first appeared in 1923.
Besides decreasing, the in-
tensity of the headlamps the
foot switch" replaced an earM
hand lever system which
used very ei
vide exercise. You will
to do quite a bit of cj
just as you have to do a lot__I
walking to use up the calories
in a single pound of fat But
again, like walking, if you do
it regularly every day it will
help. By the endof the year
you will Ifltve used a tot of
calories. The key » to do it
everY day arid not just for a
few days
set the bicycle at a tension-
you can manage easily, then '
don’t try to peddle too fast
This will permit you to ped-
dle longer at a time rather
than a short period of intense
work. Eventually you might
make it through a whole T V.
program that way.
ill have
B Bible Vers’
WHAT^KNOW ye
your body is the
Holy Ghost which is
winch ye have of
are not yotr own? I Corin-
tbians 6:19 ;
Cfje Paptoton g>tin-
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v “Women over the years have
let themselves be made into
unlikeable creatures, permitted
out once in awhile to make big
talk with the .men. If women
don’t like themselves, how^can
other people like them?”
-Actress Mary Tyler Moore
commenting on the fem-
inists’ movement.
“We’re constantly seeing
ads seeking runaway kids
and constantly seeing a pass-'
ing parade of distraught . „ .
parents. Since the federal ) We can t issue propagan
gpvernment doesn't see fit to ( ta for peaceful coexistence
do anything about it, I guess 1/ then turn around and put our
nipulate man. We need to
know the entire life .cycle of
each living thing. An animal
is valid whenever you see it."
-Dr. Theodore J. Walker,
naturalist and "grand-
father of whale watchers”
criticizing slaughter of
whales by commercial in-
terests.
• “You start saying to your-
self, T wonder if'I can do this
or if I can do that’ and pretty
soon, you’re not going to be
able to do anything.”
-Chicago White Sox slug-
ger Dick Allen.
“Politically, we Democrats
are a lot better,off,if Nixon
remains on, wounded and in:1
effective. We’ll pass legis-
lation over his head in the
next two .years. And hft ad-
ministration will be so dis- ,
credited in 1976 that we can’t
miss getting a Democrat in as
his successor.” / "
T-Unidentified, Democratic
spokesman during a
governors’ conference.
will.'
-Ivan Nachman, ex-federd
investigator and founder'-
of the National Runaway
Information Center, clear-
ing house designed to
reunite runaway children
with parents.
“We’re escaping from the
crises of the 20th century to
the much more interesting
crises of the 17th century.”
-Spokesman for the “Sealed
Knot”, a British organiza-
tion which recreates polit-
ical conflicts between Bri-
tain’s Cavaliers of. the
1600s and the
"Roundheads”. .
“It is man who is,danger'
ous. I’m a scientist who' has
turned his back on science. I ’
deplore the idea of man
treating animals with the
troops in other countries... it
accomplishes nothing and
earns the confidence^of no
one.” •. ,
—Late Soviet Premier
Nikita S. Khrushchev in
the recently published *
second half of his
membirs.
same methods he uses to ma-
Nikita Khrushchev
Vietnam: a fight to ‘the last bullet’?
® 1974 by SEA, Jut
"I wish I could (ravel all over the world ipendin'dax-
payers'money, makin' MYSEbE look good!"
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A/L^odon Economist N«w$ Servico
•IGON - (LENS) - The
stence of the; Vietjiam
re apparent than in the
, openscrubland 25 miles’
■ |The battle that has been
raging for about three weeks
around the district town of
Cat has. developed into
st confrontation bet-
South Vietnamese
ny and the regular bat-
talions of the North Viet-
namese army since the
-ceasefire” came intp force
inJanuary,1973.. , .
ing has wrought to this for-
merly j^cid areaclose te
South Vietnam’s capital is ip-
contestable. Hundreds of
soldiers from both sides have
been killed or wounded- A
village called An Dien has
been battered into a smoking
ruin. »
, Fighting on this scale is
also a heavy financial drain
pq: both sides, but particu-
larly so for the hignly-me-
chanized South Vietnamese
army, which with T.l million
men in arms is the fourth
largest army in the world,
and which is having” great
tion of responsibility towards’" nainese attacks,
South Vietnam. - , Thieu’s speech, and these
difficulty in shedding its ex- The trouble, , he said, : moves to woo the Congress in
travagant American military stemmei from domestic dlf- Washington, offer strong evi-
tctics. '.' —- ■ ) 11»." Realties* within -the^-United -dene®: of-Saig^n^-gyewing-
In .its efforts to threw back States and from the powerful. awareness of the- realities of
anti-Saigon lobby in Con- ‘ ' - - - -
the North Vietnamese troops
area, the army has mustered
a considerable force of infan-
try and airsupported, armdr.
South Vietnamese jets have
been regularly flying more
than 50jSortieS a day, and, the
artillery booms day and night
sending thousands of shells,
costing at least $75 apiece,
crashing into the communist
lines.'
will happen if the
orth Vietnamese manage lo
continue this level of fighting
for six! months or more? A
planning officer in Saigon
shrugged his^sh&uidets
responsibilities and not make'
its- help to South Vietnam
conditional on the signing of
this or that coalition agree-,
ment. \
In fact the South Viet-
namese government has re-
cently made two gestures in
bn effort to improve its stand-,
ing in the United States. It
has released its most promi-
nent political prisoner, the
former deputy Tran Ngoc U# responsibilities, or uses
the situation it now faceb For
- the^So!Ath-Vi«.tnames9-gov--——
ernrqent, this is a period of ,>■
dwindling options: it is hav-
ing to copewith a deteriorat-
ing military situation, and
roaripg insertion, at a time
when tne’MJnited States is;
showing great" reluctance to
deliver the goods.
It te not pretty picture for a
president to put before a wart
weary population but Thieu ■
was still applauded When he
said that if America evades
Chau, who was serving a Id
years’ sentence for damaging”
shrugged his'shouldefs national security.
helplessly. - It has also restored the pri-
This questiommark hung vileges and diplomatic lm-
over President Thieu’s recent munities to the Vietcong’s
over President
speech, the most forceful he
has yet made -0 the1 delicate
topic of American aid. The
president Compared Ameri-
can generosity to war-
rayaged Europe after the
Second World War, And in the
1950s to Soqth Korea, with
what he termed an abdica-
munities to the Vietcong’s
military delegation in Saigon
Which were withdrawn more
than a month ago. The gov-
ernment had earlier saidthat
these would not be restored
urttil there was a marked im-
provement in the military:
situation and a reduction in
Vietcong and North Viet-
ecortomic pressure to force
what He called South Viet*
nam’s surrender to the com-
munists, then the country
would be obliged to “fight to-
the last bullet”.....
The point is that the link
between Saigon and the
White House is much weaker
than it once was and now it is
Congress rather than Presi-
deobNixon which may have
the last word.
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