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C. 1975 N.Y. Times News Service New York-In an ominous and little-noted development, the growing rift has set off fresh speculation despite outwardly optimistic indications of an upsurge in the nation’s moral fiber that has deeply alarmed sources close to Secretary Kissinger. This places enormous stress on the right wing of the Republican Party. If Senator Kennedy means what he says, the president is obviously. On the other hand, however, there is every indication.

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Letter to the editor Explains ordinance

To the editor: I think some misunderstanding surrounds the passage of the city salary ordinance. First, the engineer was not listed in the ordinance with a 12 percent raise, but the clerk-treasurer was listed with a 15 percent raise. Second, the councilman and councilwomen did not and could not give themselves a 25 percent raise. True, the newly-elected council will receive a 25 percent raise (SSOO a year instead of the present $400) which I might add I was against, but the majority rules. Third, the salaries for elected officials

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William Buckley What's going on?

Here is a reading on the developments in the Middle East: 1. Henry Kissinger is a superb diplomat, renowned for his (objective) patience and tenacity. But this last time around, he went to something like exaggerated lengths to effect his socalled step-by-step approach. There is a point after which a Secretary of State, revisiting a capital city for the tenth time in ten days, is speaking rather to the world at large than to the officials of that capital city. It is unlikely that Mr. Kissinger would have made those 22 trips to Paris (or whatever the exact number) to visit with Le Due Tho if each one of them had received day and night exposure in the press. It is, in a word, possible that well in advance of the date when he officially abandoned his last mission he knew it would fail but continued just the same to commute between Tel Aviv and Cairo to press home a public point. 2. What point is this? Israeli intransigence, is my guess. Already there are reports that President Ford, toward the end, wrote directly to Prime Minister Rabin, telling him - one presumes - that he had to be more cooperative. Washington denies there was any such missive, but Tel Aviv does not. And Tel Aviv is critically aware that the United States Congress has, sitting in front of it, a

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Russell Baker in the meantime... this little-known development...

Fortunately, if the vital monsoon season begins two weeks early the alarming rise in the divorce rate will leave the United States no alternative, for, as Lord Acton observed many years ago, “something has to be done about the State Department at the end of the tunnel.” Economists are baffled. This is perhaps the most significant fact as Pentagon hardliners study a highly secret report, which charges. This is not generally recognized. In an Arab world already giddy with power, few who understand the

cannot be raised each year but are set for a four-year term. According to the Statute IC 1971,18-2-1-10 (Burns S4B-1233) the Common Council is required by law to fix by ordinance the annual salaries of all elected officials for their respective terms of office on or before April 1 of the year in which city elections are held. The statute also states that the ordinance shall be twice published in a newspaper in the city concerned. I hope this will clarify some erroneous impressions. Marilyn Jackson Greencastle

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request for two and a half billion dollars worth of aid to Israel, without which Israel might just as well depose Rabin in favor of Arafat. 3. On the assumption that the Israeli government is on the one hand prepared to take risks but not such as would lead to national sucide, we must suppose that they prefer a Geneva type confrontation to the type Kissinger had in mind. Why? Presumably because, at Geneva, the hostile Arab powers would tend, as they do in the United Nations, to outshout each other in expressing their own in-transigence-in a bid for the hearts and minds of the Palestinians. A concession that President Sadat can quietly make, in the privacy of his palace to Henry Kissinger, he cannot readily make with impunity at the Palace of Nations, hooted down by Iraqis, Syrians, Jordanians, Lebanese, and Palestinians. 4. What would be the change in the public attitude towards Israel after, let us say, ten weeks in Geneva during which the demands against Israel increased in intensity and the rhetoric becomes more bellicose? Imagine that, after a few months of this kind of thing, during which Israel appears increasingly beleaguered, there is a border incident: followed by another blitzkrieg war? Now, the experts are saying that Israel has one victory left within her resources. After that, attrition will set in. Assume that Israel won a victory on the decisive scale of 1967: and then offered to withdraw not from her new boundaries, but way back to her old, 1967 boundaries, if United States troops would undertake to guarantee her frontiers? 5. The pressures would be formidable in two directions. From the Arabs, the lack of a solution would mean the reimposition of an oil embargo, conceivably far more deadly than the last one, with the possibility of a strategic fragmentation in the western alliance. Internally, sympathy for Israel would be followed by a temptation to seize the opportunity once and for all to secure Israel and end the tension in the Mideast.

gravity of the situation are willing to talk for publication but it can be said, nevertheless, and on the highest authority, as President Ford pointed out in his last news conference. The struggle for power reveals some startling facts. What does all this mean for Vice-President Rockefeller? What about the winter-wheat Crop? Should the C.I.A. be dismantled? Can Africa still be saved? The ominous answer to these questions is: Who cares? The gravest issues facing America today is war, race relations, women’s rights, poverty, unemployment, air pollution, loss of privacy, the automobile, the troubled Middle East, commercialization of sport, ethnic jokes, heart attack or the powerful ways and Means Committee, as well as divorce, alcoholism, violence on television, street crime, political corruption or credit buying. Clothing is too expensive, the weather has been terrible and there is not enough respect for policemen. Despite the urgent need for immediate action, Washington insiders are saying privately, meanwhile that no one can say for certain what it means for detente at this crucial point in the vital but too little understood salt talks, despite disturbing evidence to the contrary, as witness the dangerous split in the Republican Party, which will be officially denied, of course. This is why the Democrat.? can no longer afford, since both California and the Big urban Catholic vote can go either way, as, indeed, can the whole election, which would be immensely significant when set against the background. The country is restless and uneasy. With the Bicentennial year only nine months off, it is time to bite the bullet, tighten our belts and pull together, for as Benjamin Franklin observed many years ago, “if we do not all pull together, we shall all pull separately.” Is Henry Kissinger too powerful? In a startling and little-noted development, this question is being widely asked in the drawing rooms of

James Reston Ms. Spring comes to Washington

C. 1975 New York Times News Service Washington - Spring came to Washington this week, right smack on time. It was soft and warm, nonpolitical and seasonally adjusted, providing generous rebates and noncontributory benefits for one and all alike. Ah, Spring! It crept up the Potomac from the south past Mount Vernon, dropped of a drift of daffodils in Lady Bird Johnson Park, shook the yellow willows on the upstairs porch of the Kennedy Center, spread a green carpet down Capitol Hill and across the White House lawn, and opened up the pink buds on te tulip magnolias at the treasury and interior departments. Everything was different only a few short days ago. The whole town was the color of wet rags. The streets were torn up with subway construction. The President and the Congress were fussing over taxes and energy, and almost everybody was

60 years ago A new cabinet, maufactured by the Greencastle Kitchen Cabinet Co., had been named the “No-Bend” in a national contest. Fire had destroyed the home of Walter Woodrum of Limedale. The smallpox quarantine flag was out at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Chester Day of Belle Union. 20 years ago Charles Nicholson of Bainbridge had received recognition for outstanding work in 4-H dairy projects. Mrs. Elmer Smiley of Cloverdale had entertained the Merry Circle Club. Pfc. Donald Carson was with the 25th Infantry Division in Hawaii. 10 years ago Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fry of Fillmore were parents of a son. Rose Marie Ader of Greencastle had been dismissed from the Putnam County hospital. David Jenkins was president of the Haymaker’s 4-H Club. 5 years ago Miss Marie McKee, a Purdue University freshman, had been awarded a Summer Leadership training school scholarship.

Georgetown where Washington’s most powerful men privately believe there is more reason for hope than has been hither to reported, citing secret intelligence reports that Leonid Brezhnev has been seen recently in public, which are buttressed by public intelligence reports that he has been seen recently in secret. At the same time, however, it must be conceded, and that, obviously, is one situation the voters will not long tolerate,

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deluged by monuments of unread books, articles and speeches on the insoluble perplexities of the human race. O Xerox, where is thy pity? But then this funny thing happened. The star magnolia at the northwest gate of the White House produced its identity card and burst into bloom. The forsythia and japonica broke out in the middle of the lawn, and the Congress of the United States, having settled nothing, went home for an undeserved Easter vacation. In a news conference in the White House Rose Garden, Spring explained that she came a little early this year because everybody seemed a little gloomy. She agreed to answer questions, with Ron Nessen presiding: Question - What are we to do about the gross national product? Answer - Enjoy it! The prduction of flowers this year will be up 14.3 per cent,

Turning back the clock

Greencastle High School had been emptied by a hoax bomb threat. Cecil Nichols had been elected president of the 240 Water Corporation.

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particularly in times as troubled as these in an ominous and little-noted development. Seen in this perspective, certain things become obvious. This leaves the president and his cabinet, in the meantime, on the other hand, a posture that has official. Washington far more worried than it is willing to admit. The consequences will be profound. On balance, then, it is almost certain

dogwood trees up 12 percent, pretty girls up 4 percent, and crabgrass will be down 8 percent. Q- How do you account for the decline in crabgrass? A- They’re cheaper than restaurants. Also, in 7.3 percent of the picnics tested by the pure food and drug adminsitration, picnic food ranges from the unspeakable to the inedible. So people eat less, look better and are healthier. Q- Are you worried about the unemployment? A - Yes, but total unemployment is not so bad as the division of employment. All the pessimists are working overtime and all the optimists have been laid off. This is hurting the production laughter. Even the world supply and inventory of giggles has been declining steadily since fiscal year 1960. Q- What remedies do you have in mind? A- This is my busy season and politics is not my game but it seems to me that a few weeks of total silence, say between now and the first of May, when Henry gets back, might be helpful: No speeches, no newspapers, no new conferences or broadcasts, no predictions of the coming dark age. If everybody just had time to read a book or take a walk... Q- Be honest with us, Ms. Spring: Don’t you have a conflict of interest here? Aren’t you in the flowers and happiness racket? A-1 am a registered lobbyist, yes, but I’m a nonprofit, tax free institution I don’t sell flowers, but give them free during a carefully regulated period of the year.

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that although, on the one hand, quite obviously, the resluts seem clear, on the other hand, clearly, there is obvious reason to believe that, in the meantime, the results that seemed so obviously clear on the one hand may have become less obvious on the other hand. This little-noted development is so ominous that an entire future column will be reserved to discussing it full implications.

Q- Why are you so kindly to Washington - almost unfair with all these flowering shrubs, willows along reflecting pools, gleaming streams and rivers? A- Well, actually I do most of my work in secret places in the valleys and mountains where nobody goes except Mr. Justice Douglas, but I do rather show off here in Washington. I have to admit that. It leads such a miserable life all winter, fussing with everything, analyzing everything, and getting into such dreadful muddles. It needs more help than most places, besides, I have aline into the appropriations committees. They provide the best fertilizer, which is money, and the setting’s not bad. the best fertilizer, which is money, and the setting’s not bad. Q- Do you ever get weary of trying to cheer up the human race? A- Not really. You see, I only work around here a couple of months a year and I do a lot of traveling. People are tiresome, reckless, disorderly, and presumptuous. They think they run the world, which is ridiculous, but they need order and I like cheering them up. Q- One final personal question: What do you think of the Women’s Liberation Movement? A- Well sometimes I must admit I get tired of all this production- by the end of June I’m exhausted - but I do need a little help with all these flowers. Otherwise, I’d be out of business. Ron Nessen: Thank you, Ms. Spring. See you next year.

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