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Ford has lost their interest I think they feel the President is too
willing to compromise with liberals. I would guess, for example,
that Ford’s 1976 vote will be in inverse proportion to the budget
deficit.”
Beyond this. Ford is expected to have difficulties relating to
working class people of whatever political persuasion His staff
has repeatedly advised him that, at a time when polls say one of
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adequate image of sympathy In vetoing legislation designed to
help the unemployed, and in failing to identify even rhetorically
with the jobless. he may have isolated himself from what could
be the heart of his constituency "What I’d like him to do," says
an aide, "is go out now and prowl the unemployment lines, hug up
the people who are broke That’s where it’s at today, the votes I
mean.”
"calories per person" figure for the United States does not give
the whole story.
If one adds the gross national products for all the nations of the
world together. the U.S. share is approximately 30 per cent of the
total Thus using 30 per cent of the world’s energy, the United
States produces food, goods and services in proportion
"The image of the great giant, lolling like a parasite, gulping
the energy of the world to the detriment of all others, is far from
accurate," says Olsen.
There is, at present, no absolute shortage of energy in the
world, he says Nevertheless, political and economic factors are
acting to put stress on the consumption pattern of Americans, the
world’s largest single group of energy consumers. We may resent
it, but it may actually be a blessing in disguise.
For example, the overall miles-per-gallon performance of
American vehicles has dropped steadily for two decades It now
takes 2,000 calories to move one person one mile by auto. By con-
trast. the figure for a bicycle is only SO calories. And while heavy
industry has generally attempted to keep efficiencies as high as
possible, it has often been more economical to continue using
lower efficiency machinery rather than undergo the higher cost
of newer, more efficient equipment.
In general, at least 50 per cent of the calories we use are lost
due to inefficiencies of various kinds. Moreover, the prospects
for alternate energy sources are indeed numerous, although for a
decade at least we will have to change our energy-consuming
habits.
"We are fortunate," submits Olsen, "that because of a com-
bination of political events, economic conditions and social and
environmental events, we have received an early warning.
There IS an energy crisis, not one that is going to destroy us.
but one which will give us pause to think and find solutions before
a disastrous state does arrive."
would be no question of a host government changing heart and
policy and kindly asking U.S. forces to depart.
The military advantages are cheap at many times the price in
Pentagon eyes They are also obvious to other eyes Which may
make Security Council acquiescence, necessarily including the
Soviet Union and People’s China, something more than an ,
automatic formality t
Nevertheless, with the prize in question already firmly under
U.S. control. opposition is unlikely to develop into an immovable
object.
And if anyone should ask whatever became of Manifest
Destiny, the irresistable force that once devoured a continent, it
seems to be alive and twitching out there in the far Pacific.
ported food surpluses and goods for export have
material lot of numerous nations throughout th
. Last year, says Edward Olsen. curator of mineralogy at
close relative out of work. the President has not conveyed an Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History. Americans usedp
more than 18 quadrillion energy calories, chiefly derived from
In a pious but remarkably ungloating comment on the fall of
Saigon, the official Soviet news agency, Tass, had this to say:
"The events in South Vietnam again confirm the truth that in
the present time a regime that rests only on foreign bayonets is
utterly nonviable."
The Soviets are much too modest about their accomplishments.
The regime in Hungary, for instance, is resting quite securely on
foreign bayonets (guess whose) and has been since at least 1956.
So is the one in Czechoslovakia. So are those in East Germany,
Poland. Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia . .
For his part, the President is said to believe the votes are not
yet lined up. that opinions will not harden until late summer or
thereafter of next year hus he would rather be honest with
himself and the public now against the hop- his steady optimism
will pay off with better times tomorrow. He is gambling, then,
that "do something" is merely a temporal y emotional response
and that in fact most people realize that more and more govern-
ment action hardly ever results in more and more public
prosperity
In the aid he may be right, of course, but few are guessing here
that Ford will ever be hailed by voters for his wit Instead, his
future clearly seems tied in the main to his character And his
largest opportunity lies in convincing the electorate that he views
government as existing to serve the people, not the other way
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liability The answer is geography
California, the Marianas are only 1,500 miles from the coast of
Asia Tinian, already openly earmarked for major troop
facilities and potentially an air base, would replace Okinawa and
various U S footholds in allied countries on Asia’s fringe. There
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of ratkcation. Next must come presidential and congressional
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sPPtlonornthe trusteeship and transfer of full sovereigntytothe
United states When and if all this comes to pass. around 1M as
expected it will mart the first major US territorial acquisition
since purchase of the Virgin Islands in 1917...
A glance at the state of the islands today might raise questions
as to why the Marianans would want doser association Claimed
by Magellan for Spain in 1521, the Mananas (with the exception
J Guam a US possession since the Spanish-American war)
were held successively by Germany and Japan before passing: to
the United States through conquest in the closing months of the
Pacific war _ , ...
The names of the major islands - Saipan taken by storm in
1944 and Tinian, base for the saturation bombing of Japan — still
evoke the island-hopping course of that conflict
Liberation U S -style, has turned out to be something less than
happiness ever after for the 14,000 Marianans, however Under
previous rulers, the islands at least had a functioning if primitive
economy, based on sugar cane and copra. Under U.S administra-
tion agriculture has deteriorated and the economy is fueled
primarily by $10 million plus that Washington pumps into the
islands annually Saipan has been described by some resident
Americans as “an island slum.”
Washington’s pump-priming is probably what most voters had
in mind in favoring commonwealth. Once legally inside the
Union the islands will be eligible for a full range of federal aid
programs from Medicaid to mortgage insurance Direct U.S ex-
penditure in the islands is also expected to go up to $14 million an-
nually. a dear dollars and cents gain for the Marianans. On
WASHINGTON - (NEA) - Despite all his suspense-creating
efforts, Gerald Ford was actually the first of all current can-
didates to put his helmet in the 1976 presidential ring
Though he originally said he would not seek the office on his
own he changed his mind three days after assuming power last
August He has apparently had third thoughts since then, in part
because of the healthef his wife, in part because of the wisdom of
it all But those cle to him insist he has in effect been cam- „
paigning now for almost a year .
"And what you ve seen says a Ford ally in the House is
what you will see I don t think the President is suddenly going to
transform, presto into a hard-charging finger-pointing presiden-
tial aspirant I think he’ll be an enthusiastic candidate, but from
his own mold I think that he’ll want to indicate to the voters that
when he kisses a baby he really wants to kiss the baby
No doubt credibility will be the major pursuit of the Ford cam-
paign. for after 11 months in office it has become the President s
strongest suit He can’t very well solicit votes on his record of
legislative genius or intellectual creativity As a Republican
committee officer says too many people will remember the oil
tariff and Whip Inflation Now Instead the task will be to con-
vince people that whatever he does if elected will be done for
them
Will it work’’ Many think not Clare Booth Luce, for one,
believes Ford as a person is a dream "Opep. honest. com-
monsensical, unapologetically patriotic, intellectually unpfeten-
tious. " Be can he be elected? Not a chance, says she
Luce’s negativism is rooted in personal misgivings about the
contemporary philosophies of Ford’s party, her party, the GOP
She says it has strayed widely from its political reason for being
— the promotion of conservative values — and has therefore lost
the support of millions With all his earthy charm, she implies.
Ford can not ride 22 per cent of the voters to victory next year
And if Luce is correct about Ford’s fortunes in a sluggish party,
others feel he similarly has small chance of capturing votes out-
side the Republican structure Polls testify that slightly more
than 30 per cent of the electorate sees itself as independent, but
there is little sign it aligns itself with the President Explains a
GOP congressman "I think to a high degree that independent is
Global interdependence, not "Project Independence," is the
goal the United States should be pursuing in the matter of energy
So at least urge two Southern Illinois University economists.
Douglas R. Bohi and Milton Russell, in a recently published book.
"U.S. Energy Policy — Alternatives for Security.”
Instead of attempting such political strategies as tariffs and
import quotas to attain eneigy independence, they argue that the ..
United States should be encouraging energy-rich nations to invest
their money in the American marketplace — to buy into land,
banks, corporations and American expertise.
Such investments, they claim, would allow these countries to
diversify their economies and guarantee them greater future
returns on the money they now earn selling their energy
resources, notably oil. An interdependent approach would mean:
-More countries, such as the Arab nations, would be willing to
manufacture and export more petroleum products because of
newly created investment opportunities for income on those ex-
ports. The price of oil would drop
—In addition to the worldwide availability of more oil at a
lower price, America’s prospects for secure, affordable
petroleum products would be much brighter
What makes them so sure the price of oil would come down?
Very few of the Arab countries have many internal invest-
' ment opportunities, they point out If they were assured of safe
external investment opportunities at competitive rates. they
would heses willing to restrict their oil output and lower prices
The economists concede that America can achieve energy self-
sufficiency, but the price we would have to pay "would be
horribly high and the things we would be forced to do without
would be considerable And if we strive for independence to the
exclusion of others, there is nothing to stop the oil-exporting
countries from cutting us off again for some reason in the future.
e On thesother hand, if we"were to encourage a country such as
Saudi Arabia to invest billions of dollars in the United States can
you imagine that country cutting off ouroll supplies?"
At a time when President and Congress, and presumably the
American people, seem bent on achieving energy self-sufficiency
one way or another, and in view of the fears that have been ex-
pressed about the Arabs “buying up the country," Bohi's and
expect it Wrogesvermrunts 10 a radical shift in policy. They don't
There isa definite mind-set in this country which is tied up in '
the., idea of independence," says Bohi He doubts if many
Politicians.woul d beswilling to support the "massive educational
process that would be necessary to change the public’s point of
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WASHINGTON — (NEA) — President Ford has discovered no
sure course out of the recession Only hope And no way to pre-
vent the inflation expected to follow — except stringency
He has no program for increasing productivity yet low produc-
tivity pushed prices skyward and triggered the recession
Trends indicate that major inefficiencies — and outright ob-
solescence in wide areas of U.S. industry — will once again in
1976 and ’77 drive costs to new and intolerable heights' Mr: Ford
has done little more than toy with this problem. But it could spur
another recession
Mr Ford likewise has given little thought to easing shortages
— except the energy shortage which be proposes to solve by
classical economics That is, he aims at creating such mammoth .
artificial oil and gasoline scarcities, and such high prices, that all
of us individually will be forced in desperation to find our own
solutions
Even so. Mr Ford is so mesmerized by this one shortage that
he ignores a host of others which most certainly will be more im-
mediate in their effects /
By late 1975 perhaps - and most certainly 1976 and 1977 — thp-
lack of sufficient processing plants for a dozen basic metals_
alloys and other semiprocessed raw materials will be apparent 7
The next inflation, if it comes, will be the result of shortages
Shortages will cause industrial and commercial users to bid
prices up — these higher costs being passed on. of course, to the
consumer
Though industry today is plagued by bad management — and
weak management — the problem is broader. By his inaction.
Mr Ford has indirectly given support to the thesis that profits
are somehow bad, a philosophy which discourages investment in
more efficient plants and the expansion necessary to meet future
demand and to significantly reduce unemployment instead. in
such an atmosphere companies hire more lobbyists to build
closer contacts with the administration and Congress, hoping to
share in whatever government-sponsored business there is They
hope to hold on to what private business they have, retrenching
rather than expanding.
It is true that Mr Ford has pushed through some income tax
breaks. Welcome, to be sure, but the type of quickie relief which
disappears overnight When the money is gone, we’re back at the
same stand Those who have no money can’t spend it Those who
have it are so worried about tomorrow they don’t want to spend
It is also true that Mr Ford has given some private advice to
Arthur Burns, chief of the Federal Reserve System Mr Ford,
quite rightly, wants Burns to expand the money supply at a faster
rate But the advice has been so weak that Bums has gone his un-
troubled way, and money for" expansion or modernization at
reasonable rates remains difficult to get
No one is certain anymore what tinkering with the money supp-
ly does in the end Burns himself is skeptical of its effectiveness
when it is depended on as virtually the only program for curing a
recession one day and inflation the next - or both at once
It should be said in all fairness that Mr Ford’s economic ap-
proach. weak as it is. is no worse than that'of the last half dozen
presidents. The majority voice in Congress is worse Despite talk _
of a new idealism on Capitol Hill, the "prevalent philosophy in the
Senate and House, apparently, is spend and spend and elect and
elect, a tune quite familiar to corrupt ward healers
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U.. in the long view
Seventeen years after America’s first space satellite went into
orbit (has it really been that long?), Americans can buy a
photographic map showing what their entire country looks like,
on the eve of its 200th anniversary, from about 570 miles out in
space.
The black and white mosaic of images taken by NASA’s
LANDSAT-1 earth resources survey satellite has been printed in
29x41-inch size by the U.S. Geological Survey using parts of 595
pictures taken by LANDSAT-1 between July and October. 1972
Two versions of the U.S. mosaic are available Orfe is from im-
ages made in a visible band of the spectrum ( Band) that accen-
tuates urban areas and other works of man. The other is from im-
ages made in infrared light (Band 7) that accentuates water and
topographical features Both versions have state boundaries out-
lined with broken white lines
Copies may be ordered prepaid for $1.25 each from the Branch
of Distribution. U.S. Geological Survey, 1200 South Eads Street.
Arlington, VA 22202. Orders should specify either Band 5 or Band
7.
fossil fuels—petroleum, natural gas and coal.
That's the figure 18 followed by 15 zeroes and was enough
energy to boil away nine trillion gallons of water It represented
82 million calories for every man, woman and child in the country
(and does not include the food calories they ate. which added up
to another 160 quadrillion calories).
Perhaps more important is the fact that energy demands have
been rising about five per cent a year, which means that we will
be using 36 quadrillion energy calagies by 1990. But even right
now, the United States, with only six per cent of the world's pop-
ulation. uses close to 30 per cent of the world's present energy
The last statistic is frequently cited with the strong hint that
this level of energy consumption is not only inequitable but down-
right immoral. But energy translates into work, Qisen points out
in an article in the museum's Bulletin, and altlfoukh it is clear
that Americans have been the first recipients of a better standard
of living from this expenditure of energy, it is also dlear that ex-
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