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FOR MORE I HAN 20 YEARS the United States has main
tained large contingents of our Armed Forces in Western
Europe, at great cost, that today are no longer needed.
1 he commitment of between five and six divisions of American
troops is a result of policies of the 1940 s and the 19505, when
the security and economic well-being of our European allies were
more in question. We now have a new set of circumstances, a
new and prosperous Europe, and we need new policies—on the
part of Europe and ourselves.
First, the United States needs to reduce by at least half the
troops over there. Secondly, the nations of Western Europe
themselves ought to start doing more and spending more to look
after their own defense.
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THE UNITED STATES is presently deeply involved in a war
larger than the Korean conflict and more expensive on an annual
basis than World War 11. In addition to the half million men in
Vietnam, we have other troops scattered all over the world.
It is becoming increasingly difficult to bear the burden of the
cost. The dollar drain and multi-billion balance of payments defi
cits year after year make even more critical the need to reduce
spending in every possible area.
This many troops in Europe is something we no longer need.
It is an expense we no longer can afford. They are there to show
the Flag, as evidence of U. S. commitment to the NATO alliance.
The United States of course will stand by its European allies in
the event of Communist aggression. But we can show this resolve
with far less troops than we have stationed there at this time. The .
cost is approximately $2 billion a year. Half the number could
save perhaps a billion dollars a year.
With the mobility of troops and our massive airlift capabilities, 1
test maneuvers have already demonstrated that a sufficient num
ber of troops could be put on the ground in Europe in the event
of any emergency in only a matter of hours.
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I HAVE JOINED the Senate Majority Leader in cosponsoring
a resolution calling for a substantial reduction of United States
forces in Europe. It is patterned after a similar measure of two
years ago that was endorsed by some 49 Senators. This reso
lution merits the attention of the Senate, and I hope that the Ad
ministration will take heed and act accordingly.
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' REPORTS FROM THE UNITED STATES SENATE 1
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QUOTES
By United Press International
ANN ARBOR, Mich.—Mrs.
Marjorie Beineman, mother of
the latest coed killing victim In
the Ann Arbor area, Karen Sue
Beineman:
"God must have sent her
there to find the killer of the
other girls. That must be the
answer.”
JAKARTA—President Nixon,
discussing the lunar rocks
brought back by Apollo 11 with
Indonesian President Suharto:
“When we get finished
inspecting them, I’m going to
send you a piece from the moon
as a souvenir.”
WASHINGTON — Dr. Perry
Livingston, a social science
analyst with the Department of
Health Education and Welfare
in a report on welfare and
Medicaid:
"The pattern of psychiatric
disorders is strikingly different
when welfare children are
compared with non-welfare
children. The proportion of
children with possible psychotic
disorders is three times as high
in welfare groups as in the non
welfare group.”
PASADENA, Calif. — A
spokesman for the California
Institute of Technology com
menting on the expected
pictures from Mars taken by
two Mariner spaceships:
"If it hadn’t been for Apollo
11, Mariner would be the No. 1
scientific event of 1969.”
Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Saturday, August
second, the 214th day of 1969
with 151 to follow.
The moon is between full
phase and last quarter.
The morning stars are Venus
and Saturn.
The evening stars are Mercu
ry, Mars and Jupiter.
On this day in history:
In 1914, Russia invaded
Germany as German troops
moved into France, Belgium
and Luxembourg in World War
I.
In 1923, President Warren
Harding died in San Francisco
while returning from a trip to
Alaska.
In 193 r, Adolf H'tler pro
claimed himself Germany’s
abso’ute d'cte.tor unon the
death of President Paul von
Hindenburg.
In 1968, a major earthquake
hit Manila, killing 307 persons.
A thought for the day: British
poet John Calre said, “If life
has a second edition, how I
■would correct the proofs.”
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Dead Americans
and freedom
The Veterans of Foreign Wars post wil
honor Gold Star Mothers at a special ser
vice Sunday afternoon at the First Metho
dist Church Chapel at 2 o'clock. The pas’
also is undertaking to erect a monument ir
Memorial Park in honor of veterans of the
Korean War and of Viet Nam. ,
Thus far, the war in Vietnam has cosl
over 2,OCX) American lives, and the Korean
War cost 33,629.
Here are official figures on American
lives lost in the nation's Wars:
Revolutionary War, 4,435; War of 1812,
2,260; Mexican War, 1,733; Civil War,
618,000; Spanish-American War, 385;
World War I, 53,402; World War 11, 291,
557; Korean War, 33,629; Vietnam, 2,027
(as of last report available to us.)
The United States has paid dearly for its
freedom. It is appropriate and proper that
we honor those who have born such a
f heavy share, and we are glad that the
‘ Veterans of Foreign Wars post is leading
the community in doing so.
The Marooned in Cities
Denied Its Advantages
The social costs of the automobile—the congestion of our
cities and their slicing up by freeways and expressways,
more than 50,000 deaths a year, air pollution—are coming
m for increasing recognition and concern.
But one consequence of the automobile that is seldom
noted is that, while it has shrunk the nation in size and
given marvelous mobility to millions of Americans, it has
actually isolated vast numbers of others.
In the automobile-fostered urban sprawl surrounding
the cities, much of which is not served by public transit,
those who cannot afford a car or who cannot drive are
denied the mobility needed for full access to the city’s
opportunities for employment and its cultural and social
amenities.”
Thus write William F. Hamilton II and Dana K. Bruce of
the General Research Corp, of Santa Barbara in an article
m Scientific American about new concepts of urban mass
transportation.
Lack of transportation, in turn, denies many residents
of the cities access to the employment opportunities and
housing and recreation amenities of the suburbs and
countryside.
These “transportation poor,” as the authors call them,
constitute a far larger proportion of the population than is
generally realized.
, LL alf r of all U- S ‘ families with incomes of less than $4,000, i
naif of all Negro households and half of all households ]
headed by persons over 65 own no automobile. Even in <
families that do own a car, it is often unavailable to the i
wife or children because it is used by the wage-earner to i
drive to work. (
.. The young, the old, the physically handicapped—all 1
those who for one reason or another cannot drive must be
counted among the transportation poor in the increasingly
automobile-oriented city,” they note. B *
it l /? the P ast . three years > the Department of Housing and
Urban Development (HUD) has awarded 17 study con
tracts to a variety of groups to work on this problem. Yet
mass transportation remains pretty much a neglected step
cmld in the nation’s planning and spending on its trans
portation needs. 6
The Best Laid Plans . . .
Well, somebody finally built a better mousetrap and did
the world beat a path to his door?
Like heck.
A clean, noiseless, sanitary, humane, efficient and
thoroughly modern mousetrap marketed by a manufac
turer in Lititz, Pa., after much expensive research, was a
commercial flop and “the worst shelf-warmer in the
London” 78 lustory ’” re P orts the Financial Times of
The company invested more money to find out what
Happened.
It learned that housewives, who evidently make the
nation s mousetrap buying decisions, don’t want anything
sleek, streamlined, scientific and permanent looking. All
1S some thing that can be thrown away along
with the mouse. 6
So much for another adage.
BERRY’S WORLD
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ANSWER', JR
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j Space Wrong?
Somehow, I believe that man’s
desire to conquer outer space is
wrong. Didn’t God make the
moon as a "lesser libht to shine
by night”, and not for human
habitation? What do you think
about our obsession to get to
the moon? T.R.D.
Man has always had an insa
tiable curiosity. Sometimes this
curiosity gets him in trouble, as
in the case of Adam and Eve
eating of the forbidden fruit. And
sometimes it produces progress
and benefit, as in the case of Fr
anklin discovering electricity.
Thoughtful people seem to be
in disagreement about man’s
quest of outer space. Some say
that with the problems of pover
ty, ignorance, and disease In
the world that these billions sp
ent on our space program could
better be spent In alleviating
some of the pressing problems
of mankind. Others say that
there may be minerals and oth
er commodities on the moon and
other planets which might be be
neficial to the earth’s people,
and that the effort is well worth
the cost.
I feel sure that one cannot turn
the clock of progress backwards.
I’m sure that many thought Col
umbus crazy, stupid, and immo
ral, for his burning desire to find
an unsound continent. But, if it
hadn’t been for his efforts where
would we be today? Some com
pare our space exploration to the
building of the Tower of Babel.
If our space efforts are carried
out in defiance of God’s author
ity, there could be some resem-
blance. But if they are carried
out reverently, there would be
no similarity.
Thought
“There shall be one law
for the native and for the
stranger who sojourns
among you.”—Exodus 12:49.
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When the Europeans ar
rived in North America, 60
million bison grazed the
land, even though the Indi
ans had hunted the animal
for centuries. By 1888, a
census reported that only
541 bison remained in the
United States, The World
Almanac notes. The repeat
ing rifle, the market for
meat and skins, the desire
for sport, and a strategy of
starving the Indians into
submission explain the
near - destruction of the
species.
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features
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being
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