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By NEA''London Economist News Service
There is one central issue facing NATO today. It is the
same question that has been central for the past 25 years:
will the United States fight a nuclear war for Europe?
The answer today is still almost certainly yes. But a lot of
Europeans are still very much in danger of falling into the
obvious trap — the trap of thinking that because this has
been so in the past it will always be so, and that America’s in
terests are so bound up with Europe’s that nothing will ever
change.
Those Europeans who believe this may know a great deal
about strategy and power relationships, but they know much
less of politics, human behavior and what may be going on in
the guts of the United States.
The argument about the American commitment to Europe
is a very old one. but only now, at the start of NATO’s 26th
year, is it showing signs that it might tear NATO to pieces. In
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Mitchell signs autograph for Yeshiva University student
Yeruchim Silber outside Federal Court. Man looking on is
unidentified. Former Commerce Secretary Maurice H.
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By Lawrence E. Lamb. M.D.
DEAR DR. LAMB - This is
my gift to all your readers
who are trying to lose weight.
Some time ago a woman
wrote you how' she safely lost
20 pounds in three months. I
‘ had tried just about every
thing, and this woman’s ad
vice sounded sensible, so I
tried it. Like she said, I lost 20
, pounds in three months, from
140 to 120 pounds. I did not
count calories or stick to high
proteins, as many protein
foods contain some fat, too. 1
* did not take any kind of pill. I
simply ate a well-balanced
meal three times a day, but
reduced the amount.
» I ate one serving instead of
two or three, nothing between
meals. At bedtime 1 always
liked ice cream in summer
and hot chocolate in winter.
' Instead of a dish filled to
overflowing and heaped up. I
cut down to two scoops. I rea
soned with myself that I was
* eating everything I wanted
or needed, only cutting the
amount. I didn’t run to the
scales every day as this is a
, slow, sure method. I simply
took the woman’s word, fol
lowed her advice and relax
ed.
Before I could weigh
' myself (I have no scales of my
own), friends were remark
ing how I must be losing
weight, or “Did you know you
. are losing weight?’’ 1 know
this will hurt some adver
tisers’ business, but like I
said, it’s mv gift to your
readers, and if they accept it
4 and appreciate the weight
lost I hope they will write
you.
’ DEAR READER - You
* are another example of the
wisdom of a good diet pro
gram that involves a com
plete and consistent correc
tion of faulty eating habits.
Congratulations.
The problem most people
have with a sensible diet is
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* They want to lose weight
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TRENTON, N.J. (UPI) —
The New Jersey Assembly
Tuesday passed a bill to
regulate and license the prac
tice of acupuncture.
About 20 doctors in New
Jersey practice the ancient
“ Chinese medical art which
relieves pain and provides
anesthetic relief for patients.
NATO: the military museum?
Dr. Lawrence E. Lamb
Safe, sane way
to lose weight
overnight, even though it
took them sometimes years to
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ies. As a result, they go on a
fad diet, with or without suc
cess. When they have lost the
weight, if they can stand the
diet that long, they commonly
return to their old eating
habits, the very ones that
caused them to get over
weight to begin with. So,
what happens? A large per
centage of people who do lose
weight gain it back.
You have to learn to eat a
proper diet as away of life to
avoid obesity. In many ins
tances this can be solved by
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for a long period of time can
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simplv not overeating and
adding to your living pattern
enough sensible exercise to
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Dr. Lamb welcomes ques
tions from his readers, but be
cause of the volume of mail he
cannot answer personally.
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care of this newspaper. P O
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the beginning the matter was simple enough because only
the Americans had nuclear weapons. But soon enough the
Russians got them too, and then long-range missiles to shoot
them with, and the debate began.
Economist Commentary
In its simplest form, which is regularly rehearsed in left
wing circles, it is this: If the Americans will fight a nuclear
war for Europe, why do we need large, expensive conven
tional forces? If they will not, are not conventional forces of
the size NATO can afford useless anyway?
The basic answer is fairly straightforward. First the
Americans will very likely fight a nuclear war lor Western
Europe as a whole, or a non-nuclear war for even a piece of
it, but they might not risk having their country burned up
for, say, a few square miles of real estate about which a
legitimate (or illegitimate) dispute could be cooked up.
The French more than most people should understand this;
after all, it was they who were told they should not be willing
to die for Danzig in 1939. Second, although the conventional
forces available to NATO are generally considered inferior
in total power to those of the Warsaw pact, this does not
make them useless, and neither does it mean that, with luck,
good generals and a little warning, they could not fight the
Russians to a standstill for long enough to give the Soviet
Stans, who says there were at least 30 men of money who
contributed as much or more to the 1972 Nixon campaign
than Robert L. Vesco, was called as the final big witness
in the Mitchell-Stans trial. (UPI)
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ENJOYING his new role as
an author, former United
States Vice-President
Spiro Agnew has sold the
British and Japanese pub
lishing rights to his first
novel to be released soon.
He’s
still
alive
SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) -
Police have discovered a man
who was thought to have been
buried five years ago isn’t
dead.
The man thought to be
interred showed up in Portland,
Ore., this week trying to claim
veteran’s benefits for hospitali
zation.
Detective Dale Bithell said
Tuesday that he was asked by
the county coroner in Blackfoot,
Idaho, to help identify a man
buried in a Salt Lake City
cemetery in 1969 under the
name of “Modeardo I. Ro
driguez.”
Rodriguez supposedly was
killed in Blackfoot while while
trying to steal a sheepdog from
an Idaho sheepherder. He
supposedly was shot in the face
with a high-powered rifle and
later identified by his estranged
wife and son.
His family requested he be
buried in Salt Lake City.
This week, however, Ro
driguez showed up at an
Oregon veteran’s hospital, una
ware that he had been declared
dead five years ago. Finger
prints established him as the
real Modeardo Rodriguez.
Police in Salt Lake City are
now seeking a court order to
exhume the body to identify it.
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leaders time to think about the consequences of a nuclear ex
change.
But then another question has to be asked, especially with
Senator Mansfield and others around. Would the Americans
fight a nuclear war for Europe if they had no men of their
own in Europe getting killed in the early conventional fight
ing? If not, how many Americans are needed?
On the other hand, if conventional forces alone do have a
reasonable chance of stopping the Russians, it might be
foolish to breathe a word of it. It might actually make war
more likely, by making the Russians think their cities were
not at risk. And then, on top of all that, there is the immen
sely complicating factor of the small “tactical” nuclear
weapons, which in the view of some generals could limit the
nuclear engagement to the battlefield. That is certainly
more attractive to the Americans, because their own country
would not be touched, and it therefore makes the use of such
weapons seem more likely to the Russians.
But is it a reasonable alternative for NATO? It would at the
very least devastate a large part of West Germany.
The whole discussion hangs on a tautology: a threat is
made more believable to your adversary when it is more
likely to be used. NATO cannot have it both ways: a big stick
that frightens the Russians but nobody else believes will ever
be employed.
The necessary prescription for the defense of Europe is
therefore still a mixture of fairly strong conventional forces
and the nuclear cover provided by the United States. In tact,
for a quarter of a century this combination has made the
alliance one of the most successful in recent history. But
its very permanence now seems to have led an entire gener
ation of Europeans to believe that the danger from the Rus
sians is being overstated by the generals and the politicians
Stans testifies about money me.
By H. D. QUIGG
NEW YORK (UPI) - For
mer Commerce Secretary Mau
rice H. Stans, who says there
were at least 30 men of money
who contributed as much or
more to the 1972 Nixon
campaign than the international
wheeler-dealer Robert L.
Vesco, was called as the final
big witness in the Mitchell-
Stans trial today.
Stans, 66, a bright-eyed and
chipper little Middle West
accountant and self-made mil
lionaire, was the chief fund
raiser for Nixon as chairman of
the Finance Committee for the
Re-election of the President and
once was the main business
spokesman in the Cabinet.
Defense attorney Walter J.
Bonner laid the foundation for
Stans’ appearance with a
lengthy reading to the federal
court jury late Tuesday of
Stans’ grand jury testimony. It
disclosed his figure of 31 big
donors. Vesco was the biggest
cash donor.
Stans and former Attorney
General John N. Mitchell are
accused of lying to the grand
jury in denying they conspired
to impede a federal investiga-
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tion of Vesco’s financial cute
tricks in exchange for his
secret $200,000 cash campaign
gift. Vasco publicly contributed
$50,000 more.
Stans was expected to be on
the stand at least two days.
After that, few or no witnesses
were expected. The trial, first
against former Cabinet mem
bers since the Harding adminis
tration scandals of the 19205,
should be in the jury’s hands
next week.
The Stans testimony will aim
at rebutting that of former
White House counsel John W.
Payment voted
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (UPI)
— The Florida House voted
Tuesday to pay Mrs. Pearl
Eisentrager SB,OOO for the 14
years her son served in prison
for a rape he did not commit.
On Monday, the House had
voted to pay her son, Jesse D.
Daniels, $75,000 for his incar
ceration.
Daniels was confined in the
state mental hospital after
being arrested for a rape which
police now concede he did not
commit.
— Griffin Daily News Wednesday, April 17,
who lived through the Second World War, and that because
America feels committed to Europe the non-nuclear part e.
that commitment can be reduced without major cot' ■-
quence. The penalty for being wrong about that is plain
enough.
No doubt it is in America's interest to maintain a strong
NATO, and a strong conventional capability — with enough
American troops — in central Europe. But nations, like per
sons, do not always act in their best interests, even when (hey
recognize them. And by no means everyone in the United
States recognizes a large army and air force in Europe and a
large naval force in the Mediterranean as vital to America’s
interests. Some of them are increasingly willing for Europe
to stew in its own juice.
Perhaps the most common of the many misconceptions
that Europeans, and not just the French, hold about America
is a vast underestimation of the deep seated insularity which
still exists in many parts of the American body politic.
Not all the consequences of a major reduction in the Amer
ican conventional forces in NATO can be foretold. Some of
them can. It would make Europe more dependent on the
power of the United States while at the same time making
the United States less committed to - and less aware of —
— It would not of itself save the United States much
money unless the withdrawn forces were demobilized, and the
pressure to demobilize them would probably be irresistible.
The danger in NATO’s grand debate is that both Eu me
and America are looking backwards, and that
read history in terms of his present problems. The real and
abiding issue is the ability of this entangling and irritating,
but nevertheless still satisfactorily powerful, alliance to
keep Europe and America safe for another generation.
(c) 1974 The Economist Newspaper of I on doo
Dean 111, who said Stans
volunteered to talk to G.
Bradford Cook, then general
counsel of the Securities and
Exchange Commission, to see if
the SEC complaint against
Vesco could be rendered not
“specific” about the contribu
tion.
Cook testified that on a Texas
goose hunt he told Stans he had
read that Vesco had given
$50,000 to the campaign, and
Stans said: “I don’t think we
took money from Vesco, and if
we did it was in checks.”
Later, Cook said, he phoned
Stans to read a paragraph in
the upcoming SEC complaint
detailing the moving of $250,000
from the Bahamas to Vesco,
and Stans said: “Oh-oh, that
gives me a problem. Do you
need that for your case?” The
paragraph was watered down
and didn’t mention the sum.
The Mitchell defense called
its last big witness late
Tuesday: Richard G. Klein
dienst, former attorney general,
who said, “I think of John
Mitchell as one of the closest
and most intimate friends I
ever had in my life.”
He then denied Dean’s
testimony damaging Mitchell.
Dean had testified that on
Nov. 20,1973, he got a call from
Mitchell saying that “those
little . . . in the U.S.
attorney’s office here were “all
over me” with a runaway
grand jury and “suggested '
take some action” and that
“you better call your friend
Dick Kleindienst (then attorney
general) and tell him what’s
going on.”
Dean said he did, that
afternoon. Kleindienst said he
had “no recollection” of such a
call, or of any other conversa
tion with Dean “pertaining to
this subject matter.”
New residents
STANFORD, Calif. (UPI) —
Bats have taken up residence i i
the new undergraduate library
at Stanford University becaus
of the energy crisis.
School officials said Tuesday
that fifth-floor windows wer:
opened so the air conditioning
system could be turned off te
save electricity. The bats the
made their entry.
Nov/ the bats hang from th
fire sprinkler heads in t >
ceilings.