Columbia Missourian Newspaper 1977-05-15

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N.Y. Times Service
MOSCOW The Soviet Union
published a harsh and significant at-tack
on China Saturday that seemed to
move relations between the two former
Communist allies hack to their low
point before the death of Mao Tse-tun- g
eight months ago
A lengthy authoritative commentary
in the Communist party newspaper
Pravda charged that Peking was
preparing for war against the West as
well as against the Soviet Umcn.
"China is today the only country in
the world whose official circles ad-vocate
publicly and without any
camouflage a new world slaughter," it
said.
Pravda went on to warn the West that
any military aid it sent to China
eventually would be used to launch a
new world war It criticized Western
politicians "who think naively that they
would not be touched by the sword of
Chinese militarism." Instead, it con-tended,
the West should be closing
ranks with the Soviet Union to contain
Chinese ambitions.
The article, which a Western
diplomatic analyst termed "very
tough," constituted an admission that
the Kremlin has been unable to make
any progress with the new leadership in
Peking It was signed I Aleksandrov, a
pseudonym used to indicate en-dorsement
by the Soviet leadership
The last commentary on China with
such a signature appeared last October,
after Chairman Mao's death It had
taken a visibly more conciliator) line,
contending that mere were no problems
that could not be resolved between the
two neighbors
The article, excerpts from which
were circulated by the Soviet press
agency, Tass. dismissed China's
persistent contention that the Soviet
Union was preparing to attack the West
and argued that the Chinese were the
ones nurturing aggressive designs
because they wanted to return to the
time not only of the cold war but of a
shooting war as well "
The timing of the article seemed
significant m view of the talks that are
to resume in Geneva this week on a new
Soviet-America- n accord limiting
strategic arms
Soviet officials have maintained
pnvatelv that they could not afford to
reduce the size of their ruclear arsenal
to the level proposed in March by the
Carter administration as long as China
posed a threat
The Pravda commentan, which
suggested Moscow's rising" concern
over the rapprochement that China has
sought with the United States and other
Western countries and over the
prospect that Western arms might
reach the Chinese, said The fact that
the Peking hegemorusts hae stopped
attacking American imperialism and
Japanese militarism does not at all
mean that the consider the UJS A and
Japan their friends The would like to
use them for the struggle against the
Soviet Union now but in the future to
strike a blow at thes countries if
possible
The clear implication was that the
Russians who have a substantial
technological lead oer the Chinese in
both nuclear and conventional
weapon wouid not sit dh b if the
West started sendini. --ims to the
Chinese though Pra da die not specifv
what the reaction might be
Recalling that appeasement of the
aggressor had led to Uor'd War II the
article complained that the leaders of
the militarv --industrial complexes of the
USA West Germam Japan and some
other capitalist countries are activ el
discussing the possiUlitv of supplying
China with arms and militarv equip-ment
The arucie s appearance supported
indications that Moscow had made no
progress in patching up its rift with
Peking since Chairman Mao death U.S. to review
strategic policy
N.Y. Times Service
WASHINGTON The Carter ad-ministration
has started a thorough
reassessment of a Ford administration
strategic policy, which hypothesized
crippling the Soviet Union's ability to
recover in a nuclear war
The review has been undertaken by
the National Security Council and the
Pentagon It marks a potential shift
from a policy enunciated earlier this
year by former Defense Secretary
Donald H Rumsfeld setting the
strategic requirement of delaying the
recovery of Soviet power and influence
for as long as possible
The new retaliatory doctrine publicly
was outlined for the first tune by
Rumsfeld lSLthDefense Department's
Annw' Tfiscal year 1978 The
doA &2aan ued Jan 17, three &&. $ fte administration to&& teatuL
Almuagh ranattmne was put for-TrfflfiT- by RuTtaogM ttS&T was
shaped by hispnnIecessor, James R.
Schlesinger. according to ad-muustra- tion
sources
Schlesutger, who is now the chief
designer of Carter's energy program,
declined to comment on the strategy
review A spokesman said that the
former defense secretar had made it a
policy not to discuss Pentagon issues
while holding his current job
Defense Department officials con-firmed
that the strategic retaliatory
concept, which goes beyond previous
such doctrines, was under study as a
result of ? "decided difference of
perception between Harold Brown and
his predecessors"
Defense Secretary Brown has said
mat the concept which required the
United States not only to retaliate but
also to attack Soviet cities, military
targets, industry and economic centers
would lead to "unlimited ex-penditures,
' on each side, thereby
accelerating the arms race
Beyond this, Brown has indicated
that the concept of "recovery"
following a nuclear exchange was too
blurred to serve as the cornerstone of a
new strategy
It would be hard to tell what
recovery meant," Brown has said.
According to administration officials,
the potential shift in doctrine could
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have an impact on the development of
weapons programs now under way
These include the M--X mobile missile,
which is set to augment fee Mumtemen
111. the present backbone of the
American land-base- d missile system.
Development of the Bl bomber, set to
replace the B-5- 2, also could be affected
by a shift in doctrine, according to
administration sources
As stated by Rumsfeld, one approach
to the retaliatory strategy would have
planners target major cities, assuming
that population and industry are
correlated with them, and measure
effectiveness as a function of the
number of people killed and cities
destroyed.
Thus, as an example, prompt Soviet
fatalities of about 30 per cent and 200
aties destroyed would constitute a level
of retaliation sufficient to assure
deterrence
A different approach views assured
(See STRATEGY, page 10A)
Plan against smoking
begun for youngsters
CHICAGO (UPI) The American
Cancer Society is so concerned about
young people smoking that a special
warning program has been started for
kindergarten children
The program includes a free kit with
coloring books and projection tran-sparencies
designed to keep the at-tention
of youngsters and to warn them
of the dangers of smoking
The coloring book shows a smoker's
lungs with instructions to "color
brown." A cigarette figure to the side
says, "My smoke goes into their lungs
It makes their lungs dirty."
"For a long time," said Dr Charles
H P. WestfaU, spokesman for the
cancer society, "we used hit children
later on. But we're finding out that fifth
and sixth grade children have already
picked up the smoking habit They're
using lunch money to buy cigarettes "
Aaron Spitzer, ACS director of public
education in Illinois, said a national
survey of teen-age- rs showed 60 per cent
of those who smoked picked up the
habit before their 13th birthday.
"Now we are running into the
problem that twice as many teen-age- d
girls smoke as they did in 1968," Spitzer
said
"By the fifth grade, we found that
half the students have tried smoking,"
he added
"The Story of a Cigarette Coloring
Book," is available on a free loan basis
along with the senes of overhead
transparencies for kindergarten
teachers
Transparencies include pictures of a
house made by connecting numbers,
food, athletes, hearts, lungs and some
broken down coughers
Other teacher aides include in-structions
on putting together a soft
plastic Dottle containing cotton which is
squeezed to inhale a cigarette Later
the bottle is opened for the children and
cotton balls passed around to show
discolor and smell
If that does not work, the cancer
society has the "Huffless Puffless
Dragon" film
Im town
today
Noon "The Women's College
Graduate in Today's Per-spective,"
commencement ad-dress,
author Abigail McCarthy,
Stephens College Assembly Hall
7 p.m. Columbia City Council,
County-Cit-y Building.
7:S0 p.m. Hickman-Roc- k
Bridge choral concert, Hickman
High School Auditorium.
See today'i Vibrations
magazine for continuing exhibits
schedules.
Movie listfnji en page 11A.
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AnYm 1 Graduates of the College of Business and Public Administration pass through columns
Olsons education funds declining
ByOdeliaShapira,
Bill Storey and Jean Becker
Missoorian staff writers
James C Olson, in his first major
address since being named president
of the University, Saturday told the
1977 graduating class that he was
concerned with the "increasing
evidence of eroding support" for
public higher education in Missouri
"By almost all tests Missouri ranks
low in its willingness to tax itself for
higher education," he said
He said that m fiscal 1976. Missouri
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taxpayers ranked 44th among the 50
states in devoting personal income to
the state support of higher education
That amounted to about only one per
cent of their income
"Equally depressing is the fact that
the appropriations for higher
education as a per cent of the total
state budget have steadily declined
during the 1970s," he said
Olson said the best statistical in-formation
available shows that from
1970 to 1975 the percentage of Missouri
public funds devoted to higher
education has declined from 15 per
cent to little more than 12 per cent
' I am not a prophet of doom, ' he
told the audience m the Hearnes
Center, but I must confess that in my
view, the future of higher education is
bleak indeed unless we can reverse
the trend in support '
He concluded that the future lies in
the hands of the graduates and wished
them Godspeed" m all their en-deavors
Earlier Saturday the steamv, hot
weather was no barrier for hundreds
of relatives, friends and curious
undergraduates as they gathered at
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the nine divisional commencement
ceremonies in the morning and af-ternoon
Sen Thomas Eagleton D-M-o ,
addressed the convocation at the
School of Agriculture ceremon in the
Livestock Center before a crowd of
about 240
' We are in first place and
probablj alwavs will be in
agriculture, production of food and
fiber, he told the audience 'We
want to keep that position not for the
(See EAGLETON, page 12A )
Sen Thomas Eagleton tells
parents and graduates at the
University's College of
Agriculture commencement
that unlike some other
statistical categories,
America still ranks first in
agriculture
Missouri investors lose in co-o-p collapse
KANSAS CITY (UPI) - Missouri
investors may lose millions of dollars
because of the sudden collapse of
Progressive Farmers Association, a
farm cooperative linked by federal and
state investigators to fraudulent co-o-p3
in 10 other states in the South and
Midwest
The bankruptcy of PFA was forced
Friday by the federal Securities and
Exchange Commission, which obtained
an order in federal court at Springfield
against further sale of PFA securities
on grounds of "fraud and
misrepresentation "
1 How much will be lost has yet to be
totaled. A company lawyer told the
bankruptcy court that there were
"literally thousands of creditors" and
the company hasn't had time to make a
list of them Investors in the company
will be the last in line when the com-pany's
few assets are divided
Investigators told UPI the action is
likely to be only the first of a series of
legal moves involving present and
former company officials
The U.S attorney's office is working
with the postal inspector and the FBI on
the case The SEC and Internal
Revenue Service also reportedly are
involved, although those agencies have
policies against revealing ongoing
investigations
The information is being funneled to a
federal grand jury in Kansas City
Federal sources said there are two
main aspects of its investigation
Whether mail fraud was com-mitted
in the sale of PFA's "estate
builder" investment plans to an
estimated 7,000 Missouri residents who
put $11 million into the company In-vestigators
said PFA officials used
questionable accounting practices and
inflated estimates of real estate
holdings to exaggerate the company's
assets by at least $4 million and thus
attract investors
Whether direct ties can be proven
between PFA officials and co-op- s that
were set up in other states with vir-tually
identical sales brochures and
similar corporate structures
PFA differs from the Missouri
Farmers Association of Columbia
because the Springfield-base- d
cooperative could issue stock, Marion
Thurston, state commissioner of
securities, said Saturday
Bob Maupin, legal counsel and
secretary-treasur- er of MFA, said the
co-o- p had received a number of
inquiries from persons who had con
fused the two companies and feared
MFA a!so might be a candidate for
bankruptcy "We are definitely not," he
said, stressing the different financial
structures of the two cooperatives
The two original organizers of PFA,
Russell Phillips and Donald Gibson, are
under securities fraud indictment in
Oklahoma and Arkansas However,
charges against Phillips in Arkansas
are expected to be dropped Monday and
Gibson is expected to plead guilty
Phillips was indicted in March on a
charge of conspiracy to murder a
(See FARMERS, page ISA)