From Miami, in prepping to boycott any secret congressional committee meetings that do not involve national security.

Gunter, 34, said he "probably" would take the same stand, though he had not shunned secret meetings during his congressional term so far.

Stone said he will resign as Secretary of State when he qualifies for the Senate race in July. He said his platform will include "cutting off foreign aid to ingrates," which he said means nations that are not repaying debts to the United States and don't support U.S. policy. Gunter said he will announce his platform Friday.

Gurney's seat is drawing a large field of Democrats who consider him vulnerable because of charges that builders seeking FHA commitments were subjected to shakedowns for money on his behalf. Federal grand juries are investigating the incidents, of which Gurney said he was unaware.

most expensive case pieces. Most plastic is derived from petroleum and that raw material is scarce.

We were told by the manufacturers that plastic trim looked like "real wood" and you may therefore conclude that the practice cried out for defense. After we recovered from the first shock of seeing ersatz spandrels and folderol, we found ourselves without choice because furniture makers took the stuff to their bosoms and put it on everything.

Although it is pleasant to get back to wood, the manufacturers have not solved their problems. The home furnishings market in this country is to double in five years and there is a scarcity of hardwoods—such as mahogany, walnut, cherry, teak, oak and maple. An intensive scramble to gobble up the available supply has inflated prices and produced a new breed of rural crook, the tree napper

upon such hardwoods as a crop long ago.

We should be heartened, however, with this interest in returning to a natural fiber (such as wood) which comes from a renewable resource. Man has always lived comfortably and warmly with wood. We strayed from that and have now seen the error of our ways. We are about to get back into gospel order with wood.

Hopefully, the humble and homey brown paper bag will make a similar comeback when plastic packaging becomes scarce. Paper derives from pulpwood and is the product of a renewable resource. On top of that, there is an additional advantage. The paper bag is biodegradable and does not pose a disposal problem, as does plastic.

After all, when you come right down to it, what's wrong with a nicely executed wood carving or a brown paper bag, anyway?

## Henry is doing it again

Israel and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger have agreed on a formula for the disengagement of forces along the Suez Canal. The third party, Egypt, has yet to acquiesce. If President Sadat concurs, it will be Milestone 1 along the long and tortuous road to a settlement.

Credit goes to the Israeli government of Mrs. Golda Meir, which was not swayed by the general election polling that appeared to favor less cooperation with the negotiations. But the principal credit must go to Kissinger. His patience and persusiveness seem to have succeeded when many critics thought he was making a grandstand play that would get nowhere. His initial task is only half completed but he is proving himself to be the major mediator of the postwar generation.

He is fortunate that Anwar Sadat has replaced Nasser, whose dream to be the leader of pan-Arabism failed. The Arabs are today acting with greater unity than when Nasser

prevailed. The oil boycott, which the industrialized West deplores, is one example.

It is reported Israeli forces will withdraw from their enclave on the western bank of the canal to a point 20 miles inside the eastern bank. Then a UN emergency force would act as a buffer between the opposing sides. Except for the UN force, that is what both nations refused to accept during the mediation efforts of the former secretary of state, William Rogers. It required the Yom Kippur war to show them the light.

Such an agreement would still leave most of the vast Sinai in Israeli possession. But their safety cordon would still be hundreds of miles beyond their frontiers. Further withdrawals may be bargained for but at least this proposal would offer a way to reopening the canal to navigation.

There is a long way to go but any progress toward accommodation in the Middle East is an achievement. And whatever is accomplished will be principally Kissinger's achievement.

The Nixon administration apparently set out not only to discredit the media but to destroy it.

Some people forget that in 1972 we held an election, not a coronation, and that Mr. Nixon is not an institution to be preserved at all costs.

The most shameful and dangerous precedent we could set now would be to allow him to continue in office if he is unable or unwilling to clear himself under our laws of the serious charges against him.

Allowing him to talk away the Watergate mess would be admitting our nation has a double standard of justice. I refuse to believe our nation can't survive without him.

If we don't end the hypocrisy and corruption at the highest level of our government it will become perfectly clear what America stands for!

RAMONA HETTERSCHIEDT
Lincoln Park

## Regulations deny use of benefits

To the Editor: Dr. Bela Szappanyos' ordeal in trying to get government approval for his method of treating Dutch elm disease points to the sheer insanity of some federal agencies.

In addition, Americans also are being denied the benefits of effective medication now available in other countries. People needing such drugs are then forced to travel abroad to obtain them.

Dr. Szappanyos ought to proceed the way others in his predicament have—by getting his treatment accepted in other countries.

I also feel that government agencies like EPA and FDA are too intertwined with basic research foundations so that when an independent discovery comes about which actually zeroes in on a problem it provokes an automatic rebuff. After all, foundations don't want to be put out of business!

HARVEY A. TURKEL

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More significant, British coal miners have refused to work overtime for the last seven weeks — cutting coal production, which accounts for 70 per cent of British electricity, by one-third at a time when much more coal would be needed because of the Arab oil boycott. The miners have rejected generous government wage offers of a 16 per cent boost in pay, and are bolstered in their resolve by the 20 per cent wage hike they received two years ago after a seven-week strike (the government's anti-inflation guideline was 8 per cent maximum increases), and by the vulnerability of Britain during the oil cutbacks.

Six of the 27 voting members of the executive committee of the mine union are Com-

violation of binding contracts and wage laws.

Heath is counting on the public turning against the unions — which has been the case (many of the members must hide to avoid abuse) — and on the Laborites rallying behind his Conservative government, which has occurred to slight extent.

The British situation should serve as a lesson for us — our own coal miners are talking about strikes when contracts expire, and many Americans are assuming a “devil take the hindmost” attitude toward our energy, inflation, budgetary and other problems. Our unions to date have been quite reasonable about wage-price controls. Let us hope we all pull together for solutions which reflect the common good in dealing with our problems.

## Kissinger's Great Strides

If a peace settlement is achieved in the Arab-Israeli war, the principal credit will have to go to hard-working Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.

Kissinger's tireless efforts resulted in the two opposing sides finally getting together. And now, by his constant shuttling back and forth between Tel Aviv and Cairo, it is Kissinger who is moving the talks forward to a possible separation of forces agreement.

Egypt's foreign minister Ismail Fahmy put his finger on Kissinger's key role when he said, "Your Secretary of State, when he puts his fingers into something, generally brings it to a successful conclusion. I think he will this time."

Fahmy said this even though Egypt still found reasons to reject Israel's latest plan for separation of forces and then gave Kissinger a counterproposal.

What does Kissinger have that practically no other peacemaker in the world has?

He appears to have a blend of three qualities. First, he has perhaps the best knowledge of world politics of any negotiator on the scene. Secondly, he is a master at the art of compromise. And, thirdly, he has the tenacity that enables him to keep on trying when many weaker men fall by the wayside.

If it were not for the redoubtable Mr. K. the Mideast peace conference might well have collapsed by now.

## First Things First on Airport

Missouri Gov. Christopher S. Bond has put the St. Louis area airport controversy in proper perspective with his statement that the case for an Illinois site to serve the two-state region has never been substantiated and therefore it is premature to even consider going ahead with such a development at this time.

A study of the possible expansion of Lambert St. Louis International Airport "is the first step which should have been taken and which now can be taken to determine whether a site in Missouri or Illinois is even necessary, let alone feasible," Bond said in a letter to Illinois Sen. Adlai Stevenson III.

Bond's letter disputes the senator's recent ill-considered conclusion that "the choice is between a Waterloo airport or none at all." The governor sent a copy to federal Department of Transportation Secretary Claude Brinegar, who

is considering what action to take on an Illinois application for an East Side airport.

The need for a major new airport "cannot be determined without a clear insight into Lambert's ultimate development potential," as would be determined by a Lambert "master plan," the governor said.

Bond is being logical, a quality that Stevenson apparently lost sight of in his comments on the proposed Illinois location. The only practical approach to the airport question is to first take an in-depth look at Lambert's capabilities to see if it could possibly handle future needs. An affirmative finding would eliminate the need for a second major area airport.

"A final solution must be based on an accurate assessment of future needs and on intelligent and informed planning," Bond said. He is right.

## A Tax on A Tax is Taxing

Independent telephone companies are sounding the alarm that the Internal Revenue Service has begun a campaign requiring phone companies to compute federal excise tax not merely on the phone bill, but on state and local excise tax as well. In other words, the IRS is demanding a tax on a tax.

The IRS already has succeeded in forcing Southwestern Bell to federally tax the state and local taxes. Southwestern Bell lost the battle last April. As a result, the tax should more than wipe out any savings from paying

dropped from 9 to 8 per cent this year and will fall one per cent each year until the tax is gone on Jan. 1, 1982. That's Congress' idea of abolishing a "temporary" tax imposed during the Vietnam war.

If our representatives in Washington want to do something constructive for the folks back home, they can draft a bill to end this IRS-inspired idea of levying a tax on a tax. It's bad enough to be taxed on the basic bill, but being taxed on the taxes to negate a tax reduction

to $55,000 annually. Now add to these salaries, remember, those "whooping fringe benefits."

It's our Congress; we elected it; our taxes paid for the legislated masterpieces resulting in the colossal national debt under which we are now

## Through the

From the Files of The

### 10 Years Ago—Wednesday

Washington warned Indonesia against neighboring Malaysia tensions by this country. President Suharto such a course would cause Indonesian Communist bloc.

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Arab states determined to set up
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forces.

### 25 Years Ago—Saturday

Attorney General Tom Clark tightening of espionage laws and lists the FBI and Army, Air Force and gations affecting national security.

Enthusiastically endorsed by recommendation by the National Security Council that American women boycott Rights of her much-publicized European

Khan, son of the fabulously wealthy

### 50 Years Ago—Tuesday

Prof. Samuel A. Baker of Jefferson years with distinguished ability as ent of Public Schools, entered the nation for Governor.

A fashion writer, noting the increase among men of influence, said, "Sons and affiliates, suggesting hours of He warned their adoption by all classes" and decried the popularity of a Man Who Has the Knack of Wea

### 75 Years Ago—Sunday

A spirited battle shaped up over 1903-04 World's Fair. Citizens grouped the downtown riverfront, Park, Jefferson Barracks and a vast west of Forest Park, which had it because of fears that "such an affefresh air resort."

### 100 Years Ago—Thursday

A criticism of Mrs. Grant's Wh Year's Day by a Washington publicist's home by Col. Fred Grant, friend, with the avowed intention of ing" to the journalist. Calls to the resulted in young Grant's agreement "loaded cane" he was brandishing.

## the small society

The Miami Herald

JOHN S. KNIGHT, Editorial Chairman

JAMES L. KNIGHT, Chairman

LEE HILLS, Publisher ALVAH H. CHAPMAN, Jr., President

DON SHOEMAKER, Editor BEVERLY R. CARTER, Gen. Mgr.

GEORGE BEEBE, Associate Publisher

LARRY JINKS, Executive Editor

JOHN D. PENNEKAMP, Associate Editor

RON MARTIN, Managing Editor

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Tuesday, January 15, 1974

# As a Middleman for Peace, Kissinger Profits the World

ACCORDING to legend sprung from the Middle East, there was in the ancient city of Gordium a pole tied with a strangely entwined knot of cornel bark. An oracle had promised that the person who succeeded in untying the knot would rule over all of Asia.

Faced with the puzzle, Alexander the Great drew his sword and slashed through the knot.

Gordium was captured and destroyed by the Gauls 200 years before Christ, but Gordian knots have continued to play roles in the history of that part of the world. The relationship between Arab and Jew has been a puzzle to the world and to the antagonists for a quarter of a century.

But now an American Secretary of State appears to have slashed through the entanglements. Henry Kissinger did not use a sword. His weapons included a helicopter for shuttle diplomacy between Israel and Egypt. The main stroke was the development of mutual trust.

There has not been and is not now

even a glimmer of trust between those who rule in Cairo and Jerusalem, but there is a mutual trust of the American peacemaker. That trust has engendered a plan that at long last holds the promise of pulling the warring parties apart in the Sinai and along the Suez Canal.

Israel will pull back some miles from the canal. Egypt will thin out its forces that succeeded in returning to the Sinai. At least that is the way it appears now.

That was the intent and hope of United Nations Resolution 242, but it lacked the component Israel could not do without: Some sort of security and promise of survival.

If Secretary Kissinger can move Israel's armed forces back to the east bank of canal, freeing the trapped Third Corps of the Egyptian army, he must have offered the pledge of ultimate support for the State of Israel. We believe he could not have offered such a prize without the silent consent of the Soviet Union.

After 25 years of bloodshed and three moves to the brink of international conflict, the Middle East may now be moved to a cooler back burner. Sinai is not vital economically to Israel, serving only as a buffer for any rekindling of Egyptian belligerence that once demanded the Israelis be driven into the sea and the Jewish homeland dismantled.

This may have yielded to a new pragmatism in Cairo. President Anwar Sadat recognizes that the economic troubles of his country are compounded by the expenditure of as much as 40 per cent of the budget on arms.

Egypt needs food, housing, schools and economic development. It can have none of these when so much is spent in Moscow for military hardware.

Israel needs security to get on with the task of making the desert yield a good life for her people.

Secretary Kissinger could have offered both sides a goodly portion of these essentials.

The agreements balanced between helicopter flights could probably have not been achieved by offering less.

They promise to be a bargain for the world and we look to the negotiations in Geneva to demonstrate the fruits of shuttle diplomacy by the American peacemaker.

## Punt, Pass ... And Poesy

O, there is no joy in Minneapolis-St. Paul,

For the Humptie-Dumpties have taken a great fall

Urged under and downward by Csonka, et al.

The Dolphins were the foot, the Vikings the ball.

BUT heap not derision on the vanquished norsemen,

They done what they could but hadn't the horsemen.

Their fans can only gather in bars full of torsion

And make a new game plan that includeth extortion.

But the name of the Dolphins means a twelvemonth of fear:

It's even a worse prospect to wait 'til next year.

LETTERS TO

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IOP/M - Robert C. Haney

French Commentators on U. S. Mideast Role

January 15, 1974

As you know, many French media commentators have suggested darkly that the U. S. is not entirely unhappy with the net effect of the Mideast crisis--rising dollar, favorable trade and balance of payments prospects--all (they say) at the expense of the Europeans and Japanese.

About a week ago, Philippe Simonnot, writing in _Le Monde_, asserted that "it's only in the coffee houses that they believe that Mr. Kissinger, the Super-Machiavelli, rigged the whole scene from the beginning. However, if you omit the actual start of hostilities along the Suez Canal, which accelerated Arab awareness of the power they could derive from the oil weapon, how can you not see that the grandmaster of American diplomacy has sought not to reverse but to channel the course of events to the point where the advantage to be drawn from the situation by the United States was enough to put it back in the seat of power?"

This week, Jean Daniel, writing in the weekly _Nouvel Observateur_ (perhaps after reading _Le Monde_ in a coffee house), said: "When Henry Kissinger, cynically deploring the bilateral agreements between France and Saudi Arabia, says, 'We are stronger than the rest of you at that game,' he is right. The game, incidentally, is already over... The rise in prices means not only incalculable profits for the big oil companies; it also enhances the value of all American resources.... This is why one can wonder whether the United States did not start and orchestrate the whole thing.

"The Yom Kippur war? Kissinger has always said that problems were easier to solve in emergencies.... Under the circumstances, should we respond to the invitation from a Machiavelli suddenly outwitted by his creatures' excessive Arab oil price hikes?"

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