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Phoenix, Sat., Jan. 12, 1974

THE ARIZONA
REPUBLICE

EUGENE C. PULLIAM, Publisher.

Where The Spirit Of The Lord Is, There is Liberty—II Corinthians 3:17

## Editorials

# High stakes for Kissinger

Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is making what appears to be a make-or-break trip to the Mideast. His earlier effort to bring peace was based on the hope that Egypt and Israel, in face-to-face negotiations, could effect a disengagement of their troops on both sides of the Suez Canal.

The negotiations have not succeeded. Since they have been conducted in secrecy, the public does not know for sure where the fault lies. Apparently the Israelis have agreed to evacuate their troops that now stand west of the canal, and establish a new defense line across the Sinai Desert some 20 or 30 miles east of the canal. In return, Israel wants Egypt to pull its Russian-made missiles back across the Suez Canal. Egypt would maintain only small units east of the canal, facing the neutral section that will be patrolled by United Nations forces.

There was a time when Egypt would have jumped at such an offer. But the realities of the Yom Kippur War favor the Arabs and the Jews are in a weaker bargaining position than they were a year ago.

The incredible losses of the Yom Kippur War (more tanks were destroyed than in the great desert

battles in North Africa during World War II) have been restored, with the United States supplying Israel while the Russians sent replacements to Egypt.

If another round in the Arab-Jewish War should break out, both sides probably would again lose vast amounts of armor. But this time Israel probably would send its forces into Cairo, as it could have done in at least two of the four previous rounds.

That wouldn't end the war, however. So long as the armament arsenals are open for the Arabs in Russia and for the Jews in the United States, the blood-letting is likely to go on.

All of which may give Dr. Kissinger the leverage he needs on his current trip. As he shuttles back and forth between Cairo and Jerusalem, seeking to narrow the differences between the two enemy nations, his strongest card may well be the fact that Russian-American detente can put an end to incessant battling by their client states.

It isn't much of a reed to rest on, but it's better than none. Dr. Kissinger will need all his celebrated diplomatic finesse to get the military disengagement he now seeks.

# He helped Phoenix grow

More than any other man, Dario Travaini got rid of the cesspools

supervise the first sewage treatment plant in the Valley of the Sun.

## Smith Hempstone

### It's war, all rig

We are at war. The American people do not yet realize it, but that is the fact, despite the absence of shooting.

The weapons are price hikes and production cuts. But it is war. How else can one describe a situation in which the value of our currency, the productivity of our factories and the very stability of our political system are threatened?

For the moment, the war against the United States Western Europe and Japan

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## Ban Gambling

Amite, La.

Editor, The Times-Picayune:

What is happening to Louisiana while our attention is turned to other things? A new constitution is being written. How many voters will know the good laws of our present constitution that have been deleted from the new constitution?

We were shocked into a realization of this danger when we learned that the Committee on Legislative Powers and Functions of the Constitutional Convention dropped the gambling prohibition, Article 19, Section 8, out of its proposal for the new constitution.

Delegate James Burns of Covington introduced an amendment to restore this section which states "Gambling is a vice and the legislature shall pass laws to suppress it ... lotteries and the sale of lottery tickets are prohibited in the state." A hearing was held Nov. 20 on Mr. Burns amendment and the committee voted to defer action. Arneffort will be made to seek another hearing. Every citizen of Louisiana should let his or her delegate know that the new constitution prohibits gambling and state lottery, we lay Louisiana wide open for the return of the political corruption and moral decay of the gambling era which made it necessary to pass laws prohibiting it.

Some months ago, an effort was made to legalize state lottery, but because of strong opposition, the proposal was dropped. Failing to pass a law legalizing state lottery, an effort is now being made to make state lottery legal by having no law against it in the new constitution.

MRS. WINNIE STEWART

RNUAGOP Albatross?

By CHARLES BARTLETT

WASHINGTON — The word is that President Nixon does not regard the rescue of Republican candidates in the 1974 elections as a compelling reason to soften his reluctance to

avoiding this unpleasant ultimatum are tactically improved by advance warning that he means to defy it. His prospects are also buoyed by the steadfast loyalty of his

with any real civility.

Mr. Nixon's motivations in politics have been inspired more by partisanship than by party. He made his way by

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