European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 03, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 16 the stars and stripes tuesday May 3, 1977 James Reston Carter trying to keep a Power under control in the first historic chapter of the atomic age from Hiroshima at the end of the last world War through the worst part of inc cold War nuclear Power Divide the United states from its enemies and adversaries but now it seems to be dividing us As Well from our friends. At the present time we seem to be a Odds with Many nations that Are Funda mental to our Hope of creating a More stable world order in the last Quarter of the Century precisely Over the dilemma of How to develop nuclear Power for peaceful purposes and at the same time restrain its development As an instrument of nations include among others the Federal Republic of Germany. France and to a lesser extent Britain in Western payout Winkfi falling for that old line Roy Nelkins statistics kill Black welfare myth one of the most prevalent notions inthe . Is the idea that most people on the welfare roles arc Black. This idea has been fostered by statistics out of the depart ment of health. Education and welfare which like most statistics from anywhere Are confusing and full of exceptions to the main Contention. A recently released hew report admits while the greatest number of persons on welfare roles has almost always Bee White for the first time since 1967. The majority of those receiving family welfare Aid were White " the average Man hears welfare an immediately pictures a Black family typically a Mother and her children each one about a year in age from the other. The Mother is understood to have estimate carefully what she would get in the various state systems for each child this would decide whether she would Settle in Chica go. Los Angeles Detroit. York or some City not so big the people who dream up the bit about Blackland welfare Aren t a bit particular. A Mother and her children Are Good copy wherever they was Good to see that Clear statement showing the number of Blacks and Whites on the welfare roles. Being on welfare i nothing of which to be ashamed but continuous efforts have been made to make Lack people on welfare feel ashamed of their positions in society. There is nothing quite like a lie that is repeated Over and Over this time in a Learned thesis that time in a is nothing like a Book containing quotable and meaningful statistics eve if like crime they Don t always favor one race or the other. Take the statistic that there were 658.000 felonies or serious crimes in the nation s largest City in 1976. This is a record never equated in the 45 years that new York City has kept these particular figures. The record is not dimmed by the fact that the figures were Little lower in the first Quarter of 1977 than in the first Quarter of 1976.even though they had a lower rate than the rest of the City Harlem the Black Community and its companion the Bedford Stuyvesant Section of Brooklyn had a rat four to five times higher than some other neighbourhoods largely Middle class. The hardest hit Middle class neighbourhoods were those in new York s 67th precinct. Tejere the crime Index Rose last year to 35.4per cent the largest jump in any residential precinct in the blame population change for some of this. Poor families mean More crime they say and with More poor fam Ilies moving in replacing those who move out. There will be a change in the crime figure. A change yes but hopefully Down Ward. This and similar incidents seem to say there is need for new methods of fight ing and controlling crime and they Are of the utmost urgency. The fear engendered by crime particularly of the Young against the helpless elderly needs the attention of the National government with action not Only in the Field of criminal Justice but Winall of the areas of our society which create the Breeding ground for criminality. Cd Revitt a a Tribune Europe Yugoslavia at a critical Point in its transition in Eastern Europe Israel and Iran in the Middle East China in Nastasia India and Pakistan in South Asia and Brazil in latin news out of Washington and Bonnil lust rates what is and what is not at is not at Issue is the need to develop nuclear Power As one important substitute for the High priced and dwindling re sources of Oil and Gas whose reserves lie mainly in one of the most unstable and unpredictable political areas of the is at Issue is How this is to be done. The Carter administration has offered to cooperate with other nations in the development of nuclear Power that cannot easily be diverted into the production of nuclear weapons. It wants stiff International agreements to avoid the spread of such weapons and has asked Congress for authority to impose hard penalties on nations that violate agreements for the control of nuclear Carter has other problems. His decision to hold up work on this coun try s own fast breeder nuclear reactors the most productive but dangerous Type has also provoked the opposition of this country s major nuclear technology pro example. Robert e. Kirby chair Man of Westinghouse electric corp., which has designed the nation s first Large scale Industrial fast breeder Plant in ten Nessee told his shareholders that in his opinion it was most unwise for Carter toot out of the breeder reactor race since he said breeder reactors Promise Energy resources equal to at least three times those represented by All Middle East Oil re the same time the United states is being accused by Brazil and other develop ing countries of wanting to hold nuclear weapons itself and deny them to others sorely on slow nuclear reactors but to deny fast nuclear breeders to other nations that Are Irving to catch up to the Modem world. And Brazil is not alone. China will no sign the treaty forbidding the spread or prior use of nuclear weapons and neither will Israel. Sometimes in the life of a nation they say. They must be free to use any weapon at their command and they add when the argument is pushed to the extremity that the United states ought to understand this after Hiroshima. This is a hard but rather unfair proposition to put to Carter. He is not trying to Stop the development of nuclear Industrial Power he is trying to get control of the military1 arms race. He is not really opting out of the Competition with Germany France. Britain and others for the major future Industry of fast breeder reactors. He is merely saying that this race is to dangerous without much More stringent controls and trying to set an example of self denying restraint which he Hopes theother major nuclear Powers will eventually follow so far. There is no evidence that they will though Chancellor Schmidt indicated that if All others would agree he would too. This could be a useful discussion at the Summit men ing of the leaders of the Industrial world in London. The pronounce ments on atomic policy of the last few Days and weeks sound ominous but fortunately there is a no lag time Between pronounce ments and production. It will be at least three years before the first elements of the German fast breeder technology can be put in place in Brazil and Between eight and 10 years before the whole system will be in production. By that time. Chancellor Schmidt president gis card d a string of France and even Jimmy Carter will probably All be gone and the they May be judged not by whether they won the reactor race but by whether they brought the nuclear arms race under control. To be Vowk times is and cartoon on vow Lebi enl Whoie of to i. N to v 01 the. Suraimi of. Or it us cd 51 a Wnm a
