European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 03, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Pago 12 the stars and stripes Friday june 3, 1977 Vieu. Bobby. . H6llo Johnv James a Kilpatric kit so Nice 10 see you Here out Seyou belong a Miyick .1 ii � staff vouchers faked As Carter piety slept double standards Are nothing new in our town. They re applied All the Lime. But it you want to consider a remarkable example of double standards at work the double standards of Jimmy Carter and the double standards of the Washington press corps consider the matter of the trips to Annapolis that never were is not my Story. Columnists Robert Walters and Martha Angle broke it three weeks ago. Then the United press International carried a Brief follow up. The affair created no More than a 48-hour Flicker in the get the picture messes. Carter and Mondale were elected on november 2. Immediately thereafter they set up the Carter Mondale transition group. The general services administration then Ere ated an account in the name of a mtg and credited in with j2.floo.000. John Stein an Walter Kallaur. Of the Carter Mondale team were authorized to certify payments against the soon began to flow into the basement offices of the Gas vouchers for air travel for office supplies for this and that and the other thing and All these were routinely paid. Then one Day toward the Middle of december a Sharp eyed administrative assistant Rosa Keatts detected something in the she inquired Are Ira c. Eaker Russ using West funds in buildup in a recent column 1 indicated one disparity always apparent in the foreign policies of Russia and the . The soviets shape foreign policy to Advance their National interests. The foreign policy of the us does not always serve our National in Crest. One such outstanding example concerns Loans sales and gifts to Russia from the . And its allies which she uses to in crease her military 1973. Russian Loans and credits from Western bloc nations totalled $13 billion. Now that total is $40 billion. The . And its allies Are obviously providing much of the technology and funds which the soviets Are using to gain military dominance Over the Russia defaulted on the Loans received from our nato allies of about $10 billion and is there any reason to believe she May not it would wreck the shaky economics of Britain France and Italy. After All the soviets defaulted on lend lease agree ments from world War ii they have not even paid the interest on those Loans. The . Has provided Russia with technology which she badly needed. We have provided Grain at favourable prices and Long time Loans cheaper than our own Bakers have to pay. Lately the soviets have been storing . Grain in under ground shelters to feed skilled workers during any nuclear , there is a vast propaganda Campaign against . Arms sales abroad. The discredited merchants of death slogan is being revived. In response the is cutting Back on arms sales to our allies and the third world. This is definitely not in our National interest. Russia promptly supplies the arms we refuse to sell to the third world and to our former Loyal allies in the Western hemisphere such As Chile. Peru Argentina and Brazil. Another example concerns our present refusal to sell nuclear Power technology and devices abroad. When president Carter announced in his inaugural address that he hoped and planned to eliminate All nuclear weapons that expressed a pious dream but a wholly impractical idea which influences our for eign policy. Man never has nor Ever will abandon any discovery invention or device pertinent to military Power. Nostalgia for Archery never threatened gun Pond . Foreign policy now refuses to provide our nuclear Energy technology on the mistaken Assumption that this will retard the spread of nuclear weapons. This policy provides a great Opportunity for other More practical nations Germany for example to Supply the markets we spurn. Japan a Loyal ally must have nuclear Energy to survive. She will now be forced to develop her own technology or obtain it from other sources since we piously refuse to cooperate. The present Liberal left Wing pro Pagan Jesse l. Jackson a Campaign to restore relations with Vietnam and Cuba definitely is contrary tour National interest. It also disavows president Carter s human rights criteria since both nations flagrantly violate such rights. The present disarray in our foreign relations in Africa the Indian Ocean area Taiwan the Philippines and Korea will be repaired Only by strict adherence to the National interest Rule. All around the Globe with allies and adversaries our diplomatic ventures will succeed Only if their primary objective is service to our National interest As rus Sia s experience clearly confirms. 1c Loyang Cletties All these trips to Annapolis s a Good question. For it appeared from i the record of vouchers that 75 members of j1 the Carter Mondale transition group must have been having one whale of a Conven. Lion in Annapolis. They were All in Annapolis. U was astounding. Everybody was going to Annapolis. John m. Carlin Carolyn a Mckinney Robert Etchison William b. Johnston. Hugh w. Holcomb Stephen w. Elkins Edward c. Maddox or. Gary r. Packing Ham Kathy c. Alles the names run on ii and on. " All told the 75 team members Drew $73,- j 500 for More than goo trips to Annapolis to and none of the trips was Ever taken. Every one of these vouchers was false. That having been said this should be pm f phase cd in the next breath every Penny was repaid to the personal Loans to the staffers until their first Federal paycheck arrived. The Annapolis device was a cover for purposes. Messes. Kallaur and Stein say the Osa knew All about the phony vouchers. G. C. "4 Gardner who was then the Gas official in j charge of the transition fund says Kallaur and Stein Are damned Ted Hall a conquer the human Energy crisis a Bop will it mean to overcome the machine Energy crisis bold imaginative Steps an needed. Handouts and Token Public work " jobs Are not the answer though they pm. Treat same symptoms and relieve some discomforts. " h but the cure requires turning the Stag Nant Pool of unemployed into a Reservoir of labor. These americans need help to work their Way into the new skills and jobs that a Are transforming the face of work in Amer one american has the prestige and i Power to Start the nation moving thai Way. And he owes his Power and prestige of. Those who need help the most. Retif " cleared himself on half of the Energy Crowk will he go the rest of the Way can he or we afford not to cell angles time
