European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 13, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes monday june 13, 1977 James j. Kilpatrick Jubilee no . Freedom for tiny dissenting voice it was a Small act of strangulation that took place last month nothing More thana Little Lynching really. It was Only a Prin Ciple that was throttled. Jimmy carte killed the rhodesian information service by cutting off its funds. To hum and what else is news merely by lifting a Finger in the . Security Council or. Carter s pet ambassador Andrew Young could have prevented this shameful act. To have permitted the rhodesian information service to continue its operations would have Cost our govern ment nothing. It would have served the Ideal of free press and free speech. This is not an Ideal that greatly concerns or.  or. Carter passed the word to let the execution proceed. Or. Young cheer fully joined in making the May 27 Resolution unanimous. The Security Council thereby called on All member states to prohibit the use or Transfer of any funds in their territories by the illegal regime in Southern Rhodesia for the purpose of an office or Agency of the illegal regime that is established within their territories. And that was  Resolution had but one purpose. It was designed deliberately to still the Las remaining voice speaking for the Ian Smith government in Salisbury. Hence Forth we Are to have material from the British we Are to have propaganda from the several marxist and terrorist outfits trying to seize Power we Wilt hear interminably from ambassador Young. But Access to official rhodesian texts Docu ments and reports is effectively fore  a mockery is this in his May 22 address at notre Dame University or. Carter eloquently proclaimed his Dedica Tion to a foreign policy that is based on our fundamental  evidently a free press is not among or. Carter s fundamental values. Or. Carter said his poli cies would be based on  whereupon on May 27, or. Carter did an i decent thing. At Notredame or. Carter was All for  he placed Freedom among Man s Funda mental spiritual  but he did not mean to embrace Freedom for a Small dissenting  rhodesian information service has operated for the past 10 years out of modest House at 2852 Mcgill Terrace in Washington. In deference to the quiet neighbourhood. Director Kenneth Towsey did not Fly a rhodesian Fig. He did not eve have the service s name on the door. He and John Hooper with three clerical help ers tended quietly to their business. For several years Towsey s Lovely daughter Virginia helped  made no Ripples created no sensations aroused no animosities. They simply distributed official material from Salis Bury answered inquiries assisted the press. Towsey made a number of speeches to service clubs schools and colleges. Except at Harvard University that Bas Tion of free inquiry he was Well received. At Harvard a gang of Mack fascists physically prevented his speaking by invitation to the Harvard Law school  is 57, a slender wiry fellow with the immaculate manners of a British Diplo mat and the sizzling forehand of a Blue ribbon Tennis player. He and his family have accepted the ostracism of social Washington without a murmur. His own plans Are Uncertain. He May take Early retirement and remain in the United state Sas a resident alien. He will remain that is unless Jimmy Caesar orders my de  s last press statement was completely in character. He carefully quote the operative language of the . Resolution. He tempera Tely questioned the states Manship of the United states action at a time when the rhodesian government is cooperating fully with an Anglo american initiative do signed to resolve the conflict in  he thanked members of con Gress the press and the american people for the privilege of providing them with in formation and for the sympathy and Goodwill that Many Pesons have manifested toward him. Then he added one wry sen tence it is my great regret that these senti ments have not prevailed at least sufficiently to permit the continued exercise of the freedoms that the first amendment of your Constitution seems to  Towsey regrets this and so do i and Sodo most american editors. But Jimmy Carter you can depend on it will not shed a tear.  Irac. Eaker . Has to get on the laser beam aviation week and space technology Magazine in its Issue of May 2, published an editorial entitled. Beam weapon threat and an article headlined soviets push for beam weapon which launched a controversy not soon to be settled. The editorial concluded it could be fatal error for this country to continue to put its major strategic Reliance on a single Type weapon for which an effective counter is already looming on the technical Hori  article warned because of a controversy within the . Intelligence Community the details of soviet directed Energy weapons have not been made Avail Able to the president or to the National Security  events have persuaded a number of . Analysts that directed Energy weapons Are nearing prototype testing in the soviet  startling statements alerted the american society of newspapers editors. Columns comments Means in convention in Hawaii who queried pres ident Carter by Telephone about these Omi Nous warnings. The response they got Washington president Carter yesterday asserted that there was no evidence the soviet Union had achieved a laser beam weapons system that could menace the United  this Issue temporarily pushed off the front pages by the London conference of seven Heads of state will eventually resume either because of congressional investigation of news Media headline Hunt ers or both. It is hard to kill any Story affecting the general welfare or National Security As other presidents have found. In fact this is reminiscent of president Eisenhower s reaction to the first sputnik when scientists he trusted induced him to quip we will not engage in this Basket Ball game in  or when or. Vane Var Bush our leading wartime scientist advised president Truman that it would be Many years before Russia could produce nuclear weapons and intercontinental icbms were not within the state of the Art. From past experience and present knowledge i expect to see the following sequence of events on this beam weapon controversy the russians have in fact made significant Progress on the beam weapon they have been engaged in the project or20 years and have probably spent $10 to $20 billion on it. Initial tests indicate a scientific breakthrough. It May take 10 years to Complete development and deployment but it could come sooner. The . Took a Hasty look at a similar project 10 years ago spending about $50 million but abandoned this approach a impractical. The old nuclear physicist have taken a most  attitude toward the recent report of Russia s Suc Cess if we can t do it it cant be  of congressional pressure the president and department of defens Ewill examine the current evidence More thoroughly and probably decide As wit the icbms that it can be done and Russia is leading the  shall then launch an All out drive to catch up with something similar to the Manhattan project or president Kennedy s space leadership which put men on the Moon in a decade. We shall then give congressional medals to those courageous intelligence officers and Young scientists some posthumously no doubt who had the courage to present the facts. In the meantime the will have been persecuted unmercifully but their patriotic sacrifice May have warned us and just in time to save the free world. The opinions  in Tho columns and cartoons m is Page rat pacient time of us authors and Art in no Wayto to consid Trad at  to Tow of to Star