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p-- yy-cyj- rt -fTr 'ipf Chicago Sunday, April 8, 1973 Section 2 7 Perspective Stayskal John P. Roche James Reston Detente with Russia The youth movement takes over Midwest must work both ways if)-. Hf, A TO PARAPHRASE the Bible, a generation has arisen in the land that knows not Josef Stalin. This is in one sense understandable Stalin has been in his grave for almost a generation. But in another, there is still no hard evidence that Stalin's successors have altered their approach to the world, have done more than move from his rigid paranoidal stance to a far more flexible tactic that is currently known as "detente." It happens that I believe real detente to be an extremely desirable international development.

I dqubt that the Soviet police state to say nothing of its satellites can survive in a genuine atmosphere of give and take. TO PUT IT another detente-genuine detente would destroy the whole totalitarian fabric of the Soviet bloc. Perhaps this makes me a relic of the Cold War, but there is nothing that would delight me more than the growth of pluralistic political institutions inside the deep freezer the Sovief'HJnion has constructed. It is equally clear from the Russian response to "Communism with a human face" in Czechoslovakia and the continued existence of the Berlin Wall that the Politburo shares my concern, in reverse. We must face the fact that, from Moscow's viewpoint, detente in its pre- sent form is a variation on rolling a drunk.

It is what I have called "unilateral We give; they take. American businessmen, fulfilling Lenin's cynical prediction that they would sell the Communists the rope to hang capitalism, are rushing to get aboard the trade bonanza. What the Soviets have in mind Is nothing less than a Marshall Plan financed by private sources in the United States that will underwrite their economic development at no cost to them. A while back in Pravda the Soviet minister for foreign trade, Nikolai Patolichev, laid it on the line, tho nobody on this side of the Atlantic seems to have understood his message. He said the Americans, and the Western world in general, would be welcomed as investors and developers of Soviet resources provided they supplied the funds for this development program.

THAT IS VERY generous, but it isn't detente as I define it. Which is -why Sen. Henry Jackson's Wash. bill to deny any nation a tariff break if it imposes arbitrary and capricious restraints on its citizens who want to emigrate makes a lot of sense. The Soviet Jews have been trying to depart, but there are other minorities who would prefer life elsewhere.

There are, for example, more Tatars in Turkey than in the U. S. S. As might be anticipated, it is the educated elite in these groups that leads the parade to the exit from the "Socialist paradise," and the authorities have slapped on a murderous "education" tax to hibit freedom of movement. To show that they are broad-minded, the Russians have been allowing a number of Jews to go to Israel without paying the requisite ransom, but they have not repealed the regulation, which can be reimposed whenever the time is ripe.

That is, when Jackson and his allies are not tearing up the Congress. The Jackson bill should be passed; Not simply because of its intrinsic merits, but because it would signal to the Brezhnev regime that we are not a simple-minded bunch of suckers who are prepared to believe that one swallow makes a spring. Detente has got to be a two-way street, and the sooner the Soviets realize it, the better. King Feituret Syndicate Nevertheless, looking to the future, the political balance in the country seems to be changing, with the 13 states of the sunny crescent from California down thru the Southwest and across to Florida beginning to challenge the Middle West, in Kevin Phillips' calculations, as the leading national base of the Republican party." This conclusion is open to challenge, for of course the Midwest was as unanimous for President Nixon last November as the rest of the country, but the Democrats now hold eight of the 12 Midwest governorships Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Kansas, and Nebraska-while the Republicans hold only four-Michigan, Missouri, Indiana, and Iowa. LAST NOVEMBER, the Democrat-Farmer Labor Party here won both houses of the Minnesota legislature for the first time in history, and as Anderson remarked the other day: "This Minnesota pattern is in line with a major Democratic trend in the upper Midwest.

In the combined areas of Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Montana," he added, "there are only two Republican U. S. senators and one Republican governor." So something is going on out here that is not only helping Nixon with his world politics producing the food that is his main bargaining tool but paradoxically seems to be helping the Democrats in state, politics. The richer the industrial workers of the country get, the more they seem to vote Republican, but the richer the farmers get, the more they seem to back the Democrats in non-Presidential elections. In 1329, one American farmer produced enough food for 12 people and will now soon be producing enough for 100.

In 1939, farm income was only 50 per cent of nonfarm income in the nation, but in 1972 it was 79 per cent of nonfarm income. No wonder then that, despite the habitual complaining in the farm belt, there is now an air of prosperity and an anticipation of more to come. Rig 10 football seems to be in a slump, but the farmers are talking about the Russians and the Chinese, who promise to be good residual customers for years to come. New York Tlmei Newt Service ST. PAUL The land In the Upper Middle West still looks a little bleak and winter-weary these early April days, but a hungry world is crying for fodder, and the outlook for the farmers out here is unusually bright They are grumbling, of course, about the boycott against rising prices, but they are more patient than the city folk, who will probably be crowding the butcher counters again in a couple of weeks.

"Give us this day our daily meat. Unlike the Midwestern auto industry, which is running into increasing competition from Europe and Japan, and the aerospace industry in the Far West, which is running out of customers, American agriculture retains the scientific and trade advantages American industry is losing, and is now the best hope of solving the nation's balance of payments problem. YOU CANNOT come across these fertile geometric fields from the Ohio to the Mississippi without feeling the strength and energy and bustle of these people, particularly in the state of Minnesota, where youth seems always to be in the saddle. Washington may be talking primarily about politicians in their sixties, but out here a new generation of leaders is rising. The attractive and intelligent governor of Minnesota, Wendell R.

Anderson, is just 40 but has been in elective office here for 15 years. Speaker Martin Sabo of the state House of Representatives has just turned 35, but is regarded as an old timer, since he has been in the House since 1960. In the last election for the Minnesota legislature, the average age of state senators dropped from 48 to 42 and in the house from 45 to 42 the average of senators in Washington now is 65.3 and of members of the House 51.1. Things may look much the same on Capitol Hill in the federal capital, but here roughly 40 per cent of the mem-- bers of the state legislature are freshmen. Minnesota, of course, usually seems younger and more progressive than most of the Midwestern states, and this is undoubtedly true today.

Both Minnesota senators in Washington are Democrat-Farmer Labor, and the Minnesota delegation in the House is four Democrats and four Republicans, while the Republicans from all 12 Midwestern states in the House of Representatives outnumber the Democrats 70 to 52. 'This land is your land, this land is my land Wayne Stayskal's cartoons appear Monday thru Friday in Chicago Today. Between the lines For taxpayers everywhere who feel the talons of the IRS eagle drawing tighter: Sen. Walter F. Mondale Minn.

reported last week that 276 individuals with incomes in excess of $100,000 in 1971 paid no income tax for the year. Mondale called the situation, assessed for him by the IRS, "outrageous" and "intolerable." Now the good news, such as it is: The number was down from 1970 when 391 individuals with income over $100,000 paid no taxes. I The strange machine at left, dangling In midajr beneath a Navy is the Edo Mark 105 Countermeasures System, known in military shorthand as the MK-105. The MK-105 is the modern mlnesweeping device, towed by helicopters, currently in use off North Viet Nam's coast where the 11,000 mines deployed to blockade shipping are being defused and removed. The MK-105's targets are the MK-52, a mine and the MK-36 Destructor, a 500-pound mine.

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