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-i Perspective 6 Section 2 Chicago Tribune, Sunday, December 9, 1973 James Reston Stayskal Clayton Fritchey- The bright side of energy crisis Will the Arabs press too hard? i WASHINGTON-In his latest news conference, Secretary of State Kissinger appealed to the Arab states to lift their oil embargo and give the Middle East peace talks a chance to succeed. The reason he gave for this appeal is interesting. For the Geneva peace talks would be held, he said, on the basis of a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for the withdrawal of Israel from territory taken from the Arab states in the 1967 war. This seems a technical point but Is fundamental. For what Kissinger was referring to was U.

N. Security Council Resolution 242, proposed and supported sands of chauffeur-driven cars for government burocrats, which Congress heretofore has always put off. The dawn of a new era for the compact, inexpensive car in the United States, which will save untold billions of barrels of oil and help relieve the parking congestion in cities. If, as now seems certain, the oil pinch inspires a lasting drive fo-- national self-sufficiency of he economic effect on the United tes would be to replace a prospective negative outflow of $25 billion to $40 billion a year by a potential positive balance of payments, or inflow of $10 billion to $20 billion per year. It is hard to overestimate the significance of this alone.

The present embargo by the Arab oil-producing countries is harder on the WASHINGTON In noting that Am-trak, the national rail passenger system, now has a new opportunity to expand its services, Sen. Mike Mansfield the Senate majority leader, went on to say that it's "about, the only good thing that has come out of the energy crisis." The senator is right about the hopeful prospects for Amtrak, but the way things are shaping up it appears the energy emergency will also yield benefits in other important directions: The new 50-m. p. h. highway speed limit is already substantially reducing deaths and injuries from auto accidents.

An official green light, finally, for the development of the federal government's vast oil shale deposits, which far exceed all the oil reserves in the Middle East. Congressional action to put daylight saving on a national year-round basis, which most Americans have wanted for years. Adoption of a long-overdue program to stop what Stewart Udall, former Interior secretary, calls our "profligate" use of energy. At least one-third of the energy Americans use, he says, is now wasted. The official elimination of thou- Kissinger is trying to persuade the Arab leaders that they have made, their point.

Geneva talks with the oil embargo still on, and offer to lift it, step by step, as the Israelis withdraw from the territory they captured in the 1967 war. This, of course, is blackmail on the installment plan," and so far it has worked for the Arabs very well. They have split the industrial nations. They have produced oil for the Europeans who have opposed Israel, and refused it for the Americans and the Dutch, who have supported Israel. Their strategy has worked so well that they are now tempted to carry it further.

They seem to believe that the longer America suffers from the oil shortage, and the more theyvoffer to relieve it if only Israel will agree to support U. N. Resolution 242, which Washington supports, the more American opinion will turn against Israel. It is a cunning policy, for it assumes that the gas and oil shortage will not only turn American opinion against Israel but eventually against the American Jews who help finance Israel. Kissinger is trying to persuade the Arab leaders that in the long run this is a losing cause, that they have made their point and demonstrated the power of their oil, but that they should not confuse legitimate diplomatic pressure with economic warfare, which could threaten the economic and social welfare of the people in the industrial countries.

THIS IS why Kissinger is leaning on the Israelis to withdraw from the Arab territories they capured in the 1967 war, on the Arabs to withdraw their oil embargo while the negotiations go on, and on the American friends of Israel to be patient and cautious while he tries to strike a balance. Columnist Frank Starr is on vacation. 00 Wayne Stayskal's cartoons appear Monday thru Friday In Chicago Today. Between the lines Only 16 days remain to complete your Christmas shopping, and the ideal gift for horse enthusiasts won't be found in stores or catalogs. Mizushima Design, a Japanese firm specializing In original leisure facilities, has just introduced a life-size and rather frisky electric horse named Gallop that can achieve a simulated speed of 800 yards a minute without going anywhere.

Developed for training in winter-bound or congested urban areas, the invention already has prompted inquiries from horse-riding clubs abroad. Gallop, priced at nearly $10,000, has a synthetic horsehair coat that glistens without grooming. There are now 40 electric chestnuts, whites, and palominos from which to choose the gift that could pnt you in the winner's circle. nations of Western Europe than the United States, for they import far more petroleum than we do. But they, too, are discovering a few silver linings and, like us, are being jarred into actions that should have been taken long ago to guard against such grim sanctions as the Arabs are now imposing.

France, for instance, has just decided to go forward with a multibillion-dollar nuclear power plant that could in a few years supply energy equivalent to that now being imported from the oil sheikdoms. More important, however, is the way the embargo has given new life to the movement for European unity, a cause which the United States has been promoting since the end of World War II. COMING BACK to the United States, there seems little reason to question Sen. Mansfield's optimism about Amtrak. There is evidence that many Americans are already turning to the railroad for travel in place of cars or planes because of the gasoline shortage and cancellation of airline flights.

Between Washington and New York, Amtrak reservations are being made up to three months in advance. Federal safety experts estimate the reduced speed will save more than 5,000 lives next year thru fewer auto accidents. That would be equivalent to cutting the U. S. murder rate by 30 per cent.

Over the Thanksgiving holiday, there was a 22.2 per cent drop in nationwide traffic fatalities, and this is only the beginning. Los Angeles Times Syndicate He is trying to keep the cease-fire, assure the first talks between the Is by the United States and the Soviet Union on Nov. 22, 1967, and he was insisting that the United States still supported the policy of this resolution. It calls for "the withdrawal of Israeli forces from territories occupied in the recent 1967 Arab-Israeli conflict." It insists on the "acknowledgement of the sovereignty, territorial integrity, and political independence of every state in the area, and their right to live in peace within secure and recognized boundaries, free from threats or acts of force." IN OTHERS WORDS, Kissinger wag appealing to the Arab leaders to pause while they were ahead, to be reasonable, to give him a chance to work out "the just and lasting peace" defined in U. N.

Resolution 242, and not to be too demanding or greedy. In short, he was asking the Arabs not to insist on making him negotiate under duress, and he was also asking the Israelis not to insist on holding on to the territory they conquered in the 1967 war, and thus make his efforts at compromise impossible. Nobody knows what either side is saying to Kissinger in private, for they both have savage internal political opposition to compromise, but the Arab assumptions are fairly clear. Their strategy is to praise Kissinger for his efforts, to say that there is now a better opportunity for peace in the Middle East than ever, but to go to the it: fclTtllf- -limr-ll-'T raelis and the Arabs at Geneva on Dec. 18, block the tensions of a recession in the industrial countries this winter, and avoid the dangers of both war and anti-Semitism.

It is a staggering task, and if ever there was a time for cautious action and comment in this delicate business, it is now. For if the Arabs do not ease their oil embargo, but turn the oil spigot on or off to force Israel to withdraw, they will be risking the compromise Kissinger is trying to work out, and even raise economic and racial problems they cannot control. New York Times Newt Service If you want to stick to catalog gifts this Christmas, don't feci you're limiting yourself. You can pick up sharks' teeth from the Miocene period $10 to $70 thru Malick's Fossils, of Baltimore. The Mekansik Musik Museum of Beverly Hills offers catalog shoppers player pianos, nickelodeons, and what it calls the world's only Wurlitzer-style 15-mandolin pianorchestra with a 12-roll automatic changer selling for $15,000.

The Walter T. Kellcy Co. of Clarkson, has a complete beekeeping kit for beginners for about $38, complete with hive, veil, gloves, and a three-pound swarm of Italian bees. Or you can buy someone a catalog of their own: Gncci, the Italian leather-goods house, sells its catalog for $5. Sr A 7 James Reston's column appears regularly In Chicago Today.

Vernon Jarrett Hi Nick Thimmesch Real heroes often are unrecognized Rigors of being ecologically responsible tist, and his wife, Anna, a -heroine in her own right, Dr. Anna Julian is a brilliant woman, a Phi Beta Kappa who earned a Ph.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania 36 years ago. Dr. Percy Julian's brain and tena-ciousness not only gave the world low-cost cortisone, this black man who LAST WEEK I asked three black high school students and two freshmen college students to name as many black scientists as they could without long deliberation.

All five could get no further than the name of Dr. George Washington Carver, who died when their parents were young. These students were interviewed in WASHINGTON -I am one of those souls who likes to haul the never-ending pile of newspapers in my basement to a recycling center, better known as a place to dump papers, bottles, and cans. For many months I had no trouble finding such centers because we were in the midst of an ecology craze. Right on.

But in recent months, I had increasing difficulty in finding these blessed centers open. The public elementary school in our neighborhood once had one of those portable, green containers flanked by small boys eager to help chuck a month's newspapers into its willing interior. But that container isn't at the school any more, and neither is the one at my church. And the center in Rock Creek Park here, administered by the National Park Service, seems to be open one time and closed another. LAST SATURDAY, I headed for the Montgomery County Bureau of Refuse Collection and Disposal, on the advice of the local police, to drop off 50 pounds of newspapers.

When I arrived, the guard told me that the recycling center there had been closed since June. Try the Unitarian Church, he said. Which Unitarian Church, I asked. I don't know, he said, so I went to the Yellow Pages. En route to the Cedar Lane Unitarian Church, I stopped to check directions, and a man told me the Bethcsda Chevy-Chase High School had a surefire recycling center, and it was closer.

Alas, all I could find on that school campus were containers brimful with soft-drink cans, remains of half-eaten lunches, lined notebook paper, and several million used paper towels. Egads, this wasn't for recycling, I mused, and headed on for the Unitarians. My heart sunk a bit when I arrived at the church, for the first three people outside told me there was no such facility there, but check inside. Finally, in the pastoral counseling office, I interrupted the counselor, busy with an intent woman, and he said, yes, we have recycling, but not bottles or cans, please. Newspapers only.

Thank God for the Unitarians. I sped to the rear and deposited the papers. I subsequently learned that voluntary recycling centers, such as those I couldn't find, are not exactly a roaring success, despite fine words on the environment. It seems volunteers don't show up, people scatter papers, there is poor coordination in pickup, and discouragement sets in. The American Paper Institute has published and distributed a plethora of booklets trumpeting the virtues in collecting and recycling paper, and some groups, like the Boy Scouts of America, have been faithful participants.

My county Montgomery in Maryland plans to open seven new multima-terial centers early next year on a permanent basis, and even hopes they will pay for themselves because of the good prices being paid for wastepaper these days. As every publisher knows, there is a newsprint shortage, and in the past -year newsprint has soared from around $168 a ton to as high as $200. Old newspapers now bring up to $50 a ton at U. S. mills, and wastepaper dealers have a bonanza.

Down there at the start of recycling, the Boy Scouts can get 50 cents a 100 pounds for old newspapers now. BUT OFFICIALS at the Environmental Protection Agency see such volunteering only as a valuable educational activity. EPA argues the best process would be for municipalities to deploy separate collections for trash-garbage and for wastepaper. Madison, is cited as a success in this "separate collection" system, and the number of cities following the process has grown from 10 a year ago to 75. Under this system, trash collectors gather up your bundled newspapers regularly, just as they do the rest of the evidence of our throwaway economy.

Despite my determination last Saturday to do my part and drop off those 50 pounds of old newspapers, I finally felt chagrin when I realized that I burned up a gallon-and-a-half of precious gasoline in search of that holy collection bin. We certainly are a driven people. Los Angeles Times Syndicate -pr-i Michael Kilian A new way to waste the taxpayers' money a restaurant in Chicago's Loop, where at least lour of the big theaters were showing the latest black superman films to packed houses. All five students could name several of the most recent cities who had elected black mayors; they knew the big-name basketball players, most of the black all-America football candidates and the country's top singers and dancers. HOWEVER, THE majority had a difficult time naming a single present-day scholar or educator who is black.

A white student finally recalled the name of Dr. Charles V. Hamilton because his roommate had to do a term paper that required the reading of the book "Black Power," which was written several years ago by Hamilton and Stokely Carmichael. A black youth said he remembered hearing Chicago poet Don Lee speak and once met Lerone Bennett the historian and senior editor of Ebony magazine. Worse still, all five, along with many other youths of all races had swallowed so much negative propaganda about "ghetto life" that they found it hard to believe that even in this country there are thousands upon thousands upon thousands of stable, conscientious black families headed by extraordinary "ordinary" men and women.

ffery often I stand in front of the downtown movies on the weekend and watch the long lines of black youths from the ghetto eager to part with $4 just to see on the screen a fake, white-promoted, ridiculous black superhero. How tragic, I feel, that these youngsters; don't know that there are real superheroes right in their midst often in the same block, the same apartment building. 'In my personal book of definitions the realm of the hero includes any black man-and-woman team or any lone individual family head that can keep the family together as a unit, educating their children while maintaining a sense of dignity and high morality in a racist society. That's why I'm glad that a local organization has soen fit to honor a bona-" fide hero tomorrow night a superhero If you please Dr. Percy L.

Julian, the Lv Internationally acclaimed black scien- Dr. Percy Julian was born in Montgomery, on April 11, 1899, is a family man who has reared and educated two sons and a daughter. Moreover, judging by his contributions and commitments, he and Mrs. Julian consider the people of the world their family. It shook me up for a moment when those black youths admitted that they had never heard of Percy Julian and led me to think that we may have retrogressed in the area of youth inspiration.

When I was a child in little old Paris, it would have been unusual for any Southern black child to have completed high school without knowing something about "our greatest living scientists." THAT'S WHY I hope every television channel in the city and every newspaper will give adequate publicity to the honor that Dr. and Mrs. Percy Julian will receive tomorrow night during the annual dinner of the N. A. A.

C. P. Legal Defense and Educational Fund at the Continental Plaza Hotel. At the same time it wouldn't hurt for a change for the public to see on TV or read about distinguished black educators such as Dr. Clifton R.

Wharton, president of Michigan State University. I make this plea because most of the people who need to know about the Julians and Dr. Wharton can't afford to be there. This is the Legal Defense Fund's biggest money-raising event of the year. Dinner tickets are $250 each for patrons and $100 each for sponsors.

For tickets or publicity arrangements telephone 332-7480. LOOK OUT, America, Congress is reaching toward your pocket again. Like always, it's in the name of great liberal reform, and, like all great liberal reforms, it's going to cost you some $200 to $400 million a year. This time, they don't intend to spend your money on federally financed lawn dancing classes at public universities or commissions to study why robbers rob people or even on starving babies in Bangladesh. Instead, they plan to spend it on something much less lofty political campaigns.

THAT'S RIGHT, they're working up a scheme called public campaign financing, in which you and I and every other tax-paying mope will have to foot the bill for whatever it takes to get a President or a senator or a congressman elected. They are impelled upon this course, say they, because of the odious specter of Watergate, which has gone to show how corrupt, and rotten our present campaign financing system can be. Under the present system, a labor girls who are used to entertain delegation chairmen and are put on the books as "public-relations assistants," high-priced campaign consultants who sit around swilling Chevas Regal at hotel poolsides. Am I supposed to have a warm and patriotic feeling in my heart to know that I paid for Shirley Mac-Laine's sumptuous suite in the Doral Hotel instead of some union big shot? If someone thinks it a fine idea to use private money to have Gordon Lid-dy sneak around the Watergate complex wearing a rubber nose or to have Donald Segretti write homosexual letters about opponents, is he going to think it less fine using public money? For all it's faults, there are certain advantages to the present system. One of them is being able to sit down before the television set on election night, watch half the candidates go down the drain, and be smug in the knowledge that a great many labor bosses, corporate fat cats, and syndicate saloon keepers have been had.

choice has merely to drop a few hundred thousand big ones on a candidate and he gets his way. If all campaign funds come from the public treasure instead, say the sparkly-eyed Ralph Nader types, none of this would be possible. But think of what else would be possible. Picture yourself as a South Side Chicago black who has just turned over a substantial portion of his income to the IRS and then turns on his television set to watch part of it being spent on a TV spot for George Wallace. Or a Vermont conservative watching a federally financed George M'cGfivern talking about how this country needs more taxes.

Picture any taxpayer in this country watching his money being used by Hubert Humphrey. I remember one costly TV spot which devoted 60 seconds to H.II.H. and Ed Muskie trying to fix the pin-setting device in the Senate bowling alley. THINK OF the other things candidates spend campagn money on go-go A campaign expenditure? boss who wants a minimum wage bill passed, a corporate fat cat who wants a minimum wage bill killed, or a crime syndicate saloon keeper who wants to be ambassador to the foreign country of his.