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JIM FARRELL EDIT01 LUCRETIA JONES DAVE LUNDGREN MANAGING ED AD. MNGR. EDITORIALS IM, >YOe/ 7N/NK /rt SoD.-m ? r vAT s EARD /Wl 1-A/P " 7NE APPI> PaKERS!' Our Times As the war ends, d BY SMITH HEMPSTONE strong), are the r WASHINGTON-Now that the war. Well, they cau war in Vietnam is winding down, there are cries for a universal until hl fz amnesty for all draft-dodgers, ltl neso f deserters and conscientious ob-pa jectors. The concept of amnesty--ofhelwcnbdvi wiping the slate clean and makinggoetjalrh a new start-is an appealing one. And the chances are that, in due toewohv o time, there will be at least a se-ipin,ad e lective pardon for some of thoseOfte,prhp who refused to fight for theirreitsnoinpi country, as indeed there should be. sre hi em But to say this is to say far lessdrvgofan than dove apologists wish said.al,hvhdte Consider the remarkable words ofthprcofherc James Reston Jr., writing In a de emhr recent issue of The New Republic: hv og hog "The country has erred; the fln nete instinct of the exiles and theprc;tema prisoners has been right. Amnesty ffl hi bia must come as an honest andbtthyddnti courageous attempt at national Toewot expiation. The majority of Candalesde are not waiting for their country to tre hi ak forgive them. Rather. ..it Is a cutybto question of whether they can gnrto,lvn forgive their country." sm ftoew In other words, the 30,000-100,000 eptItsrfs deserters and draft-dodgers in Canada and elsewhere maintainthmevsi that they won't come in out of theCnainelsr cold until the country is preparedsevortpath to admit that they, not those whoowdticunr went to Vietnam (and whose wu eamnn -. .u*k.s .may ave enlust:.tong),tarn that r ..war..Well,.they.car Harriet Van Hor 1 Blueprmi BY HARRIET VAN HORNE Columnist NEW YORK--"Brave new world" used to be such a fine phrase! It still chimes sweetly in the mind, always summoning up a vision of Miranda in "The Tem pest" clasping her hands and crying, "0 brave new world that hath such people in it!" One has to go back several yesterdays to appreciate how much people expected of the brave new world a-comin'. Tomorrow was always going to be better. In 1900 men made a religion of progress, order, security. Wait and see, We'd have more riches, more leisure, more telephones and bathtubs, sleeping cars on trains. All items to enhance our moral supremacy. Today we've given up on moral supremacy and we hardly dare face tomorrow. The 1971 Nobel Prize winner in physics, Dennis Gabor, says we are suffering from a "terrifying imbalance in in novations." Our technology has become compulsive. We feel we must innovate or die. Simple, as only very wise men can be, Dr, Gabor sees the menace to life and love and beauty in this mad frenzy of innovation. The hero of the next generation, he told writer Helen Dudar, will be neither the scientist nor the inventor but "somebody who is happy and can make people happy." Anybody who thinks the Viet namese war is positively our last isn't aware If how firmly the Pentagon has this--and every other--Administration in its thrall. Were he not politically indebted to the industrial-military complex, President Nixon could be remembered with the emperor who found Rome brick and left it marble. He could, were his Quaker emands f ii heroes of the owes them stay in Canada As for the ver before that a uniform t aluies comes to legitimacy < themselves fallen afoul of which they ed roughly into That is a s4 use who have been so jud er than serve, all places.'I ie underground mitigating f r to avoid con- the circums rters. framing the i the 3,500 draft In all cat< son or who have individual are the most crime (and sty. They, after Minor, a cr1 :ourage to pay importance, nvictions and it Thomas Jc at they should Tallahasse life branded as reporter a save paid that ciation of ci ave refused to Court has re lons as citizens him liable in from them. Canada or a ok refuge in will take hi or elsewhere When Jol iot only on their draft in 196:1 their own conscientiot he lives lost by vice. These C), because the than two 3 dIto go, found American c /ietnam. The Southeast fused either to According penalty for not was an A they said they When he fle< nothing and it 23 years oi ental sophistry completed is country nvow ------When he wa n ts for wars ideals unspotted of the world, be remembered as the President who so valued life and so hated war and destruction that he declined to sanction any more nuclear bomb tests. But the tests will go on. And the wvars will go on until the final "wargasm," as Herman Kahn calls it, when all the buttons are pushed and every living creature perishes. If you doubt the possibility, listen to the blueprints they're drawing at the Institute for Land Combat. That's a U. S. Army "think tank" where a staff of 170 civilian analysts and military officers are creating and "or chestrating" all the wars we may be fighting between now and 1990. The possibilities, as outlined in Paul Dickson's new book, "Think Tanks," sound absurd. But the absurdity is nevertheless chilling. We might have, for example, a war in Yugoslavia with us, jtaly and the Yugoslavs standing off Russia, Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary. Or a war against Russia, East Germany and Poland fought in northern Norway. For these engagements the ILC anticipates we must have some 600 new weapons. All paid for by tax dollars with many cost overruns, of course. There is something insane in this picture of mature, intelligent men bending all their energies on plotting destruction and death. The Intelligence Threat Analysis Group-ITAG, of course-foresees some 385 "possible wars," with the United States risking in volvement in 145. The Congo and Bolivia are also mentioned as likely war theaters. And so is "an Asian conflict at Taiwan with the Republic of China, the United States, the Phillippines and Japan fighting Communist China." That's the brave new world on or amnest something in return. consul deserters, by donning renout hey acknowledged the old en >f the contract between to kn and their government doing, since have disavowed. returni 'rious offense and has board ged in all tim' s and in "4 dicate 'here can, of course, be Thei actors, depending upon world tances and motivations that ol action. 18-yea sgories, of course, the to see circumstances of the misses it IS, despite Reston and t, me) are of paramount secon< Take the case of our sy iley, the 27-year-old Jolley e (Fla.) newspaper more hose formal renun- Wi tizenship the Supreme still fli fused to upset, leaving it wou for deporation to to issu ny other country which is call m' withd ley registered for the compl , he apparently had no elapse s objections to ser- of trib he discovered more pleas rears later when the these ommitment to defend consid ~sia became obvious. meriti to press reports, he Thal itudent in high school, and b I to Canada, Jolley was was tj Id and had virtually young lisa college education, and di lked into the Amerian - the Pentagon's drawing board. As my father once said after some young vandals set fire to an empty cottage, "There must be other 'things those boys can do on a rainy Saturday." Up at the Hudson Institute, Herman Kahn's think tank, they've devised the full strategy for that possible war with Red China. It calls for our side to "detonate a one-megaton weapon at 500,000 feet above Peking as a demonstration." Simultaneously, the United States begins round-the clock broadcasts and drops leaflets proclaiming the destruction of Chinese military installations. "Your leaders have led you to disaster," we shall tell those poor stupid Chinese peasants. Back home, we'll be needing no leaflets to tell our poor stupid citizens the same news. I know that the next 30 years are expected to bring us all sorts of technical marvets. Herman Kahn has listed these for us, too: superperformance fabrics, papers and plastics, control of climate, two-way pocket telephones, in dividual flying platforms, home computers to perform all household tasks, hibernation and controlled sleep to cure disease, laser beams everywhere. All this plus programmed dreams and "nonharmful methods of overindulging." That programmed dream of tomorrow's wars is certainly an overindulgence and harmful hardly describes it. For some of us the best possible program for tomorrow would call for the closing of the Pentagon and the opening of a vast Institute for Peace. But don't count on it. As Dr. Gabor says, "People have to be educated to be good." Copyright 1971 Lms Angeles Times y begin ate in Toronto in 1967 to ice his citizenship, he was Dugh and intelligent enough wprecisely what he was athe snippy note which he ed to his selective service with his draft card in di. e is all the difference in the between Joiley's case and an impulsive, not-too-bright r-old who goes over the hill~ his girl before shipping out, his troop-ship, gets scared akes off for Canada. The I has a claim on a measure of mpathy and understanding; 's claim on these qualities is tenuous, eh is why, with Americans ghting and dying in Vietnam, Id be wrong and inequitable e a universal amnesty. What ed for, when the American rawal from Vietnam is ete and a decent period has d, is the creation of a system unals to review all amnesty related to the war. Before tribunals, cases should be ered on their individual will be a time-consuming urdensome process. But so be process by which other men were selected to fight e in Vietnam.