79-10-B7
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Transcript[edit]With SALT II in the air I thought you'd like this bit of news from "Tass", the Soviet news agency. Tass reports that Brezhnev is annoyed with President Carter for talking about verifiability of the proposed treaty's terms. According to "Tass", "The President must know well that the Soviet Union has always, throughout the whole of its history, strictly adhered to and abided by the agreements it signed." If memory serves me correctly, the Soviet Union has violated 52 treaties and agreements just since World War II. I'm indebted for this next one, to Mike Royko, a Chicago columnist. An official of the Chicago Housing Authority discovered that a neighborhood priest was celebrating mass in two senior citizen apartment buildings. He did this once each month to bring a little peace of mind and happiness to these elder citizens who were unable to get out and go to church. The official put a stop to this on the grounds of separation of church and state. After all, this was public housing financed by federal grants. The clause of the constitution he invoked, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion" concludes with the phrase, "or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."-- UNQUOTE. Bless free enterprise! I've already spoken about the anti-nuclear power people and the fact that behind the scenes they are being manipulated by forces sympathetic to the Soviet Union. But now the Anti-Nukes (as they are being called by some) are squirming uncomfortably at the thought that their sacred cause is being commercialized. An unscheduled speaker took the microphone at an anti-nuclear rally on Boston Common and told the "Clamshell Alliance" how its members could ward off radiation. He said that chewing wheat grass and planting it around your home would do the trick. Classified ads are appearing in a Harrisburg newspaper offering "personal radiation detectors", plus home inspections for radiation. Then there is a Boston publication, a macrobiotic journal which claims that miso, a soybean product, is helpful in "preventing and curing radiation sickness". Miso, according to the article will also detoxify and eliminate heavy radioactive elements from the body. The anti-nuclear advocates are fearful that all this commercial activity will discredit their cause. And finally an item that might be light at the end of the tunnel -- like, say a pin point of light. A Congressional committee has been unable to find out how many programs there are in the federal government. Now the Office of Management and Budget, swinging a sword considerably smaller and more delicate than the one with which St. George smote the dragon, is going to attack the federal bureaucracy. It wants Congress to abolish the United States Marine Corps Memorial Commission which completed its task (a memorial in Chicago) 20 years ago. The Annual Assay Commission, which hasn't had anything to do since we stopped using gold and silver in coins in 1965, and the low-emission Vehicle Certification Board, which looked for and couldn't find a pollution free vehicle. This is Ronald Reagan. Thanks for listening. |
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