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The United Auto Workers union scored a victory
.last week in its contract negotiations with Chrysler
Corp., but the American consumer came out a big
loser.
Chrysler agreed to en Increase cf almost $ 1 billion
in wages End fringe benefits over a two-year period
beginning Oct 1. Chrysler employees will see their
paychecks increase by about 3 percent during that
period, according to the current edition cf Newsweek.
UAW officials are, of course, elated at the cut
come, but for the consumer, it s'gr.als a return to the
dangerous trend cf excessive wage increases for
autoworkers.
The higher wages are nice for those who receive
-them, but they force the company that pays them to
raise prices and that's where the consumer loses. In
the end, it also could be where the UAWs victory
Richard Nixon thinks that pacifist
activists are "idiots," that people favor
ing nuclear disarmament are suffering
from "a form of radiation sickness,"
that Soviet leader Yuri Andropov is "a
hard-headed pragmatist, not a mad
man" and that Ronald Reagan would
do well to go to Moscow to address the
Soviet people on television.
Those are some of the highlights of a
new manuscript written by Nixon, call
ed "Real Peace" which is published and
distributed privately by the former
president Some 700 copies of the manu-
yx! Greene
script will be printed in book form by
Nixon and sent to government officials
and leaders around the world. The
book will not be available to the gen
eral public.
In light of news developments in
recent days, Nixon's specific thinking
about the prospects of peace and
war between the United States and
the Soviet Union are worth taking note
of. Some excerpts:
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On nuclear disarmament: "In his
heart everyone knows that the only
people who get rich from the 'get rich
quick' books are those who write them.
But just as there are countless 'get rich
quick schemes, there is a wide array cf
seductively appealing 'get peace quick?
schemes. These are the myths cf peace.
Myths are fairy tales that people make
up about things they otherwise would
not understand . ... Some, out of des
peration or supreme naivete, have sug
gested that an international authority
be established to banish nuclear wea
pons and make sure they are never
built again . . . That the disarmiets
would propose some outlandish wcrld
government' shows that most of them,
to put the most charitable light on the
matter, are Irving in a dream world, in
which problems between nations can
be solved by some authority other than
national governments. This delusion is
a form of radiation sickness. If.you
lock directly at an atomic blast you
may go blind; apparently intellectual
blindness can resultirom contemplat
ing the nuclear weep ens issue for too
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On nuclear war vs. conventional
v.a r. "One cf the raazt caapty-hcad:d
cr.J dangercu3 fallacies cf the nuclear
v.. . U would necessarily 1 3 letter cl
x ' ' -ut ni!cl:rr wcrper.3. Tkrre v. ho
,';-:d the trcrcli warfare cfWerld
If the public refuses to pay Inflated prices for the
Inferior automobiles turned out by Detroit, the Dig
Three automakers will see more and more cf their
business go to foreign companies. The UAW may see
its members in the unemploymentlines again.
Right now, American auto sales are booming.
With the economy well on its way to recovery, auto
mobile company prci3 are bound to skyrocket We
dent deny that the employees should get a share cf
that extra refit, but a 25 percent increase over two
years seems a bit large, especially considering that
Inflation rates have remained under 5 percent
Workers at Chrysler have been earning less than
the employees at Ford ilotor Co. and General
Motors Corp. because cf wage concessions made
several years ago. But it's hard to feel sorry for any cf
ventional war brings its own unique
horrors. We must not allow our under
standable fear cf a nuclear war to
blind us to the increasingly awful des
tructiveness of conventional weapons.
Conventional weapons killed 15 mil
lion in World War I and over 54 million
in World War II. Casualties in a con
ventional World War III would be far
greater."
On Andropov: The West knows
little about Andropov himself! When
he came into power, he was the subject
of intense speculation in the West
Some media observers suggested that
he was a closet liberal, a pussycat who
would be easy to deal w ith because he
liked American jazz and drank Sect eh
Such ta
tors are forever confusing style with
substance. They are suckers for style
because style is their bread and butter.
In the 1950s, they dismissed NiMta
Khrushchev as a lightweight because
he spoke bad Russian, drank too much,
wore ill-fitting clothes and had crude
manners. They were wrong about
Khrushchev, and they are wrong about
Andropov. Anyone who claws his way
to the top in the murderous jungle
warfare cf the Soviet hierarchy is bound
to be a formidable adversary. Only the
strong survive and reach the top in
Communist regimes. We know this for
sure about Andropov. He is an intelli-
who shares the global ambitions cf
every Soviet dictator since the Bcl
shevsk Revelation. Those who expect
. the Soviet Union to moderate its bel
ligerence as soon as Andropov consol
idates his power are -deluding them
selves. Fortunately, however, he is a
hard-headed pragmatiat, not a mad
man." On Reagan and the Russians: "One
great benefit cf a summit, meeting in
Moscow would be that President Rea
gan would have the opportunity to
address the Soviet people cn televi
sion. Net only could he dl pcl his image
in the Soviet pree3 as a reckless war
monger, but he could also present our
point cf view as the free world's most
.ectii e spokesman. Some scoff at the
. thought that such aspeech can accomp
lish anything. After all, the Kremlin
leaders are hardly concerned by their
Gallup rating. But I had the opportun
ity to address the Soiiet people in
lCCD, 1072 and 1874, and if the level cf
cfncial anriety ever theae Lrcr t3
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I was driving home the other even-'
ing when a man in a blue Chevrolet cut
in front cf me illegally, immorally
"Stupid idietT l eaid aloud, quickly
accelerating the two tons of metal in
which I sat I would catch up with him
and cut him cf the way he'd cut me cX
I would teach him a lesson.
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unable to get around him in the heavy
trafZe and he escaped unpunished. I
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arrived home angered and frustrated.
Justice had not been served.
That evening, I was sitting nest to an
intelligent and attractive . woman at
dinner. The conversation, as it does
these dap, got around to The Plane.
She said she was convinced the Rus
sian military was behind the shooting
down cf the Korean airliner. They,
wanted to open, a confrontation with
ur., eke said, to scuttle the disarma
rr.cr.t tails, which they viewed with
cur" icion. " .. - ',. -.:
And, anyway, she said, she was glad
Pre: '.dent Reegan had closed down the
V,. j ArrcHst c.zzi in this country.
' Che wished .he coa!4 have done mors
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the UAW members.
The new contract is expected to bring Chrysler
salaries up to par with those cf the ether two major
automakers.
. According to Newsweek, production line workers
currently make 1 2 1.40 an hour at General I lctcrs
and $23.37 an hour at Ford all cf this for a pro
duct that continues to decline in quality.
The UAW has been among those unions telling us
to buy American-made products, but considering
the UAWs constant demands for increased wages
and its apparent lack of regard for quality, it h hard
to take those please seriously.
The American consumer should not be expected
to pay the UAWs inflated wages out of a feeling cf
patriotism.
taTy sterile cmstien it is.
. I suppose vengeance was part cf us
. long before we swung down from the
trees. I suppose it served a civilizing
. have hesitated to braia hb neighbor
for fear his neighbor would brain him
back. And thus vcrgcar.ee kept an
Yet .vengeance has alweys borne
with it the seeds cf tragedy: the saakef
Troy, Idedea, the salting cf Crrthr -.e,
Dick,' the Irish, the Aj:--:rJ;.r.5, the
. Ixbanese. . .Vengeance lies in the dark
side cf cur natures.". '
The Har.3 has brought it' cut :il
We zzlz not what course we::li best
sere cur interests; we r,:!? cr.'y f;r
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' - "Lleod must pay 'for blood!" cries a
Tia ready to stand up ralr.-i Ccn
munbm,"Twri:3 an irate reader. "V.'hat
about you?" : ' .
And even that ir,tc"'"ar:t ' we:-a.an
who believed the Russian miliary
were behind the tragedy weald plry
ir.to their hand3 by givir.g them the
confrontation she.. thought they
Such a powerful c a: a tic a! Co power
ful that world peace r.ew ii.lz cn the
ceaeert that vcngear.ee, if unleaal.ed,
will destroy mankind. Cl.aald the Zz
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