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Observer, La Grande, Ore., - LA GRANDE tenihg Ofoerter Eitablithcd U9a La Grand, Oregon Daily Except Sunday Publtahed Br the Grande Honda Valley Publishing Company F. E. Wcybret, President RAY C. ANDERSON Editor 4 Publisher GEORGE S. CUALL1S Adv. Director Member Audit United Press WBST-HOUDAT ' CO:, 'INC. ' National ' neprgaenlatlT Xoa Aneolea Hn Francisco Portland Beattle Denver , New York Chicago Detroit , ' SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier 125 Month . 15.00 Year By Motor Route ; 1.40 Month 16.80 Year BY 1 Month 1.25 0 Months :. 6.50 . Rntered ai Second Claaa Matter at the Poat Office of La Grande, Oregon Under the Act of March 8. 181V le East Development .vThe, conviction appears, to be growing that any viable political settlement in- the Middle East must belied in with or even rest upon a broad regional develop ment program there. U. S. dipom'ats., casting about foil-a positive approach in the forthcoming, show-dpwn with Soviet Kussia, are said to be studying such a plan, though. Secretary of State Dulles has shown no great enthusiasm for. the idea in the past. . ": ... ,.i"oi-,the basic , idea.,is not new. It keeps reappearing from year to year in a variety of,,guiaesy Kormer .Iresi. dent, Truman, has, long championed the. idea of area der .velopmont for the Middle East. In, a. syndicated article of Feb. 14, 1957,- for example, he wrote:, .. . We must realize we cannot-achieve a durable peace in the, Middle Kasy until we,caa bring- together ..into close economic cooperation nil the nations of. that area,; ,We, cannot ,be too soon .in tackling this problem. AU thq, nations of the Middle East, Jiave, common wa ter resources in the Euphrates, the .Jordan,, and. the Nile.;. If these water resources , are fully develppTiJ,..a 'flourishing civilization such as existed in. ancient days will, rise, again. , , ' , .,..,.,'., ( j ,As.,long ago. as, Decern tier -1951) the United -iener'al Assembly voted $30 million to finance a reintegration pvogrrm for Palestinian Arab refugees to , be adminis tered by the .U.N. Belief and Works Agency. The two most ambitious projects called for irrigating tfte north western part-of the Sinai Peninsula , with, Nila River witter piped from the Suez Canal and developing the whoje Jordan. River system. , , , ; ... ?..'. . ; The Sinai plan was shelved in 1956 when President .Gamnl Abdel Nasser of Egypt decided that Nile, waters could ,not ,be spared , uptilt, the Aswan High. Dam,, had been: -built, ,'fo. promote ..the. Jordan, project,, Eric ,A Johnstoiii -acting as a special presidential envoys made several trips to the Middle East in the years 195S-i,955. It foundered over the impossibility of-bringing Jordan, Israel, and Syria together to agree. on -riparian rights-,.-,. Thcn there , is the ''Italian Middle-Eastern .doctrine" proposed by former. Foreign -Minister Giuseppe Pella. when- hc, visited. Washington last December. The Itali ans envisage 'a new. Middle : Eastern development fund established, by the United States and Western Europ ean countries, . with' the United States, contributing the repayments. on -its Marshall, Plan loans.. . The -new Premier," Amintore Fanfani, is reported to have brought up the Pella plan again on his recent visit to this country? v . . - ' .,; ,-x The MiddlerEast ot'-course is divided, between "have" and "have-not" nations, and what the "haves''' have is oil.- Emile fv(. Bustani, a, member-of the Lebanese iParliment, tmd an. oil pipeline builder last Oct., 22 pro posed, the easing of tensions, by ,niaking,.funds, from oil profits available to .countries that do not produce oil. A. close friend of, Nasser, Bustani. reported that Egypt was willing .to. have an oil pipeline built from one end tof the Suez Canal to. the other. .. .. ' ' 'i -. J ; Dr.' Alt- Amini, Iranian .Ambassador to' the ' United iStates, jnftde a similar, proposal last Jan.; 31. Iran, un Jlike -.Lebanon,., is. -an oil-have nation. Over-all Middle 'Eastern oil. .income flows in at the rate of about $1 'billion a year. ... . Now Sen. Jacob K. Javits (R N.Y.) is propotjing Jtlmt, the United States push a ".suitably- adapted and adequately -financed regional .development plan" along Marshall I. Plan lines for .the. Middle East. And , on the Jollier side-of the aisle,. Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D Minn.) asks that we "take the initiative, in the. U.N. Jjn -proposing a Middle East development Agency, as m mdministering body for the mutual pooling of capital land technical aid in the region." Sid e Glances 11 "The people who ordered It palled the wedding off, so ' the baker let me havo it for half price!" Friday, Aug. 15, 1958 'Pag Bureau of . Circulation Full Leased Wire MAIL 3 Months 1 Year ... 8.30 12.00 i r. , r i ; , NtA Service, SEAT Fdced By New By KwC. THALERv. at j United Press lnremrlonal : . LONDON v VPl"r.,: SEATO.'ithc Southeast Asia , Treaty . rganiza-i tiori, has been .confronted wilh a severe, challenge that j mayi seri ously .hamper its-ireedom of ac tion; against. Communist subver sion, in. the treaty area. w,:i. The cliallenge has -come from SEATO's vseeretary , genoral. Nai Pole - Sarasin, who declared' sub versive activities the- responsibility of , a momber country's own na-i tional forces, ir-r .n-v .: f,.i ;.,iv... I . Sarasin.-i-a ': formen;; provisional prime minister of . Thailand who is on ;aniofficlal-.-,vislt".-.of! Australia, was reported from Canberra today to have .termed political coups a domestic- affair? ttof. the- country in which- they; occur; jwhiEh:ould not involve- other s members. r,-..a ft- appears? this .interpretation would limit SEATO's- right of in tervention! .fori. jnatancu(...in.. the ovent of a Communist-engineered or iv backed coup .in a member country, ,. .v, ' , , The issue has been spotlighted by .the recent Baghdad coup : which confronted the .Baghdad Pact na tions with the cruciat question of whether or -not- to intervene in Iraq- when - a- rebel - regime over threw the Fqisal government. Tho, Baghdad nutions came to the - conclusion at la meeting in iondon a fortnight 'ago against in tervention because the rebel re gime, was considorcd to have the support of the people of Iraq and because it was held to be in full control of ..the country. Also it at once pledged itself to honor exist ing international -commitments. Sarasin now - reportedly holds the view that a political coup in SEATO. member ' country, in principlo, would not Involve other members; ; ..' . Other-member nations could not tako. action . . unless N the - were nsked by. the . threatened govern ment. Even then,, they would not be obliged to go to its aid under Much Acta About Coffee Pot Ud TULSA, OMa. ..UPI - A per colator lid disappeared in a Tulsa department -store Wednesday and store officials nlorted police. A full search of the large store us planned, but just before po- ico were ready to start the inch- - inch . hunt they . arrested Charles Westi 18, -on employe-of the store, and charged him with taking the lid. West confessed.; ,. ' Store ' officials whisked Hie lid away from him and put it in a atilt for 'safekeeping. Today.tho lid. vm back on its percolator, on display in the store. !-- '- -' Too much fuss for a coffee pot lid? : , : ' " ., . 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Some., observers .argued that if, for. example, . a Communist coup should remove the ruling regime in a SEATO country by- a light ning stroke, the "threatened gov ernment" would no longer have a chance to invoke SEATO assist ance. -., -..(There1 would be, in this interpre tation no room for SEATO. inter vention, even if the ousted regime could have invoked it. - These views have been received with' considerable interest in gov ernment quarters. . ..i ;) Britain appears to agree with tho, broad outlines of this interpre tation, of SEATO's Thai secretary general.' ... A Foreign, Office spokesman let it be; understood that he had "no 1st quality WYL0 v This 1st quality Nylon tire Is so toiigb, it is guaranteed against AN Y failure including blowouts, bruises, rim cuts, etc. for the full life o tlie long-'wearing tread. 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LONDON I UPI I , Reliable sources disclosed today that , ii Russia had precipitated a major war with the West over the re cent Middle East crisis, t h e American and British strategit air forces would have attempted to wipe out 20 Russian cities with one massive retaliation nuclear attack. Those 20 Russian cities, in cluding Moscow and Leningrad, are the primary targets for the U.; S. and; British . H-bombers in the event- the Soviets should .re sort to war against the Western Allied powers, ,,, : : Now that the United States and Britain have . relaxed, their, war possible alerts and t Moscow has announced ttie end of the Russian army maneuvers on the Turkish frontier, the danger of -a world war developing over - the- Middle East, situation isi considered in diplomatic and military circles to have, passed. ..-, .. -.. i: However, it is now apparent thaUone of the greatest, calculated risks of-the cold war was involved in the-American and British mili tary intervention. in the; Lebanon. That risk was based- on the assumption of. Anglo..- American diplomacy that Russia would not precipitate a. nuclear. war with the West; over the. Middle East. Nevertheless, those responsible for: the defense of ' thsv" United Stales- and 'Great Britain could not be sure how . Russia -would react- They had ' to be prepared for any eventuality 'in those first few day.1. after the American Ma rines landed' in the Lebanon and British' paratroopers were flown to Jordan. That was the reason why the American and British air. and naval forces were placed on a war-possible alert basis. It was why the Anglo - American H bombers were poised' to put into instant effect the Strategic Air Command plan that calls for nu clear destruction of Russia's main cities if the rulers of the Kremlin should order any "Pearl Har bor" - type sneak attack on the West. RAINBIRD Sprinklers & Paris Authorized Dealer Machinery & Supply 1410 Adams Ph. 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WASHINGTON (UPH-The gov ernment says Americans' personal income rose to an. all-time high last. month, but part of . the in crease. ironically came from job less pay benefits.-!) ..r ;,.n;.v ...An -.official .-report .yesterday said personal, i income' laob'lmonUi was running: atsa -seasonally-adjusted annual rate of $358,900,000, 000i! a ,vi -. ;.-('!! -t rt.$is?,:i. The former record was $352,100, 000,000 in August of last year; . -. -tIncludedini the latest . rise., were jobless benefits .which - mounted as 20' states'- granted- temporary ex tensions of payments to the long term unemployed. - . c Wages, and salaries, a key eco nomic indicator.- advanced for the third straight month but -still fell short of pre-recession marks. Polish off back Cash to get set for school . . . and all the plans and purchases you have in mind. Prompt, private loans on Signature only, car or furniture. ; -. Robert L. 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Moscow s original an--nouncemet a ll out the Soviet T..i.;nu. army, -maneuvL-rs i ti mc. iumian frontier, was regarded as a propaganda-move: to frighten -the United States and. Britain- away from allowing King Hussein of Jordan . to move into Iraq to re store a pro Western, regime there. There is now. some doubt as to. whether there i were - any unusual Soviet military maneu vers. .-'Ml .'-!' "'" 'vt' ' ' .. Of considerable interest' to. dip lomatic observers in .London: to day was the theory advanced in one British paper that Communist China- may try to plunge Russia into -war with- the United Slates inthe hope both: countries would destroy - one another -and "leave China tho dominant power. f the ivnrM. That was. what Stalin . sus pected, the British of wanting, to do with respect to Germany and rj..:-. knfM-o tho nnthrpak nf World War II. - to - school bills $25 to $1500 Oragon irgfe, scsvitig! - tmt tmf T Vtt lltiwiilnl-
