The Week

Let’s face it. There’s something unsatisfactory about an election in which there is only one candidate, and so we hope that U Thant will instantly urge fair and unrigged elections in Albania, Algeria, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burma, Byelorussia, Congo (Brazzaville), Congo (Kinshasa), Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Ethiopia, Greece, Guinea, Haiti, Hungary, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Libya, Malawi, Mongolia, Morocco, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, South Yemen, Spain, Sudan, Syria, Thailand, Tunisia, Ukraine SSR, USSR, United Arab Republic, Tanzania, Yemen, Yugoslavia and Qatar. Don’t forget Qatar, U.

They could do it themselves, mind you—“We have much experience in making not only trucks, but vehicles that can crawl around the moon.” But the Russians (just to be nice?) are going to let Mack Truck help them design, build and equip an enormous truck manufacturing plant, at a cost of around $750 million. Last year Ford Motor was all set to go on the same deal, until protests from the public and the Defense Department made them retire. This time around there were more noises from the Pentagon, but the White House went ahead and gave its approval. Comes now Young Americans for Freedom, which finds that the truck plant would “substantially aid the Communist government strategically, financially and industrially,” and would “permit the Soviet economic planners to divert substantial resources to other economic and military endeavors.” YAF will put pressure on Mack —through boycotts, picketing, public-information campaigns—to drop the deal. Similar tactics by YAF in the past have helped make such industrial giants as Ford, American Motors and Firestone Rubber reconsider the wisdom of trading with the enemy.

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Let’s face it. There’s something unsatisfactory about an election in which there is only one candidate, and so we hope that U Thant will instantly urge fair and unrigged elections in Albania, Algeria, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burma, Byelorussia, Congo (Brazzaville), Congo (Kinshasa), Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Ethiopia, Greece, Guinea, Haiti, Hungary, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Libya, Malawi, Mongolia, Morocco, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, South Yemen, Spain, Sudan, Syria, Thailand, Tunisia, Ukraine SSR, USSR, United Arab Republic, Tanzania, Yemen, Yugoslavia and Qatar. Don’t forget Qatar, U.

They could do it themselves, mind you—“We have much experience in making not only trucks, but vehicles that can crawl around the moon.” But the Russians (just to be nice?) are going to let Mack Truck help them design, build and equip an enormous truck manufacturing plant, at a cost of around $750 million. Last year Ford Motor was all set to go on the same deal, until protests from the public and the Defense Department made them retire. This time around there were more noises from the Pentagon, but the White House went ahead and gave its approval. Comes now Young Americans for Freedom, which finds that the truck plant would “substantially aid the Communist government strategically, financially and industrially,” and would “permit the Soviet economic planners to divert substantial resources to other economic and military endeavors.” YAF will put pressure on Mack —through boycotts, picketing, public-information campaigns—to drop the deal. Similar tactics by YAF in the past have helped make such industrial giants as Ford, American Motors and Firestone Rubber reconsider the wisdom of trading with the enemy.