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'The Mail Must go Through'[editorial title]

 The spreading disruption caused by the illegal strike of letter carriers in the metropolitan area makes it imperative that no more time be lost in restoring normal mail service.
  A final opportunity for effective union action to re-establish respect for lawful process and thus avoid the necessity for Federal coercion--by use of troops to move the mail--will come at a meeting in Washington today involving officers of all principal local of the National Association of Letter Carriers.
  The clear obligation of the union's national officers, under law and court order, is to do everything in their power to get the strikers back to work and to keep locals in other cities from joining the walkout. It would help in the endeavor if the Nixon Administration and the chairmen of the postal committees of House and Senate sent messages to the session, underscoring their resolve to provide fair wage increases for postal employees  as part of the postal reform legislation moving toward passage on Capitol Hill.
  Congress cannot move on the wage issue under the blackjack of an outlaw strike, but there is every sound reason to defuse strike sentiment by an explicit assurance that the Administration and Congress do intend to provide equity for postal employees. No element of appeasement would be involved in such a course, especially as there has never been any doubt that whatever legislation finally emerges will provide retroactive pay increases for postal workers.
  The national union and the heads of its affiliated locals will be serving both their own interests and the cause of labor by taking an uncompromising stand for lawful process at today's meeting. Meanwhile, the Administration has been well advised to move with initial circumspection as a test of the union's own will and capacity to exercise self-discipline.
  But there can be no further tolerance of the strike if it drags on beyond today. The mail must move, even if it requires the use of troops to move it. The Federal Government cannot stand impotent in the face of illegal acts committed by Federal civil service workers or anyone else bent on paralyzing the essential functions of Government.

'Two Senators - Four Masters?' [editorial title]

  Senators Vance Hartke, Democrat, and George Murphy, Republican, may be as free as they say they are of any interest other than the welfare of their respective states of Indiana and California. But in both cases more limited connections, yielding profitable returns, suggest serious conflicts of interest.
  The involvement of Senator Hartke with the fortunes of a large mail order house is particularly disturbing in the light of his Senatorial record. Like ex-Senator Brewster of Maryland, now under indictment for bribe-taking, Mr. Hartke received substantial campaign contributions from Spiegel, Inc., by way of a "citizens committee" in Washington. After the fund was set up in the 1964 campaign, the Senator requested assignment to the Post Office Committee, where he was worked tirelessly ever since to keep down the postal rate on third class mail and has otherwise obliged big mailers like Spiegel.
  Senator Murphy's possible conflict is of a lesser order only because there is no record of his having used his Senate seat to assist his commercial benefactor. The arrangement is blatant, all the same. Technicolor, Inc., gives him freedom to travel around the country on its credit card, and pays half the rent on his Washington apartment.
  Senator Murphy disclaims any interest in the firm's contract for Government photographic work, but by his own admission he spends only one one-hundredth of his time on Technicolor business. At the rate he is paid, his advice must be extraordinarily valuable - or Patrick J. Frawley, president of Technicolor and promoter of right-wing causes, finds it worth-while to keep a very conservative man happy in his Senate seat.
  The California Senator points out that he has been absolved of impropriety "once and for all" by no less than the chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Standards and Conduct, Senator Stennis of Mississippi. We doubt the finality of that absolution. A Senate that judges the purity of potential Supreme Court Justices - Senator Hartke voted against confirmation of Judge Haynsworth - owes the country a much higher standard than these two cases suggest.

'Urban Masochism' [editorial title]

  Once again, amid everything else, the city has been forced to endure a work-day St. Patrick's parade which could just as well have been held on a weekend. Traffic was stalled. Business was disrupted. Thousands marched and thousands cheered, but millions suffered.
  Now the city has promulgated another work-day traffic disruption, this time ironically in the name of Earth Day on April 22 when the emphasis across the nation will be on improving the human environment. The celebration here will include closing mid-town Fifth Avenue vehicular traffic from noon to [[?]] P.M. and closing 14th Street, Seventh Avenue to Second Avenue, from noon to midnight.
  While Fifth Avenue and 14th Street might both be better off without vehicular traffic at any time, the results of this demonstration can only be more massive traffic tieups, more smoke and noise than usual. Why not celebrate Earth Day in Central Park? Or, if traffic is to be a target, why not forbid all but emergency and commercial vehicles from entering Manhattan altogether on Earth Day, having provided fringe-area parking space and public transportation for commuters?
  Certainly we support Earth Day, and enthusiastically endorse its purpose. But, blocking off arterial streets and disrupting traffic is only a kind of [[?]] on Columbus Day, Veterans Day, [[?]] Day, and, yes, on Earth Day, too.

'At Last, Abortion Reform' [editorial title]

  After years of delay in Albany, when reform measure could not even get out [[?]] for floor debate and a vote, the Senate approved the most sweeping reform yet [[?]] any state. Its prospects for approval in the [[?]] are encouragingly good.
  Abortion reform is long overdue. The state law, enacted in the 19th century, permits only when a licensed physician has "a [[?]] belief that such is necessary to preserve the [[?]] the prospective mother. It is a cruelly restr[[?]] that has doomed countless thousands of [[?]] continued unwanted pregnancies, even [[?]] might have resulted from incest or rape or might pose a threat to physical or emotion[[?]].
  The reform approved by the State Senate [[?]] the language restricting abortions to cases [[?]] the life of the prospective mother can be [[?]] endangered if the pregnancy is allowed to [[?]] It would permit abortions when a woman [[?]] physician agree that one is desirable.
  This may seem like too sweeping a reform [[?]] restrictive a statue. It is however, probably [[?]] kind of change that will ultimately withstand challenges that have already been mounted [[?]] states against existing abortion laws.
  While fully recognizing the depth and [[?]] feeling of those who believe that about [[?]] immoral act, we have come to the conclusion [[?]] is not a matter for the state to decide but [[?]] woman, in consultation with her physician [[?]] have the right to determine whether to [[?]] pregnancy or not, jut as she should have [[?]] decide whether to begin one or not. We the [[?]] the Assembly and Governor Rockefeller to [[?]] are in establishing this as the public policy.

'The Goldberg Candidacy' [editorial title]

  Arthur J. Goldberg's announcement y[[?]] direct reversal of his position now a candidate for the gubernatorial [[?]] brings into the race New York State's most [[?]] Democrat. Having served as United States ambassador to the United Nations, as Associate Justice [[?]] Supreme Court and as Secretary of Labor Goldberg is unquestionably a man of except[[?]] and great distinction.
  However, he will be plagued by the [[?]] has allowed himself to be surrounded by wheelhorses, the entrenched organizations whom the reform and liberal elements have been desperately trying to oust. Fu[[?]] will not be precisely easy to explain away [[?]] uncompromising announcement of noncan[[?]] the most sophisticated voters could be [[?]] know that nothing, absolutely nothing is immune to change.
  In yesterday's announcement, Mr. Goldberg [[?]] that he is now ready to make the guberna[[?]] "if a majority of the delegates" at the [[?]] convention want him as their candidate [[?]] considers the issues extraordinarily important [[?]] election year. He has seemed, almost from [[?]] to seek a draft, to want the Democratic nomination handed to him on a silver platter. It has [[?]] obviously; nor should it have been.
  To become his party's gubernatorial nominee Goldberg will not only have to clear [[?]] he has set for himself and win the sup[[?]] majority of the delegates at the state convention [[?]] also defeat other candidates who are determined [[?]] make the subsequent race in the primary. S[[?]] in may drop out. Some now out may come in [[?]] the potentially strong candidates who have entered the race is former United States [[?]] Robert M. Morgenthau, now Deputy Mayor. [[?]] the handicap of having been his party's nominee [[?]] 1962 and losing, but he has gained experience [[?]] stature of his own since then.
  The state's primary laws need revision to [[?]] a distinctly minority candidate in a crowded [[?]] emerging as the victor - as happened in the Democratic primary contest for Mayor of New York [[?]] year. There is, however, value in a race with [[?]] number of good candidates in the field. Mr. Goldberg [[?]] certainly a good candidate, and his announcement [[?]] contributes to this end.

'Finland Inches to the Right' [editorial title]

  Finland has been enjoying relative prosperity [[?]]ly as well as freedom from any crude Soviet [[?]] interfere in its affairs. The combination p[[?]] guaranteed that the parties in Premier Ma[[?]] visto's coalition would do well and there w[[?]] little change in the parliamentary elections.
  These expectations were fulfilled though [[?]]tion parties did not do as well as they h[[?]] while the opposition Conservative and Smaller parties did better than anticipated. But the [[?]] to the right does not suggest any major alt[[?]] governmental composition or policy.

  For foreigners, the chief change of interest [[?]] decline of the Communist party - a member [[?]] ruling coalition - which polled only 19 percent [[?]] vote, the lowest percentage in may years. [[?]] was badly split by the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and regained electoral unity only sho[[?]] the elections. The results suggest that some voters, formerly pro-Communist, may have [[?]]bered Prague when they cast their ballots.
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