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Thursday, April 5, 1973
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Spring Cleaning
The question of whether the President can extend the concept of "executive privilege" to protect members of his staff from being questioned by Congress is now being brushed aside in favor of another, more pressing question: Does the President really have any constitutional authority to withhold information from Congress?
The situation facing Congress now is the controversial Watergate Affair. If the situation in question dealt with national security or international relations, I could easily understand the President's reluctance to allow a former staff officer to testify. Unfortunately, the question is whether anyone else on the White House staff is guilty of criminal activity.
The activity to which I refer is not the sort that is, of necessity, often indulged in by government. To believe that some questionable activity is not occasionally necessary would be to demonstrate the same sort which was exhibited by the conspiracy thinkers who have hearts of gold, a proposition which my friends in the social sciences tell me is not the case, being instead common robbery with no purer motive than self-interest.
In 1948, President Truman refused to give security files to the House
Un-American Activities Committee. This action was strongly protested by California Congressman Richard M. Nixon who stated that the order could not stand from a constitutional standpoint. Evidently the constitution has changed since that time and as such it is no longer an executive privilege-being applied to protect both present and former White House staff members.
In the interest of fairness, it must be noted that the President has stated that he will allow staff members to testify informally before a grand jury investigating the case. Also, it is not hard to understand why such a preference to deal with the Justice Department instead of Congress.
There are many problems facing the country today that a president lacks the power to solve. The complexities of many of the problems are well beyond the comprehension of one man. The problems resulting from the Watergate Affair are within the power of the President to solve. I would very much like to have it aired and disposed of so that the legislative and executive branches of our government can get back to the business of running the country.
—John P. Bailey
*Guest Editorial*
Fighting Women's Lib
Having listened to William Buckley and Germaine Greer eloquently hack at each other for an hour on "Firing Line," I turned off the tube and turned to my wife.
"Well, what did you think," I said,
not really asking, as I already knew.
"Humph," she said, a bit ineloquently, since she considers me an incredibly biased male chauvinist pig.
Her response, coupled with Greer's insistence, set me to wondering if enough males were resisting the tide of women's liberation. (Will the Lawrence Post Office employees reading this please see that the responses are trucked to my home address?)
Think a moment, men. How many times have you seethed when your librarian companion wouldn't open a door for herself, because she's too busy telling you why she's as good as you. And weave you considered the possibility they don't donitis in your elbow from lightning all those cigarettes for women?
Listen carefully. You are the new breed of man in America. The man who will listen to a woman complain about his work will then agree with her. A man who can
cook, sew and do without. You should be alert.
Beware of women who are too friendly. They are librarians and they probably can compute your Dunn and Bradstreet from the lint in your bookcase. You are interested in your brother Harry. Either way you come up short.
Should a woman like this purr "hello" and offer an appendage for you to slober over, act like the new man you are. Withdraw a pace and ask stuffily, "What did you say your name was?" Or offer to arm wrestle her. Whatever, let her know you're not fooled.
On a date, if she forwards the notion that you're only interested in one thing, agree with her immediately. Don't worry about whether she will respect you or not. She's only good for one thing, right? Maybe two, if she can play basketball.
With tactics like these, men can stave off being overwhelmed. Fight back! Get a paintbrush and change every "chairperson" you see to man." Spread the rumor that Barbara Showalter is a Mason. Anything.
What's that, dear? Coming.
Chuck Potter
WASHINGTON—To the City of Huntington Beach, Calif., may go the distinction of being the first American community to have every one of its citizens, man, woman and child, guilty or innocent, accused or unaccused, on his property. This data bank won't be restricted to criminal activity, but will include everything that every branch of local government knows about people living at a given address—including medical information, abandoned cemetery hills, credit history and even the name of the family dog.
Nicholas von Hoffman
Government Modifies Behavior
rental units in this city of about 140,000 people. To take care of that, an effort is underway to pass a law requiring landlords to file such information about their tenants with the police.
Although this informational system is now being put into effect, one obstacle is preventing it from working properly. To get the dope on people living in
As you might suppose, this grand endeavor is being paid for with federal money through the Law Enforcement Assistance Program to the money to the California Council on Criminal Justice, a state agency, which apportion it to county and local law enforcement units, so you can't mention that there is no local control.
There may not have been too much citizen awareness, inquired by Mr. Pat Michaels, a reporter for the Capitol News Service, a
Sacramento-based organization that services 371 dailies and weekdays around the state. Michaela also found much disconcerting material about federally funded police- youth-seems to be lacking, and seems that mainly right-wingers are upset about it.
A spokesman for the California Council on Criminal Justice somewhat sadly conceded that Michael's report on Huntington Beach is correct, but disputed the accusation that his agency was paying for a number of programs in which he worked with schoolchildren and adolescents in the law-enforcement computer record system.
Tschudy said the day he was driven into the Hanoi Hilton compound, June 20, 1965, two days after he was shot down over Thanh Hoa, the camp burst in whistled roar of "America beautiful," "It's a Grand Old Flag," and "God Bless America."
"We also whistled a lot," Tschudy said. "I've been in places that at times sounded like a bird cage."
"That did two things," he said. "It informed prisoners who couldn't see my arrival that a new man was in camp, and it let me believe your values! I call you it sounded良好 good me at that point."
federal grants aren't terribly reassuring. San Diego County, for example, is receiving money from the state's horrific name of "Simplified Analytical Methods of Behavioral Systemization." Any kid over the age of 7, accused of committing a crime, is likely to be snapped up in it.
Whether or not the kids are going into the national crime data bank, applications for these
The bass of the system was a tap code. Although some elements of it have been disclosed, the Pentagon asked it to be divulged in case some men be missing in action might be using it.
A teacher who's having trouble with aasy sweety can put a kid in the program. Violations of curfew, drinking, playing hooky or being "beyon" the control of their parents or incorrigible to sweep up the kitchen or sweep a kid in. Only does he go in, but so do his parents.
Secret Codes Kept POWs Informed
The parents must choose between court action on their kids or submitting themselves to a group headshrink program that
In addition, however, they swapped jokes, chatted about old times, mocked their captors, spent endless hours discussing whether the suspect was for survival as how to pick handcuff locks with a wire.
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) - An ingenious communications network, in which every cough, whistle or scratch of an attack is recorded as an underground newspaper for American captives in North Vietnam, keeping them informed of camp activity and bucking up
Tschudi said the prisoners' main concern was in keeping track of one another's names, having to retrieve the captives, which they memorized.
"The amounts of information we passed along would amaze you," said LA Cmdr. William M. Tschudy, who spent nearly eight years in seven different prisons in and near Hanoi.
"For instance, if they had a big transfer of prisoners from one place to another, we'd know in 24 hours the names of everybody there and where they were located."
modestly describes itself as teaching the parents the "ability to handle their own affairs." At these sessions, conducted by experts of debatable expertise, they provide the truths that have eluded the philosophes of the past two millennia. They are told about "the etiology of behavior, both normal and abnormal, a basis for evaluation of their children's development, and the alternate techniques of behavior modification." To top it off, the civil servants doing these miraculous things are humble enough to conclude, "this project is not intended for parents, informed, knowledgeable and competent."
"We developed a sort of shorthand for our tap code," he said. "It not only made it much faster to pass information, but also made us more aware of the break. If they ever broke the code, there no evidence of it."
As the months and years oassed, Tschudy said, the communications system grew gradually more sophisticated.
"IIf we was washing my clothes, or instance," Tschudy said, "I would snap them in the air. The hair is wet, and I should snap them. But I would snap out."WT
A major aim, Tschudy said, was simply to keep track of everybody who gets into trouble, although some had badly cracks. The men themselves constructed other peepholes. They had to keep track con- trolers there were periodic transfers of prisoners as well as new arrivals.
SM', That would tell everybody that William Tschaffen and Scotty Morgan were in the wash area. "I know we were still around," know that we were still around." Further, the former prisoner further, each man had a personal phone.
"if somebody heard a guy walking past whistling 'The Yellow Rose of Texas,' he'd say, "There goes Bill Tschudi."
In their cells, the men gave priority to information such as details of "quizzes," their term for interrogation sessions that were conducted by the word passed the word about answers they had given so that the next man, asked the same question, could give a consistent answer.
Tschudy's parents, Dr. and Mrs. Roland Tschudy, live in Highland, Ill.
But the prisoners also chatted endlessly simply to occupy their
"I taught four guys how to extract square roots solely by tapping on the walls," Tschuddy told me. "I teach myself. I spent hours trying to remember how it was done, finally remembered, and when a new man would come I'd ask him if he knew how to extract square roots. I'd teach him, then we'd give each other problems to solve.
"We also passed the time in game like naming the states in alphabetical order, state names, and waterfall, that sort of thing."
minds and break the monotony of isolation.
"And if a guy was down, we'd buck him up. During some of the rough periods we did a lot of this. It gave us a sense of unity, of compromise. It's the way a lot of us were able to survive."
Tschudy said every device possible was used to communicate. At one camp they even brought a video that that grew on a tree in camp.
"We stole everything we could our hands on—scrapes of paper, bits of wire, pencil lead, body had his own cache," he said.
Tschudy said a great morale booster was mocking their captors' fractured English.
"W whenever they would say something like, 'Don't change horsehorses in the middle of the stream,' or that somebody had taken our horse, we'd spread it around and get a big kick out of它," he said.
"One guy me that during an interrogation by a certain V student, who was ticularly proud of his English, the V leaned back and said most profoundly. You must remember he right or wrong, just is just," she said.
"The guy almost broke up," Tsuchdy said, "but he could see how proud the V was of the expression, so he leaned forward, and she stood in the eye and say: You bet. Right or wrong, just is just."
Whether the sins of the saints should be visited on their fathers in this way is questionable when we have been committed out some of the sins, or nothing more than obvious classroom cut-ups. According to Michaela, who has been interviewing probation officers at the various programs, that's all it takes to get your behavior modified.
Almost as galling is the arrogance. Where does the City of Santa Paula, Calif., get off with the business-based behavior modification program for pre-deliquents? There is no science of behavior modification, no predictive modeling, no data analysis to be a "pre-deliquent," although a very good way of making somebody a delinquent is to call him a pre-deliquent. We do tend to forget that the social roles scribes to us.
Yet these officials need sympathy. If you're a cop and you are summoned to an address, it is important that what is behind that door. If you're a youth officer, inundated by complaints of misbehavior and criminal activity by juveniles, would be of great assistance to know what will commit a crime before him do it.
In times past the promethean assumptions on which such programs as these are built have been associated with that mixture of social science and social beneficence we call liberalism. But all of this is happening under a complex system of laws Washington and the most famous right-wing governor in the country.
Why? Maybe the controls family and community once exercised on youth have weakened to such an extent that the government must intervene to address them, maybe we are asking for a level of public lawfulness that is incompatible with personal liberty. But for the time being it might be best just to catch people and force them and their families to change their behavior modification after they've done something, not before.
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Washington Post-King Features Syndicate
More Fascinating Facts on Watergate
WASHINGTON—Sources close to the Watergate investigation have put together for us a few stories of how the Nixon administration are the latest fascinating facts
Obsessed
Jack Anderson
investigators have established;
—Despite an outward appearance of amity, Hunt and Liddy were jealous of each other, with trying with the other to bring off their feud. The two curryring favor with the White House, Liddy aimed to please his
Aside from this name-dropping, the conspiratorial Hunt and Liddy, whose direct testimony could implicate the higher-ups, always followed the old CIA rule: "When three people know a secret, it is an open record." Investigators describe their role as a CIA-trained professional sworn to keep his mouth shut. Liddy is regarded as eccentric, with an obsessed sense of mission. Of the two, Liddy was most inclined to brag and drop names.
—McCord, a pragmatic ex-FBI man, has confided to his friends that he is disappointed with the Senate committee investigating Watergate. He has hoped Sen. Sarvin, D-N.C., the chairwoman of the committee with Erwin absentee. Instead, it was left in the hands of Sen. Howard Baker, R-Tenn. McCord had gone to the unusual extent of preparing
a memo that carefully distinguished between what he knew of his own knowledge and what was hearay. But senators' meandering questions clouded the important distinction and McCord wound up being unfairly criticized for giving hearay a hard time, and did the veteran investigator is afraid that the staff, most of them accustomed to Senate ways, will drag their feet and fail to follow up expertly the vital leads he has provided.
patron presidential counsel Dean, while Hunt was anxious to gain the plaudits of Charles Colson.
McCord has acknowledged that he was promised executive clemency and financial support for his family if he would plead guilty and keep quiet about his crimes. And he pursued crimes. At a hush-bust humble shortly before Christmas, Hunt made the same offer to the other Watergate defendants. McCord didn't attend this meeting which was held at the Arlington Towers Police Department from Washington.
he was hired as President Nixon's security chief for the 1972 presidential campaign. House contacts, investigators describe McCord as solid, honest, and intensely patriotic, with an inhumatic hatred of Communism.
Copyright, 1972.
by Unified Feature Syndicate, Inc.
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  House dean, to fbi House dentals, to fbi FBI when he claimed not to know whether Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt had a White House office. This is spelled out he said the FBI had now been circulated outside the FBI. So many people have read the reports that acting FBI director L. Patrick Gray had no alternative, under oath, but to testify before the FBI. It is a federal violation to make a false statement to the FBI.
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Both Hunt and Gordon Liddy, another White House consultant convicted of Watergate crimes, are involved in several big names to conspire. Although Hunt and Liddy had direct contact with the White House inner circle, their five-man wirtening team had access to the likes of John Mitchell, Peter Reinhardt, Maurice Magruder and Charles Colson. These bigwigs' link to the illegal activities, therefore, is now strictly heresay. Investigators have a better circumstantial case against them, others, though he has denied under oath any advance knowledge of the burglar-bugging operation.
Joyce Neerman Sally Carlson
BUSINESS STAFF Business Adviser . . . Mel Adame
—The funds for the Watergate break-in and bugging were distributed by Hunt, who always dealt in cash. After his cohorts were caught at gunpoint inside the party headquarters, he bequeathed the money to pay the legal and living expenses of the defendants. But thereafter, Hunt's superiors never contacted him directly but delivered money through his wife, Dorothy, who was killed in a Chicago airliner crash. She would receive cryptic instructions by telephone, then would pick up money from goebteens. As a reluctant conspirator, she told her husband not to trust the telephone promises.
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Carol Dirks Chuck Goodsell
James McCord, the member of the Watergate conspiracy who is now talking, worked with the White House staff as a CIA agent. One source told us McCord's CIA activities brought him into direct conflict with the Nixon, then Vice President. McCord has acknowledged that
Griff and the Unicorn
By Sokoloff