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Thursday, March 29, 1973
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'Peace' in Vietnam
Now that the war in Vietnam is "over," it it more than just a little entertaining to watch the parties of the dispute try to cope with the peace arrangements. The leaders of North Vietnam have been understandably reluctant to release the last of the prisoners of war because these men have been serving as an effective carrot to lead the donkey where the leaders of North Vietnam have wanted it to go.
There is still no guarantee that there are not more American prisoners in jails in the North. Over 1500 men were listed as missing in action before the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong released their lists of prisoners. If the people of North Vietnam should decide that the United States is not responding correctly later on, they may come up with another complete list, doubtlessly of new prisoners.
This is only speculation and I wouldn't want any of my readers to think that I am totally committed to this proposition. I am not. Still, it is going to think about and certainly not beyond the realms of the possible.
If the peace-loving peoples of Vietnam were truly dedicated to the proposition of peace, there wouldn't have been any SAM missile sites in the South almost immediately after the peace agreement was signed.
It would be interesting to know what President Nixon told the people in Hanoi that convinced them that the missiles might not be safe where
they were. Possibly, he was able to convince them that they might be needed more in the North than in the South.
One such incident would not be too alarming, since it was probably a mistake on the part of the North Vietnamese. They probably just thought that the joint peace commission might not be able to adequately protect the North Vietnamese troops in the South. The commission has since shown its good intentions toward the North.
Meanwhile the North Vietnamese, obviously concerned about the chances of peace, have been amassing tanks and artillery in the vicinity of the DMZ. Intelligence reports have revealed that there have been orders circulated to North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops that indicate there is a strong probability that the North Vietnamese leaders are planning an invasion of South Vietnam sometime this summer.
These incidents only serve to indicate the dangerous situation that now exists in Southeast Asia. This has a tremendous potential to affect us all. Whether we like it or agree with the President is still committed to the effort to protect our names are not going to take over South Vietnam by coercive means.
In very simple terms, this means that if the North Vietnamese don't back off, we may have ourselves another war. Whether you think Vietnam is worth another war will depend on what you think of coercion.
John P. Bailey
Pilots Fear Possible Hazards From 'Hot' Cargo on Airliners
WASHINGTON (AP) —The nation's airline pilots are at odds with their bosses and the government over the shipment of hazardous materials on commercial aircraft.
And the pilots are suggesting proposals for tightening controls on shipments of other flammable and explosive materials.
The plots want radioactive materials barred from their planes on grounds that they are using and a temptation to blackers.
Among other things, the pilots want tougher packaging and labeling regulations for hazardous materials, a spokesman for the pilots said.
Hazardous materials are transported safely if包装ed and handled according to existing rules, they say, adding that air shipment of some materials is essential.
The Air Transport Association (ATA), representing the scheduled airlines, and the Federal Aviation Administration content that present safeguards are adequate and effective.
An Air Line Pilots Association committee headed by Capts. James Eckols and Dum Don Dum. The American Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) ruled issued last month that reduces the amount of radioactive material that may be domestic passenger aircraft.
The AEC said no more than 20
grams of plutonium or uranium
235 or 390 grams of U-255 could be
shipped on commercial flights.
Previously the limits had been
2,000 grams of plutonium or U-233
and 5,000 grams of U-235.
"It is hijackable material, worth $20,000 a pound—more valuable than heroin. It could be taken into incentive . . . to hijack a plane."
"Aside from that, it's very, very hazardous material. Plutonium is probably the worst material in the world . . . flammable, poisonous . . . produces cancer on the skin."
The two pilots recommended that plutonium be carried only by military personnel.
The plots said that an AEC listing indicated that about two per cent of radioactive materials in one manner or another.
They concluded from this that within a few years an enemy agent, by theft or hijacking, could be a stockpile of bomb materials.
Last month AEC Chairman James Schlesinger, in announcing the new restrictions on air shipments, said there had been no thefts of special nuclear materials.
But he added, that it was imperative that all possible precautions be taken to safeguard them.
James F. Rudolph, director of FAA's flight standards service, said air shipment of radioisotopes to hospitals was essential to the health of two million Americans.
"These materials could not be transported any other way in the time required." Randolph said.
The American Hospital Association said 3,000 U.S. hospitals had radioisotope facilities and many had no capacity to air transportation for receiving the materials they need.
An ATA spokesman said that scheduled airlines served 531 cities, but that only 50 of these airlines had all-cargo flights. Thus, he said, radioisotopes are used by the armed air freighters. Some must move in the cargo underbellies of passenger aircraft.
"The handling of such cargo has yet to result in a single reported case of serious injury," he said.
Airlines are required to notify an airplane captain of any hazardous material aboard his craft. He has the authority to require that the material be removed if he considers it dangerous, or to refuse to make the flight.
Spiro, John . . .
WASHINGTON—Both leading prospects for the 1976 Republican presidential nomination, Vice President Spiro Agnew and ex-Treasury Secretary John Connally, have been implicated in the celebrated ITT
This is alleged in confidential ITT documents, subpoenaed and suppressed by the Securities and Exchange Commission. For months, congressmen and newsmen alike have tried to gain access to the documents, which fill 34 cardboard cartons. But the SEC and the Justice Department have kept them under lock-up until they could obtain original documents, but we have obtained a confidential digest of what the 34 boxes contain.
The digest shows that Connally's law firm had collected fees from ITT before he became Secretary of the Treasury, and that he failed to meet his bailefall after he joined the cabinet. An April 27, 1971, letter to Connally from ITT's chief, William Merriam, thanks Connally for arranging an appointment for ITT as a business partner in the House side who later became commerce secretary.
This is a reference to a delay, which ITT wanted, in an ITT Supreme Court case. The digest also mentions an April 30, 1971, letter to Peterson "attaching a copy of an extension of time application filed by (Solicitor General) James Dugan for a delay." The Court asking for a delay . . . Indication is that the delay was in part due to the action of the Administration."
The summary states, "There is an indication in the letter that Geneen and Merriam were appreciative of the fact that Peterson was able to see them and indicated that Merriam and Geneen were certain that Peterson and Connally were 'instrumental in the delay.'"
Earlier, there was "a bill from and cancelled check to the Texas law firm of Vinson, Elkins, Searls and Connally," reports the digest. "This appears to be John Connally's law firm. The bill from the firm indicates that the amount charged was for services in connection with possible litigation in Texas. . . ."
Peterson told us he had met with Geneen about ITT's international problems but had not inwarded to help
One of the gays replied, "Offensive and I wouldn't be sur-
This is not to topic be discussed on national television by an uninformed, unprepared audience. It was so obviously disturbed that he would be sandbagged into such inanities as, "It's quite true I wouldn't want my daughter to marry him. Do you find that offensive?"
Jack Anderson
ITT get a delay in the Supreme Court case. Peterson couldn't remember whether Connally had arranged the appointment but conceded it was possible, Connally told us he might well have set up the appointment, but he firmly denied trying to delay any Supreme Court matter.
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The digest also tells of an Aug. 7, 1970, letter to Vice President Agnew from Edward Gerrity, a top ITT official. "The memo," according to a summary, "consists of a thank you letter concerning an attached memo and a suggestion that Mitchell get the facts relating to ITT's position to Melan."
Taken in context, this would appear to be part of an ITT drive in early August 1970 to bring pressure on Richard McLaren, the justice department's antitrust chief to setule an antitrust case against ITT. The
'Mitchell' apparently refers to then-Attorney General John Mitchell.
Continuing, the digest alleges: "The attached memo outlines a meeting that had occurred on the previous Tuesday with McLaren (Agnew). It also indicates there was a friendly session between Geneen and McLaren in the meeting with McLaren (Agnew)." The digest does not make clear why Agnew's name is in parentheses.
... in ITT Files
The vice-president's office explained that Agnew and Gerrity had served together during World War II in the 10 armored Division. But a spokesman declared that he was not the only person who had never any conversation about an antitrust matter.
Backing Brazil
Mitchell acknowledged meeting with Geneen on Aug. 4, 1970. But when we read the reference to his getting "the facts relating to ITT's position to McLaren," Mitchell laughed and called it "preposterous."
There were hounds of protest out of Chile a few years ago over the discovery that the defense department was not studying scholars for otenably academic purposes, into Chilean affairs. Now we have discovered that Pentagon money is behind a new study by Philadelphia's University Research Institute into the Brazilian government.
The project applauds the 1964 military takeover of Brazil and suggests that "Brazil more than any other Latin-American country has the potential to become a major power by the 21st century." The study poses the emergence of Brazil as a major power . . . and if so, how can it do so?"
Many of the scholars who responded were unaware of the military nature of the study. The director of the National Security Council, Jeremy J. Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Council, said in justification of the research that other nations fund such work far more extensively than does the U.S., he called the $85,000 cost of the project a pittance.
WASHINGTON - The other night three members of the Gay Activist Alliance wiped up the floor with Jack Paar on his own
television program. The three, two males and a female, were put on the air as a rebuttal to the heterosexual straight Mr. Paar, who has been telling antigay jokes on the air.
"Ballet is the fairies' baseball" is an example of the un-funnies with which Paar has been attempting to entertain his national network audience. That's his privilege, and if some of us don't like it we can switch over to Carson and be grossed out in a slightly less tasteless way. What Paul wasn't Paar's one-liner, but could be allowed to enter into debate with the gay activists about a serious question in our national social life.
Copyright, 1973. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.
prised that she may well do it. I trust that presently she'll decide that for herself, Right?"
Instead of cutting off this ab
Nicholas von Hoffman
(1) Washington Post-King Features Syndicate
ad hurd ad hominem argument, the sadless Paar pushed on into a short monologue that bordered on the incoherent, "But I cannot find how you you, you'd find how you," quite certain that no parent that, it listen, want you to, I want you to lead a happy life. Of course, what joy would there be in having an human being not leading a leadership style? The world didn't begin with Adam and Adam you know."
From there he increasingly
unchallenged statements of the gays. At the very end, he announced he wasn't going to say anything and that the field was theirs, and they took full advantage of it.
True, when the gays told the audience that 20 per cent of the population is homosexual, Paar studies came back by citing the Kinsley studies as their source and the comedian didn't know enough to point out that Kinsley's closely shot down years ago.
So, effectively, TV viewers across the nation were left with the uncontroversed assertion that one out of every five Americans is gay, when in fact nobody knows how many people are gay. But the group that uncontroversed is that gays are an oppressed minority group in exactly the same sense that blacks have been.
Instead of exploring this idea, the inepa Paar was saying such astonishing things as, "I strongly suspect The New York Times, in the last month, of strong homosexual propaganda. Well, I
do." While the comic was thinking accusations not even Agnew has made, nobody remarked that people are born black, but so far as we know, homosexual activity is mostly voluntary. A person chooses the sex he wants to have mutten when he said that he was a heterosexual for many years before taking up the gay life.
This is no idle quibble because militant gays have not only come out of the closet, they've burst into the living room and are stumping in the streets with a gay kiss. They're far exceeds a demand that their civil liberties be protected. It is one thing to see that a person isn't arrested, fired, beaten up or evicted by a sex life he carries on in private. It's not the same thing though, as gays have been able to form a gay association and make the same demands on society as blacks.
That's what some of the very noisy ones are doing, and a lot of ninnies are buying it. (My cousin is shopping; simply want to go about their business and be left alone). Not only has gay get this year's
fashion, with queenish rock groups and the cloying camp of the Bette Müller admirers, but a group has been tributed to it. Disregard the typhoid fever in the migratory labor camps; this year you can work out your tender feelings of the enemy at most mellow minority group.
All sorts of people, whom one suspects of never having had a homosexual impulse in their lives, are rushing into the closet so they can rush out of it and join what they're added enough to all 'the movement.' Well, the Constitution gives a person an opportunity to be himself, but that's no reason the rest of us should be intimidated into making social policy on other people's folly.
Yet that what's going to happen if the side of sanity is left to the likes of Jack Paar to champion. Let's hope the next time the American Broadcasting Company wants to televise a discussion on these issues it will take them to march against marching the gay militants back into the closet and locking the door.
A Little Bit of America in Greece
ATHENS, Greece—The newspaperman who wanders to Athens these days might be excused for imagining, now and then, that he never left home. The chief topics of conversation are the press and the harassment of the press and the power of the prime minister.
The demonstrations that erupted last month at the Polytechnic Institute caught the administration by surprise. Since the government followed the revolution of April, 1867, a veritable have been poured into higher education in Greece. The government's faults, cannot be accused of stinginess in this field. Within the government's means, they have generously provided new buildings, new professorships, new fees, free tuition and all the rest.
It was a rip-snorting speech. In the nature of things, the press seized upon a sentence toward the bottom of page 6, where Papadopoulos (in the official English translation) warned that 'any power that could emerge to disturb public peace and order will be crushed.' Yet the speech had been ciliatory, and much that was intended, in a heavy-handed way, to be patriotic and inspiring.
Prime Minister George Papadopoulos, advised of the students' complaint, was as wounded as the outraged Leatherjack. He said the tooth it is, to have a thankless child! On March 2 he summoned the rectors and professors, and read them a rough-cut act. Then he called in the student and gave them a second chorus.
The students reacted predictably. They continued to press their demand for repeal of the law by which dissenting students may be drafted for military service. They demanded that
police be prohibited from coming on campus; they demanded other things, and they continued to boycott their classes.
evasion and concealment of records. Evidence to prove the charge, he says without batting an eye, could have beer
James J. Kilpatrick
(C) 1973 Washington Star Syndicate, Inc.
The government countered with two measures. It drafted 95 of the student ringleaders, and it ordered the Greek-language shop covering the dormitories. The dormitories at Stamatopolos, the Herb Klenn-Ron Ziegler of the government, explained the drafting blindly. College students are entitled to deferment so long as they attend classes; therefore they were not entitled to deferment.
Of the 12 dailies affected by the press decree, 11 docilely complied. The 12th, Vradyni, which is the third largest paper in Greece to publish an annual report, continued to give the story even-ended coverage. The colonels thereupon sent 20 tax inspectors, armed with a warrant, to raid not only the newspaper offices but also the newspaper editor, George Athenasiasiadis.
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I talked with Athenassiasida, and he said it was some siege. The revenuers went through his family's property. They took personal and private correspondence. They ransacked everything in sight. The government's explanation, through the newspaper, is suspected of tax fraud.
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The news blackout and the harassment of Athenassiadas, strike me as outrageous and abhorrent, but that is my reaction as a newspaperman. I doubt that the people as a whole are going to really regard students are widely regarded as spied brats.
"If they don't want to attend classes," said a resilient shopkeeper in Rhodes, "there are others of other young people who do."
I went around to the Athens News, the small English-language tabloid, and fell into a long conversation with its political editor. He assured me, vehemently, that "not one intellectual, not one writer, not one artist or poet or scientist supports the colonists' regime." It may have been a bad thing in two weeks of traveling around Greece, I did not encounter a single taxi driver, waiter, clerk or tavern keeper who opposed the regime.
Prime Minister Papadopoulos, as a person, probably is even less loved than President Nixon, as a leader, and it could be grudgingly respected, even by his enemies, as a tough cookie who knows the uses of power. By being a leader, he seems likely to hold that power for quite some time to come.
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