4 Friday, February 4, 1972 University Daily Kansan KANSAN comment Editorials, columns and letters published on this page reflect only the opinions of the writers. Guest Column The Dan Schorr Incident, Or More Nixon Folly Daniel Schorr, a familiar face to those who watch the CBS Evening News, offered his own testimony this week to Senator McCain on his subcommittee on Constitutional rights. Erwin is investigating the darker shadows of the foggy nimbus which surrounds the White House request for a recent investigation into the life and affairs of Scherr. In his testimony Schorr expressed some large doubts about the Nixon Administration's claim that everything was perfectly managed; he was merely being considered for a Federal job, that the FBI's investigation was just a routine preliminary to the offer. The White House declared—refused is the better word—to authorize matters; but just hours before Scherr appeared, the Washington Post printed the Administration's version via a well-timed leak, which is the way Richard Nixon would to communicate with the press. The leak makes it perfectly clear that the White House, somewhat surprised in sticking to its policy, insists that he must be mec because it confirms a deeply held conviction that Richard Nixon is stupid as it thinks he is in trust with his advisers, worse. One likes to have a little faith in the President Of The United States; one is difficult in this case; he is asking us to believe that he is either not lying or has a short memory. He does not have a short memory. To be less arcane: Richard尼克斯's memory is long enough to remember an incident which occurred during the GOP, and Senator Barry Goldsworthy and another incident included US Senator Schorr, and Barry Goldsworthy—again. Both incidents bear on the present Schorr Early in the week of the 1964 Republican National Convention, the same Daniel Schorr reported from West Germany that Goldwater had some contacts with a member in that country. At the time, it may be recalled, Americans were watching with morbid fascination what looked like a small but healthy resurgence of neo-Nazism, and, in that atmosphere, selections looked somewhat dubious. Predictably, Goldwater's aides at the convention were furious about Schorr's report; it was taken as an indication to out-sabote Goldwater's chances in November even before the convention, when the Clinton-Chaused, and for reasons of his own—which were not all that sound or honorable—CBS News director Fred Freed wrote that the extraordinary news that his report was being disclaimed. Schorr would not back down, and he would continue the CBS denied the story. But, as these things usually happen, the story wouldn't evaporate until the expedition, also based West Germany, reported that Goldwater had been in *frequent* and friendly correspondence with members of the leader of a group of German right-wing extremists. The story, written out of sight on the bottom of an inside page in the Times, did not seem to bother Goldwater or his companions; was said—until six years later With an indefinite memory of Olsen's story six years earlier, Goldwater scuttled the person by objection "personally obnoxious," a standard form of objection Senators use on which they must answer Senate approval. The Olsen promotion did not require Senate confirmation, but Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she a flaccid backbone in the face of Goldwater's arrogance, went along with the Senator and decided to let Olsen know the deal was definitely off. Less than a year later the FBI began its账查 on Schorr, who bought it from the White House for quite some time. And last November, when the Washington Post finally released the investigation, the administration moved quickly to cover the simeon and reputation by trying to link the FBI's investigation to Honest Uncle Sam's Employment Department. To accept that version is to believe the Administration would use the same screening procedures for a man who had no chance of surviving Senator Goldwater's demons-poison short, the Administration must have us believe it was inviting a messy confrontation on its right side. If we fail to do so, the Administration will Thus, the suspicion grows that the FBI, because it is what it is, was being used as a tool of blatant intimidation of a former enemy, and played the sake of Mr. Nikon's images of wisdom and purity. And with equal persistence, the conviction gets stronger that Mr. Nikon gets and more tricky as time passes. The intriguing question the whole sordid affair raises is why? What did the White House hope to do with Nixon's putative political mind that could have told him that this kind of evil fun could end up in one of those minor disasters that had been caused by his legitimacy? Bill Lawrence, an ABC political correspondent who has covered Nixon for years, wrote that he saw the same one by saying Nixon's political expertise was, as was Lyndon Johnson's, the vastly overrated. He also numerous critiques which hold that Mr. Nixon is morally bankrupt, perhaps we can now add with some certitude that the Nixon administration about half, the first five senses. Lawrence graduate student Kansas Photo by DAN LAUING Garry Wills Press Restraint Needed HARRISBURG, PA—A man is driving home, here, and flips on his radio. The newscaster is saying that a prospective juror in the Harrisburg Conspiracy Case has been dismissed for cause. A lawyer who helped the man is a Catholic (in a case involving priests and nuns), and There was nothing simister about the process—no motive other than the general drive of the competition of reporter with reporter, and a lack of much information covered in the trial's early stages. This small incident illustrates "Newsmen invade privacy at the slightest cause," says Gary Wills. But he doesn't recommend governmental control of this obsessive curiosity. Rather he restricts realm within the media. The report interests the car's driver very much, since he too is jumping to judgment juror who has not been questioned yet. He is bound to wonder whether he will be convicted of a crime in faith. The news report is a bit garbled, and could mislead anyone. For this reason, the judge should ask the juryman be asked of potential juries not be released until the jury could be chosen and sequestered. The judge ignored his sensible request. that he has shown "progovernment" bias. Newsmen invade privacy at the slightest excuse. A night or two after the juror incident, TV cameras were stationed on the building's skijerkshot by an FBI man. The man's poor children had to an unfortunate side-effect of our free speech and the free press; a coverage, of an indiscriminate sort. No great "need to know" was involved in withholding some information chosen. Nor was there any need to publish the names or answers of those closely processed out of the news media. run a guillotine of cameras to get in or out of their own house. Shortly before that, a teacher was shot in a DC classroom by her estranged husband, in no time, men were there with tape and cameras. The motion of children to see their teacher killed before their eyes. This is not a problem that can be cured by censorship, or by pressure from above, but only by pressure from below, as demand for certain decencies. As a matter of fact, the lack of press restraint leads to long-range conflicts and disputes, wonder the Kennedy family withheld autopsy photos of JFK—just look at the garrish use made of his body. Robert Kennedy's axiom Furthermore, a blank cover coverage policy allows the press to be used. Anything officials do is reported; so it is easy to distract the news from the staged or made minds's off other things. If the government stops talking about the war, and talks very rapidly about eight other things, the government's consciousness—which is just what happened during the 1970 elections. The press was made the victim of its own "freedom." And negative, and negative, it was actually dobie and subservient. Freedom is no guarantee of maturity or responsibility; and the press could use a heavy dose Copyright, 1972 Universal Press Syndicate Smokers Puff Along Despite Warnings WASHINGTON—The office of the U.S. Surgeon General last month published its sixth annual report on smoking and health, including a call to unsuit委会mittee, following up on the latest findings, will undertake further hearings on matters of smoking and non-smokers alike. James J. Kilpatrick The picture is hardly encouraging. In the view of the Surgeon General, cigarette smokers have higher death rates from coronary heart disease than non-smokers. They have higher mortality in pulmonary emphysema and chronic bronchitis. Cigarette smoking "is the major cause of lung cancer in women" because of lung cancer in women. This is not all. "There is increasing evidence to support the view that women who smoke during pregnancy have a higher risk of unsuccessful pregnancy than those who do not." Some studies have demonstrated a "significant association between cigarette use and nary bladder in both men and women." The Surgeon General's report is based on more than 1,500 published studies over the past 18 months. The evidence is massive and clearly convincing. Yet the habit persists and the questions remain. Last year saw an increase of 1.5 per cent in the number of Americans capita consumption dropped not at all. All 44 million Americans stubbornly continue to smoke cigarettes; on the average they buy 20 cigarettes a day Sen. Frank E. Moss, acknowledging these numbers, agrees that an outright prohibition on the annual production of the sale of cigarettes, as a practical matter, is impractical. Why do smokers keep puffing away? One answer may lie in the cause-and-effect relationship is by no means universal. The reason is that when a smoker will get a burned finger; every time. The man who cuts himself with a razor will find that the cut he makes can be heavier smokers get cancer. Thousands of non-smokers die of factors to risk of factors. It comes down to factors of risk. The studies cited by the Surgeon General make this clear. The very first paper he the reviews in a book published in 1970 born in Goteborg, Sweden, in 1913. Between 1863 and 1970, the group were carefully observed. Of these, 405 were smokers. In the seven-year period, 26 of them were smokers. This was a rate of six per cent; the rate among 35 non-smokers and former smokers was one per cent; and the rate among those if you want to look at it this way, that 94 per cent of the smokers are aged 75. Those aren't able through age 75. These are bad for health. Senator Moss contemptuously dismisses the Institute as "the Flat Earth Society" for its lack of attention to general's findings uncertaintly. Yet the Institute is performing an excellent and needed service in challenging the statistics, the objectivity of these annual reports. The institute contends, quite correctly, that the bulk of the case against cigarettes rests upon statistical correlations that have been found with certified causes of death. How good are the figures? The institute calls attention to a study published last September of 1,000 hospitalized patients at Hospital in New York. Sixty-one autopsies were undertaken on cases that had been diagnosed as lung cancer. In but nearly 58 per cent of the cases, the "diagnosis was confirmed," according to the validity of death certificates? Another study, undertaken in the Boston area, accidentally turned up a striking picture of a man who smoked and also drink coffee. Is coffee an overlooked villain? Curiously, the institute notes, neither of these studies is even within the Surgeon General's report. Both the work and the criticism have to go on. Moss's bill to limit tar and nicotine levels and the approach may have great impact on the day the scientist may isolate the waste-producing agent and find a way to suppress it. Meanwhile, few persons who would question the best methods to prevent the dirty habit. If you can, quit. It's tough advice to take. right 1972, The Washington Star Syndicate, Inc. Letters Policy Readers Respond Letters to the editor should be typewritten, double-spaced and should not exceed 100 words. All letters are subject to editing and condensation. Letters should be typed in a formal font and include their name, year in school and home town; faculty and staff must provide their name and position; others must provide their name and position. Senate Folly Abortion and Drinking; Nixon To the Editor: Would anyone agree that the Kansas Senate is inconsistent? Monday, the Kansas Senate Permanently in office to conservative manner by defeating the bill to legalize the sale of mixed drinks in some cities. Yet, Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary voted against a revocation or amendment of the liberal Kansas abortion law. The panel voted to reject a panel of three doctors certifies that an abortion is necessary for the physical or mental health of the potential mother. This law allows any woman to be admitted an abortion upon request. We still cannot be served a mixed drink with our meals, but we females can be granted an abortion with little difficulty. If the Kansas legislators consider drinking a moral issue, what do they consider abortion or euthanasia as action of a potential human life? Marsha Sears. Lawrence graduate student Nixon Praise To the Editor: From your editorial (Mike Moffet, Kansan Kan, 28) it is important to the President's statement about Congressmen and members of the press allowing themselves to speak in this country of divisiveness in this country." He was talking about those individuals who have spread the word of war in Vietnam and sets a date for withdrawal of its troops from Vietnam as the American prisoners of war. This idea is pure wishful thinking on the part of individuals who should be intelligent enough to know better. Neither the North Vietnamese nor the National Liberation Front ever made a formal proposal to use nuclear weapons, and talks. This myth grew out of a statement by one of the North Vietnamese negotiators that if the United States did not for withdraw the North Vietnamese would discuss the release of American prisoners of war. But the United States release of French prisoners of war after the French withdrawal from Vietnam. The idea of a hypothetical American troop withdrawn for release of various individuals who were not representatives of the President of the United States. This myth was unofficially encouraged by the North Vietnamese since it did not allow military position they might later have to deliver on and because it would encourage confusion in the United States. Creating a military situation is tactically employed in time of war. Since the North Vietnamese made no official offer of prisoner release for troop transfers, he must accept to such a proposal when it was offered to them by Henry Kissinger in a secret meeting of our counselor for cease fire that is not an unreasonable request before agreeing to withdraw troops from a war zone. A cease fire was in effect when a missile was withdrawn from Vietnam. There was nothing in the President's statement that attacked everyone who was Griff and the Unicorn The Viet Cong do not have enough support to win an honest election but they will continue a military threat due to suicidal attacks on Allied positions during the Vietnam War. a useful updated positions during and after the 1968 Tet offensive. Discussion about American withdrawals should be undertaken at the actual facts and issues involved rather than myths and emotionalism. Is it too great a request to ask that you confine your logical discussion of reality rather than an emotional response to a statement you evidently do not even understand. By Sokoloff The North Vietnamese will probably not accept President Nixon's peace proposal since it would be difficult for him to sit. The North Vietnamese will have great difficulty in accepting any settlement that does not permit the regime which they are evidently unable to eliminate themselves. opposed to the war. He simply made a statement of fact in order to give Americans a more accurate picture of war, by using the Paris talks. His statement was not designed to eliminate anti-war sentiment but rather to return a war that had been ignored if the actual facts about the war. —Kenneth B. Lucas, Hutchinson graduate student "Copyright 1972, David Sokoloff." 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