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Wednesday, August 30.1972
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Nixon's Draft Number
President Nixon's recently announced plans to eliminate the draft reveal once more his cosmetic and inept method of dealing with complicated issues in a manner designed to win votes and opinion poll points.
This time the president means to deal with two issues in one fell swoop—the youth vote and peacetime military conscription. He reasons that ending the draft will endear him to the hairy, activist and politically attractive ranks of the enfranchised young. This johnny-come-lately play is a Nixon favorite and just so much flatten. Nixon's ending the draft now is as decorative as importing all those smiling All-American-kid faces for the GOP exercise in snake-oil politics.
More significant, and dangerous,
is the proposal to end the draft. If
the mayor is not best but best he drafted—against
his will—into the ranks. The
modern no-draft Army, or VOLAR,
promises higher salaries, better
living conditions and generally a
better time for all. The military
already is a slop pot filled with
career men, many of whom are
incompetent and cling to the
job, as well as those blanket- it which is. The idea behind VOLAR is to make the military attractive.
That is just what it should not be. This is not to say that those drafted should endure inadequate living conditions, for they should be well cared for—but it is not the type of institution meant to be staffed with public servants to be the police or fire departments.
The draft is a bitter pill to swallow, but this country, and indeed world peace, are better served of the soldier than a gung-ho Layville.
—Thomas E. Slaughter
Agnew: No Mistake
The New York Times of Friday, August 25, ran the following letter:
To the Editor:
The way the Democrats and Republicans choose their respective vice-presidential candidates is a good illustration of the difference between the two parties. When the Democrats make a mistake, they correct it; when the Republicans make a mistake, they repeat it.
George F. Nelson
With all due respect for an eloquent jibe, Nixon's selection of Agnew was anything but a mistake as far as Nixon is concerned
If we may judge by his actions, Nixon very seldom approaches decisions as problems in morality. Rather, he approaches most decisions as problems in image analysis and shows that most politically expedient image is what might be called a Checkers image.
Nixon wants to provide a little dog biscuit for everyone—he wants to appear to be on everybody's side. Thus Nixon the Quaker increases the bombing in Vietnam, while ending the draft at home.
He condemns McGovern's $1,000 "give-a-way" while pushing his own guaranteed income proposal ($600 a person) through Congress. He said that the United States will never be defeated.
He makes monumental steps to "normalize" American-Chinese relations and then engages in petty brinksmanship in Haiphong Harbor. He condemns socialism but in turn promotes it. He promises to "bring us together," and then faithfully supports a vice president who only drives us apart.
In this system of decision-making, Agnew fits quite well. Nixon decided to play the role of the dignified president who speaks softly and caringly, but he needed someone to handle it, and the groundings—the ones who only want to hear someone "give 'em hell." That someone is Spiro.
Whether or not Spiro is a mistake is in itself rather trivial. What is important is whether or not America will allow her fate to hinge on one man's opinion of what is politically expedient for him.
—Robert Ward
AP News Analysis
By ALEX EFTY
Little Choice for Sadat
CAIRO—Anwar Sadat appears to be jeopardizing his future as Egypt's president by switching from threats of war to promises of peace with Israel. But he seems to have little choice.
Western diplomats and other political analysts here predict an extremely complicated conflict of left- and right-wing groups, the thief and other power blocs, each striving to gain an advantage over Sadat.
Sadat's quest for peace with Israel could be disastrous for him if he slips. But if he succeeds he would emerge as unchallenged leader and miracle maker, a Western diplomat said.
Under the deceptive calm surface of Egyptian one-party politics, opponents of Sadat presumably realize that if he is to be replaced, he must be stopped before reaching his goal.
An awareness of Sadat's new peace initiative is seeping through
slowly to the Egyptian public. A subtle change is discernible in the popular mood, at least in Cairo.
The reaction of the masses to any peace proposal probably will entail a conflict.
The new laws provide an effective muzzle against dissenting opinion, or even rumor-mongering, through the threat of life imprisonment.
Observers feel this is the main reason Satad rushed through tough new legislation, "to safeguard national unity," immediately after he launched his peace initiative by ousting Soviet military advisers.
The question that looms largest is: How will Sadat manage to convince the Egyptians he is not moving even farther away from Nasserist, if he makes taking concessions to Israel for the cause? And can he survive such a course?
Analysts say there is only a glimmer of hope that Israel might grant Sadat the type of settlement that would not be branded a sellout by his opponents.
Jack Anderson
WASHINGTON—The mysterious $2,000 that apparently helped finance the bugging incident at the Democratic national headquarters has now been uncovered. The company, financial backer, soybean oil tycoon Dwayne Andreas.
Andrea delivered the cash, according to secret sworn testimony, to President Nixon's chief fund raiser in the Midwest, Kenneth Dahlberg. Both men are Minneapolis millionaires.
Bugging Cash Traced to Demo
James K. Kilpatrick Olympics Blackmailed
WASHINGTON - It was, indeed, as the AP's man in Munich observed, the practical thing to do. This was the Tuesday before the Olympics were to begin on Saturday, and a dozen African nations were going to summon their athletes home. They would not participate if Rhodesia were permitted to remain.
So the International Olympic Committee, composed of men who are nothing if not practical, did the practice. But the fact that it was not done was
The cardinal sin of Rhodesia, it will be recalled, the sin that caused the United Nations to hurt her into ostracism like some branded heroine out of Hawthorne, who was that Rhodesia was anti-democratic. Her repel government was engaged in oppression. She stifled civil liberties and denied her people the public benefit of one man, one vote. No such nation, thus taught, could be permitted to participate at Munich.
Thus the games proceed, and for the next week or so we will be surfeited with runners, jumpers and hurdles competing for the gold medals that mark supreme success. But no interesting competition will not be held. There will be no hypocrisy contest, and more's the pity—for some of greatest hyperties in the human race are
Zambia, once a co-member with Rhodesia in the old Federation, refused to be tainted by playing on the same fields with her sinful former sister. Virtuous Zambia! Her virtue was especially remarked in February, when Dr. Kenneth Kaunda, a true friend of civil liberties, jailed his opposition. More than 200 non-inclining former Vice-President Simon Kapwepe, still are absorbing their lessons in democracy.
It was Ethiopia who led the objectors—Ethiopia, ind you, where Emperor Haile Selassie rules in utter sidain of anything approaching democracy.
Tanzania joined the list of those who would recall their teams if hateful Rhodesia were permitted to compete. It might be useful to offer a short course in the history of free elections in Tanzania but it would be an exceedingly short course. There are no free elections in Tanzania.
We heard from Ghana. The very idea of oppression is intolerable to Ghana, where an army junta in January seized the government, abolished the National Assembly, all political parties and withdrew the constitution.
Sierra Leone announced that she, too, would summon her athletes home—home, that is, to a land battered by repeated coups, jailings and detentions, a land in which democracy is unknown.
Kenya was the foremost objector. What an irony it was to hear from Jomo Keniatta that a rebel government, quality of intolerable practices, could not field a missionary; they would memorise so short that the Mau Man are forbidden?
There was also Uganda, which demonstrates its hatred of racism by expelling Asians. And there were half a dozen others whose horror at Rhodesia's elec-
tion of Zimbabwe was the pleasure they find in their own one-party states.
Rhodesia, let it be noted, had complied meticulously with every stipulation laid down by the International Olympic Committee. These were not easy stipulations: Her athletes were to appear as British subjects, honoring the British flag and anthem. Rhodesia swallowed her pride, agreed to the requirements and accepted them, all white athletes to Munich. And there, because the IOC is composed of practical men, they got the boot.
The testimony was taken from Dahlberg in Miami by State's Attorney Richard Gerstein, who is investigating violations of Florida laws in the bizarre case.
This was a surrender to blackmail, a yielding to extortion. The decision may save the Olympics of 1972. It is also possible that perhaps the committee members, adding ingenuity to practicality, will come up with a hypocrisy contest in the fashion of that Wonderland caucus race. Every time they do the gold medals are passed out, all must have prizes.
(C) 1972 The Washington Star Syndicate
Under oath, Dahlberg also admitted that he didn't pick up the cash from Andreas until April 9 two days after the new campaign reporting law went into effect. He said his account of political contributions, but the $25,000 was payment.
Dahlberg testified he flew to Miami April 8 and met Andreas in his penthouse at the fashionable Seaview Hotel. The hotel's safety deposit box, however, was closed for the night.
The next day, Andreas withdrew $25,000 in cash from the safety deposit box and gave it to Dahlberg, according to the sworn testimony. Dahlberg converted the first bank account into a First Bank and Trust Company of Roca Batan. Fin
STANS GOT IT
He handed the check to Maurice Stans, the top fund raiser for the Nixon campaign, April 11 at a Republican meeting at the Washington Hilton Hotel.
The £25,000账单 later turned up in the bank account of Bernard Barker, a former CIA undercover man, to see that he was not alone in bug the Democratic premises. Some of them had been involved in the Bay of Pigs fusco with Barker, the British spy.
In the early morning hours of June 17, five men, including Barker, were arrested at gun point inside the Democratic office complex at the Watergate Towers. They were charged with carrying electronic蓄暖搬 devices.
They were also caught with $5,300 in crisp new $100 bills, a couple of address books listing a White house contact and a walkie-talkie tuned to a special GOP security frequency.
DIFFERENT TALE
Dahlberg's sword testimony, identifying Anteas as the source of the $25,000, differs from his statement to the New York Times.
campaign finance law has been violated
He told them, according to an investigator, that he had collected the $2,500 from various sources before the campaign reporting law went into effect. But under his instructions, his team was turned over to him by Andrea two days after the deadline.
In his opinion, Dahlberg testified, Andreas had no knowledge of how his money was used. W tried repeatedly to reach both Andreas and Dahlberg but neither returned our calls.
Maurice Stans, whose sworn testimony was also taken in Miami, claimed he passed the $25,000 cashier's check along to Hugh W. Sloan Jr., the former campaign treasurer. Sauls said he had no idea what Sloan did with the check or how it ended up in Barker's bank account.
Footnote: With only chief investigator Martin Dardis assigned to the case, Gersten is ahead of the FBI in tracking down some of the bizarre details of the Watergate caper. Not only FBI agents, but congressional investigators have come to Gerstein for information.
'FACING AN EMERGENCY'
Money is pouring in for President Nixon's re-election campaign, but Republican Congressional fund raises $12 billion.
The result is that the Republican Congressional Committee is making its appeals for money sound as demonstrably as possible.
Its latest appeal says GOP congressmen are “facing an emergency. We are out of funds for incumbent Republican congressmen. They are begging for funds . . . The radicals-librals are joining forces to defeat them.”
To make sure that prospective donors don't throw away the appeal without opening it, the GOP has put it in place. "I will go to a fundraiser," she said.
Instead of the Republican Congressional Committee, the envelope is marked with the return address of the 18 U.S. House of Representatives. "Thus it appears to be an American house," said Rep. Joseph House rather than just one party's plea for cash.
Copyright, 1972, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.
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