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Show 1 si- -4. Wmw 'AJbawmtt Ht? ;Y"T TO v": ' O a What do you think is the cosmic significance of the late winter? Michael Utley More face shots for short people. Page A2 Thursday, May 19, 1983 i v ?n jwrtewmstrrrf . la 2 ' - &J ' .. jiuj-i. . u,cwwmjmU Weekly p U.S. news agency barred from Senate while Kremlin has seat Washington The Seriate Rules Committee Com-mittee is looking into a strange situation: should Soviet propaganda people be allowed to sit in the Senate press gallery while the U.S. government's govern-ment's official propaganda agency is not allowed to sit there? The problem revolves around the Washington correspondent for Tass, the Kremlin's official news agency. He is al-owed to sit in the press gallery along with correspondents of every other foreign news organization. But according to Sen. John East, R-N.Cr-the Tass man in Washington isn't just a run-of-the-mill newspaper reporter. In a confidential letter Last month to Sen. Charles Mathias, R-Md., the chairman of the Rules Committee, East said the Tass correspondent "is in fact an officer or agent of the Soviet intelligence service, the KGB." East pointed out that the Voice of America is not permitted to send a representative to sit in the Senate press gallery. And East thinks that's silly: "I do not believe that it is appropriate for a Soviet spy to enjoy the privileges of the Senate press gallery, which should be reserved for legitimate members of a free press. "Nor do I believe that it is appropriate for an arm of the Soviet propaganda machine such as Tass to have representatives at all in the press gallery of the Senate, especially since the Voice of America itself has never been granted such privileges on the grounds that it is a government news agency. Tass is also a government news agency, yet it has full press credentials in the Senate, even though some of its employees have long been known to be intelligence officers under cover, or to have cooperated closely with Soviet intelligence." East wants Mathias to revoke the press privileges for the Tass correspondent. corres-pondent. Mathias has referred the matter to the FBI. Meanwhile, 50 senators have signed a letter asking the Rules Committee to let the Voice of America send someone to sit in the Senate press gallery. The letter points out that the Voire of America is required by law to be an accurate and objective source of news. It also points out that Congress gives the Voice of America nearly $140 million a year to do its job. In sum, the letter observes, the Voice of America should at least be granted the same privilege of listening to Senate debates as the Senate grants the Kremlin's propaganda organization. organiza-tion. Unger's dilemma: Another of President Presi-dent Reagan's appointments is in serious trouble. He is Sherman Unger, the president's first nominee to the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals. Unger is currently at the Commerce Department. The American Bar Association's committee on judicial appointments has turned thumbs down on Unger. The 15-member committee is asked to pass judgment on everyone nominated to be a federal judge. The vote against Unger was unanimous. unani-mous. According to our source, he was rejected for "poor judicial temperament tempera-ment and lack of personal integrity." Unger has refused to comment on the ABA committee's vote. But he'll obviously have to answer questions about it at his confirmation hearing later this month. We don't know what specific faults the committee found with Unger, but we do know he's been investigated several times for violation of travel regulations at the Commerce Department. Depart-ment. He has also been accused of by Jack Anderson & Joe Spear intimidating his staff in the general counsel's office. We reported almost a year ago on Unger's high-flying travels at taxpayers' tax-payers' expense. He flew first-class when there were cheaper seats available, and he once stopped off for a three-day visit to a California fat farm while on an official trip. We also reported that Unger had spent $1,442 of the public's money on a fancy stand-up desk after he broke his arm. He explained that he had to stand up to work while his arm healed. The bar association committee has obviously come up with even more serious charges against Unger. Headlines and footnotes: Classified intelligence reports warn of a Cuban buildup in Nicaragua. It's known that Cuban military cadres are advising the Sandinista regime, but now there are reports that Cuban troops have arrived to help the government put down the revolution. One classified report put the number of Cuban soldiers at more than 1,000. Another report put the figure at 2,000. The FBI's contract for janitorial services expired in early May, and the bureau's employees were forced to clean up after themselves. There was also a shortage of toilet paper and paper towels in the FBI's restrooms. Apparently, when the janitors walked off the premises, they took the supplies with them. A House Intelligence Committee report published last December cited evidence of Soviet influence in the nuclear freeze movement. But the report omitted the names of 13 House Democrats who were involved in conferences that the FBI believed to be Soviet sponsored. r 1983 United Feature Syndicate, Inc. $H V m - m r The seasons 3 Maig'ipfiott Wairn DflqpiPiiiKB James and Hilda's final hours In some small, dark chamber of the mind we've all tucked away a scenario for the day The Bomb falls. The day the hot line snaps, the day some irrational burst of anger in the White House or the Kremlin sends the missiles whizzing whiz-zing across the land and sea. Armageddon Arma-geddon day. Because we live with small horizons, we don't see the bomb in terms of tottering skyscrapers and a million dead in the rubble. Our night terrors are made of homely things: the charred body of a beloved child, the family dog whimpering as he picks his way through streets of shattered glass, no lights, no telephone, no TV, no morphine, no cooling salve for the terrible burns. Last week the B-day scenario lost some of its terror. Two brave historic gestures, two affirmations of life, softened the nightmare. First, the Catholic bishops of the United States ratified 238-to-9 a pastoral letter calling upon the civilized world to outlaw nuclear war. This was followed by a resounding vote in the House of Representatives (278-to-149) for a nuclear freeze. 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In past wars the bishops, along with the rest of the world's clergy, cheered on the battle. Francis Cardinal Spellman was even photographed crouched behind a machine gun in Vietnam. "My country, right or wrong," he told newsmen who found his stance rather odd for a prince of the church. Why have the bishops spoken out now? Because, suggests a Catholic writer, they have felt "the breath of the Holy Spirit." This non-Catholic writer would add that the prospect of a silent, uninhabitable planet is too agonizing for a true man of God to contemplate. The madness must be stopped! When a society devotes the better part of its treasury and its energies to arming for war, war becomes inevitable. The bishops know that no nuclear war can be "limited" or "winnable," two words dear to the Pentagon. Though the clamor of the peace movement is now being heard around the world, it is doubtful that the White House understands its rage and fear. A play now running in London is touching hearts and minds with the kind of simple, dreadful scenario that heralds Armageddon to ordinary people. j$ i; $ 'V 1 ." - - g : mmm Wrrir. "When the Wind Blows" shows the final hours of a retired couple, Hilda and James. "One tranquil day, with the runner beans growing toward the sun, James thwacks on his ancient radio and hears that a preemptive strike is imminent," says a review in the London Observer. ("Not another strike, dear," says Hilda.) With a survival manual in hand, James lays in a two-week supply of milk (he leaves a note for the milkman ordering 28 pints) and a stack of black plastic bags. The handbook says the bags will be useful for storing human waste or dead bodies.' Offstage there is a mighty blast, supposedly miles away. James and Hilda "grow steadily grayer and dirtier until James begins to sing 'Pack Up Your Troubles' with blood pouring from his mouth." He apologizes for the mess he's making. Critic Victoria Radin calls the play bizarre and chilling. But audiences are lining up to see it. If I may have one wish in this beautiful springtime, it is that "When The Wind Blows" will play Washington soon, with the president, his lady and all his warriors listening intently on opening night. 1983 Harriet Van Home Distributed by Special Features Syndication Sales 4 H . ' 1 I |