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Show 51k Sa It iakc tribune Saturday Morning July I 1 "UT HE V1H0 ISWIHOUT 21. 1979 I JKr hist count it may change Caliiano Jr., W. Michael Blumenthal, Griffin B. Bell and James R. Schlesinger were the first casualties. Brock Adams was next. President Jimmy Carters clean sweep" of his cabinet had sidelined the Messrs. Califano. Blumenthal, Bell and Schlesinger, the secretaries, respectively, of Health, Education and Welfare, Treasury, the attorney general, and Energy. Mr. Adams tenure as transportation secretary also has ended. Ostensibly, and obviously, the tilings, technically the acceptance of the cabinet officers resignations, are an effort by Mr. Carter to improve the effectiveness of his administration, while bolstering his image as an assertive and able president. Cabinet members have, historically, come and gone with considerable frequency. But the wholesale discharge. in midterm, of the top brass administration is of a presidents rare, and beyond our memory. Mr. Califano and Mr. Blumenthal enjoyed the dubious reputation among Mr. Carters trusted inner circle as being too outspoken, difficult to work with and too independent-mindeto the point of occasional disloyalty to the president. Mr. Bell, who had announced months ago his intention to leave government service and return to private law practice, probably can't properly be considered a casualty. Rather, he simply took this time to do what he said he was going to do leave Washington. Mr. Schlesinger is quite accurateas a scapegoat. He headed a cast ly department blamed by many for the countrys energy problem. Mr. Carters acceptance of his resignation is effort to mute some of an the stridency aimed at his administrations energy efforts. Certainly, the political implications of this massive and unprecedented cabinet upheaval cannot be ignored. Particularly when Mr. Califano quotes the president as saying he had to get the Cabinet ready for the 1980 election. Just as d STONE I Upheaval of Cabinet Presents Carter His Second Chance At .cast the first SIN,. Mill -- Joseph A. w, ...to TtuTHtftim n N,TitW6 ToKgPOurcy THIS! certainly, Mr. Carter was responding to a negative political situation, his continual popularity slippage in public opinion polls Yet, why the cabinet ollicers were tired, and all that action politically implies, remains subordinate to whether or not reshuffling of the cabinet, as well as revamping the White House senior staff, will produce a more, or less, effective and responsive presidency and executive branch of government. There is among some Washingtonians an uneasiness. It is expressed by people like Rep. Benjamin He said, The Rosenthal, immediate impact is overwhelmingly negative. Everyone around here is very, very distruhed. Im genuinely worried about the stability of the country. What he (the president) is a team players wants legitimate element, but the destruction of confidence in our government is hardly worth it." Mr. Carter has given himself the opportunity, by the nearly wholesale overhauling of his administrative team, to rectify what he effectively acknowledges as some mistaken choices in his top administrators. And as Sen. Alan Cranston, said, "People want him (Mr. Carter) to lead and now he's seeking to assert his leadership. He should be given an opportunity. Agreed. But there remains the unsettling sensation that in the interest of tighter discipline and control, implicit in the new authority given Hamilton Jordan, the newly designated White House chief of staff, together with the cabinet firings, that Mr. Carter may be preparing to stifle, excessively, dissent and diversity within his administration. That eventuality would have the chilling effect on cabinet members that worries Rep. Toby Moffett. Jimmy Carter has another chance to lead this nation out of its economic and social doldrums. If he fails this last chance" he will have failed himself, his party, and the country. ilJiam Satire Jimmy Carter and His Hat Full of Trickery Times Service New York flurry el speeches and background messages to newsmen. Jimmy Carter accused the American people of being WASHINGTON s e t - i n d u i In ;i g e n 1 materialistic and iliural-dispirited. This from the man who promised to provide "a government as good as the 1 people " this lirst week o( his for In campaigning in he 1980, timid m using a strong voice to say the word "bold " t. The high base statistic tru k The most dramatic moment in Garter's War on Prus-peiiicame with his resounding "Never;" He was (pint long at not importing more oil than in 1977. Why pick that year? Because it was the highest import year, higher than 1978, higher than this year. Gontrary to his audience's beliej, the president promised no at all. No celling lor Garter, perhaps a headache for his successor in 1981 : That trick was ime he learned in the SALT negotiations 7. The trick. With a severe recession on the way that will overshadow ev en the Lance trial and Curran grand jury findings this fall. Carter has laid the blame on tai OPEC, per Stu Eizenstat's memo, and b) Washington, run by a Democratic Congress and opposed by residents of Camp David, Md. 8 The y it came down from the mountain with a hatful ol tricks1. With his support eroding, he reached back for his 1976 campaign gimmick: Make a show of listening to the people." This costs nothing and shows respect. The point of the long buildup was that he was a good listener, which is to say he would do w hat most people wanted. He then came before us to say I will lead." But that is the opposite of leadership. That's followership. The trick is to call that leadership. Ilis Mixed Success 2 The trick lie apologized lor his 30 months of failure ("mixed success"! and offered this alibi: That lie had been too bu.--y "managing the government" lo lead the people But if you would lead a nation, you must show some talent at managing Americans have concluded that he lias not been good at that Garter will even join in that criticism, too With much fanfare he has elicited the mass resignations of his administration. And in front of a gaping Cabinet, he has finally given a tongue-lashinto Ambassador Andrew Young. Tlius. he shifts the blame for his own mismanagement to his aides, with whom iie was supposedly so busy managing the government instead of leading (Neither Stansficld Turner of CIA nor William Miller of the Fed. his most disappointing appointments, were included in "the Tuesday Morning Massacre.") As one wag puts it: "They're serving Kool-Aim the White House Mess." Switch the Target 3 The sw trick With pollster Gaddell holding the weathervane aloft at Gamp David, tile president diagnosed a "crisis ol the pirit" and did for the French word "malaise" what Henry Kissinger did for "detente." But the "crisis" is not of the nation s stunt it is ol the Garter administrations eptitude. The American people have not lost confident c in themselves, they have lost confidence in Gaiter. The way he turned that around Attacks on guests in good hotels in large cities are no longer unusual occurrences. But in Salt Lake City that kind of violence is still the rare exception. It is against this background that killing of a Delaware businessman in the Salt Lake Hilton Tuesday is doubly shocking. Was this senseless shooting an isolated incident unrelated to other factors? Or was it a stark warning that Salt Lake City is about to be subjected to the same brutality that is commonplace elsewhere' Ordinary hotel thieves usually aets. But monev persons driven by the need for to satisfy a drug habit would show steer clear of violent much less restraint The Tuesday killing suggests the latter I M. n .i crime has increased, in Salt Lake City us in other cities large and small. But thus far it has not reached the point where orderly people in normally safe surroundings need to feel threatened Drug-relate- d Although street crime is by no means unknown here, the relative salety of downtown and most residential areas is a basic ingredient of Salt Lake City's agreeable life style. Until now. guests in top hotels could feel ev en more secure. New Yol Alter several days of sitting around on Belgrade park benches looking famous, I was struck by the fact that not a single Yugoslav approached to pound my back or demand my signature. The explanation came from my hotel elt-rafter I threatened to depart immediately for Alliens to be photographed in the footprints of Socrates Yugoslavs" he pointed out. "pride them selves on their excellent good maimers Honored though we are to have you among us. we would no more think of besieging you for autographs and stripping off your necktie and socks for souvenirs than we would think of n limg Marshal Tito to go fly a kite all tv pes of assault courtesy tact, if Boh reflects a moment oil fils own natural good manners he will see that there is nothing either insulting or untoward in the pointed ary with which the Chinese treated him In product removing the price controls that if the "crisis" is as subsidize waste, or ev ere as he sa - it is could have cut demand -- dc-l- rnlioiimg . even more refined ol ion by . is Hob Hope mav lie a household name throughout flu l'eople s Republic', any Chinese who bel rayed recognition of the famous comedian would lie commuting a gross breach . m Yugoslavia's, Though Thi satisfy nig non sacrifice tru People like to be called on to make sai l ifices m general, which is ennobling, bill when the saeriliee is xpcedit-dit becomes unfair. The president could have stimulated GS oil i Whatever the reason for the Tuesday crime, its discouraging effect w as quickly established. That unsettling spiral of fear can be arrested and and v isible rev ersed by vigorous new efforts by police determined to provide superior protection against Refined Givilialion The Chinese civilization, being even older than It (Jin-ciElizabeth were strolling through Grand Central Station would Boh drop everything and i ce o.st her with t ries of "lit-- Ouecn leeogmze you'" nd 'how about autograph mg my gull t ap (it course pot Neither would any othii Why expect person ol eullivaled sensibility, ol the Chinese ' less i . 1 Xmeriean Restraint In mv experience, even Americans are not without lesiiaint when Hie privacy of famous Sonic y ears ago passed persons is v through a bunion hotel lobby in which Gary 1 uliit-rabl- was being interviewed bv a dozen gossip mongers Cooper caught my eye. There was the briefest flicker ol recognition, but Coupci squelched it. gentleman that he w as. Nor did lie hear down on me. dap my back, bawl that lie intended to tell his wife hed seen me in the flesh, or ask me to sign his favorite horse Here was courtesy of a delicacy seldom found outside China. I appreciated it. Gary Cooper. I said to myself, knows how the civilized man should conduct himself when greatness accidentally falls into his line of Cuopei Yugoslav la in 1966. k Specific Sacrifice that would have meant speed u- sacrifice bv real people, rather Ulan satisfying lie took the route least likely to upset . hi lie appointed a committee onboard"! to "cut through red tape." which diaws applause until the tape turns out to he ihe elean air law f The timid boldness trick "We will protect our env inmnu-nthe intoned forcefully and n." million v iewei s leaned fnrvv ard to bear vv li.it be would do about nuclear power. Silence: that was tui) eoulidvv rsial Next day. when Iewei P ople were bstuimg be put in a hue m Us I. a or The trick to this uy moron Is never to he Times Service same thing happened during my own visit to wa-m-- .it But k Hie news from China is that Bob Hope was there and tile Chinese didn't recognize him Tlie news, ol course, is wrong, and lest Bob become too depressed by it. I remind him that the d bv No Mind Maimers, Ignore Famous g 1 "New" Carter lunger did we see the real Jimmy Carlci cool, softspoken. managerial the smiling preacher promising salvation. We now see the "new" Carter strident, loud, on cue. the preacher threatening belli ire and damnation. It is not the same mail, nor is concoction the real man II we come to distrust the real Carter, will we trust the unreal Carter? To save his political hie. the president has been willing to plunge the nation into an artificial crisis; to meet that crisis, he lias created a false and unnatural personality And that is quite a trick. (Copy rigid A Baker -- Keep City Safe trick The man oil the screen, in a last diU li cilort to save Ills political skill, shed his skin Having changed tile part in his hair to no a ai! he proceeded to change the part in his mind v ision. I confess that my own behaviour m such circumstances hud not always been the best Once, seeing Franklin Roosevelt motor past my high school campus. I hud stared un abashedly. I had once badgered Pooch Pm cineili for his autograph, after Pooch had distinguished himself by hitting five home run-i- n a single game for the Triple A team representing my hometown Cutting Nails A lew days later, while cutting his toenails with a razor. Pooch accidentally sliced Ihe toe so badly he was unable to play bull for a week. I believe his razor hand was shaken by thoi.ghl ol tlie brutal coarseness and ill manners lampaut among his worshipping masses Sometime after that I resolved to follow the Chinese lead in conduct toward Ide s admira hie people A few years ago this mastciy ol courtesy paid off when I saw a man resembling Pupa Gamhino get out of a ear in New Yoik Papa was very high in the Mafia at the time In another time I would have rushed up and asked. "Are you Papa Gamhino or are you just nobody Now however, was able to let the man pass without inquiry. If it was Papa Gamhino lie was not visibly pained by my failure to recognize him At least there w as nothing m the papers about Papa Gunihmo'.s walking around low ii and not being recognized by a single New 1 'i urkt-- upv right Orbiting Paragraphs There s no use crying over spilt milk, hut spill gas is entirely another matter Sadie told us slu- never lets a man steal he promises lo give it hack i him Confusion in Islamic Iran Defies Attempts to Establish Cohesion Sen New 'i ork Time- - TtllRW ice senou i onimaiidel secular foiees oppo-e- d lo In llieoclatle are Uoi y el republic Ihe v at oil ah is pi epo-m- g u U mzed but tlivv are decidedly against ll The )iovision.i government ol Prune Minister Mchdi Kanrguti. beset by Irom all llicsc forces and operating m a power aeuuni is lloimdeniij. lla pa' narch Perhaps n ore onmou-l- v his grip on the Islamic forces la- lias cut rusted to making Iran into an Islamic republic The members of the clergy around tin ayatollah have created their own power centers The .Islamic Kcvolutinnurv Commil tees all over the eoimti y have expanded then (lowers and heroine so eidrenehed that it lo see how llirv could he displaced i marched again Wid nesdav m Iran not bv the hundreds, not by ihe g hut perhaps by Ihe thousands "Giutv with Khomeini, the Koran our vv ay " and "Death to lelllsls. Carter Sadat and Begin Bill the enormous show ol support lot Ayatollah Ruliollah Khomeini throughout liau reminiscent ot the heyday of Ins powers m the first months of fills year, lulled to mask (lie deepening divisions that are driving !hi eon dry closer to a breakdown Five months afler the triumph ol Ins Islamic revolution over the imperial regime ol Iran Khomeini. Ihe leader ol Mils nation of 38 million people, is facing the complicated reality ol managing the forces lie has unleashed The rebellious ethnic minorities are hemiii their challenge lo wiiulc'ci lllg bohh-passes for government here The Iranian Army shamed by its old aid rev and shattered by widespread desertions, been kept of f balance bv mnlrn-- among 'I hey million-chantin- The pre-Mi- ev en bv Klmmemi . i l : il- id irliUai is a i uiupit lc lai in the country " said an cxpci w m h,iv w .itched the It an iau rev ultl k 111 ohiM-mar- gan in running the eoun'r.v Khomeini can all suit- - ol gciu-lapi oiiounceuients. hut lie is increasingly unable to enforce any ot the tilings he demands The problem is compounded by the absence ol a hierarchy under the ayatollah There is no chain of command that flows Irom Quill, the holy eltv when- the ay atollah makes Ills of tier nuke I authority plotl!.' lion untold over Ihe las) year Kliomeuu much more uccessfuj than Bazai piovi-' -- ha-no- t l In the absence of an officially defined order eai h eenler of power has aligned itself with a corner of tlie Khomeini circle. Some of mullahs, who tire religious teachers, lehr, as well as some generals and politicians, take their orders from the Ayatollah's son Ahmed others fiom his grandson still others from senior religious figures who live or work m lus house and ofl ice There is no certainly that the Icudci s ol the eoinmittee.s or the v ai ions Islamic nulit las arc uordmuting tin ir actions with (Join Many sa, they have a mandate to ail on bcli.il ol the until it is revoked in a coolrout.i atollah lion with .mntlior group m.iking ,i mol.o i. mu i v -- In the armv and in the Bazargau cabinet even deeper divisions prevail encouraged by tlie bclicl that each cabinet minister or army general ran alw ay s appeal Ills case to someone in Gum The ri hellion of Ihe elnel ol the military police. Bug Gen. Sail Amir Raliimi. a few davs ago doinonstrates the degree of disarray lit Ihe armv 'The general, who has the blessing ol the ayatollah, refused to step down oil he order of the chief of staff, Gen Nasser Parboil. The order was by the defense minister. Gen Kudu Taghi, and was endorsed l.y the prime minister But Ihe general, who constantly criticizes tlie lack of discipline in the at my said he would leave onlv it the ayatollah told Inin to do so Last week, tlie aylollalTs son in law told him to slay, more recently lie aid lie would go d -- "I lie reasons behind the emit rout .it nm h.ivi the l.u k ol cohesive rivalries among the u l believes Unit slimIrani. in armv must b mui h mole lo do with policies than willi the eclici.ils (Mule lGiz.il v line .mil am lim il v ol lii- ; restored, there are many in Ihe who tear that would Ihivuleii rcliuioti.-cslabhshmci- it their power There ns an even wider and mereasiugly obvious division between the religious estah hshment as a whole and the rest of tlie count rv Feeling the loss of support for tlie ayatollah's vision of an Islamic Republic among people ol the middle class, tlie ethnic minorities and significant pails of the working class, lla religious establishment us moving to clip Ihe wings of its secular opposition Experienced diplomats here are noting numbers of clergymen and Islamic ideologues in Hie ministries and vital govern menf bodies such as the central bank wlm retain final authority impolicy Meanwhile. Iran's economy is sinking into a deep depression Gabliiet policies oil llovv to deal with tlie widening economic l.ign.dion .ire tineoordmated and eonlraihe -- ton. 'Gopv iglit i |