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Show C The SftU Lake Tribune, Tuesday, February 26, TRB From Washington Impeachment Possibility Cannot Be The New Republic I doubt if the public yet realizes the kind of drama before it if the House impeaches President Nixon, which now seems at least possible. Here are the lines spoken on March 13, 1S6S, in the U.S. Senate: The chief justice (Salmon P. Chase): The sergeant-at-arm- s will call the accused. The Andrew John- sergeant-at-arm- President of the United son, States, Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, appear and answer the articles of impeachment exhibited against you by the House of Representatives of the United States. articles of impeachment exhibited by the House of Representatives against Andrew Johnson, President of the United States. Possible in 1974? .in One rubs ones eyes. Is this possible 1974? These are the actual spine-tinglin- g words uttered on that fateful day. One has to read them, 1 think, to make tius incredible scene crnie alive. Will William Wannal, the inconspicuous Senate sergeant-at-arm- s present-datwice from Montgomery County, Md to summons repeat his tremendous Richard Milhous Nixon to appear and answer the House charges? This possibility can no longer be dismissed. The present betting is now. I that the House Judicithink, ary Committee will recommend impeachment. It will hand down articles which put a broad interpretation on that ambiguous phrase "high crimes and misdeAnd the House itself? Most meanors. people here would say, I think, that its a tossup; there is certainly not a majority for impeachment yet. y three-to-on- The chamber is jammed. The black-robe- d chief justice, escored to his podium by a committee of senators and facing the seven managers (prosecutors) and the entire House of Representatives (who from their have come over, legislative wing) intones, Make proclamation! The sergeant-at-arms- : Hear ye! Hear ye! All persons are commanded to keep silence while the Senate of the United States is sitting for the trial of the e But the vote is not today, its three or four months off. after the Rodino committees report, after the three pending grand juries make their reports. after the probable new White House confrontation with Special Prosecutor Jaworski. after the prospective public testimony of that lethal witness with the choir boy face, John W. Dean III. The bnital fact is that a large part of the nation and a majority of Congress would very much like to get rid of President Nixon, and substitute Jerry Ford, if they only knew how. The anxiety of House Republicans approaches panic. Barry Goldwater sees a 10 percent drop in Republican support if Mr. Nixon remains in office without raising his standing in the polls. Could Be a Holocaust That could be a loss of 70 GOP House seats a holocaust. Democrats last week captured the safe" House seat in Michigan left vacant by Ford which Republicans have held since 1911. It changed Americas political climate." Watergate killed us; I dont know of anything else, despairing Michigan Republican chairman William McLaughlin exclaimed. Im sure well win, said Minority Leader Rhodes before the elecbut we must win big." They lost. tion, Tbe public is speaking up about Dismissed-I- ts of the Bar of the City of New York, puts on it, and the Olympian Charles Evans Hughes once wrote, that according to the weight of opinion, impeachable offenses include, not merely acts that are indictable, but serious misbehavior. Meanwhile, in another battleground here, it remains to be seen whether the of which Department Agriculture, arranged the Great Gram Robbery with the Russians in 1973, hasnt come up with a more serious blooper, n massive fertilizer shortage. Nobody doubts that we are going to have a bumper corn and wheat harvest tiiis year. But this may not be enough. Afkr a generati m of paying American farmers not to raise crops the administration responded to the abrupt world food cnsis by removing restrictions on acreage, including some 40 million last year and 20 million this year But it made no arrangement for more fertilizer. An enormous amount is needed if the pnee of wheat, which has jumped from $1.75 to $5 a bushel, is ever to come down, or if the world's poor nations are to be fed. Were lucky the reckless passions of dont inflame the present crisis. Enemies of President Johnson charged that he participated In the plot against Ben Butler of Lincoln. Squint-eyeBoston, one of the roost despicable America evei produced, demagogues charged, on the House floor, (March 3, into an 1S68) that President Johnson got two with barouche abandoned open women, roaring drunk, and rode up and down Pennsylvania Avenue . . 186S d Meant What They Said Whether then or since, the gre:t bulk of constitutional students conclude that the Founding Fathers meant just what they said in giving the broadest grounds for impeachment. Acts that undermine the integrity of government is the 13 NowaTossup catchall definition which the Association House impeachment will probably depend on how many Republican members join the expected Democratic majority. They can pass the buck if they want. They can argue that they seek to send the whole issue to the Senate to give Mr. Nixon a fair trial;" the House will merely indict, let the Senators say guilty" or not guilty"! It is the line of least resistance and probably the safest thing for many representatives. 1974 How much fertilizer For city people it's hard to appreciate Imagine a 100-ca- r made up of hopper cars. The tram will handle 10,000 tons and as it rolls through the lonesome prairie night it will be a mile long. A boy watching the engine pass and counting cars will wait three or four minutes for the caboose. The new acreage increase for 1974 alone requires 4C0 solid train loads of this fertilizer. And the earlier acreage increase is yelling for fertilizer, too. The Fertilizer Institute lobby declares that they must have more gasoline, and fuel oil, and natural gas to make the nitrogen fertilizer, ard that the administration is grossly underestimating them needs. City people want gasoline, too, and the administration wont ration. Every development of this sort emphasizes again the amazing interconnection of the shrinking planet with its bounding population, and the disorder latent in the new Age of Scarcity. Morocco and Tunisia, for example, two of the biggest producers of phosphate rock (another fertilizer) tain 100-to- n in suddenly jumped prices percent! Foreign customers, says Edwin Wheeler for the Fertilizer Institute, are literally teanng dow n the door But there to get American fertilizer. isnt enough. He is only the latest to note the specter of starvation. 183 James Reston 'Unpopular Heath to Win Election New York Times Service A puzzled reader in SaraLONDON sota, Fla., has requested a simple explanation of the British election. The fo. llowing question- ; naire is provided: Who's Question: going to win? .. r Jr Answer? The days ago at the start of the election, it was up to 88 percent. Then why did Prime Minister Q. Heath call the election now? A. He was confident he could win. Q. On his percent, the miners are on strike, and the country is working only three days a week. are Conservatives almost sure to be reelected. How many people work in Brit- Q. The people are fairly satisfied then? Q. record? A. Certainly not. Since he took office m 1970, food prices have gone up 53 ( ain? Not at all. Last September, the poUs showed that 72 percent of the people questioned were not happy about the way things are In December, the going in Britain. figure was 82 percent, and just a few A. Dr. T. R. Van Dellen Acupuncture Has Promise Acupuncture was introduced in Great Britain more than 150 years ago. It had somewhat the same effect on the English as it has now on InterAmericans. estingly, in 1923 it was recorded in the , of jp volume first Lancet a medical journal still published in England. it The patient mentioned in the report bad rheumatism Dr. Van Dellen and abdominal dis- tention due to gas. The ancient art relieved the gas but nothing was said about-th- rheumatism. reports followed. Many favorable editorial in the recent a te According one of the Medical Journal, British chief advocates of acupuncture in the . . . could not explain how 19th century it worked, but he had, to his own satisfaction, excluded the possible roles of fear, confidence, and Other investigators reported successor more of cases ful results in and demuscular problems involving scribed relief of pain in about one case in 10 as brilliant. Ultimately, acupuncture fell into disrepute in Europe but the technique js catching on again. However, its popularity never waned ir China where it was devised some 26 centuries B.C. Many American physicians visiting hospitals in China have seen good results. A. About half of them. Q. I take it then that Heath must be quite popular? Not Exactly Popular A. Not exactly. He smiles a lot but somehow he doesnt seem to feel good when he does. He is not an easy public speaker like Wilson. He is not a television star. Its not that people particularly hke him or like his program, but think that maybe hes good for them. Let me sec if Ive got this percent of the people say theyre not happy, food has gone up 53 percent, the country is working halftime, Heath is not very popular and has presided over the worst economic crisis since the war, and hes going to win? Q. 88 straight: A. Precisely. Voters Know About It? Do Q. the voters know about all this? Certainly. No disaster has ever been so widely publicized. In the first two weeks of the election, Heath held 11 news conferences and mad 10 major policy speeches. Harold Wilson, the Labor leader, held 11 news conferences and delivered 18 formal speeches, but Jeremy Thorpe, the Liberal leader, was not nearly so active as the other tw o. And what's happening to the Q. A. liberals? A. They're doing very well, probably making more progress than any other party. Sometimes you have to know people well to dislike them. Im a little confused, but let me Q. try it another way. The Tories are usually for free enterprise, and the Socialists for controlling the economy, right? And the Common Market counter-irritatio- I it one-thir- d A. Right, but not this time. Heath wants to fix wages and some prices, and Wilson wants to fix prices but not wages, and both want to spend more on the social services and control inflation. Then, of course, Heath wants to stay Ln the Common Market and Wilson is thinking of getting out of it. And of course, this hurts Q. Wilson? No, this helps Wilson. The Market is not popular, fiddling with all those foreigners and all that! A. Common Then why isn't labor going to Q. win? A. Because the British people have apparently decided to abandon an old rule this time and vote against the shortcomings of the opposition. And would you define Q. Labors shortcomings? A. into all Q. A. We really don't have space to go that, but I may mention one. And whats that? An astonishing number of people simply dont like Harold Wilson. Q. Why didnt you say that in the first place and save us all this time? I thought everybody knew that. A. Wilson is the George McGovern of British politics with a streak of Richard Nixon in him. Isnt that a libelous statement Q. under British law? A. I suppose so. Maybe you'd better put it off the record. (Copyright) Vic Gold Bill Simon? Guess Again-I- ts theres the matter WASHINGTON Ever since William Edward Simon moved into brisk command at the Federal Energy office last Dec. 4, Ive had ; z this strange feeling . ' jfj of Deja Who? Rob- ert Strange, to be of Simons press relations. Filling station owners are given peremptory orders. Governors of soverign states are put in their place. But when it comes to nurturing his image with the Simon, like his spiritual prede- exact cessor of the 1960s, always finds oil to spread on news media waters. When and where have we seen this media-acclaime- d human dynamo His eld friends, were told, lr- - Gw view Simon as a kind of F. Scott Fitzgerald hero. Never mind that. A Great Gatsby he aint. No, someone else. youll find a bureaucratic reincarnation. A almost physical twin of the So who? Look closely and high-lev- spiritual, Captain Billy Whizbang of the era. Push-pul- Kennedy-Johnso- n There man sitting at the click-clic- l, he is again, the can-dright hand of a president. The efficiency expert who, by sheer mastery of his subject, is awarded broad powers to grapple with the countrys No. 1 crisis. o Square Jaw Need more hints? Well, observe the hornrimmed glasses, square jaw and manner. Doesnt it all crisp remind you of that computer methodologist who impressed Kennedy and Johnson? Just as Simon today, despite the worsening of the energy problem since he took comma.id, continues to impress his president. d Goren on Todays Bridge Hand Then d opinion-molder- s, Take that recent Time cover story the one which described our energy czar as a decisive policymaker and superbly who entered organized administrator government service after a meteoric rise in the business world. Who did they used to write stuff like that about? The words could have been lifted intact from the standard description of another executive department czar a decade ago. Really McNamara Still don't know who I mean? Another hint, again lifted from Times encomium to Simons talents. He comes through to some people, said the magazine, as and purposeful, to others as in any case, his show of but arrogant"; purpose, vigor and decisiveness nas won him almost unanimous praise. Hint No. 5. When Simon came to staff FEO, he brought in a brain-heavof young, eager troubleshooters, whom he drives at least 14 hours a day. When their chief is scheduled to testify on Capitol Hill, he insists that the staff compile a full briefing book with detailed answers to all likely questions. Unanimous praise? That shows you what oiling those media waters can gain a man. Oh, yeah. The last time I visited my neighborhood gas station just after Winning Friends Come on, if that doernt spell it out you must have been comatose when Robert Strange McNamara was winning friends, influencing Congress and putting the Vietnam war through the computer. "self-assure- d Simon handed down his proprietor, while pumping You gas, was telling me: thing I sure like about that Hes a decisive policymaker edict the driblets of the similarities between to me at least, are down to the fact that amazing. Right and superbboth, despite their and ly organized administrator. decisiveness, in the end proved to be overrated media creations. Or is it too early to conclude that Simon hasn't lived up to his press notices? Well soon know. John Love wac cut adrift as energy chief to make room for cluld was that to express simple futurity shall should be used in the first person (I Simon because, among other things. word his or we) and will for the second and third Love spoke that filthy persons (you or he), whereas to express president didn't want uttered: ration. But if in the end Nixon's new Billy Whizbang determination that order should be reversed. That was the rule, but in the last comes to gas rationing as the only soludecade at least it has gone by the board tion to the shortage, who will doubt that Robert Strange, though physically at the or should it be by the bored? World Bank, has returned in spirit to the In the United States will has just chief counsels of government? about taken over in declarative senin BritAlready the signs are disquieting. tences, and it is making progress Handed that truckers strike, Consider: too. not Shall has ain, completely disapWilliam Edward, the decisive peared; it remains for some idiomatic left it to the governor of uses such as, Shall I wear my green policymaker, dress or my blue one? But speakers Pennsylvania to work things out. Really now, does any man who can make Mil-to- n and writers have rudged the rule aside and there has been no discernible loss in Shapp look like a statesman have know, one Bill Simon: Indeed, McNamara-Simon- , Bernstein on Word; By Theodore M. Bernstein More on doughboy. Last summer in response to an inquiry this space listed a few theories about the origin of doughboy. The inquirer, Mrs. F. P. Betz of Hatboro, Pa., now says she has heard still another guess about where the word came from: The infantrymen were called doughboys because a man named Baker was secretary of war. It is true that Newton D. Baker was secretary of war from 1916 to 1921. But if we are going to fetch that far for the origin of the word, why not say the soldiers were called doughboys because they were so well bread? Shall and wDl. Time was when the rule that was drilled into every school six-lett- reason to be precision. ? By C. H. Goren vulnerable. Both South deals. NORTH 1075 At 014 .1 Q43 WEST EAST Opening lead: Queen of North showed a keen appreciation of his values and his partners playing ability when he made the key bid in an auction that Ted to a sound slam. South described his big hand in the prescribed manner he opened in his higher ranking suit and then jump shifted in his second suit. When South rebid his club suit at the third turn, North realized that his partner had ten or eleven cards in the minor suits. Thus, his ace of hearts became even more of a viM card in view of his club fit. He showed it with a at the four-ievknowing that his partner would not read It for a genuine suit since North had bypassed the opportunity to bid hearts at the three-levecue-bi- d L After South cue-bi- d his act of spades. North confirmed his club fit and South went on to the small slam. Altho a trump lead would have given South no chance, West selected the queen of hearts in an attempt to 8et up tricks for his side. Dummys ace wen, and it seemed that declarers fate hinged on a diamond break, for that would mean that declarer's only loser would be a 3 heart However, South knew that this was against the odds six missing cards rata to divide 2 more often than in any other manner. In that event, there was a real danger that if South tried to ruff two diamonds in dummy, one of the defenders might be able to score an overrnf. 4-- Declarer found an inter esting solution to his problem he transferred one of his ruffs to the heart suit! At trick two, declarer led a diamond to his king, and continued with ace and another diamond, ruffing with dummys queen. His fore- sight was rewarded when East discarded a spade on this trick. Declarer returned to his hand with the ace of spades and led a fourth diamond. Instead of ruffing ard allowing East to overruff, declarer let West's queen win Lie trick a3 he discarded a heart from dummy. The defenders were helpless. Whatever West returned, declarer would be able to ruff a heart in dummy and get back to his hand to draw trumps and claim his fifth diamond for the contract. After the ceremony, were giving away the $113 ribbon! Be there for this most rewarding grand opening. Friday, March 1, at 10:13 a.m. i a Ccmmcrelr? 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