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Show , illiam Safin W The Salt Lake Tribune, Saturday, May 14, 1977 1 5 Memo Shows Korea Contacts New York Times Service No i i ; person holding any Of- fice . . . shall without the Consent of the Congress accept of any present. Emolument . . . of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince or Article 1, Section 9, foreign State. U.S. Constitution. WASHINGTON Suzy Park Thomson. who has been granted immunity from prosecution so that she can tell what she knows I k about illegal payoffs to congressmen by South Korea, is one of the Justice Departments key witnesses be- fore the lethargic r ... J if' Koreagate grand jury. Those of us who have Mr. Satire a close as- soeiation between the Korean born Mrs. Thomson and Tong Sun Park, the Korean agent who was a paymaster for funds channelled to U.S. congressmen, have been pressed to come up with evidence that would speed the lackadaisical Justice Department probe. 'J ( t I I sus-pcct- Saddened by Publicity Recently, a document has materialized in my hand in the handwriting of B. Y. Lee, a close associate of Tong Sun Park, dated April 24, 1975. He reports to his boss that he has met with Mrs. Sew Tompson, who was saddened by the publicity given Tong Sun Park when a friend of his committed suicide. Lee then passes along Suzy Park Thomson's assertioji that she is a dose information source to five congressmen. lire is the list given Park, with the congressmens comments to me. i Lester Wolff, chairman of the House Asian and Pacific Affairs subcommittee. She was a secretary in my office not a foreign policy expert, and she left in 1971 when she went to work for the SPEAKER." Information source? Hell, no! (Wolff also states that Suzy was checked out by the FBI at that time and given a clean bill of health, which bears further checking.) House John Brademas, Democratic Whip. "There was no relationship, period. It is absolutely CliarU!- - talse, absurd and outrageous.'' would want an opportunity to declare his absence of taint to the house Ethics Committee, of which he is a inemlier. fund-raiser- Not so. When Pliihp laicovara, of Watergate prosecution fame, supported a minority move to require statements of from members of the EthiiY panel which will sit in judgment on others. Flowers indignantly denounced it as impugning our integrity. Counsel Lacovaru helplessly acquiesed. Slow' Contest The House Ethics probe and the grand jury are trying to out slow each other. The most obvious sources have not been queried by the Democratic politicians m Justice; nobody there has questioned Matsunaga. Mrs Juanita Moody, the National Security Agency operative sitting on a powderkeg of information, will not talk to the committee because its staff, after seven months, dines not have the proper security clearances Georgia's John Flynt, eihics committee chairman, looks like an unhappy man. Don't blame John. cautions one of his Democratic friends "Hes under unlielievablo pressure from the sieakor to slow this damn investigation down " (Copyright) Rradcmus has declared he received a total of $5,150 from Tong Sun Park in s from 1970 through 1974, and has known Park for 15 years. Alliert Johnson, defeated for Congress last year, who did not answer his telephone. G. V. "Sonny Montgomery. Democrat of Mississippi, who says he is a friendly guy" and single, and has received "not a nickel" from South Korean sources. Spark M. Matsunaga, former representative and newly elected senator from Hawaii. He remembers Suzy Thomson as someone who worked for Patsy Mink (the congresswoman he defeated m the Democratic senatorial primary) and Speaker Albert. He says he reported a $1,000 contribution in 1972 from an "S. Park, who turned out to have Tong Sun Parks address, which was not then illegal, and I had no idea he was an agent. Tossed into Hopper So five more names are tossed into the Koreagate hopper, perhaps because one woman falsely bragged about her connections. What's the big deal? deal is that the Lee memo establishes a connection between an agent of the Korean government who was passing money to U.S. congressmen and a woman who was working for congressmen dealing with Asian policy, of the including the House, Carl Albert. That was a pretty efieetive penetration and corruption of our government, which Article 1 of the Constitution sought to prevent. "I think everybody in the House knew recalls DemoSuzy Park Thomson, cratic congressman Walter Flowers of Alabama, who was not on the latest list. She more or less stands out. Obviously hat. oriental. Small, very high heels." Also Knew Tong Like many others. Congressman Flowers also knew Tong Sun Park, having met him at a large party given by Park in honor of Tip ONeill, who replaced Suzy Thomsons old boss as speaker. Flowers recalls that the South Korean agent later visited him in his office, but cant remember what it was about ; he denies ever having taken any money from Park. An innocent voter might think that congressmen like Walter Flowers The Tom W ic newspaper turn for advice. Not that he isnt a success in the news business; he owns about 90 newspapers in England and Australia and he is building an impressive foothold in this country. But he is considered a practitioner of cheap journalism, a purveyor of sex and sensationalism. Not all in the American tradition, you know. i ' Y A Nevertheless. U.S. newspaper editors need all the help they can get in their groping for their role in a television culture. They would do well to forget about Murdochs reputation and his trashy American flagship, the National Star, for a few moments and consider some of the things he said at a recent publishers' meeting. His theme was the relationship between newspapers and their readers. His thesis was that it has broken down in recent years, that newspapers are going one way and their readers another. The result: pompous, bloodless coverage and a growing isolation from readers, particularly young readers. Pompous Coverage Murdochs comments, harsh though they are, come as no surprise to editors. They have been aware ior several years of a fact ol life that was confirmed just a few weeks ago in a poll taken for the Television Information Service by the Roper Organization-Televisiohas largely taken over a traditional function of newspapers delivering the news first Editors are aware that newspapers must adjust to this change in the national pattern, and it is a rare convention of editors that does not include a symposium or two on Reaching the Readers" or Toward a New Relevance. Such group therapy sessions are rarely productive, however, perhaps because the participants have been over the ground many times before. They know all about the importance ol reader surveys and the need for better graphics and more news on consumer matters Iut Murdoch, the outsider, brings his message with a refreshing candor that may help to clear away some cobwebs Become Apathetic "Tiki many ol us." tie told the have isolated ourselves publishers, from large areas of life, becoming apathetic about the interests of assembly line workers, gas station attendants Too many . . or clerical employes newspapers the world over seem more preoccupied with covering the machinery of government rather than the lives of the governed. Too often, newspajM-r- s appear to be engaged in solemn dialogue with ourselves Too often, tedium is the message." Well aware of his reputation, he told Ihe puMislierx. am not suggesting that I interest . sometimes derisivelv called . 1 hIy lliouaml y dollar?!! !ollai. anwcr lumtlim Immlml now For another ihU tjuohon . i ix c hundred . J A then-Speak- er ' wide-brimm- Carey Hardly One of the Usual Breed New York Times Service Even those who don't NEW YORK agree with his positions admit that York has been acting much manner the in com- monly attributed to politicians seekingHe has been standing up, speaking out and welcoming the heat. Just this week, Carey promised unequivocally to veto any death penalty bill that reached his desk, pledged that A New Challenge for Newspapers? editors would and ker B. Scil The Washington Post WASHINGTON Rupert Murdoch is not a man to whom most American "Comrl! ConWlant Nixon. ou is the only legitimate sensationalism standard of news judgment. Far from it. Im simply pleading the case that without first gaining the attention of our readers, the rest is so much waste of time. The press that fails to interest the whole community is one that will ultimately become a house organ of the elite engaged in an increasingly private conversation with a dwindling club. As for young readers, Murdoch warned that if newspapers dont find ways to reach them, we will die along with our customers." "We are faced with hav ing to serve a new, selfish generation ... which lacks any homogeneity, he said. "I dont pretend to know what that generation wants, but I do know that it doesnt feel dependent on the traditional type of daily newspaper." (Copyright) while he was gov ernor he w ould send no one to "the death chamber." and explained himself this way: I dont believe it is in my power to take human hie, nor that the state has the pow er to take human lile. 1 will veto any death penalty bill because I would not want to be responsible for giving a future Governor the power to take human life. Carey .a position has to be considered in the context of a society that sometimes seems hysterically fearful of crime, in which every poll shows the public overwhelmingly in favor of capital punishment,' and of a New York legislature that is expected to pass one of perhaps a dozen bills to provide the state with a new and supposedly constitutional death penally statute. Courageous Statement In those circumstances, the governor's statement was politically and personally courageous, as well as lair warning to death penalty proponents that they'll have to find the votes to override him, not just to pass a bill. This performance followed Careys forceful denunciation in Dublin ot both wings of the Irish Republican Army, and his admonition to to stop contributing money that W'ould be used for IRA violence. Earlier, he had joined with Sen. Moynihan and Kennedy and Speaker O'Neill in a on the eve of St. similar statement Patricks Day. at that If the provisionals were simply called the Irish killers' and the others the Irish Marxists, the governor said m Dublin, people would see what they stood lor and they wouldnt receive a nickels worth ol supixirt in the United States." That descrilies the provisional and regular wings ot the IRA about as starkly and accurately as possible, and Carey later extended his condemnation of violence in Northern Ireland to the Ulster majority and their gunmen" as well. Issue of Clemency At the beginning of the year, Carey took the controversial step of extending clemency to those who had been convicted of oflenses during the Attica prison uprising in 1971 ; he also dropped all further prosecutions arising from that bloody episode. Since all tljose who had been convicted were inmates, and only one person awaiting trial was a state policeman, this foreclosed the possibility of prosecuting the troopers and officials who caused 39 deaths at Attica. But it also wiped out the indictments and convictions that had resulted from one of the most unlair and vindictive prosecutions in the states history. , That wasnt an easy political step, either. And while it may be said that Carey purposely took it and the others well ahead of his campaign, its just as true that he didnt have to take any of them. Many a governor most particularly, the wouldnt have one-side- Meldnm Thomson ol New Hampshire. In fact, Carey declared the other day that New York is not New Hampshire, thank God " I Lx point was that il antinuclear power demonstrations took place in his state, he would recognize the right of peaceful protest" rather than responding with mass arrests as Gov . Thomson about 1,400 of them had done. New Hampshire Situaton What Thomson thinks he is accomplishing is hard to tell, although some of the arrested protesters believe he is trying to capitalize politically on his supposed el forts to maintain law and order. Actually, the nuclear plant under construction at Seabrook, where the arreste took place, was a legitimate protest target. Its operating permit had been revoked by the EPA on environmental Kiuunds; local clam diggers and lobxtermen, scarcely radicals, were opposed on the same grounds, and Seabrook voted 783 to 632 against the referendum. The plant in a demonstrators included, moreover, scientists, teachers, lawyers, students lrom all over the country many young but some in their forties. All were trained in nonviolence techniques before being allowed to participate in the protest. unique g (Copyright i HEFINESTiINMENSCLOTHING Joan Bock Handgun And they shall melt their handguns into statues . . . neither shall they learn violence any more. It isnt quite Isiah. but the paraphrase of the ancient Biblical quotation comes close to what some earnest Chicago women in the Committee for Handgun have in mind when they urge gun owners to turn in their private weapons to the nearest Control participating church on May 20-2- 2. Then, under the supervision ol a special agent of the bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the guns will be publicly melted and sculptor Jack Kearney will use the metal and other gun parts to create a statue memoralizing victims of accidental and deliberate shootings Other Gun Turn-in- s Similar handgun turn-in- s are planned for the same week-enin New York City, Atlanta, and San Francisco by the National Coalition to Ban Handguns headquartered in Washington It's even boon arranged that gun owners who turn in weapons can take a tax deduction tor making a gift to the unless they prefer anonymichurch ty. No questions will be asked about the guns and no one will be arrested, prosecuted, or lined lor handing in an iinregistoiod weapon d Ol course the artillery Grim Reminder Turn-I- n into-art schtick is a gimmick Any gun owner can turn in any gun to any police station m the nation any hour of any day or night. But you need every gimmick you can pet when you go up against the powerful National Rifle Assn , which keeps a gun in the back of Congress and has a deadly record for shooting down challenges to any kind of gun ownership. And you need a gimmick to keep reminding gun owners what a dangerous and futile ploy it is to keep such w capons at home U anted Bullet Ban The lu st uinnniek the Committee hull. iikLuii tonlrol (largely suburban bomeniakeis with zero lobbying expertise! tiled was to pi titiop. the Consumer Irodiut Satcty Commission to ban bullets, The women argued that guns don't kill people. Bullets do. They noted bullets are a hazardous product often in homes where they can do severe and deadly harm. So as a consumer product, bullets should be banned, they insisted, just like unsafe cribs or appliances. The CPSC scheduled hearings on the issue. But before action could be taken. Congress fired off legislation to take firearms out oi CPSCs control. Now committee members are trying the line. They know it wont make much dent in the massive gun ownership in the United States (estimates of guns in private hands range from 90 to 200 million, about half of them handguns). But they hope to make some points : The United States, with the highest private gun ownership rate in the world, has by far the highest of any other nation. It's 150 times that of England's. 200 times Japan's Handgun Statistics At least 32.000 persons are shot to death each year, more than hall by . about twice handguns Between a many Americans were killed by firearms in this country as died in the Viet Nam War. More than 7o per cent ol shoutings found 1903-73- are crimes ol passion and involve family members, friends, or acquaintances and are not related to other crimes. If handguns were not easily available, such disputes would rarely turn so deadly. Three of four handgun murderers have never committed a crime before and might not have done so had a gun not been at hand. A gun in private hands is four to six times more likely to kill a lumily member of its owner accidentally than to be used to deter a crime. Burglars steal far more guns than are frightened away by them. About 30i).(HKi handguns are stolen from private owners every year and such owners are a major source of weapons used in crimes. The numbers of guns in private homes has almost tripled in the last 10 years and the greatest percentage ol the jump has been in handguns It shouldnt take gimmicks to put across the message that a handgun is, indeed, a hazardous substance to keep at home when almost every issue ol eveiy newspupei lejxntx a handgun tragedy. What it will take is common sense 'Copy right our racy correspondent, Winnamuck. 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