Show ITTs Version To the Editor: TO the Editor: The following letter was sent On behalf of the Board of to ITT conAnderson Jack by Directors of Civic Concert cerning serious errors of fact Soles we wish to extend our made in his column (The Herald thanks and appreciation for your Journal Wednesday Oct 2 help in promoting our cultural page 15): arts program for 1974-7- 5 Dear Mr Anderson: This program would not be Your column distributed for possible without the generous publication October 2 1974 assistance that The Herald contains serious factual errors Journal has provided and Russell F Fjeldsted concerning International Concert Board Telephone k All it took was a spark to destroy Walton Feed Inc last week as the Cache Junction feed plant went up in Telegraph flames All it took was one child with one match to scorch the side of a Logan residence nearly setting the home ablaze Fires nearly always start small but it is a fact that fires cause more death and destruction in this country each year than in any other industrialized nation This week is Fire Prevention Week a period originally set aside to memorialize the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 which claimed 300 lives and left 90000 alleged army pines Now on the eve of my ITT told the AP then that returning home I can happily during Dr Allende's first few say that these expectations have months in office he became been magnanimously fulfilled convinced his communications thanks to the Logan Rotary Chib were being compromised He members and many other asked toe Chilean Telephone wonderful people who have been Company if it could provide him so kind and helpful I would like with the technical assistance to to mention some of my determine the extent of the and experiences while bugging and to dean it up living here My playing a piano duet in the Since toe Chilean Telephone student recital at the close of the Company didn’t have this Music Clinic at Utah State ns Jack Anderson i Call For Marlow WASHINGTON As an advertising symbol Phillip Morris the cigarette makers once used a bellhop who shouted from coast to coast: "Call for Phillip Morria" Now the tobacco industry when it needs e favor in the Senate raises the familiar cry: "Call for Marlow Cook" The senator from Kentucky whose state is almost aa famous for its tobacco leaf as its blue grass might be expected to support the tobacco interests lung cancer notwithstanding But Cook is positively lyrical about the ripe Kentucky inf And the tobacco crowd feels the same way about him The Tobacco Institute's top lobbyist forum Mr Ford's move followed and was meant to put an end to the circulation of lively rumors about his supposed disenchantment with Kissinger But it did not prevent congressional critics in Washington from renewing their attacks on the Secretary of State nor did it enable Kissinger when he in turn addressed the UN assembly on Monday to get the kind of hero's welcome he had been given there last year The distinctive part of Mr Kissinger's UN speech was his grim warning of the imminent prospect of the proliferation of nuclear arms He dwelt on the dangers involved in the spreading of plutonium around the world but he glossed over the recent American decisions to supply plutonium-producinmaterial to Israel and Egypt and to go on supplying it to India although these countries' nuclear activities are not safeguarded in accordance with the terms of the nonproliferation treaty This was just the kind of thing that has led some of Kissinger's domestic critics to accuse him of habitual disingenuousness or even in Washington duplicity Indeed criticism is how pounding Kissinger from many sides American supporters of Israel both Jewish and gentile are suspicious that he may still intend to put more pressure on Israel than its American friends would stand for His less than Impressive performance in the Cyprus crisis has robbed him of his reputation fur working diplomatic miracles and both houses of Congress have now dealt him a sharp rebuff by voting despite all his pleas for a suspension of military aid to Turkey Meanwhile Kissinger has been branded with at least a share of responsibility for another newly exposed and very unhappy affair the clandestine American campaign to support the opposition to Allende's government in Chile And here he is being made to clumsy and possibly untruthful as well as furtive ap-pe- ur Recently he had a heavy day with the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee with its Democratic caucus and at a briefing session with both houses' party leaders On the same day the New York Times obtained from "intelligence sources" a detailed allegation that the greater part of the large funds spent in Chile in 1972 and 1973 by the Central Intelligence Agency was used to finance the shopkeepers taxi drivers and truck drivers whose strikes were disrupting the economy Kissinger however apparently told the Senate committee and the party leaders that the CIA's only role in Chile had been to sustain the opposition press and parties — which did indeed keep going throughout the Allcnde years they have been supressed only since the armed forces killed the president and look over Kissinger'S version has found little credence partly bccouse it is liardly compatible with the disclaimers about CIA involvement in Chile that he gave last year Those members of Congress who are entitled to be informed about clandestine actions of this kind arc now complaining that they were deliberately misled and other critics are pointing out that the biggest flaw in the philosophy of undiluted Kealpolitik is that each damning revelation about covert operations opens up a new credibility gap Kissinger might for instance be less bothered now by allegations about American responsibility for setting uff the Cyprus crisis if there was less evidence of American responsibility for financing the opposition to Allcnde In Chile 1974 Tlw Economist of Ixmdun Dryden Cook Phillip Morris ocmakes its corporate plane available to him Sources close to Cook say that Dryden keeps the senator well supplied with liquor cigars and football tickets Cook also collects a fat annual honorarium for participating in the tobacco convention He likes to hunt too on an island preserve which is made available to him by the tobacco men In short the relationship between the senator and the tobacco industry has developed into a love affair Footnote: Both Cook and Dryden assured my associate Jack Cloherty that the favors the senator accepts are not as flagrant as our investigation indicates Dryden said he provides no more than an occasional box of cigarettes to the senator who said he had so little use for them that they get stale He admitted however that he uses the free football tickets to take his son to Washington Redskins games Washington Whirl The US ways casionally Information Agency which is supposed to promote America has had foreigners produce 35 TV shows in the last few years at a cost of 8109000 Federal Renegotiation Board Chairman William Whitehead has not been able to negotiate himself a continuation in his job past the end of the year Whitehead is supposed to be the watchdog over defense contract profiteering but morale has fallen so low that a search is now quietly going on for a successor At least one Watergate figure won't be asking President Ford for a pardon He is Frank Sturgis a member of the Watergate break-i- n crew who told us: "Only a guilty person asks a pardon" His Miami attorney Ellis Rubin agreed with Sturgis that the pardoning of Cook’ but wanted to capability respond it forwarded the World request to ITT Our security Headquarters director who handles such matters reviewed several outside consultants and selected former President Nixon was "the wrong thing morally’1 President Ford's new staff chief Donald Rumsfeld appointed John "Fat Jack" Ruckley in 1969 to be his inspection chief at the Office of Economic Mr Ragan Your own column testifies to his reputation in that field Opportunity Buckley while in the job served as a Watergate-er- a spy mi the 1972 Ed Muskie campaign Former Democratic chairman tarry O'Brien in his rollicking first literary hurrah "No Final a Victories" predicts Democratic horse race in 1976 such as among Senators Henry Jackson Hubert Humphrey and Ed Muskie and younger men like Senators Waite- - Mondale and Lloyd Bentsen Gov John Gilligan of OhloAa Watergate’s first end foremost victim O'Brien follows the case most obsessively For the first three months after the break-ihe marveled at the press’s "disinterest The major exceptions to this were the Washington Post's Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein end columnist Jack Anderson" old-time- rs e D-T- n There has been all sorts of talk about Watergate reforms but perhaps this is the most basic A note to the Watergate maintenance office dated September 15 1972 reads: "We would like to thank you for the quick service you provided for us this afternoon in getting a lock for our door We're feeling much more secure" The college fraternity Kappa Sigma has listed its most prominent newsmakers in 1974 Included were Sen John Tower Washington Post cartoonist Herbiock and actor Robert Redford But conspicuously missing was Kappa Sig's most prominent 1974 newsmaker of all convicted aide John R-T- Paul llarceyL Progress Of Women’s Rights Equal rights for women to be constitutionally guaranteed must be ratified by 38 slate legislatures After seven yrars the amendment is still five states short of ratification If ratification is not official by 1979 the amendment dies A couple of states Tennessee and Nchraska which had voted for the amendment now have changed their minds Both were negatively much-publirite- - Frrnk “the best senator the tobacco state ever had" Cook even transferred from the Senate's Agriculture Committee to the Commerce Committee so he could battle more effectively against tobacco controls and labeling Once the senator flew across the country in an attempt to save the small cigar manufacturers the embarrassment of having their commercials forced off television by an act of Congress So close is Cook to the Tobacco Institute that a secretary he placed on the Senate Rules Committee Gretchen Doss gathered documents and reports that were of interest to the tobacco industry She mailed these to Dryden at the taxpayers' rxpense in Cook's franked envelopes For this service Dryden slipped her 225 a month on the side Both Cook and Dryden claim the senator was unaware of her extracurricular efforts for the Tobacco Institute but Doss she said cleared the arrangement in advance with the senator The tobacco people have shown their appreciation for Senator Cook in many little calls g - influenced by some individual d excesses Such as the woman who fought for and got a job as a "brakepcrjnn" on the Southern Pacific Railroad and then when she hurl her bark carrying a heavy load sued the railroad And won! Stop me if I'm wrong hut It occurs tn me that many women do not support women's Ub organizations directly Yet somewhat e in the secret consciousness of till women is a still small sound of applause I can imagine most women wanting the best of both worlds - J police" column states By London Economist News Service WASHINGTON — (LENS) — Both at home and abroad Henry Kissinger is coining under Increasing criticism The difficulties he is running into were spotlighted when President Ford judged it necessary to include in his speech at the UN assembly on Sept 18 an assurance to the world that “the Secretary of State has my full support and the unquestioned backing of the American people" Rarely has any head of government felt obliged to give his own foreign minister such a personal endorsement in an international ‘J Exchange Student the publication of John To the Editor: As is probably typical of any Ragan’s activities in Chile is an old story and omits a key fact parents mine initially opposed my going alone to another ITT informed the Associated Press on September 18 1973 in country as an exchange student So when they consented my joy response to a request from the AP Washington Bureau that knew no bounds ITT had sent Mr Ragan to Chile Understandably therefore I at Dr Allende’s request NOT had high expectations upon merely the "Invitation of the arriving in Logan last Nov 29 and as your from my country the Philip- Superman’s Fall From Credibility rM---r President First - wr to the approaches Chilean military in 1970 Commentary w its Corporation employment of John Ragan and homeless Such huge and disastrous fires are rare but destructive blazes are regular in Cache Valley as throughout our nation According to data supplied by Logan City Fire Marshal Albem L Allen the average daily property loss from fire in the US is 1541 homes 299 apartment buildings 61 school buildings 11 churches 211 stores and offices 59 restaurants 131 industrial plants and 92 farm buildings Those are daily averages Each year 12000 Americans are killed by fire and another 300000 are injured We commend the Logan City Fire Department and other agencies which are carrying out educational programs on fire prevention this week and we urge every citizen to take heed It is small and careless acts of people that are responsible for most fires A Civic Concerts to continue to enjoy whatever special deference is still available to them while allowing the more militant women out there on the firing line to battle and bleed for equal rights in the courts and equal consideration in employment and more equitable pay scales Hut then we come to the Equal Rights Ammtbnent and here women are furred to take shies They can't have their cake and eat it too Equality under constitutional taw is going to cost some advantages as well as win wme This becomes a choice worthy of very dclibcr ale consideration The smoke-scree- n argument about public "sharing bathrooms" has been laid to rest by the military Bo Callaway's Army I no housing both men and women in on the same barracks separate floors but not restricted to the separate floors -resulting in neither mutiny nor wanting - inordinate lircMlouanm Women however billeted have a disproportionate problem adjusting to military life Women in the Navy are hospitalized with psychiatric problems at four times the rate ITT did not learn that Ragan was working for the Republicans in 1970 until three years later The second and most serious error in the column is the distorted reprisal of your first column in 1972 You ITT-Chi- le say: “But as we reported on March ITT had made ap21 1972 ‘to select members of proaches the Armed Forces in an attempt have them lead some sort of uprising’ in late 1970 only a few months before ITT and the Chilean army helped arrange Ragan’s visit” This is not true as a reading of the Church Committee transcript would have shown ITT made no approaches of any kind whatsoever to the Chilean military at any time Your apparent evidence tor that statement is a memo from ITT Vico President William R Merriam to ITT Director John Merriam A McCone In it discusses what he learned of the activities of the Central Intelligence Agency which ap- parently included approaches by that agency to the military The fact that ITT would comply with a request from Dr Allende to its very vulnerhMe Chilean subsidiary should not be "puzzling" at all The decision to send Mr Ragan to Chile to assist Dr Allende was consistent with the Chilean Telephone Company's policy (and ITT's policy) of cooperation with the Allende regime until its properties were expropriated without compensation Nothing else can be inferred from it and the attempt of your October 2 column to do more is completely in error and without justification in (act or In spirit I think a correction based on the record of the Church hearings is in order Robert H Sykes ITT Director of Public Information University last June emphasized to me the rewards of perseverance The talented instructors and my partner Pam immense showed Batty patience as I struggled to improve my piano technique I sincerely appreciated Professor Irving Wassermann's personal interest in my progress The National Tarks that I saw — Zion Bryce Canyon Grind Teton and Yellowstone — have sensational scenery as has other parts of the area Including the less heralded Big Rock Candy Mountains Hiking Crimson Trail and other one near Moab surpassed any endurance record I may ever face again The fell coloration of the canyon maple trees in the mountains is an embellishment by nature’s paintbrush that even red sunsets do not rival Water skiing was new and exciting sport for me So too was swimming in the Great Salt take Excuse me for mentioning this point but regrettably the latter exwas seriously perience blemished by the smoke rolling out of the smokestacks of a smelter plant that Is located near where we swam on the south shore of the take I was appalled that smoke of such magnitude is still allowed to pollute the atmosphere Cannot anyone stop It? Has man's technology unleailied I vehemence of industrial might and political expediency that Is impossible to contain? My attitude on this matter has been influenced by what I saw at the World's Fair in Spokane world-famo- Washington which splendidly documented the possible fate of our global environment As for the entertainment at the Fair my emotions of price overwhelmed me when I saw the Filipino presentations In closing may I say that this has been a marvelous experience for me and I hope my being here has addded some measure of happiness to other people's lives I shall long remember Ixigan Utah with humble pride as the plare where I learned a lot more about the beauty of the United States its scenery and its people MaeiencBelo Rosas City Philippines Berry’s World for Navy men While most or all these problems could predate the service military disproportionate vulnerability to stress situations appears The controversy surrounding in equality athletics wa 'jverheated male-femal- e Now we discover that some girls are better IJltle taague baseball players than some buys that most are not and the cream ran come to the top without souring the sport Most of tlie arguments against equal rights have proved invalid or inconsequential Yet the most In noxious abuses V sexism advertising and in Job seniority — remain unremedied and there is no prospect that a new la w car disallow old predispositions It's good that we have a few more years to think almut it Gen Fes Copyright 1974 - © Itn I) IM "My Ml home canning project work I out to erexmd per lar Pul who knows maybe we'll stHI come out ahead" - throe dollar Corp V -- - jay-- 4 |