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Mjv in. 117:3 ;j Watergate Must Deal in Principles Not Individuals, to Further Cause Tunes New A'urx FIERY RIY A nice St Ip A W lteie in the 'oot hills of the Blue Ridge, a !it of people lave television sets even if tl don t lave central heet-nIt is better to je cold than lonely you have sen-- e .wigh to get off .he big superhighways and wander If f " slowly through these flowering joves and alleys, vou will see the TV aenais on the cabin roofs on RoBksnal.e Mountain, and even on thicken houses m Little Africa and these people have been watching the Watergate hearings with mounting interest and concern A of mass political education program is going on m this country through the televised hearings on Watergate which may be more important than anything else that's going on. and this raises a fundamental question for the new attornev general, Elliot Riehaidson, and the new Jos-ep- jtergaie pru'ecu'or, Archibald c'u For the Watergate scandals have reached a critical point of conflict between the prosecutors, who mainly want to indict and jail the criminals, and the senators, who want to d.g det per into the whole political underground of espionage and sabotage. It is a conflict because the lawyers are primarily interested in litigation and the senators, or some of them, in education. and if the courts rush forward with indictments of the maor characters this will postpone and limit the testimony of the nuin characters before the Lrv.n Coinmitee and obscure the people's view of what has been going on in this country Hiding Facts Tne President, of course, wants as little public exposure of these scandals as possible, and considering how much he has been hiding, you cant blame him He claims to be very concerned now about the civil rights and privacy of his people, which is a switch from the days when lus power was being used to burgle the psychiatric files of Lilsberg and tap uvwi sta.f ofUeis m But we have to gtt the nut.n pi up. i tion straight It ts the o'd, plain but startling American proposition, not of man as a con, sumer to be manipulated by the or of man as the beneficiary of the bounty of this fertile and beautiful country, but of man as Jefferson Lincoln and John Marshall of Fauqu.er County here have seen him in a society luuk-steis- capable of The American dteam. as iclub.ud Mallei'll delmeii it. is teal.y what u ,.! the bottom of tins crisis of An.ciuun values II was the dream cf nun as nun, dieain which holds Mailoish said " that human biins it it.ev aie liee to think for themselves and jud0e for themselves. are capable ot governing themselves " Mo-- t of the world, of couise, denies this fundamental American proposition, and many of our own people have begun to doubt it. and the root of the present en-i- s is that the Nixon administration not only doubted it, but acted on the contrary theory that the people and their in stitutinr.s had to be manipulated or ev acled, or ev en subv erted Ali-u- h toe telephones of his the W hue Hoi.se Sensible Plan Seems To Be Just to Await the Verdict Los Angeles Times Service WASHINGTON It is early days yet for so many people to be talking and with venomous about the gu.lt of Mr. Nixon." Alter all. he is still President of the United States C o m m o n sense forbid ought holding presidents guilty of undoubted crimes, until all the evidence is to in. God knows, later evidence may show that the President had f 11 knowledge and complicity in ail that mallei ed in the Watergate horror. Anything ems possible nowadays. Lul vvh.le awaiting tne final verdict, it is worth examining the other possibility. The right place to begin is with a personal renuiiscence Some t.me ago, this lcporter Was one of a large group attending an awards ceremony in the President's Oval Otfne in the White House. That day. the room itself was the only thing that was either striking or memorable It is a room, one must note, on which every previous President always put the stiongest kind of personal mark Impersonal Office Yet President Nixons oval office oks as if it had just come from the builds of an expensive but rather second-ratdecorator. It is totally impersonal. and it seems never to have been laed at all 1. e This is natural, too, since it never is work. So John used for real was ..sked why on earth the President preferred his hideaway m the Executive Oftice Building to this lovely, sunny oval room with a garden view It's odl. said El, i heliman m reply ' But the truth is that the President hales to uoik with a window belaud Ins desk As it happens, hating to wotk with a window behind your desk is a classic symtom of nuld agoraphobia. Agoraphobia, o! course, is the opposite of claustrophobia, being an obsessive dislike of large crowds and wide open spaces To be a highly successful politician with mild agoraphobia must in fact have needed astonishing Extreme Rcclusiveness But that is the kind of President we now have, as is also proven by Richard M Nixons extreme reclusiveness and many other signs as well. In and of itself, having a mildly agoraphobic president is far less dreadful than having a presidential drunkard, a presidential weak sister or a presidential slob all of whom the U. S. has managed lo survive m the persons of Franklin Fierce, James Buchanan and Warren Harding Yet if the President is indeed not guilty of any of the worst of the Watergate horror, it is a No true that his mild agoraphobia has led lo dreadful results It caused him. first ot all. to cut himself off almost totally from all but five men- the White House managers, II. R. Haldeman and his junior partner. Ehrh.ehman, the While House political operative, Charles Colson, the Repuolican bagman. Matinee Stans, and the humor Ally Gen J aim Mitchell - campji0n-manager-cron- Dean Was Lying Almost litei ally no others except of course Mrs Nixon and Dr Henry A Kishad genuine access to the Pressinger ident when the Watergate break-ifirst surfaced, or for many, many months thereafter John Dean 111, for instance, had the important-soundintitle of "counsel to the He president. told all and sundry that he was seeing the President constantly, and was believed because of his title. In fact, however, Dean was lying, for he was just as much cut off from the President as everyone else. n g Consider, then, the situation that resulted when the Watergate break-first octuired. When the news of this piece of folly reached the President, he is known to have been all but uneontainably furious He was still coldly angry when he called in Atty. Gen Richard kleindienst. and told him emphatically, "The matter should be thotoughly investigated, let the chips tall where they may Untenable Situation Political Corruption Therefore, throw ing a few burglars or even staff or cabinet officers into jad isn't going to deal with the political corruption of the United States. The problem is not to imprison McCord and Hunt, or even Haldeman and Lhrhchman, whose maor blunder seems to have been that they confused Nixon with America My President, Right or Wrong Even if we could get the principal issue exposed and debated, it w ouid help but after all the trickery of these pohli cal twisters we are still getting devious and deceitful evasions from the President. First, he told us he knew nothing about the Watergate. In Ins second statement, he suggested he had been deceived by his staff. Now in his third, he tells us he did know a great deal about w hat w as going on, but concealed it for national security reasons, and then appealed for limiting the inquiry in case it disclosed national security secrests. Everything that happened thereafter have flowed quite naturally from .hat first untruth by these men whom the President trusted absolutely, who also controlled all access to lnm, who further had authority to give orders m his name. Alas, however, saying it could have happened this way, is altogether different from saying it really did happen in this way. This is why the Presidents role needs immediate clearing up. would HOUSE TOURS :,y r-- it i. 0, n : sik 4. Dr. T. U. Van Dcllcn Doctor House Calls on a Bicycle? Dr R E Williams rides a bicycle to the hospital and on house calls He has a car, but finds that cycling is good exercise, uses up less oxy gen. and leav es the air a bit clean-er- . Traffic m Lon-- ; don being what i ; is, he gets about almost as fast as he did in the car. He makes it a cardinal rule to avoid traffic .gnals, because a A red light is a great Dr. an Delien waste of the cyclist's time Bicycle thetts ate as much a problem A oik m Louden as in Chicago or New s a result, he eat lies a slrong cable padlock to secure Ins Ineycle to a railing or a parking meter while he is indoois Theie aie a few minor objections to the use of a bicycle When Dr Williams gels into the home of a patient, his begins to perspire A steady dnp, drip fi mn Ins brow onto the exposed abdomen of the patient "is not exactly in the of Bntish 'radition highest medicine Dr Williams is not the fust physician lo use a bicycle in London, but he has made some interesting calculations on the env ironment.il aspects ot making rounds on a bicule. foie-hc.- Ills tailor benelits indirectly in that the seat of his pants wears out sooner than usual The little black bag also takes a beating Tried rrgomoter He rode a bicycle ergometer in the labmatory at the speed and amount of woik necessary to using the bicycle The car used 'ill times the amount ol oxygen as he used to cover the same distance on his bicycle. In addition, the exhaust fiotn the car pumped JO liters of caibon monoxide into the air of London along with Indiocaihotis, lead, and oxides of nitrogen (omes Apart Everything that can work loose tends to come apart or unscrews He tightens the bulbs on his ophthalmoscope at least five tunes a week Tins, of course, is a minor loiomemence Obviously, when it rams he gets wet On inclement days, lie grits his teeth and takes the car This does not happen too often because the rainfall is lower in London than elsewhere in Britain the main advantages of cycling the exercise and the lowering eftect on Ins cholestciol level But ate This reminds me of the man who murdered his parents and then asked the court for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan. It wasnt secrecy that got the troops and the prisoners out of Vietnam, as Nixon claimed at his recent party for the POW,s, but the free speech of men and women who thought the war was morally, politically and strategically wrong, and detrimental to the fundamental interests of the republic. Clumsy Plumbers at this late date that national security is serv ed by more secrecy, or that it was ever served by an arrogant staff or by the clumsy plumbers who gave us the Bay of Pigs disaster, the Watergate scandal, and the Ellsberg burglaty is almost beyond belief. Tnese characters couldn't fix a tiaffic ticket, let alone defend the national interests, and it is now fairly dear from their own predicament that they can't even protect their own security, let alone the nation's. To argue The national interest lies in getting back to the American proposition, to honest debate among men about the principal problems before the country, and tins means, in the first place, to allow the evidence of this whole national political scandal to come out. to get at the bottom of the huger conspiracy so that the people can know the facts and Congress can legislate new remedies Quick indictments in the courts will only impede this process by cutting off the supply of public infoimalion. Even impeachment proceedings will only divert attention from principles to personalities. If our information is correct, only a small part of this conspiracy has been exposed so far, and the rest should not be concealed by conflicts between the prosecutors and the senators, or by tardy appeals to defend Nixons peculiar notions of secrecy or his narrow and personal views on what is the national interest. (Copyright) Goren on Todays Bridge Hand i i WHITE - g Consider, further, the situation of the men around the President, who had vast power and loved it. yet were deeply acimplicated in the Watergate bieak-How did evidence to all present cording they reply when he asked them: "What goddam tool did this0" All they valued most might have been lost to them, d they had imitated young George Washington after the cherry tree alfatr, by replying, Mr President, we cannot tell a lie. We did it. v, doorway to fashion Vi-rst- : '- -i V &'V f Feel Free to he LI Ira Feminine "I ' r- -- j - You're a woman, ond that's the way these feminine fashions make you feel, soft, but with a decided dash of spice. a First, the delightful cool crisp look of linen in a wrinkle resistant fabric fashioned in a wide collared slim sheath. non-crusha- Move into evening with the special allure of a long dress by Mollie Parnis. 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