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Show w yryirij hi rri nn y dif" 4 'v tf ""'' arr A' MT y hj ' "my1 y 'K ) irT j' The Salt Lake Tribune, Friday, June James Reston !7 Whos Briefing Ziegl er Some Accident Victims Suffer On Reports to Press? Excruciating Pain in Nerves - WASHINGTON One of the mysteries around the White House these days is why Ron Ziegler remains as the Presi- dent's spokesman r rather than being! called to testify before the grand jury and the Ervin committee on the Watergate case. For an official who has lost the in " " In the first place, there is an element of unfairness in his present exposed position. Unlike his predecessors in this savJim Hagerty under President age job Eisenhower, Pierre Salinger under John Kennedy and Bill Moyers and George Reedy under Lyndon Johnson Ziegler has never had any real freedom to interpret the substance or even the tactics of President Nixons actions. He was brought in, unlike the others before him, not to interpret the President to the press and vice versa, but merely to put out what he was told to put out. He was a pided propaganda missile from the first, or as somebody put it better, he was"a recorded announcement." Apparently at 29, when he first took over, he liked this role as his masters voice, but it has led him into all kinds of distortions during the Watergate year, and every day now he is little more than an official punching bag for the people he misled. Main Question Remains Aside from the fact that he himself is now "inoperative as a believable official spokesman, the main question, about which so many other Nixon associates have been called before the investigating committees, is: Where did he get his instructions? .Who told him to dismiss the as a third-rat- e or to say that burglary the White attempt House has no involvement whatever in this particular incident? If one of the purposes of all these investigations is to find out whether there was a cover-u- p in the White House or an obstruction of justice, Ziegler is probably in a position to know at least part of the Watergate Causalgia is a painful condition caused by injury to a peripheral nerve. Luckily, it is not common, because the disorder is notorious for its seventy and resistance to most forms of medical and sur- sv ers is on the public record, along with his apology for his incorrect answers, which he said were inoperative, and he is not likely to explain how or where he got his answers unless he is called to testify under oath. gical treatment It was desenbed a century ago by Dr. Still Puts Gut Statements confidence of his audience to continue speaking for an administration that needs more than anything else to restore confidence is a puzzle, but what is moro puzzling is why he has not been asked to explain who instructed him to give all the misleading answers to questions put to him at the White House. rt A Dr. T. R. Van Dellen New York Times Service j 1, 1973 answer. Every day, Patrick J. Buchanan of the White House staff prepared a digest of newspaper, radio and television news reports and commentaries. This went to the President and key members of the White House staff, and was used as the basis for anticipating the questions that would be asked by reporters at each days White House press briefing. the Buchanan digest contained day after day for months the published reports on Watergate leaks or developments, somebody had to decide what Ziegler was to say in denial, confirmation, or rebuttal. When This Was Not the Way In Hagertys or Moyerss days in the White House it might be conceivable that they would undertake to face the firing . line on their own, since they were filled m on the substance of policy and trusted to know better than anybody else how to react In tight situations to an inquisitive press. But this was not the way in the Nixon White House. Few subjects concerned the White House staff more than the protection of the President from rumors, false or true. No administration in memory has used1 the official White House denial nearly as much as the Nixon administration, and the obvious question, since Ziegler seldom acted without instructions, is who gave the word? More important, on particularly embarrassing questions, requiring precision, or more likely carefully calculated mprecision, were the official answers written out, and if so, by whom? Answers to these questions should be nstructive. A catalogue of Zieglers an- - Meanwhile, he goes on putting out statements condemning the federal prosecutors for what he calls their "shocking and irresponsible abuse of authority" in saying that there was justification for calling on Nixon to testify before the grand jury," if in fact they made the statements attributed to them. In short, he charged the prosecutors before checking on whether they had actually made the statements he was condemning. But again: who authorized his Silas who wrote about its Weir-Mitche- ll long continued the body and mond. The wound or injury usually is such that the nerve fibers are overstretched or bruised. The nerve is cut but not severed. Oddly, the condition occurs m only 2 to S percent of nerve injuries and occurs most often during war of among people hurt in industrail accidents. Severe, excrauciat-in- g huming pain follows immediately or within 48 hours of the injury. Any nerve can be involved, but the sciatic r.erve in the leg or foot and median nerve in the arm or hand are involved most ofters. denial? Ziegler has been put in a false position from the start, asked to handle subjects with which he had little familiarity, armed with answers to opening questions, and then left stranded to fend off the inevitable followups. In the process, his usefulness has been steadily eroded, but he is still out there taking his lumps every day with more patience and courtesy than ever before. The Watergate was his Waterloo, and he must know it, but he is still taking the rap for other men. I simply cant think of cue more substitute (or meat,Roscoe!. we are eating our nest egg! .So tonight Joseph Kraft President Must Free Himself of His Friends Publishers Hall Syndicate , How will it all end? Is a question everybody has to ask about President Nixon as the returns from Watergate keeping (Copyright) flooding in. The ending could be happy if the Bernstein on Words By Theodore M. Bernstein I President can; Poor positioning. To illustrate what can happen if words are out of place, a reader offers this sentence: The doorbell rang at 3 a.m. and I opened the door to a policeman in my pajamas." The way to get the cop into uniform is to place the phrase in my pajamas" ahead shake loose from his friends. For his ! opponents clearly do not want to possible in the first plac They allowed the President to spin around him an atmosphere of dark suspicion about a liber al, academic, elitist plot to get the Nixon Witness hi Democratic edver-sarieTheir interest is to use the present weakness of the President to advance their men, their programs and their chances in coming elections. But ousting Nixon from the White House would wipe clean the Watergate slate. The Republicans would go into the 1974 elections with the issue resolved. Agr.ew would start fresh, with a chance to build for sympathy that could gain him election in 1976. s. sibly because it is important-soundinhas been subjected to considerable use and misuse in recent times. Basically and primarily it means able to live or capable of taking root and growing. Beyond that it has been extended to mean workable, and still further to mean, real in the sense of alive. But none of those meanings would fit what the district attorney had. in mind. He wasnt thinking that the offense would not be able to survive, but rather that a prosecution would not be able to What he intended to say, perhaps, was that he had found no prosecutable offense. And U he was determined to use an importantsounding word, why not prosecutable? Its five syllables whereas viable is a Word oddities.. The Dutch word ezel and the German esel both mean an ass, a donkey. That animal, a beast of burden and support, stands quietly by while man performs his tasks. The wooden frame on which an artist places his canvas also Overwhelming Vote But as the judiciary committee considered further steps, Sen. Philip Hart of Michigan observed: When you add it all up, were not going to get anybody better than Richardson from this administration." Chairman James Eastland reported that Richardson would not accept the job if the confirmation vote was narrow. So the committee approved the confirmation unanimously and pushed it through the full Senate by an overwhelming vote. providing support works.. That rather regave us the modern the artists device. Of has four legs, whereas has only three, but lets by, Dunagins People Expected Cleanup sign of the climate is what has happened to Gen. Alexander Haig, the former deputy to Henry Kissinger and No 2 man in the Army who wpnt back to the White House from the .Pentagon to take Haldcmans job as presidential chief of staff. It was expect- An unmistakable Now that same act is being repeated The latest presidental statement on Watergate conveys the Impression of a White House hat is a beleaguered fortress claiming the right to commit all kinds of crimes in the name of national Senator Soaper ?ernaps the answer to what to io with all those bales of papers around the house is to get some federal court to sub- The office grouch says he lost interest major league baseball when the players stopped spitting tobacco and started blowing gum bubbles. The great hope for the administration In the Watergate affair is that boredom, crushed to earth, will rise again. in poena them. Only a. short while after her day, mom wonders where aU those nice, polite strangers went. (3717 out-of-to- 9x12 Rugs $S995 ?85 0 AJ76 AQ94 WEST A EAST Q2 A K Q 10 S 3 0942 VJ12 ! stock priced for fpst clearance. Patterns and colors galore. 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John Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Halde-ma- n are not and John Ehrlichman in sordid plots to only implicated obstruct justice. They did something far . Our witness agrees to testify on Watergate in exchange for limited immunity and the movie rights! West opened ?QS43 mmn "KITCHEN part proved fatal to declarers cause in todays hand. The bidding was straightforward and North and South reached a four spade contract routinely. J974 IT? SALE PRICE INCLUDES RUBBER PAD & INSTALLATION customers. NO MILEAGE charge to NOTHING DOWN BANK TERMS worse, something "CHOOSE FROM" the king of diamonds and the ace wa3 played from dummy. Declarer apparently had to lose three tricks in the club suit, so that the fate of the contract appeared to hinge on the trump situation. In his haste to find out how the spades split, South promptly cashed the ace and king. When East showed out on the second round, declarer prospects were considerably dimmed. He continued by taking his top hearts and ruffing a third round in dummy. A diamond was trumped in the closed hand to enable South to ruff out his remaining heart. Another diamond was trumped with the five of spades bringing declarers trick total to nine five aces and kings inr spades, hearts and diamonds and two ruffs in each of the red suits. South was still left with or.a trump, the eight of spades and, if there were some way to lead from the dummy at this stage, he could have put his trump card to good use by ruffing out Norths last diamond for the game fulfilling trick. Since he was in his hand, however, he had to surrender the lead, and after West drew the last trump with the queen of spades, the 2 LEES, MASLAND, MOHAWK, KOLLYTEX. Shags, Plushes, Colors galore. that made Watergate Goren on Todays Bridge Hand NORTH cleanup job. But Gen. Haig tS not an officer practiced in command. He is a bureaucratic general who takes on the color of his surroundings. So he has been spending quite a lot of time recently justifying to newsmen the wiretapping done on former White House staff members. In the process he has been blackening reputations and disclosing t ie contents of wireitself a violation of the law. And taps all that in the name of national security. None of this is going to do the country any good. It deepens the shadow of Watergate. It makes it harder to get decent men into government. U assures continued political turmoil. And it moves Nixon deeper and deeper into a position that leaves open to him only the convulsive acts of a desperate man. !irdlDm Tone-On-Ton- A ed that Gen. Haig would do a rapid Highland Drive at 33rd South CARPETOWNE A good index of the Democratic strategy in these circumstances comes from the confirmation hearings on the appointment of Elliot Richardson to be attorney general. The Democrats undoubtedly drew blood. They insulated Richardson from the Watergate investigation' by obliging him to accept a special prosecu--to- r (Prof. Archibald Cox of the Harvard Law School). They showed he was less than candid in divulging . information about when knowledge of the burglary attempt on Daniel Ellsbergs psychiatrist came to the notice of the President, and they could have gone much further in that view. merethree. security. Nixons speech to the Vietnam POWs expresses the same attitude. administration. bring Nixon down. of I opened." Fad word. A district attorney in New York decided not to prosecute a case because, he said, he had found no viable criminal offense. The word liable, pos- stands quietly while the artist mote association word easel for course, the ass the easel usually not go into that. unendurable pain" and its influence cn Dr, Van Ddten During the early stage, bolld vessels in the affected area may dilate. This leads to swelling, redness, and throbbing. Neighboring muscles go into spasm. 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