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Show The Salt Lake Tribune, Saturday, June 23, 1973 A 1 9 Senate Watergate Hearings Hold Grave Danger of Mocking Justice 'By William S. Cohen Washington Post Service Editors Note: The writer Is a Republican con gressman from Maine. really means that our system almost did not work. But perhaps the greatest lesson is th? zeal with which we will undertake to purge and cleanse ourselves of an evil once it is exposed. Attendant dangers lurk in our zealousness. Hearsay Evidence The danger becomes most apparent in the current focal point of the Senate Watergate hearings. No matter how many times members of the committee insist upon identifying testimony as hearsay evidence, inadmissible in a court of law, and no matter how often Sen. Ervin issues a caveat that the evidence is insufficient to connect those implicated to the events, the slow and eradicable stain of guilt is being allowed to seep into the WASHINGTON There are many lessons to be learned from Watergate. One is how quickly bird of power can attach itself to the men and then abandon them almost without no- -' tice and always without remorse. Just a few months ago. President Nixon and his administration were riding the crest of an unprecedented wave of popularity. Congress was reeling from executive clouts and vetoes and constituent reproach. minds of the public and soil the presumption of All that is changed now and it is the adminisinnocence that must be granted to those who are is tration that reeling as the Senate deals out to be charged with criminal offenses. blow after blow with the networks it all earning Many recognize that the publicity given to the into every household in the country. current hearings may very well jeopardize any Many, on the optimistic side, proclaim that opportunity for those who have been implicated Watergate proves that our system works. Others, or who will be indicted, to secure a fair trial. in proposing ast and fundamental reforms, say it Moreover, special prosecutor Archibald Cox has long-beake- d indicated that the cui.ent hearings will impede, if not defeat, his efforts to proceed in the courts and he has requested the committee to defer long enough to allow him to complete his investigation and presentation. His request was turned dow by the Ervin committee, which maintains it is more important for the public to have the truth than to secure the convictions of those who may have been involved. at the very core should not counter judicial branch. of our political system, we by striking a blow back at the Sense of Distrust It is difficult to be critical of the Senate hearings, currently under way. Indeed, this wnter called upon the Select Investigating Committee some time ago to go well beyond the Watergate itself and investigate allegations concerning the sabotage of Sen. Muskie's campaign for the presidential nomination. The difficulty with the committees argument is that it perpetuates a sense of distrust and lack of confidence in the judicial system at a time when it can least afford it. Secondly, it ignores the fundamental principle that we are not to seeking the trutn but doing it in a manner that is fair and consistent with our notions of justice. Questions Restrained The Republican and Democratic committee members have exercised restraint and moderation in their conduct and questioning, each seeking to avoid being tagged with a charge of partisan persecution or protection. Nevertheless, it is an institutional restraint rather than an internal one that now seems in order. other words, there are not just two ways of the right determining the truth, there are three way, the wrong way and the right wav that is the fair and just way. While the sad and' sordid acts of eavesdropping, espionage and sabotage stride The Senate has been the catalytic agent that has lifted the top off the boiling teapot of scandal, that has precipitated the naming of a new attorney general and an independent special prosecutor of the highest caliber. Now it is time to allow In the Justice Department to repair itself and permit the judicial process to get under way again and oring the malefactors before the bar of justice. Guilt Without Evidence The danger in proceeding in the Senate without regard for the judicial proceedings that are to commence is that testimony is being received and accepted in the Senate to establish events but not the innocence or guilt of the participants. The hearings, however, may well satisfy the pubiic of the guilt of those involved with evidence that could not be nsed in a court of law because of Us inherent unreliability. pell-me- This not only undermines whatever confidence remains that the courts are where justice is accomplished, but it approaches and gains entry to a Mad Hatter world where everyone knows the culprits are guilty even if we cannot prove it or do not care if we prove it. The accused will be publicly tried but not properly convicted. We will thus know the truth without being able to prove be truth. William Safire Corruption Grips Record Industry New York Times Service - Has the agony of Watergate taught us nothing about how to handle scandal? ' Columbia t The ; WASHINGTON , I I B I . Broadcasting System, a corporation active in many I 1 earned businesses, million last $82 I ft ft Its year. I fastest-growin- ter, which accounts for nearly 30 percent of its earnings, is the division that Mr. Safire produces CBS records and tapes. CBS is by far the largest producer of records and tapes in the music world, an industry that takes in revenues of $2 billion a year more than all professional sports and the entire film industrv combined. i Joseph Alsop Grand juries and district attorneys are now trying to find out if the music industry is shot through with a higher dollar volume of venality and corruption than has ever been seen in American business , Its Time for Senate to Get in Gear The Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON tergate - Now that the Wa- committee has recessed, it may interest a investigating graciously few people that the U.S. government is remarkably close to grinding to a halt. The ultimate cause is Watergale-intoxicatio- n in the I Senate, so you can blame the President if you choose. But the Senate is Mr. Alsop still the body that has chosen to halt the government many vital ways. In To get an idea of what is happening, you need only glance at a single area where even the dilatory Senate used to be capable of reasonably swift decisions. which some are In the bad old days beginning to regard as the good old days the Senate cherished two principles in dealing with vacancies in really major t Colby, to the directorship Schlesinger has abandoned. No senator on the Armed Services Committee can need to know much more about Dr. Schlesinger, since exhaustive hearings were held before he was confirmed for the CIA directorship. As to Colby, no one anywhere has so much as whispered that this was not a good choice by President Nixon. William government posts. First, the President, as head of the Executive Branch, was considered to have a right to fill major posts with men of his choice unless they could be shown to have really grave deficiencies. Attended Meeting Officially, to be sure, the hearings on Schlesinger were delayed because of his need to attend a NATO meeting in Europe. In reality, in view of the hearings just held, there was no apparent need to question Schlesinger further. Presumably, the Defense Department and the CIA will now cease to be headless in a few days time. But this is only because of the forceful intervention from his hospital bed of that relic of the more national-mindepast, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sen. John C. Stcnnis. Until Stennis intervened, the acting chairman, Sen. Stuart Symington, meant to deui with Dr. Schleslngers nomination concurrently with the vast, complex and controversial military procurement bill which will demand weeks of hearings! d Is This kind of senatorial ego-tri- p Considered Improper WilAs Sen. to frivolous. J. what merely Second, it was also considered im-- ; liam Fulbrtght is currently doing in the proper to leave posts like the secretary-- ; Senate Foreign Relations Committee, ship of defense, or the directorship of the uglier adjectives might well be used. Central Intelligence Agency, in a kind of Here the problem has been, the Presidents choice of four distinguished foreign empty limbo for undue periods of time. service veterans for high posts here and sec-- j Today, how ever, we have had no abroad. rotary of defense since the President Because of their past service in Southtransferred Elliot Richardson to the Jus-- j east been also Asia, the four veterans were all CIA has tice Department. The leaderless since the President decided to subject to Sen. Fulbrights angry veto. to be guilty men, give the Defense Department to his new They were adjudged was and confirmation and initially refused to CIA director, Dr. James Schlesinger, all four. Under heavy pressure from the to promote the able CIA professional, j ! i senior Republican on his committee, Sen. George Aiken, Fulbright then gave way on the nomination of the former ambassador to Thailand and Italy, Graham A. Martin, to be the new U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam. More Manipulation The argument used was the need to have an ambassador to deal with President Nguyen Van Thieu at this tricky not juncture. All kinds of just for Fulbright, but aLo for other committee members like Sen. Jacob Jav-itwas further demanded and provided, before the confirmation of Graham Martin was reluctantly conceded. s, Meanwhile, there are William H. SulliG. van, named for the Philippines; McMurtrie Godley, nominated assistant secretary of state for East Asian affairs; and Charles Whitehouse, for ambassador to Laos. . Of Highest Caliber ; are men of impeccable character. .Whitehouse is perhaps the foreign Services most admired member of his rank and age The charge against all of them is, solely and simply, that they faithfully carried out their instructions while on All duty In Southeast Asia. This makes you almost homesick for the awful McCarthy-time- . After all, Sen. Joseph McCarthy so implacably and successfully pursued John Davies, John Stewart Service and their colleagues, on the unique ground of their individual bad judgment. What Sen. Fulbright is doing is in fact much worse. it a proof of fatally "bad judgment for foreign service officers to execute their own governments policy decisions. So what are foreign service officers to do in the future, if the Fulbright elaboration on the late McCarthy is generally accepted? HU is making history. The corporate corruption being invespayola tigated includes the bribery to disc jockeys by record companies with a new, ethnic wrinkle: One CBS records executive has reportedly told a grand jury that $250,000 in cash has been slipped to disc jockeys who direct their programming to black audiences. Not the Whole Story But the return of payola, even on an unprecedented scale, is not the whole story: Federal investigators are looking cocaine and into the use of hard drugs heroin by the businessmen of music to bribe their distribution outlets, or to en- tertain their entertainers. The Federal Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs unearthed the first lead while investigating Pasquale Falcone, a reputed New Jersey mobster, indicted on drug charges Feb. 7. He turned out to be sharing an office with a former promotion man at Columbia Records, whose papers led to David Wyn-shauntil recently director of artist relations at CBS Records. Since that time, at least three official investigations have been launched into the use of cocaine and other drugs as a period of bilge. He was using the term in its slang meaning of silly or nonsensical. Well, it depends pretty much on the i for point of view. The occasion was used the of royal family, releasing pictures Phi-lieach, including the estimable Prince on the chain a Annes father, holding a was of which there end dog. other i That did seem silly, and one imagines it took some forceful talking within the royal private home to make the prince fall in with the idea. But it was no doubt meant to show how peace loving and do--j mestic the royal family is, and people do gobble that up. Expert Knows Royalty Then Debrett, the bible on such things r The men at Black Rock (as the dark granite structure that houses CBS headquarters is affectionately called) could not be more dunderheaded. Instead of building legal barricades and bringing in old faces to run CBS Records, CBS chairman and chief executive officer William Palcy should turn to the men at CBS best equipped to ferret out facts and expose scandal. Id e like to hear Dan Rather an official of the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs about what is known so far, and to watch Dan Schorr on the steps of the courthouse in Newark reporting the latest leaks from the grand jury room on the penetration of the record industry by Mafia drug cross-examin- peddlers. A great many Americans would gain confidence in our system if they were to hear Walter Cronkite narrate a hard- - Let your baby be a baby fo- - at least a year. According to Dr. L. Martin Hardy, a Chicago pediatrician, there is no real advantage in toilet training a child before he knows what it is ail about and his reflex nervous system is ready for this type of control. Drugs Killed Singers rise to a resentful and tense child. what may be the second of the last 12 most massive cover-u- p mofiths, CBS fired its records division president, Clive Davis, charging him in a curious lawsuit with the music world's equivalent of spitting on the sidewalk; Bilking the company of $94,000 in phony expenses. The cancer in the music business r STuL AND WIRE PRODUCTS') is as royal descent, discovered that Lt. Phillips is a descendant, a very distant one to be sure, of none other than King Edward I, one of Englands most outstanding monarchs of olde. Perhaps it doesn't matter that a Mr. John Ashe, in a letter to the Daily Telegraph, pointed out that arithmetic must that many, many present day Britishers share that honor this long after the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries when Edward ruled. Phillips, after all, is not a rank commoner. And now we have had the happy young engaged couples first kiss in pub--, he. One does assume they have had a kiss or two in private. The public event took place at Hanover airport in Germany and was greeted with first page headlines and pictures in the press back show home. Some 60 newspaper reporters and six television crews recorded the public act, which amounted to a peck by the dash ing young officer on the princess's left cheek. It looks like, Willie Hamilton notwithstanding, millions of people saw it back in England and, unless newspaper editors are quite wrong, they wanted to functions giving see it. Over-zealo- attempts at early training may encourage enuresis and constipation in older children. Mothers pride may jump a notch when she can brag that Willie goes on the potty. She is the person President Tells Tale But it has taken that opportunist of the first water, President General Idi Amin of Uganda, to steal a good part of the show. He was quoted as telling his army that the British recognized him as a man to be dealt with and had offered him the princess as a wife to strengthen the weakening ties between our two countries. Amin, it so happens, has four wives already Maama, Norah, Key and Madina. Maama,. who is the number one wife, after examining all the evidence including photographs of Princess Anne, set their joint fears at rest. Princess Anne, she said, was too slim. Amin pre. fers his women plump. Y . WIRE, NAILS, SCREEN, (Copyright) who is trained in getting the proper receptacle in the correct place at the right time. But the child is not ready for such antics until he is one year old when he can understand and indicate his needs. Training should be started slowly and gently. Show approval when he is successful, but no reaction when he fails. 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Salant could wake up the committees with an offer to televise some of their hearings. CBS need not continue its present, approach to drug-olExplanations like you see, thats another department, or everybody in the music business does it," or the men at the top say theres nothing to it," or even its all a plot by our enemies to embarrass us have an all too familiar ring. Let the journalists of CBS News cover the story of CBS Records in depth, Mr. and after they have finished, Paley you can take a few minutes of your own for instant analysis. Child Should Be Mature Before Toilet Training Premature training may put too much emphasis on these Beginning The Selling of hitting documentary Rock Music which would pull no punches about the involvement of smoothfaced, Madison Avenue executives in the illegal passage of dash, and would skewer those w ho claim as justification some perversion of loyalty to the team. Should Get Indignant Dr. T. R. Van Dellen ' A Royal Kiss (in Public, No Less) Stirs 'News i CBS. new form of payola in the music business, along with Mafia infiltration of the music industrys distribution system. John Lloyds London Letter The way Willie Hamilton, the antimonarchy member of Parliament, put it when Pnncess Annes engagement to Lt. Mark Phillips was announced, was, in a resigned tone, that we were now in for a panic-stricke- n Cra-vat- g cen- profit ft not in padded expense accounts, and the men who head CBS today know it; the cancer is what killed singthe ers Jams Joplin and Jimi Hendrix new currency of the record industry, hard drugs. What action has CBS taken so far? To build a defense against stockholder lawsuits, it has fired and sued Davis; to give the appearance of it has asked its regular law firm to poke around, Swaine & Moore but the presiding partner of the law firm is Roswell L. 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