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Show U' , Tribune, Monday, June OEQ .Staff Battles 2, 193 Agnew By James M. Naughton New York Times West Programs better nothing Perhaps illustrates the parameters of the vice president's posture - By John Fialka s Wnter Washington As ConWASHINGTON gress prepares legislation that is likely to extend the life of the embattled Office of Economic Opportunity, employes of the antipoverty agency are involved in a bitter struggle over three unusual new grant proposals. The proposals include the creation of a bank, the establishment of a national management training program to be- funded m New Mexico through a Denver development firm, and a crash program to use $4 5 million to help bolster established businesses in Puerto Rico. Star-Nw- - WASHINGTON Spiro Agnew is hardly the first vice president to encounter personal pobtical turmoil because :f the policies or problems of his boss. Agnew unquestionably is loyal to President Nixon abhorrence - Although OEO officials say that these are proposals intended to reflect the agencys .lew, conservati' e approach to the problems of the poor, some staff members who helped prepare them have complained that there is considerable likelihood that the poor may never receive the benefit of the proposals. Court Order The agency is paraiyzed by a court order bamng its acting director, Howard J. Phil- 1966 gate, Agnew Because the House Appropriations Committee is expected to report out this week a continuing resolution to fund OEO for another year, sources on Capitol Hill and in the agency say the White House will soon end the impasse by appointing a new di- rector The new grant proposals are contained among several OEO interoffice memorandums obtained by the They include a memo on the resignation of Dr. John M Brazzel, and economist who balked at the idea of awarding $2.5 million for the creation of a bank. Star-New- s. The project is a sows ear, a hustlers paradise, wrote Brazzel, reierring to the bank, which would be known as the Development Finance Corporation and which would be set up by a development firm selected by the OEO. Asked about the bank proposal, Moigan Deughtnn, the agencys associate director for program evaluation, asserted g that setting up a development bank would be a to manage healthy way for intended growth capital profit-makin- situations." Minority Business Doughton added that such situations would be minority businesses? in poverty-pron- e areas. One firm being considered to set up the bank with a onetime $2.5 million grant from OEO, Doughton said, is the Colorado Economic Development Association, headed by Edward R. Lucero, a Denver who accountant recently served as a special employe of the agency while heading a study of community development programs. Luceros association, a nonprofit group that specializes in developing minority-owne- d businesses, would also receive $30,000 in another OEO grant drafted statement lips, from taking any action. a disavow-in- g the com ments of unnamed associates and advisers, " and affirming full m the integrity confidence of President Nixon and in his determination and ability to resolve the Watergate matter to the full satisfaction of the American people. He has not deviated from that position since he asserted Still In Dark it on television Apnl 25, and then turned and strode from his conference room. He would not speculate for a on all purpose the rumor and hearsay and innuendo, he said, nor would he discuss the substance of the Watergate case until the criminal investigators had sifted fact from fiction. The White House announced May 2 that President Nixon would give Agnew some new responsibilities. More than a month later, the vice president seems to be unhappily m the dark about what they are. g Two years ago, when it may have seemed more appropriate, the vice presidents associates sought to persuade skeptics that this administration was different, that this President kept his vice president informed, that the two men were closely attuned to diplomatic and domestic initiatives, to the Nixon Doctrine in Asia and the New Federalism in America. New, with the Presidents second administration wallowing in a Watergate backwash, there is an Within that framework, however, Agnew seems to have discovered a method of illusnoninvolvement in trating the Watergate conspiracy. It is quite simply, to begin responding to requests for private interviews that have been pending since February or so and, as a consequence, demonstrating his lack of knowledge of any particulars. 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Pocket-si- Only If Nixon's Absent celebrated housecleamng at the outset of the second Nixon term. At a time when an incumbent vice president might be expanding his staff m anticipation of a battle for the Agnew said in a president Hefquip that publisher Hugh newsner turned into paper ads, you have to give which is possiup Playboy bly why you see so few men running for vice president." isits Palm Springs Yet even Agnews other peccadilloes seem to be losing their savorabilily. Sure, he manages to get Palm Spnngs, Calif., often enough to deepen his suntan, or go golfing with pal Frank Sinatra, or pick up from pal some new or Bob merely Hope, immerse himself in the atmosphere of wealth that he cherishes. 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Postal Service announced Sunday that increases in postal rates for periodicals and fr whatever of wrongdoing may finally be assessed in the Watergate case than his attitude toward doI believe mestic wiretapping m any method of collecting information if its related to the national security, so long as it's not abused, and certainly we expect the President, being the only person that all the people of the United States have entrusted with this responsibility, should be able to make a proper judgment on that, A'mew says. Then again, I have an ordinary individuals repugnance at the idea that somebody is snooping on someone else. So the kind of wiretapping thats done illegally I find reprehensible and totally abhorrent. One of the things I would never do is tap another persons conversation, regardless of how advantageous it might be to me individually In other words, wiretaps and domestic surveillance are permissible where national security is at stake because it is the President who has the ultimate to responsibility make tnat determination even though the suggestion in the Watergate case seems to be that the President was unaware of things done in the name of his ultimate responsibility? Well," said the vice Im not sure of president, that. The wiretapping is all mixed up together. National security wiretapping, Watergate. "I dont know enough about the facts to comment. g profit-makin- R vuth Mr. H Haldeman were always cordial. and he was always helping wnen I sought help from him. I didnt have that much direct contact with Mr. John D. Ehrhchman, but I think that because of the apparent lack of communication that may have existed at certain times, there is an effort on the part of General Haig to be certain that more information flows, of his initiative, to me tionships his specified support of the President and his advance When some advisers suggested that Agnew make a public declaration that would set him indelibly apart from the White House on Water- - OO OSS a list ....99 rout CHAtGt CARDS 39 BUSINESS MACHINES, INC. 2260 WASHINGTON OGDEN 1S65 SO. STATE SALT LAKE CITY Life Assurance Society of the United Suit's N Y NY Because there's nobody else exactly like you. - |