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Show bytPamela Swift COED SHIELDS HER EYES FROM SIGHT OF DEAD STUDENT, Reviving Kent State inquiry Under John N. Mitchell, Presi-- ?; ent Nixons most tragic Cabinet appointment, the U.S. Justice Department became highly politicized. Mitchell not only staffed the department with several dishonest incompetents, but also with men who were particularly vicious in their prosecution of young war dissenters. . Mitchells record as U.S. Attorney Geneial is one of the sorriest in American history. The men he .appointed to head various departmental divisions Maj. Gen. Carl Turner as Provost Marshal, Will Wilson as head of the Criminal Division, Robert Mardian as head of Internal Security probably re ONE OF FOUR SHOT TO DEATH IN CONFRONTATION flected his own meanness and lack of balanced judgment. Turner was sent to jail. Wilson was removed for his role in the Sharpstown, Tex., bank scandal, and Mardian quietly resigned from the department wnen he joined the Committee to Reelect the President and became involved in the Watergate imbroglio. As a result of Justice Department misbehavior and incompetence during the Mitchell regime, the public is going to receive under Elliot Richardson, the new Attorney of the General, a Kent State University shootings. On May 4, 1970, unknown members of the Ohio National Guard killed four students and wounded nine others on the Kent State Cam Welkome Change Lawrence Welk, the multimillionaire real estate tycoon from Santa Monica, Calif. hes worth an estimated $20 million has finally decided to court young people. LAWRENCE WELK SIGNS AUTOGRAPHS FOR TWO YOUNG FANS 8 Welk, at 70 the darling of the Geritol set, says that starting next season his TV show, which is syndicated over 230 stations, will offer only those songs which have been published in the last 10 WITH OHIO NATIONAL GUARD in Kent, Ohio. Fifteen months after the shootings, Attorney General Mitchell de- pus scribed them as "unnecessary, unwarranted and inexcusable," but refused to order a grand jury investigation of the tragedy on the grounds that a review of "a1! the facts" showed "no credible evidence of a National Guard conspiracy to shoot students and .gave no likelihood of successful prosecution of individual guardsmen. Arthur Krause, father of Allison Krause, one of the slain students, maintained that the Justice Department should have convened a federal grand jury in order to take testimony of the various participants in the case and thereby to determine the full truth of who did years. He is abandoning Sigmund Romberg for BuitBacharach. "Im going to play 'Raindrops' and Close to You and numbers like that," he explains. But my band is not going to accompany them with a lot of loud brass. Welk, who still speaks with a German accent the result of his youth in Strcsburg, N. Dak. claims, The big bands of the 1930 s and 1940s would not have died if they had been organized the way I organized mine. I believe in sharing and incentive. what to whom. want justice, Mr. Krause declares, "not vengeance. Too much blood has been spilled already." Mr. Krause and others, like Dean Kahler, one of the wounded students who is now paralyzed from the waist down, want the FBI reports on the Kent case and the investigative material of the Scranton Commission on Campus Unrest to be made public. Such material has been ordered to be kept secret in the National Archives for the next 75 years. Elliot Richardson is not John N. Mitchell, which is why the Kent State case will probably be reopened and the American public may be told the hitherto buried truth of an American tragedy. I political primitive and a diehard conservative, Welk believes firmly that too many American youngsters have been spoiled by parents. "I behe lieve," declares, "in more work and less play. That might be the answer for todays youngsters." Welk, however, does not believe too much in progressive ecology, not at least where it conflicts with his real estate holdings. His office building and apartment house complex has despoiled the skyline of Santa Monica. A over-permissi- ve PARADE IULY 22, 1973 |