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Show William Safire She Halt fake Sfilmne First Section Tuesday Morning, August 21, 1973 Misuse of FBI Pa,'P 10 Dates to FDR Wet Winter Does Not Eliminate New York Times Service Wildfire Danger for Utahns Battling a forest or range fire is a dangerous, exhausting and, often, terrifying experience. The hours without sleep seem numberless. The smoke feels like it will soon tear the eyes out of their sockets. The heat so dries the mouth and nose that quarts of water are needed to restore them to some semblance of their former condition. some 9,000 men are and forest fires on more than fighting range 110,000 acres of land in the western states, with the end not yet in sight. This summers rash of fires can be attributed, in large measweather ure, to last winters unusual patterns. As this is written The winters storm tracks pushed much further south than is usual, resulting in less than usual winter precipitation for the northern states such as Washington, the Idaho panhandle, Montana. Even with the advent of summer the precipitation picture failed to improve for these areas, along with northern California and Oregon. the rain game she the ranges than does, usually differently and forests of northwestern United States arc far drier than usual. They have been sitting there just waiting for someone or something to trigger a fire. With Mother Nature playing Once that trigger was pulled, either by a lightning strike or a carelessly tossed match, cigarette, firecracker, what might have been, under more normal conditions a relatively small, easily extinguished fire became a conflagration. I thought you might be interested in knowing. was the bland way that the late FBI director, J. Edgar Hoover, began his notes to Presidents, as he transmitted information about public figures that might be potentially embarrassing. visited Hoover When President-Elec- t Nixon, at the Pierre Hotel in New York during the 1968 interregnum, he informed the next occupant of the White House that the FBI had been used by President Johnson to look into campaign activities. WASHINGTON p r That trigger, or more accurately those triggers, were pulled and more than 170 square miles of western range and forest lands have been burned or are burning in ten huge fires. The figures for the wests total fire burned acreage have yet to be calculated, but doubtlessly they will exceed the those 170 square miles, possibly many times before the rams of autumn and snows of winter droJ the fire danger to the zero point. Utahns should not become complacent simply because this state was the recipient of much of the moisture normally falling further north during the winter. The Forest Services Fire Control Center in Salt Lake City Monday reported a fire danger rating of more than 3, on a scale w here the top is 5. Nixon-Agne- I had heard of this conversation long ago.' It was recently confirmed to me by H. R. Haldeman, who had been told about it by the President. In particular, the FBI was involved in the surveillance of records of calls made during the campaign of 1968 by the candidate for vice president. If those figures tend to be meaningless, Utahns ought to consider that Monday mornfire was burning uncontrolled ing a 4,000-acr- e on pnvate and Bureau of Land Management lands south of Snowville in Box Elder County, threatening farm homes and buildings, grain fields and range land. Although considerable effort has been expended exploring ways to prevent lightning caused range and forest fires, at this point it is impossible. This means that the old slogan Only you can prevent forest fires remains valid. has already been done wildfire much of the west. People across by cant stop lightning bolts, but they can be extraordinarily careful with their matches, Too much damage I cigarettes and other flammable materials. No Utahn should be the person to pull that range of forest fire ignition trigger. Chile In Decline purpose. Developments have been careening toward an explosive conflict. Small wonder Allende turned to church offices for assistance. Allende Gossens Salvador has tried president Still, the issues remain. As soon as one to avoid looms larger. group is granted a gain, others make new deSenor Allendes latest move was to ask mands. Over the weekend, Santiago city bus Cardinal Raul Silva Henriquez, the leader of drivers ended their strike when the governChiles Catholic Church, to mediate the ment ordered they were to receive a higher nationwide truckers strike. It may percentage of ticket revenue plus free uniMarxforms and compensation for injuries suffered seem an odd act for a in terrorist attacks. Then, however, Santiago ist, but Senor Allende is in a desperate bind. Province physicians announced a Chile has encountered one domestic diffistrike protesting inaushortages of medical culty after another following Allendes and constant government persecusupplies of His accelerated policy guration. nationalization of industry did little to allevi- tion. Allendes problems arent confined to the ate higher wage demands and a growing foou Radio stations were peacefully w Now a ave of is strikes Capital. shortage. polarizing taken over by women supporters of the strikthe country. The truckers work stoppage is liie most ers in Valparaiso, Melpilla, San Fernando, Talca, Los Andes and Los Angeles. An interserious, virtually paralyzing Chile's economy. esting, and perhaps signficant aspect, is the The government eventually ordered strikers back to their jobs, but the decree was part being played by women. were mostly The radio station take-oveignored, amid vows to fight if authorities marchwomen. enforcement. Rival by staged Previously, politiprotest attempted military cal factions have seized the opportunity to es in Santiago have been planned and carried support whichever radical stance suits their out by housewives incensed over food scarcities. And when it looked as if the government might move against the truckers, women speaking for wives of the national police issued a declaration supporting the drivers. a transportation strike provides a rallying point for the opposition, Chiles Marxist regime faces the most critical challenge to its political future. The civil war that elected As cant sell it. I just cant sell rs Orbiting Paragraphs Shotgun Schultz says hes not going to the moon until he finds out w hat credit cards they accept. Senor Allende seems to be presiding over the collapse of a once proud and prosperous Latin American democracy. If the trend isnt reversed, few Chileans will remember him kindly, whether i..ey are men, children now or women. it. The Public Forum Destroying Potential Vital Skepticism Editor, Tribune: I wish to commend The Tribune for its excellent editorial of Aug. 16 concerning the economics of mental retardation. It is true that the economic benefits which accrue to Choice The editorial, Tribune: Remains Mr. Nixons, appearing in The Tribune Aug. 18. presents the issues very clearly. Over the years I have been impressed with the quality and clearness of Tribune editorials as well as with the courage and forthrightness with which they have Forum Rules Public Forum letters must be submitted exclusively to The Tribune and bear writers full name, signature and address. Names must be printed on political letters but may be withheld for good reasons on others. Writers are limited to one letter every 10 days. Preference will be given to short, typewritten (double spaced) letters permitting use of the writers true name. All letters are subject to condensation. 48-ho- An older fnend, assembling toupee, spectacles and dentures in the morning, says he understands what the young people mean about getting your head together. Checks Out Hearsay that hearsay in mind, 1 wondered why the Senate Watergate committee had not looked into this improper use of the FBI during the Johnson administration, when Ramsey Clark was attorney general. I dropped a note to Clark asking several which is questions and received a prompt reply, in here part: quoted Of course, I never approved any wiretapping or electronic surveillance, or any other form of offiinvestigation by the FBI, or any government in their or Mr. anyone Agnew cial, or Mr. Nixon, campaigns, including Anna Chennault, at any time, for any purpose. I believe you know this. the FBI Clark wrote, In my judgment, would never have considered such surveillance, and would never have dared ask me for approval, if it had. It was unthinkable . . If such activities had occurred, Mr. Hoover would have been the first to reveal it to Mr. Nixon upon his election as President, if not beWith society by giving attention to the special problems of the retarded are enormous. It is also true that the expenditures necessary to realize these benefits are relatively small. Unfortunately The Tribunes editorial failed to point out that the human benefits resulting from programs designed to normalize the lives of the retarded are infinitely greater than the economic benefits. Instead of warehousing and forgetting the retarded in dismal institutions, they can be citizens, capable helped to become of governing their own lives and endowed with the human dignity of independence and The time Jias long since arrived for our state and local governments to act decisively to assist our retarded to live fully. Effective programs are presently being conducted (notably in Nebraska) which achieve this goal. Hopefully, our state and local governments will examine these working programs now and move quickly to adapt them to the needs of the retarded in Utah. Warehousing of human potential destroys it. There is no justification for its continuance in Utah. The retarded can lead normal lives. JERRY E. KELLGREEN been presented. To me, what anyone says (including myself arid the editor of The Tribune) must be evaluated on the basis of the best information that is available., Anything less is unworthy of human intelligence. President Nixon seems to think otherwise. He seems to expect the American people to accept to stop askhis formulations on his word alone ing questions and get on with the business at hand. This, in my estimation, shows a disrespect for the intelligence of us citizens. If one were to accept all that another wishes him to believe, he might not only buy the Brooklyn Bridge, but a view lot on the planet Saturn. The Nixon approach is quite analogous to one r presented to television viewers only a prior to the Presidents address on Aug. 15. In the television program, viewers were told that, "At least 14 devils were cast out of a certain young woman. No evidence was given for that statement and viewers were expected to believe it as given. The expectations of Mr. Nixon seem no different. OWEN P. HENINGER, M.D. half-hou- The Walt Disney enterprises are 50 years old. Apparently steady exposure to the camera is good for the longevity of mice. I lence or force in a labor dispute. - Taking advantage Lawrence The man at the next desk says he has learned a lot about conducting a family from the Watergate hearings. If any problem arises at home, he merely says hed rather not know anything about it. cations are ugly. - - Mr. Coughlin set up the tour to listen to the problems of his constituents. As it turned out, however, both the Republican congressman and his constituents spent most of their time listening hecklers who followed him to a the day, denouncing him as an imthroughout an and enemy of the working man." poster half-doze- Noisy Shadows These noisy shadows were construction union representatives. The reason for their harrassment was Rep. Coughlins support of a piece of legislation popularly known as the Anderson Bill, named for its chief sponsor, Rep. Jolra B. Anderson, So what is it about the Anderson Bill that generates such opposition? Well, according to Construction Trades Council literature distributed by Rep. Coughlin's hecklers, the legislation would "create an era of intimidation and reprisals severely limiting the free trade union movement and collective bargaining l. system. Labor Dispute Very interesting. And very instructive. What the Anderson Bill would really do, quite crime to use vio simply, is to make it a fed-r- al Until last February, it was thought that union violence was a violation of the Hobbs Act, a law against extortion which has been on the books since 1946. But then, in what Rep. Anderson has called a truly unfortunate decision, the Sudecision in a Louisiana preme Court ruled in a case that the Hobbs Act applied in labor disputes only when illegal ends were sought. 5-- Higher Pay This particular statute, the court held, could not be used to punish violence if its purpose is to gain higher pay or a union contract or to achieve other legitimate union ends. The court has suddenly decided that the use of violence as a means of coercing management to meet strike demands is not extortion at all, but a perfectly legitimate bargaining tool, Mr. Anderson commented. This is tantamount to saying the end justifies the means. Mr. Anderson cannot buy that. Nor can Larry Coughlin. Nor can Justice Harry Blackman, who said in his dissent in the Louisiana case which involved such tactics as blowing up a utility comthat such acts of violence pany's transformers deserved to be dignified as federal crimes." Plug Loopholes Congress, Justice Blackman pointed out, has the constitutional power to do just that. And that is precisely what the Anderson Bill is intended to do by plugging the loopholes the Supreme Court found in the Hobbs Act. The soaring wage rates obtained by construction trades unions in recent years, Rep. Ander- - The former attorney general's answer could not have been more forthright and I thank him for it. But it seems that J. Edgar Hoover was pulling the wool over his eyes: never daring to ask his approval, the FBI made investigations that they knew Clark, an outspoken civil libertarian, would have disapproved. (Clark is quite right about how Mr. Hoover would have been the first to reveal it to Mr. Nixon upon his election," which Hoover did.) But where is some evidence of this rumored use of the FBI for political purposes? The origins of the eavesdropping climate that led to Watergate have been sitting covered up, in the safe of the Senate Watergate if you will committee in the form of memoranda supplied to them by John Dean III, and written by William B. Sullivan, a former assistant to the late FBI director. problems to interest him and the people of Utah. LAWRENCE R. KAUFFMAN son explains, have produced a marked rise in the percentage of work obtained by contractors and labor. The hational building trades leadership has recognized this challenge, and some elements have suggested constructive including termiways to deal with the problem work rules and restrictive nating moderating wagedemands. Unfortunately, The Sullivan memos, according to Dan of Scripps-Howarcontain all kinds of leads: about FBI investigations ordered by Franklin D. Roosevelt into opponents of about Robert Kennedys orders to tap the phones of suspects in the Bobby Baker case that might turn up information to embarrass Lyndon Johnson; about President Johnsons use of the FBI to collect mud for slinging at Barry Goldwater, and to try to connect a New York civil rights demonstration to some Republicans in 1964; and about the FBI surveillance of Agnew in 1968. But the Watergate committee, shaking with moral outrage during its interrogation of Nixon appointee L. Patrick Gray, kept all this under wraps. Tho-mass- Editor, Tribune: Some elected officials wont represent their constituents unless they believe generally as they do. I guess they have more important things on their minds. Congressman Wayne Owens feels shipment of somenerve gas into the state is a gut issue thing to interest the people of Utah. The congressman must know there are other gut issues and non-unio- n of the Coughlin of congressional recess, Rep. a or, rather, tried to take Philadelphia took walking tour of his district the other day that turned into a shambles. And therein lies a story that needs to be told and understood, for its impliPHILADELPHIA Simply Not True the American people to believe, Clark goes on, that activities attributed to the Nixon administration are not unusual; that everyone does it. This is simply not true. When the people share such cynicism, government will fail . . . You seem to want All Kinds of Leads Interests the People Union Hecklers Turn Solons Stroll Into Shambles Knight Newspapers . . . Provo Creed C. Black The average Americans position is that if there weren't so many care there would be more room for him to drive wherever he w ants to. fore Editor, the response too often on the part of local union workers has been to vandalize the project of the contractor, and terrorize his workers, instead of trying to compete Iend-leas- Documents making scurrilous charges should not be made public, but information in them that exposes the misuse of the FBI with or without the connivance of attorneys general should not be suppressed. - - The way to end snooping is to expose it, without fear or political favor, to pull it up by the roots, no matter what history must be rewritten and not to waggle our eyebrows and be the kuid of people Isaiah condemned for saying, Stand by thyself, come not near to me, for I am holier than thou. - non-unio- n economically. The Conrad Cartoon Limit Movement To argue that outlawing such violence would limit the free trade union movement and collective bargaining system is an insult to intelligence and an affront to responsible unionism. For such a law would in no way interfere with legitimate union activities. It would simply bring the weight and resources of the federal government to bear against a brand of hoodlumism that local authorities have been notoriously timid in combatting. It is time for Congress to consider legislation which will stop such actions, says Sen. Edward so as to help responsible Gurney of Florida, union leaders, and to preserve the rights of contractors and their employes, both union and Thats why Larry Coughlin is supporting the Anderson Bill. And, sad to say, thats also why he is taking such abuse from construction trade unionists who have the gall to accuse him of trying to create an era of intimidation and re-- , prisals. I lit taltes a ct moncp f btap to malic a I. 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