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Show i. r ' ' I David S. Broder I 22 Activists Sift i Section A Thursday, September 13, 1973 Page 1 8 Campaign Data Predicted Military Take-Ove- r Hasnt Eased Chiles Future The Washington Post On the first weekend in JanWASHINGTON women who had played acuary, 1973, 22 men and 1972 presidential campaign gathtive roles in the of the the in ered library . , Harvard Faculty Club for a two-dadiscussion of the ex- - office according to Chiles proud allegiance Tragedy is an inadequate term for sumChile. events It in recent ming up scarcely to democratic processes, observers predicted reflects the damage done the countrys gov- his success depended on how loyal the miliernment, economy, public confidence, histortary remained. Not because Chiles armed ic tradition and social order. Chiles past has services were politically oriented, but bebeen dishonored, its present shattered and its cause it was felt opposition to Allendes future clouded by broodmg doubt. policies would grow desperately subversive. The forcasts proved regretably accurate. The can be rapidly If the military take-ove- r stalemate compelled the Chilean milreconverted to civilian rule, then the turbu-lanc- e political to take a stand. And it was against staff itary that has ceaselessly lashed Chile for alSenor Allende. most two years may subside. But forces let Now the country has a dead president, a loose by rising opposition to the regime of military junta in command, defiant left wing now-deaSalvador Allende Gossens are those elements countered by emboldened rightist not easily controlled by decree. demands. The labor movement which grew Senor Allendes death, reportedly a suistronger and better organized under Allende, cide, was particularly unfortunate the viois the critical mass to a potential reactive lent end of a perceptive leader, who, though explosion. unable to govern with the Marxist theories he About a year ago, an election was held embraced, was nonetheless devoted to his nawithin Chiles trade union groups and approxtion and its people. Possibly he put bullets in 560,000 members voted. The Marxist imately his own head rather than become the focal around 350,000 of the total, parties registered point of a civil war. Yet, he could be a martwith the opposition Christian Democrats pollyr in just such a clash. ing 15u,000. Chilean Communist Party chief, Military officers seized power from the Luis Corvalan, iaid in a speach earlier this Allende government to restore Chiles equilibIf the reactionaries resort to summer: rium. And, by all indicaions, the country was armed struggle. . . the people will rise as slipping swiftly into chaos. Crippling strikes one man and smash them immediately . . we will use everytliing at our disposal, even the repeatedly disrupted commerce throughout the nation. Mishandled agrarian reform upset very stones, as weapons of combat. the food supply. Accelerated nationalization The rhetoric may be discounted, but not in basic industry caused confusion and cut the stake Chilean workers apparently believe production. Allende reached office with only had in Allendes faster road to socialthey a 36.3 percent ballot-bo- x plurality and could ism. Whoever and whatever succeeds the never gain effective influence in the national Allende period must move carefully as well congress. as decisively if Chile is to avoid suffering a From the start, when Senor Allende took doleful fate it doesnt deserve. y perience. It was not the reunion of a single candidates staff, but a meeting of principals in all the 1972 campaigns who had, in individuals many instances, fought on rtf thp UTHP .rFvcinrr ciH d i The group included top managers, pollsters and media advisers of the Nixon and McGovern campaigns, members and operatives of the Democratic and Republican National Committees and the AFL-CIand strategists for such early hopefuls as Ed Muskie, Pete McCloskey, Scoop Jackson. George Wallace and Hubert Humphrey. This week, the Harvard University Press is two-da- y roundpublishing the transcript of that table, edited by Ernest R. May and Janet Fraser of the sponsoring organization, Harvards Institute of Politics. If a prejudiced participant may say so, the book, Campaign 72: The Managers Speak," is an extraordinary document. Never before, to my knowledge, have so many ckic49o to a- . t i There were many small calculations that might have shifted the result to some degree, but we left the conference more impressed than ever with the overwhelming power of the Presidents incumbency. level of unaccountability and irresponsibility think should cause a resignation. State-designa- v l! V Columbus Day Session i Was Ralph Nader unreasonable or unfair? I CULBERT BOWEN - i V n .i Editor, Tribune: For about as long as I have been able to think about anything, I have been amused at the tendency for an incumbent, particularly in the presidency, to take credit for every good thing that has happened or will happen in the nation. B the same token, there has been quite a tendency, dating back to ancient Egypt, to blame the admi ustration for the bad things that happen. Yet there is a situation today that laisscz faire is squarely responsible for bringing into being. We have developed or more properly squandered our sources of fossil fuel. We have done this while doing virtually nothing toward developing alternate sources cf energy. Now we know for sure other than that absolutely no natural resources are inexhaustible. Gods sunshine Yet we have squandered billions of dollars and only knows how many billions of gallons on fuel in stupid senseless wars. We have also squandered more billions of dollars in foreign aid which has bought nothing but for this nation because we havent done ll more! Isnt it about time we funneled some of those billions into research in an effort to develop energy sources which will neither pollute Space Ship Earth or deplete its resources? There are such sources. There are the winds. There are the tides. the ultimate source of There is sunlight itself all energy except that from nuclear sources. DAVID A. KING 1 dent." Most of us left there believing that the rules of the game must be made more equal for incumm finances, in press and bents and challengers television exposure and in the discipline of interunless the power of posrogation and debate session of the White House is to become a guarantee of But if our apprehensions about this problem were heightened by wbat we heard, the compenfor those who were there and satory discovery for those who will be reading this book was the realization that, even after a year like 1972, there is a sense of legitimacy to our politics and of mu- tual respect amongits practitioners. Charles Guggenheim, the McGovern medi? adviser, a man of passionate political belief, probably said it best, in a few impromptu remarks at the conferences closing session. institutThe founding fathers, he observed, ed the election process as a cleansing process, one where the people could every once in a while take a new inventory. I dont think we had a chance to do that in this election, Guggenheim continued. I think the incumbency of the President, whether he be Democratic or Republican, does not permit that. I to imthink the process has to be changed prove some of the things weve been discussing. ... ... Ultimate Wisdom Layton Dont Ruin Encore Editor, Tribune: For heavens sake! Well have to take a second look and probably a third at this abortion thing! Time was when a man pulled a little sneaky and came upon this earth via some pretty unusual circumstances. His birth appeared natural, but there was a little of the supernatural that went on which perhaps couldve bean an inside job. Not much was heard about his upbringing, but pretty well known that he hung around here and there looking things over. What he saw he didnt much like, and for a long time he didn't have much to say at all. When the time came, he began to preach a bunch of admonitions and drew crowds galore ty his and other thligs. After suffering somi very naughty things at the hands of his loving neighbors, who were in cahoots with some rigorous Romans, he took his leave but promised to return someday. Well, kiddies theres a whole gang of us who think hes about due for an encore. So, lets on abortion, tippy-toe- s approach this thing . . . Who knows he sneaked up on us unnatural once before (that we know of), and he might come again in the same abdominal way. Thus, hearken! folks: Lets not nip this thing in the bud, for heavens sake! GEORGE REID its faith-healin- g But even with those reservations, he said, the process of choosing a President ultimately cannot leave anything but pride in all our hearts. . . . Thomas Jefferson said that the ultimate wisdom I dont think the really lies with the people. process as we saw it open up in front of us, even with its lies and distortions and ovet statements and understatements, really turned the Amencan peoples mind away from what was really happening, who was who and what was what ... We may disagree, he went on, with how they took those facts and finally executed them into votes. Bui the thing we can all be very proud of is that through this . . . tr iveling circus . . .'people did get to hear and see and feel most of everything that was going on certainly more than any other people in the history of man. ... And that is an observation which is not altered by the fact that one man in the room Jeb heard a little bit more about what Magruder was going on than any of us knew. The Grant Cartoon No Need to Worry Editor, Tribune: I got a little tired the young kids are no good. of hearing My husband lost his check book. The other evening a young fellow, Bob Slasna, an employe of Leatham Bros., brought the check book to us. He had found it on Redwood Road. When I offered to at least pay for his gasoline he replied, No way. I was only too happy to return it. We have nothing to worry about when there are young men around like Bob. to him. . A special thanks MRS. V. E. SLGAN f ! Astonishingly Frank The one thing that we felt was critical, said Peter H. Dailey, the impressive and astonishingly frank president of the November Group, President Nixons advertising agency, was that we never allow the public to get the impression that there were two candidates for the office of President. W'e always wanted to project that the nominee of there was only one candidate the Democratic Party . . . and then there was the President. We were almost trying to keep it like a referendum, a vote of confidence in the Presi- ... Sources Available t i that I dont think so. super-power- A gate bugging. The Public Forum upon the relationships between the scientific Couple of Choices communities of the U.S. and the USSR and could vitiate our recent efforts toward Editor, Tribune: I do not believe many people will argue that we are in a crisis situation. Shortaincreasing scientific interchange and cooper. of food, water, gas and other forms of energy ges ation. A reasonable, but complicating, state? .. fill our newspaper columns daily and still the peoment. fire ple cry more." It does not take more than simple Such pressure was not endorsed during his knowledge of me laws of supply and demand to r first confirmation hearing by Secietary of understand why these shortages exist and will become worse. With a finite supply of natural re' Henry A. Kissinger. Anto' sources coupled with an populaswering Senate Foreign Relations Committee tion, with its concomitant demands on those rem Dr. said he sympathized questions, Kissinger r it is a matter of time before to with Mr. Sakharov, but felt the U.S. had to sources, run low.only That time has come. I supplies firm better working relations with Moscow to In order to combat this situation, we can do before it could consistently influence that to one of two things. We can attempt to increase our Communist countrys domestic policies. toi are finite. They canresources, but, our resoi"-ce- s not be increased past a fixed point which is curThe essential distinction is that Dr. Kissinbeing reached. If we are not able to inger, the White House and the State Depart- rently crease this finite supply, our only alternative for ment are attempting to effect changes in a nations global affairs,- while the American Forum Rules Moscow, for all its moves toward eased scientists are stressing, on a more person-to-perso- n international tension, has made no indications Public Forum letters must be submitted basis, the need for mutually recogthat internal statist policies have been re- nized intellectual to The Tribune and bear writers full integrity. Unfortunately, the exclusively laxed. Russian artists, writers and scientists and address. Names must be name, signature U.S. may appreciate the separate nature of led to believe they may increasingly differ on political letters but may be withheld those two issues, but its not apparent the printed reasons on others. Writers are limited to for good with the Kremlin line have suffered stiff repSoviets do. one It letter every days. Preference will be given 4 rimands. to short, typewritten (doable spaced) letters perThe danger is that, by interfering, the NaThe situation prompted National Acadepiy mitting nse of the writers true name. All letters of Science members to intervene. The acade- tional Academy may so foul up official U.S. are subject to condensation. j my, responsible for expanding joint scientific efforts that hope for stabilizing relations will projects with the Soviets, informed the Soviet be dimmed. But its a chance which, at this1 survival is to stabilize an infinite demand, either .fi Academy of Sciences: Harassment or deten- point, must be risked. The U.S. is not a counby curbing our appetites for resources or by limit. of Sakharov will have severe effects try that can gag or browbeat its scientists. tion ing our population growth. The burden is one our 1 shoulders, bemuse the United States (6.7 percent of the world population) uses over 60 percent of the entire worlds resources annually. ; The choice appears clear. Either we reduce our consumption patterns, or we voluntarily limit i the size of our families (hopefully to two chilfcov. Rampton has declared a special ses- - part, corrected inadvertent errors In regular If we choose to do neither of these altersion of the Utah Legislature to begin on a na- - session measures and handled commonly-acknowledge- d dren). we will continue to j pay dearly for our natives, tional holiday. Which may indicate the confi- emergencies. Such topics are excesses. dence he has in the legislators willingness to on the October agenda. But with others not The next time you see a family with 8, 9 or 10 work strenuously on the agenda the governor so routine. Are those children children, ask this question, has announced. and chances to enjoy to limit their The governor has assembled an own, my going October 8, by act of Congress, is Colum- - agenda. One of the subjects is divided into a decent life in the years ahead?" Keep in mind that each of those children with will consume 26 s bus Day. This year, by act of Gov. Rampton, two and another into three. as-million gallons of water, 21,000 gallons of gasoline, to are state lawmakers is the first day it While all have concurrence from the Legisla10,000 pounds of meat and 28,000 pounds of milk semble for an extraordinary meeting of the tive Council for consideration, some memproducts in the next 70 years! 1973 Legislature. That means state senators bers of that interim organization of legislaDAVID B. ADAMS and representatives are expected to forego tive feeders added they do not necessarily 3 the full three-da- y holiday intended by Con-- ; support action requested by the governor. gress when it officially changed Columbus Also, there are questions about the urgency Day from the old date, Oct. 12. The governor of certain agenda matters. Thinks Nader Right has gone further. For instance, since there would be only Editor, Tribune: To contend the Nixon adminisHe has called special sessions before, but three months after September before the had nothing to do with the Watergate tration tlus years is the heftiest in terms of subject Legislature convenes its budget session, break-ifollowing coverup, is about as y matter and uncertainty. Previously, extraor- some wonder why its crucial to appropriate senseless oras the to argue that the moon is not a part dinary legislative assemblies, for the most $600,000 in October for enlarged Motor Vehi- - of our planetary system or that apples do not cle Licensing Division facilities at the State grow on apple trees. Fair grounds along with remodeling Capitol Interland In regard to withheld tape recordings: Is not space vacated by the division. the Presidents refusal to permit these recordings Deeper in the uncertain category is the to be examined, when such immensely pertinent governors call for increased state assistance evidence is so easily available, wholly and tradiIs not the President thereby to local governments attempting to provide tionally indefensible? himself open to the charge of suppressing laying more low income housing. It was on this item evidence that is under his exclusive control? Pers-istethat reservations were expressed about the similar circumstances have given rise to the amount of authority being granted as well as presumption that if such evidence had been prothe quality of programs being advocated. No duced it would have been against the party withclearly definable legislative consensus has holding it. Must it not therefore be concluded that emerged on how far the state should go in this deplorable Watergate affair thus far is being denied a fair and impartial hearing. Nixons fostering local public housing. Its a compliexcuse separation of powers in this instance at cation that could hamper special session legbest is unpersuasive. islating. Public interest lawyer and consumer protectionIn fashioning this sort of special session ist Ralph Nader said, I think enough has now call, Gov, Rampton has caused himself anbeen admitted or proved to indicate that Waterhe has encouraged other other difficulty gate was the massive tip of an iceberg that into think that with a litindividuals and groups volved burglary and forgeries and sabotaging the tle more persuasion their personal idea of a election and selling the government to corporate and other business contributors in a sort of mutual surpassing public problem will also be included as a vital afterthought. Left to anxious game of shakedowns and extortion and bribery. Vincent Van Nixon Nader also said, He (Nixon) knew enough not to pleaders, a special session started Columbus to know what was going on and that is a want could last through Thanksgiving. easily Day The National Academy of Science ran ahead of official U.S. foreign policy when it notified its counterpart in the Soviet UnLn that serious difficulties with reciprocal projects could develop if further harassment of Russian physicist Andrie D. Sakharov continues. The practical problems with improving s are relations between the two to surface. starting Even in a field as fundamental as physical science, expectations in the U.S. and the Soviet Union are radically dissimilar. Dr. Sakharov demonstrated this when he told foreign correspondents in Moscow that Americans should urge more intellectual freedom for Russians in current discussions about detentte. And as if to underline his point, the Soviet government responded with severe criticism of Mr. Sakharov and his views. w v: 5uv-- T Hands Across The Sea The Scientists Dissent lr. of the leading figures in a presidential campaign sat cL.n with each other to analyze the lessons they had learned. The discussion was amazingly candid, notwithstanding the fact that Jeb Stuart Magruder, who represented the Committee for of th; President, did not choose to the reveal that weekend his knowledge of the Water- i Back la Session |