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Show Fred Harris: Yeung Senator In A nurry Ml Ey M. J. WILSON (Newsweek Feature Service) Yr",, Fred Harris is a young man who is a legend within his profession and generally unknown outside it, which would be all right except that his profession happens to be politics. At 3S, Harris is at once the second youngest member of the U.S. Senate (the youngest is Edward Kennedy) and chairman of the Democratic National Committee, in which capacity he is supposed to look after the political fortunes of the national party. He is widely presumed to be seeking the nomination for President in 1972; he finished a dose second to Edmund Muskie for the doe presidential nomination in 1968. and he was comanager, with Minnesota's Walter Mondale, of Hubert Humphrey's campaign. During the Detroit riots, he delivered a Senate speech which led directly to the establishment of the Kemer Commission on racial conflicts, and President Johnson appointed him to the commission itself. He and Mayor John Lindsay of New York were its most dynamic and v . V- - ? - agressive members. Yet outside the halls of government and his home state of Oklahoma, dropping the name of Fred Harris is like a homely girl dropping a handkerchief; it generally gets no results. One of the secrets of Harriss meteoric rise to anonymity may be that the only category into which he fits neatly is that of ambitious men. Harris is quick to learn the rules of play and adept at making friends in high places. His slogan in his first senatorial campaign was Hard Work Makes the Difference. Once elected, he labored tirelessly on committees, and in his fust year presided over the Senate a staggering total of hard-drivin- . w .Y tf sf ? W" j ? i f Vi w &'Mr, 'd i I 120 hours. 4SA. & teis During fiie presidential maneuvering ifrimrliifiiiirifiiiiiiiirtaifiiir Oklahoma's Sen. Fred Harris is presumed to be seeking the presidential nomination in 72, and is second youngest senator. cot. R. P. HEINL In A Dirty War - TEL AVIV (NANA) It is difficult to write with authority from abroad about the shocking 1968 Song My massacre charges directed against UK. Army officers and men. What crimes were committed and by w hom will be up to a court martial and, in larger context, to the congressional inquiries which will and must surely follow. But even at this distance and at this stage, certain observations and questions seem in order regarding the context of the crimes and the manner of their disclosure. The locale of the affair, Quang Ngal Province, is one of the hardest core Viet Cong areas remaining in South Vietnam. Anybody who has been in Vietnam knows that for 20 years Quang Ngai has been a Viet Minh and subsequently a Viet Cong , stronghold. like Song My and Every village neighboring My Lai is a fortified hamlet, honeycombed with tunnels and bunkers and booby traps. It is indicative of the character of the place that, in order even to get investiga-tor- s into Song My and My Lai last ti month, combat operations had to be launched by UK. Army forces. if Quang rrepeated Ngai has been the scene of Communist terrorism. Within the past year government schools and hospitals of Quang Ngai City have had j .rooms of children and wards full of , ' patients slaughtered by grenade and ma- 'chine gun attacks. To heighten Quang Ngais sinister at-- r .mosphere of death and terror, It must be I recalled that the alleged massacre took place only a month after the Tet often-- f sive of 1968. ! The time was one of national panic lend the Viet Cong were still trying to push the UK. forces into the sea and de- South Vietnam in a volcanic Iptroy uprising long foretold by Ho Chi It seems inconceivable that an opera- lion of this character could have pro--I reeded without the knowledge and sane- lion of brigade and division headquarters. ; I Although what actually happened is i the major question, subordinate but not Unimportant questions arise as to the motives and bent of those responsible for I making this affair public. The actions of Mr. Ronald Ridenhour, F student who was not in the f unit or even at Song My, in pursuing his own investigation and publicizing the epi- lode seems rather curious. Even more curious is the fact that first word of the massacre was channeled to the press via Seymour Hirshs I nti war Dispatch News Service (DNS), j hich Li reportedly associated with Rich-- t $rd Barnets radical left Institute of Poli-- fy Studies (IPS). t Both Hirsh and Barnet are authors of I violent antimilitary bocks containing sen-- f Rational and in places inaccurate and nfair attacks on UK. policies. Yet the fact must be faced that some-:hinprobably something horrible, did happen at Pinkville. Until that something fully Investigated and until responsible parties, regardless of rank, have been Diade to pay, the U.S. Army (and behind it the United States) will be on triaL I The final question no trial can an-Showever, is this: How can you fight a war of this aboml-- f able kind on terms that are morally actable to Western democracies? 1 By JACK ANDERSON 5 t A MERRY-GO-ROUN- D WASHINGTON Vice President Spiro Agnews outcry against managed news was, itself, a deliberate attempt to manage the news. Not only did his attack upon the TV networks originate inside the White House, but TV coverage has been the subject of frequent White House strategy sessions. Never has there been a more President than Richard Nixon. He submits to elaborate makeup, reviews the camera angles and rehearses his TV appearances extensively. He has also urged party leaders to take advantage of every opportunity to use television to promote his policies. He has suggested that Cabinet officers draw up summaries of their accomplishments, so they will be ready with quick answers for TV interviews. White House aides, skilled la TV merchandising, have been put at the disposal of party leaders. At a White House policy powpow on Sept 30, for example. President Nixon instructed GOP leaders: When Republicans go on television, notify Lyn Nofziger at the White House. The President explained that aide Nofziger was prepared to supply them with plenty of TV ammunition. Urged Nixon: Zero in on the big issues! Talk it up! At another closed-doo- r meeting on OcL 14, presidential aide Harry Dent called upon party leaders for wide dissemination of a presidential message. Were going to do this on all major messages. explained the President His communications czar. Herb Klein, civil-right- advocacy. He and his wife, who is half Cherokee Indian, are popular members of Washington's. in crowd and at ease with the But Harris likes backyard cook-oumight-- ts and small gatherings better than cocktail parties. Nine months after Harris took over the Democratic National Committee, his fame has spread only slightly and he looks tired and drawn. When he was proposed for the job, many people felt that a senator simply didnt have the time. That feeling is still widespread, and it is now shared by some friends who were persuaded to back him earlier. There are other mutterings. In January, Harris proclaimed that he wanted the committee to play no favorites in the 1972 presidential sweepstakes. But the and in some quarters the suspicion conviction is heard that Harris is using the committee to further his own ambitions. Recently, the Democratic governors assembled in Colorado Springs issued an noted that there would be calls to editorialists also. Departmental people are alerted to roll their programs along, added Bryce Harlow, the chief White House lobbyist. On repeated occasions, the President has pointed out to GOP strategists that he can give his policies an extra push by appearing on national television. He has complete access to the TV networks and can present his views to the American people uninterrupted by commercials. His Vietnam speech, for example, was broadcast by all three major networks. Excerpts were also carried on several newscasts. Although he may not have liked the TV commentaries, the President could hardly argue that the networks didnt give his speech full fair exposure. Yet flie morning after the speech, the President grumped to aides about the TV commentaries. This led to further discussions inside the White House. Out of came the Agnew these discussions speech, which was intended to bring pressure upon the networks to restrain criticism. The first draft was written by Patrick Buchanan, who also writes the Presidents daily "news summaries. (Nixon is not an avid newspaper reader, relies upon Buchanans condensations for most of his news.) From file beginning of the 1968 presi- dential campaign, Nixons advisers urged him to concentrate more on the Nixon image than the Nixon essence. Joe MUSICAL WHIRL By HAROLD LUNDSTROM Deseret News Music Critic - THE PROGRAM Utah Symphony Orchestra; Maurice Abravanel, conductor. Guest soloist: John Ogdon, pianist. Tabernacle. Saturday. Schumann: Symphony in D Minor. No. 4 Liszt: for Concerto tra No. Flat 1 Orches- in E Ravel: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in G." Ravel: Bolero." THE PERFORMANCE - Though every budding and budded pianist plays at and with it, Liszts First Piano Concerto is one of the most difficult war horses in the repertory to make come off. To play it with assurance, a pianist needs about 20 fingers, an orchestral kind of tone, an infinite knowledge of color resource, and a conductor w ho is highly experienced. The orchestral part is very tricky. John Ogdon took it on Saturday, and it came off excitingly. The impressive thing about the British pianists performance, aside from his pianism we all expect complete technicians these was days, and generally we get them its sensitivity. Mr. Ogdon gave a big performance without banging or indulging in empty rhetoric, and he was enough of a musician to work wiih his conductor, Mr. Abravad hand-in-gio- nel. Mr. Ogdons style is free, and technically it is interesting. He has been brought up, quite obviously, as a pianist who strives for equal independence in both hands. First, he plays as if he has two dazzling right hands. And, second. I saw him correctly from the distance, there was some shifting of hands in the cadenza work, in which the left hand took over passages normally played by tV right None of this involved alteration of the notes, unless he added some octaves. His tone was of amazing sizes; he can make it the heroic kind of tone (because of his size) when he wants, of course. If And in the slow movement he played his long solo entry as though it were a delicate Chopin nocturne; and don't ask me how Mr. Ogdon could evoke Chopin-lik- e feathery sounds and yet never miss the essence of Liszt The secret is probably in song, in Mr. Ogdons ability to arch a melodic line and sing it out. Mr. Ogdon also came equipped with much feeling for the Liszt idiom. There are two ways of playing Liszt; the Horowitz way, stupendous in tone and technique, Byronic, and The other, lacking the Horowitz flair, is to play smoothly and aristocratically, with a singing line, rhythmic flexibility, and an ability tc flip off the technical problems in aa unconcerned manner. That must have been Joseffys way two generations ago, and Saturday it was Mr. Ogdon's. The large but not capacity audience liked what it heard. Mr. Ogdon scored a genuine success, and was recalled again and again before the intermission lights went on. When the intermission lights were downed, Mr. Ogdon was or. stage again, this time to take on the Ravel Concerto in G." Here again it was a performance that enjoyed an abundance of technical expertise. But most important, it did not miss the point of the composition. Mr. Abravanel and his musicians were again at their best The concerto needs above all and was I unusual summons McGinniss book, The Selling of the President 1368, makes devastating disclosures which show how candidate Nixon was packaged and presented to the American public like an enzyme de- tergent One of Nixons television producers, Roger Ailes who today is on the public payroll as a presidential television advisor was quoted as saying: Now you put him (Nixon) on television, youve got a problem right away. g Hes a guy. He looks like somebody hung him in a closet overnight, and he jumps cut in the morning with his sint all bunched up and starts running around saying, I want to be President. I mean this is how he strikes some people. Thats why these (television) shows are important To make them forget all by picking cotton and clerking in stores, and Hams himself worked from the age of 5 He went to college and Jaw school at the University of Oklahoma on scholarships, then started practicing law and running for the Oklahoma House of Representatives simultaneously. He lost the House race, but the next year won a state Senate seat at 25. Then in 13G4 he mounted an awesomely efficient and awesomely folksy campaign for the U.S. Senate. When he met anyone interested in working for him, the potential volunteer got an immediate letter: It was mighty nice to mret ou today . . Harris upset former Gov. J. Howard Edmundson in the primary, then up-Republican Bud Wilkinson, the legendary former Oklahoma football coach, in the election. In 1966, he won for a full term. Harris is certainly a pragmatist. He has said that Democratic programs must appeal to interest, then to Intellect As is expected in Oklahoma, he voted against monkeying with the oil depletion allowance. But he impresses listeners with his apparent sincerity. He once suggested that a group of wealthy ladies should visit some welfare mothers before passing judgment on them. At the moment. Harris may well have saddled himself with a tough political job he really doesn't have tune for. A weak showing as national chairman would be the first blot on his career. But it probably wouldnt be a disastrous one. And the odds are very good that come 1972, Fred Harris will be high on the list of those being considered for a place on the national ticket whether the man in the street has heard much about him or not Ogilvie Promises Something New In Republicanism The liveliest SPRINGFIELD, ILL. filing happening in state government these days may well be the new Illinois administration of Gov. Richard Ogilvie, who is emerging as something more than another cautious Republican. This is not a personality breakthrough. At a dis-- t a n c e, Ogilvie's The same atmosphere still lingers in the White House today. Two of the Presifigure, stocky dents most trusted advisers H. R. hoarse voice and Haldeman and Ronald Ziegler are forstern expression still give him the look mer advertising men. Several lesser aides also came to the White House out of a small town banker. But he is showing ability to talk and to lead in a comof advertising agencies. A visit to their staff sessions would pact, gutty way which conveys a shrewd lead fiie uninitiated to wonder whether sensitivity to the jumbled currents of they were discussing national issues or modern politics. breakfast cereals. National policy is deHe is standing close to President scribed in advertising lingo: inputs and outputs, Nixon on all the issues from Haynsworth programs and processes. Press briefings are now press to Vietnam but he seems somehow to opportunities." Things arent simply have been more clever than Nixon in Mr. done; they are implemented. Ard hours and minutes have become time steering dear of Republican factionalism frames. and in avoiding the appearance of a poliOut of all this has developed a sleek tician preoccupied with maximizing his new effort to manage tha news. outlook for in 1972. APPOGGIATURAS - Set aside Sun- writes Prof. Kenneth Kuchler, conductor of the Westminster as our College Community Symphony, tentative, but quite firm, concert date. We wiil give a program which will include a couple of string numbers, the William Grant Still piece, and the Overture of Hommann . . day, December ON RECORD 7, Morton Gould- -A sical Christmas Tree. (RCA-LS- Mu- 3110). of the Undoubtedly one of the best items Christmas music produced this year, this Morion Gould production presents all the favorite Christmas melodies in an exciting and original way. Arranged and conducted by Gould himself, the tunes include Silent Night, Tne First Noel," Jingle Bels, and Adeste Fidelis. This is an outstanding record, both from choice of repertoire and quality of production. 1, 1969 Tl Dolls All Have 0 Relatives By HARRY JONES Its on. The mad rush is on by those doting parents scurrying to spend some $3 billion on toys so 0!d Fatso will have some- thing to tote in his bag as he jumps from . roof to roof. et that" Ravel was influenced to a certain extent by his experiences with American jazz, and these jazz elements came strongly to the fore. And the trombone glissando in tne last movement ripped nght through the instrumentation. Together Mr. Ogdon and Mr. Abravanel collected the G Major into a compelling shape. Ravels Bolero, which closed the concert, received an unusually vital performance. Mr. Abravanel was looking for big orchestral washes, and the concentration was on clarity, propulsive rhythm, and sharpness of phrase. What might have been missing in an excitingly increased tempo near the end was compensated for by an excitingly increased intensity of dynamics. A ragged, but otherwise satisfactory performance of Schumann's Fourth Symphony opened the concert December OUn MAN JONES to him to come out there and explain thee mutters. He d'd, with at least temporary sur'e-Harriss childhood was not calculated to put him m the Senate at an early age. His father worked as a day laborer, his mother supplemented the family income funny-lookin- given, snap ard sparkle. Ravel was a precisionist, and he G Major Concerto is diamond dust in careful, glittering patterns. And Air. Ogdons lively tone successfully consorted with Ravels message. The orchestra was equally spirited. NEWS Monday, CHARLES BARTLETT As If He Had Two Dazzling Right Hands Piano and a 1 last year, he was not reticent about letting newsmen know that both Humphrey and Kennedy were wooing him. Knowl senator. He has been an insistent advocate of civil rights and racial equality and is considered a strong liberal. But he also went down the line with Lyndon Johnson on the Vietnam war and has had kind words for Georgias Sen. Richard Russ sell, who is not noted for his Agnews 'Managed News Outcry Fighting Clean Is Difficult hard-workin- edgeable men, including Humphrey and House Majority Leader Carl Albert, have said they have seen no one rise faster in the Senate than Fred Harris. I like to win, he has said. But in most areas, Harris doesn't fit any established pattern. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and led his law school class, and he is often described as an intellectual. but, with hi chunky build, blunt features and spiky hair parted down the middle, he looks more like a football coach than a professor. On election night last fall, a guard at Humphreys hotel suite refused to let Harris in until Mondale identified him as a bona fide DESERET In fact, Ogilvies indifference toward or fatalism as he himself terms it, is what permitted him to take the jump which has lent his performance its special luster. He does not claim a heros credit for proposing a state income tax. He points out that the stage was set by the defidt which loomed, by Illinois lag in many aspects of state finance, and by the distinguished dtizens who backed the income tax. 1972, But Ogilvie took a risk at which earlier governors balked and if it has left some doubts as to where he stands in the hearts of the voters, it has put him on the side of those who believe that the future belongs to the problem-solverIt has shaken up the stale pattern of Illinois government, made local governments less reliant on the property tax, and balanced the budget at a higher levd of expenditure. Above all it has dramatized Ogilvies intention to be an aggressive governor. For he is not a status quo Republican. In fact he has said that in American politics, nothing much happens until rise status quo becomes more painful than He argues that Illinois has change. reached the point where the status quo is no longer acceptable and that strong action is necessary. The $3 billion is a lot of green plus a lot of people going in the red . . . Christmas colors. And you just wont believe what the L.S. elves of jolly old St Nick are nailing together this year. He's called Nick because the toy stores nick you a dollar here and a dollar there during the Christmas rush. But we have come a long way since Sandy Andy was a must for the sand pile and Shirley Temple was the doll of tne year. The elves must be moonlighting for the dry cell battery people. Just about every toy you can get your hands on tiiis year require two or more batteries. And note that no matter what you pay for some big mechanical marvel, wheth-er it be 98 cents or S149 99, the price doesn't include a 25 cent battery! So some buy batteries. It is difficult to explain to a kid how Santa can remember his name, his address and the things on his Christmas list But he cant remember to bring batteries! The Shirley Temple doll was really something back In the days when a buck was worth at least 99 cents. She had a pair of roller skates. She even closed her eyes if you banged her head just right on the side of a chair. And everyone thought that dolls could never again be improved ' But now there are dolls for nice little girls that can do just about everything the kid can do. Dolls dance, spin on their toes like a ballet star. Dolls walk, talk, even argue. They eat, recite nursery rhymes, kiss, blow bubbles. Some even have hair that grows! One doll can do more things than a kid! Another nice thing about a Shirley Temple doll was the upkeep. You paid , for the drll and that was it. Now a doll has to have 50 different dresses, at least 10 pairs of shoes, furs, jewelry, travel bags, purses, hats, cars, boats, trailers and everything a millionaire would want. Buying a child a doll like that is more expensive than taking on another mouth to feed. Theres one doll on the market this year that you cannot buy until you have ' been investigated by the toy shop's social ' worker! But that isnt all, either. You buy your little girl a doll, the one that has to have all the clothes and other things. Then you find out that the doll has a bigger family . tree than an oid pioneer. There are sisters, brothers, boy;: friends, girt friends, city cousins and , country counsins. This year the toymak-ers have come up with a cousin from overseas. Space is fiie big thing with boys. (Dont tell me the joke about the kid who told Santa that he didnt have anything in bs head but space.) And fiie toymakers learned from th doll with all the relatives. , A boy starts out with a moon and a couple of astronauts and the barest necessities to survive. But before you are through it costs you almost as much as it did the UK. to get their men up there. Do you know what parents really , need? They need the toymakers to come fiie day up with toys that after Christmas! ' d - , Wit's End Be careful with that credit card. Dont be left holding Santas bag on Jan. 2! tii;iiHiniiiiiii:iiiiiiii!tiiiii!;!iiiiiiiiiiimi!ii!mi!iiiiiiimiiiiiymimiB BIG TALK ' ' " A , a - ; i i - . I S V. ' I'' t a 'V., "MM hard-heade- d There is a tough and insensible, let flie chips fall quality to Ogilvies style of leadership which is agreeably reminiscent of Harry Truman and promises that he will become a progressive force in high Republican councils. , upon. An imminent and over-du- e constitutional convention, which Republican Tears of an income tax hare previously served to block, may acerbate an already tender relationship between Ogilvie and Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago. The two men, much alike in their pragmatism, are already at odds on money issues and if Daley attempts to secure constitutional authority to levy a city income tax, Ogilvie is certain to oppose him. ' ,x wV . : & "Walt Disney Studios stock ;S . is vr $12 but I don't mess around with those Mickey Mouse issues." Pram pnt taka Mr gaily Birthday taatsrm. h OaMrat Mm papular |
