REP. REID MAY QUIT GOP OVER VETO

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• Publication Date: March 18, 1972
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The Washington Merry-Go?flonnn,
By,. Jack: Anderson
Rep. Ogden Reid (R,-N.Y.),
whose forebears helped found
the Republican Party 100
years ago, has made a slashing
attack on President Nixon
that raises the possibility Reid
will leave the party.
Reid, a grandson of a
GOP vice presidential candi-
date, accuses Mt. Nixon In a
,forthcoming article in Red-
book of "utterly and com-
pletely untrue statements"
that' "distorted" the facts on
Reid's controversial day-care
bill.
Unlike mavericks like Rep.
Pete McCloskey (R-Calif.),
Reid's Republican credentials
are formidable. He was Presi-
dent Eisenhower's Ambassa-
dor to Israel, publisher-editor
of the Republican New York
Herald-Tribune; and a member
of Gov. Nelson Rockefeller's
cabinet.
Yet the vehemence of his at-
tack on Mr. Nixon has inti.
mates whispering. that he may
kick over it century of GOP
blood lines and join the Demo.
crats. -
Reid's $2.1 billion bill to pro-
vide dayacare centers for work-i
ing mothers was sabotaged by
the White House, then vetoed
by the President after it
passed the House.
"In his veto message,"
writes Reid, President Nixon
"so distorted the facts about
the program as to leave the
American public with a vague
feeling that day care Is some
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kind of Communist plot to
snatch children from their
parents, destroy the family
and infiltrate the country with
four-year-old revolutionaries."
The President Indulged in
"fear tactics," said Reid. "It is
utterly and completely untrue
that, as the President charges,
day care under our bill would
diminish parental authority."
The congressman, generally
as cool and sleek as a seal,
said Yresident Nixon killed
day care to appease ,his
right-wing supporters." Reid
wrote passionately:
"Presumably he finds such
federal expenditures as $5 bil-
lion annually on highways,
$5.5 billion on farm subsidies,
$3.5 billion on space explora.
tion and $1.5 billion on civil
works produce greater bene-
fits for the country than help-
ing our children grow into
productive adults."
Foote: Reid gave some clue I
to his disaffection when he re-
cently charged the Nixon ad-
ministration. . with allowing 347
price Increases while it was
granting only 57 wage lakes:
He .also criticized the adminis-
in Vietnam for assassinatingy
alleged Vietcong leaders.
Pompidou-Brandt Feud
An awkward confrontation
between France's President
Georges Pompidou . and West
Germany's Chancellor Willy
Brandt,. according to secret in-
telligence reports, took place
not long ago in Paris. .
The Central Intelligence mittee bill that loosens federal
"were outwardly friendly, but
a tough position was taken
on substantive issues and no
significant agreements were
made.
"A heated exchange took
place after the Brandt-Pompi-
dou dinner," states the secret
report, "when (German) Eco-
nomics and Finance State Sec-
retary Johann Baptist Schoell-
horn told Pompidou that
France was profiting from and
encouraging the inflation af-
flicting other European coun-
ries.
"Schoellhorn went on to tell
Pompidou that the FRG (Fed-
eral Republic of ? Germany)
was not. in accord with this
policy and was not about to as-
sist France in its pursuit.
"According to members of
Brandt's party, Brandt stood
by and visibly enjoyed Ponipi-
dou's discomfiture. Schoell-
pidou was unable to refute.
"T h e Brandt-Pompidou
meeting got off to a bad start
strong attack on FRG Econom-
ics and Finance Minister Karl
Schiller's economic policy,
which Pompidou said benefit-
ted only the U.S."
Public ' vs. Polluters
A bipartisan band of House
conservationists has rallied to
pass a clean water package In-
stead of the public works com-
pollution controls.
The environmentalists, Ietf
by Reps. John Dingell (D.
llich.), Henry Reuss (D-Wis.)
and John Saylor (R-Pa.), would
set 1981 as a "zero discharge
goal" for water polluters.
They want tougher federal
controls and favor citizen
court suits to block big pollu-
ters.
The showdown between the
clean water men and the sup-
porters of the public works
bill is expected shortly, with a
bitter floor fight almost cer-
tain.
Cuban Rebuff
Red China's invitation to
the United States to play
ping-pong began . what both
countries hope will be an era
of better feelings.
But when a private film
group in New York invited
Cuban film directors to attend
a festival for Cuban films, the
State Department huffily re-
fused to let the Cubans enter
the United States.
Nazi Hunter
Dr. Zoltan Deak,. of New
York City, died recently in the
midst of helping us-seek out
ex-Nazi supporters in the
councils-of the GOP, The Hun-
garian-American lapsed Into a
final coma moments after tell-
ing his wife to urge us to keep
up our work on the World
War II right-wingers.
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.IGI' -rl Reinhard Gchien brief, unsubstantiated pas,
why. , .,? ?mian anti?Sovic, sage an Borinanit without a
[or more than 20 little commercial prompting,
;or Rifler then for Hardly in keeping with his
fast l e hen~t a honour as a German officer.
niult.-:;bona] industry, ][is Our author knows a trick
m;?nmic> ? complete with or two himself-about spying,
that Martin about books, and about pub,
rniano (liTh cted to Moscow ]icily, Ile was born in
%t;'(l lived h,ippily almost ever Vicuna, of vaguely Greek.
,alter, have appeared in origin. Worked in a dozen
Cerinany and are to be pub- countries as foreign and
lished here by Collins in the political journalist.. British
spring. a agent before and during the
Seeker and NVarburl; are War (with spells in Dachau
bringing out 'The Truth and 1P luckcd ~ his- tlans tcot from
about (,: bleu and his spy a hamlet near Leeds' (" I
R.rn " lY twb German
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. esters aoctinientary
edidence by the bagful
of
tn
Cockridge . dis'rati,:
writers in March. And, first
off the ' mark in Britain,
Hodder and Stoughton, are
Publishing "Gchie.n : Spy of
-the Century" by E. II. Cook.
ticlge on Monday.
C'ookridge, who has been
wrkrklug c-1 his study for
thrce. ya?rs, ehallcnges
(k ht;'n nn 13ormar,n head-on.
az?Y,c~~l Gehlet, )y guilty of
raiviti9 misled e; tlicr the
pnhlic in 1971, or the CIA
end several German Federal
4jovernment offices in 1953
R 'V1, 1965. He jvs that in
$s~40 he began invl,'stigations
t%tu Bormann's :ttte, and In
1950s received reliable
.i?,t rmation that Rnrinann
wq,5 alive and in th. Soviet
Uriian.
Ygt he never disclosed
ihl;, to anybody for 25 years.
In fact, on at least two occa-
Efons, lie officially informed
the CIA and othr'rs of his
superiors That, according to
his invr?;Ugations. Martin
Borman, died in the cross-,
fire during the fighting in
Berlin ort May 2, 1945."
e.OOKRIDGig suggests, with
ti,;tl~!'sar tl Iilg z~- r on the
._tvotil'd
c u( mg a story, somehow
omitted front. the General's
memoirs, that Gehlen
organised ' Nasser's Iritelli?
Bence service, then switched
to infiltrating Israeli agents,
Into Cairo).
Collins and Cehlen's
American ublishers bounce
back with the news that the
English version will be
bigger and better than the
German, Cookridge, they
sa_v, will be "much su
r
hrised?" Cookridoe. Mio
claims to have spoken to the
translator, doubts it.
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