NEWSDAY REPORTER'S QUESTIONABLE STORY FOR PENTHOUSE MAGAZINE

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A JOURNAL OF OPINION
Letelier Cuban Connection Coverup
Newsday Reporter's
Questionable Story For
Penthouse Magazine
By Les Kinsolving
Copyright 1978 Panax Newspapers
John Cummings, a 23-year veteran general assignment reporter for the
prestigious Long Island daily, Newsday, is the co-author of an article en-
titled "The Assassination of Orlando Letelier," published in the July issue of
Penthouse magazine.
The article is illustrated by a page-and-a-quarter artist's illustration show-
ing an exploding automobile, just under a window from which two men are
looking down - one of them smiling.
A flagstaff, near the window is flying a large Chilean flag.
The story which Cummings co-authored with Ernest Volkman, opens as
follows:
"Shortly after 9:30 on the morning of September 21, 1976, Orlando Letelier,
the head of the Chilean exile movement, was driving his car on
Massachusetts Avenue in Washington, D.C. on his way to work. Accoxn-
panied by two co-workers, Letelier drove southeast on Massachusetts, past
the row of embassies and Ambassador's residences that line the street.
"Almost as an unconscious habit, Letelier glanced at one of the embassies
along `embassy row,' the baroque building housing the Embassy of Chile. It
was the last ne saw of this world.
"A split second later an explosion shattered the front half of his car. His
legs blown off, Letelier was pulled from the wreckage, but died twenty
minutes later at a nearby hospital. Ronni Moffitt, a friend and co-worker at
the Institute of Policy Studies, also died shortly after the explosion, drow-
ning in a pool of blood from a severed carotid artery. Her husband was blown
free from the car, dazed but virtually unhurt.
"From the second floor of the Chilean Embassy, a senior Chilean diplomat
watched as police and rescue workers tried to save the victims of the drama
just beneath his window with some satisfaction, for he was perfectly aware
that Letelier's car had been blown up by a bomb."
If any of the 5,350,000 people whom Penthouse claims as buyers of their
magazine believe all the details of this tragedy as reported by Volkman and
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senior Chilean
Cummings, they will have to believe that this unidentified
diplomat" was watching by telescope, periscope, closed circuit TV, or
Telestar.
For the Chilean Embassy is at 1736 Massachusetts Ave. And Sheridan Cir-
cle, where the explosion killed Letelier, is six blocks, or one half mile away.
Standing as I did in front of the Chilean Embassy, it is simply impossible
to see Sheridan Circle, because at Dupont Circle, a block west of the Chilean
Embassy, Massachusetts Ave. veers north for five blocks to Sheridan Circle.
When I asked Cummings about this, he explained that he had not written
this part of the story. Co-author Volkman's only reply to this question:
"Well I must have better vision than you."
(Volkman also explained that until his recent departure from Newsday to
become a freelance writer, he was that newspaper's military-security
writer. Cummings explained that after he and Volkman wrote a previous
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the embassy which was illustrated and identified in the Penthouse article. I
asked Volkman if he had possibly confused the Ambassador's residence
with the embassy. He denied any such confusion.
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SUPER-GERM STORY NOT AS
SIMPLE AS ABC MADE IT
WASHINGTON - ABC's entertainment televi-
sion shows have shot to the top in the ratings war in
recent years, but ABC News has languished in third
place. In an effort to make a better record, ABC
News has recently introduced a new program called
"20-20," which is an imitation of "60 Minutes," the
highly successful "magazine" program of CBS
News.
ABC's "20-20" has gotten off to a very shaky
start. The first program was panned by the critics,
and the June 20 program contained a segment which
caused a large corporation, American Cynamid, to
take full-page ads in The New York Times and The
Washington Post questioning the journalistic in-
tegrity of ABC News.
The story in question concerned a debate that is
taking place over the use of antibiotics in cattle and
poultry feed. That might seem to be a pretty dull
subject, but the outcome of the debate could have a
lot to do with the price you have to pay for meat and.
poultry products. American Cynamid claims that if
the use of antibiotic feed is banned and restricted,
as much as $2.5 billion a year could be added to the
bill that consumers have to pay for beef, pork and
poultry. The reason is that the antibiotic feed
speeds the growth of the animals and reduces the
cost of production.
On the other hand, ABC used its program to
spread the idea that feeding antibiotics was
dangerous to public health, because it might result
in the development of disease producing bacteria
that were immune to antibiotics. If this happened,
we would lose the benefit of antibiotics in fighting
diseases, ABC used frightening terminology , such
as "super-germs" and the "antibiotic bomb."
Since the Food and Drug Administration is con-
sidering the use of antibiotic feeds, the subject is a
timely one, and the public should be informed about
the arguments pro and con.
That is not what ABC News set out to do. They
produced a program that sought to convince the
viewer that there is a real danger that the use of an-
tibiotic feeds will produce strains of "super-germs"
resistant to penicillin and other similiar drugs. This
is a theory that is held by some bacteriologists, It is
based on the fact that resistant strains of bacteria
have developed as a result of the medical use of cer-
tain antibiotics in treating diesases. Laboratory
studies have revealed the mechanism by which this
resistance is developed in bacteria.
What ABC neglected to tell its audience is that the
scientists who have studied the large-scale "ex-
periment" carried out by those who have used an-
tibiotics in animal feed for over a quarter of a cen-
tury, have concluded that there is not one iota of
evidence that the use of such feeds has produced
antibiotic-resistant, disease-producing bacteria.
These scientists argue that this deserves to be given
far more wight than the theories of bacteriologists
who have tried but failed to duplicate their
laboratory results under actual field conditions.
These scientists point out that if it were true that
antibiotic feeds tended to develop bacteria resistant
to antibiotics, this would show up first in the
poultry, pigs and cattle, The antibiotics fed to them
would cease to be effective. The fact is that these
feeds are just as effective in producing beneficial
results today as they were when the practice was
begun a quarter of a century ago.
ABC News was advised in advance that there
were two sides to this story and that they had an
obligation to air both sides. Their only recognition
of his obligation came in a statement at the tag-end
of the program that there were some respected
scientists who disagreed with the view that they had
presented. They summarized the position of these
scientists in one-sentence, which was inaccurate,
anc then proceeded to rebut it. ABC claimed on the
air that they had invited the producers of antibiotics
to be interviewed for the program but that they had
refused. The following week ABC admitted that
they had rejected Cynamid's offer to have one of
their scientists tell the other side of the story. They
had wanted a sensatiopal story. To permit the other
side to have been told would have spoiled it. But
they spoiled their own reputation.
Letters to the Editor
ALL (OF PAUL) OR
NOTHING AT ALL
Dear Editor:
Just read your editorial re; Ms. Anita Bryant.
Let's face it. She has done more for the gays in
organizing them and unifying than anyone else. So
we love her for that. Your biblical references can be
accepted only if you accept the rest of St. Paul, not
just the verses that suit you. To wit: I Corinthians,
11. Tell your wife, if any, that she must cover her
hair when she prays. Explain to your son that St.
Paul doesn't approve of long hair. ?Chapter 14. I
would tell Ms. Bryant why it is shame for a woman
to speak in church? Verse 34 says, let your women
keep silent in the churches. The women for priests
movement in the Catholic Church will tell you what
a womanizer St. Paul was. In his list of
abominations St. Paul says that men who shave
their beards are abominations. Most of all, we all
are children of God, and Chapter 4, 5Therefore
judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come.
Remember Christ's admonition, judge not, lest ye
be judged.
Thanks for your patience. We will remember you
and Anita in our prayers.
NAME WITHHELD BY REQUEST
Rockville
ED. NOTE - Anita will be overwhelmed to hear that she
is loved by the Gay Community of Rockville. As for your
all-or-nothing dogma regarding Biblical Content, even St.
Peter on occasion disagreed with St. Paul - but not,
notably, on the subject of homosexuality.
ANTI-METRIC
Dear EDITOR:
Why doesn't someone start an Anti-Metric Rights
Committee of America -- A-MERICA? (It might
even save us in Canada!) Sincerely,
Douglas C. Greenwood
BARRIE, ONTARIO, CANADA
APPALLED
Dear Editor:
This letter is in response to Mr. Kinsolving's
editorial of May 17, 1978, in which he speaks about
"terrorism" coming to Washington. I am quite
apalled that a community newspaper such as the
Advertiser - designed initially for "community
news" - has become an open platform for the
propagation of Zionist beliefs and false writings.
Rather than sizing up the Middle East situation in
an objective, unbiased manner, the writer chooses
to do just the opposite.
As has been the practice in the past, the moment
there is established an organization or group whose
purpose is dedicated to better informing the
American public of the situation of nearly 2 million
displaced Palestinians, there is a mass effort to
defeat it. To have made an accusation such as was
made in the title alone - "Welcome, Terrorists, to
Washington" - was most certainly unjustified and
was clearly a sign of a most unprofessional ap-
proach.
The American people have been so accustomed to
the one-sidedness of our media with regard to the
Middle East that it is almost impossible for the
great majority to open their minds to an objective
evaluation of a situation so detrementel to nearly 2
million homeless refugees.
Your editorial, Mr. Kinsolving, denouncing the
newly opened Palestine Information Office, didn't
give even the slightest opportunity for one to deter-
mine for himself its purpose. The Palestine Infor-
mation Office, opened for and dedicated to the
achievement of an informational balance in this
Washington area, and to the disselnination of infor-
mation regarding the'current status of the Palesti-
nian people, is something that has been lacking in
this country for quite some time. This information
Office was established legally, and legally will it
proceed to inform the American people of the truths
and realities that have for so long remained con-
ceaied and so efficiently countered by the strong
pro-Israeli lobby.
It is now time that we open our hearts and minds
to the plight of the Palestinian. We must listen to
their evaluation of this situation so that we might
attempt to understand this most pressing and com-
plex problem.
Nadia M. Boulos
Silver Spring, Md.
ED. NOTE - The Palestinians - at least those in the
P. L. O. - were heard from most recently in their blowing
up civilians in a Jerusalem supermarket.
BLACKS AND WHITES
Derr Editor:
The wanton and brutal murder of unarmed white
civilian women and children in Zaire last month
and Rhodesia last weekend should give all the
liberal 'do-gooders,' who are blindly supporting all
black terrorists and advocating black majority rule
for South Africa and Rhodesia, cause for concern.
It is obvious that the military forces of Zaire were
unable or unwilling to protect their white nationals
and residents.
No wonder that the African whites do not trust a
future black run country and are not about to agree
to their own extinction - or accept any terrorist
oriented government foisted upon them by this
country!
It is apparent that before any white government
hands over power to a black government there must
be firm guarantees for the absolute protection of
the white minority.
This country and other western nations need to
issue a firm warning that for every white expelled
from an African nation an equal number of blacks
will be expelled from a western nation - and for
every white maimed or murdered an equal number
(Continued on page 5)
 THRUSDAY, JULY-13,1978
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CARTER ADMINISTRATION OBLIVIOUS
TO BUTCHERY IN LEBANON
The Lebanese-Americans picketed the White
House on July 6th and purchased a full page
newspaper ad in order to plead for President
Carter's alleged human rights concern regarding
the following, which they report the Syrian Army
has done during its occupation of Lebanon on behalf
of the Arab League:
"Over 60,000 men, women and children killed.
? "Over 200,000 wounded."
? "131 towns and villages pillaged and destroyed."
"More Lebanese killed than in all the Arab-
Israeli wars combined."
In Lebanon, former President Camille Chamoun
charged that the Syrians "are seeking to dominate
Lebanon; are protectors turned aggressors - so the
time has come to put an end to the presence of these
Syrian forces."
Lebanon's incumbent President, Elias Sarkis, has
threatened to resign rather than submit to- Syrian
demands that Lebanon's Christian militia be dis-
armed, and Christian officers purged from the
Lebanese Army.
Despite this, the U.S. Department of State, which
so loudly demanded the withdrawal of the Israeli
Army from South Lebanon, has refused adamently
to demand that the Syrian Army get out of Lebanon,
too.
"They are a peacekeeping force, which is in
Lebanon at the invitation of . the Lebanese
Government," contended State Department
Spokesman Hodding Carter.
When asked why the State Department does not
request that the Syrians be replaced by a UN
peacekeeping force - like the Israelis were -
Carter declined comment. When asked if the State
Department believes that the Israelis have caused
more damage in Lebanon than the Syrians, he
declined comment. When asked if the State Depart-
ment will object if the Lebanese Government asks
the Israelis to come in and replace the Syrian
peacekeepers, Carter declined comment.
This is but one more illustration of what Los
Angeles Times columnist Georgie Anne Geyer cor-
rectly describes as "the basic immorality of the
Carter Administration.. .an immorality that is quite
willing to sell out millions of black people in the
name of expediency, that claims self-righteously to
talk about majority rule when it really means black
power."
(This statement was actually published in the
Washington Post - giving rise to some suspicion
that certain key editors were out of town on
summer vacation.)
Columnist Geyer noted, as an illustration,
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance's announced inten-
tion to work with Angola's minority Marxist
government of Augustinho Neto "in more normal
ways."
Geyer points out that Neto's government is "kept
in power by some 20,000 Cuban troops," over the
objections of a reasonably estimated 90 % of the
black people of Angola.
She notes Ambassador Andrew Young's proposal
of U.S. aid to this Marxist dictatorship as well as
the one in Mozambique. There is also Young's sup-
port for Rhodesian terrorist Robert Mugabe, who
resorts to terrorism because he could obviously not
win any election in Rhoodesia. She also notes:
"People like Andy Young are surrounded by 1960s,
black-power activists, who foresee in Africa what
they were denied in the United States. They call it
'revolution' but they really mean their own power."
It is nice to see in The Washington Post and Los
Angeles Times - at long last - something we have
been emphasizing for the past three years.
Not so nice, however, is Andy Young's latest
gaffe, made to the London Times:
"Most of the Jewish dissidents in the Soviet Union
got Ph.D. degrees at government institutions. They
are well educated and trained, and they are making
lots of money, and they are in trouble with the
Soviet Union because they are so prominent."
TRIAL BALLOON FOR
ABANDONMENT OF TAIWAN?
"U.S. SCRAPS SALE OF F-4 JETS TO TAIWAN
AIR FORCE" reported a New York Times News
Service story published on July 1st on page one of
The Washington Star.
Who says so?:
New York Times reporter Richard Burt's only
listed authority for this "news" are as follows:
(A) "officials said yesterday."
(B) "The officials"
(C) "They said..."
(D) "...is seen by officials"
(E) "...senior officials"
(F) "They"
(G) "other senior officials are said to have"
(H) "An official"
This story contained no confirmation from either
the State Department's Taiwan Desk, or the Em-
bassy of China's information service, both of whom
have denied knowledge of any such scrapping.
Moreover, this totally unsubstantiated material
reported by All The News That's Fit To Print is
beyond verification, since all of these "officials"
are phantoms. For even if they do exist, they are
concealed by anonymity.
It may be that this is a trial balloon, a speculation
disguised as news, in order to measure public reac-
tion.
This could be the case - although mere readers
have no way of knowing. If the Carter Administra-
tion is really considering this as one step toward
abandonment of Taiwan, the Belgian magazine To
The Point reports the following from Taiwan's Vice
Minister of Foreign Affairs, H.K. Yang:
* "We still consider the Americans as our friends.
I cannot help but feel, however, that the Carter
Administration was rather inexperienced in the
area of foreign policy ..."
* "Taiwan has never lacked for courage. We have
had the guts to say 'No' to a mass of 80 million...
Never once - and maybe this is what has kept us
going - have we made concessions when our prin-
ciples were at stake."
* "The West is sorely mistaken when it thinks it
can bargain with communism. The seeming con-
trasts between Moscow and Peiping are snapshots.
International Communism, whether it comes from
Moscow, or from Fidel Castro, or Peiping - travels
its own course; a course aimed at the end of the free
West."
* "International communism has developed new
tactics. Occasionally the wolf dons sheep's clothing.
Eurocommunism, for example, was not invented in
Italy or France, but in the Kremlin ... Under the
cry of 'Uhuru' (freedom) and 'majority rule' inter-
national communism has already struck in Africa.
Does Angola or Mozambique have majority rule?"
* "I recently had an audience with the Pope, and I
took the liberliy to mention to His Holiness that
what the West is suffering from is moral decay. The
result is a flight from reality and temporary
~VITUHIAL
INCREASINGLY
INTOLERABLE
COST OF A
U.S. EMBASSY
IN MOSCOW
Hard on the heels of the latest incident of bugging
the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, the Soviet Union un-
veiled a new method of reaction when U.S. in-
telligence caught KGB spies red handed, in New
Jersey.
The Soviets jailed U.S. businessman Jay Craw-
ford. They subsequently charged reporters Craig
Whitney of the New York Times and Harold Piper
of The Baltimore Sun, with having slandered the
Soviet State Committee of Radio and Television.
One wonders how it is possible to slander
anything as amoral as this electronic stooge of
Leonid Brezhnev's dictatorship. But this slander
suit was followed by the Moscow press denunciation
of yet another U.S. reporter who allegedly "tried to
disrupt a news conference by asking provocative
questions" of Muhammed Ali.
Nearly three decades ago, The American Society
of Newspaper Editors strongly objected to the ac-
crediting of TASS News Agency reporters - since
TASS is a organ of the Soviet Government and has
been the cover for numerous KGB spies.
This alarmed the Department of State - which
has a vested interest in maintaining big embassies
in big countries - so that they warned of probable
Soviet retaliation against U.S. newsmen in Moscow.
To this threat, the ASNE replied that it would be
preferable to cover Moscow from outside the Soviet
Union rather than to submit to such retaliatory
blackmail.
It is on principle desireable to maintain
diplomatic relations with any country - especially
a fellow super power. But does this mean an em-
bassy at any price?
The price of our maintaining an embassy of 120
people in Moscow, plus consulates in Lenningrad
and Kiev, is reported by the State Department to be
$5,670,000. This is admittedly miniscule in our half
trillion dollar budget.
But the Soviets have repeatedly violated the car-
dinal diplomatic principle of extraterritoriality by
recurrant bugging of our embassy. They arrest or
threaten our' businessmen and our newsmen. They
make an utter mockery of that alleged peace
achievement called the Helsinki Accords. And they
use American desire for diplomatic relations as a
means to fill their embassies and consultates and
stooge new services with spies.
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 NEWSDAY REPORTER CUMMINGS EX-NEWSDAY MILITARY REPORTER VOLKMAN
"Why should I mention money?" "Well, I must have better vision than you"
NEWSDAY REPORTER'S QUESTIONABLE STORY
(From Page One)
Volkman and Cummings charge that Letelier was murdered by order of
the Chilean junta - although no one has been tried or convicted for such
crime.
They charge that the assassination plot was hatched when "on June 29, two
DINA agents sat down at a table in a restaurant in Coral Gables, Fla., with
two leaders of one of the more fanatic of the Cuban exile movement."
In connection with this meeting, they report: "The Chileans drove to the
restaurant meeting site in rented cars, which meant that they didn't want to
use any cars from the Chilean embassy motor pool. (They carry distinctive
DPL license plates that attract attention.)"
I expressed skepticism about any Chilean - diplomat, or secret policeman
- traveling to the Chilean Embassy in Washington, to a motor pool that does
not exist, in order to pick up a car and drive 850 miles to Miami for lunch.
"Did you ever hear of a consulate?" asked Volkman.
I replied that I had, and that I knew there was a Chilean Consulate in
Miami. But are these consular cars issued special license plates?
VOLKMAN: I believe that they are.
QUESTION: Have you checked?
VOLKMAN: Yes, I checked.
One hour earlier, the Department of Motor Vehicles in Talahassee in-
formed me by telephone that Florida does not issue any special license
plates to any consulates "within the state.")
Volkman and Cummings charge that the CIA and the FBI have been lax in
investigating Letelier's death.
They also charge:
"Some high level officials have been leaking material to selected jour-
nalists to the effect that Letelier was a paid agent of the Cuban intelligence
service. There is not a shred of evidence to support this allegation."
Yet later in this same article they discuss just such a shred:
"There was the puzzling case of Letelier's briefcase. Detectives of the
District of Columbia Metropolitan Police who were first on the scene found
the victim's briefcase. They looked inside, saw several documents in
Spanish, and subsequently turned them over to the Justice Department A
short while later, obviously leaked stories appeared in several newspapers
to the effect that the documents in the briefcase 'proved' that Letelier was a
Cuban intelligence agent. But the stories were written on the basis of a 'sum-
mary translation' prepared by either the Justice Department or the _CCIA.
Penthouse has obtained cop .es of the actual documents and they prove no
such thing; they amount to some copies of innocuous correspondence and ac-
counting of expenses for Letelier's overseas trips."
The phrase "Penthouse has obtained" suggests a first cousin to Deep
Throat.
In point of fact, the contents of Letelier's briefcase were published in the
June 23, 1977 edition of the Congressional Record.
The "innocuous correspondence" includes a letter to Letelier from
Beatrice Allende Fernandei:, daughter of Chile's late Marxist Premiere,
Salvadore Allende.
Mrs. Fernandez, the wife of one of Cuba's top DGI (intelligence) officials,
wrote Letelier on May 8, 1975, that she would send him a thousand dollars a
month for his expenses.
When Volkman was asked if this "summary translation" disagreed with
his personal translation of the Fernandez-Letelier letter, Volkman admitted
that he cannot translate Spanish.
(But he stressed that this material was entered by Georgia Congressman
Larry McDonald - a known member of the John Birch Society.)
Where, then, did Volkman's translation come from?
"From my people," replied writer Volkman.
He refused repeatedly to Identify "my people."
When asked how $1,000 a month from Havana to Letelier could reasonably be
considered "innocuous," writer Cummings retorted:
"Why should I mention money?"
Who translated this "innocuous correspondence"?
"I don't know who translated it" Cummings replied. "But I have to admit
that Letelier was certainly and openly sympathetic to the Cubans, and he
was certainly a socialist."
Cummings also noted:
"The artist who illustrated our article certainly took liberties."
DARK CLOUDS FOR BIG MEDIA
Last April, Bert Lance warned the American
Society of Newspaper Editors:
"In the abscence of self-discipline and internal
reform, other groups may find it necessary to step
in and subject the press to the same rigorous stan-
dards of ethics that the press applies to the rest of
us. That threat is called censorship. And I may be
mistaken, but I think it is a conceivable outcome of
what appears to be a headstrong refusal to get your
own house in order."
How did most of Big Media react to this? With
scorn, or arrogant ridicule. The Washington Post's
fading hatchet artist, Herb Block, produced a car-
toon comparing Lance to Spiro Agnew.
Now, nearly three months later, Washington Star
writer Lyle Denniston reports:
"After almost three dozen actions taken by the
(U.S. Supreme) Court this term on media law, the
press and its lawyers are feeling beleagured."
Denniston tabulates what he terms "defeats for
the press in five out of six major decisions," as well
as two dozen appeals which were denied outright.
Among major media defeats, he notes Chief Justice
Burger's trenchant statement.:
"Neither the First Amendment not the
Fourteenth Amendment mandates a right of acess
to information or sources of information within the
government's control."
Then the High Court ruled that media offices may
be searched without warning by police looking for
evidence of a crime, even if no editor or reporter is
suspect.
In additon to this highly questionable ruling,
(which comes close to allowing police bugging of
church confessional booths) the Supreme Court
seems to have set in high gear a form of censorship
called judicial gag orders. Despite such serious
e%.dence that Bert Lance wasn't kidding, some of
th,~ Big Media appears to be living in a fools
paradise of being oblivious to just how strongly
media is resented by a growing number of the
American people.
`>uch insufferable arrogance as displayed regular-
ly by the Washington Post management, among
others, serves to endanger freedom of the press for
all media.
or example, Reed Irvine of Accuracy In Media
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LONDON ECONOMIST FORECAST
OVER
TAKE
IF SOVIETS
By: Jeffrey St. John
SOUTHERN AFRICA
Cubans manage to grab Shaba Province and other
rich mineral bins in Africa. This is why the
economic summit in West Germany on July 16th &
17th has taken on an air of fantasy. The Europeans
watch as the U.S. spins out an international
monetary policy that is hopelessly mired in confu-
sion, while the U.S. appeasement policy of the
Soviets and Cubans places Europe in the position of
committing suicide involuntarily with help of the
Carter administration.
Robert Moss spells out in considerable detail the
stakes for Europe as well as the U.S. and
demonstrates the most critical weakness of the
Carter policy is not just in Africa, but in our own
backyard with respect to Castro's Cuba. "Cuba is
not an African country," Moss observes. "It is a
Caribbean island some 90 miles off the coast of
Florida, and the Russians must be as astonished as
anyone that the United States has not taken
measures to prevent such a close-and-diminutive
neighbor from exporting 45,000 troops to
Africa.. .the export of Castro's best fighting men to
Africa must have weakened his regime's defences
against internal revolt; the Cuban army numbers
only some 160,000 men."
Moss points out, moreover, that the U.S. Congress
passed Public Law 87-733, which authorized the
President during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis to
take whatever measures are necessary, including
armed force, to prevent Cuba from exporting
aggression and subversion beyond its own shores.
"The United States is committed," he adds, "under
a law that has never been repealed, to resist Soviet
attempts to use Cubans as proxy forces in a way
WASHINGTON - "If the immense natural
resources," writes the British foreign affairs
analyst, Robert Moss, "and the strategic crucial
position that South Africa on the world's map were
to pass under Soviet control, the economic and
strategic position of Western Europe would become
untenable."
Moss, editor of the London Economist weekly
"Foreign Report," lays out the real strategic
significance of why the Soviets and the Cubans have
embarked on the greatest neo-colonial campaign of
military aggression since Hitler sought to conquer
the world. His brilliant analysis is contained in the
just-published "On Standing Up to the Russians In
Africa," in the summer issue of the quarterly,
Policy Review, published by The Heritage Founda-
tion here in Washington. plus the sea
The massive mineral resources, p
routes from the Persian Gulf oil fields to Europe
and the United States, make it vital that the West
challenge what the Soviets and the Cubans are try-
ing to do in Africa. But as Moss clearly indicates,
the weak response of the Carter administration to
the Cuban-Soviet inspired invasion from Angola
earlier this year into mineral-rich Zaire's Shaba
Province (copper and cobalt) offers little prospect
that the administration has taken seriously what the
Soviets and Cubans really seek in Africa. In fact,
when the Shaba Province invasion subsided and
with it the tough anti-Soviet rhetoric of the White
House, the administration then went ahead and es-
tablished diplomatic ties with Angola!
In the eyes of European nations the Carter policy
in Africa and Latin America is calculated to weaken
Western Europe economically if the Soviets and
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
(From page 2)
of blacks will be executed in retaliation.
Even though there may be legal problems the
message would be loud and clear - that the blacks
must protect the whites if they expect to be
recognized by us, receive loans from us or do
business with us.
Sincerely yours,
D.J. West
Gaithersburg
ED. NOTE - Africa's whites in Rhodesia and South
Africa do not appear to be any less apprehensive about
the WHITE Soviet Union than about the black terrorists
and dictatorships being supplied by the new Russian Em-
pire.
INCREASINGLY INTOLERABLE
COST OF A U.S.
EMBASSY IN MOSCOW
(From page 3)
President Carter, who in Annapolis offered the
Soviets cooperation or confrontation, should serve
notice on the Soviets' that their Embassy-buggings,
and threatening of our newsmen, will not only lead
to instant retaliatory action, but could endanger
diplomatic relations altogether. We had no
diplomatic relations with the Soviets from 1918 to
1933 and the sky did not fall. That, admittedly was a
different era. It was before the Soviets acquired so
many automobiles that their embassy personnel are
now the worst scofflaws in the entire diplomatic
community; who ignore thousands of dollars worth
of parkin tickets every year.
DARK CLOUDS
(From page 4)
(AIM) has repeatedly written or talked to The Post
to ask why its national news editor, Laurence Stern,
refused to publish a story about Pin Yathay, an es-
capee from Cambodia who held a news conference
in Washington.
Irvine has also thoroughly documented "the great
disparity in the number of human rights stories on
countries such as Chile and South Africa, compared
with countries such as Cambodia and Cuba." He
also noted "a pattern of reporting at The Post that
could reflect the ideological proclivities of some of
its personnel."
On June 2nd, The Post accepted $3,000 from AIM
to publish an ad which was highly critical of Stern -
and which also criticized The Post for refusing to
review the new book on Cambodia, "Murder of a
Gentle Land."
On June 9th, Post Board Chairman Katharine
Graham, wrote Irvine charging him with "a totally
unfounded character assassination of Laurence
Stern........ assault by innuendo reminiscent of the
methods of Joe McCarthy."
Irvine, who is scrupulously careful in researching
his charges, has apparently touched an extraor-
dinarily sensitive Post nerve ending. For instead of
a reasoned reply, Mrs. Graham has opted for the
unsubstantiated smear. - L.K.
LOFTON
(From page 6)
Zagorsk Theological Seminary told a group of us
foreign correspondents that they have four
applicants annually for each seminary opening, the
state does not permit the four Orthodox seminaries
Moss suggests that short of invading Cuba the
U.S. Air Force can prevent Cuban transports from
shuttling to and from the island nation to Africa. In
this regard, we have learned from the captain of a
commercial fishing vessel that it would not take
much muscle or effort from Washington to prevent
Cuban transports from refueling in Marxist Guyana
in South America. This fishing fleet captain, who
must remain anonymous because he works the
waters off the tip of Guyana, told this columnist in a
recent letter that Cuban transports land for refuel-
ing in Guyana's Timehri airport, built by the U.S. in
World War II as the shortest refueling stop to ferry-
ing aircraft to Africa. He also reports that Russian
fishing trawlers are active in the area. "Some
attention," he wrote me recently,"should be paid
to the existence of Cuban troops on the mainland of
South America, specifically Guyana. This is also
the country where Cuban planes, flying troops to
Angola in Africa, refuel for the hop to
Africa.... Shell and Texaco refused, I am told, to use
their tanker trucks for the refueling and Cuba had to
fly in a tanker truck.
"What does it all mean? I see the primary step in
a Russian move on South America unfolding in the
form of a secure base on the mainland. The Cubans
are quietly moving in airfields and, of course,
propaganda."
U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young has courted the
Marxist government in Guyana. Combined with his
statements about Cuba and Africa, what does this
tell you? It tells us we are on our way up the side of
the summit of suicide with Carter, Young and Com-
pany.
to expand beyond the 1,000 places they now have."
The very day you were in New York, Champ, at
your press conference saying all these preposterous
things about the Soviet Union, back in Moscow 50-
year-old dissident Vladimir Slepak was being
sentenced to five years internal exile for the
heinous crime of having hung a sign from his apart-
ment balcony reading: "Let us join our son in
Israel." In flagrant violation of the Helsinki Agree-
ment, Slepak was convicted following a closed trial
during which he was allowed to call no defense
witnesses.
Got anything to say about this, Champ?
GREELEY
(From page 7)
like neglecting to shake hands, refusing to learn
names, and not even especially interested in preten-
ding to listen to what they say. Clearly, Mr.
Califano is NOT an elected official.
Despite the lies propagated by the PTA and the
National Council of Churches, the House of
Representatives overwhelmingly passed and sent to
the Senate a tuition tax credit bill. The Senate will
pass it by an even larger margin. President Carter
has been persuaded, however, by that vile, turncoat
wretch, HEW Secretary Joseph Califano, that
Catholics don't care about their parochial schools.
He will veto the bill with impunity.
Mr. Califano has made the crusade against the
Catholic schools into a personal holy war. The day
the House passed the bill, he vowed that "not a
single penny of such unconstitutional aid will ever
get to the parochial schools." In the enthusiasm for
his sacred cause, Mr. Califano apparently has
forgotten that constitutionality is determined not by
the secretary of HEW but by the Supreme Court.
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ALl PRAISES
RUSSIA:
WHY
WASHINGTON - Muhammad Ali returned
recently from a 10-day trip to the Soviet Union --
which is puzzling. The way he describes the place.
one wonders wh
h
h
y
e c
ose not to defect.
He says that in the Soviet Union: "There's no big
shots Everybody's plain and simple. Even Mr.
Brezhnev"; there are "100 nationalities living in
peace': he saw "only one policeman. I didn't see no
guns. No crime. No prostitutes. Not one homosex-
ual- No hitchhikers, not cne beggar," no "bad, bad
poverty"; and "I never felt so free from being
robbed." Ali says it is a "lie" that there is no
freedom of religion in the Soviet Union, because he
saw houses of worship for Moslems, Jew and
Catholics.
Well, one hesitates to pick a fight with Ali. But
what must be said must be said: if he really
believes all this, he is a fool. Ali's remarks betray a
childlike naivete the likes of which has not been
seen since 1945, when the so-called "Red Dean" of
Canterbury, Hewlett Johnson, visited Stalin and
described him as a man whose face revealed "a
kindly geniality," a man who had simply "helped to
plan a new order and a square deal for the masses."
No big shots? Everybody's plain and simple?
Even Brezhnev? C'mon, Champ. Get serious. Even
Stalin. as far back as 1934. admitted that every real
Leninist knows "that equalization in the sphere of
requirements and individt,.al life is a piece of reac-
tionary petty bourgeois absurdity." In his book,
"Russia: The People and the Power," the
Washington Post's former Moscow correspondent,
The Dragon Lady
Dorothy Faber
Robert Kaiser, documents in detail how the ruling
elite in the Soviet Union live much different lives
from the typical Soviet citizen. He writes:
"Privileges insulate those at the very top, a tiny
group of perhaps only two or three dozen men, from
all the harassments and discomforts of an ordinary
citizen's life. Attended by servants and chauffeurs,
housed grandly in country dachas, hunting lodges,
and beach houses. provided with an abundance of
ine food and drink, they must live about as well as
the ruling classes of any capitalist society... Their
food, it is said, comes from a special shop to which
they pay a nominal fee of 50 to 70 rubles a month.
For this amount, which is less than most workers'
families spend for food, they are entitled to order
whatever they want. including rare products, such
as fine beef and caviar, which are not sold to the
public. Special tailors make their clothes. They can
acquire foreign cars and gadgets otherwise never
seen in the U.S.S.R. In sum, they live in a contrived
environment. Even their vodka is better than the or-
dinary man's."
One hundred nationalities living in peace? Sure,
Champ. The same kind of "peace" that existed
between blacks and Bull Connor's police depart-
ment in Alabama in the 1950's. Dina Spechler, a
Soviet analyst from Harvard. says that the Russify-
ing policies of the regime and its tolerance of Great
Russian chauvinism are keenly resented by
minorities in the Soviet Union. The Tbilisi riots of
1956 in Georgia were a case in point, as were the
violent clashes between Russians and Uzbeks dur-
THURSDAY, JULY 13, I9"8
ing 'T'ashkent football match in 1969 and the 1972-73
prof gists in Lithuania. Spechler says:
' .nti-Russian sentiment is obviously strong
arno -ig some non-Russian nationals. This" in turn,
evokes resentment by Russians, intensifying their
own national feelings. A vicious circle is created:
Russian ascendancy breeds nationalism among
min, rity nationalities, which intensifies Russian
natic nalism and drive for predominance."
N4.w, about that "lie" that there is no freedom of
religion in the Soviet Union. You say you saw
several houses of worship. But did you talk with any
clergy? Did you talk with churchgoers about the
repression they must endure because they are
believers? I can't imagine you did any of these
things, Champ; otherwise. I don't think you would
have made the ridiculous statement you are quoted
as h, ving made.
Ife crick Smith, who won a Pulitzer Prize for the
New York Times in 1974 for his coverage from
Moscow, says in his book, "The Russians," that the
Communist Party has tacitly acknowledged the
Russ an Orthodox Church as an essential ingredient
in the peculiar mixture of loyalties that holds the
state together. However, he writes:
"It has hemmed in the Church with restrictions:
pries; s can celebrate mass but not preach or
proselytize: new cities are built without churches;
and in some old regions, like the Western Ukraine.
estab'ished churches are shut down. The more out-
spoki-n priests are defrocked or disciplined. There
is a shortage of priests, and though the rector- of the
(continued on pg. 5)
THE PRESIDENCY
ON-THE-JOB TRAINING
Part II with extensive powers for local communities. But Kaauuo's statement followed a television
AUSTIN, TEXAS - Since President Carter by this time, the SWAPO guerilla leaders and their appearance by Nujoma during which he stated
appears to be making up foreign policy as he goes friends in the United Nations had decided that South blunt,y that SWAPO was not fighting for majority
along, it is high time he inquired about what is West Africa must not be allowed to bring a rule i Namibia, but to seize power by violence for
happening in South West Africa before he continues democratic representative form of government into the ' Namibian people."
to push for a new government there that would in- being when most of the other black African nations
(,rude represntatives of the South West Africa were being ruled by one-party dictatorships or Shc 'fly after Nujoma s shocking public admis-
Peoples Organization (SWAPO) simply because the military juntas. sion, officials of South Africa revealed that' had un-
United Nations has "legitimized" this terrorist SWAPO had refused from the beginning to take cover ?d documents -- one of them the minutes of a
group of Ovambo Tribesmen. part in the Turnhalle Conference, claiming ex SWAPO military council meeting held on January 4
A few years ago, South Africa - which was given elusive territory for itself - and the U.N. proceed- - pr`.ving that recruits for the guerilla group were
oversight of South West Africa by the League of eel to agree by declaring the terrorist organization being instructec in Russian commands and how to
Nations after World War I -- declared its intention to be the sole legitimate representative of the attack military targets in South West Africa. The
.d ending its direct control over the territory. To Namibian people. documents also confirmed that SWAPO intends to
this end. it urged black leaders in South West Africa Operating out of Marxist Angola and Zambia, intensify terrorism, and orders to do so were passed
to begin planning for self-government. SWAPO began a continuing series of kidnappings, on to subordinate commanders.
Out of this effort developed what is now called the assassinations
All of this should h
and
th
.
o
ave prompted the United
er guerilla actions -almost
1urnhalle Conference which included represen- all of them directed at non whites. This prompted `atio' s to withdraw its recognition of SWAPO -
atives from the eleven ma.ior ethnic groups in the South Africa to extend its military defense of the which h obviously had no interest i free elections
i ount
h
ry w
ites. Bushman. Coloureds. Herero, country which, of course, brought howls of super ised by t.ie U N. or anybody else. Bot the
t?tc It may have been the most disparate collection protest from SWAPO supporters in the l N. ITN' fed equally d not to hear, and President Carter
'i people in history. Some were highly In spite of South African efforts to stop SWAPO has ac fed eqdeaf to the truth out of SWAPO's
-:'iphisticated. but most began the deliberations in infiltration. several of the most influential black own r. outh
omplete ignorance of the workings of modern leaders inside South West Africa have been The elections in South West Africa are still
vernment since they had never lived under murdered by the guerillas. The most recent was schted_.1f c] before the end of the year, whether or not
riything but the tribal system. Clemons Kapuuo, a chief of the Herero tribe who the t ited Nations sends its representatives to
as the talks continued. -a strong collegiate spirit had been considered most likely to become the first super.ise them. Whatever happens at that tine, it
-gan to develop, partly because the conference president of the new government. Kapuuo, who was is cle, r that SWAPO will never accept the results
=aerated on a principle never before used by any also head of the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance and a 11 continue its bl
d
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l
f
oo
y
p
an o
terrorism.
-,ic?h assembly in Africa: Total consensus. Each was ;hot to death while he was kneeling in prayer It i .. in fact, conceivable that a SWA?Oled
relegate continued to argue his case until absolute Less than two months before he was killed Chief rnas-;L. ,re may be in store for South West Africa
agreement had been reached on every key issue. Kapuuo said he feared for his own life after had even .
,.crse than that
hi
h
k
l
'
.
w
c
too
p
ace in Zaire.
t
he Turnhalle Conference completed a draft con- denounced San Nujoma, SWAPO president, and No ',:ouht this will provide some additional ad-
"'itution in March, 1977. It was based on a dividion declared that 'we are not prepared to hand him dition,il on-the-lob training information for the
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powers and a three-1Pvel system of
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 THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1978
Andrew Greeley's View
Congress and on the HEW staff. A Catholic was un-
acceptable because of the Catholic abortion posi-
tion. Only a black woman should have the job.
Professional competence, you see, is unimpor-
tant; religion bars you and race and sex get you the
job. Such is the nature of HEW under Joseph
Califano.
In fact, the outcry against the Fleming appoint-
ment was widespread. Mr. Califano and his friends
needed a scapegoat and I happened to be handy -
with the ready-made implication that the Church
was once again meddling in government affairs.
You have a scapegoat and a nice bit of raw meat for
anti-Catholic bigots.
Mr. Califano may not be very skillful as secretary
of HEW but he is at least smart enough to know that
I have no clout within the Church - indeed, I am not
even on the mailing list in my own archdiocese. Of-
ficial Catholic institutions and spokespersons raised
not a single complaint about the Fleming appoint-
ment (neither have they complained about Mr.
Califano's vendetta against Catholic schools).
One Catholic columnist causes Mr. Califano to
fire his family conference director? Don't be silly.
He decided that he'd made a bad mistake and threw
me to the lions of his black and feminist veto
groups. I'd like to take credit for diverting tem-
porarily their attempts to turn the White House con-
ference into a tent; show, but I don't think they've
been stopped and I know I didn't stop them.
But Mr. Califano introduced the religious issue by
initiating the stumblebum research for a Catholic
"ethnic" to be Ms. Fleming's "co-director." He
raised the religious question - and now tries to im-
ply that when a priest writes a column the Catholic
Church is in fear.
Priests apparently are incapable of having
opinions of their own.
ED. NOTE - Some of Father Greeley's previous opinions
of the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare:
STUMBLE BUM ALIFANO
TRIPS YET AGA 11V
There is apparently no cheap trick too low for
HEW Secretary Joseph Califano. Having made a
fool of himself by appointing a divorced mother
with no experience as director of the White House
Conference on the Family, he now has reversed the
decision and blames me for the reversal.
Both the New York Times and CBS News linked
Ms. Fleming's resignation to my colum. Now I'd
also been telling Mr. Califano that his crusade
against help for Catholic schools was going to cost
Mr. Carter what little chance he still has for re-
election. I have not noticed any change in Mr.
Califano's stand on that subject. Indeed, the day the
tax credit bill passed the House, Mr. Califano swore
a solemn oath that not a penny of such un-
constitutional money would ever get to Catholic
schools (forgetting, apparently, that the Supreme
Court and not the scretary of HEW decides what's
constitutional).
According to The New York Times' version of the
thing, Ms. Fleming had been ordered to hire a
Catholic co-director and resigned in protest - all
the result of my column. Now the fact is that Ms.
Fleming and Mr. Califano had been scurrying
around Washington for weeks before my column
appeared, desperately trying to find a Catholic "co-
director" (a person to do all the work and have none
of the power or the credit). They couldn't get
anyone to take the job.
For The Times to suggest that my column led to
this search for a Catholic is very sloppy journalism
for such a distinguished paper - or possibly
deliberate anti-Catholicism on the part of the
reporter.
Furthermore, if The Times reporter had bothered
to dig into the story - as Times reporters are sup-
posed to do - he would have found that a Catholic
had originally been selected for the job (at least
tentatively) and was rejected at the last moment
because of the intervention of to groups in
Victor Lasky
WASHINGTON (NANA) - Not all the fun in this
town takes place at the White House or up on
Capitol Hill.
As the dog days of summer set in, we've been
provided with a hilarious episode involving the two
major nabobs of Washington journalism -
Katharine Graham and Benjamin Bradlee.
You may remember Graham and Bradlee. They
were the stars of the great Watergate drama of
some years past, in which - as the publisher and
exectuive editor of the Washington Post respective-
ly - they played a major role in ousting a president.
Bradlee, you may recall, was portrayed on the
screen in "All The President's Men" by Jason
Robards, who won an Academy Award. for the role
of a tough, no-nonsense, get-the-facts type editor.
Well, there's a gadfly around town named Reed
Irvine, who runs a top-notch little outfit called Ac-
curacy in Media. AIM's purpose is to keep the
media on their toes by exposing hypocrisies, ob-
fuscation and double-standards.
And AIM managed the other day to get both Kay
Graham and Ben Bradlee to blow their tops.
What AIM had done was to point out that the Post
had failed to publish a story about a Cambodian
I have a modest proposal. Let s have a non- i e
House Conference on the Family.
HEW Secretary Joseph Califano is going to have a
White House conference on the family, but with his
usual skill in such matters, Mr. Califano has
managed to foul that conference up. In fact, it will
turn into a conference on the non-family, a tent
show of special-interest groups, self-anointed
spokespersons, homosexuals, abortionists, lesbians,
freelovers, swingers, Marxists, radical critics of
family life and other people bent on the destruction
of the family.
Of all the multitudinous ways that human ingenity
has devised to waste the taxpayer's money, high on
the list of futile bureaucratic excesses must be plac-
ed the foolishness of "White House conferences"
and "national commissions."
The White House Conference on the Family and
the National Commission on Neighborhoods are but
the most recent absurd examples of meaningless
ritual exercises which provide employment for
bureaucrats and prestige for self-anointed experts,
spokespersons and self-important "Com-
missioners" - all accomplishing absolutely nothing
for the country and its people.
The ineffable HEW Secretary Califano has at
least confirmed the absurdity of such boondoggles
by appointing a divorced woman to administer the
White House Conference on the Family. Her only
visible qualification for the job was the support of
the congressional Black Caucus. It just shows how
seriously Mr. Califano takes the whole affair.
Unlike a lot of other observers, I don't begrudge
HEW Secretary Joseph Califano his $78,000-a-year
bodyguard. Anything which eases the strain on Mr.
Califano may be good for all of us.
By all accounts, Califano is an extremely difficult
man to deal with. Harsh and ruthless to his subor-
dinates, rude and uninterested to those outside the
agency who came to make presentations to him -
(continued on pg. 5)
KAY GRAHAM
AND BEN BRADLEE
CAN'T TAKE THE HEAT
refugee, Pin Yathay, who had given a first-hand ac-
count of the horrors of communist rule in his tiny
homeland.
AIM had checked with the Post's news editor,
Laurence Stern, who said he had decided against us-
ing the story because the paper had run others on
the same subject.
But this wasn't true, AIM countered. A check of
the Post's files for a year demonstrated few, if any,
such stories. And in a letter to Mrs. Graham, Irvine
suggested that she investigate the great disparity in
the number of human rights stories in her paper on
countries such as Chile and South Africa, as com-
pared with Cambodia and Cuba. Irvine said there
was a pattern of reporting at the Post that could
reflect the ideological proclivities of some of its
personnel.
That did it. "Your totally unfounded character
assassination of Laurence Stern in a recent AIM
newsletter is beyond the pale," Mrs. Graham wrote
to Irvine. "This kind of assault by innuendo is
reminiscent of the methods of Joe McCarthy.
"You have demanded many hours of attention
from Post editors and reporters, including Mr.
Stern. How can you possibly expect them to con-
tinue to take you seriously when you publish an at-
tack that is at the same time both preposterous and
vicious?"
Of course, Mrs. Graham doesn't seem to object
when her minions demand "many hours of atten-
tion" from those people whom her newspaper
decides to make the brunt of so-called investigative
journalism.
At any rate, Irvine responded by asking Mrs.
Graham to cite any inaccurate statements which
either he or his AIM Report may have published. He
would be glad to correct the record, he wrote.
But, as of this writing, there has been no reply
from Mrs. Graham.
There was a reply, however, from Ben Bradlee:
"Mrs. Graham has spoken for all of us here at
The Washington Post in her letter to you answering
-your latest 'newsletter.'
"You have revealed yourself as a miserable, car-
ping, retromingent vigilante, and I for one am sick
of wasting my time in communication with you."
The word "retromingent," not found in ordinary
dictionaries, apparently means a cat that urinates
backwards.
Whatever that means. -
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Patrick Buchanan
THE GHOST OF HERBERT HOOVER
CARTER'S PHONEY POPULISM CONDEMNS STEIGE13 AMENDMENT
WASHINGTON - Mr. Carter's denunciation of
the Steiger Capital Gains Amendment is one more
manifestation of the intellectual poverty of his ad-
ministration.
Ignoring the powerful economic arguments for
cutting the capital gains tax back to 25 percent --
from the present 50 percent level - the President
resorted to rank demagcguery. I will veto this
measure. he declared, because it would benefit the
rich.
'Eighty percent of its tax benefits would go to
one-half of 1 percent of the American taxpayers
who make more than $10C,000 a year. Three thou-
sand millionaires would get reductions averaging
$214,000. The other 99.5 percent of our taxpayers
would not do quite so wel: .. .
"The American people want some tax relief from
the heavy burdens of taxation on their shoulders.
But neither they nor I would tolerate a plan that
provides huge windfall profits for millionaires and
two bits for the average American. That un-
derestimates the intelligence of the American
people."
Meaning no disrespect. it is Mr. Carter who is
constantly insulting the intelligence of the
American people, with his phony populism.
Is he seriously suggesting that the black mayor of
Los Angeles, countless black bankers and 60
"The? Brass Root"
Ernest V. Joiner
1 `
BURE
Sebastopol, Calif -
? IT's a joy to watch our "peerless leaders"
moving to implement Prop. 13. Their antics provide
high comedy, unto the point of absurdity. The
state's financial experts admit Prop. 13 can be ac-
commodated by cutting '.ocal and state budgets
15%, not a large sum and one which any department
head knows is possible without hardship. But what
do they do? They slash out in every direction, hack-
ing as much as 50% only on the most essential ser-
vices, like fire and police! This childish display is,
of course, to teach the voters a lesson. It is strictly
punitive and designed to prove bureaucrats, not the
voters, are really "the boss." Make no mistake: our
high-priced bureaucracy plans to make life very
miserable for all of us. They are going to disrupt, all
out of. proportion to actual need, our way of life.
We've got them panicked. Now don't let them panic
us.
? LOOK WHERE the axe is falling. Not upon in-
efficient tenured teachers, but upon new and better
qualified young teachers. No administrative posts
have been threatened, nor has an entrenched
hierarchy known as school "counselors." Schools
have operated before with one principal, but many
schools have 2, 3 and even more - and I haven't
heard of one of them being sent back to honest
classroom work. There are no cuts at the top.
Instead, they fire the little guys who do the work.
They cut competitive sports programs but keep
$30,000 a year administrators. Santa Rosa's city
manager got a 5% increase in pay, to $44,100, in-
stead of a sensible reduction. They close libraries.
but they don't abolish budgets for new wilderness
parks, like the one at Eureka. That would in-
single able-bodied welfare recipient has been told to
find a job because his gravy train is derailed?
Gilbert and Sullivan could make a fine comic opera
of what's going on to punish the voters of California
for daring to take some control of their own money.
NOW FOR a bright spot. Our guru governor's
presidential hopes weren't enhanced by Prop. 13.
The tax reform idea born under Gov. Ronald
Reagan came to maturity in the adminstration of
Spend-thrift Jerry Brown, a bit of political irony.
Although he fought valiantly against Prop. 13 and
predicted doomsday if it passed, he broke a leg to
endorse it at 11 p.m., Tuesday, June 6, when it
became apparent the measure had passed. He is
now on the Prop. 13 bandwagon. By the time
November elections roll around he will have voters
convinced he actually authored Prop. 13 instead of
having been its chief antagonist. But if voters can
remember his stand in favor cf consficatory taxes
until November, he will surely lose some of his ill-
deserved political luster, and we may be spared his
presence in the White House.
? WE CANNOT expect much from Prop. 13 until
it can be extended to Washington, the seat of most
of our financial trouble. Here's why. In the 16
months Jimmy Carter has been in the White House,
15,000 new civil servants have been added to the
Washington payroll. With federal money, state and
local governments have added 427,000 employees in
the same period of time. Federal spending has in-
creased by 13% in 16 months at a cost of $213 million
dollars for every working day. In the business
world, government has imposed 4,400 different
forms upon business which requires 143 million
man-hours to fill out at a cost to business of between
convenience the hippies in their love affair with $25 and $32 billion dollars. This is added to the cost
members of the U.S. Senate have endorsed the
Steiger Amendment in order to provide "windfall
profits" for the Rockefeller family?
Is the President ignorant of the study done by
Michael Evans of Chase Econometric Associates,
Inc. which forecasts, between 1980 and 1985, some
440,000 new jobs and a $16 billion reduction in the
federal deficit if the Steiger Amendment is
enacted"
If so. why did he ignore the job side of the pic-
ture' Why did he simply repeat Treasury's in-house
projection of a loss of $2 billion in federal revenue?
Like the Kemp-Roth bill, the Steiger Amendment,
is one of the more hopeful and innovative ideas to
avert the recession so many economists are projec-
ting for 1979.
The purpose is to encourage individuals and in-
stitutions with money to shift their capital into
enterprises that will guarantee expansion, growth
and jobs.
For Jimmy Carter to dismiss the Steiger Amend-
ment as a rip-off for the country club crowd comes
dangerously close to being an act of calculated in-
tellectual dishonesty.
Few other nations tax capital gains at the rate
levied in the United States. In many Western coun-
tries. there is no tax on capital gains, because
governments have come to recognize the correla-
tior between capital investment and economic
gro,ith.
There are other facts of which Mr. Carter must
have been aware, yet which he chose consciously to
ignore in his press conference outburst.
In 1968, the last year in which the capital gains tax
stood at 25 percent, the federal government
collected more than $7 billion. The following year,
whe i the rate rose by 40 percent (up to a 35 percent
maximum), government revenues plunged below $5
billi~m.
A gat happened. was that those rich whom Mr.
Carer appears to despise - despite the presence of
so n ianv in his Cabinet - simply took their money
out if the investment markets. As a consequence,
the cation suffered.
A decent but stubborn man. Mr. Carter in many
was i resembles the late Herbert Hoover.
F ced with an economic depression, which called
for :ax reductions across the board, Hoover fell
back upon HIS ideology - the balanced budget and
the high tariff. The consequence: an economic
crunch became an economic catastrophe.
The only beneficial side effect to Mr. Carter's ap-
par(,nt animosity toward the wealthy and the large
corporations is that the principal political victim of
his :.ntiquated economic policies is almost certain
to b4 Jimmy Carter himself.
AUCRATIC REACTION TO PROP. 13
ditic --al cost on an automobile by government-
manifated extras was $27.51. Today the cost is
$665 47. You pay. Nationwide this has added $7
billi n to the cost of cars bought in 1978. The cost of
the government regulation alone, according to a
stud" by the University of St. Louis, will be $102.7
billi