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4 -A REGISTER-NBWS MT. VlStlNON, ILLINOIS TUESDAY, MAY 197J Art Buchwald What The President Knows guess it would be an unclerslalcinenl to say that things are not going as well in Indochina as the President planned. Most Americans are quite confused about it and are wondering wiiv. I was, too, until I spoke to my friend Kaminsky in a bar the other night. Kaminski raised a frightening tiioiiglU when he said, "The Americans have always assumed that the President of the United States has information at his disposal that the rest of us don't." "Of course," I said.

"Everyone knows that." "Well, suppose he doesn't? Suppose the President doesn't know any more about what is going on Hum we do?" "That's impossible, Kaminsky," said. "The President knows secrets that none of us would dream of." "We like to think that," he replied. "But suppose what he knows is wrong?" It can't be wrong. The President has every source of information in this country available to him. from the CIA to the Pentagon, to the embassy in Saigon.

Their reports don't lie." "Well, how do you explain the President's assurances for the past three-and-a-half years that Vietnamization was working?" "It was working when he said it was working. 11 just isn't working too well now. You can't expect Viel- namizalion to work ALL the lime." "But suppose Ihe reports the President read were overly optimistic to make the people in the field look good? How would the President know the truth?" "No one would do that," I protested. "They know the President relies on that information to make far- reaching decisions." "True, but have you ever heard of a president getting a PESSIMISTIC report from Indochina?" "Not until recently," I admitted. "Kaminsky, you are making me very nervous." "I am not being critical of the President," Kaminsky said.

"I don't think President Kennedy or President Johnson received any more honest reports than Presi- Nixon. Maybe that's why we've been in Vietnam for 10 years. Anyone ever stationed in Vietnam has always assured the President in office that things were going well. The only people who didn't believe the reports were those who read the newspapers and watch tho war on television. "The problem with our Presidents is that they refused to believe what they read in the newspapers because the secret reports they received said the exact opposite." "Then what you're saying, Kaminsky, is that the people who read the newspapers knew more about what was going on in Indochina than the Presidents of the United States?" "Of course.

You must remember that wiien you're President you trust people who agree with you more than people who disagree with you. Why would a President believe a news story that makes his policy look bad?" "He wouldn't," I admitted. "Particularly during an election year. But if we can't believe the President knows more than we do, then it takes all the fun out of having a president. I still believe the President has lots of secrets that he isn't telling us." "Possible," Kaminslty said.

you must keep in mind that the fact that something is secret doesn't necessarily make it true, and the fact that something is true doesn't necessarily make it secret." Kaminsky seemed pleased with himself. "Would vou like to buy me another drink?" replied. (Copyright 1972, Los Angeles Times) Hodgepodge Aniwer to Previoui Punfe ACROSS 3 Explain (dial,) Hovel 's truck- SLand elevation UAaseverate 13 Firtt woman 14 Athena ISSunender 16 Uncooked 17 Chair 18 Handles 20 Small rock 21 Female deer 22 Primate 23 Shut 26 Stupors poetry 6 Hawaiian SHuny 9 Ileum (comb, form) 10 Deviate 11 Tardy 19 Pedal digit 26 Woody plant 42 Natural fat 27 Solicitude 43 Steep, 28 Exude 29 Droops 20 Health resort 31 Circle parte 22 Plane surface 37 Distant 23 Coagulum 38 Viper 24 Bathe (poet) 39 Wager 30 Trash (slang) 40 Runs away 31 Exist first name towed 32Candlcnut tree 33 Eggs 34 Pacific turmeric 35 Equip 36 Open gallery 39 Vegetables 41 Sigmoid curve 42 Conger 43 Compress 46 Retail ouUets 50 City in Nevada 51 Social insect 53 Ashen 54 Encourage 55 Golfer's gadget 56 Ireland 57 Fence opening 58 Air (comb, form) 59 Bodies of water rugged rock 44 Biblical name 45ThediU 47 Uncommon 48 Lamb's pen name 49 Oriental 51 Indonesian of Mindanao 52 Born DOWN 1 Actuality 2 Above 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 IS 16 17 18 19 I I 20 21 1 23 24 25 27 28 29 30 I 32 33 1 1 35 36 37 38 40 41 1 43 44 45 1 48 60 51 52 54 S6 66 57 SS 59 (NCWSPAPCR ENTERfRISE ASSN) George Wallace may be a long way from home geographically but he's showing the political folks up North a thing or two Somebody Out There Likes the Guvnuh OR IAN M8TCALF GUY HENRY BOa FORBES tMOINE ALIISON ROBT. K. THOMPSON CHARLES DEITZ Managinu Editor City Editor Sporli Editor Society Editor Advertising Manager Production Manaair MBMBEN OF THE ASSOCIATED The AHOclated Preu li exciuilvtly ttntltlwt 19 UM for itit publication of all iwwt creellltd to It or not ottierwise cfMlited In thit paper end elM the newt DubltUitd tnereln.

in people the news Law For Todoy CHILD SUPPOUT PAYMENTS MAY HELP PAY FOR COLLEGE George WaHaee By IRA BERKOW (FIRST IN A SERIES.) WITH WALLACE CAMPAIGN-(NEA)-They call it hip- podromin' down where George Wallace comes from, but folks up North they not seen anything like it since the county fair. Bunting on the auditorium balconies. A spangled and ly five-piece band heatin' up the folks with "Y'all Come" and "Wabash Cannonball" and Billy Gammer of the Grand Ole Oprv and Grandpa Jones of Hee Haw. The president of the Hard Hats of America on stage wearing an incongruous suit with his tilty hard hat. All 'em there to put in their two-cenis worth for the candidate.

This is a major part of the rallies for the presidential hopeful, "the honorable George Corley Wallace Guvnuh of Al'bama," as m.c. George Mangum. the burly, silvery- haired Baptist pastor from Selma, shouts, clapping and flapping his loose hands over his head like a seal. Enter the sedately dressed but feisty Guvnuh, carrying a notdpoDk and a short and bushy-browed, striding straight into the applause and stage lights bent on action, looking like Jimmy Cagney. And he gives 'em all hell, all them pointy-headed pseudo- liberals who are teaching treason in the schools, all them social schemers in Washington who give our money away as fasi as a mule eatin' briars, all of them welfare chiselers who take it, and all them "faceless and nameless" bureacrats who in and out of big build'ns like ants and carry nothin' in their satchels but peanut-butter sandwiches.

Somebody must like all this, and liking it more tlvan ever, George Wallace swept the Florida Democratic primary by carrying 42 per cent of the vote, and he was second in long way from home, geographically at least- Sen. McGovern but ahead of the favorite. Sen. Humphrey. And he was going strong in the Pennsylvania and Massachusetts primaries.

Well, why not? He tells us also that our taxes should be lower, that we should watch out for the Russians end the Chinese and that our streets should be safe and our kid.s oughta be able to walk to a school where we can keep an eye on them, and not have them bused into sorne dark jungle of a neighborhood. He doesn't say race, but race is Blatantly there. Of coUrse, he appeals to our fears and our prejudices. Ho does not appeal to our hopes. And perhaps that's because all too often there seems little hope Hardly a one of us is happy with oiip lot.

If we aren't broko in the pocket from over taxation, we're broke in the head from a mugger's club. Not all those folks applauding him are wild-eyed reactionaries who sen a Commie under every pink petal. John, the kindly, blind masseur at the LaCrosse. "Not that I'm a Wallace man. but he makes enough 'jf al)ouf what other politicians shoulda done long time ago.

I think that's whai we need now. A good rompei'- stomper." Larry Smith, a Culligan man, wearing a Wallace button and an intelligent look in his eyes: "1 support him. but I sure as hell hope doesn't make president. I want him to shake up (he people in Washington. He's saying what a lot of us want to hear, even though we know he's oversimplifying thing.s.

One thing, though, people have stopped taking him for a fool," A judge in Nashville, after hearing Wallace address a joint session of the state legislature, tells a reporter: "Just what we wanted, to hear. He can tell it just fahn." A black woman Janet, a student at the University of Wisconsin: "He says a lot of things that are true. And If I jtist listened to him and didn't know his history, I'd probably be for him." Many, like Janet, know his history. He burst on the national scene in 1963 when he stood in the doorway of a University of Aki'oania building and I 'efused, very temporarily, to allow his school to be Inliegrated. Hippodromin' of the highest and most demagogic political degree.

They know that after he lost in 195(1, in his first try for governor, that he said it would be the last time that he would allow an opponent to "out-nigger me." And in his 1962 inaugural speech, said "Segregation now. Segregation tomoiTow. Segregation forever." He has been supported by the Ku Klux Klan and the notorious White Citizens' Councils and by Gerald L. K. Smith, famed anti-Negro and anti-Semite, and has been denounced in the Alabama Senate as "a Hitler." They also know that what he says he wants for the country isn't all that he has even got for his own state (and he has been governor in fact since foiu- years in the not- so-behind-the-scene when he nan his late wife, Lurleen, in his place because of the no-succession rule in Alabama).

"He talks a'bout education." says a high school social science teacher from Coon Rapids. who came to Wisconsin to hear Wallace speak. "But his state has one of the worst educational systems in the country, second only to Arkansas, according to the National Education Association. "I remember one kid who came to our school from Alabama. It took him two years to catchup to where the kids his age were in Coon Rapids.

When he was a junior, he went back to Alabama. And they gave him a high school diploma. They said he had fulfilled all their requirements. 'A good romper-stomper' 'shake up the people in Washington' 'A lot of things that are true'. 'just what we wanted to My 17-year-old son plans to go to college starting next September.

However, he wlU need the child support payments which I receive from his father, from whom 1 divorced. Will my former husband be allowed to slop those payments alter our son turns 18 and has fiLshed RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) high school? John V. Tunnoy, D-Callf, A Ordinarily, a father's sup- Povi obligation ends when chll- wifc of 13 years, Mieke. reach majority That Records in Riverside County been 18 for girls and Court showed Monday now, due to a recent change in that Mrs Tunnoy.

35 cited "ir- the law, it's the same lor boys reconcilable differences' in her (except in matters of marriage), petition for a divorce from Tun- However, if a court so orders, ir divorced father can be re- She asked for custody of thoir quired to provide a college edu- thiee young children, half of cation, including all expenses, their prope support even beyond the age of 18. and alimony. The senator issued a statement through his office in Washington saviiig he hoped for rtoonclllatlon. -Illinois State Bar Assn. NEW YORK (AP) Nina Van Pallandt, the Danish singer who testified in the Clifford Irving-Howard Hughes affair, has been signed to in a film with Elliott Gould, It was announced Miss Van Faliandl will play In "The Ljno C.oodbye," a I'nlted Ariii's m.vip to be filmed in Lo? Angeles starting in June.

The film is based on a Raymond Chandler detective story and will be directed by Robert Altman, HOLLYWOOD Actress Betty Grable is under treatment for a duodenal ulcer and has cancelled an appearance in "No, No Nanette" in Melbourne, Australia. A spokesman for Miss Grable, 53 said she would be released St. Jonn's Hospital in nearby ScitUa Monica In a few days. Cyd Charlsse was named to replace Miss Grable in the Aust a 1 i a production. Miss Grable's manager said he thought she would be able to make the engagement In three or four months LONDON (AP) Prince Charles might head for Harvard's Buiuiess School after he finishes the three years of Navy duty that he began last fall, the Daily Mai! says.

The newspaptr the future king's parents discussed his future with him and his uncle, Earl Mountoatten, an influential figure behind prince's education. One of London's prestigious merchant banks might be an alternative to Harvard, the Mail said. A spokesman at Buckingham Palace described the report as speculative. "But I'm watching those people applaud him. It shakes your faith in people." And those who look into his history know that, though Wallace rails against the influence of "big government" in our lives, he has twisted arms in'his home state.

He cut off liquor advertising from papers crilioal of him (the Alabama whisky 'business is state-run). He has tried to browbeat educators into cutting off salaries if 63 per cent or more of students skip for purposes of protesting and march- ination is routine. 'The former president was And in the week before the Wisconsin primary, W. Guerry stricken April while visiting Pruett resigned as Alabama's highway director and said he his daughter and son-in-law in didn't want to serve Gov. Wallace in any way because, it was Charhttesville, Va.

He was hos- SAN ANTONIO, lex. (AP) A spokesman for the rooke Army Medical Center says former President Lyndoi B. Johnson plans to enter the hospital briefly within the next days. Johnson's physician said Monday the visit will oe for a followup examinatin related to his recent heart attack The doctor stressed that the exam- reported, Pruett was disenchanted by emphatic "requests to contribute to Wallace's presidential campaign fund. And so when he comes off a plane, two bearded students hold signs saying, "We want a president not a dictator." Another wears a face covered with black corking.

Wallace has encountered his of hecklers. He is undaunted. (Why, in Florida, when he refused to debate John Lindsay, the mayor's supporters tossed a chicken in Wallace's path. Wallace, the unperturbed and consummate politician, bent and shook the leg of the chicken, to approving cackles from his own supporters.) But now, at the airport, after answering the reporters, he looks to the carriers for the first and only time and puts his fingers to his lips, as if to say "Kiss it!" (NEXT: Wallace Up Close.) pitalizeu ii. Virginia and late'r at Brooce he returned to his ranch 65 miles north of San Antonio.

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Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett became the first men to make an airplane flight over the- North Pole. In 1933 25,000 books were thrown into a bonfire in Berlin in the first of the Nazi book- burnings. In 1957, President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam ad- Iressed a joint session of the U.S. Congress.

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